Re: rawhide report: 20090724 changes

2009-07-25 Thread Paul
Hi, udev-145-2.fc12 --- * Fri Jul 24 2009 Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com 145-2 - fix file permissions - remove rpath - chkconfig --add for udev-post - fix summaries - add Required-Stop to udev-post Does this now mean inserting a USB drive into my machine will actually mount

Re: rawhide report: 20090724 changes

2009-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Here anything that initialises GConfd causes every single GNOME app to start eating all the CPU it can while becoming unresponsive So rawhide is dead again. Can we switch to Fedora 13 at once? Fedora 12 cycle has not been lucky -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie

Re: Firewall rules using SELinux context (Was Re: RFE: FireKit)

2009-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 24 juillet 2009 à 19:22 -0400, Gregory Maxwell a écrit : Not just port numbers. Well iptables already allows stuff like -A OUTPUT -m owner ! --gid-owner apache -p tcp --dport http -j REDIRECT --to-port tproxy so you don't have to open ports for every process -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Firewall rules using SELinux context (Was Re: RFE: FireKit)

2009-07-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 14:49:08 -0700, Roland McGrath rol...@redhat.com wrote: SECMARK. I sure didn't. I think I might now, sort of. The SELinux policy just says contexts, and it doesn't say anything about the port numbers. If you really just want to use local ports, that is available in

Re: rawhide report: 20090724 changes

2009-07-25 Thread darrell pfeifer
2009/7/25 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: Here anything that initialises GConfd causes every single GNOME app to start eating all the CPU it can while becoming unresponsive So rawhide is dead again. Can we switch to Fedora 13 at once? Fedora 12 cycle has not been lucky Yes, it

Re: rawhide report: 20090724 changes

2009-07-25 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:42:58 -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote Yes, it is particularly bad at the moment. For these cases (I have updated to current rawhide, but not restarted yet, and so far everithing still works) I have resorted to keeping a root fs with the last stable release (F11 in this

Release Notes for Fedora 12

2009-07-25 Thread John J. McDonough
The Release Notes Beat page at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats has been updated to reflect Fedora 12. IF YOU WERE A FEDORA 11 BEAT WRITER Review the page, if you intend to write the same beat for Fedora 12 that you wrote for Fedora 11, remove the asterisk from your name.

Re: Purging the F12 orphans

2009-07-25 Thread Mat Booth
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: List of deps left behind by orphan removal: Orphan: xml-commons-apis12    dom4j requires jaxp = 1.2 Does dom4j really require jaxp 1.2? Is it possible to make it work with the version in xml-commons-apis (version 1.3 I think)? -- Mat

fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, first of all i use linux since '94 so i've seen a few releases. and learned to wait a few weeks before upgrade. now i try to upgrade from a few fully update f10 to f11. it's a nightmare! on a 5 years old hardware with raid1 system and boot partition anaconda crash with dmraid error while i

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Alan Cox
on a 5 years old hardware with raid1 system and boot partition anaconda crash with dmraid error while i don't use dmraid just mdraid:-( and since preupgrade also crash with the same error there is no way to properly upgrade from the latest release to the next release! not even with nodmraid

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:41:53PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: md /boot is definitely broken, has been for ages and the bugs don't seem to have been touched. It's also obvious nobody bothered to actually test that case because the error paths in the install code don't actually work for that case

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think preupgrade

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: Fortunately the usual updating fedora-release, yum upgrade approach worked on my boxes. I'd avoid preupgrade anyway it seems to like breaking systems and leaving them half upgraded so you have to rescue the mess by hand.

Fedora-wiki is broken since this morninng (~ 06.00 am GMt+00)

2009-07-25 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello All! I'm always get this message while trying to visit pages since this morning: = Utf8Case.ser is missing, please run make in the serialized directory Backtrace: #0 /usr/share/mediawiki/languages/Language.php(1429): Language::getCaseMaps() #1

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Ben Boeckel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Farkas Levente wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Brad Longo
I wouldn't say Fedora 11 is that bad, but it has certainly has been problematic for me as well. I have to agree with Alan Cox that all of your issues were caused by preupgrade. The best thing to do is to create a separate partition for your home folder, then replace the operating system for

Re: Fedora-wiki is broken since this morninng (~ 06.00 am GMt+00)

2009-07-25 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 2009-07-25 08:05:53 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! I'm always get this message while trying to visit pages since this morning: Hi, this was due to a configuration error I made yesterday, can you check and see if it's fixed now? Thanks, Ricky pgpOJhR5xOHpS.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Fedora-wiki is broken since this morninng (~ 06.00 am GMt+00)

2009-07-25 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello All! 2009/7/25 Ricky Zhou ri...@fedoraproject.org: On 2009-07-25 08:05:53 PM, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! I'm always get this message while trying to visit pages since this morning: Hi, this was due to a configuration error I made yesterday, can you check and see if it's fixed

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Björn Persson
Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the configuration back into shape. Sound started working after I deleted ~/.pulse. The primary reason why Fedora 11 is the worst ever for me is a badly

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Alan Coxa...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think preupgrade is actually safe to use yet. My first thought

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/26/2009 12:41 AM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Alan Coxa...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think preupgrade is

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
On 07/25/2009 06:37 PM, Brad Longo wrote: I wouldn't say Fedora 11 is that bad, but it has certainly has been problematic for me as well. I have to agree with Alan Cox that all of your issues were caused by preupgrade. The best thing to do is to create a separate partition for your home folder,

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
On 07/25/2009 08:56 PM, Björn Persson wrote: Fortunately I had read in this list that upgrading breaks Yum so I did a fresh install instead, and only had to spend a few days getting all the configuration back into shape. Sound started working after I deleted ~/.pulse. and if you is broken then

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Björn Persson
Farkas Levente wrote: it was a mistake to mention preupgrade. i use dvd to upgrade my system only after the dvd installer crash i try preupgrade which also crash. As it's Anaconda that does the work with both Preupgrade and the DVD, it's not surprising that it crashed the same way both times.

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread drago01
Well I upgraded two systems from F10 to F11 using anaconda (booted the DVD), run a yum update after that and it works just fine. One of this systems have been running Fedora since FC4 and got updated to F/FC N+1 using the same method and still works. (FC4-FC5-FC6-F7-F8-F9-F10-F11) Seems like

yum-presto plugin by default

2009-07-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, Can we make it a default in comps for Rawhide? Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread oleksandr korneta
on 07/25/2009 11:46 AM Chuck Anderson wrote: I don't even upgrade anymore. I just keep two partitions (Logical Volumes actually)--one for Fedora N and one for Fedora N+1. interesting idea. Do you keep the same home for both? I don't do upgrades either, since the time rh9 to fc1 didn't

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:15 PM, oleksandr korneta wrote: on 07/25/2009 11:46 AM Chuck Anderson wrote: I don't even upgrade anymore.  I just keep two partitions (Logical Volumes actually)--one for Fedora N and one for Fedora N+1. I took this one step forward. I keep 3 partitions Fedora N,

Help needed with fedora-security-guide-en-US-1.0-16.fc12

2009-07-25 Thread Eric Christensen
I'm having problems with a Publican package (the Security Guide). Below you will see the latest build error from Koji. I'm not familiar with the error and I can't find anything listed on the wiki pages that I'm used to finding solutions to packaging errors. The SPEC file can be seen at

rpms/google-droid-fonts/devel .cvsignore, 1.2, 1.3 google-droid-fonts-sans-fontconfig.conf, 1.1, 1.2 google-droid-fonts.spec, 1.7, 1.8 import.log, 1.4, 1.5 sources, 1.2, 1.3

2009-07-25 Thread nim
Author: nim Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/google-droid-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv30201/devel Modified Files: .cvsignore google-droid-fonts-sans-fontconfig.conf google-droid-fonts.spec import.log sources Log Message: Ja Index: .cvsignore

[Bug 512867] please add DroidSansJapanese.ttf

2009-07-25 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512867 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 22942] New: fc-query does not detect Japanese in Droid Sans Japanese

2009-07-25 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22942 Summary: fc-query does not detect Japanese in Droid Sans Japanese Product: fontconfig Version: 2.7 Platform: Other OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal

rpms/linux-libertine-fonts/devel linux-libertine-fonts.spec, 1.13, 1.14

2009-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Author: jkeating Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/linux-libertine-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv4497 Modified Files: linux-libertine-fonts.spec Log Message: - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild Index: linux-libertine-fonts.spec

rpms/lohit-fonts/devel lohit-fonts.spec,1.12,1.13

2009-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Author: jkeating Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/lohit-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv9585 Modified Files: lohit-fonts.spec Log Message: - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild Index: lohit-fonts.spec

rpms/mathml-fonts/devel mathml-fonts.spec,1.16,1.17

2009-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Author: jkeating Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/mathml-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv31518 Modified Files: mathml-fonts.spec Log Message: - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild Index: mathml-fonts.spec

rpms/mgopen-fonts/devel mgopen-fonts.spec,1.15,1.16

2009-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Author: jkeating Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/mgopen-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv12024 Modified Files: mgopen-fonts.spec Log Message: - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild Index: mgopen-fonts.spec

rpms/google-droid-fonts/devel .cvsignore, 1.3, 1.4 google-droid-fonts.spec, 1.8, 1.9 import.log, 1.5, 1.6 sources, 1.3, 1.4

2009-07-25 Thread nim
Author: nim Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/google-droid-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv16254/devel Modified Files: .cvsignore google-droid-fonts.spec import.log sources Log Message: stupid fixup Index: .cvsignore

rpms/myanmar3-unicode-fonts/devel myanmar3-unicode-fonts.spec, 1.2, 1.3

2009-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Author: jkeating Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/myanmar3-unicode-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv15327 Modified Files: myanmar3-unicode-fonts.spec Log Message: - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild Index:

rpms/nafees-web-naskh-fonts/devel nafees-web-naskh-fonts.spec, 1.6, 1.7

2009-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Author: jkeating Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/nafees-web-naskh-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv24652 Modified Files: nafees-web-naskh-fonts.spec Log Message: - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild Index:

[Bug 22942] fc-query does not detect Japanese in Droid Sans Japanese

2009-07-25 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22942 Behdad Esfahbod freedesk...@behdad.org changed: What|Removed |Added CC|

[Bug 22942] fc-query does not detect Japanese in Droid Sans Japanese

2009-07-25 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22942 --- Comment #2 from Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net 2009-07-25 12:50:33 PST --- http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=117372 http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=tree;f=data/fonts --

rpms/freetype/F-11 freetype-2.3.9-aliasing.patch, NONE, 1.1 freetype.spec, 1.73, 1.74

2009-07-25 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Author: behdad Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/freetype/F-11 In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv15221 Modified Files: freetype.spec Added Files: freetype-2.3.9-aliasing.patch Log Message: * Sat Jul 25 2009 Behdad Esfahbod beh...@redhat.com 2.3.9-5 - Add

[Bug 18724] RFE: font merging

2009-07-25 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18724 Behdad Esfahbod freedesk...@behdad.org changed: What|Removed |Added CC|

[Bug 513582] segfault in FTC_CMapCache_Lookup()

2009-07-25 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513582 --- Comment #6 from Fedora Update System upda...@fedoraproject.org 2009-07-25 16:24:14 EDT --- freetype-2.3.9-5.fc11 has

rpms/oflb-goudy-bookletter-1911-fonts/devel oflb-goudy-bookletter-1911-fonts.spec, 1.1, 1.2

2009-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Author: jkeating Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/oflb-goudy-bookletter-1911-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv27168 Modified Files: oflb-goudy-bookletter-1911-fonts.spec Log Message: - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild Index:

rpms/oflb-notcouriersans-fonts/devel oflb-notcouriersans-fonts.spec, 1.1, 1.2

2009-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Author: jkeating Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/oflb-notcouriersans-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv27361 Modified Files: oflb-notcouriersans-fonts.spec Log Message: - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild Index:

rpms/oldstandard-sfd-fonts/devel oldstandard-sfd-fonts.spec, 1.5, 1.6

2009-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Author: jkeating Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/oldstandard-sfd-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv28842 Modified Files: oldstandard-sfd-fonts.spec Log Message: - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild Index:

[Bug 513582] segfault in FTC_CMapCache_Lookup()

2009-07-25 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513582 --- Comment #7 from Kevin Kofler ke...@tigcc.ticalc.org 2009-07-25 17:59:05 EDT --- What about F12? And F10? --

[Bug 513582] segfault in FTC_CMapCache_Lookup()

2009-07-25 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513582 --- Comment #8 from Behdad Esfahbod besfa...@redhat.com 2009-07-25 23:31:02 EDT --- I reported the issue upstream, so I'm

Re: [PATCH] Setup sigul bridge and client

2009-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 06:55 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Not necessarily related to enabling the builder repo: Is having the same rpm versions as the builders necessary? Yes. The bridge and server will be dealing with rpms that are being built by koji, and will need to be able to understand

vnc and inetd

2009-07-25 Thread Chris Kottaridis
I am trying to get vnc working via inetd on my Fedora Core 8 machine. I want to be able to use a vnc viewer to open up a window and get a login window, so I can be logged into the same machine twice under different usernames. I followed the man page for Xvnc:

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Friday 24 July 2009 08:50 PM, g wrote: Suvayu Ali wrote: On Friday 24 July 2009 08:03 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: I'm assuming the dirs are full of thousands of files. So, how do I get rid of them? Those are most probably cached files which never got deleted after you closed your

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread g
Suvayu Ali wrote: Oops! missed that -R. makes a world of difference for sure. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up

Re: F11: kill -9 doesn't work

2009-07-25 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 07/24/2009 10:40 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Terry Barnaby wrote: On 07/22/2009 02:07 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:02:09PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: Hi, I have noticed on several occasions, that running kill -9pid on a GUI 3D process that is locked at 100% CPU

cpuspeed problem - repost

2009-07-25 Thread solarflow99
I am wondering if anyone happens to have any idea about this, searching google seemed to turn up no results. service cpuspeed restart Stopping cpuspeed: [ OK ] modinfo: could not find module cpufreq-userspace Starting cpuspeed:

Re: 'Splain please re: mixer, alsa, pulseaudio and tvtime??

2009-07-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:20:36 -0400, William wrote: sudo alsa-info --no-upload --with-amixer --with-devices So, your onboard audio chipset is ALSA device '0', and the TV card does not appear as a second audio device '1'. That can be helpful, because lots of other tv/radio cards appears as a

Re: From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

2009-07-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 25 July 2009 00:31:09 Bill Davidsen wrote: PA is too damn fragile to use unless you are one of the few who has it work out of the box. It's a funny thing, but I have three very different systems where PA has worked perfectly out-of-the-box. I'm not denying that some people have

Re: acer one

2009-07-25 Thread roland
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:43:52 +0200, Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: roland wrote: I tried to do this, but he complains saying the stick is not bootable so I should use /sbin/parted Parted only allows to make a ext2 filesystem. How should I do this. Why does it work out of

secure log question

2009-07-25 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I have these lines in my logwatch report: - Connections (secure-log) Begin - **Unmatched Entries** gdm-session-worker: gkr-pam: couldn't get the user name: Conversation error: 2 Time(s)

Fedora 11 - re-mount a usb drive

2009-07-25 Thread FlatBall
I am running Fedora 11 on an old IBM Desktop box. Running as a server (NO GUI). When I mount a usb drive with the command: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb The drive mounts up just fine. (It took me forever to figure out that sda1 didn't work on this box.) The problem comes if I umount it and take the

Re: cpan2rpm not in fedora 11 repo??

2009-07-25 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 11:53 +1000, L wrote: Hi, when I install cpan2rpm for Fedora 11, it said No package cpan2rpm available. Nothing to do I looked at web and downloaded one from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=95871 why this rpm is not in fedora 11 repo? It's

Re: 'Splain please re: mixer, alsa, pulseaudio and tvtime??

2009-07-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:49:06 -0400, William wrote: amixer info - provides information about the default card. ]$ amixer info Card default 'pulse'/'PulseAudio' Mixer name : 'PulseAudio' Components : '' Controls : 4 Simple ctrls : 2 This is with PulseAudio running, however,

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:50am on Saturday, July 25, 2009 (UK time), g scrawled: if user is in directory /home/ranbir/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin' and he is looking at *directories*, he has to use 'rm -fR *' to remove subdirectories and their content. Or, 'rm -rf *' - those extra key strokes take years off

Re: [OT] I introduce myself

2009-07-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday 25 July 2009 00:30:32 Julian Aloofi wrote: Am Freitag, den 24.07.2009, 16:47 -0600 schrieb Elodh Elleuthe: Hello List: My name is Elodh. I am glad to join to the list of Fedora users. Greetings! Welcome on the list. Have a good time here! :D +1! And before anybody jumps

Re: Fedora 11 - re-mount a usb drive

2009-07-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
FlatBall wrote: I am running Fedora 11 on an old IBM Desktop box. Running as a server (NO GUI). When I mount a usb drive with the command: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb The drive mounts up just fine. (It took me forever to figure out that sda1 didn't work on this box.) /dev/sda is you

Re: active network connection stops working...

2009-07-25 Thread Rick Sewill
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 00:48 -0500, charles zeitler wrote: I was leading you on a wild goose chase...sorry. Looking at your syslog, your ISP is providing you with DNS servers. Jul 22 22:29:01 cthuga pppd[1964]: local IP address 76.236.148.89 Jul 22 22:29:01 cthuga pppd[1964]: remote IP address

Fedora 11 user apps + Rawhide Kernels?

2009-07-25 Thread Frank Murphy
Am I right here: F11 Repos excludepkgs=kernel* rawhide.repo includepkgs=kernel* -- Regards, Frank jabber | msn | skype: frankly3d http://www.frankly3d.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: [Slightly OT] Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:21:26 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: Even that is not a sure measure. How many people are using user agent switchers to fool sites about what browser they are using? At home I don't supply one when using firefox. (I used to have a patched

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 23:03 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: Hi All, Can someone tell me what these dirs are for and why they're so hard to delete: [ran...@ranbir plugin]$ pwd /home/ranbir/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin [ran...@ranbir plugin]$ ls -l total 523808 drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir

Re: vnc and inetd

2009-07-25 Thread Rex Dieter
Chris Kottaridis wrote: I followed the man page for Xvnc: = In the nowait mode, Xvnc uses its standard input and output directly as the connection to a viewer. It never has a listening socket, so cannot accept further connections from

Re: Fwd: acer one (forgot attach)

2009-07-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:31:03 -0400, NoSpaze nosp...@gmail.com wrote: I remember hearing Anaconda was rewritten from scratch for this Fedora release. When tried installing on qemu, I got the same message, if am not wrong. You misunderstood. The storage handling parts of anaconda had

Re: e2fsck -y wipe all my data

2009-07-25 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 00:17 +, yordy wrote: Hi I have a HD connected as USB device and cause for electrical problems in my home, my disk go off unexpectedly more than one time some weeks ago, a few days ago I can't mount neither of my linux partitions on that disk. Always I get this

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 08:25 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: Why assume? Why not just look at how many there are? Because the ls never completes and eventually bombs out with a too many files error. So, though I am assuming, it's not really an assumption. :) -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux

Re: active network connection stops working...

2009-07-25 Thread Jim
On 07/24/2009 04:35 PM, charles zeitler wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Rick Sewillrsew...@gmail.com wrote: You indicated there is no DNS resolution? What is in your /etc/resolv.conf file please? it is currently blank. Can you ping an IP address if you do not use DNS

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 03:50 +, g wrote: if user is in directory /home/ranbir/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin' and he is looking at *directories*, he has to use 'rm -fR *' to remove subdirectories and their content. That won't work - there are too many files. I ended up running this (while in

Re: Emacs Cannot find Fonts

2009-07-25 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 25 July 2009 05:40 AM, Jim Duda wrote: I'm running fedora 11. Can anyone explain why emacs won't start ? If I do this: $ /usr/bin/emacs I get in response: Font `-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1' is not defined However, if I then do this: $

fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
hi, first of all i use linux since '94 so i've seen a few releases. and learned to wait a few weeks before upgrade. now i try to upgrade from a few fully update f10 to f11. it's a nightmare! on a 5 years old hardware with raid1 system and boot partition anaconda crash with dmraid error while i

Re: Why Fedora is for experts only?

2009-07-25 Thread David Boles
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Saturday 25 July 2009 06:11:30 gil...@altern.org wrote: jack craig wrote: Really, pausing for a few seconds still seems to me like the best option. The way out is easier than I thought but when a newbie comes to Linux and he's already afraid because everybody says

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Alan Cox
on a 5 years old hardware with raid1 system and boot partition anaconda crash with dmraid error while i don't use dmraid just mdraid:-( and since preupgrade also crash with the same error there is no way to properly upgrade from the latest release to the next release! not even with nodmraid

Re: Why Fedora is for experts only?

2009-07-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Very long emails are less likely to be read, especially when they're so discursive. You seem to be more interested in topics such as market share than actual technical content, which is the focus of this list. If you have a technical question or comment, try to make it succintly. Or maybe this is

npviewer.bin

2009-07-25 Thread Randy Vice
What package contains npviewer.bin? It's not behaving very well and it respawns after being killed. :-( Thanks Randy -- : damoc...@thenostromo.com : Bruce Morrow, a man before and after his time: : The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood : : of patriots and

Re: npviewer.bin

2009-07-25 Thread Joachim Backes
Randy Vice wrote: What package contains npviewer.bin? It's not behaving very well and it respawns after being killed. :-( yum whatprovides '*/npviewer.bin' result: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin rpm -qf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin

Re: Emacs Cannot find Fonts

2009-07-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:19:01 -0700 Suvayu Ali wrote: Just do 'yum remove emacs' and then 'yum install emacs --enablerepo=rawhide', you wont regret it. Everything is so awesome in emacs 23 ... can't rave enough. Oh God, sounds like I'll have another weekend of finding and squashing helpful

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: Fortunately the usual updating fedora-release, yum upgrade approach worked on my boxes. I'd avoid preupgrade anyway it seems to like breaking systems and leaving them half upgraded so you have to rescue the mess by hand.

Miro 2.5 is out

2009-07-25 Thread oleksandr korneta
http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2009/07/announcing-miro-2-5/ when can we hope to see it in fedora 10? -- regards, Oleksandr Korneta I'm running F9 x86_64 and F10 i386 on x86_64 hardware, should this matter. /The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./ --

Re: npviewer.bin

2009-07-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:51:17 -0400 (EDT) Randy Vice wrote: What package contains npviewer.bin? It's not behaving very well and it respawns after being killed. :-( locate npviewer.bin will show you somethng like /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin the you can say rpm -q -f

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Farkas Levente
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: all of my system has a wrong openssl version all these symptoms sound like your upgrade went horribly wrong. I've seen preupgrade mash up a box by half upgrading like that. It's the main reason I don't think preupgrade

Re: acer one

2009-07-25 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 10:59 +0200, roland wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:43:52 +0200, Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: roland wrote: I tried to do this, but he complains saying the stick is not bootable so I should use /sbin/parted Parted only allows to make a ext2

Re: Why Fedora is for experts only?

2009-07-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
R. G. Newbury wrote: It is the lack of documentation which makes Fedora (and Mandriva, and Ubuntu) an OS for experts only. You forgot Windows, OS x, and a few more. Mikkel You are right. I did! Geoff -- Please let me know if anything I say offends you. I may wish

Re: Hardware recommendations for a 64bit kvm server?

2009-07-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 07/23/2009 02:16 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, Suggestions on motherboards etc for running 2-4 virtual machines for general purpose uses (suppliers in Australia would be good!). Thanks, Phil. I'm using Intel G45ID motherboards for 8 servers in a lab at work. Checp, supports full

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich
first of all i use linux since '94 so i've seen a few releases. Hm... there is no way to properly upgrade from the latest release to the next release! Since 94? yum upgrade. on system where anaconda do not crash f10 update's yum newer then on f11 iso's so the installer do not upgrade

Re: fedora 11 worst then ever release

2009-07-25 Thread Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich
I don't even upgrade anymore. I just keep two partitions (Logical Volumes actually)--one for Fedora N and one for Fedora N+1. I always do a fresh install, formatting the partition from the older install. This has the advantage of providing a backup in case the new Fedora doesn't work

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:18:47 -0400 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: Because the ls never completes and eventually bombs out with a too many files error. So, though I am assuming, it's not really an assumption. :) for i in *; do echo $i; done For subdirectories: for i in */*; do echo $i; done

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 10:37 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:18:47 -0400 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: Because the ls never completes and eventually bombs out with a too many files error. So, though I am assuming, it's not really an assumption. :) for i in *; do echo $i;

Re: active network connection stops working...

2009-07-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-25 10:19:52, Jim wrote: On 07/24/2009 04:35 PM, charles zeitler wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Rick Sewillrsew...@gmail.com wrote: You indicated there is no DNS resolution? What is in your /etc/resolv.conf file please? it is currently blank.

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-25 10:18:47, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 08:25 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: Why assume? Why not just look at how many there are? Because the ls never completes and eventually bombs out with a too many files error. So, though I am assuming, it's not really an

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:26:51 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: What's wrong with echo * and echo */* 1. Because the ls never completes and eventually bombs out 2. The entire directory listing shows up on one single long line with a simple echo * command. -- MELVILLE

Re: From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

2009-07-25 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 09:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: I have three very different systems where PA has worked perfectly out-of-the-box. Same here. I'm not denying that some people have problems, but going by my experience there must be many that don't. And again. -- [...@localhost ~]$

Re: no hardware acceleration?

2009-07-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, john wendel wrote: Not true. Software rendering refers to the display of 3D objects in OpenGL. Unless you have a very strange setup, mplayer won't be using OpenGL to display video data. I've got a box with a geforce 5200 LE, and it displays video just fine if I use the

Re: update for thunderbird on f11 ?

2009-07-25 Thread Mail Lists
On 07/24/2009 12:24 AM, g wrote: Mail Llists wrote: i follow support-thunderbird list and i do hate to say it, but there are a lot of bugs that need to be fix. I follow tb devel too - and b3 is way less buggy than b2 - and way better than tb 2.x. Yes there are still some issues ... it is

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