Dual booting fc18
by Bill Davidsen
I am zero for three trying to get fc18 to dual boot. I have a number of systems
with fc16 or fc17 currently dual booting, some with XP as well. In every case,
doing a new install into a new boot and root space, NONE of the existing
installed OS were recognized, only fc18 was left bootable. I also tried fedup
using the existing boot partition from fc17 in hope that it would learn from the
grub config file and keep the existing boots. Didn't happen.
Is this just no longer possible, or is there magic, or do I have to try and
write my own grub2 stanzas, seeing that copying the ones from the fc17 boot cfg
and adding them to grub2.cfg results in some boot failure mode? It seems that
fc18 just won't coexist with other Linux versions, and the next machine I need
to do has XP, fc4, fc9, and is currently on fc13.
Pointer to some useful info?
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have
taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010
11 years, 2 months
desktop search in Fedora - what's best?
by Dave Stevens
Hi,
I've upgraded my Fedora from F9 to F14 with preupgrade and am now
planning a new hard drive install and a fresh Fedora install to
whatever's current when I get to it. I've wanted for a long time to
have a non-google desktop search that would index browser history and
emails at a minimum. Beagle would fill the fill. The last time I tried
it was about three years ago and it was such a cpu hog that I had to
take it out.
Reading some recent articles and reviews makes Beagle seem still to be
the tool of choice but it doesn't seem to have had much activity
recently from the developer side. Of cours, this may just be because
the feature set is complete and working, which might make it useful
and stable, a nice pair of attributes. Does anyone have better info on
this? or even better, some recent experience?
TIA
Dave
--
The problem with being cynical is you can't keep up!
-- anon. philosopher
11 years, 2 months
Switch between languages in F18 (Panel keyboard indicator is missing)
by Kevin Wilson
Hi , all,
I am working with Fedora 18 in fallback mode (classical mode) of gnome.
I cannot set a panel keyboard indicator. There is no such option from the panel
dialog. In older Fedora distributions there was such an option.
Is there a way to achieve this ?
rgs,
Kevin
11 years, 2 months
nepomuk-core
by Frédéric Bron
I have lot's of errors with nepomuk-core. For example:
Process /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
or
Process /usr/bin/nepomukserver was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Can I safely ignore such errors?
Is this program useful?
I understood it is used for indexing files but how to use the result
of the indexation? Where is the search tool?
Cheers,
Frédéric
11 years, 2 months
[F18] Cannot mount SD card
by Frédéric Bron
When I plug my SD card, nothing happens.
dmesg gives what's written below.
On another computer, I have installed kernel-modules-extra. Any link with that?
I am also going to update the kernel to 3.7.9.
Frédéric
[12658.129346] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access Canon MP610 series
1050 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[12658.131654] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[12658.134801] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[12658.936046] usblp0: removed
[12658.939633] usblp 1-1.2.4:1.1: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer
dev 7 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x1725
[12732.087875] usblp0: removed
[12801.561812] usblp 1-1.2.4:1.1: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer
dev 7 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x1725
[13018.852000] usblp0: removed
[13056.549171] usblp 1-1.2.4:1.1: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer
dev 7 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x1725
[13190.017173] usblp0: removed
[13588.821737] usb 1-1.2.4: reset high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
[13603.871957] usb 1-1.2.4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[13619.023288] usb 1-1.2.4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[13619.196937] usb 1-1.2.4: reset high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
[13634.236126] usb 1-1.2.4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[13649.376296] usb 1-1.2.4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[13649.539078] usb 1-1.2.4: reset high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
[13659.925125] usb 1-1.2.4: device not accepting address 7, error -110
[13659.998495] usb 1-1.2.4: reset high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
[13670.384444] usb 1-1.2.4: device not accepting address 7, error -110
[13670.385522] sd 7:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
[13670.386033] usb 1-1.2.4: USB disconnect, device number 7
[13670.451496] usb 1-1.2.4: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
[13685.501894] usb 1-1.2.4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[13700.642163] usb 1-1.2.4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[13700.804917] usb 1-1.2.4: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd
[13715.844271] usb 1-1.2.4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[13730.995315] usb 1-1.2.4: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[13731.169068] usb 1-1.2.4: new high-speed USB device number 10 using ehci_hcd
[13741.555178] usb 1-1.2.4: device not accepting address 10, error -110
[13741.618486] usb 1-1.2.4: new high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci_hcd
[13752.004437] usb 1-1.2.4: device not accepting address 11, error -110
[13752.004809] hub 1-1.2:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4
11 years, 2 months
Fedora 18 and gphoto2
by Wade Hampton
I am experimenting with gphoto2 and getting nowhere with Fedora 18.
Whenever I run it, I get the following:
gphoto2 -L
*** Error ***
An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB
device'): Could not claim interface 0 (Device or resource busy). Make
sure no other program or kernel module (such as sdc2xx, stv680,
spca50x) is using the device and you have read/write access to the
device.
*** Error (-53: 'Could not claim the USB device') ***
I have tried as both root and a user, same result.
Running "gphoto2 -a" works and returns info on the camera, but that is
about the only command that works.
The docs on gphoto2's site are rather out of date, and google did not help....
O/S: Fedora 18 x86_64 with all updates
gphoto2-2.5.0-2.fc18.x86_64
Camera is Canon 50D.
Note, testing on Raspberry Pi is mostly working so for now I am
controlling it via the Pi, not my Fedora desktop.
Thanks,
--
Wade Hampton
11 years, 2 months
Re: is it possible to download a spec file only using yum?
by poma
On 02/23/13 04:45, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:00 PM, poma wrote:
>> deco grub2-2.00-16.fc19.src.rpm
>> 13020 blocks
> [backtrace cut]
>> Aborted
>> --
>
> Hmm, the crash does not happen here. How reproducible is this? Can you debug?
>
Installed from source - PREFIX = /usr
deco -v deco-archive-1.5.1-5.fc19.src.rpm deco-1.6.2-5.fc19.src.rpm
deco-archive-1.5.1.tar.gz
deco-archive-ape.diff
deco-archive-shn.diff
deco-archive-zoo.diff
deco-archive.spec
27 blocks
deco-archive-1.5.1-5.fc19.src/
deco-1.6.2.tar.gz
deco.spec
30 blocks
deco-1.6.2-5.fc19.src/
> Just as a side information; deco is a nice cute tool that is a wrapper
> around other extractors so you don't need to memorize their syntax. In
> case of rpm it wraps rpm2cpio.
Yep.
/usr/share/deco/rpm/extract
#!/bin/sh
…
rpm2cpio "$1" | cpio -idmu${Verbose+v}
--
/usr/share/deco/rpm/subdirectory: empty!?
deco-archive.spec is unnecessarily complicated.
Someone likes the scripting.
Cheers,
poma
11 years, 2 months
Xvnc with MIT-SHM as non-root
by Ian Pilcher
I've just had to disable Xvnc's use of the MIT-SHM extension in order to
continue running it as a non-root user:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914958
This used to work. Does anyone know if the current behavior is what is
intended or a bug?
Thanks!
--
========================================================================
Ian Pilcher arequipeno(a)gmail.com
Sometimes there's nothing left to do but crash and burn...or die trying.
========================================================================
11 years, 2 months
Tor Browser for Fedora updated to Firefox 17
by Jamie Nguyen
Hello list,
The Tor Browser repository for Fedora (found here:
https://jamielinux.com/articles/2013/01/tor-and-tor-browser-repository-on...
) has been updated to Firefox 17 and there are a few things to be aware
about:
1) The Tor Browser for Fedora depends on the system Tor to be running,
and since the default port for the Tor Browser has changed to 9150, the
system Tor configuration also needs to be changed. If you have never
edited /etc/tor/torrc then you won't need to do anything (as the next
update of the tor package will default to running two SOCKS ports, 9050
and 9150). If after the update you see a /etc/tor/torrc.rpmnew file,
then please insert any new directives into /etc/tor/torrc.
2) The profile directory has changed from ~/.mozilla/torbrowser to
~/.mozilla/torbrowser17 although you can restore your bookmarks from
~/.mozilla/torbrowser/bookmarkbackups :
Bookmarks
--> Show all bookmarks
--> Import and Backup
--> Restore
Alternatively, you can move the old directory to where the new directory
is, though using the old profile is not recommended.
3) The repository contains a slightly modified selinux-policy package
which is a temporary solution until this bug is resolved (which is
caused by Tor trying to bind to port 9150):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914853
Please do let me know if there are any problems.
Kind regards,
--
Jamie Nguyen
11 years, 2 months
Xnest restarts after xdmcp login
by Frank Wilson
Hi fedora users,
I was just trying to connect via XDMCP and start a nested desktop using
Xnest like so:
Xnest :2 -query localhost
But after I log in Xnest restarts and I get the login screen again.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong or how to debug this?
Thanks,
Frank
11 years, 2 months
