Re: How to handel spinning when i686 versions of packages don't make it into the updates repo?

2010-01-05 Thread William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Mike McLean wrote: On 12/30/2009 02:05 AM, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209 wrote: I've always noticed that when a package is updated, sometimes the i686 version isn't put into the x86_64 repo for updates. As a workaround, I Can you give some examples? If multilib

Re: orphaning gwibber, any takers?

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Hudson
On 04/01/10 21:47, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 01/04/2010 04:25 PM, Ian Weller wrote: I know Gwibber is widely used by Fedora users because there are a crapton of abrt reports for it and I just can't keep up with it. :) If no one else wants it, I will take it. I'd prefer to

PackageKit 0.6.0 going into rawhide

2010-01-05 Thread Richard Hughes
I'm about to build PackageKit 0.6.0 into rawhide, which bumps the soname. I'll take care of rebuilding gnome-packagekit and kpackagekit which is (I think) are the only users of the low level library API. The other applications using the _session_ DBus connections should continue to work as this

formal request - package take over (libssh2)

2010-01-05 Thread Kamil Dudka
Hello, I'd like to take over the libssh2 package according to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers all reasonable efforts have been made to contact the maintainer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/523796 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/539444

Re: rawhide report: 20100105 changes

2010-01-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
These still need upstream attention. I'll badger them but it might take a while: cduce ocaml-camlp5 The following should be fixed in tomorrow's report: ocaml-ocamlnet ocaml-json-wheel ocaml-preludeml ocaml-pxp ocaml-xmlrpc-light

packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
I intend to give up the following packages: fedorainfinity-backgrounds libbeagle libcroco libexif libspectre preferences-menus Any takers ? Matthias -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 15:37, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: fedorainfinity-backgrounds I've been using it since Fedora 8 (never liked any other Fedora wallpaper as much as this one), so I can't let it be retired. :) I'll take it.

qstat conflicts

2010-01-05 Thread Andy Shevchenko
Hello. Does Fedora dead? I have submit new qstat packages and filed bugs against applications which are using its [qstat] old binary name. There were several weeks when qstat update on hold due to bug #533777 Should we obsolete blocking pacakge(s)? -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko --

Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
How much do we adhere to our Packaging Guidelines for static libraries? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries What had started with a few Yum queries for corner-cases (see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2009-December/msg00012.html )

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 15:54 +0100, Mathieu Bridon wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 15:37, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: fedorainfinity-backgrounds I've been using it since Fedora 8 (never liked any other Fedora wallpaper as much as

Re: Can some provenpackager bump openvpn in EL-5

2010-01-05 Thread Jon Ciesla
Jon Ciesla wrote: Jussi Lehtola wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 16:35 +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: Jussi Lehtola wrote: Even though any proven packager could do the change, that bug does not fall in the items listed in the proven packager policy [1]. You haven't listed any problems

Re: PackageKit 0.6.0 going into rawhide

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 10:33 + schrieb Richard Hughes: I'm about to build PackageKit 0.6.0 into rawhide, which bumps the soname. I'll take care of rebuilding gnome-packagekit and kpackagekit which is (I think) are the only users of the low level library API. Plus

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Matthias Clasen wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: libspectre I can help out here. -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: [snip] FYI: libexif This is used by a lot of stuff, including kdegraphics (but also WINE and several GNOME packages). libspectre This one is used by Okular (kdegraphics) and Evince. I guess one of us KDE SIG folks might

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Thomas Janssen
2010/1/5 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: I intend to give up the following packages: libexif I will take this one. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Looking for pointers how to set up lzma stream using xz-devel

2010-01-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 13:37:17 -0800, John Reiser jrei...@bitwagon.com wrote: On 01/04/2010 10:18 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 07:57:54 -0600, Jon Cieslal...@jcomserv.net wrote: I've actually come across this WRT UPX as well.

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com writes: How much do we adhere to our Packaging Guidelines for static libraries? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries Mispackaged -static libraries: mysql-devel from mysql-5.1.42-2.fc13.src.rpm

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:46 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: libspectre I can help out here. Already sold to Marek, but I'm sure he'll welcome you as a comaintainer -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: formal request - package take over (libssh2)

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Weyl
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Kamil Dudka kdu...@redhat.com wrote: Hello, I'd like to take over the libssh2 package according to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers all reasonable efforts have been made to contact the maintainer:

Heads-up: %define vs %global in specs

2010-01-05 Thread Panu Matilainen
For the impatient: Starting with today's rawhide, the these kind of constructs in specs no longer work: %{?!foo: %define foo bar} For the generally desired effect, the above simply becomes: %{?!foo: %global foo bar} This is already recommended by the Fedora guidelines, but

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Kevin Kofler wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: [snip] FYI: libexif This is used by a lot of stuff, including kdegraphics (but also WINE and several GNOME packages). indeed, I missed that, can jump on that one too. -- Rex --

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 01/05/2010 11:30 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: On the other hand, with the guideline being so widely ignored, I'm not in a hurry to do work to comply with it ... Isn't that a chicken/egg problem? It really is. I mean, we could create the

Re: Heads-up: %define vs %global in specs

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:34:12PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: For the impatient: Starting with today's rawhide, the these kind of constructs in specs no longer work: %{?!foo: %define foo bar} For the generally desired effect, the above simply becomes: %{?!foo: %global foo

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:48:47AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 01/05/2010 11:30 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: On the other hand, with the guideline being so widely ignored, I'm not in a hurry to do work to comply with it ... Isn't

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Jon Ciesla
Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 01/05/2010 11:30 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: On the other hand, with the guideline being so widely ignored, I'm not in a hurry to do work to comply with it ... Isn't that a chicken/egg problem?

Re: Heads-up: %define vs %global in specs

2010-01-05 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 01/05/2010 11:50 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: What exactly do you mean 'no longer work' ? Can we expect to get a formal RPM build error for this bogus construct, or will it silently build and do the wrong thing ? From your long description, it sounds like the latter, which means

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:16:13PM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 01/05/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Not for all packaging policies, but for some I think that would be a good idea. Pick a set of policies we think are particularly important to enforce can be automatically

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Tom Lane
Tom \spot\ Callaway tcall...@redhat.com writes: On 01/05/2010 11:30 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: On the other hand, with the guideline being so widely ignored, I'm not in a hurry to do work to comply with it ... Isn't that a chicken/egg

Re: rawhide report: 20100105 changes

2010-01-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 02:28:28PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: These still need upstream attention. I'll badger them but it might take a while: cduce ocaml-camlp5 Wow, upstream fixed them just after I posted. I'll try to have these done before tomorrow's Rawhide build too.

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 01/05/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Not for all packaging policies, but for some I think that would be a good idea. Pick a set of policies we think are particularly important to enforce can be automatically checked, and declare any non-compliant ones will be dropped in the next

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:59 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: 2010/1/5 Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com: I intend to give up the following packages: libexif I will take this one. Thanks, its yours if you take it: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/libexif --

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 01/05/2010 12:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote: But there's a general issue that new things keep getting added to the packaging guidelines and there's no very good mechanism to detect whether existing packages ever get updated to comply. You're right. I'm hopeful that the items which can be checked

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 01/05/2010 12:23 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:16:13PM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 01/05/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Not for all packaging policies, but for some I think that would be a good idea. Pick a set of policies we think are

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:38:50AM -0700, Jerry James wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: That sounds good as long as AutoQA is reliable, not generating false positives. I'd still also suggest that we have a rule drop all packages reported

UPX, lzma stream, xz-devel

2010-01-05 Thread John Reiser
The alloc function in the LZMA SDK allows you to pass it a pointer to your own allocater function. (I don't know whether or not the xz library works like that. [Ed: Yes, it does.]) Would that be enough for UPX? Maybe. Some changes would be required to UPX, on both the compression and

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 12:27 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Tom \spot\ Callaway tcall...@redhat.com writes: On 01/05/2010 11:30 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: On the other hand, with the guideline being so widely ignored, I'm not in a hurry to do work

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/05/2010 05:48 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 01/05/2010 11:30 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: On the other hand, with the guideline being so widely ignored, I'm not in a hurry to do work to comply with it ... Isn't that a chicken/egg

Should we digg PI

2010-01-05 Thread Adrian
Hi, A news of a new calculation of PI is on the net. Should we digg (http://digg.com/d31EgvV) the article in order to promote the fact that the author used Fedora 10 for he's success ? Best regards, Adrian -- :: http://fedoraproject.ro :: http://forum.fedoraproject.ro :: --

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: That sounds good as long as AutoQA is reliable, not generating false positives. I'd still also suggest that we have a rule drop all packages reported by the FTBFS tests which aren't fixed by time of Beta. What

Re: Should we digg PI

2010-01-05 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Adrian adrian.jo...@fedoraproject.ro wrote: Hi, A news of a new calculation of PI is on the net. Should we digg (http://digg.com/d31EgvV) the article in order to promote the fact that the author used Fedora 10 for he's success ? Best regards, Adrian --

Re: Should we digg PI

2010-01-05 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:22 +0200, Adrian wrote: Hi, A news of a new calculation of PI is on the net. Should we digg (http://digg.com/d31EgvV) the article in order to promote the fact that the author used Fedora 10 for he's success ? This sounds like a question about Fedora advocacy, not

Re: formal request - package take over (libssh2)

2010-01-05 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Tuesday 05 of January 2010 17:24:46 Chris Weyl wrote: Well, it's post-holiday season now and I'm starting to catch up on my mail/bugs... These should be taken care of this week. Feel free to ping me via email/bugzilla if you need anything before then. Glad to see you alive! Please grant

Re: qstat conflicts

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:57:31 +0200 Andy Shevchenko andy.shevche...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Does Fedora dead? I have submit new qstat packages and filed bugs against applications which are using its [qstat] old binary name. There were several weeks when qstat update on hold due to bug #533777

Re: Heads-up: %define vs %global in specs

2010-01-05 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:34:12PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: For the impatient: Starting with today's rawhide, the these kind of constructs in specs no longer work: %{?!foo: %define foo bar} For the generally desired effect, the above

Re: formal request - package take over (libssh2)

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Kamil Dudka kdu...@redhat.com wrote: On Tuesday 05 of January 2010 17:24:46 Chris Weyl wrote: Well, it's post-holiday season now and I'm starting to catch up on my mail/bugs...  These should be taken care of this week.  Feel free to ping me via email/bugzilla if

Re: Heads-up: %define vs %global in specs

2010-01-05 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 01/05/2010 11:50 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: What exactly do you mean 'no longer work' ? Can we expect to get a formal RPM build error for this bogus construct, or will it silently build and do the wrong thing ? From your long

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-05 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:48:47AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 01/05/2010 11:30 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 11:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: On the other hand, with the guideline being so widely ignored, I'm not in a hurry to do work to comply with it ... Isn't

Re: formal request - package take over (libssh2)

2010-01-05 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Tuesday 05 of January 2010 20:55:16 Peter Robinson wrote: You can request ACL permissions through the Fedora pkgdb here https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/libssh2 and then the maintainer can grant them You can see I already did. It was more than a month ago, still waiting

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Dodji Seketeli
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 09:37:26AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: I intend to give up the following packages: libcroco Any takers ? I'll take this one. Dodji -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Transifex upgrade

2010-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:45:23AM +1000, Noriko Mizumoto wrote: Paul W. Frields さんは書きました: Diego posted the summary of what needs to be done here: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1455#comment:10 In short, we need a few people to step up and help with the process

be.fedoraproject.org

2010-01-05 Thread Frederic Hornain
Dear *, Just to let you know that due to a server move the ip where be.fedoraproject.org refers to has changed. old ip : 195.207.18.41 new ip : 188.40.138.124 As I was not able to create a new ticket for this request at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure, so could someone can update

Re: be.fedoraproject.org

2010-01-05 Thread Darren VanBuren
I was unable to find any records for be.fedoraproject.org in our zone files, so you'd have to request this domain from scratch. Darren L. VanBuren = http://theoks.net/ On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:56, Frederic Hornain fhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Dear *, Just to let you know

Re: be.fedoraproject.org

2010-01-05 Thread Frederic Hornain
Dear Darren, Thanks a lot. We just have to wait one day to make changes effective. Thanks again. Best Regards Frederic ;) On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Darren VanBuren onekop...@gmail.com wrote: Okay. I just made the change. Darren L. VanBuren = http://theoks.net/

Re: be.fedoraproject.org

2010-01-05 Thread Darren VanBuren
Changes are applied in DNS now. See the included nslookup results. [onekop...@theoks-net ~]$ nslookup be.fedoracommunity.org Server: 208.67.222.222 Address:208.67.222.222#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: be.fedoracommunity.org Address: 188.40.138.124 Darren L. VanBuren

Re: What happens with cvs.fedora.redhat.com

2010-01-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 08:40 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: What happens with cvs.fedora.redhat.com? If it is shutdown permanently where I can get current fedora kernel sources? cvs.fedoraproject.org -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre

Re: What happens with cvs.fedora.redhat.com

2010-01-05 Thread Stanislaw Gruszka
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:50:47 + David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 08:40 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: What happens with cvs.fedora.redhat.com? If it is shutdown permanently where I can get current fedora kernel sources? cvs.fedoraproject.org Thanks,

[Fedora-legal-list] unable to define license type

2010-01-05 Thread Jiri Skala
Hello, I found a license cited below during srpm review. I'm not able to define what kind of license is it. Could you help me with it? The source is a part of iputils package together with other sources/binaries. There is more type of licenses. Particular binaries contains sources of one license

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:39 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I installed bind and tried to use it as a basic cacheing nameserver, which in principal just means running named and pointing /etc/resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1. However resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten by NetworkManager, Are you

Re: control-C and yum update

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 21:42 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: While reinstalling f12 on a machine that I messed up, I was following all my notes and directions and reached the point where the install was successful and it was time to update. I did a su -l and then typed yum update. I realized I

Re: Fedora 11 network share browsing using Natuilus with Samba - Fixed?

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 18:54 -0500, KC8LDO wrote: I did an awful lot of research using Google on the network file share browsing issue I had with Fedora 11 using Nautilus. The two things that stand out are something the ISP's are doing and also with the NetBIOS name resolution order done by

Re: Changing GNOME default directories

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 22:19 +0100, Alessandro Boggiano wrote: I'd like to change the destination of the default GNOME directories : the directories like Videos,Music, Documents.. ( I'm using GNOME in Italian, so the original name, maybe, are a little different). Usually their definition is in

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
Tim: If you're the sort that uses one huge partition for everything (and that does seem to be the recommendation, these days), *and* you never intend to add a second drive, then LVM is pointless to you. R. G. Newbury: ONE HUGE PARTITION? I'd like to know who is crazy enough to recommend

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:47 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: I was assuming that the partition was being formatted each time Fedora was re-installed, but if he uses a separate partition for /home, then that could well be it. Unless you manually partition, and manually add options to do a file system

Re: any fundamental difference between fedora and suse NFSv4?

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 15:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, I've not spent any time trying to get a pure nfs4 environment. IMHO, it doesn't buy anything. Getting away from usernames and numerical user IDs having to all be the same on each computer? -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r

Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Hosea Phiri
All, I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending linux single to make the server boot in sigle mode. My surprise, the machines boots

Re: HP Pavilion a375c w/Fedora 12 compact flash problems

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 22:48 -0800, Donald Russell wrote: I have Fedora 12 running on an HP Pavilion a375c PC. It has one of those multi-card reader things, and if I insert a Memory Stick, an icon for it appears on my desk top and I can browse files on it etc. If I insert a Compact Flash

Re: any fundamental difference between fedora and suse NFSv4?

2010-01-05 Thread Ed Greshko
Tim wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 15:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, I've not spent any time trying to get a pure nfs4 environment. IMHO, it doesn't buy anything. Getting away from usernames and numerical user IDs having to all be the same on each computer? I think you are

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 08:15:12 Hosea Phiri wrote: I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending linux single to make the server boot in

Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2010-01-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 05:00:02 Paul Allen Newell wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: And I cannot get my notebook to even go over 800x600 for the internal display without using system-config-display to create a xorg.conf to get higher resolution with FC12. How do I

fc12 installer fails with Gigabyte GA-EP45 SATA RAID 1

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Mugdan
I am trying to install fc12 i386 on a PC based on the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L motherboard with SATA RAID. It is an Intel chipset. I am using RAID 1 (mirror).I have installed fc8 and fc11 successfully on this hardware, but with fc12 on various attempts I either get that the installer does not

F12 Rkhunter, Have I a rootkit?

2010-01-05 Thread Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)
-- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan -- Warning: Network TCP port 47107 is being used by /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/thunderbird-bin. Possible rootkit: T0rn Use the 'lsof -i' or 'netstat -an' command to check this. Results of lsof -i' and 'netstat -an'

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Hosea Phiri wrote: My surprise, the machines boots differently. I noticed one major thing that looked different from other versions of Fedora I have used before. It does not bring up the Grub menu. It does not even show the services startup. It goes straight into login prompt bypassing all

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:15 -0800, Hosea Phiri wrote: I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending linux single to make the server boot in sigle

Re: F12 Rkhunter, Have I a rootkit?

2010-01-05 Thread Andrew Haley
On 01/05/2010 10:54 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: -- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan -- Warning: Network TCP port 47107 is being used by /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/thunderbird-bin. Possible rootkit: T0rn Use the 'lsof -i' or 'netstat -an'

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Andy Blanchard
Adding to what Marko wrote, since it sounds from the original post like the system may be configured to ask for a password in single user mode. If that's the case you'll need to boot from the Fedora install disc and choose the rescue mode, or if not available use any Linux rescue/recovery disk

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:15 -0800, Hosea Phiri wrote: I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending linux single to make the server boot in sigle

Re: F12 Rkhunter, Have I a rootkit?

2010-01-05 Thread Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)
On 05/01/10 11:06, Andrew Haley wrote: On 01/05/2010 10:54 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: -- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan -- Warning: Network TCP port 47107 is being used by /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/thunderbird-bin. Possible rootkit: T0rn

re: F12 installation ruins booting partition where Windows dual booting

2010-01-05 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:31:41 -0800 Barry Yu wrote: I started F12 installation and everything seamed going well, finally the F12 finished and to reboot, after the BIOS process and then the system got stuck: only the cursor blinking a top left, entire screen is black, and that's it, can't go

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Hosea Phiri
Hi Marko, Possibly my explanation was not clear enough. What I meant was that I know how to do it using single user mode by editing grub entry. But on this specific machine, I cannot use the approach because I am not getting grub menu. However coming to problem itself, let me say that it is

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Hosea Phiri
Before sending to the list, I tried this approach. I pressed shift continuously but failed. I know it works on Fedora, but I can't understand why it failed on FC 11. However, thanks for the tip. From: Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it To: Community

Re: F12 Rkhunter, Have I a rootkit?

2010-01-05 Thread Simon Schneebeli
Hm. I think that telling someone to ignore a message like this would be like telling people hey there is a pandemia, but just ignore it. Either there is a warning for a potential danger (if there is really a danger) or there is no danger (and there should be no warning). Otherwise, in the

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 18:31 +1030, Tim wrote: Keeping a /home between installs has some problems, too. You find that certain things don't like your old .configuration files. That's true independently of how you partition. Even if you do reformat /home, presumably you backup and restore your

Re: [fedora] Re: How many people need to use the proprietary nvidia driver ? (Or other non kms driver ?)

2010-01-05 Thread Dave Martin
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 03:08:39PM +0100, steven bellens wrote: 2010/1/4 Dave Martin darkm...@vt.edu: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:21:18PM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: Please reply if you need to ( ie must) use the proprietary nvidia driver instead of the nouveau driver. Or some other video

Re: F12 Rkhunter, Have I a rootkit?

2010-01-05 Thread Andrew Haley
On 01/05/2010 11:18 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 05/01/10 11:06, Andrew Haley wrote: On 01/05/2010 10:54 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: -- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan -- Warning: Network TCP port 47107 is being used by

Re: HP Pavilion a375c w/Fedora 12 compact flash problems

2010-01-05 Thread Donald Russell
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 00:15, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 22:48 -0800, Donald Russell wrote: I have Fedora 12 running on an HP Pavilion a375c PC. It has one of those multi-card reader things, and if I insert a Memory Stick, an icon for it appears on my

Using xandr -- Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2010-01-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/05/2010 05:39 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 05 January 2010 05:00:02 Paul Allen Newell wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: And I cannot get my notebook to even go over 800x600 for the internal display without using system-config-display to create a

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 05:17 +0100, Tom H wrote: How does one convince NM not to interfere with resolv.conf? Don't know for sure how to make interfaces managed by NM stop doing it, but for my non-NM system I still have to prevent resolv.conf from being scrogged by setting PEERDNS=no

Re: Changing GNOME default directories

2010-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:32:44PM +1030, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 22:19 +0100, Alessandro Boggiano wrote: I'd like to change the destination of the default GNOME directories : the directories like Videos,Music, Documents.. ( I'm using GNOME in Italian, so the original name,

F12 installation making system won't boot

2010-01-05 Thread Barry Yu
I have a system dual boot xp with windows 7 which working fine, I installed the F12 into this system, after first part of the installation complete, and then reboot, the BIOS check finished, and the system got stuck, only the cursor kept blinking at top left and won't go further, fortunately

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 12:01:10 Hosea Phiri wrote: Possibly my explanation was not clear enough. What I meant was that I know how to do it using single user mode by editing grub entry. But on this specific machine, I cannot use the approach because I am not getting grub menu. Ah, well,

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:28:55AM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:22 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: Hi all, what's the best way to get a minimal Fedora system? What do you mean by minimal? If you mean just the base system kernel, libraries, and yum and its

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:30:02 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That seems to be working for the moment, but there's an element of magic in it that makes me nervous. The default named.conf file is set up as a simple cacheing nameserver for local queries, but where does named do its recursive

Re: F12 installation ruins booting partition where Windows dual booting

2010-01-05 Thread barry yu
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cec...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:31:41 -0800 Barry Yu wrote: I started F12 installation and everything seamed going well, finally the F12 finished and to reboot, after the BIOS process and then the system got stuck: only

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 18:22 +1030, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:39 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I installed bind and tried to use it as a basic cacheing nameserver, which in principal just means running named and pointing /etc/resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1. However resolv.conf keeps

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 19:08 -0600, Mikkel wrote: On 01/04/2010 06:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I installed bind and tried to use it as a basic cacheing nameserver, which in principal just means running named and pointing /etc/resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1. However resolv.conf keeps

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 11:18:53 Tim wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:15 -0800, Hosea Phiri wrote: I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. I made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:54 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:30:02 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That seems to be working for the moment, but there's an element of magic in it that makes me nervous. The default named.conf file is set up as a simple cacheing nameserver

Re: [SOLVED] Printing problem w. Photosmart 8450.

2010-01-05 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 05/01/10 02:44, Mikkel wrote: On 01/04/2010 06:08 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have an HP Photosmart 8450 installed on fedora 12. It prints beautifully when it comes to colour pages on plain paper format A4. However, when printing photos it fails. I simply cannot force it to print 4 by 6 inch

Re: Using xandr -- Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2010-01-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 14:21:19 Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/05/2010 05:39 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Sorry to jump in this thread, but have you tried to use xrandr to set up the resolution you want? That way you don't need to generate xorg.conf, and can convince X to give you any

Re: NetworkManager vs Cacheing nameserver

2010-01-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:24:00 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: There isn't. This is the default, unmodified named.conf. So that probably means you are simply talking directly to the root DNS servers and should be able to lookup any public addresses. The problem you'd have with only using

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