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How would I reinstall the grub-efi bootloader on Fedora Linux?
I recently installed Fedora 18 using EFI boot. Like the other current linux distributions, it sets up GRUB2 for me.
I have experience with re-installing the BIOS version of GRUB when things go ...
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Ran out of primary partitions, want to install another system
I have a Fedora 18 system installed on my hard disk, but upon installation I created 4 partitions for boot, swap, root and home, and now I want to install Windows on some unallocated space (I need it, ...
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Unable to boot into Windows 8
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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Triple boot with Windows 8
while ago I bought a acer aspire e1 laptop with windows 8 on one partition, yesterday I installed ubuntu 12.10 and fedora 18 but when booting up I don't see ubuntu and fedora OS to select, it takes me ...
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PHP4 for ARM fedora
I am looking for an ARM RPM of PHP 4, specificity to install on Fedora 17, however I cant seem to find one anywhere.
I assume this is most likely down to ARM not being supported by Fedora in the age ...
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Can I 'move' Windows 7 from an SSD to an HDD?
SEE BELOW FOR SHORT
Hello,
Due to boot problems after fiddling with a Fedora 18 install (see details below), I want to install Windows on another harddisk. My plan is to use a Windows Backup (System ...
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Having installed fedora, I have lost capacity to boot into any OSs via BIOS or UEFI
(Running on Asus TaiChi)
When I try to boot without USB, I get sent straight to setup screen. If I press esc prior to setup screen, I enter the Please select boot device boot dialog. However, my only ...
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Is it safe to uninstall qemu and libvirt?
Fedora installs both by default. I didn't found what are them exactly for, but yum autoremove selects them for autoremoval.
Is it safe, for a normal user (I mostly use this machine for documents and ...
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How do I restore windows 8 / hard drive after hard drive overwrite?
So I have been a bit of an idiot... I was installing fedora and I clicked through the partitioning without much attention assuming that fedora would be installed in dual boot. It seems to have ...
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Fedora 18: Can not find version.h
I am attempting to install some ATI graphics drivers. The installer fails and the log says this:
Check if system has the tools required for installation.
fglrx installation requires that the system ...
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Repairing Windows 8 after trying to dual boot it with Fedora 18
As the title states, I turned off secure boot and installed fedora 18 as usual using a liveUSB installer. This seems to have really miffed windows and now it refuses to boot.
Grub2 comes up fine, I ...
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Strange happening with DVD drive in fedora
Strange things are happening! The DVD drive installed on my machine is behaving strangely with some discs that have been burned on a university Windows machines.
The files were different, but ...
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GPU usage and heat production in linux
I am using Fedora 18 in my laptop with Nvidia GT 630M graphics card. I am using dual boot with windows 7.
In windows I am getting a battery backup of around 3 hr. But when I use Fedora, it reduces to ...
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misterious collapse of Fedora 18 on a dual system
I've recently (about a month ago) installed Windows 7 and Fedora 18 as a dual system on my Dell Vostro laptop, and everything went well until my Fedora started shutting down out of a sudden, just like ...
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Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 in fedup with ISO file
I downloaded Fedora 18 x86_64. I used the following command in terminal for fedup.
sudo fedup-cli --device /run/media/omid/Fedora\ 18\ x86_64 --debuglog=fedupdebug.log
then I got a "finished ...
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PYTHON EGG Cache extraction error - PYTHON_EGG_CACHE
I have Fedora 18 installed as the OS in my machine. I created a user called myworld. I installed the MapFish virtual environment and created a MapFish application. Now I tried to run that application ...
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How can I force VNC server to use GNONE 3 fallback mode in Fedora 17?
I set up VNC server on Fedora 17 but when I login the GNOME 3 session is completely unresponsive.
How can you force VNC server to use the GNOME 3 fallback mode?
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Cannot start Fedora when installed on two disks
My laptop has an SSD and a HDD. There is now no OS on my laptop.
Before I had installed Fedora 18 successfully (it was only on the SSD). Then I made some mistakes and the OS broke. Now I want to ...
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Authority wrong and can not boot to desktop
I am so stupid and make a wrong operation. I type sudo chown -R root.root /bin /sbin /etc /var /usr. And of course it turns to wrong. Don't ask me why do this, I said I am stupid :(.
First it turns ...
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No Sockets found in /var/run/screen/S-root. when using `screen`
I want to screen on a machine with fedora
the result is:
[root@kitch udp]# screen -ls
No Sockets found in /var/run/screen/S-root.
[root@kitch udp]# screen -ls listen_for_exception
No ...
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Is it possible to resize a partition in GUI mode in Fedora 17?
Is this possible to merge or resize a partition in Fedora 17, I have two different partitions in my Fedora OS(apart of OS) i need to merge that partitions. Is there any tool for that or any command's ...
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Fedora - Python import selinux cannot find selinux_current_policy_path
When I run any python script that does import selinux (such as system-config-users) I get the following error:
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selinux/_selinux.so: undefined symbol: ...
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Applications stop receiving mouse actions in Gnome 3.6 on Fedora 18
recently i have this problem that suddenly out of nowhere applications stop receiving mouse actions like click and drag and drop. but i can type and use keyboard. Gnome status bar still works.
Things ...
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Fedora 18 add new hard disk with LVM Partition
I recently built my 1st computer and realized today that despite having multiple hard disks, I'm out of space because I did not set up the partitions correctly.
I am trying to add two of my hard ...
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Troubleshooting system lockup?
So, I have Fedora 18 x64, and sometimes it locks up. Like, perfectly frozen, beyond a kernel panic, no flashing lights, no response to input, it just stops processing entirely.
Usually, this happens ...
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Can't stop/reload/restart nginx with “service nginx”-command
I installed nginx via passenger for running ruby on rails applications.
I added the this script: RedHat Nginx Init Script
Changed paths for nginx and config to where they are located:
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I have a SysV init script on Fedora 18. How can I make it start after the network is ready?
I have a SysV init script on Fedora 18. Fedora 18 uses systemd (and apparently, there is no way to switch back to SysV).
My script requires the network to be ready. Currently, at the time the ...
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Set different wallpaper for each desktop on Fedora 14
How can I set up different wallpaper on each of my desktops? How can I change them? Fedora 14, Gnome 2.32.
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Fedora 18 in Oracle VirtualBox on Windows Vista
I want to install Fedora 18 [Desktop] in Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.10 r84104. [My system is Windows Vista 32 bit]
I have followed the following steps while configuring the Virtual Machine.
Memory Size ...
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Error installing GCC on Fedora
I've been trying to install GCC on Fedora 18. Here is a direct excerpt from my terminal window:
ishan@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
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“the cpu has been disabled by the guest operating system”:VMWARE(win7-64 hosted) error
Every time, when I use vmware to run fedora system, it announces "
The cpu has been disabled by the guest operating system.
you will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point
How ...
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Exclude specific applications from gnome shell theme [duplicate]
Is there a way to exclude specific applications from gnome shell theme? I installed a dark theme that I very much like, but on some applications it looks very wierd and some get even alot harder to ...
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Fedora 18 cannot boot no default ui config
When I try to boot up and install fedora 18 i get the following message...
ISOLINUX 4.05 2011-12-09 EHDD Copyright (c) 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al
No DEFAULT or UI Configuration directive found!
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Fedora 18, grub2 reinstall, /mnt is empty
I have a common problem. I installed Fedora 18 on a PC that also 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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Xvnc via systemctl : how to use “xhost +”
I would like to run Xvnc on Fedora 16 as a service. Not vncserver, given that carries the weight of a full window manager, but just Xvnc to start X.
I would also like "xhost +" to run on the X ...
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Why would vncserver not use the xstartup script?
I am using Fedora 16, and I've set up vncserver, using the systemctl method...
/lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:1.service:
[Unit]
Description=Remote desktop service (VNC)
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Linux users permissions
I have to do the following as homework (on Fedora):
Make 3 groups S,F,A
add some users to the groups
Make a file for each group which only the group members can use.
I logged as root and make in ...
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Apt / Deb Support in Fedora
I want to have some apt / debian support in Fedora 18. I know how to use yum, and I like it. But not all packages / repositories are available for it. So, I wanna install apt (apt-get) to my Fedora.
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Just installed Fedora 18 and computer is not booting
After some initial trouble, I was able to install Fedora 18, but Had to Disable Secure Boot, disable Fast Boot, and Enable CSM.
Side Note: I was reading that by Enableing CSM I was not going to be ...
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Aptana Studio and xampp on Fedora
I'm using Fedora and Aptana Studio 3. I can launch Aptana Studio and it works without
problems. I can also type in localhost in the URL of my browser and it gives me the xampp-splash screen.
Now I'm ...
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How can I access a Fedora 18 partition on Windows? ext2explorer doesn't work
I had Fedora 17 and ext2explore 2.2.71 worked as advertised. Since I installed Fedora 18, it no longer works. I already reinstall the program, but the program can't detect the partition.
What ...
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Setting up a Dynamic Web Project in Eclipse on Fedora 18
I'm trying to get a web project set up for a class that I have this quarter. I currently have Fedora 18 installed and thought it would be good to try to get some practice in with a Java web ...
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Raspberry Pi Fedora 18 ARM Remix Remote Desktop from Windows 7
I've installed the Fedora 18 ARM Remix for Raspberry Pi onto the SD card of my RasPi (type B). When connected by HDMI, Fedora and XFCE4 come up fine and without the HDMI i'm able to login through SSH ...
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Fedora on USB drive - cannot mount root partition
I am trying to install Fedora 18 on my USB pendrive (4GB). I know it is possible to do using 'liveusb-creator' application, but it is what I would like to avoid. What I would like to do, is to install ...
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Linker error while installing Oracle 11g on Fedora 18
I have to teach database programming against Oracle DB using C/C++ on Linux. So first step is to install Oracle 11g on Linux.
Machine config :
HOST: Windows 8 Enterprise 64 bit
Guest: Fedora 18 XFCE ...
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Pam Tally Linux to ban users from wrong passwords
I have a major problem with a fedora distribution (17). I don't know how to set up
/etc/pam.d/system-auth in order to ban a user after he/she writes the password wrong (3 times)
I have read ...
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Can't choose between Fedora 18 or Windows 7 at startup
I've installed Windows 7 on my system, and made three partitions: one of 180 GB, one of 210 GB and one of 75 GB. I've made a bootable DVD with Fedora 18 from an ISO file and installed Fedora on the ...
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No-IP on Linux: What am I doing wrong?
I want to setup a small Home Server using Fedora 17 (32 Bit) and No-ip because I have a Dynamic IP adress,
This is what am I doing:
1) I create a Host on No-ip:
2) I setup No-ip on my fedora box:
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is it possible to change the way of authenticating linux with the help of a daemon (FC4 particularly)?
I got a pc and a special application installed on it, the OS is FC4 and we don't have root password I tried several random passwords and after 3 times I realized that something fishy is happening ...
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I took an image from entire hard disk of a real PC running linux FC4 and try to run it under virtual box but grub freezes all the time
I am trying to run an image which I took from an actual PC (cpu = intel/motherboard=unknown to me/ os = FC 4/ RAID disk controller) and I want to run that image under virtual machine ...
