F10: could not start ksmserver
by Tarjei Knapstad
A recent update seems to have botched KDE somehow. When I log in I get
an xmessage stating "Could not start ksmserver. Check your
installation."
If I click OK the window manager dies, but if I just let it sit there
I can use my desktop just fine...
This started showing today, apparently after last nights updates.
These updates included:
gdm-user-switch-applet-2.24.1-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:23 CET
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.1.3-1.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:22 CET
libpng-devel-1.2.35-1.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
22:50:22 CET
pygtk2-libglade-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:21 CET
setup-2.7.4-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb
2009 22:50:20 CET
pygtk2-devel-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:18 CET
pygtk2-codegen-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:17 CET
pygtk2-doc-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:10 CET
ntfs-3g-2009.2.1-2.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
22:50:07 CET
libmusicbrainz3-3.0.2-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:05 CET
pygtk2-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
22:49:59 CET
gdm-2.24.1-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
22:49:19 CET
libpng-1.2.35-1.fc10 Fri 27 Feb
2009 22:49:04 CET
After googling the issue I found a suggestion saying that I should
check the perms on my . files in $HOME. Everything seems OK here.
Any ideas what's happening?
Cheers,
--
Tarjei
15 years, 1 month
FC9 Compromised...
by Jack Lauman
On Feb 25, between 1753-2046 PST several of my Fedora Core 9 machines
were compromised. All had the latest patches applied.
1. Only the installed user accounts are on these machines. The root user
password is long with upper/lower case characters with numerals &
punctuation. It is unlikely this was cracked.
2. All log files were deleted.
3. The following users were deleted 'root':
mysql
apache
sshd
dbus
haldaemon
dovecot
gdm
smmsp
4. The machine can only be accessed in 'single user' mode. Using
'passwd' to reset the root password fails with: "passwd: User not known
to the underlying authentication module."
Any help on resolving this would be appreciated. I need to get data off
these before re-installation.
Have any other incidents like this been reported lately?
Thanks,
Jack
15 years, 1 month
Question re deprecated rcN.d launched utils
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
Touring the system investigating selinux alerts naming the Console*-daemon, it
came to my attention that I had the start-stop links for ConsoleKit, LISa, and
fglrx laying around, but that there were no corresponding files at the other
end of the link in ../init.d. So I nuked them. Inspecting the ConsoleKit
packages seems to indicate those files are not now part of the system.
However, it was strange in that I could not rm them by typing the names, but
had to copy paste the names into the command line. That seemed odd, but on
further inspection with htop, the 50+ copies of ConsoleKit normally running on
my F8 system are also on the missing list.
Is this something I need to fix ASAP? According to yumex, all the ConsoleKit
stuff is installed. Looking at SEadmin, the consolekit policy module is
version 1.2.0.
Rights on the console-kit-daemon are:
root@coyote ~]# ls -la --context /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
-rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:consolekit_exec_t:s0
/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
Selinuxtroubleshooter says I should do a restorecon -v './console-kit-daemon',
but it returns silently and changes nothing.
Things are sort of working, and I will post other messages about a couple of
miss-fires I'm found so far, so they are in separate threads.
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a
rainy Sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
15 years, 1 month
Building .ko from from SRPM, what reduces .ko file size between 'make' and RPM?
by David
Hello. I'm attempting a newbie skill building exercise rather than
solving a particular problem, but I'm missing something obvious.
Searching hasnt helped me on this specific point.
I imagine that 'make' of the entire kernel source RPM (at the exact
version as my Fedora 9 precompiled kernels) should closely duplicate
my precompiled kernel modules, for example my ALSA driver module
snd-intel8x0.ko
However as shown by 'ls' at the last paragraph of this email, I notice
that the snd-intel8x0.ko I build using 'make' is 230265 bytes but the
precompiled operational one is *much* smaller at 39592 bytes.
I am afraid to proceed to 'make install' until these files look
similar/identical.
Also I notice that if I build the kernel.rpm and then 'rpm -qp --dump'
it, then these file sizes *are* identical.
So I am wondering what affects the size of the .ko file between 'make'
and the built RPM. As a newbie in this area I am far from
comprehending the entire kernel.spec or Makefiles system. So it would
greatly assist me if someone could give me a pointer what to look at
next.
Please note that my aim is not to build an rpm. My aim is to become
knowledgable enough extract a kernel source tree from a srpm, to be
able to 'make' it, and ultimately to be able to 'make' subsections of
it, in particular make and install an individual module, without
building an rpm. I understand the consequences for my rpm database.
Using diff on the output from 'modinfo' on each file gives only these
differences
< filename:
/BIG/HOME/david/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.25/linux-2.6.25.i686/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
> filename: /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
< vermagic: 2.6.25 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS
> vermagic: 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 SMP mod_unload 686 4KSTACKS
I'm using the reference
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/x380.html ("Linux Kernel Module
Programming Guide: Building modules for a precompiled kernel").
My complete approach is reproduced below. Probably you can skip the
first 3 paragraphs that just show my rpmbuild targets. ~/rpmbuild is a
symlink due to insufficient free space on my home drive.
By the way, I live in a remote location with poor quality dialup
internet so sadly I cannot possibly keep my installation at the latest
update of all packages between DVD releases.
I'll be really grateful for any tips on the above, thanks. David
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[~]$ uname -a
Linux kablamm.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41
EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[~]$ ln -v -s -f -T "/BIG/HOME/david/rpmbuild" "/home/david/rpmbuild"
`/home/david/rpmbuild' -> `/BIG/HOME/david/rpmbuild'
[~]$ cat .rpmmacros
%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild
%_smp_mflags -j3
%__arch_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
%packager David
%distribution Fedora %(tr -dc [0-9] </etc/fedora-release)
%vendor David
%_home %(echo $HOME)
%_signature gpg
%_gpg_path %{_home}/.gnupg
%_gpgbin /usr/bin/gpg
%_gpg_name %( gpg --list-keys | sed -n "s/^uid *//p" | head -1 )
%_rpmdir %{_topdir}/RPM
%_srcrpmdir %{_topdir}/RPM
%_rpmtopdir %{_topdir}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}
%_specdir %{_rpmtopdir}
%_sourcedir %{_rpmtopdir}
%_tmppath %{_topdir}/TMP
%_builddir %{_topdir}/BUILD
[~]$ rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.src.rpm
[~]$ cd ~/rpmbuild/kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9
[kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9]$ rpmbuild -bp "--target=$(uname -m)" kernel.spec
[kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9]$ cd
~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.25/linux-2.6.25.i686/
[linux-2.6.25.i686]$ cp /boot/config-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 .config
[linux-2.6.25.i686]$ make
[linux-2.6.25.i686]$ find ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.25/
-name snd-intel8x0.ko
/BIG/HOME/david/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.25/linux-2.6.25.i686/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
[linux-2.6.25.i686]$ ls -l
~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.25/linux-2.6.25.i686/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
-rw-rw---- 1 david david 230265 2009-02-26 20:24
/home/david/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.25/linux-2.6.25.i686/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 39592 2008-05-01 20:49
/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
15 years, 1 month
Re:Re: Dolphin doesn't see CD/DVD
by DB
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:33:13 -0430
From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Dolphin doesn't see CD/DVD
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Message-ID: <1235743393.19065.19.camel(a)bree.homelinux.com>
Content-Type: text/plain
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 22:49 +0100, DB wrote:
> > Evening All,
> >
> > Since my preupgrade from F9 to F10, it seems I cannot see my CD/DVD
> > players with Dolphin (nor Krusader). Have I killed something else while
> > trying to get viddeo & sound working with Skype? Or has something else
> > been moved to a new package & I've missed it??
>
Do you mean you can't see the actual device files (/dev/...) or you
can't play the media? If you can't see the files, check if they still
exist ('ls /dev/...' from the command line). If you can't play the
media, you'll need to say how you used to do it. Dolphin doesn't play
media itself, it uses Kaffeine (or VLC, or dragon, or mplayer, or ...)
poc
Hi POC,
Neither Dolphin nor Krusader would list or show an icon of anything outside "Home" or "Root"; I found autofs had deinstalled during the upgrade so reinstalled that & my external HDD came back. Rythmbox one time showed the tracklist, but wouldn't play anything, alsomixer wuld show lots of controls & freeze with nearly 100% CPU usage; Pulsaudio didn't seem to do anything, so (following the comments in the forum) I deleted PA, but couldn't take out some of the sub utilis of PA without yum wanting to deinstall everything as nmothing was used by anything else..... So loaded amarok & music plays automatically but the icons in "places" for the CD/DVD drives are still missing. The drives show up however in HWLister. /dev shows entries for cdrom & cdrom1 & cdrw, dvd, dvd1 & dvdrw.
????????????
Dave
15 years, 1 month
X fails to start after recent update
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
I did an update. It said I should reboot.
After reboot, X does not come up.
I can flip to a text console: that's what I'm typing this into.
Anyone else have this problem?
I'm running X86-66 Fedora 10. The video card is an Asus EAH3650
Silent Magic.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log shows some bad news:
(EE) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 enabled but has no modes
But I don't know why it says that. Preceding lines include:
(II) RADEON(0): Printing probed modes for output DVI-0
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "2560x1600"x59.9 268.00 2560 2608 2640 2720 1600 1603 1609 1646 +hsync +vsync (98.5 kHz)
This is a correct modeline for the monitor
(II) RADEON(0): Output HDMI-0 disconnected
(II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 connected
(II) RADEON(0): Using exact sizes for initial modes
Eventually, it says:
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
I don't know which update is the problem. Certainly one in the alst
few days.
It cannot be the actual X device driver because I didn't update that.
There is a driver update but I don't apply it because it does not
work on my system. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484636
The ati driver recognizes the video card as:
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI ATI Radeon HD 3600 XT" (ChipID = 0x9598)
The "ATI ATI" is a typo fixed in the current driver.
15 years, 1 month
How to set up wireless for text mode login
by Gordon Charrick
I've got Fedora 10 on my home "server" with an old wireless B card
installed. If I start X and run system-config-network I can successfully
bring up the wireless network using Network Manager, so support for my
wireless card is already built-in. But as soon as I "log off" and go
back to run level 3 (I boot up in level 3 and start X by hand) it shuts
down my wireless connection.
I'd like to set this machine up so the wireless network comes up
automatically at reboot. I've got the router set up with WPA2 and AES so
I need to store the key somewhere. Are there good instructions for doing
this somewhere?
Gordon
15 years, 1 month
firefox: show link target in hover box
by Christoph Höger
Hi folks,
due to place reasons I disabled my status bar (that widget on bottom) in
firefox on my f9 laptop.
Looks like I can easily waive all what's displayed on that widget.
Except for link targets from e.g. slashdot.
So there is that tiny hoverbox that can pop up for links, images,
buttons etc. Is there a way to force firefox to show a link target in
that hoverbox (after a delay)?
thanks
christoph
15 years, 1 month
