Re: Audio CDs not mounting

2011-08-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 03:49, Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/10/2011 02:11 AM, Ian Malone wrote: CDs are static information. If I burned a set of wavs to a CDROM we wouldn't say, It's not a filesystem because it's audio. It would depend on how you burned them to the

Re: glibc scriptlet failure on todays f15 update

2011-08-11 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:59:03PM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: When I updated today I got this: Updating : glibc-2.14-5.x86_64 2/115 Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package glibc-2.14-5.x86_64 /usr/sbin/glibc_post_upgrade: While trying

Re: Flash for F-15 -

2011-08-11 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 08/01/2011 07:43 AM, Pete Travis wrote: Just out of curiosity, are there any security/vulnerability issues presented by a root owned flash library? The important part is the user which runs the library, not the owner of the file. Almost all the files in /usr/bin or /usr/lib are root owned

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-11 Thread Markku Kolkka
shailesh kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 11. elokuuta 2011): [tommy@tommy cprog]$ gcc hello.c [tommy@tommy cprog]$ ./a.out bash: nbsp;./a.out : Permission denied Is your cprog directory on an USB stick, external hard drive, or some other media other than regular Linux filesystem

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 11/08/2011 00:16, Rick Stevens a écrit : Have a look at your /etc/resolv.conf and make sure it's not adding a domain to your lookups via a search home or somesuch. Yes it does: domain home search home nameserver 192.168.1.1 OK. Now I

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 10:13, Markku Kolkka mark...@tuubi.net wrote: shailesh kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 11. elokuuta 2011): [tommy@tommy cprog]$ gcc hello.c [tommy@tommy cprog]$ ./a.out bash: nbsp;./a.out : Permission denied Is your cprog directory on an USB stick, external

Re: glibc scriptlet failure on todays f15 update

2011-08-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/11/2011 03:25 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:59:03PM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: When I updated today I got this: Updating : glibc-2.14-5.x86_64 2/115 Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package glibc-2.14-5.x86_64

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 10:21 +0530, Jatin K wrote: you should do chmod +x a.out or run it like sh a.out sh a.out isn't going to do anything unless a.out is a Shell script. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-11 Thread Jatin K
On Thursday 11 August 2011 05:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 10:21 +0530, Jatin K wrote: you should do chmod +x a.out or run it like sh a.out sh a.out isn't going to do anything unless a.out is a Shell script. poc I assumed it is shell script. so -- °v°

GNOME logging problem

2011-08-11 Thread Lázaro Morales
Hello, Today after power on my work computer and log in I get this message: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has ocurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again. I tried log out and log in again but nothing happen. What could be doing this? The system is

Re: GNOME logging problem

2011-08-11 Thread gpe
On 11/08/11 14:14, Lázaro Morales wrote: I tried log out and log in again but nothing happen. What could be doing this? This usually caused by incompatible theme/extension. You can try the followings: Press CTRL+ALT+F2 then login 1. Remove all gnome-shell extension and theme as root

F15 installer align filesystems properly for an SSD?

2011-08-11 Thread patrick korsnick
Hi all, I recently purchased my first SSD (a 256MB M4) and in setting it up stumbled across all the writings about tuning SSDs for linux. One of the main things that received a lot of attention was the filesystem alignment/erase block stuff. One post I read was that ubuntu's natty installer took

Re: [389-users] duplicate replica id detected - can I remove replicas?

2011-08-11 Thread Rich Megginson
On 08/10/2011 11:00 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: Some more research after I sent my question (narrower search terms) found the following bug and fix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624442 The package I use is centos-ds-base-8.1.0-0.14.el5.centos.2 Does this mean that this is a bug in

Re: GNOME logging problem

2011-08-11 Thread Lázaro Morales
Thanks gpe, 1. Remove all gnome-shell extension and theme as root yum remove gnome-shell-extension* gnome-shell-theme* or I don't have any extension or theme installed. 2. Create a new user account as root and try to login useradd test1 passwd test1 I tried

Re: F15 installer align filesystems properly for an SSD?

2011-08-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/11/2011 02:46 PM, patrick korsnick wrote: I recently purchased my first SSD (a 256MB M4) and in setting it up stumbled across all the writings about tuning SSDs for linux. One of the main things that received a lot of attention was the filesystem alignment/erase block stuff. One

Re: GNOME logging problem

2011-08-11 Thread gpe
On 11/08/11 14:54, Lázaro Morales wrote: 2. Create a new user account as root and try to login useradd test1 passwd test1 The first command creates a new user account, the second sets the password for it. Make sure you run those commands as root. (su) If you have the new account

BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
Hi. I'm running F15 and have been using BackupPC successfully for years. I rebooted my computer this morning and noticed that BackupPC failed to start. Its log file has this: 2011-08-11 08:00:25 Reading hosts file 2011-08-11 08:00:25 unix bind() failed: No such file or directory But the hosts

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 18:06 +0530, Jatin K wrote: On Thursday 11 August 2011 05:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 10:21 +0530, Jatin K wrote: you should do chmod +x a.out or run it like sh a.out sh a.out isn't going to do anything unless a.out is a Shell script.

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Reid Rivenburgh re...@pobox.com wrote: Hi.  I'm running F15 and have been using BackupPC successfully for years.  I rebooted my computer this morning and noticed that BackupPC failed to start.  Its log file has this: 2011-08-11 08:00:25 Reading hosts file

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread j.e.aneiros
Well I never have used BackupPC software but for me the problem is not the hosts file. I think the program is trying to open a UNIX socket file and for some reason (the directory where the file should reside no longer exists or some permission problems) is failing. I was able to replicate you

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Reid Rivenburgh re...@pobox.com wrote: Hi.  I'm running F15 and have been using BackupPC successfully for years.  I rebooted my computer this morning and noticed that BackupPC failed to

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
Ah, that's a good point, those two lines of the LOG file may not be related, which would be misleading. I should check if any sockets are being created. Thanks for the tip. Reid On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:55 AM, j.e.aneiros jesus.anei...@gmail.com wrote: Well I never have used BackupPC

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On a side note, I think the current 3.2.1 release has some SELinux issues. I updated mine based on the SEAlterts and created my own package. I sent my updates to the package maintainer for Fedora but I do not believe he's incorporated them yet. Richard -- users mailing list

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
It looks like I needed to create /var/run/BackupPC, owned by account backuppc. I notice in the changelog for the most recent package that the socket creation was moved there, but it seems it didn't make sure the directory exists. Reid On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Reid Rivenburgh

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Reid Rivenburgh re...@pobox.com wrote: It looks like I needed to create /var/run/BackupPC, owned by account backuppc.  I notice in the changelog for the most recent package that the socket creation was moved there, but it seems it didn't make sure the

Re: GNOME logging problem

2011-08-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/11/2011 07:27 AM, gpe wrote: Another question. How up-to-date is your system? It is always good idea to do an yum update as root and then reboot Rebooting after a system update is so...so...*Windows!* Unless there's a kernel update there's no need and if your DE is updated or part of

Re: GNOME logging problem

2011-08-11 Thread Alan Cox
[joe@khorlia ~]$ uptime 09:30:56 up 57 days, 16:51, 2 users, load average: 0.76, 0.72, 0.67 [joe@khorlia ~]$ 17:43:49 up 167 days, 1:41, 8 users, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.13 Difficult to do much more than that with Fedora however given the 6 monthly cycle however. A reboot is

Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Steven Stern
I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping that a few things get fixed. I don't know if they're general problems or widespread. I've make a point of putting things in Bugzilla. But, my problems are not going away. Big problems: 1. Pressing ALT-TAB crashes the shell.

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 08/11/2011 12:44 PM, Steven Stern wrote: I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping that a few things get fixed. I don't know if they're general problems or widespread. I've make a point of putting things in Bugzilla. But, my problems are not going away. Maybe

Re: GNOME logging problem

2011-08-11 Thread Stuart McGraw
On 08/11/2011 10:31 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/11/2011 07:27 AM, gpe wrote: Another question. How up-to-date is your system? It is always good idea to do an yum update as root and then reboot Rebooting after a system update is so...so...*Windows!* So is the error message the OP received

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/11/2011 09:44 AM, Steven Stern wrote: I've make a point of putting things in Bugzilla. You might do better if you use Gnome's Bugzilla at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/index.cgi instead. And, I question your statement that Gnome Shell is the future of Fedora, because I've seen a number of

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Steven Stern
On 08/11/2011 11:52 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: On 08/11/2011 12:44 PM, Steven Stern wrote: I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping that a few things get fixed. I don't know if they're general problems or widespread. I've make a point of putting things in

Changing default gnome colors

2011-08-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Where do I fine tune the default system colors. I'm referring to where GTK- based apps get the default colors for their widgets and backgrounds. gnome-tweak-tool lets me make some wholesale changes and select a couple of themes. As an aside, there's a gtk+ theme in the tab called Interface,

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread James Bridge
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 12:00 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: On 08/11/2011 11:52 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: On 08/11/2011 12:44 PM, Steven Stern wrote: I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping that a few things get fixed. I don't know if they're general

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 18:00, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: On 08/11/2011 11:52 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: On 08/11/2011 12:44 PM, Steven Stern wrote: I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping that a few things get fixed.  I don't know if

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 17:59, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 08/11/2011 09:44 AM, Steven Stern wrote: I've make a point of putting things in Bugzilla.  And, I question your statement that Gnome Shell is the future of Fedora, because I've seen a number of posts both here and at fedoraforum.org

Re: Changing default gnome colors

2011-08-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:18:27 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: Where do I fine tune the default system colors. I'm referring to where GTK- based apps get the default colors for their widgets and backgrounds. I hated the selection colors and finally tracked them down to the files

Re: Changing default gnome colors

2011-08-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/11/2011 01:36 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:18:27 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: Where do I fine tune the default system colors. I'm referring to where GTK- based apps get the default colors for their widgets and backgrounds. I hated the selection colors and finally

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/11/2011 12:06 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On a side note, I think the current 3.2.1 release has some SELinux issues. I updated mine based on the SEAlterts and created my own package. I sent my updates to the package maintainer for Fedora but I

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/11/2011 10:33 AM, Ian Malone wrote: Personally I'm going to stick it out for a while. No reason not to if, on the whole, it does what you want the way you want it to. That's one of the great things about Linux: there's not One True Way that everybody has to do things whether they want

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: On 08/11/2011 12:06 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On a side note, I think the current 3.2.1 release has some SELinux issues. I updated mine based on the SEAlterts and created my own package. I sent my updates to the package

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/11/2011 10:39 AM, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:38:07 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Besides which, a shell script named a.out would arouse my suspicions. Although not illegal, I would regard it as an attempted Trojan. a.out is the default name of the executable file

Re: BackupPC error

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/11/2011 02:04 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: On 08/11/2011 12:06 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On a side note, I think the current 3.2.1 release has some SELinux issues. I updated

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.08.2011 18:52, schrieb Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak: On 08/11/2011 12:44 PM, Steven Stern wrote: I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping that a few things get fixed. I don't know if they're general problems or widespread. I've make a point of putting things

Re: Changing default gnome colors

2011-08-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:45:03 -0400 Genes MailLists wrote: That is really quite sad that you have to resort to that ... congrats on managing to find AWFGP 8-) [1] another work around for Gnome Poop You just have to think about it as a game - its fun! (Actually I have a bunch of other

Re: Changing default gnome colors

2011-08-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/11/2011 02:51 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:45:03 -0400 Genes MailLists wrote: That is really quite sad that you have to resort to that ... congrats on managing to find AWFGP 8-) [1] another work around for Gnome Poop You just have to think about it as a game -

how to blacklist some hardware

2011-08-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, On a Toshiba laptop, I have an integrated TV card which is strangely not recognised by udev, but which install the correct kernel module specified by lspci. lspci gives: 02:09.0 0400: 14f1:5b7a Subsystem: 1179:0010 Flags:

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 08/11/2011 01:10 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Maybe try another video card (one that uses a different driver) it is simply UNACCEPTABLE writing a linux-desktop where you have troubles with most video cards. there are enough of them where Luckily, gnome-shell works with most video cards, so

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Alan Cox
are borked with a standard-desktop because some developers are thinking it is cool rely on 3D-crap The sad thing is almost none of the 3D dependancies are remotely necessary as far as I can see - just about every 'clever' effect it has Enlightenments Evas seems to do faster while abstracting

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:08:35 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: The sad thing is almost none of the 3D dependancies are remotely necessary as far as I can see - just about every 'clever' effect it has Enlightenments Evas seems to do faster while abstracting the canvas underneath to work with just about

Re: how to blacklist some hardware

2011-08-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:55:51 +0200 François Patte wrote: Is there a way to tell udev to ignore this hardware and skip anything regarding it. I have often wondered this as well. I wish there were some way to specify PCI device IDs to be skipped on the kernel command line so the kernel would

Re: Fedora 15 and mount points

2011-08-11 Thread aragonx
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:49 PM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Anyway, I found that I have multiple mount points that I didn't define in the install and are not in fstab.  Is there an easy way to get rid of the duplication?  A quick Google search suggested disabling sandbox but I take a

Re: Fedora 15 and mount points

2011-08-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/11/2011 04:10 PM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:49 PM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Anyway, I found that I have multiple mount points that I didn't define in the install and are not in fstab. Is there an easy way to get rid of the duplication? A quick Google

Add a network device alias

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
I'm having a blonde moment. I need to add a network device alias on a Fedora 14 box. The proper way that is documented is to add a ifcfg-eth0:0 file with the IP inside and call it done. This isn't working for me. When I restart the network service the alias is not brought up. Fedora 14

Broadcom 4311 went missing?

2011-08-11 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Hi Folks, I'll try and keep this long story short, and explain the subject line, Yesterday I was given a Compag Presario F700 laptop. It was running Vista with problems of intermittant hanging. I tested the memory with memtest86+ for 6+ hours (11 complete passes,

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 11:44 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping that a few things get fixed. I don't know if they're general problems or widespread. I've make a point of putting things in Bugzilla. But, my problems are not going

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 11:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/11/2011 10:39 AM, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:38:07 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Besides which, a shell script named a.out would arouse my suspicions. Although not illegal, I would regard it as an attempted Trojan.

Re: Add a network device alias

2011-08-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Is there something I'm missing? It seems NetworkManager doesn't support[1] alias files. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443968 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

problems with DHCP server

2011-08-11 Thread Claude Jones
I have enabled the DHCP server using systemctl start dhcpd.service I have a pretty simple dhcp.conf which looks like this: ddns-update-style interim; ignore client-updates; subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option routers 192.168.2.1; option

Re: Broadcom 4311 went missing?

2011-08-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/11/2011 01:26 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Hi Folks, I'll try and keep this long story short, and explain the subject line, Yesterday I was given a Compag Presario F700 laptop. It was running Vista with problems of intermittant hanging. I tested the memory

Re: problems with DHCP server

2011-08-11 Thread Claude Jones
On 8/11/2011 5:28 PM, Claude Jones wrote: I have enabled the DHCP server using systemctl start dhcpd.service ..snip the rest.. I left out the main point, the nature of the problem. The server doesn't seem to work, and addresses are not being handed out. This had been working

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Steven Stern
On 08/11/2011 03:37 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 11:44 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping that a few things get fixed. I don't know if they're general problems or widespread. I've make a point of putting things in

Re: how to blacklist some hardware

2011-08-11 Thread Anthony Messina
On 08/11/2011 02:27 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:55:51 +0200 François Patte wrote: Is there a way to tell udev to ignore this hardware and skip anything regarding it. I have often wondered this as well. I wish there were some way to specify PCI device IDs to be skipped

Re: problems with DHCP server

2011-08-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:59:55 -0400 Claude Jones wrote: I left out the main point, the nature of the problem. The server doesn't seem to work, and addresses are not being handed out. You might try restarting it after the system is well and truly up. I have problems with lots of network based

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Paul Morgan
On Aug 11, 2011 6:03 PM, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: On 08/11/2011 03:37 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 11:44 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping that a few things get fixed. I don't know

Re: Fedora 15 and mount points

2011-08-11 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:10 PM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:49 PM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Anyway, I found that I have multiple mount points that I didn't define in the install and are not in fstab.  Is there an easy way to get rid of the duplication?  A quick

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Steven Stern
On 08/11/2011 05:42 PM, Paul Morgan wrote: On Aug 11, 2011 6:03 PM, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com mailto:subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: On 08/11/2011 03:37 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 11:44 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: I've been using Gnome Shell

Re: how to blacklist some hardware

2011-08-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/12/2011 06:30 AM, Anthony Messina wrote: On 08/11/2011 02:27 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:55:51 +0200 François Patte wrote: Is there a way to tell udev to ignore this hardware and skip anything regarding it. I have often wondered this as well. I wish there were some

Re: problems with DHCP server / systemd problems

2011-08-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/11/2011 06:42 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:59:55 -0400 Claude Jones wrote: I left out the main point, the nature of the problem. The server doesn't seem to work, and addresses are not being handed out. You might try restarting it after the system is well and truly

Re: writing system tray plugin using GTK1?

2011-08-11 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, No, I understand that. My question was, if I had some software that used GTK1, which I use, and would not like to spend time writing for GTK2, would I still be able to compile using GTK2 or GTK3? Is GTK3/2 a superset of GTK1? No it isn't. After all, this is the wrong list for questions

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/11/2011 06:49 PM, Steven Stern wrote: I'm now using XFCE with AWN. I do like some eye candy and a Mac-like desktop. I'll switch back to Gnome when I see yum dropping off a new version of the shell. Meantime, I'm trying to figure out how to get the media keys on my keyboard to work

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
I appreciate Rick thinking to mention /etc/resolv.conf. I tend to forget it, especially since Fedora currently does so much (partial) hand-holding with the network setup widgets. (Reindl is going to complain about my monologues again here, I'm afraid.) On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:02 PM, François

Re: problems with DHCP server / systemd problems

2011-08-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:26:50 -0400 Genes MailLists wrote: Better would be to somehow figure out (outside of systemd) which services are actually not really running - and restart those. Unfortunately, most of the services I have problems with appear to be really running, they just don't work

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 09:59 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: I question your statement that Gnome Shell is the future of Fedora, because I've seen a number of posts both here and at fedoraforum.org from people like me who still use Fedora but have jumped ship on Gnome. Sometimes the answer with bad

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:08:35 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: The sad thing is almost none of the 3D dependancies are remotely necessary as far as I can see - just about every 'clever' effect it has Enlightenments Evas seems to do faster while abstracting the canvas underneath to work with just about

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/11/2011 05:44 PM, Tim wrote: This isn't Windows, and we're not Windows users. And even if large numbers of us jump ship and go to a different DE, the Gnome devs won't care as long as there are Gnome-centric distros out there. They know that most newcomers to Linux will take whatever DE

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/11/2011 04:54 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I appreciate Rick thinking to mention /etc/resolv.conf. I tend to forget it, especially since Fedora currently does so much (partial) hand-holding with the network setup widgets. (Reindl is going to complain about my monologues again here, I'm

Re: problems with DHCP server / systemd problems

2011-08-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/11/2011 07:54 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:26:50 -0400 Genes MailLists wrote: Better would be to somehow figure out (outside of systemd) which services are actually not really running - and restart those. Unfortunately, most of the services I have problems with

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com said: There is a reason for this, Joel. Most ISPs that deal with home users use a loop polling mechanism to pick up data from end users and ship it to the internet. It's not like a normal network connection. They're optimized for minimal upload,

Re: sudo a graphical app?

2011-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
Well, it's not perfect. libflashplayer.so copied into the unprivileged user's .mozilla/plugins, but ALSA or PulseAudio gags: [user9@fed ~]$ bin/localff user9-boxed non-network local connections being added to access control list ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:

Getting wireless working on an HP Mini 210

2011-08-11 Thread John Albright
I can't get the wireless working in Fedora 15 on an HP Mini 210. It has an Ralink rt5390 chipset, which I'm not familiar with at all. I've been following the instructions on this pagehttp://atinfinity.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/ralink-rt5390-wi-fi-driver-on-ubuntu-11-04/. I figured they would work

Re: Audio CDs not mounting

2011-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
Oh, for ... On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:17 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: It should be possible to write a FUSE wrapper that would let you do the desktop-interface trick as a proper mount. Not that I'm volunteering. It has been

Re: problems with DHCP server

2011-08-11 Thread Claude Jones
On Thursday, August 11, 2011, Tom Horsley wrote: I left out the main point, the nature of the problem. The server doesn't seem to work, and addresses are not being handed out. You might try restarting it after the system is well and truly up I did try that, actually. But, I didn't stop

Re: Audio CDs not mounting

2011-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/10/2011 02:11 AM, Ian Malone wrote: CDs are static information. If I burned a set of wavs to a CDROM we wouldn't say, It's not a filesystem because it's

Re: problems with DHCP server

2011-08-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/11/2011 10:44 PM, Claude Jones wrote: Anyone have any familiarity with the omshell command and it's readout? The command is cited right in the DHCP section of the Fedora 15 documentation - I read the man page for it but it's a bit difficult to grok... Probably a bit obvious -

Need Little IT advice here...

2011-08-11 Thread Manuel Escudero
Hi, I was Wondering if there was a tool for Linux in general that let me undo the system changes at reboot or something like that, For example: I want to set a standard configuration in a machine and then let that machine to be used by many users, but as soon as the user Log Out (preferably in

Re: Need Little IT advice here...

2011-08-11 Thread Antonio Olivares
/*** original message with some information removed / Hi, I was Wondering if there was a tool for Linux in general that let me undo the system changes at reboot or something  like that, For example: I want to set a standard configuration in a machine and then let that machine

Re: Need Little IT advice here...

2011-08-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:57:18 -0500 Manuel Escudero wrote: Hi, I was Wondering if there was a tool for Linux in general that let me undo the system changes at reboot or something like that, Generally speaking, users can only write files in their home directory. So if you restore the home

Re: Need Little IT advice here...

2011-08-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 22:57:18 -0500, Manuel Escudero jmlev...@gmail.com wrote: I want to set a standard configuration in a machine and then let that machine to be used by many users, but as soon as the user Log Out (preferably in that moment) I want the machine to undo all the possible

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-11 Thread Jatin K
On Thursday 11 August 2011 08:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 18:06 +0530, Jatin K wrote: On Thursday 11 August 2011 05:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 10:21 +0530, Jatin K wrote: you should do chmod +x a.out or run it like sh a.out sh a.out

Re: Need Little IT advice here...

2011-08-11 Thread Manuel Escudero
2011/8/11 Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:57:18 -0500 Manuel Escudero wrote: Hi, I was Wondering if there was a tool for Linux in general that let me undo the system changes at reboot or something like that, Generally speaking, users can only write files in their

Re: writing system tray plugin using GTK1?

2011-08-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:27:41 -0500 Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, No, I understand that. My question was, if I had some software that used GTK1, which I use, and would not like to spend time writing for GTK2, would I still be able to compile using GTK2 or GTK3? Is GTK3/2