On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:04:53PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Ah hah! sudo chown -R david:david ./config/.openoffice.org and all is well.
> For some reason starting as root while su root caused the
> ./config/.openoffice.org directory to be created under root UID & GID. Doesn't
> seem like it should have done that. Usually even if using su or kdesu the
> configs still go under /root not the current user. Strange ...
If you need a real root shell you must give the -l option to su.
Try this:
$ su
Password:
and then look at the $USER environment variable: surprised?
Anyway it isn't a good idea to run graphical applications as root.
bye
11-09-2009, 10:57 PM
"David C. Rankin"
On Monday 09 November 2009 17:18:28 and regarding:
> and then look at the $USER environment variable: surprised?
>
Well it's me!
> Anyway it isn't a good idea to run graphical applications as root.
>
Good words of wisdom to live by :-)
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11-09-2009, 11:16 PM
Alessandro Doro
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 05:57:38PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On Monday 09 November 2009 17:18:28 and regarding:
> > and then look at the $USER environment variable: surprised?
> >
>
> Well it's me!
Yes, you are half root, half david; kde will create its directories in
/tmp/ksocket-david, /tmp/kde-david, /var/tmp/kdecache-david but owned
by root. Boom.
> > Anyway it isn't a good idea to run graphical applications as root.
> >
>
> Good words of wisdom to live by :-)
And not only for security reasons; If you have time have a look at
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14926
in that case the permission problems affected the system directories.
And times ago there where permission (umask) issues with users calling
pacman with sudo.
11-11-2009, 07:36 PM
Philip Webb
091110 Philip Webb wrote:
> I've got my netbook basically set up to do what I need,
> but there are 3 problems remaining, which seem to be fairly basic bugs.
I've managed to solve all 3 or actually 2 , as it turned out (smile).
> (1) I've already mentioned the problem of compiling Lm_sensors.
> Dale refered to Bug 282261, whose conclusion seems to be
> to try the latest testing version 3.1.1 , which I will do tomorrow.
3.1.1 did compile, but when I ran 'sensors-detect' it couldn't find any
& advised "common on laptops, where it's handled by ACPI".
So I had another look at Gkrellm & when I clicked the little triangle,
it did in fact show a temperatures sensor 'thermalzone/TZ00',
which is shown in the display after it has been enabled: '51 C'.
So no need for Lm-sensors or Xmbmon: unmerged & the temperature still shows.
> (2) Fluxbox is working nicely, as it does on my desktop machine ANB3,
> but I thought I'ld have a look at Xfce, which looks nice in SystemRescue.
> Xfce opens as root, but not as user ! -- It ought to be a permissions error,
> but there's no sign where it might be happening. There's an error msg
> "Module fbcon not found", but that may not be the real problem.
Indeed, that is not the real problem, even tho' tagged 'FATAL'.
I found Gentoo bug 275659, which says "Xfdesktop needs access
to Hal's pluggable devices, ie in /etc/group 'plugdev ... <user>'".
When I fixed that, it still choked, but now showed a sensible msg:
"xfce4-session: can't open ~/.ICEauthority : permission denied".
Yes, it was owned by root ! -- 'chown' fixed it & Xfce started normally.
It remains possible that ~/.ICEauthority wb wrongly owned at next boot,
but at least I can get Xfce started & look into the cause if it happens.
> (3) Dillo "can't start dpi daemon" (no such problem on ANB3).
> I can't find anything sensible & have no idea what that daemon mb.
After fixing Xfce, Dillo also started normally,
so it looks as if it was the same problem.
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11-11-2009, 07:53 PM
Ricky Zhou
On 2009-11-11 03:07:42 PM, Ricky Zhou wrote:
> > It would be reasonable to provide some automation for a single
> > document, but since no two documents seem to use the same
> > naming/directory structure, such an effort would have to be on a per
> > document basis. It might seem to make more sense to restructure the
> > site so there was some consistency, but given the number of
> > documents/formats/languages and the slowness of cvs that turns out
> > to be a huge job.
> Would it be possible to get even a plain white list of languages links
> to the HTML documents for just
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/ and
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/, or could we get a list
> of URLs that need to be directed to the main docs.fp.o index?
>
> We can't really change the link on the website at this point, being way
> past the string freeze, and it's pretty important that those links go to
> something especially for the F12 release (although fp.o is already
> currently full of these broken links for F11 docs).
If this is fine with you guys, here's a change request to add redirects
for those two to the docs.fp.o index page where visitors can choose
their language and version of the document they want.
+# Language selection indexes for these documents are gone now, so redirect
+# to the main docs page where users can choose their language.
+
+RewriteRule ^/release-notes/f11/$ / [R=301,L]
+RewriteRule ^/release-notes/f12/$ / [R=301,L]
+
+RewriteRule ^/install-guide/f11/$ / [R=301,L]
+RewriteRule ^/install-guide/f12/$ / [R=301,L]
+
<Directory /srv/web/docs>
Options Indexes
</Directory>
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Alternatively, we can update all links to point at eg.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html/ and mark
those as translatable, which would be a late break of the string freeze,
but still a pretty small one (the effect would be that all website links
would point to the English doc until translators update them to point to
their specific language's URL).
Thanks,
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11-11-2009, 08:12 PM
Ricky Zhou
On 2009-11-11 03:53:25 PM, Ricky Zhou wrote:
> If this is fine with you guys, here's a change request to add
> redirects for those two to the docs.fp.o index page where visitors can
> choose their language and version of the document they want.
>
> --
>
> diff --git a/modules/fedora-docs/files/fedora-docs-proxy.conf b/modules/fedora-docs/files/fedora-docs-
> index 259cfbd..61dfc04 100644
> --- a/modules/fedora-docs/files/fedora-docs-proxy.conf
> +++ b/modules/fedora-docs/files/fedora-docs-proxy.conf
> @@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ RewriteRule ^(.*)/fc7$ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/$1/f7/ [R,L]
> RewriteRule ^/release-notes/f10preview(.*) /release-notes/f10$1 [R=301,L]
> RewriteRule ^/release-notes/f11preview(.*) /release-notes/f11$1 [R=301,L]
>
> +# Language selection indexes for these documents are gone now, so redirect
> +# to the main docs page where users can choose their language.
> +
> +RewriteRule ^/release-notes/f11/$ / [R=301,L]
> +RewriteRule ^/release-notes/f12/$ / [R=301,L]
> +
> +RewriteRule ^/install-guide/f11/$ / [R=301,L]
> +RewriteRule ^/install-guide/f12/$ / [R=301,L]
> +
> <Directory /srv/web/docs>
> Options Indexes
> </Directory>
>
> --
It looks like John is already working on fixing this in docs CVS, so
disregard this change request.
Thanks,
Ricky
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11-12-2009, 08:27 AM
Abdullah Teke
I think problem is partion table of disk. Can you plug the disk when you boot the pc from live cd?
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Mirto Silvio Busico <mirtosilvio.busico@fastwebnet.it> wrote:
Hi all,
I forgot to say that, to be sure about the CD, I have done:
* * verified the MD5 sum of the downloaded ISO
* * used the boot CD menu entry "verify media"
all seemed ok.
Regards
* Mirto
Mirto Silvio Busico ha scritto:
Hi all,
Myriam Schweingruber ha scritto:
Hi all,
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 17:59, Jonas Norlander <jonorland@gmail.com> wrote:
Works fine for me. I have tested a 1 TB USB harddrive, SD-card and MP3 player.
So no problem for me on Kubuntu 9.10 64-bit upgraded from 9.04.
* *
I can't reproduce this neither, Kubuntu 9.10 (fresh install when RC
came out) on a 64bit Lenovo laptop. All plugged in devices show up as
they should, be this USB sticks, USB hard drives or SD cards.
Regards, Myriam.
*
Mybe it is my hardware. I use an Acer Aspire 5930G.
After a fresh install I tried a 1Tera WD hard disk and a 16Gb memory stick; dmesg says the devices are ok, but nothing shows up in the plasmoid.
Strangely "fdisk -l" shows the device (/dev/sdb) but doesn't see any partition.
Regards
* Mirto
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11-12-2009, 09:53 AM
Helmut Jarausch
On 11 Nov, walt wrote:
> On 11/11/2009 01:22 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> Hi,,
>>
>> somehow one of my machines is broken.
>>
>> After uninstalling x11-drivers/ati-drivers
>> eselect opengl set xorg-x11
>> gives
>> Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface...!!! Error: No proper xorg-x11 or xorg-x11 opengl implementation found
>>
>> Trying to re-emerge media-libs/mesa fails during install
>> Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface...!!! Error: No proper xorg-x11 or xorg-x11 opengl implementation found
>> exiting
>>
>> and trying to re-emerge x11-base/xorg-server
>> fails because of missing file
>> /usr/lib64/libGL.so
>
> If the ati-drivers are like my nvidia drivers you many have a dangling
> symlink at /usr/lib/libGL.so:
>
> /usr/lib/libGL.so <----- This is a symlink to one of the two libs below
> /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so
> /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so
>
> Try pointing that symlink to the opengl version of libGL.so.
Thanks, this helped. I ran symlinks -dr on /usr
Initially this didn't help.
Once I've stopped the X server, I could re-emerge mesa which
fixed the problems.
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11-12-2009, 10:10 AM
Mirto Silvio Busico
Ok I'll do the test asap.
But I have the same problem with 2 different pen drive.
And all works fine on Jaunty (before and after 9.04 reinstallation when
I gived up with Karmic).
Regards
Mirto
Abdullah Teke ha scritto:
I think problem is partion table of disk. Can you plug the disk when
you boot the pc from live cd?
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Mirto Silvio Busico
<mirtosilvio.busico@fastwebnet.it
<mailto:mirtosilvio.busico@fastwebnet.it>> wrote:
Hi all,
I forgot to say that, to be sure about the CD, I have done:
* verified the MD5 sum of the downloaded ISO
* used the boot CD menu entry "verify media"
all seemed ok.
Regards
Mirto
Mirto Silvio Busico ha scritto:
Hi all,
Myriam Schweingruber ha scritto:
Hi all,
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 17:59, Jonas Norlander
<jonorland@gmail.com <mailto:jonorland@gmail.com>> wrote:
Works fine for me. I have tested a 1 TB USB harddrive,
SD-card and MP3 player.
So no problem for me on Kubuntu 9.10 64-bit upgraded
from 9.04.
I can't reproduce this neither, Kubuntu 9.10 (fresh
install when RC
came out) on a 64bit Lenovo laptop. All plugged in devices
show up as
they should, be this USB sticks, USB hard drives or SD cards.
Regards, Myriam.
Mybe it is my hardware. I use an Acer Aspire 5930G.
After a fresh install I tried a 1Tera WD hard disk and a 16Gb
memory stick; dmesg says the devices are ok, but nothing shows
up in the plasmoid.
Strangely "fdisk -l" shows the device (/dev/sdb) but doesn't
see any partition.
Regards
Mirto
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11-12-2009, 12:29 PM
Mirto Silvio Busico
Well,
I've done the test using the Karmic live and an usn stick.
The device notifier applet sees only the live CD.
The Dolphin Places shows the stick
Here is the output of "fdisk -l" and "mount" (after I've clicked on the
device in Dolphin):
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk
-l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x298455f3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1275 10240000 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1275 11383 81190908 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 38522 38914 3145728 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda4 11384 38521 217985985 5
Extended
/dev/sda5 * 11384 37416 209110041 83
Linux
/dev/sda6 37417 38521 8875881 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.2 GB, 16173236224 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1966 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000aeb91
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1966 15791863+ b W95 FAT32
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ mount
aufs on / type aufs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
/dev/sr0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (rw)
/dev/loop0 on /rofs type squashfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/dev/sda3 on /media/disk type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda5 on /media/disk-1 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
/dev/sda2 on /media/ACER type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
Any hint?
Regards
Mirto
Abdullah Teke ha scritto:
I think problem is partion table of disk. Can you plug the disk when
you boot the pc from live cd?
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Mirto Silvio Busico
<mirtosilvio.busico@fastwebnet.it
<mailto:mirtosilvio.busico@fastwebnet.it>> wrote:
Hi all,
I forgot to say that, to be sure about the CD, I have done:
* verified the MD5 sum of the downloaded ISO
* used the boot CD menu entry "verify media"
all seemed ok.
Regards
Mirto
Mirto Silvio Busico ha scritto:
Hi all,
Myriam Schweingruber ha scritto:
Hi all,
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 17:59, Jonas Norlander
<jonorland@gmail.com <mailto:jonorland@gmail.com>> wrote:
Works fine for me. I have tested a 1 TB USB harddrive,
SD-card and MP3 player.
So no problem for me on Kubuntu 9.10 64-bit upgraded
from 9.04.
I can't reproduce this neither, Kubuntu 9.10 (fresh
install when RC
came out) on a 64bit Lenovo laptop. All plugged in devices
show up as
they should, be this USB sticks, USB hard drives or SD cards.
Regards, Myriam.
Mybe it is my hardware. I use an Acer Aspire 5930G.
After a fresh install I tried a 1Tera WD hard disk and a 16Gb
memory stick; dmesg says the devices are ok, but nothing shows
up in the plasmoid.
Strangely "fdisk -l" shows the device (/dev/sdb) but doesn't
see any partition.
Regards
Mirto
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