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Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!
by Valent Turkovic 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

My work Fedora 17 64bit box gangs without reason, and I can't track down issue causing it! When I reboot into Windows 7 32bit it works for days without any hangs. This is a company PC so IT installed Windows 7, but I don't use it, that is why I installed Fedora and use it as my primary desktop. I'm not some guru sysadmin, but I'm not a newbie, as I have been using Linux over 10 years as my primary desktop and have few private servers that I maintain, I have troubleshooted and fixed numerous issues with mine and friends machines. My desktop works perfectly for hours, sometime for days, but after some time (usually 1-2 days) it just freezes. It doesn't matter how many free memory I have, which apps I'm runnig or which desktop I'm using. I tried leaving just desktop running with no apps, still freezes, changed desktops, kde - hangs, gnome 3 - hangs, mate - gangs, tried leaving multiple apps doing something, still hangs. I ran memory test utils, memory is working ok. These gangs are driving me nuts! Is anybody having unexplained hangs with Fedora 16 and 17 64bit? Could it be some 64bit issue because Windows is 32bit and it works? How can I troubleshoot what is causing hangs of my machine? Thanks. -- follow me - www.twitter.com/valentt & http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com linux, anime, spirituality, wireless, scuba, linuxmce smart home, zwave ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turkovic(a)hotmail.com

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How to start qalculate-kde and/or kruler minimized to tray
by Jonathan Ryshpan 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

How can qalculate-kde and/or kruler be started minimized in the KDE tray? Running KDE-4.8.4 under Fedora-17. Thanks - jon

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Print Job Not getting to Printer
by Mickey 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

Fedora 17 Samsung CLX3175FX, CLX3170 Series driver. The driver for this printer does work in Fedora 17 on about ten other boxes with Fedora 17. But not on this HP Pavilion S5510F PC, in Fedora 17 , I had it working on Fedora 15. Here is some simple commands I have run and the printer in seen . The Router even sees the printer at 192.168.1.127. Cupsd is running in Services. The Printer will print using my laptop with Fedora 17 installed on same Network Job 12 is in print Queue but is Stopped. root@BigOne mickey# lpq Samsung-CLX-3170 is ready Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size 1st mickey 12 (stdin) 5120 bytes root@BigOne mickey# lpq -P Samsung-CLX-3170 Samsung-CLX-3170 is ready Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size 1st mickey 12 (stdin) 5120 bytes root@BigOne mickey# lpq mickey Samsung-CLX-3170 is ready Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size 1st mickey 12 (stdin

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What are the limitations of preupgrade
by Bill Davidsen 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Preupgrade used to be quite limited in capability, and restricted to a single version upgrade at a time. I have some systems I would rather not upgrade by hand if possible, but they need to go from fc13 to fc17, and I'm sure doing it insteps would take more effort on my part than a single step and some fixup. I noted that preupgrade offers to try to go to to fc17 in a single step, but it's not obvious if it's kidding me or itself. Downtime should be minimized, so it's worth at least considering. Any experience? -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

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Renewing sendmail.pem, and other self-signed certs
by Philip Prindeville 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

I have an original sendmail.pem that was generated with /etc/pki/tls/certs/make-dummy-cert (which is similar to /etc/pki/tls/certs/Makefile), but it's now expired. I tried to use the script below to extract the key, subject, and serial #, and generate a new cert based on the same, but for whatever reason Thunderbird balks at it with: Oct 27 16:59:26 mail sendmail[6025]: STARTTLS=server, error: accept failed=0, SSL_error=1, errno=0, retry=-1, relay=macbook.redfish-solutions.com [192.168.1.17] Oct 27 16:59:26 mail sendmail[6025]: STARTTLS=server: 6025:error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate:s3_pkt.c:1195:SSL alert number 42 Oct 27 16:59:26 mail sendmail[6025]: q9RMxQX8006025: macbook.redfish-solutions.com [192.168.1.17] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA What am I missing? And should that makefile have a: %.repem: %.pem dummy target that updates a cert? Or do we need a update-dummy-cert script additionally? Here's the script that I used to update the cert. Thanks, -Philip

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Bugzilla - Modeset - Kernel 3.4 to 3.6 upgrade no longer boots
by Steve T 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

Good afternoon, I have been running my laptop on various versions of FC without a problem and am currently on FC16 running Gnome 3 in full mode. Recently the FC16 Kernel was updated from 3.4.11 to 3.6.2 and my laptop (Dell Latitude D610 ) would no longer boot - although I could go back to any 3.4 kernel and it booted ok and worked under Gnome 3. There were no messages on the failed 3.6.x boot - the screen just went blank. After a bit of delving it seemed that a similar problem had been reported in relation to Plymouth and modesetting. Following that track lead me to 'Bug 845745 - kernel version 3.5.0-2 hangs at boot with modesetting: "conflicting fb hw usage radeondrmfb vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver" ' on Fedora Bugzilla. I did try the 'nomodeset', and that does allow a boot under 3.6.2, but then Gnome 3 goes into fallback mode. Does anyone know if this will be fixed under FC16, or is this a generic Kernel fix that will appear across all releases that use that kernel?

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IPTABLES and EBTABLES
by Lázaro Morales 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

Hello, How can be used EBTABLES in addition to IPTABLES to forward traffic from an internal LAN to an external? Suppose that I have an internal LAN with private IPs, and a Gateway that control the traffic to the outside, and I only need forward traffic for certain MAC address regardless IP address. INTERNET --> Gateway <--- LAN I'm not sure if I have to enable the following modules in `sysctl.conf`: net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0 I have tried with the following configuration, but nothing happens: # ebtables -F # ebtables -t nat -F # ebtables -P INPUT ACCEPT # ebtables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT # ebtables -P FORWARD ACCEPT # ebtables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -j ACCEPT # ebtables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s INTERNAL_LAN_CLIENT_MAC -o eth1 \ -j snat --to-source MAC_OF_EXTERNAL_GATEWAY_INTERFACE Any thought will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Lázaro. ***************************************************************************** * Este mensaje de correo electrónico ha sido procesado por el * * Servidor de Correo Electrónico de Frioclima y es un correo * * válido para el dominio: frioclima.com.cu * *****************************************************************************

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html/css display on fedora is different than from other os ( windows, ...)
by mike lan 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Hello why is html/css display on fedora on firefox and google chrome alike is different than on other os ? some times the size of a font can break the display of a site which looks right on windows and not on fedora. is there a way to work around this issue by tweaking some settings on firefox and google chrome ? thanks

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Howto resolve crash address into function name / line number?
by Clemens Eisserer 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hi, I see usb_modeswitch frequently crashing with a segfault, and a message like: Oct 31 19:38:28 localhost kernel: [ 33.953670] usb_modeswitch_[1373]: segfault at 7fffd64bfbe4 ip 0000003000874b06 sp 00007fffd64bfbd0 error 6 in libc-2.15.so[3000800000+1ac000] Is there any way to trace back 7fffd64bfbe4 to the function name / line number? Thank you in advance, Clemens

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First f17 install -- on an ee701
by Robert Moskowitz 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

I have 1Gb of memory upgrade, so I have enough memory. My SSD is only 4Gb, but I have a 16GB SD card. So the SSD is setup for /boot with 300Mb, swap with 1.6Gb and the rest is /var. The SD is / The challenge with the install is the small screen size. I complained about this and submitted a bug on it with f14 (which was the only install I have made on this ee701). Apparently the developers did not feel it necessary to do anything about adjusting the dialog sizes to the actual screen size. For the most part I was able to guess what keys to hit for the buttons cut off below the bottom of the screen. I could not see how to setup a LVM on the SD, so it is just and ext4 partition. Also I could not go into customizing the packages for the install and although I did provide my local repos so I grabbed all the updates right off, I had to just go with the standard graphic desktop package install.... Next I will have to do the gnome 3 customizations. Though I MIGHT just leave it for the defaults for a while, rather than all the customzations I did for this f16 notebook a year ago. I actually would like to wait for f18 for upgrading my main notebook; I kind of like skipping releases... Anyway. so far so good.

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