Re: gnome-shell cpu usage during installation

2013-06-18 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 06/18/2013 06:25 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:23 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: While anaconda is running an installation, gnome-shell is hogging a whole core on its own, and X is using about 25% of the other core. Is this expected? This is on baremetal, with a nouveau

Re: grub2 boot problems after updating to grub2-tools-2.00-20 and grub2-2.00-20

2013-06-17 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 06/17/2013 02:10 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/17/13 16:49, Joachim Backes wrote: sudo yum install grub2-starfield Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit No package grub2-starfield available. Error: Nothing to do grub2-starfield-theme I installed that, and memtest*, then redid the

Unable to keep Input Method running

2013-06-15 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
What does this mean? This is F19 from TC3 running on omen.com. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231

Final TC3 netinstall

2013-06-14 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I installed Fedora 19 TC3 via netinstall this evening. Assuming you see this post, installation was generally successful. I did note the Gnome network manager settings do no allow the ports' zone to be set. This works with the Xfce network settings. After a while I get the following before

TC3 final netinstall on omen.com

2013-06-14 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I installed Fedora 19 TC3 via netinstall this evening. Assuming you see this post, installation was generally successful. I did note the Gnome network manager settings do no allow the ports' zone to be set. The Xfce network settings do include the zone. And now I get the following before

Fedora 19 at omen.com

2013-06-14 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
After several tries (some due to my own errors) I think I finally have the nice kitty running Omen.com. The secret, it seems, is to choose an XFCE install instead of GNOME. The GNOME network configuration still needs work. Fortunately the same function in Xfce works better, allowing the

Re: F19-TC3-x64 does not install on VirtualBox

2013-06-13 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 06/13/2013 04:48 AM, Cristian Sava wrote: Trying to install F19-tc3-x64 on VirtualBox-4.2.12 on Win7_x64 with success. Sssd trouble on anaconda. I succeeded to install TC2 on VBox on F18-x64. Cristian Sava TC3 Netinst install choked on sssd as well, not to mention yum update. Sssd files

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
With vintage Anaconda installers I was able to select existing partitions and give them mount paths without reformatting, or use an existing partition for a nre root or swap area. This doesn't seem possible with the current Anaconda. I partially work around the problem by saving fstab entries

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 06/13/2013 03:23 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: On 14/06/13 09:40, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 12.06.2013 09:00, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 00:27 -0500, John Morris wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 19:09 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: You are 'Done' picking disks, though, and

Schr@*!dinger*#@s Cat

2013-06-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
It seems the name of the Fedora 19 release is getting corrupted in various places. It might be breaking some scripts as well. It might be wise to eliminate the special characters (including the ' ) before final release. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-10 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 06/10/2013 07:09 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 21:23 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: ...I'm still filled with trepidation when the only choice I appear to have is to click Done after selecting a disk to install on. I'm not Done :-). I want to pick partitions to install on, etc,

Unstable virtualization

2013-05-31 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On the 32GB Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz system, yesterday's rsync f19 VMr install successfully installed OpenDesktop 5.07 from a CDROM image. The only problem was the inability to access NFS shares on the local machine. From today's rsync I did another fresh install. (Pxeboot

Re: Unstable virtualization

2013-05-31 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 05/31/2013 06:03 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/31/2013 02:09 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: On the 32GB Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz system, yesterday's rsync f19 VMr install successfully installed OpenDesktop 5.07 from a CDROM image. The only problem was the inability

Rawhide panics

2013-05-31 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
For the last several days rsync rawhide pxeboot installs have paniced right after announcinf the motherboard/bios name. This is on a 6 GB Core Duo e6500. Same result when I tried to boot that HD on the i7-3770k 32 GB machine. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com

KVM?

2013-05-29 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I installed Tuesday's f19 rsync on a 32 GB i7-3770K and then yum install @virtualization. When I create a virtual machine with the virtual machine manager the manager complains that kvm is missing. I cannot get SCO Openserver 5.07 to see the virtual cdrom. Strangely enough, the same procedure

Re: video players in 19

2013-05-29 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 05/29/2013 01:46 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Is VLC or Mplayer available for 19 (32 bit). If so where. It isn't in Fedoras repositories and I hesitate to install it from anywhere else. I'm running a newly installed Beta Thanks -- --Cheers-- Rpmfusion works for me, at least for 64 bit vlc

Re: The Cat's virtualization: 0 for 2

2013-05-27 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 05/26/2013 05:12 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 16:44 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: I installed today's F19 on the 6 GB Core Duo 6550 machine today and ran yum update. This time I downloaded the rpmfusion files and installed them with rpm. Vlc and ffmpeg

The Cat's virtualization: 0 for 2

2013-05-26 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I installed today's F19 on the 6 GB Core Duo 6550 machine today and ran yum update. This time I downloaded the rpmfusion files and installed them with rpm. Vlc and ffmpeg installed without problems. VirtualBox refused to install. I was able to get the virtual machine manager to start

Rpmfusion bollixes YUM

2013-05-25 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
After installing today's F19 rsync on a 6 GB Core Duo 6500, I went to the rpmfusion web site and downloaded the RPMs to install rpmfusion. Now any attempted yum install fails with the complaint of no valid baseurl for rpmfusion-free-updates-/19/x86_64. rpm -e fails to remove rpmfusion. yumex

Re: F19 Beta RC2: First log in - GNOME Welcome goes full screen

2013-05-21 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Install Xfce instead and you won't have to watch it. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 503-614-0430 --

Re: On EFI: F18 is rendered unbootable after installing F19

2013-05-20 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
The only time recently that installing Fedora gronked an earlier version was when I deleted one too many LVM swap areas. The swap areas should be identified as to what installation they belong to. Better yet, allow one to specify a single swap area partition. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX

Re: [Test-Announce] Election Season Begins: Fedora Board, FESCo, FAmSCo, and Fedora 20 naming election process

2013-05-15 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Cheshire Cat. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 503-614-0430 -- test mailing list

Re: Telnet server broken in TC4

2013-05-12 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 05/12/2013 09:24 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 14:13 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: I gave the systemctl command and rebooted. Here is the result. I get the same result on the target system with telnet localhost. Can't you use ssh instead anyway since it's

TC4 tsting

2013-05-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I wrote Fedora-19-Beta-TC4-x86_64-DVD.iso to a jump drive and then used it for an Xfce install to a 6 GB Core Duo e6550. As part of the install I disabled selinux and rhgb quiet. The result booted without problems. I then installed firefox and wine. Wine could not install Lady Heather or Ham

Telnet server broken in TC4

2013-05-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I did the usual yum install of telnet-server. Normally this installs xinetd but not in TC4. I installed xinetd manually. No telnet file in xinetd.d. I then removed telnet-server and then reinstalled telnet-server. Still no telnet file in xinetd.d. I then pulled in a telnet file from another

Re: Telnet server broken in TC4

2013-05-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 05/11/2013 01:15 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 11 May 2013 13:09:40 -0700 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: I did the usual yum install of telnet-server. Normally this installs xinetd but not in TC4. I installed xinetd manually. No telnet file in xinetd.d. I then removed

32 bit B-TC3 netinst

2013-05-06 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Worked nominally if slowly on a 1.5 GB 800 MHz Pentium III. The resultant install worked properly, including NFS mounts and Wine. It installed Xfce, compilers, and dev tools. The very same netinst CD failed to install on 64 bit machines. F19 rsync installed with F18 pxeboot cannot mount NFS

Anaconda Q

2013-05-04 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
How does one get the new Anaconda to allow adjusting the sizes of the partitions it creates? -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software 10255 NW Old Cornelius

Linux 3.10 in Rawhide

2013-05-02 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
After the disappointing results with Beta TC1 I decided to play with 64 bit rawhide with the 3.10 kernel. As usual I used F18 pxeboot to install rawhide. Gnome had dependency problems so I installed Xfce. I discovered that pxeboot install was flakely running through a wrt54 hub. That cleared

Re: Super/System/Windows/Whatever key

2013-05-02 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 05/02/2013 08:30 AM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2013-05-01 22:06 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 15:39 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: I've never quite got the 'being proud of having a keyboard with no Super key' thing. It's a handy key. But

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Beta Test Compose 1 (TC1) Available Now!

2013-05-01 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 05/01/2013 08:05 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 05/01/2013 07:13 AM, nonamedotc wrote: F19 x86_64 beta TC1 falls to an emergency shell during boot on a Virtualbox VM I tried. Bug report filed. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958436 Anyone else see this? Yes, with f19

Fedora 19 flakey

2013-04-30 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Revent Fedora 19 64 bit versions have been flakey. On a 32 GB 3770 machine the Asus Xonar sound card went deaf and dumb. This is the first time this has happened. Resetting with the Xfce mixer did not restore operation. The sound card is now working normally under Win 7. An older machine is

Fedora 19 hardware dependencies

2013-04-26 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I finally got Fedora into a 800 MHz 1.5 GB Pentium III using 721M Apr 24 14:20 Fedora-Live-XFCE-i686-19-Alpha-1.iso. The live ISO was profoundly quadratic on this machine, the fastest 32 bit machine I have. Afterwards I had to use a rescue CD to link grub.cfg.rpmnew to grub.cfg to make Fedore

Fedora 19 ALpha netinst fails to run Anaconda

2013-04-24 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
anaconda 19.21-1.fc19.i686 requires python-meh = 0.23-1 -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 503-614-0430

Fedora 19 on 386

2013-04-22 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
My best operational 32 bit machine has an 800 MHz Pentium III, two USB ports, and 1.5 GB ram. It has a network card that can install via PXE but the install fails when a root cannot be found. The USB port could not boot from a 16 GB jump drive. The 386 install ISO will not fit on a writable

Re: Wine and cpuinfo

2013-04-21 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 04/21/2013 01:28 AM, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: As reported previously, Fedora 19 wine cannot perform windows install What does perform windows install mean ? on a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550. Wine can do

Wine and cpuinfo

2013-04-20 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
As reported previously, Fedora 19 wine cannot perform windows install on a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550. Wine can do this on a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz. I have attached portions of cpuinfo from the two machines. Is there a difference in the CPU features that would

Re: F19 alpha and VirtualBox

2013-04-18 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 04/18/2013 12:20 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 04/18/2013 01:49 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: I cannot run any application, including anaconda. Perhaps if I let it sit overnight anaconda might display, but then I'd have to wait a week for it to install at this pace. I managed to get

Re: F19 alpha and VirtualBox

2013-04-18 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 04/18/2013 06:34 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Qui, 2013-04-18 at 08:20 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 04/18/2013 08:07 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote: Are using vbox from rpmfusion ? Please see my previous email: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2013-April/114890.html I saw it

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Alpha Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

2013-04-17 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Both 32 and 64 bit Alphas made successful installs from USB drive installing GNOME plus C dev. 64 bit version segfaults on NFS mounts but the mounts succeed. 32 bit version still refuses NFS mounts. IMO a broken NFS should be a blocker. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com

Re: F19 alpha and VirtualBox

2013-04-17 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 04/17/2013 08:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/18/13 11:15, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 04/17/2013 09:31 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Try 4.2.10. I saw someone somewhere mention that 4.2.12 was crazy slow but 4.2.10 worked fine. Same behavior with 4.2.10. I can boot into the console (3 on

Re: Can't get the gnome classical desktop

2013-04-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 04/11/2013 12:11 AM, Jens Petersen wrote: yum install gnome-classic-session ?? # yum install gnome-classic-session Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit No package gnome-classic-session available. Error: Nothing to do -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com

Re: Can't get the gnome classical desktop

2013-04-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 04/11/2013 03:49 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 04/11/2013 12:44 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: On 04/11/2013 12:11 AM, Jens Petersen wrote: yum install gnome-classic-session ?? # yum install gnome-classic-session Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit No package

Re: F19 Alpha Blocker Bug Review #5 Minutes

2013-04-08 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I don't see any mention of Wine. It should be a blocker. KDE and Xfce can be used instead of Gnome, but there is no substitute for Wine. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The

Re: F19 Alpha Blocker Bug Review #5 Minutes

2013-04-08 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 04/08/2013 01:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/09/13 03:49, John Dulaney wrote: Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 12:39:40 -0700 From: c...@omen.com To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: F19 Alpha Blocker Bug Review #5 Minutes I don't see any mention of Wine. It should be a blocker. KDE and Xfce

Re: Cinnamon and F19

2013-04-07 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 04/06/2013 10:48 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 04/07/2013 07:42 AM, David wrote: On 4/7/2013 12:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/07/13 10:38, David wrote: Don't ya' love Linux and the 'works for me' stage? :-) Before I made the comment to Joachim I tried this again. The single quotes, What

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Alpha Test Compose 4 (TC4) Available Now!

2013-04-04 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Both 32 and 64 bit TC4 DVD written to jump drive failed after most but not all packages had been installed with the now familiar Black Screen Of Death with useless cursor. This is on an 8 GB Core Duo 6550. The 64 bit version passed the media test before install. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX

Wine mystery

2013-04-01 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Today's 64 bit f19 rsync wine gives different results on two computers. On an 8GB Core Duo e6550 I get get the message about missing 64 bit program directory when attempting to install Lady Heather. On a 64 GB Intel 3770k Lady Heather installs normally and operates normally. The Ham Radio Deluxe

Re: 32 bit Fedora 19: WINEyes NFS:no 8 cores:no

2013-03-29 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/29/2013 12:44 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/29/13 04:40, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: The attempted NFS mount fails with mount.nfs: No such device. A ping to the server address works normally. nfs mounting working just fine on just installed TC3 64-bit system. NFS mount fails

Re: F19 TC3 install

2013-03-29 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/29/2013 07:13 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: Should a 'bare metal' install of TC3 be possible or is only a 'virtual' install supported. I tried 2x, once UEFI on a Lenovo Thinkpad x121e and once BIOS on an old Inspiron Vostro. Both 'default' installs after reclaiming all disk space. Both

Wine

2013-03-29 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I installed 64 bit Rawhide from today's rsync, and them wine. Wine program loader failed complaining about a missing 64 bit program directory. On a whim I copied .wine files from another machine and now Lady Heather is running under wine on my office machine. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX

Re: Wine

2013-03-29 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/29/2013 03:48 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:23:18 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: I installed 64 bit Rawhide from today's rsync, and them wine. Wine program loader failed complaining about a missing 64 bit program directory. On a whim I copied .wine files

32 bit Fedora 19: WINEyes NFS:no 8 cores:no

2013-03-28 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Today I installed the 32 bit rsync on two machines. Wine notepad comes up with the expected notepad screen. Mounting with Samba or NFS does not work. On a 3770 with 4 cores and hyperthreading, startup failed with insufficient memory to initialize the 8 threads. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX

Re: 32 bit Fedora 19: WINEyes NFS:no 8 cores:no

2013-03-28 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/28/2013 11:42 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: On a 3770 with 4 cores and hyperthreading, startup failed with insufficient memory to initialize the 8 threads. Once again, you're so concise it's cryptic. Please

F19 grub2-mkconfig makes F18 partition fail to run

2013-03-27 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I installed today's F19 rsync on my office machine. As usual, the install discovered the Win7 partition but not the Spherical Cow partition. After installing memtest and running memtest-seup I copied/pasted the displayed command to update grub.cfg. Upon rebooting and selecting Spherical Cow the

TC2-64 Problems

2013-03-26 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Tried several times to install something with the TC2 64 bit net install. All failed with unknown errors shortly after making the file systems. I then tried PXE install of today's rsync using Fedora 18 anaconda. Attempts to install Gnome or Xfce failed. Finally got Basic Desktop and development

Re: TC2-64 Problems

2013-03-26 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/26/2013 12:38 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:37:36 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Tried several times to install something with the TC2 64 bit net install. All failed with unknown errors shortly after making the file systems. I then tried PXE install

Espeak gags Fedora 19 and rawhide

2013-03-23 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Tried installing from today's local rsyncs or f19 and rawhide using the F18 pxeboot installation. Even a basic desktop install fails with an error on the espeak package, let alone xfce or kde. The images and liveos directories disappeared from the fc19 rsync so I was unable to attempt

Regression(s) in anaconda 19?

2013-03-22 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Since the Fedora 19 rsync now includes pxeboot files I decided to use them to power a pxeboot install instead of the Fedora 18 versions. The old anaconda is able to drop packages that had unresolved dependencies. The f19 anaconda doesn't seem able to do this. I could not specify installation

Gnome 3.8

2013-03-22 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
After installing today's rsync Gnome desktop and development system, the system booted into the new style firstboot sequence. After that I logged into the Gnome desktop. After some minutes of inactivity, the screen went black except for the cursor, which still followed the mouse. I was unable

TC1 et al.

2013-03-21 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Several attempts to install from TC1 on a jump drive failed with unknown errors. I then did a pxeboot rawhide Xfce install which was successful except WINE program loader doesn't work (do not pass GO, etc.). Finally I did a pxeboot F19 Xfce install. There was no firstboot, no problem here. I

Tuesday's F19 results

2013-03-19 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
The following are from installs of a local rsync of mirrors.kernel.org::fedora/development/19/x86_64/os using pxeboot and anaconda from Fc18. I tried using a new anaconda but had to fall back th the old one. A default Gnome system fails with the familiar something went wrong message. An

Missing python-imaging

2013-03-18 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Python-imaging seems to be missing from Fedora 19 and rawhide. Pillow is installed but WSPR won't run because it can't import the stuff that used to be in python-imaging. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications

Re: Missing python-imaging

2013-03-18 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/18/2013 09:23 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 03/18/2013 11:18 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Python-imaging seems to be missing from Fedora 19 and rawhide. Pillow is installed but WSPR won't run because it can't import the stuff that used to be in python-imaging. Chuck, You

OpenSUSE 12.3

2013-03-15 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
While we patiently wait for a working Fedora 19 or Rawhide to install, it might be worthwhile to see what the competition is up to by installing a copy of OpenSUSE 12.3. I have not tested the system much, but poking around the installer was interesting. 12.3 needs some prodding to get the

Noveau and Nvidia

2013-03-12 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I replaced the anemic ATI 3450 board on my test system with a 5 year old Nvidia 9600. Today's rawhide greeted this board with a black screen. I installed the current Nvidia driver without problems. Rawhide Xfce and KDE run fine with the Nvidia driver. I am installing MATE to see how that

Re: Is it a bug in rawhide's gnome?

2013-03-09 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/09/2013 10:14 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: The notification area seems to be missing. On purpose, or is it a bug? TIA I can't remember the last time a Rawhide install of Gnome actually worked. I've been using XFCE or KDE for rawhide. (Usine pxeboot and F18 anaconda pointed at a local

Re: Urgent: Fedora 18 update breaks mount.cifs

2013-03-06 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/06/2013 01:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On 06/03/13 03:22 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: It broke for me. It was coincident with the change from kernel 3.7.9 to 3.8.1 but I didn't investigate if this was the cause. Adding a sec= option with either ntlm or ntlmv2 worked for me

Tuesday's Rawhide

2013-03-05 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I installed the development and creative workstation from today's rawhide. After booting Gnome did its something gone wrong screen. I then installed the Xfce desktop. As usual, xfce4-terminal had to be installed manually. Xfce should get some more attention as Xfce seems to be the only

Urgent: Fedora 18 update breaks mount.cifs

2013-03-05 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
After a routine yum update at omen.com, the previously reported mount.cifs breakage has spread from rawhide to Fedora 18. It gives: mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) man mount.cifs has not changed at all. Is this botch breakage or

Re: Urgent: Fedora 18 update breaks mount.cifs

2013-03-05 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/05/2013 10:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: mount -t cifs //silly/Pictures /home/egreshko/silly -o gid=egreshko,uid=egreshko,password=xx,username=xx root@omen etc]# mount -t cifs //192.168.1.17/S /s -o gid=omen,uid=caf,password=,username=caf mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer

Re: Urgent: Fedora 18 update breaks mount.cifs

2013-03-05 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 03/05/2013 10:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/06/13 13:27, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: After a routine yum update at omen.com, the previously reported mount.cifs breakage has spread from rawhide to Fedora 18. It gives: mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the mount.cifs(8

3.9 Kernel on Fedora 18

2013-03-04 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Frustrated by the lack of an operating telnet server in Fedora 18, I installed the current rawhide 3.9 kernel onto Fedora 18 on a test machine. Results: operation appears normal. Wine still works. Telnetd works properly. mount.cifs fails with an invalid argument complaint, just as with

Re: several messages

2013-02-27 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 02/27/2013 11:44 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com | | KDE install was successful on an older Core Duo. | Same KDE install on a 32 GB Asus P8Z77-vle-Plus | i7-3770k still fails with continual stack traces. | This failure has affected the last

Monday's Rawhide

2013-02-26 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I was able to get Monday's Rawhide installed and working with the following changes: 1. Remove a Hauppauge Wintv-HVR-1600 74021 LF board from the computer. This was the cause of the continual stack dumps previously reported. 2. Install Xfce desktop and dev files. 3. Remove rhgb quiet from

Sunday's Rawhide

2013-02-24 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
KDE install was successful on an older Core Duo. Same KDE install on a 32 GB Asus P8Z77-vle-Plus i7-3770k still fails with continual stack traces. This failure has affected the last several kernel 3.8 rawhides and all 3.9 so far. The Asus runs W7 and Fedora 18 without problems. -- Chuck

Kernel 3.9

2013-02-23 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I installed Friday's rawhide + KDE on an Intel E6550. Gnuradio compiles and the telnet server seems to work properly. Doing the same install on a 32 GB Asus P8z777-vle+ results in a system that continually panics, never getting to the screens that ask to add a user and set the time. I've been

Samba flag day in Rawhide?

2013-02-08 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Lines such as this provoke invalid argument in Rawhide. Worked fine on many systems including F18. I looked at the Rawhide man page and cannot find anything wrong. mount -t cifs //192.168.1.17/S /s -o gid=omen,uid=xxx,password=xxx,username=xxx Is there a workaround, preferably one that

Fedora 19 feature request

2013-01-30 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I would like to see Fedora 19 with a server mail system with coherent GUI controls to effectively block spam. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software 10255

Re: Telnetd broken

2013-01-29 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 01/29/2013 06:40 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/29/2013 10:12 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:31:25PM -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: The telnet service in Fedora 18 and Rawhide is broken. Here is output from telnet(1) on f18 calling a machine running Rawhide

Re: Telnetd broken

2013-01-29 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 01/29/2013 01:10 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/30/2013 01:37 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: On 01/29/2013 06:40 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/29/2013 10:12 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:31:25PM -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: The telnet service

Telnetd broken

2013-01-28 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
The telnet service in Fedora 18 and Rawhide is broken. Here is output from telnet(1) on f18 calling a machine running Rawhide: telnet omen4 Trying 192.168.1.15... Connected to omen4. Escape character is '^]'. Fedora release 19 (Rawhide) Kernel 3.8.0-0.rc4.git5.1.fc19.x86_64 on an x86_64 (2) men4

Noveau and Rawhide

2013-01-24 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I have been running rawhide on my office machine for a few days now. Given that Wine won't install and the possibility of missing screensavers, I have set up as close to the same test environment as possible to the one that quite reliably crashed Noveau.So far no apparent Noveau problems.

Fedora on 686

2013-01-24 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
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Bugzilla bug

2013-01-21 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I tried to report a problem with bugzilla but bugzilla crashes: [caf@omen h]$ bugzilla new Traceback (most recent call last): File /bin/bugzilla, line 813, in module main() File /bin/bugzilla, line 590, in main data[a] = i.split(',') AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute

Spamd won't listen to spamc

2013-01-21 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
This is the maillog entry I get when I try to pass an email to spamc. ]: spamd: unauthorized connection from omen.com [70.89.176.169] at port 55566 at /usr/bin/spamd line 1271. Jan 21 02:03:51 omen spamd[25898]: prefork: child states: II -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com

Re: Spamd won't listen to spamc

2013-01-21 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 01/21/2013 06:01 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/21/2013 10:06 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: This is the maillog entry I get when I try to pass an email to spamc. ]: spamd: unauthorized connection from omen.com [70.89.176.169] at port 55566 at /usr/bin/spamd line 1271

Re: Spamd won't listen to spamc

2013-01-21 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 01/21/2013 09:01 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/21/2013 04:56 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: On 01/21/2013 06:01 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/21/2013 10:06 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: This is the maillog entry I get when I try to pass an email

Bad memory

2013-01-17 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Recently I discovered the motherboard that had been running omen.com had an undetected bad memory chip. This is a real confidence builder. Currently, running a definitive memory test requires hours of down time. The user mode memory tester has serious limitations. I propose kernel support for

Fedora 18 no go on Pentium III

2013-01-15 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
I have been unable to install 32 bit Fedora 18 RC4 on an Abit VH6. The Pentium III is the fourth CPU in the 686 series. The machine has 1.5G ram and runs a number of op systems. It loads and runs Fedora 16, SCO Unix, etc.. A Spherical Cow DVD install never gets past checking the DVD. A pxeboot

Re: [Test-Announce] Last Minute Testing for Fedora 18 RC4

2013-01-09 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
RC4 is missing Wine and TigerVNC. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc The High Reliability Software 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 503-614-0430 -- test mailing list

Re: Nvidia Drivers

2013-01-07 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 01/07/2013 04:16 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote: Nvidia drivers aren't working with the new kernel update. -- All things are workable but don't all things work. Prov. 3:5 6 Just now I installed the 310 Nvidia driver on RC1 on my office machine without problems. I changed rhgb quiet to

Re: Frequent evolution crashes anyone?

2013-01-07 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 01/07/2013 08:49 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 12:03 +0100, Kalev Lember wrote: On 01/07/2013 10:50 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:32:05 +, Peter Robinson wrote: downgrading from gtk3 3.6.3 to 3.6.2 seems to have fixed this for me. yum downgrade

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Final Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Available Now!

2013-01-06 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
RC1 refuses to install wine via yum. Wine used to be included by default. Now wine won't even install with yum. This is a definite show stopper. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications Omen Technology Inc

Re: Installing Fedora 18 TC3

2013-01-03 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
For the first time in a long while, I copied TC4 64 bit DVD to a jump drive, then installed with the check media option. Sometime after setting the root password I returned to the machine to discover a black screen with working cursor. The keyboard locked up and cursor froze when I tried

F18 and Windows

2012-12-31 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
By now I have made several installs of F18 alongside Windows on two different machines. The previously reported antosocial installer behavior seems to have been extinguished. -- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX c...@omen.com www.omen.com Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded

Noveau again

2012-12-31 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Had another Noveau freeze. Screen was frozen and no response to the keyboard. Caps lock ignored. Ctrl-Alt-F2 ignored. Upon hardware reset and reboot, nothing to send to Bugzilla. This is with an Nvidia 460 driving a Dell U3011. Xfce with compositing and random screensavers were active. --

Re: F18 empty lshw-gui window

2012-12-31 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 12/31/2012 08:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote: What's it take to get it to populate? lshw works whether root or not. This program is new to me. I tried it on two Intel CPU systems. Neat program. Command line version works as root or regular user. The GUI doesn't even start. -- Chuck

Re: Serious install issue when video card is Nvidia GT 240

2012-12-26 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 12/26/2012 03:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: I suspect this is related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754882 I decided to bite the bullet and install F18 on my system as the HD was dying. My system shows this from lspci... 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation

Noveau again

2012-12-23 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Last night Noveau wedged itself again. The screen was frozen with no response to keyboard or mouse. Linux was still running and responded to the power switch with a flurry of disk activity. After hardware reset and reboot I uploaded the report to Bugzilla. Since a timely resolution of the

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