date:20120114


On 01/13/2012 06:18 PM, Tim wrote:

Such as, half using DHCP, then manually overriding
some of the settings sent out by the DHCP server (all those people
complaining about hosts or resolve.conf files being ignored - who should
really be customising their DHCP client, not directly messing with
networking settings).


My desktop computer doesn't use DHCP for anything.  It has a static IP 
on the LAN and the DNS numbers are put in here.  Why would NM mess with 
resolve.conf under those conditions?  And, although my laptop uses DHCP 
for its IP address, I set up the DNS manually, but NM doesn't mess with 
them.

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Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb


On 01/13/2012 06:32 PM, Greg Woods wrote:

I had read somewhere that you can only shrink partitions from the top
end. Was I wrong? That would be a lot easier than the dump/restore I had
been planning, similar to what Lester described.


You may be right.  If so, shrink the partition from the top, *move* it 
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takes a little time, but I'll bet it's faster than what you were 
originally planning.

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F16 problem with kernel updates on 64-bit

2012-01-14 Thread Jeremy Hall

Hi,

After an software update that has included a new kernel on my 64-bit
Fedora 16/XFCE machine, the latest kernel doesn't get used (uname -a
shows a previous kernel).

I couldn't see any obvious related errors in dmesg or
/var/log/messages, it may be a grub2 problem.

I tried swapping the top two entries in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and the
latest kernel does then get loaded.
(It is then the second entry in the list).

The 32-bit machine I have does not exhibit this problem.

Is this a known issue, or something I need to fix on my box???

Thanks
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Re: Moodle on Fedora 16

2012-01-14 Thread Roger



Thank you Daniel, Roger and Edik. I will try your suggestions as soon 
as I can.


Regarding the cutting edge thing, this is just my desktop machine, 
and I love Fedora. The production server will be somewhere else and 
will not be managed by me (it's a government training project). And 
surely it won't be Fedora, they have very competent people there to 
take care of it (most surely Red Hat server but it is not my 
decision). I only have a development site so I can work locally on 
developing the materials, so that when production is set up, we will 
already know what works for the project and what not (I mean for the 
training).


I'll let you know how it goes.
Ester

Trouble is one can spend a lot of time fixing cutting edge OSes, time 
that may be better spent on dev work. Been There, Done That. Was going 
to try F16 on my home pc but the list discussions have kyboshed that 
because I haven't got the time to play nowadays. Flat out developing 
Drupal Multi sites for a nonprofit organisation.
CentOS is, very stable Fedora. I truly reccomend using it rather than 
cutting edge apps for development work.
I've got Fedora 14, it's smooth and trouble free but as it is now 
unsupported am moving to CentOS soon. I use CentOS on the server and 
because I know Fedora it's home territory.
It also has the advantage that, because it's so familiar, it's easy to 
use Virtualbox, VmWare or similar to set up other Osses like F16, 
Ubuntu. windows, etc to play with and you won't break your workbench apps.

You can use xfce or any GUI desktop that suits your needs.


As an aside, My daughter developed a Moodle site for a school project 
and wants her school to move to Moodle but they are fixated on something 
called a VLA, which is not a patch on Moodle and has few if any of 
Moodle's capabilities.

Please let us know how you are progressing.
Roger



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Re: [Package] Skype x86_64 RPM for Fedora

2012-01-14 Thread Mohamed El Morabity

This is not a real 64-bit version of Skype, it's just a Debian
package converted to RPM using alien:

$ rpm -qip skype-2.2.0.35-2.x86_64.rpm
Name: skype
[...]
(Converted from a deb package by alien version 8.85.)

The Debian package itself only embeds the only available 32-bit
version of Skype with some packaging tricks to make easier its
installation on a 64-bit Debian.

By the way, this RPM wouldn't work if prelink is installed (this is
the case in a default Fedora installation): prelink modifies binaries
to fast up their execution. But the skype executable has a internal
routine to check if it was modified; in such a case, it won't launch.
You RPM doesn't contain any conf. file to avoid prelink from touching
the skype executable.

At last, did you get the permission from Skype to redistribute their binaries?

For all these reasons, I'd avoid this strange RPM like the plague...
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perl/cpan

2012-01-14 Thread Patrick Dupre


Hello,

I am trying to update perl and I get:
Upgrade  24 Packages

Total size: 13 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Check
ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:
perl = 4:5.12.4-148.fc14 is needed by (installed) 
perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-1:0.21-148.fc14.noarch
perl = 4:5.12.4-148.fc14 is needed by (installed) 
perl-Params-Check-1:0.26-148.fc14.noarch
perl = 4:5.12.4-148.fc14 is needed by (installed) 
perl-Module-Load-1:0.16-148.fc14.noarch


I guess that it is due to the complementary installation of perl
packages with cpan.
How can solve this issue?

Thank.

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Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

Tim wrote:

 On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 14:26 +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
 That's why I wish NM would stick to WiFi.
 
 It's there to deal with changing networks, such as my laptop being
 either wired or wireless, on any LAN, automatically.  And it does that
 fine, for me.  To force it into only dealing with WiFi would make it
 useless.

Do you mean that your ethernet and WiFi are on different LANs?
If they are, wouldn't it be simpler _not_ to use NM on the ethernet LAN?

In my case - which I would have thought was normal for home users -
both ethernet and WiFi are on the same network, 192.168.2.* .
It doesn't make the slightest difference if I plug in ethernet
(as I sometimes do, because it seems faster for some things),
whether I am using NM or not.

 Where I can see Network Manager to be a pain is when users try to use a
 badly set up LAN.  Such as, half using DHCP, then manually overriding
 some of the settings sent out by the DHCP server (all those people
 complaining about hosts or resolve.conf files being ignored - who should
 really be customising their DHCP client, not directly messing with
 networking settings).

I'm not sure what you mean.
How do you customise your DHCP client?

NM doesn't work with 2 of my machines -
an EeePC and an old machine bought at Lidl.
It also doesn't work properly with Orinoco Classic Gold PCMCIA WiFi cards.
The network service works on all these.

In my opinion NM software is absurdly complicated,
largely because it is trying to do too much.
And also because no-one has ever documented 
exactly what it is meant to be doing.




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Re: F16 ddclient fails to start

2012-01-14 Thread Michael Schwendt

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:14:48 -0500, TP (Terry) wrote:

 o/p from /var/log/messages;
 Jan 13 20:54:13 columbia ddclient[1758]: Stopping ddclient: [FAILED]
 Jan 13 20:56:32 columbia systemd[1]: Failed to read PID
 file /var/run/ddclient/ddclient.pid after start. The service might be
 broken
 
 I created a /run/ddclient folder, no help.
 Anyone have an idea?
 
 package version is ddclient-3.8.0-4.fc15.noarch

Spend some time here, please - http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/ddclient 

The reason for that misbehaviour could be that it's double-forking daemon
that writes the PID file too late.
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Mediatomb and file type

I'm trying to look at photos on my Samsung Smart TV, model D5520.
I'm running mediatomb on my computer,
and when I go to Smart HUB=Photos on the TV,
it does indeed see some of the photos on my PC.
But if I click on one of these, say 007.jpg, it says
Not Supported File Format

Is this because the TV does not support JPEGs,
or because it does not like the ext3 file-system?

If the former, what would the TV like?
And can I use mediatomb to translate to this on the fly?

Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

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Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Tim

Tim:
 It's there to deal with changing networks, such as my laptop being
 either wired or wireless, on any LAN, automatically.  And it does that
 fine, for me.  To force it into only dealing with WiFi would make it
 useless.

Timothy Murphy:
 Do you mean that your ethernet and WiFi are on different LANs?
 If they are, wouldn't it be simpler _not_ to use NM on the ethernet LAN?

I mean things like take the laptop home, it automatically joins my
network.  Take it somewhere else, it automatically joins that network
(well, once I've established credentials, it'll automatically join that
network, now, and the next visit).  And at home I have a wireless
network, but I could plug in the cable if I need to do something that
way.

And Network Manager manages that, I just plug in, or get near enough,
and connection just happens.  I don't have to fiddle around with
bringing some network interface up on the command line, with any GUI, or
any sort of list.  I don't have to change any settings to suit the
different network, Network Manager has handled changes when the network
came up (different DNS here, different IP there, etc.).


 I'm not sure what you mean.
 How do you customise your DHCP client?

Well, in the olden days, it was done in /etc/dhclient.conf file.  Where,
you added in overrides that your client should use instead of the
information supplied by the server.  Such as use some other DNS server
than it tells you to.

Of course, one problem with that is that people kept on fiddling with
their machine configuration, instead of setting up their DHCP server
properly.  i.e. Put in working DNS server addresses into the DHCP
server.

Nowadays it ought to be done through some Network Manager options, to
customise the particular connection you're using.  Again, it's the case
of configuring the network properly, rather than trying to bludgeon in
settings at a lower level.

 NM doesn't work with 2 of my machines -
 an EeePC and an old machine bought at Lidl.
 It also doesn't work properly with Orinoco Classic Gold PCMCIA WiFi cards.
 The network service works on all these.

I can't answer for that.  The same drivers are used.  It's just an
automation manager that follows a set of rules about what to do.  It's
worked on anything that I've thrown at it.  But then I have a working
DHCP server on my LAN.  I'm not expecting an automation tool to work
without the normal data used for automation.

 In my opinion NM software is absurdly complicated,
 largely because it is trying to do too much.

It's not doing very much at all.  Notice a network is available, apply
suitable configuration to your network to use it.

 And also because no-one has ever documented 
 exactly what it is meant to be doing.

On that I agree.  As well as a lack of good documentation, or even
explanation, there are some damn fool notices, like this one:

 NetworkManager: info  (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 37).

What the hell does that mean?  And, since there was no documentation,
the only way you could possibly find out would be to get the source
code, then reverse engineer the programmer's thought processes.

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Re: F16 ddclient fails to start

2012-01-14 Thread Terry Polzin

On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:14 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
 o/p from /var/log/messages;
 Jan 13 20:54:13 columbia ddclient[1758]: Stopping ddclient: [FAILED]
 Jan 13 20:56:32 columbia systemd[1]: Failed to read PID
 file /var/run/ddclient/ddclient.pid after start. The service might be
 broken
 
 I created a /run/ddclient folder, no help.
 Anyone have an idea?
 
 package version is ddclient-3.8.0-4.fc15.noarch
 
ddclient will start from CLI and and run persistently as a daemon.  It
seems that it just won't start at boot correctly as a service.


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Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-14 Thread Aaron Konstam

On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 16:23 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote: 
 On 01/13/2012 04:21 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
  On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote:
  On 01/13/2012 03:23 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
  Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to
  boot a computer in EFI mode.
  I have an EFI netbook and installed F16 on it. Worked fine, not sure
  what you mean.
 
  -- 
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  It is good to know that Fedora can boot using the standard booting
  system.But EFI is designs to use instead of BIOS and an MBR, a special
  partition called a GPT that the system boots from. GPT based systems can
  for example use more that 4 standard partitions and does not use
  extended partitions. It supports several bootloaders other than BIOS.
 
  For more information look at the December 2011 and January 2012 issues
  of Linux Journal.
  or:
  http://www.uefi.org.
 I guess the answer to your question is yes, Fedora 16 support EFI booting.
I guess, I must be specific. Does it insert a GPT partition where there
was none before? How does this affect a machine that had perviously been
partitioned without a GPT partition?


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Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-14 Thread Frank Murphy


On 14/01/12 14:59, Aaron Konstam wrote:


I guess the answer to your question is yes, Fedora 16 support EFI booting.

I guess, I must be specific. Does it insert a GPT partition where there
was none before? How does this affect a machine that had perviously been
partitioned without a GPT partition?




No unless you install as new, instead of upgrade.

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/11/15/fedora-16-gpt-disk-partitioning-guide/

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Re: F16 concurrency problem between network and sshd service

2012-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen

On Jan 13 17:00, JB wrote:
 Corinna Vinschen fedora at cygwin.de writes:
 
  ...
 I would suggest that you post it on Fedora devel list, or, file a report for
 a systemd component at bugzilla.redhat.com, in order to make the systemd devs
 aware of it (they may not read this list).
 JB

Right, I created a bugzilla entry.


Thanks,
Corinna
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Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

Tim wrote:

 It's there to deal with changing networks, such as my laptop being
 either wired or wireless, on any LAN, automatically.  And it does that
 fine, for me.  To force it into only dealing with WiFi would make it
 useless.
 
 Timothy Murphy:
 Do you mean that your ethernet and WiFi are on different LANs?
 If they are, wouldn't it be simpler _not_ to use NM on the ethernet LAN?
 
 I mean things like take the laptop home, it automatically joins my
 network.  Take it somewhere else, it automatically joins that network
 (well, once I've established credentials, it'll automatically join that
 network, now, and the next visit).  And at home I have a wireless
 network, but I could plug in the cable if I need to do something that
 way.

But would you plug in the ethernet cable anywhere else?

As it happens I do plug in my cable in two different locations
(in different countries).
As I said, I've had absolutely no problem in either place with this,
whether using NM or not using NM.
The computers ethernet MAC address is registered on both systems,
and I've actually used the same IP address in both places, for simplicity;
but I don't think that would have made any difference.

I haven't understood what problem, precisely, you would have
if you were not using NM?
 
 And Network Manager manages that, I just plug in, or get near enough,
 and connection just happens.  I don't have to fiddle around with
 bringing some network interface up on the command line, with any GUI, or
 any sort of list.  I don't have to change any settings to suit the
 different network, Network Manager has handled changes when the network
 came up (different DNS here, different IP there, etc.).
 
 I'm not sure what you mean.
 How do you customise your DHCP client?
 
 Well, in the olden days, it was done in /etc/dhclient.conf file.  Where,
 you added in overrides that your client should use instead of the
 information supplied by the server.  Such as use some other DNS server
 than it tells you to.

What difference would it make if you did name a different DNS server?

 Of course, one problem with that is that people kept on fiddling with
 their machine configuration, instead of setting up their DHCP server
 properly.  i.e. Put in working DNS server addresses into the DHCP
 server.
 
 Nowadays it ought to be done through some Network Manager options, to
 customise the particular connection you're using.  Again, it's the case
 of configuring the network properly, rather than trying to bludgeon in
 settings at a lower level.

It may surprise you to learn that NM does not work for many people
in certain situations;
so any system that assumes NM is running is just going to cause problems.

 NM doesn't work with 2 of my machines -
 an EeePC and an old machine bought at Lidl.
 It also doesn't work properly with Orinoco Classic Gold PCMCIA WiFi
 cards. The network service works on all these.
 
 I can't answer for that.  The same drivers are used.  It's just an
 automation manager that follows a set of rules about what to do.

Assuming It is NM, it makes certain assumptions 
about the facilities available on the WiFi card, 
assumptions that are not made by the network service.
In particular, NM seems to require (or used to require) 
that the card should support some kind of scanning.

 It's
 worked on anything that I've thrown at it.  But then I have a working
 DHCP server on my LAN.  I'm not expecting an automation tool to work
 without the normal data used for automation.

The NM problems I have with a small number of machines and cards
don't have anything to do with dhcp.

 In my opinion NM software is absurdly complicated,
 largely because it is trying to do too much.
 
 It's not doing very much at all.  Notice a network is available, apply
 suitable configuration to your network to use it.

I looked at the code some time ago
(in order to interpret some of the error messages it was throwing out)
and I found it very difficult to follow.
Admittedly I am not very good at reading code.

It seemed to me - though I might be wrong -
that the code had been subject to many modifications,
apparently by different hands.


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Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Marko Vojinovic

On Saturday 14 January 2012 15:11:00 Timothy Murphy wrote:
 I haven't understood what problem, precisely, you would have
 if you were not using NM?

Suppose you have a laptop and a desktop on your local LAN. Desktop is normally 
on a wired connection, while the laptop is normally on wifi. Then at some point 
you want to move a large quantity of data between the two machines as fast as 
possible --- most wireless cards are still 10 times slower than the wire, so 
you plug the ethernet cable into the laptop.

And then --- the wire doesn't Just Work. You need to open a terminal, become 
root, run service network restart (or ifup eth0 or click on some button in 
some GUI, or whatever...) to get the wire operational, in addition to 
disabling wireless and/or explaining the system to start routing through eth0 
rather than through wlan0. Also, what if it isn't your laptop and you don't 
have the credentials (ie. root password or sudo config) to activate eth0 
manually?

OTOH, when using NM, you plug in the wire, and it Just Works --- NM 
reconfigures everything for you and the wire is functional almost immediately, 
without any user intervention whatsoever.

It's just simpler for the end user --- the just plug it in philosophy is 
what most of ordinary (non-geek) people expect.

 What difference would it make if you did name a different DNS server?

Sometimes the default DNS server is unresponsive, slow, down, poisoned, or 
otherwise broken somehow (in some LANs it is even nonexistent, 
unbelivable...). In those cases (which are rare, but do happen here and there) 
I often reconfigure my machine to use one of the google's DNS servers, 8.8.8.8 
--- it's easy enough to remember, and I trust that it is always operational 
and well-maintained... ;-)

 It may surprise you to learn that NM does not work for many people
 in certain situations;
 so any system that assumes NM is running is just going to cause problems.

This is true, no app should rely on NM specifically. But if an app needs 
Internet access, it is going to assume that it has it, regardless of whether 
it is provided by NM or the network service.

The only real problem I've had with NM is when I need remote access to a 
computer while nobody is logged in atm. For example, if I want to ssh into my 
laptop from a remote location, the laptop is usually not connected to any wifi 
network if no user is logged on locally. But I bet even this can be configured 
nowdays, if I would need it often enough... ;-)

HTH, :-)
Marko


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Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-14 Thread mike cloaked

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com wrote:
 On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +, mike cloaked wrote:
 However nowadays I
 simply install the splix package and the system recognises the printer
 and it works without any fuss or bother.

 Oh, do you use the Fedora splix package, or rpmfusion?

 If the Fedora one, it would be useful to add the Device ID of your
 printer model to it so that the printer can be automatically configured
 when attached.


splix-2.0.1-0.3.2021svn.fc16.x86_64

Mine does auto configure - it is the Samsung scx4500W - and both the
print and scan works without issue in f16 - originally there was the
scx4500 in the defs, but not the 4500w, but the innerds are the same
for the printing part, and adding the id to the config made it work in
f14 - but now the wireless model is already in there in the past year
or so. It is possible that although the OP has a printer that is not
in the splix support list that adding in the id at the appropriate
part of the config would allow it to work with the existing files?  It
would need to be tested of course!
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grubby error during yum install of kernel

2012-01-14 Thread Steven Stern

Not sure if this is serious, but during this morning's update:

Installing : kernel-PAE-3.1.8-2.fc16.i686
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template


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Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-14 Thread Mike Chambers

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 08:59 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:

  I guess the answer to your question is yes, Fedora 16 support EFI booting.
 I guess, I must be specific. Does it insert a GPT partition where there
 was none before? How does this affect a machine that had perviously been
 partitioned without a GPT partition?

Try Partition Magic, it will get you a GPT partition even as a bootable
disc.  It's what I had to do as well, and same as what you're trying to
do.

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Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-14 Thread Greg Woods

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 00:47 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
 On 01/13/2012 06:32 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
  I had read somewhere that you can only shrink partitions from the top
  end. Was I wrong? That would be a lot easier than the dump/restore I had
  been planning, similar to what Lester described.
 
 You may be right.  If so, shrink the partition from the top, *move* it 
 so that the free space is at the bottom and Bob's your uncle.  Yes, it 
 takes a little time, but I'll bet it's faster than what you were 
 originally planning.

Turns out that it depends a lot on what you have on that first
partition. In my case, I've got a Dell laptop, and Dell always starts
the disk with a partition that contains Dell utilities, which is
separate from the Windows boot partition, which is separate from the
Windows OS partition (yes, three partitions for their standard Windows 7
install). So my first partition was just the Dell utility programs, so
it was easy to back it up, use fdisk to delete and recreate the first
partition starting at 2048 and ending the same place it did before, run
mkfs.vfat to recreate the file system, and restore the files. Presto!
Now I can actually make changes to my grub2 configuration and things
work.

If on the other hand your first partition were a bunch of LVM volumes,
you'd have a much bigger job ahead of you. For /boot as Lester
described, he can probably do it the way I did just as easily.

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Re: Fedora 16 instabilities

2012-01-14 Thread Fedora User

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:44:20 -0500
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak m...@avtechpulse.com wrote:
 
 I found the old style of unit scripts to be a pain in the ass. I'm
 not sure why people think it was so great.
 
 And systemd-analyze plot  plot.svg; eog plot.svg is the best tool
 ever...

Hmmm, Fedora esoterica

Never tried that before. I haven't the first clue what that huge image
is telling me but I am determined to find out.
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Re: grubby error during yum install of kernel

2012-01-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik


Steven Stern writes:


Not sure if this is serious, but during this morning's update:

Installing : kernel-PAE-3.1.8-2.fc16.i686
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template


If you upgraded to F16, and are on grub2, remove /etc/grub.cfg, to shut this  
up.




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Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Pete Travis

.fnord

 HTH, :-)
 Marko

This thread contains 32 messages, and has served as a forum for the list
regulars to discuss the relative merits of NetworkManager since the eighth
message.  I'm not trying to single you out, Marko - the OP hasn't been
helped by anyone.
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f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -



   .
   After changing /etc/default/grub [as part of my attempt to make
   a nice clean text boot display] to look as below:

   [root@box6 bobg]# cat /etc/default/grub
   GRUB_TIMEOUT=15
   GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Fedora
   GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0  KEYTABLE=us
   SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8

   I did the following as was suggested:

   [root@box6 bobg]# grub2-mkconfig  -o  /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

   Generating grub.cfg ...
   Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64
   Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img
   Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64
   Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64.img
  No volume groups found
   done

   And everything works pretty much the way I would like it to
   except that now I have to select the kernel version to boot else
   it boots to the older one.

   The grub screen shows them listed in the following order and
   defaults to  the third line 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 which I believe
   is not what it should do?

   3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64
   3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64 Recovery Mode
   3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64
   3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 Recovery Mode

   Assuming that 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64 is the later version how do I
   fix that?

   The old grub was a lot less mysterious and easier to deal with.

   Bob





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Mounting a partition within a dd image of a windows drive

2012-01-14 Thread JD

Dear all,
I have a dd image of a windows disk.

I run

losetup /dev/loop0 winDrive.dd

Then

fdisk -l /dev/loop0

and it shows there is 1 partition:

/dev/loop0p1 etc . etc.

However, I seem to have no way of mounting the partition, because
device loop0p1 does not exist in /dev directory.

Short of dumping the dd image onto another hard drive, is there
a way to mount the ntfs partition  in the dd image?
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Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -

2012-01-14 Thread Mike Chambers

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:26 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
 .
 
 And everything works pretty much the way I would like it to
 except that now I have to select the kernel version to boot else
 it boots to the older one.
 
 The grub screen shows them listed in the following order and
 defaults to  the third line 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 which I believe
 is not what it should do?
 
 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64
 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64 Recovery Mode
 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64
 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 Recovery Mode
 
 Assuming that 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64 is the later version how do I
 fix that?

On your grub2.cfg file, check the top (below) and see what it has for
default=...

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub2-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
  load_env
fi
set default=0


Might be 1 or something else.  If so, change it to 0 and you do NOT have
to run the command it says to run.  Just editing is enough.  Reboot and
test.

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Re: [Package] Skype x86_64 RPM for Fedora

2012-01-14 Thread Manuel Escudero

2012/1/14 Mohamed El Morabity pikachu.2...@gmail.com

 This is not a real 64-bit version of Skype, it's just a Debian
 package converted to RPM using alien:

 $ rpm -qip skype-2.2.0.35-2.x86_64.rpm
 Name: skype
 [...]
 (Converted from a deb package by alien version 8.85.)

 The Debian package itself only embeds the only available 32-bit
 version of Skype with some packaging tricks to make easier its
 installation on a 64-bit Debian.

 By the way, this RPM wouldn't work if prelink is installed (this is
 the case in a default Fedora installation): prelink modifies binaries
 to fast up their execution. But the skype executable has a internal
 routine to check if it was modified; in such a case, it won't launch.
 You RPM doesn't contain any conf. file to avoid prelink from touching
 the skype executable.

 At last, did you get the permission from Skype to redistribute their
 binaries?

 For all these reasons, I'd avoid this strange RPM like the plague...
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@Mohamed:

Hi there! how are you today? very angry I suppose... hahaha

Well, first: Yes, I used alien to convert the 64Bit debian package
into a 64 Bit RPM Package, (as I can't really recompile Skype without
the source) And that's why I didn't use the word compile on my announce,
If I had compiled it on a 64Bit machine, that would be illegal, but as I
just used
alien without touching the actual contents of the 64 bit deb package then we
have a win/win situation: We have a functional RPM for fedora and Skype
team
can rest easy without being worried ;)

second: if the package needs prelink as you said and it comes for default
in Fedora, I don't see any problems there, the package installs, runs and
it does everything very well without needing the 32bit additional libraries,
then why get picky about if it uses prelink or not? O,o I don't see your
point,
while the package works for a user, everything is okey, as it is only
intended to
work for users and not for rude packagers like you.

If you don't like it, then DON'T USE IT!! hahaha problem solved.

Thanks for your feedback.


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Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -


On 14/01/12 14:38, Mike Chambers wrote:

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:26 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:

.

 And everything works pretty much the way I would like it to
 except that now I have to select the kernel version to boot else
 it boots to the older one.

 The grub screen shows them listed in the following order and
 defaults to  the third line 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 which I believe
 is not what it should do?

 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64
 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64 Recovery Mode
 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64
 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 Recovery Mode

 Assuming that 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64 is the later version how do I
 fix that?

On your grub2.cfg file, check the top (below) and see what it has for
default=...

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub2-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
   load_env
fi
set default=0


Might be 1 or something else.  If so, change it to 0 and you do NOT have
to run the command it says to run.  Just editing is enough.  Reboot and
test.




   I'm stymied, file is different! Perhaps because my installation
   was from a live USB version?

   ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
   if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
  load_env
   fi
   set default=${saved_entry}
   if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
  set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
  save_env saved_entry
  set prev_saved_entry=
  save_env prev_saved_entry
  set boot_once=true
   fi

   function savedefault {
  if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
  fi
   }

   Maybe I need to create a new grub2? That would be a science project!

   I've done the last several installs that way but this is a new
   problem.

   Bob


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Re: Mounting a partition within a dd image of a windows drive

2012-01-14 Thread Jon Ingason


2012-01-14 20:33, JD skrev:

Dear all,
I have a dd image of a windows disk.

I run

losetup /dev/loop0 winDrive.dd

Then

fdisk -l /dev/loop0

and it shows there is 1 partition:

/dev/loop0p1 etc . etc.

However, I seem to have no way of mounting the partition, because
device loop0p1 does not exist in /dev directory.

Short of dumping the dd image onto another hard drive, is there
a way to mount the ntfs partition  in the dd image?




Why not just mount the file as described in man mount:

THE LOOP DEVICE
   One  further possible type is a mount via the loop device. For
   example, the command

  mount /tmp/disk.img /mnt -t vfat -o loop=/dev/loop

   will set up the loop  device  /dev/loop3  to  correspond  to
   the  file /tmp/disk.img, and then mount this device on /mnt.

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Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -


On 14/01/12 15:48, Bob Goodwin wrote:

On 14/01/12 14:38, Mike Chambers wrote:

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:26 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:

.

 And everything works pretty much the way I would like it to
 except that now I have to select the kernel version to boot 
else

 it boots to the older one.

 The grub screen shows them listed in the following order and
 defaults to  the third line 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 which I 
believe

 is not what it should do?

 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64
 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64 Recovery Mode
 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64
 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64 Recovery Mode

 Assuming that 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64 is the later version how 
do I

 fix that?

On your grub2.cfg file, check the top (below) and see what it has for
default=...

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub2-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
   load_env
fi
set default=0


Might be 1 or something else.  If so, change it to 0 and you do NOT have
to run the command it says to run.  Just editing is enough.  Reboot and
test.




   I'm stymied, file is different! Perhaps because my installation
   was from a live USB version?

   ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
   if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
  load_env
   fi
   set default=${saved_entry}
   if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
  set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
  save_env saved_entry
  set prev_saved_entry=
  save_env prev_saved_entry
  set boot_once=true
   fi

   function savedefault {
  if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
  fi
   }

   Maybe I need to create a new grub2? That would be a science 
project!


   I've done the last several installs that way but this is a new
   problem.

   Bob




.


   It looks like changing GRUB_DEFAULT=saved to  GRUB_DEFAULT=0
   in /etc/default/grub might work but if it doesn't I wont be able
   to reboot to repair things, and then what will happen when a new
   kernel come along? Problem is my ignorance ...

   GRUB_TIMEOUT=15
   GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Fedora
   GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0
   KEYTABLE=us SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.luks=0
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8


   Any ideas, suggestions?

   Bob



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F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread sean darcy

I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus. Ive rebuilt 
libmtp for 1.1.2, whci supports the phone.


mtp-detect finds it:

mtp-detect
libmtp version: 1.1.2

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7510/Galaxy Tab 
10.1/S2/GT-N7000/Galaxy Nexus.

   Found 1 device(s):
   Samsung: GT-P7510/Galaxy Tab 10.1/S2/GT-N7000/Galaxy Nexus 
(04e8:6860) @ bus 2, dev 7

.
libmtp supported (playable) filetypes:
   Folder
   Text file
   HTML file
   RIFF WAVE file
   ISO MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
   MPEG video stream
   JPEG file
   GIF bitmap file
   JFIF file
   Portable Network Graphics
   TIFF bitmap file
   Microsoft Windows Media Audio
   Ogg container format
   Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)/MPEG-2 Part 7/MPEG-4 Part 3
   MPEG-4 Part 14 Container Format (Audio+Video Emphasis)
   ISO MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2
   Abstract Playlist file
   XML file
   Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
OK.

But nothing shows up as files. I can't find anything on yum that would 
act as a file manager. How do I actually transfer files to the nexus?


sean

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Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -


On 01/14/2012 01:15 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:

It looks like changing GRUB_DEFAULT=saved to  GRUB_DEFAULT=0
in /etc/default/grub might work but if it doesn't I wont be able
to reboot to repair things, and then what will happen when a new
kernel come along? Problem is my ignorance ...

GRUB_TIMEOUT=15


Not as long as you don't change the value of that parameter to 0. 
Fifteen seconds is probably more than most people need (I find five 
seconds to be ample.) to decide not to boot from the default and press a 
key.  Once grub detects a keystroke, it waits for you to select a 
kernel, do any editing you need and tell it to boot.

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Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-14 Thread Jim


On 01/14/2012 11:29 AM, mike cloaked wrote:

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Tim Waughtwa...@redhat.com  wrote:

On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +, mike cloaked wrote:

However nowadays I
simply install the splix package and the system recognises the printer
and it works without any fuss or bother.

Oh, do you use the Fedora splix package, or rpmfusion?

If the Fedora one, it would be useful to add the Device ID of your
printer model to it so that the printer can be automatically configured
when attached.


splix-2.0.1-0.3.2021svn.fc16.x86_64

Mine does auto configure - it is the Samsung scx4500W - and both the
print and scan works without issue in f16 - originally there was the
scx4500 in the defs, but not the 4500w, but the innerds are the same
for the printing part, and adding the id to the config made it work in
f14 - but now the wireless model is already in there in the past year
or so. It is possible that although the OP has a printer that is not
in the splix support list that adding in the id at the appropriate
part of the config would allow it to work with the existing files?  It
would need to be tested of course!

Mike where is this Splix Config file ?
I have Splix installed.
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Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

On 01/14/2012 10:30 PM, sean darcy wrote:

I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus. Ive rebuilt
libmtp for 1.1.2, whci supports the phone.

mtp-detect finds it:

mtp-detect
libmtp version: 1.1.2

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7510/Galaxy Tab
10.1/S2/GT-N7000/Galaxy Nexus.
Found 1 device(s):
Samsung: GT-P7510/Galaxy Tab 10.1/S2/GT-N7000/Galaxy Nexus (04e8:6860) @
bus 2, dev 7
.
libmtp supported (playable) filetypes:
Folder
Text file
HTML file
RIFF WAVE file
ISO MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
MPEG video stream
JPEG file
GIF bitmap file
JFIF file
Portable Network Graphics
TIFF bitmap file
Microsoft Windows Media Audio
Ogg container format
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)/MPEG-2 Part 7/MPEG-4 Part 3
MPEG-4 Part 14 Container Format (Audio+Video Emphasis)
ISO MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2
Abstract Playlist file
XML file
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
OK.

But nothing shows up as files. I can't find anything on yum that would
act as a file manager. How do I actually transfer files to the nexus?

MTP is broken under GNU/Linux. I filed bug reports with the project but
nothing happening there. You can use web-based apps to transfer data
between the two devices. You don't need to install anything on your
Linux box.

http://www.muktware.com/articles/3115/how-connect-your-android-device-linux-ubuntu-opensuse

This is for Ubuntu but since OS is irrelevant it will work with Fedora
as well.

Swapnil
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Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -

2012-01-14 Thread Frank Murphy


On 14/01/12 21:15, Bob Goodwin wrote:


GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

change to:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
save

then re-run.

grub2-mkconfig -o /bootgrub2/grub.cfg
It will then boot from the 0 (first kernel)

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Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb [SOLVED]

2012-01-14 Thread Lester M Petrie


On 01/13/2012 08:17 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:


On Jan 13, 2012 10:29 PM, Lester M Petrie lmpet...@bellsouth.net
mailto:lmpet...@bellsouth.net wrote:



cp -a /boot /root
umount /boot

Fdisk cfdisk parted gparted etc

After created mount it again and

Cp -a /root/boot /

Grub install now

And youre done



OK, what I did, and a couple of steps that I should have done

#cp -a /boot /root

#umount /boot

#gparted
 delete /dev/sdb3 (/boot, physically 1st partiton on disk)
 create a new /dev/sdb3 (starts at 1Mib by default)
 turn on boot flag for new partition
 quit

#cp -a /root/boot /

#grub2-install /dev/sdb

At this point there are 2 more steps I should have done

#grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

edit /etc/fstab to replace the UUID for mounting /boot

Somewhere in what I did or had to do in rescue mode messed up the 
SELinux labeling, and one of the reboots relabeled.  Overall it should 
have been about a 10 minute procedure, but it took me about an hour.  If 
the partition that had to be shrunk was not boot, but something larger, 
backing it up and restoring it might be more difficult and time consuming.


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Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus


On 01/14/2012 01:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

MTP is broken under GNU/Linux. I filed bug reports with the project but
nothing happening there. You can use web-based apps to transfer data
between the two devices. You don't need to install anything on your
Linux box.

http://www.muktware.com/articles/3115/how-connect-your-android-device-linux-ubuntu-opensuse



Thank you for telling me why I don't want to get an Android.  The only 
way I can get WiFi at home is by connecting to some neighbor's unsecured 
hotspot, which I don't like doing, and without WiFi this trick doesn't 
work.  Of course, if I did have proper WiFi access, I'd feel 
differently.  It's good to know that there's a way to swap files with an 
Android under Linux, even if it's not practical for me.

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Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus


On 01/14/2012 11:06 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 01/14/2012 01:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

MTP is broken under GNU/Linux. I filed bug reports with the project but
nothing happening there. You can use web-based apps to transfer data
between the two devices. You don't need to install anything on your
Linux box.

http://www.muktware.com/articles/3115/how-connect-your-android-device-linux-ubuntu-opensuse




Thank you for telling me why I don't want to get an Android. The only
way I can get WiFi at home is by connecting to some neighbor's unsecured
hotspot, which I don't like doing, and without WiFi this trick doesn't
work. Of course, if I did have proper WiFi access, I'd feel differently.
It's good to know that there's a way to swap files with an Android under
Linux, even if it's not practical for me.


I think the support will improve as more ICS devices come to the market 
as most of Android developers are GNU/Linux users. I have 3 Android 
devices and I will never buy an iOS devices.


Please check this thread
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1039265

Swapnil

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Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:06 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
 On 01/14/2012 01:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
  MTP is broken under GNU/Linux. I filed bug reports with the project but
  nothing happening there. You can use web-based apps to transfer data
  between the two devices. You don't need to install anything on your
  Linux box.
 
  http://www.muktware.com/articles/3115/how-connect-your-android-device-linux-ubuntu-opensuse
 
 
 Thank you for telling me why I don't want to get an Android.  The only 
 way I can get WiFi at home is by connecting to some neighbor's unsecured 
 hotspot, which I don't like doing, and without WiFi this trick doesn't 
 work.  Of course, if I did have proper WiFi access, I'd feel 
 differently.  It's good to know that there's a way to swap files with an 
 Android under Linux, even if it's not practical for me.

AFAIK (I don't have any Android devices) the restriction to MTP is only
for some recent smartphones, notable the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (not the
Android Galaxy Nexus as the OP has it). Others can be connected as
disk drives.

poc

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Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

On 01/14/2012 11:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:06 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 01/14/2012 01:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

http://www.muktware.com/articles/3115/how-connect-your-android-device-linux-ubuntu-opensuse

Thank you for telling me why I don't want to get an Android. The only
way I can get WiFi at home is by connecting to some neighbor's unsecured
hotspot, which I don't like doing, and without WiFi this trick doesn't
work. Of course, if I did have proper WiFi access, I'd feel
differently. It's good to know that there's a way to swap files with an
Android under Linux, even if it's not practical for me.

AFAIK (I don't have any Android devices) the restriction to MTP is only
for some recent smartphones, notable the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (not the
Android Galaxy Nexus as the OP has it). Others can be connected as
disk drives.

Android 3.x and after (4.0) dropped mass storage support and uses MTP so
every device which is running 3.x or 4.x uses MTP. Yes, if it also has a
SD card that the SD card can be mounted as mass storage. MTP has
advantage as there is no restriction on how much storage to be reserved
for application thus allowing one to install as many applications as she
wants.

Since Android 4.x is going to be the OS installed on all Android devices
it is a big challenge for Linux distros.

Swapnil
PS: How about starting a petition asking Google to release a Linux
client for Android 4.x???

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Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus


On 01/14/2012 02:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

Others can be connected as
disk drives.


I sit corrected.
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Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus


On 01/14/2012 11:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 01/14/2012 02:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

Others can be connected as
disk drives.


I sit corrected.


Yes sir.

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Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread sean darcy

On 01/14/2012 04:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

On 01/14/2012 10:30 PM, sean darcy wrote:

I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus. Ive rebuilt
libmtp for 1.1.2, whci supports the phone.

mtp-detect finds it:

mtp-detect
libmtp version: 1.1.2

But nothing shows up as files. I can't find anything on yum that would
act as a file manager. How do I actually transfer files to the nexus?

http://www.muktware.com/articles/3115/how-connect-your-android-device-linux-ubuntu-opensuse

This is for Ubuntu but since OS is irrelevant it will work with Fedora
as well.

Swapnil
That has the same problem as WiFi File Explorer: you can't copy folders,
only files.

I'll probably just borrow a windows machine.

sean

Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -


On 14/01/12 16:57, Frank Murphy wrote:

On 14/01/12 21:15, Bob Goodwin wrote:


GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

change to:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
save

then re-run.

grub2-mkconfig -o /bootgrub2/grub.cfg
It will then boot from the 0 (first kernel)



   Yes that fixed the problem, now it boots on the first kernel
   listed and I have everything displayed in the boot sequence.
   I don't like to sit here looking at a blank screen or
   progress symbol wondering why it's taking so long!

   Thanks to Mike, Colin, and Frank. I would not have done that
   without a second opinion for fear of painting myself into a
   corner.

   Bob


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Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

On 01/14/2012 11:22 PM, sean darcy wrote:

On 01/14/2012 04:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

On 01/14/2012 10:30 PM, sean darcy wrote:

I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus. Ive rebuilt
libmtp for 1.1.2, whci supports the phone.

mtp-detect finds it:

mtp-detect
libmtp version: 1.1.2

But nothing shows up as files. I can't find anything on yum that would
act as a file manager. How do I actually transfer files to the nexus?

http://www.muktware.com/articles/3115/how-connect-your-android-device-linux-ubuntu-opensuse

This is for Ubuntu but since OS is irrelevant it will work with Fedora
as well.

Swapnil

That has the same problem as WiFi File Explorer: you can't copy folders,
only files.

Right. It can export folders but as compressed. What I used to do was
create a folder of same name and then copy all files. Much simpler than
borrowing windows.

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread sean darcy

On 01/14/2012 05:29 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

On 01/14/2012 11:22 PM, sean darcy wrote:

On 01/14/2012 04:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

On 01/14/2012 10:30 PM, sean darcy wrote:

I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus. Ive rebuilt
libmtp for 1.1.2, whci supports the phone.

mtp-detect finds it:

mtp-detect
libmtp version: 1.1.2

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7510/Galaxy Tab
10.1/S2/GT-N7000/Galaxy Nexus.
Found 1 device(s):
Samsung: GT-P7510/Galaxy Tab 10.1/S2/GT-N7000/Galaxy Nexus
(04e8:6860) @
bus 2, dev 7
.
libmtp supported (playable) filetypes:
Folder
Text file
HTML file
RIFF WAVE file
ISO MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
MPEG video stream
JPEG file
GIF bitmap file
JFIF file
Portable Network Graphics
TIFF bitmap file
Microsoft Windows Media Audio
Ogg container format
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)/MPEG-2 Part 7/MPEG-4 Part 3
MPEG-4 Part 14 Container Format (Audio+Video Emphasis)
ISO MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2
Abstract Playlist file
XML file
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
OK.

But nothing shows up as files. I can't find anything on yum that would
act as a file manager. How do I actually transfer files to the nexus?

http://www.muktware.com/articles/3115/how-connect-your-android-device-linux-ubuntu-opensuse

This is for Ubuntu but since OS is irrelevant it will work with Fedora
as well.

Swapnil

That has the same problem as WiFi File Explorer: you can't copy folders,
only files.

Right. It can export folders but as compressed. What I used to do was
create a folder of same name and then copy all files. Much simpler than
borrowing windows.

Swapnil

Yeah, but that doesn't work for nested folders.

BTW, I'm not sure MTP is busted, but the Fedora repository just doesn't
have a front-end to libmtp.

And yes, it's only some Android phones that can't use usb mass storage:
but it's any phone without a removable storage card.

sean

flash drive reporting wrong size, how to fix?

2012-01-14 Thread Ian Malone

Hi,

I've got a 2GB microSD card that I've been using a while (so I'm
confident that at one point it was a 2GB card and isn't a 'fake').
Recently it stopped responding (the last place it was used was in my
phone) and on plugging it into my computer (I've got two separate
adaptors, one a USB-microSD, the other a microSD-SD and have tried it
in two machines) it now shows up as having no partitions and an
unpartitioned capacity of ~48MB. I suspect it's failed somehow and
they're not expensive to replace, but I'd be interested to know if
there are any tools that I could use to try and re-program it to show
the correct size again. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time.
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