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What is "nomodeset" SUPPOSED to do?
by Steven P. Ulrick 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hello Everyone, What is "nomodeset" SUPPOSED to do? I really do want to know, because I wonder if "nomodeset" is ineffectual on my system, and that's why I can't get the rpmfusion nVidia driver to work (it used to work on this same system under Fedora 12.) I want to go with the nVidia driver because: 1. nouveau (in KDE) leaves me with a hideous multicolored (grey & black) taskbar at the bottom of my display. 2. Whatever driver is defaulted to when nouveau won't run (vesa?) will boot perfectly on my system, BUT it only displays at a maximum resolution of 1280x1024. 1920x1080 is the resolution I was running it at with this same system, same monitor, same video card on Fedora 12. So, I'd really like to know if my problem is because "nomodeset" is doing nothing on my system... Steven P. Ulrick

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Abrt doesn't capture traces for segfault type 6
by Mike Fedyk 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hi, I looked for a component in bugzilla for abrt, and it isn't listed so I'd like to know where I should file this bug report. > May 27 13:42:16 dt01 kernel: epiphany[9989]: segfault at fffffffffffff7f0 ip 000000391f474b8c sp 00007fffdf2c4d90 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[391f400000+16f000] > May 27 13:42:18 dt01 abrt[9990]: saved core dump of pid 9989 (/usr/bin/epiphany) to /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1274992936-9989.new/coredump (54530048 bytes) Notice the "error 4" part and that abrt captures a backtrace for it. > May 28 01:08:43 dt01 kernel: tecnoballz[12747]: segfault at 10132ddf0 ip 000000000042f5e0 sp 00007fffe99b21f0 error 6 in tecnoballz[400000+68000] Notice the "error 6" part and that abrt does not capture a backtrace for it. http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0512.1/2406.html The link above says that the error codes are processor dependent. Maybe there is something generic that can determine whether to attempt processing a backtrace. Is this a kernel issue, abrt issue or both? Where should I file the bug report?

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f13 - gdm fails with no user list
by Genes MailLists 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Fresh install f13 - fully updated. As per usual on laptop - i ran gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true So that gdm does not present user list to the world. Rebooted - gdm screen comes up - background is there - and lower bar is there. The box where I would put username / password is a thin vertical line 1 pixel wide ...it is impossible to login to gdm reset to false and restart and its fine again. known bug or is there a new way to configure gdm now ? thanks. gene/

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encrypted disk/partition
by Fred Smith 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

in F13, Anaconda seems to allow encrypted partitions ONLY if you use LVM. If I set up the disk as simple partitions with no lvm/VG/raid, how can I realize encrypted partitions or even whole disk? Thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. ------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------

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'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?
by sawrub 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi List, I created a user by the name test, and after doing with my testing was going to delete the user using the following command, userdel and also added '-f' for cleaning out the home without leaving any traces of 'test'. But the command says : [root@xbox ~]# userdel -f test userdel: user test is currently logged in Then i noticed that a tab in terminal was open with the user logged in. Closed the TAB and again tried to remove the user. And to irony the user was already gone as now the command said :. [root@xbox ~]# userdel -f test userdel: user 'test' does not exist Tried listing the files and all were there intact. [root@xbox ~]# ll /home/test/ .bash_history .bash_profile .dbus/ firefox-3.6.4.tar.bz2 .gconfd/ .gnome2_private/ .pulse-cookie .bash_logout .bashrc firefox/ .gconf/ .gnome2/ .mozilla/ [root@xbox ~]# I'm totally lost that how is parameter working fully against what man says about it, pert manual -f, --force This option forces the removal of the user account, even if the user is still logged in. It also forces userdel to remove the user´s home directory and mail spool, even if another user uses the same home directory or if the mail spool is not owned by the specified user. If USERGROUPS_ENAB is defined to yes in /etc/login.defs and if a group exists with the same name as the deleted user, then this group will be removed, even if it is still the primary group of another user. Seems that there is some issue with the command parameter, what do you say ? is there some issue or Am i wrong somewhere. -- Saurabh Sharma Linux user number: 490644 http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/ Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows

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Regarding Get Fedora page
by Jud Craft 31 May '10

31 May '10

I'm sorry if I'm late to the party or this has been previously explained, but I can't see anything related to it in Fedora-list, -devel, -desktop, or -advisory. So here goes. What happened to the Get Fedora page? It was beautiful. Now it's a big ugly pile of links in a strange link-map that hides half the options, and I can't find a mention of torrents anywhere. What happened to the big master list of all image download links? Spins.fedoraproject.org looks great, but the main download page has greatly regressed compared to F12. [I just found the Fedora bittorrent page by googling. Glad I found them.]

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F13 Workspace switxher failing
by Beartooth 31 May '10

31 May '10

Using the new preupgrade from F12, I'm getting very mixed results. On one PC, it hit the space problem, told me to quit unless I had a wired Net connection (I did), and let me continue. Then it coped, and in very little time F13 was up and running, with all my old data still present. I'm on that machine now, and some things are inordinately slow, but do still work, at least for the most part. Then I did the same on a Thinkpad T42, and again saw immediate triumph. So I tried it on another (newer) PC, and another Thinkpad (a T30) -- and have yet to get either of them usable. I'll leave the T30 for a different post, if need be; this post is for the second PC. It has one problem all the time, and one most of the time; the former is the worse. I can always log in, and it always gives me my normal bottom panel. (My left panel sometimes appears, sometimes not; but I can usually make that appear by starting to create a new one.) The PC sees both the keyboard and the mouse -- when they are behind a USB KVM switch, as well as when they are connected directly to it. The launchers on the panels respond normally to mouse-over and to clicking -- except for the workspace switcher. The workspace switcher behaves normally when moused over and when right-clicked. But it does nothing when left-clicked. (Nor do Alt plus arrow key do anything.) I keep trying blanket gpk updates; and also telling yum to update it, and telling yum to remove it (intending of course to put it back immediately). No joy there, either. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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Does anyone know how to debug cups and or lpr
by Mark LaPierre 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hey All, I'm trying to get my printer to work. I have a driver configurator and System/Administration/Printing tools. Both find the printer and pass all tests of the printer, device and backend, and send a file to the print queue. [mlapier@mushroom ~]$ lpq ml1740 is ready and printing Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size active root 11 Samsung Test Page 15360 bytes [mlapier@mushroom ~]$ lpq ml1740 is ready no entries [mlapier@mushroom ~]$ The file does not get printed but it does disappear from the print queue. Now this whole operation worked just fine with the same hardware with the previous version of Fedora but now it doesn't want to hear it after upgrading to the next version of Fedora. Does anyone know what steps I should take to debug my printing problem? Do you need me to post more information? Thanks

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Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?
by jaivuk 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hello guys, I did not use gdm for some time and now I'm not happy how it looks in Fedora 11. First of all - the list of local users is unacceptable from security reasons. Even if it supports such "an " option - how it can be the default one?! Second problem I have is shutdown button (and possibly restart as well) - when you click on shutdown button by mistake, system will shut - there is no confirmation dialog. I also tried to find some ways how to customize gdm in Fedora 11 but I did not find any usable guide. Can anybody please advise me how can I have prompt asking for username only (showing last logged user at maximum) and not displaying the list of all local users? Also can I somehow add confirmation or remove shutdown restart buttons from gdm screen? Or can you please advise any alternative to gdm? Thank you very much, Jan

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fedora 13 - upgarding from DVD with no /boot
by Genes MailLists 31 May '10

31 May '10

I have an existing install (f10) with a root partition and /home partition. When I boot the install DVD - there is no screen which offers me a choice whether i want to upgrade or do a fresh install - it -assumes- I want to install fresh. Is this a bug or is there an option I need to put in somewhere to upgrade this system? thanks for any pointers. gene/

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