Java and Epiphany
by Richard Quint
Thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier message.
Although the check box for turning on Java in Epiphany was clicked when
I first brought up my browser, I got the message that the plugin needed
to be installed. However, after unclicking it, closing Epiphany,
restarting Epiphany and clicking the box to enable java in the privacy
tab of preferences Java then worked. I don'r know enough about how this
works but it might be something to do with the installation scripts.
BTW, where are the plugins for Epiphany kept? I tried searching for
folders, including hidden files and folders, related to Epiphany and/or
plugins but couldn't find anything.
My problem with symbolic links was my mistake, a finger left the Shift
key one character too soon. But the Right click->Make link dialog
doesn't work (I'm using Gnome).
19 years, 7 months
FC3T2 and XComposite
by Alexander Volovics
Anybody tried out the xcomposite extensions under xorg-x11-6.8.1 yet?
I would like to experiment but do not quite understand what is needed.
I tried adding an entry 'Section "Extensions"' to xorg.conf but
this only resulted in windows with green borders and slow/shaky
X performance.
Do you need some sort of 'compositor' like xcompmgr or is there
some 'stealth' tool in FC3T2 to manage the extensions?
Alexander
19 years, 7 months
RE: root not allowed to use crontab
by Jason Vas Dias
There were some CVS version errors that caused this
problem - this is now fixed with vixie-cron-4.1-16 .
1. If neither /etc/cron.{allow,deny} exist,
ONLY root may use crontab (and now may do so!)
2. If no /etc/cron.{allow,deny} exist when the package
is installed, the %post script will create an
empty /etc/cron.deny file, thus allowing all users
by default, the way the old cron used to work.
19 years, 7 months
Results with fc3t2
by Alexandre Strube
Hi, I've installed Fc3t2 today.
Installation went through without any problems, except for translation
errors (or no translation at all, like ntp settings page).
Openoffice.org still lacks pt_BR translation, and we are obligued to use
that bizarre pt_PT version (bizarre for brazilians, of course).
The default navigator seems to be epiphany... Which several people don't
like.
Evolution has a strange behaviour regarding the timezone configuration.
It won't select the nearest city you click, but the nearest city at the
time the mouse cursor leaves the selection window. The cities are also
very different from those of anaconda's world map.
It didn't detected the SiS video board, and used default vesa driver.
Well, that's it for now.
--
[]s
Alexandre Ganso
500 FOUR vermelha - Diretor Steel Goose Moto Group
19 years, 7 months
jfs filesystem corrupt
by E.S. Edgerton
Hi everyone,
Have installed fc2 and recently fc3test2 on a generic box that has 2 HD. The
first one used to have warp/os2 and a huge jfs partition which I had hoped
fedora could see later on.
Anyone having any ideas how fstab and grub.conf should be edited so that a
dual boot is possible -- at least until i can still open certain files and
transfer all the mp3.
Cheers!
=========
E.S. Edgerton
19 years, 7 months
volume keeps zeroing.
by Rodd Clarkson
I'm having problems with the volume settings not being save.
This means that each time I restart my laptop, I've got to reset the
volume settings.
Along the same lines, why is it the the volume settings default to zero.
I understand that this is because it stops pops and crackles on start-
up, but it's also a real usability issue. No new user is going to think
that they aren't getting any sound from their computer because the
volume settings default to zero.
If the pop issue is so important, maybe the answer is to slide the
volume up from zero on start-up (or when a new user logs in - presumable
a users settings are remembered on log-out?).
So, two issues:
1. why isn't the volume settings saving (it did under FC2)
2. why aren't the volumes settings set reasonably as a default.
Rodd
--
>From the pain come the dream
>From the dream come the vision
>From the vision come the people
>From the people come the power
>From this power come the change
- Peter Gabriel
19 years, 7 months
FC3T2 up2date - <package> is not signed with a GPG signature
by Michael Jenkins
When doing an up2date on a package, I get the following:
[root@localhost /etc/sysconfig/rhn]$ up2date hdparm
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-rawhide...
Fetching rpm headers...
########################################
Name Version Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
hdparm 5.7 2
i386
Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
hdparm-5.7-2.i386.rpm: ########################## Done.
The package hdparm-5.7-2 is not signed with a GPG signature. Aborting...
Package hdparm-5.7-2 does not have a GPG signature.
Aborting...
I've imported all these keys:
[root@localhost /usr/share/doc/up2date-4.3.40]$ locate RPM-GPG
/usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/RPM-GPG-KEY
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-2.91/RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-2.91/RPM-GPG-KEY
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-2.91/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-2.91/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-2.91/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-2.91/RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
/usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
/usr/share/rhn/BETA-RPM-GPG-KEY
/usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
/usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
I've commented out the line in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for the yum-mirror
and added the following:
yum fedora-core-rawhide
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/development/$ARCH/
I've gone to this site and imported all of its RPM-GPG keys...
Still same issue, the thing that kills me is that I can do a rpm -Kv or
rpm --checksig against the RPM that was put in /var/spool/up2date but not
installed and get:
[root@localhost /var/spool/up2date]$ rpm -Kv hdparm-5.7-2.i386.rpm
hdparm-5.7-2.i386.rpm:
Header SHA1 digest: OK (0115990d6b8e85627bdf24a1f7f8f74627ea5a2b)
MD5 digest: OK (9621b9025c6538da72605fade8d028ed)
[root@localhost /var/spool/up2date]$ rpm --checksig hdparm-5.7-2.i386.rpm
hdparm-5.7-2.i386.rpm: sha1 md5 OK
I've manually updated up2date to try and fix this, however same issue, the
release is:
[root@localhost ~]$ rpm -q up2date
up2date-4.3.40-1
I can also run rpm -Uvh against these, and they install fine, so it must be
something with up2date. After looking at the source in
/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client, this error is a result of hasBadSignature
returning 1, which after looking in up2date.py for hasBadSignature, it only
returns 1 for a package with a header with no gpg signature? I've never
coded in python, so I could be completely wrong on that assessment.
I've read some board posts that people say the development updates aren't
signed, but how does rpm --checksig return OK then? Maybe I'm being
paranoid about these packages having proper signatures, and could get around
this using up2date --nosigs, but doesn't that defeat the point? I'm just
wondering if anyone has found a fix for this issue, or am I just better off
using yum? Thanks.
Mike
19 years, 7 months
FC3T2 - Font issue
by ByteEnable
Hi all,
I'm running the latest development xorg-6.8.1-X. I noticed today that
the helvetica font is ugly. How can I override xorg Helvetica with my
own substitute? Can I do it with ~/.fonts/fonts.conf ?
I googled some old stuff, but nothing new, and no examples of overriding
a font, just adding new fonts. Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Byte
19 years, 7 months
mirroring rawhide
by Harry Putnam
What can be left out when mirroring rawhide for local single user
use. (4 home machines)
SRPMS is one of course... what else is not required for yum to work?
images ... I guess could go ... What about `debug'. Is that stuff
used during any of yums chores?
19 years, 7 months
Mutliple card USB card readers
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak
Anyone knows how to make a flash card reader which supports many cards
(i think they are called multiple lun devices, but i ain't into scsi
terminology) to work? It has never worked for me (exept the first slot,
the CF slot - and i dont use CF, but smartmedia...) i Linux.
Anybody who knows how to enable mulitple LUN's? And why this isn't done
in fedora by default?
Kyrre
19 years, 7 months
