Fedora 18 - VMWare Tools Installation.
I had troubles installing VMware Tools 9 (VMware workstation) on Fedora 18. The VMware tools installer was complaining that the kernel-headers path was "", and I could not continue. However, I had...
View Articlewebcam installation
Hi. I have Fedora 18 x86, KDE 4.9.5, 3.7.2-204 kernel. I'm tring to install a Trust WB-3320X webcam. How can I do this..? Also I have another problem: when Fedora starts with the webcam attached, it...
View Articlenew version of KTorrent
Hi. I have Fedora 18 x86, KDE 4.9.5, 3.7.2-204 kernel. I noticed that a new version of Ktorrent (4.3.1) has been released (for some time) which solves a few bugs. But I don't see Ktorrent in...
View Articleblack screen after kernel update
recently I have downloaded updates for my fedora 18 x86_64 installation and one of them was a kernel update. if I try to boot new kernel from grub menu it stalls at a black screen and I have to hard...
View Articlecan not start HeartBeat
Hello, i installed heartbeat on a Rhel-6u3 x86_64 and i need some help to make it start: [root@Maia ~]# rpm -qa | grep heartbeat heartbeat-libs-3.0.4-1.el6.x86_64 heartbeat-devel-3.0.4-1.el6.i686...
View Articlefuser crashed desktop, changed some things
FC17 x86_64 KDE spin with all patches up to date. Very stable system. Tonight I had mounted a MicroSD card via a new Vivitar USB CardReader dongle. Apparently the card is munged - threw a lot of...
View ArticleF-18 Grub borked, how to fix?
Evidently I had some kind of failure during the installation of fedora 18. Grub2 was evidently not completely installed. I was able to mostly fix things by doing a grub2-install followed by a...
View ArticleGnome hangs with NVidia driver in F18
I'm attempting to install F18 to my old Dell Dimension 4100 computer. With a fresh install, the gnome desktop appears with a display that is unreadable. The system responds to commands, but the...
View ArticleFedora 18 insists on reforamtting /home partition
I have been preserving my /home partition in my last 5 fedora upgrade. So I always find me home directory intact. Only do I bother with is reinstalling the packages using yum install. But the new...
View ArticleApache user:group (should I?)
hey everyone, I'm using wordpress and it says that I need ownership of the files in there in order to edit them in the included editor. As such, I would have to change ownership to apache since that's...
View ArticleNetwork simulator with gui for fedora 17
Hi all, Is there a network simulator with GUI that can be used with fedora 17. I have used ns2 but it is purely command line. Regards Ehsan
View ArticleChange user permission for /
I want to change the permision of userx for all directory / But how to do that? I want to remove write and execute rights. Code: chmod -R 764 /* This way I give other users only read permission, but...
View ArticleF18: LibreOffice Can't save files.
After Fedup from F17, LibreOffice in my new F18 box can not save any files I have edited, and can't even open some files that on the disk.
View ArticleKeyboard options greyed out on Fedora 18 Gnome 3.6 Alt Button wont work.
Hi all. Going a little nuts over a small issue ... For the life of me I can't seem to enable the keyboard options button in > System Settings > Region & Language > Input Sources. (the...
View ArticleF18: Driver works in live cd but not in installed version
Hi, I'm not sure if this is related to "hardware" or not. So plz correct me. I had a working copy of fedora 17, and I tried to upgrade it fedora 18. In live cd mode all the prepherials (kernel modules)...
View ArticleF18 SMB autorization dialogue
Never used to be asked to enter authorization information to mount shared folders on the same desktop, but with F18 I do, even though the smb.conf is identical to the one I had on F17. Can mount shared...
View Articledracut shell after grub fixing
After booting Windows in Recovery Mode, my bootloader disappeared. I tried a lot to finally fix it "somehow", here's how - I booted to Fedora 17 Live and in terminal: Code: su install -d /mnt/image...
View Articlefedora 18 installation with liveUSB over fedora 19rh
I just want to install fedora 18 on an install of fedora 19 rawhide via liveUSB but that error occures. can anybody tell me, what that error means (the errors longer but heres not enough space)ü? Code:...
View ArticleF18 Google Chrome Crashing
Clean install of Fedora 18. I installed google-chrome-stable-24.0.1312.52-175374.x86_64 and whenever I launch google-chrome it restarts my X session and takes me back to KDM. I tried using unstable...
View Articlecant boot the upgrade kernel
Situation: F14 -> F16 update via preupgrade. All files are downloaded and the grubmenu is changed to include the upgrade temp kernel. Problem1: Booting the upgrade kernel will just provide you a...
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