re: gconf multiple versions (was Re: rawhide report: 20060209 changes (part 1/2))

2006-03-01 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On 06/01/2009 09:26 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote: Here is my wishlist of packages I would LOVE to see in Fedora: - Songbird In review already. - Freemind (Mind mapping java app) In the wiki page already. Rest of it, feel free to add it to the wiki directly. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list

printer addition not dinamically aquired by openoffice

2006-03-03 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
With latest updates, I configured a printer while evolution and openoffice were both opened. The printer was configured as jet direct through System -- Administration -- Printing menu. After configuring and apply changes, in evolution I dinamically see the new configured printer inside the

is system-config-keyboard still necessary?

2006-03-04 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On my system with system-config-keyboard-1.2.7-1.1 If I run in Gnome the System -- Administration -- Keyboard tool, it gives absolutely nothing: only an empty window with title Keyboard and inside a keyboard-key icon with the text select the appropriate keyboard for the system. Wouldn't be useful

2009 kernel hangs on amd mp when uni processor kernel chosen

2006-03-05 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
For error I started the uniprocessor kernel on a dual MP 2200+ system and I noticed that the uniprocessor 2.6.15-1.2009.4.2_FC5 kernel hangs up. The smp one is ok instead. Tried two times with same result. The message is: BUG: soft lockup detected on cpu#0! PID:0, comm: swapper EIP: 0060

ordinary kernels install when choosing xen

2006-03-07 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
If you choose xen in installation, only kernel-xen-hypervisor is installed, not the ordinary uni/smp kernels on i686. Is this intentional? How could one install both xen and ordinary kernels, without doing it manually after install?

re: Help Needed: FC5 Blocker List and Rawhide Install Testing

2006-03-07 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
I could help for testing installations these latest days. I have a Dell 6650 with 4x3GHz cpus (8 with HT enabled) and 4GB of ram. I can use it for 2-3 weeks. I have configured the dell with pxe boot, picking up kickstart file via http from one server and installing via nfs from another server

Re: install error: unable to read package metadata

2006-03-08 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
same errors after rsynced today... with kernel-2.6.15-1.2032_FC5 and anaconda-11.0.1-1 do I have to recreate anything at my side? or pxe+nfs is broken for daily snapshots? I skip debug and SRPMS directory under tree but I think this doesn't matter... Gianluca On 3/8/06, Gianluca Cecchi

typos errors in /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs

2006-03-09 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
opened bug 184486

RE: Re: typos errors in /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs

2006-03-09 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:18:17 -0500 Mike A. Harris wrote A developer however, thinks of the priority of a given bug, based on what all work is on their plate, including bug fixing, development, Fedora work, RHEL work, other work projects, etc., and schedules their time based on that. Any

Re: Re: match between gnome manifesto and upcoming fc5 features

2006-03-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On dual athlon MP 2200+ (1800): 5.6 secs On PIV 2.8GHz: 6.5 On laptop Dell C640 (PIV Mob 1.8GHz): 10.2 It is strange nevertheless to say 1 sec... a typo or an overestimating..

re: deskbar-applet on x86_64(was: Re: match between gnome 2.14 manifesto and upcoming fc5 features)

2006-03-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
it seems ok now also in x86_64 with deskbar-applet-2.14.0-1.fc5 Thanks Gianluca

which gstreamer versions in official fc5?

2006-03-16 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
ATM we have gstreamer-0.10.3-3 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.3-3 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.2-1 It seems in final gnome 2.14 the optimum is: gstreamer 0.10.4 and gst-plugins-base 0.10.5 (see thread http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2006-March/msg00126.html and for previous related

Re: install from not-the-first cdrom possible with kickstart?

2008-05-28 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
, Gianluca On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Gianluca Cecchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install f8 (and tried with rh el 5 too) on a dell 1950. I'm using virtual floppy (for kickstart file) and virtual cd (for dvd iso image), that are emulated as scsi over usb. Onboard there is also

[OT] shell variable assignment problemn

2008-05-30 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Problem I'm able to understand: Suppose I have $NUMDISKS that can be 1 or 2 ... or n and $DISKS that can be sda, or sda sdb or sda sdb sdc (so a string with the didks separated by space) I want to assign DRIVE1=sda DRIVE2=sdb ... DRIVEN=sdn if I script for i in $(seq 1 $NUMDISKS) do

Re: tr problem

2008-06-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:19:16 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: That's because \ is a shell quoting character. You need to quote it:-) tr -c '\r' '\n' filename filename2 Then tr will see the \ character. So that with: tr -c \\r \\n filename filename2 I won by two characters ... ;-) Gianluca

current directory during rpm post install phase

2008-06-20 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
I'm trying to install an rpm that has a post-install action. During this phase I notice with ps that a temporary script named /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.67318 is created and executed. And its contents are the same as what stored inside the rpm (query done with rpm -qp --scripts package.rpm) Inside the

Amarok: how to drag from cd 2 ipod

2008-08-05 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Installed kde 4.1 from updates-testing and latest f9 amarok on my f9 x86_64. Connected ipod nano 4th gen and correctly able to see inside amarok the playlists and files that are already stored on it. Excuse me if the question inside subject is amarok and not fedora specific, but it seems i'm not

re: kickstart ++ installing rpm

2008-08-06 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:46:19 +0200 Gregory Machin wrote: I'm trying to install an rpm in the %post section of the install You can try to insert in your %post section something like this: %post # Define LOG FILE LOGFILE=/root/ks_postinstall.log export LOGFILE touch $LOGFILE /bin/rpm -Uvh

Re: kickstart ++ installing rpm

2008-08-06 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:52:10 +0200 Mogens Kjaer wrote Depending upon which Fedora %post --log /root/post-install.log or %post --log /mnt/sysimage/root/post-install.log AFAIK there is not a --log option for post section, but only one for the interpreter to use (--interpreter ) and one to

Re: kickstart ++ installing rpm

2008-08-07 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:11:28 +0200 Mogens Kjaer wrote: I wrote it because I've actually tried it :-) Sorry Mogens, I didn't want to hurt you (but from the smiley it seems I didn't ;-) I read offcial rh el 4 and 5 docs recently because I had to make some kickstart customizations and so in

accessing kickstart floppy files during install

2008-08-27 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Is it possible? I'm using a dvd based installation, using an ext2 kickstart floppy, where I type linux ks=floppy during install The installation proceeds and completes. I would like to put some customization scripts inside the floppy and copy them to the system during install. They would be

[OT] Problem with SOAPpy and m2crypto with WSDL

2008-09-17 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I hope you have an idea how to help me. I will look forward to open eventually an entry in rhel/centos bugzilla if it is the case.. thanks in advance anyway for any suggestions Problem: in both rhel/centos 5.1 and 5.2 x86_64 (but probably it is not arch specific) it seems that m2crypto,

amarok and cover flow on ipod nano 2nd gen

2008-10-01 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I have an ipod nano 2nd gen 8Gb black. I have set it up inside amarok and I can transfer songs/albums. But it seems I don't get cover flows on ipod amarok is 1.4.10-1.fc9.i386 Any hints? After fetching covers from amazon into collection and trying to transfer to device the album I only

Re: howto join lines

2008-10-02 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:13:22 +0200 David Hláčik wrote: i want to have those lines joined to one line with spaces Before : textone texttwo something After : textone texttwo something Just another option: paste -s -d filename Or, if the input comes from many single line files: paste -d

Re: amarok and cover flow on ipod nano 2nd gen

2008-10-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Gianluca Cecchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an ipod nano 2nd gen 8Gb black. I have set it up inside amarok and I can transfer songs/albums. But it seems I don't get cover flows on ipod amarok is 1.4.10-1.fc9.i386 Any hints? After fetching

stack trace page with kdump, possible?

2009-01-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, with CentOS 4 I was able to setup a server 1 with netdump client package and a netdump server 2 so that when a panic occured on 1, I received on the netdump server 2 both the vmcore file and another file named log containing stack trace (this log on 2 was also filled by commands such as

Re: stack trace page with kdump, possible?

2009-01-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:35:12 + Bryn M. Reeve wrote: Although network crash dumps via netdump have been removed from the distribution, the log messages can still be captured using the netconsole facility. See the configuration file in /etc/sysconfig/netconsole and the initscript

errors trying kde 4.2 from kde-redhat repository

2009-01-29 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello all (and probably Rex in particular ;-) trying to install kde 4.2 from http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ repository, after enabling kde-testing and kde-testing-all I get this error messages below. Any simple action to get the update done? Thanks, Gianluca yum groupupdate kde-desktop [snip]

Re: errors trying kde 4.2 from kde-redhat repository

2009-01-29 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Thanks Rex. In the mean time a workaround to get the result needed was at my side: 1) yum remove phonon-backend-xine 2) yum groupupdate kde-desktop keeping track of delta between packages removed in 1) and not installed in 2) I get: package k9copy is not installed package kdeedu-kstars is not

Re: Problem with totem

2009-01-31 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:01:45 -0800 (PST) GMS S wrote: Totem worked for me when i first installed Fedora 10. But after re-installation of Fedora 10 ,this problem occurs. Anyone knows the way solve this problem. Tipically I use xine engine with totem, instead of gstreamer. You can do: yum

Re: [OT] how to acquire a clustered vg on a server without lvm2-cluster

2009-02-03 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cec...@gmail.com wrote: If I have a 2-nodes cluster with a clustered VG, that I copy (for example dd with cluster switched off), is then possible to acquire this VG on a third standalone node, or do I have to install the whole cluster

[OT] how to acquire a clustered vg on a server without lvm2-cluster

2009-02-03 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
If I have a 2-nodes cluster with a clustered VG, that I copy (for example dd with cluster switched off), is then possible to acquire this VG on a third standalone node, or do I have to install the whole cluster layer on this third node too? This is on a rhel 5.2 server At the moment: pvscan

[OT] pjl escape sequences from linux

2009-02-04 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I have a F9 system where I copied an old program that prints directly to the parallel port where an hp lj 1100 is connected. I have to set a smaller font than default on that printer, so that what to be printed fits on page. It seems that when the printer is powered off it resets to fabric

re: Fedora 10 login screen

2009-02-04 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:26 AM Margaret Doll wrote: How can I change the login screen? I either want to remove the partial list of users on the systems or extend the list to all the users. You can either run as root the command: gconftool-2 --direct --config-source

Re: xfce 4.6.0 for F9

2009-03-04 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:05:52 -0700 Kevin Fenzi wrote: F10 shouldn't be too bad. I do have a local repo here, but I haven't updated it yet to the 4.6.0 final packages. Also, I haven't tried to rebuild all the plugins for F10. I can update that and let you know where the repo is if you want to

kde related problems with keyboard and mouse

2009-03-11 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
It seems that since some days I have problems with keyboard and mouse, probably related to kde applications. At least my assumption is this. I'm using gnome desktop, but sometimes I use konqueror and krdc Examples: 1) in konqueror after a few seconds I loose the keyboard only inside it, in

infor on creating an empy folder view

2009-03-12 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Using f10 and kde 4.2.1 form updates-testing repo. I would like to create an empty folder view where to put some icons/menus/ecc to have a sort of logical division areas on my desktop (similar to what fences on windows does http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp) On the desktop, adding

Re: infor on creating an empy folder view

2009-03-13 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:21:35 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: Just create a new folder somewhere and set your folder view to that. Ok: created under my home a tree named folder_views/surfing I'm using 4.2.1 packages from the update-testing repo. problems: 1) in desktop add widgets.. - folder view it

do I have to worry about these disk errors?

2009-06-07 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
I got the errors indicated below. Only one time at the moment. The system is F10 x86_64. I didnt' get any application error from a user point of view. Actually in latest times I got some files downloaded from browser without giving error but indeed not correctly (after md5sum). Donna if caused by

suggestions for library pc environment

2009-07-16 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Probably I have the opportunity to set-up (in my spare time) 4 PC for the library of the town where I live. They have been given as a present and are Dell GX260 PC with good cpu and ram (but) with 20Gb hard disk. There is not a robust infrastructure in the library at the moment. There are 5 PC

lvm2: cluster request failed: Unknown error 65538

2009-07-22 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, fedora11 x86_64 with lvm2, device-mapper and related packages updated at : lvm2-2.02.48-1.fc11.x86_64 lvm2-cluster-2.02.48-1.fc11.x86_64 device-mapper-1.02.33-1.fc11.x86_64 device-mapper-libs-1.02.33-1.fc11.x86_64 I have 2 VGs: vg_virtfed that is a system vg (with root lv ans swap lv) and

hyperthreading on f11 pae kernel?

2009-09-02 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I have an old Dell GX260 with one P4 and 1Gb of ram. I installed F11 32 bit and updated it yesterday with latest kernel available. I noticed that kernel installed was the PAE one, as stated inside release notes. Also in other documents I see that only i586 is the other available one kernel.

front plugs audio problems with f11

2009-09-08 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
f11 x86_64. I have a pc (not laptop) that has front connectors for mic and headphones. It was working with fc9 and f10 and it works with winxp (dual boot). trying out of the box in f11 connecting the two plugs, none works. Any tips? Thanks, Gianluca -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: front plugs audio problems with f11

2009-09-08 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:38:16 -0300 Andre Costa wrote: CC yourself on bug 500418 [ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500418], and if possible vote for it. So far the only votes there are mine... Done. And also in my case using model=ref doesn't work. Probably it depends on being ICH9

segfault trying to create broadband connection

2009-09-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
F11 x86_64 updated (with NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.x86_64 as provided by updates) - network manager edit connections - select tab of mobile broadband connection - add + forward - Italy + forward - 3 as provider + forward - my plan is not listed..., specify tre.it as apn +

Re: Music Appreciation teaching program ??

2009-09-20 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:32:17 +0200 Andras Simon wrote: On 9/21/09, Aaron Konstam akonstam sbcglobal net wrote: As you seem to have figured out Sugar is a Window Manager just like Gnome and KDE are. Once it is the Window manager it takes over the I don't know about Sugar, but Gnome and

suggestions about dvd photo slideshows

2009-11-17 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I'm with my F11 x86_64 and trying to have an easy pp to do what in subject. Found references to Manslide and qdvdauthor, but none of them seems to be pre-packaged. For Manslide I can find only a tar.gz that contains the binary app and files here:

Re: suggestions about dvd photo slideshows

2009-11-18 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:05:09 -0600 s wrote: dvd-slideshow is a group of Linux commandline programs that create a slideshow style dvd from groups of pictures. Thanks. I'm going to try this. I've found slcreator too; it should provide a gui frontend to dvd-slideshow, but depends on /usr/bin/gbx

Re: compiling mplayer on F12 with vdpau support

2009-11-24 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:55:56 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: If all I need is the nvidia display driver package why wasn't it installed when I instlled F12 on my system given that I have an nvidia card? A couple of other issues, first there are no nvidia related packages in the F12 repositories

drbd dependency chain too huge...?

2009-12-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, In F11 and up to today in F12 I was able to self-compile drbd, and lately also to create the standalone rpm. Latest done this way on drbd 8.3.4. Now I see that drbd is available in Fedora repository, so that on a F12 machine I'm trying to pass from my built rpms to the repository provided

simple web content filtering for home use?

2009-12-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Some years ago I configured Squid+squidguard on a CentOS server for a 30 clients company. It worked very well but it needed some tricks, because it was not in default repos and I had to customize the script to refresh the black lists... Work easily affordable anyway for a company based contend

thunderbird 3 very very big inbox size for imap account

2009-12-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
hello, just seen the warning window about low disk space in my /home file system (nice introduction in F12 I presume...) After searching what has been growing I found this in /home/gcecchi/.thunderbird/pe1wv5qu.default/ImapMail/myimapaccount # ll INBOX -rw--- 1 gcecchi gcecchi 22878721204

Re: thunderbird 3 very very big inbox size for imap account

2009-12-14 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:02:08 +0100 Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, by default, even in an imap account, TB3 downloads messages to allow users to read fastly theirs emails. It is a feature you can disable by the options. Ok, but we are talking of about 1000 X less than 1MB messsages in total. This

re: F12 installation ruins booting partition where Windows dual booting

2010-01-05 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:31:41 -0800 Barry Yu wrote: I started F12 installation and everything seamed going well, finally the F12 finished and to reboot, after the BIOS process and then the system got stuck: only the cursor blinking a top left, entire screen is black, and that's it, can't go

[OT] help with mplayer option to replicate aplay -D option

2010-01-08 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I have a system based on Asus M4A785TD-V EVO mainboard that comes with VIA VT1708S chip. On this system I have both F11 x86_64 and F12 x86_64. I'm trying to have dts streams working through optical plug that the mb has. Some progress from F11 to F12, probably due to the alsa version into