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Re: Re: Fedora 13 install problem
by Wm_Frank Pont jr 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Fedora 13 Beta was in my first post. Fedora 12 would not install. Thinks for the advice. Frank >Since Fedora 13 won't be released for almost three weeks, this must be >either the Beta or a nightly compose. >You may want to try the Test Compose that was just issued, which is a >candidate we test against our release criteria for final release:

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Help w. R & texlive install
by Genes MailLists 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

I'm running F12. I use texlive - however, the fedora version is too old (2007) and since I coordinate with others in writing papers - all of who use texlive 2009 - I have compatibility problems. (e.g. no biblatex, problems with natbib style files etc) So I installed the upstream 2009 texlive - which works perfectly and exactly the same as everyone else! Problem is I also need to install R - it has texlive as a dependency and doesn't see the already installed texlive - what is the right way to install R - but without it dragging in any fedora based texlive ? The only way I could think of was to hand install using rpm all the packages for R and its dependencies with --force but skipping the texlive ones - is there a better way ? thanks gene

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OOo 3.2 for F12?
by Kirk Lowery 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

After googling around, it seems that OpenOffice 3.2 won't be officially packaged for Fedora 12. I really would like to upgrade to it because 3.2 now handles OpenType fonts. Can anyone confirm that 3.2 definitely won't be packaged for F12? In that case, what would be the best alternative? Are there reliable third-party rpms? Or install from the tarball? Thanks! Kirk

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Re: Re: Fedora 13 install problem
by Wm_Frank Pont jr 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

I am trying to install only fedora on a new Dell precision T1500. No duel boot or anything. I think the issue is that it is too new to be included in the general support. The live Fedora 12 just dies with a black screen, The DVD Fedora 13 goes into a "install error, sleeping forever" message. The live Fedora 13 boots with a warning on the panel about a kernel crash. The save to HD fails most of the time and the network is down until tg3 is rmmod, broadcom and tg3 are "modprobed." Normally my installs are nice and boring. I hope this is just a new system not fully understood by the Linux community. Frank

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btrfs love-hate relationship
by Valent Turkovic 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

http://blog.rot13.org/2010/04/btrfs_love-hate_relationship.html This is an interesting read. I personally use it only in testing, but Dobrica who wrote blog post tried it in production. -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt blog: http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com linux, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless, ronjenje, pametne kuće, zwave registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turkovic(a)hotmail.com

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WTH is up with this network config?
by jack craig 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

When I learned about ip address, the network & host portions of the IP and the netmask to differentiate the host & network numbers. I learned a class A addr used a mask of 10.255.255.255. My current domain pre-existed my arrival. While my FC11 works fine, I was looking at this network config and found the below!!! eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:18:FE:75:91 inet addr:10.0.0.100 Bcast:11.255.255.255 Mask:254.0.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::226:18ff:fefe:7591/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:8291136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8464483 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:8084873362 (7.5 GiB) TX bytes:8107599565 (7.5 GiB) Interrupt:35 cat ./devices/ifcfg-eth0 # Networking Interface DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static DNS1=10.0.0.199 GATEWAY=10.0.0.129 HWADDR=00:26:18:FE:75:91 IPADDR=10.0.0.100 NETMASK=10.0.0.255 ONBOOT=yes My question, if the ifcfg-eth0 has the right IP & Mask, why does the ifconfig display not agree? More, why does it work as is ???!!! tia, jackc... -- Jack Craig Software Engineer 831.461.7100 x120 www.extraview.com

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xvinfo results in "no adapters present" msg
by George R Goffe 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Howdy, I'm having trouble with my laptop. The mplayer folks say it's because Xv is not configured properly. Here's the xvinfo output: xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present I'm using an external monitor but I think it's connected to the system board. lspci | grep vga gives: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5250] Does anyone know what's going on and what I need to do to resolve this problem please? Regards, George... "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers

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Fedora 13 install problem
by Wm_Frank Pont jr 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

I have a brand new dell precision T1500. Fedora 12 live CD fails Fedora 13 DVD fails and "sleeps forever." Fedora 13 live CD installed once but failed when I tried to reinstall after losing network. After formatting (using defaults) all seems to be going well when I get "An unhanded exception has occured. This is likely a bug ..." I saved the error ... somewhere ... in a place on the live CD I can not find. Any help would be welcomed. Frank Pont

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Laptops, virtualisation, and networking
by Dan Irwin 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hello, I run Fedora 12 on my laptop, along with a couple of virtual machines. I generally connect to my workplace via wifi or vpn. I want the virtual machines to have access to my workplace network. When I'm connected via wifi (or wired) this should work fine, as I can bridge the guest network interface onto the host, and let dhcp take care of addressing. When I VPN in, I'm connected via pptp or ipsec. I can't see the same bridging/dhcp working on these interfaces as wlan0 or eth0. This leaves me with a problem. How can I treat virtual machines the same regardless of connection method (vpn or ethernet). I'd like to know if anyone else has faced this problem, and how they solved it. I'm thinking my laptop might have to somehow advertise the existence of a local non-nat rfc1918 network to my vpn server using ospf or rip. Seems like a whole lot of overkill, not to mention the potential for routing shenanigans. Failing this I might have to use nat on whatever IP address my laptop currently has. This raises the question of which interface to nat, wlan0, eth0, ppp0, ppp1, tun0, etc. Last resort would be to assign two interfaces to each vm, and use the correct interface for the kind of connection, either ethernet or vpn. Looking forward to hearing others ideas, or indeed how crazy me ideas might be :) Cheers, Dan

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Re: Re: Fedora 13 install problem
by Wm_Frank Pont jr 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

I must have said that wrong. After the format, the mount failed and before the install quits it allows me to save the error message for later examination. I was not able to find where the information was saved on the file system of the live cd. Frank

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