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Fedora Core 2
Fedora Core 2 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror
sites near you, and is also available in the torrent. Fedora Core has
expanded in this release to four binary ISO images and four source ISO
images, and is available for both x86-64 and i386.
Right after I upgrade my RH9 to Fedora C1, my Mozilla can't send
email any more. It will pop up an input box for me to authorize
the smtp connection from my user account to localhost. This extra
step was never necessary before. More over, even I input my right
password, Mozilla will still fail the authorization.
What kind of MTA is used Fedora C1? What is the right way to
configure it so that this extra authorization step is not
necessary?
I searched on google before raising this question, and it seems
that it is still an unsolved problem:
http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=m2y8tjvp3g.fsf%40consult.pretender&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dr%26as_drrb%3Dq%26q%3Dmozilla%2Bfedora%2Bsmtp%2B%2Bgroup%253A*linux*%26btnG%3DSearch
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| > > Didi you ever get this working? I have spent many hours trying to
| > > accomplish this exact thing, but with no solution yet...
| >
| > No luck so far... I am surprised that I never heard any responses back
| > since I would have thought that either more people are effected or I
| > am missing something very trivial.
|
| I had the basically the same problem after "upgrading" to
| sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1 on fedora, with the same error while attempting
| to sendmail through mozilla, though my "usual" mail worked fine. I
| messed around for awhile and can only think it was an unwanted compile
| option. For now, I fixed the problem by migrating back to
| sendmail-8.12.8-9.90 from redhat 9. If anyone finds a better
| solution, I'ld be happy to hear it.
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I am wondering if there is any solution to it.
Mozilla can't send mails after upgrading to Fedora
$ telnet localhost smtp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
$ telnet localhost www
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.
service saslauthd start
Starting saslauthd: [ OK ]
$ telnet localhost smtp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
— still the same
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Date: 2004-02-27 12:30:50 PST
I'm trying to get sendmail auth to work on Fedora Core 1. I've followed
instructions from over a dozen different sites and everything seems to be
set up properly (I get LOGIN and PLAIN listed as available when I send EHLO)
but I get an Authentication Failed error ever time I try to send.
here is my Sendmail.mc file:
[…]
here is my Sendmail.conf (/usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf) file:
I've tried pam, shadow, and passwd as well.
It seems that it has to be some problem with how it is checking the
password, but I can't figure out what the problem is. Anybody have any
ideas?
I found an artivle on sendmail.org that suggested there was a problem with
login/plain using Sendmail 8.12.4+ and Cycrus-SASL-2.1.13-17 that required a
patch to login.c to fix. anyone know more details about this and how
exactly to apply the fix?
Jeff Crystal
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Date: 2004-01-30 06:37:43 PST
I have sendmail 8.12.8.9 (rpm from RedHat) and squirrelmail work perfectly
on my RH9.0 After upgrading to fedora (sendmail 8.12.10) I encounter some
problems. I can autenthicate, post and check mail using web interface
(squirrermail). I can check mail (pop3 and pop3s) using mail client but I
can't authenticate with sendmail when I post using a mail client. I think
the problem is related to the sasl2 lybrary but I can't figure how to fix
the problem.
Upgrade from RH9.0 to Fedora: sendmail problems
I have finally discovered the problem: I havent't started the service
saslauthd. After starting it everything works perfectly…
Massimo
Upgrade from RH9.0 to Fedora: sendmail problems
checked and not working for me.
Newsgroups: linux.redhat.install
Date: 2004-06-07 03:00:04 PST
I am running RedHat9 on Intel (Pentium 4) and think about switching
to Fedora. May I install FC2 right away or do I have to install FC1
first and the upgrade to FC2? Is FC2 for 32bit processor or only
for 64bit?
Fedora: FC1 or FC2, which to install?
> to Fedora. May I install FC2 right away
Yes.
> Is FC2 for 32bit processor or only for 64bit?
FC2 is 32bit. There is a special 64bit edition coming (or possibly already
available, but I don't know much more about it).
Rex
Fedora: FC1 or FC2, which to install?
If you are running RH 9 without any problems , then **DON'T** install FC2
!!! , it's a load of crap !
I had RH 9 running really good and then I did a fresh install with FC 2
about 6 days ago and I have had nothing but problems !!!
Can't get my GF 4 MX video card to work with the nvidia driver , can't get
NFS working properly , can't get samba to work properly , can't get access
to the Gnone samba utility , I have had problems with slow disk reads ,
stalling on boot ups and shutdowns , mainly with NFS and CUPS and the TERM
signal , sluggish response when I access the BIOS at boot up ( yeah that IS
strange ) , some apps don't open when you click on them in the menu ( I
installed everything ) and to frigging top it all off , I just downloaded
80 Mb of updates on a 56 K dial up line and the frigging U2Date package
installation has locked up on me just when it was about to install all the
downloaded packages.
I had a blank Up2Date package installation screen sitting on the desktop and
the frigging hour glass spinning around for the last 10 minutes , I shut the
thing down and now I can't even re-open the Up2Date package installer to
retrieve the updates .
FC 2 is just a piece of crap and a poor man's version of RH 9 , even some of
the file and desktop utilities are tedious and crappy.
I have spent the last 4 days trying to get FC 2 to work , and I have been
using linux on and off for a while and know how to configure a lot of the
system files , but this crap I have on my machine , it has had too many
different problems to from a wide variety of areas to just be a
configuration problem , it's the OS itself that's full of bugs.
I have just now tried to log out of Gnome , and even that has locked up on
me.
My machine is a Intel 866 Mhz CPU , 512 Mb of Ram.
FC 2 is a piece of crap and a Lemon !
Sandgroper
Fedora: FC1 or FC2, which to install?
> FC 2 is a piece of crap and a Lemon !
Yeh.. I had FC1 running real nice here, all I wanted was
to get RealPlayer going.. was working on that, and other
plugins (got flash and java going).. then I went ahead
and "upgraded" with the four FC2 disks. What a mistake
that has turned out to be!
Error applets on going into Gnome, "XKB cannot start.."
etc (apparently it sees two keyboards, pretty funny,
seeing as how I, like billions of others, have only
one attached to my machine, the same one that's been
there through many OSs with *no* problems), hard crashes
when using the "search for files" feature, no changes
when I try to make little configuration changes here and
there.. all stuff that I had *no* problem with in FC1
before this "upgrade."
Ah, well, live and learn.. it's basically beta, I
guess. :)
I'm going to have to just format this out and go back
to the FC1 that I was doing well with (struggled with
the Mozilla plugins, but did learn a thing or two,
thanks to help in these usenet groups and Google).
Say la veeeeeeeeeeeee.. :)
Happy Bag
Fedora: FC1 or FC2, which to install?
> Ah, well, live and learn.. it's basically beta, I
> guess. :)
>
> I'm going to have to just format this out and go back
> to the FC1 ...
Yeah , I was quite happy with RH 9 , I had just got it to the stage of it
running smoothly , and then stupid me , I wanted to upgrade to what was
supposed to be a faster kernel , and all I have had is problems , I would go
back to RH 9 if I could get all the updates to kernel 2.4.20-30.9 .
I have been thinking about scrapping FC 2 altogether and installing FC 1 ,
at least I know that the kernel is fairly good as it is shipped with
2.4.22-1.2115
Sandgroper
Fedora: FC1 or FC2, which to install?
> I have been thinking about scrapping FC 2 altogether and installing FC 1 ,
> at least I know that the kernel is fairly good as it is shipped with
> 2.4.22-1.2115
a-HEM .. well, now.. I've not yet gone back to FC1, opting
to fool around with FC2 a bit more.. I finally did get all
of the plugins to work properly, inclucing RealPlayer8, Java,
and Shockwave Flash. That makes me happy. .. however:
Whenever I go into Gnome I get an error applet about my
keyboard. Plus, the CD player doesn't work at all; it
just sits there not recognizing the CD I put in. The test
sound works for the sound card, so I'm puzzled about the
CD player, it shows nothing of the CD content, etc.
Any ideas as to how to proceed to correct the keyboard
applet error message (which only comes up in Gnome, my
favorite environment, and not in KDE) and the CD problems
would be appreciated very much.
Happy Bag
Fedora: FC1 or FC2, which to install?
> Error applets on going into Gnome, "XKB cannot start.." etc
#cd /etc/X11/xkb/rules
ln -s xorg xfree86
ln -s xorg.lst xfree86.lst
probably one of these links is already there, but I don't remember which.
The other must be made manually.
I used strace to sort this out.
I have another issue with gnome:
When I make a new user, then it works.
When I work as "peter" then nautilus crashes.
The same happens when I start nautilus as root and when I goto /home/peter.
I removed all non dotted files from my homedir but this had no effect.
Started nautilus from command-line, but it doesnt give errormessages, only
a bug-report-window appeared.
Output of strace nautilus was not helpful for me.
Could not find out the reason why, and I am a
very happy KDE-User now ;-)
I had a win4lin Kernel in FC1 when I upgraded for FC2. FC2 did not update
the kernel correctly and refused to boot after upgrading.
It did not copy initrd. It copied the kernel, but it did not change
grub.conf correctly.
I did not know this, because the system did not boot anymore and I coulnt
see it.
Then I tried to make a fresh installation and it refused to make a new
logical partition. (All my primary partitions are used) Then I partioned
with acronis. Then FC2 barfed about double disk-labels and installation
terminated. I restarted acronis and corrected the disklabels. Then FC2
installed, but it did not find the previous installation and I did'nt
remember the disklabels. Then I booted Knoppix and compared the old and
the new /boot partition and made the necessary corrections.
Then it booted,but I got the above mentioned problems with gnome and
nautilus.
Updating required about 10 reboots and 1 1/2 days, and I am a happy
FC2 user now ;-)
I believe, upgrading will only work -if at all- for a very vanilla system
and I don't recommend it.
If possible, do a fresh installation.
peter
