YUM problems.
by Magnus Andersen
Hi All,
I'm having issue with yum on several machines in different locations.
One of them (the most pressing one) is a brand new build and when
attempting to use yum I receive the following error:
[root@u15271166 etc]# yum list available
Setting up repositories
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-6&arch=x86_64
error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
My yum.conf looks like this...
[root@u15271166 log]# cat /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://update.onlinehome-server.info/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://update.onlinehome-server.info/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
Any help/ideas appreciated,
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Magnus Andersen
Systems Administrator / Oracle DBA
Walker & Associates, Inc.
16 years, 7 months
basic question about assigning ip address
by Peter Horst
I have a Fedora machine I'm using as a home server, without a keyboard
or monitor. I'd like to set it up such that upon rebooting it first
checks to see if there is a DHCP server on the network, and if so, grabs
an ip address from it. But if there isn't one, it assigns itself a
static address. Is this doable?
Thank you.
16 years, 7 months
updatedb fails on F7....
by Globe Trotter
so what is the solution to this, as root?
# updatedb
updatedb: src/updatedb.c:721: scan_cwd: Assertion `name_size > 1' failed.
Aborted
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16 years, 7 months
Quick Firefox question ?
by Bill Case
Hi All;
I read about a way to get 'about:plugins' activated from my help menu
rather than continually retyping. Now I can't find that tip. How do
you get the 'about:plugins' into the FireFox menu?
Thoroughly screwed up installing Flash and Java. Have to start over but
thought I could solve the little menu problem first.
--
Regards Bill
16 years, 7 months
F7 funny things on USB ports
by Antonio M
After last updates,
1) I connect a card reader to USB port 1
2) I connect a USB disk to USB port 2
3) card reader is automatically unmounted and when I plug it again it
is not automatically mounted (and it disappears also from lsusb
devices list!!)
The same when I connect a second USB disk when another USB disk is connected.
Therefore I cannot copy anything from one USB device to another USB
device. Iw was working fine in the past.
--
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag
16 years, 7 months
arabic letters in wine, fedora 7
by Bjørge Solli
Hi again,
I got a strange problem with wine. The letters of all programs in wine
has some arabic letters (and thus get quite difficult to use for us that
don't understand it..). Even the configuration window has this, so could
not check for ways to alter it there.
Any ways to fix this?
Regards
Bjørge
16 years, 7 months
Built in card reader not detected
by Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Hi,
I have a centrino duo notebook with a built in Ricoh card reader (for
SD / XD / MMC cards and memory sticks), which I can't make work.
lspci shows:
05:03.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822
SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
05:03.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
05:03.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
Adapter (rev 0a)
05:03.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev
05)
I've asked about this problem in this list sometime ago and have been
researching it, but found no solution yet. Nothing appears
in /var/log/messages when a card is inserted in the device. I've tried
memory sticks and XD cards, these are the ones I have available here.
I'm running F7 fully updated.
Anyone has this device working with memory sticks or xd cards?
Thanks,
Marcelo
16 years, 7 months
firefox crashing : what else to do ?
by Felipe Nunez
I 've being using Fedora 7 since the beginning and with it firefox. Al was
fine, but I'm not sure, but having updated to flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-a
firefox crashes randomly - with no apparent cause - all the time.
The plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins are:
flashplayer.xpt libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt playerplug-in-rm.so
libflashplayer.so libtotem-mully-plugin.so mplayerplug-in.so
libjavaplugin_oji.so libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
libtotem-basic-plugin.so libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so nphelix.so
libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt nphelix.xpt
libtotem-complex-plugin.so mozplugger.so nppdf.so
libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt mplayerplug-in-dvx.so xine-logo.ogg
libtotem-gmp-plugin.so mplayerplug-in-qt.so xineplugin.so
I've taken all of them away to no avail. Is there something else to do ?
Any advice is welcomed.
Felipe Nunez
16 years, 7 months
Removing Labels from fstab
by R. G. Newbury
Fedora 8rc2 like Fedora 6 and 7 uses labels in fstab.
Anyone have any thoughts on what happens if I just replace the labels
with /dev/sdaXX references?
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R. Geoffrey Newbury
16 years, 7 months
FC6: kernel upgrade breaks Synaptic Touchpad support
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
On my 3-year-old HP Pavilion zv5000z notebook, running Fedora Core 6 for
x86_64, I just applied all the available updates.
Now, when it tries to go into X, it balks. The problem is that the
mouse (a Synaptics touch pad) is no longer found.
If I boot with kernel 2.6.22.7-57.fc6, I get this problem.
If I boot with the previous kernels 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 or
2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen, I have no problem.
So something has changed in the kernel.
dmesg in both cases makes no mention of the Synaptics device, at least
under that name.
Here is a portion of a diff of the Xorg.0.logs of a working and a
failing run:
@@ -769,8 +769,8 @@
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.4 (1404)
-(--) Synaptics auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event2
-(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
+Synaptics no synaptics event device found (checked 16 nodes)
+(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "LeftEdge" "120"
(**) Option "RightEdge" "830"
(**) Option "TopEdge" "120"
@@ -780,9 +780,11 @@
(**) Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
(**) Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
(**) Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
-(--) Synaptics touchpad found
-(**) Option "CorePointer"
-(**) Synaptics: Core Pointer
+Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
+(EE) Synaptics no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
+(EE) Synaptics Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
+(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics"
+(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
(**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
(**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Mouse0: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
In both dmesg ouputs, I see:
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
and
input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /class/input/input2
Here is the section of my xorg.conf dealing with the touchpad:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
EndSection
I didn't find anything relevant in bugzilla.
(I would like to run the new kernel -- it might let me use my stupid
Broadcom wireless interface. It is inconvenient that the new and old
kernels require different Broadcom firmware.)
Any ideas?
16 years, 7 months
