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Fedora 18
- Preliminary Notes:
- NewInstallerUI
- Anaconda Rework for f18
- Secure Boot
- Draft version - info
Fedora 17
- Release:
- Torrent:http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
- Common Bugs:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
- Upgrading Fedora 16 to Fedora 17 using yum
- Anaconda options
- Anaconda_Boot_Options Modified for f-17
- Anaconda memory requirements for Fedora 17 (08 June 2012)
- "We dropped the requirement to 512 MB. Also the 'nomemcheck' parameter was added to disable the minimum check if people really want to try installing with 384 MB or 256 MB."
The Sugar Learning Environment is packaged in Fedora 17.
- From the Applications -> Add/Remove Software app, search for Sugar.
- Among all the packaged Activities select,
The emulator for the Sugar Learning Environment sugar-emulator-0.96.2-1.fc17 |
- and any or all of the Activities.
- Sugar will be available in your Applications -> Education grid.
PowerPC
dracut-notes
- http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/dracut-notes/dracut-notes.html
- "Dracut is like 98% shell scripts, so you’re gonna need to know some sh/bash to do anything with it."
UEFI Boot
- Lenovo info
DynamicFirewall
- "This feature adds support for a dynamically managed firewall that is able to handle firewall changes without the need to rebuild the whole firewall. The firewall daemon manages the firewall and has a D-BUS interface to interact with clients or services, that request firewall changes."
CD boots EFI to MAC and into a PC
- no persistence when running from CD
Persistent boot USB
Sugar is also available in a packaged Fedora Spin
Install with Sweets_Distribution
- ADVANCED
Install with sweets
- Very ADVANCED Install
- Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Gentoo
- Installation
- Sweets_Usage
- Sweets_Packaging
Anaconda(installer)Notes
Fedora GNOME 3 shell
- See GNOME 3 desktop.
Nice way to have GNOME desktop show
- yum install gnome-tweak-tool
- In terminal: gnome-tweak tool
- File Manager-have file manager handle the desktop [ ON]
Now when you hit the Hot Corner in to left of screen the Shell will alternate with the gnome desktop
- http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/GNOME_3.i686-1.3.0-Build1.3.iso
- http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/GNOME_3.x86_64-1.3.0-Build1.3.iso
Boots 2 ways to GNOME 3 desktop
- Boots as CD on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450
- Boots from dd Installer USB on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 (see below)
Install to HD
- (use whole disk)
- Internal and External USB Hard Disks
- VirtualBox 4.0.4 HD (Starts in fall back mode only)
Install Sugar-Desktop
- Terminal #:
- yum install @sugar-desktop --skip-broken sugar-emulator alacarte sugar-surf
- (read is broken))
- terminal alacarte
- "<alt> f2 r" to restart shell so changes in alacarte will be found
- Education/Sugar
- Browse-120 (will not start)
- use surf-115 instead
- Note use at least 1024 memory
- Control panel/About my Computer
- Fedora release 15 (Lovelock); Sugar: 0.92.1
- Gnome3-shell works on Booted USB -(not fallback mode)- with
- ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 (Wireless OK)
- EeePC 1000HE (Wireless OK)
- MacBook Pro i7 (no wireless only wired network) hold down "C" key on power on wait for fedora screen to appear (10-15 sec)
boot GNOME 3 fallback on XO-1 (liveusb-creator created USB)
Install LibreOffice
- NEW as of 04/03/2011 5 modules of LibreOffice install from Add/Remove Software
Fedora 15 GNOME 3 Ver 3.0.0 Virtual Box Appliance
- download these 2 files and import them:
- http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/F15-gnome3_Desktop_sugar_cl-disk1.vmdk
- http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/F15-gnome3_Desktop_sugar_cl.ovf
- Starts in gnome3 fallback mode as VirtualBox does not support hardware acceleration
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- user=sugar
- password=sugaruser
- root=sugarroot
- Cleared of sugar identity' starts on select color by clicking on XO icon
- use <== arrow to write your custom name then ==> to finish
- Sugar-emulator is in Activities/Education/Sugar
- enter user password for keychain (sugaruser) on time and cancel until pop-up finishes (this is a bug in keychain in f15)
- Surf-115 is the browser as Browse-120 does not start (known bug)
Bootable Fedora 15 GNOME 3 CD on MacBook Pro
- Click this link ^to Download Desktop (gnome3-shell)
- OR download Multi Desktop DVD http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15.RC3/Multi/Fedora-15-Multi-Desktop.iso
- Burn CD/DVD
- boot CD in Mac with :C: held down
- Multi DVD does not work in VirtualBox
Make Installer Fedora 15 GNOME 3 USB with dd
- 2 GB Firefly USB disk in USB Slot
- Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso on Desktop
terminal: $ cd /home/Desktop su (or sudo su for ubuntu) (password) # dd if=Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso of=/dev/sd(x) bs=4M 139+1 records in 139+1 records out 586153984 bytes (586 MB) copied, 94.9489 s, 6.2 MB/s
- Boot from USB
- log out when requested
- you are in gnome3-shell when Activities appears on left top bar.
- Wireless: right click icon on top bar Turn on wireless or Wired and connect; You will not see the pop-up dialog for wireless password: (BUG)
- To See this Dialog: Click:Activities/applications/accessories/files and it will appear.
- (If 3 entries appear on top bar; you are in the fallback mode of gnome as your graphic hardware does not support gnome3-shell)
- To install from booted USB: Click Activities/Windows and the Blue Square Icon (Install to Hard Drive) on left panel.
- Answer questions; Use whole disk option; select the correct hard Drive ==> click (o) for grub on it and install
- When complete click on live system user hold alt key and select shutdown from menu
- reboot with HD; firstboot; user; Hardware Profile (smolt);Login
Multiple Machine Caching with yum
- store rpms in a cache for installation to multiple Computers
Notes
Systemd
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Systemd_problems
- http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.service.html
- http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html
Keyring Password Explained
what do you have to enter when connecting to wlan, the keyring password or the wlan-password? first i must enter the keyring password (root password here) and then i entered the wireless password the keyring-password should not be your root password, it should be your users password so automatically unlocking could work it may happen but during current session, after i reboot it appears again ok, it is the keyring issue, assuming your distro has configured keyring correctly, changing the password should work root pass? change the keyring password to your users password in settings ? in seahorse system settings? as user (the login-keyring) keyring is a way to store your "gnome" passwords So, with one password (the keyring one), you "auto-type" the passwords it contains if the keyring-password is your login password, it's automatically authenticated keyring stores the passwords encrypted with the according keyring-password, and automatic unlocking works by getting the password through pam on login through gdm and then use it to unencrypt the passwords - and that can only work if your login-password is the same as the keyring-password
why doesn't gnome 3 display "interactive dialogs" when applications ask for input yes, also from gnome 3 when you run the shell script from nautilus, it doesn't display a dialog "Enter passphrase for ..." you can use zenity for that try moving /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-session-check-accelerated.desktop somewhere else didn't know you needed anything additional for that.. was it always like that or did gnome 2 have that by default? maybe thats the seahorse/keyring integration, that stuff has changed quite a bit in 3.0 but i thought you meant a more generic approach of showing dialogs from scripts i'm actually doing the ssh-add from a process spawned by a pygtk app if it is only this specific case, you should probably still use keyring/seahorse (whatever should do that now) as it would not be passing around passwords unencrypted between processes (at least afaik) worked! do you somehow run gdm with a different driver or some weird setup like that? so it's not possible to get the old behavior, and it needs some additional code to get it to work with seahorse/keyring? which distro is this? fedora 15 beta i've tested the same code on fedora 14 and linuxmint (both gnome 2) when the ssh-add {key_path} process is spawned, the GUI dialog appears asking you to type in your passphrase ssh-add succeeds, and them the rest of the pygtk app continues it doesn't even care whether the key is password protected or anything i think there needs a daemon to be running that doesn't get started by fedora this happens both in standard and fallback mode try launching seahorse-daemon
AutoStart
ln -s /usr/share/applications/xxxx.desktop ~/.config/autostart/ don't remember if I had to manually add it to the startup apps (run gnome-session-properties) or using a preference in xxxx itself, but I have it running on login on my laptop. The icon shows up in the notification tray - mouse to the lower right corner to bring it up - this is where all legacy tray icons will show up.
fix screensize in sugar-emulator
terminal: su - (password) gedit /usr/share/applications/sugar-emulator.desktop edit line 6: Exec=sugar-emulator -f (see how to configure full screen) save Logout login
show desktop as icon in favorites
add programs install "alacarte" open alacarte make new application command "nautilus Desktop" save Run from applications Make favorite
key shortcuts
* System (Windows) key: Switch between overview and desktop * Alt+F1: Switch between overview and desktop * Alt+F2: Pop up command dialog * Alt+Tab: Pop up window cycler * Alt+Shift+Tab: Cycle in reverse direction in the window cycler * Alt+`: Switch between windows of the same application in Alt+Tab * Ctrl+Alt+Tab: Pop up place cycler * Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R: Start and end screencast recording * Ctrl+Alt+D: Show desktop and raise windows back * Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down arrow: Switch between workspaces * Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up/Down arrow: Move the current window to a different workspace Most keybindings can be viewed under the User Menu -> System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts
List of Autostart programs when starting gnome-shell
ALT F2 gnome-session-properties
move intro screens that are too large for 800x600
- alt+f7 and then the arrow keys
- alt+f8 Resize
- shift and arrow keys
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262546
It's worth nothing, for Metacity >= 2.13.2, that if the window doesn't have a minimum size hint larger than the screen then Metacity will now force such windows to be onscreen (by shrinking and moving them as necessary). If the window has a minimum size hint larger than the screen, then the user can use alt+left-click-and-drag (or alt+f7 and then the arrow keys) to move the window upwards (including moving the titlebar offscreen) in order to get to the forward button. Yeah, that's just a workaround for windows that are too large, but it may be helpful information for those waiting for the UI changes to make the window usable on 800x600 resolutions. :) clip.... why not use a keyboard shortcut. the "next" button is marked "forward" so i hit alt + f and guess what, i was able to successfully install the program.
Reload shell ALT+F2 r (reload)
- use to recover Applications lists if they go missing and after alacarte edits
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet
- How to show user pictures on the GDM LOGIN screen
- Click "my account" on the top panel lets me edit the picture, and
- adding a picture will show it on the GDM login screen.
If you hold down Alt, a 'Shut Down' option appears in place of suspend.
Alt+Tab switches between windows
- hot corner = upper left switches between shell and running applications
- Alt+F2 allows entering a command to launch an application.
the Shell simply always behaves so there's exactly one empty workspace. So when you start a session you have one workspace. As soon as you run something it goes into that workspace and you get a second empty workspace. As soon as you put any app into that empty workspace, a new empty workspace is created. If you remove everything from any workspace, it will disappear, so there's still only one empty workspace at the bottom of the list. So, there's never any need to manually add a new workspace. Pretty neat system.
GNOME 3 is not expected to work in virtualized environments
I've just installed F15 alpha in a virtualbox machine and at the first boot I get a gnome 3 error explaining that it can't be fully initialised because 3D is not supported. GNOME3 is not expected to work in virtualized environments where hardware accelerated graphics are not available.
From http://gnome3.org/faq.html ... The GNOME 3 desktop does require hardware accelerated graphics in order to provide a cutting-edge experience however, and the complete GNOME 3 experience will only be available on computers capable of this. Do not worry though: GNOME 3 will come complete with a fallback interface which will provide an excellent experience in the absence of hardware acceleration, and which incorporates many of the improvements that can be found in GNOME 3. ------------------------------------------- test Digest, Vol 85, Issue 60, Message: 7 It's kind of a definition issue. GNOME *Shell* requires acceleration. But technically GNOME 3 does not; the fallback interface is still considered to be 'GNOME 3'. So you do need acceleration to get the Shell interface that's the 'big new thing' in GNOME 3, but still, if you don't have acceleration and you get the fallback interface instead, what you're running is still GNOME 3. Just GNOME 3's fallback interface. Adam Williamson Message: 8 In any case, VBox with 3d accelleration enables and 128MB for video memory is not sufficient for GShell. (VBox 4.0.4) Message: 13 Also, on that last note, we should clarify that right now Shell doesn't work even in virtualized environments where accelerated graphics *are* available, e.g. VirtualBox with appropriate hardware and drivers. In theory it should be possible to make this work, but in practice it currently doesn't. So there's two angles we can approach this from; make Shell run with software GL, or fix up Shell to work with virtualized graphics acceleration passthrough. But it's not at all guaranteed that we'll manage either in time for f15.
The minimum memory required is 1GB, due to anaconda changes. When you see "populate_rootfs" in the panic, it's caused by that.
Fedora-16-vs-macbook-pro-or-air
- click this link ^
- Add features to Anaconda to aid installation on Apple computers https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503149
MacPro and f15 Boot
- Clips from #fedora-qa 04/04/2011 MacPro and f15 Boot
I have a macbook pro and have run fedora 14 on it with great success. 15 alpha, on the other hand, is not going well. The installation comes saying something about "installing *** on EFI ***" which i just dismiss/ignore, but when i try to boot after installation has completed, it wont. Just saying something like "no file found". Should i do something special to install 15 alpha on a EFI system? Yeah... you may have to run gptsync (I think that's what it's called) no, you don't need to install again, but you will need to gain access to the installed partitions from another system (whether it's a Fedora live image) referring to the gptsync that is provided be rEFIt I formatted the partition to make space for a working distro. i have refit installed and my mbp boots to that at startup by default. that didnt make 15 alpha work. 14 did though you may need to enter the boot partition tool from the rEFIt menu and when it asks to run gptsync, say yes okay. I will try to install again later and do that. Thank you so far. Will get back to you guys I belive anytime partitioning changes occur on a macbook, you do need to run gptsync. Since the EFI implementation by apple isn't fully compliant with the standard, extra steps are required you don't need to reinstall ... just run gptsync from the rEFIt menu just need to get your partitions synced up
See emulator screen size adjustment.
You may also collaborate with others in the jabber.sugarlabs.org server Neighborhood (Press <F1> to see the Neighborhood view.)
Fedora OLPC
The Fedora OLPC SIG, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might later be installed using
yum install sugar-*
- Here's a video of the process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKmrtlyyCFo
- CJB suggests: as root, run: yum -y groupinstall "Sugar Desktop Environment"
The command to run Sugar is as root otherwise you may get this behavior.
sugar-emulator
For more information on the new release, please refer to the announcement here:
Mailing list
Download Mirrors and Spins
- Currently building Spins: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
- 10 days of old spin builds: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?method=createLiveCD&owner=kevin&state=all&view=tree&order=-id
Koji
- Current http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/
- Nightly Compose http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?method=createLiveCD&owner=kevin&state=all&view=tree&order=-id
Rawhide Testing
Common Bugs
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=CommonBugs&keywords_type=allwords&field0-0-0=status_whiteboard&columnlist=bug_severity,priority,component,assigned_to,bug_status,resolution,short_short_desc&classification=Fedora&query_based_on=CommonBugs%3F&query_format=advanced&type0-0-0=notregexp&value0-0-0=http.*fedoraproject.*Common_F[0-9]*_bugs&product=Fedora&known_name=CommonBugs%3F