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Hi,

I'm running Fedora 11 and I would like to update Eclipse and Netbeans to the latest version.
Fedora 11 still ships Netbeans 6.5 and Eclipse 3.4 for which many plugins don't work well.
Example is the scala plugin which requires Eclipse 3.5.

I don't really want to upgrade the whole system.
Has anybody successfully upgraded Eclipse or Netbeans, and how?

Andrea

I am trying to boot from a USB stick with F12 KDE.
I've used livecd-iso-to-disk and tried to reformat the USB disk as well.

No errors reported by livecd-iso-to-disk,

but after the grub menu shows up, it hangs as soon as it tried to load linux.
the screen stays on the menu page, and no error is printed whatsoever.

If I try to test the memory, it works fine, there is an issue in loading the linux kernel.

If it were a BIOS problem, I guess I should not even get to the list.

Hi,

I've just installed F12 on a PS3.
Only text mode installation works due to the amount of RAM available.

I would like to partition my hard disk to have / and /home in a different partition.
Single big reason is that new reinstall I keep /home instead of loosing it.

So,

the closest I got to partitioning was a menu with 3 choices

- use entire disk
- replace linux system
- use free space

none of them took me to a partitioning tool.
I can see in the installation notes a picture of such a tool

It is Figure 6.2 in this page

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html/s1-gui

I get hangs of the Konsole running it (not just the terminal running it).
I need to kill curlftpfs.

Hi,

I am running Thunderbird 3 beta 4 and with a IMAP gmail account I am notified twice for every email,
one in the inbox and one in the Gmail/Allmail folder.

Any setting could change that?

Hi,

recently Firefox has become capable of playing video directly without plugins.
It's the big HTML5 + saga.

I'm running Fedora 11 super up to date and I have to say that this things works a bit but not very well.

Take for instance the home page of firefox and click bottom left

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/

It's a good example of what does not work.

If I pause the video there is no way of starting again.

And the same for all other HTML5 videos I've seen.

Has anybody tried http://www.youtube.com/html5, this is even worse as it does not work even without
pressi

Hi,

I would like to disable all sort of CD & USB driver polling.

if I run "ps ax | grep poll" I get

15528 ? S 0:00 devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/sr0 /dev/sdb
16612 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sdb because it is explicitly disabled
16615 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sr0 because it is explicitly disabled

I have manually stopped hal from polling /dev/sdb and /dev/sr0.
What is devkit-disks-daemon? Is it replacing hal at polling?

The latest update from rpmfusion of ffmpeg dropped support for libfaac.

the changelog mentions it

* Thu Oct 22 2009 Dominik Mierzejewski - 0.5-3
- dropped workaround for non-standard openjpeg headers location
- Add BR dirac vdpau. (kwizart)
- Don't build faac by default because it's nonfree. (kwizart)
- fixed PowerPC builds (bug 808)

Do we have an alternative? What's the point?

I see that ffmpeg still supports mp3. I thought it was not free either.

Andrea

Hi,

has anybody tried to update Netbeans to version 6.7 on Fedora 11?

I would like to avoid a big mess since netbeans has a lot of dependencies.

Suggestions?

Andrea

Hi,

I would like to set the default page size in firefox to A4,
but there seems to be no way of doing it.

Each time the page size is reset to US Letter.

CUPS has a default page size of A4 and all other application (okular, evince...) honour it.

Forgot to say, I'm on Fedora 11, Firefox 3.5.1

Andrea

Hi,

I get this error on /var/log/messages

kernel: JBD: barrier-based sync failed on dm-0:8 - disabling barriers

How bad is it? What does it mean?

This is the part of /var/log/messages preceding it, involving ext4

Jul 29 19:54:53 thinkpad kernel: device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded
Jul 29 19:54:53 thinkpad kernel: EXT4 FS on dm-0, internal journal on dm-0:8
Jul 29 19:54:53 thinkpad kernel: kjournald starting.

Hi,

I've tried to run hp-setup and after the copyright it just hangs there.

those are the packages I have installed

hplip-gui-3.9.2-4.fc11.i586
hplip-3.9.2-4.fc11.i586
hplip-libs-3.9.2-4.fc11.i586

the debug option does not add much

[root at thinkpad andrea]# hp-setup -g

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 8.0

Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions.

Hi,

I've experienced a lot of crashes of Gwenview.
Now I am on F11 but the same used to happen on F9.

It happens often when clicking on Save All (e.g. after rotating a few pictures in a folder).

There is a bugreport here

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510860

I would like to debug it, but

how do I rebuild gwenview without optimization?

It is part of kdegraphics.

Should I get the rpm.src for kdegraphics, tweak the makefile (to remove -OXXX) and rebuild the whole
kdegraphics?
Or is there a simpler way?

Hi,

I've just installed Netbeans on F11 and I have to say that the quality font used for menus and
widgets is appaling.

The same happens to all other Java applications.

Basically the font is very small and thin (used for menus, buttons...)

In netbeans, I can change the font used in source code editor, but not the rest of the GUI.

I don't seem to remember this happening on F9.

Hi,

I have a ThinkPad and just installed F11.
There is a small issue with the screensaver and the monitor power control.

the screensaver kicks in as normal, but after a while it is not updated any more (e.g. the dials of
the clock don't move).
As soon as I touch the mouse, it disappears.

I think that when the screensaver stops being updated, the monitor should actually be suspended and
go black (which it did in F9).

If I go to System Settings -> Display -> Power Control, in the help page it says that this should
not be used for laptops.

Hi,

I have a problem with xorg not detecting properly my mouse.
I am running F11 on a ps3 and the mouse is a cordless keyboard+mouse connected via USB.

If I boo tin runlevel 3, then (in text mode) I can see the cursor moving when I move the mouse (so
to say it works).
In F10 everything worked properly.
If I plug in a separate USB mouse, it works.

Now when xorg boots I can see the following error

(EE) Logitech USB Receiver Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Logitech USB Receiver"
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)

These are t

Hi,

I'm trying to install F11 via a ISO image via NFS.
This on a PS3.
I've tried the graphic installer and the text mode (passing boot option "linux text askmethod")
When I run in text mode the error seems to be that anaconda cannot find

"images/install.img" at the path I have entered.

Now, that path is *inside* the ISO and according to the installation documentation I do not need to
mount it.

Reading on google I've found that F10 had some issues and one had to add the content of "images" to
the directory containing the image.

Does this make sense to anyone?

Cheers

Hi,

I don't seem to be able to use Flash 10 on Fedora 9.

The plugin come automatically after I've added the Adobe repository rpm to yum.
The version installed is

flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release

Basically the window of the player never shows up (tried with youtube, bbc iplayer).

I've tried removing the libflashsupport but nothing has changed.

Does anybody know how to debug that?

Cheers

Hi,

I'm trying to send/receive files with my Phone.
I've installed kbluetooth, but whenever I run kbluemon I get the following error

process 3712: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, assertion
"_dbus_check_is_valid_path (path)" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1074.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
KCrash: Application 'kbluemon' crashing...

I have tried then to install gnome-bluetooth but I can find out how to use it.

Does anybody know how to do it?

Andrea

Hi,

I need to update hplip to the latest version (2.8.7) to support a new printer.

So I have downloaded the src rpm from fedora 10 and rebuilt the rpm.
Everything went fine.
Installed ok (replacing the f9 version 2.8.2)

Now when I launch system-config-printer I cannot see my the new drivers.
In the list (under HP) I see exactly the same drivers of before the upgrade.

The funny thing is that even if I remove hplip I still see the same drivers for HP printers.

I have rebooted to be sure cups was properly restarted.

I can imagine that system-config-printer takes the drivers from elsewhere.