Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Peter Langfelder peter.langfel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am not actively using the disk. Too risky. I am trying to find out if there is reasonable doubt as to what the smartd is reporting as if the

Re: Calculating the target of a symlink

2010-06-20 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: A script I'm writing needs to work out the target of a symbolic link, i.e. given: $ touch foo $ ln -s foo bar the function should print bar when given foo as a parameter. The manual says ls -L should do this,

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread JD
On 06/19/2010 09:56 PM, Peter Langfelder was caught red-handed while writing:: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM, JDjd1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am not actively using the disk. Too risky. I am trying to find out if there is reasonable doubt as to what the smartd is

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread JD
On 06/19/2010 11:16 PM, Kam Leo was caught red-handed while writing:: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Peter Langfelder peter.langfel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM, JDjd1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am not actively using the disk. Too

Re: Installing Citrix Presentation Server / OpenMotif on Fedora13

2010-06-20 Thread Pier Paolo
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 17:33, Mogens Kjaer m...@lemo.dk wrote: On 06/19/2010 04:28 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote: I have installed Citrix Linux client version 11.100 which apparently requires OpenMotif v.2.3.1. However, I cannot find OpenMotif v.2.3.1 for Fedora 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686. I

Re: Help with a printer

2010-06-20 Thread Mika Kuusela
On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 14:01 -0700, JD wrote: I have been using the HP LaserJet 4L for many years and it has been totally trouble free. Recently, after an automatic update, the printer prints garbage. I have asked for help from openprinting in their forum, and it seems this forum is not very

Re: Installing Citrix Presentation Server / OpenMotif on Fedora13

2010-06-20 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 06/20/2010 09:31 AM, Pier Paolo wrote: It doesn't work here, indeed: fedora 12, openmotif 2.3.2, icaclient (wfica, etc.): ctually, the configuration windows run without problem, the icaclient itself not, run as i ever did in debian (/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica). I could not find the proper

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread Alan Cox
I thought fsck simply checks the metadata of the filesystem, free blocks and allocated blocks, cylinder groups, inodes...etc. So, it is not clear that fsck will detect new bad blocks. Yep cat /dev/sdwhatever /dev/null -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Thunderbird 3.1

2010-06-20 Thread Joachim Backes
On 06/19/10 23:56, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/19/2010 04:35 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Saturday 19 June 2010 08:55 AM, mike cloaked wrote: Then download the tarball of the version you are interested in - for example:

Re: Installing Citrix Presentation Server / OpenMotif on Fedora13

2010-06-20 Thread Pier Paolo
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:12, Mogens Kjaer m...@lemo.dk wrote: On 06/20/2010 09:31 AM, Pier Paolo wrote: It doesn't work here, indeed: fedora 12, openmotif 2.3.2, icaclient (wfica, etc.): ctually, the configuration windows run without problem, the icaclient itself not, run as i ever did

Re: Installing Citrix Presentation Server / OpenMotif on Fedora13

2010-06-20 Thread Pier Paolo
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:03, Pier Paolo pierpaolo.fra...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:12, Mogens Kjaer m...@lemo.dk wrote: On 06/20/2010 09:31 AM, Pier Paolo wrote: It doesn't work here, indeed: fedora 12, openmotif 2.3.2, icaclient (wfica, etc.): ctually, the

Re: Installing Citrix Presentation Server / OpenMotif on Fedora13

2010-06-20 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 06/20/2010 11:03 AM, Pier Paolo wrote: [pierpa...@piccolino ~]$ /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet

Re: Installing Citrix Presentation Server / OpenMotif on Fedora13

2010-06-20 Thread Pier Paolo
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:38, Mogens Kjaer m...@lemo.dk wrote: On 06/20/2010 11:03 AM, Pier Paolo wrote: [pierpa...@piccolino ~]$ /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font

Re: Help with a printer

2010-06-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/19/2010 06:43 PM, JD wrote: On 06/19/2010 02:54 PM, Steve Searle was caught red-handed while writing:: Around 10:01pm on Saturday, June 19, 2010 (UK time), JD scrawled: I have been using the HP LaserJet 4L for many years and it has been totally trouble free. Recently,

Re: Installing Citrix Presentation Server / OpenMotif on Fedora13

2010-06-20 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 06/20/2010 01:15 PM, Pier Paolo wrote: nope. this solutions doesn't work (rebooted the system, don't knowing the exact service for fonts) : [pierpa...@piccolino Scaricati]$ /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica tATOO39.ica Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to

Re: SB Blaster X-fi card

2010-06-20 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 16:24 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Never the less, you should be able to get basic sound (As far as I could see the X-fi Xtreme is supported by this driver). Two questions: A. Are you seeing a the volume control slider? Is it unmuted? B. Using the console, what the

Re: SB Blaster X-fi card

2010-06-20 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
I've also a X-fi xtreme under F13 and it doesn't work... :-( Le 20/06/10 14:58, Mike Chambers a écrit : On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 16:24 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: Never the less, you should be able to get basic sound (As far as I could see the X-fi Xtreme is supported by this driver). Two

Re: Thunderbird 3.1

2010-06-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/20/2010 04:53 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 06/19/10 23:56, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/19/2010 04:35 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: yes a little but there's a few 686 libs that need to be installed and it works fine thereafter. ... but not all addons run correctly, and some run not I

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:00:59AM -0700, JD wrote: So, it is not clear that fsck will detect new bad blocks. Man 'badblocks'. Note, from the manpage: ...it is strongly recommended that users not run badblocks directly, but rather use the -c option of the e2fsck and mke2fs programs.

Re: Help with a printer

2010-06-20 Thread JD
On 06/20/2010 12:43 AM, Mika Kuusela was caught red-handed while writing:: On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 14:01 -0700, JD wrote: I have been using the HP LaserJet 4L for many years and it has been totally trouble free. Recently, after an automatic update, the printer prints garbage. I have

Re: Help with a printer

2010-06-20 Thread JD
On 06/20/2010 05:08 AM, Jerry Feldman was caught red-handed while writing:: On 06/19/2010 06:43 PM, JD wrote: On 06/19/2010 02:54 PM, Steve Searle was caught red-handed while writing:: Around 10:01pm on Saturday, June 19, 2010 (UK time), JD scrawled: I have been

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread JD
On 06/20/2010 06:29 AM, Dave Ihnat was caught red-handed while writing:: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:00:59AM -0700, JD wrote: So, it is not clear that fsck will detect new bad blocks. Man 'badblocks'. Note, from the manpage: ...it is strongly recommended that users not run

Laptop powers off randomly

2010-06-20 Thread Wendell Nichols
My Lenovo T61p has started shutting down randomly (usually in the middle of the night). There is nothing in the logs, and the temperatures have all been stable. I'm not getting any kernel crash records. How can I find out whats shutting the system down? Its always possible that its hardware

Re: Help with a printer

2010-06-20 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 06:33 -0700, JD wrote: Where is the yum update history kept? In /var/log/yum.log, and most of the other logs you'll find are inside /var/log/, too. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.

Re: Thunderbird 3.1

2010-06-20 Thread David Boles
On 6/20/2010 4:53 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 06/19/10 23:56, Genes MailLists wrote: On 06/19/2010 04:35 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: yes a little but there's a few 686 libs that need to be installed and it works fine thereafter. ... but not all addons run correctly, and some run not Does this

Re: Thunderbird 3.1

2010-06-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/20/2010 11:05 AM, David Boles wrote: On 6/20/2010 4:53 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: Does this help with your problem? Nightly Tester Tools Lite 0.2.2 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/1391/ Ahhh that makes sense .. :-) -- users mailing list

Re: Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

2010-06-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/18/2010 04:30 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 06/14/2010 03:25 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: (2) Try latest 3.1.1.pre from upstream - I have no problems with it (32 bit only fyi) .. So far, after upgrading to 3.1-0.2.rc2.fc14 it seems to be more responsive to mouse clicks and no freezes

Re: Laptop powers off randomly

2010-06-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Wendell Nichols wc...@shaw.ca wrote: My Lenovo T61p has started shutting down randomly (usually in the middle of the night).  There is nothing in the logs, and the temperatures have all been stable.  I'm not getting any kernel crash records.  How can I find out

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Kam Leo kam@gmail.com wrote: You don't have to take smartd's word about the health of your drive. Run the manufacturer's diagnostic. May not make a difference. I'm not sure about all manufacturers, but on many consumer level drives the manufacturer software

Re: OT:burn - not install to usb

2010-06-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Mick M. off_b...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi;  I found a couple of 16MB usb sticks in a drawer. I have the latest systemrescuecd and want to burn it to the USB stick. An install needs 512MB, this is only 16M. I tried using dd but it would not boot. To be clear I

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread JD
On 06/20/2010 08:43 AM, Richard Shaw was caught red-handed while writing:: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Kam Leokam@gmail.com wrote: You don't have to take smartd's word about the health of your drive. Run the manufacturer's diagnostic. May not make a difference. I'm not

Re: OT:burn - not install to usb

2010-06-20 Thread Mikkel
On 06/20/2010 10:53 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: If dd wrote the image but it does not boot, the problem is likely with your computer not the USB disk. Not all BIOSs support that boot method, or in some cases, particular USB flash drives. I have an old (and for a flash drive I mean OLD) 256MB

Re: Installing Citrix Presentation Server / OpenMotif on Fedora13

2010-06-20 Thread John Thompson
On 06/19/2010 09:28 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote: I have installed Citrix Linux client version 11.100 which apparently requires OpenMotif v.2.3.1. However, I cannot find OpenMotif v.2.3.1 for Fedora 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686. I found it for an older version of Fedora but it didn't work. I am

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-20 Thread Michael Miles
On 06/18/2010 09:50 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 21:22:59 -0700, Suvayu Alifatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bruno, On Friday 18 June 2010 09:16 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: You can also set your system so that the default boot kernel doesn't change

Re: OT:burn - not install to usb

2010-06-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: On 06/20/2010 10:53 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: If dd wrote the image but it does not boot, the problem is likely with your computer not the USB disk. Not all BIOSs support that boot method, or in some cases, particular USB

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 09:28:46AM -0700, JD wrote: I tried to file for an rma, but the serial num and the part num were unrecognizable by the support site. Strange!! I had mistakenly stated that the drive was a WD. It is actually a seagate, and the seagate site did not recognize the serial

Re: Installing Citrix Presentation Server / OpenMotif on Fedora13

2010-06-20 Thread Pier Paolo
SOLVED following http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/index.jsp?topic=/receiver-linux-blackfoot/linux-readme-11-100.html, the fedora 12 known issue. I mv /usr/share/fonts/cjkuni-uming/fonts.dir and xset fp, and then citrix client launch itself without problems thanks, bye -- users mailing list

Re: NFS mounts - temporary failure in name resolution

2010-06-20 Thread Karl-Olov Serrander
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Steve Searle wrote: I have installed Fedora 13 on two machines now, and am getting the same problem when mounting nfs shares at boot time on both machines. The problem happens most of the time when I boot, but not always. I have four nfs mounts and when the problem

Re: Monitor disconnects (?) in F13

2010-06-20 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 12:15 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 22:05 -0400, Sam Varshavchik

Re: Monitor disconnects (?) in F13

2010-06-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 17:04 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: It's not a kernel crash, It's an X server crash/hang. It depends on an interaction between gnoe-screensaver modules, the gnome-power manager and the X server. The workaround is to select a screensaver module that doesn't crash/hang

Re: Monitor disconnects (?) in F13

2010-06-20 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 17:04 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: It's not a kernel crash, It's an X server crash/hang. It depends on an interaction between gnoe-screensaver modules, the gnome-power manager and the

Re: Monitor disconnects (?) in F13

2010-06-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 18:00 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 17:04 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: It's not a kernel crash, It's an X server crash/hang. It depends

how to start Xscreensaver automatically

2010-06-20 Thread Gerhard Magnus
I'm running FC13 with a gnome desktop and would like to have the new screensaver start automatically when I log on. What happens now is that I have to start the configuration gui manually using System -- Preferences -- Screensaver. I then get the message: The XScreenSaver daemon doesn't seem to

autofs and nfs4 no longer connect

2010-06-20 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I set up autofs and nfs4 between F12/F13 and RHEL5.5 so all my laptops could access a 1TB general purpose storage array mounted to /pub on a server named lion. That's where I maintain all my repo mirrors and other archives. The exported array was accessible from any local node: # cat

Re: autofs and nfs4 no longer connect

2010-06-20 Thread JD
On 06/20/2010 04:52 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage was caught red-handed while writing:: I set up autofs and nfs4 between F12/F13 and RHEL5.5 so all my laptops could access a 1TB general purpose storage array mounted to /pub on a server named lion. That's where I maintain all my repo mirrors and

Re: autofs and nfs4 no longer connect

2010-06-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/21/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 17:58 -0700, JD wrote: Perhaps check the firewall on server and clients??? JD, Nope. That was the second thing I checked. No changes. --Doc I assume there were no errors logged anywhere But,

Re: autofs and nfs4 no longer connect - SOLVED

2010-06-20 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 09:15 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/21/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 17:58 -0700, JD wrote: Perhaps check the firewall on server and clients??? JD, Nope. That was the second thing I checked. No changes. --Doc

Re: autofs and nfs4 no longer connect - SOLVED

2010-06-20 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:38 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: I discovered that the nfs service has been disabled (w/chkconfig) on all F12 and F13 clients. How that happened is a head-scratcher because nfs must be running on all local nodes to gain yum access to fast repos on the server.

Re: OT:burn - not install to usb

2010-06-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:52:00 -0500, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: I have never had it work to dd a CD image to a USB stick/drive. I believe the problem is that the computer looks for the boot loader in a different place on a CD then on a USB drive. Now, if you can tell the

Re: Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

2010-06-20 Thread Nataraj
Jerry Feldman wrote: After using 3.1-0.2.rc2.fc14, I found that it also freezes with Thunderbird using 100% of the CPU. Because of the lack of enigmail for this version (64-bit) I rolled back to 3.0.1. I may install the 32-bit version from the Thunderbird archives. I have eliminated both

Re: OT:burn - not install to usb

2010-06-20 Thread Darr
On Sunday, 20 June, 2010 @15:53 zulu, Richard Shaw scribed: If dd wrote the image but it does not boot, the problem is likely with your computer not the USB disk. Not all BIOSs support that boot method, or in some cases, particular USB flash drives. I have an old You can check if the stick is

Re: autofs and nfs4 no longer connect - SOLVED

2010-06-20 Thread JD
On 06/20/2010 06:38 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage was caught red-handed while writing:: On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 09:15 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/21/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 17:58 -0700, JD wrote: Perhaps check the firewall on

Configuring slapd.conf-less OpenLDAP

2010-06-20 Thread Braden McDaniel
Fedora's OpenLDAP now seems to default to configuration using an LDIF backend and I'm trying to get my bearings with it. I've changed /etc/openldap/slapd.d/cn=config/oldCatabase={1}bdb.ldif to point to my domain (olcSuffix, olcRootDN); and I've added olcRootPW: [slappasswd output]

problem booting windows on a flash stick via qemu

2010-06-20 Thread JD
I have a 16GB flash stick which I boot up via VirtualBox without any problems. But when I try to boot it with qemu: qemu -hda /dev/sdd -m 256 -vga std I get the blue screen of death. $ rpm -q qemu qemu-0.12.3-8.fc13.i686 Cheers, JD -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To