trying to move extents from drive with bad sectors
I have an LVM with three drives. One of those drives has two bad sectors (as reported by smartd), and whenever the system tries to access them, I get media errors in the syslog. Other than that, the...
View ArticleATI HD2400 problem after kernel upgrade
My laptop graphic card had a problem since kernel 3.4 upgrade. With kernel 3.3 is all ok. This is a part of /var/log/messages Code: Oct 20 21:08:43 portatilone kernel: [ 1.638002] [drm] Initialized...
View Articlehow to choose user for a program that launch at boot ?
hello. i have instaled an asterisk server and i have make it launch on the boot with the commande chkconfig asterisk on so i have : Code: Note: This output shows SysV services only and does not include...
View ArticleWill Windows 8 resemble Gnome 3 ?
Will Windows 8 resemble Gnome 3? I don't have any Windows computers and I don't use Gnome 3. However, I read a short preview of Windows 8 and it reminded me of my attempts to use Gnome 3.
View ArticleRepositories
I am just curious as to whether the repositories are down because I have reloaded F16 after having F17 but I cannot download from the repositories . I keep getting Error 404 . The correct supositories...
View ArticleHow do I install a makefile?
I'm a complete beginner to Fedora - I have moved from Mint, which I only used for about a month. Makefiles confused the hell out of me there too. I have a .tar.gz file that I would like to install on...
View ArticleNeed help, SD Card USB adapter only works sometimes with F16/F17
I have 2 computers (one with F16 one with F17) and I am having the same problem on both computers. I bought 2 different SD card readers so I can plug my cameras 128mb card in and download my pictures....
View ArticleKDE: mouse pointer randomly disappears
As the title says, the mouse pointer disappears at random. This happens more often when the mouse is over an application that has more interactive controls (such as browser) and less often when over an...
View Articlehow do you disable the 'confirm close tabs' dialog in Firefox
I have Firefox 16 and really don't want the "confirm close tabs" prompt when I close multiple tabs. I want to close as many tabs as I want and not be asked about it. I found the property in...
View ArticleWifi Drops Randomly
HI I have installed F17 on a new Acer Laptop that belongs to my wife. Release 17 (BeefyMiracle) 64-bit Kernel Linux 3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64 GNOME 3.4.2. At what appears to be random times the Wifi...
View ArticlePlasma desktop. Last change broke my favourite desktop theme
Hello. The last change in Plasma desktop broke something in the Ghost theme. Particularly, it seems to add an animation on window maximization, and the title bar is misplaced after playing the...
View Articlehtaccess does not work!
hi every one I'm php developer and i just installed xampp . but in my directories that i put my scripts files into (/var/www/html/...), .htaccess files does not word! why? what should i do? Regards
View ArticleWhat is command to setup sofware in redhat over internet
Hi all, I setup redhat in VMware and I connected to internet, so I want setup sofware for redhat over internet what is command I used ? Are you understand my question, my ability of english is not...
View Article"Error getting tty num" following latest systemd update
hi. i use the following script to start xbmc on my fc17 server : Code: [Unit] Description = Starts instance of XBMC After = syslog.target [Service] User = xbmc Group = xbmc Type = simple ExecStart =...
View Articlegnome 3 screensaver (not suspend) resume hook?
Since whenever my laptop screen resumes sleeping (i.e. wakes up from screensaving) some settings are reset, such as keyboard backlight, I'd like to run some scripts each time this happens. I'm using...
View ArticlePlasma desktop. Desktop effects doesn't save configuration
Hello. As the title line says. When I set rendering to be done via OpenGL (as opposed to XRenderer), the configuration is not saved. The next time the system starts, it is set back to XRenderer (a...
View Articleyum update fails: pluma-1.4.0-0101.fc16.x86_64.rpm is not signed
I have installed Mate Desktop and it is an alternative desktop for me in Fedora 16. Last week I tried to update some packages in yum and the update for all packages failed due to the failure of this...
View ArticleError installing update. Unetbootin related
Hi people. I have installed Unetbootin from source. Trying to install a update I get this error: Code: Test Transaction Errors: file /usr/share/applications/unetbootin.desktop from install of...
View ArticleHow do I install Oracle DBMS on Fedora17, 32 bit
Hi! I want to install Oracle DBMS on localhost. I want to use a command line client to test and run SQL queries to learn. Is someone kindly help me to install Oracle DBMS on localhost? I use Fedora 17...
View ArticleFedora 17 : Cannot open font file True
I have met a very frustrating problem. I have fixed whole day but still cannot. Each time I login to Fedora 17, no GUI, just a console and notice this error : "Cannot open font file True". I have done...
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