Re: Help: No internet connection

2009-12-15 Thread Simon Andrews
On 11/12/2009 23:27, Simon Schneebeli wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Simon Schneebeli writes: Through the network connection, I manage to establish a connection with my wireless ADSL model. It also works through a wired connection. Ping works. But neither Firefox nor any other programme manage

Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Simon Andrews
Mikkel wrote: I ran into something strange with cron in FC12. The monthly cron jobs ran on December 2nd, instead of December 1st. The system was up continually from before November 30th, until after December 2nd. But for some strange reason the monthly jobs were run on the 2nd. This is a

Re: F12 text mode and disk layout

2009-12-03 Thread Simon Andrews
Andrea wrote: Hi, I've just installed F12 on a PS3. Only text mode installation works due to the amount of RAM available. I would like to partition my hard disk to have / and /home in a different partition. Single big reason is that new reinstall I keep /home instead of loosing it. So, the

Re: abrt fail :(

2009-11-27 Thread Simon Andrews
Valent Turkovic wrote: I got empathy crash that I liked to report via abrt but it fails with this message: XML-RPC Fault: libcurl failed to execute the HTTP POST transaction. Any suggestions? Are you behind a proxy? There's a bug open where ABRT doesn't read proxy info and tries to send

Re: livecds in the future

2009-11-24 Thread Simon Andrews
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/24/2009 02:21 AM, Ben Williams wrote: If release engineering would like to release liveusb.iso for people to use to install or just to look at the new features, that is fine But from the #fedora channel the # of people installing off of the livecd images are very

NFS upgrades to F12 failing

2009-11-18 Thread Simon Andrews
Has anyone managed to successfully do an nfs based install/upgrade to F12? On our machines the inital nfs mount is failing. If you try the mount manually then you get an error saying: mount -t nfs servername:/iso/dir /mnt/isodir mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote

Re: Upgrades driving me crazy....

2009-11-12 Thread Simon Andrews
Michael Pawlowsky wrote: Are there any other people using FC in a production enterprise environment? Production, certainly. We have 7 fedora servers all providing public facing services over a range of different functionalities. All are running F11. The constant upgrades are driving me

Re: firefox file-upload broken?

2009-09-09 Thread Simon Andrews
Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, F10, firefox-3.0.13. Don't know if this is a firefox or fedora firefox bug. Any web developers out there??? Given this html: forminput type='file' //form View that in the browser and you will see an input text box with a Browse button. Click inside the

Re: Problem with alsa-PCM level in pulseaudio

2009-09-04 Thread Simon Andrews
Neil Bird wrote: On my F10 box, I just had an issue (after a reboot) with music coming out nastily distorted. At least no my box, this usually means that the alsa PCM control is too high/max. You should report this as a bug against pulseaudio. It probably means that the default settings

Re: keyboard becomes unresponsive, stops working

2009-08-04 Thread Simon Andrews
François Patte wrote: I plug an external PS2 keyboard and an external PS2 mouse to a USB port of my laptop via a PS2/USB adaptator (CHESEN PS2 to USB Converter) and sometimes I have some problems: led of keyboard flashes and during that time, I cannot use the keyboard. A frozen machine and

Re: RE :Please help

2009-07-10 Thread Simon Andrews
Tim wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 00:09 -0700, Digvijay Patankar wrote: If in mirrorlist, there is https then change it to http (all occurrences) . Now run yum again. I think it will work for you, because it worked for me! Probably a co-incidence. Such as between one attempt and the next,

Re: Network guru help sought please

2009-07-10 Thread Simon Andrews
Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm continuing to have problems with mirrorlist in yum. If I leave the 2 lines in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/

Re: Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-26 Thread Simon Andrews
Alexander Boström wrote: Den 2009-06-25 13:07, Simon Andrews skrev: If all anaconda upgrades are going to be online Anaconda upgrades initiated through Preupgrade do not require a network connection. They will if one of the conditions for upgrading is going to be access to the updates

Re: Warning against preupgrade

2009-06-26 Thread Simon Andrews
Sam Varshavchik wrote: By the time I'm done, I expect 5 for 5 failures (so far, I'm 2 out of 2). Starting with F9, Anaconda reliably failed to install grub for me, on every one of my machines, despite that they're all different. I've hit this too. I've been meaning to open a bug report for

Re: Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-25 Thread Simon Andrews
Kevin Kofler wrote: Simon Andrews wrote: I don't see the problem with forcing the use of these packages during an upgrade regardless of what versions were on the original system. You'd be left with a functional system Not really. Things like KDE config files processed by kconf_update

Re: Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-24 Thread Simon Andrews
Kevin Kofler wrote: this time the DVD has become completely useless for upgrades, unless you like having to fetch an updated yum by hand (which, if you are a KDE user, you have to do from runlevel 3 because KDE (including KDM) is also broken after the upgrade for basically the same reason yum is

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-06-23 Thread Simon Andrews
Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm trying to upgrade a Thinkpad T23 (with preupgrade) from F10. Everything went fine until Finishing upgrade process, which has been running now for 14 hours, with that ghastly imitation-Windows yo-yo swinging from side to side. I am told, This may take a little while !!!

Re: F11 problem: yum won't authenticate through HTTP proxy

2009-06-18 Thread Simon Andrews
Delaunay Christophe wrote: Hi all, Since my computer is behind an HTTP proxy requiring a so-called basic authentication, I tried the following for yum to work: First, I tried to define the environment variables http_proxy, https_proxy and ftp_proxy to

Re: F10 recent network problem

2009-04-27 Thread Simon Andrews
Dennis Mattingly wrote: A few other things which might be relevant: Have you tried to disable the firewall and restart the network: [as root] $ service iptables stop $ service network stop $ service NetworkManager restart ..if that doesn't help then post the output from [as root] $

Re: F10 recent network problem

2009-04-23 Thread Simon Andrews
Dennis Mattingly wrote: Hello, I have Fedora 10 on my Home-Desktop. I enjoy it a lot, but this recent issue is bugging me. My internet suddenly broke last week. The problem looks like my router, but I swear it's not the router. ORIGINAL SETUP Duration: Last 5 months Setup: Connect Computer -

Re: Perl TK

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Andrews
Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, Before, this application was working fine ! I am in Fedora 10 last update (before means ~ 2 weeks !!) Now, the file name is not anymore transfered and it never live the widget ! I am also experiencing problem with JFileDialog The code you posted works OK for me.

Re: update caused java breakage

2009-03-26 Thread Simon Andrews
brian wrote: Since allowing some updates a couple days ago, I can no longer run jEdit. It looks like it's something to do with X11 or GTK but that's about as much as I can figure out. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491813 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: F10 NFS Install Query

2008-12-03 Thread Simon Andrews
Gordon Messmer wrote: Simon Andrews wrote: John Austin wrote: I think it probably only needs the documentation updating to say put the install.img file in an images subdirectory for an NFS install I disagree. You shouldn't need to do this - and it make it a right pain if (as I have) you

Re: Fedora 10 Boot hang

2008-12-01 Thread Simon Andrews
Duane Morris wrote: Just tried the new Fedore 10 DVD iso, installes fine, then I reboot and it hangs. sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sd 0:0:8:0: [sdb] attached SCSI Disk sd 0:0:8:0: [sdb] attached SCSI generic sq1 type 0 And then I'm toast. Any Ideas Yes! Sounds just like what happened to one of my

Re: F10 NFS Install Query

2008-11-27 Thread Simon Andrews
John Austin wrote: Hi Previous versions of Fedora just needed the .iso file on the server for an NFS install For F10 I needed to mount the file in loopback and copy the contents of the DVD to a separate directory before anaconda could find it - is this a bug or a feature? I had the same

Re: F10 nfs installs

2008-11-27 Thread Simon Andrews
Mike Chambers wrote: Try the askmethod paramater at boot up and see if that lets you do it. I do NFS installs via boot.iso on cd all the time, and the askmethod is how I did it successfully for F10. What did you have in your NFS directory though? Whenever I've done NFS installs I've just

Re: F10 NFS Install Query

2008-11-27 Thread Simon Andrews
John Austin wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:20 +, Simon Andrews wrote: Simon Andrews wrote: Someone else reported that you can bypass the problem by specifying your nfs directory in the initial boot options: method=nfsiso:example.com:/some/dir/ This worked for me. I've reported

Re: F10 NFS Install Query

2008-11-27 Thread Simon Andrews
Simon Andrews wrote: John Austin wrote: Hi Previous versions of Fedora just needed the .iso file on the server for an NFS install For F10 I needed to mount the file in loopback and copy the contents of the DVD to a separate directory before anaconda could find it - is this a bug or a feature

Re: 54 GB in /var/log!!

2008-10-27 Thread Simon Andrews
Beartooth wrote: One of my F9 machines -- actually my #1 main machine -- started having display problems. I see this a lot, because my hardware isn't really up to date enough to handle my monitor optimally. So I tried a couple of tricks that usually help, and they didn't. Then I thought to

Re: command error redirection

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Andrews
ANOOP wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Gopal Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, How top redirect errors of a command to a file # command errorFile That would redirect stdout (normal output) rather than the errors. To redirect standard error you'd usually do: # command 2

Re: kernel 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 - non graphical boot?

2008-10-02 Thread Simon Andrews
Mike wrote: Is it just me or does kernel 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 not give a graphical boot? It's not just you https://bugzilla.redhat.com/462980 Anyone else who has this problem please report this in the bug to help diagnose this. Simon. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: yum prox problem

2008-09-18 Thread Simon Andrews
adrian kok wrote: Hi I do try to use yum to use proxy to install but doesn't work It should be straight forward. Edit your yum.conf file and add a line like: proxy=http://wwwcache.example.com:8080 ..using the correct servername and port for your proxy and you should be good to go. Works

Re: configuration for gdmgreeter

2008-08-19 Thread Simon Andrews
michael wrote: I've tried and tried but failed and failed to determine where the setting is for the delay post wrong user/pass at the gdmgreeter screen. It current seems about 90 secs which is a bit too long Unless you've changed something those timeouts sound very long. Our systems allow a

Re: [F9] laptop not booting - reinstall MBR?

2008-07-10 Thread Simon Andrews
Don Levey wrote: Phil Meyer wrote: Ah, yes a different reason for grub to fail -- the file system containing its files cannot be mounted. Interestingly, I just tried manually mounting the disk: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage and I can get a directory listing. So at least *part* of

Re: Is this list on a newsgroup?

2008-07-09 Thread Simon Andrews
Erik P. Olsen wrote: Which NNTP server do you use? news.gmane.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: How to install the old kernel?

2008-07-04 Thread Simon Andrews
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Wong Kwok-hon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello How to install back the old kernel? and the command is RPM rejected my installation because it is older than current. Ivan Cat wrote: Have you tried using --force parameter? Don't do that! Using --force is a

Re: ClustalW RPM in some Fedora repo?

2008-07-03 Thread Simon Andrews
Globe Trotter wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a F repository with ClustalW installed? No, but it's a doddle to install from the statically linked binary distribution at: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/clustalw2/2.0.9/ Just unpack it and copy the clustalw2 binary to /usr/local/bin.