XFCE Login Freeze
by Jonathan Allen
Hi list,
We have a multi-workstation network, with several nodes running F16/XFCE
on remote-mounted home directories. All users can log in and out without
any difficulty except one. This user gives name and password but then
freezes indefinitely. 'ps' shows a variety of tasks running, but nothing
appears on screen except the standard wallpaper; time is present but
nothing else. Running are startxfce, xfce-session, etc. User can be
cleared by "kill -15 <startxfce-pid> and other users can log then log in.
What might be causing the freeze - is there some lockfile that needs
removing to unlock the user's account?
Jonathan
12 years
nfs broke again
by don fisher
I am running f16. I have had a series of problems with nfs, which 10
years ago was dirt simple. I have been able to Google search and find
fixes, but updates (I assume) appear to break them. Is there a way to
know what adjustments an update will make before I install it?
I used to have problems with "No route to host" messages. I fixed that
by editing iptables. Now I am getting "Protocol not supported" messages
when trying to mount a network storage device. I have not made changes
from the time that mounting the NAS used to work.
Thanks for suggestions
12 years
Strange: Adobe Reader messages in Chinese or Japanese?
by Timothy Murphy
I'm running Adobe Reader 8 under Fedora-16,
and recently many of the messages from the Reader
appear in either Chinese or Japanese, I don't know which.
I wonder if anyone else has encountered this?
And if so, how one can stop it?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin
12 years
Re: gnome3 crash at login
by dave perry
On 05/02/2012 04:13 PM, dave perry wrote:
> The following gnome3 crash occurs when attempting to log in to my
> personal account. Gnome3 presents the log-in screen with my user name
> selected. When I enter my password and press enter, the crash occurs.
>
> On screen I see a frowning monitor and
>
> Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
>
> A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.
> Please log out and try again.
>
> Since I can still log in to other accounts, I assume there is something
> causing the crash in one of the hidden files or folders. This began to
> happen a few weeks ago after a "yum update".
>
> Where to begin to isolate what changed?
By backing up all the hidden files, then deleting all the hidden files
and bringing them back in a few at a time and logging out and back into
this account until the crash occurred, I isolated the problem to a
library path export in .bashrc. See the inserted copy that follows.
# .bashrc
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
# User specific aliases and functions
export FG_ROOT=/home/dad/FlightGear-git/fgdata
export
FG_SCENERY=/home/dad/FlightGear-git/fgdata/Scenery:/home/dad/TerraSync
export HG2_DATA_PATH=/usr/local/games/hg2
#export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/osgPlugins:/usr/local/lib64:/usr/lib64
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/osgPlugins
export
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/share/OpenSceneGraph/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:/usr/include
The commented out export LD_LIBRARY_PATH causes gnome3 to crash
The next line is a copy of that line w/o reference to the lib64
libraries and this does not cause gnome3 to crash. This is clearly a
bug that was introduces a week or so ago by an update.
I should have mentioned this is FC16 x86_64 fresh install from the DVD
iso that has been been kept up-to-date with yum.
12 years
lost gnote dilemma / curiosity !?
by Bill Case
Hi;
I have lost one gnote. I was opening a six month old note, gnote
crashed and I lost that note -- only that one note. It had some data on
it that is important to me. I have a couple of different ways I have
backed up gnote files so ultimately I an not concerned. But here is my
question.
Since it is only one note, I thought that perhaps I could just find a
way to point the gnote application at an older file (an rsynced copy)
find my one note copy and paste it into my current gnote file and be
done. No, no, no. It turns out not to be that easy. Does anybody have
any suggestions? Can I use my currently running application or open a
second one from the command line (?). How would I target one of my
backup files?
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 16, Gnome 3.2.1
Evo.3.2.3, Emacs 23.3.1
12 years
ucView and avidemux
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
I have both ucView and avidemux installed. I can record images with a
webcam and ucView. I get an .avi file.
I can read this file with vlc, but I cannot load the file in avidemux to
make transformations: the image is partly a green screen and the other
part is not good at all...
Are there some codec to download in order to load the file correctly
with avidemux?
Thank you
- --
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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12 years
Can you stack nice and ionice?
by Richard Shaw
I have a CPU and IO intensive task I'd like to tame a bit but I'm not
sure if this can be done in a one-liner. Since both nice and ionice
are designed to run only a single command I'm not sure if the
following would work:
ionice -c3 nice -n19 <process>
It looks like to me that ionice is going to run nice who's going to
run the task.
Another option is to ionice bash but by default the process is not
started in a shell so I would have to script it:
#!/bin/bash
ionice -c3 $$
nice -n19 <process>
--- end ---
I tried examining the first example using pstree but I don't think the
processes "stacked".
Thanks,
Richard
12 years
gnome3 crash at login
by dave perry
The following gnome3 crash occurs when attempting to log in to my
personal account. Gnome3 presents the log-in screen with my user name
selected. When I enter my password and press enter, the crash occurs.
On screen I see a frowning monitor and
Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.
Please log out and try again.
Since I can still log in to other accounts, I assume there is something
causing the crash in one of the hidden files or folders. This began to
happen a few weeks ago after a "yum update".
Where to begin to isolate what changed?
12 years
Grub2 MBR issues
by Jeffrey Ross
I have a F16 system (which had been upgraded from F15) that is running
RAID-1 for all volumes. I have notice that GRUB2 is only on /dev/sda but
not on /dev/sdb
[root@wisdom boot]# file - < /dev/sda
/dev/stdin: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0xfd, active, starthead 32,
startsector 2048, 785137 sectors; partition 2: ID=0xfd, starthead 0,
startsector 787185, 15631245 sectors; partition 3: ID=0xfd, starthead 0,
startsector 16418430, 8000370 sectors; partition 4: ID=0x5, starthead 254,
startsector 24418800, 1929101265 sectors, code offset 0x63
[root@wisdom boot]# file - < /dev/sdb
/dev/stdin: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3,
boot drive 0x80, 1st sector stage2 0x842a9; partition 1: ID=0xfd, active,
starthead 32, startsector 2048, 785137 sectors; partition 2: ID=0xfd,
starthead 0, startsector 787185, 15631245 sectors; partition 3: ID=0xfd,
starthead 0, startsector 16418430, 8000370 sectors; partition 4: ID=0x5,
starthead 254, startsector 24418800, 1929101265 sectors, code offset 0x63
My concern is if I were to loose /dev/sda I want to be able to boot via
/dev/sdb.
I have tried running:
[root@wisdom boot]# grub2-install /dev/sdb --no-floppy
Installation finished. No error reported.
but there is no change in what file reports.
Both disks are identical (same model) and the partition table was
duplicated with "sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb"
Or am I reading the output from file wrong and its actually /dev/sda that
doesn't have grub2 installed on it?
Thanks, Jeff
12 years
