FC2 Upgrad worked!
by Gerry Doris
Well, I've been holding off moving to FC2. I've read all the horror
stories and thought maybe I should just stay at FC1 forever!
Well, curiosity got the better of me. I backed up a test box and did
the deed yesterday. I have a Nvidia card in this box so I knew there
would be trouble but went ahead away.
I had a few problems getting everything working but this was much easier
than setting everything up from a fresh install. My xmms played mp3
right off (all this was working in FC1). Pine complained about my self
signed certs being missing but that happens everytime I upgrade openssl
and I know how to fix that. I pulled down an 8k stack kernel
binary/source rpm that Linuxant was kind enough supply. Using the
Nvidia run binary against that and a couple of minor edits to XF86Conf
and I was operational.
Oh, I forgot about having to remove cyrus-imap and installing dovecot
instead. My yum.conf wasn't correct for FC2 but that was also easily
fixed. I'm convinced that Google has all the information ever know to
mankind!
So for those hanging back...I suggest a good backup and away you go!
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19 years, 10 months
localhost hostname problem
by Paul
I'm having a devil of a time: running FC2 through eth0 RCA modem on
comcast.net. That connection did something, now instead of being
localhost at login, I'm x1-6-04-4f-00 or something like that, which
happens to be the hw addy of the eth0. How do I change this, or at
least nickname it, to get back to localhost? I'm a newbie wanting to
learn! :) Thanks.
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19 years, 10 months
FC2, Evolution, gpilotd dies w/several conduits
by Mariano Draghi
Hi,
I'm trying to sync my old PalmVx with Evolution, on FC2.
It worked perfectly in FC1, but now every time I try to sync, I get a
pop-up alert telling me that gpilotd has died unexpectedly, and asking
me if I want to inform the developers (which brings me a rather
unusefull wizard to write a bugreport... which I'm calling unusefull
because I get no info about the crash itself, so I don't know what's
going on).
I tried with lower transfer rates, with no avail.
Here's a more detailed description of what I could find so far:
- The Backup Conduit is Ok.
- The Contacts Conduit works only in "Copy from Pilot" mode; if I try a
real "sync", it crashes in the middle of the proccess.
- The ToDo Conduit works also Ok if I just "Copy from Pilot".
- The Calendar Conduit crashes either way (both syncing and copying from
pilot)
- The Memo (new?) Conduit "seems" to work (i.e., it doesn't crash), but
no data is transfered to the PC
- I haven't used / tested any other conduit.
I'd like to know if the Palm<->Evolution syncing is known to be broken
in the FC2 boundled versions of Evolution & genome-pilot.
If not, I'd really appreciate if someone can provide me with some hints
as to trace down the crash, in order to try to make a more usefull
report of the problem.
Thanks!
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Mariano
19 years, 10 months
Problem with latest Realplayer.
by akonstam＠trinity.edu
Real is distributing its latest player as the file:
rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm
After it is installed following their instructions it works on npr
radio which is smil, but not on foxnews video which is x-pn-realaudio.
I get an error that says their is no plugin for x-pn-realaudio.
The helper entry is set up in Mozilla. This entry works with an
earlier version of realplay. What am I doing wrong?
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19 years, 10 months
help: DHCP & cable-modem
by javac＠mail.com
i have a cable modem, and periodically lose my internet connection. Presumabely, my provider is changing my IP and FC1 isn't automatically detecting the new IP. ?
thanks,
javac at mail dot com
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19 years, 10 months
Signing an rpm package at build-time automatically
by Didier Casse
Hi there!
When we built a package, we can sign it at build time by issuing
the command:
rpmbuild -ba --sign file.spec
and it will prompt for something like this:
Enter pass phrase: <passphrase> (Not echoed)
Now on my system I need to build rpm automatically ( without human
intervention)! Is it possible to have my paraphrase being read in a file
rather than me sitting in front of the computer and actually typing it?
I know it's not a very good idea but my rpms need to be generated
automatically daily via cron, and I can't sit behind my pc and type the
paraphrase each time one rpm is being built.
Can I avoid the prompting of the paraphrase if I want to sign my packages
at build-time and everything be done automatically? Thanks.
This is for the purpose of a repository and things like these need to be
automated when dealing with multiple packages.
With kind regards,
Didier.
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19 years, 10 months
a subtle(?) tar extraction permission problem
by Robert P. J. Day
say i have a directory structure a/b/c/{f1,f2,f3,...}. for access
reasons, i decide to change the permissions on the "c" directory,
perhaps changing the owner/group, and definitely changing the perms to
include "setgid".
later, i get a tarball with contents a/b/c/{something}. i found out
that if i extract that tarball while root, and the effect is to add or
delete files under the "c" directory, the permissions on "c" revert
back to default values. how annoying.
apparently, as long as what i'm extracting is already in that
directory (so that the directory entries themselves don't change), i'm
safe. but if the extraction changes the directory contents
themselves, i get the owner/group/perms resetting on "c", which i'd
*really* like to avoid.
i've perused the tar options, and i don't see anything that says,
"don't mess with existing options on existing directories." is there
a standard approach to handle this?
rday
19 years, 10 months
fc2 is single user?!
by Sam Steingold
it appears that fc2 is now single-user.
we used to use the fc1 computer like this:
my wife and I each log in on one's own virtual console and start X with
"startx". each has one's own X window session, and we can switch
between them with C-M-f7 and C-M-f8 (obviously, we take turns using the
monitor/keyboard, but we do not need to logout to let the other use the
computer). I had to do some tricks to enable both of us to use
audio/video &c: I created a group "sound", added both of us to it, and
did "chgrp sound, chmod g+rw" for the audio devices. This worked OK
(although each upgrade and reboot reset ownership and permissions).
Now, only the person who was the first to log in can start X!
the other one gets the splash screen (which says FC2) but no icons ever
appear on it, it just hangs there.
So, where are these ownerships and permissions set so that I can make
my box multi-user again?
Or do I need to blindly chgrp all devices owned by users?!
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19 years, 10 months
umount problems
by korgull
Hi,
I'm using a usb disk which I currently can not unmount. I get "device busy"
messages although no process is using the disk (fuser doesn't show anything).
Anyway I can force an unmount ?
kernel = 2.6.6-1.435
regards,
Marcel
19 years, 10 months
