Install FC5 with ftp method failed
by Maria Tsiolakki
Hello all,
I am trying to install FC5 , x86_64, with ftp method, but it fails. It
seems that it has problem to find the base dir and stage2.img file.
The path to the ftp server is something like
pub/linux/fedora/core/5/x86_64/os/, but it complains. It gives the error
"mnt loop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as tmp/ranfs/stage2.img failed to mount
loop:Invalid argument"
Has anyone try to install it using ftp method?
Thank you in advance
Maria
17 years, 12 months
Re: FC5: Dual head - second screen not working in X
by Clyde E. Kunkel
On 3/21/06, Chris Ruprecht <chris(a)ruprecht.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had the dual head stuff working great in FC4 on my ThinkPad.
After the
> > FC5 upgrade last night, the second screen no longer gets a signal
when X
> > starts.
> >
> > I tried to edit the xorg.conf file to no avail - the second screen
stays
> > dark. I ran the display configuration to span the desktop over two
> > screens and it seems to place new windows on the second screen, but the
> > screen still stays dark.
> >
> > I tried to find any info on this but came up empty.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> what chipset are you using? I haven't been able to have a dual
> display at all...
Problems with all linux distros with radeon dual head with xorg 6.9/7.0.
Not sure of other gfx boards. Advice on xorg list is to try nightly
DRI and radeon binary snapshots. See, for example:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f...
--
Regards,
Old Fart
(my reply-to address is "munged" to defeat spambots)
17 years, 12 months
mysterious keyboard, mouse lockups with FC5
by Filippos Klironomos
Hello list,
I have a dual core Dell XPS and have been experiencing mysterious lockups
every now and then with FC4 and the newlly installed FC5.
The kernel version is 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp and everything appears to be
running smoothly until the keyboard and mouse lockup (USB
both) and the whole system appears to freeze. The only activity I see is on
the gnome-netstatus-applet on the panel. Anybody
else experiencing something similar? Any clues? Any ideas? Anything would be
greatly appreciated!
18 years
Mozilla Suite vs. Firefox
by Mike Chalmers
Hi,
I was wondering what the differences are between the Mozilla Suite web
browser and Firefox?
From,
Mike
18 years
Iptables not saving...
by Devon Harding
I have a cron.hourly script set up to save my iptables chains. When I
reboot, the chain is empty & /etc/sysconfig/iptables contains the default
settings.
Here is /etc/cron.hourly/iptables.cron:
#!/bin/sh
/etc/init.d/iptables save >/dev/null 2>&1
What causes this to revert to default settings?
-Devon
18 years
Dictionary is now spelling Nazi
by Ken Dyke
Hi,
Ok, now I have another complaint.
With FC4 the dictionary would return near misses. Now it returns an
annoying "Error while looking up definition" even when a I have a single
letter wrong. WTF?
--
I reason and act, therefore, ken_i_m
"Doing my part to spread the free
and open software (FOSS) memes".
18 years
scim chinese input under non GB2312 locale
by Hou Xiang ZHU
Hi,
I try to input Chinese under non-asian locale, followed the FC5 release
> mkdir ~/.xinput.d
> ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim ~/.xinput.d/default
and my installed scim packages are:
> [zhuhx@zhu_fedora ~]$ rpm -qa |grep scim
> scim-1.4.4-9
> scim-tables-chinese-0.5.6-3
> scim-pinyin-0.5.91-4.3
> scim-qtimm-0.9.4-2.1.1
> scim-tables-0.5.6-3
> scim-libs-1.4.4-9
> scim-chewing-0.2.1-5.1
> [zhuhx@zhu_fedora ~]$
After I logout X and login again, there is a grey keyboard in the
notification area of the desktop panel, BUT i can't activate it. (using
CTRL+SPACE and other key combinations)
After I set LANG LC_ALL LC_CTYPE to zh_CN.GB18030, I can activate IME,
but the inputed string are not chinese, only gabage string letters.
After I set LANG LC_ALL LC_CTYPE to zh_CN.GB2312 in .bashrc, logout and
login again, under Chinese locale, SCIM works. (can activate and input
chinese)
So, although I can input Chinese now under Chinese locale, I still hope
to input Chinese under english locale. I can do it in my home PC. don't
know what caused the difference.
Thanks
Houxiang
18 years
Problem with mounting hard disk after FC5 installation
by Robert Spanton
Hi,
I just did a fresh install of fc5. I cannot mount a partition on one of my
hard disks. I could however mount it from fc4.
When I tried to mount the drive, I got:
% mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/test
mount: /dev/hdb1 is not a valid block device
I thought this was odd. The file appears to be a block device:
% ls -l /dev/hdb1
brwx------ 1 root root 3, 65 Apr 7 2006 /dev/hdb1
I took a peek in /sys/block. /sys/block/hdb existed. However,
/sys/block/hdb/hdb1 did not exist.
I did an fdisk. /dev/hdb1 was there:
Disk /dev/hdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 10011 80413326 83 Linux
I ran "partprobe" to see what would happen. After running that,
/sys/block/hdb/hdb1 existed. I tried mount again:
% mount -v -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/test
mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /mnt/test busy
% mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/crud type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
automount(pid2086) on /net type autofs
(rw,fd=4,pgrp=2086,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
Does anyone know what's going on here? If it's any help, then I'm using LVM
for my root partition, but that shouldn't make any difference.
Thanks,
Robert Spanton
18 years
On passwords, securtiy and real -sweat, blook and tears- life
by A.J. Bonnema
Hi all,
A common problem with passwords are their guessabilty (yes, as a
non-native English speaker, I too make up words.....). For instance,
even though I have taught my daughter to not use dictionary words, names
etc, her password for one of the online accounts got hijacked. What
happened was, she used: _____ (five underscores) as a password: arghghgh.
But it did make me think again about the security of my home network.
Unfortunately most passwords are dictionary words, that are easy to
guess using f.i. the john password guesser program, combined with
numbers and if you are lucky a special charactor or two.
What I wonder about is the following:
* given that all ports are closed to external contact through a physical
allbeit consumer oriented firewall, just means I am safe for
port-scanners. But does it mean that I am safe from cracker systems /
programs? Is there a way to break in, without allowing external contact
through one of the ports? (not including trojans and the like).
* A second issue is: suppose I would force my family to use really
random passwords (like characters picked from a one-time pad). And now
suppose I lose my root-password: would I be able to rectify this,
without destroying the data?
Guus.
--
A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)
18 years
strainge dvd download problem
by adel.essafi＠laposte.net
hi all
I am not understainding why I can t succeed to download dvd for FC5.
I have tried several mirrors both with windows and linux systems but, I git
always a file sized ezro :(
do you have an idea how to fiw this problem?
Adel
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