I have installed fedora 10 from the linux for you DVD. I think it will need some effort to get it fully functional the way I use my present fedora 8 i.e with compiz fusion, conky, cairo-dock, vlc, mp3 support, etc. So I am starting off......
I had a strange error whenever I used any rpm / yum commands :-
rpmdb: Thread/process 21524/3086247616 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
Just did the following two commands and it resolved the problem
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
yum clean all
(Solution has reference to the following thread :- http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1144320)
Conky install was simple as I just did a yum install conky. I then used a custom config file which I copied off from my fedora 8 instln. I also added a script to start conky after GUI login by adding the script to System-> Preferences -> Personal -> Sessions -> Startup Programs. The script has just two lines in it :
#!/bin/bash
sleep 10 && conky
Vlc doesnot run as root. I installed it from the rpmfusion repo. I will try to compile it from the tarball using the --enable-run-as-root=yes flag.
The runlevel 5 doesnot allow login as root. I had to comment out the following line in the /etc/pam.d/gdm file :-
auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
Every thing seems alright, only the login sound is still not working. The system sounds are there and also vlc and totem are working fine. Anyone has any idea of how to get the login sound with root. BTW it works when I use the normal/unprivileged user login.
Totem is gstreamer based. By default it can only play the vog orbis and theora files. By default with fedora 10 came plugins-base and good and flumpegdemux. To enable playing of the mp3 files I installed gstreamer-plugins-ugly. For quicktime .mov files I got plugins-bad and for xvids plugins-ffmpeg..... That was it.
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