Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?
On 12/19/2009 06:54 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcel Rieuxm.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12 destroyed the yum.log without making any back-up. BTW, I'm not talking about iotop. You are probably looking for atop. Will -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Grub timeout ignored?
On 12/06/2009 03:37 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hello, I am running Fedora 12, and I have the problem that grub seems to ignore the timeout-value set. In /etc/grub.conf I've set timeout=5 however grub always skips the menu, and loads the first/default entry immediatly. Any ideas what could be the problem? Thank you in advance, Clemens You probably sitll have the menu hidedn. Look for the line in your /boot/grub/grub.conf that says: hiddenmenu and comment it out with a #. Will -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels
On 12/04/2009 09:52 AM, BeartoothHOS wrote: On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:36:52 -0500, William Witt wrote: [] This is probably the problem. A partial copy or corrupted .gconf directory. So try this: -After a reboot at the login screen press Crtl+Alt F2 -Log in text mode with your user acct -issue the following commands mv .gconf bak.gconf mv .gconfd bak.gconfd mv .gnome2 bak.gnome2 mv .gnome2_private bak.gnome2_private Very Dumb Question : are there supposed to be spaces in those commands?? I thought mv took two arguments: what to move, and where to; but I see no spaces here. [] There are spaces...perhaps check your font rendering. The first one is: mv [space] .gconf [space] bak.gconf Will -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: CD drive difficulty
On 12/04/2009 10:06 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote: I'm just finishing installing F12 XFCE and encountered a problem with the CD drive: When I push the eject button, the tray is first extended fully outward and then is immediately retracted. I'm reasonably certain that this is not a hardware problem, but rather is some sort of misconfiguration issue. Some background: The CD/DVD drive was installed a few weeks ago as a replacement for one that would no longer burn DVDs; it seems to be in good shape. This is a multiboot installation, and the drive performs properly on the other partitions, including one running F12 KDE and another with F11 XFCE. Any help that you can offer will be appreciated. -- cmg I haven't experienced this personally, but I did se a thread on it a while back on FedoraForum: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=235313highlight=cd+drive+eject Will -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels
On 12/03/2009 04:33 PM, Beartooth wrote: I should perhaps mention that this machine (my #1) got royally, unbootably bollixed a few days ago, and ended up with a fresh install of F12 -- into which I began trying to scp /home/btth from #2 -- and messed that up so that there seem to be several partial copies scattered all over it in spots, to the point that the hard drive thinks it's effectively full At any rate, df -h shows it far fuller than it ought to be. This is probably the problem. A partial copy or corrupted .gconf directory. So try this: -After a reboot at the login screen press Crtl+Alt F2 -Log in text mode with your user acct -issue the folloing commands mv .gconf bak.gconf mv .gconfd bak.gconfd mv .gnome2 bak.gnome2 mv .gnome2_private bak.gnome2_private -This is the tactical nuke of gnome config problems. This will force gnome to recreate your gnome configuration on next login -Press Crtl-Alt F1 and you should be back at the GUI login screen, so log in again and see if you have panels. All of your old config settings are stored in th bak. directories so you can selectively copy them over if you have something (like f-spot) that is not easy to just reconfigure. Hopefully this helps Will -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Setting up a VM to run an F12 guest on an XP host
On 11/29/2009 07:16 PM, john wendel wrote: On 11/29/2009 01:35 PM, Alan Milnes wrote: 2009/11/28 john wendeljwende...@comcast.net: I know very little about Windows, so I'm seeking your advice. I'd like to run F12 on an XP box (so I can get some work done), could someone point me to the right software. The big problem is that I don't have admin privs on the XP box so I can't install anything. Is it even possible? You don't install F12 from within XP so as long as you can boot from a CD/DVD this won't be an issue. Just boot from a F12 LiveCD and the installer should sort it all out for you - this is called Dual Boot, each time the computer starts you have the choice to run F12 or Windows XP (one will be set as a default and you will have 10 seconds to make a decision when the screen comes up). Alan Unfortunately, there is an intrusion detection system on the network that keeps me from setting up a dual-boot system. If I boot the F12 live cd, my network connection is disabled and the admins come and beat me about the head. So I think running F12 in a VM is going to be the best I can do. Thanks, John I may be coming out of left field on this, but if you are working in the kind of place that has intrusion detection on the network, (I'm a sysadmin on such a network), then you are probably better off talking to the sysadmins. If you really need it to do your job, there may be some approved virtualization tech that they are more than happy to install for you, or the security people will shoot it down. If it's the organization's hardware and network then they have every right to approve or deny the installation of software. If you really, truly, need to use it to do your job and they deny it, get the denial in writing so you can CYA. Where I work, if someone were caught installing software on the systems I administer like this, that person would probably loose their job and possibly their freedom for several years. Will -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: changing GDM background image on F12
On 11/28/2009 09:03 PM, Mikkel wrote: On 11/28/2009 07:56 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Todd Zullingert...@pobox.com writes: As the subject says, he's trying to change the background for the GDM screen. Since GDM doesn't provide a panel, there isn't really a convenient way to browse to system-preferences-appearance... :) Using gconftool-2 is generally the best way to achieve this, and works fine for me on F-12 (as it has in past releases). Why it's not working for Fred remains to be seen. You can also set it as a user's background via the normal preferences setting and then make that the system default (via the bottom Make Default button). -wolfgang Would that affect GDM's background, or only the Gnome desktop's background? They are not the same thing. Mikkel Yes, if you set a default background it effects the GDM background, but takes restarting GDM (or a reboot) to see it. Will -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
