Re: [CentOS] cups-1.3.7-32.el5_11.x86_64 may have a problem

2016-01-23 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have a problem I have been chasing for about three weeks and only occurred after cups was updated with cups-1.6.3-22.el7.  I would be interested as to whether any one else has had this problem, and would entertain suggestions as to how I can debug the problem. My Centos 5 server is a

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-23 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 05:50:15PM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Sat, January 23, 2016 5:20 pm, Alice Wonder wrote: > > Sometimes the direction of UI development in gnome really angers me. > > > > For example, when selecting a font for the gedit text editor - there is > > no way to ask it to

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:05:02 -0500 Mark LaPierre wrote: > The main reason I'm still using, nearly obsolete, CentOS 6 is because I > don't want to have to deal with Gnome 3. Install Mate on Centos 7 and you never have to touch Gnome 3. I did, and my desktops don't look or work any different toda

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-23 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 01/23/16 18:20, Alice Wonder wrote: > Sometimes the direction of UI development in gnome really angers me. > > For example, when selecting a font for the gedit text editor - there is > no way to ask it to only show monospace fonts. > > It's a fricken text editor, that should be the default - m

Re: [CentOS] How does Live CD find OS's?

2016-01-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Jonathan Billings wrote: > I know that in el7, grub2 uses os-prober > (http://joeyh.name/code/os-prober/), which is probably what it uses in > the LiveCD. Yes, thanks. I confused os-prober with grub2-probe, which is an executable file. Hopefully I should be able to work out why I am getting this

Re: [CentOS] How does Live CD find OS's?

2016-01-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Chris Murphy wrote: > Live CD does not have a troubleshoot boot sub menu option. If I boot into CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1503.iso there is a Troubleshooting option, and if I choose this there is an option to "Boot into Local Disk". Clicking on this gives a list of OS's to boot into. It seems this

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-23 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, January 23, 2016 5:20 pm, Alice Wonder wrote: > Sometimes the direction of UI development in gnome really angers me. > > For example, when selecting a font for the gedit text editor - there is > no way to ask it to only show monospace fonts. > > It's a fricken text editor, that should be t

[CentOS] Re: Just need to vent

2016-01-23 Thread Yamaban
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:20, Alice Wonder wrote: Sometimes the direction of UI development in gnome really angers me. For example, when selecting a font for the gedit text editor - there is no way to ask it to only show monospace fonts. It's a fricken text editor, that should be the default -

[CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-23 Thread Alice Wonder
Sometimes the direction of UI development in gnome really angers me. For example, when selecting a font for the gedit text editor - there is no way to ask it to only show monospace fonts. It's a fricken text editor, that should be the default - meaning you have to do something special to get

Re: [CentOS] HDD badblocks

2016-01-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 01/20/2016 01:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 7:17 AM Lamar Owen wrote: >> >>> The standard Unix way of refreshing the disk contents is with badblocks' >>> non-destructive read-write test (badblocks -n or as the -cc op

Re: [CentOS] How does Live CD find OS's?

2016-01-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > If I boot into CentOS on my home server from a Live CD or USB stick > and go to Troubleshoot, it lists OS's it finds on the machine. > How does it find these OS's? > Presumably it looks through all the partitions on all the hard disks > for

Re: [CentOS] How to get UEFI setting by shell?

2016-01-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016, 5:25 PM John R Pierce wrote: > > yeah, I just realized, duh, secureboot on a VM is not an issue at all, > so never mind all that. > It is an issue. Hyper V gen 2 has supported UEFI with Secure Boot enabled by default for a few years. > > I do think the whole secureboot thi

Re: [CentOS] How does Live CD find OS's?

2016-01-23 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 01:50:42PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > If I boot into CentOS on my home server from a Live CD or USB stick > and go to Troubleshoot, it lists OS's it finds on the machine. > How does it find these OS's? > Presumably it looks through all the partitions on all the hard disk

[CentOS] How does Live CD find OS's?

2016-01-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
If I boot into CentOS on my home server from a Live CD or USB stick and go to Troubleshoot, it lists OS's it finds on the machine. How does it find these OS's? Presumably it looks through all the partitions on all the hard disks for something that looks like an OS? But how exactly does it identify