All-Flock Special Edition of 5 Things in Fedora This Week (5tFTW 2014-08-05)

2014-08-06 Thread Matthew Miller
Reposted from http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-08-05/ Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each. Here are the five

Re: Fedora power management

2014-08-06 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 05 August 2014, CLOSE Dave sent: If the laptop is closed, it goes to suspend within a few minutes. As a side issue, you need to check that your laptop won't overheat if the lid is shut. Some of them have ventilation around the keyboard, and need it. -- [tim@localhost

Re: Fedora power management

2014-08-06 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:46 AM, CLOSE Dave dave.cl...@us.thalesgroup.com wrote: Thanks for the reply. I interpret your comments to imply that, because I'm using KDM, the laptop should never go to sleep while at the login screen. Unfortunately, that is not my experience. If the laptop is

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Alexis Jeandet
Hi, In my case, most of the time for ARM images I use as root(be careful!): more /dev/sdb /dev/sdc # I use sdb as source and sdc as destination sync It makes an exact copy and you don't have to care about options. Best regards, Alexis. Le 06/08/2014 05:44, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : This

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 23:44 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Starting File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/1dc8...f055a32473b9... [ 13.911063] systemd-fsck[368]: _/: The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 3587707 blocks [ OK ] Started dracut pre-mount hook. [

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/06/2014 05:26 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 23:44 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Starting File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/1dc8...f055a32473b9... [ 13.911063] systemd-fsck[368]: _/: The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 3587707 blocks

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/06/2014 04:26 AM, Alexis Jeandet wrote: Hi, In my case, most of the time for ARM images I use as root(be careful!): more /dev/sdb /dev/sdc # I use sdb as source and sdc as destination sync It makes an exact copy and you don't have to care about options. I am assuming that I

Re: F19 install and custom / RAID partitioning

2014-08-06 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 05 June 2014 11:19:29 Gary Stainburn wrote: On Thursday 05 June 2014 10:29:36 Gary Stainburn wrote: If I do not create the biosboot partition I can create everything else without errors but when I return to the main screen I get an warning that there is an error checking the

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/06/2014 05:26 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 23:44 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Starting File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/1dc8...f055a32473b9... [ 13.911063] systemd-fsck[368]: _/: The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 3587707 blocks

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/06/2014 04:26 AM, Alexis Jeandet wrote: Hi, In my case, most of the time for ARM images I use as root(be careful!): more /dev/sdb /dev/sdc # I use sdb as source and sdc as destination sync It makes an exact copy and you don't have to care about options. Using fdisk and parted, I

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Jens Neu
On 08/06/2014 02:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: And nothing I can do about that. Seems that the size is based on whatever fits based on quality of the chip.

Thunderbird not displaying content of some messages

2014-08-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have some messages that Thunderbird is not displaying. And I looked back in a couple folder archives and messages that use to display are now not displaying. So obviously something changed. Anyone else seeing this? ANy tips? Anyone interested, I could forward one of the messages

Re: Thunderbird not displaying content of some messages

2014-08-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/06/14 20:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have some messages that Thunderbird is not displaying. And I looked back in a couple folder archives and messages that use to display are now not displaying. So obviously something changed. Anyone else seeing this? ANy tips? Anyone

Re: Re install Fedora 20

2014-08-06 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 08/02/2014 07:57 AM, Roger wrote: I have Fedora 20 LVM but cannot access it due to grub error which defaults to grub rescue. Can I reinstall Fedora without touching the /home directory on an LVM please thanks Roger Yes, it is possible. During install, give the mount point for the existing

Re: Re install Fedora 20

2014-08-06 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 08/06/2014 06:58 PM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: On 08/02/2014 07:57 AM, Roger wrote: I have Fedora 20 LVM but cannot access it due to grub error which defaults to grub rescue. Can I reinstall Fedora without touching the /home directory on an LVM please thanks Roger Yes, it is possible. During

Re: Thunderbird not displaying content of some messages

2014-08-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/06/2014 09:12 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/06/14 20:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have some messages that Thunderbird is not displaying. And I looked back in a couple folder archives and messages that use to display are now not displaying. So obviously something changed. Anyone else

Re: Thunderbird not displaying content of some messages

2014-08-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/06/14 21:44, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/06/2014 09:12 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/06/14 20:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have some messages that Thunderbird is not displaying. And I looked back in a couple folder archives and messages that use to display are now not displaying.

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com writes: I suspect that although they are marketed as 16GB, they vary due to manufacturing quality by a block or so. The other thing to consider if it is a bargain bin drive is that the drive might be a counterfeit with mismarked capacity.

start of app starts in background

2014-08-06 Thread awbestesq
hello, i have a niggling little problem. whenever i start a program, the window comes up at the bottom of the z-order, rather at the top. i have looked in the system setting where i saw nothing obvious. any assist is greatly appreciated. -- regards, awb -- users mailing list

Solved - Re: Thunderbird not displaying content of some messages

2014-08-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
For some reason these messages had: View-Message Body As set to text. Once I changed it to 'simple html' they displayed. Thanks for your time, Ed. On 08/06/2014 09:44 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/06/2014 09:12 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/06/14 20:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/06/2014 09:58 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com writes: I suspect that although they are marketed as 16GB, they vary due to manufacturing quality by a block or so. The other thing to consider if it is a bargain bin drive is that the drive might be a

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 10:37 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: Starting at some point during the day on July 30, my outgoing emails have been queueing up on my Fedora 19 server with some strange messages: # mailq /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) -Q-ID- --Size--

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 08:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/06/2014 05:26 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 23:44 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Starting File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/1dc8...f055a32473b9... [ 13.911063] systemd-fsck[368]: _/:

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/06/2014 11:27 AM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 10:37 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: Starting at some point during the day on July 30, my outgoing emails have been queueing up on my Fedora 19 server with some strange messages: # mailq /var/spool/mqueue (1 request)

Re: Fedora power management

2014-08-06 Thread CLOSE Dave
T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: systemd (by default) doesn't put idle systems to sleep, but it does put closed laptops to sleep when no desktop power management system is active (e.g. when KDM is running). Just set HandleLidSwitch=ignore in /etc/systemd/logind.conf to turn it off. See `man

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com writes: On 08/06/2014 09:58 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com writes: I suspect that although they are marketed as 16GB, they vary due to manufacturing quality by a block or so. The other thing to consider if it is a

Re: Re install Fedora 20

2014-08-06 Thread Roger
On 06/08/14 23:28, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: On 08/02/2014 07:57 AM, Roger wrote: I have Fedora 20 LVM but cannot access it due to grub error which defaults to grub rescue. Can I reinstall Fedora without touching the /home directory on an LVM please thanks Roger Yes, it is possible. During install,

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/06/2014 03:55 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com writes: On 08/06/2014 09:58 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com writes: I suspect that although they are marketed as 16GB, they vary due to manufacturing quality by a

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com writes: On 08/06/2014 03:55 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com writes: On 08/06/2014 09:58 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com writes: I suspect that although they are marketed as

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 06 August 2014, Robert Moskowitz sent: Using fdisk and parted, I can see my problem, and this won't work. The target card IS smaller than the source. But I can 'fix' that if there is a partition resize command where I can specify the end block in the resize. No reason

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Tim
Tim: Are you using domain names that you own? Is there a DNS entry that points to someone else's IPs? Kevin Cummings: My domain is dynamic DNS, owned by Dyn DNS, but allocated to me. In that regard, I own kjchome.homeip.net (I pay for its use). If you do a DNS lookup on it, you will find

Re: cloned sd card is not booting

2014-08-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/06/2014 09:36 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 06 August 2014, Robert Moskowitz sent: Using fdisk and parted, I can see my problem, and this won't work. The target card IS smaller than the source. But I can 'fix' that if there is a partition resize command where I can specify the

Re: Sendmail problem

2014-08-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/06/2014 10:19 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: Are you using domain names that you own? Is there a DNS entry that points to someone else's IPs? Kevin Cummings: My domain is dynamic DNS, owned by Dyn DNS, but allocated to me. In that regard, I own kjchome.homeip.net (I pay for its use). If you