Re: dd question, what am I doing wrong?

2009-12-06 Thread Dan Thurman
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:02 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:13 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: The problem I have specifically with rsync (or tar, or cp) is that it does not save ACLs, file

To dd or to rsync, that's the question...

2009-12-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Which is the preferred backup solution? As it seems, when I use rsync to copy data from disk1 partitionX over to disk2 partition X, I noticed that if one uses Fedora Selinux, one has to touch /.autorelabel for that partition. It seems to work, except in cases where the UUID is being hard-wired

Re: To dd or to rsync, that's the question...

2009-12-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-12-01 13:01:47, Dan Thurman wrote: Which is the preferred backup solution? ... I am trying to get data off of disk1 which is failing (via smartd) and wish to use the correct backup and restore method getting the data off of disk1 onto disk2 without

Gimp Gap?

2008-12-18 Thread Dan Thurman
[OFF TOPIC]: Gimp I was reading Gimp on Gimp's website and discovered that there was something called Gap. It was not clear to me if this was already built in, is a plugin, or a separate application to be downloaded and installed. If Gap is already built-in, how does one invoke it? Thanks!

Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus

Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus

Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
Todd Denniston wrote: N. James Bridge wrote, On 12/17/2008 01:55 PM: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:40 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: Todd Denniston wrote: N. James Bridge wrote, On 12/17/2008 01:55 PM: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:40 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException

Is it me or what? Musical chairs with fonts?

2008-12-14 Thread Dan Thurman
Seems that every time there is a new Xorg release my desktop fonts are changing. One time it is too large, and now it is very small (try size 5 or 6). Sometimes the window apps positions have shifted, or the mounted-disk desktop icons have shifted forcing me to reset the settings and re-save

Re: Weather icons missing in GNOME clock applet [SOLVED-ish]

2008-12-14 Thread Dan Thurman
Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:16:18 -0500 fred smith wrote: Did you enable weather icons in preferences? Do you have enough space on your panel to show the weather? It takes up another inch or so of space. I have found, that removing the applet and re-adding the

Re: Weather icons missing in GNOME clock applet [SOLVED-ish]

2008-12-14 Thread Dan Thurman
fred smith wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:25:38AM -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:16:18 -0500 fred smith wrote: Did you enable weather icons in preferences? Do you have enough space on your panel to show the weather

Re: Sed programming question

2008-12-11 Thread Dan Thurman
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 10Dec2008 18:39, Dan Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!] You can only do AND by nesting multiple pattern matches: /foo/{ /bar/{ ... do stuff for foo AND bar } } I tested your suggestion above with and without -r option but could not make

Re: Sed programming question

2008-12-11 Thread Dan Thurman
Gordon Messmer wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I tested your suggestion above with and without -r option but could not make it work as an AND operator: # echo foo har | sed -re '/foo/{/bar/{s/foo/goo/}}' goo har $ rpm -q sed sed-4.1.5-11.fc10.x86_64 $ echo foo har | sed -re '/foo/{/bar/{s/foo/goo

Re: Sed programming question

2008-12-11 Thread Dan Thurman
Kevin Martin wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I tested your suggestion above with and without -r option but could not make it work as an AND operator: # echo foo har | sed -re '/foo/{/bar/{s/foo/goo/}}' goo har $ rpm -q sed sed-4.1.5-11.fc10.x86_64 $ echo foo

Sed programming question

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Thurman
I think sed can handle relational operators, but I have not been able to figure it out. Am I correct in assuming that sed can use relational operators such as OR (|) or AND ()? Here is an example, but does not work: echo The | sed -e '/(the)|(THE)|(The)/i\ GOOD!' I tried looking up examples

Re: Sed programming question

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Thurman
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 10Dec2008 18:39, Dan Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think sed can handle relational operators, but I have not been able to figure it out. Am I correct in assuming that sed can use relational operators such as OR (|) or AND ()? Here is an example, but does

How can I open-with over an NTFS filesystem?

2008-12-08 Thread Dan Thurman
I have via Nautilus (Places-)Network, mounted a remote NTFS file-system from a Windows Server and it brings up the Nautilus Browser showing the contents of the file to be viewed. What I would like to do is to do a 'tail' on a log file therein which is a text-file that has embedded ANSI Color

Re: How can I open-with over an NTFS filesystem?

2008-12-08 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: I have via Nautilus (Places-)Network, mounted a remote NTFS file-system from a Windows Server and it brings up the Nautilus Browser showing the contents of the file to be viewed. What I would like to do is to do a 'tail' on a log file therein which is a text-file that has

I am testing convmv and need some example non-utf-8 filenames.

2008-11-29 Thread Dan Thurman
I have been scratching my head and tried all sorts of what I thought were non-utf-8 filenames but I am never sure that the filenames that I have tried are truly non-utf-8 filenames. ... and yes, I have searched everywhere in the Internet looking and trying all sorts of filenames but was unable

Re: I am testing convmv and need some example non-utf-8 filenames.

2008-11-29 Thread Dan Thurman
Todd Zullinger wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I have been scratching my head and tried all sorts of what I thought were non-utf-8 filenames but I am never sure that the filenames that I have tried are truly non-utf-8 filenames. ... and yes, I have searched everywhere in the Internet looking

How to access Nautilus's Network filesystems via shell or 'Open With...'?

2008-11-16 Thread Dan Thurman
I am working on F9 Via Nautilus: 1) Open the Network computer, enter name/password when prompted 2) Select the directory you want to go to 3) And say that you found a log file of interest: Tracker.log Note: the mounted network connection appears on your Desktop as: Drive$ on windows-hostname

Re: Strange 'find' case?

2008-11-15 Thread Dan Thurman
Todd Zullinger wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: So, my question is, how do I get around this issue - to either write a script to convert these files to a `sane' encoded characters or change something like the Language environment that the OS can handle any encoded file names? The default

Yum Updates: Today - Pretty good. Just minor Issues (maybe?)

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Thurman
Did a Yum Update today some, 192 files. Two packages: SeaMonkey and Vlc reported: Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/switchdesk.desktop': Key file contains line '? ?' which is not a key-value pair, group, or comment Not sure if that is ok... Dan --

Re: How to enter unicode in F9

2008-11-09 Thread Dan Thurman
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 09:38 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Except that is a 'frownie' as displayed here, and in this email. ☺ ☹ poc Maybe off topic? How about the other way around? What if you want to, say translate unicode characters to

Re: How to enter unicode in F9

2008-11-09 Thread Dan Thurman
Alan Cox wrote: For example, there is umlaut - and that could be transliterated into `u' for example. Others may have strange looking unicode and I have That depends on the language. Unicode is just character encoding rules. You need more context to do transliterations. Not that you should

Re: How to enter unicode in F9

2008-11-09 Thread Dan Thurman
Alan Cox wrote: How about the other way around? What if you want to, say translate unicode characters to english? I have I'm not sure what you mean by to English, Unicode is a character encoding not a language dependant encoding. You can look up unicode symbols on www.unicode.org, you

Re: How do I create 6 pages?

2008-10-31 Thread Dan Thurman
Steven W. Orr wrote: On Friday, Oct 31st 2008 at 00:10 -, quoth Anoop: =Hi Steven, = =On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = On my F9 task bar I have a pager widget, but I can't figure out how to = increase the number of pages. I'd like to get to 6. =For

Re: Trying to reconfigure F9 to new computer hardware... firstboot?

2008-10-30 Thread Dan Thurman
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:14:43 -0500, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be _really_ nice if the installer could be re-run in this situation, offering to fix only the things that needed to be fixed (re-detect hardware, build a working initrd, install

Re: fedora installation

2008-10-30 Thread Dan Thurman
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 11:37 -0400, Jerry Ro wrote: hello all, I am interested in installing fedora on a laptop x61t (it is, to the best of my understanding, a 64bit machine.) a few questions I have: * should 60-80 GB be reasonable for full installation of

Re: Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

2008-10-30 Thread Dan Thurman
Arthur Pemberton wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Kevin Fenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:45:18 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Makhlin) wrote: Hi all, Which one do you think is better and for what reasons. Ubuntu or Fedora 9. Personally I like Fedora 9.

Problems found in /var/log/messages: gdm related.

2008-10-30 Thread Dan Thurman
Hum... I cannot figure out how to fix this particular issue. I have tried to look for information in forums and mailers but have not found any solutions to this. Can you take a look at the following and perhaps you might already know of a solution? /var/log/messages:

Re: Problems found in /var/log/messages: gdm related.

2008-10-30 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: Hum... I cannot figure out how to fix this particular issue. I have tried to look for information in forums and mailers but have not found any solutions to this. Can you take a look at the following and perhaps you might already know of a solution? /var/log/messages

Re: Problems found in /var/log/messages: gdm related.

2008-10-30 Thread Dan Thurman
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied

Re: Problems found in /var/log/messages: gdm related.

2008-10-30 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied

Re: Problems found in /var/log/messages: gdm related.

2008-10-30 Thread Dan Thurman
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:30 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Oct 30 16:42:13 bronze gconfd (gdm-15650): Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able

Re: Trying to reconfigure F9 to new computer hardware... firstboot?

2008-10-29 Thread Dan Thurman
Les Mikesell wrote: Mike wrote: Dan Thurman dant at cdkkt.com writes: What happened was that I spent a lot of time configuring computer A, and rsync'd the root filesystem onto disk at computer B. I then rsync'd from hard disk to computer C and everything was fine except that the hardware

Trying to reconfigure F9 to new computer hardware... firstboot?

2008-10-28 Thread Dan Thurman
What happened was that I spent a lot of time configuring computer A, and rsync'd the root filesystem onto disk at computer B. I then rsync'd from hard disk to computer C and everything was fine except that the hardware is clearly different. My X came up fine (I manually ran Xorg -configure,

F9: Manually editing passwd/group files causes rebooting to freeze up after udev....

2008-10-26 Thread Dan Thurman
I was manually changing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file since my users were incorrectly assigned UID/GIDs, I manually corrected the UID/GID in /home for each user, rebooted and noticed that I would get a hang just after udev. I tried ^D and noticed that something complaining about

Re: F9: Manually editing passwd/group files causes rebooting to freeze up after udev....

2008-10-26 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: I was manually changing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file since my users were incorrectly assigned UID/GIDs, I manually corrected the UID/GID in /home for each user, rebooted and noticed that I would get a hang just after udev. I tried ^D and noticed that something

Re: F9: Manually editing passwd/group files causes rebooting to freeze up after udev....

2008-10-26 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I was manually changing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file since my users were incorrectly assigned UID/GIDs, I manually corrected the UID/GID in /home for each user, rebooted and noticed that I would get a hang just after udev. I tried ^D and noticed

Re: [SOLVED] F9: Manually editing passwd/group files causes rebooting to freeze up after udev....

2008-10-26 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I was manually changing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file since my users were incorrectly assigned UID/GIDs, I manually corrected the UID/GID in /home for each user, rebooted and noticed that I would get a hang just after udev. I

Re: F9: Manually editing passwd/group files causes rebooting to freeze up after udev....

2008-10-26 Thread Dan Thurman
Timothy Murphy wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I was manually changing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file since my users were incorrectly assigned UID/GIDs, I manually corrected the UID/GID in /home for each user, rebooted and noticed that I would get a hang just after udev. Aren't we

F9: Desktop Effect and Compiz: How to manually disable it?

2008-10-21 Thread Dan Thurman
I have enabled 'Desktop Effects' (Compiz) and tried it out and it looks pretty cool. I was able to logout and log back in, everything is fine. Next, I used the Compiz Configuration Tool (cscm), added a few more bells and whistles, and I did not get any immediate changes after closing the cscm

Re: F9: Desktop Effect and Compiz: How to manually disable it? [SOLVED (sort of)]

2008-10-21 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: I have enabled 'Desktop Effects' (Compiz) and tried it out and it looks pretty cool. I was able to logout and log back in, everything is fine. Next, I used the Compiz Configuration Tool (cscm), added a few more bells and whistles, and I did not get any immediate changes

Re: F9: Firefox: Java based site fails to work.

2008-10-20 Thread Dan Thurman
Claude Jones wrote: On Sun October 19 2008 12:12:35 am Matthew Flaschen wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: plus, once you have it installed, you can make 'relaycall.com' perminate to load every time. I installed noscript, then allowed 'relaycall.com' and IP address: '12.x.x.x

F9: Firefox: Java based site fails to work.

2008-10-18 Thread Dan Thurman
I visited a java-based website and wondering why this site seems to say that I need to enable Java in order to use it? I checked FF preferences and Java is enabled so that is not the problem. Firefox works fine on a windows platform so perhaps I actually do not have Java installed on F9? If

Re: F9: Firefox: Java based site fails to work.

2008-10-18 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: I visited a java-based website and wondering why this site seems to say that I need to enable Java in order to use it? I checked FF preferences and Java is enabled so that is not the problem. Firefox works fine on a windows platform so perhaps I actually do not have Java

Re: F9: Firefox: Java based site fails to work.

2008-10-18 Thread Dan Thurman
g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Thurman wrote: I visited a java-based website and wondering why this site seems to say that I need to enable Java in order to use it? Yeah, encouraging words from c but I can handle it! (shaking off the dust

Re: F9: Firefox: Java based site fails to work.

2008-10-18 Thread Dan Thurman
Dan Thurman wrote: g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Thurman wrote: I visited a java-based website and wondering why this site seems to say that I need to enable Java in order to use it? Yeah, encouraging words from c but I can handle it! (shaking

Grub and Chainloaders

2008-10-14 Thread Dan Thurman
I have successfully arranged Grubs in the following way: -Primary--Primary--Primary--Extended-- [boot-sys] [boot-f8] [boot-f9] [ [root-f8] [root-f9] [f-App1] [swap] ] boot-sys: [...] #boot=/dev/sda timeout=10

Re: Grub and Chainloaders [SOLVED]

2008-10-14 Thread Dan Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I have successfully arranged Grubs in the following way: -Primary--Primary--Primary--Extended-- [boot-sys] [boot-f8] [boot-f9] [ [root-f8] [root-f9] [f-App1] [swap] ] boot-sys: [...]

F9: Problems reaching Internet

2008-10-13 Thread Dan Thurman
To make a long story short, I had a crashed my F9 system and now it seems that I cannot figure out why I can reach all of my local LAN systems, but I can no longer reach the Internet. I have the network service running, I have the setup my network via the `network' tool, I have disabled the

Re: F9: Problems reaching Internet [SOLVED]

2008-10-13 Thread Dan Thurman
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: To make a long story short, I had a crashed my F9 system and now it seems that I cannot figure out why I can reach all of my local LAN systems, but I can no longer reach the Internet. I have the network service running, I have the setup my

F9: System hangs after long inactivity.

2008-10-12 Thread Dan Thurman
I have just gotten ahold of my daughter's system and now and looking at why is it, that her system hangs after a long period of inactive use (ie when she goes to bed, goes to work, then comes home to find a hung system). I tried this myself now and find it to be 100% consistent. This problem

Re: F9 RHGB Display Has Vanished

2008-10-09 Thread Dan Thurman
Trapper wrote: I have four F9 boxes and all have a unique rhgb problem. I have no rhgb display. Instead of the rhgb screen the boot up falls back to a simple text screen. All grubs call for rhgb. I am current with updates on all machines. It isn't display card specific. This happens with nvidia

Re: Updates caused problems...

2008-10-08 Thread Dan Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: If booting latest kernel: 2.6.26.3-29.f9.i686 (or newer): - No Gui startup after udev - mkrootdev: could not determine nfs root target - mount: missing mount point - setuproot: moving /dev failed (No such file or directory) : error mounting

Re: Reboot every 1 hour, 19 seconds

2008-10-07 Thread Dan Thurman
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Am Dienstag, den 07.10.2008, 09:48 -0500 schrieb Arthur Pemberton: When was the last time you dismantled and cleaned the machine? Arthur: Three monts ago? Seems clean, though. - I changed the memory DIMMs. - Disconnected the machine electrig plug. - Pushed

Re: kernel 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 - non graphical boot?

2008-10-05 Thread Dan Thurman
Antonio M wrote: 2008/10/5 Dan Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Antonio M wrote: with 2.6.27-0.382.rc8.git4.fc10.i686 kernel and latest xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.4.2-9.fc10, gdm-2.24.0-8.fc10, everything is running fine. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: kernel 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 - non graphical boot?

2008-10-02 Thread Dan Thurman
Mike wrote: Is it just me or does kernel 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 not give a graphical boot? It is not just you, but me as well. I have Intel graphics chip-sets as I posted this and BZ as well: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465132 My motherboards are: 1)

Re: Updates caused problems...

2008-10-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Antonio M wrote: 2008/9/29 Renich Bon Ciric [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 08:11 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: 1) ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 (a) If booting latest kernel: 2.6.26.3-29.f9.i686: - No Gui startup after udev - mkrootdev: could not determine nfs root target - mount

Re: Updates caused problems...

2008-10-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:24 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Antonio M wrote: 2008/9/29 Renich Bon Ciric [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 08:11 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: 1) ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 (a) If booting latest kernel: 2.6.26.3-29.f9.i686

Re: Updates caused problems...

2008-10-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:24 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Antonio M wrote: 2008/9/29 Renich Bon Ciric [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 08:11 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: 1) ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 (a) If booting latest kernel: 2.6.26.3-29.f9.i686

Re: Updates caused problems...

2008-10-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:40 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: What has changed? I mean, if there is a new list (I noticed that this list no longer says: For Fedora Users, where has this list moved to so that I can get a more technical level of support? The only thing

Re: Updates caused problems...

2008-10-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 10:38 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Clearly: 1) Kernel 2.6.26.3-29.f9.i686: Does not work for two different motherboards/systems, nor for: Renich Bon Ciric [EMAIL PROTECTED] so, I do not think this problem is `unique' to me. This kernel

Re: livna update of kmod

2008-10-01 Thread Dan Thurman
don vogt wrote: I suspect I may have missed something in reconfiguring for the new key. I have updated the kernel a couple of times. Once on an fc9 machine with an nvidia card (which needs kmod-nvidia-96xx) and once on fc9 using kqemu. Each time when I boot the system can't find the kmod

Updates caused problems...

2008-09-29 Thread Dan Thurman
I have updated two different machines and ran into the following problems as of yesterday and today: 1) ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 (a) If booting latest kernel: 2.6.26.3-29.f9.i686: - No Gui startup after udev - mkrootdev: could not determine nfs root target - mount: missing mount point -

DVD VOBS installed on HD, how does one start the movie?

2008-09-29 Thread Dan Thurman
I have downloaded a movie onto the hard drive and I have a bunch of VOBs and all that but when I open say, VLC, how does one start? If I `open directory' it seems to find the Welcome page and plays to the end; I can select Language, etc, and return to main, but from there it does not seem to be

Your favorite Music/Video player?

2008-09-25 Thread Dan Thurman
I have been using Amarok for awhile, but I find it so frustrating to use when it comes to updating tags - it seems to do a very poor job reading/updating the audio file tags. I want to switch to something else that is more reliable, Amarok crashes alot esp. under heavy load. I liked Amarok's

Question: is FireFox based on Java in any form?

2008-09-19 Thread Dan Thurman
Just a curious question. I was wondering if one were to completely remove Java or it's derivatives, would FF fail to run? I know there is a Java support plug in, but in absence of this plugin, does FF use totally native objects with the OS itself? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list

How to obtain the unrar overall progress report?

2008-09-13 Thread Dan Thurman
I am using fedora's native unrar for my python application - no dll version or whatever else is out there. I have been trying to figure out how to obtain unrar's overall progress report for inclusion into my python code but so far I have not been successful. I tried to turn off all of the

Yum Updates: Cobbler

2008-09-10 Thread Dan Thurman
During the Yum updates of cobbler, I got: Updating : cobbler [329/789] Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/cobbler, line 17, in module import cobbler.cobbler as app File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py, line 26,

Re: Fedora 8 and 9 updates re-enabled

2008-09-10 Thread Dan Thurman
Ted Roche wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Gerald Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if its the mirrors I used but this is how I resolved it yum update yum let that process yum update yum-utils let that process done Worked for me, too. Thanks for passing it on,

After updating per instructions, does yum break?

2008-09-10 Thread Dan Thurman
I followed the instructions per: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_new_signing_key#Known_Issues So the steps were for me: 1) Get the Key: a) F8:

F9: Sharing local NTFS file-systems under Samba

2008-09-07 Thread Dan Thurman
I guess I need a little direction here. I have created an NTFS partition under F9, and noticed that this partition upon login automatically FUSE mounts to my desktop. Ok, well, I did try to add this partition to the fstab. this partition to my /wApp1 directory but found that there were

Re: [SOLVED] F9: Sharing local NTFS file-systems under Samba

2008-09-07 Thread Dan Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I guess I need a little direction here. I have created an NTFS partition under F9, and noticed that this partition upon login automatically FUSE mounts to my desktop. Ok, well, I did try to add this partition to the fstab. this partition to my /wApp1 directory but

Re: [SOLVED] F9: Sharing local NTFS file-systems under Samba

2008-09-07 Thread Dan Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: I guess I need a little direction here. I have created an NTFS partition under F9, and noticed that this partition upon login automatically FUSE mounts to my desktop. Ok, well, I did try to add this partition to the fstab. this partition

F9: Found certain files/directories in /

2008-09-03 Thread Dan Thurman
I found: /%1 (file) /Desktop /.config /.kde in the root directory. Is this normal? Are these safe to delete? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: F9: Adobe Flash: It works, it does not work - repeatingsyndrome.

2008-09-03 Thread Dan Thurman
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 15:50 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: I have tried in vain to get Adobe's Flash to work in FF. It does not matter how many times I have tried installing, un-installing the adobe flash package - it says it was installed successfully. The problem so

Re: F9: Adobe Flash: It works, it does not work - repeatingsyndrome.

2008-09-03 Thread Dan Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 15:50 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: I have tried in vain to get Adobe's Flash to work in FF. It does not matter how many times I have tried installing, un-installing the adobe flash package - it says it was installed

A simple bash case question...

2008-09-02 Thread Dan Thurman
I am trying to figure out how to do the following: case $foo in one || two) process_One_Two ;; three) process_Three ;; four || five) process_Four_Five ;; *) echo Nothing to process ;; esac The problem I am having is getting one || Two or four || five to work - so

Re: A simple bash case question...

2008-09-02 Thread Dan Thurman
Dave Ihnat wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:40:10AM -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: I am trying to figure out how to do the following: ... Any advice? Get rid of the ||, just use |. Yup! That worked! Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

When will Yum updates be working again?

2008-09-01 Thread Dan Thurman
As the subject says... when? Dan -- 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: When will Yum updates be working again?

2008-09-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:07 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: As the subject says... when? Have you checked the archives of the last few days, where this question has been asked and answered several times? Well, sort of. I get emails sent to my email server and I have

DVD Movie players...

2008-08-29 Thread Dan Thurman
Is there a DVD movie player that includes support for full menus, esp. one that allows me to choose the language subtitles since I am hard-of-hearing? Seems totem does not allow me to choose the wide/full screen support as well? It seems to look only at titles 1-X for which one has to manually

Re: [SOLVED] DVD Movie players...

2008-08-29 Thread Dan Thurman
Reuben Budiardja wrote: On Friday 29 August 2008 12:12, Dan Thurman wrote: Is there a DVD movie player that includes support for full menus, esp. one that allows me to choose the language subtitles since I am hard-of-hearing? Seems totem does not allow me to choose the wide/full screen

Where do I get the fedora yum GPG key?

2008-08-28 Thread Dan Thurman
I have done it but cannot remember how to get the Fedora GPG key. Can someone point the way, please? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: Where do I get the fedora yum GPG key?

2008-08-28 Thread Dan Thurman
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 16:48 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: I have done it but cannot remember how to get the Fedora GPG key. Can someone point the way, please? ls -l /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/ Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Amarok, Songbird, and other similar players...

2008-08-27 Thread Dan Thurman
This is a question that has been bugging me for awhile and countless of hours trying to fix song tags that seems to be overwritten, or so it seems. From what I can tell, it *seems* to me that these players might be using their own database to write over the tags because no matter what I try via

Re: F8/F9 Multiboot question

2008-08-05 Thread Dan Thurman
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 August 2008 18:27:56 Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Never mind! I got myself out of the problem! How? Someone will see this in the archives and will want to know the answer :-) Anne ok, fair enough! I followed Tim's

F9: How to replace 'swfdec' with Adobe's Flash Player?

2008-08-01 Thread Dan Thurman
I got the swf player to work in F8 but I am unable to get the player to work in F9 Firefox 3.0. I noticed that the underlying player is swfdec 0.6.0, but when I checked on F8, it is adobe's Flash. Why is it that I cannot seem to replace swfdec for adobe? And yes, I tried Firefox's

Re: F9: How to replace 'swfdec' with Adobe's Flash Player?

2008-08-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I got the swf player to work in F8 but I am unable to get the player to work in F9 Firefox 3.0. I noticed that the underlying player is swfdec 0.6.0, but when I checked on F8, it is adobe's Flash. Why is it that I cannot seem to replace swfdec

Re: F9: How to replace 'swfdec' with Adobe's Flash Player?

2008-08-01 Thread Dan Thurman
Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: I got the swf player to work in F8 but I am unable to get the player to work in F9 Firefox 3.0. I noticed that the underlying player is swfdec 0.6.0, but when I checked on F8, it is adobe's

Need help with getopts

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Thurman
I have: while getopts achrv:d:e opt What I wanted was single flags as: -a -c -h -r -v in any order as well as -d directory -e encodeType in any order as well. But the above use of `:' is not doing what I want. What am I doing wrong, please? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Need help with getopts

2008-07-21 Thread Dan Thurman
Carl D. Roth wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:13:32 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: I have: while getopts achrv:d:e opt What I wanted was single flags as: -a -c -h -r -v in any order as well as -d directory -e encodeType in any order as well. But the above use of `:' is not doing what

F9: List of packages that has missing geko-libs v1.9

2008-07-19 Thread Dan Thurman
I get notifications constantly asking to update the following list. Unfortunately, there is a conflict and it is saying: Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9 is needed by package X where X is the following: devhelp emerald epiphany epiphany-extensions firefox gnomesword xulrunner

F9: Using dd to clone a drive...

2008-07-18 Thread Dan Thurman
I used dd off the Gnome Live CD, so that neither drives were mounted nor active. Next I proceeded to use dd as follows: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb It took approx. 6 hours to copy over 450GB of data. I was successful at getting getting Grub to come up, was able to select XP and Vista

F9: tune2fs -u random device

2008-07-17 Thread Dan Thurman
Hmm... does this only work with Linux ext2/3? What about other file systems such as NTFS? What is the equivalent for setting NTFS file systems? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: F9: tune2fs -u random device

2008-07-17 Thread Dan Thurman
Mark Haney wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: Mark Haney wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: Hmm... does this only work with Linux ext2/3? What about other file systems such as NTFS? What is the equivalent for setting NTFS file systems? Thanks! Dan Far as I know this is only for ext2/3

Re: F9: Mounting of drives

2008-07-17 Thread Dan Thurman
Tim wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 19:48 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: Yes, I did. I tried all 7 Sata ports and they all behaved the same way. This blew me away. Perhaps Sata ports have no unique position identifier, such as I am Sata port #1, ... ? On someone else's PC, I noticed

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