Do I need avahi?
by Timothy Murphy
I recently noticed that I have been getting warnings
avahi-daemon[5884]: dbus-protocol.c:
Too many objects for client ':1.15', client request failed.
on my server.
I must admit I didn't know I was running avahi on the server.
I looked at a couple of avahi howtos,
and it seemed that for almost any usage other packages are required,
in particular nss-mdns .
If this is in fact required by avahi, it seems surprising
that it is not automatically installed at the same time.
(None of the examples of avahi usage actually worked on my system.)
But my real query is whether avahi (or zeroconf)
could actually offer me anything useful.
I'm running dhcpd on the server,
and I'm not looking for information about printers
or other users on my home network.
Also, is there any way of discovering who "client 1.15" is?
And is anything likely to go wrong if I simply "service avahi-daemon stop"?
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
10 years, 10 months
Gnome classic working in F19?
by "Paul-Erik Törrönen"
Just want to check first if I am the only one having this problem with an
upgraded F19 setup.
Some background:
Upgraded the system from F18 (and previously from 17-16-15) with fedup
--network. Before the upgrade I was running Gnome fine in the classical
style (dropdown app menu, no hotspots, workspace grid on lower bar etc.).
After the upgrade logged on with Gnome Classic selected -> worked fairly
ok, I have a grey top and bottom bar. Logged out and in again in order to
get some additional settings (the workspace for both dual displays). After
the login (making sure that I still have the Gnome classic selected) the
top and bottom bars are not the same.
Specifically the bottom bar (where the running apps should be displayed as
well as the workspace app) is missing altogether and the top bar is now
the new Gnome-styled, ie. has the hotspot and no app-menu at all.
This is reproducable, if I log out from this state, select the normal
gnome session, then I (again) get the same new Gnome desktop as described
above, and after an additional logout + login with the Gnome Classic
selected, then I end back in the actual classic for that particular
session.
So it seems that the mode selection is not really working, and neither is
the selection remembered correctly.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Poltsi
--
Paul-Erik Törrönen "When science and the Bible differ,
poltsi(a)777-team.org science has obviously misinterpreted
+358 40 703 1231 its data"
http://poltsi.fi/ Henry Morris, father of 'modern creationism'
10 years, 10 months
F18 Audio shoots up to 126% after being reduced
by Anthony
A while back, I installed Pulse Audio Volume Control. I clicked on the
'output devices' and set my audio at 100%. But every single time a sound
plays on my machine, it shoots up to 126% and has to be reduced. Every
single time.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Anthony
--
Anthony Papillion
Phone: 1.918.533.9699
SIP: sip:cajuntechie@iptel.org
XMPP: cypherpunk(a)patts.us
www.cajuntechie.org
10 years, 10 months
More VirtualBox problems -
by Bob Goodwin
I am almost ashamed to present another VirtualBox question but it's use
is not intuitive [for me anyway].
I yum removed VB and re-installed from VirtualBox.org. That solved the
problem of it not running with the kernel from this morning's update. I
also downloaded Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso [4.4GB] in the wee hours to
avoid it being charged against my usage allocation.
I was able to install Fedora-19 to the point where it says to reboot.
That looked like a normal install such as I have done before but after
that clicking on start simply begins another install process.
What am I doing wrong?
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 Fedora-19 Linux/XFCE
10 years, 10 months
Sound Icon in System Tray missing, in KDE
by Mickey
Fedora 18 / KDE
The Sound Icon came up missing from System Tray after reboot, It is not
even in Hidden Icons.
How do I get The Sound Icon back in System Tray ?
If I click on Kmix from Menu it won't start and display Kmix.
If I remember it was just after I did a Update.
10 years, 10 months
Minitube Crashes
by Mickey
F18 / Minitube
minitube is a very good app for viewing video and downloading from Youtube.
But it crashes badly.
Anyone out there have used it ?
10 years, 10 months
kernel-3.10.4-300 broke plymouth
by Sam Varshavchik
After updating to the current kernel, the system fails to boot, and gets
stuck on a frozen plymouth screen. The gdm login screen fails to come up.
CTRL-ALT-Fx does not work.
If I bail out of plymouth with Esc, early enough, I see the following during
the tail end of the boot process. I can switch to CTRL-ALT-Fx and capturing.
Rolling back to the last 3.9.9 kernel, and the system boots fine.
plymouth-quit-wait.service - Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service; disabled)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sat 2013-08-03 11:30:35 EDT; 1min 46s ago
Main PID: 2012
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service
Aug 03 11:30:35 monster.email-scan.com systemd[1]: plymouth-quit-wait.service operation timed out. Terminating.
Aug 03 11:30:35 monster.email-scan.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit.
Aug 03 11:30:35 monster.email-scan.com systemd[1]: Unit plymouth-quit-wait.service entered failed state.
10 years, 10 months
bootproblems
by Martin S
I'm starting to see the following startup error the last few boots.
Aug 3 17:30:46 localhost systemd[1]: Started Disk Manager.
Aug 3 17:30:49 localhost systemd[1]: NetworkManager-wait-online.service: main
process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 3 17:30:49 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Manager Wait
Online.
Aug 3 17:30:49 localhost systemd[1]: Unit NetworkManager-wait-online.service
entered failed state.
And then the boot process just seems to hang with some red failed message on
the NetworkManager. Googling this I see various Bugzilla reports in RH,
Fedora, and other distros. Trying to extend the timeout period as mentioned
in one of them.
What does the thing do?
10 years, 10 months
desktop file location
by g
greetings,
first off, i am running scientific linux 6.3 with kde 4.3.4 and i asked
this question on the sl list, but, received no answer.
my problem is that for some reason or other, i have now killed off the
desktop by accidentally clicking the "x" that appears in the 'sidebar'
[which may not be proper name] that pops out to right of desktop.
i searched thru files that i thought would be associated with desktop
without finding something related to 'sidebar'.
only way i have found to restore 'sidebar' is by renaming my user name
and creating user again, then copying files over from a backup.
i ran a search of internet with "ixquick", but found nothing related
directly to such.
so, i am hoping that someone on this list can supply answer.
tia.
--
peace out.
in a world with out fences, who needs gates.
sl6.3 linux
tc.hago.
g
.
10 years, 10 months
Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used.
by Rolf Turner
I have a Toshiba Satellite L850 Laptop for which the WiFi card appears
to be incompatible
with any drivers available for Linux. To try to get around this problem
I recently purchased
a USB WiFi device: An ASUS USB-N110. They (ASUS) provide drivers which
one must
install. After a great deal of travail and fumbling around (the
instructions were both unclear
--- apparently written by someone for whom English was at best a *third*
language ---
and slightly misleading) I managed to get the device *partially* working.
The device appears to work immediately after boot-up but if I close the
lid of my laptop,
(which causes it to go into hibernation (???) mode) or if I log out and
log back in,
the WiFi connection gets lost. When I try to restore the connection it
seems to keep
trying to use the WiFi card that is built into the laptop rather than
the USB WiFi device.
(And the built-in device doesn't work; as I said, its drivers are
incompatible with Linux OSes.
Which is why I bought the USN-N10 in the first place.) The only way to
get the laptop to
make use of the USB WiFi device seems to be to shut down and restart.
This is unsatisfactory.
Is there any way to "disable" the (non-functional) built-in WiFi card so
that the laptop will
*not* try to use it but will rather go straight to the (functional) USB
device? I Googled around
a bit and found some instructions for disabling the built-in WiFi card
under Ubuntu, but
these instruction did not (as far as I could tell) mesh with the Fedora
system that I am
running. Can anyone tell me how to do what I want under Fedora?
If you reply, ***PLEASE*** be as clear and explicit as you possibly
can. I am not terribly
swift with OS matters. I know and understand ***some*** things, but
there are huge
lacunae in my knowledge.
I am running Fedora 17; output of "uname -a" is:
> Linux localhost.localdomain 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 7
> 17:29:34 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thanks for any help that anyone can give me.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
10 years, 10 months
