Fedora is a Linux distribution with a fast release cycle, maintained by a community and sponsored by Red Hat.
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Is there any chance to run ClearCase Remote client under Fedora 14?
I'm using Fedora 14 as main dev-env PC and spent time of trying to setup CCRC 7.1 to my desktop. The problem is - while installation when I presses install button - nothing happens. No error message ...
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SELinux denied access
I keep receiving this message from SELinux in a bug report. I am new to Linux, running Fedora 13 and I am learning as I go. Any advice on what this might be would be appreciated.
Summary:
SELinux is ...
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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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Linux installation stops working after a few reboots
I'm trying to set up a dualboot Win8/Linux on my HP tablet (touchsmart tm2-1050ez).
However, when I'm finished setting it all up, after a few more reboots, I'm not able to boot to Linux anymore, as I ...
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Avoid very fast double clicks
I have a mouse with a strange problem. The left button sometimes fires a double click even if I click just one time.
I would like to know if there's a way to avoid fast double clicks, ignoring clicks ...
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Remove unused packages - Fedora
I have installed some rpm package on my fedora 17. Some packages had a lot of dependencies.
I have removed some packages but I forgot remove unused dependencies with yum remove.
How can I do that ...
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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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Move /var/www/ to /srv/www/ on Fedora 16
I'm learning how to configure linux, apache, php, mysql.
I followed these steps, how to set permissions for root:www-dev on the files and folders under /var/www/
Now I'd like to know how I can move ...
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Prevent non-root user from formatting a partition
Few days back I mistakenly formatted a partition on my external hard drive by clicking Format from the Context menu in Computer. I want to know that how can I prevent non-root user from being able to ...
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How should I deal with Fedora's short life cycle?
I have been using Fedora as my primary distribution since very long. One thing that "bothers" me is its relatively short life cycle. I install its latest release, restore my backup, customize the ...
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Why are PATH variables different when running via sudo and su?
On my fedora VM, when running with my user account I have /usr/local/bin in my path:
[justin@justin-fedora12 ~]$ env | grep PATH
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Globally replace Vi with Vim on Fedora
On Debian-based systems the alternatives system handles both the vi and vim executable. So if vim is installed and you execute vi, you also get vim, which I find very nice, because I absolutely hate ...
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Downgrade Gnome 3 to Gnome 2
I have installed fedora16 recently. I don't like the Gnome3 that my fedora got shipped with. I want to downgrade it to Gnome2 as i haven't used any other desktop environment before. Any knowledge ...
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How to re-enable iptables on Fedora 18?
FirewallD is the default firewall in Fedora 18. I have been using iptables for quite some time and have a custom configuration which I need for logging of ip traffic. I am not used to the new ...
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How to start a windows partition from the Grub command line?
I have Windows 7 installed on my system. After I installed Windows 7, I installed Fedora on a separate partition so that I could dual boot.
I removed Fedora by deleting the partition it was installed ...
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Can't dualboot Fedora
I have Windows XP installed on partition C, and then I installed Fedora on ext3 partition.
Now at computer startup I should see two options to select from; either launch XP or Fedora. However, my ...
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How do you get NOPASSWD sudo option to work in Fedora 15? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to run a specific program as root without a password prompt?
I installed fedora 15. I use sudo visudo to modify sudoers file and add the following line:
USERNAME ...
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Is the crazy partition layout in Fedora 15 really nessesary?
As I'm installing Fedora 15 on another computer I'm really starting to question the crazy partition layout. On this computer there's an existing Windows 7 installation, so I'm cramming Fedora right ...
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Apache won't start on Fedora 15
I can't get Apache to start on Fedora 15. I downloaded a project into /var/www/html and changed myself to the owner (recursively), though I don't think I changed any SELinux contexts or anything like ...
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How to associate the Fedora Start menu with the Windows keyboard?
I would like to associate the Start menu with the Windows key on the keyboard?
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Httpd : no space left on device
I am using Fedora 17 and over the last few days I am having an issue with my system. Whenever I try to start httpd it shows me:
Error: No space left on device
When I execute systemctl status ...
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Is it normal that Fedora's yum list kernel-* shows two versions of kernel being used?
Is it true that the following shows that two versions of the kernel are being used? (Is the bold face -- the one enclosed in ** showing what is currently loaded / used). Basically, I just created a ...
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Accidental deletion of /lib directory in Fedora 15
I accidentally deleted the /lib directory on my Fedora 15 machine and I'm not sure how to go about fixing this. Any help in figuring out how to restore the directory along with symbolic links would be ...
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Skype connects to the internet but all my web browsers can't on Fedora 15
I've recently taken the plunge and gone from Ubuntu to Fedora. When connected to my wireless network my web browsers can't access any sites although skype works fine. I don't have the problem when ...
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Oracle 11g database startup automation on Fedora 15
I successfully installed Oracle 11g on a Fedora 15 system using this guide. Unfortunately, unlike when I'm using Windows, it seems I need to restart the database every single time I reboot my machine ...
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What packages are required to install vim on Fedora?
What RPM packages are required to install vim on a recent version of Fedora?
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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 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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Fedora 18 - Start sshd on boot
I've just installed Fedora 18, and trying to configure sshd - I used chkconfig but this is only starting sshd when a user is logged in. How do I change so that sshd starts on system boot?
Thanks in ...
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No /dev/null on Fedora 17
I'm running Fedora 17 and /dev/null does not exist, why not?
Should I just create it with:
mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3
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Should I update my Fedora or not?
Here is my problem. My laptop has an NVidia Geforce 310 M graphic card. And since kernel 2.6 I had problems with the display. I had to use nomodeset option in the grub, if not my screen will be off ...
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Yum update/install to any package is giving me the following error. What actions do I need to take to overcome this?
Yum update/install to any package is giving me the following error. What actions do I need to take to overcome this?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ...
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is there any command like “wall” that runs a “command” in all terminals
as you know "wall" command sends a message to all terminals:
wall message
now my question is this: is there any command that can send a "command" to be run in all terminals?
for example sending ...
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How to install windows 7 after fedora 16
I have Fedora 16, but I want to play games, and I´m considering installing Windows 7.
I need to be able to dual boot these two OS. Is there something special I´m supposed to do, or it will work like ...
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SELinux stops Google Chrome from executing
I can no longer start Google Chrome on Fedora 14 (using GNOME).
strace
strace google-chrome
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readlink("/proc/self/exe", "/opt/google/chrome/chrome"..., 4096) = 25
socketpair(PF_FILE, ...
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Wireless troubles with Netgear WNA1100
I have a Netgear WNA1100 Wireless Adapter that I bought a few weeks ago, so its fairly new. Last night it was working perfectly. I turned my computer off for the night, came back in the morning, and ...
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After cloning Fedora 14 install to another machine, onboard NIC is seen as eth1 instead of eth0. Why?
I have the following procedure for replicating a Fedora workstation setup.
Boot from a Live CD, make tgz's of the filesystems.
Go to new machine, make filesystems, dump the tgz's in the proper ...
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Fedora won't boot. The startup progress bar goes all the way to the right and then everything just freezes
What could the problem be? How do I find out what's going on?
EDIT: Hitting f2 when the progress bar is going across the screen shows that booting stops at "Starting atd: [OK]". After it reaches that ...
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Selecting the right GRUB
I've just installed Backtrack on my harddrive (got one), i also got Fedora and Windows 7. However, now i get the Backtrack-GRUB instead of my Fedora GRUB. How do i change that? I got a sda5 containing ...
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“database disk image is malformed”
Running yum search something I get:
Error: database disk image is malformed
How to fix?
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Are packages cryptographically signed in Fedora 14?
I am installing Fedora 14 and I am wondering if
the Fedora packages are cryptographically signed
package signatures are checked by the installer by default
package signatures are checked by yum when ...
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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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Command for yum to install all packages without dependency
Is there any way for yum to install only that packages, that doesn't have any dependencies? I'm trying to install all python2 libraries. The code:
su -c 'yum install python-\*'
And I've get (ignore ...
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Fedora 17 : hotkey for terminal
Each time, if I want to use terminal, I press super key, typing terminal in search box, and enter to select terminal icon.
How can I have hotkey to open terminal. (I'm not say hotkey : control + alt ...
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dual booting centos5.5 and fedora
I already have centos5.5 on my system whose hard disk is ~500GB. I have tried to dual boot with fedora 16. while installing fedora 16 I have created a ~250GB and ~4GB partitions for "/" and swap. The ...
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Change xscreensaver lock option command
How could I change the lock option for the xscreensaver from the command line?
Been looking around and couldn't find anything about it.
xscreensaver-command -lock will lock it right away, which is ...
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How to play RTSP stream under Linux for the BOSCH AutoDome Junior HD IVA camera?
I have a AutoDome Junior HD IVA camera. How do I play RTSP stream in my Linux distro? I tried VLC but it fails. Is there any other reliable tool?
Follow up:
Try 1: fail
$ mplayer ...
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Why is my Fedora 14 install failing?
While trying to install Amahi and Fedora 14 from 5 discs, I get this error:
It says:
A fatal error occurred when installing the module-init-tools package. This could indicate errors when ...
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How to build a cross-distro binary RPM package?
I'm trying to build a cross-distro binary RPM package that works under Fedora and openSUSE. I'm using a Require: tag to set the dependencies package names. The problem is that the package names are ...
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VPN on Fedora Linux?
I'm looking to install and setup a VPN on my Linux installation which is Fedora 14. At the moment the only one I know of is OpenVPN but I'm wondering if this the best option for Fedora or if Fedora ...
