Fedora Weekly News 205

2009-12-08 Thread Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 205 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 FEDORA BOARD, FESCO FAMSCO ELECTIONS # 1.1.1.1 Fedora Board, FESCo FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information + 1.1.2 FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST #

Re: When and how the mock removes the build directories under the /var/lib/mock in koji building hosts

2009-12-08 Thread Jian Lee
hi, maybe you can search koji remove dir in google. this is a solved question which asked by me before. give you a url that i search just now : http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-buildsys-list/2009-06/msg00034.html Thanks, Tuesday 08 December 200909:57:43peng chen peng.che...@gmail.com 写道: Hello,

Re: When and how the mock removes the build directories under the /var/lib/mock in koji building hosts

2009-12-08 Thread Mike McLean
On 12/07/2009 08:57 PM, peng chen wrote: Hello, fedora-buildsys-list: Recently, one of my building hosts's mock directory usually be filled with build directories, I wonder why the build directories of finishing building task not to be removed immediately for make room for the coming task , yet

F12 updates-testing issue: X flickers and fails to start

2009-12-08 Thread Pekka Savola
Hi, On my laptop, after F12 updates-testing update today, after reboot F logo shows but then the screen goes dark and starts flickering between various shades of dark (changing modes?) with intel graphics chipset (GM965/GL960). I'm only using 1024x768 resolution. Nomodeset or using a

Re: F12 updates-testing issue: X flickers and fails to start

2009-12-08 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:33 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: Hi, On my laptop, after F12 updates-testing update today, after reboot F logo shows but then the screen goes dark and starts flickering between various shades of dark (changing modes?) with intel graphics chipset (GM965/GL960). I'm

Re: Fedora release criteria completely revised

2009-12-08 Thread Andy Green
On 12/07/09 23:55, Somebody in the thread at some point said: Hi - these pages, not nice-to-haves. You must be able to commit to the idea that, if any criterion on the page is not met, we would slip the release in question. I think it's great you guys are looking to increase

orphaned packages

2009-12-08 Thread पराग़
Hi, I have orphaned 2 packages and have plans to retire them from rawhide. 1) Since last 3 years I am the maintainer for scanbuttond package. I have one RFE bug open for this package but didn't get time to work on it as I have no scanner with me to work on it. This package has not seen any

Why pavucontrol is not installed by default?

2009-12-08 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
I did a clean install of Fedora 12 and realized that pavucontrol was not installed by default. I have two sound cards and I only got sound when I manually installed pavucontrol and used it. Any reason? Thanks. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Why pavucontrol is not installed by default?

2009-12-08 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:51:55AM -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: I did a clean install of Fedora 12 and realized that pavucontrol was not installed by default. I have two sound cards and I only got sound when I manually installed pavucontrol and used it. Any reason? pavucontrol is

Re: Heads-up: RPM 4.8.0-beta1 about to hit rawhide

2009-12-08 Thread Mat Booth
2009/12/8 Panu Matilainen pmati...@laiskiainen.org: On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Mat Booth wrote: 2009/12/7 Panu Matilainen pmati...@redhat.com: Now that FESCo has approved new major RPM version for F-13 and the public beta is officially out... it's going to hit rawhide in a few hours. I remember

Re: Heads-up: RPM 4.8.0-beta1 about to hit rawhide

2009-12-08 Thread Alexander Kurtakov
2009/12/8 Panu Matilainen pmati...@laiskiainen.org: On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Mat Booth wrote: 2009/12/7 Panu Matilainen pmati...@redhat.com: Now that FESCo has approved new major RPM version for F-13 and the public beta is officially out... it's going to hit rawhide in a few hours. I

Re: orphaning dblatex

2009-12-08 Thread Jon Ciesla
Jon Ciesla wrote: Neal Becker wrote: I no longer wish to maintain dblatex. Any takers? I can if none of the co-maintainers want it. -J Ping? -- in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Fedora release criteria completely revised

2009-12-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: During FUDCon, we've been working on revising the Fedora release criteria. John Poelstra had already fleshed out a structure and much of the final content, and we've been revising and tweaking it in conjunction with QA (myself, Will Woods and James Laska), release

Re: Fedora release criteria completely revised

2009-12-08 Thread Colin Walters
Hi Adam, Looks really great in general! One specific comment, for Final 9; I think we need a more specific definition of and subsequent login. Does that mean that you just type your username/password and look at the default desktop? Are we scoping in any specific apps (firefox?) Under any

Re: Deprecation of LAM/MPI?

2009-12-08 Thread Doug Ledford
On 12/07/2009 06:32 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: Hi, First of all, I'm not the maintainer of LAM, but since Doug seems to be busy with other things I took the liberty of taking things into my own hands: I really would like everything to confer to the MPI guidelines in Fedora 13, but the

Re: Deprecation of LAM/MPI?

2009-12-08 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:44:14AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: There has been no public response to this, and Jussi has indicated in the referenced bugzilla that at least one former lam board member is advocating for the package's removal. The current plan is to block lam from rawhide. If

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Rallias UberNerd
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:16 -0600, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: Are you installing Fedora on the computer you're using now? [YES] [NO] YES - is any sort of check even possible if the user is running 32-bit on 64-bit? Yes, if the CPU has the lm

Re: Vote for the bug (was Re: Local users get to play root?)

2009-12-08 Thread Rallias UberNerd
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:48:45 -0600, Jesse Keating jkeat...@j2solutions.net wrote: On Nov 19, 2009, at 13:51, Jeff Garzik jgar...@pobox.com wrote: Note to all... Please add your vote to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047 (Active local console users get to install

Re: Heads-up: RPM 4.8.0-beta1 about to hit rawhide

2009-12-08 Thread Mat Booth
2009/12/8 Alexander Kurtakov akurt...@redhat.com: 2009/12/8 Panu Matilainen pmati...@laiskiainen.org: On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Mat Booth wrote: 2009/12/7 Panu Matilainen pmati...@redhat.com: Now that FESCo has approved new major RPM version for F-13 and the public beta is officially out...

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread drago01
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Rallias UberNerd robinstar1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:16 -0600, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: Are you installing Fedora on the computer you're using now? [YES]  [NO]  YES - is any sort of check even

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2009 06:41 PM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Rallias UberNerd robinstar1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:39:16 -0600, Kevin Koflerkevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: Are you installing Fedora on the computer you're using now? [YES] [NO]

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: That's one side, the other side is: * Larger demands on RAM (x86_64 is more demanding on memory  requirements). Even if it were a full doubling (which is the absolute worst case possible), it would only be pushing the

Re: Why pavucontrol is not installed by default?

2009-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:59 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:51:55AM -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: I did a clean install of Fedora 12 and realized that pavucontrol was not installed by default. I have two sound cards and I only got sound when I manually installed

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 18:41 +0100, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Rallias UberNerd But wouldn't it be better to use 32 bit when less then 4 GB of ram is present? no, using x86_64 means more registers, sse2 as default floating point instruction set, better calling

Re: Deprecation of LAM/MPI?

2009-12-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jussi Lehtola wrote: I really would like everything to confer to the MPI guidelines in Fedora 13, but the problem is that so far no-one has volunteered to rework the LAM/MPI package to conform to the new guidelines [1]. IMHO LAM/MPI could be safely pulled out from Fedora 13, since it was

Re: F12 updates-testing issue: X flickers and fails to start

2009-12-08 Thread Dave Airlie
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 01:50 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:33 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: Hi, On my laptop, after F12 updates-testing update today, after reboot F logo shows but then the screen goes dark and starts flickering between various shades of dark

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: * More packages (rpms) to cope with. Only if you pollute your system with 32-bit multilibs. A pure x86_64 system doesn't have any more packages than a 32-bit one. Fedora x86_64 repos do however carry ix86 packages

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread shmuel siegel
Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: * More packages (rpms) to cope with. Only if you pollute your system with 32-bit multilibs. A pure x86_64 system doesn't have any more packages than a 32-bit one. We don't even install multilibs by default anymore. Kevin Kofler

Re: Why pavucontrol is not installed by default?

2009-12-08 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 14:05 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:59 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:51:55AM -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: I did a clean install of Fedora 12 and realized that pavucontrol was not installed by default. I have two sound

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2009 09:26 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote: On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: * More packages (rpms) to cope with. Only if you pollute your system with 32-bit multilibs. A pure x86_64 system doesn't have any more packages than a 32-bit one. Fedora

Re: Why pavucontrol is not installed by default?

2009-12-08 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Jon Masters wrote: The new gnome-volume-control is so cut-down it's not useful to me. In the quest to be more Mac-like in removing mixer controls (and not even having any obvious advanced mode), I now have a choice of no audio or having full volume LFE output

CICE-2010: Paper Submission Deadline is Approaching!

2009-12-08 Thread Galyna Akmayeva
Kindly email this call for papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. Apologies for cross-postings. CALL FOR PAPERS Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2010), April 26-28, 2010, Toronto, Canada (www.ciceducation.org) The CICE is an international

[Bug 541793] Review Request: woffTools - Tool for manipulating and examining WOFF files

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541793 sandeep shedmake sshed...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 541792] Review Request: woff - Encoding and Decoding for Web Open Font Format(Woff)

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541792 sandeep shedmake sshed...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 545004] Review Request: wqy-microhei-fonts - compact Chinese font

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545004 --- Comment #1 from Qianqian Fang fan...@gmail.com 2009-12-08 09:33:36 EDT --- the spec file looks fine. Only two

[Bug 542461] Review Request: digna-fonts - Handwriting font

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542461 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 542461] Review Request: digna-fonts - Handwriting font

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542461 --- Comment #3 from Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net 2009-12-08 17:13:21 EDT --- Created an attachment

[Bug 542461] Review Request: digna-fonts - Handwriting font

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542461 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 507292] [RFE] Allow wildcards/regexps in rpm deps

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507292 Juan P. Daza P. tcpip4...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 507294] [RFE] Allow wildcards/regexps in yum install/upgrade/comps...

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507294 Juan P. Daza P. tcpip4...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 545683] New: update the fontconf priority for Meera font

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: update the fontconf priority for Meera font https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545683 Summary: update the fontconf priority for Meera font

[Bug 545701] New: [kn_IN] Pango doesn't render 0c95+0ccd+0c95+0c97 combination properly

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: [kn_IN] Pango doesn't render 0c95+0ccd+0c95+0c97 combination properly https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545701 Summary: [kn_IN] Pango doesn't render

[Bug 545683] [ml_IN] update the fontconf priority for Meera font

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545683 Pravin Satpute psatp...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

rpms/smc-fonts/devel 66-smc-meera.conf, NONE, 1.1 bug-545683.patch, NONE, 1.1 smc-fonts.spec, 1.10, 1.11

2009-12-08 Thread Pravin Satpute
Author: pravins Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/smc-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv13694 Modified Files: smc-fonts.spec Added Files: 66-smc-meera.conf bug-545683.patch Log Message: Wed Dec 09 2009 Pravin Satpute psatp...@redhat.com 04.2-3 - bugfix

rpms/lohit-malayalam-fonts/devel lohit-malayalam-fonts.spec, 1.3, 1.4

2009-12-08 Thread Pravin Satpute
Author: pravins Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/lohit-malayalam-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv20211 Modified Files: lohit-malayalam-fonts.spec Log Message: * Wed Dec 09 2009 Pravin Satpute psatp...@redhat.com - 2.4.4-3 - bugfix 520041 Index:

[Bug 520041] [ml_IN] Need fontconfig rules for Lohit Malayalam font

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520041 Pravin Satpute psatp...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 545683] [ml_IN] update the fontconf priority for Meera font

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545683 Pravin Satpute psatp...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 520041] [ml_IN] Need fontconfig rules for Lohit Malayalam font

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520041 --- Comment #5 from Pravin Satpute psatp...@redhat.com 2009-12-09 01:55:40 EDT --- and lohit-malayalam-fonts-2.4.4-2.fc13

[Bug 541792] Review Request: woff - Encoding and Decoding for Web Open Font Format(Woff)

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541792 Parag AN(पराग) panem...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 463036] LiberationSans-Bold 'u' and 'W' blurred in smaller sizes.

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463036 Jens Petersen peter...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 477475] [un-extra-fonts] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477475 Jens Petersen peter...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 539029] FTBFS knm_new-fonts-1.1-5.fc11

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539029 Jens Petersen peter...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 539029] FTBFS knm_new-fonts-1.1-5.fc11

2009-12-08 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539029 Akira TAGOH ta...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

woff and woffTools packages anyone want maintainership?

2009-12-08 Thread पराग़
Hi, I have packaged woff[1] and woffTools[2] but as I see no one has shown interest to review it so I have closed them as NOTABUG but I am still interested in those packages to see in Fedora. I am ready to review those packages. I just need someone to become maintainer. I can be co-maintainer

Re: woff and woffTools packages anyone want maintainership?

2009-12-08 Thread Sandeep Shedmake
Parag N(पराग़) wrote: Hi, I have packaged woff[1] and woffTools[2] but as I see no one has shown interest to review it so I have closed them as NOTABUG but I am still interested in those packages to see in Fedora. I am ready to review those packages. I just need someone to become maintainer.

[PATCH] Updated to F-12 NFSv4 server code...

2009-12-08 Thread Steve Dickson
Here is a patch that will updated the NFSv4 server code in the F-12 kernel. This patch along with an upcoming nfs-utils update, fixes the a problem with v4 clients failing with when mounting an export that contains a different file system other than the root file system (bz 538609) The is part

[Fedora-legal-list] Spin commercial license

2009-12-08 Thread Jerry James
Is this license acceptable for Fedora (assuming a copy is provided with the package, as required by the license)? http://www.spinroot.com/spin/spin_license.html Thank you, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list

Re: psacct/lastcomm shows allways root as user

2009-12-08 Thread Herbert Gasiorowski
On 11/28/2009 04:49 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:04:02PM +0100, Herbert Gasiorowski wrote: On Fedora 12 lastcomm only shows root user, even for commands from other users. It seems to me that e.g. my uid is not within the /var/account/pacct file - it is allways zero -

Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-08 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net writes: What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and not a separate partition? See at: root's home dir has traditionally been / just to ensure that it is alway present and an emergency login is likely to suceed without error.

Selinux problems

2009-12-08 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I keep getting this SELinux issue, This is a new install of Fedora 12, and I just copied all of my home directory back to this machine from an external after install. I've tried running restorecon /home but no change. Any ideas, James Summary: SELinux is preventing access to files with

Re: Selinux problems

2009-12-08 Thread Sam Sharpe
2009/12/8 James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com: Hi, I keep getting this SELinux issue, This is a new install of Fedora 12, and I just copied all of my home directory back to this machine from an external after install. I've tried running restorecon /home but no change. What about the

Re: nautilus overwrite files

2009-12-08 Thread Henrique Koesjan
Thanks all for your advices, In the past I've tried to use thunar under xfce, very good, I had some difficult accessing windows shares, but I will try to configure it properly. I will also have a look to emelfm2. [off topic] I'm coming back to fedora after a while off (fc4 or 5 I don't

Re: kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.x86_64 causes kernel panic

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net wrote: Have you noticed this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545043 Nope. Just updated and rebooted to check: [...@samlap ~]$ uname -a Linux samlap.fireburst.co.uk 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec

Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Simon Andrews
Mikkel wrote: I ran into something strange with cron in FC12. The monthly cron jobs ran on December 2nd, instead of December 1st. The system was up continually from before November 30th, until after December 2nd. But for some strange reason the monthly jobs were run on the 2nd. This is a

Re: Grub2, /boot, and lvm

2009-12-08 Thread Tom H
From Suvayu Ali (in the Getting rid of /boot thread) Could you please point me to the documentation for this? I would really like to read up more and understand what limitations/advantages I might have as I have been waiting for this to be included since F10. Sorry Suvayu. Just remembered

Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:14:49 + Simon Andrews wrote: I'd suggest you remove this job from cron.monthly and put an explicit entry into /etc/crontab which delivers your calendars on the first of the month. Or even more effective is moving everything out of /etc/anacrontab to explicit

Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Joerg Bergmann
Am Dienstag, den 08.12.2009, 07:59 -0500 schrieb Tom Horsley: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:14:49 + Simon Andrews wrote: I'd suggest you remove this job from cron.monthly and put an explicit entry into /etc/crontab which delivers your calendars on the first of the month. Or even more

Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:34:52 +0100 Joerg Bergmann wrote: If you tell anacron to run the program monthly, it will run the program at an appropriate time the PC is switched on. Almost correct, but what it actually does is unerringly detect the most inappropriate possible time to run the job and

Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
R. G. Newbury wrote: I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD using livecd-iso-to-disk . If you have a reasonably recent ASUS mb with an AMi BIOS, setting it to boot from USB is rather obscure. You need to plug in the USB

Re: F12 Wireless disabled with kernel 2.6.31.6-162

2009-12-08 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:32:01PM -0800, Richard England wrote: pro/wireless 2200BG in a Dell Latitude D410. F12 Fully updated (as of 7 December). With Kernel 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 the wireless is completely disabled. This was the latest kernel installed. Backing down to kernel

OT [but very interesting] Coimputer design]

2009-12-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
How does this computer design strike you? Video: Amazing Computer portable computer http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7H0K1k54t6A -- === It is a human characteristic to love little animals, especially if they're

Re: F12 Wireless disabled with kernel 2.6.31.6-162

2009-12-08 Thread Mike Cloaked
John W. Linville-2 wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:32:01PM -0800, Richard England wrote: pro/wireless 2200BG in a Dell Latitude D410. F12 Fully updated (as of 7 December). With Kernel 2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 the wireless is completely disabled. This was the latest kernel

Re: OT [but very interesting] Coimputer design]

2009-12-08 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:31:10AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: How does this computer design strike you? looks wikkid k001, but likely very pricey. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any

Re: OT [but very interesting] Coimputer design]

2009-12-08 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 08:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: How does this computer design strike you? Video: Amazing Computer portable computer http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7H0K1k54t6A Since you ask... One thing that immediately struck me as being obviously dumb, when you consider

Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 08:34:52 Joerg Bergmann wrote: Am Dienstag, den 08.12.2009, 07:59 -0500 schrieb Tom Horsley: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:14:49 + Or even more effective is moving everything out of /etc/anacrontab to explicit entries in /etc/crontab to effectively completely disable

including pam_radius_auth package in distribution

2009-12-08 Thread Tim Lank
fedora-list: Does anyone know why pam_radius_auth has never made it into the Fedora/EPEL/RHEL distribution stream? http://freeradius.org/pam_radius_auth/ The tarball includes a .spec that can easily be modified to support all the vaious platforms in the mix. It sure would be nice to have this

Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-08 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Is there a way to install fedora on a Macbook air (as the sole operating system)? -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

RE: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-08 Thread Dan Burkland
I don't personally own a MacBook Air however I'm sure you could make a bootable USB drive and install Fedora from that. Regards, Dan Burkland -Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Colin Paul Adams Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-08 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Dan == Dan Burkland dburk...@nmdp.org writes: Dan I don't personally own a MacBook Air however I'm sure you Dan could make a bootable USB drive and install Fedora from that. I don't have a USB stick of sufficient size. I do however have a USB disk drive which works fine with it. But

Re: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-08 Thread Chad Kellerman
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.ukwrote: Dan == Dan Burkland dburk...@nmdp.org writes: Dan I don't personally own a MacBook Air however I'm sure you Dan could make a bootable USB drive and install Fedora from that. I don't have a USB stick of

Re: Grub2, /boot, and lvm

2009-12-08 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/8 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com: From Suvayu Ali (in the Getting rid of /boot thread) Could you please point me to the documentation for this? I would really like to read up more and understand what limitations/advantages I might have as I have been waiting for this to be included since

Re: Fedora on Macbook Air?

2009-12-08 Thread Tom H
But how to get the Air to try to boot from the USB port? Try booting with c pressed (it is supposed to be for CDs/DVDs but it might work with a bootable external drive or with Command-Option-Shift-Delete (it may not work with Intel Macs like the Air though). -- fedora-list mailing list

Sudo and gtksu

2009-12-08 Thread davide
Hi, I would like to replicate Ubuntu behaviour about the superuser. I replaced the Fedora /etc/sudoers with one from an ubuntu box. Any other step to replicate replicate also in the Gnome Desktop? I would like to use *MY* password to start programs requiring superusers previleges. --

Re: Sudo and gtksu

2009-12-08 Thread davide
Il Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:20:47 +0100, davide ha scritto: Hi, I would like to replicate Ubuntu behaviour about the superuser. I replaced the Fedora /etc/sudoers with one from an ubuntu box. Any other step to replicate replicate also in the Gnome Desktop? I would like to use *MY* password to

Triple monitor/dual card issues with F12.

2009-12-08 Thread Jason Ish
After upgrading to F12 and trying out Nouveau, it doesn't appear that it supports multiple nvidia video cards which means I need to drop back to the nvidia blob drivers, fair enough. However, once I get that up and running X locks up while gnome loads. Its fine with multiple displays on one

Re: Failure running system-config-httpd

2009-12-08 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:22 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I ran system-config-httpd on F12 today and it failed with: [r...@peglaptop php]# system-config-httpd *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/bin/python terminated === Backtrace: = large snip 3e51034000-3e51036000 rw-p

Listing obsolete installed packages

2009-12-08 Thread Robert Nichols
I'd like to make a list of currently installed packages that are not present in any currently enabled repo. Anyone know a straightforward way to do that? -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Listing obsolete installed packages

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-08 15:14:39, Robert Nichols wrote: I'd like to make a list of currently installed packages that are not present in any currently enabled repo. Anyone know a straightforward way to do that? package-cleanup --orphans --

nautilus does not display linux network places

2009-12-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
I have submitter bugzilla bug 545535 In F12 when you open a nautilus Windows and try to display Places-Network, Windows computers on the LAN are displayed but not Linux computers. In F11 this worked correctly. Does this work correctly for the rest of you. If so could you guess what I am doing

Re: Listing obsolete installed packages

2009-12-08 Thread ELMORABITY Mohamed
Le mardi 08 décembre 2009 à 14:14 -0600, Robert Nichols a écrit : I'd like to make a list of currently installed packages that are not present in any currently enabled repo. Anyone know a straightforward way to do that? -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address.

Re: Listing obsolete installed packages

2009-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 14:14:39 -0600, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: I'd like to make a list of currently installed packages that are not present in any currently enabled repo. Anyone know a straightforward way to do that? Note that obsolete packages can still be in a

No sound after upgrade from 11 to 12

2009-12-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have an HP DV6-1030ca, I could get sound with an alsa fix in F11 by creating an /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf with 'options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4 enable_msi=1' but his no longer works in 12, I have tried every incantation I could scour on the net for some time. Anyone got a hint?

Right mouse button emulation in Fedora 12 PPC?

2009-12-08 Thread Tanner Danzey
I have a Powerbook G4 and i need to use the right mouse button REALLY BAD. Is there any way i can have a cmd-click or opt-click type thing? Thanks -- ___ WHAT!?!? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Plan for Thunderbird in F12?

2009-12-08 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 12/07/2009 04:23 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 12/08/2009 05:35 AM, Steven Stern wrote: We've been running on Thunderbird 3, beta 4 for a while now. The current beta release is RC2, released on 12/1. Is the plan to stay on beta 4 until the release of version 3 or will the updates repo

How to read/write to diskette

2009-12-08 Thread vinny
Hello, I have f12 just Installed every thing is OK so far other than I can't read/write to a diskette, the icon appears in the desktop, if I click on it shows empty if I drag and drop a file to the diskette icon give me an error there was an error copying the file into /media/disk, error opening

How do I disable coredumps on F12?

2009-12-08 Thread Andre Costa
Hi, apps crashes are generating coredumps on /var/cache/abrt/* ; since I won't debug them myself and won't send them anywhere because they're too big, I would like to turn them off. I tried uncommenting #* softcore0 on /etc/security/limits.conf but it did not work,

preupgrade with local repo

2009-12-08 Thread idwsh6b02
I tried to use preupgrade with a modified releases.txt that points to a local repository. But preupgrade is still going to the mirrors over the internet. Does anyone have an example releases.txt that demonstrates how to do preupgrade from a completely local yum repository. Here was my

Re: Selinux problems

2009-12-08 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com writes: I keep getting this SELinux issue, This is a new install of Fedora 12, and I just copied all of my home directory back to this machine from an external after install. I've tried running restorecon /home but no change. ... You can execute the

Problems with tomcat on F12

2009-12-08 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I'm having problems with tomcat connecting to a mysql database The following file works when placed in directory tests under tomcat's /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/tests directory %...@page language=java contentType=text/html% %...@page import=java.sql.*% htmlheadtitleJDBC test/title/headbody

Re: Grub2, /boot, and lvm

2009-12-08 Thread Mail Lists
On 12/08/2009 07:45 AM, Tom H wrote: hat you had asked for this info. This is from the Grub 2 wiki: http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID Thank you Tom, its much appreciated, but you forgot that you have already posted that. :) You're welcome. By the end of this week I will have done four

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