DVD Player
by Gregory P. Ennis
I could not find a DVD player as part of the FC3 package. Sorry if I have overlooked
an entry. Any recomendations on a DVD player?
Greg Ennis
17 years, 11 months
firefox
by Thornton
Where does firefox keep its bookmarks? And is it possible to copy them
from my linux box to my windows box and have firefox on win2k use the
new bookmarks?
I am being forced to use win2k at the office for a project but need some
of my bookmarks moved over.
Thanks!
17 years, 11 months
Problem with Crossover Office after kernel upgrade to FC5
by Mike C
With an up to date FC5 running in a 386 machine using the kernel from
the original distribution ( kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ) I was using
MS Word XP and MS Excel XP under Crossover Office from
codeweavers without problems.
Today after the upgrade to kernel kernel-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5, each time Word
or Excel loaded once the main window filled there was an error window
saying that the application had an error, and inviting via a checkbox
to save and restart.
This window re-appeared as soon as the application restarted, and the
application had to be killed.
Reverting to the original kernel allowed these applications to
run normally again.
Anyone else having these problems ?
I also put a ticket into the CXO site at
http://www.codeweavers.com/support/tickets/browse/?ticket_id=81133;list=6;
ticket_level=2
Mike
17 years, 11 months
Help: aborted 'yum upgrade' and corrupted rpm database resulted
by Robinson Tiemuqinke
Hi,
Just encounts an odd problem with yum 2.4 on Fedora
Core 4: obsoleted rpms are not cleanup by yum when the
latter is killed and runs again.
I tried to update the system the newest patch level,
it works at the beginning but suddently yum hangs --
most packages were updated with a few left.
I had to kill the yum process and restart again, this
time it runs to the end and upgrade all the left
packages.
But when I tried to see what's in my rpm database, I
found that there are duplicate entries for all
packages upgraded before hang -- Yum doesn't cleanup
the old version info from rpm database because it
hanged and then be killed.
Any one know how to deal with this problem
effectively? I hate to list tens of obsoleted rpms one
by one and feed them to "rpm -e --justdb" command.
If I don't clean up the obsoleted rpms from rpm
database, then next upgrade will definitely falls into
trouble.
Please help.
Thanks.
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17 years, 11 months
Fedora Core 5 + WinXP Pro
by Adam Tunbridge
I get the feeling dual-boot systems are a /dirty /subject round here but
needs must I'm afraid. Right, I'm having issues loading Fedora Core 5. I
have 2 hard-drives:
80GB (we'll call this /D1/)
100GB (we'll call this /D2/)
I started by installing WinXP on /D1/. Then I installed Fedora on /D2,
/using GRUB on the MBR of /D1/. This didn't work. My system just booted
straight into XP. Then I tried the same but installed GRUB on the first
sector of /D2/. Same result. Now I've just tried the same install but
*without *installing GRUB and tried Acronis OS Selector instead. This
wouldn't event detect the existence of Fedora. I'm a complete noob when
it comes to Linux (Well, partial noob really. Read a few books) so
please explain what I'm doing wrong in moderately simple terms.
17 years, 11 months
Re: Missing mouse cursor in FC5-x86-64 installation.
by Gordon Gallup
Greetings All,
I executed an apparently successful installation of FC5 on an
e-machine T6420 with an Athlon64 CPU. The only trouble is that at the
XDM window and later the mouse cursor does not show on the screen.
(It shows OK in a tty text window.) X-windows knows where it should
be. I can search blindly for places that icons brighten and carefully
get into menus, etc.
This may, of course, be an X-windows issue, but any advice from
this group would be appreciated.
GAG
17 years, 12 months
FC5: X won't start
by Mikael Rasmussen
I have updated my FC4 to FC5.
At the first reboot, it started as it should, but was a bit slow in
graphics. I solved some problems with yum using FC4 repos, and the
entire machine is now updated (Except for an old known problem on
gstreamer).
The problem is, that the X server won't start. I have tried the following:
1. boot to runlevel 3, and run "system-config-display
"couldn't start X server on Card 0"
2. boot to runlevel 3, and run "startx"
"couldn't start X server on Card 0"
3. removed xorg-x11-server-Xorg and all related packages,and reinstalled
it all
Still same result as 1 & 2.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong - I am desperate?
Mikael
17 years, 12 months
WPA needs SSID broadcast?
by Jurgen Kramer
I finally moved my wireless connection from WEP128 to WPA-PSK now that
NetworkManager supports it out-of-the-box in FC5. Although WPA works, it
only does so when a enable SSID broadcasting. Is this normal for WPA?
I'd really like to disable SSID broadcasting again.
This is with my laptop with a Intel IPW2200 and a Netgear DG834G
wireless router. I've also seen the same behavior when I tried using WPA
with a US Robotics router.
Jurgen
17 years, 12 months
Xinetd not working..
by Devon Harding
I have my one of my xinetd service set to redirect http sevices to
another server. I'm getting this in /etc/log/messages: Any Idea
whats causing this?
Apr 27 13:16:42 gatekeeper xinetd[2573]: Exiting...
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=4]116]: Bad socket type: stream
Apr 27 13:16:43 gatekeeper xinetd[3116]: Error parsing attribute
socket_type - DISABLING SERVICE [file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=4]
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=5]116]: Bad service flag: REUSE
Apr 27 13:16:43 gatekeeper xinetd[3116]: Error parsing attribute flags
- DISABLING SERVICE [file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=5]
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=6]116]: Bad value for wait: no
Apr 27 13:16:43 gatekeeper xinetd[3116]: Error parsing attribute wait
- DISABLING SERVICE [file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=6]
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=7]116]: Unknown user: root
Apr 27 13:16:43 gatekeeper xinetd[3116]: Error parsing attribute user
- DISABLING SERVICE [file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=7]
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=8]116]: Bad log_on_success flag: DURATION
Apr 27 13:16:43 gatekeeper xinetd[3116]: Error parsing attribute
log_on_success - DISABLING SERVICE [file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=8]
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=9]116]: Bad log_on_failure flag: HOST
Apr 27 13:16:43 gatekeeper xinetd[3116]: Error parsing attribute
log_on_failure - DISABLING SERVICE [file=/etc/xinetd.d/http] [line=9]
Here is the /etc/xinetd.d/http:
[root@gatekeeper ~]# cat /etc/xinetd.d/http
service http
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
flags = REUSE
wait = no
user = root
log_on_success += HOST DURATION
log_on_failure += HOST
redirect = 192.168.1.10 80
}
17 years, 12 months