Fedora :: Prevent Add / Remove Software's HUGE Downloads?
Feb 4, 2011
I am currently waiting about 10min already for Fedora to finish downloading whatever-it-is-it-downloads after issuing a simple 'Query'. This is bearable when my BB-connection is performing. Unfortunately, like right now, it isn't - between 10-50kB/s - and the wait is excruciating!
So, why does Fedora seem to download the complete files database at least once every 24hrs if there's an update/query issued, and not just the 'differences'? And how do I prevent it from doing so? Ubuntu arguably has access to many more files but never pulls this stuff. Fedora would appear to be completely unusable without a broadband connection! And in the time it has taken me to type this, Fedora continues to download its update at a rate of 10-30kB/s...
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May 9, 2010
Using Nicotine+ I accidentally downloaded about 11000 files from an user who's evidently too busy to properly organize his archive, and got all his stuff stored in only one big folder.
Nicotine obviously crashed, and I'm not able to open it anymore. When I launch the program, it immediately freezes, and I can do nothing but force its quit. I tried to remove and reinstall the program, but the problem persists. So I was wondering if there's a way to remove the downloads from the list outside Nicotine, editing some files.
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May 13, 2011
I just finished installing Fedora 14 and the nVidia drivers, and after a reboot everything on the screen became huge, almost as if I am zoomed in. Text, icons, windows, everything is too big. How do I fix this?
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Oct 10, 2009
I am a former KDE user and I am switching to gnome. I love amarok and quanta, so i installed them, but they seem to have a really big font, and because i am using my laptop and i have good eyesight I want to lessen the size of the fonts.
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Feb 18, 2011
I've evaluated about 15 offline storage systems this week, and one of the best was spideroak, but there's a huge issue in their shared folder structure and procedure.When you make part of your data shareable you MUST share a folder from your original disk. This is a real pain. You cannot share specific files like you can on many others.To initiate sharing your establish your unique username for sharing (different preferably than your spideroak username) the share name, and the room key (password).While you might expect the share name to be part of the URL that guides you to the share which then accepts your password for access, thats not how it works. Instead spideroak gives you a URL that contains the PASSWORD and does not even mention the share name!!
Therefore anyone you give the URL to has direct access to the share you create (which is what you are trying to accomplish in general) but any browser THEY USE will remember the URL which contains the password, not the share name.THIS IS A HUGE SECURITY ISSUE since you have no control over how an authorized user is going to access your data and from where and most users are not sophisticated enough to guard against the default intrusion they are going to leave behind.
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Dec 22, 2010
I am facing a strange problem in my server, One of my filesystem shows as 3.1G when I execute df -h command and the utilization shows as 83%, but when I cd to the directory /usr/local I could not find any huge files in that filesystem and I have searched for hidden files as well,
groupserver:~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9 3.1G 2.5G 532M 83% /usr/local
groupserver:/usr/local # du -sh *
0 bin
93M abinav
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Nov 6, 2009
Recently upgraded to fc11. Have nvidia working ok. Using kernel 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586 (not the latest). When booting up I get to gui login and see the background change. It takes 20 seconds or more before I see the login dialog box. After selecting the user it takes another 20 seconds before I see the box change to enter the password. This only happens at boot. If I logout and log back in everything is fine.
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Aug 4, 2011
My large ext4 / filesystem seems to cause huge latency problems when writing a large file. For example, if I use split to break up a 40GB file into DVD-sized chunks, my browser becomes unresponsive, and it can take several seconds for Gnome terminal to respond to a mouse click.
I installed LatencyTOP, and it shows jbd2_log_wait_commit as the big offender, with Chrome waiting on that function for over 31000ms (or 31 seconds). I tried remounting / with barrier=0, but that didn't help. My hard drive is a WD20EARS-00MVWB0 2TB SATA disk. I recently switched my BIOS from IDE emulation to AHCI mode, but that didn't help. I tried running split with ionice, and that does help, but the system still isn't responsive as it should be, and I'd hate to have to remember to ionice every large write. Here is some relevant stuff from dmesg:
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[ 1.294068] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 1.294096] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 1.294119] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[code]....
I'm running kernel version 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64.
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Aug 8, 2011
I am currently working on a project at work to do caching across a windows network (web traffic thorugh squid and windows updates with WSUS). It is proving to be an interesting learning project.This got me thinking about my home network. Currently I am running 8 Fedora Computers (with the very real possiblity of more in the forseeable future).
Oviously running "yum update" on every computer and having them download these updates directly on each computer eats a lot of bandwidth on the external link. I would like to know if there is a way to set up a proxy server (or something else for that matter) to cache yum downloads. This way when I deploy a new machine, or run updates, I can save time and bandwidth by only downloading the packages too my LAN once, instead of nearly a dozen times.
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Jun 26, 2010
I just installed Fedora 13 on my old compaq presario with a DLINK DWL-122 usb adapter. Both lights are on as if it were working, but network manager isn't auto connecting.
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Feb 15, 2009
I just switched from XUBUNTU to fedora 10 and have to say I will most likely change back. Unless someone can tell me how to speed up the internet connection in fedora. I have tried wireless and wired and it doesn't matter which I use the download rate is painfully slow. With wired I get a meg every minute. It really hurts to watch the monitor.Downloads for three seconds then takes a break for eight seconds then downloads for three more seconds and this goes on and on. I have a very fast connection and am used to getting amazing unbroken streams of data at no less than 1 meg every 2 seconds. I hope this is a rectifiable situation.
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Aug 30, 2010
I've been running Fedora Core 3 on a P4 450 as a personal Samba server and domain controller. It's worked so well that I never gave any thought to upgrading. The other night, I noticed that Up To Date wasn't working, and that Firefox was acting strangely. I made the FC 13 installation disks, whereupon I found out that the system didn't have enough memory.
Rather than mess with the P3 450 any more, instead I swapped main boards and decided to do an upgrade. it even possible to do an "upgrade" from 3 to 13? Is it possible to maintain my existing partitions/settings. I've backed up everything that I'd be too unhappy to lose. It's a two drive system and the second is nothing but data, none of it catastrophic to lose, but at least disappointing. I'd like to keep the data and settings on the primary disk, but won't cry if I can't.
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Sep 20, 2009
I keep on downloading tar.gz files into my downloads folder and i cant do anything with them. what i need to do to install the file so i can use it? An example, i am trying to install Frets on Fire, and am failing bad.
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Nov 12, 2009
I was trying to install a program and then I tried to mv comman (which I probably did wrong) but to make it short I am pretty sure I deleted the directory. I made another Downloads directory using mkdir but whenever I download anything now I have no idea where it goes.
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Nov 25, 2010
I have a fresh install of f14. Using an Intel dp55wb mobo w/ integrated nic. I have access to network. Have access to internet. When downloading large files (f14.iso or ..... vid) after ~35 secs, data stream drops to 0. Other computers on network do not have problem. F14 computer is wired into router. Have tried a Biostar mobo w/ integrated nic w/ same results. Have changed patch cable. Have changed MTU's both higher and lower from default of 1500, no change.
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Jul 20, 2009
Almost every other time I run yum update, I'm getting mirror problems - this is losing all my confidence in Fedora for several reasons: a) it's wasting time - what should be 1-2 minute updates are taking 5-10 minutes and often (like tonight) not even completing b) since it keeps hanging and switiching mirrors during downloads I wonder if the updates are coming thru okay c) the fact this is not being seriously addressed makes me wonder re Fedora quality. Add to that the constant and real annoying kernel errors popping up re network manager and sierra wireless (even when my sprint card is not plugged in).
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Jun 2, 2010
Just upgraded from FC11 to 13 a few days ago and came across a wierd problem with firefox. When downloading files thru firefox, Firefox starts consuming more and more memory/cpu cycles until the system hangs. This only happens when downloading thru firefox. Doesnt take too long either. Otherwise everything else works fine.
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Linux coffee.athome.net 2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 13 05:16:23 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
firefox-3.6.3-4.fc13.x86_64
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Nov 27, 2009
I'm trying to upgrade to F11, and I'm having trouble. I attempted to download the x86_64 DVD .iso image by bit torrent, and it seemed okay, but when I started the installation the DVD failed the initial integrity check. I tried a second time with another DVD and got the same result.I tried running md5sum on the .iso image, but the response did not match what was in the CHECKSUM file that came with the .iso image -- should it? I tried downloading a live DVD image for comparison and found the same result - the response to the md5sum command did not match what was listed in the CHECKSUM file.Should these checksums match, or am I comparing apples and oranges? I thought the bit torrent client was supposed to check the files, but I'm not sure about that.
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Jun 28, 2011
To remove pendrive when I click the 'safely remove' tab instead of getting removed from the desktop it reappears again. This problem is there in fedora 14
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Dec 15, 2010
Anyone else seeing this? I do 'safely remove' to remove USB flash drive. disappears. Five seconds (or less) later, it reappears. The second time I do 'safely remove', it stays gone.
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Jun 26, 2011
I know I need a better title, but don't have one.
The problem is when watching a video F15 Gnome decides to send me to the unlock screen. Think that's what it's called. So I have to type in my pass.
A little bit later, same thing. So how can I prevent it from happening?
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Apr 29, 2009
I'll spare the details, but is there a way to use iptables to do the following:
Allow all port 80 traffic to work for squid, yum ,etc. but prevent firefox from talking to port 80?
(That way if they don't use squid proxy, it won't work)
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Jun 11, 2010
Some body is using my domain name [URL] and sending spam emails to users from his server using my domain name. how to prevent this.
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Jun 17, 2011
I searched and only got the screen program, and the drop down menu only shows options from 1 min to 1 hour.
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Jun 17, 2011
I there anyway to prevent Fedora from going to sleep / hibernate.
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Feb 2, 2009
I am running a sever for a local community. There is arpwatch service running and monitoring for new network cards. The problem is that each day I keep getting lots of 'flip flop' reports:
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hostname: <unknown>
ip address: 0.0.0.0
ethernet address: 0:13:e8:43:b1:e7
[code]....
I know where they come from: clients are obtaining ip addresses by DHCP, and initially are sending DHCP requests from 0.0.0.0. I am running arpwatch with a specific option to NOT report such things, but it looks like it is ignored...
Code:
arpwatch -u arpwatch -e admin -N -s 'root (Arpwatch)' -i br0 -n 0.0.0.0/32
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May 11, 2009
I am new to Fedora 10, and to SELinux too.
I would like to know how can I prevent from users with role user_r to connect to Internet with firefox.
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Jul 12, 2009
I am running a program in gnome-terminal window (using metacity window manager) which will take many hrs to complete.
I was wondering if there is some way to "lock" that window, so that accidental closing of that window is prevented.
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Jul 14, 2009
I am facing a really weird kind of issues where my boss has asked me block everybody from changing their wallpapers and put a default one there.
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Feb 15, 2011
I have a headless server, and I want to prevent GDM 2.30 from starting the graphical login on the console screen. As I use XDMCP, I still need GDM running on the server... With previous versions of GDM, I was doing that through gdmsetup, which ended with these lines in /etc/custom.conf :
Code:
[servers]
0=inactive
but it seems that it's not working anymore with 2.30...
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