gemi yum repository rebuilt for FC6
by Gérard Milmeister
The packages in the gemi repository at
http://math.ifi.unizh.ch/fedora/
have been rebuilt for FC6.
They are waiting for being picked up and submitted to FE. Some packages,
such as Squeak, would have to go to livna or dribble, however.
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Gérard Milmeister
Langackerstrasse 49
CH-8057 Zürich
17 years, 6 months
Cannot Start wpa_supplicant in Fedora Core 6
by Jeffrey D. Yuille
Hello,
I am using an Atheros-based card in Fedora Core 6 with WPA2
encryption. However, I am not getting any connectivity because I am not
able to start the wpa_supplicant service in
"System-Administration-Server Settings-Services". When I press the
start button, it tries to start the service but nothing happens. Has
anyone had this problem. Is this a bug? How can I resolve this
problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
17 years, 6 months
KDE 3.5.5 in FC5 - resolved issues
by Mike C
On several machine running FC5 after the update to KDE 3.5.5 there was
a great deal of difficulty with the screen and mouse. The windows kept
flashing and there was up to 100% cpu usage and there was difficulty
maintaining control over what was happening. Also the K menu had no
control centre. Eventually I nailed it down - and if you are having
problems with this update then you might want to look at the
following:
1) K menu items missing (maybe you use Crossover Office, or have
edited the menus with kmenuedit - the fix is as follows:
cd ~/.config
mv menus menus.orig
kbuildsyscoca
2) The window problem I found is related to the "focus follows mouse"
setting in Control Centre->Desktop->Window Behaviour - select Policy
to be "Click to Focus" and Apply it. This fixed my system.
3) If running Kmail you may find that the Reply to All button on the
main taskbar has disappeared - if you right click the kmail taskbar
and select the main taskbar you can put any button back in and Apply
the settings.
Finally if you made any changes to /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc then the update
also gave a new file as /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc.rpmnew which you may want
to check. Once all the changes have been made it might be an idea to
restart X.
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mike cohler
17 years, 6 months
Does Anyone Know How To Get VMware Server Working in Fedora Core 6?
by Jeffrey D. Yuille
Hello,
Has anyone been able to get VMware server working in Fedora Core
6? I have VMware-server-1.0.1-29996 that I would like to install. It
gets to the point near the end of the installation where it aborts. Any
clues as to how to fix this?
Jeff
17 years, 6 months
what partitioning rule am I not aware of?
by Tom Horsley
In an excess of energy I decided to see how many different OSes I
could install to compare their behavior with a weird X bug I
encountered in FC6:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8790
I figured 20 gig was about enough for each root, and decided to
create 7 small /boot partitions near the front of the disk (since
so many boot loaders have problems with big addresses) and 7 20
gig partitions after that for different kernels (my disk is a 160
gig sata drive).
Windows has no problems doing this, but fdisk -l won't print any
info about partitions after /dev/sda15 and if I try to install
FC5 on a system that actually has an sda16 and sda17 partition
(even if I don't try to use them for anything), anaconda blows up
at the partitioning stage when it is about to try to partition
and install.
If I go back to windows, delete the last two partitions, and
re-install, all goes smoothly.
Is there some rule I don't know about on the number of
partitions? Or is it a rule about the starting address of a
partition (can't be too big maybe)?
Its really very irritating that they keep making disks bigger and
bigger and software never seems to know what to do with them :-).
17 years, 6 months
mount doesn't mount on boot-up
by Claude Jones
I've got a third 500GB SATA drive which I mount manually to
~/archive using:
mount -t ext2 -w /dev/sdc1 /home/cj/archive
on reboot, it always fails, and in system logs I find:
Oct 30 02:11:12 localhost kernel: audit(1162192269.878:6): avc:
denied { mounton } for pid=2347 comm="mount" name="archive"
dev=sdb1 ino=65175554 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0
tcontext=user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=dir
Oct 30 02:11:12 localhost kernel: audit(1162192269.878:7): avc:
denied { mounton } for pid=2347 comm="mount" name="archive"
dev=sdb1 ino=65175554 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0
tcontext=user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=dir
It's calling my drive dev=sdb1 --- Why would this be happenning?
Once the machine comes up, it mounts manually again with the above
command???
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
17 years, 6 months
Re: JDK is gone..FC6
by Jim Cox
Jim Douglas wrote:
>> From: "Christian Langer" <clanger.christian(a)gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
>> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: JDK is gone..FC6
>> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:32:40 +1800
>>
>> http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc5-tips.php
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 10/29/06, Jim Douglas <jdz99(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> I did an upgrade and need to re-install the JDK..
>>>
>>> What is the easiest way to install the JDK on FC6?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jim
>>>
>
>
> That's a very helpful site, but I need the JDK not the JRE
In the past, to install the JDK on a fresh Fedora
install I've downloaded the JDK (into /tmp, for instance) and
done the following (as root):
rm /usr/bin/java
cd /usr
/tmp/jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-amd64.bin
ln -s /usr/jdk1.5.0_06 /usr/java
ln -s /usr/java/bin/java /usr/bin/java
17 years, 6 months
tty oddness since upgrade to Fedora Core 6
by Elaine Normandy
Yesterday, I upgraded my desktop to Fedora Core 6: an upgrade, not a clean
install. Since then, when rebooting, I find that at the end of the boot
sequence I am looking at one of the text tty's, not the gdm screen. I can
get to the gdm screen by pressing Alt-F7. Is there a way that I can boot
directly to the gdm screen. I am in runlevel 5, and Xorg and gdm are
running, I just don't see them until I hit Alt-F7.
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Weblog: http://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/
17 years, 6 months
Intermittent Wireless Connection in Fedora Core 6
by Jeffrey D. Yuille
Hello,
I recently did a clean install to Fedora Core 6 on my IBM ThinkPad
T-30 laptop. I am using an Atheros-based wireless card with WPA-2
encryption. The madwifi drivers are installed and I have a Linksys
WRT54G Wireless router. I started NetworkManager,
NetworkManagerDispatch, and wpa_supplicant in
"system-administration-server settings-services". I also unchecked
"network". Although I was able to connect wirelessly, the signal seems
to be dropping every 10 seconds or so. After a while, the signal will
stop entirely. Has anyone experienced this problem? By the way, the
wireless router is approximately 2 feet away from where my laptop is.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
17 years, 6 months