[389-users] UID Number Limitations

2011-11-24 Thread Tom Tucker
My environment has a mixture of Solaris 8-10 and RHEL 4-5. These clients are currently authenticating against a Sun One 5.X DS. I have migrated the Sun One DB to my lab 389 DS. Users with a three digit uidNumber are unable to login to Linux systems, however if they connect to a Solaris system it

Fedora 15 kernel 2.6.41.1-1: asm/amd_iommu.h missing; bad kernel upgrade!

2011-11-24 Thread Rob
Hi, After upgrading to the kernel of Fedora 15 today, the devel package has a problem: error: asm/amd_iommu.h: No such file or directory which causes the failure of the VirtualBox kernel modules compilation.. So this is a bad kernel upgrade Rob. -- users mailing list

Re: Fedora 15 kernel 2.6.41.1-1: asm/amd_iommu.h missing; bad kernel upgrade!

2011-11-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.11.2011 09:16, schrieb Rob: Hi, After upgrading to the kernel of Fedora 15 today, the devel package has a problem: error: asm/amd_iommu.h: No such file or directory which causes the failure of the VirtualBox kernel modules compilation.. So this is a bad kernel

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 07:42:13PM -0700, Greg Woods wrote: Yep. Sure enough, if I activate the alternate-status-menu extension, it works, but as soon as I log out, I can't log back in again without the Oh no screen until I disable the extension. Yes, a bug. But you can work around it for

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:01:44PM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: Descriptions by people like him of what Gnome 3 was going to be are why I don't use Gnome any more. It's clearly gone down a path I don't want . Joe With a little work Gnome 3.2 can be adapted to a desktop that you should have

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-24 Thread Ron Yorston
Leonardo Silveira wrote: how do i add the shutdown button on gnome menu? My GNOME Shell Frippery[1] has an extension that makes shutting down the system work more like GNOME 2. In fact, it has a number of extensions to make things work more like they do in GNOME 2. Ron [1]

Re: Firefox Issues Resolved

2011-11-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.11.2011, Fedora User wrote: I was having problems is FF 8.0-03 causing 100% usage spikes. I can observe the same behviour here. [htd@wildsau ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox firefox-8.0-3.fc15.x86_64 HOWEVER, FF 8.01 from source works perfectly and eliminates the problem completely. What

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 11/24/2011 10:28 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: Stop with the criticism and take a look at Linux Mint 12 RC. This clearly is Gnome 3.2 but with all the 'missing features' of Gnome 2 you and others are complaining about. Gnome 3:s shell *should* be criticized, as it severely affects many

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread Maciek Borzecki
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 11/24/2011 07:34 AM, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 15:50 +, JB wrote: Are M$ Windows or Mac OS X test beds too ? sure - they ship with thousands of known bugs Too easy...  :-) that deserves a

Re: Need help to fix ruby, rails,rvm

2011-11-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 15:06 +1100, Roger wrote: I installed ruby, rails, gem, rvm in ubuntu 11.10 and tried to update Perhaps you should ask on a Ubuntu list. This list is for Fedora. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers on Laptop

2011-11-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 November 2011 01:34, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 11/23/2011 05:18 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: That's what I've been saying all the time. I did know it was not the nvidia drivers. If I am not mistaken, this is a firmware problem with my wifi card. That being said, where is the fix for

Re: Adventures with Gnome 3.2 fallback

2011-11-24 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 11/23/2011 05:07 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: My luck was that Gnome3.2 could not fully work on my system so I was going to be put in fallback mode (I think that is what it is called) By the way can anyone point me to what lack of resources causes that to happen? Check your /etc/default/grub

[Fwd: [Bug 756144] Error in F16 System Administrator Guide]

2011-11-24 Thread Aaron Konstam
Forwarded Message From: bugzi...@redhat.com To: akons...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [Bug 756144] Error in F16 System Administrator Guide Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:44:33 -0500 Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of

systemd-analyze blame and missing swap?

2011-11-24 Thread Tom Horsley
I just had a disk go bad on me, and after unplugging it and restoring the backup to another mostly empty disk, boots were taking forever. So, since systemd-analyze blame had just showed up in another thread, I thought I would try it and see what it showed, but the longest time it has is 2294ms

Re: OT: gather hardware information over network

2011-11-24 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 16:19, Hiisi hi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: This maybe is a little off-topic on this list hence the 'OT' in the subject line. Sorry for that. I need to gather hardware information from computers on a local network and store it on a server. The server runs F16, clients

Re: OT: gather hardware information over network

2011-11-24 Thread Hiisi
On 24 November 2011 18:43, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Smolt is made for exactly this purpose. Maybe you can see if its possible to have a smolt setup local to your LAN? Thank you, Suvayu! That was my first thought. However I couldn't find any information on the net. Now I'm

Re: Adventures with Gnome 3.2 fallback

2011-11-24 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 08:35 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: On 11/23/2011 05:07 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: My luck was that Gnome3.2 could not fully work on my system so I was going to be put in fallback mode (I think that is what it is called) By the way can anyone point me to what

Can't increase screen resolution (F16, KDE)

2011-11-24 Thread John Aldrich
I have Fedora 16 with a 19 flat-panel screen capable of 1280x1024, however, Fedora / KDE seems to not realize my monitor is capable of this resolution, and only offers a max resolution of 1024x768, which is freaking HUGE on my monitor! How do I fix this??? I *know* my monitor is capable of

Re: Recomend a colour laser printer

2011-11-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/23/2011 05:31 PM, Steve Searle wrote: After battling for a couple of years with my cheap Dell 1320c printer I have decided to throw in the towel as I can't get a 64bit Linux driver for it. Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced network colour laser printer that works well with

Re: OT: gather hardware information over network

2011-11-24 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 15:49, Hiisi hi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 24 November 2011 18:43, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Smolt is made for exactly this purpose. Maybe you can see if its possible to have a smolt setup local to your LAN? Thank you, Suvayu! That was my first

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 10:02 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 07:42:13PM -0700, Greg Woods wrote: Yep. Sure enough, if I activate the alternate-status-menu extension, it works, but as soon as I log out, I can't log back in again without the Oh no screen until I

Re: Adventures with Gnome 3.2 fallback

2011-11-24 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 11/24/2011 09:59 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: I assume you mean changing the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=nomodeset rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us quiet

Re: Can't increase screen resolution (F16, KDE)

2011-11-24 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 24 November 2011 10:10:43 John Aldrich wrote: I have Fedora 16 with a 19 flat-panel screen capable of 1280x1024, however, Fedora / KDE seems to not realize my monitor is capable of this resolution, and only offers a max resolution of 1024x768, which is freaking HUGE on my monitor!

Re: Adventures with Gnome 3.2 fallback

2011-11-24 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 14:20 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/23/2011 02:07 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: My luck was that Gnome3.2 could not fully work on my system so I was going to be put in fallback mode (I think that is what it is called) By the way can anyone point me to what lack of resources

Re: OT: gather hardware information over network

2011-11-24 Thread Hiisi
On 24 November 2011 19:14, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: --SNIP-- Although you have found a solution, for the sake of completeness I think there isn't much of a configuration. Just installing the server and configuring[1] should be enough. Then from the clients you can do

Re: Recomend a colour laser printer

2011-11-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/24/2011 10:14 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: There are several choices - xerox 6100 has a list price of USD 299 - make that xerox 6010 .. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/24/2011 01:28 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: With a little work Gnome 3.2 can be adapted to a desktop that you should have no trouble working with (and liking (maybe)). So? XFCE does exactly what I want, right out of the box. When it comes to forcing Gnome 3.x to do what I want, you

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/24/2011 01:28 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: Stop with the criticism and take a look at Linux Mint 12 RC. This clearly is Gnome 3.2 but with all the 'missing features' of Gnome 2 you and others are complaining about. So what you're saying is, don't tell people what you don't like about

penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Linux Tyro
Hi, As I have liked Linux (yes, I am windows convert), so with 2 GB RAM and 250 GB hard-disk, I am now going to make hard-disk penta boot as follows:- Fedora - 20 GB - installing it, - /root (20 GB) openSUSE - 10 GB installing with /root (10 GB) Ubuntu - 10 GB installing with /root (10 GB)

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 24-11-2011 17:48, Linux Tyro wrote: Hi, As I have liked Linux (yes, I am windows convert), so with 2 GB RAM and 250 GB hard-disk, I am now going to make hard-disk penta boot as follows:- Fedora - 20 GB - installing it, - /root (20 GB) openSUSE - 10 GB installing with /root (10 GB)

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Tyler
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 11:48 -0500, Linux Tyro wrote: Hi, As I have liked Linux (yes, I am windows convert), so with 2 GB RAM and 250 GB hard-disk, I am now going to make hard-disk penta boot as follows:- Fedora - 20 GB - installing it, - /root (20 GB) openSUSE - 10 GB installing with

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: ov 23 17:05:35 BigOne dbus[915]: [system] Activating service name='org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism' (using servicehelper) Nov 23 17:05:35 BigOne dbus-daemon[915]: dbus[915]: [system] Activating service

Re: Fedora - time to blink-XFCE question

2011-11-24 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 08:40 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/24/2011 01:28 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: With a little work Gnome 3.2 can be adapted to a desktop that you should have no trouble working with (and liking (maybe)). So? XFCE does exactly what I want, right out of the box. When

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: It is hard to proceed just on the basis of the lines in the log if you can't remember the steps you took then you could remove the printer definition - and copy the two files into your system as I described in a

Re: Recomend a colour laser printer

2011-11-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 11/23/2011 04:31 PM, Steve Searle wrote: After battling for a couple of years with my cheap Dell 1320c printer I have decided to throw in the towel as I can't get a 64bit Linux driver for it. Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced network colour laser printer that works well with Fedora

Display resolution problems

2011-11-24 Thread John Aldrich
I just did a fresh install of Fedora 16 on my system which has an integrated Geforce video card ( GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a/PCI/SSE2) and I *know* my monitor (flat panel 19 Dell LCD) is capable of 1280x1024, but I can't seem to get it to go to that resolution. I know it works, because A) I do

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/24/2011 09:07 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: Another option would be to have /boot partitions for each OS (small -- 500 MB max) and do everything else in LVM. This gives you the flexibility to increase or decrease the size of the various filesystems easily without repartitioning. Do all of the

Re: Fedora - time to blink-XFCE question

2011-11-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/24/2011 09:13 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Why does XFCE insist you mount a Audio CD before you play it since we all know that Audio CDs are not mounted in the usual meaning of the term? Actually, it doesn't, although it may have in the past. However, if you want to have the software eject

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/23/2011 03:57 AM, JB wrote: After RH and Fedora statistics, some more results: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-16.html The purpose of a distro project is to deliver a product (not to maintain a test system OS), with implied quality, and for a user. It is time to blink.

Re: F16 kde plasma crashes - occasional

2011-11-24 Thread Neal Becker
mike cloaked wrote: I have been running f16 x86_64 with kde 4.7.3 for a week or two on two different machines. Occasionally I have found that the screen saver kicks in but then fails to time out and so the screensaver runs continuously without powersaving the monitor after a period as

Re: systemd-analyze blame and missing swap?

2011-11-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: I just had a disk go bad on me, and after unplugging it and restoring the backup to another mostly empty disk, boots were taking forever. So, since systemd-analyze blame had just showed up in another thread, I thought

Re: F16 kde plasma crashes - occasional

2011-11-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried updates-testing?  There is an update that is supposed to help. I do use updates-testing - but which particular update are you referring to? -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: OT: gather hardware information over network

2011-11-24 Thread Frank Pikelner
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Hiisi hi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 24 November 2011 01:15, Frank Pikelner frank.pikel...@gmail.com wrote: --SNIP-- You may want to try Versiera as setup would only be a few minutes. Create an account, download and install the agents. It is simple and

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread Maciek Borzecki
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com wrote: On 11/23/2011 03:57 AM, JB wrote: After RH and Fedora statistics, some more results: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-16.html The purpose of a distro project is to deliver a product (not to maintain

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/25/2011 12:48 AM, Linux Tyro wrote: Hi, As I have liked Linux (yes, I am windows convert), so with 2 GB RAM and 250 GB hard-disk, I am now going to make hard-disk penta boot as follows:- Fedora - 20 GB - installing it, - /root (20 GB) openSUSE - 10 GB installing with /root (10 GB)

Re: Speeding up boot (was: Fedora - time to blink)

2011-11-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 November 2011 22:20, Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote: This trick from Lennart's article might be useful: $ systemd-analyze plot plot.svg $ eog plot.svg (For instance I have to figure out why netfs and iscsi are being started on my machine.) Overall speed, I did a RAM upgrade

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread JB
Maciek Borzecki maciek.borzecki at gmail.com writes: ... Dear trolls (yes, I address it to you as well), get out from under your bridge (happy turkey, btw) and read this: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=2021mode=67 ... 7 • gnome and unity (by Thomas on 2011-11-21 11:22:56 GMT from

Re: Fedora - time to blink-XFCE question

2011-11-24 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Donnerstag, den 24.11.2011, 11:13 -0600 schrieb Aaron Konstam: Why does XFCE insist you mount a Audio CD before you play it since we all know that Audio CDs are not mounted in the usual meaning of the term? It doesn't, exo-mount even refuses to mount it. What player are you referring to?

Re: Display resolution problems

2011-11-24 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 12:47 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: I just did a fresh install of Fedora 16 on my system which has an integrated Geforce video card ( GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a/PCI/SSE2) and I *know* my monitor (flat panel 19 Dell LCD) is capable of 1280x1024, but I can't seem to get

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 22:25 +, JB wrote: The above mentioned stats (see other thread) reflect that; that they show almost half of Fedora sites migrated to other distros/OSs is not so surprsising considering its test system OS state, but that a similar size flight affected RH products

fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-24 Thread Andre Robatino
Alexander Volovics a.volovic at upcmail.nl writes: Yes, a bug. But you can work around it for the moment by adding a 'picture' to your account. Click on your name, click on the picture button next to your name and add one of the 'pictures'. If you do this the extension keeps working after

Re: can Thunderbird be configured to pick Fedora system mail?

2011-11-24 Thread Claude Jones
On 11/23/2011 10:14 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Claude Jones cjonesli...@tehogeeservices.com wrote: Subject says it all. I have messages coming to my user logon but I can't figure out a way to get Thunderbird to retrieve them. I could do it with

Re: Fedora - time to blink-XFCE question

2011-11-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/24/2011 03:03 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: Certainly not. Or perhaps specific to whatever software you refer to. Commands like /usr/bin/eject (man eject) can open the tray also for unmounted media. XFCE doesn't offer Eject as an option in the context menu for an audio CD unless it's

Re: Can't increase screen resolution (F16, KDE)

2011-11-24 Thread Burkhard Plache
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:27, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 24 November 2011 10:10:43 John Aldrich wrote: I have Fedora 16 with a 19 flat-panel screen capable of 1280x1024, however, Fedora / KDE seems to not realize my monitor is capable of this resolution, and only

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-24 Thread Jim
On 11/23/2011 04:23 PM, mike cloaked wrote: /usr/lib/cups/filter/ a usr/lib/cups/filter/ has the rastertosamsungsplc and rastertosamsungspl in it and permissions are the same as other execute files. /usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Samsung/ I put the CLX3170splc.ppd.gz (driver

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Linux Tyro
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: What is the purpose for doing all of this?  Is it just to play with each distro?  That is, not really work?  If that is the case, then maybe you'd be better off using one distro and then having VM's for the others. Well

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread JB
Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com writes: On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 22:25 +, JB wrote: The above mentioned stats (see other thread) reflect that; that they show almost half of Fedora sites migrated to other distros/OSs is not so surprsising considering its test system OS state, but

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/24/2011 10:31 PM, Linux Tyro wrote: Sharing /home would, I guess not a problem, since I would be giving different user names in each distributions. You guess wrong, I think. Linux doesn't keep track of users by their username, but by their userid. That means that all of your users

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/24/2011 06:07 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 11:48 -0500, Linux Tyro wrote: Hi, As I have liked Linux (yes, I am windows convert), so with 2 GB RAM and 250 GB hard-disk, I am now going to make hard-disk penta boot as follows:- Fedora - 20 GB - installing it, - /root

Re: penta-booting hard-disk: who would administer the hard-disk office?

2011-11-24 Thread Tim
Linux Tyro: Sharing /home would, I guess not a problem, since I would be giving different user names in each distributions. Joe Zeff: You guess wrong, I think. Linux doesn't keep track of users by their username, but by their userid. That means that all of your users would have the same

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-24 Thread Peter Gordon
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 22:25 +, JB wrote: Now, let me comment on this once again. RH and RH-controlled Fedora constitute [...] it is time to blink and reconstitute RH-controlled Fedora project for the new goal. Allow me to correct this misconception right now: Red Hat does not control