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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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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. <edit> That is, I must ...
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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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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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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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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 (vmware/...
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How to easily make a screenshot like these (partial enlargement)?

I need to make some screenshots like the images in the following questions & wikipedia pages. Bad font anti-aliasing in Ubuntu Who provides the Internet service to Internet Service Providers (...
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hp g7 screen dark on login need corrective action

I have a HP g7 that's running Fedora 17 which has a dark unlit screen on login. I need the exact keystrokes I need to type in order to sign in, so that I don't need to use a flash light to see the ...
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How can I switch from Win/Fedora to Win/Kubuntu dual boot

I've got a desktop system with WinXP and an and older Fedora. Things work ok, BUT I'd like to change to Kubuntu 12.10 - which I use at work. The install dvd apparently suggests that I shrink the ...
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Change mouse right button events type to onmouseclick

I have noticed that in Fedora almost all events related to mouse right button are of onmousepress type, e.g. as soon as I press the mouse right button (but not released yet), it shows the context menu ...
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Want FTP server (VSFTPD) configured for file sharing on fedora

I am using fedora to host a FTP server for internal use and I am using vsftpd for this. It is using the configuration file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf. The configuration I am using is as follows: ...
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Starting Synergy client dims the screen

I'm using Synergy to allow me to control my laptop while using my desktop's keyboard and mouse. Whenever I start the synergy client on the laptop, its screen dims, and also does so every time I move ...
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Fedora Is Asking For Username and password at boot

When I turn my computer on GRUB auto loads fedora and I get Username: then Password: and when i type them in i get error: access denied Failed to boot both default and fallback entries then i get ...
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How to take a screenshot with Shutter on Fedora 17?

I can't get Shutter to capture the print keystroke. The screenshot keeps being taken by Fedora, not Shutter. What can I do?
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how to change driver parameter into Fedora 17 boot?

For some time I use Fedora 17. Usualy with KDE but sometimes with GNOME too... With a lot of help from Google and Fedora forum I managed to make my tvtuner work. However it is very annoying that every ...
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Fonts Corrupted in Fedora

So I imported ubuntu-font-family folder using application Fontmatrix. It did so & integrated them well. However after that something bad happened. Plus I can't see any documents containing ...
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Apache won't start after creating symbolic link

I'm installing Apache for the first time and trying to display some webpages on localhost. Apache's default path for serving web pages is /var/www/html/ but I don't have permissions to write there. ...
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Fedora 17 guest in Vmware WS 8 on WIndows 7 - Slow graphics

I have installed Fedora 17 as a guest in Vmware workstation 8 (8.0.5 build-893925) on a Windows 7 64 bit host. I have installed vmware tools and rebooted. However the display is painfully slow. Have I ...
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Setting up a hotspot with hostapd

I've been using the steps described here to set up a wireless hotspot: How to turn my Linux netbook into WiFi AP But when I type: /etc/init.d/hostapd start on the commande line, I get the reply ...
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Triple boot on Macbook pro: Mac (Mountain Lion), Windows 7, Fedora 17

I'm now having windows 7 dual booted with Mac OSx (Mountain Lion), I want to install fedora 17 as well. All the search results I found tells me that I can make the triple boot but the HDD must be ...
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Fedora 16 - LXDE - dual display (monitor/head/view) - automatic shutdown

I am experiencing troubles with two display in fedora 16 (LXDE). During boot time both display are working, but when system starts one display automatically shut down. It happened out of the blue. ...
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Vlc how to output the audio to a second sound card by ignoring the default sound card of motherboard?

While playing in Vlc any file/music/film. Using VLC configuration file, how to permanently tell VLC when-ever it plays audio use the second sound card or assign the name of sound card? Example: ...
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Error while booting Fedora 17 from Live USB on Windows 8 HP Envy 4 1102tx

I am trying to run Fedora 17 using a Live USB on my recently bought HP Envy 4 1102tx which came with Windows 8 pre-installed. My system has a 500GB HDD and a 32GB SSD. Every time I try to boot from ...
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How to add new partition to RAID-1 array on Redhat FC10?

I have a RH FC10 system with RAID 1 partitions, here is mdadm.conf: # mdadm.conf written out by anaconda DEVICE partitions MAILADDR root ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 metadata=0.90 UUID=...
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SELinux issues when adding rules

On my laptop I use Fedora 17 distro for the first time and I'm having some issues adding rules to semodule An example: # grep httpd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i ...
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How to resolve Kernel Panic error after upgrading F15 to F17 using Preupgrade?

I tried to upgrade my Fedora 15 to Fedora 17 directly using Preupgrade. Everything went smooth and the updates were installed. Grub2 screen came up after the restart. When I chose to boot F17, I got a ...
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Fedora 17 : grub prompt : Cannot boot

I have a dual boot - Windows7 and Fedora16. I deleted one of the Windows7 partition and now Fedora16 cannot boot. However using configfile (hd0,5)/boot/grub/grub.conf I could get back the options ...
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How can I give a user in Fedora 14 the rights to write in a folder and all the sub-folders in it?

My program needs to write in /var/log as well as /usr/lib including all the sub-folders in these directories. How do I give permission for my program to do it?
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Fedora VirtualBox Instance Suddenly Invisible

I'm running an instance of Fedora 16 under VirtualBox (on a Win 7 Pro machine) as a development web server. It's suddenly gone invisible. I have it set to an IP address of 192.168.1.80; I can't ping ...
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issue instaling adobe air on fedora 17

I'm Trying to intall adobe air on my Fedora 17 gnome I've Downloaded my Adobeair.bin File when a run the File I got this. /tmp/air.IAduL7/setup: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0....
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fedora 17 when close the notebook cover

the screen turned black and the screen shows "no vaild vbios image found". where's the problem? my notebook is ASUS A42JC, and I install fedora 17 using DVD.
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Print to network printer via command line

I have an Epson TM-T88V connected via USB to a windows laptop, which is running a print server. I'd like to be able to print using something along the lines of lp -h 10.0.0.225 -d EPSON /path/to/...
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installed mysql using yum but mysqld dowsnt start: Fedora 16

i installed mysql mysql-server and mysql-libs ... after installation i thought to start the mysql service using command systemctl start mysqld.service Failed to issue method call: Unit mysqld.service ...
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Battery management tool in Linux

I want to stop battery recharging once it has reached a specific level, like 80%. I have Lenovo Z560 laptop with windows 7 and it came with a software to manage battery charging. But now I have ...
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Virtual Box cannot install Fedora Core 14 Terminate on Call StackTrace

I have virtual box and i want to install Fedora Core 14 with ISO image. After booting, i found error in loading driver and terminate with "Call StackTrace". How can i solve this problem? If i install ...
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Change font of the virtual terminal in Fedora

Typically, I can change the terminal's font via Edit->Preference->General and pick a font. But my problem is, the fonts available in the Preference->General is too limited, the font that I ...
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Recover data from two RAID 0 drives in Fedora or Ubuntu

I have an external drive from WD which consists of two separate 3.5" discs which have been used in RAID 0 mode. Unfortunately, a while ago I fed the drive with to high voltage which probably fried the ...
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A linux PDF reader that supports unicode characters

I use the default document viewer in Fedora. But for some languages such as Persian I can't copy texts. When I copy them and paste them somewhere, I get some irrelevant characters like f! O I K Q- ! %%...
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Ubuntu & Fedora sharing with Samba

How can I share files between a desktop PC( with Ubuntu) and a notebook(with Fedora) in the same network using samba? I tried to configure samba to both of them, but nothing? On Fedora I configured ...
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VirtualBox Shared folder problems on Fedora guest

I install vbox guest additions on Fedora for using Linux guest as server and my Windows 7 host for working. So, directory on my Windows (c:\web) mapped to Linux /web and my Apache server serve from ...
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How to Get to All Applications Screen on OLPC?

I am interesting in developing for the OLPC platform and currently installed an OLPC emulation on VMWare on my Windows 7 (the image is Soas-v3-Mirabelle). I am trying to get to the view all ...
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KDE shared desktop is graphically slanted

Connecting from a Fedora 15 machine to a Fedora 15 machine, both running KDE, the remote machine running krfb and running krdc on the local machine, I connect to the remote machine over an ssh tunnel ...
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Fedora Core 10: Window List & Workspace Switcher applets keep crashing

I was minding my own business typing a command or two in a Terminal window when a dialog popped up telling me that the Workspace Switcher had crashed, and would I like to reload. Without thinking I ...
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ATI driver on my Fedora notebook working, but with weird abstract color bugs

I'm running Fedora 15 64-bit on a HP Pavilion dv7. I've installed this driver (AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver), and here's a screenshot of the info window in CCC: My uname: ...
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How can I find out what is hanging Fedora when it is booting?

I'm having problems booting up my Fedora 14 system. I see the Fedora splash screen (the one with the egg-like logo that colorizes as it loads); the logo fills up completely and then everything hangs -...
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Syslogd kernel:code:

While running some experimental Java code which interacts with a MySQL server, I received these messages and then the server crashed: Message from syslogd@localhost at Jun 20 20:04:12 ... kernel:...
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Network problems after installing text-only Fedora 14 using VirtualBox

A small background. I've just subscribed to virtual dedicated server running Fedora 14. But before starting to setup it, I've decided that it is a good idea to try all installing/configuration on my ...
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Getting Kopete to work with Google voice chat on GNOME - FC14 - x86_64

Kopete works great with Google Talk, but I have not been able to use Google voice chat either on Google Chrome or Kopete. Skype works great. Please advise.
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How to edit .pub format files on fedora?

Is there an aplication/software that I can use to edit the Microsoft publisher (.pub) format files on fedora14.
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sudo in .desktop file when launching graphical app

Fedora 14 i can run a program with another user with: (command before): xhost local:transmission-user the command: sudo -u transmission-user -- /usr/bin/transmission-gtk & from the gnome-...
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