Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] btrfs for Fedora 12 and 13 LiveCD/DVD ?
by dexter
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
13 years, 8 months
does Fedora need Google search logic?
by Valent Turkovic
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
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13 years, 9 months
Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install
by James McKenzie
I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not
correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third
1/3 of screen followed by that 1/3 again.
If I use the text installer, X will not start when running the first
time after installing.
TTIA.
James McKenzie
(And a big thank you to the wiki documentation team. I read through and
used the archives to see if this had been answered before posting!)
13 years, 9 months
firefox youtube cookie fix
by Frank Cox
I keep the "accept cookies from sites" option un-checked in my Firefox
preferences and maintain a (short) list of websites that I allow cookies
from.
Even though I have "allow for session" set for www.youtube.com, it still
comes up with "An error occurred" when I try to play a video. If I
check "accept cookies from sites" and reload the page, it works even
though no cookie that's not already on my whitelist shows up.
Which is a pain because I have to change that setting, reload the page,
watch the video and then remember to change the setting back to not
accept cookies again.
I just found the fix.
www.youtube.com is already on my "accept for session" cookie exception
list.
Adding youtube.com (note no www in that) to that list manually (under
Edit-Prefrences-Privacy-Exceptions) solves the problem..
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13 years, 9 months
Printing problem on FC13
by Alex
Hi,
I've set up a printer entry for my Brother HL-5070N network printer,
and when I print a test page it instead prints one page with "ERROR
NAME; undefined COMMAND; -12345X@PJL OPERAND STACK", followed by pages
and pages of blank paper until I turn off the printer.
There is a choice of a number of print drivers, and I've tried a few
of them, including ljet4, hl1250, and a ghostscript driver, and they
all do the same thing.
It hasn't worked since I installed FC13, but did work when I
previously had Ubuntu and an older FC installed on this computer.
How can I troubleshoot this?
Thanks,
Alex
13 years, 9 months
USB Printer Problem (still...)
by Smith, Herb
I haven't made any progress on getting my Xerox 6130 printer to work with F13. It's a fully updated F13 system on a Dell Dimension Desktop. The device manager see the Xerox printer on one of the usb ports and Fedora seems to have a driver for the printer, but the Add Printer process does not seem to recognize that the printer is there.
Is there any way to determine the correct URI for the printer on the usb port? If so, I could manually configure the printer.
The device manager does not give the URI for the thing, but it does see it as a Xerox 6130N printer.
Thanks in advance
Herb
13 years, 9 months
Status of ESATA in F13 ?
by linux guy
I am wondering how ESATA devices are supposed to work in F13 these days.
Does F13 support hot plugging of ESATA devices ?
Are they only recognized at boot time ?
Are they supported at all ?
Thanks
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Jun 11
09:42:24 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
13 years, 9 months
Selinux beating up on Chromium
by Jim
FC13/KDE
setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chrome-sandbox "net_raw" access . For
complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l
68797c25-9748-4ab8-b020-f63a80f543a7
I run the sealert -l 68797c25-9748-4ab8-b020-f63a80f543a7 and that
doesn't stop error message.
In about a hour and a half I get the same error message.
13 years, 9 months
Still no kmod for new nvidia
by Michael Miles
Hello there
I have been waiting to see if a kmod comes available and there seems to
be the wrong one published by RPMfusion.
The release is kmod 2.6.32.16-141 for 195-36.31-1
The driver is 195-36.31-2
I am not sure if it miss labelled or just not the right kmod
This does not show up in update but when I search nvidia it's there.
Any input
13 years, 9 months
selinux throwing incomprehensible errors when trying to run GoogleEardh
by Claude Jones
It seems to be saying that the directory access requested requires
labeling as usr_t, but its current type is usr_t -- it requires
usr_t but it's currently labeled usr_t -- there appears to
confusion here on the part of Selinux, no? I've tried applying the
recommended fix, but the recommended fix just resets the labelling
to what it already is, and I'm going round in circles
Summary:
SELinux is preventing /opt/google-earth/googleearth-bin "execmod"
access to
/opt/google-earth/libIGGfx.so.
Detailed Description:
SELinux denied access requested by /opt/google-earth/googleearth-
bin.
/opt/google-earth/googleearth-bin is mislabeled.
/opt/google-earth/googleearth-bin default SELinux type is usr_t,
but its current
type is usr_t. Changing this file back to the default type, may
fix your
problem.
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
13 years, 10 months
