Fedora 7/8 Session Crashes :(

[DukeNukem]

Hi To all u out there (lol)

Iam havin this strange Prob.

Ive updated my Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 for XFCE Session, Every thin went smooth

But whenever i tries to run terminal inside it XFCE session restarts to the login window.

Any Specific reason behind this ??????
SOS

[QwertyManiac]

This is a bug for old graphic card users. Its not yet fixed I guess.

Use 16-bit graphics (Change xorg.conf to reflect that) and see if it gets fixed?

LP #91849 Bug report.

Fix at LP Ans #7143 (Last but 2nd reply by Jim)

[krazzy]

I installed Fedora 7 yesterday. Its really good. But while i was changing the desktop background, while choosing the image the app stopped responding and then i had to force quit. This happens nearly every time. Whats wrong?

[QwertyManiac]

Gnome/kde/xfce ?

[krazzy]

Gnome. Anyway the problem has disappeared. Now everything is running fine. Except i can't find files that i had in windows. My D: had all my files but i can't find them in fedora. How to access them?

[infra_red_dude]

The partitions are usually automounted. If not then you can manually mount them.

Post the size of your "D:" partition also the output of "fdisk -l" in a terminal (in Fedora)

[krazzy]

When i put fdisk -l, it says command not found. Is there a space after k?

[Pathik]

^^ yup

[krazzy]

^^ I did put that space. Still it says command not found.

[praka123]

fdisk will not work for normal user,u need to be login terminal as su or in ubuntu sudo fdisk <space> -l will yield the o/p.
as ur in fedora,open a terminal and run "su" give root passwd and then run fdisk -l.

[QwertyManiac]

Just mount sda1 and sda5 (For C: and D: mostly)

Fdisk will work only if you call it as root, so do:

su -
fdisk -l

[krazzy]

I ran su and then gave the password and then ran fdisk -l again. Again it tells me command not found.

[QwertyManiac]

Try this:

/sbin/fdisk -l

And btw, do follow Miranda's personal Fedora 7 install notes, they are very useful and have a lot of hacks added to it to ease your troubles post-install:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f7.html

[infra_red_dude]

The "linux" way:
If it still gives error then Open a terminal and type: "whereis fdisk"

The easy way:
Goto System menu > Preferences > Hardware info (this is just like device manager)
Now find the IDE/SATA controller and browse through the partitions on the hard disk. Find your "D:" drive. Identify the device in the Advanced tab. Look for entries like /dev/hda5 or /dev/sda5 etc. and report back.

[krazzy]

I was able to mount D drive, but not the C drive. Also the D drive that i mounted disappeared after i shut down and restarted the pc. I guess i did something wrong.

Btw i'm not able to play any media file. The built-in players keep on asking for codecs. I have VLC player on a Digit cd for Linux, but i've no idea how to install it.

[Pathik]

wat format is the setup?? rpm??

[infra_red_dude]

You will need to add the mount command in /etc/fstab file to make it a permanent entry. Determine what file system the partition uses (ntfs or fat32) then add the entry in fstab (as root user, su command).

[DukeNukem]

This is a bug for old graphic card users. Its not yet fixed I guess.

Use 16-bit graphics (Change xorg.conf to reflect that) and see if it gets fixed?

LP #91849 Bug report.

Fix at LP Ans #7143 (Last but 2nd reply by Jim)

Thanks

[vignesh]

I ran su and then gave the password and then ran fdisk -l again. Again it tells me command not found.

Give
su - and then type fdisk -l

[krazzy]

Managed to mount D: and also made it so that it mounts every time during boot up. But couldn't mount C:. Anyway it wasn't very important.
@pathik. The digit cd had a folder of vlc which had lots of files in it. So instead i went to videolan.org and downloaded a rpm file for fedora 7. Then i double clicked and installed it. But i've no idea where it got installed and i can't find the app. Also the file was only 9kb. How can the app be so small?

Is there any codec pack for fedora 7 like k-lite mega codec pack for windows which will install all codecs at once?

I also need help to access net over nop via bluetooth.