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Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Addtions on Fedora 64bit LXDE
I'm Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora 64bit LXDE, the first couple of Linux virtual machines I setup I had no problems with guest additions, but I had to throw them again because ...
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How to enable OpenGL rendering on Fedora 18 with an Intel Corporation 82852/855GM?
On an older laptop that runs Fedora 18, and has a Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device, I cannot get OpenGL to run on it.
In fact, I have no 3D acceleration whatsoever.
I have ...
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Vino on Gnome DE Fedora 18 listening on 0.0.0.0
Listening IPv4://0.0.0.0:5900
After a bit of searching I found this in an error log somewhere. I appreciate the vagueness of this but how do I configure the ip vino should be listening on?
also I ...
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How can you tell if GStreamer plugins are installed correctly
I've installed GStreamer plugins for Fedora 14 using yum. However, when running a qt-phonon application with the GStreamer backend, I get the error
"Warning: You do not seem to have the base ...
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Trying customize Fedora rescue image - how do I go about this?
Most of what I've found on this involves changing install discs - which I don't really need. I just want to install a handful of extra packages and maybe some helpful scripts onto the Fedora rescue ...
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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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How to get the latest gnome shell in fedora?
I want to try gnome-shell 3.5 but I dont see it in the repos, I'm using fedora 17, is there any way adding gnome-shell 3.5 to my repos?
Regards
Update:
please note the question was asked on aug ...
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Unable to get graphics to work on a Fedora 17 on a Intel Atom board
I have a Intel N2800 motherboard with the PoverVR Cedar Trail GPU. It seemed that it was not possible to make it work other than using some meego kernel patch that works on a specific kernel version. ...
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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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Trouble installing or booting into Ubuntu or Fedora using a live USB or DVD on a new Lenovo E31
I've tried a live USB with Ubuntu 12.04.1 (both i386 and AMD 64-bit) as well as 11.10, as well as Ubuntu 10.04 on a DVD and Fedora 17 on a live USB. In all cases, selecting the option to boot into ...
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How to Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 Remotely via SSH
I followed this https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18 guide to upgrade my Fedora 17 to 18.
All was fine until I issued su -c 'yum --releasever=18 ...
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Slow response time with Gnome shell in Virtualbox fullscreen mode
Today I installed Fedora 15 in a VBox VM to try out Gnome 3. After installing the guest extensions almost everything works fine. Except for the slow response time in fullscreen mode (HOST+F).
By that ...
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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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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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Fedora 17 Xorg fails to start on boot
My Fedora 17 installation is no longer booting into X : it finished loading the boot screen, then the cursor turns into an "X", flashes a quickly a few times then the just stalls.
To get X to load, I ...
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Copy files from source machine to LiveCD
I'm working on distributing a version of Fedora to our internal development team using Live CD. There are certain files I would like to copy to the live cd that are not:
part of an RPM or
going to ...
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Reset Nautilus “Computer” folder list
In my setup I tend to symlink major user folders in Linux to their Windows equivalents, IE Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc. Usually I make sure nautilus isn't running before I do it and ...
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What is the default font for Grub in Ubuntu and Fedora?
I was wondering what the name of the font is for the grub set by default after installation in Ubuntu and Fedora (they are different ones). Any help would be great!
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Low sound volume on Lenovo T520 under Fedora 16
I'm having trouble hearing anything at all under Fedora 16 on this Lenovo T520. Everything in alsamixer is at 100% (both pulseaudio and card). I installed Windows 7 on the laptop to check if the same ...
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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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Wine/PoL giving numerous errors in Fedora 17
I've been trying to run a handful of indy games for Windows on my laptop through Wine, but got a bunch of errors along the lines of:
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/jude/.wine'
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Pidgin will not disable the notifications
I'm using Pidgin 2.10.0-1.fc14 and libpurple 2.10.0. I have completely disabled all the notifications from Plugins: Libnotify Popups and Message Notifications.
The problem is it still notifies every ...
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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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Do any openldap tools support the Authorization Identity Response Control?
I have a fedora 389 directory server and cannot use ldapwhoami because it is not supported.
However, 389-ds does support the following controls which are supposed to offer similar functionality:
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Console port problems on Fedora 15
I've looked under every search term on google I can think of and can't seem to find anything that works.
I just switched from Windows 7 to Fedora 15 on my PC. I need use of the console port to ...
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Fedora 18 Virtualbox Resolution Guest Additions
I've installed Fedora 18 64bit guest into a Virtualbox VM running on a Max OSX host. Previously I've installed Fedora 17 and after installing guest additions from the rpm fusion repo full screen mode ...
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Broadcom wireless card in with Fedora 16
I just installed Fedora as a dual-boot (other OS in Win7) on my Dell Inspiron 1750 and, of course, the wireless card is missing firmware.
The wireless card is called Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN ...
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Having trouble with packets not making it into Fedora 16 Apache
Background: I haven't done anything with iptables in a few years... I have Fedora 16 running in a VM on VMWare, with my firewall (TomatoUSB) port forwarding to the VM.
VM is at 192.168.1.155. I know ...
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Dell battery performs worse under linux?
I have recently bought a Dell XPS Touch. I'm dual booting Windows 7 with Fedora 16 (Verne). Right out of the box, Fedora reports 1 hour 26 minutes of battery life at full charge, while Windows reports ...
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Low battery freezes laptop
I have a laptop Lenovo G575. MS Windows works without any problems on it, but with Linux, it freezes during login or up to 10 minutes after power on. I have tried Ubuntu, Fedora 15 and 16, Fedora 16 ...
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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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Fedora session / process startup issues
I've installed fedora 16 with lxde(xfce) desktop. My problem is that when I login into the system, it gives me redundant app startup, for instance it launches Installation manager, also I've noticed ...
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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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My Google Chrome profile can't open correctly
When i open Google Chrome ( Stable version ) i get dialogue box it say :
"Your profile could not be opened correctly. Some features may be unavailable. Please check that the profile exists and you ...
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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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Fedora 17 Grub not finding Windows 8
I had Windows 8 installed, shrunk it and installed Fedora 17 using the free space. It now only boots into Fedora.
I have these two EFI partitions:
/dev/sda2
/EFI
/Boot/bootx64.efi
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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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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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How do font managers work in Fedora?
I am looking to do some font management on my Fedora system. I have installed both Font Manager and Fontmatrix. My goal was to be able to have more fonts installed than I wanted displayed, and to be ...
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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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Fedora-GRUB in Mint
I want to install the GRUB2-Layout of Fedora in Mint.
(I'm a new user, so I can't upload images. :( The image is here: http://ryanlerch.fedorapeople.org/Selection_045.png)
Does anybody know, how I ...
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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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How to find the best monitor resolution and put it to work? Fedora
In this question I'm asking how to install a compatible driver to a Fedora machine, but, the main problem is a bad resolution.
So, how can I find the best resolution to my monitor and put it to work?
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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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Fedora 18 safe remove usb drive
How can I safe remove a usb drive from the Gnome 3.6.2 GUI? This feature used to be available in the past (up to 16, I haven't used 17) from the Desktop and Computer tab in nautilus.
The eject arrow ...
