mail to another machine on the LAN
by Hiisi
Hi, all!
I would like to send messages to another machine on my home LAN. My
current configuration is:
Main computer (F12, serves as router), is connected to the Internet via
eth0. It shares its connection for two LAN machines - one is Win XP
laptop connected to the main computer on eth1 and the other is sitting
on eth2. It is an old Pentium III charged with Scientific Linux (I want
to send mail to this machine from main computer). Currently I'm unable
to send mail to it using this command on the router:
mail <user>@192.168.3.30
where <user> is the desired user on that host and 192.168.3.30 is host
IP. The message sends but nothing appears in <user>@192.168.3.30
mailbox :-(
How can I fix it?
By the way, I'm able to send mail to that user from any other account on
that computer.
Please advise!
TIA
--
Disk crisis, please clean up!
13 years, 6 months
Last Kernel update left me without initramfs
by Federico Marziali
Hi all,
with Fedora 13, the last kernel update left me without the file
intirmafs in the /boot partition. All the rest is there, and I was
wondering if there is an easy way to build this file myself... Any
tutorial available for fedora?
I tried to use the previous kernel file just by renaming it but it
won't work. I get an error from iptables (can't have the slightest
idea why) and from the nvidia drivers (this I guess since I installed
the new ones together with the last kernel, so the old intiramfs has
some reference to the old nvidia drivers module??)
Any hint appreciated.
Otherwise, I would just wait a couple of days and installa Fedora
14... although this seems to me a very windows-approach style :)
BTW, can someone explain to me what checks are being made by yum to
ensure that this doesn't happen?
Thanks in advance,
Fede
13 years, 6 months
Fedora 13 PAE Kernel and realtec driver compilation problem.
by EredicatorX
Short version.
OS: Fedora 13
Kernel: 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE
Hardware: Lenovo x100e
Problem:Trying to build drivers for realtec wireless lan.
When I tried to build drivers initally with
rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0018.1025.2010 every time I would try to load the
driver with modprobe it would error and say " Invalid module format"
modprobe r8192se_pci
FATAL: Error inserting r8192se_pci
(/lib/modules/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/r8192se_pci.ko):
Invalid module format
I modified /usr/src/kernel/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686/Makefile and changed
EXTRAVERSION = .7-61.fc13.i686
TO
EXTRAVERSION = .7-61.fc13.i686.PAE
I then did "make modules" which generated a new version of version.h &
utsrelease.h which had the correct PAE version in it. The build error
out after that.
Went back to my sources and did a make clean, make and then make install.
modprobe r8192se_pci now cause a core dump.
I have built kernels in the past but it has been a long time and never
had to build a PAE version. What else would be required for me to change
in order to build the kernel modules correctly and then build the
driver? In the end I am not trying to compile a custom kernel I simply
want to use the kernel I have and be able to build drivers against it as
needed.
Thanks in advance.
I included core dumps and other info in the long version below.
LONG VERSION:
Built driver rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0018.1025.2010
make
make install
All finished ok.
modprobe generates this error.
[root@etop rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0018.1025.2010]# modprobe r8192se_pci
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it
will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Error inserting r8192se_pci
(/lib/modules/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/r8192se_pci.ko):
Invalid module format
dmesg output
r8192se_pci: version magic '2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686 SMP mod_unload 686 '
should be '2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE SMP mod_unload 686 '
vim Makefile and changed /usr/src/kernel/2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686/Makefile
EXTRAVERSION = .7-61.fc13.i686
TO
EXTRAVERSION = .7-61.fc13.i686.PAE
[root@etop 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686]# make modules
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'. Stop.
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
Finally modprobe and coresponding core dump from dmesg
modprobe r8192se_pci
dmesg:
Linux kernel driver for RTL8192 based WLAN cards
Copyright (c) 2007-2008, Realsil Wlan Driver
rtl819xSE 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
rtl819xSE 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
rtl819xSE:region #1 not a MMIO resource, aborting
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:4888 rollback_registered_many+0x88/0x1ad()
Hardware name: 3508CTO
Modules linked in: r8192se_pci(+) nls_utf8 fuse rfcomm sco bridge stp
llc bnep l2cap sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand powernow_k8 ip6t_REJECT
nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 uinput
snd_hda_codec_conexant snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq
snd_seq_device snd_pcm btusb thinkpad_acpi r8169 bluetooth uvcvideo
snd_timer cfg80211 wmi snd_page_alloc snd mii videodev rfkill
v4l1_compat joydev i2c_piix4 serio_raw soundcore k8temp microcode
aes_i586 aes_generic xts gf128mul dm_crypt video output usb_storage
radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core [last unloaded:
scsi_wait_scan]
Pid: 6777, comm: insmod Not tainted 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE #1
Call Trace:
[<c043f30a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x81
[<c07174a2>] ? rollback_registered_many+0x88/0x1ad
[<c043f333>] warn_slowpath_null+0x12/0x15
[<c07174a2>] rollback_registered_many+0x88/0x1ad
[<c0717636>] rollback_registered+0x28/0x2d
[<c071768e>] unregister_netdevice_queue+0x53/0x70
[<c0717754>] unregister_netdev+0x1d/0x24
[<f8cbe707>] rtl8192_pci_probe+0x579/0x5b7 [r8192se_pci]
[<c05c2d70>] local_pci_probe+0x13/0x15
[<c05c3940>] pci_device_probe+0x48/0x6b
[<c065366b>] driver_probe_device+0xca/0x1d2
[<c06537bb>] __driver_attach+0x48/0x64
[<c0652c78>] bus_for_each_dev+0x42/0x6c
[<c065345b>] driver_attach+0x19/0x1b
[<c0653773>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0x64
[<c0652f04>] bus_add_driver+0xfe/0x244
[<c05ae22b>] ? kset_find_obj+0x23/0x4e
[<c0653a26>] driver_register+0x81/0xe8
[<c05c3b00>] __pci_register_driver+0x3d/0x9a
[<f7f24000>] ? rtl8192_pci_module_init+0x0/0x118 [r8192se_pci]
[<f7f24107>] rtl8192_pci_module_init+0x107/0x118 [r8192se_pci]
[<c040305b>] do_one_initcall+0x51/0x13f
[<c0468fa1>] sys_init_module+0xac/0x1e3
[<c0408c9f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
---[ end trace 71022fdbb6758c02 ]---
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000d8
IP: [<c0781fcb>] packet_notifier+0x19/0x12b
*pdpt = 0000000032966001 *pde = 000000013e737067
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/net/pan0/statistics/collisions
Modules linked in: r8192se_pci(+) nls_utf8 fuse rfcomm sco bridge stp
llc bnep l2cap sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand powernow_k8 ip6t_REJECT
nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 uinput
snd_hda_codec_conexant snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq
snd_seq_device snd_pcm btusb thinkpad_acpi r8169 bluetooth uvcvideo
snd_timer cfg80211 wmi snd_page_alloc snd mii videodev rfkill
v4l1_compat joydev i2c_piix4 serio_raw soundcore k8temp microcode
aes_i586 aes_generic xts gf128mul dm_crypt video output usb_storage
radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core [last unloaded:
scsi_wait_scan]
Pid: 6777, comm: insmod Tainted: G W 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE
#1 3508CTO/3508CTO
EIP: 0060:[<c0781fcb>] EFLAGS: 00210286 CPU: 0
EIP is at packet_notifier+0x19/0x12b
EAX: 00000000 EBX: c09d2648 ECX: f2a3fe04 EDX: 00000011
ESI: f2a3fe04 EDI: 00000011 EBP: f2a3fdf4 ESP: f2a3fde4
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Process insmod (pid
13 years, 6 months
No audio, video plays at 8x
by Alex
Hi,
I'm not sure what happened, but just this afternoon, perhaps after the
most recent set of FC13 updates, I have no audio and video plays at
least at 8x normal speed. This includes videos from mplayer, audio
from Pandora (the Adobe Air application) plays at more than double
speed (by time, not by sound, as it's completely silent). It seems
that VLC plays the video at normal speed, but there is no audio.
There are a couple of entries in messages that may be related:
Oct 21 17:14:18 sage kernel: Linux version 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64
(mockbuild(a)x86-03.phx2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc version 4.4.4 20100630
(Red Hat 4.4.4-10) (GCC) )
#1 SMP Wed Sep 15 03:36:55 UTC 2010
Oct 21 17:14:18 sage kernel: Command line: ro
root=UUID=97c06a5b-698b-442f-8f4e-9b019182cef3 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM
rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarc
yrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
Oct 21 17:18:26 sage pulseaudio[2326]: ratelimit.c: 6 events suppressed
Oct 21 17:19:37 sage pulseaudio[2326]: ratelimit.c: 5 events suppressed
Oct 21 17:15:02 sage rtkit-daemon[2180]: Sucessfully made thread 2568
of process 2568 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at
nice level -11.
Oct 21 17:15:02 sage pulseaudio[2568]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #1. Suggest a
bigger bdl_pos_adj.
I've tried killing pulseaudio, which results in a brief noise, then it
is automatically restarted.
I have the following updates in the last week:
system-config-language-1.3.5-3.fc13 Thu 21 Oct 2010 11:13:04 AM EDT
tigervnc-1.0.90-0.15.20100420svn4030.fc13 Thu 21 Oct 2010 11:12:53 AM EDT
freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:31:48 AM EDT
fpaste-0.3.5-1.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:31:47 AM EDT
selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-65.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:31:18 AM EDT
selinux-policy-3.7.19-65.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:31:00 AM EDT
nc-1.84-23.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:59 AM EDT
anthy-9100h-15.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:58 AM EDT
postgresql-libs-8.4.5-1.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:56 AM EDT
psmisc-22.6-14.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:55 AM EDT
webkitgtk-1.2.5-1.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:54 AM EDT
gnome-screensaver-2.30.0-2.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:52 AM EDT
poppler-glib-0.12.4-6.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:47 AM EDT
poppler-utils-0.12.4-6.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:46 AM EDT
setroubleshoot-2.2.102-1.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:45 AM EDT
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-43.1.8.2.fc13 Tue 19 Oct 2010 10:30:44 AM EDT
I also have the following modules installed:
Module Size Used by
fuse 57233 2
ebtable_nat 1983 0
ebtables 22267 1 ebtable_nat
ipt_MASQUERADE 2296 3
iptable_nat 4890 1
nf_nat 19999 2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
nls_utf8 1405 3
cifs 236151 4
sunrpc 198573 1
cpufreq_ondemand 8764 6
powernow_k8 14721 1
freq_table 3955 2 cpufreq_ondemand,powernow_k8
bridge 64064 0
stp 1943 1 bridge
llc 4733 2 bridge,stp
xt_physdev 1699 1
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 1558 0
ip6t_REJECT 4111 2
nf_conntrack_ipv6 17856 13
ip6table_filter 1671 1
ip6_tables 17580 1 ip6table_filter
ipv6 275768 55 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
kvm_amd 35638 0
kvm 260114 1 kvm_amd
uinput 7455 0
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 2727 1
snd_hda_codec_via 54561 1
edac_core 39175 0
edac_mce_amd 7855 0
snd_hda_intel 23960 2
sky2 44990 0
xhci_hcd 83615 0
k10temp 3343 0
wmi 6888 0
pata_atiixp 4117 0
i2c_piix4 11942 0
joydev 9771 0
snd_hda_codec 85624 3
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6454 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq 53005 0
snd_seq_device 6159 1 snd_seq
snd_pcm 80324 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 19882 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 62913 12
snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 6390 1 snd
microcode 18282 0
serio_raw 4588 0
asus_atk0110 14532 0
snd_page_alloc 7437 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
pata_acpi 3419 0
firewire_ohci 20544 0
ata_generic 3427 0
firewire_core 44982 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 1547 1 firewire_core
pata_jmicron 2627 0
radeon 711597 2
ttm 54819 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 24738 1 radeon
drm 176713 4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 5045 1 radeon
i2c_core 25709 5 i2c_piix4,radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
Is there any further information I can provide to help troubleshoot this?
Thanks,
Alex
13 years, 6 months
Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2
by Henrik Frisk
Hi,
First of all I wish to thank all the people involved in the release of F13.
I just upgraded from F11 and I really like it. The installation was
effortless and the system works and looks great!
But I have a question WRT the video ddriver. I have successfully installed
the nvidia drivers but for some reason, the resolution (1920x1200) gives me
a 'smaller' screen then what I have under F11 (also nvidia), i.e. I can fit
less things. As if the resolution was lower. BTW, this was the case with the
nouveau drivers too. The video card is a nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce
9600M GT] [10de:0647]
Any ideas?
/h
13 years, 6 months
Need advice on performance troubleshooting
by Marko Vojinovic
Hi folks! :-)
I am experiencing a gradual performance drop problem --- having a machine
running 24/7, after some time (say, two weeks) the system becomes increasingly
slow, in terms of desktop response. It takes several seconds (cca 15-20) to
open an "open file" dialog in a text editor, or a new terminal window or such.
The window takes 2-4 seconds to gain focus after I click on it. If I move the
mouse over a typical toolbar, it takes a second or two for the particular
button to get highlighted, and the highlighting "rectangle" follows the mouse
like 2-3 buttons behind. Clicking on a new message in KMail takes 1-3 seconds
to actually display it. Most GUI stuff becomes increasingly (and annoyingly)
slow.
There is enough processor power, according to top and other diagnostic tools.
Besides, compiz happens to remain completely responsive --- cube, this, that,
all effects are fast and snappy. Mplayer runs flawlessly. But the rest of the
GUI starts to drag. The text selection in an editor follows the mouse with 1-3
seconds delay. And such stuff...
On a freshly (re)booted system everything is fast and snappy for a couple of
days, and then it gradually starts to get slower and slower. This coincides
with increased usage of swap, which tends to rise from 0 to 1.2 GB in two
weeks period. I suspect that swapping is partially the culprit for performance
degradation, but I am unable to determine what app is using all that swap, and
for what.
I would appreciate any pointers where to start looking for this swap drainage.
Also, if I try to run the system without swap (disabling it manually right
after boot), it starts to choke after some time, and I need to reboot it.
The hardware has 2GB RAM, 4 GB swap, core 2 duo @ 1.5 GHz.
I use the machine for usual desktop activities. Typically I have several apps
running non-stop: firefox (3-4 tabs), kmail, ktorrent, kile, couple of konsole
instances, two skype instances, cairo-dock, xmms and okular. The desktop is
64bit F12, KDE, running compiz/emerald. I have several usual plasmoids on the
desktop, nothing too fancy (clock, graphs for cpu, temperature, battery,
network and RAM usage).
Occasionally I start other stuff (krusader, quake3, Wolfram's Mathematica,
other infrequent things like photo editing stuff etc.) but I shut them down
after usage. I notice the slowdown even if I don't use any of that.
The symptoms appear like something is leaking memory --- slowly (noticable
only after two weeks of continuous running), but cumulatively. This triggers
gradual swap usage, which then gradually decreases performance and
responsiveness of the whole desktop.
I tried shutting down all desktop apps, and this releases some swap (but not
all?!), but the system remains in a bad shape, which is visible if I (re)start
any app again.
Things like mplayer run flawlessly, but it takes cca 15-20 seconds to start the
Konsole from which I can invoke mplayer.
Once I left the system running unattended for a month (I wasn't at home), and
I accessed it only via ssh a couple of times (without problems). When I got
back, the desktop was so slow and unresponsive that I couldn't even wait for
it to do a regular shutdown/restart, and instead I pulled the plug and
rebooted it fresh.
When I try to shut down a multi-tab app (firefox, kile, konsole), it takes so
much time to close itself that I get a dialog saying that the app is not
responding (and offering to terminate it). If I just wait, eventually both the
dialog and the app close themselves. It can take them from 5 seconds to half a
minute do close, depending on the shape of the rest of the desktop.
I'm at a loss where and how to look for memory and performance drain. My
current uptime is
$ uptime
02:04:55 up 14 days, 4:54, 6 users, load average: 0.62, 0.55, 0.39
and I can feel the slowdown quite easily. I'd be happy to hear any advice on
how to troubleshoot this, before I get pissed off and reboot the system again.
I'll also gladly provide any additional info.
Thanks, :-)
Marko
13 years, 6 months
Looking for a few great contributors to help out with Fedora Elections!
by Robyn Bergeron
Are you a Fedora community member or even a free software user who’d
like to get more involved but aren’t sure where to start?
The Fedora Project is gearing up for our twice-annual elections
process, for an election period in late November. During this
election, we’ll be voting on positions in the following groups:
* Fedora Board (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board)
* Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)
(http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCO)
* Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo)
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMSCo)
Helping out with this elections process is a great opportunity to get
started as a free software contributor, especially if you’re unable or
prefer not to write code.
We have a handful positions we need help with. We’ve outlined them
below. If any of these sound like things you’d like to help us with,
please send an email to the Fedora Board (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org).
Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator
The Fedora Election Questionnaire Coordinator will make sure members
of the Fedora Community are able to ask questions of the candidates,
and will facilitate sending the questions to the candidates and
compiling them into a wiki page that will be distributing during the
election period.
Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as questionnaire coordinator:
* Create a wiki page to list the candidate questions.
* Use the following link to create the page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire
* REFERENCE: The questionnaire from the last election is here –
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_elections_questionnaire You may want
to look at it for ideas.
* Send an message out to the Fedora community to collect questions for
the candidates, allowing community members to email their questions to
you directly or optionally adding them to a wiki page. The message
should be sent to the following:
** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List
(devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your
blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT
fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you.
* On November 1, gather up all the questions that you collected from
the Community, and post them all to the wiki page you created
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_elections_questionnaire). Make sure
the page is neat & orderly.
* On November 1, send the questionnaire page to all candidates and ask
them to send their answers to you by November 8.
* For any candidates you haven’t heard from on November 7th, send them
a reminder email.
* Copy the candidates’ answers into the wiki page and advertise the
answers to the same venues listed above (the mailing lists and Planet
Fedora.
* Helpful Tips:
** Consider using your best judgement and selecting 6-8 good
questions from the pool for the candidates. 20 questions is probably
too much. If some are similar, feel free to merge and restate them.
That’s it. Not too tough, to ask. right?
Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator
The Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator will schedule IRC town hall
sessions, one for each of the following groups:
* Fedora Board
* Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)
* Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee (FAmSCo)
Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall coordinator:
* Email all of the Fedora Board candidates between Nov. 1 and Nov. 3
and ask them to provide some 1-hour blocks of time they might be
available to participate in an IRC town hall session, between November
13 and November 19th. You may wish to use a tool like whenasgood.net
to organize this. Ask them to respond by Nov. 10.
* Do the same as above for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee
(FESCo) candidates.
* Do the same as above for the Fedora Ambassadors’ Steering Committee
(FAmSCo) candidates.
* Select who the Town Hall moderators were be (see below for that job
description).
* On November 10, determine the best date and time for each of the
three town halls, and advertise this time & date and the irc channel
(probably #fedora-meeting and #fedora-meeting-questions on
irc.freenode.net) in the following venues:
** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Fedora Announce List Mailing List (announce AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Development discussions related to Fedora Mailing List
(devel AT lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Planet Fedora (http://planet.fedoraproject.org) – if your
blog is not on Planet Fedora, contact Máirín Duffy (duffy AT
fedoraproject.org) to post your message to the Planet for you.
* Helpful tips:
** When selecting people for town hall coordinators – remember
that things like good IRC skills, even-temperedness, knowledge in the
area of the town hall they are moderating, are very helpful.
That’s it. Not too tough, right?
Fedora Election Town Hall Moderator (3 needed!)
The Fedora Election Town Hall Moderators will each run a 1-hour long
IRC town hall sessions, one for each of the 3 groups being elected.
This task requires some skill with IRC. This is an especially good
position for someone who does not have a lot of time to devote as it
only takes a little over an hour to do.
The date and time of each of these sessions will be published by the
Fedora Election Town Hall Coordinator on November 10.
Specifically, here’s what you’ll need to do as town hall moderator:
* Show up at least 5 minutes early to the town hall, make sure the IRC
channel exists.
* Start the meeting using the meeting bot command ‘#startmeeting’
* Learn the IRC nicks of the candidates for your town hall. You can
look them up on Fedora Community (log in at
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/community) or you can ask via email.
* During the town hall, allow only candidates to have voice in #fedora-meeting.
* During the town hall, take questions from Fedora Community members
in #fedora-meeting-questions, and maintain a question queue. Ask the
questions in order in #fedora-meeting, giving each candidate a chance
to provide an answer to the question.
* Once the session is over, end the meeting with the meeting bot
command ‘#endmeeting’
* At the end of the meeting, the meeting bot will spit out a bunch of
links to the minutes. Take these links and post them to the following
venues as soon as possible:
** Fedora Advisory Board Mailing List (advisory-board AT
lists.fedoraproject.org)
** Community support for Fedora users Mailing List (users AT
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13 years, 6 months
DNS issue, solved
by Joe Zeff
Earlier, when I posted resolv.conf, I spotted what might be a problem:
Network Manager was active, even though I'd turned it off long ago.
Using the GUI tool, I turned it off again. This morning's updates
included some kmod-nvidia stuff and later I found that one of my games
(Plants vs Zombies, under Wine) wasn't loading, so I tried logging out
and back in. Alas, X wouldn't start, forcing a reboot. (Only a little
under 4 days of uptime, so no great loss.) Everything came up properly,
I have DNS without playing games and Network Manager didn't activate.
Now, the only question remaining is, what turned it back on in the first
place, and that's not exactly urgent.
Note: the first time I sent this out, I got back a bounce on a
mail-loop. If anybody gets this twice, sorry.
13 years, 6 months
DNS issue solved
by Joe Zeff
Earlier, when I posted resolv.conf, I spotted what might be a problem:
Network Manager was active, even though I'd turned it off long ago.
Using the GUI tool, I turned it off again. This morning's updates
included some kmod-nvidia stuff and later I found that one of my games
(Plants vs Zombies, under Wine) wasn't loading, so I tried logging out
and back in. Alas, X wouldn't start, forcing a reboot. (Only a little
under 4 days of uptime, so no great loss.) Everything came up properly,
I have DNS without playing games and Network Manager didn't activate.
Now, the only question remaining is, what turned it back on in the first
place, and that's not exactly urgent.
13 years, 6 months
Java allows root access without permission?
by Michael Cronenworth
Fedora 13 x86_64 with OpenJDK (not Sun) installed.
I was required to login to a web site today to configure a VPN and the
site installed a Cisco VPN Java applet. When it was finished installing
and was running I noticed the processes where running as root and had
installed into /opt. I had not given it my root password or any
permission to do so. It did not install any RPM package. It was all
driven by a Java applet.
$ ps -efw #id 502 is me
502 4791 2668 0 11:16 ? 00:00:19
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64/../../bin/java
sun.appl
root 4923 1 0 11:16 ? 00:00:00 /opt/cisco/vpn/bin/vpnagentd
Is this something "allowed" by some configuration setting in OpenJDK
somewhere? I'd like to turn off this "feature" ASAP.
Thanks,
Michael
13 years, 6 months