I encountered this problem. I was using phpmyadmin and I keep on getting “Internet Server Error” whenever I browse records.

I tried resetting mysql service using “service mysqld restart”, it didn’t work. I tried rebooting the mysql server but it didn’t work either.

I later on found out that clearing your browser’s cookies will do the trick. So try clearing your cookies and see if it works for you.

Fedora Core 9 Alpha is now available. Note that this isn’t the final FC9 release. This is the Alpha release.

Some of highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha:

• GNOME 2.21 Development Release
• KDE 4.0
• Firefox 3 Beta 2
• Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
• Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
• PackageKit
• Kernel 2.6.24

And numerous other improvements and enhancements.

The final release is set to happen on April 29, 2008. Should you want more details of the release schedule of FC9, check this out.

The Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and
via bittorrent.

In Fedoraproject.org here’s the download link:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

For direct http access to a local mirror:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Alpha/

For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols
they support:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Alpha/

For bittorrent:
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

I was installing ISPConfig to a Fedora Core 7 Installation but when I rebooted, it shows a black screen with a cursor that appears to be “busy”. Logging in remotely via ssh seems to be working but when I check out which process was “hanging” by issuing the “top” command, I see that gdmgreeter seems to be using up a lot of CPU resource. About 70% to 90%.

After searching google for “ISPconfig conflict” “ispconfig gdmgreeter” “ispconfig hang” and similar keywords, the solution I found that worked best was to create/edit the file called “/etc/sysconfig/desktop”

vi /etc/sysconfig/desktop

and add the following two lines to the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop

DESKTOP=”GNOME”
DISPLAYMANAGER=”KDE”
After reboot, everything works properly. I believe this solution also works for Fedora Core 8. Leave a comment if it worked for you.

We’re trying to run an HP4355 all in one fax,scan,copy,print printer in linux (Fedora Core 5). As you know, one of the biggest challenges with using linux is searching for drivers.

I’ve found a great application in sourceforge that supports many HP printers in linux. Its called HP Linux Imaging and Printing (http://hplip.sourceforge.net).

Configuring HP for linux was easy using hplip. You might need to connect your printer to the internet as there is a point where it will download (via yum) development packages from the internet.

You can then use CUPS to add the device and manage the printing. CUPS has a web management interface at (http://localhost:631).

I was playing around with linux today and thought about running an application in a linux box while displaying the window in WinXP. Yeah doing a ssh from WinXP will work for command line and non-Xwindows applications, but how about if its an Xwindows application? After a few minutes on the internet, I found a good solution. It’s called Cygwin.

Cygwin is a set of powerful tools to assist developers in migrating applications from UNIX®/Linux to the Microsoft® Windows®; platform. Cygwin/X is the port of X Window System to Cygwin.
I downloaded cygwinx and followed the cygwin/X installation guide . An important note to remember is this…

You may also want to ensure that the inetutils and openssh packages are selected if you wish to use telnet and ssh to connect to remote machines.

So after installation, I fired up cygwin and I was given a shell prompt. Here’s what I did next.

1. I started Xwindows (I used the command ‘startx‘), and another window opened up.

2. I typed ssh -Y -l user remote-ip to login as user in the remote machine where the Xwindows application resides

3. Once I was able to login, I just run the application in the linux shell. You can try running xterm, or xclock and the application will be shown on your Windows Box.

The nice thing about running an application in the linux box is that you don’t use your WinXP’s resources. Since the application is running in the linux box, it utilized the linux box’s resources (ie memory, diskspace).

It also allows you to have the freedom to use one machine and manage things remotely.