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gnome extension
by Patrick Dupre 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hello, I tried to install the gnome extension as indicated in http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/gnome-shell-tweaking-extensions-… But I can never have even one extension installed!!! Regards. ====================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org ======================================================================

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vlc
by Patrick Dupre 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hello, vlc-core-2.0.2-1.fc17.x86_64 When I try to load vlc, I get: VLC media player 2.0.2 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-453-g40d9fef) [0x1800e28] main interface error: no suitable interface module [0x1737108] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed [0x1737108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [0x1800e28] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console". VLC media player 2.0.2 Twoflower Command Line Interface initialized. Type `help' for help. I cannot find information about this issue! -- ====================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org ======================================================================

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Debugging a system freeze?
by Christopher Svanefalk 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Recently I have been having problems with my machine completely freezing up seemingly randomly. The display freezes in its current frame, and all I/O is completely unresponsive. It is not possible to SSH into it at this stage (ssh fails with a Host Unreachable error). The only remedy is a manual reset. I was wondering how I could go about trying to figure out what is going on? What log files can I look at to figure out what happened just before the reset etc? Would be grateful for any help. My specs are the following: Fedora 17 standard desktop version, completely updated as of June 17, 2012. i7-3930K clocked at 4.2Ghz with 1.240 vcore (stable) Gigabyte X79-UD7 Nvidia GTX285 (main suspect, since it is provably broken. However, I have not had these problems earlier) SATA HDD from Seagate. -- Best, Christopher Svanefalk

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view, list always?
by Jack Craig 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hi Folks, Running F16/Gnome3 and want a global configuration change. The default list mode is icon and i don't care for it. How can i configure a high level default view to list all the time? TIZ, jackc...

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Re: Check your /etc/default/grub, if you use raid 1.
by Tom Killian 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote: > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Check your /etc/default/grub, if you use raid 1. > Message-ID: <cone.1343570520.888812.3982.1000(a)monster.email-scan.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"; > DelSp="yes" > > There's a long standing combination of two bugs: the list of rd.md.uuid boot > parameters generated by anaconda for /etc/default/grub may not include the > raid uuid of non-stock partitions like /home; and although the ramfs > initscript autodiscovers all raid volumes present, sometimes (not always, > I'll estimate 5% of the time) if a uuid is not enumerated in the boot > parameters, one of the drives in the raid 1 volume may not get assembled at > boot. > > There's probably a third bug in here: mdmonitor should've mailed me when an > array came up degraded at boot (I suspect that because mdmonitor gets > started so early in the boot process, not all the moving pieces are there > for mail delivery to happen). Eventually, you'll boot again with both drives > in the array somehow, except they'll be out of sync, resulting in massive > corruption. If you're lucky, you'll boot just with the other drive, and > discover that your filesystem's contents are weeks/months out of date, and > maybe you'll be lucky enough to figure out what happen, and switch back to > the other drive and resync. But, not everyone's so lucky. > > This first started happening in F16. It took me a while to figure out the > cause for an occasionally raid assembly failure at boot. Fixed it, and > forgot about it. Well, looks like the F17 anaconda brought back the broken > /etc/default/grub, which found its way into my grub.cfg, and I just lost a > full day, cleaning up this mess. > > So, if you use raid 1 and upgraded to F17, you may need to fix this before > it's too late: put back the missing uuid into /etc/default/grub, and into > every entry in grub.cfg > > Pissed. Thanks for the explanation and fix/workaround, Sam. This happened to me as well. I ran fsck on the two mirrors independently and was able to recover most of the data from the lost+found's. But I had been brooding over the root cause until now.

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Configuring graphics(resolution) on Dell Vostro 460 i5
by Oscar Vidal 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hello, I'm new with fedora, I has been Ubuntu user during last years. Now I'm facing a problem with my workstation when I installed Fedora 17. I'm not able to configure the right resolution for the system, I'm using a Dell Vostro 460 i5. Im wondering if someone else had instaled Fedora 17 in this same computer and had solved already this problem. Any advice is welcome. Thanks Oscar

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External disk problem.
by Erik P. Olsen 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

I have an external 1 TB harddisk e-sata attached used for backups. The problem is that I have few times lost connection to it. I have taken up the habit of suspending (to RAM) when I leave the machine for a while and the problem seems to happen when I reactivate the system though not every time. After a power cycle the disk attaches correctly again. There is no trace of the problem in the various logs so I am tempted to believe that it is caused by the suspend process rather than a disk failure but since it is my backup device I would like to be sure. System: Fedora 16 with xfce 4.10 Kernel: 3.4.6-1.fc16.x86_64 Question: How can I run diagnose on the disk to see if it is about to fail permanently? -- Erik.

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installation fails
by Patrick Dupre 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hello, I failed several times to install fedora. It seems to be caused by the sleeping of the DVD reader. How can I awake it up? It stops to run typically during the configuration of the installation. Thank. -- ====================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org ======================================================================

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crontab 4th Tuesday of month
by Frank Murphy 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

15 18 22-28 * 2 /command I thought the last tuesday would be covered by above. But it has run everyday since 22nd. Have googled a bit: http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=25110 plus other crontab pages. http://hintsforums.macworld.com/member.php?s=2584787478dc5ab0791da9ba8d650a… 15 18 22-28 * * test 'date +\%a' != Tue || /command Am uncertain if above would work ootb. man crontab (22 September 2010) doesn't shed light on this. -- Regards, Frank "Jack of all, fubars"

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Reg: Fedora 16
by Prashanth Kasula 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

HI all, Can any one suggest for compatbaility of various browsers in fedora 16 -- Prashanth Kasula

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