Re: Flash Problem

2010-01-08 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-08 00:21:56, Chris Smart wrote: ... Dirac is based on wavelets, completely different technology. It's also lossless, while Theora is not. http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dirac/technology.shtml; According to that reference, Dirac is a typical lossy encoding method. The loss is

Re: entropy

2010-01-07 Thread Tony Nelson
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 no. In particular

Re: help

2010-01-07 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-07 18:40:16, Joseph L. Casale wrote: we at work have some PC's with 256 MB RAM, the graphical mode doesn't load, so we choice the text mode, but in all machines we get the same error, Anaconda 12.47 do you have an idea how to solve it? Yeah, add ram. Anaconda needs like 1/2

Re: End of days?

2010-01-06 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-06 17:54:10, Robert Relyea wrote: On 01/06/2010 01:43 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: [or...@orca fedora/devel]$ ls */dead.package | wc -l 666 We're ok. The original number may have been 616: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/beast616.htm No, that's merely the most common correction by

Re: control-C and yum update

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-05 03:01:45, Tim wrote: ... In the yum updating case, it's breaking the current process (downloading some file), but not the thing controlling it. You'd need to CTRL+C more than once, to break the chain of events higher up. ... No, yum is doing the download in-process. It takes

Re: Best way to get minimal system

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-04 22:48:45, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/5 Andre Robatino an...@bwh.harvard.edu: The minimum RAM for a GUI install was increased from 192 MB to 384 MB for F12. http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2009-July/ msg00146.html Oh yes.. I have no idea how much ram

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

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-04 23:40:46, Ed Greshko wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: And I cannot get my notebook to even go over 800x600 for the internal display without using system-config-display to create a xorg.conf to get higher resolution with FC12. How do I convince X to give me more without

Re: control-C and yum update

2010-01-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-04 08:12:39, John Austin wrote: ... I have been using Tony Nelson's stablemirror for several years (and Control/C) with yum (currently F12) with no problems. http://www.georgeanelson.com/stablemirror.htm Stablemirror provides working Ctl-C handling during downloads, in a way

Re: graphical login screen

2010-01-03 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-03 14:49:14, Ralph Blach wrote: On Fedora 12, my machine is running to init 5, and comes up to a graphical login screen, How do I change the users showed on the screen, I see users, but no root, I would only like to see only the user which I specify, and of course root. It would

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2009-12-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-30 18:27:53, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/30/2009 12:25 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: Suggestions for new text values are welcome -- but you will have to sell your proposal. I'd suggest something like: Fedora Users Too terse to guide new signups away from the developers' list. The

Re: RAID 1 Mismatches

2009-12-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-29 15:18:48, Rick Wagner wrote: ... Thanks for the suggestions. I did not find 'palimpset', but used the sp. palimpsest your 'devkit' suggestion. Looking at the physical device entries (i.e. sd[abc][1234]?') did not show anything like error counts. I take that to mean there

Re: Koji stuck?

2009-12-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-19 17:19:37, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: ... There is a -O2 flag issue that causes some builds to hang. Maybe those emacs hangs are related to this bug in gcc It happened to 2 of my packages. Removing -O2 makes things compile in my packages. (No I didn't do official builds without -O2

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

2009-12-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-19 15:27:48, Globe Trotter wrote: --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com wrote: ... So... the tcsh rpm is installed?    $ rpm -qa tcsh tcsh-6.15-8.fc12 Yes, it is! Possibly some of the shell scripts used by GDM (or whatever) don't specify the interpreter with a

Re: acctcom for linux

2009-12-16 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-16 18:19:17, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 08:38 -0400, William W. Austin wrote: 05/01/2007 05:38:26 AM (Tue, 01 May 2007 08:38:26 -0400) Your date is still wrong. No, the date is correct. That's when the message was sent the first time around -- it's in the list

Re: Repost: Unable to report Firefox pblm with abrt

2009-12-16 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-16 10:04:02, Steven Stern wrote: I'm reposting this as the original report had no responses Firefox is completely unstable. The stack trace indicates that the problem is probably in the flash plugin, but it's crashing on pages that, as far as I can tell, have no flash content.

Re: F11 iptables can't disable

2009-12-15 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-15 20:23:47, Rick Stevens wrote: ... chkconfig iptables off will only block iptables from starting whenever you enter the run level you're _currently_ in. ... Not according to `man chkconfig`, or when I try it. Without explicit levels, chkconfig acts on levels 2345. --

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

2009-12-11 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-11 04:32:11, Tim wrote: ... Well, according to my quick test, using the dig tool, that domain doesn't exist. Though, a whois check shows that it does. So, somewhere there's a problem with your public domain records. The dig tool might help you sort out where (you can query

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

2009-12-11 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-11 16:27:00, John Aldrich wrote: ... Guessing here... perhaps the problem is that there's no A record for redfish-solutions.com??? That could be the problem, if certain misconfigured senders consistently produce the problem (as there is no requirement that a domain have an A record

Re: Firefox frequently jamming Fedora 12

2009-12-10 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-10 13:53:32, Daniel Qarras wrote: Hi! Briefly, when Firefox is not running F12 works like a charm. After starting Firefox every other minute Firefox hangs completely, disk drive led burns constantly and the system feel jammed, I can do barely anything. This usually lasts 10 to 20

Re: Listing obsolete installed packages

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-08 15:14:39, Robert Nichols wrote: I'd like to make a list of currently installed packages that are not present in any currently enabled repo. Anyone know a straightforward way to do that? package-cleanup --orphans --

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-07 15:51:38, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: ... I just went to reboot it. Since I wasn't logged into the console, I used the GDM reboot button to reboot the system. While it was shutting down, it just hung. That's when I noticed the caps-lock and scroll-lock leds flashing in unison.

Re: recommentations: midi player or converter midi to ogg,mp3

2009-12-07 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-07 23:37:43, Terry Polzin wrote: I'm looking for a way to either play a midi file or convert it to a format that I can play in f12. `apropos midi` suggests timidity. -- TonyN.:'

Re: how to list hardware manufacturer?

2009-12-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-05 05:27:38, François Patte wrote: ... I would like to list the hardware manufacturers for some hardware installed on my computer (namely: cd drives and ram). ... lshw, does not give the manufacturer ... It does here, under vendor:. Be sure to run it as root, or it won't cover

Re: Difficulty setting up Fedora 12 screen

2009-12-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-04 23:59:43, Dick Roark wrote: After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 screen resolution. Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. I was using F11 at 1280x1024 on this hardware before upgrading to F12. After that, so far no joy. I would appreciate any

Re: Problem with screen resolution after installing F12

2009-12-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-04 04:12:16, Dick Roark wrote: After installing Fedora 12 I am having problems setting up 1280x1024 screen resolution. Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. I was using F11 at 1280x1024 on this hardware before upgrading to F12. After that, so far no joy. I would appreciate any

Re: FC10 and RedHat NTFS file format compatibility

2009-12-03 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-03 18:10:51, Daniel J Celta wrote: Kevin, When I do yum list \*ntfs\* I get a error: No matching Packages to list Also if i do yum search ntfs I get a similar error Al the above I did under Red Hat 5.4 Add the EPEL repo. (Google epel.) Have not tried FC10 yet

Re: X Configuration help request

2009-12-03 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-03 23:34:06, john wendel wrote: I'm trying to configure X to do the following: [1] Computer A, the target of the configuration, has a display but no keyboard or mouse. [2] Computer B has a working F11 installation, with X, a keyboard, and a mouse. [3] Computers A and B are

Re: FC12 System Hangs when AC adopter is connected

2009-12-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-02 02:21:24, Jatin K wrote: Dear all I'm Using Dell Vostro 1520 Laptop and have installed Fedora Core 12 x86_64 .. my problem is like that if laptop runs on battery power it works fine , as soon as I connect AC adopter to charge the battery laptop hangs after 10 to 15

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

2009-12-01 Thread Tony Nelson
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 integrity loss, whatever that

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

2009-12-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-01 17:12:12, Dan Thurman wrote: ... I tried ddrescue and it seems to work, except that there was 4 errors reported. When I went to look at the mount, it seems to indicate that the partition was not readable, perhaps left in some unknown state. Take a look at the ddrescue logfile.

Re: anyone noticed this odd firefox glitch?

2009-11-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-30 04:03:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... i've seen some trivial but fairly new oddities as well. as i mentioned before, the scroll bar doesn't seem to act consistently. once upon a time, if i clicked way down the scrollbar to page down, firefox would, well, page down. once. now,

Re: Upgrading from FC8 to F12 - please help

2009-11-24 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-24 14:53:31, Andrew Junev wrote: Hello All, I tried to upgrade my old machine running Fedora Core 8 to the shiny new Fedora 12 using 'preupgrade'. ... ... Update: now while trying to boot to an old FC8, I get an error: /sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: Multi-boot: Making windows partitions bootable?

2009-11-23 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-23 12:35:00, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: ... I know this is a Fedora site and I am a diehard Fedora user, but I also have a multiboot system... apologies to the purists. Is it possible to backup and restore Xp/Vista to a different drive/partition in the case of imminent drive

Re: Fedora-release RPMS ?

2009-11-23 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-23 18:45:00, davide wrote: I'll keep also the show-leaves one. I'd like to keep the system clean, as I was used to do in Debian. But Fedora lacks unmarkauto, so you may get more leaves than you might want. It also makes yum slower. :-( --

Re: Multi-boot: Making windows partitions bootable?

2009-11-23 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-23 16:53:48, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: ... How exactly did you use `dd'? ... dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb Use the appropriate (unmounted) devices, of course. -- TonyN.:'

Re: Chainloader question.

2009-11-21 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-21 02:39:20, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 20/11/09 23:50, Mikkel wrote: Erik P. Olsen wrote: Can a 64-bit system be chainloaded from a 32-bit? What do you mean by chainloaded? If you are talking about a Grub, then it is the same for a 32 or 64 bit version of Fedora. Grub is a boot

Re: Run kinit when needed?

2009-11-21 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-21 06:45:40, Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, I've been switched from keybased auth to kerberos on a university server (and things work fine), but running kinit manually every morning or so is ... somewhat disturbing my workflow. Isn't there something like run kinit the first time when

Re: f12 yum/rpm commands to list all dependencies on a library

2009-11-21 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-21 21:07:14, Skunk Worx wrote: On f12 I see a package called oprofile-gui depends on the qt3-3.8b rpm. What command(s) can I run inside a local repo (where all the rpm packages are) that will tell me how many f12 Everything packages are still using qt3? # repoquery

Re: abrt and bugzilla

2009-11-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-20 07:06:34, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: On 11/20/2009 12:24 PM, Matthew Booth wrote: ... 5. Can abrt give me a list of submitted BZs so I can browse them if I want to? This is in our TODO: ABRT should find possible duplicates and offer the reporter to browse them and manually mark

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-19 05:06:16, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 01:48 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-11-18 20:09:18, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:50 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: .. Fedora has always been this way. Have you tried to use sound or video

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-18 13:44:43, nodata wrote: Am 2009-11-18 19:16, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 17:45:26 +, Bastien Nocerabnoc...@redhat.com wrote: Once we get the new user management stuff into F13 [1], we'd probably tighten that rule so that only admins are given the

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-18 20:09:18, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:50 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: .. Fedora has always been this way. Have you tried to use sound or video in the past few releases? I think it's called creative destruction. And I'm sure the passive-aggressive in you

Re: internet (without LAN) monthly traffic statistics

2009-11-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-18 09:32:54, Ryan Lynch wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:27, Dj YB yehi...@mail.ru wrote: iptraf is really complicated and require too many changes, vnstat doesn't support the separation using single interface... any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated. Cacti is

Re: nouveau KMS + custom modelines

2009-11-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-18 09:32:38, Bruno Wolff III wrote: ... Modeline 1280x1024_70.00 129.00 1280 1368 1504 1728 1024 1027 1034 1069 -hsync +vsync ... Modelines can be made with the cvt or gtf commands. -- TonyN.:'

Re: F12 work around for out of space on /boot for preupgrade?

2009-11-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-18 11:15:43, Linuxguy123 wrote: ... I am wondering if running gparted from a live disk would allow you to resize /boot without losing any data. Not if he uses LVM, unless there have been big changes in the last day or two, in a program where the feature has been discussed and

Re: f12 preupgrade?

2009-11-17 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-17 11:38:38, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/17/2009 10:11 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I just cranked up preupgrade on this F11 computer and was told no releases available for upgrade. Sigh... # yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install preupgrade # preupgrade Is this related to the

Re: using squid as a yum cache

2009-11-17 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-17 17:33:49, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: why you don't create a private fedora mirror ? Wouldn't he need to download a lot of packages that his machines won't be using? On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak m...@avtechpulse.com wrote: Could someone point me to

Re: Roopesh's Birthday Calendar

2009-11-13 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-13 16:13:20, Ikem Krueger wrote: Please click on the link below and enter your birthday for me.  I am creating a birthday calendar for myself.  Don't worry, it'll take less than a minute (and you don't have to enter your year of birth). Spam? o.O Phishing. --

Re: one or more disks failling

2009-11-13 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-13 15:12:18, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 15:04:52 -0500, Tait Clarridge t...@clarridge.ca wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 06:33 +1100, L wrote: Hi, I got a disk health warning from palimpsest disk utility one or more disks failling. It showed this disk

Re: one or more disks failling

2009-11-13 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-13 18:57:24, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to writes: Depending on the file system on the device the following may help you find out if any of your bad sectors are in files: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html I don't trust myself

Re: Fedora 11 x86_64, ATI HD4870, and RPM Fusion's Catalyst Drivers...

2009-11-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-05 09:31:45, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Up until this past weekend, I stayed on Fedora 10 because the closed fglrx drivers were stable and functioning, and I didn't want to go ... ran into a brick wall. ... In the mean time, does anyone have a clue what might be going on? Have you

Re: installing Python 3 on f11?

2009-11-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-05 01:37:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote: (i just asked about this on the test list but it seems that it's equally appropriate here.) any problems with installing python-3.1.1 side-by-side on a fedora 11 system, and having programmers invoke it with an explicit reference to

Re: Tomcat6 docs

2009-11-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-05 09:10:16, Alessandro Boggiano wrote: ... Still, I don't get the point why this rpm contains empty files. Is it a bug? Is it a problem of repository ? Is it supposed to be so ? # yum info tomcat6-docs-webapp ... Available Packages Name : tomcat6-docs-webapp Arch :

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-11-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-02 13:07:09, Dan Williams wrote: oldworld topped out at 366MHz anyway right? (the 333 and 366 Beige G3 were only sold from 1998-08-12 - 1999-01-01 too) That's pretty much the minimum you'd need to run Fedora anyway these days... Not sure it's really worth it, you'll need at

Re: A question about the future of qemu package

2009-10-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-31 09:39:17, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: hello all After the release of qemu-0.12 which will drop kqemu support, How we will accelerate qemu on a no virtualization capable CPU ? currently i use fedora 11 with my own build of qemu rpms (with kqemu support) I have switched to

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-31 12:24:00, Matthew Saltzman wrote: ... It used to be fairly common for new disks to have a few bad blocks--back in the dark days of early PCs when disk drive capacities were measured in tens or low hundreds of megabytes. Then things seemed to improve as manufacturing techniques

Re: FC11 missing dependencies on a new install

2009-10-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-30 12:13:41, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have just completed a new install on my ASUS ee 701 and now am trying to do a yum update. I am hitting some missing dependencies. I will TRY and get them all here, reading from one screen and typing here... python-nose by numpy kasumi by

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-29 08:18:30, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:25 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-10-28 18:24:49, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:17:31PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: Sorry to bug developers, but I didn't get any bites from PPC users on fedora-list

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-29 16:41:57, King InuYasha wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:18 AM, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.orgwrote: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:25 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-10-28 18:24:49, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:17:31PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: Sorry

Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-28 Thread Tony Nelson
Sorry to bug developers, but I didn't get any bites from PPC users on fedora-list. Does Fedora PPC work or install on oldworld PCI Macs, such as a beige G3 desktop? My impression is that no one has tried it on an oldworld Mac in the last few releases, and that getting it to boot at all would

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-28 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-28 03:56:38, Gianluca Sforna wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: Does Fedora PPC work / install on oldworld PCI Macs, such as a beige G3 desktop?  My impression is not. How did you form this impression? Did you actually try

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-28 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-28 15:02:25, Gianluca Sforna wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: No.  I saw nothing that indicated support for oldworld Macs -- if you can persuade them to boot they probably ought to work shows they haven't been tried and that I

Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-27 Thread Tony Nelson
Does Fedora PPC work / install on oldworld PCI Macs, such as a beige G3 desktop? My impression is not. Otherwise I'm going to try Debian Lenny, which is said to work, but about which I know nothing. (The machine has 416 MB memory and I'll install a 40 GB hard disk for Linux, so other than

Re: Qemu vs VMWare

2009-10-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-26 08:12:45, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009 04:15:34 Tony Nelson wrote: The way recommended by QEMU developers is to use KVM, purchasing new hardware that supports KVM if necessary, in which case you won't need to use much of QEMU. ... Good performance

Re: Qemu vs VMWare [SOLVED]

2009-10-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-26 21:00:56, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 00:17:59 Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-10-26 08:12:45, Marko Vojinovic wrote: So can you tell me how to get the kqemu module to work? Rebuild QEMU with the patches in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520284

Re: Qemu vs VMWare

2009-10-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-25 17:05:32, 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

Re: Where is VNC, FC11

2009-10-24 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-24 02:30:32, Tait Clarridge wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 00:46 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-10-23 14:03:49, Tait Clarridge wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 12:55 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Tait Clarridge t...@clarridge.ca said: A good way to search

Re: Where is VNC, FC11

2009-10-23 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-23 14:03:49, Tait Clarridge wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 12:55 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Tait Clarridge t...@clarridge.ca said: A good way to search for packages that may not have easy names is: [user @ host ~]$ yum list | grep -i vnc A little

Re: rpmnew files

2009-10-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-20 17:49:28, nodata wrote: Hi, What's with the extra rpmnew files on an upgrade? Some examples: # md5sum /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf.rpmnew /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf 7c8f8d809c5b618e1604207525161101 /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf.rpmnew 7c8f8d809c5b618e1604207525161101

Re: python error with yum on F11

2009-10-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-20 05:07:51, Mark Perew wrote: ... rpm -q python yum python-2.6-9.fc11.i586 yum-3.2.24-2.fc11.noarch Good. rpm -V python S.5T./usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.pyc Yeah. I'm a little confused by that. So, I checked the date: ll /usr/lib/python2.6/sub*

Re: input/output error on disk(?)

2009-10-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-20 03:03:25, charles zeitler wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: ... I wouldn't expect fsck to succeed if there were a bad dir file. u huh. well , apparently, the block that's causing the 'read failure' isn't being used

Re: python error with yum on F11

2009-10-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-20 22:34:12, Mark Perew wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.comwrote: It probably is not a recompile, but rather something else bad. Anyway, that would be your problem with yum. Before you rm that bad subprocess.pyc, what does file

Re: input/output error on disk(?)

2009-10-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-18 17:34:11, charles zeitler wrote: am now running the new, improved 'cp /dev/zero' done. 'current_pending' reduced to 1. trying a long test... done. still showing the 'read failure', on the same block, with 90% unchecked... i'll try to work out something to check bad

Re: qemu (with kqemu) show an error about an _invalid option_

2009-10-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-18 17:08:15, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: ... i've successfully rebuild qemu rpm with kqemu support, but now i need to add in /etc/yum.conf: exclude=qemu-* to prevent yum from overbidding my packages when i'll do an update. am i right? Yes, though I'd use qemu* unless you don't have

Re: python error with yum on F11

2009-10-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-20 01:17:45, steve wrote: Hello Mark, On 10/20/2009 06:48 AM, Mark Perew wrote: Popen is supposed to be provided by subprocess.py, and I've confirmed that class Popen is in the /usr/lib/python2.6/ subprocess.py module. I don't see anything helpful on the website above, or

Re: gnome session control entry missing

2009-10-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-18 14:32:01, paul van der meij wrote: After migrating from FC9 to FC11 i noticed that the gnome session entry has disappeared from the taskbar-system-preferences menu. I used it mainly for saving my current session, and now use manually '/usr/bin/gnome-session-save'. Is this on

Re: input/output error on disk(?)

2009-10-17 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-17 01:14:42, charles zeitler wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:49 PM, charles zeitler cfzeit...@gmail.com wrote: thanks for the help, Tony. i finally checked the results of cat'ing to /dev/null, which found 11 troubled files. having removed them, am now running smartctl -t on

Re: qemu (with kqemu) show an error about an _invalid option_

2009-10-17 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-17 13:22:40, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: ... Does newer version of virt-manager support kqemu ? so when i will recompile (repackage) qemu with kqemu support i can use virt-manager as i was. No idea. KVM can't use it, and doesn't need it. I don't know what virt-manager would do about

Re: input/output error on disk(?)

2009-10-17 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-17 14:35:45, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:17:36 -0400, Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: Sadly, you have not fixed any of the bad blocks by deleting the files. The bad blocks will only be replaced when they are written to. Now that the files

Re: input/output error on disk(?)

2009-10-16 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-16 00:00:16, charles zeitler wrote: thanks for the help... On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Tony Nelson I don't know of anything specifically intended to find the damaged files.  e2fsck will map out bad blocks, but doesn't (AFAIK) tell one which files are damaged.  I think tar

Re: qemu (with kqemu) show an error about an _invalid option_

2009-10-16 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-16 15:31:46, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: Hi All, When i try to run qemu -kernel-kqemu or qemu -no-kqemu i get error about an _invalid option_ i think that the fedora 11 qemu packages are build without support for kqemu ( which has been installed from rpm-fusion repos)

Re: input/output error on disk(?)

2009-10-15 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-15 01:29:22, charles zeitler wrote: when trying to copy a certain file, i get the message: cp: reading 'file' : Input/output error i took the volume it was on offline, did a forced e2fsck. same thing. smartctl -H tells me the drive 'passes' . i can change the name with mv,

Re: input/output error on disk(?)

2009-10-15 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-15 16:28:03, charles zeitler wrote: thanks for the info. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: On 09-10-15 01:29:22, charles zeitler wrote: when trying to copy a certain file, i get the message: cp: reading 'file' :  Input/output

Re: input/output error on disk(?)

2009-10-15 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-15 21:27:50, charles zeitler wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: On 09-10-15 16:28:03, charles zeitler wrote: thanks for the info. well, the results are in. the Self-test execution status says that the read element

Re: Looking for some apache config help to block evil spiders

2009-10-10 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-10 14:37:29, Steven W. Orr wrote: ... Here's what I added to my httpd.conf: RewriteLoglogs/rewrite_log RewriteLogLevel 1 RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Baiduspider.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}^msnbot.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}^NaverBot.*

Re: Fedora 11 - Cannot Set Screen Resolution

2009-10-09 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-09 01:38:50, alexg wrote: After some bumbling around I found that the problem was to do with Fedora 11 and KMS. I was able to reboot the machine with nomodeset and fixed Xorg.conf so that 1280x1024 is available. In Gnome I played with the display settings and now I have something

Re: bash oom problem

2009-10-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-04 06:17:20, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/10/4 psmith psm...@fedoraproject.org: hi list, whilst trying to run this bash command for w in {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z} ;do echo $w;done wl1 Consider that for a second... You are trying to generate a list of

Re: Questionable Status

2009-10-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-01 09:45:06, David Timms wrote: On 09/24/2009 02:05 AM, Frank Cox wrote: I haven't seen anything about SMART on any of my Fedora desktops; what am I missing? You are missing disks with faults ;-) It's a good thing. Or you may not have Palimpsest (gnome-disk-utility) installed or

Re: Questionable Status

2009-10-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-01 09:09:40, Robin Laing wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-09-23 09:29:56, Gene Poole wrote: I've very recently upgraded 2 of my machines. One machine was upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 11, and the other machine was upgraded from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. On machine 1 I have 2

Re: hde: lost interrupt

2009-09-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-30 11:24:22, Richard Heck wrote: I am getting a lot of kernel errors of that type: hde: lost interrupt on one of my servers. (This is actually CentOS, not Fedora.) The errors are intermittent, but when they start they often will just keep coming, and the disk has locked up a

Re: backlight control

2009-09-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-30 01:27:30, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 09/29/2009 04:00 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-09-29 18:43:39, Konstantin Svist wrote: ... Thanks, that was it. The problem is that apparently X thinks my laptop panel doesn't support DPMS and because of that the backlight doesn't

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Exemption for bundling local copy of system library?

2009-09-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-29 15:37:10, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: I would argue no. The guidelines are written to apply to all libraries except with very limited exceptions to keep this from happening because security vulnerabilities are not limited to network facing code, suid code, or any other class that

Re: backlight control

2009-09-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-29 18:43:39, Konstantin Svist wrote: ... Thanks, that was it. The problem is that apparently X thinks my laptop panel doesn't support DPMS and because of that the backlight doesn't disable Where do I dig now? If `xset dpms force suspend ; sleep 10 ; xset dpms force on` doesn't

Re: gnome-terminal question

2009-09-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-27 19:19:48, Richard England wrote: On 09/27/2009 02:09 PM, bruce wrote: hey... trying to solve an issue on changing the title of the current gnome-terminal session. how does one go about changing the title of the current gnome-terminal via the cmdline... i'm trying to

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-26 08:32:45, Kevin Kofler wrote: ... Of course the root of the problem is ATLAS's lack of support for runtime CPU feature detection ... Presumably that could be added to the Fedora package as a patch. It's SMOP to check the CPU and load the proper library, if someone who knew how

Re: installing new graphics card

2009-09-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-26 19:49:31, Gerhard Magnus wrote: ... Now, the matter of the new card. It's nvidia GeForce 6200 512MB -- of the Series 6 (I think) which, according to http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php? title=Main_Page#Nvidia_.28For_GeForce_6.2C_7.2C_8.2C_9_.26_200_series_cards.29 should

Re: Setup of DNS caching name server for home server

2009-09-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-25 11:26:07, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:04 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: ... I saw instructions to do this yum install caching-nameserver It installed bind. BTW, if I say rpm -q caching-nameserver it says package caching-nameserver is not installed. That

Re: I can't connect via ssh

2009-09-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-25 16:41:19, Aldo Foot wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Germán Racca german.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list: I need to use ssh to transfer data between a PC and a notebook, both with Fedora 11, but the result is, from notebook to PC: $ ssh xx.xx.xx.xx ssh:

Re: My WebDav Calendar for Sunbird/Lightning has stopped working

2009-09-24 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-23 23:04:59, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: My Home server has a WebDav Calendar named Home in /var/www/html/dav/Home.ics ... Error: Skipping Operating System timezone 'America/New'. TypeError: tz has no properties ... The only package changes I can see happened before: Sep 23

Re: sftp access to fedora11

2009-09-24 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-24 00:24:58, Todd Zullinger wrote: online.service@gmail.com wrote: I don't have any ftp server installed/turned on , why i still have sftp access? Because sftp is provided by ssh. So if you're running an ssh daemon, you'll have sftp by default. And if you want to get rid

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