Re: entropy

2010-01-07 Thread Roberto Ragusa
/dev/urandom /dev/random (it is stupid to do that, I know, but it's just a test) You could investigate on how rngd works. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: entropy

2010-01-07 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-01-07 12:40:02, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Luca wrote: Hi all, if I simply write to /dev/random, will that increase the entropy of my system? (I'm assuming that the data I'm writing are random and that somehow I got them). Wikipedia says so. My tests say

Re: Tar oddity...

2010-01-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
DB wrote: On 12/22/2009 09:51 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: -variable numbers of md5sum errors running on the F12 laptop (for example, will run 3 times with same checksum then 1 error); variable cmp errors(again, one or two clear runs then a pile of miscompares, then again several ok runs

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

2010-01-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
other stages which I guess run from background. Any I dea? Keeping a key pressed at the GRUB execution instant. Or, booting from a rescue CD/DVD. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system (nouveau issue?)

2010-01-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
that nouveau has a similar issue. My suspicion is that it is just an untested area and a fix could be done easily. In any case, it looks like a show stopper for nvidia users. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system (nouveau issue?)

2010-01-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
that nouveau has a similar issue. My suspicion is that it is just an untested area and a fix could be done easily. In any case, it looks like a show stopper for nvidia users. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: reboot cycle, no log messages

2010-01-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
--replacepkgs --oldpackage nss-softokn-freebl.rpm Are you on 32 or 64 bit? If 64, maybe the libs are incomplete. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines

Re: installing 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit system

2010-01-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
. A similar problem had been described for the Nvidia closed driver; same thing with noveau? not a good thing: the kernel-X interface is expected to be cleaner in the open source driver... -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Hard Drive upgrade with Fedora 12 installed

2009-12-29 Thread Roberto Ragusa
and then repair the boot process. As always, the devil is in the details. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: Pondus license change GPLv3+ - MIT

2009-12-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
is not as stringent as it appears. In any case, relicensing a small project with a few authors (or just one) is as easy as editing a couple of files (source, webpage, ...). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Re: md raid 5 not working

2009-12-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
you had md2 on entire disks, and then switched to md3 for partitions. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: md raid 5 not working

2009-12-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
is clean on next boot. But be careful. As soon as an array is reassembled, run a read-only fsck to be sure you are reassembling something consistent (I personally would not trust any array involving sdd). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list

Re: IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-25 Thread Roberto Ragusa
, for example. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Tar oddity...

2009-12-22 Thread Roberto Ragusa
-l a b;done The idea is do have the machine do a lot of work for which you already know the results. If you get a bad answer (a and b are different??) you know the machine is not working well. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Routing with 2 ISP

2009-12-20 Thread Roberto Ragusa
than what I've described (vmnet networks, port redirections, traffic shaping, traffic stats,...). If we are lucky, someone really expert on this will reply in this thread. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Tar oddity...

2009-12-20 Thread Roberto Ragusa
F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz on both machines. If you get two different results, something bad is happening. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

2009-12-20 Thread Roberto Ragusa
, proc, sysfs, devpts). 1. Manually mount after each boot: % mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug In this case the second debugfs could have been a or whatever else. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: physical RAM restriction in Fedora 12 (32 bit and 64 bit)

2009-12-19 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Hiisi wrote: 2009/12/18 Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 12/17/2009 12:51 PM, Mark Ryden wrote: --SNIP-- And the PAE kernel will be installed by default. So the 32 bit Fedora could be considered without limit too. By the way, will I see any speed burst

Re: disk moves from /dev/sdd to /dev/sde

2009-12-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
). In both cases the NAME part is where you decide what you want to have in /dev. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: physical RAM restriction in Fedora 12 (32 bit and 64 bit)

2009-12-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
. The Physical Address Extensions allow you to address the full amount of your RAM. And the PAE kernel will be installed by default. So the 32 bit Fedora could be considered without limit too. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: su hangs for 30 seconds

2009-12-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
-60 seconds. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: anyone noticed this odd firefox glitch?

2009-11-30 Thread Roberto Ragusa
, it will blow through a massive amount of scrolling down. immediately thereafter, though, it will go back to what i recall as normal behaviour. Are you on x86_64? I've heard your issue mentioned somewhere as a 64 bit problem. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing

Re: Fedora 12 x86 DVD images

2009-11-28 Thread Roberto Ragusa
is i386 or IA32. 64 bit is x86_64 or AMD64 (BTW, I would have preferred AMD64 to be more used for 64 bit, as AMD should be given credit for the creation of the architecture, in contrast to Intel which gave us the disaster called IA64). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora

Re: Upgrading from FC8 to F12 - please help

2009-11-25 Thread Roberto Ragusa
the filesystem with all my photos dangerously mounted? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Part of hard disk disappeared after installing Fedora 12?

2009-11-25 Thread Roberto Ragusa
), because you copy the partition table values which specify how big the disk is. Let's see what hdparm thinks. Model number + google search will tell us how big your disk really is. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: HP DL360 G6 ILLEGAL OPCODE

2009-11-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
in (this is a server). Something is wrong at the BIOS/GRUB level, because the machine is perfectly stable after the boot. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: F12: ssh change port number

2009-11-22 Thread Roberto Ragusa
the firewall. (if you use a port != 22 you are interested in security, I suppose) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Curiosity re the term 'Kit' ?!?

2009-11-21 Thread Roberto Ragusa
by Apple. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: cpio to ext4 seems much slower than to ext2, ext3 or xfs

2009-11-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
. Wow. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: How to Backup and Restore MBR within Logical Volumes?

2009-11-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
if=/dev/hda of=mbr.hda bs=512 count=1 Because /dev/hda resides in a logical volume. The logical volume is a virtual harddisk for my virtual machine. Maybe I didn't really understand your setup, but... isn't your mbr simply on /dev/loop1? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it

Re: Executing ImageMagick

2009-11-11 Thread Roberto Ragusa
of the commands. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Fedora 12 has gone gold

2009-11-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
the wrong laptop, bad luck. For my job, I got an ATI thinkpad when ATI was not open. Now that ATI is open, bad luck gave me an NVidia. I'm sure Noveau will make great progress and in the mean time I will be assigned an Intel one (the new bad ones). :-) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it

Re: Slow Performance w/ Google Earth

2009-11-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
-i nvidia locate libGL ldd `which googleearth` You have to understand what Google Earth is really running. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: Executing ImageMagick

2009-11-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Hiisi wrote: mogrify? http://www.imagemagick.org/script/mogrify.php display? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: su/kdesu not working

2009-11-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
(in the last lines near the password rejection, if you are lucky). If some PAM module is involved, you may discover which one. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines

Re: su/kdesu not working

2009-11-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it said: Big hammer: strace -f su - You can't strace a setuid executable. You are right. Actually the execution will still happen, but with no root authority, so it will not be useful for debugging. Seeing some output

Re: su/kdesu not working

2009-11-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
happens before the access denied message. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Errors from ata6:00 -- How to find corresponding device?

2009-11-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
which device is associated with the error? Maybe you can find useful hints in /var/log/dmesg (or /var/log/messages). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines

Re: X86 performance monitoring

2009-11-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
you can explore with kcachegrind. When examining code in this way it easily happens you discover unbelievable places where a lot of CPU is spent. The good part is that you do not have to recompile your kernel or your application. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-04 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:16 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: I would really like that the save-as file selector would _not_ open on the obvious places, but open in the current directory (you know, it's called current for a reason). I couldn't agree more. I find

Re: Evince home directory

2009-11-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
files: oowriter abc.doc when abc.doc does not exist. In this way I can just save instead of save-as. And it would be nice if the app let me save an empty document; so I can save immediately before writing anything. OK, I really had to say that. :-) -- Roberto Ragusamail

Re: A question about the future of qemu package

2009-10-31 Thread Roberto Ragusa
actually prints in the system log something like Virtualization support unavailable, disabled by BIOS. I don't know if the same applies to the AMD equivalent. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: Proftpd won't execute in FC11

2009-10-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
the ServerType directive to ensure you are configured correctly. Your port 21 is already used by another program. Do you have another ftp server running? Try netstat -lntp|grep 21 to discover what it could be running. It could be vsftpd or maybe xinetd. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail

Re: PV and LVM resize ext4

2009-10-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: print to PDF?

2009-10-13 Thread Roberto Ragusa
album with scribus; as I did not want to import and place the photos manually I used a script to write the scribus document, which is rather comprehensible XML) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-11 Thread Roberto Ragusa
. BTW, why in the first two sentences the webmaster is talking and in the last one the web user is talking? Sounds stylistically unpolished. Suggestion: Fedora with KDE Fedora for PowerPC All Fedora download options Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora

Re: Gnome or KDE - why not ask?

2009-10-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
) is not natural to KDE people, as KDE *is* fundamentally about _choice_ (the same doesn't apply to GNOME, which is fundamentally about _pre-cooked_). Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com

Re: How to dump the locked up program

2009-09-28 Thread Roberto Ragusa
? will give you a lot of answers. In a console: kill 666 (where 666 is the PID of the process) Via GUI, it depends on GNOME, KDE, whatever you are using (it could be Ctrl-Esc or similar key commands). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

2009-09-19 Thread Roberto Ragusa
, it will autocomplete with possible choices; the same for root (hd0, or kernel / or kernel /vml Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: Your system is too slow

2009-09-19 Thread Roberto Ragusa
As your attention is on the video driver, while these messages are related to audio, try if the problem persists with -nosound. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: smartd.conf corrupted by ... something

2009-09-19 Thread Roberto Ragusa
content. Not easy to understand the cause: could be hardware related (RAM, power supply, CPU) or software related (but I don't think you are using experimental filesystems or drivers). What about a memtest run? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: [OT] Anybody using kernel 2.6.31

2009-09-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
else. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Curious double click required

2009-09-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
behavior, I think. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Added hard drives; how to configure raid?

2009-09-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
(external disk, for example). Sorry if I sound like one giving lessons around, but hearing you are going to have a 1.5TB home directory full of stuff pushes me to give you a warning now and not when the wrong rm command will have killed all your files. Friendly said. -- Roberto Ragusamail

Re: Latest kernel update for F11?

2009-09-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
it with whatever is installed on the system, what would be the URL or place to check? Is screen scraping the index file of an http/ftp mirror disqualified because it is getting into the repos? :-) A well thought wget|grep|tail -1|cut would do the job. -- Roberto Ragusamail

Re: USB I/O performance

2009-09-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-08-30 20:06:22, Roberto Ragusa wrote: ... I have a really slow flash (writes at 2MiB/s), so I tried to increase the number; the trick was impossible for me, the parameter is refused when 120. Just out of curiosity, what happens with 64? 64 or 60 appears to slow

Re: In the news: Soon to be published, Skype back-door trojan code?

2009-08-30 Thread Roberto Ragusa
) and it decides things it should not (it was said that Intel convinced Skype to cripple multiconference on AMD CPUs to improve the reputation of Intel CPUs). I'd like a good alternative to Skype, even _without_ Skype compatibility. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing

Re: USB I/O performance

2009-08-30 Thread Roberto Ragusa
and inefficient for a 256 KiB flash block. I have a really slow flash (writes at 2MiB/s), so I tried to increase the number; the trick was impossible for me, the parameter is refused when 120. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
? That means you can have pulseaudio started by who knows what. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: Removing one drive from a RAID 1 setup?

2009-08-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Philip Rhoades wrote: Why would it mess up grub? - I thought I would just need to edit /etc/fstab . . Well, if you remove /dev/sda and the other disks change names and you had the bootloader only on sda... -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora

Re: plotting large datasets

2009-08-22 Thread Roberto Ragusa
). Not immediately easy to use, but it is worth the time needed for learning. xmgrace : excel_graphs = latex : word -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Re: avidemux: trouble initialising audio device

2009-08-22 Thread Roberto Ragusa
, which is good if you are editing video stuff. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: nvidia vs suspend to disk

2009-08-19 Thread Roberto Ragusa
didn't work reliably for me (80% success when resuming) around a year ago (on F8-F9?), so I decided to avoid hibernation and only use suspend-to-ram (and switch back to normal fedora kernels). Are you running 32 or 64 bit? How much RAM do you have? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it

Re: Kernel 2.6.29 for F10

2009-08-18 Thread Roberto Ragusa
in asking why there are no recent kernels for f10. On this route, why no 2.6.30? There is a driver I need which is included in = 2.6.30. These days upstream 2.6.31 is almost released... BTW -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

Re: Recompile kernel without SMP

2009-08-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Recompile kernel without SMP

2009-08-16 Thread Roberto Ragusa
the config back to the SOURCES dir, so the rpmbuild -bb is correct. The resulting rpm contains the config as a file named /boot/config-2.6.* Are your changes showing there? -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: Recompile kernel without SMP

2009-08-14 Thread Roberto Ragusa
the config files in SOURCES, instead. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Recovering from a hard X lock up

2009-08-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
again if you are in runlevel 5. But, as you said that init 3 failed to shut down X, I'm afraid the hardware is left in a state where recovery is not possible. (FYI, startx -- :1 would have tried to start a second X instance, bypassing the existing lock) Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail

Re: pulseaudio 0.9.15 for F10?

2009-08-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Kevin Kofler wrote: Roberto Ragusa wrote: are there pulseaudio 0.9.15 rpms for F10? Scratch build here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1592160 Also needs udev-extras: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=83558 WARNING: May break more things than

pulseaudio 0.9.15 for F10?

2009-08-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
version)? In particular I hope to solve the everything gets stuck problem with mplayer (and others): http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/440 Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

Re: pulseaudio 0.9.15 for F10?

2009-08-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Lennart Poettering wrote: On Sat, 08.08.09 12:10, Roberto Ragusa (m...@robertoragusa.it) wrote: I am certainly one of those people who think that released distributions should only receive security fixes and small other bug fixes. I am one of those people who think supported distributions

Re: pulseaudio 0.9.15 for F10?

2009-08-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Roberto Ragusa wrote: After applying this patch, mplayer does not get stuck, it is just the usual latency/skips/underruns... Wrongly pasted the patch. Corrected one follows: diff -urN pulseaudio-0.9.14/src/pulsecore/memblockq.c pulseaudio-0.9.14-fix440/src/pulsecore/memblockq.c --- pulseaudio

Re: Can I have a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userland ?

2009-07-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
by this kernel with wrong architecture. (never tried that, but interested in this matter) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: RAID 1 error question - boot problem.

2009-07-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
/dev/md0(but do not let it modify anything) these will give you more info to understand what's happening. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: F11 (Thpd T30) : reproducible display loss

2009-07-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Beartooth wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:02:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: The rest is over my head. I don't even follow why it is that ssh helps, alas! I'm supposing that the problem is in the graphics driver (X) of the graphics hardware you have in your T30. If you run the program

Re: Upgrade from FC6 to FC11

2009-07-12 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Tim wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 19:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: They work perfectly and the only thing which is pushing me is the lack of SMART support Compile from source... But it's a kernel issue, IIRC. Instead of running the distro with an unofficial kernel (or an autocompiled

Re: F11 (Thpd T30) : reproducible display loss

2009-07-11 Thread Roberto Ragusa
when on ssh. There are only two things that can lock a machine; the kernel and X. The hard disk is not guilty, sure. :-) -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Upgrade from FC6 to FC11

2009-07-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Jussi Lehtola wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 23:30 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Because I have a couple of FC5 servers, and I could upgrade through the odd releases 5-7-9-11. It should be rather straightforward to upgrade them to CentOS 5.3, you should be able to do it with yum. If they're

Re: Upgrade from FC6 to FC11

2009-07-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
(except FC4-FC5). They work perfectly and the only thing which is pushing me is the lack of SMART support, which I find unforgivable for a file server (yes, yes, it is all properly backupped :-) ). Thanks to everyone giving advice. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list

Re: Upgrade from FC6 to FC11

2009-07-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 19:25:50 +0200, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote: The system is on RAIDed disks, so I will disconnect one of them as an easy rollback chance in case of unresolvable issues. That's unlikely to work for you. See: https

Re: Upgrade from FC6 to FC11

2009-07-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
on the SATA controllers I have and these machines are *file servers*. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Bill Davidsen wrote: Roberto Ragusa wrote: The decision to not save buffers and cached is debatable. Even if it is memory which can be read again from the disk, it is MUCH faster to read from the swap image in a contiguous fashion, than to seek everywhere for minutes after a suspend

Re: new disk layout

2009-07-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
on a modern machine (having 2 GB of RAM makes it modern). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Arranging data on the HDD

2009-07-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Re: increasing time spent on grub during pm-hibernate

2009-07-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
of inexperienced users can do stupid things, so we have to block experienced users doing smart things. (I used to run tuxonice and this holding-hands stuff was not there, luckily). Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Converting to EXT4 on encrypted lvm

2009-07-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Bruno Wolff III wrote: That device is the encrypted block device that lvm is stored on. tune2fs isn't going to like that though. As we are talking about the root filesystem, a simple df or mount or cat /etc/fstab could show the device mounted on the mount point /. -- Roberto Ragusamail

Re: accessing a samba network drive via the command line

2009-07-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
: mkdir /mnt/raw mount 192.168.1.30:raw /mnt/raw -t cifs (a lot of possibly useful extra options in the mount manpage, such as -o guest, -o ro) Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Re: How do you know when a reboot is required after yum update?

2009-07-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
running the unfixed glibc. (The iwl Intel driver forced me to reboot my laptop after more than 150 days and I had really bad words in my mind for Intel and their buggy code; my work session was incredibly complex and useful to me... I hate reboots). -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-30 Thread Roberto Ragusa
if this still applies. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- 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: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-30 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 15:02:04 +0200, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote: Anaconda refused to detect the degraded array. 4 disk in RAID-1 is not exactly degraded, I would say... :-) I had to grow the array from 5 disks to 4. Degraded means that all

Re: Files corrupt on copy

2009-06-28 Thread Roberto Ragusa
mad some years ago). You could also try something related to power/speed management. The only alternative is a kernel bug, but as it is touching only one bit it is not likely. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: yum 3.2.23 more than 10x slower than 3.2.21?! (BZ #508445)

2009-06-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Roberto Ragusa wrote: Never programmed in python, but this could be O(N^2). for pkg in pkgs[1:]: if pkg.repo.cost lowcost: msg = _('excluding for cost: %s from %s') % (pkg, pkg.repo.id) self.verbose_logger.log(logginglevels.DEBUG_3, msg

Re: yum 3.2.23 more than 10x slower than 3.2.21?!

2009-06-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
\* | grep 'time:' Config time: 0.271 repo time: 0.001 pkgsack time: 86.684 rpmdb time: 0.003 up:Obs Init time: 0.230 up:simple updates time: 0.312 up:obs time: 0.015 up:condense time: 0.000 updates time: 1.583 real1m29.527s user1m24.252s sys 0m0.409s -- Roberto Ragusamail

Re: yum 3.2.23 more than 10x slower than 3.2.21?!

2009-06-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
up:condense time: 0.000 updates time: 1.067 real1m0.595s user0m57.970s sys 0m0.519s -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: yum 3.2.23 more than 10x slower than 3.2.21?!

2009-06-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Seth Vidal wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: and if you can make this happen every time with 3.2.23 if you could please run: time yum -d 3 list updates | grep 'time:' You were not talking to me, but I tried and look at this: (added -C to avoid net

Re: yum 3.2.23 more than 10x slower than 3.2.21?!

2009-06-26 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Joe Nall wrote: On Jun 26, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: and if you can make this happen every time with 3.2.23 if you could please run: time yum -d 3 list updates | grep 'time:' You were

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-06-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
., but an upgrade is already considered a risk by me, so I always backup before upgrading; at that point, I would kick the sync() stuff out of the way very happily. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe

Re: rpm package with many files inside

2009-06-22 Thread Roberto Ragusa
is one byte) about 4GiB of space on most filesystems (everyone except reiserfs, IIRC). And I don't want to imagine the stress that one-million-files rpms can cause to the rpm/yum machinery, which is quite slow even in normal usage. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora

Re: Ultimate Fedora partition scheme ?

2009-06-18 Thread Roberto Ragusa
want a 20 GB partition, and I'd like to have it near the fastest part of the disk (the beginning). I just kick sda6 out of the VG. Having more than one PVs has no real disadvantage, so, why not? (personally used to slice disks in 50GB or 100GB PVs) -- Roberto Ragusamail

Re: iptables/firewall brainstorming

2009-06-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Thomas Woerner wrote: Roberto Ragusa wrote: //A if(port==(20-21)) PERMIT; //B if(port==(20-21) net==trusted) PERMIT; //default DENY; A wins here. The first matching rule will be used. Therefore there is no restriction for a trusted network. So your ftp server will be available

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