gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general

Using f17 beta and status

Alex — 2012-05-27T00:38:34

Hi,

If I were to install an F17 beta at this point, instead of waiting for
the release next week, would it be possible to upgrade that beta to
the production version once it is actually released?

Thanks,
Alex

dracut in kernel-3.3.5-2.fc16.i686 and kernel-3.3.6-3.fc16.i686fails to mount root

JD — 2012-05-26T20:25:22

The pertinent failure message in both of these kernels is:

[   29.653980] dracut Warning: No root device 
"block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/03f82b3c-5163-465b-a4c3-3bcb349a1cc4" found
[   29.654857] dracut: + emergency_shell No root device 
"block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/03f82b3c-5163-465b-a4c3-3bcb349a1cc4" found
[   29.654966] dracut: + set +e
[   29.655231] dracut: + [ No root device 
"block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/03f82b3c-5163-465b-a4c3-3bcb349a1cc4" found = -n ]
[   29.655359] dracut: + _rdshell_name=dracut
[   29.655443] dracut: + echo
[   29.655512] dracut:
[   29.655593] dracut: + echo
[   29.655661] dracut:
[   29.655880] dracut: + warn No root device 
"block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/03f82b3c-5163-465b-a4c3-3bcb349a1cc4" found
[   29.655984] dracut: + check_quiet
[   29.656096] dracut: + [ -z yes ]
[   29.656353] dracut: + echo <28>dracut Warning: No root device 
"block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/03f82b3c-5163-465b-a4c3-3bcb349a1cc4" found
[   29.656613] dracut: + echo dracut Warning: No root device 
"block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/03f82b3c

Cannot create MP3 with UTF-16LE tags

Ian Pilcher — 2012-05-26T04:32:37

My script for creating MP3 files from FLAC files has broken in Fedora
17.  Specifically, tags with accented characters are getting truncated
when I try to write them as UTF-16LE (which seems to be what most
players expect).  The script, which I am attaching, worked fine when I
last used it in January back in January (presumably on Fedora 16).

Here is an example of what I'm seeing:

[pilcher< at >ian music]$ metaflac --show-tag=title track05.flac
title=Lento, rápido

[pilcher< at >ian music]$ flac2mp3 track05.{flac,mp3}

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh
Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for
details.

track05.flac: done
LAME 3.99.5 64bits (http://lame.sf.net)
polyphase lowpass filter disabled
Encoding <stdin> to track05.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0)

[pilcher< at >ian music]$ id3v2 -l track05.mp3
id3v2 tag info for track05.mp3:
TSSE (Softwar

HP Laserjet P1006 - no errors, no output

Sam Varshavchik — 2012-05-26T03:01:55

Somebody didn't need this printer, I grabbed it, and plugged it in.

Fedora recognized it, and installed a Foomatic driver for it.

When I attempt to print a test page, everything "seems" to work on the  
software side. A job shows up in a print queue, for a few seconds, then  
Fedora tells me that the job printed succesfully, and the job disappears off  
the queue.

But the printer stays absolutely silent.

I see absolutely nothing useful in /var/log/cups. access_log claims success:

localhost - root [25/May/2012:22:45:11 -0400] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200  
24757 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok
localhost - - [25/May/2012:22:45:16 -0400] "POST /printers/HP-LaserJet-P1006  
HTTP/1.1" 200 458 Print-Job successful-ok

Despite what anything says here, the printer just sleeps, doing nothing. It  
never shows any indication that it's getting a print job.

So, where do I go from here? Hate to throw this printer away, but  
Fedora/CUPS is refusing to cooperate.

how to capture flash, etc

Mike Wright — 2012-05-25T19:04:07

Hi all,

Time was all I had to do to capture a video stream was start one, pause 
it and wait while the stream accumulated into /tmp.  Once complete I 
could move it.  /tmp is now a deep tree with obfuscated names making 
such endeavors nigh on impossible.

I've feel like I've been Gnomed.  Is this the new direction?  Look, 
don't touch?

Does anybody know how to capture a stream now or has that ability also 
been taken away?

TIA,
Mike Wright

Request for Sprint HTC phone suggestions

Max Pyziur — 2012-05-25T10:26:00

Greetings,

It's time to upgrade my phone.

For the last three years, I've had a Palm Centro; syncing of contacts, 
calender, and notes has been done via jpilot.

I would appreciate suggestions as to which of the Sprint HTC EVO phones 
works with Fedora and which PIM to use to sync.

Much thanks.


Max Pyziur
pyz< at >brama.com

Gnome-rpd

Lawrence Graves — 2012-05-24T19:33:18

Is anyone having trouble using gnome-rdp. I get an error message that 
says: getaddressinfo can't find name or something to that affect. Anyway 
it is not working. Is there a fix out there or will I have to wait until 
final release candidate.

Can't compile kernel modules for VMware Player on F16

Jon Ingason — 2012-05-24T16:12:52

Hi,

I am trying to compile new kernel modules for VMware Player version 
4.0.3.703057 on F16 with new kernel. I succeded to compile kernel 
modules on some previous kernels, 3.1.x or 3.2.x, but fail to compile 
them for kernel 3.3.x.

I have google for this but have not found a solution and are wandering 
if someone on this list has had any luck compiling kernel modules for 
VMware Player 4.0.3.x for kernel 3.3.x?

Readlink: permission denied

JD — 2012-05-23T18:38:38

fc16 - with latest updates.

Running lsof, I see a plethora of output like:

systemd       1         root  cwd   unknown    /proc/1/cwd (readlink: 
Permission denied)
systemd       1         root  rtd   unknown    /proc/1/root (readlink: 
Permission denied)
systemd       1         root  txt   unknown    /proc/1/exe (readlink: 
Permission denied)
systemd       1         root NOFD              /proc/1/fd (opendir: 
Permission denied)
kthreadd      2         root  cwd   unknown    /proc/2/cwd (readlink: 
Permission denied)
kthreadd      2         root  rtd   unknown    /proc/2/root (readlink: 
Permission denied)
kthreadd      2         root  txt   unknown    /proc/2/exe (readlink: 
Permission denied)
kthreadd      2         root NOFD              /proc/2/fd (opendir: 
Permission denied)
ksoftirqd     3         root  cwd   unknown    /proc/3/cwd (readlink: 
Permission denied)
ksoftirqd     3         root  rtd   unknown    /proc/3/root (readlink: 
Permission denied)
ksoftirqd     3         root  txt   unknown

F17 luks weirdness

Peter A — 2012-05-23T18:09:59

All,

I'm having an issue with encrypted disk setup on my Dell M6600 laptop. 
During boot of Fedora 17 (originally installed from alpha, yum updated 
current ever since), I get prompted for the password but the device 
shown in the prompt changes. If it ends up picking md127p1 the boot 
device is not decrypted the devices but instead fails with a luks error 
trying to access the device. If I get prompted for the pass phrase for 
any other device, boot up is successful, including mounting the md127p1 
partition.

I've got four drives in the system: Two MSATA (one in the optical bay in 
a sata to msata converter) 120GB disks for OS and most other stuff (sdc 
and sdd), two Momentus XT 750GB for data (sda and sdb). They are set up 
as two mirrors in the Intel bios (Intel 82801 in a QM67).

The boot raid consists of sdc and sdd. The drives are partitioned into 3 
partitions:
Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
  1      1049kB  2097kB  1049kB                     bios_grub
  2      2097kB  526M

gnome terminal

Patrick Dupre — 2012-05-23T17:46:27


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: gnome terminal
Date: 23.05.2012 17:23
 From: Patrick Dupre <pdupre< at >kegtux.org>
To: fedora <users< at >lists.fedoraproject.org>

Hello,

This what I have in my .bash_profile file:

USRLOCAL=/usr/local
USRLOCALINTEL=$USRLOCAL/intel/composer_xe_2011_sp1.9.293
ROOTSYS=$USRLOCAL/root_v528
MN2SYS=$USRLOCAL/Minuit2.5.28

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$USRLOCAL/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ROOTSYS/lib/root
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/mylib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$MN2SYS/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$USRLOCALINTEL/lib/intel64

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export ROOTSYS
export MN2SYS


After I run gnome-terminal without "run command as a login shell", I 
get:
  echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
:/usr/local/lib:/home/pdupre/mylib:/usr/local/intel/composer_xe_2011_sp1.9.293/lib/intel64:/usr/local/root_v528/lib/root

(so /usr/local/Minuit2.5.28 is missing).


If I run gnome-terminal with "run command as a login shell", I get:

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
:/usr/lo

fedora main edition

Osmanys Fuentes Lomba — 2012-05-23T16:36:58

Hi community, one question:  why the main edition of Fedora is with 
Gnome desktop????? the KDE desktop is for me a better choice, what do 
you think about??

gnome terminal

Patrick Dupre — 2012-05-23T15:23:20

Hello,

This what I have in my .bash_profile file:

USRLOCAL=/usr/local
USRLOCALINTEL=$USRLOCAL/intel/composer_xe_2011_sp1.9.293
ROOTSYS=$USRLOCAL/root_v528
MN2SYS=$USRLOCAL/Minuit2.5.28

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$USRLOCAL/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ROOTSYS/lib/root
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/mylib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$MN2SYS/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$USRLOCALINTEL/lib/intel64

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export ROOTSYS
export MN2SYS


After I run gnome-terminal without "run command as a login shell", I 
get:
  echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
:/usr/local/lib:/home/pdupre/mylib:/usr/local/intel/composer_xe_2011_sp1.9.293/lib/intel64:/usr/local/root_v528/lib/root

(so /usr/local/Minuit2.5.28 is missing).


If I run gnome-terminal with "run command as a login shell", I get:

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
:/usr/local/lib:/home/pdupre/mylib:/usr/local/intel/composer_xe_2011_sp1.9.293/lib/intel64:/usr/local/root_v528/lib/root:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/root_v528/lib/root:/home/pdupr

How to use Documents

Antonio M — 2012-05-23T13:23:41

I just started Documents but I am lost..

I don't see the search window, I don't have the list of different choices
on the left side.
Running F17 and latest Gnome-documents, cross-posting as Fedora 17 is close
to be released

Problem with Emacs

Steven P. Ulrick — 2012-05-23T10:10:57

Hello, Everyone
For quite a while now, Emacs has ceased being useable on our system. 
For example, if I run "emacs .bashrc" in a terminal, Emacs starts up as 
expected, but the file cannot be edited.  I can use the mouse to select 
text in the portion of the file that is actually displayed in the 
terminal, but I cannot move the cursor(?) or delete/add/change any text.
I have the following alias in ~/.bashrc that has worked perfectly for me 
for quite a while:
alias emacs="unset DISPLAY && emacs"

If I just run "/usr/bin/emacs" from a terminal the graphical version of 
Emacs opens the file file, and I can edit it as I wish.  I do NOT have 
xemacs installed on this system.

So, the way this is working for me now, if I want to use Emacs in a 
non-graphical console session, I am out of luck.  It does not make any 
difference what user I am logged in as, the problem is the same.  Also, 
here is the permissions on the file that I used earlier as my example:
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 6.9K May 23 04:50 .bashrc

So,

confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

Paul Allen Newell — 2012-05-23T03:12:23

Hello:

As I continue dealing with iptables, another issue has come up that I 
can't tell is a mis-understanding on my part or a potential problem

I have three F16 machines, one x86_64 and two i383/686. If I run 
/sbin/ifconfig on them, I get (short summary of):

x86_64: eth0
i686: em1

Looking in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, I can see only ifcfg-em1 and 
no ifcfg-eth0 on all the machines (x86_64 and i686).

The closest bugzilla I can see if 784314 but it looks like it hints that 
ifconfig is old-school and the right way to do things (and its F17 not F16).

Does anyone know what I am either doing wrong or if this looks like a 
problem/bug. Plus, if there is a better way, I'd love to know.

What I want to do is have is a bash way to get the static ip address of 
the machine which I can see in eth0/em1. I've been using something I 
found online which assumes everything is eth0 (as in I think it was for 
older Fedora):
+++
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}'
+++

Its to

FC16 date rollback in VM

Bill Davidsen — 2012-05-22T20:23:28

I have a VM used for running an old app, using an FC9 image, which is just the 
original disk drive image. It was running on FC9 with KVM and ran as long as the 
host was up, then FC13, same stability (typically in the 200-600 day range). I 
moved it to a nice new FC16 host, and every few days it loses all sense of time 
and then craps out in some way and becomes hung solid.

The question is not so much what's wrong as "has anyone else seen this?"

Here's a picture of the final moments, I tried to shut down clean or get debug 
info, but a peek at the date and uptime shows that there was a massive clock botch.
http://webster.tmr.com/~davidsen/Date_error_in_VM.png

I'm trying something now, it's been up for 2 days 16 hr, but if this doesn't fix 
I'll have to seriously debug and would like to know if it's a unique problem or 
known.

dbus[689]: [system] Rejected send message

Reindl Harald — 2012-05-22T20:06:49

what are this messages in /var/log/messages?

they are quite new and happening each time a user logs out from
afpd and all is working fine......

systemd-37-20.fc16.x86_64

May 22 22:03:43 fileserver dbus[689]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call",
sender=":1.25" (uid=1037 pid=1220 comm="/usr/sbin/afpd -P /var/run/netatalk.pid -F /etc/ne")
interface="org.freedesktop.login1.Manager" member="ReleaseSession" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0"
destination="org.freedesktop.login1" (uid=0 pid=665 comm="/lib/systemd/systemd-logind ")
May 22 22:03:43 fileserver dbus-daemon[689]: dbus[689]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules;
type="method_call", sender=":1.25" (uid=1037 pid=1220 comm="/usr/sbin/afpd -P /var/run/netatalk.pid -F /etc/ne")
interface="org.freedesktop.login1.Manager" member="ReleaseSession" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0"
destination="org.freedesktop.login1" (uid=0 pid=665 comm="/lib/systemd/systemd-logind "

Hi, I need help about error at external HDD 1 TB at FC6

Roberto Escobar Suárez — 2012-05-22T19:37:04

Well just a month ago, I used ntfs-3g and fuse to work with an external HDD on Fedora Core 6, a few days ago system cannot save files on my external HDD, I unmount HDD, and restart and it was the solution, but now I can't create directories, the message is:
mkdir: no se puede crear el directorio /media/mount_point_i_believe/directory/directory_to_create error de entrada/salida
I typed the command : dmesg at terminal
and this is the result:
sizeof(inode)=336 bytes
sizeof(dentry)=132 bytes
sizeof(ext3inode)=488 bytes
sizeof(buffer_head)=56 bytes
sizeof(skbuff)=176 bytes
sizeof(task_struct)=1536 bytes
Time: 12:41:05  Date: 04/22/112
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0322, last bus=16
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [C002] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI quirk: region 1000-10

how to type special characters?

Mike Wright — 2012-05-22T16:00:44

Hi all,

There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type 
characters not on a keyboard by using the <alt> key but for the life of 
me I can not find it.

e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be <alt> apostrophe i.

I made pretty heavy use of it for a while but it ceased working.  I 
can't remember if there was something I had to do before it would 
function.  It would work in vi, xterm, email, basically everywhere and 
now it doesn't work anywhere.

Anybody remember the thread?

TIA,
Mike Wright

Fedora 16 rhythmbox keeps freezing

Neil Bird — 2012-05-22T13:13:21

    Since upgrading to F16 from F14, both my wife and I have found rhythmbox 
freezing after 3 or so songs, and it needs to be force-killed.

   Any thoughts?


   What may be relevant is that I have seen (at least for me, not 
necessarily my wife) a spew of the following sort of error logged in 
messages (once every few seconds):

pulseaudio[9075]: protocol-native.c: Denied access to client with
invalid authorization data.

   .. which I can only stop by killing the referenced process.  I don't know 
what kicks it off, I can go for days without it (w.g, listening to streaming 
radio via Firefox).  it's only rhythmbox that seems to have a big issue.