gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general

Firefox - lost back pointer

Timothy Murphy — 2008-08-30T11:25:44

I seem to have lost the pointer one can click to go back to the previous web-page. It doesn't matter that much since I can attain the same end by Alt-Left Arrow . It is quite possible I inadvertently made some change in my Firefox settings, but I see nothing relevant in Edit=>Preferences. Any suggestions gratefully received.

OT-ish F9 Laptop\USB-Stick CentOS5.x Server SSH Access

Frank Murphy — 2008-08-30T07:09:37

yum/RPM crash?

Peter Langfelder — 2008-08-30T06:04:03

Hi all, RPM on my F9 install seems to be misbehaving. Add/Remove Software (aka PakageKit) seems to hang on certain packages. It hung once on wine 1.0, and now it hung twice in a row on gtk+=1:1.2.10-61.fc9(i386). In the case of wine, it didn't move overnight before I killed it. The program gets stuck on "Installing packages". The weird thing is that even killing PackageKit and removing /var/run/yum.pid does not help to bring it back to life. I have to reboot the machine to get PackageKit to work again. I mean that if I run rpm on a downloaded file after PackageKit hangs, rpm will hang as well. For example: # rpm -ivvvvh /tmp/cinepaint-0.23-0.i386.rpm D: ============== /tmp/cinepaint-0.23-0.i386.rpm D: Expected size: 6561760 = lead(96)+sigs(180)+pad(4)+data(6561480) D: Actual size: 6561760 D: /tmp/cinepaint-0.23-0.i386.rpm: Header SHA1 digest: OK (a8cb83d7c1cecf520fa564929a1e6c1fb4f81741) D: added binary package [0] D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages D: opening db environment /var/lib/rp

Weird RNDIS/BNEP network issue

Andrew Kenton Mitchell — 2008-08-30T02:48:09

I am setting up my PAND Daemon and USB RNDIS to my fully patched AT&T Samsung (SGH-i617) Blackjack II using Fedora 9. Both of these functions work 100% under *cough* Microsoft WinblowsXP SP3. However, on my FC9 notebook I can browse freely but can not transfer more than about 128k either way when handling files. Does not matter the application in use, See an example yum error blow: [root< at >LTSecond ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Cleaning up Everything [root< at >LTSecond ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit livna | 2.1 kB 00:00 primary.sqlite.bz2 | 128 kB 00:32 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/9/i386/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. Firewall and selinux are both disabled. I have attached a TSHARK TCP stack dump of the same above yum session. I don't see anything useful. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks,

Help with php-mysql installation

Adil Drissi — 2008-08-30T02:11:33

Hi, I installed php-mysql with apache in my fedora 8. Now i have a problem with running scripts connecting to the database from the browser. The same script i run it from terminal without any problem, but from browser it blocks in the line that connects to the DB without any error message also i'm including a die statement. Thanks

Gnome Terminal and Session management

Ashay Humane — 2008-08-29T23:24:09

Hi Dan. Perhaps you are looking for some utility like this: http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/ sshmenu also works with ssh-agent. I have it installed, but I prefer to use bash-completion: http://fedoratutorials.com/2007/10/24/pow-bash-completion-bash-auto-completion-in-fedora-using-yum-and-more/ So if I type: ssh ar It shows me all hostnames from my known_hosts file beginning with "ar" Ashay

Gnome apps font size on KDE Live CD

Andrew Parker — 2008-08-29T21:54:05

I installed from the KDE Live CD, so I don't have the gnome desktop installed, but all the fonts on gnome apps are way too big. How do I configure the default font size for gnome apps?

Change wireless driver (FC9)

Devon Harding — 2008-08-29T19:45:31

DVD Movie players...

Dan Thurman — 2008-08-29T16:12:49

Is there a DVD movie player that includes support for full menus, esp. one that allows me to choose the language subtitles since I am hard-of-hearing? Seems totem does not allow me to choose the wide/full screen support as well? It seems to look only at titles 1-X for which one has to manually select and run, one at a time and seems to be a limited player, unless there is add-on support or something if it is supported? Thanks! Dan

Fedora 9 custom boot cd kernel panic help?

Matthew Nicholson — 2008-08-29T13:29:45

Greetings, So, at the Univeristy I work at, we've been deploying a fairly basic Fedora image via Kickstart to a bunch of workstations, all with various peices of hardware. I have a bootcd I spun up, that is basically the boot.iso, but with the isolinux.cfg modified to show a nice menu to select between a couple kcikstart options. The kickstart files are on a server, so the bootcd doesn't have to change much, if ever, as the install changes. Thus far, its been working like a charm, and both the 32 and 64 bootcds have booted and installed every system I've needed, but one. This is a 32bit system (64 bit refuses to boot, which is correct). It kernel panics right after starting to boot, long before it bring up the networking to try to grab the kickstart file. Now, the thing is, this system is already running a linux OS, Scientific Linux (4, I think), which is a re-spin of RHEL. So, i know its not some basic hardware incompatibility, or some chipset that simply "doesn't work with linux". So, any hints/tips a

Ping KDE users

Anne Wilson — 2008-08-29T11:12:39

dependency problem installing Bacula from SRPM

Gary Stainburn — 2008-08-29T10:53:44

Hi folks. I've just built the 2.4.2.2 rpms for FC9 using: rpmbuild --rebuild \ --define "build_fc9 1" \ --define "build_postgresql 1" \ bacula-2.4.2-2.src.rpm and after sorting some dependancies they built fine. I then tried rpm -ivh \ bacula-debuginfo-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm \ bacula-gconsole-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm \ bacula-mtx-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm \ bacula-postgresql-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm \ bacula-updatedb-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm and got: error: Failed dependencies: libtermcap is needed by bacula-postgresql-2.4.2-2.i386 To me, this means I need ncurses-devel, so I tried to install that. However, I then got: [root< at >curly ~]# yum install ncurses-devel [snip] Package ncurses-devel-5.6-18.20080628.fc9.i386 already installed and latest version Nothing to do [root< at >curly ~]# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ [root< at >curly i386]# rpm -ivh bacula-* error: Failed dependencies: libtermcap is needed by bacula-postgresql-2.4.2-2.i386 [root< at >curly i386]# I've tried

Why does smbpasswd not work for some users?

Bob Latham — 2008-08-29T09:04:43

Hi Everyone, Using Fedora8. I find some users I create have no problem having their smb passwords changed using smbpasswd. Others simply don't work and I get the error message "Failed to modify password entry for user ". What are the possible causes for this, and could you point me at a method of fixing it please? I remember from a fiddle I had with Linux some years ago that I used to have to copy the OS user passwords to SMB passwords using a method like this... cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd Is this procedure still required? Thanks everyone for your help and patience. I know novices are a PITA. Cheers, Bob.

How find my process id for my shell

Dan Track — 2008-08-29T14:10:54

Hi I'm logged in at the moment, how do I find my process id for the shell I'm in, given that there are loads of other shells aswell. I'm using bash? Thanks Dan

updates?!

yordy — 2008-08-29T03:19:35

Hi, there is any problem with updates? I can't get any updates from fedora updates repo, yum update always response No Packages marked for Update. I'm running Fedora 9. __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.es

Am I a Bonehead or what? (# rm /dev)

Mike McCarty — 2008-08-29T00:37:27

Well, I was using a chrooted environment with some bind mounts to /dev and other places, and realized that some of the builds I had done still pointed outside the chrooted environment, and the images won't run becuase they are linked wrong. I decided to wipe it all and start over. So, as root, I started deleting the stuff out of the chrooted environment (needed to be root for some of the stuff, doncha know). Anyway, I deleted some of the chrooted stuff, among it /dev, when suddenly (a little later) realized that I still had bound mounts! So, I wiped my REAL /dev. Well, I used mount to tell me what was still mounted, umounted and deleted the rest of the stuff. Holding my breath, I rebooted. Of course, now my machine won't boot, right? Right. It gets as far as "Nash starting" and then hangs. What to do? Well, I boot a rescue disc, and copy off what was the original real / onto another disc, and then start to ponder. I need help! Using the LiveCD rescue disc, I created me another user with my name, and ui

login fails

Luca — 2008-08-29T00:34:20

Where do I get the fedora yum GPG key?

Dan Thurman — 2008-08-28T23:48:46

I have done it but cannot remember how to get the Fedora GPG key. Can someone point the way, please? Thanks! Dan

Linksys WRT54G2

Rich Emberson — 2008-08-28T22:27:47

Last updates change is August 12th is this correct?

Howard Wilkinson — 2008-08-28T09:20:57

I use RSYNC to keep a local copy of a subset of the fedora release structure. We mirror from a couple of UK/European sources. The last updates we saw in any of the hierarchy is the 12th of August? Is this correct? Howard.

Making my linux Kernel Module start during bootup

"G" — 2008-08-28T08:55:55

Hi I am using Fedora 6 and would like to know how to make my kernel module load during bootup. Cheers, Balaji