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Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions
by Javier Perez 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

I hope Slashdot has it wrong, although the presented documents seem to agree http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/05/31/190217/red-hat-will-pay-microsoft-… Looking up the article: "Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora" at http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html "The last option wasn't hugely attractive, but is probably the least worst. Microsoft will be offering signing services through their sysdev portal<http://sysdev.microsoft.com>. It's not entirely free (there's a one-off $99 fee to gain access), but it's cheaper than any realistic alternative would have been. It ensures compatibility with as wide a range of hardware as possible and it avoids Fedora having any special privileges over other Linux distributions. If there are better options then we haven't found them. So, in all probability, this is the approach we'll take. Our first stage bootloader will be signed with a Microsoft key." If I have to pay $99 to Microsoft in order to install my Free/Open Operating System, then I am making Microsoft $99 richer off the effort of multiple volunteers that made Linux and Fedora possible and my "Free" Operating System now effectively costs $99. And if this catches up, then breaking the Secure Boot will eventually be a DMCA violation and we'd have to be asking the Copyright office every three years for the "right" to jailbreak/root our own computers again. I'd rather go back to the times of Compatibility lists of motherboards than enable the above state of affairs. I say NO to Danegeld for Microsoft. -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |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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AMD/Ati catalyst drivers for Fedora 17
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Good day Fedora lovers, I have just updated my notebook to Fedora 17 using a network install from a bootable USB flash drive. Apart from the AMD/ATi Catalyst drivers causing a minor problem getting KDE to work, now fixed, (allowed Gallium drivers from modprobe, and removed references to Catayst). Anybody got any idea when some working Catalyst drivers will be available? Regards cpp4ever

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any suggestions for these F17 upgrade problems (can not boot)?
by Chris Caudle 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hoping someone has some suggestions for helping me recover from these upgrade problems (problems = system will not boot). The system started as F16 with a RT patched kernel from Planet CCRMA. I upgraded to F17 using the install DVD, and after the upgrade install the system console has a continuous stream of messages that MySQL server failed to start, with a suggestion to see the systemd log. The boot process never times out trying to start mysqld, it just keeps repeating the same message forever. I dropped to rescue mode and ran yum upgrade, which only updated a few packages. I thought perhaps the RT patched kernel from F16 was a problem, so I installed the current 3.3.x kernel and rebooted. When the 3.3.x kernel loads, it drops into a shell with only the initrd filesystem mounted, with a message that it cannot find /dev/mapper/VolGroup00_LogVol00 which would usually be my boot drive. The boot drive is (obviously) a logical volume created with LVM, and the physical device underlying the logical volume is a logical unit on an HP P800 Smart Array. The Smart Array is accessed via the cciss driver, but when I look through the /dev/ directory in the initrd image I do not see any /dev/cciss devices. The device is obviously working because grub2 finds the grub menu in /boot, and manages to load the kernel and initrd image. Any idea what might be going on? I'm kind of stuck since neither the old kernel nor the new kernel will boot. Since the installer found the disks OK, presumably I can make some changes by booting the rescue mode of the install DVD. The grub config menu looked OK to me, I can get the details if something was expected to change there between F16 and F17. Maybe something which should have changed in grub config did not. -- Chris Caudle

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Filesystem format for external hard disk
by Paul Smith 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Dear All, I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as a mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What format for the external disk filesystem do you recommend? And what the proper command to accomplish the formatting? Thanks in advance, Paul

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jbd2 headache
by Doug Wyatt 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Running F17: I have a 2TB HD with 1463 pending bad blocks, 0 reallocated so far. All the data has been moved to another HD, the problem HD unmounted. Full SMART scan verified the pending bad blocks. However, I can't run badblocks on /dev/sdc1 because it is "apparently in use". lsof tells me there are 3 instances of jbd2/sdc1. It should be no problem to use -f with badblocks in this case, but is there any way to stop jdb2 from accessing the unmounted partition? Thanks for any help you can provide. Doug Wyatt

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What's wrong with this /etc/fstab ?
by Jonathan Ryshpan 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

The following /etc/fstab will cause Fedora-17 to crash into maintenance mode during the boot process: # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Thu May 31 03:46:19 2012 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info # UUID=af00b8ae-193d-47b4-b0cd-ac6b61c310c8 / ext4 defaults 1 1 UUID=d210f7ff-648a-4850-967e-f2b730765f1d /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=b715c378-9006-46b4-b439-3c6fa870e990 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 UUID=7f502361-16af-4b6f-98e0-23a1bd17bcb6 /var ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=E0649EB1649E8A44 /mnt/c ntfs gid=ntfs,umask=007 0 0 # <===== UUID=1f4afb3a-051d-4cce-9c86-14cf111e669a swap swap defaults 0 0 However if the marked line (for the mount point /mnt/c) is commented out, the system starts fine. Thanks in advance - jon

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kde lcd weather station not working in Holland
by Chris Rouch 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

I used to use the kde plasma lcd weather station widget to show current weather at Schiphol (amsterdam airport), but although search still returns results (from wettercom and bbcukmet), selecting any of these displays no data. I get similar results with other dutch cities, and also for the few other European cities i've tried (London. Paris, Berlin). I guess this is because wettercom and the bbc have changed the format they provide their data in. I'm running kdeplasma-addons-4.8.3-1 on fedora 16. Is there a newer version where this works, or is there some other way of making it work? Regards, Chris

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proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18
by Edward M 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hi, Where can i sumit a proposal to Fedora/Redhat to also release a Fedora 18 without secure boot for users who know how to disable it in the BIOS and for users who has systems without secure boot? Not speaking for others but iḿ sure many will not like having the kernel ,moduels locked and command line sanitized. Thank you.

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A file named "["?
by Beartooth 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

On one of my PCs, /bin contains an executable file whose name is the left square bracket, and nothing else. Opening it with gedit gets something that's part text (generally if not all commented out) and part stuff I can't read. Is there a test, usable by one who knows no code, whether it's malware?? What should I do? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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When I try to update Fedore I get the following--any ideas
by SES 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

When I try to update Fedore I get the following--any ideas what this is??? Thanks all! Fedora is terrific! SES Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py", line 2333, in _update_packages txmbr = self.yumbase.update(po=pkg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 4571, in update updated_pkg = self.getInstalledPackageObject(updated) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 3563, in getInstalledPackageObject raise Errors.RpmDBError, _('Package tuple $s could not be found in rpmdb') $ str(pkgtup) RpmDBError: Package tuple ('libpurple', 'x86_64', '0', '2.10.2', '1.fc17') could not be found in rpmdb --

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