Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone,
If the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA" is:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev
a1)
are the correct instructions for installing the proprietary NVidia driver still
located here:
http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod
I have tried the above referenced instructions a couple of times, with the same,
bad results... I am now going to try again, paying special attention to the
"Troubleshooting" section... With this exact system, I have been so used to
everything working (up until I installed Fedora 13) that I have never even had
to look at the troubleshooting steps for these instructions before.
I will get back to you with whatever happens.
Steven P. Ulrick
14 years
Problems with SELinux and cronjobs
by Gijs
Hello List,
I'm trying to get my cronjobs to work but after reading all kinds of
info on SELinux, I'm not even one step closer to solving the problem. I
have the following in my cronlog (yes, SELinux is set in permissive
mode, for now..):
May 28 09:15:01 mail crond[21390]: CRON (*system*) ERROR:Could not set
exec context to user_u:system_r:unconfined_t for user, but SELinux in
permissive mode, continuing
May 28 09:15:01 mail crond[21391]: (root) CMD (/somescript.sh)
May 28 09:16:01 mail crond[21395]: CRON (root) ERROR:Could not set exec
context to root:system_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh for user,
but SELinux in permissive mode, continuing
May 28 09:16:01 mail crond[21396]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/php
/somephpfile.php > /dev/null 2>&1)
Since the cronjobs run every 15 minutes, I get tons of these messages.
The first errormessage is from my systemwide cron, and the other is from
a cronjob that is set with "crontab -e".
[root@mail ~]# ls -laZ /somescript.sh
-rwxr-xr-x root root root:object_r:user_home_t:s0 /somescript.sh
[root@mail ~]# ls -laZ /somephpfile.php
-rwxr-xr-x someuser somegroup root:object_r:user_home_t:s0
/somephpfile.php
I have absolutely no idea what to do to solve this. I have no idea what
a "exec context" is for that matter, nor can I find any understandable
information on that subject.
Hope someone can help me with this.
Regards, Gijs
14 years
FC13 infofeed RSS coming?
by Bill Davidsen
I normally follow updates to official releases on the infofeed RSS, since it
tells me not only what was changed but for new apps, what the app does.
Hopefully now there will be one for FC13 as well.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
14 years
Installing F13
by Michael Miles
I would like to install F13 x64
I have seen the size difference in the partitions.
Question: Do I have to reformat my F12 installation or will upgrade
resize the boot partition?
I did not select a seperate Home partition when I installed F12. I
realize now I should have.
14 years
where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings?
by Fred Smith
When using NM (in Gnome) to configure a VPN (Sysco, which uses vpnc as the
backend) where does it store the VPN configuration settings?
Trying to find them so I can move them to a new F13 installation rather than
re-creating all of 'em.
Thanks in advance!
--
---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------
Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
----------------------------- Isaiah 40:28 (niv) -----------------------------
14 years
FC13 install won't do post-install boot
by Doctor Who
Hi All-
I have a desktop machine with 3 SATA drives. I have a separate OS on
each drive and use the graphical boot manager GAG
(gag.sourceforge.net) to boot into each of the 3 OS's. I had Fedora
11 installed on the second drive (sdb). Rather than try an update, I
did a clean install of FC13 from DVD in which I re-formatted my /
directory (sdb1) and left my separate /home partition unformatted.
Due to using GAG, I specified that the boot loader should be installed
on sdb1 (rather than sdb). This is how I've done it in the past and
done with the other distros I have installed on sda and sdc. However,
once the install finishes, the media is ejected, and I'm asked to
reboot, choosing to boot from sdb1 via GAG produced a hang
(essentially a black screen with a single _ or - in the upper left
hand corner of the screen.
I thought maybe I had to specify a dedicated /boot partition of at
least 512MB, so I performed the install again, this time specifying
sdb1 as /boot and sdb2 as / and to install the boot loader to sdb1
with sdb2 defaulting to the Fedora install. Same result.
The install media is verified as good. I next grabbed the FC13 Live
CD and performed an 'Install to Hard Disk' from that again specifying
that the boot loader be installed to sdb1 (/boot). This time, when
selecting to boot Fedora 13 after the initial installation reboot, the
screen is black and then the computer start the POST and reboots to
GAG (no hang like before, just an apparent failed boot and quickly
reboots the machine). No error messages seen in either case.
Any ideas on what may be going on here?
Thanks!
14 years
f13 - gdm fails with no user list
by Genes MailLists
Fresh install f13 - fully updated.
As per usual on laptop - i ran
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
So that gdm does not present user list to the world.
Rebooted - gdm screen comes up - background is there - and lower bar
is there.
The box where I would put username / password is a thin vertical line
1 pixel wide ...it is impossible to login to gdm
reset to false and restart and its fine again.
known bug or is there a new way to configure gdm now ?
thanks.
gene/
14 years
encrypted disk/partition
by Fred Smith
in F13, Anaconda seems to allow encrypted partitions ONLY if you use LVM.
If I set up the disk as simple partitions with no lvm/VG/raid, how can
I realize encrypted partitions or even whole disk?
Thanks!
--
---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -----------------------------
I can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me.
------------------------------ Philippians 4:13 -------------------------------
14 years
'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?
by sawrub
Hi List,
I created a user by the name test, and after doing with my testing was
going to delete the user using the following command, userdel and also
added '-f' for cleaning out the home without leaving any traces of
'test'. But the command says :
[root@xbox ~]# userdel -f test
userdel: user test is currently logged in
Then i noticed that a tab in terminal was open with the user logged in.
Closed the TAB and again tried to remove the user. And to irony the user
was already gone as now the command said :.
[root@xbox ~]# userdel -f test
userdel: user 'test' does not exist
Tried listing the files and all were there intact.
[root@xbox ~]# ll /home/test/
.bash_history .bash_profile .dbus/
firefox-3.6.4.tar.bz2 .gconfd/ .gnome2_private/
.pulse-cookie
.bash_logout .bashrc firefox/
.gconf/ .gnome2/ .mozilla/
[root@xbox ~]#
I'm totally lost that how is parameter working fully against what man
says about it, pert manual
-f, --force
This option forces the removal of the user account, even if
the user is still logged in. It also forces userdel to remove the user´s
home directory and mail spool, even if another user uses the same home
directory or if the mail spool is not owned by the specified user. If
USERGROUPS_ENAB is defined to yes in /etc/login.defs and if a group
exists with the same name as the deleted user, then this group will be
removed, even if it is still the primary group of another user.
Seems that there is some issue with the command parameter, what do you
say ? is there some issue or Am i wrong somewhere.
--
Saurabh Sharma
Linux user number: 490644
http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/
Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows
14 years
