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Cannot boot Fedora Linux
I cannot boot the operating system on my laptop. I have three versions of the kernel installed and none of them will boot.
Booting into Windows (installed in a separate partition) still works, so I ...
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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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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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Attempting to boot from Windows 7 Live CD on external HDD, PC ignores it and goes to GRUB
I apologize if this is the wrong location, but it seemed the most applicable.
I run Fedora 18 and Windows 7 dual booted. I just put a Windows 7 64 bit SP 1 live CD onto an external HDD, formatted ...
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Window buttons (minimize, maximaze, close) are not visible in Xfce
Everytime I start my laptop my GUI is "broken" - windows don'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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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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what is `firewalld --nofork`
I carelessly killed the following process
root 470 1 0 Jun06 ? 00:00:13 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork
Is there any consequence from killing the process?
Are there ...
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SSH tunneling: connect_to localhost port 22: failed
I want to connect from my computer to a remote computer using a middle server(u port forwarding). I run this command on remote computer:
ssh -R 9300:localhost:22 user@middleserver
and this one on ...
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Pam Modules in eclipse [migrated]
I wanted to create a Pam module. I am using Eclipse as my IDE, and making the pam module in C/C++.
When I tried to include the 2 pam modules needed
#include <security/pam_modules.h>
#include ...
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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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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 are:
Host Driver:Windows DirectSound
Controller:ICH AC97
How can I solve ...
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./configure: line 2178 config.log permission denied [migrated]
I want to install a library libevent . I forgot to su root and run ./configure under my user acount esolve. Then I notice there are errors after running make install with esolve.
My root can't modify ...
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Avoid very fast double clicks
I have a mouse with a weird 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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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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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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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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Add another IP address to a Bonding Interface
I have a Linux network Bonding interface for two Ethernet interfaces (eth0 and eth1)
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
DEVICE=bond0
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
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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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LibreOffice from RPM looks ugly
I'm using x86-64 Fedora 18 (my desktop is KDE), that ships with LibreOffice 3.6. I wanted to install LibreOffice 4.0, thus I installed the RPMs (from here). It works, but looks ugly. Compare:
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Fedora over-current condition on port 1
When I boot up my Fedora 18, I got this message > [1.817675] hub 2-1:1-0: over-current condition on port 1 shown on the screen. Right after the Fedora logo disappear, and it is not yet boot into ...
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Gnome 3 “Oh no!” error on login [closed]
On Fedora 17, after instaling the Java runtime and (L)AMP (I do not think it is even related, I didn't restart for quite a while) and restart and login the "Oh no! Something went wrong." message ...
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Apple Bluetooth Keyboard
I have an Apple bluetooth keyboard and want to use it with Fedora 15.
I turn on the bluetooth on the both devices. Click 'Setup new device' via Gnome3's GUI. The computer detects the keyboard but it ...
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Network file-sharing between Linux and Android
I want to share the contents of my external HDD with my Android phone.
For the last two hours, I've been trying to correctly set up Samba - it was absolutely horrible.
There must be another, simpler ...
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Fedora 15 Crash after xorg.conf file update
I updated my xorg.conf file looking to set up a dual screen system. Unfortunately, I can't provide you this file because when I went to reboot my system crashed.
The last line I get when I try to ...
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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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ssh localhost without password doesn't work on Fedora 14
I performed:
$ ssh-keygen -t dsa -P '' -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
then in /etc/ssh/sshd_config changed StrictModes to no and restarted sshd.
And I ...
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how to stop Clementine playback on suspend using systemd
As the title says, I'm trying to stop Clementine playback using DBus before entering suspend mode. Here is my service file right now:
[Unit]
Description=Stop Clementine playback before suspend
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Can not get a VNC Remote session to Gnome 3.6.2 with Fedora 18
I have installed Fedora 18 with Gnome desktop and installed tigervnc-server. This same setup has worked fine with several other computers with Fedora 17, allowing me to do remote connections with ...
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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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Set dual screen on Fedora
I would like to set dual screen mode on my Fedora 18 XFCE (what I mean is that I want to be able to display different content on every screen). Currently my screens shows the same, i.e. the secondary ...
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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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asound.conf file is corrupted does not allow the play with the correct sound card as a result it keeps failing
I have this following asound.conf file, but when i play $ speaker-test it fails. How can you tell asound.conf that each and every time on restart of pc also use this sound card only?
"card 2: PCH ...
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Cannot load font true and no console access in Fedora
When I boot Fedora 17 this error appears:
Cannot open font file True
I found this question Cannot open font file True, but the person who faced the problem in that question can access the console. ...
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Installing Fedora on VMWare error: CPU disabled by guest operating system
When I try to install Fedora 16 on VMWare I'm getting the error CPU has been disabled by guest operating system. Any clues?
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axelget, yum and crccheck failed
I want to increase my download speed with yum and finally found a solution (axelget) that works fine at the beginning. But after one time work, I get an error and I cannot use it any more because of ...
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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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Is floating-point arithmetic distro dependant?
I came across an article in Ars Technica about Raspbian that said the primary interest of the developers of it was that they wanted an OS with fully optimized for its floating-point unit, and since ...
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Autofs home folders from solaris 11
I'm having trouble since 2 days with autofs.
I have a Solaris 11 Server.
There I share the folder /export/home with the following command:
share -o rw -d „Freigabe von /export/home“ /export/home
My ...
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Intel 87524 e1000e driver “Link Detected: no” but rx interrupts continue to increase
I am using 3.4.43 linux kernel with Fedora 14 and 82574L Intel NIC with two ports, one of the ports has hardware timestamping support for PTP. And I have installed the latest 2.3.2-NAPI e1000e driver. ...
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Kernelpanic Fedora 18 with kernel 3.9.2-200
Since upgrading to kernel 3.9 I now get this error every time at start up:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereferences at (null)
IP[<ffff8800ca93bfcd>] 0xffff8800ca93bfcc
PGD 0
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How to suspend from Gnome3 using systemd
Brief background information: I just installed Fedora 18 with Gnome 3.6.3.1 on my computer. It is connected to a Windows share (CIFS) containing music, which I play using Clementine. If I suspend the ...
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Unable to launch Fedora 18 LiveCD using USB device
I just bought a new motherboard which has BIOS and UEFI. I have a previously working LiveCD installed on my usb, created with LiveUSB Creator. I tried using it to boot but got stuck at the grub ...
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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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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 ...
