Re: Install Fedora onto (not from) an SD card

2009-12-28 Thread Phil Meyer
On 12/27/2009 01:10 PM, Gordon Charrick wrote: Does anyone have a way to install onto an SD card? I have been able to install on a USB stick but the installer doesn't see an SD card as a device to install onto. I don't want this to be setup as one of those live distributions where you have

Re: Request for Input on Creating Linux Courses...

2009-12-22 Thread Phil Meyer
On 12/11/2009 02:25 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Finally got the go ahead to create two Linux courses to our College program. Have included Linux in my lab since Redhat 9 thru the current Fedora 12, but have just been able to show students little bits of it from time to time, since the

Re: please help! -- F12: login disallowed upon changing shell from bash to tcsh

2009-12-18 Thread Phil Meyer
On 12/18/2009 11:56 AM, Globe Trotter wrote: Hi, I installed F12 from the LXDE spin and it came up all right. However, upon changing my login shell from bash to tcsh, I can no longer log in using the graphical desktop. Specifically I get the message: Failed to execute login command After a

iscsi-target OR tgt?

2009-12-16 Thread Phil Meyer
We have been extensively testing the feasibility of building iscsi target servers to replace some iscsi SAN units we have. The reasons are many, but basically you have to move up to the $15,000.00 plus range in order to get a decent feature set on a 12+ drive unit. Here are some features

Re: Fedora12 on Acer Aspire 6930

2009-11-27 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/26/2009 10:53 AM, Marco Crosio wrote: Hi people, i have just installed fedora 12 on my acer Aspire 6930, and everything go fine... (overwriting a perfectly running Fedora11 :) ) but when i reboot the machine it taken very long times to complete the boot procedure... Some motherboards

Re: virtualization -- how do I use an existing windows installation ?

2009-11-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/02/2009 11:56 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 11/03/2009 07:24 AM, steve wrote: Hi, I recently installed windows 7 on my laptop, on a separate partition, making it dual boot. Now, I would like to boot into this installation without having to reboot. A casual google shows me that one can

Re: shutdown now on F11 as root problems and app crashes in

2009-11-02 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/02/2009 11:39 AM, KC8LDO wrote: Rick; I just checked the command line version, using --help, as you suggested, and the info is there, of course. I wasn't expecting that sort of default behavior. Nothing in the man page that warns about it. Somebody may want to consider adding that

Re: Installing Fedora on USB DiskOnKey and booting from different machine

2009-10-30 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/30/2009 09:54 AM, Mark Ryden wrote: Hi, I installed Fedora 11 on a DiskOnKey. I booted from this DiskONKey successfully on the machine on which I made the installation. However, when I tried on two different machines, it failed, and it reached the grub command line. On a third machine

Re: tex-live

2009-10-27 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/27/2009 12:10 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, In fedora 11, it is still the version 2007 of tex-live which available. When 2008 is going to be available ? Can I just install it from the tex-live-2008.iso image ? thank As to when, I wish I knew. However, I have installed from the iso,

Re: Qemu vs VMWare

2009-10-26 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/25/2009 03:05 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Hi everyone! :-) I wish to share my first hands-on experience with qemu, compare it to vmware player, and (since I'm highly disappointed with the performance difference) ask is there anything that can be done configuration-wise to improve the user

Re: Multipath command output - Help with understanding output

2009-10-13 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/13/2009 10:17 AM, Dan Track wrote: Hi, I've configured multipath but I'm confused with the following. When I run multipath -v2 I don't get any output, but if I run multipath -v3 I get lot's of output e.g.: cciss!c0d0: not found in pathvec cciss!c0d0: mask = 0x1f dm-0: blacklisted hda:

Re: Can ISPs be trusted?

2009-10-08 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/08/2009 01:27 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote: Most people trust their ISP, and rightly so, I suppose. But what if an ISP was a vilain? :) What kind of access would it have to its users' computers? Isn't it the same as a client connected to a server? The server being root, it has full access

Re: How to find out drive path - Help

2009-10-07 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/07/2009 04:50 AM, Dan Track wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Phil Meyerpme...@themeyerfarm.com wrote: On 10/05/2009 09:58 AM, Dan Track wrote: Hi, I've just added a new hp array to my server and when looking in dmesg I can see the following: scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1068E

Re: How to find out drive path - Help

2009-10-06 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/05/2009 09:58 AM, Dan Track wrote: Hi, I've just added a new hp array to my server and when looking in dmesg I can see the following: scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1068E B3, FwRev=01192100h, Ports=1, MaxQ=343, IRQ=185 Vendor: HPModel: MSA2012sa Rev: J300 Type: Enclosure

Re: How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

2009-10-01 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/29/2009 08:27 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM. I want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM. I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel. How do I change to using a PAE kernel ? What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ? Thanks

Re: change gnome-terminal title from cmdline

2009-09-29 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/26/2009 10:42 PM, bruce wrote: hey... curious question... how does one go about changing the title of the current gnome-terminal via the cmdline... it appears that the escape sequences i've tried aren't working... thoughts/comments/pointers appreciated... thanks Here is a bit

Re: enable / configure php to use the GD library

2009-09-23 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/23/2009 01:40 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi all; I want to setup my php install to have access to GD. GD seems to be installed in /usr/local/bin and I did install php-gd however if I access the below code in a tst.php file I only see the hello bhello/b ?php var_dump(gd_info()); ?

Re: enable / configure php to use the GD library

2009-09-23 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/23/2009 01:40 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi all; I want to setup my php install to have access to GD. GD seems to be installed in /usr/local/bin and I did install php-gd however if I access the below code in a tst.php file I only see the hello bhello/b ?php var_dump(gd_info()); ?

Re: Boot.log question/fix ?

2009-09-18 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/18/2009 08:00 AM, William Case wrote: Hi; I was looking at my boot.log this morning and found confusing symbols that distract from its clarity. E.g. ... emounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ] Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ]

Re: F11: NetworkManager woes

2009-09-16 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/16/2009 07:48 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:41:57 +0100, Timothy Murphygayle...@eircom.net wrote: How exactly do you put DNS in? Something like: DNS1=65.117.131.167 If you do that when that interface is active the IP address of the DNS server should

Re: The other distro to offer ppc support!

2009-09-15 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/15/2009 05:50 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote: Speaking about the other distro. According to Distrowatch, Karmic should offer ppc support, which was dropped with Feisty in April 2007: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu Talk about having ressources at hand! If I was

Re: F11: NetworkManager woes

2009-09-15 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/15/2009 06:54 PM, lanas wrote: A sincere thanks to all who took the time to reply on my previous queries. Do not get me wrong, I really am 95% satisfied with F11. And that's after doing a F9 to F8 'upgrade', and rejecting altogether F10. I'm really up to getting F11 (x86_64) both at

Re: No sound for second user in Fedora 11?

2009-09-15 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/15/2009 05:08 PM, Michael Hannon wrote: Howdy. I'm trying to teach my (nearly-adult) son some things about Python and, as sort of a side effect, about linux. We're using Fedora 11 on an x86_64 system. Of course I gave my son his own account on the system. He noticed that he's getting

Re: Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

2009-09-12 Thread Phil Meyer
gil...@altern.org wrote: Of course Distrowatch's stats don't mean much: it's only how many click a distro received. But I doubt that Fedora users, contrary to Ubuntu's users maybe, go to Distrowatch only to give the counter a ride. Here are the figures: 1 Ubuntu 2003 2

Re: Expect + telnet problem

2009-09-09 Thread Phil Meyer
Arthur Meeks Meeks wrote: Hello, I'm creating an expect script to: telnet router execute command exit This seems to be quite easy when you have 1 router, the problem is I have a list of 40 routers, so I thought about creating a expect script but I have gotten some problems. The first one

Re: list files but not directory

2009-08-22 Thread Phil Meyer
ann kok wrote: Hi any way to list files but not directory Some time ago, there were at least 116 useful combinations of arguments to ls. UNIX is 40 years old, and ls was there ... Whenever this question pops up, and it does quite often, I respond with a question. Why do you want to

Re: Fedora And Virtualization

2009-08-18 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/18/2009 01:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: (Please don't top-post, see the Guidelines). On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 15:42 -0300, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: don't use VM$#$$#$# please use KVM, libvirt and virt-manager xen is also available. Some kind of reasoned argument would

Re: FC 11 Boot mode single user [recovery password]

2009-08-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/10/2009 04:39 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/8/10 Jerry Feldmang...@blu.org: On 08/10/2009 09:01 AM, Tiago Araujo wrote: Dear, I need recovery password in FC 11. There is none. The best way to recover a lost root password is to boot the installation media, the root file

Re: kmod-nvidia revisited

2009-08-06 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/06/2009 01:11 PM, Michael Hannon wrote: Hi, folks. I just wanted to say a few (more) words about the kmod-nvidia issue that I raised yesterday. First, I apologize for hijacking a previous thread. I was just trying to grab the address of the list. The deeper ramifications didn't occur

Re: Sorta OT - anyone replaced MSFT Sharepoint with any OSS products?

2009-08-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/02/2009 08:07 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: All - I have a friend who owns a small business and who uses Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. As you might suspect, it's a car with the hood welded shut, and I hate it. I help him out with IT stuff and I've had to fight MOSS 2007

Re: cli guru needed

2009-08-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/02/2009 11:34 AM, Bazooka Joe wrote: Is there a way to combine these 2 commands to cut my time in half? VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw file.vdi file.raw then I have to run dd if=file.raw of=/dev/sdb -thx I have set up literally hundreds of CF cards for embedded systems.

Re: cli guru needed

2009-08-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/03/2009 01:07 AM, Bazooka Joe wrote: I have set up literally hundreds of CF cards for embedded systems. My final approach was to give the VM the usb raw device as its disk drive and install directly to it. All I had to do 'postinstall' was run mkinitrd and add the ide and scsi drivers to

Re: FC11 Freezes at udev on boot

2009-07-29 Thread Phil Meyer
Jatin K wrote: I've installed fedora FC (2.6.29.4.fc11.i586) ... after getting update my kernel updated to 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586, now my system freezes at udev when booting, before update it was fine !!! what it could be ?? how do I solve this issue ? Regards Jatin Khatri There may

Re: Another Firefox 3.5 problem update

2009-07-09 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/09/2009 07:58 AM, Bradley wrote: I just did a bigger search of issues with Firefox 3.5 on the Mozilla website and apparently the problem I've experienced is one of a number of problems with this release. There are numerous reports of users having to downgrade back to 3.0 due to varying

Re: compiz fusion

2009-07-03 Thread Phil Meyer
Raja wrote: hi everybody, this is raja. m working as a system engineer on redhat enterprise server el5. now i am using fc11. i found it is good.but i did n't see the option :compiz setting manager in preferences. compiz-fusion is installed in my laptop.i have enabled desktop effects.and

Re: Root Access

2009-06-15 Thread Phil Meyer
Mike Dwiggins wrote: I installed Fedora 11 on a dual-boot machine. When I booted up on the Fedora partition I went straight to /etc/pam.d/gdm and deleted the line which keeps out root as a login. I still cannot login as root! Did this version hide a block on root somewhere else? Many

Re: Root Access

2009-06-15 Thread Phil Meyer
Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/6/15 Robert L Cochran cochr...@speakeasy.net: The locked box approach is probably not used in very large enterprises. At least not where I work ( 100,000 employees, 98,000 Tier 3 workstations.) I think there is a difference between administering a large

Re: rpm -qa or yum list installed sans version numbers?

2009-06-13 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/13/2009 03:55 PM, Scott Beamer wrote: I'm trying to accomplish either. I've done it before but I forgot how. I previously was able to find this information via a Google search but today I've come up empty. If you know how, please share. :) Thanks. Scott There is a cron

Re: UPS monitor application

2009-06-10 Thread Phil Meyer
Jim wrote: F10 What is the name of the UPS Linux application that you can monitor APC Battery Backup ? There are also the nut packages. Its more general and handles a variety of UPS. Good Luck! http://www.networkupstools.org/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: Memory

2009-06-09 Thread Phil Meyer
Yoram Halberstam wrote: All, I'm new to linux and I've got a FC10 with no server database or other servers (that I can think of) up yet - SAMBA maybe. Anyway, my memory last night was up to 2GB - I expected a basic system to be 500m or less...?! How can I find out the culprit processes

Re: Problem using file /etc/ethers

2009-06-08 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/08/2009 06:52 AM, Fau wrote: Greetings to anyone, i'm trying to reach a NAS that autoconfigure its IP address with DHCP, I can't foresee the address because I'm not the dhcp server administrator, so I put in /etc/ethers: 00:d0:4b:87:4a:ac 192.168.0.111 192.168.0.111 (is a random address

Re: Slow install w/ kvm

2009-04-16 Thread Phil Meyer
Konstantin Svist wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: Using kvm-74-10.fc10.x86_64, tried an install of Xp sp3 x86 from an iso and a floppy image with a sif file all writing to a file based disc image. The install portion of copying files took forever and a day. The host is a recent quad core with

Re: RM to mp3 script

2009-04-04 Thread Phil Meyer
Paul Ward wrote: Hello, Ok forsome reason this script will not convert the rm stream to an mp3 if it runs in the cron. Can someone point me in the right direction on how to fix this. The script is as follows: ... Most often, these issues of running from command line, but not running from

Re: Laptop black screen after wake up from suspend

2009-03-10 Thread Phil Meyer
Roger Grosswiler wrote: I have a dell latitude, which does not wake up properly after suspend-to-ram. Hibernate is working fine. But using suspend, the screen just stays black and i need to reboot. Does anybody have an idea about this issue? Thanks for any help. Roger It is an

Re: pulseaudio deeply unreliable (Fedora 10)

2009-03-06 Thread Phil Meyer
Neil Bird wrote: OK, I've had a google, and a bit of tinkering with config. files, and I'm not really getting anywhere. PA was working OK for me in Fedora 8, but ever since I upgraded F8 to F10, it's been a right PITA. It'll either continually stutter (e.g., when playing music often

Re: dependencies/conflicts on regular Fedora 10

2009-03-03 Thread Phil Meyer
Antonio Olivares wrote: --- On Tue, 3/3/09, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: From: Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com Subject: Re: dependencies/conflicts on regular Fedora 10 To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 1:49 AM On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:34:15 -0800

Re: NM: the usual rant

2009-03-03 Thread Phil Meyer
Ed Greshko wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: Matthew Flaschen wrote: I agree that it's great if users look at logs and send them to technicians when appropriate. My point is just that if they don't understand them, don't want to look them up, and don't want to report the issue to

Re: F10 custom install

2009-03-01 Thread Phil Meyer
john wendel wrote: Phil Meyer wrote: john wendel wrote: Clueless here, I've got an F10 install running well, and I'd like to move the system to a flash disk. This flash will become the boot device for a small system I'm building. Can I just use cp and end up with a workable system? I know

Re: F10 custom install

2009-02-28 Thread Phil Meyer
john wendel wrote: Clueless here, I've got an F10 install running well, and I'd like to move the system to a flash disk. This flash will become the boot device for a small system I'm building. Can I just use cp and end up with a workable system? I know that I need to do a grub install.

Re: Upgrade Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 ????

2009-02-20 Thread Phil Meyer
Jim wrote: I want to Upgrade Fedora 8 X86_64 KDE to Fedora 10 X86_64 KDE. I'm downloading the the 3.4 Gb DVD now from the Fedora project , Is the DVD setup to upgrade KDE ? I doesn't really matter. You should always do a 'yum update' after the upgrade. That will, hopefully, pick up

Re: Domino on Fedora

2009-02-19 Thread Phil Meyer
Tom Van Looy wrote: Hi We are installing Domino on Fedora (9). The (IBM and Redhat) manuals tell you to disable sendmail and remove it from the runlevels. Great! But, ... that breaks all the housekeeping stuff right? How do we need to configure things to make sure the mail command, cron,

Re: Since when doesn't Fedora use xorg.conf ?

2009-02-19 Thread Phil Meyer
Linuxguy123 wrote: There are all sorts of posts associated with the Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 thread that state that Fedora 10 doesn't use an xorg.conf file. When did Fedora/X stop using an xorg.conf file ? It certainly isn't mentioned in the F10 release notes.

Re: listing files with spaces, using wildcard

2009-02-19 Thread Phil Meyer
bruce wrote: hey... here's one i can't see.. goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces 1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog 2foo_aa__cc.dog 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog i'm trying to figure out how i can do a complete list of

Re: please explain yum list to me...

2009-02-14 Thread Phil Meyer
Linuxguy123 wrote: Why is this ? $ yum list *synaptics* Loaded plugins: downloadonly, kmdl, priorities, refresh-packagekit 2 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Available Packages synaptics.i386 0.14.6-11.fc10 fedora Yet... $ yum list xorg-x11-drv-synaptics Loaded

Re: Mysql with federated engine

2009-02-09 Thread Phil Meyer
Pedro Freire wrote: Hello list, I need to have a federated table in MySQL. However, the engine in the Fedora package is not enabled. How can I enable it ? Is there an optional package ? make sure that: 1. rpmdevtools is installed 2. you have executed /usr/bin/rpmdev-setuptree before, as

Re: Passing USB into a KVM/QEMU VM F10

2009-02-07 Thread Phil Meyer
Jerry Feldman wrote: Has anyone had any success in passing a USB into a KVM virtual machine. More specifically, I would like to be able to sync by blackberry. I have Windows XP and Windows Vista guest OS's. Not a biggie as I can dump them and use Virtualbox that I have installed on my

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-05 Thread Phil Meyer
McGuffey, David C. wrote: Rather than configuring a dual-boot machine for running those occasional Windows apps, which one of these virtualization tools provides the best (read most accurate) virtualization environment on F10? Which one is the easiest to install and configure? I had problems

Re: [OT] linux statistics

2009-01-28 Thread Phil Meyer
g wrote: John Brier wrote: for linux installs check out the linux counter: http://counter.li.org/ thanks john. there is also, that i have seen, but do not recall, a site that shows stats by distribution, that i have logged but do not recall. i guess i will have to wade thru a

Re: compiling Apache 2 for WebDAV

2009-01-27 Thread Phil Meyer
Agile Aspect wrote: Hi - I'm trying build WebDAV into version 2.2.9 of Apache's HTTP server (the version shipped with Fedora 9) on a CentOS server. When I turn on all of the features we need, everything works except for WebDAV. If I move the HTTPD configuration file to Fedora 9 WebDAV works!

Re: Yum error when attempting an update

2009-01-27 Thread Phil Meyer
John Lagrue wrote: Attempting an update this evening I get the following error. -- Downloading Packages: == Entering rpm code === Running rpm_check_debug ERROR with

Re: network traffic analyzer

2009-01-23 Thread Phil Meyer
Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm looking for a web based (graphs) solution for (real-time) network traffic on a Linux (Fedora) router. I currently use iptraf to catch bandwidth usage and type of usage, but I'd love a more accessible interface. What you are looking for has existed a few times

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread Phil Meyer
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework my home server's storage. Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set things up. My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded

Re: Fedora 10 installation on Sony Notebook VGNFW235J

2009-01-22 Thread Phil Meyer
Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Have a strange issue trying to install Fedora 10 on a students new Sony Notebook. The initial install process has the screen going to a weird gray screen after the cd process, so the gui process would not work. Then tried it with a text install, and the process

Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora

2009-01-22 Thread Phil Meyer
Dave Feustel wrote: Has anyone any experience transferring ebooks between Amazon's Kindle book reader and Fedora using the Kindle's usb connection? ebooks purchased from Amazon for the Kindle are DRM encumbered. They are an evilution of mobi format with DRM. They cannot be read outside

Re: network manager / vpnc question

2009-01-19 Thread Phil Meyer
Mail Lists wrote: I have set up a vpnc connection just fine (to cisco) - while there is a button to add routes, it seems to not understand the usual ip route arguments ... I need to keep a default route via a standard gateway (not using the vpnc tun0 route) and then set a bunch of other

Re: network manager / vpnc question

2009-01-19 Thread Phil Meyer
Mail Lists wrote: On 01/19/2009 04:23 PM, Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 15:56 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: On 01/19/2009 03:52 PM, Mail Lists wrote: On 01/19/2009 03:42 PM, Mail Lists wrote: seems like some of the arguments can be up, down, vpn-up or vpn-down

Re: Any way to install new Fedora on second drive of a running system?

2009-01-16 Thread Phil Meyer
B Wooster wrote: I wonder if this can be done - I'm have a system that is running Fedora Core 7. I want to avoid shutting down and rebooting and spending the hours to install Fedora 10 on this. I do have a second drive in this system that is not being used. So, wondering if I could run some

Re: ipod's (or other mp3 players) and Fedora

2009-01-12 Thread Phil Meyer
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I have Fedora 10 x86_64 running as my main (only) OS on my laptop I travel with. I'd like to get an ipod or similar device. I've heard a few things about ipod's - can anyone verify if this is true: - that a new ipod has to be 'formatted' on a mac or windows box

Re: UPnP A/V Media Server

2009-01-10 Thread Phil Meyer
David Hláčik wrote: Hello guys, i am looking for a UPnP Media Server which can server contect for Windows Media Player (which has UPnP Media Client built-in). It should be something popular, usable and easy-installable on Fedora (rpm will be best). So far i have tried FUPPES , but i have

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Phil Meyer
Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: Hi list. I recently installed Fedora and today I got a little time after work to configure it on my laptop. The first thing I did was configure the network to access to the internet and to my LAN at home. To test the connection I used netcat to listen to a dummy port,

Re: MP3 playback in XMMS

2009-01-07 Thread Phil Meyer
John Aldrich wrote: What RPM do I need to install to get MP3 playback in XMMS? I forgot that RedHat in their sarcasminfinite wisdom/sarcasm removed MP3 capability from XMMS when they packaged it. Thanks... xmms-mp3 from rpmfusion (livna) BTW -- many xmms features are modular -- not

Re: Network interfaces refusing to start on boot: F10

2009-01-06 Thread Phil Meyer
Mark Haney wrote: I am hoping I've not missed the bus on this particular problem, but I've been too busy to upgrade my systems to F10 until the last week or so. One, being my daughter's new laptop. Now, I'm having one devil of a problem. None of my F10 systems (2 upgrades from F9 and one

Re: Network interfaces refusing to start on boot: F10

2009-01-06 Thread Phil Meyer
Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:55:16 -0700 Phil Meyer wrote: For the vast majority of installs, NetworkManager is a blessing. What you mean is for the vast majority of installs on laptops owned by folks who flit from one hotspot to another. I certainly have no idea

Re: sound stops working on F10

2009-01-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Mail Lists wrote: Sound is a bit quirky - sometimes i hear things sometimes I dont. Now it has stopped working - a reboot fixes it. I do see this in the logs ... Jan 2 14:46:02 me pulseaudio[3227]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new d ata to the device, but there was

Re: Where is CImg.h

2008-12-29 Thread Phil Meyer
Jim wrote: FC10/KDE Went to the CImg website and downloaded the tar.gz file but it won't compile, just locks up the compiling process. The examples compiled just fine for me. F10 x86_64 / Current Be patient -- C++ code can take a while to compile. :) Good Luck! -- fedora-list mailing

Re: Can pungi put packages in the iso that are not installed?

2008-12-24 Thread Phil Meyer
Joe Nall wrote: Can pungi put packages/groups in the iso that are not installed? Context: I'm building spin using pungi that includes packages that get installed in a second pass in a manner similar to firstboot. The packages require a number of services to be running to properly configure

OT: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-19 Thread Phil Meyer
Comcast, in their infinite wisdom, has begun to block all inbound port 25 connections at my location. I collect several mailing lists at my home domain which I have maintained for many years. Plus, it has always been nice to have an email box that I could run my own spam filters on.

Re: sun provides 64-bit java plugin for linux

2008-12-15 Thread Phil Meyer
Neal Becker wrote: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Phoronix/~3/2r6GnN1VS_0/vr.php After all this time, does anyone still care? The Java based console apps for Lantronix Spider and HPs management facilities do not work with 64bit Iceadtea, even they DO work with 32bit Iceadtea. :(

Re: Fedora 10 Live USB

2008-12-15 Thread Phil Meyer
Peter Kim wrote: I created Fedora 10 Live USB today and played with it for a while. I just found out that none of the configurations and privately installed software were not saved at all when I booted with USB again at home. I thought that I could save my personal settings and software to

Re: VM question

2008-12-14 Thread Phil Meyer
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I've recently bought a Dell M6400 laptop with 12G of memory and 2 internal hard drives with a raid card. I've loaded Fedora 10 x86_64 to take advantage of the memory so I can setup multiple local databases with large memory footprints. However, I'm somewhat

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Meyer
Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? I ask because I installed F9 and Mandriva 2008 onto sticks for tests with my EeePC. Today I put the

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Meyer
Phil Meyer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? I ask because I installed F9 and Mandriva 2008 onto sticks for tests with my EeePC

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Meyer
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 17:53:33 Phil Meyer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? snip Yes

Re: Experience with x86_64-only (no i386) in F10?

2008-12-10 Thread Phil Meyer
Steve Snyder wrote: Hello. I'm about to wipe my x86_64 F8 installation in preparation for installing x86_64 F10. Since I'll be doing a clean install, I'm feeling adventurous. My plan is to go 64-bit only - no 32-bit binaries. Mind if I ask a few questions? 1. In prior versions of Fedora

Re: Script errors while livecd-creator is running yum

2008-12-10 Thread Phil Meyer
Bruno Wolff III wrote: While trying to make a custom games livedvd I saw some script errors and was wondering if those were packaging errors or if livecd-creator is doing something wrong. For example: Installing: nethack ### [ 404/1017]

Re: Live CD without CD?

2008-12-08 Thread Phil Meyer
Timothy Murphy wrote: I have a machine with no CD drive, and I was wondering if I could run the Fedora Live KDE CD from the hard disk - I mean by copying the ISO file to the hard disk. abstracting the isolinux directory, and adding an approriate grub stanza to boot from this? If its

Re: Sprint service smartphone recommendation for F10?

2008-12-08 Thread Phil Meyer
Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Per the subject line, would anyone have any recommendations on a smartphone under a Sprint plan that smoothly works with F10? Samsung Instinct? The new Palm Centros? One of the Blackberries? Thanks! Max Pyziur [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Centro and have used

[Fedora-livecd-list] new dbus 1.2.6-1 breaks livecd images:

2008-12-08 Thread Phil Meyer
Several show stoppers in builds of 64bit F10 after this round of updates, which include dbus 1.2.6-1. I get: Starting system message bus:Failed to start message bus: Error in file /etc/ dbus-1/system.d/org.gnome.CPUFreqSelector.conf, line 1, column0: no element found Several other

Re: Script errors while livecd-creator is running yum

2008-12-04 Thread Phil Meyer
dexter wrote: 2008/12/3 Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 16:16:03 +, dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A correct assumption, but all the times I've seen such errors its been down to bad package selection in kickstart files! are you using the official games

Re: firefox flash sound again?

2008-12-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Tom Horsley wrote: On 64 bit fedora 10, I do not get sound with the nspluginwrapper and 32 bit flash plugin. Is this just a case of not having all the 32 bit alsa libs installed? Anyone know which subset of *alsa*.i386 packages I need? (assuming missing libs are really my problem). The

Re: Revisor

2008-12-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Martin Schiøtz wrote: Hi Does somebody know what's going with the revisor project? The mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not seem to work. When I try to post to the list i get an error message from the list server. All posts on the revisor-users and revisor-devel stopped at the 14th of

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-12-01 Thread Phil Meyer
Andre Costa wrote: ... First weird symptom: NetworkManager refuses to allow me to edit settings for eth0. It doesn't ask me for any kind of authentication and simply shows all fields disabled. I don't know why it started doing this, because right after I booted for the first time I was able

Re: has K3B been abandoned?

2008-11-26 Thread Phil Meyer
Fred Silsbee wrote: --- On Wed, 11/26/08, Rex Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rex Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: has K3B been abandoned? To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 8:23 PM Fred Silsbee wrote: THIS is why I no longer post to bugzilla!

Re: F10 yum tries to install F9 rpms

2008-11-26 Thread Phil Meyer
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, I have just upgraded from F9 to F10. However, when I run 'yum update', it tries to install F9 rpms. Can I do something to avoid this problem? Thanks in advance, Paul Check in /etc/yum.repos.d. If you modified your old files, then the F10 version did not

Re: Network Card Naming Issue

2008-11-21 Thread Phil Meyer
Les Mikesell wrote: The problem of mismatched identifiers is always going to exist, depending on which part you swap, and the motherboard, nics, conrollers, and disks are all equally candidates. We just need something besides andaconda that knows how to glue the pieces together. I

Re: How to test cups printer system

2008-11-20 Thread Phil Meyer
Dave Feustel wrote: I just added my hp2100 laserjet printer to f9. I then tried to print a small test file. I get no output (the job is queued tho) plus a warning message that the printer may not be connected. Do I need to do something else to get the cups system enabled? Thanks. Most

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Phil Meyer
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: When the kernel is updated, the Fedora 9 framework will rebuild a new initrd and it will NOT have the special modules in it. On fedora systems, I found no simpler

Re: Domain of sender address ... does not resolve

2008-11-14 Thread Phil Meyer
Bill Davidsen wrote: I just did a new FC9 (fully updated) install, and it regularly rejects outgoing mail with the subject error message. The address does resolve, of course, so I'm not sure what it means instead of what it says. The nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf are the authoritative DNS

Re: don't print last field

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Meyer
adrian kok wrote: Hi how can I only get the previous field but not last field from awk? but I can't use print $1$2 as there are different fields in different line thank you Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com As another posted, NF is what

Re: Network changing from eth0 to eth1

2008-11-03 Thread Phil Meyer
Jim wrote: FC8, KDE What is changing the Network settings from eth0 to eth1 ? Even if you go into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and setup as eth0, and reboot box,it will change settings to eth1. And it is causing a unstable network. This box only has one ethernet card in it.

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