.bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged
by Franta Hanzlík
I'm accustomed have longer bash history - usually my HISTSIZE=10000.
Never from Redhat 4 epoch was problems with this, but now at F15 and
F16 I in several cases I found weirdness, when my commands are
missing in history, in one case I had .bash_history completely empty.
IMO it is problem in newer bash versions, but yet more I suspect when
it may be any cripled systemd behavior at init 0/6 (sorry, i want
say poweroff.target/reboot.target ;), whether systemd (in order to
halt/reboot computer several microseconds faster) kill bash before
it is able save their stuff.
Have You met someone with this problem?
Any idea how diagnose it?
Thanks, Franta
12 years, 2 months
EasyCAP driver.
by Erik P. Olsen
I've boroughed an easycap device in order to perform VHS2DVD conversion of my
old VHS-tapes. I am therefore seeking a driver for Fedora 14 or 16. Does anybody
have experience with this device?
[erik@epohost ~]$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 05e1:0408 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd STK1160 Video
Capture Device
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Erik
12 years, 2 months
why is ipv6 fixly compiled in latest F15 and all F16 kernels?
by Franta Hanzlík
Hello, up to Fedora 15 including, there was ipv6 as loadable kernel
module and was not problem disable/not load it. But recent F15 and
F16 kernels have IPV6 support compiled in kernel, know anyone for
which reason? For IPv4-only sites (which is absolute majority) this
is unneeded...
12 years, 2 months
in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution
by Antonio Olivares
Dear folks,
This is an FYI, there is a new lightweight simple TeX/LaTeX distrubution called KerTeX.
http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html
It is lightweight, requires few things like bison, flex, ed, lftp, all of which are available in Fedora. It does not have pdflatex, pdftex, dvipdfm, xdvi, but many packages can be written for the system. It is smaller than old TeTeX but it is maintained. Since Fedora still uses texlive2007 on fedora[except the ones using texlive-repos by J Novy
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive ]
The packaging and patents are issues that hold TeXLive in Fedora back. KerTEX is BSD licensed and has no such issues. It is designed to be installed through a script ./get_mk_install, but it could be made into a package with some work. Users interested please download it and try it out. It is a small texing/latexing system that uses RISK framework.
Please test it out if you can, and maybe if the interest is there someone can try to package it and make it work independently even if texlive is installed.
NOTES:
User texifies, latexifies file, tex filename.tex, latex filename.tex, then runs
$ dvips -o filename.dvi filename.ps
or
$ dvips -t letter filename.dvi > filename.ps
then can convert to pdf using ps2pdf with ghostcript installed
$ ps2pdf filename.ps
For big projects and books, still the real TeXLive(from DVD) is the one for the job because the other one will be stopping somewhere because of a certain reason? Yes and TeXLive is very big [making it difficult to package and patents, nonfree stuff*, etc], so users that want a small portable tex/latex system [without such problems] can use kertex.
If installing kertex, program will look for libl.a, or libfl.a and will stop in case it does not find it, if flex is installed a link may do the job.
Regards,
Antonio
12 years, 2 months
Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]
by Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone,
Just when I was getting accustomed to gnome3, and liking it, my system
switched to fallback mode automatically. I thought the problem was
something I had done, and when I tried to fix it I only made things much
worse and eventually even broke yum. I decided to start over with a new
install, but I have not been able to fix the problem. Of course it is
easy to blame a kernel update, but I have not seen any other posts that
specifically address this.
This machine is an HP laptop (AMD A4-3300M APU with Radeon(tm) HD
Graphics × 2) with ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller].
At the time of the fresh install gnome3 would not work, and
automatically dropped back to fail safe mode.
In the manner that I did on the original install I did the following :
#1. Install of akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst from rpmfusion
#2. Removal of nomodeset from grub2.cfg
gnome-shell has been installed :
Package gnome-shell-3.2.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64 already installed and latest
version
I am still unable to boot to gnome3 without going to failsafe mode; your
help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Greg Ennis
12 years, 2 months
How to change network address ?
by Bob Goodwin
I need to change the address of this computer temporarily to a
192.168.2.? instead of 192.168.1.9 to connect to a device that I
reset.
There used to be a menu that I used for this but with F16/XFCE I
am lost.
Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to do this?
Bob
12 years, 2 months
F16 security spin, LibreOffice instabilities
by Joel Rees
Lenovo S-100 pseudo-netbook (intel 64 running 32 bit) with Fedora
installed from the F16 Security spin (LXDE) live USB.
Posted earlier, no response, about it generally hanging the X11
session on logout if I switch to a virtual console to do something
while logged in on an X11 session. Can telinit 2 and 5 to get it back
once or twice.
Trying to use LibreOffice, if I open more than one document, quitting
tends to kill the panel, leaving things in an awkward, partially
functioning state. Can keep doing things I don't need the panel for.
I'm sure I need some library for LibreOffice that didn't get picked up
in the dependency check when I installed it. Anyone have a suggestion?
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Joel Rees
12 years, 2 months
Is there a UI for /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks
by Sam Varshavchik
I'd like to tweak some of the DHCP settings in /etc/libvirt/qemnu/networks;
specifically assign fixed IP addresses to selected guests. Is there a UI
for this, somewhere, or I just go and edit it, by hand?
12 years, 2 months
Blocked Ports
by mike
I need to use Ports 27177 and 27178 but, every Port Checker I can find
says they are blocked.
My iptables setup ( for ) now is:
Incoming Packages- Accept
Forwarded Packets- Accept
Outgoing Packets- Accept
The way I understand it, that means NO Ports should be blocked. Am I
barking up the wrong tree and need to be checking with my ISP?
I think I should be but am just looking for a sanity check!
Mike D.
12 years, 2 months
