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why is ipv6 fixly compiled in latest F15 and all F16 kernels?
by Franta Hanzlík 08 Apr '12

08 Apr '12

Hello, up to Fedora 15 including, there was ipv6 as loadable kernel module and was not problem disable/not load it. But recent F15 and F16 kernels have IPV6 support compiled in kernel, know anyone for which reason? For IPv4-only sites (which is absolute majority) this is unneeded...

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in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution
by Antonio Olivares 08 Apr '12

08 Apr '12

Dear folks, This is an FYI, there is a new lightweight simple TeX/LaTeX distrubution called KerTeX. http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html It is lightweight, requires few things like bison, flex, ed, lftp, all of which are available in Fedora. It does not have pdflatex, pdftex, dvipdfm, xdvi, but many packages can be written for the system. It is smaller than old TeTeX but it is maintained. Since Fedora still uses texlive2007 on fedora[except the ones using texlive-repos by J Novy http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive ] The packaging and patents are issues that hold TeXLive in Fedora back. KerTEX is BSD licensed and has no such issues. It is designed to be installed through a script ./get_mk_install, but it could be made into a package with some work. Users interested please download it and try it out. It is a small texing/latexing system that uses RISK framework. Please test it out if you can, and maybe if the interest is there someone can try to package it and make it work independently even if texlive is installed. NOTES: User texifies, latexifies file, tex filename.tex, latex filename.tex, then runs $ dvips -o filename.dvi filename.ps or $ dvips -t letter filename.dvi > filename.ps then can convert to pdf using ps2pdf with ghostcript installed $ ps2pdf filename.ps For big projects and books, still the real TeXLive(from DVD) is the one for the job because the other one will be stopping somewhere because of a certain reason? Yes and TeXLive is very big [making it difficult to package and patents, nonfree stuff*, etc], so users that want a small portable tex/latex system [without such problems] can use kertex. If installing kertex, program will look for libl.a, or libfl.a and will stop in case it does not find it, if flex is installed a link may do the job. Regards, Antonio

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Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]
by Gregory P. Ennis 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Everyone, Just when I was getting accustomed to gnome3, and liking it, my system switched to fallback mode automatically. I thought the problem was something I had done, and when I tried to fix it I only made things much worse and eventually even broke yum. I decided to start over with a new install, but I have not been able to fix the problem. Of course it is easy to blame a kernel update, but I have not seen any other posts that specifically address this. This machine is an HP laptop (AMD A4-3300M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics × 2) with ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]. At the time of the fresh install gnome3 would not work, and automatically dropped back to fail safe mode. In the manner that I did on the original install I did the following : #1. Install of akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst from rpmfusion #2. Removal of nomodeset from grub2.cfg gnome-shell has been installed : Package gnome-shell-3.2.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64 already installed and latest version I am still unable to boot to gnome3 without going to failsafe mode; your help would be appreciated. Thank you, Greg Ennis

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[OT] Fedora 18 code name
by Konstantin Svist 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

I just realized there's a perfect successor name for Beefy Miracle: "Me GNUsta" It's related to the previous name (both are meaty) and it's true because we love GNU, even though it's all kinds of weird Conveniently, someone has already done the artwork: http://imgur.com/knjUd :) P.S. For those who don't get it: see http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/me-gusta

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How to change network address ?
by Bob Goodwin 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

I need to change the address of this computer temporarily to a 192.168.2.? instead of 192.168.1.9 to connect to a device that I reset. There used to be a menu that I used for this but with F16/XFCE I am lost. Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to do this? Bob

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F16 security spin, LibreOffice instabilities
by Joel Rees 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Lenovo S-100 pseudo-netbook (intel 64 running 32 bit) with Fedora installed from the F16 Security spin (LXDE) live USB. Posted earlier, no response, about it generally hanging the X11 session on logout if I switch to a virtual console to do something while logged in on an X11 session. Can telinit 2 and 5 to get it back once or twice. Trying to use LibreOffice, if I open more than one document, quitting tends to kill the panel, leaving things in an awkward, partially functioning state. Can keep doing things I don't need the panel for. I'm sure I need some library for LibreOffice that didn't get picked up in the dependency check when I installed it. Anyone have a suggestion? -- Joel Rees

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Is there a UI for /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks
by Sam Varshavchik 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

I'd like to tweak some of the DHCP settings in /etc/libvirt/qemnu/networks; specifically assign fixed IP addresses to selected guests. Is there a UI for this, somewhere, or I just go and edit it, by hand?

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Blocked Ports
by mike 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

I need to use Ports 27177 and 27178 but, every Port Checker I can find says they are blocked. My iptables setup ( for ) now is: Incoming Packages- Accept Forwarded Packets- Accept Outgoing Packets- Accept The way I understand it, that means NO Ports should be blocked. Am I barking up the wrong tree and need to be checking with my ISP? I think I should be but am just looking for a sanity check! Mike D.

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Is it me or is it sudo?
by Mark Haney 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

I'm kinda confused by the sudo problem I'm having. I've edited the main file with visudo to include: ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL markh ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL (obviously only the last line was my addition) But for some reason, it makes no difference at all. I'm still required to input my password. What gives? I've not had this problem before so I don't know where to start. -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem markh(a)abemblem.com Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.0-4.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux

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interactive kickstart ?
by Gabriel Somlo 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Is there any way to keep environment variables across different sections of a kickstart file ? E.g., if during %pre I solicit some input: %pre echo "enter bootloader password now:" > /dev/tty read -s GRUBPW < /dev/tty echo "you entered: ${GRUBPW}" > /dev/tty export GRUBPW %end ... is there any way to make $GRUBPW visible later on, on the 'bootloader' line in the main section of the kickstart file? I.e., can I make something like this work: bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --password=${GRUBPW} Is there a better way to solicit the bootloader password interactively (as I'd prefer not to publish it in a kickstart file, for reasons similar to why I'm not including a 'rootpw' line) ? Also, this is not the only application. I'd like to use environment variables read during %pre in %post (in order to ask all the questions early on, then proceed with an unattended install). Thanks for any ideas, suggestions, or pointers. --Gabriel

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