Re: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

2009-12-20 Thread sandeep Patel
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > 2009/12/20 sandeep Patel : > > > > Hi Everybody, > > I have installed Fedora 12 x86_64.And I tried to > update > > it.But I found this error: > > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: > >

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)
On 20/12/09 05:37, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > You may test at: > > http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp > Ask Omega where to get it, or use Omega. It is a Fedora remix. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 20/12/09 00:11, Mail Lists wrote: Slow it down a moment - lets get some concepts clear. gmail does 3 things for you .. 1) it receives your mail 2) it send mail on your behalf 3) it lets you store the mail it has received and read the mail that it has receive

Re: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

2009-12-20 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Sandeep, 2009/12/20 sandeep Patel : > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Chris Smart >> 2009/12/20 sandeep Patel : >> > >> > Hi Everybody, >> > I have installed Fedora 12 x86_64.And I tried to >> > update >> > it.But I found this error: >> >  Error: Cannot retrieve repositor

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Ed Greshko
Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: > On 20/12/09 05:37, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > >> You may test at: >> >> http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp >> >> > > > Ask Omega where to get it, or use Omega. > It is a Fedora remix. > > The answer is gecko-mediaplayer

F12: thunderbird-3.0 looses the spamassasinyes message filter order in the message filter window after restating thunderbird

2009-12-20 Thread Joachim Backes
I changed the order of the thunderbird-3.0 message filters by moving the spamassasinyes filter down (behind other filters), but each time when re-starting thunderbird, the spamassasinyes filter is re-placed on top of the filter list. Other filters keep their places. Anybody sees this too? Re

How to compile a kernel?

2009-12-20 Thread 严晶涛
I'm sorry with my bad English. I'm using Fedora 12 X86_64 I have downloaded a kernel(2.6.32.2). Then,I do these: cd linux-2.6.32.2 cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config make menuconfig make all make modules_install make install reboot When I choose the new kernel,I found it's very slow when run w

Re: [OT] LCD Display and earthquakes .....

2009-12-20 Thread Hiisi
2009/12/20 Ed Greshko : > This is OT...but wonder if anyone has experienced or see this before. > > My older Samsung SyncMaster 172t is hooked to a system I use mainly for > running SlingPlayer.  Part of the upper left quadrant had what could be > called a smear patter or smudge pattern.  It isn't

Re: repair a damaged vg

2009-12-20 Thread Tom H
> after: >  pvcreate /dev/sdc >  Physical volume "/dev/sdc" successfully created > sadly i issued: >  vgextend /dev/mapper/VolGroup01 /dev/sdc >  Volume group "VolGroup01" successfully extended > instead of doing: >  vgextend VolGroup01 /dev/sdc >  Volume group "VolGroup01" successfully extended

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 12/19/09, Sam Sharpe wrote: > 2009/12/19 Andras Simon : [...] >> I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway. >> I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as >> "not spam", hoping to teach it that they're not. > > They're not being tagged as Spam,

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-20 Thread Andras Simon
On 12/19/09, Marcel Rieux wrote: > Timothy's messages do not end up in my spam box anymore. I guess he > solved the problem. I'm not sure. I've just found one "spam" from him dated 19/12. Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/

Re: How to compile a kernel?

2009-12-20 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Sonntag, den 20.12.2009, 10:35 + schrieb 严晶涛: > I'm sorry with my bad English. No problem. ;) > I'm using Fedora 12 X86_64 > I have downloaded a kernel(2.6.32.2). > Then,I do these: > cd linux-2.6.32.2 > cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config > make menuconfig > make all > make modules_instal

i8042.c can't read CTR while initializing

2009-12-20 Thread Sawrub
It started happening yesterday afternoon when all of a sudden the system declined to take input as mouse and keyboard stoped working while i was working and finally i had to hard reboot. Fedora 11 box gave following message prior to the graphical boot process started off, and i was not able to u

Re: SELinux security alert

2009-12-20 Thread Paolo Galtieri
The problem is that the SElinux message re-occurs. It appears that cron creates the file with cron's context and then SElinux gets triggered because the context is wrong. Why does cron create the file and leave it lying around? And if cron needs to create the file why isn't SElinux aware of thi

thunderbird question with gmail

2009-12-20 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Last Friday I was trying to download all my gmail email from google down to my PC. I succeeded in getting everything from June of 2008 to July of 2009. I had to stop at that point since I had to leave for the airport. When I tried today it told me there was nothing to do which of course is wrong

Re: mounting ext3 partition as ext4 without formatting Fedora 12/LXDE spin

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Globe Trotter wrote: Hi, I have been trying to mount my home directory which is in a separate partition containing data and that I do not want to format upon install. However, the LXDE spin seems to want to mount it as ext3 unless i format it upon installation. Is there a way to get around th

Re: repair a damaged vg

2009-12-20 Thread Maurizio Marini
On Sunday 20 December 2009, Tom H wrote: Thnx Tom for trying to help me :) > Have you tried vgreduce and then vgextend again before the lvextend? no, sadly this was the sequence [23:08:12 r...@xxx ~ ]# pvcreate /dev/sdc Physical volume "/dev/sdc" successfully created [23:08:27 r...@xxx ~ ]# vg

Annoyance Re: Gnotes ?!?

2009-12-20 Thread William Case
Hi; I have replaced TomBoy (which I used throughout the day) with Gnote. I want to set Gnote in my startup file so that it starts with the icon in the notification bar but the search window NOT open. I can get what I want when I start gnote from Panel Menu => Applications => Accessories but not

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 23:57 +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> Do a cold start and repeatedly hit the del key (or whatever it shows as > >> the > >> magic key on the bottom of the screen as it complete

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 20:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 23:25 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > >> On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 21:58 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > >> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mikkel wrote: > >> >

Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

2009-12-20 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 12/19/2009 05:54 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12 destroyed the yum.log without making any back-up. BTW, I'm not talking about iotop. blktrace? # yum install blktrace

Re: thunderbird question with gmail

2009-12-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Last Friday I was trying to download all my gmail email from google down to > my PC.  I succeeded in getting everything from June of 2008 to July of > 2009.  I had to stop at that point since I had to leave for the airport. > When I tried to

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-20 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 20 December 2009 12:27:51 Andras Simon wrote: > On 12/19/09, Sam Sharpe wrote: > > 2009/12/19 Andras Simon : > >> I don't think you can tweak gmail's spam filter. Not directly, anyway. > >> I always check Timothy Murphy's mails that gmail labels as spam as > >> "not spam", hoping to teac

Re: Tar oddity...

2009-12-20 Thread DB
On 12/18/2009 11:19 PM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote: Subject: Re: Tar oddity... From: José Matos Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:46:56 + To: fedora-list@redhat.com On Friday 18 December 2009 20:11:00 DB wrote: > Thanks Rick, > > I've been doing > tar tvf F11*.gz on both mac

Re: Yumex crashes after starting

2009-12-20 Thread NoSpaze
Am Freitag, den 18.12.2009, 21:26 -0500 schrieb Jim: > FC12/KDE > Yumex crashes just after starting, it checks package repos then crashes, > A attachment is attached showing yumex start from command line ,and > output to > /var/log/messages. Same here. F12/Gnome. Tried

Re: Yumex crashes after starting

2009-12-20 Thread NoSpaze
Am Freitag, den 18.12.2009, 21:26 -0500 schrieb Jim: > FC12/KDE > Yumex crashes just after starting, it checks package repos then crashes, > A attachment is attached showing yumex start from command line ,and > output to /var/log/messages. Same twice here on my desktop and my laptop, exactly, wit

Re: Yumex crashes after starting

2009-12-20 Thread Anoop
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM, NoSpaze wrote: > Am Freitag, den 18.12.2009, 21:26 -0500 schrieb Jim: >> FC12/KDE >> Yumex crashes just after starting, it checks package repos then crashes, >> A attachment is attached showing yumex start from command line ,and >> output to >> /var/log/messages. >

Re: Tar oddity...

2009-12-20 Thread DB
On 12/19/2009 03:27 AM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote: Subject: Re: Tar oddity... From: Chris Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:47 -0600 To: fedora-list@redhat.com On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:26 +0100 DB wrote: > On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM,fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote: >

Re: Daily Kernel Panics

2009-12-20 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/19/2009 10:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Steven Stern wrote: >> On 12/13/2009 07:25 AM, Globe Trotter wrote: > Do you have desktop effects enabled? I found that my system is much more stable with desktop effects turned off [1]. My video is ATI [2] with driver 'ati' [

Re: Daily Kernel Panics

2009-12-20 Thread Hiisi
2009/12/20 Steven Stern : > On 12/19/2009 10:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Steven Stern wrote: >>> On 12/13/2009 07:25 AM, Globe Trotter wrote: >> <--SNIP--> >>> >> Note that in the above example of a stable system, item 3. I have had >> about equal numbers of people tell me that the vendor driver

Re: physical RAM restriction in Fedora 12 (32 bit and 64 bit)

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Roberto Ragusa wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 12/17/2009 12:51 PM, Mark Ryden wrote: My question is: 1) In Fedora 12 32 bit default installation , does the kernel knows more than 3 GB of RAM ? what is the limit ? The same. It uses what the BIOS tell it is available, unless you run a PAE

Re: Yumex crashes after starting

2009-12-20 Thread Eric Tanguy
Le 20/12/2009 17:08, NoSpaze a écrit : Am Freitag, den 18.12.2009, 21:26 -0500 schrieb Jim: FC12/KDE Yumex crashes just after starting, it checks package repos then crashes, A attachment is attached showing yumex start from command line ,and output to /var/log/messages. Same twice her

Re: Daily Kernel Panics

2009-12-20 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/20/2009 10:44 AM, Hiisi wrote: > 2009/12/20 Steven Stern : >> On 12/19/2009 10:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> Steven Stern wrote: On 12/13/2009 07:25 AM, Globe Trotter wrote: >>> > <--SNIP--> >>> Note that in the above example of a stable system, item 3. I have had >>> about equal

Re: how to get F12 to 'send host-name' in dhcp request?

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
M. Milanuk wrote: On 12/17/2009 2:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:29:46 -0800 M. Milanuk wrote: Can someone help me out here? This is driving me nutty. How do I make F12 send the right request to the dhcp server? Every distro seems to do this differently (sometimes each di

Clean your CD/DVD disks -- Just a PSA reminder !!!

2009-12-20 Thread William Case
Hi; An old lesson re-learned for the umpteenth time. Public Service Announcement --- Last week I upgraded the MY machine to F12 with preupgrade etc. No problem. This weekend I set out to install from the Fedora 12 LiveCD on to two other older machines I have here. On t

Re: Yumex crashes after starting

2009-12-20 Thread Jim
On 12/20/2009 11:08 AM, NoSpaze wrote: Am Freitag, den 18.12.2009, 21:26 -0500 schrieb Jim: FC12/KDE Yumex crashes just after starting, it checks package repos then crashes, A attachment is attached showing yumex start from command line ,and output to /var/log/messages. Same twice her

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-20 Thread Mail Lists
o Using gmail - with imap - leaves the mail on gmail server. gmail with pop - removes the mail from gmail and stores wherever you told your mail client to store it - once you've done this - unless you store it on your own imap server then no other client will be able to see that pop m

Re: disk moves from /dev/sdd to /dev/sde

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: I'm seeing something strange where a disk appears to change from /dev/sdd to /dev/sde under f12. I have a motherboard (Asus M3A78T) that appears to have multiple onboard disk controllers. When I boot with no external storage plugged into the USB, my hard disks are a

Re: Clean your CD/DVD disks -- Just a PSA reminder !!!

2009-12-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:18:07 -0500 William Case wrote: > Just on the > off-chance I cleaned the LiveCD disk -- and bingo everything worked. Merely a special case of my general rule: "Check the dumb stuff first!" :-). I forgot that rule last weekend when I was trying to get my Wii to talk wi-f

Dell 2209WA e-IPS monitor and Fedora

2009-12-20 Thread Mark Ryden
Hello, I am thinking of buying a Dell 2209WA 22'' display and to use it under Fedora. I need this monitor especially for long hours of writing code and reading documents. I do not intend to use it at all for movies/games. This monitor is a bit more expensive than the average; however, it has an e

Re: To Timothy Murphy

2009-12-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 20:07 +0800, Fennix wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Andras Simon > wrote: > On 12/19/09, Tim wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 00:14 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > >> All your messages at gmail end up in my spam folder with > the follow

Routing with 2 ISP

2009-12-20 Thread David Hláčik
Hello guys, Sorry to bothering you. I had a small network with one ISP and firewall. eth1 -> Is connected to my ISP eth0 + eth0.1 , eth0.2 and etc are my local networks. All my network accesses internet via eth1. My routing table looks like the following : 213.194.242.0   0.0.0.0 255.

Re: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

2009-12-20 Thread sandeep Patel
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:56 PM, suvayu ali > wrote: > Hi Sandeep, > > 2009/12/20 sandeep Patel : > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Chris Smart > >> 2009/12/20 sandeep Patel : > >> > > >> > Hi Everybody, > >> > I have installed Fedora 12 x86_64.And I tried to > >> > updat

Re: gdm config

2009-12-20 Thread Mikkel
On 12/17/2009 08:58 AM, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > How to config the gdm greeter on f12. > > The clock is displayed in a wrong format AM/PM while the default system > language is French It is now 15:57 in Paris, not 3:57 > > Thanks. > Right click on the clock, pick preferences, an

Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 12/19/2009 05:54 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Marcel Rieux  wrote: >> >>> >>> I installed it about 2 days ago but it seems the upgrade to F12 >>> destroyed the yum.log without making any back-up. >>

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 20:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> >On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 23:25 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 21:58 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: >>

Re: Routing with 2 ISP

2009-12-20 Thread Roberto Ragusa
David Hláčik wrote: > And the finally my questions are : > > 1) Is there a good tutorial / howto for using iproute on the internet, > except of the LARTC.org > 2) Can i utilize by tools of Fedora, to have my configuration (with > second routing table, using ip ) somehow stored - to be permanent w

nm-applet

2009-12-20 Thread Eric Tanguy
I don't know since when because i don't use it often but my nm-applet disappear from the notification area. When i try to launch it from cli : $ /usr/bin/nm-applet ** (nm-applet:3923): WARNING **: request_name(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service. Error: (9) Connectio

Booting Fedora-12 from hard disk, again, again

2009-12-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm taking the liberty of re-posting this query, as there seemed some problems with the previous posting, hopefully now resolved: Has anyone actually succeeded in booting Fedora-12 from the DVD ISO file on the hard disk, by adding a stanza to grub.conf ? I carried out the following commands:

Re: Annoyance Re: Gnotes ?!?

2009-12-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 09:40 -0500, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I have replaced TomBoy (which I used throughout the day) with Gnote. > > I want to set Gnote in my startup file so that it starts with the icon > in the notification bar but the search window NOT open. > > I can get what I want wh

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 15:29 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 20:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> >On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 23:25 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Mikkel
On 12/20/2009 02:29 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > Now that i know it's a 4GB drive, I wouldn't format it ext3, but since > it's already formatted ext3 and I don't plan to use it to exchange > data, I'll leave it as it is. > > But, as I said. I still have this problem: > > e2fsck -c /dev/sdb > e2f

Monday as first day of week - Gnome Calendar

2009-12-20 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello all, I'm on Fedora 12 and getting used to Gnome after using KDE for many years... Is there a way to change the first day of week from Sunday to Monday on the Calendar applet? I tried searching for it for a while but nothing seems to work for me. I tried changing: first_weekday 1 to fi

Re: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 sandeep Patel : > I tried this.But still it is showing error.Please help me someone.what the > hell is going on fedora 12. > Already thanks. Can you please post the exact line that you typed into your yum.conf? -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: ht

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I think there is another problem with having pen drives formatted ext3 > or ext4. Pen drives can only tolerate a finite number of writes before > they crap out. Any format that involves journaling will increase the > number of writes to the

No snd-hda-intel

2009-12-20 Thread Jim
FC12/KDE Intel sound 82801H, All the setting in PulseAudio is up to Max. I have a fresh FC12 install with no Sound, and I have attached LSMOD and Sound from /var/log/messages snd-hda-intel ]$ lsmod Module Size Used by sunrpc158388 1 cpufreq_ondemand6

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Marcel Rieux : > > But, as I said. I still have this problem: > > e2fsck -c /dev/sdb > e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009) > e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... > e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb > That's because you are trying to check the f

Re: Tar oddity...

2009-12-20 Thread Roberto Ragusa
DB wrote: > The reason I went with tar tvh was (to try) to check the contents of > the file after "open with ark" in Dollphin spat out the errors. I guess > that actually trying to extract the files when the table of contents > fails would not be any more successful? Run md5sum F11_Home_Dave_

Re: What's that utility to monitor disk i/o again?

2009-12-20 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Marcel Rieux wrote: > mount a /sys/kernel/debug -t debugfs [...] > All references at Google's, only 9 of them, say "mount a". How come > it's not "mount -a" "a" is the device containing the filesystem. For this kind of filesystem it is unused so you can put everything there (the same happens for

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Chris Smart : > > That's because you are trying to check the file system on the device, > not the partition. Robert Nichols already pointed out that you need to > be running that against /dev/sdb1 (where "1" is the first primary > partition). > P.S. You might want to start the process a

Re: No snd-hda-intel

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Jim : > FC12/KDE > > Intel sound 82801H, All the setting in PulseAudio is up to Max. > > I have a fresh FC12 install with no Sound, and I have attached LSMOD and > Sound from /var/log/messages Although it might sound stupid, firstly make sure that mute is off. Try: amixer set Master un

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 20/12/09 12:55, Mail Lists wrote: o Using gmail - with imap - leaves the mail on gmail server. gmail with pop - removes the mail from gmail and stores wherever you told your mail client to store it - once you've done this - unless you store it on your own imap server then no oth

Re: Tar oddity...

2009-12-20 Thread Chris
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:45:13 +0100 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > DB wrote: > > The reason I went with tar tvh was (to try) to check the contents > > of the file after "open with ark" in Dollphin spat out the errors. > > I guess that actually trying to extract the files when the table of > > contents f

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Mikkel wrote: > On 12/20/2009 02:29 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> >> Now that i know it's a 4GB drive, I wouldn't format it ext3, but since >> it's already formatted ext3 and I don't plan to use it  to exchange >> data, I'll leave it as it is. >> >> But, as I said. I

Re: Tar oddity...

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 DB > Hi Chris, > > The original command was > > tar cvzf F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz /home/Dave > > and the "problem" is that tar tvh F11*gz lists all the files on the F11 > desktop, but when the external HDD is transferred to the F12 laptop, tar > tvh (and ark) give the errors quot

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: >> On 20/12/09 05:37, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> >> >>> You may test at: >>> >>> http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp >>> >>> >> >> >> Ask Omega where to get it, or use Omega. >> It

Re: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

2009-12-20 Thread Helder
Put in the /etc/yum.conf the following lines: proxy=http://: proxy_username= proxy_password= then execute as root: # yum update On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > 2009/12/21 sandeep Patel : > > > I tried this.But still it is showing error.Please help me someone.what > the >

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Mikkel
On 12/20/2009 06:46 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > > If you remember well, I said I formatted the drive by right clicking > on the icon. If you format sdb, an sdb1 partition will be created. If > you don't have a partition, the drive can't be used. > You can format a drive without a partition table,

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Ed Greshko
Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: >> >>> On 20/12/09 05:37, Marcel Rieux wrote: >>> >>> >>> You may test at: http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp >

Re: please help! -- F12: login disallowed upon changing shell from bash to tcsh

2009-12-20 Thread Steven W. Orr
On 12/19/09 18:28, quoth Tony Nelson: > On 09-12-19 15:27:48, Globe Trotter wrote: >> --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Aldo Foot wrote: > ... >>> So... the tcsh rpm is installed? >>>$ rpm -qa tcsh >> tcsh-6.15-8.fc12 >> >> Yes, it is! > > Possibly some of the shell scripts used by GDM (or whatever) don

volume keybindings

2009-12-20 Thread Amadeus W.M.
Sorry to say, but I had to uninstall pulseaudio yet again. So I'm back to alsa and I feel much better. Except that my Page-up/down shortcuts don't work anymore. I guess they used to control pulse volume. Does anyone know how to bind the sound keyboard shortcuts to the alsa mixer? I'm guessing I

Preupgrade to F11 worked but...

2009-12-20 Thread Steve Blackwell
I ran preupgrade to go from F10 to F11 and I was pleasantly surprised (because F9->F10 was a mess) that it worked almost flawlessly. When I booted into F11 for the first time, I got a warning about a ssl library not being found. To cut a long story short, I have found that there are 62 packages t

Re: Routing with 2 ISP

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
David Hláčik wrote: Hello guys, Sorry to bothering you. I had a small network with one ISP and firewall. eth1 -> Is connected to my ISP eth0 + eth0.1 , eth0.2 and etc are my local networks. All my network accesses internet via eth1. My routing table looks like the following : 213.194.242.0

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Mikkel wrote: On 12/20/2009 02:29 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: Now that i know it's a 4GB drive, I wouldn't format it ext3, but since it's already formatted ext3 and I don't plan to use it to exchange data, I'll leave it as it is. But, as I sai

Re: Booting Fedora-12 from hard disk, again, again

2009-12-20 Thread Amadeus W.M.
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:20:42 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm taking the liberty of re-posting this query, as there seemed some > problems with the previous posting, hopefully now resolved: > > Has anyone actually succeeded in booting Fedora-12 from the DVD ISO file > on the hard disk, by addin

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> The answer is gecko-mediaplayer and it is in rpmfusion and those videos >>> play fine on my F12 system with that installed. >>> >> >> gecko-mediaplayer is not available for playing Windows Media. >> > It does...with the correct gstreamer-plug

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Bill Davidsen >> If you remember well, I said I formatted the drive by right clicking >> on the icon.  If you format sdb, an sdb1 partition will be created. If >> you don't have a partition, the drive can't be used. >> > Whatever gave you that idea? As I said, I r

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Ed Greshko
Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > The answer is gecko-mediaplayer and it is in rpmfusion and those videos play fine on my F12 system with that installed. >>> gecko-mediaplayer is not available for playing Windows Media. >>>

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Marcel Rieux : > You're right, my hasty extrapolations were wrong. But I don't believe > you can get a Flash drive working that will be listed only as /dev/sdb > any more than you can have a HD working with only /dev/sda. I have no > idea about arrays, I'm talking about standard desktop

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Mikkel wrote: > On 12/20/2009 06:46 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> >> If you remember well, I said I formatted the drive by right clicking >> on the icon.  If you format sdb, an sdb1 partition will be created. If >> you don't have a partition, the drive can't be used.

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Smart
2009/12/21 Marcel Rieux : > > Then, I have no idea where the /sdb1 partition comes from. I also have > a lost and found directory on that drive. I'm pretty sure that your USB stick currently has a MBR partition table on it (there's nothing wrong with that). Can you post this? su -c "fdisk -l /de

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Ed Greshko > In your original post you gave 2 URL's > > http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows > > and > > http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp > > The first link leads to videos that are flash.  However, they are not > directly played

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Ed Greshko
Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Ed Greshko > > >> In your original post you gave 2 URL's >> >> http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows >> >> and >> >> http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage.asp >> >> The first link leads to videos that are flash. How

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Marcel Rieux wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Ed Greshko >> >> >>> In your original post you gave 2 URL's >>> >>> http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows >>> >>> and >>> >>> http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2009-2010/archivage

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I disabled MozPlugger. Everything is back to the defaults as on Omega and your system. Goddammed plug-in! Must have been useful some time ago. If you have any idea of the wrapper used by the CBC for flash, that would complete this thread. Th

Re: 8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

2009-12-20 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > 2009/12/21 Marcel Rieux : >> >> Then, I have no idea where the /sdb1 partition comes from. I also have >> a lost and found directory on that drive. > > I'm pretty sure that your USB stick currently has a MBR partition > table on it (there's no

Re: Where is WM Player Plug-in (Omega has it)

2009-12-20 Thread Ed Greshko
Marcel Rieux wrote: > > I disabled MozPlugger. Everything is back to the defaults as on Omega > and your system. Goddammed plug-in! Must have been useful some time > ago. > > If you have any idea of the wrapper used by the CBC for flash, that > would complete this thread. > The wrapper is downlo