Problems with Fedora Core 3
by Dev Anshul
Hello,
I've experienced problems in sound card installation with FC 3,
and I found it to be generally quite unstable - it would not crach, but
applications such as gthumb running on it would crach unexpectedly. This
problem was the version that I had downloaded when it had just been
released. The machine on which I was having these problems was a Pentium
III 450 MHz. I have since installed Mandriva 2006 Linux on the same
machine, because I needed multimedia functionality on my machine, which
this OS provided, since I was able to install the sound card. I'm now
upgrading to a Pentium Core 2 Duo machine with on-board sound and graphics
and wanted to check if it will be all right to use any Fedora version core
3 and beyond, since I've personally experienced problems with FC 3.
I was currently contemplating Fedora Core 2 64-bit for the machine
that I'm upgrading to, but I also wanted to check if it is all right to
run a 64-bit Fedora version for a home PC, although the vendor says that a
Pentium Core 2 Duo would support a 64-bit OS. Will Fedora be able to
detect on-board sound and graphics support on a Pentium Core 2 Duo? There
is no separate sound or graphics card, and these functionalities are
available only on the motherboard, which is an OEM Intel Chipset
motherboard.
Regards,
- Dev.
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17 years, 4 months
cron problem
by kwhiskerz kwhiskerz
On the weekend an update to cron came out with this new script: /etc/cron.daily/000-delay.cron
What it appears to do is to introduce a random length of delay before cron/anacron run.
What is the point of introducing randomness into a finely tuned system?
When one sets up crontab/anacrontab to go off at precisely a certain time, one expects it to run at the time specified, and not at some random time in the next
68 minutes!
What purpose does this serve?kwhiskerz{
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17 years, 4 months
kvirc
by Martin Marques
Is there a kvirc package for FC6?
Martin
17 years, 4 months
RE: The Case of the Missing Characters
by kwhiskerz kwhiskerz
kwhiskerz{> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:21:31 +0000> From: steve(a)stevesearle.com> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com> Subject: Re: The Case of the Missing Characters> > Around 07:53pm on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 (UK time), kwhiskerz kwhiskerz scrawled:> > > In the last 2-3 weeks, I have had the following happen on at least 2 occasions. Someone also mentioned it on fedoraforum.org, so this is not unique to my keyboard.I have noticed that when I am typing, the letters v,b,f,g,r,t,4,5 do not always type, making it very difficult to write emails and enter commands. The curious thing, as I just ascertained a moment ago, is that the missing characters all line up diagonally on the keyboard.I am using the pc105 character german keyboard setting with all dead keys, like it is supposed to be, and have the system set to use utf-8, which is the default. I have also enabled the xkbd compose key option, although I don't really need it, having an international keyboard with dead keys, on the useless key to the left of the right ctrl key.Could there be some problem with keysim mappings or something? I thought that, since the keys all line up, that there could be a problem with the keyboard, but as I had said, it has only happened twice in the last 3 weeks and someone else reported the problem on fedoraforum about 2 weeks ago.kwhiskerz{> > Kwhiskerz,> > I have noticed that all your posts to this list appear to me (in mutt),> as one long paragraph, very difficult to read. I don't know if it is> becuase you are using hotmail, perhaps with it sending html email.> > You may get more responses if you change it so they are more readable.> > Steve> > -- > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.> Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?> > 19:07:39 up 166 days, 21:34, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.00Youmeanlikethisinstead of complete sentences and paragraphs?
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17 years, 4 months
Swap Partition Problem
by Fyodor Jr
Hi Guys;
I just already installed FC 4. But my box look like slow. After i am checking from my shell a got like this below :
[junior@blackbox ]$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 742684 537136 205548 0 27228 87496
-/+ buffers/cache: 422412 320272
Swap: 0 0 0
[junior@blackbox ]$
[junior@blackbox ]$ cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/opt /opt ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=arent 2857791 swap swap defaults 0 0
#/dev/sda1 /media/YAMIN2 vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,managed 0 0
[junior@blackbox ]$
In my opinion my swap partition that i just already created when i was installing were not running. Any one have a suggestion about this problem ? Thanxs Before.
Regards
Fyodor
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17 years, 4 months
National-character conversion - next question
by Albert A. Modderkolk
My translators are dutch, french, germans, italians, and spanish. I am
located in Italy but my locale is en-US. Where do I find a list of
CHARSET names?
Tia, Albert
17 years, 4 months
Used portnumbers
by Erik Grootjans
Hoi,
I have installed vnc4.1 on a pc with windows.
If i build up a connection from a fedora6 machine to the win98 pc - with
the firewall on - it works
If i build up a connection from win98 to the fedora6 pc - with the fire
wall on - i get NO connection
When i build up a VNC connection from a FC6 to a FC6 pc - with the fire
wall on - i get no connection
When i build up a vnc connection with the firewall off on the server
(The screen i get) - it works
So i think i have to allow some ports in the Linux firewall
Which ports and what is the syntax to add them.
What are the default ports used by Rsync for building up a connection to
a internet rsync-server?
Thx
Erik
17 years, 4 months
The Case of the Missing Characters
by kwhiskerz kwhiskerz
In the last 2-3 weeks, I have had the following happen on at least 2 occasions. Someone also mentioned it on fedoraforum.org, so this is not unique to my keyboard.I have noticed that when I am typing, the letters v,b,f,g,r,t,4,5 do not always type, making it very difficult to write emails and enter commands. The curious thing, as I just ascertained a moment ago, is that the missing characters all line up diagonally on the keyboard.I am using the pc105 character german keyboard setting with all dead keys, like it is supposed to be, and have the system set to use utf-8, which is the default. I have also enabled the xkbd compose key option, although I don't really need it, having an international keyboard with dead keys, on the useless key to the left of the right ctrl key.Could there be some problem with keysim mappings or something? I thought that, since the keys all line up, that there could be a problem with the keyboard, but as I had said, it has only happened twice in the last 3 weeks and someone else reported the problem on fedoraforum about 2 weeks ago.kwhiskerz{
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17 years, 4 months
yum db error - what to do?
by Dave Stevens
trying to do yuom install scribus I get this:
Component: Software Installer
Summary: TB6b5e0e87 config.py:661:_getsysver:TypeError: rpmdb open
failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/system-install-packages", line 243, in ?
main()
File "/usr/sbin/system-install-packages", line 236, in main
pkginst = SinglePackageInstaller()
File "/usr/sbin/system-install-packages", line 57, in __init__
GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 124,
in
__init__
plugin_types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,))
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 125, in
doConfigSetup
self.conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 598, in
readMainConfig
yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot,
startupconf.distroverpkg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 661, in
_getsysver
idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed
Local variables in innermost frame:
installroot: /
ts: <rpmUtils.transaction.TransactionWrapper instance at 0x9323b0c>
distroverpkg: redhat-release
I get very similar messages doing just yum with no arguments.
Ideas?
Dave
17 years, 4 months
Re: Announcing Fedora 7 Test 1 (6.90)
by Dave Stevens
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 11:57 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Just a quick blurb.
>
> Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only
> did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning
> targetted spins of the collection as part of the merger of Core and Extras.
> We also produced a LiveCD that has the ability to install to your harddrive,
> should you wish.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7 has the gory details of our work on
> the 7th release of Fedora.
I don't see a live CD link there.
Dave
>
> Downloads
> =========
> DVD, CD and network installation are available.
> Please read the Important Warnings below in this announcement for more
> details.
>
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
> The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site.
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html
> HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors
> listed above. Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time.
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