Volume label of installation media
by Srihari Vijayaraghavan
[I'm not sure if this is the right place for this kind of question; if not, sorry about that.]
Until FC5, I'm used to seeing no blank space character in installation CD & DVD media's volume labels. Is there any specific reason why FC6 changed its course?
This one Windows idiom (as a Linux & Windows sys admin) of having blank space character (in file name, directory name, user name, group name, volume name etc.) is the most painful thing to deal with when scripting & other work flow techniques are concerned.
So the question is, why not keep it simple with the use of _ or - like characters for CD/DVD labels? I'm sure there'll be clever ways of handling blank space characters, but why bother with cleverness, when simple things (KISS philosophy of unix for example) are admirable/appreciable for their simplicity.
Eg, bash's for loop is word driven; so are many other tools like xargs, awk etc. After trying to find one common idiom for all these tools all these long years, I can honestly say, sticking to unix idiom of no space character in a word is the easiest solution of all.
I'm sorry if I haven't communicated it clearly; this is such an unbelievably simple thing, I cannot explain it with words :-(.
Thanks for reading this far.
PS: I sincerely hope Linux doesn't get corrupted by poor Windows idioms. It takes the fun out of Linux :-(.
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rawhide report: 20061029 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
cvs-1.11.22-6.fc7
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* Sat Oct 28 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 1.11.22-6
- respect explicit port specification in CVS_PROXY (#212418)
ekiga-2.0.3-2.fc7
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* Sat Oct 28 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.3-2
- Rebuild against evolution-data-server 1.9
evolution-sharp-0.11.1-11.fc7
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* Sat Oct 28 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 0.11.1-11.fc7
- Update configure.in for Evolution 2.10.
- Add BuildRequires for gtk-sharp2-devel.
evolution-webcal-2.8.0-1.fc7
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* Sat Oct 28 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.0-1
- Update to 2.8.0
- Fix up GConf-related scripts and requires
hardlink-1:1.0-2.fc7
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* Sun Oct 29 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.0-2
- update docs to describe highest verbosity -vv option (#210816)
- use dist
* Wed Jul 12 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.0-1.23
- remove ugly suffixes added by rebuild script
hplip-1.6.10-2.fc7
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* Fri Oct 27 2006 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.6.10-2
- 1.6.10. No longer need compile patch.
- Fixed default config file (bug #211072).
- Moved libhpip to hpijs sub-package (bug #212531).
Broken deps for s390
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systemtap - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
systemtap-runtime - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
17 years, 6 months
Re: Hplip and Scanning?
by Jovan Spasojevic
Hi,
i had tryed this to and restart the hplip service but don't works too.
I don't know if like tis is ok:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
i had do all the stepps but the scanner won't scanning again.....i don't
know what's wrong.
regards,
jovan
http://fedoraproject.com/wiki/JovanSpasojevic
17 years, 6 months
Re: Hplip and Scanning?
by Jovan Spasojevic
Hi,
one more question,
what services must bel also started to make scanning availible?
I had for the Printer cups and hplip running ist his correct?
regards,
jovan
17 years, 6 months
Re: Hplip and Scanning?
by Jovan Spasojevic
Hi,
It could be also due be the hp.conf, however, I do not know it anymore.
scsi HP
# Uncomment the following if you have "Error during device I/O" on SCSI
# option dumb-read
#
# The usual place for a SCSI-scanner on Linux
/dev/scanner
#
# USB-scanners supported by the hp-backend
# HP ScanJet 4100C
usb 0x03f0 0x4c11
# HP ScanJet 5200C
#usb 0x03f0 0x0401
# HP ScanJet 62X0C
#usb 0x03f0 0x0201
# HP ScanJet 63X0C
# HP PSC 1510
usb 0x03f0 0x4c11
#
#
#hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_4c11_MY59JDB0JM0498_if1_printer_MY59JDB0JM0498
# Uncomment the following if your scanner is connected by USB,
# but you are not using libusb
# /dev/usb/scanner0
# option connect-device
if u see a error in tis file?
ere aigain the sane-find output:
[root@localhost sane.d]# sane-find-scanner
# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make
sure that
# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
# Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating
system.
# If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x4c11 [PSC 1500 series])
at libusb:001:002
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
# Not checking for parallel port scanners.
# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary
ports
# can't be detected by this program.
[root@localhost sane.d]#
And i want to say when i try scanime-L than the command blocks the
printer and he can print anymore an i cannot put him off anymore. I must
then take a reboot, then the printer prints again.
I never had this problem before 7 days really!.
regards,
jovan
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/JovanSpasojevic
17 years, 6 months
Re: Hplip and Scanning?
by Jovan Spasojevic
So i don't know what can
i do anymore..... i had tryed hp-setup too but:
[root@localhost jovans]# hp-setup
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.6.7)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 2.1
Copyright (c) 2003-6 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
error: Unable to connect to hpiod.
[root@localhost jovans]#
[root@localhost jovans]# hp-check
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.6.7)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 2.1
Copyright (c) 2003-6 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
Basic system info...
--> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Currently installed version...
--> 1.6.7
Checking Python version...
--> Version 2.4.4 installed.
--> OK
Checking for user interface dependencies...
Checking for SIP...
--> OK
Checking for PyQt...
--> OK
Checking Qt version...
--> Version 3.3.7 installed.
--> OK
Checking SIP version...
--> Version 4.4.5 installed
--> OK
Checking PyQt version...
--> Version 3.16.0 installed.
--> OK
Checking for library dependencies...
Checking for libnetsnmp...
--> OK
Checking for libjpeg...
--> OK
Checking for libusb...
--> OK
Checking for libcrypto...
--> OK
Checking for libpthread...
--> OK
Checking for application dependencies...
Checking ghostscript...
--> Version 8.15.2
Checking gcc...
--> gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 20061025 (Red Hat 4.1.1-31)
--> OK
Checking make...
--> GNU Make 3.81
--> OK
Checking ReportLab (optional)...
--> Version 1.20
--> OK
Checking kernel module...
Checking for ppdev (optional)...
--> OK
Checking for CUPS...
--> Scheduler läuft
--> OK
Checking existing CUPS queues...
No queues found.
If any errors or warnings were reported, please refer to the installation instructions at:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html
[root@localhost jovans]#
So here are the dll.conf and hplip.conf (the end of line from):
# hplip.conf
[hpiod]
#port=0 (dynamic IP port)
port=2208 (IANA IP port)
[hpssd]
#port=0 (dynamic IP port)
#port=2 (IANA IP port)
[hplip]
version=1.6.7
jdprobe=0
[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-1.6.7
# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
rpm-install=0
network-build=1
pp-build=1
fax-build=1
internal-tag=1.6.7.4
#################
# The following backends are not included in the sane-backends distribution
# If you want to use them, download them from their webpages and read their
# documentation
#
# HP OfficeJet backend homepage: http://hpoj.sf.net/
# Uncomment the following line if hpoj is installed:
#
#
#hpoj
hpaio
#hplip
#
##################
regards,
jovan
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/JovanSpasojevic
17 years, 6 months
install problems : attached USB external drive causes freeze
by Patrick Bakker
Hi,
Besides the LVM corruption problem I mentioned in the other e-mail I also
tried to install FC6 on a USB external HDD. I tried it first on Apple
MacBook and I managed to install it successfully. However, I couldn't figure
out how to get the MacBook to actually boot off of the USB drive. I thought
maybe it was because grub might not have installed itself on the MBR of the
USB HDD so - and there really is no good connection here - I decided to
reinstall it on my desktop. However, after a few attempts I noticed that
whenever I started up the FC6 install with my USB HDD attached and powered
on Anaconda hung. I can attach it later on a running system and the HDD
shows up on the desktop - though only the /boot folder shows up (Maybe LVM
groups on an external drive aren't recognized?) I've since reinstalled it
yet again on the MacBook and made sure grub installed to the MBR but haven't
had any luck getting the MacBook to boot off of it yet.
My USB HDD is a Western Digital 150 GB.
udi =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1058_404_57442D5743414C4C31373436363530'
info.udi =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1058_404_57442D5743414C4C31373436363530'
(string)
linux.subsystem = 'usb' (string)
linux.hotplug_type = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb_device.bus_number = 3 (0x3) (int)
usb_device.can_wake_up = false (bool)
usb_device.is_self_powered = true (bool)
usb_device.version_bcd = 512 (0x200) (int)
usb_device.speed_bcd = 294912 (0x48000) (int)
usb_device.serial = '57442D5743414C4C31373436363530' (string)
usb_device.linux.device_number = 6 (0x6) (int)
usb_device.num_ports = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.max_power = 100 (0x64) (int)
usb_device.device_revision_bcd = 1538 (0x602) (int)
info.product = 'External HDD' (string)
usb_device.product = 'External HDD' (string)
info.vendor = 'Western Digital Technologies, Inc.' (string)
usb_device.vendor = 'Western Digital Technologies, Inc.' (string)
usb_device.product_id = 1028 (0x404) (int)
usb_device.vendor_id = 4184 (0x1058) (int)
usb_device.device_protocol = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.device_subclass = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.device_class = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.num_interfaces = 2 (0x2) (int)
usb_device.num_configurations = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb_device.configuration_value = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb_device.linux.sysfs_path =
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/usb3/3-2'
(string)
info.linux.driver = 'usb' (string)
info.bus = 'usb_device' (string)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_0000_00_02_2'
(string)
linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/usb3/3-2'
(string)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/usb3/3-2'
(string)
Its on the USB3 bus which is an EHCI 2.00 controller on an nVidia nForce2
motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2).
17 years, 6 months