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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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KMail trash folder?
by Alan Evans 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

In KMail (F17), where is the "Trash" folder? If I select a message and then click the "Move to Trash" button, where is the message moved to? How do I recover accidentally deleted messages? On the sidebar, there is only "inbox," "outbox," and "sent-mail" listed under Local Folders. -Alan

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[OT] Microsoft Bashing
by Arthur Dent 27 Dec '12

27 Dec '12

Hello all, I was sitting in a dentist's waiting room and I came across this article from the August 2012 (really!) edition of Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer I know we all love to hate Microsoft, but after reading this I *almost* felt sorry for them. I guess many of you know all this, but I found it quite interesting reading. Good ammunition for all you Microsoft bashers...

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Can't get rpmbuild to work with gpg-agent
by Guido Winkelmann 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Hi, I'm trying to package some software with rpmbuild and signing the packages at the same time. I'm following the guide found here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm3/ It mostly works - I do get properly signed RPMs at the end - however, despite running gpg-agent, rpmbuild keeps asking for my (lengthy) GPG-passphrase every single time it is finished with a spec-file. This can be particularly annoying when building very large packages, because, instead of asking again, rpmbuild will abort the entire process if I mistype the passphrase even once. If I run rpmbuild again after that, it will build the whole package over again... I have started gpg-agent (as a normal user) with gpg-agent --daemon --enable-ssh-support \ --write-env-file "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" I have put the following lines if [ -f "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" ]; then . "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" export GPG_AGENT_INFO export SSH_AUTH_SOCK export SSH_AGENT_PID fi GPG_TTY=$(tty) export GPG_TTY at the end of my .bashrc, and also manually run them in my current shell. The env command tells me it knows of the variables GPG_AGENT_INFO, SSH_AGENT_PID, SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and GPG_TTY, with plausible looking values in all cases. When I just run gpg-agent in my current shell with no parameters, it tells me "gpg- agent: gpg-agent running and available". I'm running rpmbuild like this: rpmbuild -ba --sign rpmbuild/SPECS/<specfile> What am I still missing? Guido

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annotate pdf files - best options for use with F17?
by Ranjan Maitra 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Hi, I am required to annotate a pdf file for proof-reading and I was wondering what users would recommend for easy use with Fedora 17. I looked online some and came up with xournal, PDFescape, Crocodoc: the last two are some online resource. I tried xournal but was not impressed. Any suggestions? Many thanks and best wishes, Rannan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ Receive Notifications of Incoming Messages Easily monitor multiple email accounts & access them with a click. Visit http://www.inbox.com/notifier and check it out!

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Disabling NetworkManager
by Alex 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Hi, How do I properly disable NetworkManager so applications don't think my wired network is offline? I'm using a network bridge for kvm, and it's always been easier to use the old style networking. I've run the following commands to disable it and enable regular network services: systemctl stop NetworkManager.service systemctl disable NetworkManager.service systemctl enable network.service systemctl start network.service My network is then functional, but Evolution and sometimes Firefox complain the network is stopped yet still enabled. If I disable it with systemctl entirely, Xorg crashes with the following: Nov 28 15:14:08 sage dbus[772]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl st atus dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details. It then produces hundreds of directories with crash info in /var/spool/abrt/. Any ideas of how to properly disable NetworkManager so applications don't stop working? Thanks, Alex

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NFS4 problems -
by Bob Goodwin 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

I have a problem writing to one nfs4 server from this F-17/64 computer, /etc/fstab is as follows: [bobg@box7 ~]$ cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Tue Aug 7 08:37:16 2012 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info # UUID=4ce86523-2d45-4174-85e9-fd298e4516c8 / ext4 defaults 1 1 UUID=1a9d0937-2247-4cbc-b27d-4775c7453dba /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=96a666e2-73ac-4f5f-98bc-4a6a9383491f /home ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=9cb5a7e0-c752-4563-b7f5-663980e090e3 swap swap defaults 0 0 192.168.1.8:/nfs4exports/home/ /mnt/HOME1 nfs4 defaults,rw,user 0 0 192.168.1.8:/nfs4exports/data/ /mnt/DATA1 nfs4 defaults,rw,user 0 0 192.168.1.48:/SRVR1 /mnt/BOX48 nfs4 defaults,rw,user 0 0 Everything I can think of on the server is set "rw" Obviously I have missed something but I can't find it, get "Read-only file system." [root@box7 HOME1]# cp -r /mnt/BOX48/digicam/* /mnt/HOME1/digicam/ cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/HOME1/digicam/DSCN0001.JPG': Read-only file system cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/HOME1/digicam/DSCN0002.JPG': Read-only file system cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/HOME1/digicam/DSCN0003.JPG': Read-only file system cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/HOME1/digicam/DSCN0004.JPG': Read-only file system cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/HOME1/digicam/DSCN0005.JPG': Read-only file system [root@box7 HOME1]# chmod 777 * chmod: changing permissions of `bobg': Read-only file system chmod: changing permissions of `digicam': Read-only file system chmod: changing permissions of `lost+found': Read-only file system I can ssh into the server, mkdir [digicam] and "touch" a test file [footest]. $ ll /mnt/HOME1/digicam total 0 -rw-rw-r--. 1 500 500 0 Nov 30 08:06 DSCN0103-scaled.JPG -rw-rw-r--. 1 500 500 0 Nov 30 07:50 footest It appears the problem is in nfs but I don't know where else to look, I've set all the exported files to "777." Obviously I have missed something. The other server, box48 works, it's o/s was installed from the same flash drive Also it will not connect server box8 at boot, I have to mount it manually, the other one, box48, works normally, both are different hardware but box 8 worked until I re-installed SL-6.2. I even re-installed everything and updated again yesterday morning to no avail. Any ideas? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7

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[F17 KDE] Sound cutting out
by Benjamin Smith 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

So I have pithos installed (an excellent Pandora client that skips all that nasty flash stuff http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/) and Skype. Whenever Skype makes a sound, it cuts out all other system sounds, plays the sound, and then the rest of the system sounds resume. I didn't have this problem with Fedora 16 doing the same thing with the same programs (though I'm using an updated Skype client) Skype is set to use PulseAudio server (local) and there's no option to change to anything else. Pithos appears to use gstreamer though I'm not sure how that relates to PulseAudio. Any ideas where to go from here? Thanks, Benjamin Smith

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dynamic ip ok for NFS/LDAP servers? Network Gurus?
by Jack Craig 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Hi Folks, The following strikes me as wrong, but i am Not guru, so i thought to ask this forum where the wizards Do Live! :) Pls consider a configuration with a single host providing NFS4 /home directories for other hosts in a 6 host cluster. Further, openldap is on the same host to provide for authentication on all 6. the architect says its ok to configure all hosts w/DHCP, but i see the ip changing every day or 2 (many reboots due setup). I am a huge fan of static ip for servers, but what do i know?! :( So, Question, is DHCP ok for the 6 hosts in this config, or go static. More, static on server only maybe? TIA, jackc...

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Bash - an odd problem using sed or awk or for
by John Horne 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

Hello, I have a bash script in which a variable is set to one or more lines of text. What I want is to remove any lines up to and including a blank line (or alternatively to echo all the lines after the last blank line). There may be zero or more blank lines, and the blank lines need not be consecutive. If there is no blank line, then all the lines should be shown. If the last line is blank, then nothing should be shown. So for example the variable may contain: ============ (the '=' are not part of the variable) abc def hijk xyz ============ So in this case what is wanted is: ============ hijk xyz ============ to be shown. I tried something like: echo "$XX" | sed -e '/./,/^$/d' but this didn't display anything. (Where XX is the variable.) I also tried using a 'for' loop but again this displayed nothing: opt="" IFS=$'\n' for n in $XX; do test -z "$n" && opt="" || opt="$opt $n"; done (Echoing $opt after this shows that it contains nothing.) I'm not sure why but even using a for loop just to show it had seen a blank line didn't work either (using something like 'test -z "$n" && echo found'). My understanding was that by setting IFS to a newline, then the 'for' loop should see the blank line and just set '$n' to the null string. We should then be able to test on that. Ideally what I am looking for is a snappy one line 'sed' or 'awk' command to handle this :-) Unfortunately at the moment I seem to be getting nowhere though, even with the 'for' loop. Thanks, John. -- John Horne, Plymouth University, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

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