Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote: Maybe, you need to put /kernel instead of /boot/kernel? Could be, but I don't think so, since I need it when I enter the information manually into grub2 and also, the legacy grub needs /boot/. However, I will try, just to be sure. LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: On 08/25/2011 12:40 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: snip set root=(hd0,7) linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64 root=/dev/sda7 ro quiet etc etc etc etc etc rd.=0 etc etc etc initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64.img

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: As far as I know, everything is relative to /boot. No change from old grub. In the old grub, you had to explicitly state /boot. In the old grub.conf it even states: all kernel and initrd paths are relative to / That means everything is relative to root (/), not

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tom H wrote: In the old grub, you had to explicitly state /boot. In the old grub.conf it even states: all kernel and initrd paths are relative to / That means everything is relative to root (/), not /boot! Are you referring to root=/ or the grub root? I don't have a clue what the

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Joachim Backes wrote: On 08/25/2011 04:36 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Joachim Backes wrote: my grub.cfg (using chainloader) entry for F15 (after installing grub2 in F15 and installing then in F15 the grub2 bootloader to /dev/sda7): menuentry 'Fedora 15' --class fedora --class gnu

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I have installed F16α and with it grub2 to the MBR of /dev/sda. I am experimenting happily with F16, but I am unable to add F15 to the grub2 boot menu. I have edited /etc/grub.d/40_custom and run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, but my F15 entry never

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu {solved}

2011-08-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Scott Robbins wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:21:37PM -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I have edited /etc/grub.d/40_custom and run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, but my F15 entry never shows up in the menu, even though it is in grub.cfg. Interesting. I just tested

Re: Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-25 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Scott Robbins wrote: Important note. Although disk number still begins at 0, partitions now begin at 1. So /dev/sda1 is now hd0,1. Thanks for the reminder :-) I was already aware of that, hence I set root to 0,7 (ie., sda7, or grub legacy hd0,6). -- test mailing list

Adding Fedora15 to F16alpha grub2 menu

2011-08-24 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
I have installed F16α and with it grub2 to the MBR of /dev/sda. I am experimenting happily with F16, but I am unable to add F15 to the grub2 boot menu. I have edited /etc/grub.d/40_custom and run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, but my F15 entry never shows up in the menu, even though

Re: sshfs not working anymore {solved}

2011-08-13 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: sshfs... no longer works. My router, after a couple of months of stable operation, mysteriously decided to assign different IP addresses to my computers. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

sshfs not working anymore

2011-08-08 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
I last used sshfs successfully about 7-10 days ago. Since about 2-3 days, it no longer works. In updates-testing, we have had a new kernel and a new selinux policy, I believe. I have tried booting both computers with an old kernel. I have tried putting both computers into permissive mode

kernel-PAE-2.6.38.8-35 update problem

2011-07-09 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
I just updated to the new (testing) kernel. When it was done, a message appeared that grubby was unable to find a suitable template. Thinking nothing of this, I rebooted the system, and instead of the usual graphical grub menu appearing, a black screen with a grub prompt appeared. I was forced

Re: kernel-PAE-2.6.38.8-35 update problem

2011-07-09 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Bruno Wolff III wrote: You might want to make a comment for the update at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.38.8-35.fc15?_csrf_ token=3671000d8fce8d1a92d1ea034a714356e84da806 I did see some odd behavior similar to yours on one machine, but had recently done some other

Re: kernel-PAE-2.6.38.8-35 update problem

2011-07-09 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Bruno Wolff III wrote: What kind of note should I make? A brief summary of what didn't work. If you want to be more elaborate, also file a bugg and then refer to the bug in the note. done -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: MPEG-1 Layer 3

2011-06-09 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Rob Healey wrote: I am trying to play some of my mp3 files, and rhythmbox and Amarok searches for the codec... Both of them say that they can't find anything... I have fedora-rawhide, rpmfusion-free-rawhide, and rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide enabled in yum... Can anyone tell me which

Re: MPEG-1 Layer 3

2011-06-09 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Christopher Svanefalk wrote: I would recommend you consider converting your MP3s to Ogg Unless you have different information than that I have read, this is not a good idea. Both mp3 and ogg are lossy formats, so you are beginning with a degraded file and applying yet another algorithm to it

caribou

2011-04-01 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Caribou crashed after this morning's update. ABRT says: main.py:55__init__:Exception:AT-SPI 1 or 2 needs to be enabled. . My questions are: Where do I choose either 1 or 2 and what are they? I realize that I will not likely use caribou, as it is for gnome, but I still want to know what 1

Re: Gnome3: I did it!

2011-03-23 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I will definitely be looking around quite a lot more. Already, I can say that Activities are much better thought out and implemented than the confusing and generally somewhat useless KDE variant. I just discovered that KDE Activity Search Launch is a lot like

Re: Gnome3: how to do it?

2011-03-22 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Adam Williamson wrote: What 'cruft' are you talking about? I just want pure gnome3, no old cruft. How do I get it? -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Gnome3: I did it!

2011-03-22 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Wow! That is really nice!!! I will definitely be looking around quite a lot more. Already, I can say that Activities are much better thought out and implemented than the confusing and generally somewhat useless KDE variant. I am confused by the user account, since I logged in as me, but it

Re: Fedora 15 - yum update on March 19th

2011-03-21 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Kjartan Maraas wrote: I fixed it here by reverting to the previous version of rsyslog. Thanks. So did I. This thread has broken up into 3 or 4 separate thread, so I commented there. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: optimizing systemd, was: f15 no longer starts

2011-03-21 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Adam Williamson wrote: A possible solution would be to have both updates and updates-testing repos for all fedoras, even the not yet released branched fedora. Erm. We already do exactly this I must have missed that. I just checked, and sure enough, fedora-updates does indeed exist for f15.

Re: optimizing systemd, was: f15 no longer starts

2011-03-21 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Adam Williamson wrote: updates is inactive for Branched releases, but that's because there's no need for it; as there's no frozen 'master' tree, packages simply go straight from updates-testing in the main 'release' repo (which I tend to refer to as dist-f15, although technically that's just

Re: optimizing systemd, was: f15 no longer starts

2011-03-21 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Adam Williamson wrote: anyone running a pre-release should be running the candidate update packages and providing feedback on them. Well, I did. But I had a heart attack before I was able to do so. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: optimizing systemd, was: f15 no longer starts

2011-03-21 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Adam Williamson wrote: again, you know, pre-release. you really shouldn't be particularly surprised if it vomits on your shoes at any given point. :) :-) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Gnome3: how to do it?

2011-03-21 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
I have mostly a pretty clean kde4 f15 system. Naturally, I am intrigued by Gnome3. I know that I could groupinstall gnome, but I don't want any of that old gnome2 cruft. How can I get just gnome3? How can I add a gnome entry into kdm, so that I can select (without changing my kde default, of

Re: f15 no longer starts

2011-03-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Genes MailLists wrote: I'm curious - how does a bad rsyslog package prevent the system from booting ? Should it ?? That feels too brittle to me ... I mean its only logging after all Ask the experts, not me. vt1 hung endlessly, with a black screen once the daemons had finally all timed

Re: F15 Alpha will not start after my last yum update

2011-03-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
cornel panceac wrote: can you please tell us the bug number? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689163 Sorry about my description. My initial impressions, when I had made the report, were incomplete. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: Fedora 15 - yum update on March 19th

2011-03-19 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
cornel panceac wrote: it started by first not rebooting (in a decent timeframe). i disabled akmods, md monitor and abrtd, which all failed, and i'll see what changes after the very long reboot occurs. How to fix it? I didn't wait 7 minutes and not getting X is not desirable for me. I

Re: F15 Alpha will not start after my last yum update

2011-03-19 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Dennis Appelon Nielsen wrote: Hi All I just updated my Fedora 15 Alpha, after that It will no longer start the gnome-shell, the last thing I see is a error regarding the NetworkManager. Any ideas or suggestions to what I can do to get around this problem, I even tried to reinstall the

Re: f15 no longer starts

2011-03-19 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Vaclav Misek wrote: it was the rsyslog package. Thanks a million! yum downgrade rsyslog cured it. I am back using F15 again. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: F15 Alpha will not start after my last yum update

2011-03-19 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: sudo yum downgrade ryslog That's supposed to have an extra 's', like this: sudo yum downgrade rsyslog -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: F15 Alpha will not start after my last yum update

2011-03-19 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Also, so that you can see that something is happening during those up to 30 minutes, type ESC once to switch plymouth graphical boot to show the boot output. Things will be very slow, but mine did eventually get to a graphical system (I also had to hit alt-SysRq-r or even alt-SysRq-re, I think,

Re: F15 Alpha will not start after my last yum update

2011-03-19 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Ian Pilcher wrote: Has this problem been bugzilla'ed, BTW? Yes, I did a couple of hours ago. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Please explain: Your credentials have expired

2011-03-09 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
I just updated my f15 system to yesterday's updates (08.iii.2011), those including kernel-2.6.38-0.rc8.git0.1.fc15 c. I rebooted the machine, as I wanted to run the new kernel. When kdm logged me in, I saw 2 keys with a red 'x' in the system tray. Hovering over it shows Your credentials have

Re: Please explain: Your credentials have expired

2011-03-09 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: krb5-auth-dialog I ran sudo rpm -e krb5-auth-dialog and it sure ran for a long time, apparently doing a whole lot of stuff, but there were no dependency complaints and when it finished, the systray icon was gone. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: rawhide boot problem....

2010-10-24 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
When I boot, the transition from plymouth to KDM occurs immediately. There is no waiting. It is when I power off, that I see the could not write bytes: broken pipe lines. There must be at least a dozen, while the power off process appears to hang for a few seconds, before plymouth again kicks

Re: F14 Beta - No transparent windows

2010-10-20 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
john wendel wrote: I just used preupgrade to convert F13 KDE box to F14 beta. I'm using the RADEON video driver with an older ATI video card. Under F13, I had nice, transparent Konsole windows, but F14 the Konsole configuration says that transparency is not supported. Any clues will be

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Beta RC3 Available Now!

2010-09-23 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Michael Schwendt wrote: When booting this installation, I arrive at gdm's greeter without any firstboot procedure. No user account is available except root. Firstboot package is installed, but not added to any runlevel. What has gone wrong? I had this a coupla weeks ago. No sweat, just log

Re: What do consumers wishing to use systemd in F14 need to do?

2010-09-16 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Micha? Piotrowski wrote: I mean systemd and all boot scripts. Wonderful! This is definitely nice for consumers who have already made the transition to the future and do not care to regress. As for rawhide, it is definitely experimental, but to use it as a day-to-day system is not always

Re: What do consumers wishing to use systemd in F14 need to do?

2010-09-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Matthew Miller wrote: What are you wanting to get out of having your system using systemd at this point? I had no problems with systemd and have already converted my scripts to using systemd. I don't want to regress all my work and have to do it all over and then repeat it all again in 6

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Tom Horsley wrote: You left out removing the fanatical devotion to releasing every six months :-). I've really never understood that one. Why is virtually everything subordinate to getting a release out at an artificial deadline? Why not just release when there appears to be enough things

Re: What do consumers wishing to use systemd in F14 need to do?

2010-09-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Matthew Miller wrote: You shouldn't need to install it from scratch, given where you're at. Just yum update from your F14 test system. You're sure this isn't going to f--k my perfectly running system (yes, I do have f13 installed on a different partition, but I would not be happy with that

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Matthew Miller wrote: What was F14 with systemd going to offer that's new or different for consumers? I guess I can't truly answer that, except for the fact that it was promising and seeming to deliver faster booting. I turn off my computer when I go out and at night, since I have to pay for

Re: What do consumers wishing to use systemd in F14 need to do?

2010-09-15 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet That should get the migration process to systemd started and as with all wiki pages dont hesitate to add/enhance if needed. Thanks. Duly noted. I was migrated and will now likely have to regress for 6

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Vaclav Misek wrote: I had only minor problems with systemd and I'd like to keep it. I had no problems that come to mind and I'd like to keep it. Please explain explicitly how consumers can continue to use it, rather than regressing: grub kernel parameters, other required settings to maintain

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Unwise decision. Yes, disappointing decision, to be sure. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: heads-up: upstart reversion coming soon

2010-09-14 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-gfeature=related You have a sense of humour :-)) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

I think there is a new systemd problem

2010-09-12 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
When I run: sudo status rpcbind.service or sudo status acpid.service I always get an error message: status: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused I have: initscripts-9.20-1.fc14.x86_64 sysvinit-tools-2.87-5.dsf.fc14.x86_64

Re: I think there is a new systemd problem

2010-09-12 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Delete that message!!! I forgot the command, systemctl ;-) -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

trying to update to initscripts-9.20-1.fc14

2010-09-10 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
yum says: sysvinit-tools = 2.87-5 is needed by initscripts-9.20-1.fc14.x86_64 Where do I find sysvinit-tools. Checked koji and there is no such package as sysvinit-tools. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: trying to update to initscripts-9.20-1.fc14

2010-09-10 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: yum says: sysvinit-tools = 2.87-5 is needed by initscripts-9.20-1.fc14.x86_64 Where do I find sysvinit-tools. Checked koji and there is no such package as sysvinit-tools. Never mind, I found it. It's listed under sysvinit and a search on koji, not even

systemd-9-3.fc14 slows boot to crawl

2010-09-03 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
system start-up is very, very slow with systemd-9-3.fc14. Plymouth runs and seems to pulse more slowly than with previous versions of systemd, then hangs for about 30 seconds before the final majestic pulse, then the login screen appears. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: systemd-9-3.fc14 slows boot to crawl

2010-09-03 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
The problem appears to be: (1) acpid.service and (2) tcsd.service. 1. System log for acpid.service shows: Sep 3 21:39:14 localhost acpid: Deprecated /proc/acpi/event was not found. Trying netlink and the input layer... Sep 3 21:39:14 localhost acpid: starting up with netlink and the input

gnash-8.8

2010-08-24 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
I tried the new gnash on both firefox and konqueror, but it did not work. It is supposed to display all youtube videos, but all I got was a black box and a message stating that an error occurred and I should try later (with konqueror, the black box appeared, but no message). I made sure to