Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-12 Thread Andrew Haley
On 06/11/2012 11:27 PM, Alan Cox wrote: Far from it. x32 is designed for performance. There are many applications where the additional space occupied by 64bit pointers is a measurable performance hit, but you still want to use the 64bit features of the CPU in all other respects. It's pretty

Re: Add to panel not working

2012-06-12 Thread Pasha R
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Frank Elsner fr...@moltke28.b.shuttle.de wrote: Hello, anyone with a solution to my problem? Problem: Fedora 14, GNOME2 Add to panel does nothing, in particular: Applications - SoundVideo Audacity, right click, Ads this launcher to panel gives no

Re: git and selinux

2012-06-12 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/2012 07:08 PM, Pete Stieber wrote: I'm trying to setup a git server on a Fedora 17 box. I created user name git and setup bare Git repos under /home/git/repos. When I clone these repos from another machine using $ git clone

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-12 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 04:33 -0400, Andrew Haley wrote: On 06/11/2012 11:27 PM, Alan Cox wrote: Far from it. x32 is designed for performance. There are many applications where the additional space occupied by 64bit pointers is a measurable performance hit, but you still want to use the

Evolutioon pop and stmp pawsswds not remembered

2012-06-12 Thread Aaron Konstam
Suddenly Evolution seems unable to remember the pop and smtp paswswds.. Has any one else had this problem and know how to fix this? -- === Philogyny recapitulates erogeny; erogeny recapitulates philogyny.

grub2 mystery

2012-06-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
I have a large number of entries in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg under Fedora-17, eg - menuentry 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.2-6.fc16.i686' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option

Re: git and selinux

2012-06-12 Thread Pete Stieber
On 6/11/2012 6:40 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:08:47PM -0700, Pete Stieber wrote: I'm trying to setup a git server on a Fedora 17 box. I created user name git and setup bare Git repos under /home/git/repos. When I clone these repos from another machine using $ git clone

Re: git and selinux

2012-06-12 Thread Pete Stieber
On 06/11/2012 07:08 PM, PS = Pete Stieber wrote: PS I'm trying to setup a git server on a Fedora PS 17 box. I created user name git and setup PS bare Git repos under /home/git/repos. When PS I clone these repos from another machine using PS PS $ git clone git@server_name/repos/RepoName.git

Re: git and selinux

2012-06-12 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/2012 09:34 AM, Pete Stieber wrote: On 6/11/2012 6:40 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:08:47PM -0700, Pete Stieber wrote: I'm trying to setup a git server on a Fedora 17 box. I created user name git and setup bare Git

My Fedora 17 experience so far

2012-06-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On the plus side: 1. Intel graphics are much improved (weird artifacts are finally gone in games like neverputt and neverball). On the minus side: 1. USB Wi-Fi dongle not working as access point https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828824 This one has come and gone several

Re: grub2 mystery

2012-06-12 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 12.06.2012 15:23, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have a large number of entries in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg under Fedora-17, eg - menuentry 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.2-6.fc16.i686' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os

Re: Install 17 to a dinosaur

2012-06-12 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:58:08 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: Brand names and model numbers are meaningless to me, not having owned a brand-name desktop machine since 1987 and always assembling my own. Well, that's one of the differences, doubtless the many differences, between you and

Re: My Fedora 17 experience so far

2012-06-12 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 10:26 -0430, Dokuro wrote: 6. AMD/Ati gets worse... I didn't use the proprietary drivers in previous Fedora releases for my ATI HD 3850. I stuck with the open source 2D drivers with which desktop performance was great. Gnome shell was nice and snappy. HD vids were butter

Fedora 17 - CPU Fan Speed

2012-06-12 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
I've just installed Fedora 17 (x86_64) on my Dell XPS 8300 with Intel Core i7-2600 and I noticed a very strange behavior: CPU and/or motherboard fans are constantly working at very high speed which makes a lot of noise (fan speed is at the same level it was right after powering on). I previously

Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Aaron Konstam
I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains the stupidity of having to hold down the alt key to get to the power off option. It is certainly a stupid feature and it continues on with its stupidity.

Re: Evolutioon pop and stmp pawsswds not remembered-SOLVED

2012-06-12 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 07:59 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: Suddenly Evolution seems unable to remember the pop and smtp paswswds.. Has any one else had this problem and know how to fix this? It wasn't evolution but ATT's pop server that went screwy. --

Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Andre Robatino
Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net writes: I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains the stupidity of having to hold down the alt key to get to the power off option. It is certainly a

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Dokuro
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net writes: I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains the stupidity of

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Jayson Rowe
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Dokuro dario.s...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net writes: I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 12 June 2012 21:54, Dokuro dario.s...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net writes: I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would someone tell me

Re: Smolt (was Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora)

2012-06-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:23:57 -0700 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com writes: Around 11:05pm on Monday, June 11, 2012 (UK time), Wolfgang S. Rupprecht scrawled: Sadly, before Fedora Smolt went down, it still showed more 32-bit

yumex terminates

2012-06-12 Thread don fisher
I am running f16 with updates applied a couple of weeks ago. I tried to run yumex to see what ne packages might be available. I received the following: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/guihelpers/__init__.py:256: GtkWarning: gtk_scrolled_window_add(): cannot add non scrollable widget use

Re: yumex terminates

2012-06-12 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
I've seen a similar problem with yumex after updates. Only way I get it to work is to use su. su - yumex --root It runs fine then, but does give an error about the back end when closing. On 12 Jun 2012 at 14:41, don fisher wrote: Date sent: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:41:27 -0700 From:

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:05:17 +0100 Ian Malone wrote: You do realise you can install the extension to add it right now? That said I'm glad they've finally seen sense on one issue. Just a sign that the 2012 apocalypse is real :-). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: grub2 mystery

2012-06-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: I have a large number of entries in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg under Fedora-17, eg - menuentry 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.2-6.fc16.i686' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
Aaron Konstam cried out: I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains the stupidity of having to hold down the alt key to get to the power off option. That behavior is a feature of the Gnome

Re: Fedora 17 - CPU Fan Speed

2012-06-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mateusz Marzantowicz writes: I've just installed Fedora 17 (x86_64) on my Dell XPS 8300 with Intel Core i7-2600 and I noticed a very strange behavior: CPU and/or motherboard fans are constantly working at very high speed which makes a lot of noise (fan speed is at the same level it was right

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Aaron Konstam writes: I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains the stupidity of having to hold down the alt key to get to the power off option. It is certainly a stupid feature and it continues

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andre Robatino writes: Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net writes: I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains the stupidity of having to hold down the alt key to get to the power off

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/12/2012 04:26 PM, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: You need to address your otherwise legitimate complaint to the developers of the Gnome shell. However, don't expect them to pay much attention. AIUI, the only thing the Gnome developers pay attention to is their own mailing list. And, if

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-12 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 18:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: Just a sign that the 2012 apocalypse is real :-). I didn't realise that Windows 2012 had been released... ;-p -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users

YUM - Metadata file does not match checksum

2012-06-12 Thread agraham
Hi I'm suddenly getting Metadata file does not match checksum from a all my mirror sites for various version of Fedora 12 thru 16 I need access to the older versions (mainly for Q/A testing). Is there a way I can get YUM to exclude certain mirror sites? I need redundancy so don't want to

F17 KDE Breakage

2012-06-12 Thread Fedora User
I seem to be having a problem with any KDE application that has to communicate with the world. 1. KMyMoney refuses to update from my bank's server via OFX direct. GnuCash shares the same AQbanking setup and works perfectly. That doesn't help me convert two years of data. 2. Akregator refuses to

Re: F17 KDE Breakage

2012-06-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Fedora User wrote: I seem to be having a problem with any KDE application that has to communicate with the world. I wonder if you're hitting some sort of ipv6'ism (or some other network connectivity issue). Does konqueror work to browse any websites? (or any other kde application that