Re: very long boot time in fedora 15

2011-05-26 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 May 2011 22:45, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/27/2011 02:34 AM, Ian Malone wrote: Hi, I'm trying to work out why Fedora 15 takes an incredibly long time to start on this machine (Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1GB RAM laptop), booting takes several minutes as opposed to F13.

Re: Mounting cifs

2011-05-26 Thread JD
On 05/26/11 12:23, Rich wrote: On 5/26/2011 10:38 AM, JD wrote: On 05/26/11 06:46, Rich wrote: Just a shot in the dark, but do you have multiple dhcp daemons running on the network. Your router probably has one running. I could buy that multiple dhcp daemons might cause something like what

Positive tips and help for GNOME 3 please

2011-05-26 Thread Andre Robatino
Andre Robatino robatino at fedoraproject.org writes: Installing gnome-tweak-tool allows for some extra customization. In particular you can have the date show the day, and switch between 12- and 24-hour time. AFAIK there's no way to get it to show seconds in gnome-shell, though you can in

Re: F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Alan Cox wrote: Also, the ABI is much better, and this may be almost as significant. Unfortunately that biggest gain only occurs if the program logic is such that registers run out often. Which, in the case of gcc-generated code, is most of the time. gcc was originally written for, and

Re: local IMAP server

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Lewis NH2 wrote: Good Evening, I have a SOHO, and I like to access/answer my emails from every workstations. Of course everything should be kept up-to-sync. Furthermore, I'd like to avoid storing all emails on my ISP. Having a local IMAP server and fetching automatically the emails from my

Re: indows ctivities ?

2011-05-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 26 May 2011 18:00:45 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: A in Activities will be missing Sorry, I meant the upper case A in Applications (right next to Windows), not Activities (in top left corner - it always seems to have its upper case A intact). -- users mailing list

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kam Leo wrote: I tried upgrading my system using the DVD, Netinstall CD, and Preupgrade. Each time boot got stuck at the line Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs. . . . It seems that the installer files have gotten fatter and more memory is required. This is a known problem,

redhat archive

2011-05-26 Thread Matias Kreder
Hi, I really don't know where to ask this question, but this may be a good point to start. Do you know who can check this for the redhat archive or where should I ask? I'm trying to get these pretty old red hat .iso's and there is nothing below 6.2.

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kam Leo wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Mike Williamsdmikewilli...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Joe Zeffj...@zeff.us wrote: On 05/25/2011 10:44 AM, Kam Leo wrote: It seems that the installer files have gotten fatter and more memory is required. When I

Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown Restart options

2011-05-26 Thread Andre Robatino
Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com writes: # yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu Alt+F2, press r and enter to restart the shell. You should have a permanent power off item in the menu. A heads up - this extension doesn't work when gnome-shell-3.0.2-1.fc15 from

Re: redhat archive

2011-05-26 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 05/26/2011 11:28 PM, Matias Kreder wrote: Hi, I really don't know where to ask this question, but this may be a good point to start. Do you know who can check this for the redhat archive or where should I ask? I'm trying to get these pretty old red hat .iso's and there is nothing below

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/25/2011 02:16 PM, Kam Leo wrote: After reading the bug report I can only shake my head. This is Yet Another Example of the Iron Law of Bureaucracy in action. (http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html) In this case, the people running the project clearly

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown Restart options

2011-05-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Juan R. de Silva wrote: Could anybody explain it, why GNOME folks decided to hide the Shutdown and especially Restart buttons/options from a user so well? Is it especially dangerous to use them nowadays? Or GNOME folks assume people do not shutdown/restart their computers anymore? What? You

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/27/2011 05:52 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: I know you're frustrated, but don't take it out on me. I'm not the one complaining, I haven't (yet) upgraded to F 15 and I've already migrated from Gnome to XFCE to avoid Gnome 3. All I did was point out that projects tend to get less and less

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/26/2011 05:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: You made a assumption (or a accusation if you will) on the entire project with a diverse base of contributors that it was about control or convenience of developers and not users and asserting it would only demotivate people who work hard to help

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/27/2011 06:15 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/26/2011 05:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: You made a assumption (or a accusation if you will) on the entire project with a diverse base of contributors that it was about control or convenience of developers and not users and asserting it would only

Re: Improving video response on windows7 kvm guest on fedora14

2011-05-26 Thread Alex
Hi, I have an existing windows7 x86_64 kvm guest running on fedora14 x86_64 with a Radeon HD5700 at 1680x1050, and would like to improve the resolution and video response of the Windows guest. You might want to upgrade to fedora 15 so you can use spice (http://spice-space.org/) out of the

Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM

2011-05-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/26/2011 05:46 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I am wondering why you think it is. Care to explain? I was using Gnome as an example of how project devs turn their backs on the needs of the users. The same thing seems to be happening, gradually, with the Fedora devs, at least to the extent of

Being a good critique (Was:Re: Fedora 15 installer needs more than 512MB RAM)

2011-05-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/27/2011 06:34 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: I was using Gnome as an example of how project devs turn their backs on the needs of the users. The same thing seems to be happening, gradually, with the Fedora devs, at least to the extent of not managing to keep such vital things as minimum memory

F15 long boot time/cups scheduler problem

2011-05-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On a new F15 install replacing F14. The boot process pauses at Start LSB: The cups scheduler for 60 seconds before going on to the text log-in. I don't know what the cups scheduler is or what to do with it. Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this?

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown Restart options

2011-05-26 Thread John Mellor
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 20:06 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Juan R. de Silva wrote: Could anybody explain it, why GNOME folks decided to hide the Shutdown and especially Restart buttons/options from a user so well? Is it especially dangerous to use them nowadays? Or GNOME folks assume people

Where did power off extensions go?

2011-05-26 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
So, I upgraded F15 tonight which included gnome-shell-3.0.2-1.fc15, et al, and now the power off option extension is no longer present. Reinstalled all extensions, reloaded the shell, rebooted, said some incantations, but it seems the shell is ignoring the power off mod. Sure, I can, and will,

Where did power off extensions go?

2011-05-26 Thread Andre Robatino
Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7734 at cox.net writes: So, I upgraded F15 tonight which included gnome-shell-3.0.2-1.fc15, et al, and now the power off option extension is no longer present. Reinstalled all extensions, reloaded the shell, rebooted, said some incantations, but it seems the

Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown Restart options

2011-05-26 Thread Andre Robatino
Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com writes: What? You pull down the user menu, click shutdown, and a box opens which offers suspend-restart-cancel-shutdown buttons. How hidden is that? You appear to be describing Gnome 3's fallback mode, not Gnome Shell. -- users mailing list

Re: Positive tips and help for GNOME 3 please

2011-05-26 Thread Misha Shnurapet
27.05.2011, 06:41, Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com: I'd like to start a thread to help me, and hopefully others use GNOME 3 more effectively. I've used it for a day now, its very different and will take me a while to get used to it. However past experience with other new things (e.g.

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown Restart options

2011-05-26 Thread Misha Shnurapet
27.05.2011, 03:46, James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@gmail.com: Start with the Wine nOObs that are moving to Linux for 'security'. They want that Windows look and feel... The good part is that those of us that don't want it, don't have to have it either. Completely agree, James, and I hope it

Graphical tool for repo management

2011-05-26 Thread antonio
Up to Fedora 14 I had a graphical repo management tool installed (Gpk-repo I assume), after update to Fedora 15 such a tool is missing (only applet is available, but not working). What happened to Gnome-packagekit?? Antonio -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

F15:System freezes on safely removing device

2011-05-26 Thread antonio montagnani
If I connect a WD USB hard disk, and I right-click on it in File application and I choose safely remove my system freezes (no way to have it working again) Where shall I look for any error log??? -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F15 (Lovelock) on Acer 5720

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