Re: F12 shutdown oddity
Yup, those are the symptoms. Your's and my computer are probably working just fine. Maybe we'll get an update sooner or later. Meanwhile, no harm done (so far). Thanks for the reply, Dick On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Gary Waters linuxnuts...@videotron.cawrote: On 05/22/2010 09:30 PM, Dick Roark wrote: I have just upgraded to F12. Basically, no problems except when I go through the gnome shutdown process, F12 seems to go into a suspended state, rather than shut-down (green power LED and fan stays on). From this state I can press the power button and it shuts down. This does not seem to damage anything, as I have been required to do this several times and the system boots fine. Is there a setting that will allow me do shutdown in the ordinary manner? Thanks. I had this happen on my notebook on Friday. It never happened before. The green power LED was on and It caught my attention just before I put the notebook into my laptop packsack before heading home. Gary -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: voice with empathy and gtalk on F12
Well, I solved this, there was some packages missing just do su -c yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad and things goes right regards Adel 2010/5/21 Adel ESSAFI adeless...@gmail.com hi list I have tried empathy with F10 sucessufully. However, in F12 I could not communicate with voice with my google contacts. There is a short ring and then it stops. do you have any experience with this? regards Adel ps: the version is Empathy 2.28.2 -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Address 3 avenue lamine, cité ezzahra, Sousse 4000 Tunisia tel: +216 97 246 706 (+33640302046 jusqu'au 15/6) fax: +216 71 391 166 -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Address 3 avenue lamine, cité ezzahra, Sousse 4000 Tunisia tel: +216 97 246 706 (+33640302046 jusqu'au 15/6) fax: +216 71 391 166 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Fwd: voice with empathy and gtalk on F12
-- Forwarded message -- From: Adel ESSAFI adel.s...@imag.fr Date: 2010/5/24 Subject: Re: voice with empathy and gtalk on F12 To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Well, I solved this, there was some packages missing just do su -c yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad and things goes right regards Adel 2010/5/21 Adel ESSAFI adeless...@gmail.com hi list I have tried empathy with F10 sucessufully. However, in F12 I could not communicate with voice with my google contacts. There is a short ring and then it stops. do you have any experience with this? regards Adel ps: the version is Empathy 2.28.2 -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Address 3 avenue lamine, cité ezzahra, Sousse 4000 Tunisia tel: +216 97 246 706 (+33640302046 jusqu'au 15/6) fax: +216 71 391 166 -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Address 3 avenue lamine, cité ezzahra, Sousse 4000 Tunisia tel: +216 97 246 706 (+33640302046 jusqu'au 15/6) fax: +216 71 391 166 -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Address 3 avenue lamine, cité ezzahra, Sousse 4000 Tunisia tel: +216 97 246 706 (+33640302046 jusqu'au 15/6) fax: +216 71 391 166 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?
My gaming has been slowing down, since my job is terrible right now. I usually play Quake Wars or ZSNES on my machine. But I would gladly try other games if it promotes Linux. The biggest headache for joining is that I don't read these messages / lists very much. Perhaps a better idea would be to use another standard way of Fedora communication, like IRC or such? Or make an announcement on the wiki like Every Monday Night ... That would work better for me. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: ABRT is not reporting my bugs
On 05/24/2010 08:15 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Several times I had ABRT claim that my kernel oops report was succesfully uploaded, yet I cannot find the bug reports in Bugzilla. I have my Bugzilla login ID and password set in the bugzilla ABRT plugin. I don't think my oops reports are going anywhere. Any suggestions as to what might be broken. It might be loading it to kerneloops.org instead Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Fedora Community Gaming - Why aren't you there?
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:16:21 -0400, Dennis Mattingly dennismattinglyzz...@gmail.com wrote: My gaming has been slowing down, since my job is terrible right now. I usually play Quake Wars or ZSNES on my machine. But I would gladly try other games if it promotes Linux. The biggest headache for joining is that I don't read these messages / lists very much. Perhaps a better idea would be to use another standard way of Fedora communication, like IRC or such? Where and how much in advance? We got a couple people out of #fedora-games who were hanging around when things get started for armacycles this past weekend. Would announcing something there an hour or two in advance be better? Or make an announcement on the wiki like Every Monday Night ... That would work better for me. There are several issues here. Currently we don't have a best time and so it's a bit early to standardize on time. The 1700 UTC time seems like it should be good for NA, SA and EU which likely covers a good chunk of our users. Standardizing on a single time per week will make it difficult for some people to play. This may be a necessary evil to make things work though. I can't commit to sponsoring games every week. Until other people start stepping up to organize as well as play, we really can't run every week. If this actually starts taking off, then I would expect a SIG to form to get sponsors to sign up and run events regularly. Maybe specific games would run specific weeks of the month or something. I probably would be giving up about now, but I have found it useful for me to learn games. Usually someone who plays regularly shows up and teaches me something about how to play (either about playing the game itself or about good setup values to use). Eventually I'd like to get my weekly LAN game group to try playing some Fedora games instead of the Windows ones we currently play. And knowing good set up values and how to play more games will help with this. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Printing photo-quality on HP deskjet F4180
I don't know if this is a software issue, or if the printer is just broken. (I'm using Fedora 12) Basically, I can print fine using plain paper/normal quality. But If I try to print photo quailty/photo paper, the image is overscaled (about twice the size), displaced so that the centre prints around the left edge, and only prints black - no colour. I have hplib installed (by downloading from the hp site and following the instructions - many weeks ago). I have managed to print photo quality before (at least once). Does this sound like a familiar problem to anyone? -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Printing photo-quality on HP deskjet F4180
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:40 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I have hplib installed (by downloading from the hp site and following the instructions - many weeks ago). Step 1: uninstall this. If you want HPLIP installed, install the Fedora package: System Administration Add/Remove Software See if you still get the same problem -- if so, please report a bug in Bugzilla. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Printing photo-quality on HP deskjet F4180
Tim == Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com writes: Tim On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:40 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I have hplib installed (by downloading from the hp site and following the instructions - many weeks ago). Tim Step 1: uninstall this. Tim If you want HPLIP installed, install the Fedora package: Tim System Administration Add/Remove Software Tim See if you still get the same problem -- if so, please report a Tim bug in Bugzilla. I had that installed before, but then my wife wanted to scan documents, and I was advised on the list to use the HP download. Scanning wouldn't work before, and it did after i did that download. Nevertheless, I will try it, and report back. -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Question about this user list
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:26:31PM +0930, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 14:18 -0500, David A. Paredes Rios wrote: fedora 13 release is in 4 days so the questions are going to be valid here :D Quite probably, and certainly in a few days time. ;-) im must asking because i wrote aquestion here but nothings answer me :(.. I saw a question from you a few days back, but questions about Fedora 13 RC3 were, and probably still are, more likely to get an answer on the test list. A lot of people on this list won't be using the pre-release candidates, and faults need fixing before something leaves the testing phase. I don't use it, so I can't answer that query. FYI, RC3 was accepted as the final release. So anything needing fixing at this point has to be addressed via standard updates to the stable release, or else be diverted to Fedora 14. -- Paul W. Frieldshttp://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Printing photo-quality on HP deskjet F4180
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:35 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I had that installed before, but then my wife wanted to scan documents, and I was advised on the list to use the HP download. Scanning wouldn't work before, and it did after i did that download. OK. Install libsane-hpaio as well to get scanning support. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
ntpd query failure
We run 'ntpdate -q' once daily to check the ntpd sync status of the hosts in our network. On one host, this check is failing sporadically today: $ for i in `seq 1 10` ; do ntpdate -q 192.168.129.110 ; sleep 1 ; done server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset -0.001034, delay 0.02693 24 May 10:11:16 ntpdate[3742]: adjust time server 192.168.129.110 offset -0.001034 sec server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset -0.000997, delay 0.02701 24 May 10:11:17 ntpdate[3747]: adjust time server 192.168.129.110 offset -0.000997 sec server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset 0.00, delay 0.0 24 May 10:11:18 ntpdate[3752]: no server suitable for synchronization found server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset 0.00, delay 0.0 24 May 10:11:19 ntpdate[3757]: no server suitable for synchronization found server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset -0.000162, delay 0.02878 24 May 10:11:20 ntpdate[3762]: adjust time server 192.168.129.110 offset -0.000162 sec server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset 0.00, delay 0.0 24 May 10:11:21 ntpdate[3767]: no server suitable for synchronization found server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset 0.00, delay 0.0 24 May 10:11:22 ntpdate[3772]: no server suitable for synchronization found server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset 0.00, delay 0.0 24 May 10:11:24 ntpdate[3777]: no server suitable for synchronization found server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset -0.001079, delay 0.02701 24 May 10:11:25 ntpdate[3782]: adjust time server 192.168.129.110 offset -0.001079 sec server 192.168.129.110, stratum 4, offset 0.00, delay 0.0 24 May 10:11:26 ntpdate[3787]: no server suitable for synchronization found It seems to fail 6/10 checks consistently, whereas normally it succeeds on all attempts. This is the ntpd configuration on 192.168.129.110: $ cat /etc/ntp.conf driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift server 192.168.24.39 server 192.168.24.80 server 192.168.132.51 server 192.168.132.83 $ cat /etc/sysconfig/ntpd # Drop root to id 'ntp:ntp' by default. OPTIONS=-u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -x The host is running F12, 2.6.32.10-90.fc12.x86_64. I was previously seeing this ntp sync problem on F12, 2.6.32.11-99, so I thought it was a problem with that kernel, but apparently not. - Kelvin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Fedora Hard Disk Encryption and FIPS 140-2 Compliance
Does anyone know if Fedora's HD encryption is, or could it be, compliant with US NIST requirement for hard disk encryption included in NIST FIPS 140-2? http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/#05 Thanks. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Fedora Hard Disk Encryption and FIPS 140-2 Compliance
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 10:42 -0400, Edmon Begoli wrote: Does anyone know if Fedora's HD encryption is, or could it be, compliant with US NIST requirement for hard disk encryption included in NIST FIPS 140-2? http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/#05 Thanks. FIPS compliance testing is a cumbersome and expensive exercise in paperwork. It's usually farmed out to a 3rd party independent lab for upwards of $20K per cert. The only open source software project I know that has successfully obtained FIPS 140-2 compliance certification is OpenSSL, and they took on the task themselves. Note that the requirement for FIPS compliance was brought about by FISMA 2002. This law and NIST's implementation have been justly criticized for their emphasis on paperwork documentation in the certification and accreditation (CA) process. Security experts estimate upwards of 80% of CA budgets are being wasted on such binder-ware. A new FISMA 2010 is making its way through Congress that will change that emphasis to more practical measures like pen-testing and automated status monitoring. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Printing photo-quality on HP deskjet F4180
On Mon, May 24, 2010 13:40:43 PM +0100, Colin Paul Adams (co...@colina.demon.co.uk) wrote: I don't know if this is a software issue, or if the printer is just broken. (I'm using Fedora 12) Colin, this may have nothing to do with your problem, but... does what you report depend on the photo paper brand? I mean, does this happen the same way if you try with HP and non-HP photo paper? Marco -- Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government: http://stop.zona-m.net/digiworld/why-open-digital-standards-matter-government -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: SELinux error booting backup f12
Dan Walsh wrote: You should not need either. selinux=0 Disables SELinux. The boot system leaves a flag around telling the system that SELinux has been disabled. The next time you enable it (booting without the selinux=0 flag) the system forces a relable. Which means every file/dir/device/etc gets a label added to it. enforcing=0, means all syscalls that SELinux would have blocked are allowed and all of the labeling continues. F12 is booting without either flag, selinux in enforcing mode for the vast majority of users. Now that you have relabeled. I would bet your system will boot with out either flag. Dan, you are correct! thank you very much. Sending this email booted back into my f12backup without either flag. Your explanation helps me understand this much better. Jack -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Importing an mbox into Imap
I have an archived rmail-style mbox that I want to move into my Imap message store. Anyone have a Perl script that will read an mbox, split it into individual messages, and then redeliver those messages via an Imap connection? Thanks, -Philip -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Importing an mbox into Imap
Philip Prindeville wrote: I have an archived rmail-style mbox that I want to move into my Imap message store. Anyone have a Perl script that will read an mbox, split it into individual messages, and then redeliver those messages via an Imap connection? Thanks, -Philip In dovecot RPM package is perl script perfectmaildir.pl which do this conversion. Franta Hanzlik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Imap/s certificate issue?
I'm seeing the following on my mail server: May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: accepted connection May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: imapd:Loading hard-coded DH parameters May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: SSL_accept() incomplete - wait May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: sslv3 alert certificate unknown in SSL_accept() - fail May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: imaps TLS negotiation failed: builder.redfish-solutions.com [192.168.1.10] May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls() failed May 24 11:55:30 mail master[31932]: process 25484 exited, status 75 May 24 11:55:30 mail master[31932]: service imaps pid 25484 in BUSY state: terminated abnormally May 24 11:55:48 mail master[31932]: process 25328 exited, status 0 it's not clear why this happens, and indeed that host is able to retrieve email... Both are running FC12 updated, which makes it all the stranger. The UA on builder is Thunderbird. Any idea what I'm seeing and why? Thanks, -Philip -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Importing an mbox into Imap
On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:59:48 -0600 Philip Prindeville wrote: Anyone have a Perl script that will read an mbox, split it into individual messages, and then redeliver those messages via an Imap connection? I don't know about perl, but I clearly remember importing giant mbox files into my imap server using claws-mail. It wouldn't surprise me if almost every mail client had an import function somewhere in the menus. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Importing an mbox into Imap
Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: I have an archived rmail-style mbox that I want to move into my Imap message store. Anyone have a Perl script that will read an mbox, split it into individual messages, and then redeliver those messages via an Imap connection? Thanks, -Philip In dovecot RPM package is perl script perfectmaildir.pl which do this conversion. Franta Hanzlik I was too hurry, perfectmaildir.pl places mails directly to user maildir directory, not over IMAP connection. Sorry. FH -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Imap/s certificate issue?
Philip Prindeville wrote: I'm seeing the following on my mail server: May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: accepted connection May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: imapd:Loading hard-coded DH parameters May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: SSL_accept() incomplete - wait May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: sslv3 alert certificate unknown in SSL_accept() - fail May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: imaps TLS negotiation failed: builder.redfish-solutions.com [192.168.1.10] May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls() failed May 24 11:55:30 mail master[31932]: process 25484 exited, status 75 May 24 11:55:30 mail master[31932]: service imaps pid 25484 in BUSY state: terminated abnormally May 24 11:55:48 mail master[31932]: process 25328 exited, status 0 it's not clear why this happens, and indeed that host is able to retrieve email... ... Any idea what I'm seeing and why? which imap server are you using here? does the ssl cert in question validate ok? -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Printing photo-quality on HP deskjet F4180
Tim == Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com writes: Tim See if you still get the same problem -- if so, please report a Tim bug in Bugzilla. Still the same problem. -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Importing an mbox into Imap
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 11:59 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: I have an archived rmail-style mbox that I want to move into my Imap message store. Anyone have a Perl script that will read an mbox, split it into individual messages, and then redeliver those messages via an Imap connection? Just import the mbox file into any IMAP client (Thunderbird, Evolution, Claws, whatever ...) poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
OT: Cell phone connection to server
Hello all, It has been suggested to me that we should setup a cell phone in a way that would allow us remote access to our Linux boxes in case of an emergency where the server was down (using a remote service board (ILO)). I've searched Google and found plenty of information on how to make an outbound connection, but nothing for inbound. The mobile broadband connections all give you a dynamic IP and are on-demand. So the connection would drop as soon as it was not being used. I thought that I could write a script to keep the connection alive and pass the IP but if the server goes down... It was said that years ago, you could connect a modem to a cell phone and that it would answer the call just like on a land line. If I could find something like that, we would be in business. As always, any help would be greatly appreciated. --- Will Y. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Can't Burn DVD
FC12-X86_64 A Blank DVD is in /dev/scd0 and I can Burn DVD's from K3B. Trying to run this command from dvdauthor and also ran it from command line and get the error below. # dvdrecord -dao speed=2 dev=0,0,0 /tmp/Pacific/dvd.iso WARNING: the deprecated pseudo SCSI syntax found as device specification. Support for that may cease in the future versions of wodim. For now, the device will be mapped to a block device file where possible. Run wodim --devices for details. dvdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver! For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'. For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'. For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from the wodim documentation. [r...@acer64 mickey]# wodim --devices wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) : - 0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GH15F' - dvdrecord is in /usr/bin/dvdrecord -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
using sudo
I've looked through the systems administation but cannot figure how to put myself in the file where I can use say sudo yum something without having to use su , passwd each time I need to be root thank you. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: OT: Cell phone connection to server
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, It has been suggested to me that we should setup a cell phone in a way that would allow us remote access to our Linux boxes in case of an emergency where the server was down (using a remote service board (ILO)). I've searched Google and found plenty of information on how to make an outbound connection, but nothing for inbound. The mobile broadband connections all give you a dynamic IP and are on-demand. So the connection would drop as soon as it was not being used. I thought that I could write a script to keep the connection alive and pass the IP but if the server goes down... It was said that years ago, you could connect a modem to a cell phone and that it would answer the call just like on a land line. If I could find something like that, we would be in business. As always, any help would be greatly appreciated. Is there some reason not to use a land line? This is going to be your last fallback, using a land line or IP connected service board would seem to be the well known tech, unless there's a good reason for being a pioneer. A netbook with mobile broadband would be plan B if you really have the need, it has it's own UPS, can connect and start a VPN if it detects the server is down, etc. For a long outage you might want a model which can wake on timer, has SSD, and otherwise can be useful for days without power. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: OT: Cell phone connection to server
arag...@dcsnow.com writes: It has been suggested to me that we should setup a cell phone in a way that would allow us remote access to our Linux boxes in case of an emergency where the server was down (using a remote service board (ILO)). There are smartphone clients for ssh. I've got one on my Android phone that lets me log into my Fedora box remotely. see: http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/ I only allow ssh RSA logins for security, so in my case I needed to make a fresh RSA key and copy it to the phone's flash filesystem. If you allow un*x passwords, just installing the ssh client itself is sufficient. -wolfgang -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
[OT] strip attachments from archived emails
I have to assemble emails for printing and there seems to be little reason to print the binary attachment and I would rather just strip them out. The emails are on my own imap server (cyrus) and I have copies of them but is there some reasonable way to remove the attachments? Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: using sudo
Hi Terry, I've looked through the systems administation but cannot figure how to put myself in the file where I can use say sudo yum something without having to use su , passwd each time I need to be root You need to edit /etc/sudoers file. Check man sudoers for more information. HTH, David -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: using sudo
On 24/05/10 22:11, terry wrote: I've looked through the systems administation but cannot figure how to put myself in the file where I can use say sudo yum something without having to use su , passwd each time I need to be root thank you. Look into /etc/sudoers. That's where you enable sudo. -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: using sudo
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM, terry xtly...@charter.net wrote: I've looked through the systems administation but cannot figure how to put myself in the file where I can use say sudo yum something without having to use su , passwd each time I need to be root thank you. I assume that you would like it where the sudo does not require a password either? In that case su into a root terminal login and type visudo. Twards the bottom of the file there is a line that is commented out that allows all users of the wheel group to access all commands without a password. Uncomment the line and save the file, i.e. :wq. Use the GUI User and Groups control panel to add yourself to the wheel group and logout and back in. If you did everything correctly then you should be able to sudo command anything and it should work without prompting for a password. Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: using sudo
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 16:11 -0400, terry wrote: I've looked through the systems administation but cannot figure how to put myself in the file where I can use say sudo yum something without having to use su , passwd each time I need to be root thank you. alt-f2 su -c visudo Sudo isn't a gui app, so there's no gui option to maintain it. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development. -- dmegg...@aix1.uottawa.ca signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: using sudo
On 05/24/2010 03:48 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM, terry xtly...@charter.net wrote: I've looked through the systems administation but cannot figure how to put myself in the file where I can use say sudo yum something without having to use su , passwd each time I need to be root thank you. I assume that you would like it where the sudo does not require a password either? In that case su into a root terminal login and type visudo. Twards the bottom of the file there is a line that is commented out that allows all users of the wheel group to access all commands without a password. Uncomment the line and save the file, i.e. :wq. Use the GUI User and Groups control panel to add yourself to the wheel group and logout and back in. If you did everything correctly then you should be able to sudo command anything and it should work without prompting for a password. Evil foolishness! One should always require a password for sudo. It's like an Are You Sure? prompt. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: using sudo
On 24 May 2010 22:07, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: On 05/24/2010 03:48 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: Towards the bottom of the file there is a line that is commented out that allows all users of the wheel group to access all commands without a password. Evil foolishness! One should always require a password for sudo. It's like an Are You Sure? prompt. Of course I am sure, that's why I prefixed the command with the word sudo ;oP -- Sam -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: using sudo
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: On 05/24/2010 03:48 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM, terry xtly...@charter.net wrote: I've looked through the systems administation but cannot figure how to put myself in the file where I can use say sudo yum something without having to use su , passwd each time I need to be root thank you. I assume that you would like it where the sudo does not require a password either? In that case su into a root terminal login and type visudo. Twards the bottom of the file there is a line that is commented out that allows all users of the wheel group to access all commands without a password. Uncomment the line and save the file, i.e. :wq. Use the GUI User and Groups control panel to add yourself to the wheel group and logout and back in. If you did everything correctly then you should be able to sudo command anything and it should work without prompting for a password. Evil foolishness! One should always require a password for sudo. It's like an Are You Sure? prompt. I don't setup mine with the NOPASSWD option, but he asked... :) Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: OT: Cell phone connection to server
The reason we are considering this is because the servers are going to be at remote client sites where we have no control over the network and placing a DSL or other hard lines are not desirable. You can get SMS controlled power switches. So the 'large attention button' can be activated from a phone. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: using sudo
On 05/24/2010 05:17 PM, kalinix wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 16:07 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: Evil foolishness! One should always require a password for sudo. It's like an Are You Sure? prompt. Yeah, and why not put script that ask you hundreds of times, Are you sure? And then, on one hundred an one time let you do exactly what you wanted to do in the first place. That's M$ crap. Linux users are much more smarter than that. Well, at least a large part of them :D I'm always sure, even as I delete an entire partition. Oops. In reality, the reason for requiring a sudo password challenge is that you don't want someone who walks up to your computer to have root privs. At the very least, they have to know your password to use sudo. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: using sudo
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 17:35 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: In reality, the reason for requiring a sudo password challenge is that you don't want someone who walks up to your computer to have root privs. At the very least, they have to know your password to use sudo. -- -- Steve Now, this is a little bit different than Are you sure thing :) Over and out. Calin Key fingerprint = 37B8 0DA5 9B2A 8554 FB2B 4145 5DC1 15DD A3EF E857 = poverty, n.: An unfortunate state that persists as long as anyone lacks anything he would like to have. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: ABRT is not reporting my bugs
Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/25/2010 03:43 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/24/2010 08:15 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Several times I had ABRT claim that my kernel oops report was succesfully uploaded, yet I cannot find the bug reports in Bugzilla. I have my Bugzilla login ID and password set in the bugzilla ABRT plugin. I don't think my oops reports are going anywhere. Any suggestions as to what might be broken. It might be loading it to kerneloops.org instead Although I understand that patching upstream content in Fedora is avoided wherever necessary, I think that Fedora kernels have sufficient amount of patching to make a good argument to send kernel oopses to the Fedora bugzilla, to be vetted by the kernel maintainers, before passing the oopses upstream. Generally, upstream kernel developers don't have a problem with users running Fedora kernel and filing bug reports directly upstream. The case for oopses is similar. The number of oopses that are related to Fedora specific patches are such a low number. Ok. Oh, and I did poke around the plugin -- it is indeed sending the oopses to kerneloops. It's a bit misleading, since the fields I get to fill in, before submitting the report, are Bugzilla fields, leading me to believe that's where the oops is going. pgpgenvTVCDkU.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: OT: Cell phone connection to server
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: It has been suggested to me that we should setup a cell phone in a way that would allow us remote access to our Linux boxes in case of an emergency where the server was down (using a remote service board (ILO)). I've searched Google and found plenty of information on how to make an outbound connection, but nothing for inbound. The mobile broadband connections all give you a dynamic IP and are on-demand. So the connection would drop as soon as it was not being used. I thought that I could write a script to keep the connection alive and pass the IP but if the server goes down... It was said that years ago, you could connect a modem to a cell phone and that it would answer the call just like on a land line. If I could find something like that, we would be in business. As always, any help would be greatly appreciated. What problem are you attempting to solve? Do you need a remote connection via your network, into your network, so you can check on the status of box foo? Do you need a remote connection into your network, in the case of a power/network outage, so you can check on the status of box foo? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold
Matthew Saltzman writes: On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 20:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/23/2010 08:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes remaining on battery power (varies). When there's a couple of minutes left, an automatic shutdown gets initiated. I would like to adjust the thresholds. I want to be alerted when I have about 30 minutes of power left, and initiate a shutdown when the battery has 15 minutes of power left. I cannot find any adjustment knobs in Power Management in preferences, for this. Are these settings adjustable somewhere? There are gconf keys : apps - gnome-power-manager - thresholds Is there one for what level to start recharging at? My battery manager under Windows suggests that the level should be allowed to drop to about 80% before recharging, to maximize battery life. But Linux seems to want to recharge at about 97%. Huh? Whether or not my battery is charging depends on whether it's getting AC power. If it's on AC power, it charges. When the battery is full it stops charging, and from that point it runs on AC power, without taking the juice from the battery. pgpIkvD170aFv.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: ABRT is not reporting my bugs
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 18:42 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I did poke around the plugin -- it is indeed sending the oopses to kerneloops. It's a bit misleading, since the fields I get to fill in, before submitting the report, are Bugzilla fields, leading me to believe that's where the oops is going. Their bugzilla? There's more than one. Though, they wouldn't be sharing your user details between them, so either they accept data without you having to set up an account with them ahead of time, or your bug reporting tool would have to handle creating a new account or re-using one it set up previously. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: ABRT is not reporting my bugs
On 05/25/2010 04:12 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Ok. Oh, and I did poke around the plugin -- it is indeed sending the oopses to kerneloops. It's a bit misleading, since the fields I get to fill in, before submitting the report, are Bugzilla fields, leading me to believe that's where the oops is going. File a RFE with Abrt and ask them to get it fixed by say, adding a note clarifying where the data is going. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 19:04 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Matthew Saltzman writes: On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 20:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/23/2010 08:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes remaining on battery power (varies). When there's a couple of minutes left, an automatic shutdown gets initiated. I would like to adjust the thresholds. I want to be alerted when I have about 30 minutes of power left, and initiate a shutdown when the battery has 15 minutes of power left. I cannot find any adjustment knobs in Power Management in preferences, for this. Are these settings adjustable somewhere? There are gconf keys : apps - gnome-power-manager - thresholds Is there one for what level to start recharging at? My battery manager under Windows suggests that the level should be allowed to drop to about 80% before recharging, to maximize battery life. But Linux seems to want to recharge at about 97%. Huh? Whether or not my battery is charging depends on whether it's getting AC power. If it's on AC power, it charges. When the battery is full it stops charging, and from that point it runs on AC power, without taking the juice from the battery. Not always. If you allow the battery to drain just a percent or two and plug it back in, it won't charge. If you drain it a bit more, it will. The Thinkpad battery manager from Lenovo takes that a step further, suggesting that that recharge threshold should be set lower (and it is settable)--around 80%. So even on AC power, the battery won't charge unless it's been drained below that level. The Lenovo folks apparently think that many very short charging cycles (such as if you usually run plugged in, but suspend to transport the machine rather than shutting down) or keeping the battery fully charged for long periods of time without draining it shortens overall battery life. Who am I to disagree? -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Importing an mbox into Imap
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Just import the mbox file into any IMAP client (Thunderbird, Evolution, Claws, whatever ...) I've tried this with fairly large spool files, on Evolution (painfully slow, and needs doing in chunks - select a month's mail, drag and drop it between folders), and Thunderbird (eventually fails part way through, even in chunks, with no clue as to how far along it got). So I'd like to find a good tool for doing this, too. -rw--- 1 tim tim 663987436 2010-03-05 18:21 /home/tim/mail/lists/Fedora Thanks to the slowness (the above would take hours and hours), I've left my mail server still running on FC4. The last attempt at moving the mail, aborted because I simply don't have the time to babysit a machine for that amount of time, I copied the spool file onto a newly set up CentOS box as /var/mail/tim and tried dragging the contents of the inbox to another folder through the IMAP server on the CentOS box, figuring that that'd be quicker that trying to network it between two mail servers. It was still excruciatingly painfully slow. I want to move from spool files to maildir, because it's getting impossible to use with huge spool files. Any status change of the spool file takes ages to complete, and you can't do anything else while you wait (e.g. you can't read another message). -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold
Matthew Saltzman writes: Not always. If you allow the battery to drain just a percent or two and plug it back in, it won't charge. If you drain it a bit more, it will. The Thinkpad battery manager from Lenovo takes that a step further, I think this battery manager thingy is some custom job for their hardware only. It's my understanding that charging and power management-related stuff is handled by the BIOS, and the stock power management interface to the running operating system is mostly an interface that reports the battery level and the charging status. I don't think that, per se, a generic operating system has any control over whether the battery is charging or not. The Thinkpad battery management thingy is probably using some Thinkpad-specific access. The Lenovo folks apparently think that many very short charging cycles (such as if you usually run plugged in, but suspend to transport the machine rather than shutting down) or keeping the battery fully charged for long periods of time without draining it shortens overall battery life. Who am I to disagree? I tend to agree. I think that my current battery is over a year old, and it's still at 85% of its original capacity. I've been running it on long discharge/charge cycles. pgp6PIeMNlBQK.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 19:04 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Whether or not my battery is charging depends on whether it's getting AC power. If it's on AC power, it charges. When the battery is full it stops charging, and from that point it runs on AC power, without taking the juice from the battery. It depends on the laptop. The older ones just have simply hardware control of charging, as you described. Newer ones have firmware control of charging, and some allow you to vary the parameters. In theory, more intelligent control of the battery should prolong its life (though mine only lasted about two years, so that's not an improvement). And I can see the potential for really bad settings to be set. I hope the firmware has sensible defaults for when an OS doesn't try to control the charging. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Available memory
In systemabout this computer I had 98.1 gib available memory. Now I have 95.1 oh were oh were did 3gib go? Did not install any new software, did update preupgrade. -- Henry E. Wyatt, Jr. 135 Main St. Apt. 604 Adm. Halsey Senior Village Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12601-6703 (845)337-3421 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Imap/s certificate issue?
On 5/24/10 12:53 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: I'm seeing the following on my mail server: May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: accepted connection May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: imapd:Loading hard-coded DH parameters May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: SSL_accept() incomplete - wait May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: sslv3 alert certificate unknown in SSL_accept() - fail May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: imaps TLS negotiation failed: builder.redfish-solutions.com [192.168.1.10] May 24 11:55:30 mail imaps[25484]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls() failed May 24 11:55:30 mail master[31932]: process 25484 exited, status 75 May 24 11:55:30 mail master[31932]: service imaps pid 25484 in BUSY state: terminated abnormally May 24 11:55:48 mail master[31932]: process 25328 exited, status 0 it's not clear why this happens, and indeed that host is able to retrieve email... ... Any idea what I'm seeing and why? which imap server are you using here? does the ssl cert in question validate ok? -- Rex I'm using cyrus-imapd-2.3.16-3.fc12.x86_64 It's a self-signed cert, so I'm not sure what you mean by validate ok... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Available memory
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Henry Wyatt hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: In systemabout this computer I had 98.1 gib available memory. Now I have 95.1 oh were oh were did 3gib go? Did not install any new software, did update preupgrade. I assume you mean Available disk space. It is the amount of disk space unused on your system, so it will decrease if you put more files into the disk. Even something as trivial as web browsing can add to this disk space even if you don't actually download and save anything to your disk. The space will increase if you delete files from your disk. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Available memory
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:04 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Henry Wyatt hewjr1...@gmail.com wrote: In systemabout this computer I had 98.1 gib available memory. Now I have 95.1 oh were oh were did 3gib go? Did not install any new software, did update preupgrade. I assume you mean Available disk space. It is the amount of disk space unused on your system, so it will decrease if you put more files into the disk. Even something as trivial as web browsing can add to this disk space even if you don't actually download and save anything to your disk. The space will increase if you delete files from your disk. He said he used preupgrade. That probably accounts for a fair amount of space, if yum is configured to cache package rpms. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: New to Linux - BIOS before 2000?
On 5/20/10, Rares Aioanei scha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, May 20, 2010 09:20:31 pm Mercury Rising wrote: hi, I got so tired of windows problems - viruses, screen - computer freezes, I just stuck in a Linux for non-geeks CD and loaded it. It wiped my hard drive as expected, but I kept getting an error near the end of the install. That was when I was using the Linux For Non-Geeks 2 CD set. A friend gave me another Linux loader, but it gives me an error saying my BIOS was 1997 and I needed a a 2000 BIOS or better. That loader is Freespire. The error message says: [0.001 ACPI:BIOS Age (1997) fail cutoff (2000) force is required to enable APCI Blue loading line oscillates and red hard drive light stays on continuously after that. The machine has a Pentium 3 with 550 MHz CPU with over 700 Megs memory but a small hard drive of just 10 Gigs with a swappable drive in pull out bay with a grab bar. I was using Windows XP Pro 2000 for OS. I installed a USB 2.0 on it that worked most of the time. The computer also has USB 1.0 hardware as well. I have done a lot of Google searches to see if I could find Linux and a GUI that would be as easy as a Mac or XP environment for a 1997 BIOS machine. Any ideas on a good Linux load for such an old machine? With the XP I could print to a office jet 7410 all-in-one printer, scanner fax with no problems. Browsing the Internet was ok, but video - youtube was mostly non- worable - mostly too slow. Ok, let's take it one step at a time : 1. We will need the error message you got related to the BIOS. 2. What did you mean when saying that you installed a USB 2.0 on it? 3. I think you have chances to find Fedora appropriate for your system, with carefully chosen applications installed. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
