Fedora Week News, Issue 144

2008-09-22 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 144 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 144 for the week ending September 20, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue144 Selected Contents: In this issue we cover the upcoming plans for

Fedora Weekly News #144

2008-09-22 Thread Oisin Feeley
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 144 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 144 for the week ending September 20, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue144 In this action packed issue Announcements reminds you of important Fedora 10 freeze dates and the latest on the post security scare

Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-22 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 23:58 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Luya, I'm not Luya, but oh well. Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: A poll was made following my posting[1] about the four theme that qualified for Round 3 in fedora-fr (the forum lacked tool for poll). You can view the result [2]. Use a

Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-22 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Máirín Duffy a écrit : Hi Luya, Would you mind giving us a summary? Sure, here is summary of comments from fedora-fr for each theme: About Solar: - Sun to bright from one voter - Effects that brought back the success of Flying High theme from Fedora 7 - the most favourite theme by far

Re: [Echo] New view-sort-ascending icon set draft

2008-09-22 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 00:30 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Shadow is fixed. Both 22x22 and 16x16 got outline sightly reduced to give more space to white inner outline. Ball object got radial gradient set at the right position. Luya Hmm... still not feel good. The 22x22 is almost fixed, but

R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-22 Thread Samuele Storari
Wow! I can't believe it! The result is so impressive... I really can't immagine that. Sorry, but what about the official vote? Samuele - Messaggio originale - Da: Luya Tshimbalanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including icons, themes, and

Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-22 Thread Marco Mornati
Hi, I read all comment on French Forum... Just a point... I noticed that there are some problems to have a Katana on a desktop and there were a propose to change with something like bamboo... I think that a substitution of katana with something different (different than an arms) change also the

Re: [Echo] New view-sort-ascending icon set draft

2008-09-22 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Martin Sourada a écrit : Still not quite right, so I decided to give it a go myself to see what can be done. See the attached result. Note that I also slightly changed the gradient to better fit with other icons (most notably I made it brighter). I saw that you increased outline to 2.5 px

Re: [Echo] New view-sort-descending icon set draft

2008-09-22 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 02:33 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Same as view-sort-ascending with inverted arrow. Luya Looks pretty good, I have no comments :) Martin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___

Re: [Echo] New edit-clear icons

2008-09-22 Thread Martin Sourada
On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 16:00 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Martin Sourada a écrit : Yeah, that is much better. Could you add some outline to the stripe as well? Also you could make the handle a little bit broader in the smaller sizes. Could you try using dark brown outline instead of the

Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-22 Thread David Nielsen
Den 22. sep. 2008 10.07 skrev Marco Mornati [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I read all comment on French Forum... Just a point... I noticed that there are some problems to have a Katana on a desktop and there were a propose to change with something like bamboo... I think that a substitution of

Round 3 Vote is now open

2008-09-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi folks, Nigel Jones set up a vote for us to vote on round 3. You must be a member of the art group in the accounts system to be eligible to vote. Here is where you may vote: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/f10art The voting will close on Wednesday, September 24 at 1 AM UTC

Re: Happy 5th Birthday banner

2008-09-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 12:13 -0500, Michael Beckwith wrote: I like this overall, but the text on the banner sounds like we're closing shop. If we could somehow add and many more or something similar to it, it'd be better in my opinion Maybe Thank you, Fedora Community, for five great

Re: Plymouth animated startup

2008-09-22 Thread Charlie Brej
Charlie Brej wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: I just saw your startup screen running on Ray Strode's machine and it is really fantastic. It'd be cool to see one with spinning gears for Gears, and one with solar flares for Solar! The gear one was easy to implement, it is just a case of deciding

Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
Samuele Storari wrote: Yep, Everyone who saw invinXble doesn't say nothing negative for the katana... I do have an issue with Fedora being represented with a weapon and I've seen other feedback to this effect in IRC and I believe on this list. ~m

Re: R: Re: R: Re: Round 3 theme and fedora-fr community

2008-09-22 Thread Klaatu
I am not clear, is this to be the final katana or is it still being swapped out with a newly photographed one? I recall there being an issue with licensing, and thought we would be seeing a different sword...but maybe I missed the thread in which all of this was solved. -klaatu On Mon, Sep

Re: State of Fedora Education Artwork

2008-09-22 Thread María Leandro
something like this? http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-science-pe.png http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-education-pe.png (just draws) 2008/9/23 Sebastian Dziallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I just wanted to give a short update on the state of the artwork request for the Education SIG [1]. Maria

requesting art group membership? please read this

2008-09-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi, Since i announced the F10 theme vote, we've received a deluge of art group membership requests, some clearly approveable but many not. Here is a reminder of what you need to do in order to be considered for membership in the FAS art group, as outlined on the Fedora Art Team main wiki

Re: Plymouth animated startup

2008-09-22 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu
Charlie Brej escribió: I added some shading to the invinXble theme [1]. And I had a bit of a go at creating solar flares[2] on the solar theme[3]. This still needs quite a bit of work and it doesn't look as nice as thee invinXble one. [1] http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/3.swf [3]

Re: State of Fedora Education Artwork

2008-09-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
María Leandro wrote: something like this? http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-science-pe.png http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-education-pe.png (just draws) Yeah! Looks really good so far... the first one looks good for a science spin (even if it seems to be kind of chemistry-related) and the second

FedoraQA Art Request

2008-09-22 Thread María Leandro
Hello! I was reading the Artwork Design Service and some ideas came up on the FedoraQA open request. I was talking a little with jlaska at the IRC channel and this are two propositions. (draws). Hope some like it :D http://tatica.org/tux/FedoraQA.png http://tatica.org/tux/FedoraQA2.png --

Self-introduction

2008-09-22 Thread Kevin Kofler
I just applied for membership for the art group in FAS. My existing contributions to Fedora artwork: * I helped with fedoraflyinghigh-kdm-theme (the KDM port of the equivalent GDM theme) and did fedorainfinity-kdm-theme (KDM port of fedorainfinity-gdm-theme) essentially all alone. * I also did

Re: State of Fedora Education Artwork

2008-09-22 Thread María Leandro
just another idea http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-edu-wp2-wide.png 2008/9/23 Sebastian Dziallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] María Leandro wrote: something like this? http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-science-pe.png http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-education-pe.png (just draws) Yeah! Looks really good

Re: State of Fedora Education Artwork

2008-09-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
María Leandro wrote: just another idea http://tatica.org/tux/fedora-edu-wp2-wide.png Yeah! Again thumbs up :) I like it. I'm wondering how it could be best integrated in a wallpaper... 2008/9/23 Sebastian Dziallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] María Leandro wrote:

Re: Broken dependencies: perl-Test-AutoBuild

2008-09-22 Thread Mike McLean
Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 00:49 -0400, Jens Petersen wrote: How does that stop perl-Test-AutoBuild-darcs.noarch getting into ppc64 trees? ExcludeArch ExcludeArch is odd, and is distinctly tied to the build. Note that only srpms get the ExcludeArch/BuildArchs/ExclusiveArch

Re: Broken dependencies: perl-Test-AutoBuild

2008-09-22 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:06 -0400, Mike McLean wrote: While certain tools might theoretically be able to look up the matching srpm, check this data, and enforce it in some way for the built rpms, I don't believe there is any way to signal such restrictions only for a sub-package. In any

New meeting? Request for ideas!

2008-09-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, what do you think about a new meeting? I'm not sure, if I'll be available this Friday, but how about having a meeting soonish? As you may've noticed, the Education Math Spin Preview went out (http://sdziallas.joyeurs.com/blog/2008/09/finally-releasing-an-education.html), but it has

rpms/pango/devel .cvsignore, 1.79, 1.80 pango.spec, 1.144, 1.145 sources, 1.79, 1.80

2008-09-22 Thread Matthias Clasen
Author: mclasen Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/pango/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv4395 Modified Files: .cvsignore pango.spec sources Log Message: 1.22.0 Index: .cvsignore === RCS file:

rpms/pango/devel pango.spec,1.145,1.146

2008-09-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Author: behdad Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/pango/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv27764 Modified Files: pango.spec Log Message: Rebuild against new cairo Index: pango.spec === RCS file:

Change Request - Elections

2008-09-22 Thread Nigel Jones
Technically not directly covered in the Beta Freeze, but it's only running on app4 at the moment and the settings it's on now is okay for the infrequent use of casual browsing, but the Art team want to use it for the next 36 or so hours. Can I get a +1 to bump to the resources used during the

Re: Change Request - Elections

2008-09-22 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 01:08 +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: Technically not directly covered in the Beta Freeze, but it's only running on app4 at the moment and the settings it's on now is okay for the infrequent use of casual browsing, but the Art team want to use it for the next 36 or so hours.

Re: Change Request - Elections

2008-09-22 Thread Nigel Jones
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 09:25 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 01:08 +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: Technically not directly covered in the Beta Freeze, but it's only running on app4 at the moment and the settings it's on now is okay for the infrequent use of casual browsing, but the

Re: Change Request - Elections

2008-09-22 Thread Luke Macken
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:32:23AM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 09:25 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 01:08 +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: Technically not directly covered in the Beta Freeze, but it's only running on app4 at the moment and the settings it's on

haproxy SOP

2008-09-22 Thread Mike McGrath
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/SOP/haproxy As most of you know we're slowly migrating from mod_proxy_balancer to haproxy. Just doing an app at a time. here's the haproxy SOP. -Mike ___ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list

Change request: bugfix for packagedb-bzsync

2008-09-22 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
We've got a pair of problems with the packagedb-bugzilla sync script that is keeping bugzilla from being updated with new information that I'd like to deploy. Both are extremely simple (so easy to back out) and both are causing bugzilla to not update. 1) config change. The debug flag was left

Big thank you to the Fedora infrastructure team

2008-09-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, Just passing on the message, http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=199590 Rahul ___ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] SGI Further Opens its OpenGL Contributions

2008-09-22 Thread Alexey Torkhov
Tom spot Callaway wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 20:22 +0400, Alexey Torkhov wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: http://lwn.net/Articles/299429/ SGI has announced it is releasing a new version of the SGI Free Software License B. The license, which now mirrors the free X11 license used

Re: nirbhay jain wants to add you as a friend.

2008-09-22 Thread Brian Tillman
Anyone think I have a chance?? On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:14 PM, nirbhay jain wrote: nirbhay jain Take a look at my new website. The site is great for sharing pictures, videos, music and blogs. It is also a great way to meet new people and stay in touch with your friends.

Re: wrong aspect ratio in xine and mplayer

2008-09-22 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 14:18 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: I seem to have a problem with some video clips - both xine and mplayer show them in incorrect aspect ratio. I've seen that from time to time, and the workaround you mentioned doesn't exist in my mplayer. But that sort of thing works

lost my cordless mouse

2008-09-22 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Hi, Suddenly I lost my cordless mouse. Of course it might have something to do with the last updates. I checked xorg.conf, but I can not detect any differences with former versions. In fact the mouse is not mentioned in xorg.conf at all. A wired mouse works as usual. Does anyone have any

Re: ath5k won't connect -- sometimes

2008-09-22 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The access point is about 6 feet away so it's not a signal issue (and my phone connects with no problem so the AP is OK as well) I'm curious as to whether the signal indicator that NetworkManager shows us on the desktop is simply

Re: Udev / DVD naming

2008-09-22 Thread Tomasz Torcz
Dnia 2008-09-20, sob o godzinie 12:59 -0400, Brian C. Huffman pisze: All, How are dvd devices setup with regard to naming? I upgraded my motherboard, cpu, memory and combined the HD and DVD-RW/CDRW onto the same IDE channel (they were separated before one on primary, one on secondary),

Re: microphone not recording

2008-09-22 Thread Antonio M
2008/9/20 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Antonio M wrote: 2008/9/17 Antonio M [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/9/17 Antonio M [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/9/17 JoaoCid [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Also, many thanks for the feedback! In fact, I've done that before also without success... I've tried

ssh -X root, then su - don't bring terminal

2008-09-22 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi I'm trying to test the installation of a software in HP-UX (B.11.11). To do that, I'm logging in as root[1], then changing to the user[2]. But after changing I could not export the terminal[3]. But if I try the same using Opensuse 11.0, everything works fine. In my machine, I issue the

Not detecting my sata hard disk and dvd drive during installation

2008-09-22 Thread Ajith Raj
Hi, I recently bought a compaq notebook(CQ50-106AU), which has got an inbuilt Nvidia chipset. i have an vista installed in one of its paritioned volume. I tried to install Fedora in my system. Once cd got booted from my Optiarc ATA dvd drive, to my surprise i found that it hasnt detected my

Re: ssh -X root, then su - don't bring terminal

2008-09-22 Thread GS R
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi I'm trying to test the installation of a software in HP-UX (B.11.11). To do that, I'm logging in as root[1], then changing to the user[2]. But after changing I could not export the terminal[3]. But if I try the same using Opensuse 11.0, everything works fine. In

Re: Not detecting my sata hard disk and dvd drive during installation

2008-09-22 Thread Alan Cox
paritioned volume. I tried to install Fedora in my system. Once cd got booted from my Optiarc ATA dvd drive, to my Which release of Fedora surprise i found that it hasnt detected my hard disk as well as my cd rom. Well then i used a command at the cmd (linux acpi apci pci=acpi)...then it

Re: FireFox 3 EULA

2008-09-22 Thread Steve Hill
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Tim wrote: setting your language preferences (what can you read, what do you prefer, necessary for painless use of websites that do content negotiation) Should this not be a system wide setting rather than browser specific? It isn't as if anyone would want their whole

How to archive to DVD?

2008-09-22 Thread Colin Paul Adams
My home drive is nearly full - mostly with photos. I have created a directory named archive, and moved all the photo directories into it. Now I want to write the contents of that archive directory to a DVD (double layer - 8.5 GB). What is the easiest way to do this? (Fedora 9 - I use GNOME). --

Re: How to archive to DVD?

2008-09-22 Thread Paul
Hi, I have created a directory named archive, and moved all the photo directories into it. Now I want to write the contents of that archive directory to a DVD (double layer - 8.5 GB). What is the easiest way to do this? (Fedora 9 - I use GNOME). yum -y install k3b Create new Data DVD Drag

Re: How to export terminal to F9 using r-tools?

2008-09-22 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Tom Horsley wrote: It should be something simple. I know in opensuse 10.x you have open the port 6000 in the displaymanager file. But I could not find something similar in Fedora. Oh, I agree, it should be simple. Before fedora 9 got all improved there was the gdmsetup tool where you could

Re: lost my cordless mouse

2008-09-22 Thread Todd Zullinger
Peter Lesterhuis wrote: Suddenly I lost my cordless mouse. Of course it might have something to do with the last updates. I checked xorg.conf, but I can not detect any differences with former versions. In fact the mouse is not mentioned in xorg.conf at all. A wired mouse works as usual.

mirrors.fedoraproject.org from China

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Vinton
I have a simple question. I live in Shanghai, and I have found that everything on: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ is blocked. A specific example of what is blocked is: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f9.newkeyarch=x86_64 If this site is unavailable, yum does

Re: mirrors.fedoraproject.org from China

2008-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
Jason Vinton wrote: I have a simple question. I live in Shanghai, and I have found that everything on: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ is blocked. A specific example of what is blocked is: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f9.newkeyarch=x86_64 If this

Re: mirrors.fedoraproject.org from China

2008-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: Not from your end But, I can tell you that I can get to http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f9.newkeyarch=x86_64 and tracepath is very similar to yours. So, the tracepath is not a valid indicator of why you can't get to that URL.

Re: How to archive to DVD?

2008-09-22 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:32 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: My home drive is nearly full - mostly with photos. I have created a directory named archive, and moved all the photo directories into it. Now I want to write the contents of that archive directory to a DVD (double layer - 8.5 GB).

Re: mirrors.fedoraproject.org from China

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Vinton
Ed Greshko wrote: Not from your end But, I can tell you that I can get to http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f9.newkeyarch=x86_64 and tracepath is very similar to yours. So, the tracepath is not a valid indicator of why you can't get to that URL.

Re: mirrors.fedoraproject.org from China

2008-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
Jason Vinton wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Not from your end But, I can tell you that I can get to http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f9.newkeyarch=x86_64 and tracepath is very similar to yours. So, the tracepath is not a valid indicator of why you

Re: FireFox 3 EULA

2008-09-22 Thread Tim
Tim: setting your language preferences (what can you read, what do you prefer, necessary for painless use of websites that do content negotiation) Steve Hill: Should this not be a system wide setting rather than browser specific? It isn't as if anyone would want their whole system to be

Re: How to archive to DVD?

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:32 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: My home drive is nearly full - mostly with photos. I have created a directory named archive, and moved all the photo directories into it. Now I want to write the contents of that archive directory to a DVD (double layer - 8.5 GB).

Re: mirrors.fedoraproject.org from China

2008-09-22 Thread quanzhan Zhang
C:\Documents and Settings\Administratortracert mirrors.fedoraproject.org Tracing route to wildcard.fedoraproject.org [209.132.176.120] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 *** Request timed out. 215 ms10 ms10 ms 218.4.12.193 316 ms13 ms14 ms

Re: mirrors.fedoraproject.org from China

2008-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
quanzhan Zhang wrote: C:\Documents and Settings\Administratortracert mirrors.fedoraproject.org http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org Tracing route to wildcard.fedoraproject.org http://wildcard.fedoraproject.org [209.132.176.120 http://209.132.176.120] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 *

Re: lost my cordless mouse

2008-09-22 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Todd Zullinger wrote: Peter Lesterhuis wrote: Suddenly I lost my cordless mouse. Of course it might have something to do with the last updates. I checked xorg.conf, but I can not detect any differences with former versions. In fact the mouse is not mentioned in xorg.conf at all. A wired

Media and Mnt

2008-09-22 Thread Gopal Ghosh
What is the difference between /media and /mnt -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Media and Mnt

2008-09-22 Thread Tomasz Torcz
Dnia 2008-09-22, pon o godzinie 17:57 +0530, Gopal Ghosh pisze: What is the difference between /media and /mnt http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT -- Tomasz Torcz -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

problems with /etc/mtab file on fedora 9

2008-09-22 Thread Eric Doutreleau
well i have the following problem on my fedora 9 machine we have an hundred of workstation that use autofs and ldap to mount share from an nfs server and these workstation have a big /etc/mtab. It seems that the /etc/mtab is not cleaned during reboot. then at the boot the workstation try to

lvm2 problem

2008-09-22 Thread Bogdan Sarandan
Hello, I want to know if there is any way to recover data from a damage lvm2 partition. The case is like this. We had a fedora core 7 server and i ran the command fsck when the disk was mounted and running. I was not able to boot the disk anymore after I typed fsck. Now that disk is in

Re: Media and Mnt

2008-09-22 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:57 +0530, Gopal Ghosh wrote: What is the difference between /media and /mnt /mnt is a legacy mount point for drives temporarily mounted on the system. At the time floppy drives were about the only removable disk available generally, although it was used for tape and

Logging maintenance question

2008-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I just discovered that some custom scripts I wrote a year or so, seem to have gone on the milling list, and that both the fetchmail.log and the procmail.log were approaching a gigabyte in size. So I cobbled up this: == # Logrotate file for fetchmail.log and procmail.log

Re: ath5k won't connect -- sometimes

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:07 +0930, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The access point is about 6 feet away so it's not a signal issue (and my phone connects with no problem so the AP is OK as well) I'm curious as to whether the signal indicator that

Re: lost my cordless mouse

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 09:16 +0200, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: Suddenly I lost my cordless mouse. Did you look under the desk? (Sorry, sorry, couldn't resist :-) poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Media and Mnt

2008-09-22 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:57 +0530, Gopal Ghosh wrote: What is the difference between /media and /mnt In addition to the other two replies I've seen answering this, /media is used by the auto-mounting system. It'll mount such media as a subdirectory inside /media. If you mount something there,

Re: How to archive to DVD?

2008-09-22 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Paul == Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Hi, - Double-click on the blank disc icon to open the CD/DVD Creator window. Drag'n'drop the directory/directories/files you want onto that window. - Click the Write to Disc button. Paul Does the nautilus CD/DVD

Re: ssh2

2008-09-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
roland wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:48:47 +0200, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The worrying thing is that since the sshd now asks for ssh2 protocol only, there is a new sshd operating, one you didn't install, and one which may be copying keystroke data (login names and passwords) to

Re: ksnapshot quit working!

2008-09-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: Fred Silsbee wrote: when I drag the cursor across a region, the message appears click esc or enter I hit enter or esc and nothing happens! Shrug, works fine here for me. ?? Could you try reproducing with another/fresh user? See also,

Re: Media and Mnt

2008-09-22 Thread Robert Locke
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 22:50 +0930, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:57 +0530, Gopal Ghosh wrote: What is the difference between /media and /mnt In addition to the other two replies I've seen answering this, /media is used by the auto-mounting system. And, by auto-mounting system, you

Re: lost my cordless mouse

2008-09-22 Thread Mike Chambers
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 08:26 -0400, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Todd Zullinger wrote: Peter Lesterhuis wrote: Suddenly I lost my cordless mouse. Of course it might have something to do with the last updates. I checked xorg.conf, but I can not detect any differences with former

Re: Flash plugin - no sound

2008-09-22 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 00:37 -0400, David C. Chipman wrote: since you have pulseaudio running, can you launch 'Multimedia' = 'PulseAudio Manager' application...does it connect? Does the server information appear? Can you access 'Volume Control'? Craig Hi Craig, What is the

can't mount dvd, thumb drives, etc

2008-09-22 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
I have F9 x86_64, which I installed from a revisor iso. When I insert a dvd into my drive, or a usb thumb drive into the usb port, the volumes are not auto-mounted. They appear in Nautilus under Computer, but right-clickmount doesn't work (no error messages appear). I suspect I'm missing

Groups running wild

2008-09-22 Thread kwhiskerz
I have noticed differences in /etc/groups lately. Older files had the form group:*: Newer files have the form group :x: On my laptop yesterday, a groups.rpmnew was created with the form group:: I read the manual and it suggests that the latter form means no password. What does all of this mean?

Re: lost my cordless mouse

2008-09-22 Thread Mike Chambers
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 09:46 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 08:26 -0400, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Todd Zullinger wrote: Peter Lesterhuis wrote: Suddenly I lost my cordless mouse. Of course it might have something to do with the last updates. I checked

SSL cert expire script

2008-09-22 Thread Seann Clark
All, This is a process that I just discovered. I have a Fedora 9 system that is telling me that some (not all) of my ssl certs will expire soon. That is a feature I like a lot, I just have no clue where/how that is configured since until three weeks ago, I didn't realize that the

spec file for rpms

2008-09-22 Thread David Hláčik
Hi guys, i am new at this. I want to make a rpm from a program source. It does not contain rpm spec file by default so i need to create one. Is there any way to make creation of spec files easier? some tools etc ... ? Thanks in advance! David -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Script help

2008-09-22 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:36:13AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 19Sep2008 15:51, NiftyFedora Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 19Sep2008 14:08, Dennis Kaptain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Can anyone rattle

HELP

2008-09-22 Thread jagannar
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Re: HELP

2008-09-22 Thread Jonathan Dieter
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Re: HELP

2008-09-22 Thread wwp
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Video card

2008-09-22 Thread Dan Steele
What is the least amount of memory needed on a video card to take advantage of all the 3D effects offered by Fedora 9?? Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: lvm2 problem

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Snook
Bogdan Sarandan wrote: Hello, I want to know if there is any way to recover data from a damage lvm2 partition. The case is like this. We had a fedora core 7 server and i ran the command fsck when the disk was mounted and running. I was not able to boot the disk anymore after I typed fsck. Now

Re: Video card

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 09:19 -0700, Dan Steele wrote: What is the least amount of memory needed on a video card to take advantage of all the 3D effects offered by Fedora 9?? Dan Hi Dan, I've run Compiz on 64MB cards. I suspect you could go lower as long as the memory was at least several

Re: encrypted swap question

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Snook
DanMitton wrote: So, is it possible to read the passphrase from a USB drive at boot time?? :-? The proper way to do it is to read a *key* from a USB drive at boot time. In F8 it didn't take too much hacking in /etc/rc.sysinit to load the USB storage modules, wait a few seconds to detect

What DHCP command to use, to get DNS

2008-09-22 Thread Jim
FC8 What dhcp command do I use to get DNS number from ISP ? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: lvm2 problem

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 12:31 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: Bogdan Sarandan wrote: Hello, I want to know if there is any way to recover data from a damage lvm2 partition. The case is like this. We had a fedora core 7 server and i ran the command fsck when the disk was mounted and

Re: can't mount dvd, thumb drives, etc

2008-09-22 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: When I insert a dvd into my drive, or a usb thumb drive into the usb port, the volumes are not auto-mounted. They appear in Nautilus under Computer, but right-clickmount doesn't work (no error messages appear). Some follow-up: running gnome-mount -v -d /dev/sr0

Re: What DHCP command to use, to get DNS

2008-09-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Jim wrote: FC8 What dhcp command do I use to get DNS number from ISP ? I think you will have to give more details about what you are trying to do. Normally, you will get the name server information as part of the DHCP lease. The information will be put in /etc/resolv.conf Mikkel -- Do not

Re: spec file for rpms

2008-09-22 Thread Phil Meyer
David Hláèik wrote: Hi guys, i am new at this. I want to make a rpm from a program source. It does not contain rpm spec file by default so i need to create one. Is there any way to make creation of spec files easier? some tools etc ... ? Thanks in advance! David Both vim and emacs

Re: spec file for rpms

2008-09-22 Thread Todd Denniston
David Hláèik wrote, On 09/22/2008 11:54 AM: Hi guys, i am new at this. I want to make a rpm from a program source. It does not contain rpm spec file by default so i need to create one. Is there any way to make creation of spec files easier? some tools etc ... ? Thanks in advance! David

Re: Script help

2008-09-22 Thread James Pifer
Point... just that the OP never stated that the files were in exactly one dir and that duplicate file names were or were not possible. Yes close timestamps are also an issue (see stat). Hi. OP here. Files are all in the same dir. Duplicates obviously not an issue. Everything is working.

Re: What DHCP command to use, to get DNS

2008-09-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 06:13pm on Monday, September 22, 2008 (UK time), Jim scrawled: I know how to make all settings change, I just want to get the DNS # . What do you mean DNS #? Do you men the IP address of your domain name server? Steve -- (o www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_

Re: lost my cordless mouse

2008-09-22 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Suddenly I lost my cordless mouse. Of course it might have something to do with the last updates. I checked xorg.conf, but I can not detect any differences with former versions. In fact the mouse is not mentioned in xorg.conf at all. A wired mouse works as usual. Does anyone have any

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