5 issues with Fedora

[malizmaj]

Hi, have just moved over from Ubuntu 12.04 and am configuring gnome 3, and indeed Fedora in general. There are some issues though that I don't seem able to solve. These are:

1. I'm unable to change screen resolution to the 1600 x 1200 ?) I had in Ubuntu. I have a Mobility Radeon HD 3650 card and have donwloaded and partially installed the proprietry drivers (although the installation aborted for an unknown reason but screen properties have improved).

2. I'm unable to change panel bar colour via gnome-shell.css. In fact the panel remains the same in spite of altering the panel.svg image properties in GIMP. So it seems to me the css file is being ignored, or partially ignored (ALT+right click works and this would be fine except for)

3. I'm unable to change panel font colour via .gtkrc-2.0, which, alongside daughter files, also seems to be ignored.

4. I'm unable to automount nfts partitions via manual fstab or automatic PySDM (fstab). This is perhaps the most serious issue. I am informed on boot that one volume is of incorrect size and am unable to proceed (or I don't understand how to proceed). I have to reboot using the recovery disk and comment out the partitions in fstab.

5. I cannot run Matlab due to -9 license error. I've contacted them about that. I suspect though it has something to do with permissions or SELinux. it's the same machine, same hostid, same login name as was the machine, hostid and login name that ran matlab in Ubuntu.

thanks in advance

mali Zmaj

[Arran13]

Point 4: Try to mount with GParted. I had same problem and with KPartition it worked immediately.

[Jean Pierre]

4. I'm unable to automount nfts partitions via manual fstab or automatic PySDM (fstab). This is perhaps the most serious issue. I am informed on boot that one volume is of incorrect size and am unable to proceed (or I don't understand how to proceed). I have to reboot using the recovery disk and comment out the partitions in fstab.

How did you format this partition ?
ntfsfix should fix most cases when the file system overflows the partition. You might first do a test run :

# as root
ntfsfix -n /dev/partition

In pathological situations you may have to format again.

[malizmaj]

thanks Jean Pierre and Arran13!

Both routes could lead to a solution. The issue was resolved (and flagged both by gparted and ntfsfix) because of some rogue clusters in one NTFS partition. These were fixed by booting into Windows, running chkdsk /f and then booting twice more into Windows before Fedora. Once in Fedora I used pysdm to automount the partitions and, lo and behold, all works well!

hvala lepo (thanks very much!)

mali Zmaj