GNOME Login Sound - Startup application issue
by Michael D. Setzer II
Was recently looking some log files, and found that this wasn't working since
the file or whatever it was trying to play wasn't working.
The original setting was to play an --id=
/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login"
Not sure if that --id="desktop-login" is suppose to be pointing to something or
set somewhere else, but on both a clean install and an update from 12 to 14,
it shows that it doesn't work.
I modified the option to use a sound file I located on the system, and it seems
to work fine at playing the sound on login.
/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play -f /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg --
description="GNOME Login"
Not sure if I've missed something, but it is enabled as a startup app, but
doesn't work (at least no playing) on my setups.
13 years, 4 months
fedora 14 & compiz
by Roger K. Wells
Hello,
I recently turned on the Compiz desktop effects and suspend stopped
working. At least I think this is the correlation. The PC just hangs
until I use the power switch. Has any one else observed this?
uname -a: Linux rwells-f14 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 23
16:04:50 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
machine is Lenovo X200 (Intel graphics)
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13 years, 4 months
Kernel panic during FC14 install
by Alex
Hi,
I have a dual 8-core AMD Opteron 6128 with 4 1TB disks that crashed
during install. Is the limited information from /tmp/syslog any use
here? Here's a small part of it in hopes its useful or provide ideas
for something that can be done to prevent it from happening again. It
failed during the process of making the filesystem on the RAID
devices, and IO would slow to basically nothing.
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#13 stuck for 61s! [kswapd3:129]
Pid: 129, comm: kswapd3 Not tainted 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64 #1 H8DGU/H8DGU
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81077e57>] [<ffffffff81077e57>]
raw_local_irq_restore+0xb/0x12
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81077e57>] [<ffffffff81077e57>]
raw_local_irq_restore+0xb/0x12
RSP: 0018:ffff88021406de00 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: ffff880220013e78 RBX: ffff88021406de00 RCX: 00000000000016ff
RDX: ffff880214079740 RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: 0000000000000286
RBP: ffffffff8100a68e R08: ffff880220013e80 R09: ffffffff81b81f80
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff880212e44970 R12: ffff88021406ddf8
R13: ffffffff810dff5c R14: ffff88021406de50 R15: 0000000000000002
FS: 00007f1289216860(0000) GS:ffff880002120000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00007f8c42c8c248 CR3: 00000004132b2000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process kswapd3 (pid: 129, threadinfo ffff88021406c000, task ffff880214079740)
Stack:
ffff88021406de10 ffffffff814690d7 ffff88021406de50 ffffffff81066656
<0> ffff88021406de50 0000000000000000 ffff880220000000 0000000000000000
<0> ffff88021406de70 ffff880220013e78 ffff88021406dee0 ffffffff810e037a
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff814690d7>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x17/0x19
[<ffffffff81066656>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x6c/0x79
[<ffffffff810e037a>] ? kswapd+0xc0/0x1ba
[<ffffffff810663c3>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x39
[<ffffffff810e02ba>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x1ba
[<ffffffff81065f29>] ? kthread+0x7f/0x87
[<ffffffff8100aae4>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff81065eaa>] ? kthread+0x0/0x87
[<ffffffff8100aae0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
Code: e8 6e 12 3f 00 c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 0f 1f 44 00 00 66 ff 05 8d b3
9a 00 fb 66 66 90 66 66 90 c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 0f 1f 44 00 00 57 9d <66>
66 90 66 90 c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 0f 1f 44 00 00 fa 66 66 90 66
Call Trace:
Thanks,
Alex
13 years, 4 months
audio config: split a 5.1 output into 3x independent stereo outputs
by Development discussions related to Fedora
Hi, I'm trying to work out if it is possible to configure
alsa/pulseaudio so that eg:
- 3x apps creating stereo audio
- each send audio to a different 5.1 output ie (physical stereo mini jack)
= stream 1 to 5.1/jack 1 front l/r => amp for room 1
= stream 2 to 5.1/jack 2 surround l/r => amp for room 2
= stream 3 to 5.1/jack 3 centre/sub => amp for room 3
[in my case, the audio interface is that built into a asus m4a79t deluxe
mainboard:
!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------
0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
HDA ATI SB at 0xf7ef8000 irq 16
!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Susbsystem ID's
!!--------------------------------------------------------
00:14.2 0403: 1002:4383
Subsystem: 1043:8357
]
So, is this even possible ?
13 years, 4 months
Unmatched entries
by Erik P. Olsen
In logwatch on my fedora 14 system I get the following message:
polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for
unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.23
[/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path
/org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8): 1 Time(s)
I suppose I should act on this but I don't know what it is, how critical it is
and what I can do about it.
Any suggestions?
--
Erik
13 years, 4 months
confused for booting security
by Parshwa Murdia
hi,
As someone earlier let me know about the encrypting of passwords, I did the
following:
after becoming the root, used the command:
md5crypt
to get the encrypted string of passwords for using in /boot/grub/grub.conf
This is the password which is NOT the password of the user who logs-in. But
while rebooting, while entering this password (when prompted in the black
screen), if I press Ecs, I come to the choices of OS and at that time, if
press 'e', it says me to edit through the grub, but then I press 'd' to
remove the following two lines (which are just below the name of the OS in
the /boot/grub/grub.conf file):-
password --md5 $1$X58Kw/$v71Qlprzt8f4U9uOu46nk0
lock
and after that I press 'b' to boot without entering the encrypted password
during the booting time.
If this is the case, anyone can press 'e' and then remove those two line and
then 'b' to boot without ever entering the encrypted passwords, then what
would be the purpose of encrypting that? It would be okay for trespassers
too!
--
Regards,
Parshwa Murdia
13 years, 4 months
Gnome3 available in F14 to evaluate it.
by Aaron Konstam
If you know that it is possible to evaluate the GNOME3 under F14 stop
reading here.
You can get a look at Gnome3 by doing:
yum install gnome-shell
Then go to System->Preferences->Desktop Effects and choose GNOME Shell
This is described in the February 2010 issue of Linux Journal in an
article, "Coming Soon to Linux Desktops", by Charles Olsen. Except he
gives you bad advice on how to start the Gnome3 Shell.
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13 years, 4 months
kde4 vs gnome ... stick with gnome for now
by Genes MailLists
I am an ex kde 3.5 user - I switched to gnome after the 4.0 mess ...
With the impending advent of gnome-shell - I decided to take a look at
kde4 again on f14 - after a brief revisit I found it to be a
look-dont-touch GUI ... :-(
In my opinion - it suffers the same basic flaws that made many of us
leave in the first place unfortunately.
Here's a couple things that perhaps are doable just not obvious.
I started with a fresh kde login - I created a new panel on top in
which to add the set of things I commonly use.
(1) Adding an app to panel which isn't in kde menu not possible.
(e.g. user apps - things i need for work, whatever)
(2) Moving App icon in panel where you want it - not possible
(a) not obvious - basic UI flaw - middle click etc dont work.
(b) if you click "panel settings" and then you can move icon
However the icon springs back to the side afterwards so you cannot
place it where you want it as it doesn't stay where i put it.
(3) virtual desktops widget - the grouping of things by name -
terminal in my case - still doesn't work - this was reported way back in
kde 4.0 - still doesn't work.
Perhaps they can be done - but was not obvious - it didn't crash on me
- just found the UI to be 2/10 (kde 3 was a 8/10). gnome is 6/10 and
gnome shell i have not explored yet.
I'm open still and perhaps I need to invest a lot more time, but for
now I'm definitely back in gnome ...
gene
13 years, 4 months
Repairs using Live Media??
by Beartooth
I have live media running respins of F14 on machines where F14 is
installed, and doing better with my monitor than the hard drive has been
doing. (One is currently running the Fusion release candidate; the other
has the plain F14 Live.)
I want to figure out what is different, and edit the
corresponding file on the hard drive to match.
But for some reason, I can't seem to remember nor reconstruct any
way to get to the hard drive. What am I not seeing??
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I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
13 years, 4 months
