Picasa on Fedora

This you can find all over the web... but for my own use, and perhaps to save others browsing the many google results -

If you get this trying to run picasa -


/usr/bin/picasa: line 189:  8381 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper check_dir.exe.so
/usr/bin/picasa: line 248:  8497 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper set_lang.exe.so

Then install wine, and replace picasa's wine preloader with the one from the fedora wine install

cp /usr/bin/wine-preloader /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/bin/wine-preloader

And then, to allow sign-in to web albums -


cp /usr/lib/wine/wininet.dll.so /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/lib/wine/

Resizing LVM volumes

Just made the costly mistake of shrinking an LVM volume by booting from a DVD, and using lvm to resize directly. I should have read the following first -

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-enterprise-47/shrink-lvm-without-dataloss-557746/

Seems the key step I missed was to use 'resize2fs' to resize the filesystem first.

Having re-installed... my next step is to put a second install on the hard disk, for future recovery work.

XBMC on Fedora 15 (upgrade from Fedora 14)

After upgrading from Fedora 14 to 15, XBMC stopped working with the error below -

/usr/lib64/xbmc/xbmc.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libopenjpeg.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

An update of xbmc didn't solve the problem.

However, a subsequent update of vlc did -

Installed Packages

vlc.x86_64                                               1.1.11-1.fc14                                               @rpmfusion-free-updates/14

Available Packages

vlc.x86_64                                               1.1.11-1.fc15                                               rpmfusion-free-updates    

Actually it may have been a broken spotify repo, that led to such updates not happening automatically.

HP Laserjet M1005MFP on Fedora 15

All looked good for my printer on Fedora 15 - on plugging it in, it was detected and some installation occurred. Unfortunately when trying to print it failed, and lpstat gave the info below -


[steve@aspireone753 ~]$ lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: HP-LaserJet-M1005
device for HP-LaserJet-M1005: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_M1005?serial=KJ18MKN
HP-LaserJet-M1005 accepting requests since Fri 05 Aug 2011 17:43:13 CEST
printer HP-LaserJet-M1005 now printing HP-LaserJet-M1005-8.  enabled since Fri 05 Aug 2011 17:43:13 CEST
/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed
HP-LaserJet-M1005-7     steve             1024   Fri 05 Aug 2011 17:42:16 CEST
HP-LaserJet-M1005-8     steve             1024   Fri 05 Aug 2011 17:43:13 CEST

A further check in /var/log/messages revealed -

Aug  5 17:43:14 aspireone753 hpcups[5262]: prnt/hpcups/HPCupsFilter.cpp 418: m_Job initialization failed with error = 48


From which google found the solution below -

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611255

Fedora 15 on Acer Aspire One 753

My new Acer Aspire One 753 arrived. Somewhat to my surprise the performance of it with Windows 7 was not great, so I shrunk the volume, and installed Fedora 15. This went quite smoothly, except for the installer wanting/needing internet access. As the built-in WIFI device isn't supported by GPL drivers, I needed to plug in a cable to complete the install.

I then set about getting wifi to work as follows -

Black list acer_wmi
echo blacklist acer_wmi > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-acer.conf

Install broadcom driver
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum install kmod-wl

Fedora 15 is performing very well, and the new interface is nice.