Re: selinux is a pain

2011-09-20 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 20/09/2011 3:57 PM, Martín Marqués wrote: 2 I spoke with someone who works in HP (system administration) that told me they have SELinux disabled on the servers, as the overhead in administration is to high. I'd like to believe my problem is due to lack of selinux configuration knowledge,

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 14/06/2011 3:47 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: There is a story at distrowatch comment # 66 about a person who used linux for a while and like it still does, but went back to windows because of several problems. Here's link:

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
mount point and the desktop icon (on my F13/GNOME system). The problem continued to exist when I went to F14, and is still there now that I've switched to XFCE. My main complaint isn't that it doesn't work, it's that the USB devs refused to even admit that their software wasn't reporting the

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 13/06/2011 3:01 PM, John Aldrich wrote: No, I think that Windows is just more user-friendly and does more hand- holding than Linux. I think we need to get out of the mindset of we don't want 'everybody' using linux because then it wouldn't be cool. It often seems that's the attitude that a

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/13/2011 12:06 AM, Phil Savoie wrote: James, No point in arguing with this guy. This *is* the reason why linux in general is the state in which you describe. Responses like his only further prove your points. It's too bad that there are way more David's out there than those like

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/13/2011 01:11 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote: I like to fix machines for my students and they laugh and joke around when a fake rogue virus shows up that it is scanning and I start the machine in safe mode and look for the startup folder in the user/TEMP/ApplicationData/ folders where

Display geometry in F14

2011-05-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I have a system with a LG Flatron W2243T monitor, and a Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H motherboard. Under F14, this monitor refuses to come up in anything other than fairly-low resolution (1024 x 768), although the monitor is clearly capable of 1920 x 1080. The automatic probe that Xorg does

Re: Display geometry in F14

2011-05-24 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 24/05/2011 10:07 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: How old is that monitor? I ask because F 14 fails to detect my monitor correctly although earlier versions found it. If yours is a few years old it might have fallen off the radar like mine. It's quite recent--last year. -- users mailing list

Re: Recurring problem on 6-core FC14 system

2011-03-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/03/2011 12:38 AM, William Austin wrote: Recently I replaced MB/CPU/Memory on my main workstation, and a few days later I installed FC14. The problems started then. I have tried looking this one up in bugzilla, but so far with no luck. The system ran cleanly for 4 days on FC13 and the

What is going on with Fedora mirrors today?

2010-11-23 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Most of the mirror sites appear to be missing their Fedora mirrors this afternoon--what's going on? Trying to do an update of an F14 system, and most mirrors are returning 505/404 when YUM tries to fetch updates. If I go in with my browser, I get the same thing. Fedora part of the mirror

Re: USB audio mixers

2010-11-18 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/18/2010 02:00 PM, Tim wrote: Though, still just a sound card. The advantages of using a real mixer are many: A sound card generally only has one or two inputs, and they only cope with a narrow range of signal levels, impedances, unbalanced audio, and have DC voltages on those shitty

Re: USB audio mixers

2010-11-17 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 11/17/2010 10:02 AM, Tim wrote: Has anybody connected one of the various domestic audio mixers with USB outputs to a Linux box? An example of one at this link: http://bavasmusic.com.au/store/behringer-xenyx-1204usb-p-2023.html Given a decent mixer, and something that's compatible, it

Agonizingly slow SATA HDD performance

2010-09-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD performance, and I can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*. Mobo: GigaByte GA880GMA-UD2H Memory: 8Gbyte 1333 Disk: 1TB Western Digital CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T The system performance is

Re: Agonizingly slow SATA HDD performance

2010-09-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/13/2010 12:12 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD performance, and I can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*. Sounds like a bad disk to me. Run some diagnostic with smartctl

Re: Agonizingly slow SATA HDD performance

2010-09-12 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/12/2010 10:22 PM, JB wrote: Marcus D. Leech mleech at ripnet.com writes: I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD performance, and I can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*. Mobo: GigaByte GA880GMA-UD2H Memory

Re: SELinux

2010-09-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I've been a security wonk for many years, and the problem I have with SeLinux is that when it makes a decision I disagree with, it's like pulling teeth to change it's mind. So I sometimes just turn it off Sigh -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium

Re: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/11/2010 10:58 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/11/2010 08:59 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Am I alone in finding the old (classic) Windows XP control panel greatly superior to the KDE analogue? IMHO, it is never a good idea to compare what one has in GNOME or KDE to what is

X11 forward in F12

2010-05-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
What in the name of all that's holy do I need to install/enable/disable to get X11 forwarding to work in F12? I had a vague recollection that the default SELinux policy blocked it in F12, but I disabled SELinux, and I still can't get X11 forwarding to work. The shell that I get on the system

Re: X11 forward in F12

2010-05-10 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On Mon, 10 May 2010 20:34:18 -0400 Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: You want to: - make sure the 'xauth' package is installed on the machine you are connecting to. - Use 'ssh -X' (NOTE: cap X, not x). lower case x disables ssh forwarding. ;) kevin Yup, I

YUM seg fault on F12 on x86_64 with 4096M of memory

2010-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I'm having a really weird issue, and I'm sure that someone must have heard of something like this. Yum seg faults when I ask it to do things when I have 4096M of physical memory installed. I'm running on a system with a Core 2 Quad, QX9770, with a x86_64 install of Fedora 12 from LIVE CD. If

Re: YUM seg fault on F12 on x86_64 with 4096M of memory

2010-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/05/2010 07:37 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: I'm having a really weird issue, and I'm sure that someone must have heard of something like this. Yum seg faults when I ask it to do things when I have 4096M of physical

Re: YUM seg fault on F12 on x86_64 with 4096M of memory

2010-05-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/05/2010 07:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 05 May 2010 19:22:21 -0400 Marcus D. Leech wrote: Any clues? I'd run memtest86 on it to find out if the memory is all good. Could be some bad memory that doesn't normally get used. I have 8 gig on my x86_64 f12 system and always

Re: F12 updates broken today?

2010-01-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Thanks manual updating as suggested seems to have worked -- Principal Investigator Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium http://www.sbrac.org On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/15 Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com: I'm getting this message

Missing admin tools in F12?

2010-01-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
Where are all the admin tools? I've done a couple of F12 installs so far, from the Live CD, and most of the expected tools under System-Administration appear to be gone. Some of them seem to have moved to Preferences, but for example there doesn't appear to be a tool for doing service

F12 updates broken today?

2010-01-14 Thread Marcus D. Leech
I'm getting this message on a freshly-installed-from-live-cd system for F12 today: Error Type:class 'yum.Errors.RepoError' Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in module main()