installing picasa
by Robert Vargas
Hello,
Can anyone help me.
I'am trying to install google picasa3.0 without wine.
I downloaded 3.0 and it opens for a second or two then disappers ?
Robert
12 years, 9 months
intel wifi link problem again
by Hüvely Balázs
Dear developers!
Before a month I try to get help with intel wifi link card. The problem
was the connection hangs on and sometimes the machine freeze. I tried
fedora 15 with the same result.
I try scientific linux, and centos 6, it's working fine, without any
freeze. I tested near 2 weeks, and copying many gigs of datas through
wifi. There wasn't any error like before.
So, please look after the problem, and fix it in fedora. I turn from
fedora to other distro, because I have a big chance to I can use it and
it will be stable.
(It's still incredible for me, why centos and SL works fine, and fedroa
freezes/hangs on about 5mins.)
Thanks, Balazs
12 years, 9 months
persistent image with firefox 3.6.18
by François Patte
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Bonsoir,
I come accross a problem since I updated my f14 and got the 3.6.18
version of firefox:
when I whach some video (like al-jazeera, arte, or some other sites) the
last image (ie: after closing the site) remains persistent on my screen.
Even if I close firefox. I have to log out and log in again to get rid
of this image.
I have an nvidia video card and use the nvidia driver (
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-260.19.36-1.fc14...).
What is strange is that happens only with firefox (ie: whatching video
or using some applet which allows you to control the volume of a radio
site) but not if I use vlc, xine or other apps for video or photos. So I
think that the problems comes from firefox and not from the video driver.
Does anyone experienced something like that? Does anybody have an idea
about this problem?
Thank you for answering.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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12 years, 9 months
Clamd fails on reboot
by Arthur Dent
Hello All,
When i do a reboot (about once per month) I carefully check all the
essential services are running (I especially needed to do this as
systemd was, until now, not starting sendmail - a bug that is now
fixed).
Clamd will not start after a reboot. A little investigation reveals that
it won't start because it tries to create a pid file
in /var/run/clamd.clamd/ - but /var/run/clamd.clamd/ does not exist.
mkdir /var/run/clamd.clamd && chown clamd:clamd /var/run/clamd.clamd/
will allow the service to be started with no problems.
The next reboot and... poof... /var/run/clamd.clamd/ is gone again!
I have grepped the whole of /etc/* to see if there are any references to
this directory with the only entries being the sensible ones
in /etc/init.d/clamd-wrapper.
In that init script the "stop" stanza does have the following command:
"[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile"
but "$lockfile" refers to
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/clamd.${CLAMD_SERVICE}
There are no other "rm" commands.
So what deletes the /var/run/clamd.clamd/ directory on reboot?
Thanks in advance
Mark
12 years, 9 months
Don't go wireless when wired is available...
by Darryl L. Pierce
For some reason over the past week my F15 laptop has started pestering
me for the WPA2 key at work when I'm using my laptop.
The problem is that 1) it does it when I'm in the docking station and on
a wired connection and 2) I already have a WPA2 key setup for a
different wireless network at work that's present at the same time, but
to which the laptop's not trying to connect.
How do I, short of turning off wireless when I login while docked, tell
F15/Gnome3 to stop trying to connect to a wireless network? I want it to
give the wired connection preference and not try to go wireless as well.
--
Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc.
Delivering value year after year.
Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors.
http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
12 years, 9 months
evolution problem :messages that can't be expunged in F14
by Aaron Konstam
This problem is on my F14 machine.
In Evolution there are two messages appearing in the Inbox list which
when one trys to view them you get the following messages such as:
Cannot get message 31305 from
folder /home/akonstam/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Inbox The folder
appears to be irrecoverably corrupted.
The error is correct. The message bodies are not in the Inbox file. I
have tried the usual fixing method of executing:
evolution --force-shutdown
Then removing the
file: /home/akonstam/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ibex.index
When I start evolution again the Inbox.ibex.index file is recreated but
the defective messages still appear and can not be expunged.
What can I do to fix the problem?
--
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In Nature there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are
consequences. -- R.G. Ingersoll
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
12 years, 9 months
Re: F15: Questions re systemd
by R. G. Newbury
> R. G. Newbury <newbury(a)mandamus.org> wrote:
>> > New install of F15 on Thinkpad X61. Httpd refuses to start using:
>> > systemctl enable httpd.service; systemctl start httpd.service
> Hmm, this works fine on my installation of F15. 'systemctl enable'
> redirects to 'chkconfig' because httpd uses systemd's SYSV
> compatibility, but both commands do what you expect.
>
>> >
>> > User:group apache:apache exists and 'owns' /var/www
>> >
>> > No httpd.service file was installed through yum. I created one containing:
> httpd still uses a SYSV initscript. systemd is completely compatible
> with them for the moment.
>
>> > **************************************
>> > # httpd.service for systemd
>> > # installed to /lib/systemd/system
> Please do not install or edit unit files in /lib/systemd. Changes in
> that directory can be overriden by package updates. Instead use
> /etc/systemd/system, either by creating new unit files in that
> directory or copying existing ones in /lib/systemd to /etc and editing
> them. Unit files in /etc/systemd always override identically named
> ones in /lib/systemd.
Well *that* explains why there was no httpd.service file!. But it does
not quite explain why 'status' reported a 'fail'. I will rsync the
desktop F14 /etc/sysconfig/httpd and /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd files and
see what happens then, when I run 'service httpd restart'
>> > [Unit]
>> > Description=httpd daemon
>> > After=mysqld.service
> You probably want "network.target" in After too. (Although presumably
> mysqld has that in its After too.) If you use NetworkManager and bind
> httpd to particular IP addresses also add
> "NetworkManager-wait-online.service" to After as well, otherwise it
> might come up before it has a socket to bind to.
Since I do not need it, I'll delete this file. I'll wait for someone who
*knows* what is going on the write one!
>> >
>> > [Service]
>> > EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/httpd
>> > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k start
>> > ExecReload=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k restart
>> > PIDFile=/run/httpd.pid
>> > Type=forking
> This might be your problem:
>
>> > User=apache
>> > Group=apache
> httpd probably needs to be launched as root and allowed to drop
> privileges on its own. (Don't quote me on this though; I don't know
> much about the internal workings of httpd.)
You could well be right. Httpd wants to own the files in /var/www/html
etc. but since it is launched on boot, root would be the correct user to
do that.
> One other thing that might affect it: if you bind httpd to particular
> IP addresses, it might require the network to be active
>
>> > [Install]
>> > WantedBy=multi-user.target
>> > ****************************************
>> >
>> > I only get 'Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for
>> > details'. ?[FAILED]
>> >
>> > Status details are no help. I added OPTIONS=" -e 3 -E
>> > /var/log/httpd/error_log -w" to /etc/sysconfig/httpd, which systemctl
>> > status says it is executing, but I get NO error_log entries.
>> >
>> > Moreover, I get NO systems logs of any sort from systemctl/systemd.
>> >
>> > FIRST QUESTION: Where are the system logs? ?I do NOT have a
>> > /var/log/messages file.... Do I need to set a logging option somewhere?
> systemd normally logs to syslog. You really should figure out why
> syslog isn't working first.
SOLVED that bit. Somehow I chconfig'd OFF, the rsyslog daemon while
turning off all the rpc stuff (it forwarded to systemctl)....Does sorta
help!
> That being said, you can force systemd to log elsewhere with the
> "systemd.log_target=" kernel argument. Set it to "kmsg" to log to the
> kernel message log or "console" to print errors on the console. You
> can also set "systemd.log_level=debug" to get lots more output out of
> systemd. More on these and a lot more at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Systemd_problems
>
>> > SECOND QUESTION: If I use '/usr/sbin/httpd -k start', it works and I get
>> > httpd threads in the ps list.
>> > Service httpd status, at that point, says that the start FAILED.
>> > Service httpd stop does not actually stop anything, nor does systemctl
>> > httpd.service stop. ?(Does not know the pid?)
> Exactly. Systemd has no idea httpd was started, nor does it need to.
> It really shouldn't muck about with what the user didn't intend it to
> control.
Well yup! But I thought that it WAS controlling....What we have here is
a failure to communicate, as someone once said!
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R. Geoffrey Newbury
12 years, 9 months
