Re: small gripe .... -- bug filed

2009-12-31 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:11 AM, BeartoothHOS bearto...@comcast.net wrote: Bug 605817 - bug/feature request : Main Menu lacuna at bugzilla.gnome.org You can make a URL directly to the bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605817 Just so you know. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Sound crackles at when logging in or starting to play in F12

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:09 AM, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone could solve this problem, whenever I log into F12 or start music, I get a burst of static through my speakers. I've done some research and found out about this, but is this likely to be

RFE? Or am I wasting my time?

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Evans
Ok, I proceed fully knowing that, from here on, I will carry a reputation as a senseless pedant. But this kind of stuff drives me nuts. In the transition from F11 to F12, the context menu in Nautilus lost Create Archive and gained Compress in its place. I want the old menu item back, which is not

Re: Annoyance Re: Gnotes ?!?

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: When you right click on a panel and the choose to dd to Panel, one of the things you can add is gnote. This appears as a yellow icon in gnome, unopened. No search window appears until you click on the gnote icon. But

Re: RFE? Or am I wasting my time?

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net wrote: It's in file-roller: Thanks. I didn't actually notice until you pointed it out and while I don't actually care either way, your reasoning makes sense - which is a valid argument for an RFE. Since I'm not

Re: Always need authentication to print?

2009-12-17 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: In that screen in system-config-printer did you fill in the: user-name and passwd boxes. Evidently that is sometimes needed,, and filling those boxes should solve your problem. I never knew that there were user-name

Always need authentication to print?

2009-12-15 Thread Alan Evans
I'm running F12 (preupgraded from F11, which was formerly preupgraded from F10, etc.) here on my work machine. Since the upgrade to F12, whenever I print to our Windows-shared printer, I'm presented with a User/Password challenge. The User defaults to my local user name, which is not the name

Re: Always need authentication to print?

2009-12-15 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: print using this magic phrase: smb://domain/sweerver/printername as in: smb://WORKGROUP/patrica/HPLaswerJ2 No passwds needed. system-config-pinter will indicate this form of printer access. Thanks for replying! I

Install on new computer keeping OEM OS

2009-12-12 Thread Alan Evans
Hello! I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. My question is this then: How safe is it really to allow the installer to resize the existing partition

Re: how to start with simple SDL programming?

2009-11-18 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  having never done any SDL programming before (so be gentle), what would i need to do to get started in terms of loading framebuffer support for my first program? SDL is pretty easy stuff, really. Someone with

Re: stop stupidly telling people to do yum clean all when it's not necessary

2009-09-15 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Tim wrote: Alan Evans: I presume you can otherwise use the network -- DNS working, etc. So did you try yum clean all? I think you can even do it from one of the menus in yumex. Why do you suggest yum clean all?  Would you also suggest format and re-install

Re: stop stupidly telling people to do yum clean all when it's not necessary

2009-09-15 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: IOW the sensible procedure is: yum clean metadata iff that doesn't solve the problem: yum clean all It doesn't happen often enough that I would care about the difference. It's not like I sit staring at the updater while it regets the

Re: stop stupidly telling people to do yum clean all when it's not necessary

2009-09-15 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: IOW the sensible procedure is: yum clean metadata iff that doesn't solve the problem: yum clean all And another thing: The OP actually stated he was using yumex. I just double-checked and yumex doesn't have a menu option to clean the

Re: Yumex: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: fedora

2009-09-13 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote: What could be the issue? It is on Fedora 10. I presume you can otherwise use the network -- DNS working, etc. So did you try yum clean all? I think you can even do it from one of the menus in yumex. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Firefox download - open containing folder

2009-09-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Steven Stern wrote: When I click Open Containing Folderon the Firefox download window, it asks me to choose an application. What application should that be? Known bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497710 Different things work for different

Re: What is the plan for sound for F12 ?

2009-08-27 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Linuxguy123linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: Half the posts on this list are for sound issues.   Clearly whatever F11 is using isn't working.   So what is the plan for F12 ?  When will the Fedora sound system be given an appropriate level of priority such that sound

Ugly panel icon for Firefox

2009-08-21 Thread Alan Evans
A recent (last month or so) update changed the launch icon for Firefox in my panel. Whereas it was smaller and sharper looking, now it's larger and, subjectively, uglier. I put a screenshot here: http://alanevans.org/lists/fedora-list-20090821.png I distinctly recall that the icon used to be

Re: Ugly panel icon for Firefox

2009-08-21 Thread Alan Evans
Just one followup to this, and then I'll shut up, I promise. I booted a Fedora 11 LiveCD, did a yum install thunderbird and put the launcher on the panel for reference: http://alanevans.org/lists/fedora-list-20090821a.png Then I did yum update firefox and suddenly:

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-12 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Alan Evans wrote: Ok. Given the totality of my experience so far combined with the many replies I've received in this thread, I was inclined to believe that starting with a Mac-formatted disk was really causing me serious trouble

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-09 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote: Alan Evans wrote: Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was repatriated from a broken iMac. I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded the netinstall image and installed the whole thing over my home

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-09 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/08/09 23:11, Alan Evans wrote: On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: Did you try when in rescue mode chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/sda1 and see what happens

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-09 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 09/08/09 09:32, Alan Evans wrote: --snip-- Reading some of your newer replies. My mistake This should have been grub-install /dev/sda2 Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the result is identical. Is there any way you can

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-09 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: No, I meant if you try and boot normally. from the hard disk, without any cd\dvd Sorry, I thought I must be misunderstanding your question. Removing the rescue disc from the CD drive results in: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-09 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: I don't have a LiveCD handy, only the netinstall CD. Downloading a LiveCD would take me a very long time. Send me you postal address *offlist*. and I will send you on one. That's very kind of you, sir, but hardly efficient. If

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-09 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertsonmik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: On 08/09/2009 04:17 AM, Alan Evans wrote: I'm still confused about how anaconda can possibly mount a partition (two, including the boot partition) when fdisk thinks the partition table

can't boot fresh install

2009-08-08 Thread Alan Evans
Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was repatriated from a broken iMac. I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded the netinstall image and installed the whole thing over my home DSL. This took nearly a day and a half, and I don't want to repeat that process if I

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-08 Thread Alan Evans
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: Did you try when in rescue mode chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/sda1 and see what happens. Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table

Re: can't boot fresh install

2009-08-08 Thread Alan Evans
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Alan Evansame.fed...@gmail.com wrote: Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was repatriated from a broken iMac. I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded the netinstall image and installed the whole thing over my home DSL. This

Re: auto-updates

2009-08-07 Thread Alan Evans
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Paul W. Frieldssticks...@gmail.com wrote: A note on the supposedly useless interface -- my question is, why do people care so much about a progress bar anyway?  When I get an update alert, I right-click, tell the system to install updates, and go about my work.  

Re: system-config-network activate, deactivate button greyed out

2009-08-05 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:29 AM, daniel shiyooou...@gmail.com wrote: hi guys, i've installed  fedora 10 on my laptop, there is a problem with  the activate and deactivate button in the system-config-network 1.5.95, they are grey all the time.  system-config-network worked fine on fedora 8,

conflicted file in update this morning?

2009-08-03 Thread Alan Evans
Came to work this morning and updater icon told me that updates were available on my F11 system. Pretty routine, I told it to go ahead and do the update. What wasn't routine was the subsequent error dialog complaining of Local file conflict between packages: Test Transaction Errors: file

Re: conflicted file in update this morning?

2009-08-03 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:04:32 -0700 Alan Evans wrote: Anyway, today I can't update. Can anything be done? Or should this get bugzilla'd? And if so, against what? Usually if you just wait a few days the 32 and 64 bit repos get back in sync

Re: conflicted file in update this morning?

2009-08-03 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:04:32 -0700 Alan Evans wrote: Anyway, today I can't update. Can anything be done? Or should this get bugzilla'd? And if so, against what? Usually if you just wait a few days the 32 and 64 bit repos get back in sync

Re: conflicted file in update this morning?

2009-08-03 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: iirc bold=going to be installed normal=updating That can't be it. Today's updates were all already installed packages. Where should users go to find out? It's in none of the docs that I can find. From my current evidence, it seems to be:

Re: conflicted file in update this morning?

2009-08-03 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:30:43 -0700 Alan Evans wrote: That can't be it. Today's updates were all already installed packages. Where should users go to find out? It's in none of the docs that I can find. man yum.conf search down for 'color

Re: conflicted file in update this morning?

2009-08-03 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Alan Evans wrote: Normal, non-bold, means that the package is to be reinstalled because the available package is the same version as the installed package. In such a case, I'm curious why yum thinks it needs to be updated at all. It's

Re: will we ever have radeon drivers that aren't crap?

2009-07-28 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Frank Cox wrote: The Radeon X1550 that I had in the computer previous to this one worked perfectly with Fedora 10, as well. And the X1550 seems to me to work even better with Fedora 11. Yes, I'm serious. I'm beginning to think that I may be the only one for

Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: All PIIIs are single cores, AFAIK. Of course I knew that. In my mind, dual and dual core are the same thing and don't necessarily mean that the cores are on the same die. Kind of like when I say a Sun E1 is 64-core, I don't mean on a

OpenOffice Calc slow on F11?

2009-06-22 Thread Alan Evans
Is it just me? Since the update to F11, OpenOffice Calc is *slow*. Really slow. Like, go to an empty cell and type a number and hit enter then several seconds pass before the screen redraws and the number appears in the cell. It was never a speed demon, but before F11, entering data wasn't an

Re: OpenOffice Calc slow on F11?

2009-06-22 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:46 AM, David L wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Alan Evans wrote: Like, go to an empty cell and type a number and hit enter then several seconds pass before the screen redraws and the number appears in the cell. I don't see this behavior. Actually, I

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-05 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 06/05/2009 05:07 AM, Alan Evans wrote: I recall some time ago, perhaps FC8 or 9, that trying to remove wireless-tools would threaten to remove nearly every package on the system, including the kernel. Was that because yum was broken

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-05 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alan Evans wrote: It's broken because a package not being required by anything else doesn't mean it isn't needed. For example, it could be an application which is being removed because you just removed a plugin for it or a second application

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-05 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: You're asking to remove X, and I know of Y and Z which are only required by X - so you should probably remove X,Y, AND Z at the same time This is my understanding as well. And since: [a...@agena ~]$ rpm -q --whatrequires basesystem

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-04 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Alan Evans wrote: I have a small number of 32-bit packages on my desktop. If I try to remove, for example, glibc.i686, then it tries to take basesystem.noarch with it as a dependency! You must be missing some x86_64

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-04 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:14 AM, M A Young m.a.yo...@durham.ac.uk wrote: Have you got two basesystem packages installed? The F11 basesystem package is basesystem-10.0-2.noarch.rpm. [a...@agena ~]$ rpm -qa | grep basesystem basesystem-10.0-1.noarch [a...@agena ~]$ -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-04 Thread Alan Evans
2009/6/4 Martín Marqués : 2009/6/4 Alan Evans: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:14 AM, M A Young wrote: Have you got two basesystem packages installed? The F11 basesystem package is basesystem-10.0-2.noarch.rpm. [a...@agena ~]$ rpm -qa | grep basesystem basesystem-10.0-1.noarch [a...@agena

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-04 Thread Alan Evans
2009/6/4 Martín Marqués: Ohh. AFAICS, the subject of this thread is update to F11 with yum True. But I was originally replying to Sam Sharpe, who claimed to have no 32-bit packages on his system when that was apparently impossible for me. I really wasn't expecting the sub-thread to last long.

Re: update to F11 with yum

2009-06-04 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Alan Evans wrote: Actually, not that either. A closer examination of yum output reveals:     removing basesystem-10.0-1.noarch. It is not required by anything     else. This is being tagged for removal by the remove-with-leaves plugin

Re: Spin request (I guess)

2009-05-20 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Beartooth wrote: My 701 has a 4GB solid state drive, which I think is the same, and either a 4 GB or an 8 GB camera card. Tell me of those tweaks -- pretty please! With sugar on it. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-January/msg01418.html (I'm

Re: Spin request (I guess)

2009-05-20 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote: And to comment on one point there, are you aware of all the forums and wikis at http://forum.eeeuser.com/ No, I was not. I'll peruse them some other time, perhaps. But I did laugh: 4 separate forums devoted to various

Re: Spin request (I guess)

2009-05-19 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote: If that works on the 701 (which is a lot smaller, in every sense, and slower than the 1000), it'll be the best news in a month of Sundays. I installed the Omega spin on my 900A. I don't know how that compares to the 701,

Re: Can't update F9

2009-05-13 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Craig White wrote: The F9 repos were recently (in the past week) updated to use sha256 hashes for the repodata.  It's possible that this has caused the problem, though I am fairly certain that updating from a clean F9 install was tested

Re: Can't update F9

2009-05-13 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Alan Evans wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Dave Feustel wrote: How about backing up your userspace to usb flashdrive and installing F10 from scratch after a reformat of your disk drive? Did I not make it clear that installing

Can't update F9

2009-05-11 Thread Alan Evans
Hello, helpful, friendly types. I have an old laptop that, for whatever reason, I can't install F10 on directly. I can't remember what the problem was, exactly, but the installer pukes or freezes or somesuch. So the machine has languished on a shelf for several months. Anyway, I decided to give

Re: Can't update F9

2009-05-11 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Dave Feustel wrote: How about backing up your userspace to usb flashdrive and installing F10 from scratch after a reformat of your disk drive? Did I not make it clear that installing F10 from scratch was not an option? -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Can't update F9

2009-05-11 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: First, download ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386.newkey/fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm and install it. Then download preupgrade, and use it to upgrade to Fedora 10. If I have not forgotten anything,

Re: Can't update F9

2009-05-11 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:35 PM, M A Young wrote: It sounds like yum or one of its dependencies is broken (or missing). You could always try updating yum to the F10 version via rpm, and seeing if updating it, or any of its dependencies fixes your yum problem. I have to admit that I was

Re: Where is lsof?

2009-05-05 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: Usually a good way to find where a command is would be to use the which command. In this case: [m...@gestalt ~]$ which lsof /usr/sbin/lsof How is that going to work if /usr/sbin isn't already in your path? -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Where is lsof?

2009-05-05 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Alan Evans wrote: How is that going to work if /usr/sbin isn't already in your path? It does work. Try it yourself. $ which lsof /usr/sbin/lsof $ echo $PATH /usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin

Re: nVidia vs. ATI graphics card for fedora

2009-04-28 Thread Alan Evans
FWIW, I've got dual-head working with an ATI Radeon X1550. Nothing special about my system except a custom xorg.conf. I'm using the standard radeon driver, so I don't worry at all about kernel updates. Just to let you know that it just works, with the custom config caveat. -- fedora-list

Re: Editor to program in C

2009-04-28 Thread Alan Evans
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Jose Celestino wrote: Words by Tim [Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 01:20:31AM +1030]: There's one thing worse than vi, and that's emacs.   ;-) And vice-versa :) That, sir, is the finest response I have ever seen. You've settled the entire vi/emacs war in two words. I

Re: Virtualization for Beginner

2009-04-22 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, maybe the piece of cake was a little larger than what I remember :-) I actually went to http://www.virtualbox.org, downloaded the package for Fedora and did a yum localinstall And they don't have a pre-made version

Re: Virtualization for Beginner

2009-04-22 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: Alan Evans wrote: And they don't have a pre-made version for F10 available at that site that I can find. Fedora 9 (Sulphur) / 10 (Cambridge) i386 | AMD64 That's what I get for scanning over the page quickly

Re: Interactive startup on F10. Pressing I doesn't work

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Evans
Clark Martin wrote: Alan Evans wrote: I would have thought that the key-repeat wouldn't differ functionally from rapidly tapping the key. Most computer keyboards transmit to the computer a key down and key up for each key.  This is true for modifiers as well (shift, control, etc

Re: Interactive startup on F10. Pressing I doesn't work

2009-04-02 Thread Alan Evans
Tim wrote: Alan Evans wrote: It surely used to work. But I just confirmed it doesn't work now. Is any keypress having any effect?  Things like USB keyboards aren't always available until some drivers are up and alive. I tested on my netbook, so the keyboard was part of the machine. As I held

Re: Interactive startup on F10. Pressing I doesn't work

2009-04-02 Thread Alan Evans
Craig White wrote: I find that holding the keys down can be counter-productive. I suspect that the code discards the buffer contents before looking for a key press and that's why 'rapid taps' as Anne puts it seems to be the only method that works. I would have thought that the key-repeat

Re: Interactive startup on F10. Pressing I doesn't work

2009-04-02 Thread Alan Evans
Nigel Henry wrote: Hi Alan. Hi. Are you trying this on F10, because I can't get into interactive startup on it. I'm using the Omega spin, which didn't exist before F10, so yes. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Interactive startup on F10. Pressing I doesn't work

2009-04-01 Thread Alan Evans
Tom Horsley wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: On F9 I had to press the I a few times to enter interactive startup, on earlier Fedora versions only one press is necessary, but on F10, I can't get into interactive startup at all. That's odd. I've never been able to see any effect from pressing I on

Re: Suggestion - replace gdm with kdm as the default

2009-03-16 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Mail Lists wrote:  gdm has become, frankly, really awful.  Can we just make kdm the default - it is so much simpler to configure and it behaves the way any rational administrator expects.  kdm is part of Fedora anyway ... leave gnome as the default desktop,

Re: without a truly working jigdo, re-spins are effectively useless

2009-03-11 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  sure, i'm willing to help out, but it (finally) dawned on me that there's always going to be a fundamental drawback with the way jigdo is being supported.  when the re-spin is created, it will of course be current

Re: I can't print, sort of.

2009-03-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:30 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: have a look here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488225 Thanks. CC'd myself there. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: I can't print, sort of.

2009-03-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 15:52 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: I see nothing relevant in /var/log/messages. Should I be looking somewhere else for printer-related messages? cups messages are in: /var/log/cups in files like error_log Of course. Duh

I can't print, sort of.

2009-03-09 Thread Alan Evans
Sometime recently, printing stopped working in some applications. I can go into System-Administration-Printing and print a test page. And I can print without problem with OpenOffice Writer. Firefox won't print anymore. It pops up the dialog with the progress bar stating it's printing, which

Re: KDE 4.2 requires local MySQL Server

2009-02-17 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: By your comment one would think that installing mysql-server brings some great evil with it. Maybe not that bad, but one might legitimately feel dirty because of it, anyway. In a similar case for me, I had a web server which was fully

Re: FC10 - yum prefered mirrors list

2009-02-17 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: where does yum keep its prefered mirrors list in FC10? I have looked in /etc/yum* and not found any cached urls. Sorry, don't know the answer to your question. But if I'm correctly divining the reason behind your

Re: Feature Proposal: Rolling Updates (was Re: WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!)

2009-02-11 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Mark Haney wrote: Alan Evans wrote: As I understand it, Gentoo doesn't suffer this because each user is compiling their own package sets. Updating libfoo doesn't require recursively redownloading every package that requires it because the user already has

Re: Using ext2 on SSD drive

2009-02-05 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I am installing FC10 on an ASUS with an SSD drive right now to see how it behaves. For me it's been quite satisfactory. Quick suggestions (if you are of the GNOME persuasion) include using openbox instead of metacity

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would this configuration

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up. If performance is a key issue, which I'm sure it is, you don't want swap. Of course I'm perfectly aware that RAM

jEdit on F10?

2009-01-15 Thread Alan Evans
Has anyone successfully installed jEdit on Fedora 10? How did you do it? Honestly, I've never used it myself. Although it looks to be a very capable editor. Most of the developers at my company just switched to it (Windows users, all), so I thought it would be prudent to test it out myself. I

Re: jEdit on F10?

2009-01-15 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Jonathan Underwood wrote: Have you tried enabling the jpackage repository? http://www.jpackage.org/ Not successfully. I downloaded the jpackage17.repo file, but yum just errored out on every mirror. I forced the repo file to pretend that I wanted Fedora-9

Re: Restoring NetworkManager settings

2009-01-13 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: My experience is that if NM is running, it is not a good idea to run system-config-network. In fact, I don't think it is ever a good idea to run system-config-network. Indeed. Now that it seems NM is capable enough for

Re: Restoring NetworkManager settings

2009-01-13 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 07:27 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: Indeed. Now that it seems NM is capable enough for my needs, I intend to do yum remove system-config-network as soon as I get this situation sorted. You don't want to remove it. Just

Re: FC9 for a ASUS Eee 700

2009-01-12 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Is FC9 the way to go, or should I take the dive with FC10? What are others running on their Eee? I installed F10 (actually, the Omega spin) on my 900A and I'm extremely pleased. I did a few customizations, such as

Re: FC9 for a ASUS Eee 700

2009-01-12 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Alan Evans wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I installed F10 (actually, the Omega spin) on my 900A and I'm extremely pleased. I did a few customizations

Re: FC9 for a ASUS Eee 700

2009-01-12 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Of course a /home directory, just not in its own partition. Only 3 partitions: /boot, swap, and / I even forwent the separate /boot partition. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Restoring NetworkManager settings

2009-01-12 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Alan Evans wrote: I screwed up. I wanted to temporarily assign static IP settings for eth0, and like a dufus I used system-config-network. Unchecked Controlled by Network Manager and entered the desired addresses. This worked fine as far as it went. When I

Re: Restoring NetworkManager settings

2009-01-12 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Mail Llists li...@sapience.com wrote: Try cleaning the gnome registry - much fun is stored there. However, if you are using gnome not kde it may clean more than you want. If you're using kde then .. well you get the idea. Thanks for taking the time to suggest a

Restoring NetworkManager settings

2009-01-11 Thread Alan Evans
I screwed up. I wanted to temporarily assign static IP settings for eth0, and like a dufus I used system-config-network. Unchecked Controlled by Network Manager and entered the desired addresses. This worked fine as far as it went. When I was finished with the temporary settings, I went back and

Re: USB stick with ext2?

2009-01-06 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: With the USB mounted become root Then chown alan /media/disk. The ownership information is maintained in the ext2 structure. So, the next time it is mounted it will retain ownership by alan. I find this acceptable.

Re: can't log in after converting root filesystem

2009-01-05 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Jim Cornette fc-corne...@wowway.com wrote: You might be able to use JFFS2 for the flash. We use JFFS2 for out Flash storage on embedded devices. Hmmm. I would actually not mind trying that at all. But how do I get my root (and only) FS to be JFFS2? It's not an

USB stick with ext2?

2009-01-05 Thread Alan Evans
Howdy! When I insert a USB thumb drive formatted with vfat, it gets automagically mounted under /media with appropriate permissions so the logged in user can write to the device. But if the thumb drive is formatted ext2, only root can write to it. $ mount /dev/sdb1 on /media/Devel type ext2

can't log in after converting root filesystem

2009-01-03 Thread Alan Evans
Hello, Friendly Fedora Folks: My problem seems possibly related to some recently reported issues, but I'm unable to fit suggested solutions to my issue. Anyway, here goes: I have an Asus EeePC 900A. It predictably took me about 2.5 minutes to figure out that I wanted nothing at all to do with

Re: can't log in after converting root filesystem

2009-01-03 Thread Alan Evans
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:01 AM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:34:24AM -0800, Alan Evans wrote: I discovered (on my eeepc 901) that adding relatime to /etc/fstab causes subsequent kernel installs to go bad in that they create bad initrd file

system-config-keyboard depends on firstboot?

2008-12-30 Thread Alan Evans
I have a system with extremely limited mass storage. So I went hunting for anything I might remove to save disk space. Anyway, I thought to myself, Self, firstboot doesn't do anything useful anymore; let's remove it! But yum tells me that removing firstboot will take system-config-keyboard with

Re: Current state of multi-core awareness

2008-12-04 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Seann Clark wrote: If it is multithreaded, like say Apache, then, under load you will see it peg all your CPU's/Cores instead of just one. I see this type of behavior on my home server, which has quad core dual Xeon's, and when I stress test HTTP all eight

FWIW: No complaints about preupgrade here

2008-11-28 Thread Alan Evans
Nobody ever complains when something works right, so I thought I'd lead by example. And there's been a number of messages lately reporting that preupgrade doesn't work right. Upgrades typically take a long time, so I figured the long holiday weekend was the perfect opportunity. I

@#$%^*! VMWare!

2008-11-21 Thread Alan Evans
Does anybody have VMWare Workstation 6.0.5 working with the latest F9 kernel updates? -- 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: @#$%^*! VMWare!

2008-11-21 Thread Alan Evans
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Alan Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have VMWare Workstation 6.0.5 working with the latest F9 kernel updates? On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Iarly Selbir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try run the vmware-config.pl again. I'm guessing, then, that your

Re: @#$%^*! VMWare!

2008-11-21 Thread Alan Evans
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Wayne Feick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware Workstation 6.5 is out now, with some nice new features like Unity. With this release, simply running vmware once as root will automatically rebuild all the needed modules for you. Is my 6.0 license good for 6.5 in

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