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by jiwa navid 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

i am getting the same "oh no something went wrong.......logout n try again" msg after installing vlc. can any 1 give me solution to this. i really want to get it fixed. @Alexander Volovics <a.volovic at upcmail.nl>

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blacklisting domains for yum?
by Joel Rees 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Looking in the man pages (man-db itself not in the minimal install? Wow! It's only 1.7M and not having it continually catches someone off-guard. I'm sure I'm not going to remember this next time I do a minimal install.) for yum, not finding a way to black-list domains. What I'm trying to do, the chinese servers get read early in the rotation, and they were dogs last night. 1KB/s and slowing down. Not sure if it's the censoring they are shooting themselves in the foot with or the line between here and there or overloading on a Friday night (Porn on the back channels? highly probable in totalitarian and near-totalitarian countries.) or what. Don't care. I don't trust any server in China right now, and I have reason not to right now, other than simple prejudice. (Such as baidu ignoring my no robots directives.) So I want to block yum from going to any domain in .cn . Is there an easy way to do it, either in yum.conf or in yum.repos.d/* , short of disabling the metalinks and grabbing the list of mirrors from the mirrors page and deleting the Chinese servers? (Or setting my own mirrors list up and refreshing it periodically from mirrors.fedoraproject.org, deleting the Chinese servers as I refresh them. That would be a lot of work, too.) -- Joel Rees

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yum group for the security spin?
by Joel Rees 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Is/are there any sort of yum group(s) that would aid in building an OS install that includes the security lab stuff? (Tried yum groupinfo "Security Lab" and got no carrot. Somehow I found the menu package, but that doesn't automatically populate the menu with installed packages.) -- Joel Rees

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Partitioning between SDD and HDD
by Javier Perez 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hi I am looking forward to rebuild my system. I want to buy a SSD to place all fixed, operating system files in there and use the HDD for my Data and variable operating system files. looks like /home and /var should go on the HDD. Can I have a small ramdisk to place /var/run or would it cause instability issues if I try to hibernate/sleep the system? This would be a desktop system, right now I am tripple booting Ubuntu/Win2k/Fedora on it. Another question, is it possible to combine the /boot partition of Fedora with the one of Ubuntu 12.04? I think both are using grub2 nowadays, or would it be asking for endless trouble? What partition scheme would you recommend? How big an SSD would I need? I look forward to a system that boots faster and works faster when starting up programs and such, and I want to minimize wear and tear on the SSD (I understand they have a limit on rewrites) -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| pepebuho(a)gmail.com ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.

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Ctrl+Alt+Backspace -
by Bob Goodwin 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

I have a new Fedora-18 64 bit XFCE Live install and and I find that ctrl+alt+backspace does not work. Is that expected? I need that function with my equipment. I have two Saitek illuminated keyboards the have done strange things when I switch the color/brightness since F-16. After the color/brightness is toggled to max I have to log out and in again using ctrl+alt+backspace. This on two different computers. On this F-17 box I can log out/in that way, not on the new F-18 install. How can I change that? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7

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Firefox Tabs -
by Bob Goodwin 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

It appears that the option "browser.tabs.onTop" has been removed from about:config in Firefox 17.01! Does anyone know how to fix this problem? It appears to be another instance of our being forced to use what someone else prefers. It bothers me enough to consider other browsers ... On this computer, apparently upgraded from an earlier Firefox, the tabs are still where I want them on bottom, although the item no longer appears in about:config but on a new install on another computer they are on top and I have not found a way to correct this. There must be a fix for this, does anyone know how? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7

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Re: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace -
by Bob Goodwin 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

On 31/12/12 08:24, Scott Robbins wrote: > Last I remember you could create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or add this if the > file exists.) > > Ah, I see it's deprecated. Ok, apparently typing > > setxkbmap -optio9n terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp > > > might work . > > > Yes, that does the trick, ran the command and Ctrl+ALT+Backspace log me out as needed! Than you, a seemingly minor thing but it really simplifies things here. Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7

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Fedora 17 Gnome 3 Desperate Plea
by Thomas Dineen 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Gentle People: A heartfelt plea from a user: Please, Please, Please if you must keep Gnome 3 then Keep the "Fall Back Mode" in ALL future versions of Fedora. Otherwise to me Fedora would be unusable. Please read the justification below: I just installed, last night, Fedora 17, on a PC! Things went very well overall. Bravo good work! Following this I successfully loaded all the updates with the update tool, and again bravo it worked! But, But, But I have found a number of what I consider disastrous bugs in Gnome 3, too many to list here! But I include a few: 1) The on screen menus, located at the top left of the screen, seem very dark, to the point of being almost unreadable. Keep in mind it is not just the monitor, an HP w2408h, in that the computer shares the monitor with three others via a four way switch. The other computers produce a bright screen, each working as expected. So is there any way to adjust this? Keeping in mind that I spent the evening going through the menus. 2) Periodically parts of the screen, typically the area contained by the boundaries of menu entries will go all wankers, looking like a 1960's TV on an antenna that has lost horizontal sync. 3) Periodically the letters of the menus become a garbled to the point of being unreadable! 4) Gnome 3 crashes about once an hour under light loading. Thank You For Your Time. Thomas Dineen

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Re: Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager
by R. G. Newbury 30 Dec '12

30 Dec '12

> It won't accept the key and the mode. It will only accept Mode as > Managed. the key is the one in the router, under Wireless Security . > > The problem is the wireless network is not starting. It cannot find the > Gateway 192.168.1.1 , and that is the correct setting > > How do you start the wireless network ? > > Remember I'm not using NetworkManager Use wicd instead of NM. The network service apparently will *never* start a wireless device. It may have once upon a time, but not now. (I can't remember if it ever did, or not) Yum install wicd* should install what you need, then systemctl enable wicd.service systemctl start wicd.service Geoff

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USB Live Install problem -
by Bob Goodwin 30 Dec '12

30 Dec '12

On this computer I have a copy of "Fedora-18-Beta-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso" I would like to install on another computer. It has a GiGabyte GA-E350N motherboard which has a recognized problem booting from a thumb drive. I've used "livecreator" on three different thumb drives and tried everything I can find to get it to boot without success, although in the past I have managed, not this time! Is there a way I can install without using the USB flash drive? There is no optical drive in that box. Is there a scheme for installing over the LAN connection? About all I can think of at this point is to swap a drive into another computer that will boot from the flash drive but that's more work than I planned on, but could do ... Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7

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