| Problem | Solution |
| Mozilla 1.4 does not allow fields to be pasted from other applications. Therefore, you
cannot paste a URL from another application into Mozilla's location bar, nor can you paste
copied data into form fields on a web page. I am not certain if this is a problem with Mozilla
or Fedora, but it is very annoying... |
Uninstall (from rpm or helper application) all Mozilla-related packages, including the dependent packages gaim, epiphany and OpenOffice. Obtain Mozilla version >=1.6 from the Mozilla website and mozplugger >=1.5 from here. Re-install both applications from the downloaded tarballs. Do the same (if required) with gaim, epiphany and OpenOffice - probably better to download the latest tarballs in each case rather than trying to use rpm packages. |
| The Intersil PRISM II Wireless Card is incorrectly assigned to interface "eth0" in conflict with the 82801CAM
Ethernet Controller (which also sits on "eth0"). The Orinoco driver is not loaded until later when the
PCMCIA detection process starts up. |
I have not yet found a perfect solution for this... Here are a few pointers: 1. Using "neat", remove the Intersil Prism Card from the hardware list, and the second eth0 and eth1 from the interface list. 2. Add a new wireless interface, and associate it with the orinico hardware. 3. Use DHCP for the wireless IP address assignment. 4. After restart service network , ifdown eth0 and ifup eth1 . 5. Assuming you have correctly set the wireless parameters ESSID and encryption key, you may be lucky and get a network connection... |
| If you try to compile the Fedora kernel with SMP disabled, you will get the error message "undefined reference to active_load_balance". | Although there is a hack available for /usr/src/linux-2.4/kernel/sched.c it is a lot simpler just to compile the kernel with SMP enabled. Make sure that any kernel patches you apply are SMP-compatible also. |
| When the display enters "power save" mode and shuts down, it restarts at 640 x 480
resolution. |
Make sure you have multiple display modes defined in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. When the problem occurs, you can change back to the desired resolution using Ctrl-Alt-Fn-; repeatedly. |
| up2date offers to configure itself so that GPG signatures are verified, then rejects the
signatures of the updates from Red Hat!!! |
This is an old bug that has crept back into up2date for Fedora. Do not enable GPG verification. If you already have, it's too late. In that case, forget about using up2date until this bug is fixed (again). |
| The Red Carpet daemon (up2date alternative service from Ximian) crashes on installation with
a "segmentation fault". |
Install rcd version 1.x first. Then do an update (rpm -Uvh) to rcd version 2.x. |
| rpm hangs during installation of new packages. |
Re-start your computer and try again. Or install Red Carpet and use this as your package manager. |
| PCMCIA card detection hangs following a system crash |
I had this problem once, and it was very annoying. It started when the system locked up completely, and would not respond to the usual CTRL-ALT-DEL treatment. A crash power-down was the only solution, and on restarting, the Yenta PCMCIA card detection process hung the computer after: kernel: Yenta IRQ list 00b8, PCI irq11 kernel: Socket status: 300000007This was apparently caused by a conflict with a pre-existing entry in the /var/lib/pcmcia/stab file. Re-start the computer, and press <a> when the Grub splash screen is displayed, to allow a kernel initialisation option to be appended. The line presented for editing should be changed to: ... ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb init=linux singleThis will allow you to start the computer at runlevel 1 (single user) and the pcmcia card services will not be loaded. At the shell prompt, change directory to /var/lib/pcmcia, and take a look at the file named "stab". If it looks like this: Socket 0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter 0 network orinoco_cs 0 eth1 Socket 1: empty Socket 2: emptyyou have problem. Manually edit the first line, using "vi" or similar, to read: Socket 0: emptythen save and shut down (shutdown -h now). |