Errors F7 updated today and pungi

2007-05-01 Thread Phil Meyer
This is a fresh install of F7. Updated this morning. Ran a test of the default minimal. All went well. Added custom files, and -- this is what I got. Very un-obvious where my mistake is. The intent was to roll a developer desktop including some things from livna as well as a bunch of

F7 pungi-0.3.5-1.fc7 version == Null

2007-06-01 Thread Phil Meyer
For some reason pungi is setting version to Null. See this tcpdump: HTTP GET /mirrorlist?repo=fedora-Nullarch=i386 HTTP/1.1 I have been through the code and config files and cannot spot where its coming from. Any ideas? I have added $releasever=7 to all the yum entries without any change.

Re: pungi used to create CD that includes a kickstart file

2007-06-12 Thread Phil Meyer
Martin Steinmann wrote: Using pungi on F7 I would like to create a CD that includes a kickstart file to be used during installation of a system using this CD. Is there a way to tell pungi to put a ks.cfg file into the root of the CD and modify isolinux.cfg? Thanks --martin

Re: Fedora 7 kickstart problem with rebuilt Everything image

2007-07-23 Thread Phil Meyer
Howard Wilkinson wrote: We routinely rebuild systems from a kickstart driven facility we have built. This uses a Fedora image - in this case fedora 7 Everything with the updates merged in. We have run into 2 problems with this as opposed to the original release image. First the version of

Re: Fedora 7 kickstart problem with rebuilt Everything image

2007-07-23 Thread Phil Meyer
Howard Wilkinson wrote: We routinely rebuild systems from a kickstart driven facility we have built. This uses a Fedora image - in this case fedora 7 Everything with the updates merged in. We have run into 2 problems with this as opposed to the original release image. First the version of

Re: Fedora 7 kickstart problem with rebuilt Everything image

2007-07-23 Thread Phil Meyer
seth vidal wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 11:05 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: Howard Wilkinson wrote: We routinely rebuild systems from a kickstart driven facility we have built. This uses a Fedora image - in this case fedora 7 Everything with the updates merged in. We have run into 2

Re: Fedora 7 kickstart problem with rebuilt Everything image

2007-07-24 Thread Phil Meyer
Phil Meyer wrote: Jesse Keating wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:01:51 -0600 Phil Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installed yum 3.2.2 from updates-testing. Verified that pungi was using and installing the new version. Did you ensure that pungi repo configs point to a repo that has

Re: Fedora 7 kickstart problem with rebuilt Everything image

2007-07-24 Thread Phil Meyer
Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:16:40 -0600 Phil Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the slow response. Had to finish Harry Potter. :) After verifying the yum is 3.2.2 all the way through, still no change. Can I hazard a guess that you're doing a media installation

pungi on i386 to build x86_64?

2007-08-10 Thread Phil Meyer
The are some comments in the generic pungi.conf that indicate that a i386 based Fedora can only roll releases for i386. For this question please assume that no sources are being recompiled or gathered for the release. Is this still correct? What happens, is that the .discinfo fails to be

remaking an initrd.img for diskboot.img and pxeboot

2007-08-15 Thread Phil Meyer
For odd reasons, I am attempting to add a driver to an initrd.img. Using the exact same kernel as on the original media, I have built a driver module. I have extracted pxeboot/initrd.img into: /tmp/img/original I have extracted the /tmp/img/original/modules/modules.cgz file into:

mock x86_64 running pungi i368

2008-08-04 Thread Phil Meyer
I have tried to be careful to run as specified. I attempted to go back through the mailing list, but nothing quite like this jumped out ... 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 mock-0.9.9-1.fc9.noarch.rpm commands attempted: # mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --init # mock -r fedora-devel-i386 --no-clean

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

Re: Status of F9 and ATI

2008-06-06 Thread Phil Meyer
Frank Cox wrote: Does anyone know what the current status of Fedora 9 and the fglrx proprietary ATI video driver is? Are we still out-of-luck? When I installed an ATI video card in this (F8) computer, I discovered that to get the correct resolution for my monitor (1680x1050) I had to install

Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-06 Thread Phil Meyer
Dave Cross wrote: As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really appreciate any help to fix this. I basically have two problems. 1/ I can't use any of the Fedora boot media. This is well discussed

Re: fedoraproject.org IP adress?

2008-06-11 Thread Phil Meyer
Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Dear friends, I can not contact fedoraproject.org, because I can not resolve the name, apparently because my name servers are not updated. Can some one please resolve it for me and send me the numeric IP? Thanks a lot! Take care Oliver This is

Re: Using yum with mirrors.fedoraproject.org unavailable?

2008-06-11 Thread Phil Meyer
Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Dear friends, Is there a way to install software normally available from the fedora repositories using yum if mirrors.fedoraproject.org is unavailable (as it is right now)? Thanks! Take care Oliver fedoraproject.org is not resolving from many

Re: Changing initrd contents and grub

2008-06-23 Thread Phil Meyer
Richard Michael wrote: Hello list, I've changed my RAID and LVM configuration and need to modify the respective commands in the /init of my initrd. I made those changes by decompressing and extracting the cpio archive, editting the init script (add a couple lines for mdadm, changed the

Re: Fedora 9, multi-monitor, multi-card woes

2008-06-24 Thread Phil Meyer
Jeffrey M. Hardy wrote: Hello all, From FC1 to F8 inclusive, I have used the same hardware to have a fully-spanned desktop using three cards across four monitors. Rather than being too ambitious at the moment, I am merely trying to get three separate non-cloned desktops across three

Re: What is the matter with fedora 9?

2008-06-26 Thread Phil Meyer
Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: fedora wrote: Hi every What is the matter with fedora 9? it introduced a NetworkManager which prohibits networking. NetworkMangler has been around since FC6 (at least), by making it the default it became impossible to ignore. It does

Re: valgrind error on F9 (x86_64)

2008-07-07 Thread Phil Meyer
Globe Trotter wrote: Hi, So, I have been unable to get valgrind to do anything. I install valgrind using yum and valgrind.x86_64 1:3.3.0-3 is installed. Next I run % valgrind ./testprogram (where testprogram is an executable) valgrind: failed to start tool 'memcheck' for platform

Re: [F9] laptop not booting - reinstall MBR?

2008-07-09 Thread Phil Meyer
Don Levey wrote: My F9 laptop won't boot this morning - I go through the POST, but when I ordinarily get to the Hit Enter for options boot screen, all I get is: GRUB at the top left of my screen. Does this mean I need to reinstall grub and the MBR? I can access the HD via a liveCD,

Re: KVM Hypervisor

2008-07-21 Thread Phil Meyer
Chris Snook wrote: Christopher A. Williams wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 08:15 -0400, Alex Katebi wrote: Hi All, I can not find laptop or desktop hardware that supports KVM Virtualization (Intel-VT or AMD-V). I like Dell laptops but there is no information regarding hardware assisted

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Phil Meyer
Les Mikesell wrote: ... It is only difficult to escape when equal/better choices don't exist. One of the reasons those other choices might not exist is that licenses that only permit code re-use under restrictive conditions like the GPL have prevented them from being created. Wow, some

Re: NetworkManager sabotages DNS? on fc9

2008-07-23 Thread Phil Meyer
Dave Burns wrote: I just installed fc9 on a Dell precision T5400 from the live CD. On previous fc9 installs, I've had a problem that networking doesn't start at boot if I didn't open up the network panel and check controlled by networkmanager. On this new install, when I have that box checked,

Re: How do I figure hardware compatibility when the vendor lists only RedHat?

2008-07-23 Thread Phil Meyer
Rob Tanner wrote: Hi, I'm looking at several different vendors for hardware RAID. The box I intend the RAID for will be built with Fedora Core 8. The problem is that the vendors don't list Fedora Core at all under Linux systems. What versions of RedHat should I look for in the vendor's

Re: F8 NetworkManager going crazy at startup

2008-07-25 Thread Phil Meyer
Christoph Höger wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 23.07.2008, 16:18 -0700 schrieb Konstantin Svist: Hi, I've noticed a problem with NM recently (might've happened after a system update, not 100% sure when it started). When I log into KDE, NM starts connecting to the network. It used to connect eth0

Re: updating my getting started with QEMU under fedora howto

2008-07-28 Thread Phil Meyer
Robert P. J. Day wrote: i was going to take what i thought was a couple minutes and update my writeup on QEMU under fedora: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/QEMU for fedora 9 but, apparently, it's not going to be a simple s/8/9/g. there doesn't appear to be a (livna) kqemu-kmdl

Re: using mock like debootstrap

2008-07-29 Thread Phil Meyer
Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, for a deployment of virtual machines I need a complete root tree. To get it I use mock --init --root=fedora-9-i386 (or any other release) That works a little like debootstrap. But what do I need to get my machine _really_ working (I already installed yum, sshd and

Re: telephone answering + voice mail + recording

2008-07-30 Thread Phil Meyer
g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 greets, would like to set up a system to answer telephone calls, voice mail, record phone conversations for home use. any and all suggestions and comments [regarding 'subject:'] welcome. tia. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was all the rage a

Re: yum upgrade F8-F9 Gnome panels causing mischief

2008-07-30 Thread Phil Meyer
Eric Mesa wrote: I yup upgraded from F8 to F9 following the directions on the wiki. Here's what I did http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/07/30/yum-upgrading-to-fedora-9/ Xfce works perfectly fine as do all of my usual programs. When I try to login to Gnome I am stuck with the

Re: Cairo-like dock for KDE?

2008-08-18 Thread Phil Meyer
Marko Vojinovic wrote: Ok, you know, that thing from Mac OS X, that zooms the icons parabolically when you hover the pointer over them... Trying to find some equivalent eyecandy for KDE 4.0 or 4.1 or whatever. I already have Compiz-fusion pretty customized, but all that is not enough, I want

HP 2133 Report

2008-08-20 Thread Phil Meyer
I bought an HP 2133 for my daughters graduation from massage therapy school. It was about $460.00 from Newegg. It was the 512MB/4GBssd/SUSE version. However ... She took it out of the box and fired it up at dinner, and it wouldn't boot! So, of course, dear old dad volunteered to take it home

Re: Anaconda (or libata?) device detection order

2008-08-21 Thread Phil Meyer
Alan Cox wrote: installed. I can get around this by pointing grub.conf to the UUID of the disk to which it installed. However, I'm surprised that /dev/sda seems to be a SATA disk during installation, and a PATA disk during boot. Any thoughts as to why this might be? What decides the device

Re: Fedora 9 64 and Nvidia kmod

2008-08-21 Thread Phil Meyer
Rich Emberson wrote: I've got a: ASUS P5Q Deluxe Intel quad core QX9550 Asus EN7300GT Nvidia silent graphics board While booting there is a line indicating that it has found the Nvidia graphics card. When I execute: # glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: Yes Which I assume means that the

Re: Java applets not starting F-9 , firefox-3

2008-08-22 Thread Phil Meyer
Per Anton Rønning wrote: I think I have tried everything to fire up some browser applets in some web-pages that I am visting frequently. Everything was OK under FC 5 - Firefox -2, but now it just does not start. I expect a login screen as the first response to starting up, but it does never

Re: automatically mount removable devices

2008-08-25 Thread Phil Meyer
Carlo Nyto wrote: I have a system with four removable drives (in USB enclosures). I want them to be mounted automatically in the same location every time. I want this to happen at bootup. I also want this to happen if the system is booted without the drives and they are plugged in later,

Re: NetworkManager and special routing

2008-08-26 Thread Phil Meyer
Alan Evans wrote: Is there any way to get NetworkManager to configure a special route to a particular host while still getting the rest from DHCP as it always does? On my old desktop (without NetworkManager), I just used system-config-network and added the rule on the Route tab for the

Re: Gnome Terminal and Session management Query

2008-08-29 Thread Phil Meyer
Dan Track wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Dan Track [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Dan Track [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've got fedora 9 installed and I'd like it to store sessions for all my routers,switches, firewalls, servers etc just like putty

Re: Repair FC9 for new hardware

2008-08-29 Thread Phil Meyer
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I had to replace a MOBO with a new graphics card and NIC. The storage controller is the same and the machine boots to run level 3 fine but its confused about the NIC (I know it works, I had a fresh install working out of the box) and X crashes the machine if I go to run

Re: F9 install: anaconda fails: Unable to read package metadata.

2008-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Colin Brace wrote: Hi all, I tried reinstalling F9 from the DVD on a new disk this afternoon, but anaconda kept failing at the point when it started installing packages: Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodate directory. Please ensure that your install tree has

Re: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Joseph L. Casale wrote: In trying to swap a motherboard for the exact same type I kept having issues with the NIC not being started (network manager was disabled). I finally found 70-persistent-net.rules under udev had the mac address of the old nic as eth0 so I moved this file out and rebooted

Re: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Good question, and yes, udev DOES keep track. check in /etc/udev/rules.d for file names with *persistant* in them. There are several, and one for -- you guessed it -- network/NIC data. By removing the persistent file(s), udev will rebuild it with the correct/current

Re: USB slow when two devices connected

2008-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Aldo Foot wrote: My F8 system has two USB ports in the front side. I had a USB DVDRW connected to one of the ports and was writing an ISO image to CDR. Then I plugged in a USB stick to transfer some files from it to my desktop, the transfer was stalling and was slow even after the CDR task

Re: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Phil Meyer wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: Good question, and yes, udev DOES keep track. check in /etc/udev/rules.d for file names with *persistant* in them. There are several, and one for -- you guessed it -- network/NIC data. By removing the persistent file(s), udev will rebuild

Re: eth0 died on reboot

2008-09-08 Thread Phil Meyer
Dennis Kaptain wrote: I removed an unused pci card from my PC. After I restarted it, eth0 was dead. (no I didn't remove my network card ;-) ) The network card is built into the motherboard. Using another computer, I have verified that the port on the router and the cable are both good. Does

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-18 Thread Phil Meyer
linuxguy wrote: My laptop has quit. I am getting a new one. My old laptop has a 32 bit Intel processor. My new laptop has a dual 64 bit AMD processor, as well as different peripherals. What is the easiest way to move my current installation to the new machine ? Is there a way to clone

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-18 Thread Phil Meyer
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Phil Meyer wrote: My job requires me to do this quite often. Others have talked about backup/restore, but the easiest way is to put the old drive into the new system. On F9 In the new system with old drive, or on the old system before moving the drive, boot

Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

2008-09-18 Thread Phil Meyer
Phil Meyer wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Phil Meyer wrote: My job requires me to do this quite often. Others have talked about backup/restore, but the easiest way is to put the old drive into the new system. On F9 In the new system with old drive, or on the old system before moving

Re: spec file for rpms

2008-09-22 Thread Phil Meyer
David Hláèik wrote: Hi guys, i am new at this. I want to make a rpm from a program source. It does not contain rpm spec file by default so i need to create one. Is there any way to make creation of spec files easier? some tools etc ... ? Thanks in advance! David Both vim and emacs

Re: Fedora 10 kernel source.

2008-09-22 Thread Phil Meyer
Erik P. Olsen wrote: I need to view the kernel source of fedora 10. Is there a way to do that? Same as always: (works for all recent Fedora/RH/Centos/Oracle based distros) # = root or sudo $ = you 1. # yum install yumutils rpmdevtools (you may also need sparse, and others) 1.a $

Re: gui editor latex under gnome

2008-09-23 Thread Phil Meyer
Adel ESSAFI wrote: Hi list I need a GUI editor for latex. Particulary i want to ask if there is a feature that permits an instant visualization of the result as in latex editor (http://www.latexeditor.org/) Thanks for help Adel Lyx is ok for what it does, but it uses a custom set of macros

Re: 32 or 64 bit kernel for Duo T8400 processor ? Can apps be 32 bit for 64 bit kernel ?

2008-09-29 Thread Phil Meyer
linuxguy wrote: My new laptop has an Intel Duo T8400 processor. Should I install the 32 or 64 bit distro ? I run a lot of esoteric open source apps. Can I run a 32 bit application if I install the 64 bit distro ? Why not both at the same time, NOT dual boot? My laptop features a

Re: VDQ : machine names??

2008-09-29 Thread Phil Meyer
Beartooth wrote: I know it's a Very Dumb Question; I just can't find a general answer that works. I want to stop calling all the machines on my LAN localhost.localdomain, and give them distinctive names. I have found two or three ways of doing so; but they don't stick. The only way that

Greater than 2TB disks bootable?

2008-09-29 Thread Phil Meyer
There is a lot of confusion available from articles on the Internet about whether or not a greater than 2TB disk can be made bootable in Linux. In order to go that large, the disk must be labelled, via partd, as type GPT. Ok so far. Now, is it possible to use fdisk to cut off 100MB or so

Re: VDQ : machine names??

2008-09-29 Thread Phil Meyer
Beartooth wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:19:54 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: I Beartooth wrote: I know it's a Very Dumb Question; I just can't find a general answer that works. [] Clue, please? Pretty please? Three files can affect

Re: command error redirection

2008-10-10 Thread Phil Meyer
Gopal Ghosh wrote: Dear All, How top redirect errors of a command to a file Thanks Regards A bit of background is useful in learning, and remembering how to manipulate the command line. There is a new, and pretty good summary of command line goodness, and what it all means, including

Re: services wizard

2008-10-20 Thread Phil Meyer
Mike Chambers wrote: Hi there, Was thinking and wondering, if it would be good to have configuration wizards for services that you want to configure (such as email server (sendmail/postfix), http, and so on) that would ask basic questions and would go certain directions (or just one way)

Re: Newbie issues installing switchdesk.

2008-10-24 Thread Phil Meyer
parchdtear wrote: Hey! I'm a bit new to Linux - run Ubuntu at home and at school FC8. In class trying to get fedora core to switch from GNOME to KDE using switch desk I receive this: switchdesk KDE bash: switchdesk: command not found So I attempted an install. yum install switchdesk

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

2008-10-27 Thread Phil Meyer
Dan Thurman wrote: I was manually changing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file since my users were incorrectly assigned UID/GIDs, I manually corrected the UID/GID in /home for each user, rebooted and noticed that I would get a hang just after udev. Did you forget gshadow? A common mistake

Re: Fedora 9/10 and NVIDIA ?

2008-10-27 Thread Phil Meyer
kevin kempter wrote: Hi All; I'm considering the purchase of a Dell 64bit laptop with an NVIDIA video card. - Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition X9100 3.06GHz, 1067MHZ, 6M L2 Cache Dual Core (224-3154) - 1GB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M Mobile Precision M6400 Covet (320-7518) Anyone have any

Re: FONTS

2008-10-27 Thread Phil Meyer
David Hláèik wrote: Hello guys, once again a question from me ... How you are satisfied with current font look in Fedora ? It is a blocker for daily work for you? Well for me ... yes, fonts are blurry and it makes my eyes hurt. So even if i love fedora, i can not use it for daily work ...

Re: pdf converter

2008-10-28 Thread Phil Meyer
Adil Drissi wrote: Hi, Is there any tool to convert openoffice documents to pdf? If you are asking 'Is there a way to convert office documents to pdf on the command line using open office', then yes, there is. However it is not easy. It requires a macro for the user doing the

Re: 16GB USB Drive Not Accessible

2008-10-31 Thread Phil Meyer
Christopher A. Williams wrote: ... Now, one last question: what's the flag to format a FAT32 partition with mkfs? I saw options for pretty much everything but that. I'm probably just suffering from not having had my first cup of coffee... :) I deal with this often, as its part of my job

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.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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

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