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Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, and then as root ran shred -vz /dev/sdd The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding" about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days. The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running something like: shred -vz /dev/sdd1 shred -vz /dev/sdd2 shred -vz /dev/sdd3 shred -vz /dev/sdd4 in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure? Thanks Dean

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Alpine will not show attachments
by Tom Diehl 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi, I am running alpine-2.00-1.fc10.x86_64 on an F10 box. If I get a message with an html or file attachment and I try to open it, I get an error that "Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/img--46112.htm" The correct program opens up but I always get the can't find file errors. If the message contains a URL then it comes up and displays properly. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem? Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl(a)rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123(a)rogueind.com

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dell e6500 lost fn-f8 key with 2.6.32 kernels
by Brian Millett 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

In the 2.6.32 kernels, I've seemed to have lost the ability to use the fn-f8 key to togle external displays. Using xev I see that KeyPress event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x5800001, root 0x15a, subw 0x5800002, time 869383, (55,45), root:(93,132), state 0x50, keycode 33 (keysym 0x70, p), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p" XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x5800001, root 0x15a, subw 0x5800002, time 869531, (55,45), root:(93,132), state 0x50, keycode 33 (keysym 0x70, p), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (70) "p" XFilterEvent returns: False This works just fine with the 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64, but not with any of the 2.6.32 kernels. Any hints? Thanks. -- Brian Millett - [ Delenn (re: Japanese stone garden), "The Gathering"] "On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of one mind to change the Universe. But none say it as clearly as this."

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Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?
by linux guy 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

This has me scratching my head. My access to www.rv.net is extremely slow. With both Konqueror and Firefox. And yet others say they have good access times. I'm running a fully up to date F12 installation. $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Jan 18 20:06:44 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ping www.rv.net PING www.rv.net (12.17.249.39) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- www.rv.net ping statistics --- 31 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 30371ms Pinging Google gives me: $ ping www.google.com PING www.l.google.com (74.125.127.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=35.5 ms 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=94.5 ms 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=117 ms 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=53.3 ms 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=35.2 ms 64 bytes from pz-in-f99.1e100.net (74.125.127.99): icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=43.1 ms ^C --- www.l.google.com ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5608ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 35.266/63.190/117.264/31.485 ms What gives ? Post where others on the site say they have good access: http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/23650556.cfm Thanks

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Upgrading : give me strength ...
by Beartooth 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

I've tried all the tricks on this list a/o the troubleshooting site, over and over. I finally gave up : downloaded and burned a DVD -- and *still* hit the catch-22 error, with too little space in mnt/sysimage/ boot. Now what? Can I simply delete all of /boot, or everything in it? All of grub.conf? Or what? It's going to be a royal pain if I have to burn all my data to media, and then sneakermail that back onto each machine, instead of just upgrading f11 .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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gpk-update-viewer vs. yum
by Beartooth 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Is it just me?? I've noticed, on several machines (PC, laptop, netbook) that if the machine has no connection, or thinks it has none, the gpk function claims there are no updates; but if I doubt that and run yum update, it may immediately get over a hundred -- or at least report a failure to connect. Couldn't gpk do the same?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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Test GIMP 2.7/2.8 ?
by Valent Turkovic 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

I there a way to test new GIMP 2.7/2.8 in Fedora? I looked in Rawhide repos and I still see only 2.6x versions there. Any plans to put 2.7 in Rawhide repost for testing purposes? -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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Enabling Airport wireless on Macbook Air with F12
by Colin Paul Adams 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

Thanks to Chris Smart, Peter Danenberg and others, I have been able to install Fedora 12 as the sole O/S on my Macbook Air (first generation). However the wirless networking is not enabled. I am following the instructions in http://docs.fedoraproject.org/wireless-guide/f12/en-US/html-single/#chap-Wi… . There was no wireless device shown in the network Configuration, so I clicked New and added a device for hardware Apple Airport. I also tried adding wireless device on the Hardware tab (eth0), but although it allows me to do this, after I save and then reopen the Network Configuration, the hardware only shows a device pan0 of Type Ethernet (which was there from the start). It does appear on the Devices tab (it didn't originally until I added it), but has staus of inactive, and no means to activate it. However, even after restarting the computer, the wireless icon on the panel says there are no network devices available. So I tried removing the device from control by NetworkManager, and activated it manually. But then I get: Device eth0 does seem to be present, delaying initalization. What do I need to do? -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire

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Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] btrfs for Fedora 12 and 13 LiveCD/DVD ?
by dexter 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

On 25 April 2010 19:47, Alan Pevec <apevec gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Valent Turkovic > <valent.turkovic gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> how to make Fedora 12 and Fedora 13 LiveCD/DVD that is btrfs formated >> and not ext4? >> What options need to be enables in kicstart file so that >> livecd-creator makes btrfs iso images? > > Didn't try it, but should be enough to change fstype in fedora-live-base.ks >> part / --size 3072 --fstype ext4 > > Alan CrossPosting: A quick scan reveals adjusting fstype will not be enuff, btrfs uses different userspace tools from ext[34] "btrfs-progs", so livecd-tools will need a patch. ...dex

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does Fedora need Google search logic?
by Valent Turkovic 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Package search has been bugging me for a long time now, I as an advanced user know exactly what I want and any package is just "yum install name" away, yes I still use yum and will continue to do so because I prefer yum over pkcon :) <rant> also pkcon is harder spell the phone line or skype (when dealing with new users), yum is easier to type even you are regular cli user, and yum is easier command to remember but never mind, back to topic at hand. </rant> For new users it is too hard to install package by searching because for any general search phrase and even for searches that are unique package names users get too many search results, and too often the top result is not what they are looking for. Too much information is not a good thing. This has been bugging me for months but haven't written anything about this because didn't see a solution until now. After looking at Suse Studio Screencast [1] it become obvious really fast whan needs to be done because they have done it in really elegant way. When doing a search in SUSE studio package search results are sorted by installation frequency. So packages which are most often installed are on top. SUSE guys have great example by searching for apache package. I repeated apache search on Fedora with yum, pkcon and with PackageKit GNOME GUI. The results are attached in this RFE, but you can see how search isn't usable if user doesn't know exactly that needs to be installed. Regular users won't go installing apache, this is just one example, but I had lots of similar situations in real life when I told some fedora users to just type name of package and to install it, but users got too many search results and got confused. I expect that only few packages will show and that main package will be first. We need some king of google logic that would sort package search results. Am I making any sense? Has something like this already in the works? Am I just wasting your time? [1] http://susestudio.com/#screencast [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618829 -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt blog: http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com linux, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless, ronjenje, pametne kuće, zwave registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turkovic(a)hotmail.com

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