Fedora is a Linux distribution with a fast release cycle, maintained by a community and sponsored by Red Hat.
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vsftpd invalid download on fedora 18
I am setting up my linux box running fedora 18, and now need to install vsftpd, however when I try:
Yum install vsftpd
I receive an error, where it cycles through a couple dozen mirrors, attempts ...
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Unable to Boot into F17
I was currently running Win8 and F17 as a dual boot on my home desktop with an i5 chip and Asus UEFI BIOS. Unfortunately, while I was in Win8 I accidentally removed the partition that held my F17 OS.
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Can anyone decipher this kernel stack trace? I think it's hardware, but
May 14 02:40:59 cerberus kernel: [480872.848991] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
May 14 02:40:59 cerberus kernel: [480872.849015] IP: [] ...
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Debian's ReportBug equivalent on Fedora/Gnome?
When I was using Debian, there was a tool called "ReportBug" - or something like that.
Ironically, the tool itself was probably the buggiest program I have ever used. I was never, ever actually able ...
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What is the prefered way of updating all software in a Fedora installation?
When I install some system, I usually look for a bulk update method, one that will update my recently-installed software.
For example, in Debian, that would be changing the sources.list to point to ...
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Missing “version.h” when installing fglrx
I have downloaded the fglrx driver installer from the ATI drivers page.
when I start the installation, everything goes smoothly until I hit an error message, telling me to check ...
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Polish chars in gedit (Fedora 18)
I locked my Fedora18 computer (set to Polish). Later I couldn't log in (password was accepted, but I didn't see my desktop). I used pkill -KILL -u tymon command in root mode (Ctrl+Alt+f2).
After ...
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How I should load file with setkey -f
I would like to load a text on Fedora. I use this command:
setkey -f "name"
but the file cannot be found. I have the file on my desktop.
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Trying to install fedora 19 beta TC3 (lxde spin) in virtualbox
I am trying to install fedora 19 beta TC3 (lxde spin), iso image from here:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Beta-TC3/Live/x86_64/
I have virtualbox running in my Lubuntu 13.04 raring ...
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Firewalld SELinux
Is there any way to better explanation firewall-cmd than the one given in Fedora18 wiki.
I am trying to convert iptables to FirewallD in cmd line without GUI but cannot find a decent example or ...
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How can I get Fedora and Opensuse server edition?
I want to get server edition for Fedora and Opensuse. I've visited their respective sites, but there is no specific server edition in the download section. So how can I get the server edition for ...
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Is there something like easy ubuntu for Fedora 18 (to install common non-free software)
I have just installed fedora 18 on my laptop. It is my home machine, so I will be using it for multimedia and similar things.
Having come from Linux Mint, I realize thee is a lot of non-free stuff ...
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How to make RHEL 6 to boot in Text-mode?
I am using RHEL 6.4 on a HP-Z620 Workstation.Whenever this machine starts up, it comes up with Graphics Mode e.g. Splash Screen,Red Hat Logo etc.
But I want my machine to start in Text Mode.
e.g. I ...
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Why is Gnome Shell sending data over my wireless network?
I have been checking which processes under my Fedora Linux 18 are using my upload bandwidth and I occasionally see that Gnome Shell is one of them. Why should it be sending data over my wireless ...
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Turning off gnome's Function key mapping
I recently upgraded to Fedora 18 with gnome. My function keys started to do things like open the cd player (F12) and turn the volume up (F11) and down (F10). I'd like to just pass those though to the ...
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Upgrade MySQL 5.0.88 to 5.1.69
I am upgrading my MySQL installation on a Fedora 10 (and 14) box (in test first.) I have made a system image (it is a VM) and have downloaded MySQL Server Community 5.1.69-1 from the MySQL site.
Once ...
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I can not get my Realtek 8723 driver source compiled
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13. WLAN won't work out of box with fedora 18. So I googled around and found this 2 links:
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Fedora won't boot after installing Nvidia drivers
I followed this tutorial about Nvidia drivers installation and I accidentally forget to do 5th point (disabling nouveau drivers), so now I can't boot my system. I know I am idiot but is there anything ...
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What's the best way to have a 169.254.169.254 address local to my laptop?
I want to emulate the Amazon EC2 metadata service on my local system for testing. In EC2, this runs on 169.254.169.254. I understand that this is the designated range for pseudorandom local addresses ...
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Getting xmonad and gnome-panel working with Fedora 18
I have been using fedora 18 lately and trying to get xmonad working with gnome-panel. On my ubuntu and kali installations this works perfectly fine, but in fedora I have yet to get gnome-panels to ...
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Fedora 18. Centering activities on one monitor
I've recently installed Fedora 18 and the only gripe I have so far is that everything is spread between two monitors. Example: The date is currently half on one monitor, half on the other. I get 'Thu ...
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Creating an Alias to Loopback Interface with an Arbitrary Name
I have an odd problem that seems simple enough but has evaded me thus far. I am attempting to support a legacy application that has a hard-coded ethernet device name ("eth0"). This hard-coding, I am ...
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Bind cannot start
Sorry I'm a newbie, I have installed Fedora 12, Bind DNS and others features. Also I'm using webmin.
Several times it can work normally, but now I have to make changes in DNS record (actually I ...
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Fedora 18: can't resolve hosts
My Fedora 18 machine is having problems with resolving hosts:
Could not resolve host: ...; No address associated with hostname]
HTTP error on [https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens], ...
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set up local mail delivery to user from cron script
A line in my cron.daily script not work as expected. I haven't any special smtp mail server in system,
this line
rsync -avun --inplace /oneuser/file.xls /otheruser/file.xls| mail -s "$0 $?"
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Enable remote desktop for Gnome from command line?
I am trying to set up some automation scripts to set up a Linux environment. I would like to enable remote desktop sharing without the user having to actually use the GUI to do so. My plan is to write ...
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how to download fedora 19 alpha release cadidate (or test composite) (spin lxde) iso image?
This should have been an easy google search, but I cannot find any iso images!
The title says what I am searching for.
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How to determine which module taints the kernel?
My kernel keeps panicking when connected to a certain wireless network. I'd like to send a bug report but my kernel is apparently tainted. From /var/log/messages:
Apr 17 21:28:22 Eiger kernel: ...
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Can't start vsftpd on Fedora
I have installed vsftpd on my new Eee pc with Fedora 18:
sudo yum install vsftpd
How is it? :
systemctl is-active vsftpd.service
and got
failed
Then
systemctl status vsftpd.service
got
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Chroot in to reinstall Grub2 reinstall, mnt/ is empty
I have a common problem: I installed Fedora 18 on my PC that has Windows on it. When I start the PC I don't get asked which system I want to boot, Windows is chosen always.
So I found out that I ...
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Which is the default/prefered compiler in F18?
I am having trouble trouble finding an installed by default compiler on Fedora18. Where is it?
If strangely no compiler is included in the core distribution, is there a preferred compiler for casual ...
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Network has been disable after update on Fedora 17
I am having some technical problem on Fedora network. After I have done the update on my Fedora 17, I notice that the desktop GUI theme has been revert back to Gnome 2 (existing one is Gnome 3) and my ...
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Spotty wireless with Fedora
I have this Toshiba laptop I started poking around trying to find out why it quits out so often and is just so bad. This guy seems to have the same problem with the fact that it works perfect in ...
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issues booting Ubuntu [Firmware Bug ] : ACPI _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
I am running into an issue booting Linux on a new machine. I started with Ubuntu Server edition. I completed the initial setup via an ISO image, however when the machine restarted and went to load ...
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Flash audio streams do not work on my Fedora 18
I have Fedora 18, where I've installed flash and youtube.com works right. I cannot listen though to audio streams available via flash players, like soundcloud for example. Some do not load at all, ...
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How do I install Fedora 18 without SELinux?
How can I install Fedora 18 without SELinux ever being part of the installation? I don't want to just disable SELinux after it's installed, I want to never install SELinux at all. Is there a way to do ...
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Fedora 18 Live CD is hanging on boot
When I boot up Fedora 18 (Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso) in a Virtual Machine, I just get this screen:
I've verified the SHA sum, and I've tried starting it up in "basic graphics mode", yet I ...
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no sound in fedora 18
I installed Fedora 18 Xfce Spin as a guest operating system on VirtualBox.It has no sound.
The operating system settings like that;
-Host Driver:Windows DirectSound
-Controller:ICH AC97
How to ...
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luksOpen: No key available with this passphrase
I've created a encrypted volume with LUKS at home and was looking to use it at work too. Unfortunately, that's not possible. Whyever, I'm unable to access the encrypted data on any other computer than ...
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Strange behavior in mv command - maybe open sys call issue?
I'm noticing very strange behavior from the "mv" command that may (or may not) be related to the "open" system call. We're running RedHat v5. There are two separate storage devices, one mounted to ...
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Bluestacks on Linux Fedora
I am trying to use Bluestacks for running Android application on my Linux Fedora using Wine.
I tried wine BlueStacks-SplitInstaller_native.exe from terminal. It gave me Install Mono for Windows to ...
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Running a Script as Soon as a Network Interface is Detected as Active
I was just wondering if it was possible to run a script as soon as a test to see if a network interface is up (like a ping or something)? I think it would be pretty awesome to update my yum when I ...
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About ncurses header file [closed]
I' running Fedora 15 (32-bit). But I can`t compile and run an ncurses program. Also, colours are not working in the terminal. What can I do to fix this?
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Window buttons (minimize, maximaze, close) are not visible in Xfce
Everytime I start my laptop my GUI is "broken" - windows doesn't have the top border with close, minimize and maximize buttons. I know I can run xfwm4 --daemon but it is really bothering to do that on ...
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Shortcuts in Xfce are not working anymore
After few weeks of using Xfce I suddenly ran into following problem - my keyboard shortcuts are not working when I am using two monitors (actually one monitor and notebook itself).
When I unplug ...
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Automate modprobe command at boot time on Fedora
My distribution is Fedora 17 Gnome.
Every time I reboot/restart my computer I need to run this command as root:
modprobe rt2800usb
How can I make it permanent?
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“Error getting identity: Forbidden” when trying to add Google account to fedora online-accounts
I am using fedora 18 32 bit and wanted to add my google account through its gnome online account.
I click on "Online Accounts" and then enter my Google username and password.
I have enabled 2 step ...
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Adjust mouse wheel sensitivity in Fedora / Gnome
Short Question
Is there a way to adjust the mouse wheel scroll sensitivity in Fedora 18?
Long Question
I'm running Fedora 18, with the standard Gnome desktop. I use a Logitech M705 mouse with the ...
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How to set clang++ as the c++ compiler?
I'm trying to set clang++ as the system C++ compiler on Fedora 18. I have installed clang and added it to alternatives but it doesn't appear to be working.
[user@localhost ~]$ alternatives --display ...
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How to boot on Fedora 18 (Grub2)
I have Fedora 18 and Windows 7 on my laptop.
I had grub2 bootloader and the default is been set to windows 7.
After I turn on my laptop it just automatically boots into windows 7.
Now I want to set ...
