Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

2010-01-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
nodata writes: Am 2010-01-06 18:17, schrieb Matthew Booth: On 06/01/10 17:00, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: On 1/6/10 11:07 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: PGA. Here's the challenge. To reply to this mail, I hit control-shift-r in one evo window, and

Re: Which model raid adapter controll card is good for work with Fedora 12 ?

2010-01-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Alan Cox writes: A modern PC is rather good at doing RAID in software and PCI Express fixes the main bottleneck of RAID1 in software. Its also generally true that a desktop PC has lots and lots of spare CPU cycles to use for RAID work. Also, with the right hardware, failed drives can be

Re: Clean install of Fedora 12 will not bring up login screen after upgrade

2010-01-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
John Nissley writes: I did a clean installation of Fedora 12 from the CD today and the first boot was fine. I could log into the computer and get the graphical interface. I then did a yum upgrade and 500 MB later the upgrade was finished. I then rebooted the computer and now the boot gets

Re: control-C and yum update

2010-01-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paul Allen Newell writes: A quick question which is hopefully just an education request ... While reinstalling f12 on a machine that I messed up, I was following all my notes and directions and reached the point where the install was successful and it was time to update. I did a su -l and

Re: Where did my penguins go?

2009-12-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
g writes: Richard Shaw wrote: try adding a VESA mode, something like vga=... I'm not sure what resolution you want to run but try vga=ask the first time and pick the one you like the most. If you're happy with it change the parameter to vga=0xmode. I found out the hard way that you need to

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin writes: On 28/12/09 20:10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: It's a kernel boot parameter, append it at the end of the kernel line in grub.conf Another thing that I've noticed -- if you have a leftover /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the previous Fedora release, rename xorg.conf and restart

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin writes: On 29/12/09 07:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote: You did not specify nomodeset. You specified --nomodeset. Remove the dashes. Ok, I had another go at it, let the computer run that way while I had some breakfast, at least half an hour, but it did not blank the screen

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin writes: On 27/12/09 20:27, Sam Varshavchik wrote: After updating to FC12, the monitor on one of my servers no longer turned off when the console was idle. This wasn't the end of the world, so I didn't give this much importance. This weekend I had some extra time to spare

Re: Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin writes: On 28/12/09 17:52, Sam Varshavchik wrote: xset dpms force off If running 'xset dpms force off' puts your monitor into powersave mode immediately, and if you boot with 'nomodeset', and that makes powersave work for you again automatically, then you have the same bug

Monitor doesn't turn go into powersave

2009-12-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
After updating to FC12, the monitor on one of my servers no longer turned off when the console was idle. This wasn't the end of the world, so I didn't give this much importance. This weekend I had some extra time to spare, and I've now determined that if I boot with nomodeset, the monitor

Gnome feedback when adjusting the display brightness

2009-12-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
After updating the kernel to 2.6.31.9, I was pleasantly surprised to see that my laptop's ACPI keys for adjusting the display brightness are now working, for the first time ever. On another laptop, whose display brightness ACPI keys have worked for a while, there's a large icon that pops up

Re: Firefox/Flash print problem -

2009-12-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin writes: This is an updated F-12 computer, in fact I have two and both have the same problem printing from flash in Firefox. When I ask it to print the menu comes up allowing me to select the printer and that accepts my selection, but no matter which of three printers

Re: RPM and DEB compatibility

2009-12-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rallias UberNerd writes: I recently took the time to make a really cool special self-made distro of Linux. However, I want to be able to use both RPM servers and DEB servers to update things with. I don't wish to use the one special piece of software allready out their to turn RPM's into DEB's,

Re: Detecting how Apps are called.

2009-12-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jim writes: Is there a command you can run like tail -f or what ever, to see where a Application is called from. Running a application that I can tell where it is started or run from. Like when I plug in a SD card what and where is it started from. I know this Question sounds confusing ,

Re: softraid-aware partition editing

2009-12-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bruno Wolff III writes: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 23:26:29 -0500, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: 1) Does an ext3 partition running on top of a RAID-1 layer look any different on disk than a native ext3 partition? There's obviously a raid flag shown by parted, that comes from

Re: Fedora 12 - Anyone using mplayer + vdpau?

2009-12-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jorge Fábregas writes: Hello everyone, I just moved to Fedora 12 (finally) and I enabled the RPM Fusion repo in order to install the nvidia driver plus mplayer (and all its dependencies) in order to see if I could finally use mplayer with vdpau (in order to offload h.264 playback to the

softraid-aware partition editing

2009-12-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I have Fedora installed on (mdadm based) RAID-1 partitions. There are two physical hard drives, identically partition table, with the corresponding partitions on each drive assembled into a RAID-1 array with mdadm. This includes /boot, /, and all other partitions. I want to resize/move my

Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Simon Schneebeli writes: Hello all, After having used Ubuntu since almost more than three years, I decided to give Fedora a try. The installation went perfectly fine. Everything was perfectly recognised. Now I face one big problem: I can't manage to connect to the internet. Through the

The Phantom Update

2009-12-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
A tiny orange octogon keeps popping up on my toolbar. Mousing over it brings up a tooltip bubble: There is 1 update available. Clicking on the icon runs gpk-update-viewer, which immediately tells me that no updates are available. Closing packagekit brings the orange octogon back. This has

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ian Malone writes: Yes, it does look more polished the way it is now, but what used to be really obvious (especially to someone who has always run dual boot set-ups), that you can boot an earlier kernel, is now an obscure piece of knowledge. Suggestions: 1. The grub boot screen should have an

Re: FC12 , DNS Problems

2009-12-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jim writes: FC12/KDE I'm having DNS problems. I can't get Firefox to goto linuxtoday.com , lxer.com , or rpmfusion.org , but I can goto yahoo.com , foxnews.com . I have to do in Firefox a about:config and inject network.dns.disableIPv6 to get all websites. I can't use Konqueror WebBrowser

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris writes: After running 12 for some weeks now, I allowed yum to install the newest kernel (well, as of Friday of course). all seemed to go just fine until I rebooted. All the machine will do is continue to reboot itself over and over again. I reinstalled and applied only updates other

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris writes: On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:06:12 -0500 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Some time ago, in F9-F10 era, there was a consecutive series of about four kernels that were released that could not boot on one of my machines. Somehow, I managed to survive this traumatic

Re: suggested upgrade path from fc8 to fc12 *OR* isolated kernel upgrade from 2.6.23 to 2.6.32

2009-12-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
sting writes: I'm on fedora core 8, and I may have a need to upgrade to the latest, v12, because of an issue I'm encountering (described in some background, below, but my main query is here). Essentially, I'm going to have to either upgrade frin fc8 to fc12 or perform an isolated kernel

packagegit authentication

2009-12-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I thought that a week ago packagegit was updated to require authentication before installing all packages, even signed ones. I just ran packagegit to install all current updates, and realized that it didn't prompt me for the root password. I want to change that. I can't find the Security tool

Re: packagegit authentication

2009-12-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Craig White writes: On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 07:09 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I thought that a week ago packagegit was updated to require authentication before installing all packages, even signed ones. I just ran packagegit to install all current updates, and realized that it didn't prompt

Re: After doing a yum update I notice these (W)arnings

2009-12-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris writes: Greetings, After doing a yum update I notice these (W)arnings? ** Snip ** Updating : abrt-gui-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 35/79 Updating : coreutils-7.6-7.fc12.i686 36/79 Installing : kernel-PAE-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686 37/79 W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module

Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I just did a new install on a spare laptop. I chose the Software Development option. Emacs did not get installed. Also, although neither mysql-devel, nor postgresql-devel, nor even libtool-ltdl-devel got installed, I ended up with a huge number of -devel packages, many of whom, from my

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: On 11/28/2009 02:12 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I just did a new install on a spare laptop. I chose the Software Development option. Emacs did not get installed. Also, although neither mysql-devel, nor postgresql-devel, nor even libtool-ltdl-devel got installed, I ended

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Debayan Banerjee writes: 2009/11/28 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: Why? It's just shows your personal preference for a editor. Emacs is certainly not needed for software development. Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs have roughly equal user

Re: buffer overflow in system-config-httpd

2009-11-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Robert G. (Doc) Savage writes: system-config-httpd-1.4.6-1.fc12.noarch appears to be badly borked: # system-config-httpd *** buffer overflow detected ***; /usr/bin/python terminated === Backtrace: = ... long backtrace ... 3743809000-374380a000 rw-p 9000 08:02 353257

Re: Default keyring for NetworkManager

2009-11-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Marko Vojinovic writes: I simply want to connect to my wireless automatically upon boot and not being asked for any passwords. I have also enabled autologin in kdm in order to get logged in automatically (this works beautifully, btw). I got this to work myself. However, I think that the only

Re: Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

2009-11-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:13:38 -0700 Linuxguy123 wrote: I'm perplexed by the posts I am seeing regarding F12 upgrades. Lots of upgrade issues and darn faint praise as far as I can tell ? I installed from scratch on a new partition as I always do, and had virtually no

Re: Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

2009-11-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Craig White writes: On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 11/25/2009 05:13 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: I'm perplexed by the posts I am seeing regarding F12 upgrades. Lots of upgrade issues and darn faint praise as far as I can tell ? AFAICT, almost all of the upgrade

Re: Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

2009-11-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Craig White writes: On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:14 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Craig White writes: On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 11/25/2009 05:13 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: I'm perplexed by the posts I am seeing regarding F12 upgrades. Lots of upgrade issues

Re: Prius Gas Mileage

2009-11-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jonathan Ryshpan writes: The gas mileage on my Prius has slowly declined from about 40 mpg when I bought it in 2005 (2d hand, it's a 2004 model year) to about 35 mpg today. Has anyone else noticed this? Any ideas why? It could, of course, be just that I'm paying less attention to driving

Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

2009-11-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Marko Vojinovic writes: firefox-3.5.5-1.fc12.x86_64 libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz Try this one: http://www.verisign.com/domain-name-services/find-registrar/index.html The flash on this page kills my Firefox, with the same plugin version that you're running. Works for

Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

2009-11-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Frank Cox writes: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 07:01 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: A contributing factor may be privoxy, which I use. By itself, privoxy is benign, of course, and has no effect,aside from cleaning up all the clutter. One possibility, that occured to me, is the loaded flash code

Re: securing mysql server on Fedora/CentOS

2009-11-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ed Landaveri writes: Ladies, gentleman, I'm trying to secure a mysql server and according to the MySQL certification guide the file system mysql install directories should be owned by the user/group mysql.mysql. Also the server should be started using NOT the root account but the mysql account

Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

2009-11-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steve Searle writes: Around 12:51am on Monday, November 23, 2009 (UK time), Robert G. (Doc) Savage scrawled: I'm trying to get Flash and sound working in Firefox for F12, I followed the instructions in http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205642 to the letter to install

Re: No Flash/sound in F12 Firefox

2009-11-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Marko Vojinovic writes: On Monday 23 November 2009 01:20:22 Sam Varshavchik wrote: Can someone post a few URLs of websites where the x86_64 flash plugin actually works? For example, http://www.youtube.com/ http://isohunt.com/ http://www.formula1.com/ to name a few. Any site with flash I

Panel weather icon configuration

2009-11-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
In F12 I like the new weather icon in the panel. One thing though -- if I try to set my location in the properties tab, the dialog says that after typing in a freeform location, I should be getting a pop-up with matching names. I'm not getting any pop-ups, I suspect that whatever I type in, for

Re: Panel weather icon configuration

2009-11-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Aaron Konstam writes: On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 16:35 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: In F12 I like the new weather icon in the panel. One thing though -- if I try to set my location in the properties tab, the dialog says that after typing in a freeform location, I should be getting a pop-up

Gnucash -- printing the check memo field

2009-11-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I'm trying to get gnucash to print a memo line on printed checks, in addition to the payee's name. No matter in which part of a split transaction I type in my short blurb, the print preview shows an empty memo line. If anyone managed to get gnucash to print a memo line, I'd like to know how

Re: Broken dependencies script at it again

2009-11-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Lane writes: Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com writes: Are people +1'ing getting rid of the broken dependencies script altogether? or +1'ing to predicting the future and stopping it before it breaks? I thought the +1's were for putting in some circuit breakers, so that when (not if) it

Re: My laptop's battery is bigger than yours

2009-11-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Richard Hughes writes: 2009/11/12 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com: Meanwhile, with all of the above, gnome-power-manager is now showing me the last full charge of 947.4 watt-hours, throwing everything off kilter. What's the output of devkit-power --dump in this case? Thanks. Here's

Re: How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

2009-11-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Linuxguy123 writes: So, I reverted to using system-config-network and firestarter. I disabled NetworkManager controlling the devices. Firestarter kept saying that eth0 wasn't ready and crashing. I know I've run into this problem before with statically configured ports and firestarter, but

Re: My laptop's battery is bigger than yours

2009-11-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Richard Hughes writes: 2009/11/12 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com: Somehow, since a few weeks ago, occasionally gnome power manager loses its mind and starts telling me that my laptop battery's last full charge is 946.0 watt-hours of juice. Which makes the battery percentage indicator

Re: How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

2009-11-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Linuxguy123 writes: In system-config-firewall.py, I did the following: - trusted the wired Ethernet port. - trusted DNS and Multicast DNS - turned on masquerading for the wired ethernet port - applied all these In spite of all this my device is not getting an IP address. What am I missing

Re: How do I share a wireless network connection with a wired device ?

2009-11-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Linuxguy123 writes: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 20:25 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Linuxguy123 writes: In system-config-firewall.py, I did the following: - trusted the wired Ethernet port. - trusted DNS and Multicast DNS - turned on masquerading for the wired ethernet port - applied all

Re: Whatever happened to gnome-keyring-manager?

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Aaron Konstam writes: On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 11:30 -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: On 11/11/2009 10:02 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: See Subject. If it's gone, is there any other utility for managing the contents of the keyring? See the Passwords tab in Seahorse (Applications Accessories

Re: Whatever happened to gnome-keyring-manager?

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Matthew Saltzman writes: On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 21:29 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/11/2009 09:32 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: See Subject. If it's gone, is there any other utility for managing the contents of the keyring? Seahorse has replaced it. Thanks. I understand why developers

My laptop's battery is bigger than yours

2009-11-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Somehow, since a few weeks ago, occasionally gnome power manager loses its mind and starts telling me that my laptop battery's last full charge is 946.0 watt-hours of juice. Which makes the battery percentage indicator pretty much meaningless. I can usually set things back to normal by

Re: Multiple FC11 Update Failures - Kernel 2.6.30.9-96.fc11

2009-11-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
jrick...@myamigos.us writes: The only common thread I can find in all three systems is the following filesystem format setups: /boot runs EXT3 / runs EXT4 /home runs EXT4 /var runs EXT4 /tmp runs EXT4 Given that EXT4 is a relative newcomer, and you claim that your boot progress halts at the

Re: Where is V4L

2009-10-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jim writes: Fc11 I must be missing something, but has V4L (video4Linux) changed it's name ? I can't find it under the V4L name. I think that most of V4L's drivers have been merged into the kernel a long time ago. pgpWoita4Xuxq.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: firefox 3.5.4 broken?

2009-10-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
suvayu ali writes: 2009/10/29 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com: On 10/29/2009 06:26 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: 1. Highlight a word on a web page. 2. Right click on word. 3. Select Search Google for word... 4. ??? 5. Crash box appears. Anyone else? Ignore this e-mail. Carry on. .

Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

2009-10-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Timothy Murphy writes: I had a little program which I ran each day as a cron job to mail me the IP address of a machine in a different country. I give the program sm.py below; I can't remember where I found it. In any case, the program has ceased to work because the site heliohost seems to

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Gene Heskett writes: The other 3 choices were Lexmark (over my dead body) HP but the ink colors suck, cannon (no reason, just general principles) and all the 500 USD color laser stuff. If in fact there actually is scanner support from linux in any of these MultiFunctionDevices, I would be

Re: New scanner/printer combo

2009-10-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Gene Heskett writes: Greetings; My truly ancient Epson C82 finally refused to respond to the head cleaning paddles yesterday, so I went out and got a new Epson NX515 combo scanner printer. Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above. According to SANE's database,

Re: Fedora with Universal Binaries?

2009-10-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Pete Zaitcev writes: On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:28:36 -0500, King InuYasha ngomp...@gmail.com wrote: I just saw this article about an effort to create Universal binary style ELF binaries for Linux, and I thought that this would be something to watch, so that Fedora could integrate both x86-32 and

Re: input/output error on disk(?)

2009-10-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
charles zeitler writes: 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, no problem there. are

Re: Viewing answers to one's nntp posts in Thunderbird

2009-10-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ed Greshko writes: gil...@altern.org wrote: gil...@altern.org wrote: Is it possible to only view answers to one's usenet posts in Thunderbird, and those of a few other posters, if possible. To address the first part of your question... If you want to exclusively view only

Re: Pirut listing output prepends digit :

2009-10-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
vs writes: Hi list, When looking at the output of pirut in the GUI, I see packages listed as 1:x11-rest-of-name or 30:bind-rest-of-name. What does the digit that precedes the name of the package mean? The package's epoch version. Look it up. Executive summary: it's an ugly hack meant to

Re: Advice for crossgrading from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-09-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Linuxguy123 writes: I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only using 3GB because I am running a 32 bit kernel. Why led you to this conclusion? 32 bit Linux is perfectly capable of addressing 4

Re: floppy disk formatting: how to?

2009-09-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Hiisi writes: 2009/9/24 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com: Mikkel writes: --SNIP-- After some more digging I've came to pretty much the same conclusion. So after a few years of general inactivity, I'm going to update floppy with the current device names, and I'll see if I can

Re: floppy disk formatting: how to?

2009-09-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Hiisi writes: 2009/9/23 Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com: man floppy or pinfo floppy You can create the /etc/floppy file by running, as root this command: floppy --createrc /etc/floppy Done that. You should then be able to run something like: floppy --format A: Whenever I'm trying the

Re: floppy disk formatting: how to?

2009-09-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Aldo Foot writes: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: ...snip... Whenever I'm trying the command above I have: floppy --ext2 --format A: floppy 0.16 Copyright 2001-2006, Double Precision, Inc. /dev/fd0H1440: Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole

Re: floppy disk formatting: how to?

2009-09-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mikkel writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Hiisi writes: /dev/fd0H1440: Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole No formattable capacities for /dev/fd0 You're missing some device node. Run 'MAKEDEV fd0' On my system, the device node is /def/fd0u1440, not /dev/fd0H1440. According to the fd man page

Re: floppy disk formatting: how to?

2009-09-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mikkel writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: I don't know whether at some point in the last couple of years the commonly accepted naming convention for floppy device nodes has changed, or if this is a Fedora-ism. If the standard naming convention has changed, then I'll update floppy as soon as I see

Re: floppy disk formatting: how to?

2009-09-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mikkel writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: I see. But when I look into the actual kernel source: static struct floppy_struct floppy_type[32] = { ... { 2880,18,2,80,0,0x1B,0x00,0xCF,0x6C,H1440 }, /* 7 1.44MB 3.5 So the actual kernel source matches the man page. The label string here

Re: name server via dhcp, but don't want dhcp assigned addresses

2009-09-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joel Rees writes: The WAN side of the router runs dhcp to my ISP, and gets the dns server addresses by dhcp, as well. Check your router's documentation. The way that 99% of these routers are set up, is that they run a caching nameserver internally, and on the local LAN they give their own

Re: Why does laptop battery show 100% charge

2009-09-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paolo Galtieri writes: This is something that has been driving me crazy over the last several weeks.  I have my laptop plugged into AC power and has been plugged into AC power for several days now, but the battery applet shows 97.3% charge.  It has been showing 100% for several days and

Re: unable to login after getting system update of X11 in fedora 11

2009-09-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bernd Knöttig writes: Germán Racca schrieb am, 12.09.2009 07:04: On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 10:43 +0530, Jatin K wrote: On 09/11/2009 01:12 PM, Bernd Knöttig wrote: Jatin K schrieb am, 11.09.2009 07:08: Dear list I'm not able to login after system update on Sep 10. the update I got is [1],

Re: I'm impressed!

2009-09-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: Just finished swapping in new motherboard with different chipset, faster cpu (and more cores), more memory, etc. Plugged the disks back in, and it just booted and worked perfectly. I was expecting to have to fiddle initrd at a minimum and perhaps even reinstall. Yes, it's

Re: F11 - gdm autologin enabled = gnome keyring always asking for password?

2009-09-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
jaivuk writes: Hi guys, I have single user netbook with F11 installed with encrypted partitions. (So I enter partition password before it boots) I enabled gdm autologin by adding below lines into [daemon] section into /etc/gdm/custom.conf and it works fine: [daemon] TimedLoginEnable=true

Re: Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?

2009-08-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
jaivuk writes: I did not use gdm for some time and now I'm not happy how it looks in Fedora 11. First of all - the list of local users is unacceptable from security reasons. Have you ever looked, by any chance, at the contents of /etc/passwd? pgpd03io7N8ic.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unable to install libX-devel

2009-08-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
SriLatha writes: I even tried by downloading tarred libX11-devel-1.2.2-1.fc11.x86_64 from web. But still couldnt. The error message generated was Errors were encountered while downloading packages. libXau-devel-1.0.4-5.fc11.x86_64: failure:

Re: Latest kernel makes wireless connection to WPA2 router fail

2009-08-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Henrik Frisk writes: Hi, I'm running FC11 on a MacBook Pro. After the latest kernel updates (to 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.x86_64) I cannot connect to my wireless router anymore. If I boot up in the previous kernel it works fine. Any ideas on how I can fix this? The wireless interface on this

Re: Latest kernel makes wireless connection to WPA2 router fail

2009-08-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Henrik Frisk writes: « HTML content follows » On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Sam Varshavchik URL:mailto:mr...@courier-mta.commr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Henrik Frisk writes: Hi, I'm running FC11 on a MacBook Pro. After the latest kernel updates

Re: Multiple IP addresses without aliasing?

2009-08-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ryan Lynch writes: Do the Fedora network init scripts support additional secondary IP addresses without the use of alias labels? Does an option for IPv4 addresses exist that works like IPV6ADDR_SECONDARIES? I just skimmed /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt, but I didn't see anything

Re: F-11 and F-12 on same machine?

2009-08-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Timothy Murphy writes: Am I likely to get into a mess if I have a dual boot system with Fedora-11 and Fedora-12 on different partitions, sharing the same /home (and /boot)? Not if you are very careful. pgpx09k5svtww.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Cron Problem

2009-08-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
rgheck writes: Hi, Here is a line from my cron file: 55 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * audiogon.pl -f /tmp/rss/bw.xml 'http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/srch_fs.pl?WORD=b%26wFOCUS=EXYCTGSK=spkrfullsubmit=Search' It doesn't matter here what the audiogon.pl script does. (It scrapes the

Re: Build requirements for threaded code?

2009-08-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michel Salim writes: On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 19:57 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: -pthread means -D_REENTRANT and -lpthread. -D_REENTRANT is basically useless and you should use standard feature test macros or _GNU_SOURCE for what you want. So just linking with -lpthread is what I would call the

Re: Build requirements for threaded code?

2009-08-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Lane writes: This might be a stupid question, but: what compile and link options are necessary nowadays for multithreaded code? I see various references to -pthread and -lpthread, but it's hard to be sure what's authoritative. Just -lpthread does the trick for me. The -pthread option is

Re: Visiting webpage causes ~hard lock - round 2!

2009-08-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Dr. Diesel writes: Please save your work and visit (tech website): URL:http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1391450amp;page=13http://hardf orum.com/showthread.php?t=1391450page=13 Screen freezes, mouse has jerky movement, vt switch fails. Loads fine for me. F11.i368 all updates as of

Re: How Extract The Fedorecore iso cd

2009-08-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Wright writes: Hi List   I cound't find any infomation on how i can extract the iso file like eg. simple URL:http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/i so/Fedora-11-i386-disc1.isoFedora-11-i386-disc1.iso  Fedora-11-1386-disk1.iso could someone help us

Re: quotas on nfs share

2009-08-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Aldo Foot writes: I wanted to add the command I use at the client. client mount -t nfs -o rw -o usrquota server:/mnt/p1 /mnt/p1 usrquota is not listed in the mount options. Why? client mount -l | grep p1 server:/mnt/p1 on /mnt/p1 type nfs (rw,addr=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) It seems to me that

Re: quotas on nfs share

2009-08-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Aldo Foot writes: You're correct. All quota setup is done at the server. That's what I've done. Quotas are working in the server. If they're working on the server, the server should then enforce the quota, whether the files are accessed directly from the server, or from the client. Even

Re: low-level formatter for linux

2009-08-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Markus Kesaromous writes: Self-test execution status: ( 120)The previous self-test completed having the read element of the test failed. Your drive is a doorstop. It's time to recycle it. pgpMvgGrXoKh3.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing

Re: security updates causing firefox trouble?

2009-08-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
jackson byers writes: is it safe to : --quit firefox? Yes. --kill the 8024 python.yum process? No. Don't do that. pgpSDlgztnorE.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Firefox on F9 with latest 64bit flash

2009-08-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paolo Galtieri writes: I have the same version of libflashplayer.so running on F11 and firefox does not crash there, however, I'm running the 3.5.1 version of firefox on F11. It's fairly likely that Firefox's plugin binary ABI has changed, so the latest flash only works with newer versions

Re: gcc/perl/XS

2009-08-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick Dupre writes: Hello, In a c subroutine I have the following code: for (i = 0 ; i 5 ; i++) { floatMatrix new_lines = (floatMatrix) realloc (lines, (nb_lines) * sizeof (lineArray)) ; lines=new_lines ; nb_lines++ ; } which is called from a perl call through an XS interface.

Re: Package Question

2009-07-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ed Warner writes: I installed F11 as a new install rather than an update. It did not install rp-pppoe nor some other rpm's I needed. Trying to install them from the CD give me an error about not being able to reach the repository. Did I download the wrong install ISO? No, you don't need

Re: Dialup from a fedora machine

2009-07-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Stuart McGraw writes: NetworkManager too wants a device to talk to, with /dev/modem being the default but since there is no such device (nor anything I see that looks like it would be an emulated serial device that talks to the pci modem card), I wasn't able to do much with that. If, as you

Re: Open SSH client error

2009-07-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Richard R. Cahilig writes: Hello, I just installed fedora 11 64bit on our server, the problem is I cannot connect to other Linux server using ssh the error says ssh: connect to host 83.229.64.51 port 22: No route to host. Its strange because I already disabled the firewall and the selinux

Re: FC 10 won't boot, hangs at GRUB

2009-07-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
philb...@ptd.net writes: When I re-boot, the word GRUB appears on the screen and the system hangs there. I do not have an emergency boot disk, but I do have the FC 10 cd's. Boot with the cd, choose rescue mode. You'll get a shell prompt. Run: chroot /mnt/sysimage /sbin/grub-install /dev/sda

Re: Random screen blanking -- a clue

2009-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Richard Shaw writes: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Sam Varshavchikmr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Richard Shaw writes: I am using the nouveau driver, xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.12-40.20090528git0c17b87.fc11.i586 Although that's only one datapoint, it seems that the problem is with a fedora

Re: Is this a firefox 3.5 problem? (Actual URL enclosed :-).

2009-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: Here is a randomly selected multi-page article from time.com: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1909616,00.html At the bottom of the article text there are what I presume to be links to subsequent pages of the article. In a red box with red page numbers and

Re: Is this a firefox 3.5 problem? (Actual URL enclosed :-).

2009-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:22:21 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: Have you tried contacting Mozilla about your problem? Not yet, I wanted some confirmation that I wasn't the only one seeing it first. I'll pop over there soon and see if there are existing reports or submit a new

Re: Viewing Attached Pictures in Thunderbird ?

2009-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jim writes: Thunderbird-3.0b3pre. When getting pictures in Attachment, I can't view them in Thunderbird, have to Save As in home directory to view *.jpg pictures. In the email it's showing the; Content-TypeApplication/Octet-Stream name= *.jpg How can I

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