Fedora is a Linux distribution with a fast release cycle, maintained by a community and sponsored by Red Hat.
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Recovering deleted files on fedora
I accidentally deleted a file from my laptop. I'm using Fedora. Is it possible to recover the file?
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How can I remove Orphan Packages in Fedora?
I just switched from Ubuntu to Fedora14. In Ubuntu we had the apt-get autoremove thing to remove orphan/unused packages. What is the counterpart in Fedora?
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Fedora 17 Freezes on Boot
I have been having issues with Fedora 17 not booting after the latest round of updates. I am able to enter the pass for my disk encryption, the boot logo acts normally but after the animation is ...
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How do you implement a login warning banner in Gnome 3?
This question documents how we used to inflict the mandatory login banners required on our Linux machines at work. Unfortunately, this procedure is no longer effective with Gnome 3 in Fedora 15, 16 or ...
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Create services in Linux (Start up in linux)
I need one process run before log in to system. how to run it like services?(how do I make services in Linux?)
in Ubuntu and Fedora ?
the service is customized tomcat
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How to find out which package a file belongs to?
In the Debian family of OSes, dpkg --search /bin/ls gives:
coreutils: /bin/ls
That is, the file /bin/ls belongs to the Debian package named coreutils. (see this post if you are interested in a ...
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What is the proper sudoers syntax to add a user?
According to the comments in /etc/sudoers (Fedora 13):
## Syntax:
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## user MACHINE=COMMANDS
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## The COMMANDS section may have other options added to it.
My two related questions:
What ...
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Multiple SSH chaining (tsocks, socksify, proxycommand, etc. )
http://i.stack.imgur.com/YTOvt.png
Goal: you need to reach "Server B" from the Client "directly" with SSH, SCP.
"Server B" is next to "Server A". E.g.: they're on the same subnet, but only "Server ...
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What is the Fedora equivalent to the Debian/Ubuntu package search pages?
The Debian/Ubuntu package search pages are very useful to look up what version of a program is available in what distribution series, how programs are split along multiple packages etc.
For example I ...
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equivalent to Ubuntu's apport-bug in Fedora or Mint?
What is the Fedora equivalent to the Ubuntu command apport-bug to submit bug reports?
In Ubuntu, one can use:
apport-bug <package-name>
For example:
apport-bug xorg
To submit bug reports ...
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Installed Fedora in dual boot Windows desktop. Now I can't get full monitor resolution with my AMD Radeon HD 6450
I have a 1900x1080 resolution monitor, and after installing Fedora to create a dual boot machine, the maximum resolution Fedora 14 (previously only Windows 7 was installed) can achieve is 1280x1024. ...
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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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Can rpm handle an install of another OS into another Logical Volume?
I am trying to install fedora as a domU under a CentOS dom0 using the method outlined in The Book of Xen. I have asked another question regarding a consistent error message of cpio: Bad magic when I ...
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Getting “cpio: Bad magic” when trying to rpm install into a mounted Logical Volume
I need some help with this. I am trying to follow the Xen guide to provision a domU using package installation of the Fedora 15 release (the dom0 is CentOS 5.6). Ive run the rpm install command with ...
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Root password not working to log in to Gnome with gdm
I have a weird issue going on. I have a user account and I can login to Gnome normally. From a terminal there I can use su root and switch to root with my root password. However, when I try to login ...
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How to automatically install packages?
I want to install packages automatically by running a script
I can write yum install php, but I want it to install another package once installation of the php package is completed.
Is there any ...
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How can I make a script in /etc/init.d start at boot?
I think I read something a while back about this, but I can't remember how it's done. Essentially, I have a service in /etc/init.d which I'd like to start automatically at boot time. I remember it ...
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Is there is a PPA-service equivalent in the Fedora world?
For Ubuntu there is this convenient PPA service available where you can get your own package repository.
You can put there source packages which are under an open source license, e.g. development ...
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Can I prevent “Disable touchpad while typing” from affecting mouse movements?
When I click my name in the upper right, then click "System Settings", then "Mouse and Touchpad", and then "Disable touchpad while typing" it affects my mouse movements. I have to wait two seconds ...
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Qemu & AIX 6.1 - what am i missing?
I have a Fedora 14 i386 / T7100 C2D HP notebook. I need to run e.g.: AIX 6.1 on it for testing purposes.
I installed a VirtualBox on this Fedora machine. I installed a guest os in the VirtualBox. ...
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How do I restore default owner of files in /var/ directory?
Accidentally in /var/ directory I ran chown root . -R;chgrp root . -R. Now services like mysql don't start. Is there a way to restore default owner and groups?
If there is no way, what is the default ...
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How to add a repository on Fedora?
With one repository I did it like this (as root):
# cd /etc/yum.repos
# wget https://some.repo.example.org/foo/bar/Fedora_14/foo_bar.repo
# grep enabled foo_bar.repo
enabled=1
Is this the ...
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My laptop cannot adjust brightness
I have a problem adjusting my laptop's brightness. This is a hardware problem but I can solve it with ccsm, but other programs do not work for me, e.g., xgamma, etc.
Now I am running Fedora 15 and ...
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Update yum offline
I've been looking around for a way to update an offline fedora box but haven't found anything. I only have a Windows computer connected to the Internet. I noticed that my yum config is pointed to ...
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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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How to mount multiple partitions
Is there a way to mount multiple partitions, or even all partitions, of a disk with a single command in Linux? Is there, perhaps, an option that the mount command accepts that would facilitate this? ...
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Improve the font rendering in Fedora
I was using Ubuntu and recently moved to Fedora 15 with Gnome 3. I am not at all impressed with the subpixel smoothing and fonts in Fedora. How do I improve the readability and quality?
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iPhone type login screen?
The person that introduced me to Fedora had somehow made his login screen so that instead of typing in a password he used the "connect the dots" password that's popular on phones. Eg
On my ...
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Linux kernel 3.3 power regression
I am using Fedora 16 in my DELL n4110. I recently upgraded the kernel from 3.2 to 3.3. In contradiction to the official claim, my system still drains battery as hell. It only provides 1:30 to 2 hrs of ...
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Disk space on Fedora 12
I'm using Fedora 12 on my laptop. I have 10GB disk space and 2GB of them are free. After 2-3 days uptime the space ends and I must reboot. After rebooting I get 2GB free space back. How can I prevent ...
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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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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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Using startx on Fedora 17, a non-root user cannot join new wireless networks — how to fix?
I have Fedora 17 installed on a Lenovo X230, and if I leave it configured to boot into Gnome using systemd's runlevel5.target (or graphical.target), which is the default, networking seems to work just ...
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No sound with the newest kernel version - is this a kernel bug or something else?
I have an external USB sound card on a Fedora 17 system (64 bit). It stopped playing sound after I updated the kernel to 3.5.4-1 (the problem persists under 3.5.4-2).
As the sound card still plays ...
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How to install a specific video driver on Fedora?
I need to install a compatible video driver on a Fedora machine.
The resolution proportion isn't very well and I can't change the brightness and contrast (xbacklight and xgamma) either.
Please answer ...
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Dual boot Fedora 16 with OS X refit
Having trouble with installing Fedora 16 on my Macbook Pro. While the installation itself completes without and issues, the bootloader doesn't install correctly.
I have rEFIt, which I already have ...
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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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fedora 15, oracle 11, python3: can't find or open libclntsh.so.11.1
I am trying to use cx_Oracle on Fedora 15 with Oracle 11.
I have install Oracle and InstantClient rpms and also cx_Oracle rpm for CentOS. I am exporting ORACLE_HOME and other like this:
export ...
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VirtualBox bug[?] when Chainloading Grub2
Regarding this: How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?
So booted into Ubuntu..and I run this script:
#!/bin/bash
# show the bootlist of grub when booting pc
sed ...
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How do I create a separate partition for my /home directory?
I was reading http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Installation_Guide/s1-diskpartitioning-x86.html, but it's not clear to me what this means. What's an LVM Volume Group versus a Hard ...
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Fedora auto suspend
I am using Fedora 13 and for shutting down and rebooting automatically, we have the following commands:
# shutdown -h/-r now
Similarly, if I want to make my system go into suspend mode after ...
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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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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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How to disable Nouveau on Fedora 18?
I want to install the proprietary Nvidia driver. Downloaded it from here. I have the 64-bit one.
However, when I try to install it, I can't because the Nouveau driver is already there. I have spend ...
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Problem getting Fedora to run in VirtualBox
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, trying to get Fedora 18 64-bit to run in the Oracle VM VirtualBox.
I've got VirtualBox installed (via the .deb package available from the official site,) and I got the ...
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SELinux and samba
I have to set SELinux setenforce Permissive in order to give access to my samba share. I wonder if there is proper way to configure SELinux policy for fedora 17 as good admins do.
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Passing the “--float” option to OpenVPN client from NetworkManager
NetworkManager on Fedora14 doesn't support the "--float" parameter of OpenVPN client.
Are there any workarounds to connect with NetworkManager to an OpenVPN network using the --float option?
Or are ...
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Which process/program create/write the file which I/O is redirected to?
When learning SELinux, I executed semanage fcontext -l > fcontext.txt under /root directory to dump massive fcontext information to a file. The funny result is: fcontext.txt was created, but the ...
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How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?
I installed Fedora 14 first, then Ubuntu 10.04. I installed them using dm_crypt/aes256/lvm, so I used encrypted VolumeGroups. At the end of the Ubuntu install it said it cannot install GRUB, so I had ...
