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Locate/find -
by Bob Goodwin 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Is there a way/command that will find all instances of files such as "*.ncd" on the external hard drive: /run/media/bobg/Simple/Box8BkU/ updatedb and locate with it mounted do not find anything? Often times it would be convenient to do but locate seems only to want to work on the internal drives [for me]. Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7

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F17 yum not updating
by Beartooth 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

I've never really gotten my head clear around the concept of a path. What am I doing wrong here? How & where do I fix it? And how did I get into this? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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Using HDMI with Radeon and fc17
by Alex 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hi, I have a new fc17 x86_64 install with a Radeon HD5700 and the default xorg drivers included with fc17. I have an HDTV connected to the HDMI port and two monitors connected to each of the DVI ports. When I start Xorg with the HDTV connected, just the default fc17 splash screen graphic is displayed on all three monitors with apparently either no window manager running, or no visible method of access the standard menus. The mouse is displayed, but the buttons have no function and there is no menubar at the top. I also don't see anything in the logs that could indicate what the problem could be. How can I troubleshoot this? What could possibly be the problem? If I start Xorg without the HDMI port connected, it displays the standard GNOME window manager with the menus present. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex

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loadbalance
by Francisco J. Penaranda 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

I would like to know how to loadbalance in Fedora17, and what kind of program I need to use, I have 3 Ethernets and one LAN Thanks -- Francisco J. Peñaranda F. Jefe de Sistemas Ministerio de Comunicación Teléfono : 22004 3 0 Email: francisco.penaranda(a)comunicacion.gob.bo webpage: www.comunicacion.gob.bo

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Suspected permssions problem on FC17 new installation - need help
by William W. Austin 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

I have just done an installation of fc17 on a machine which was previously running 16 with no problems. I actually replaced the disk on which the root file system was installed, so I still have the fc16 root system installed and am able to boot from it to make comparisons, etc. I have tried rebooting to the fc16 release, and all of the problems go away when I do that, so I don't suspect a hardware problem. The machine is current on ALL rpm updates as of this morning. I recently did a clean install (new hd) of fc17, and I suspect I have a memory problem, but I can't find it. On fc16 I had/have NO problems with the X server (after the first few rounds of patching, anyway), however, on fc17 I am seeing a pair of problems which may be related. They cannot be duplicated on fc16. If I log in as root, no problems crop up and everything works the way it's expected to. (for instance xmms and xine run just fine, differing from their behavior for a non-privileged user). To me it sounds like a permissions problem, but after spending days trying to track it down, I've run out of ideas - any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I normally run the system in multiuser mode (via the symlink to /etc/systemd/system/default.target from the multi-user target). The machine is fairly fast with a 6-cpu phenom2, 8GB of ram, and 5.75 GB of sata3 disks (and a high-end GeForce nvidia video card). 1) Root can easily & quickly start the xserver using startx. However for any NON-privileged user there is a problem. xauth times out multiple times first failing to open the .serverauth file and then the .Xauthority file. The time between typing startx and getting the initial X window is typically 6-10 minutes (permissions on the directory and all directories above it in the tree are 755, and the file is readable by everyone). After that point, some things which ran/run smoothly under fc16 (i.e., without the problem) are also impacted - see next item. 2) Some programs, such as xmms 'run' but do not function. For instance running xmms, I get an error message box saying (quoting): Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly You have the correct output plugin selected No other program is blocking the soundcard. The weird thing about this particular message is that there is ONE particular file (a ".wmv" copy of the audio tracks from the movie "The Blues Brothers" in which Cab Calloway & his band do "Minnie the Moocher"). It plays properly every time, and NO OTHER .wav or .mp3 file will play at all (root can play all of them, and yes I have the mp3 extension loaded from rpmfusion). All of them play with the alsaplayer (I built the package from the .srpm file). As I said before, this works perfectly under fc16. Several other programs (particlarly xine) also refuse to run or will work on some files of a given type but not all. (For instance I have several ".flv" files which I made with the same camera to film a training course I created. Each is just under 5 minutes long and there are 6 of them. While all 6 of them play perfectly with xine under fc16, only 2 of them do under fc17. And no, they aren't that large, running 25-30M each.) All of the "affected" files play perfectly with xmovie or dragon. Any suggestions as to a likely cause here will be greatly appreciated. -- william w. austin airedad(a)att.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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netbook vs tablet
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

I am debating getting a netbook to replace my ee701 as a sometime machine or a tablet. There are a number of options but basically it comes down to what this second device is for. What is the progress of Fedora on 'cheap' tablets, as I would like this effort to come in under $100? I did see one interesting page on Fedora on a tablet: https://nohats.ca/wordpress/blog/2012/07/05/the-chinese-g101-tablet-and-fed… I can't find a price for this, though I could probably get one of my colleagues from Heuwei or China Mobile to bring one to the next IEEE meeting. Are there affordable atom based tablets? Seems not. Sigh. So the other approach is to just get an Android Tablet referbed and use it for its limited use, to get familiar with tablets already. But it sure would be interesting to have a working, cheap, Fedora tablet!

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Disk
by JD 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

which info retrieved by sdparam or hdparam would indicate that the drive is reaching it's EOL. I'm getting a lot of these errors: [12152.032068] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [12152.032082] ata4.00: failed command: READ DMA [12152.032101] ata4.00: cmd c8/00:08:27:14:3e/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 in [12152.032101] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [12152.032108] ata4.00: status: { DRDY } [12152.032123] ata4: hard resetting link [12152.592066] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [12152.601327] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100 [12152.601344] ata4.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [12152.601370] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] [12152.601375] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [12152.601381] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] [12152.601385] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor] [12152.601393] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): [12152.601397] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 [12152.601416] 00 00 00 00 [12152.601427] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] [12152.601432] Add. Sense: No additional sense information [12152.601439] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB: [12152.601442] Read(10): 28 00 01 3e 14 27 00 00 08 00 [12152.601460] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 20845607 [12152.601506] ata4: EH complete

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Iced Tea out of date?
by SternData 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

I just hit a website that has a java plugin and Chrome displayed a big box with "Iced Tea is Out of Date". It seems that I have icedtea-web-1.3.1-1.fc17.x86_64 and java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1.x86_64 installed. Is this just a Chrome glitch? -- -- Steve

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Brother HL5250 vs. Cups
by Jonathan Ryshpan 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Frequently when I try to print double sided to this printer I get a single page reading: ERROR NAME; stackunderflow COMMAND; pop OPERAND STACK; Has anyone else seen this? What's the problem? How can I fix it? System is Fedora-17 fully up to date, running on x86_64 hardware. The ppd file appears to come from: foomatic-db-ppds-4.0-31.20120103.fc17.noarch Thanks in advance - jon

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SCP problem -
by Bob Goodwin 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Is there something wrong with this command? [root@box9 simple]# scp -r bobg@box8:/home/bobg/ /run/media/bobg/Simple/Box8BkU I would like to copy the contents [roughly 44G per du -h] of /home/bobg/ on box8 to an external USB 500G hard drive. The problem is that it appears to be trying to keep recopying the files until the 500 gigs is reached. I let it run until the end yesterday and it quit protesting it had run out of space. I thought I had made an error entering the command and started again from scratch [after rm -fr] but it looks like it was doing the same thing now and I stopped it. Watching the screen I can see it is recopying the same files, du -h shows 228G on the external drive and it was still going when I stopped it. The source drive shows 44G ... What am I doing wrong? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7

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