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Showing posts with label Beefy Miracle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beefy Miracle. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Graduating from Fedora 18 to Ubuntu 12.10

Had waited for months to see Fedora 18 release and then finally getting a hold of it last month.....was indeed a sad experience....the common bugs that I found in routine working with the Beefy Miracle included TOO SLOW and issues with installations of common third party applications ...everi one coming up with some dependency issue.....so finally downloaded 12.10 Ubuntu yesterday and now working on that...for me its bye bye Fedora 18....but now I am fighting skype cam installation issue with Ubuntu......no luck till now

Friday, January 04, 2013

FEDORA 18 RELEASE DATE : 08 Jan 2013

Hi guys....a very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013 to you.....and for those of you like me who are waiting to upgrade ur Beefy Miracle to Fedora 18 Spherical Cow..u need to wait a few more days till 8 January 2013... that's the release date scheduled now..hope that stands by the time!!!


Thursday, December 13, 2012

TRUE CRYPT IN FEDORA 17: INSTALLATION

1.   The earlier version of Fedora had some token issues to deal with while installing True Crypt but not with this Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle.

2.   Few commands to be run from root after downloading the requisite version from the True Crypt site go as follows :

tar xvf truecrypt-7.1a-linux-x86.tar.gz 

yum install nss-pkcs11-devel fuse-devel wxGTK wxGTK-devel

yum load-transaction /tmp/yum_save_tx.2012-12-13.14-20.laXbNn.yumtx

yum install gnome-keyring-devel gcc-c++

export PKCS11_INC=/usr/include/gp11

./truecrypt-7.1a-setup-x86 

3.   Well if there are some token issues like shown below : 

../Common/SecurityToken.cpp:660: error: ‘CKR_NEW_PIN_MODE’ was not declared in this scope
../Common/SecurityToken.cpp:661: error: ‘CKR_NEXT_OTP’ was not declared in this scope

then you need to Open Common/SecurityToken.cpp in any editor and Scroll to line 660 and simply Comment out line 660 and 661. It should look like this after you edit:

//TC_TOKEN_ERR (CKR_NEW_PIN_MODE)
//TC_TOKEN_ERR (CKR_NEXT_OTP)

Sunday, November 11, 2012

FEDORA 17 & VIRTUAL BOX : Virtualbox Installs but won't load

1.   This particular problem kept me busy the whole day....and in fact I reached a point of frustration that I should switch back to Ubuntu that I was earlier using.......so the problem goes like when I install virtual box via the rps and yum commands ...I used to invariably get some odd message that mostly included the following :


Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing

'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'

2.    I would not actually lie about it...but i checked about so many forums that gave relatively the same solutions that you would have mostly found out by now...but to no avail...so the two command simple solution that would make you VB run like a horse without any issues goes like this :


yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-PAE-devel

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

offcourse you have to run this as a su -

3.   Do let me know if u r stuck on this again...the sets of commands that I run since morning as root are produced below for info only.BUt I am sure the commands above would solve your problem.

   21  wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
   22  yum update
   23  rpm -qa kernel |sort |tail -n 1
   24  uname -r
   25  reboot
   26  rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
   27  pwd
   28  cd /etc/init.d/
   29  ls
   30  cd vboxdrv
   31  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
   32  cd /var/log/
   33  more vbox-install.log 
   34  cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
   35  wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
   36  yum update
   37  yum install binutils qt gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel      
   dkms   
   38  yum install VirtualBox-4.2                                                                                  
   39  virtualbox                                                                                                  
   40  KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.11.1.el5-x86_64                                                        
   41  export KERN_DIR                                                                                             
   42  yum update virtualbox-4.2                                                                                   
   43  aptitude update                                                                                             
   44  yum install dkms gcc                                                                                        
   45  yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel                                                                     
   46  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup                                                                                   
   47  more /var/log/vbox-install.log                                                                                                                                                                    
   49  wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo                                   
   50  uname -r                                                                                                                                                                             
   53  rpm -qa kernel |sort |tail -n 1                                                                             
   54  uname -r
   55  service vboxdrv setup
   56  uname -r
   57  KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/3.6.6-1.fc17.i686.PAE
   58  export KERN_DIR
   59  virtualbox
   60  usermod -a -G vboxusers duqu
   61  virtualbox
   62  apt-get install dkms
   63  wget install dkms
   64  uname -r
   65  rpm -q kernel-devel
   66  uname -r
   67  virtualbox
   68  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
   69  more /var/log/vbox-install.log
   70  KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/3.6.6-1.fc17.i686.PAE
   71  export KERN_DIR
   72  virtualbox
   73  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
   74  uname -r
   75  yum install kernel-headers-3.6.6-1.fc17.i686.PAE
   76  exit
   77  yum install kernel-headers gcc
   78  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
   79  exit
   81  yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-   
   PAE-devel
   82  /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup


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