If you are not a fan of graphical boot / shutdown & wish to disable it, this post will explain how to disable. sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/grub #change from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 $([ -x /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param ] && /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param || 
rd.luks=0 vconsole.keymap=us rhgb quiet" #change to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 $([ -x /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param ] && /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param || [...]
How to Disable Graphical Boot & Shutdown on Fedora
Fedora 18 switch to MATE Desktop
Fedora 18 is released with support for MATE desktop. For previous release one had to install MATE from third party repository. Whereas with latest version you can get MATE support with single command. To install MATE yum groupinstall MATE Like me if you are not willing to use Gnome 3 at all, you can remove [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 using fedup OR fedora-upgrade
Apart from using yum upgrade, you can also use fedup OR fedora-upgrade to upgrade fedora to latest version available. Using fedup With fedora 18 fedup replaces preuprade utility. It basically downloads boot images & required packages to upgrade from all repositories like rpmforge, dropbox etc. Once packages are downloaded you’ll be asked to reboot machine. [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 -using shell
This post explains howto Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 using shell. 32bit rpm –import https://fedoraproject.org/static/DE7F38BD.txt rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Everything/i386/os/Packages/f/fedora-release-18-1.noarch.rpm yum upgrade yum* -y yum upgrade -y 64bit rpm –import https://fedoraproject.org/static/DE7F38BD.txt rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/f/fedora-release-18-1.noarch.rpm yum upgrade yum* -y yum upgrade -y Here I had to remove qt-X11 to resolve yum upgrade error, qt-X11 was being used by [...]
Full Story »Fix Vnc Client blank screen on Mate Desktop – Fedora
By default when you run vncserver on Fedora box running gnome, you get desktop on vnc client connections. Whereas with MATE as the only desktop environment, you’ll not get any display on vnc connection. All you get it blank screen. This is probably due to Mate-session is not mentioned in xstartup. To get display on [...]
Full Story »Fedora – Mount partition without authentication
This article is for Fedora Gnome Shell users, who does not wish to enter root password while mounting partition as normal user. You need to search & replace auth_admin_keep with yes from the following file. /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy Or use following command cp /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy.bak sed -i ‘s/auth_admin_keep/yes/g’ /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy Once you are done with changes, you’ll not [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Fedora 16 to 17 -using shell
Fedora 17 is released. Below is the instruction to upgrade from Fedora 16 to 17 for 32bit & 64bit OS. Following needs to be done on both 32bit & 64bit systems rpm –import https://fedoraproject.org/static/1ACA3465.txt yum update dracut -y dracut –force –add convertfs change kernel parameter vi /etc/grub2.cfg change rw to ro add “rd.info rd.convertfs enforcing=0″ [...]
Full Story »Fedora rc.local support
Update Works with Fedora 18 Works with Fedora 17 With the latest version of Fedora 16, you’ll find many core changes which definitely improves performance but it becomes difficult to understand / make things working. Few such examples are changing a boot sequence Increasing Loop Devices Now I came across another to make rc.local working. [...]
Full Story »Upgrade Fedora 15 to 16 -using shell
To upgrade fedora to latest version F16, run following commands. yum -y update rpm –import http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386 rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-16-1.noarch.rpm yum upgrade -y If you get error, you may continue using –skip-broken. I was getting following error, hence had to remove libnih Error: Package: libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.i686 (@fedora/15) yum remove libnih Or the easiest way would be to [...]
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