f9 kerneloops
by David L
I noticed my f9 system was slow and checked CPU usage with top.
top showed a process called kerneloops sucking 98% of the CPU.
Is this normal? If not, what is one supposed to do to provide debugging
info?
15 years, 7 months
Best guide for Fedora 9 ever !
by Valent Turkovic
Hi,
this guide is the best guide for Fedora 9!
http://fedoraguide.info/index.php/Main_Page
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Best_guide_for_Fedora_9_ever
How to setup MP3 and Video codecs, ATI and Nvidia drivers,
CompizFusion, etc... you need it they got it :)
Probably most of your question about Fedora 9 are answered there and
the solutions are simple.
There are some errors still left from Fedora 8 guide, so please create
wiki account and help clean it out and if you have some new tips &
tricks please add them.
For example the date for release of Fedora 9 was still left from Fedora 8 :)
And this is the latest one I'm correcting right now:
To see what Fedora 8 will look like check out the tour!!! (but the
link goes correctly to Fedora 9 tour page)
Cheers,
Valent.
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15 years, 8 months
Acroread Plugin vs. Fedora-8 and Firefox-2
by Jonathan Ryshpan
When a PDF page is displayed via the Acroread plugin in Firefox, the
(sub) window containing the displayed PDF info never gets focus. This
makes it impossible, among other things, to search the PDF using the
Acroread search function. If I save the PDF to a file and then display
it using acroread, the window gets focus in the normal way and search
works perfectly.
What is going on? How can this be fixed?
Thanks - jon
15 years, 8 months
F8 is a problem
by Karl Larsen
Yes I know Fedora is a testing ground. Yes I know most of you tigers
think I am stupid and for some good grounds. But I am a muli-million
dollar person who worries not about gasoline prices or where the next
meal comes from.
But I DO worry why I can't get F8 to work. It works a few days and
then goes to hell. So I am back here on F7 which seems to work well. At
least the audio is good and I can do things I must.
Karl
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Linux User
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15 years, 8 months
OT: What is fusebulk filesystem? ntpass fails to reset windows password :(
by Antonio Olivares
Dear all,
A Lenovo Laptop running Windows Vista locked out the teacher who was issued the computer at school. The teacher forgot the password. I have successfully used the SystemRescue CD http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page with the utitlity ntpass many times. This time, it failed. I also tried the cd from http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ which is the same. The laptop locked the teacher out and he could not login. I told them it was a snap and boy was I wrong. The cd locates the users and apparently all looks good and when we reboot we try with a blank password and we cannot log on. Trying other livecd's also gets us nowhere. There apparently is some garbage on the C:\Windows\system\system32 directory that prevents the ntpasswd from doing its job. When viewing the filesystem which should be NTFS, the programs accessing the drive report that the fs is fusebulk. I have not heard about fusebulk filesystem.
There has to be some sort of encryption on the drive to prevent the password blank from working.
Does anyone have any other tools that can reset the password in such a case?
Is the only solution to reformat and reinstall?
All Comments/Suggestions welcome.
TIA,
Antonio
15 years, 8 months
vstpd.conf
by dhottinger@harrisonburg.k12.va.us
Im having a devil of a time getting vsftpd configured for auth. with
an ldap backend on Fedora Core 5. I keep getting a 530 530 Login
incorrect.
Unable to make a connection. Please try again.
The server has a username incorrect message.
Anonymous works fine. I have standard vsftpd.conf here is the snippet:
anonymous_enable=No
#
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES
#
# Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022,
# if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's)
local_umask=022
#
# Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only
# has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will
# obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user.
#anon_upload_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create
# new directories.
#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
#
# Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they
# go into a certain directory.
dirmessage_enable=YES
#
# Activate logging of uploads/downloads.
xferlog_enable=YES
ascii_upload_enable=YES
ascii_download_enable=YES
#
# You may fully customise the login banner string:
#ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
#
# You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently
# useful for combatting certain DoS attacks.
#deny_email_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails
#
# You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home
# directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of
# users to NOT chroot().
chroot_local_user=YES
#chroot_list_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
#
# You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by
# default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large
# sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume
# the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it.
ls_recurse_enable=YES
pam_service_name=vsftp
userlist_enable=YES
#enable for standalone mode
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
User authentication is against an ldap server. That seems to be
working fine. AFP users can connect ok. I read about an issue with
the pam module, but that doesnt seem to be the case. I keep beating
this thing around and around with no joy so far.
--
Dwayne Hottinger
Network Administrator
Harrisonburg City Public Schools
15 years, 8 months
RE: fglrx, FC8 and BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 11s
by Jack Howarth
I tried downgrading the fglrx drivers on the problem
x86_64 fedora 8 box by installing the source rpm for
fglrx-kmod-8.476-1.8.04.lvn8.src.rpm and building the
kmod-fglrx packages against the current kernel
(2.6.24.5-85.fc8). While the fglrx 8.476 drivers worked
fine against the 2.6.24.4-64 kernel (which I can no
longer find to download), the current kernel still
has the black screen and reboots against these
drivers. Does anyone know if an archive for the older
fedora kernel updates so I can regress back to the
2.6.24.4-64 kernel until this issue is fixed?
Jack
15 years, 8 months
FC9 boot hangs with encrypted filesystems
by Bill Davidsen
I put an encrypted f/s on an FC9 install, and the boot hung waiting for
the password. Not good, so I marked it "noauto" in fstab, but it still
hung. So I put it in automount and not in fstab and it still hangs, and
I finally took it out of everywhere and the boot process can still see it.
I want the system to boot without the filesystem, and mount it only on
demand, but by simply existing it seems to be found and validated at
boot time. Can someone tell me where the boot process is finding the
f/s? It's not used for normal operations, only for special operations by
people with the password.
Is there a way to keep the boot from asking about it until used?
--
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
15 years, 9 months
mplayerplug-in and trailers at Apple.com
by Andre Costa
Hi,
I've been happily using mplayerplug-in to watch movie trailers on
http://www.apple.com/trailers for quite some time, but lately I've
been denied access to some movies with a "get latest quicktime"
message (other movies still play as they used to).
These are the versions I'm using:
mplayerplug-in-3.50-33.fc8
mplayer-1.0-63_rc2.fc8
mplayer-fonts-1.0-7.at
mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.2.at
Anyone knows a way to work around this? Or should I just wait for
newer versions of MPlayer / mplayerplug-in?
BTW: still using Fedora 8.
Regards,
Andre
15 years, 9 months