"Failed to initialize OpenGL" in Fedora 8, used to work in Fedora 7
by Chris G
I have just installed Fedora 8 to replace my Fedora 7 installation.
Most things have gone very smoothly including VMWare but when I start
VMWare Workstation I now get a pop-up error box saying "Failed to
initialize OpenGL". I didn't get this when I ran VMWare on Fedora 7.
I have an NVidia GeForce 7300 GS display and have installed the latest
NVidia drivers for Linux (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run).
Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas how to fix it?
--
Chris Green
16 years, 2 months
OT: Something better than kino?
by Dotan Cohen
A new Fedora user asked about a replacement for "Sony Vegas Studio 8".
I suggested to him Kino, but apparently Kino is "to simple". Is there
anything better out there? Thanks in advance.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
16 years, 2 months
PAM `/var/' permissions are lax ??
by Erik P. Olsen
Hi,
I am getting subject error message quite often in logwatch and in secure.log
there are thousands of them. Does it mean that the permission of directory /var
is too lousy? I checked the permission bits and they are 777, so I changed them
to 755 but I am still receiving the message.
Should I worry? And if so what can I do?
--
Erik.
16 years, 2 months
any experience about vlan setup
by chloe K
Hi all
i am trying to use fedora to setup vlan to connect the HP switch.
how can I set it up?
ls it reliable?
Thank you
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16 years, 2 months
FC 8, Gnome, Tiling Windows
by Michael R. Wirtzfeld
Good day,
A quick question... Is there any way to tile windows (cascade,
horizontal, vertical; like in the Windows environments)?
Thanks in advance,
Michael.
16 years, 2 months
Fedora will not boot to GUI
by John BORIS
Hello,
I have a SuperMicro SC832S-550 Chassis and I am having trouble getting
Fedora LINUX to boot into Graphical mode. My Mother board is a Biostar
K8M800 AM2 with an AMD Sempron Processor and the RAID controller is a
LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 attached to the Hot Swap backplane. There
are 5 75gb Hard drives in the array which is configured for RAID-5.
I loaded Fedora 8 64bit version and the system would panic after the
first boot sequence went through and rebooted. Subsequent reboots would
leave the system hang at the GUI startup.
I did a new install of the i386 version and got the same GUI hang
results. I then got the boot up to stop at GRUB and got the system to
boot to run level 3. The system worked fine, as I could login from a
remote workstation but when I tried to start the GUI , startx. The
system hung at the same screen again , the arrow with the swoosh around
it. The mouse would work but after a long while the system would panic.
I got it to go into run level 3 again and got to snoop in the log files
but didn't see anything that said failure, error .
Thinking that it is Fedora 8 I tried Fedora 6 (i386 version from Fedora
6 Bible DVD). The install went fine. The Graphical install screens came
up (just like it did in Fedora 8) it asked a bunch of questions, I
created a new user and then it said it had to reboot to handle the
changes I made during first boot. As it rebooted I got the normal start
up screens (as I have been getting all along) and then it went to start
the GUI and I was presented with the arrow and swoosh again with nothing
happening.
I am starting to think that the Biostar MB's onboard video chip is not
compatible with the setup. I have an email into SuperMicro for
recommending a compatible MB but I don't think I will get the answer I
want. I don't have any docks for the SCSI Array that came with the
Chassis. It is an SCA array and the drives are all Fujitsu 75gb.
Any pointers or help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
John J. Boris, Sr.
JEN-A-SyS Administrator
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
"Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel
Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!"
16 years, 2 months
Updating respins
by Bill Davidsen
While jigbo is better than full downloads of respin images, on fast
moving releases I find that there are still a boatload of changes to
make after only a few weeks. I wind up doing a Unity install from a
recent respin, and then mounting a repository of recent upgrades and
updating again.
Since I have to burn a repository DVD before going to do an install, it
would be nice if there were an easy way to just generate an update
respin of my own, with just the updates we have done in the office (not
maintaining a full rsync mirror).
I have the feeling that there should be such a way, and that someone is
way ahead of me on this, the "Live CD" stuff doesn't seem to be quite
what I want, I need to update the most recent respin with whatever any
system in the office has saved in its yum cache, and make an updated
install DVD.
Note: I do installs in places with poor network connections, install
from a DVD or even the CD set, is the practical way.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
16 years, 2 months
Re: A great article on why to use SeLinux
by Konstantin Svist
klybear wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:31:05 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>
>
>> The only penetrations I've seen arrived by ssh. I don't think selinux
>> would have helped there; the sorts of restrictions I can think of would
>> also prevent the user from doing what users ought be able to do such as
>> download stuff (including email), sending email and so forth.
>>
>
> I'm new full time linux user, having temped with one or two distros in
> the past, and I have to say that my experience of selinux has been
> frustrating. I never had any Selinux issues with Ubuntu or Debian, but
> since using Fedora, three of the four problems I've solved so far turned
> out to be related selinux permissions and the fourth one I'm still
> working on :)
>
>
Although this is an unpopular opinion on this list, I have to second it.
So far, I've tried selinux ~3-4 times, and every time it has been a big
PITA:
Until my latest attempt, something refused to work altogether, so I
turned it off (that was back in the FC6 days and earlier). Granted, I
sometimes choose weird options (reiserfs) and/or installed binary
drivers (fglrx, ipw3945, etc...), but that's what users are expected to
do (philosophy aside).
Then, I've read up on it a little and decided to give it another try
with FC8. After install, everything seemed okay (only because nothing
was configured yet). It was only after I started to set up my stuff that
I started getting a bunch of errors.
After a few hours, I set it to warning-only mode (permissive?) and
started collecting the errors.
People mentioned on this list that selinux errors are fixed really fast
- so I decided why not submit a few into redhat bugzilla?
I had submitted 10 selinux-related bugs in November, and there are still
4 being worked on (3 of which are still marked as NEW)
- 2 of my 10 have been rejected:
* 1 as CANTFIX -- becase, apparently, setroubleshoot is not meant to be
read by mere mortals
* 1 as NOTABUG -- my fault for installing a compiled version of wine
instead of yum'd version (which was pretty far behind)
- 3 of them have been [sort of] fixed:
* 1 as CURRENTRELEASE
* 1 as VERIFIED -- not sure why it's not closed, even though I've
checked that it works with that date's -testing version of the selinux
rules.. maybe it never made it into release?
* 1 as MODIFIED -- assignee says it's fixed, but I have no way of
verifying it, as the bug happened randomly
- 1 is still at NEEDINFO -- my fault, but I don't really have the time
right now to re-enable selinux and sit around until it finishes
relabeling all my files...
It's true, a few of those got closed pretty quickly -- but it's the rest
that I'm annoyed about.
After a few weeks of waiting (and receiving the same error messages), I
simply turned off selinux altogether.
As far as I'm concerned, it's just not ready for prime time.
setroubleshoot was definitely a step in the right direction, but it's
still extremely hard to understand for the uninitiated. And when I
understand what's going on, it's still hard to do something about it.
// END_RANT
16 years, 2 months
Why Doesn't Evolution Filter Spam?
by Rick Bilonick
Since I upgraded to Fedora 8, the Fedora 8 packaged version of Evolution
has never filtered incoming e-mail for spam. I've posted on the
Evolution list but they seem to think it a Fedora specific problem. Has
anyone else had this problem with Evolution? Although both bogofilter
and spamassasin are installed (and recognized by Evolution), neither
ever filters e-mail (this is after months of marking e-mail for junk and
after installing the backup files for Evolution from Fedora 6).
Rick B.
16 years, 2 months
