Updating GLib on Fedora 18?
I am trying to update Gedit on Fedora. It needed GLib, so I downloaded the .tar.xz of version 3.7.0 and installed it from source. It installed to /usr/local/lib, so I transferred the files to /usr/lib...
View Articleanaconda-19.30 passwd?
Hello! I create my own livecds with spin-kickstarts. Today I updated my system - spin-kickstarts including. After creating a new iso and starting it in VirtualBox-4.2.12, I clicked an the icon to...
View ArticleEpson V700 Sane problems
I have An Epson V700 scanner. I am scanning 120 negatives. Works well with The Epson software in WinXP and VueScan in Fedora 18.. Sane gives a small image that I don't recognize. Should be eight...
View ArticleAttempting to recover after a crash during an update
Last night I suffered a hardware based crash during an update of 19 - to make a long story short the system now boots after I reinstalled a bunch of packages via a chroot from my 18 installation. The...
View ArticleWhy aren't two consecutive posts by one member allowed?
Is this behavior in the forum to protect against spamming? I was just posting a reply in a thread, then a read another post in the thread and had a totally different comment. The forum forced my new...
View Articlewill linux ever lose the loopback interface?
I was just wondering, the "lo" interface is used by X Windows mostly, if Wayland server takes off in the future does it also use a loopback or will the "lo" interface eventually go away?
View ArticleFedup-Network 18
I am trying to upgrade from f17 to f18 using fedup. I am getting this error in the *.log file: " fedup-cli --network 18 --debuglog fedupdebug.log setting up repos... getting boot images... Downloading...
View ArticleHow do I install Eve-Online
I am looking for a step by step on how to get Eve-Online working. They used to support a linux version but gave that up and produced a Mac version now..anyway, i am blabbering here. I have looked on...
View Articlemount bug with sd cards
When I move files from an sd card from my camera to my pc, as soon as the os sees a file it doesn't like, it makes the sd card read only and every file after that is left on the card. I found a...
View ArticleCopying to USB
Whenever I try to copy a file to a USB stick, the progress freezes at a random point and the copy process seems to hang - rest of the system works fine. When I look at the system monitor 2 sometimes 3...
View ArticleBeginner questions about GCC and target platforms
Hi guys I started to read about C++ and I'm planning to get into it soon I have programming background from VB.NET so it is not an issue for me to start with C++ My problem is about GCC and the target...
View ArticleKernel panic while booting after upgrade via yum
I had a 3.8.11 kernel which I upgraded to 3.9.2 with yum and my laptop would not boot with the new kernel. So I would boot with the old 3.8.11 kernel and waited for a newer kernel to become available,...
View Articledev/video0 not found
Apparently, my inbuilt web camera isn't functioning at all. It doesn't work with any of the softwares having video input like cheese. This is because dev/video0 is not found at all lsusb returns the...
View Articlecan not get to the log in screen
Help i have never ever used any linux os, but i have fadora on my other laptop. i did not install it on the laptop it was done by a now ex friend (long story) but when i got the laptop back he had...
View Article[SOLVED] Please, show your grub.cfg for latest Fedora kernel
Just need to save some time :-) have no fedora installation
View ArticleToshiba Satellite A100-85 Fn keys not working
Hello, I have a relatively old Toshiba Satellite model, around 2006 y., my Fn keys are not working. Any info if it will be possible to enable the Fn key? dmesg tells me that the model is not supported,...
View Articleipsec, l2tp & resvolv.conf
Hi all, I'm able to connect but I need edit /etc/resolv.conf file to add DNS servers. The same configuration in Debian or Ubuntu adds DNS servers automatically to resolv.conf file. It could be related...
View ArticleNO CD or DVD installation???
All of the documentation on installation starts off with a CD or DVD that you boot from. Many years ago, I did Sun (pre Solaris) installations booting from a local SCSI tape and then doing a true...
View ArticlePidora name and the Russian speaking Linux comunity
Hi everyone, On a side note. Im glad there is also a recent version of fedora on raspberry pi. Which means i can run Fedora flavour on the RPi if i like. And this means also more presense of RH on...
View ArticleCatalyst driver
Hello, unfortunately my APU (AMD A4-5300) doesn't like the open source radeon driver, instead I have to use the proprietary catalayst driver. In Fedora 18 I just could install the proprietary driver...
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