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re: Dell Vostro 1510: Problem w/ lan, wlan and audio - Fedora 9
by Dani 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hello everyone, Just baught this new laptop and I can't get it work w/ Fedora 9. It came w/ drivers cd (rpm files),but when I tried installing it, things only got more messed up. Currently I'm running it w/ Ubuntu 8.0.4 after I tried countless distributions, and only Ubuntu runs it fluently and even out-of-the-box. But I would really like Fedora back. Have anyone experienced similar problems, or have a suggestion? Thanks, Dani. (Sorry for sending my mail in html before. It was the first time I tried to ask Fedora user's help. I hope you will understand)

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Nautilus desktop filling up with fictitious icons (Fedora 9)
by Neil Bird 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

A colleague here has had a fresh install of Fedora 9 for a while, and the only remaining issue he has is that, after being logged in for a while, he starts getting a an ever increasing slew of extra icons on his desktop that don't match devices or actual files in ~/Desktop. Now, these aren't *totally* fictitious; it appears to be something to do with a '.snapshot' directory (or it's updates) that our network filer maintains on our NFS-shared home directories (containing hourly.0, .1, etc., nightly.0, etc.). I don't believe there's anything special about this directory. Mostly, it seems that the icons that appear seem to be dirs. and files in in them (albeit skipping the 'hourly.0' level) such that the rogue icons appear to be from the home directory. We're not quite sure what causes this; it may be the backup process occurring (once every few hours). He *can* force a fictional '.snapshot' to appear on the desktop by inserting a USB stick. When the stick's removed, .snapshot stays when the USB icon goes. 'lshal' isn't showing anything untoward, and neither is 'mount'. Logout and re-login clears the rogue icons, IIRC. It may be something to do with the LDAP-authenticated home dir. mounts (we've not seen any issues with this before, but F9 did have some problems when trying to use NetworkManager as that came up too late to access /home) We've seen odd things like the following in /var/log/messages (edited): Aug 29 12:06:27 hostname hald: unmounted /dev/sdb1 from '/media/disk' on behalf of uid 1143 Aug 29 12:06:27 hostname gnome-keyring-daemon[2695]: removing removable location: volume_uuid_766C_D2DD Aug 29 12:06:37 hostname kernel: usb 1-8: USB disconnect, address 4 Aug 29 12:06:38 hostname automount[2229]: st_expire: state 1 path /home Aug 29 12:06:38 hostname automount[2229]: expire_proc: exp_proc = 3084909456 path /home Aug 29 12:06:38 hostname automount[2229]: expire_proc_indirect: expire /home/username/.snapshot/nightly.1/eonic199702-welcome_files Aug 29 12:06:38 hostname automount[2229]: expire_proc_indirect: expire /home/username/.snapshot/nightly.1/database-migration Aug 29 12:06:38 hostname automount[2229]: expire_proc_indirect: expire /home/username/.snapshot/nightly.1/iip_default_files Aug 29 12:06:38 hostname automount[2229]: expire_proc_indirect: expire /home/username/.snapshot/nightly.1/iip_qanda_files etc. What else can I 'ls'? Where else does nautilus get its drive information from? -- [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [neil@fnx ~]# exit

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Yum trying to update OpenOffice 2.4 with older 2.3 version on F8
by KC8LDO 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

I installed OpenOffice version 2.4.1 on a Fedora 8 system. The package installed OK. The problem is now when I do a "yum update" at the command line as root yum tries to update the installed OpenOffice packages with the older 2.3 versions. I did the typical "yum clean all" and the other options to dump the metadata etc. files. I also did an rpm rebuild database too. Yum still tries to overwrite the newer version with the older distro specific ones. I also updated an old Fedora Core 3 system too and it doesn't seem to have this problem. When I do a "yum update" it doesn't try to install the old OpenOffice files. I know this version of the distro is way out of date however I thought that it would have performed the same as the F8 system in regards to the rpm's. The only difference I can see is the FC3 system isn't being updated anymore. One interesting point I noticed is the GUI "Add/Remove Software" utility in F8 shows that OpenOffice 2.3 is installed after I installed the 2.4.1 version. Seems like something doesn't notice the difference in the installed rpm files or some list in a file is way out of date. Anybody know how to fix this permanently without having to stick in any "exclude=openoffice*" lines in the repo files or the "yum.conf" file? It works but why do I need to do it? Leland C. Scott KC8LDO

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How find my process id for my shell
by Dan Track 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hi I'm logged in at the moment, how do I find my process id for the shell I'm in, given that there are loads of other shells aswell. I'm using bash? Thanks Dan

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cifs WinXP problem
by Michael D. Berger 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Sorry to trouble you with what may be a Microsoft problem. On my LAN, I replaced one of my Win2k boxes with a new WinXP box. I use cifs to connect with MS boxes from an FC7 box. Here is the main part of the start script in init.d : case $1 in start) mount -t cifs -o user=administrator% xxx,noauto,suid,dir_mode=0700,file_mode=0700 //abcd30/base /mnt/base30 mount -t cifs -o user=administrator% xxx,noauto,suid,dir_mode=0700,file_mode=0700 //abcd10/mike_local /mnt/ mike_local_10 abcd30 is a Win2k box. abcd10 is the new WinXP box; mike_local is a share name on a directory. abcd30 connects correctly; for abcd10 I get: # smb start mount error 5 = Input/output error Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) The man page says little of errors. I note that: ping works fine; the new box and its shared directory are visible from other Win boxes; the real passwords are the same on both boxes and have no inappropriate characters. I tried shutting down iptables and ZoneAlarm (with WAN disconnected, of course). Thanks for your help. Mike.

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hal-0.5.10-3.fc8 won't run
by Nataraj 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

After the latest updates to hal-0.5.10-3.fc8 and hal-info-20080607-2.fc8 hald won't start. I get errors shown below when I try to start it. This is on a Fujitsu lifebook A6110 T5550 laptop. Where can I download older updates between the release and the current update? The update repository only has the latest update. [root@alder ~]# hald --daemon=no Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/libexec:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin' Run started hal-system-power-pm-is-supported (10000) (0) ! full path is '/usr/libexec/hal-system-power-pm-is-supported', program_dir is '/usr/libexec' /usr/libexec/hal-system-power-pm-is-supported exited (process:3609): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_foreach_remove: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed Run started hald-probe-smbios (10000) (0) ! full path is '/usr/libexec/hald-probe-smbios', program_dir is '/usr/libexec' (process:3609): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_foreach_remove: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed /usr/libexec/hald-probe-smbios exited Run started hald-addon-input (0) (0) ! full path is '/usr/libexec/hald-addon-input', program_dir is '/usr/libexec' *** [DIE] device_info.c:rules_match_and_merge_device():1089 : Rule is NULL on jump Run started hald-probe-input (10000) (0) ! full path is '/usr/libexec/hald-probe-input', program_dir is '/usr/libexec' 22:33:06.398 [D] addon-input.c:486: An error occured, exiting cleanly [root@alder ~]# /usr/libexec/hald-addon-input exited /usr/libexec/hald-probe-input exited Thanks, Nataraj

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