Re: error during Rpm transaction

2009-12-03 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi You could try rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb But please check with http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch04s05.html first Antonio M wrote: during an update we get: Running RPM test transaction - si è fermato lì e non procede oltre...la barra va avanti e

Re: loopback mounting a LVM in two disk image files

2009-11-24 Thread Clint Dilks
fred smith wrote: I've got two files that are disk images of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, containing my F11 installation from my eeepc 901. I'd like to occasioinally be able to access files therein without having to restore them to the disks in the 901 (thereby blowing away my F12 installation, btw.)

Re: SCP works one way only

2009-11-17 Thread Clint Dilks
Konstantin Svist wrote: On 11/17/2009 10:36 AM, Aldo Foot wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Konstantin Svistfry@gmail.com wrote: For some reason, I can only SCP files off my new NAS, not to it. I've tried both using it as a server and as a client with same result.

Re: Upgrades driving me crazy....

2009-11-11 Thread Clint Dilks
Michael Pawlowsky wrote: Are there any other people using FC in a production enterprise environment? The constant upgrades are driving me nuts. We have machines at FC8-FC9-FC10 and FC-11. The main reason we are using FC is because one it's free (in a sense). The next one is that it does

Re: Advice for crossgrading from 32 bit F11 to x64 ?

2009-09-29 Thread Clint Dilks
Linuxguy123 wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:29 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: I do a lot of photo processing... things like generating 200 jpgs from raw files at one go. My laptop has 4GB of RAM but is currently only

Re: How much memory do I have?

2009-09-20 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi 4G is the Limit but your Bios can cause issues like you are seeing. Try going into your Bios options and seeing if there are relevant options there. On some Desktop Systems in order to access as much of the 4G as possible you need to be running a PAE kernel. Steven W. Orr wrote: On

Re: How much memory do I have?

2009-09-20 Thread Clint Dilks
Steven W. Orr wrote: On 09/21/09 00:23, quoth Clint Dilks: Hi 4G is the Limit but your Bios can cause issues like you are seeing. Try going into your Bios options and seeing if there are relevant options there. On some Desktop Systems in order to access as much of the 4G as possible you

Re: add an extra ip address to fedora server (one net card)

2009-08-27 Thread Clint Dilks
online.service@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I like to add an extra ip address to my fedora server. But here is my ifcfg-eth0 file in under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp TYPE=Ethernet ONBOOT=yes there is no IPADDR field. Where possibly i can find IPADDR

Re: add an extra ip address to fedora server (one net card)

2009-08-27 Thread Clint Dilks
BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=77.78.8.89 BROADCAST = ?? NETWORK= NETMASK=255.255.255.0 TYPE=Ethernet ONBOOT=yes What value would for BROADCAST and NETMASK ? Thanks again On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Clint Dilks cli...@scms.waikato.ac.nz mailto:cli...@scms.waikato.ac.nz wrote

Re: Anyone got F11 NIS working?

2009-06-21 Thread Clint Dilks
Ralf Corsepius wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: I installed some fedora 11 virtual machines at work today, and tried to configure them to use NIS logins, and the ypbind service always times out when it tries to start. All the config files I can think of to look at are identical on my F10 vms and

Appropriate way to contact a package maintainer

2009-06-17 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi, I am wondering if someone can tell me the appropriate way to start a conversation with a package maintainer. I know the Fedora name that the person has but am not sure of the correct way to find a form or e-mail address to submit a message to them. Thanks -- fedora-list mailing list

Issue with OpenOffice.org rpm version of Open Office

2009-06-16 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi People, Just a quick note to let those who use the version of OpenOffice from openoffice.org rather than the Fedora repo know that as of today there is a RPM version conflict that means the openoffice.org rpm openoffice.org-ure-1.5.0-9399.i586 will be updated with the Fedora Repo version

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-05-28 Thread Clint Dilks
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Robert L Cochran writes: I have a hard drive that I need to destroy the data on. What is the most dependable way to do this? Can reformatting the drive as ext3 or ext4 or some other filesystem effectively destroy the existing data? Is there free software that can

Re: incomplete shutdown

2009-05-27 Thread Clint Dilks
Thufir wrote: I recently installed Fedora 10, however the system says that it's shutdown completely but the power doesn't go off, I have to flip the swithc in the back to turn it off. I've run into restart not restarting, and having to hit the restart switch before, but an incomplete

Re: F9 /usr/bin/java is not owned by any package - huh?

2009-05-26 Thread Clint Dilks
David wrote: Newbie question: I'm surprised by the rpm -qf response: "file /usr/bin/java is not owned by any package" below. Is it a bug? Should I report it? Where? Or am I missing something? I'm on dialup so I don't have the latest version of everything. If you do, is it the same on your

Re: fdisk issues - external drive.

2009-05-11 Thread Clint Dilks
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I'm running Fedora 10 KDE 4.2 I have a new Lacie 1TB external drive. When I plug it in via USB or eSATA cable it's instantly recognized by Fedora. However I want the drive to contain an ext3 filesystem. So I do this: 1) # fsisk device 2) delete all existing

Re: Virtualization for Beginner

2009-04-21 Thread Clint Dilks
das wrote: Hello Friends As a member of a local linux group called GLT, a few different distros of GNU-Linux we have to handle. One or two versions of each Fedora, Ubuntu, and OpenSuse. Earlier, I installed more than one Linux on the HD just for getting some suggestion when someone is in

Re: sudo and privoxy

2009-04-08 Thread Clint Dilks
Learning vi is one of the things that's been daunting me, lo!, these dozen years or more Hi :) If you don't want to use vi with visudo all you need to do is set the EDITOR environment variable to whatever editor you prefer and this will be called instead of vi. Have a nice

Re: sudo and privoxy

2009-04-08 Thread Clint Dilks
Kam Leo wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Clint Dilks cli...@scms.waikato.ac.nz wrote: Learning vi is one of the things that's been daunting me, lo!, these dozen years or more Hi :) If you don't want to use vi with visudo all you need to do is set the EDITOR

Re: Maple on Fedora

2009-03-22 Thread Clint Dilks
Dave Feustel wrote: Has anyone experience using Maple on Fedora? Any comments? Thanks. It can be made to run but you have to do some minor hacking of the installer binaries. I have only tried it for Fedora core 6. So the new Fedora might be different. From my notes This is the hack

Re: User allowed commands -

2009-03-18 Thread Clint Dilks
Bob Goodwin wrote: Sharpe, Sam J wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: Can someone tell me how I can arrange to be able to run system-control-network as user bobg. It looks like I should be able to accomplish this via visudo but that is overwhelmingly complex. My objective is to be able to close or

Re: F10 nfs installs

2008-11-26 Thread Clint Dilks
Frank Cox wrote: Two related questions: I created a bootable CD from images/boot.iso on the F10 DVD iso. I put the iso file on my fileserver, then booted from the bootable CD that I just created and told the installer to do a NFS install and pointed it to the directory on my fileserver where

Re: F10 nfs installs

2008-11-26 Thread Clint Dilks
Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:52:56 +1300 Clint Dilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cant remember the specific details myself but I believe the release notes mention some changes you need to make if you are doing NFS based installs so you may want to check there. I checked

Re: Some questions

2008-11-25 Thread Clint Dilks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Fedora 10 (Gnome desktop on x86_64). 1- How do I install Adobe flash player? 2- How do I install Adobe PDF reader? 3- How Can I listen to MP3 files and watch movies? 4- How do I install nvida driver?

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-21 Thread Clint Dilks
Bjoern Tore Sund wrote: It has now been a full week since the first announcement that Fedora had infrastructure problems and to stop updating systems. Since then there has been two updates to the announcement, none of which have modified the don't update advice and noen of which has been

Re: kickstart file and fc 8 anaconda don't work ??

2008-08-05 Thread Clint Dilks
Gregory Machin wrote: Hi I have a kickstart file generated by an fc 8 install. but when I try and install using it linux ks=htp://192.168.2.203/ks.cgi anaconda crashes spitting out errors the same kickstart file works fine on fc 6 .. the file is below .. what have I missed ? # Kickstart file

Re: linux distribution

2008-07-06 Thread Clint Dilks
Ric Moore wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 10:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: ann kok wrote: what is the different between fedora and gentee Thank you for your help First gentee is an Open Source Free Programming Language. You probably mean gentoo. You can read about gentoo here

Re: F9 - repositories messed up, can't find Opera ?

2008-06-12 Thread Clint Dilks
linuxguy wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:02 +0930, Tim wrote: You have to get it directly from their website, and either do that yourself for each update, or let it check for updates itself when you use it. Thanks for the info. I did. Opera 9.5 is simply outstanding. The first

Help Identifying why a Fedora Core 6 System crashed

2008-06-11 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi, I know FC6 is no longer supported, but I was hoping that someone could help me identify why one of my systems recently crashed. Jun 5 20:12:23 cyclone kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at 1028 RIP: Jun 5 20:12:23 cyclone kernel: [810a607c]