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ifcfg-* need fail on no ipv4 address
by Frank Murphy 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

What line do I place in ifcfg-* to make sure eth* fails if ipv4 isn't resolved.

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UEFI is a POS
by Michael Cronenworth 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

-Saw an update for my motherboard[1]. Cool! -Downloaded the update and applied it. -System wouldn't boot. Cannot find a boot drive. Hard drive is detected... but won't boot? -Downgrade to old UEFI, play with settings. Still won't boot. -Google. -Find http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/installation.html Section "Announcing the Boot Loader to the EFI" -Boot into rescue mode on my F17 USB installer. -Type: efibootmgr -c -Reboot. System boots now. So, beware: BIOS updates are no longer an easy operation. There is a default location for the EFI loader that Fedora is not using (but is for USB/CD). Why is Fedora not using the default location? To play nice with other OSes? [1] http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77I_DELUXE/

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start openvpn client on boot fedora 17 64bit
by Brian West 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

I have an account with strong vpn im trying to get openvpn to start on boot in fedora 17 but it is not playing nice at all people say set it up in network manager but with strongvpn you login via a cert thats included inside your config file. how can i start it as a service i followed the steps in the wikki with no luck. can i make /etc/rc.local executable then place the command in there? thanks Brian

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Re: Getting rid of nepomukserver
by R. G. Newbury 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Ed wrote >On 11/22/2012 12:29 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> > >> >I have turned off 'Desktop Search' in Settings. I have deleted all executables in /usr/bin with 'nepomuk' in the name (and virtuoso). I have nuked the nepomuk folders hiding down in ~/.kde. >> >But after I rebooted I*still* ended up with a 'nepomukserver' running. >> >ps -aux says it is started by kde4init. Setting 'autostart' to false in/usr/share/./autostart/nepomukserver.desktop >> >stops that from happening, but*where* is the executable instance which kdeinit is starting? I wish to nuke it too. >> > > FWIW, I have unchecked "Nepomuk Sematic Desktop" in the Desktop Search section of the KDE "System Settings" and upon clicking apply the server is no longer running. > Only /usr/bin/nepomukcontroller remains. I am quite sure that that's the first thing I did. Noted as the first item. I then nuked every executable I could find. So if I failed to 'Apply' the setting, where is the executable which kdeinit *then* started. . > System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Service Manager. Uncheck > Nepomuk Search Module. > > Login and Logout if required. No need to "nuke" anything. Well, maybe > virtuoso. > Gabriel Thanks. What a stupidly obtuse system for wasting cycles. I didn't even know that there was another complete level of 'service' management. Now it is turned off, it still does not answer the question: Where is the damn executable which the service starts. This sort of layered obscurity pisses me off. And the user cannot nuke the libs, since they are "dependencies" of all sorts of other actually useful bits of the install. Geoff

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linux-wlan-ng module
by Timothy Murphy 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

I have an ancient Intel Pro/Wireless WUD2011BWW USB device which works fine under Windows XP, and which I'd like to get working under Fedora. As far as I can see, this requires the linux-wlan-ng module, which doesn't appear to be included with the kernel any more. If anyone has any suggestions how to install this (or any other way to get this device working under Linux) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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mounting one usb interface (from 2 identified)
by Ranjan Maitra 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi, Following up on my previous e-mail, I wanted to mention that two usb interfaces are being recognized. Here is the relevant output of % usb-devices T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=02 Cnt=01 Dev#= 15 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0bb4 ProdID=0c02 Rev=02.22 S: Manufacturer=ARNOVA 10 S: Product=ARNOVA 10 S: SerialNumber=11223344 C: #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=256mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=42 Prot=01 Driver=(none) I want to mount this as a USB storage device, so that i can access the filesystem. Question: How do I mount the first interface? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium

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linux-wlan-ng module
by Timothy Murphy 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

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Have to keep reinstalling LILO was Re: UEFI is a POS
by Robert Myers 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > There is a default location for the EFI loader that Fedora is not using (but is for USB/CD). While we are on the subject of boot loaders: I have been wiping hard disks from systems that are no longer in use. One disk, which had been part of a booting striped raid, would not even allow me to dd to it, or so I thought, because I couldn't even read the partition table. I marked the disk as borked and moved on. Then the Windows OS on the machine I was using to wipe disks became so corrupted that I could only boot it into a live CD, which was good enough, but I still wanted access to those old Windows files and didn't want to continue using a live CD as my only way of accessing the machine. Since the machine would never be used for web-surfing (for which purpose I use another Linux distribution that I will never mention again on this list), I installed Fedora on the borked disk just to see what would happen. Before attempting the install, I deliberately overwrote the MBR. The Fedora install went through just fine, but then the system wouldn't boot, not even putting LILO on the drive with an intact MBR. Long story short, with LILO on the original Windows drive, if I ever turn the power off, I have to "reinstall" Fedora, which merely reinstalls LILO, and everything goes through just fine, including the reboot. That is to say, Anaconda can find the new drive, install to it, and correctly set some volatile boot pointer to the new drive that gets lost if I ever turn off the power. It's merely a nuisance, and I *really* don't want to try to fix the MBR on the second drive any more than I already have (using MSI-SYS). Any suggestions? Why can't Anaconda permanently tell LILO where the second drive is? Presumably because the bios gets there ahead of LILO and screws everything up after I have powered down, but that's only a guess. Robert.

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Need help with building rpms
by Suvayu Ali 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi, I am trying to build my own rpm for mutt. I am using the spec file from the Fedora srpm. During the build it fails on the following command. if test -f $BUILDROOT/usr/bin/mutt_dotlock && test xmail != x ; then \ chgrp mail $BUILDROOT/usr/bin/mutt_dotlock && \ chmod 2755 $BUILDROOT/usr/bin/mutt_dotlock || \ { echo "Can't fix mutt_dotlock's permissions!" >&2 ; exit 1 ; } \ fi This is the error message I get. chgrp: changing group of `$BUILDROOT/usr/bin/mutt_dotlock': Operation not permitted Can't fix mutt_dotlock's permissions! make[4]: *** [install-exec-hook] Error 1 I then realised only root can call chgrp, so I tried to build with mock. But I still get the same failure. I have successfully used mock to build notmuch and git before. What am I doing wrong this time? Thanks in advance for any suggestions, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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why does this rsync commands copy again the same files?
by M. Fioretti 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Greetings, I am running Fedora 16 x86_64. When I connect an external USB drive and rsync to it my pictures with this command: rsync -rvt --delete --no-o --no-g /home/z/photo/ /media/Verbatim/photo because I don't care about ownership and permissions, I just want to have the same files,with the same names and modification times, in the same hierarchy of folders. However, rsync keeps copying certain folders and pictures, and always the same ones, every time, even if they are not changed at all. If I rsync, unmount and unplug the drive, then plug it in again and re-run the command above, rsync copies again hundreds of pictures to the drive. What am I missing here? FIY, the source folder is ext4, the destination vfat (see their mount entries below) TIA, Marco /dev/sda7 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered) /dev/sdb1 on /media/Verbatim type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=cp437,i

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