[Package] Skype x86_64 RPM for Fedora

2012-01-14 Thread Manuel Escudero
Hi! Just wanted to comment that I've successfully made a 64 bit RPM Fedora package for the last available version of Skype for Linux and it works awesome! The package may work also on OpenSUSE and Mandriva (But I'm not sure) and it will be great if you test it. If you're interested, you can

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/13/2012 06:18 PM, Tim wrote: Such as, half using DHCP, then manually overriding some of the settings sent out by the DHCP server (all those people complaining about hosts or resolve.conf files being ignored - who should really be customising their DHCP client, not directly messing with

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/13/2012 06:32 PM, Greg Woods wrote: I had read somewhere that you can only shrink partitions from the top end. Was I wrong? That would be a lot easier than the dump/restore I had been planning, similar to what Lester described. You may be right. If so, shrink the partition from the top,

F16 problem with kernel updates on 64-bit

2012-01-14 Thread Jeremy Hall
Hi, After an software update that has included a new kernel on my 64-bit Fedora 16/XFCE machine, the latest kernel doesn't get used (uname -a shows a previous kernel). I couldn't see any obvious related errors in dmesg or /var/log/messages, it may be a grub2 problem. I tried swapping the top

Re: Moodle on Fedora 16

2012-01-14 Thread Roger
Thank you Daniel, Roger and Edik. I will try your suggestions as soon as I can. Regarding the cutting edge thing, this is just my desktop machine, and I love Fedora. The production server will be somewhere else and will not be managed by me (it's a government training project). And surely

Re: [Package] Skype x86_64 RPM for Fedora

2012-01-14 Thread Mohamed El Morabity
This is not a real 64-bit version of Skype, it's just a Debian package converted to RPM using alien: $ rpm -qip skype-2.2.0.35-2.x86_64.rpm Name: skype [...] (Converted from a deb package by alien version 8.85.) The Debian package itself only embeds the only available 32-bit version of

perl/cpan

2012-01-14 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am trying to update perl and I get: Upgrade 24 Packages Total size: 13 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Check ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve: perl = 4:5.12.4-148.fc14 is needed by (installed)

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tim wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 14:26 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: That's why I wish NM would stick to WiFi. It's there to deal with changing networks, such as my laptop being either wired or wireless, on any LAN, automatically. And it does that fine, for me. To force it into only

Re: F16 ddclient fails to start

2012-01-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:14:48 -0500, TP (Terry) wrote: o/p from /var/log/messages; Jan 13 20:54:13 columbia ddclient[1758]: Stopping ddclient: [FAILED] Jan 13 20:56:32 columbia systemd[1]: Failed to read PID file /var/run/ddclient/ddclient.pid after start. The service might be broken I

Mediatomb and file type

2012-01-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm trying to look at photos on my Samsung Smart TV, model D5520. I'm running mediatomb on my computer, and when I go to Smart HUB=Photos on the TV, it does indeed see some of the photos on my PC. But if I click on one of these, say 007.jpg, it says Not Supported File Format Is this because the

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Tim
Tim: It's there to deal with changing networks, such as my laptop being either wired or wireless, on any LAN, automatically. And it does that fine, for me. To force it into only dealing with WiFi would make it useless. Timothy Murphy: Do you mean that your ethernet and WiFi are on

Re: F16 ddclient fails to start

2012-01-14 Thread Terry Polzin
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:14 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote: o/p from /var/log/messages; Jan 13 20:54:13 columbia ddclient[1758]: Stopping ddclient: [FAILED] Jan 13 20:56:32 columbia systemd[1]: Failed to read PID file /var/run/ddclient/ddclient.pid after start. The service might be broken I

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 16:23 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote: On 01/13/2012 04:21 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote: On 01/13/2012 03:23 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to boot a computer

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-14 Thread Frank Murphy
On 14/01/12 14:59, Aaron Konstam wrote: I guess the answer to your question is yes, Fedora 16 support EFI booting. I guess, I must be specific. Does it insert a GPT partition where there was none before? How does this affect a machine that had perviously been partitioned without a GPT

Re: F16 concurrency problem between network and sshd service

2012-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 17:00, JB wrote: Corinna Vinschen fedora at cygwin.de writes: ... I would suggest that you post it on Fedora devel list, or, file a report for a systemd component at bugzilla.redhat.com, in order to make the systemd devs aware of it (they may not read this list). JB Right, I

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tim wrote: It's there to deal with changing networks, such as my laptop being either wired or wireless, on any LAN, automatically. And it does that fine, for me. To force it into only dealing with WiFi would make it useless. Timothy Murphy: Do you mean that your ethernet and WiFi are on

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday 14 January 2012 15:11:00 Timothy Murphy wrote: I haven't understood what problem, precisely, you would have if you were not using NM? Suppose you have a laptop and a desktop on your local LAN. Desktop is normally on a wired connection, while the laptop is normally on wifi. Then at

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +, mike cloaked wrote: However nowadays I simply install the splix package and the system recognises the printer and it works without any fuss or bother. Oh, do you use the Fedora splix

grubby error during yum install of kernel

2012-01-14 Thread Steven Stern
Not sure if this is serious, but during this morning's update: Installing : kernel-PAE-3.1.8-2.fc16.i686 grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-14 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 08:59 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: I guess the answer to your question is yes, Fedora 16 support EFI booting. I guess, I must be specific. Does it insert a GPT partition where there was none before? How does this affect a machine that had perviously been partitioned

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-14 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 00:47 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/13/2012 06:32 PM, Greg Woods wrote: I had read somewhere that you can only shrink partitions from the top end. Was I wrong? That would be a lot easier than the dump/restore I had been planning, similar to what Lester described. You

Re: Fedora 16 instabilities

2012-01-14 Thread Fedora User
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:44:20 -0500 Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak m...@avtechpulse.com wrote: I found the old style of unit scripts to be a pain in the ass. I'm not sure why people think it was so great. And systemd-analyze plot plot.svg; eog plot.svg is the best tool ever... Hmmm, Fedora

Re: grubby error during yum install of kernel

2012-01-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steven Stern writes: Not sure if this is serious, but during this morning's update: Installing : kernel-PAE-3.1.8-2.fc16.i686 grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template If you upgraded to F16, and are on grub2, remove /etc/grub.cfg, to shut this up. pgpYON2Ew2d4k.pgp

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Pete Travis
.fnord HTH, :-) Marko This thread contains 32 messages, and has served as a forum for the list regulars to discuss the relative merits of NetworkManager since the eighth message. I'm not trying to single you out, Marko - the OP hasn't been helped by anyone. -- users mailing list

f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -

2012-01-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
. After changing /etc/default/grub [as part of my attempt to make a nice clean text boot display] to look as below: [root@box6 bobg]# cat /etc/default/grub GRUB_TIMEOUT=15 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Fedora GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

Mounting a partition within a dd image of a windows drive

2012-01-14 Thread JD
Dear all, I have a dd image of a windows disk. I run losetup /dev/loop0 winDrive.dd Then fdisk -l /dev/loop0 and it shows there is 1 partition: /dev/loop0p1 etc . etc. However, I seem to have no way of mounting the partition, because device loop0p1 does not exist in /dev directory.

Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -

2012-01-14 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:26 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: . And everything works pretty much the way I would like it to except that now I have to select the kernel version to boot else it boots to the older one. The grub screen shows them listed in the

Re: [Package] Skype x86_64 RPM for Fedora

2012-01-14 Thread Manuel Escudero
2012/1/14 Mohamed El Morabity pikachu.2...@gmail.com This is not a real 64-bit version of Skype, it's just a Debian package converted to RPM using alien: $ rpm -qip skype-2.2.0.35-2.x86_64.rpm Name: skype [...] (Converted from a deb package by alien version 8.85.) The Debian

Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -

2012-01-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 14/01/12 14:38, Mike Chambers wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:26 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: . And everything works pretty much the way I would like it to except that now I have to select the kernel version to boot else it boots to the older one. The grub

Re: Mounting a partition within a dd image of a windows drive

2012-01-14 Thread Jon Ingason
2012-01-14 20:33, JD skrev: Dear all, I have a dd image of a windows disk. I run losetup /dev/loop0 winDrive.dd Then fdisk -l /dev/loop0 and it shows there is 1 partition: /dev/loop0p1 etc . etc. However, I seem to have no way of mounting the partition, because device loop0p1 does

Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -

2012-01-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 14/01/12 15:48, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 14/01/12 14:38, Mike Chambers wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:26 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: . And everything works pretty much the way I would like it to except that now I have to select the kernel version to boot else it

F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread sean darcy
I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus. Ive rebuilt libmtp for 1.1.2, whci supports the phone. mtp-detect finds it: mtp-detect libmtp version: 1.1.2 Listing raw device(s) Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7510/Galaxy Tab 10.1/S2/GT-N7000/Galaxy Nexus.

Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -

2012-01-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/14/2012 01:15 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: It looks like changing GRUB_DEFAULT=saved to GRUB_DEFAULT=0 in /etc/default/grub might work but if it doesn't I wont be able to reboot to repair things, and then what will happen when a new kernel come along? Problem is

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-14 Thread Jim
On 01/14/2012 11:29 AM, mike cloaked wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Tim Waughtwa...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +, mike cloaked wrote: However nowadays I simply install the splix package and the system recognises the printer and it works without any fuss or

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 01/14/2012 10:30 PM, sean darcy wrote: I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus. Ive rebuilt libmtp for 1.1.2, whci supports the phone. mtp-detect finds it: mtp-detect libmtp version: 1.1.2 Listing raw device(s) Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7510/Galaxy

Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -

2012-01-14 Thread Frank Murphy
On 14/01/12 21:15, Bob Goodwin wrote: GRUB_DEFAULT=saved change to: GRUB_DEFAULT=0 save then re-run. grub2-mkconfig -o /bootgrub2/grub.cfg It will then boot from the 0 (first kernel) -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb [SOLVED]

2012-01-14 Thread Lester M Petrie
On 01/13/2012 08:17 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: On Jan 13, 2012 10:29 PM, Lester M Petrie lmpet...@bellsouth.net mailto:lmpet...@bellsouth.net wrote: cp -a /boot /root umount /boot Fdisk cfdisk parted gparted etc After created mount it again and Cp -a

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/14/2012 01:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: MTP is broken under GNU/Linux. I filed bug reports with the project but nothing happening there. You can use web-based apps to transfer data between the two devices. You don't need to install anything on your Linux box.

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 01/14/2012 11:06 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/14/2012 01:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: MTP is broken under GNU/Linux. I filed bug reports with the project but nothing happening there. You can use web-based apps to transfer data between the two devices. You don't need to install anything on

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:06 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/14/2012 01:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: MTP is broken under GNU/Linux. I filed bug reports with the project but nothing happening there. You can use web-based apps to transfer data between the two devices. You don't need to install

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 01/14/2012 11:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:06 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/14/2012 01:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: MTP is broken under GNU/Linux. I filed bug reports with the project but nothing happening there. You can use web-based apps to transfer data

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/14/2012 02:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Others can be connected as disk drives. I sit corrected. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 01/14/2012 11:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/14/2012 02:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Others can be connected as disk drives. I sit corrected. Yes sir. :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread sean darcy
On 01/14/2012 04:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On 01/14/2012 10:30 PM, sean darcy wrote: I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus. Ive rebuilt libmtp for 1.1.2, whci supports the phone. mtp-detect finds it: mtp-detect libmtp version: 1.1.2 Listing raw device(s) Device 0

Re: f-16 Grub2 config. Problem -

2012-01-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 14/01/12 16:57, Frank Murphy wrote: On 14/01/12 21:15, Bob Goodwin wrote: GRUB_DEFAULT=saved change to: GRUB_DEFAULT=0 save then re-run. grub2-mkconfig -o /bootgrub2/grub.cfg It will then boot from the 0 (first kernel) Yes that fixed the problem, now it boots on the first

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 01/14/2012 11:22 PM, sean darcy wrote: On 01/14/2012 04:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On 01/14/2012 10:30 PM, sean darcy wrote: I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus. Ive rebuilt libmtp for 1.1.2, whci supports the phone. mtp-detect finds it: mtp-detect libmtp version:

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread sean darcy
On 01/14/2012 05:29 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On 01/14/2012 11:22 PM, sean darcy wrote: On 01/14/2012 04:49 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On 01/14/2012 10:30 PM, sean darcy wrote: I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus. Ive rebuilt libmtp for 1.1.2, whci supports the phone.

flash drive reporting wrong size, how to fix?

2012-01-14 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, I've got a 2GB microSD card that I've been using a while (so I'm confident that at one point it was a 2GB card and isn't a 'fake'). Recently it stopped responding (the last place it was used was in my phone) and on plugging it into my computer (I've got two separate adaptors, one a

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
Marko Vojinovic wrote: It's just simpler for the end user --- the just plug it in philosophy is what most of ordinary (non-geek) people expect. I find this phrase it just works incredibly annoying. Most programs work most of the time, many work all the time - cat, vi, ssh, apache, perl,

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-14 Thread david walcroft
On 01/15/2012 01:04 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 14/01/12 14:59, Aaron Konstam wrote: I guess the answer to your question is yes, Fedora 16 support EFI booting. I guess, I must be specific. Does it insert a GPT partition where there was none before? How does this affect a machine that had

Re: flash drive reporting wrong size, how to fix?

2012-01-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 22:52 +, Ian Malone wrote: Hi, I've got a 2GB microSD card that I've been using a while (so I'm confident that at one point it was a 2GB card and isn't a 'fake'). Recently it stopped responding (the last place it was used was in my phone) and on plugging it into my

Re: F16: how to use MTP to transfer to Android Galaxy Nexus

2012-01-14 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 23:15 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Android 3.x and after (4.0) dropped mass storage support and uses MTP so every device which is running 3.x or 4.x uses MTP. Yes, if it also has a SD card that the SD card can be mounted as mass storage. MTP has advantage as there

Sound

2012-01-14 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, After upgrade from fedora 14 to fedora 16 on a Inspiron 9400, I lost the sound! vlc run OK, but no sound! How can I check the hardware drivers? Thank. -- --- == Patrick DUPRÉ | | Department