F11 Preview: two more issues
by E.B. A.
Guys,
two more issues:
1) My webcam (Creative VF-0040) works on Cheese, but I can't get it to work
w/ anything else. Skype, mebeam etc. Any suggestion?
2) When I reboot the PC hangs right after the progress bar reached its end.
Thanks,
Enrico Accenti
15 years, 1 month
Rebooting and shutdown made difficult
by Michal Jaegermann
With recent updates I got serious troubles when shutting down and
rebooting a machine from a desktop menu (no problem when a desktop
session is not present). What I could find is filed as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498514
Am I the only one seeing that or this is wider affliction?
I "charged" that to hal as hald-addon-input appears to be a stuck
process but I am not sure what is the real culprit.
Michal
15 years, 1 month
SSH, firefox, and X
by max
ssh to another host on the local lan. I tried running firefox from the CLI, it starts then crashes. Other apps work fine gthumb , xchat, emacs. I thought I might need some special incantation and have found several floating around but no joy. I have also noticed that when I 'exit' from the remote host after running say gthumb or attempting to run firefox that I have to ctrl-C or I don't get the prompt back, however if i log in and don't run any graphical apps it logouts without a problem. Makes me think I am forgetting an option but I have tried various things with firefox and i get the same results.
Another thing about the logout hang is that it doesn't occur when I have used only emacs but if run gthumb or something similar then it will hang on logout and require a ctrl-c.
I haven't to the best of my recollection ever tried running FF(or any other graphical app) on a remote host thru ssh, not generally what I use ssh for but I decided to try it out. Is it broken or have I not properly mixed my dog hair and bat poop. I get the following no matter what recipe I try:
(ssh session from f10 to f11(armadillo)):
[maximus@armadillo ~]$ firefox
debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 3 win 65536 max 16384
debug1: client_request_x11: request from 127.0.0.1 46745
debug1: channel 1: new [x11]
debug1: confirm x11
debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 4 win 65536 max 16384
debug1: client_request_x11: request from 127.0.0.1 46746
debug1: channel 2: new [x11]
debug1: confirm x11
debug1: channel 1: FORCE input drain
debug1: channel 1: free: x11, nchannels 3
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 3 win 65536 max 16384
debug1: client_request_x11: request from 127.0.0.1 46747
debug1: channel 1: new [x11]
debug1: confirm x11
debug1: channel 1: FORCE input drain
debug1: channel 1: free: x11, nchannels 3
Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
debug1: channel 2: FORCE input drain
debug1: channel 2: free: x11, nchannels 2
/usr/lib/firefox-3.1b3/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 2546 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
--
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Bored??
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15 years, 2 months
F11 Preview - test with usbkey
by mike cloaked
A few impressions from a quick F11 preview test. I burned the livecd iso to
CD - then test booted the CD on a Dell D610 laptop. Worked but rather slow
since files constantly being pulled from the CD. With the livecd still
running I did a "yum install livecd-tools" and then plugged in a usbkey and
made a bootable F11 Preview usbkey with a persistent storage area.
This booted nicely and quite fast. Wireless networking in gnome worked well
to a WPA2 access point, and I noted that the NetworkManager options at last
has the option to make the wireless connection available to all users -
although I did not test this I presume that this means it will have wireless
active on bootup next time.
A few tests on the menus and everything worked that I tested. No major
faults apart from when I shut down using the gnome direct shutdown and the
system hung before it shut down propoerly. There is an existing bz on hang
during shutdown so it is possible what I saw was the same bug.
Anyway first impressions are favourable and this looks generally like F11
will be a good release.
One thing that needs to be clarified is how the availability of ext4 will
affect install decisions for systems already running F10. Although I did
not install to HD, when F11 is released the decision will need to be made to
switch over to ext4 or not for at least some of the partitions on the system
- at present I use / and /opt as separate partitions with /home as a
subdirectory of /opt - without a /boot separate partition then I guess the
only option will be to keep the root partition as ext3 for the present
since grub won't honour ext4 yet. However if the main HD was re-partitioned
to make a new /boot partition then I guess /boot left as ext3 with anaconda
reformatting the root partition as ext4 for the install will be a way
forward?
For /opt I suppose that making a backup ahead of the install and then
getting the install to reformat /opt as ext4 as well and then copying back
(rsync -X) to /opt from backup will preserve the files intact on the
reformatted partition?
I guess that most people develop their own way of "upgrading" from one
release to the next but this is an area that is generally not extensively
documented apart from lots of bits of answers spread out over many questions
on forums. I prefer clean installs every time but I still need to keep user
areas and personalised files etc in /opt preserved for use in the new
system.
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15 years, 2 months
Re:F10 nightmare under control
by Arne Chr. Jorgensen
Adam Williamson wrote:
"Yes. With a ZD1211 chipset-based adapter wifi just works out of the box.."
Bill Davidsen wrote:
"If "replace your hardware" is an acceptable solution, you would, at least to the
extent that any recent version using NetworkManager supports wireless..."
Thanks guys. Will see... there is a bluetooth interface connected as well.
Not working yet, so to start changing hardware on a notebook, is not all that fun.
Just compiled a driver from Broadcom against current kernel, but it did not
solve the main problem, but ...it sure got Firefox running ;)
Firefox was real slow and troublesome, but seem like a total different program now.
//ARNE
15 years, 2 months
F11, gnome-power-manager, and nut-hal
by Brian Chadwick
This still isnt working for me. gnome-power-manager knows nothing about
the UPS on USB, yet hal does ...
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_6da_3_noserial'
battery.type = 'ups' (string)
info.addons = {'hald-addon-blazer_usb'} (string list)
info.bus = 'usb_device' (string)
info.capabilities = {'battery'} (string list)
info.category = 'battery' (string)
info.linux.driver = 'usb' (string)
info.parent =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1d6b_1_0000_00_13_0' (string)
info.product = 'USB UPS' (string)
info.subsystem = 'usb_device' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_6da_3_noserial'
(string)
info.vendor = 'Phoenixtec Power Co., Ltd' (string)
linux.device_file = '/dev/bus/usb/002/005' (string)
linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int)
linux.subsystem = 'usb' (string)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb2/2-3'
(string)
usb_device.bus_number = 2 (0x2) (int)
usb_device.can_wake_up = true (bool)
usb_device.configuration_value = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb_device.device_class = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.device_protocol = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.device_revision_bcd = 1024 (0x400) (int)
usb_device.device_subclass = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.is_self_powered = false (bool)
usb_device.linux.device_number = 5 (0x5) (int)
usb_device.linux.sysfs_path =
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb2/2-3' (string)
usb_device.max_power = 100 (0x64) (int)
usb_device.num_configurations = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb_device.num_interfaces = 1 (0x1) (int)
usb_device.num_ports = 0 (0x0) (int)
usb_device.product = 'USB UPS' (string)
usb_device.product_id = 3 (0x3) (int)
usb_device.speed = 1.5 (1.5) (double)
usb_device.vendor = 'Phoenixtec Power Co., Ltd' (string)
usb_device.vendor_id = 1754 (0x6da) (int)
usb_device.version = 1.1 (1.1) (double)
isnt gnome-power-manager supposed to recognise that there is a UPS on
the USB rail?
15 years, 2 months
X still freezing once in a while
by Per Bothner
Every other day or so, X freezes. This has been happening for a while,
while keeping Rawhide current. It's on a Lenovo T400, with the
Intel GM45 Express Chipset.
Lately I've been running with Desktop Effects enabled; I just
disabled them to see if that would make things more stable.
The symptoms: Screen freezes (I can't say for sure whether things like
the clock get updated); mouse can move but doesn't change icon; mouse
clicks and keyboard inputs are ignored. I can ssh in, and it shows Xorg
taking about 100% of one CPU. It seems to happen when I do certain
things in Firefox (most recently I tried to open an image on lwn.net in
a new window). No messages in Xorg.0.log or /var/log/messages
This seems a lot like this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473347
However, the comments say that that bug only happens with EXA,
and I'm definitely running UXA (according to Xorg.0.log).
It could be this, but it doesn't quite match:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496516
I do see these messages, but they happen *hours* before the freeze.
Apr 28 21:21:28 localhost kernel: [drm:i915_gem_object_bind_to_gtt]
*ERROR* GTT full, but LRU list empty
Apr 28 21:21:28 localhost kernel: [drm:i915_gem_object_pin] *ERROR*
Failure to bind: -12
Apr 28 21:21:28 localhost kernel: [drm:i915_gem_evict_something] *ERROR*
inactive empty 1 request empty 1 flushing empty 1
And there are no "bo map failed" messages in Xorg.0.log.
File a new bug?
--
--Per Bothner
per(a)bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/
15 years, 2 months
Re: Can't stop log
by Allen Kistler
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> After I booted my FC11 test system and did an update, I tried to
> shutdown and got this failure. I clicked
> system->shutdown->shutdown_button and the system hung. An investigation
> of the log shows that attached behavior.
>
> If I log out and click the shutdown button it works, so it seems to only
> happen when using the button while logged in.
>
> Running 'shutdown -h' as root also works.
>
> [snip]
>
> Apr 29 09:46:39 fc11s1 init: tty4 main process (1443) killed by TERM signal
> Apr 29 09:46:39 fc11s1 init: tty5 main process (1444) killed by TERM signal
> Apr 29 09:46:39 fc11s1 init: tty2 main process (1454) killed by TERM signal
> Apr 29 09:46:39 fc11s1 init: tty3 main process (1467) killed by TERM signal
> Apr 29 09:46:39 fc11s1 init: tty6 main process (1468) killed by TERM signal
> Apr 29 09:46:39 fc11s1 init: rc0 main process (5306) killed by TERM signal
> Apr 29 09:46:39 fc11s1 gnome-session[1652]: WARNING: Unable to stop
> system: Not privileged for action:
> org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop no
>
> [snip]
I chased ConsoleKit, gnome-session, and a few others when I saw this bug
on my systems. I didn't get anywhere. It's a challenging bug to chase,
because it doesn't always happen. Although I think it may be more
reproducible when going from runlevel 5 to runlevel 3, maybe because if
something's broken, it gets killed anyway in runlevel 0 or runlevel 6
when shutdown or reboot actually shuts down or reboots.
Anyway, I've seen people ask about this bug on this list (with various
subject lines, but always essentially the same thing). I've seen other
people file bugs and get them marked as duplicate. I've seen people add
themselves as CCs on existing bugs. Even if I'm really stupid, I'd
think at least some of the people interested in this bug are pretty
bright. The fact that nobody seems to have a handle on exactly what's
going on is kind of scary.
For me, the power button and ACPI still team up to provide a graceful
shutdown, but that seems a bit inelegant.
15 years, 2 months
Downgrading gnome-volume-control and mixer_applet to be usable
by Nathan Grennan
I have installed Fedora 11 preview in VMware, and found that
PulseAudio has become more entrenched in Gnome. :( The first symptom of
it was the login sound kept repeating till I killed PulseAudio. I found
that panel applet was useless. So I hunted for a way to revert to the
previous style.
First I found I could just downgrade to the older version of
gnome-media, but I couldn't do the same with gnome-applets. I tried
recompiling the old gnome-applets against the newer Gnome, but that
didn't work. Then I found that the newer version of both packages have
configure options to revert to the previous style. So I downloaded the
src.rpms and recompiled both. It works!
I am glad I found these configure options. For a minute I was
considering trying to move to XFCE again.
I have attached my two spec file patches.
--- gnome-media.spec 2009-04-15 21:56:36.000000000 -0700
+++ gnome-media.spec.new 2009-04-29 09:18:14.867034062 -0700
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
Summary: GNOME media programs
Name: gnome-media
Version: 2.26.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 2.11%{?dist}
License: GPLv2+ and GFDL
Group: Applications/Multimedia
Source: http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-media/2.26/gnome-media-%{version}...
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
# try to work around a problem where gst-inspect does
# not find playbin the first time around
DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0 /usr/bin/gst-inspect-0.10 --print-all > /dev/null
-%configure --disable-schemas-install --enable-gnomecd=no --enable-cddbslave=no
+%configure --disable-schemas-install --enable-gnomecd=no --enable-cddbslave=no --enable-gstmix
make #%{?_smp_mflags}
# strip unneeded translations from .mo files
@@ -231,11 +231,14 @@
%doc AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README
%config %{_sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/gnome-sound-recorder.schemas
+%config %{_sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/gnome-volume-control.schemas
%{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart/gnome-volume-control-applet.desktop
%{_datadir}/applications/*
%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/*
+%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/devices/*
+%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/status/*
%{_datadir}/gnome-media
%{_datadir}/gstreamer-properties
%{_datadir}/gnome-sound-recorder
--- gnome-applets.spec 2009-04-15 17:06:41.000000000 -0700
+++ gnome-applets.spec.new 2009-04-28 20:08:27.714939596 -0700
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
Summary: Small applications for the GNOME panel
Name: gnome-applets
Version: 2.26.1
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Release: 3.11%{?dist}
Epoch: 1
License: GPLv2+ and GFDL
Group: User Interface/Desktops
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@
%endif
--disable-battstat \
--disable-scrollkeeper \
+ --enable-mixer-applet \
--enable-mini-commander
make
@@ -329,6 +330,8 @@
%{_libexecdir}/modemlights_applet2
%{_libexecdir}/multiload-applet-2
%{_libexecdir}/null_applet
+%{_libexecdir}/multiload-applet-2
+%{_libexecdir}/mixer_applet2
%if %{build_stickynotes}
%{_libexecdir}/stickynotes_applet
15 years, 2 months
