FC4 Problems thread: Post your problems here

Yeah, that was a typo, I have corrected it.

I don't know what I did but I got real player working. I "yum ed" libstdc++.so.5 and it installed?
I remove helix player, installed the legacy items from the CD's.
did a "yum install libstdc++*"
Then I downloaded RealPlayer again. I am now listen to Real Player.

Here's a problem, I had sound last night after I installed FC4. I installed some extra apps, NVIDIA, NTFS support, etc. I never had to reboot. Sound was working all the way through all that.

Today it won't work. The only sound I can get is white noise when I turn on "IEC958 2". Nothing else will do anything.

I can control the PCM, but I don't have any place to conrol the master or main volume. It seems like I could yesterday.

Here is lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
02:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
02:09.0 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division (formerly US Robotics) 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01)
02:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100) (rev 02)

Scratch my problem..... I saw something in dmesg that made me think I should turn off my volume contol applet on my gnome toolbar. I rebooted and had full functionality again. Strange.....

The Fedora Core 4 Release notes says this about Java:

6.1.8. Java Package Recommendations

Fedora Core 4 users are advised not to use the Java RPM provided by Sun. It contains Provides that conflict with names used in packages provided as part of Fedora Core 4. Because of this, Sun Java might disappear from an installed system during package upgrade operations.

Fedora Core 4 users should use either the RPM from jpackage.org or manually install the Sun Java tarball into /opt. Sun Java 1.5+ is recommended for stability purposes.

So I downloaded jre-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin and put it /opt like it said. I installed it. Using about plugins in firefox or mozilla, and it said Java was installed and enabled. However, when I went to a web site with a java applet, it wouldn't work.

So, using Reddazz's trick, as root I entered "setenforce 0" and brought up Firefox, and Java worked. Reboot, and it didn't work. Entered "setenforce 0" as root and it worked. Entered "setenforce 1" and it didn't work.

So evidently, there is a conflict with SELinux and Java.

Too many bugs, I'm going back to Fedora Core 3 for a month or so, then I'll try it again.

Pudge

I always us the .bin file not the RPM version. I dont use SElinux. This is how I install java in Fedora. Download the whateverversion.bin from Sun.
change to root.
1) type : chmod a+x what ever version of java.bin
I always install java in /usr, but I am sure it will work nomatter which directory you use
2) cd /usr , then make a java directory
3) mv what ever version of java.bin to /usr/java
4) cd to /usr/java
5) ./whateverversion of java
to get the plug in to Firefox, which in Fedora is /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4
cd to /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/plugins
6) type ln -s usr/java/jre1.5.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
7) from firefox address bar type: aboutlugins And you should see that java plug in listed.
See the command line is our friend!

Pudge why not just disable selinux. I don't really need it, so I disabled it.

Thanks Pudge, regarding the java

I was wondering why azureus didn't work

I get an error when I'm trying to install NFORCE driver (network part of it).
Any ideas how to fix that?

My problem is with GRUB
After install doesnt start Linux but Windows XP.
I tried several times with new install but same problem.
I did what a friend told me but the no windows

I seem to be having trouble installng wine from source. It gives me some very obscure error and then quits.

No major problems. Two very minor issues:
1. Had to replace some icons from my theme.
2. Panel Icon for Thunderbird did not work, so I replaced it.

Ok, all well now. I'm on FC4!

As per my earlier posted, I had problem with Samba and I couldn't figure it out why and how. I had gone back to RH9 from my ghosted drive. No luck to upgrade from RH9 to FC4, problem with the mouse pointer and the X-window (GUI) was lost. Well, I did another fresh installation and spent a bit time. Finally, I figured it all out. It was a VERY simple thing. The firewall was enabled and SELinux. I then disabled both. Needless to say, I'm a very happy camper now.

GREAT JOB!
I find that it is usally someting really simple that was over looked. I spent a whole day trying to to get two linux boxes talking to one another. I was trying to use samba, once I reread a "how to" I tried with NFS it was fixed in a matter of minutes.

I managed to install Nvidia drivers but Openoffice.org wont work. I tried running it through the icon then I found the application and started it from the command line and I get some error

/usr/lib/openoffice.org1.9.104/program/soffice: line 247: 5156 Segmentation fault "$sd_prog/$sd_binary" "$@"

and I still have no sound in my audigy 2 sound blaster