Re: [389-users] [Q] Automatic update of shadowLastChange attribute

2011-12-08 Thread Arpit Tolani
Hi On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/08/2011 09:36 AM, Iain Morgan wrote: Hello, Is there any way to have 389 DS automatically update the shadowLastChange attribute when the userPassword attribute is changed for an entry? No. I know

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: Getting things from that box is non-trivial at this point, but if it turns out that you need those things, I can manage.  The log is at http://www.zeff.us/xorglog.txt right now.  No KVM switch or other hinky stuff, unless you think

Re: Can RedHat get-into an OS to determine an OS's intentional faults via the Net..?

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:48:03 -0800, LM (Linda) wrote: Mindless toilet-class kooks are targeting my PC's via the Internet.. I got this message mess when I attempted an update... It's just a mistake in the skype.repo file, which is something not provided by Fedora, and you've created it or

Re: Xerox printer driver installation and related problem

2011-12-08 Thread Roger
Hi Vikram I'm not sure how to set up a shared printer, I'll research that. Can someone on list advise Vikram on shared printers please. Cheers Roger Hi Roger I tried to install driver and print but i think the problem is with accounting. Because we are using shared printer on LAN and everyone

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/07/2011 02:18 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 12/07/2011 12:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: As part of getting my desktop working again, it'd help to be able to mount and unmount my flash drive from a command line, but I couldn't figure out how to work out just which device name to use. A question

Re: Can RedHat get-into an OS to determine an OS's intentional faults via the Net..?

2011-12-08 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 12/08/2011 12:31 PM, Linda McLeod wrote: Re: Can RedHat get-into an OS to determine an OS's intentional faults via the Net..? Hide this message From: Reindl Haraldh.rei...@thelounge.net [Add] what are you permanently whining about security while you are missing any basics? there

Re: Major upgrade failure - people maintain 1 computer

2011-12-08 Thread Alan Cox
Umm, AFAIK RHEL explicitly doesn't support upgrades across major releases. And they wouldn't dare changing the UID lower limit between point releases, IMHO. Thats really irrelevant. Do you think a large business has a 'flag day' and upgrades RHEL x to RHEL x + 1 globally that day ??? The

F16 -- what app is needing libass?

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
So I am customizing my first install with F16 and am hitting dependencies problems. Now I am familiar with this that though a package is listed in the installer, the DVD does not have all that is needed for the install (even though I have specified my local updates repo). I have backed off a

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/08/2011 04:17 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 12/07/2011 02:18 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they will spin up every sleeping drive on your system. Looking at the output from dmesg won't do that. That's only true of fdisk -l (with no

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 07 December 2011 20:29:21 Joe Zeff wrote: The log is at http://www.zeff.us/xorglog.txt right now. Ok, this is funny... Judging by the log, for all intents and purposes X seems to be actually running without any trouble. How exactly did you start the X session? From telinit 3,

FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
So I skipped FC15. I never worked on Vista of WIn7, always using the 'classic' windows desktop in XP. So I have some REAL challenges adjusting th GNOME in FC16 Like where are my workspaces? I work with 4 of them for my different set of jobs. Maybe with the added memory on this lenovo,

Gnome Shell x Network Manager crash

2011-12-08 Thread fernando
Hi there, Since yesterday my gnome desktop (F16) crashes as soon as Network Manager gets a network connection, either wired or wireless. I can't remember doing any update between working and non-working states. But later yesterday I installed all upgrades and the problem remain. You tell there's

Re: F16 -- what app is needing libass?

2011-12-08 Thread Andy Blanchard
$ rpm -q --whatrequires libass no package requires libass Hmm... Looks like an RPM dependency configuration issue there. Let's try the hammer: $ rpm --erase libass --test error: Failed dependencies: libass.so.4()(64bit) is needed by (installed)

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Marko Vojinovic wrote: From the above I would say that the X session is up and running, using 1280x1024, on virtual terminal 7. An ignorant question, but do the terms virtual terminal, desktop and virtual desktop all mean the same thing? If so, could someone remind me, what is the CLI command

FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, but it stops all that stupid doorknocking on port 22... So I changed sshd_config to use port 557 (not really, but I'm not telling here) and enabled root login (yeah I know I

Historical Question - dracut

2011-12-08 Thread Ed Greshko
Bit of a brain freeze What was the command used prior to dracut? -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams in Mostly Harmless -- users mailing list

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 08 December 2011 09:10:54 Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I skipped FC15. I never worked on Vista of WIn7, always using the 'classic' windows desktop in XP. So I have some REAL challenges adjusting th GNOME in FC16 Like where are my workspaces? I work with 4 of them for my

gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, As many user probably, I prefer the version of gnome 2.x (like the one running with fedora 14) to gnome 3. Is there any option to keep the previous version of gnome runing with the more recent versions of fedora? Thank. -- ---

Re: Historical Question - dracut

2011-12-08 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 12/08/2011 11:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Bit of a brain freeze What was the command used prior to dracut? mkinitrd [--with=blahblah] or something similar, I believe. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:34 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 07Dec2011 10:44, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: | On 12/07/2011 06:18 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: | An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they will spin | up every sleeping drive on your system. Looking at the

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Frank Murphy
On 08/12/11 15:18, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, As many user probably, I prefer the version of gnome 2.x (like the one running with fedora 14) to gnome 3. Is there any option to keep the previous version of gnome runing with the more recent versions of fedora? No, is the default answer.

Re: F16 -- what app is needing libass?

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 13:45:02 +, AB (Andy) wrote: $ rpm -q --whatrequires libass no package requires libass Hmm... Looks like an RPM dependency configuration issue there. Nah, just a wrong query. If you query the local RPM database, you want to query for library SONAME dependencies. Not

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 09:30 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2011 09:10:54 Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I skipped FC15. I never worked on Vista of WIn7, always using the 'classic' windows desktop in XP. So I have some REAL challenges adjusting th GNOME in FC16 Like where are

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 15:18:59 +, Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, As many user probably, I prefer the version of gnome 2.x (like the one running with fedora 14) to gnome 3. Is there any option to keep the previous version of gnome runing with the more recent

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Ian Malone
On 8 December 2011 04:29, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 12/07/2011 06:33 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Sure, post the link, I can take a look (no promises to have useful advice afterwards, though :-) ). Thanx.  I'm fairly sure I can manage to beat the system back into submission without a

Re: Which Fedora 16 for Levono 120e?

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
BTW, the lenovo arrived yesterday (12/7) and I pulled down the maint manual to learn how to install the memory simm (really not hard, but one screw was over torqued). I figured out how to build the recovery DVDs for the shipped Win7 professional if I ever really want to install it. And then

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Bruno Wolff III wrote: You can force fallback mode which will work pretty similar to how things worked in gnome 2. That's only delaying the inevitable. The fall back will go away once the LLVMpipe driver goes in to Fedora 17 or 18. Either learn how to use Gnome Shell or switch DEs. -- users

Re: Historical Question - dracut

2011-12-08 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/08/2011 02:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Bit of a brain freeze What was the command used prior to dracut? mkinitrd Cheers, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Historical Question - dracut

2011-12-08 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 22:57 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Bit of a brain freeze What was the command used prior to dracut? -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams in

sshfs

2011-12-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
HEllo, Finally fuse-sshfs-2.2-5.fc12.x86_64 runs fine with fedora 14 and 15, but either the fc14 or fc15 version works fine in fedora 14 or 15 respectively. It does not let me mount a sun partition. I have no plan to test in fedora 16. It looks like a bug. Regards. -- ---

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:31 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote: I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, but it stops all that stupid doorknocking on port 22... So I changed sshd_config to use port 557 (not really, but

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:10:54AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I skipped FC15. I never worked on Vista of WIn7, always using the 'classic' windows desktop in XP. So I have some REAL challenges adjusting th GNOME in FC16 Like where are my workspaces? I work with 4 of them for my

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:09:59 -0600, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: You can force fallback mode which will work pretty similar to how things worked in gnome 2. That's only delaying the inevitable. The fall back will go away once the LLVMpipe driver

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/08/2011 09:18 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, As many user probably, I prefer the version of gnome 2.x (like the one running with fedora 14) to gnome 3. Is there any option to keep the previous version of gnome runing with the more recent versions of fedora? Thank. Nope. But

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2011 03:30 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2011 09:10:54 Robert Moskowitz wrote: And of course, you can always forgiveforgetswitch to XFCE, KDE or LXDE. ;-) This is what I would recommend to the OP. Gnome 3 is so far away from Classic XP, he'd have to go through a

[389-users] [Q] Automatic update of shadowLastChange attribute

2011-12-08 Thread Iain Morgan
Hello, Is there any way to have 389 DS automatically update the shadowLastChange attribute when the userPassword attribute is changed for an entry? I know that pam_ldap will attempt to update the shadowLastChange attribute, but this either requires that the user has the privileges to update this

Re: Historical Question - dracut

2011-12-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
Bit of a brain freeze What was the command used prior to dracut? -- mkintrd? Regards, Antonio -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 14:30 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Activate activities by putting the mouse into the upper-left corner of the screen. Then you can see a list of currently open workspaces on the far right on the screen, where you can click to switch between them (and make an

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:58 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: alt-F1 does bring up the workspace switcher, but Cntl-Alt-arrow does not switch between workspaces. I need to find the handy-dandy workspace keystroke switcher. Ctrl-Alt-up-arrow and -down-arrow switch workspaces. Now that they

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 08 December 2011 15:18:59 Patrick Dupre wrote: As many user probably, I prefer the version of gnome 2.x (like the one running with fedora 14) to gnome 3. Is there any option to keep the previous version of gnome runing with the more recent versions of fedora? No, there isn't. What

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 10:58 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/08/2011 09:30 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2011 09:10:54 Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I skipped FC15. I never worked on Vista of WIn7, always using the 'classic' windows desktop in XP. So I have some REAL challenges

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 08 December 2011 14:23:14 Timothy Murphy wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: From the above I would say that the X session is up and running, using 1280x1024, on virtual terminal 7. An ignorant question, but do the terms virtual terminal, desktop and virtual desktop all mean the

Re: Historical Question - dracut

2011-12-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 08 December 2011 22:57:51 Ed Greshko wrote: Bit of a brain freeze What was the command used prior to dracut? Was that mkinitrd? Or is my brain frozen as well? ;-) HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: sshfs

2011-12-08 Thread Digimer
On 12/08/2011 10:17 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: HEllo, Finally fuse-sshfs-2.2-5.fc12.x86_64 runs fine with fedora 14 and 15, but either the fc14 or fc15 version works fine in fedora 14 or 15 respectively. It does not let me mount a sun partition. I have no plan to test in fedora 16. It

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 12:18 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:10:54AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I skipped FC15. I never worked on Vista of WIn7, always using the 'classic' windows desktop in XP. So I have some REAL challenges adjusting th GNOME in FC16 Like where

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 8, 2011 7:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: So I skipped FC15. I never worked on Vista of WIn7, always using the 'classic' windows desktop in XP. So I have some REAL challenges adjusting th GNOME in FC16 Like where are my workspaces? I work with 4 of them for

Re: [389-users] [Q] Automatic update of shadowLastChange attribute

2011-12-08 Thread Rich Megginson
On 12/08/2011 09:36 AM, Iain Morgan wrote: Hello, Is there any way to have 389 DS automatically update the shadowLastChange attribute when the userPassword attribute is changed for an entry? No. I know that pam_ldap will attempt to update the shadowLastChange attribute, but this either

Re: Historical Question - dracut

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Ed Greshko wrote: What was the command used prior to dracut? mkinitrd -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Chad Kellerman
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 15:18:59 +, Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, As many user probably, I prefer the version of gnome 2.x (like the one running with fedora 14) to gnome 3. Is there any

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 12:37 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: Have you tried removing the proprietary Nvidia driver, at least for the time being? Nvidia and AMD/ATI's drivers tend to not like system upgrades that much and cause major headaches. No, because they've never caused me the slightest bit of

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 03:25 AM, Ian Malone wrote: This shows X coming up okay and being shutdown (via the power button?) almost immediately, but about three minutes into system boot. Does startup normally take that long since the upgrade? dmesg and /var/log/messages output would be useful as would

Re: F16 -- what app is needing libass?

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 05:06 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Now I am familiar with this that though a package is listed in the installer, the DVD does not have all that is needed for the install (even though I have specified my local updates repo). Try using nothing but what's on the DVD, because you

Re: Gnome Shell x Network Manager crash

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 05:41 AM, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote: What can I do to troubleshoot this? If you never use wireless, do what I do on my desktop: get rid of Network Manager and use network. I did it because NM threw away my DNS numbers every time I rebooted. I have it here on my laptop

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 05:54 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: How exactly did you start the X session? From telinit 3, using startx? Going back to telinit 5? What exactly do you see on the screen when you try it? As part of what is jokingly called a normal boot. I let it boot without any user intervention

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 05:54 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: From the above I would say that the X session is up and running, using 1280x1024, on virtual terminal 7. A very dumb question: which VT are you looking at? Did you try to do a CTRL-ALT-F7 after starting X? It's lying, I assure you. It ignores

Re: Re: Gnome Shell x Network Manager crash

2011-12-08 Thread fernando
Hi Jeff, If you never use wireless, do what I do on my desktop: get rid of Network Manager and use network. I never had problems with NetworkManager before, I really like it, and I do use it a lot for 3G internet connections and VPN, besides alternating between wired and wireless depending on

Weird Audacity behaviour

2011-12-08 Thread fernando
Hi there, I'm used to give distance classes using a flash-based webconferencing software (dimdim, unfortunately became closed source). I usually run audacity at the same time to record audio so students can download later. But yesterday audacity had a very strange behaviour: some class segments

Re: Gnome Shell x Network Manager crash

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 10:30 AM, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote: Hi Jeff, If you never use wireless, do what I do on my desktop: get rid of Network Manager and use network. I never had problems with NetworkManager before, I really like it, and I do use it a lot for 3G internet connections and VPN,

fedora 15 Alt panel

2011-12-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Before (until fedora 15), it was easy to configure the panel: Just right click, add to panel. Does this function disappear? check the net, it looks like that I may have to use Alt and/ot Ctl? The right click does not seem to work. Is it because I did not configure the mouse correctly?

Script to globally set startup applications for all users

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Arkiletian
I'm writing a bash script to push Preferences/Startup Applications settings to all users. I've tried changing the setting manually for one user then looking at what files have changed. I found .config/autostart .gconfd/saved_state both change. I thought about copying those 2 files to all users

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 05:54 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: It would be a good idea to describe what you actually see on the screen, because nothing in the log shows any problems. I have, repeatedly. Right now, I've got my desktop rebooted into the normal environment, sitting here trying to start a

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/2011 12:14 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:31 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote: I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, but it stops all that

Fedora 16 black screen with Radeon HD 6470M: partially solved?

2011-12-08 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, SHORT VERSION: I think I've found a temporary solution to this Fedora install problem (found on other distros too), but I am not sure about _why_ it works, and it's the best solution. Any feedback is very appreciated. I've got a HP G6 1273SL laptop with this chipset and a live cd of

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 12:50 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:58 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: alt-F1 does bring up the workspace switcher, but Cntl-Alt-arrow does not switch between workspaces. I need to find the handy-dandy workspace keystroke switcher. Ctrl-Alt-up-arrow and

Re: F16 -- what app is needing libass?

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 01:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/08/2011 05:06 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Now I am familiar with this that though a package is listed in the installer, the DVD does not have all that is needed for the install (even though I have specified my local updates repo). Try using

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 02:12 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/2011 12:14 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:31 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote: I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. Yeah, I know it will not

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/2011 02:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/08/2011 02:12 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 12/08/2011 12:14 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:31 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote: I have always run SSHD on a different port as

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
OK, I tried letting it sit there trying to start GDM. Came back after about ten minutes and it had turned itself off in despair. Before trying again, I have two questions. First, what do I add to the boot parameters to get it to start in a CLI so that I don't have to use the kludge from

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Leonardo Silveira
Change the target as shown there: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#How_do_I_change_the_default_runlevel.3F but i don't know how to do it directly from grub... Em Qui, 2011-12-08 às 12:00 -0800, Joe Zeff escreveu: OK, I tried letting it sit there trying to start GDM. Came back after

Re: parted gpt on Fedora 16 breaks kickstarts and partition resizing

2011-12-08 Thread Phil Meyer
Old way with fdisk: On 12/07/2011 05:12 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: #!/bin/bash set -x account_id=$1 if [ -z $account_id ] then exit -1 fi virsh shutdown a${account_id} sleep 60 virsh destroy a${account_id} iscsiadm -m session -R multipath -r partprobe

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 02:46 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/2011 02:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/08/2011 02:12 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 12/08/2011 12:14 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:26:31 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote:

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 08 December 2011 10:58:27 Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/08/2011 09:30 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: And of course, you can always forgiveforgetswitch to XFCE, KDE or LXDE. ;-) And which one has that Win2000 look/feel that I kind of grew up with :) If you ask me, try KDE first.

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/08/2011 04:18 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: one running with fedora 14) to gnome 3. Is there any option to keep the previous version of gnome runing with the more recent versions of fedora? You could get a Gnome2-like version by doing this in Gnome3 shell: - click on your name in the top

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 15:18 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, As many user probably, I prefer the version of gnome 2.x (like the one running with fedora 14) to gnome 3. Is there any option to keep the previous version of gnome runing with the more recent versions of fedora? Thank.

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/08/2011 06:09 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: That's only delaying the inevitable. The fall back will go away once the LLVMpipe driver goes in to Fedora 17 or 18. According to Vincent Untz https://live.gnome.org/VincentUntz the fall-back mode will be there during the whole Gnome3 life

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Dec2011 09:27, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: | On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 10:34 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | On 07Dec2011 10:44, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: | | On 12/07/2011 06:18 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: | | An issue with both the fdisk and blkid solutions is that they

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Patrick Dupre napsal(a): Hello, As many user probably, I prefer the version of gnome 2.x (like the one running with fedora 14) to gnome 3. Is there any option to keep the previous version of gnome runing with the more recent versions of fedora? Thank. Nice solution had when Gnome3 leave

Re: Fedora 16 black screen with Radeon HD 6470M: partially solved?

2011-12-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 20:18:21 PM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: I've got a HP G6 1273SL laptop with this chipset and a live cd of Fedora 16 x86_64, KDE spin... when I [boot] the screen goes completely black. if I... add to its initrd line the two parameters acpi_osi=Linux

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 04:19 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday 08 December 2011 10:58:27 Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/08/2011 09:30 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: And of course, you can always forgiveforgetswitch to XFCE, KDE or LXDE. ;-) And which one has that Win2000 look/feel that I kind of grew

how do you make Fedora 16 run a script at boot time, was: Fedora 16 black screen with Radeon HD 6470M: partially solved?

2011-12-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 22:40:11 PM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: # #! /bin/bash modprobe radeon echo IGD /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch echo OFF /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch

Re: how do you make Fedora 16 run a script at boot time, was: Fedora 16 black screen with Radeon HD 6470M: partially solved?

2011-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2011 22:52, schrieb M. Fioretti: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 22:40:11 PM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: # #! /bin/bash modprobe radeon echo IGD /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch echo OFF /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Ian Malone
Em Qui, 2011-12-08 às 12:00 -0800, Joe Zeff escreveu: OK, I tried letting it sit there trying to start GDM.  Came back after about ten minutes and it had turned itself off in despair.  Before trying again, I have two questions. First, what do I add to the boot parameters to get it to start

Re: using bluetooth and cell phone in Fedora 16

2011-12-08 Thread Ranjan Maitra
OK, I went and did a fresh install of the LXDE spin on both my 64-bit and older 32-bit laptops. Then updated everything, and installed gnome-bluetooth, and went into gnome-control-center. On the 64-bit machine (Dell Lattitude E5400 or the Thinkpad T61), I get a blank grey window. On the 32-bit

Re: gnome 3

2011-12-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:31:17 -0500 Chad Kellerman sunck...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 15:18:59 +, Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, As many user probably, I prefer the

Re: how do you make Fedora 16 run a script at boot time, was: Fedora 16 black screen with Radeon HD 6470M: partially solved?

2011-12-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 23:00:29 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: if you look in systemctl list-unis you find prefdm.service loaded active running Display Manager so make a one-shot service with the right dependency and enable it with systemctl enable yourservice.service

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2011 02:05 PM, Ian Malone wrote: I guess you'd give it multi-user.target or runlevel3.target if you wanted to boot it as a one-off. Also the old runlevel numbers still work; you can just add '3' to the kernel arguments and get runlevel 3. We'll soon know for sure. However, once it's

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/08/2011 12:47 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 14:30 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Activate activities by putting the mouse into the upper-left corner of the screen. Then you can see a list of currently open workspaces on the far right on the screen, where you can click

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was under the impression that Gnome's design directive was to follow Windows look and feel, but not be a slave to it. That's what they wanted you to believe. In fact, any time spent on the gnome devel list revealed that many awful

Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread Ed Greshko
This is very strange and I just want to know if anyone else is seeing it. I'm running TB 8.0 on F15. I've 4 email accounts defined. The system is up 24/7 and I never logout so TB is also always running. After fairly long time, a week or more (haven't kept a log), all the Chinese characters

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/09/2011 07:02 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: 101年農會人員考試 11/28~12/2報名! fmbdugloaf will read 10111/28~12/2 ! fmbdugloaf Restarting TB will restore it. Anyone seeing anything like it? Bad formatting The line length of the above examples should have been the

Re: Unable to get into X

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
Something new has been added: I decided to try booting again to see if I could get directly into runlevel 3. When I turned my desktop on, the fan was very noisy and it completely ignored the keyboard. I turned it off, unplugged the keyboard, plugged it back in and it did the same thing.

F16: howto make screencast recorder record sound?

2011-12-08 Thread Patrick Lists
Hi, On an F16 x86_64 I was playing with the built-in screencast recorder (turn on/off with Control+Shift+Alt+R). The screen recording works fine except that I can't make it record sound. In Sound Settings - Input I selected my headset and made sure it was not muted but no sound is record. I

Re: Weird Audacity behaviour

2011-12-08 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:36 AM, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote: Hi there, I'm used to give distance classes using a flash-based webconferencing software (dimdim, unfortunately became closed source). I usually run audacity at the same time to record audio so students can download later. But

CMake compile problem

2011-12-08 Thread david walcroft
I'm trying to compile 'k3b-2.0.2.i686' from a tar file but run into this error:- [david@reddwarf build]$ cmake .. CMake Error at icons/actions/CMakeLists.txt:1 (kde4_install_icons): Unknown CMake command kde4_install_icons. -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! CMakeLists.txt is

Re: Major upgrade failure

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:41 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 07.12.2011 09:29, schrieb Craig White: On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 23:27 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/06/2011 10:50 PM, Craig White wrote: out of curiosity, what is the requirement for having uidNumbers starting at 500 instead of

Re: Major upgrade failure - people maintain 1 computer

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:39 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 07.12.2011 07:50, schrieb Craig White: out of curiosity, what is the requirement for having uidNumbers starting at 500 instead of 1000? because people usually migrate their whole systems from one hardware to the next and if you

Re: Major upgrade failure - people maintain 1 computer

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 15:50 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Or, you can be a bit wiser and not use Fedora in a production environment to begin with. actually untrue... I have used Fedora at a non-profit that I worked with. Maintained our own repository, installed originally from kickstart

Re: A cute CLI trick for emergencies

2011-12-08 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:27 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: And thus the drive is /dev/sdf, with the data partition /dev/sdf1. You may need to scroll back a bit if a lot of stuff is going on in dmesg. Great, but could the displaying of the information be made more obscure? dmesg |

Re: Can RedHat get-into an OS to determine an OS's intentional faults via the Net..?

2011-12-08 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 22:25 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote: Can't tell if serious... ? Wondering if they're merely a troll, or a genuinely nuts. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public

Re: FC16 - moving sshd to another port

2011-12-08 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 09:26 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have always run SSHD on a different port as part of my obfusication. Yeah, I know it will not stop good portscanners, but it stops all that stupid doorknocking on port 22... A genuine question: Does it really matter? --

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