fc-10/windows xp installation
by pete b.
What I'm doing is installing fedora-10 so I can dual boot either fc-10 or
windows-xp.
windows-xp already exists using 26GB of 80GB on the HD.
I go thru a few menus. Then I get to the partitioning and have problems.
I selected "use free space of selected drives and create default layout".
1 drive is selected and the same drive is chosen to boot from.
The response is:
1. Could not allocate requested partitions. Not enough space left to create
partition for /boot.
2. Have not defined a root partition.
What is going on with this? Is there a reliable fix?
FYI pehaps I selected the wrong disk (I have two). Is there a method to
find out
the manufacturer of a disk from windows?
thx much,
peter
14 years, 8 months
Fedora compile dependence problem
by jnissley＠nissley.org
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:13:29 -0500
John Nissley<jnissley nissley org> wrote:
> I still have the issue when trying to do that. Same error. For some
> reason it appears to be trying to load the 32 bit version of
> glibc-common even though the 64 bit version is installed.
>
> On 09/04/2009 10:33 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > John Nissley on 09/04/2009 07:02 AM wrote:
> >
> >> Any help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> > yum install qt-devel.x86_64
> >
>
I have this problem during updates when there is a component on the
system that needs an older version of something yum wants to update. It
decides to install the 64 bit version of the updated component, and try
to install the 32 bit version to meet the dependency requirement for the
already installed component that needs an older version.
Basically you are stuck unless you remove the already installed
component and thus allow the update to occur, or until the installed
component that needs an older version gets an update that has a
dependency on the new version. Sometimes this is just a timing issue,
that the updated version of the component holding up the other updates
hasn't yet made it to the mirrors.
I hope that makes sense. It is kind of convoluted.
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I have been through it before and usually just remove the offending package
like you stated. The only problem is that trying to remove glibc-common
wants to remove almost 200 packages and some of them look important so I
am not going that route this time. I have even tried to go down one version
and that also did not work. It appears that glibc-common has the Fedora
Project as the packager so I guess I will just need to wait. I like to keep
current with the updates but sometimes it bites you in the butt.
Thanks for the info i just wish there was an elegant way to back out of this.
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14 years, 8 months
problems with signing into fedora-list - solved
by jaivuk
Hi guys,
I solved a problem when I was signing-into this list, so I share it with
you. My e-mail address ends with @googlemail.com but because of older habit
(and probably lazyness), when I was registering myself I entered it as @
gmail.com. Everything was fine, I received a confirmation e-mail, I clicked
to the link and I started to receive all e-mails.
The problem was that any mail I sent to the list was not received - so I
could just watch the list. It happened because I used alias instead of my
real e-mail address.
The solution was to unsubsribe and subscribe again from the real address (@
googlemail.com).
If anybody has the same problem - don't use aliases ;)
jaiv
14 years, 8 months
F10 Update errors
by Vincent
Additional info:
I added the screen display result from "yum update".
For a period of time now every time there is an automatic update it is
stopped because error, the following is the error info what I was able
to get.
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.IndexError'>
Error Value: list index out of range
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2329, in
<module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2326, in
main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line
606, in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line
581, in dispatch_command
self.update_packages(packages)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1446, in
update_packages
txmbr = self.yumbase.update(po=pkg)
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 2965, in
update
updated_pkg = self.rpmdb.searchPkgTuple(updated)[0].
For while I am using "yum clean metadata ; yum update"
some time even here I get some line with error
I am using HP zv6000 dual boot 1 Gb of memory, IDE hard disk 40 GB
partition
if any body has the answer I will appreciate very much and thank you in
advance. Vinny
[root@Vinny vinny]# yum clean metadata ; yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
13 metadata files removed
6 sqlite files removed
0 metadata files removed
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B
00:00
adobe-linux-i386/primary | 12 kB
00:00
adobe-linux-i386
17/17
fedora | 2.8 kB
00:00
fedora/primary_db | 6.6 MB
00:10
updates | 3.4 kB
00:00
updates/primary_db | 4.4 MB
00:09
Setting up Update Process
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 178, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 352, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self,
self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 201, in doCommand
return base.updatePkgs(extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 608, in updatePkgs
self.update()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 2829, in
update
tx_return.extend(self.update(po=self.getPackageObject(new)))
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 2965, in
update
updated_pkg = self.rpmdb.searchPkgTuple(updated)[0]
IndexError: list index out of range
[root@Vinny vinny]#
14 years, 8 months
F11 - gdm autologin enabled = gnome keyring always asking for password?
by jaivuk
Hi guys,
I have single user netbook with F11 installed with encrypted partitions. (So
I enter partition password before it boots) I enabled gdm autologin by
adding below lines
into [daemon] section into /etc/gdm/custom.conf and it works fine:
[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=myusername
TimedLoginDelay=0
The problem is that before netbook is connected to wifi network it asks for
gnome keyring password.
Please note keyring did not ask for password when autologin was disabeld
(and I logged-in manually).
In below discussions I found that there exists pam_keyring solution, however
as it seems it does not work with autologin enabled either:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-10/msg02162.html
Do you please have any hint how to make autologin work without gnome keyring
asking for password?
Thank you in advance,
Jaiv
14 years, 8 months
F10 Update errors
by Vincent
For a period of time now every time there is an automatic update it is
stopped because error, the following is the error info what I was able
to get.
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.IndexError'>
Error Value: list index out of range
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2329, in
<module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2326, in
main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line
606, in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line
581, in dispatch_command
self.update_packages(packages)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1446, in
update_packages
txmbr = self.yumbase.update(po=pkg)
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 2965, in
update
updated_pkg = self.rpmdb.searchPkgTuple(updated)[0].
For while I am using "yum clean metadata ; yum update"
some time even here I get some line with error
I am using HP zv6000 dual boot 1 Gb of memory, IDE hard disk 40 GB
partition
if any body has the answer I will appreciate very much and thank you in
advance. Vinny
14 years, 8 months
openoffice.org crash on selecting text
by Michael Cronenworth
openoffice.org-writer-3.1.1-19.1.fc11.i586
1) Open a document or create a new one.
2) Have at least one line of text. Any font. Any size.
3) Use your mouse to highlight (select) the whole first line of text.
4) Wait about 0.5 to 1 second... crash.
Selecting any other line or any other set of text does not result in a
crash. I've reproduced it about 10 times now with different fonts and
sizes and even across new and old documents (two year old ones). I don't
see any bugzilla reports for this, in fact I only see 7 total open (is
that right?) for oo.o.
I cannot reproduce this on a x86_64 machine so I'm not sure if it is
limited to 32-bit or just this one system's config.
14 years, 8 months
Disappearing Kernels during Yum update
by Steven F. LeBrun
Over the past few weeks there have been kernel updates for Fedora 11.
When my system receives updates, usually using yumex, and a new kernel
is installed, the oldest kernel in my /boot directory is deleted
automatically and any "title" commands in /boot/grub/grub.conf referring
to those kernels is also removed. There are only three kernels at a
time in my /boot directory.
So far this has not been a problem, though I almost lost some special
settings in my grub.conf file when old kernels were removed.
My questions:
What controls how many kernels, vmlinuz and associated files, are kept
in the /boot directory?
Is there any way to change this to save a different number of kernels or
insure that a specific kernel is not automatically removed from your system?
--
Steven F. LeBrun
Quote: / "There are 10 types of people in this world, those that
understand binary and those who don't." /
14 years, 8 months
kmail eating my maildir???
by Christoph Höger
Hi guys,
I recently tried KDE 4.3 and despite some gfx performance flaws this one got me screaming:
I installed kdepim 4.3 and run kmail, setup my maildir as inbox and the first thing I noticed: All mails were new, "odd" I thought and wanted to take a look at my maildir via mutt. To my surprise: My INBOX was empty now. AAAARGHH. ALL MAILS GONE!
Is this really the way to go? Is there no way to keep a sync between the maildir and akonadi?
regards,
Christoph
ps: sent by mutt ;)
14 years, 8 months
F11 OS Instability? Twice now, the system locks out!
by Dan Thurman
The last time I had a system lock-out was several
weeks ago, and just today, I experienced another.
I tried to access the system locally via the keyboard,
no response. Mouse, same. Remotely, not responding,
all remote connections, ports, etc. Not there.
Darn! hard reboot.
So, I looked at the system messages logs:
Aug 29 01:08:11 gold pulseaudio[7453]: alsa-sink.c: Increasing wakeup
watermark to 125.99 ms
Aug 29 10:14:32 gold kernel: imklog 3.22.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Yep, there is a 9 hour gap of no activity. It looks
like the system went to sleep just like I did when
it was time for bed. I got up this morning, but my
system never woke up. Lazy basta... oh, sorry.
It died.
Well, what else can I do, there seems to be no way
to figure out what is going on, if there is no record
of it!
Dan
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14 years, 8 months
