F12 to require i686, but which CPUs do not qualify?

2009-08-13 Thread Tony Nelson
I've noticed that F12 will require a CPU with i686 architecture, and that my Athlon 1.2GHz won't qualify. I accept that F11 is the last Fedora release that I'll be able to use. My concern is that many present Fedora users will be unpleasantly surprised that a new installation doesn't work,

Re: F12 to require i686, but which CPUs do not qualify?

2009-08-14 Thread Tony Nelson
already uses an Athlon-core processor on Rawhide did it. On 09-08-13 10:34:58, Peter Robinson wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: ... Is there a simple way for ordinary users to know if their CPU is expected to work on F12 (as an i686 according to GCC)?  Is there a tool to run that doesn't require

Re: F12 to require i686, but which CPUs do not qualify?

2009-08-14 Thread Tony Nelson
and similar processors. 2009/8/14 Tony Nelson That doesn't actually quite say about SSE2, but at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/F12X86Support: _Bill Nottingham_ Once a set has been decided on, this should be pretty trivial. With respect to the proposal, 'grep sse2

Re: Default heuristics for variable-format displays

2009-09-15 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-15 12:06:54, Adam Jackson wrote: ... def mode_dpi_cmp(x, y): return cmp(abs(x.dpi - 96), abs(y.dpi - 96)) ... The names x and y suggest coordinates to me. I'd have read the code right the first time if the names had been a and b. def best_mode(modes, dpi_known = True):

Re: Opinions on packaging ATLAS (for the x86 architecture)

2009-09-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-26 08:32:45, Kevin Kofler wrote: ... Of course the root of the problem is ATLAS's lack of support for runtime CPU feature detection ... Presumably that could be added to the Fedora package as a patch. It's SMOP to check the CPU and load the proper library, if someone who knew how

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Exemption for bundling local copy of system library?

2009-09-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-29 15:37:10, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: I would argue no. The guidelines are written to apply to all libraries except with very limited exceptions to keep this from happening because security vulnerabilities are not limited to network facing code, suid code, or any other class that

Re: rpmnew files

2009-10-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-20 17:49:28, nodata wrote: Hi, What's with the extra rpmnew files on an upgrade? Some examples: # md5sum /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf.rpmnew /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf 7c8f8d809c5b618e1604207525161101 /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf.rpmnew 7c8f8d809c5b618e1604207525161101

Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-28 Thread Tony Nelson
Sorry to bug developers, but I didn't get any bites from PPC users on fedora-list. Does Fedora PPC work or install on oldworld PCI Macs, such as a beige G3 desktop? My impression is that no one has tried it on an oldworld Mac in the last few releases, and that getting it to boot at all would

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-29 08:18:30, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:25 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-10-28 18:24:49, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:17:31PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: Sorry to bug developers, but I didn't get any bites from PPC users on fedora-list

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-10-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-29 16:41:57, King InuYasha wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:18 AM, David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.orgwrote: On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:25 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-10-28 18:24:49, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:17:31PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: Sorry

Re: Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

2009-11-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-02 13:07:09, Dan Williams wrote: oldworld topped out at 366MHz anyway right? (the 333 and 366 Beige G3 were only sold from 1998-08-12 - 1999-01-01 too) That's pretty much the minimum you'd need to run Fedora anyway these days... Not sure it's really worth it, you'll need at

Re: Roopesh's Birthday Calendar

2009-11-13 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-13 16:13:20, Ikem Krueger wrote: Please click on the link below and enter your birthday for me.  I am creating a birthday calendar for myself.  Don't worry, it'll take less than a minute (and you don't have to enter your year of birth). Spam? o.O Phishing. --

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-18 13:44:43, nodata wrote: Am 2009-11-18 19:16, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 17:45:26 +, Bastien Nocerabnoc...@redhat.com wrote: Once we get the new user management stuff into F13 [1], we'd probably tighten that rule so that only admins are given the

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-18 20:09:18, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:50 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: .. Fedora has always been this way. Have you tried to use sound or video in the past few releases? I think it's called creative destruction. And I'm sure the passive-aggressive in you

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-19 05:06:16, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 01:48 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-11-18 20:09:18, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:50 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: .. Fedora has always been this way. Have you tried to use sound or video

Re: abrt and bugzilla

2009-11-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-20 07:06:34, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: On 11/20/2009 12:24 PM, Matthew Booth wrote: ... 5. Can abrt give me a list of submitted BZs so I can browse them if I want to? This is in our TODO: ABRT should find possible duplicates and offer the reporter to browse them and manually mark

Re: acctcom for linux

2009-12-16 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-16 18:19:17, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 08:38 -0400, William W. Austin wrote: 05/01/2007 05:38:26 AM (Tue, 01 May 2007 08:38:26 -0400) Your date is still wrong. No, the date is correct. That's when the message was sent the first time around -- it's in the list

Re: Koji stuck?

2009-12-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-19 17:19:37, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: ... There is a -O2 flag issue that causes some builds to hang. Maybe those emacs hangs are related to this bug in gcc It happened to 2 of my packages. Removing -O2 makes things compile in my packages. (No I didn't do official builds without -O2

Re: End of days?

2010-01-06 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-06 17:54:10, Robert Relyea wrote: On 01/06/2010 01:43 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: [or...@orca fedora/devel]$ ls */dead.package | wc -l 666 We're ok. The original number may have been 616: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/beast616.htm No, that's merely the most common correction by

Re: HOWTO? Install TrueType fonts (not MS freefonts) onto Fedora 10

2009-06-12 Thread Tony Nelson
At 06:36 +0900 06/13/2009, Misha Shnurapet wrote: ? ???, 12/06/2009 ? 13:10 -0600, Christopher A. Williams ?: Don't forget that you need to set permissions and selinux context for these. To set permissions (assuming you're in the working directory where the ttf font files are): chmod 755

Re: Not Authorized error adding printer

2009-06-12 Thread Tony Nelson
At 15:03 -0700 06/12/2009, Donald Russell wrote: ... I still can't log in as root from the GUI, but that seems to be by design... I guess I never used that in F10, always SSH in from somewhere else and use su -... That works locally as well, and it's what I do: # su - The - gets me root's

Re: HOWTO? Install TrueType fonts (not MS freefonts) onto Fedora 10

2009-06-13 Thread Tony Nelson
At 14:56 -0500 06/13/2009, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at said: Tim wrote: Surely not... If you copy a file to a standard location, it should get set the proper contexts, during the copy. That's not how SELinux works. It'll copy the context from

Re: Root Access

2009-06-14 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-14 09:50:23, Tom Horsley wrote: I use the nifty (relatively) new Match sshd_config stuff to disable root login (and any kind of simple password login for that matter) from IP addresses outside my local network, so I can still ssh as root easily inside my firewall, but if I'm coming from

Re: Configure wireless by hand

2009-06-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-18 12:19:00, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:12 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote: I've got a little netbook and I've put a copy of Fedora 10 on a USB stick. If I boot up using runlevel 5, I can use the wireless via NetworkManager. These netbooks don't have the speediest

Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem solved

2009-06-18 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-18 11:36:02, John Aldrich wrote: On Thursday 18 June 2009, dn...@yahoo.com wrote: My problem is solved, at least for now. My reservation is becauser I don't know what I did. Last night I tried to be sure I had no filters interfering., I turned off the firewall, booted and tried

Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem solved

2009-06-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-19 02:06:38, Don Vogt wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:40:25 -0400 From: Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com Subject: Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem solved To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: 1245350425.1976...@localhost.localdomain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us

Re: Output of yum list installed

2009-06-19 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-19 14:38:35, Bill Davidsen wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I notice that some lines in the output of yum list installed are highlighted in red. There doesn't seem to be any mention of this in the manual. Does anyone know what it means? Highlighting is useful as a visual

Re: imap mailbox stats?

2009-06-20 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-20 03:39:40, Fernando Cassia wrote: ... The problem is this:I need to calculate what kind of messages are using the most space in an IMAP account, now full with 7 gigs of stuff. ... In other words, I´m looking for some sort of data-mining an IMAP4 mailbox on a remote server, based

Re: Error running Maple 7 on Fedora 10

2009-06-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-22 04:36:52, William M. Quarles wrote: Mike Cloaked wrote: William M. Quarles-2 wrote: ... OK, yes, I know this technically shouldn't work but a hack or two on thescripts that start Maple 7 and installing compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-135 from Fedora Core 5 make it work I

Re: Error running Maple 7 on Fedora 10

2009-06-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-22 17:49:47, William M. Quarles wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-06-22 04:36:52, William M. Quarles wrote: Mike Cloaked wrote: William M. Quarles-2 wrote: ... OK, yes, I know this technically shouldn't work but a hack or two on thescripts that start Maple 7 and installing

Re: Migrating from courier imap+mysql to cyrus-imapd + pam_mysql

2009-06-24 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-24 08:19:29, Uno Engborg wrote: Hi, I'm trying to migrate a mail system from Courier-imap to a Cyrus imapd using saslauthd backed by pam with users and passwords stored in a MySQL database. Naturally I don't want to force my users to change password, so I want to reuse the

Re: Files corrupt on copy

2009-06-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-27 08:21:22, Andy Campbell wrote: I'm having an issue where when I copy files, they are not copying correctly - they are corrupt, I've checked using cmp, and generating md5sum There are no errors I can see from cp, rsync. Initially I though it was a problem with an external USB

Re: Live CD fails to boot

2009-06-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-06-30 03:30:00, Niels Haase wrote: ... If you have the checksum determined with the commands above, you should also comparing it to your burned CD/DVD. This show if there are some uncorrectable writing error on are present on the media. You need the rawread script from [1]. The

Re: One or more disks are failing ?

2009-07-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-04 06:42:16, Jussi Lehtola wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 02:57 -0700, Scott Beamer wrote: ... 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010Pre-fail Always - 4 This means your disk is breaking down, and should be replaced soon. Nonsense. He has a disk with

Re: One or more disks are failing ?

2009-07-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-04 19:07:18, Scott Beamer wrote: On 07/04/2009 10:25 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Drives typcially won't reallocate bad sectors if they can't get good read or the operation is a write. This is to give you a chance to recover the data if you want to try. And if you want to spend

Re: Anaconda does not see my logical partions

2009-07-07 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-07 10:32:44, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I have 2 hard drives. sdb is OK and I do not want to touch it sda is partitionned as follows: /dev/sda1 * 1140211261533+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda21403 30401 232934467+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5

Re: How to get vsftpd working

2009-07-16 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-16 18:59:02, Ed Landaveri wrote: ... The reason your directory listing fails is because of iptables. Remember vsftp as any ftp server uses incoming port 21 connections but not well-known ports outgoing connections. Google and you'll find the exact configuration. He's using PASV

Re: aspell rpm is defective.

2009-07-21 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-21 11:18:15, Aaron Konstam wrote: No one responded to my question of the absence of dictionaries for aspell and ispell so I looked further. The aspell rpm at least through f9 put the dictionaries in /usr/lib/aspell-0.60/ They are not there or anywhere I can find in F11. Could

Re: Adding groups to a user

2009-07-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-22 22:51:23, Steven W. Orr wrote: Right. There's a standard for how command options should work. verb options arguments That's why we have getopt and that's why I shudder when I see people reinventing wheels. From `man 3 getopt`: By default, getopt() permutes the

Re: httpd fails after boot

2009-07-23 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-23 17:40:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: ... If that would work, then I could just as well export the variable from /etc/init.d/httpd . I just tried that and the web server started, but the variable was not available in the bash shell, so I am still

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: [fedora-list] What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-26 08:32:08, Rich Mahn wrote: ===snip BTW, I'm running this command, as suggested by an earlier poster: find . -type f -exec rm -fv '{}' + This is extremely inefficient. It spawns a process for every file. Not so. Better for you to read `man find` before posting.

Re: What the hell are these dirs?

2009-07-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-26 00:26:10, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: BTW, I'm running this command, as suggested by an earlier poster: find . -type f -exec rm -fv '{}' + It's been running just about all day. There appears to be no end in sight. There has got to be a faster way to do this. Take out that v

Re: active network connection stops working...

2009-07-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-26 11:10:55, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: charles zeitler wrote: first, thanks again for your replies. Rick, no worries, i was not led astray, just having to digest the info a byte at a time... Tony, i believe chances are you're right, possibly the problem is at my provider's

LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-26 Thread Tony Nelson
I have two hard drives I want to boot from, each with its own LVM2 Volume Group. I can boot from the one on the same drive as Grub, but not from the other one. Apparantly, only Logical Volumes from the boot drive's Volume Group are detected before / is mounted (something about activation,

Re: LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-27 13:08:33, Aldo Foot wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Tony Nelsontonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: I have two hard drives I want to boot from, each with its own LVM2 Volume Group.  I can boot from the one on the same drive as Grub, but not from the other one.  

Re: LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-27 10:08:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: I have two hard drives I want to boot from, each with its own LVM2 Volume Group. I can boot from the one on the same drive as Grub, but not from the other one. Apparantly, only Logical Volumes from the boot drive's

[solved] Re: LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-28 Thread Tony Nelson
I'm back now, with an updated system. In order to copy a system to a new disk and Volume Group, one needs, along with a fresh install of Grub, a new initrd with info from the new updated /etc/fstab. It's not necessarily an LVM issue. On 09-07-27 14:14:45, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tony

Re: FC11 Freezes at udev on boot

2009-07-28 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-29 00:28:42, Jatin K wrote: I've installed fedora FC (2.6.29.4.fc11.i586) ... after getting update my kernel updated to 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586, now my system freezes at udev when booting, before update it was fine !!! what it could be ?? how do I solve this issue ? It

Re: FC11 Freezes at udev on boot

2009-07-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-29 01:20:20, Jatin K wrote: On 07/29/2009 10:39 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-07-29 00:28:42, Jatin K wrote: I've installed fedora FC (2.6.29.4.fc11.i586) ... after getting update my kernel updated to 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586, now my system freezes at udev when booting

Re: OpenOffice stock pictures path

2009-07-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-29 01:48:56, Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 07/29/2009 12:24 AM, Joe Smith wrote: I can't see that it's your fault, or Fedora's. It seems like a bad design to me, to use stock resources in a way that's almost guaranteed to break, but here's the official response:

Re: FC11 Freezes at udev on boot

2009-07-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-29 13:08:52, john wendel wrote: On 07/29/2009 08:42 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: ... Nothing interesting on the console when booting. Nothing interesting in the logs either. Well, that's about it for me. Sorry

Fedora 11 lm_sensors on ASUS MB solved

2009-07-29 Thread Tony Nelson
In F9, lm_sensors worked, but in F11, it said no sensors detected. Eventually I found http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2009- January/025063.html which showed that the lm_sensors developers had broken lm_sensors on purpose for (all?) ASUS motherboards, with an unfinished

Re: Fedora 11 lm_sensors on ASUS MB solved

2009-07-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-29 23:30:21, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Tony Nelson wrote: In F9, lm_sensors worked, but in F11, it said no sensors detected. Eventually I found http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2009- January/025063.html which showed that the lm_sensors

Re: gnome-volume-control channel levels (Solved)

2009-07-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-30 13:25:30, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: It is amixer, not alsamixer. (Strange, I know.) It's both. `amixer` is command-line, `alsamixer` is ncurses. -- TonyN.:'

Re: Fedora 11 lm_sensors on ASUS MB solved

2009-07-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-30 19:00:59, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I've read hints of their kowtowing to the wannabe king in Redmond, and going out of their way to make life difficult for linux in general. FFS, take your tinfoil hat off, jesus... Link plz. :) Yes, provide the source of that info:) Maybe

Fedora 11 does display suspend work for you: CRT vs. LCD

2009-07-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On Fedora 11, does your display suspend after the screensaver activates (assuming that you have asked it to suspend)? If you know whether it does or doesn't, please reply, and say whether your display is a CRT or LCD. I'm trying to get more information before filing a bug. (I did create a

Re: Fedora 11 does display suspend work for you: CRT vs. LCD

2009-07-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-30 20:15:25, stan wrote: On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:02:46 -0400 Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: On Fedora 11, does your display suspend after the screensaver activates (assuming that you have asked it to suspend)? F11, x86_64, crt, gnome, nouveau. I didn't do

Re: grubby recieved SIGSEGV! Backtrace (6):

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-31 03:02:20, Justin P. Mattock wrote: ... opps!! I guess it helps to have ext4 compiled in the kernel.. (sh^t I'm a neewbie).. It only needs to be a module, but then it must be present in your initrd (mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`, or whatever kernel version

Re: Cron jobs running twice

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-31 08:30:41, Casartello, Thomas wrote: Just figured out why….after the upgrade I have both a /etc/crontab and a /etc/anacrontab….it’s parsing both. I also have both, and this is not happening. -- TonyN.:'

Re: grubby recieved SIGSEGV! Backtrace (6):

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-31 10:51:46, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-07-31 03:02:20, Justin P. Mattock wrote: ... opps!! I guess it helps to have ext4 compiled in the kernel.. (sh^t I'm a neewbie).. It only needs to be a module, but then it must be present in your

Re: missing dependency

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-31 13:56:45, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:49:37 -0700, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.com wrote: I'd bugzilla it but I've never been able to figure out which packages different things belong to. rpm -qi will tell you the source rpm the package comes

Re: missing dependency

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-31 16:11:43, Mike Wright wrote: Remi Collet wrote: Le 31/07/2009 19:49, Mike Wright a écrit : updates has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9.0.11 is needed by package perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc10.2.i386 (updates) perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc10.3

Re: Conf File Backup Idea

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-31 19:17:46, Thom Paine wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have a look at some of them and see if I can figure something out. I don't mind manually making lists of files as I start working with them. What really prompted this was that I have some home automation working really

Re: grubby recieved SIGSEGV! Backtrace (6):

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-31 11:58:18, Justin P. Mattock wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: ... is there a way to tell yum hey I have a source here, add it to the list instead of creating an rpm and then installing the rpm? No. ... Probably. I don't use grubby (if needed, I write my own grub stanza). You may

Re: Fedora 11 very very slow on Athlon DAM 1500+, 1.3 GHz Machine

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-31 21:41:38, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote: Hi, I tried running Fedora 11, with it being only operating system installed, and it was too slow for everything. The message boxes, applications, games, etc... everything.. took a great time to load. It was installed on Ext4 file

Re: headless setup

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-31 16:46:20, Paul wrote: Bazooka Joe wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertsonmik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: Bazooka Joe wrote: Hi, I need to configure f11 to redirect output to the serial port. I looked at the inittab which doesn't look like

[Solved] Re: Fedora 11 does display suspend work for you: CRT vs. LCD

2009-07-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-30 20:02:46, Tony Nelson wrote: On Fedora 11, does your display suspend after the screensaver activates (assuming that you have asked it to suspend)? If you know whether it does or doesn't, please reply, and say whether your display is a CRT or LCD. I'm trying to get more

Re: Conf File Backup Idea

2009-08-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-01 03:41:12, Terry Barnaby wrote: Something that we do to get most of the configuration files backed up is: ... rpm -qac --dump | sed -e /^(/d | while read -a line ... This should backup any files that are marked as configuration files in the RPM packages and have changed. If

Re: F9: smartd errors, how to fix it?

2009-08-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-01 15:45:38, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Is there any way to fix the following problems, like forcing fsck or something? I am getting smartd errors as reported: $ cat /var/log/messages [...] {repeated messages of the following} Aug 1 12:33:26 gold smartd[2820]: Device: /dev/sda,

Re: How to sort a file -

2009-08-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-01 17:33:38, Bob Goodwin wrote: ... ...the raw log data is in descending order of date/ time and I am adding the latest data in the same order but at the bottom so the list it may show 16:00-15:30 followed by the latest block on the list 16:30-16:00. ... `man tac` --

Re: Conf File Backup Idea

2009-08-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-02 08:14:25, Thom Paine wrote: I'm a sloppy person, so I set up an rsync-based solution derived from a script I snagged through googling.  It keeps 4-hourly, daily, 4 weekly, and several monthly rotating backups of the directories I list. Let me know if you want it.  Sometime

Re: dellsysidplugin2??

2009-08-03 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-03 17:00:53, John Aldrich wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009, Beartooth wrote: Well, as the OP, I have something like half an idea. One (only one) of the four F11 PCs at my desk, a hand-me-down, was a Dell server before I got it. It makes some sort of sense that that machine

Re: [Solved] Re: Fedora 11 does display suspend work for you: CRT vs. LCD

2009-08-03 Thread Tony Nelson
on the kernel command line allows 2.6.29.5 and up kernels to Suspend the display just as 2.6.29.4 kernels can with or without KMS. Bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515316 On 09-08-01 00:06:25, Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-07-30 20:02:46, Tony Nelson wrote: On Fedora 11, does your

Re: low-level formatter for linux

2009-08-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-04 23:34:04, Markus Kesaromous wrote: Sorry I did not clarify - By low level, I do not mean Filesystem creation. I mean it the level at which bad-block forwarding takes place (i.e. all blocks are tested for sanity, and the bad blocks are forwarded to good blocks. This in some

Re: [F11] sound mutes at 50%

2009-08-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-05 06:40:53, Zacharie Elcor wrote: hi, I have a sound problem since I installed F11 : if I lower volume below 50%, no more sound (and 50% is too high). I tried gnome- volume-control, pavucontrol, alsamixer and they all have the same behavior. This is how PA volume controls

Re: security updates causing firefox trouble?

2009-08-06 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-06 14:46:31, stan wrote: ... You are trying to update firefox while it is running. While this is theoretically possible, it is also possible that firefox has locked a component that the update process needs to access. In other words, get out of firefox until the updates complete.

Re: auto-updates

2009-08-08 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-08 02:55:51, s wrote: ... I just installed Fedora 11 and there are 400 updates available. I use a dial-up connection in a part of town where I get an average of 2.9 kilobytes per second (bad phone lines). So when something is downloading that generally puts a halt on using the

Re: low-level formatter for linux

2009-08-08 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-08 11:54:37, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... I'm not sure what you expect low level formatting to do for you, backing up and writing and reading to every sector will force all current bad blocks to be found, One thing is that each of those blocks requires a long seek to the replacement

Re: FC-11 M2N-MX acpi

2009-08-12 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-12 05:00:31, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Don't know if it relates to you motherboard, but I read something and added this to my kernel line. acpi_enforce_resources=lax Supposedly this only affects ASUS motherboards, and then only lm_sensors. Currently, its only function is to prevent

Re: Broken downloads of FC11-x86_64 and other disturbances

2009-08-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-26 12:23:39, li...@funkster1 wrote: ... ... I'll start another bit-torrent dl right now and I'll see tonight how it goes. If you move your best download to the torrent download destination, bittorrent will just copy the parts that aren't correct. It will usually be much faster

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-27 10:12:44, Steve Blackwell wrote: ... ... I'd like to know where (which file) the information isstored in and what program starts it. gdm? gnome? gconf? Look in ~/.config. See http://library.gnome.org/devel/autostart-spec/ --

Re: Monitor does not go into standby when in X

2009-08-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-27 12:25:06, Steven Stern wrote: ... It appears that either X or gnome-power-manager is just refusing to put the monitor into standby. How do I get Fedora / Gnome / X to use power-saving modes for monitor standby? If, from X, `xset dpms force suspend ; sleep 10 ; xset dpms force

Re: need a copy of /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules

2009-08-28 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-28 11:53:19, daniel shi wrote: hi guys, i have a usb mount problem, according to, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478679, the probable solution for me is to modify the /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent- storage.rules,. it exists on fedora 8, but im using fedora 10, which

Re: [OT] Run LiveUSB on machine that can't boot from usbkey?

2009-08-29 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-29 12:06:07, Mike Cloaked wrote: I have an old laptop that I use for testing new versions of Fedora - however although it will boot of a physical CD containing a LiveCD (say of F12 Alpha), it is old enough not to be able to boot off usb devices since the BIOS is not arranged to do

Re: USB I/O performance

2009-08-30 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-30 20:06:22, Roberto Ragusa wrote: ... I have a really slow flash (writes at 2MiB/s), so I tried to increase the number; the trick was impossible for me, the parameter is refused when 120. Just out of curiosity, what happens with 64? --

Re: rogue suspend is driving me nuts

2009-08-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-31 13:44:11, brian wrote: 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i586 For the past couple of weeks, my desktop machine has been shutting down on its own. I thought it might be a hardware problem until I noticed that, each time, /var/log/pm-suspend.log was being written to: Initial commandline

Re: FC11 - KVM based VM become halt after heavy rsync

2009-08-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-08-31 15:40:08, Linux student wrote: Mohammad Mateen Aslam on 2009-08-28 19:14 PM +0500, wrote : Hi guys I have am using FC11 64bit on Host and same OS on KVM based guest machine. I am using TAP based routing network inside host. I am using virtio network driver for my guest

Re: FC11 - KVM based VM become halt after heavy rsync

2009-09-01 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-01 16:11:56, Mohammad Mateen Aslam wrote: ... yes i am doing also doing --delete and --exclude some directories from a list. Here is command i am using rsync -e ssh -l bkp-user -avR --delete --exclude-from=${EXCLUDES} I don't see anything that would use extra memory, though

Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2009-09-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-02 17:39:24, Cameron Simpson wrote: ... The purpose of shred is to rewrite the data many times with random data, ince it is technically possibly to read old patterns from the drive with the right (expensive and special) hardware. Proof? This /may/ have been true for drives of old,

Re: Fedora 11: no display after init sequence

2009-09-03 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-03 11:06:15, wwp wrote: ... On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:03:46 +0200 wwp subscr...@free.fr wrote: after I upgraded from Fedora 10 to 11 using yum preupgrade (as ... (*) anyway, that 2.6.30 kernel didn't seem very stable to me at first glance, I got a system complete hang while in init 2

Re: rogue suspend is driving me nuts

2009-09-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-03 21:33:35, brian wrote: On 08/31/2009 07:48 PM, brian wrote: On 08/31/2009 06:05 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: If you can't solve the problem, and you don't need fancy Power Management services, you can `yum remove gnome-power-manager`. I did that and also removed gnome-screensaver

Re: Fedora 11: no display after init sequence

2009-09-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-04 11:30:09, wwp wrote: On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:06:40 -0400 Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: Do you have updates-testing enabled? F11 doesn't include 2.6.30 kernels, but there is one in updates-testing. D'oh! You're right: ... Thanks a bunch for that hint

Re: USB I/O performance

2009-09-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-05 08:22:36, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-08-30 20:06:22, Roberto Ragusa wrote: ... I have a really slow flash (writes at 2MiB/s), so I tried to increase the number; the trick was impossible for me, the parameter is refused when 120. Just out

Re: Cannot upgrade to F11: /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link???

2009-09-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-05 19:05:48, Dan Hensley wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my Fedora 9 system to Fedora 11 from DVD, but right after I identify my partition, it gives me an error saying that /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link, so please reset it to its original state. The problem is, /usr/tmp IS in its

Re: Cannot upgrade to F11: /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link???

2009-09-06 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-06 10:15:51, Dan Hensley wrote: ... Either way I saw in the installation instructions that you can't upgrade from Fedora 9 directly to Fedora 11, so I'm giving up and am going to install from scratch. I upgraded directly from F9 to F11 using the DVD. (I did use a copy of my

Re: Cannot upgrade to F11: /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link???

2009-09-06 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-06 09:50:24, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 19:06 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: ... # ll -d /usr/tmp lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 2009-07-28 07:31 /usr/tmp - ../var/tmp shouldn't that be ../../var/tmp ? Indeed it should.. Nonsense

Re: F11: Firefox v3.5.2-2 causes daily system lockouts.

2009-09-06 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-06 13:20:31, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803 Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5.2 After extensive testing with the divide conquer method, I have discovered that FireFox is causing all sorts of hissy-fits, the worst, being

Re: Fedora 11: no display after init sequence

2009-09-11 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-09-11 13:19:46, wwp wrote: Hello Tony, On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:06:40 -0400 Tony Nelson tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: On 09-09-03 11:06:15, wwp wrote: ... On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:03:46 +0200 wwp subscr...@free.fr wrote: after I upgraded from Fedora 10 to 11 using

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