Fedora is a Linux distribution with a fast release cycle, maintained by a community and sponsored by Red Hat.
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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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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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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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How do I set my login avatar in MATE? (Fedora 17)
Plain old GNOME 2 had a panel applet which displayed your user long name. It had a menu option under which you could set an image to be a login avatar, and it appeared in the gdm display manager (aka ...
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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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How to install flash in fedora for firefox with rpm [closed]
when I installed it to this step in the official readme guide:
Installing the plugin using RPM: o As root, enter in terminal:
+ # rpm -Uvh <rpm_package_file>
+ Click Enter key and follow ...
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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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Fedora 18 guest in VirtualBox 4.2: How to assign static IPv4 address to guest regardless of active ethernet interface on host
I have a Ubuntu 13.04 host running VirtualBox 4.2.12. This host has both a wired and a wireless network interface, but only one of which would usually be active at any given time. For example, at home ...
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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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Fedora 18 not working on an HP Dv7
I've recently installed Fedora 18 on my brand new HP Dv7 that comes with Windows 8 and secure boot. Before install Fedora I disabled secure boot in the BIOS. I've installed Fedora 18 and all is ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Is it possible for sudo to read password from gnome-keyring or similar
I'm currently using sudo a lot in a bunch of scripts, which is turning into a bit of a hassle, as some scripts does not allow interactive input (e.g., Makefiles).
Instead of disabling sudo passwords ...
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Cannot install Fedora 18
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with 2.5GB RAM and 120GB HDD.
I have windows 7 and Ubuntu installed side by side.
I have another 30GB space where I want to install Fedora 18 but when I try to install ...
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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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Understanding Fedora init scripts
I have a script, which just runs infinitely updating a couple of bytes in a database and then sleeping for a few seconds each iteration. This works fine, except you should run it manually the first ...
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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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Disable repository updating in fedora
Fedora checks all repository for updating when every time i want to install some packages from yum. this is waste of time because i know they are updated!
how could i disable this checking?
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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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Cannot connect to fedora on port 80
I can't access to my local sites on a fedora machine from ubuntu. In firefox I get this error: The connection has timed out
In fedora iptables I added this line:
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp ...
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Fedora 18: Unable to connect to a WLAN network
I'm using Fedora 18 with the LXDE desktop.
I seem to be unable to connect to any WLAN network. The network manager applets seem to accept only WEP but no WPA encryption.
Am I missing something, or ...
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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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Screen content showing for a few seconds before screensaver starts (Fedora 14)
This happens every now and then, I have not pinned down the cause but let me describe the symptoms.
On occasion when I come back to the computer after a few hours the screen is in energy saving mode, ...
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Fedora16, ekiga just works in superuser mode
I've got a fedora16 running and I'd like to use ekiga as a softphone.
Now I'm running into some problems.
Starting ekiga as a normal user gives me
could not register (globally not acceptable)
...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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FC16: can't log in via LightDM or GDM (but 'startx' works fine)
I'm running Fedora Core 16 (with all patches applied as of 11 Feb 2013, AFAICT) on a dual-monitor Lenovo workstation, and can't seem to access my desktop via a graphical login manager. My system ...
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Unable to change resolution on Fedora 18 after playing Urban Terror
So I wanted to try out Urban Terror on Fedora 18. I installed it. When I click it, the screen resolution would change to a lower resolution(800x600) to play the game in full screen. Then after I've ...
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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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GUI log viewer for logs produced by Apache log4j
I'm looking for a good graphical tool for view and analyze log files (local and remote) that works on Fedora 15.
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Change screen resolution in Fedora 16
I have a Dell Inspiron 1750 installed with Fedora 16. I only have three resolutions to pick from: 1600 x 900, 1024 x 768, and 800 x 600. None of these are satisfactory for me.
How can I get more ...
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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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Fedora: System hangs after upgrade to FC18 (“started gdm”)
I've been upgrading my eee laptop from Fedora 17 to 18. After a reboot the system shows up the boot message
[ OK ] Started GNOME Display Manager.
and does not go on any further.
The system is ...
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Fedora 16: run a binary after automatic login?
I want to automatically login as root, and then run an interactive script. I am using Fedora 16.
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How can I disable the user list login screen in Gnome 3 on Fedora 16 or 17?
Our login screen requirements include a warning / disclaimer and a basic login, showing just a username and password field. Sadly, Gnome 3 seems to be ignoring the ...
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Package `varka' not found when installing Marlin of Fedora 17
I'm trying to install the Marlin file browser. I've already installed many required packages but I don't know what to do about this varka error. Here is the output from cmake (the previous step) and ...
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Installing GCC 4.5 on Fedora 16
The default GCC package available in the Fedora 16 repositories is gcc-4.6. I need to install gcc-4.5 on my system.
I downloaded the packages from the kijo repository, but when I try to install them ...
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How do I get Fedora 17 boot media to boot my laptop?
I have been using Ubuntu since Ubuntu 11.10 came out. I was very satisfied with how Ubuntu has evolved over the past few years, but now I would like to try out Fedora 17 since that has been out for a ...
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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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SELinux interfering with host/guest file sharing using KVM
I'm running Fedora 17 with KVM and the virtual machine runs okay. I tried to follow this to get access to a file on the host system but SELinux prevents the VM from accessing any files other than ...
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Port Mirroring in Fedora?
I have set up an application that listens constantly to a port for network packets, and I would like to create another one that receives the same network packets ( for use as a test bed). Getting the ...
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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.
