Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-07 Thread Roger
On 07/07/2013 03:52 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 07.07.2013, lee wrote: What kind of crap is that? I don't know. And does it mean that there again will be problems with updating when I try to move to F19? In general, I would always prefer a fresh install over any update. Experience over the

F19: resizing of images in Libreoffice doesn't keep size ratio

2013-07-07 Thread antonio
When I insert an image in an Impress document and I want to resize images keeping dimension ratio, it seems that it doesn't work, ratio is dismissed!!! -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F19(Schroedinger's cat) on Acer 5720 http://lugsaronno.altervista.org

Re: F19: resizing of images in Libreoffice doesn't keep size ratio

2013-07-07 Thread Roger
On 07/07/2013 04:45 PM, antonio wrote: When I insert an image in an Impress document and I want to resize images keeping dimension ratio, it seems that it doesn't work, ratio is dismissed!!! I think you've gotta hold down ctrl or shift while dragging the corner. something like that anyway. One

Re: F19: resizing of images in Libreoffice doesn't keep size ratio

2013-07-07 Thread antonio
Roger ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 07/07/2013 08:56: On 07/07/2013 04:45 PM, antonio wrote: When I insert an image in an Impress document and I want to resize images keeping dimension ratio, it seems that it doesn't work, ratio is dismissed!!! I think you've gotta hold down

Resume problem

2013-07-07 Thread Tanguy Eric
The problem was in f18 and now also in f19. The pc seems to go fine in hibernate but when i try to resume it seems to try to resume and after few seconds reboot normally. I tried to activate the pm_trace functionality with |echo 1 /sys/power/pm_trace| and use |dmesg | grep hash matches| but i

Re: Resume problem

2013-07-07 Thread Joachim Backes
On 07/07/2013 10:57 AM, Tanguy Eric wrote: The problem was in f18 and now also in f19. The pc seems to go fine in hibernate but when i try to resume it seems to try to resume and after few seconds reboot normally. I tried to activate the pm_trace functionality with |echo 1 /sys/power/pm_trace|

Re: Resume problem

2013-07-07 Thread Tanguy Eric
Le 07/07/2013 11:20, Joachim Backes a écrit : On 07/07/2013 10:57 AM, Tanguy Eric wrote: The problem was in f18 and now also in f19. The pc seems to go fine in hibernate but when i try to resume it seems to try to resume and after few seconds reboot normally. I tried to activate the pm_trace

Re: Interpreting Yum Dependency Error

2013-07-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:45:53 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Error: Package: simspark-0.2.4-1.fc18.i686 (updates) Requires: ruby(release) make a bugreport for simspark and ask how this got pushed to satble while even the maintainer did not install the package or he would have

Re: Interpreting Yum Dependency Error

2013-07-07 Thread Tim
Bruno Wolff III: An update isn't going to do that. If you were doing an erase or distro-sync then that would be a worry. You'd presume so. But updates can remove some obsoleted packages. And what if you were one of the rare cases where other things were dependent on what got removed, and

Re: Resume problem

2013-07-07 Thread Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen
Are you swap partition large enough ? Den 07/07/2013 11.51 skrev Tanguy Eric eric.tan...@gmail.com: Le 07/07/2013 11:20, Joachim Backes a écrit : On 07/07/2013 10:57 AM, Tanguy Eric wrote: The problem was in f18 and now also in f19. The pc seems to go fine in hibernate but when i try to

cron DELAY

2013-07-07 Thread Steven Stern
Since F19, the following have appeared in my daily logwatch: - Cron Begin **Unmatched Entries** INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 37% if used.) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 4% if used.) -- Cron

Re: Resume problem

2013-07-07 Thread Joachim Backes
On 07/07/2013 03:17 PM, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote: Are you swap partition large enough ? Hi Martin, in such cases, pm-suspend issues some error msg! Kind regards Joachim Backes Den 07/07/2013 11.51 skrev Tanguy Eric eric.tan...@gmail.com mailto:eric.tan...@gmail.com:

FC19 Battery 'remaining time' extension in gnome 3 gone?

2013-07-07 Thread William Murray
Hello all, In FC18 I used a nice gnome 3 extension which showed the remaining batter time on my laptop. This allowed remedial action if I accidentally did something stupid like turn the screen on max. It is marked 'outdated' in FC19, but I don't see a replacement. Does anyone know

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-07 Thread lee
Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org writes: On 07.07.2013, lee wrote: What kind of crap is that? I don't know. And does it mean that there again will be problems with updating when I try to move to F19? In general, I would always prefer a fresh install over any update. Experience over the

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2013, lee wrote: That is not an option. I can't start from scratch every half year and waste a week or two to get the system back to how I need it. Have you considered to switch to some kind of rolling distribution, then? I for myself like very much Arch.. -- users mailing list

How to install Rawhide ?

2013-07-07 Thread Aaron Gray
Hi, I cannot work out how to install Rawhide. I believe I used to have a netboot which would allow me to enter a URL in text mode before Anaconda , but cannot seem to find out how to do this again now. I have the Rawhide address :-

F19: GRUB and Plymouth issues

2013-07-07 Thread sguazt
Hello, I've just installed F19 x86_64 from DVD. The first issue is that the GRUB boot screen * is only text-based (white text with a black background), * and uses an inadequate text encoding since it shows question marks in place of the umlauted o (i.e., the o vowel with two dots on top of it)

Re: How to install Rawhide ?

2013-07-07 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 17:24:43 +0100 Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I cannot work out how to install Rawhide. I believe I used to have a netboot which would allow me to enter a URL in text mode before Anaconda , but cannot seem to find out how to do this again now. I have

How to get rid of the clock lock screen

2013-07-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I upgraded several laptops and machines to F19. On all of them except one laptop, when waking up the desktop is blocked by a clock screen, that needs to be rolled out of the way. One laptop consistently wakes up directly into the desktop. I compared all the configuration settings I can

Re: F19: GRUB and Plymouth issues

2013-07-07 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 07/07/2013 01:27 PM, sguazt wrote: Hello, I've just installed F19 x86_64 from DVD. The first issue is that the GRUB boot screen * is only text-based (white text with a black background), * and uses an inadequate text encoding since it shows question marks in place of the umlauted o (i.e.,

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-07 Thread lee
Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net writes: Am 07.07.2013 17:53, schrieb lee: If Fedora cannot be updated without major problems, it's not useable. if you follow this guides *strictly* and willing to learn to deal wtih package-cleanup --leaves | --problems | --orphans and to understand

Re: F19: GRUB and Plymouth issues

2013-07-07 Thread Joachim Backes
On 07/07/2013 07:15 PM, Germán A. Racca wrote: On 07/07/2013 01:27 PM, sguazt wrote: Hello, I've just installed F19 x86_64 from DVD. The first issue is that the GRUB boot screen * is only text-based (white text with a black background), * and uses an inadequate text encoding since it shows

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:21:33 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net writes: No. 1.) didn't work last time, and there is some indication that it won't work this time, either. It has had success and failure for some Failed on the box, I tried. (Could be

Re: How to install Rawhide ?

2013-07-07 Thread Aaron Gray
Hi, Kevin that's the page I was looking at :) Was wondering what netinstall version would allow me to specify the URL. I have done this for other repos doing https installs before but cannot remember which version had the option. On 7 July 2013 17:34, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sun,

Re: How to get rid of the clock lock screen

2013-07-07 Thread Andre Robatino
Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com writes: I upgraded several laptops and machines to F19. On all of them except one laptop, when waking up the desktop is blocked by a clock screen, that needs to be rolled out of the way. One laptop consistently wakes up directly into the desktop.

Re: F19: GRUB and Plymouth issues

2013-07-07 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 07/07/2013 02:25 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 07/07/2013 07:15 PM, Germán A. Racca wrote: On 07/07/2013 01:27 PM, sguazt wrote: Hello, I've just installed F19 x86_64 from DVD. The first issue is that the GRUB boot screen * is only text-based (white text with a black background), * and

Re: How to get rid of the clock lock screen

2013-07-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andre Robatino writes: Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com writes: I upgraded several laptops and machines to F19. On all of them except one laptop, when waking up the desktop is blocked by a clock screen, that needs to be rolled out of the way. One laptop consistently wakes up

OT: bash help

2013-07-07 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, I'm trying to write a bash command to transcode some videos into audios but am having trouble with filenames that contain spaces. ls *flv returns this: Jorge Drexler - Al otro Lado del Río.flv But in a bash for loop it doesn't work. for f in `ls *flv`; do echo $f; done returns

Re: How to get rid of the clock lock screen

2013-07-07 Thread Andre Robatino
Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com writes: Actually, I did more digging, and found it: In settings, under Power, there's a Blank Screen setting. Set it to Never. How… obvious. But what if you DO want the screen to blank (and eventually turn the monitor off, for power saving) but

Re: How to install Rawhide ?

2013-07-07 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 18:37:16 +0100 Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Kevin that's the page I was looking at :) Was wondering what netinstall version would allow me to specify the URL. I have done this for other repos doing https installs before but cannot remember which

Re: Interpreting Yum Dependency Error

2013-07-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 21:29:18 +0930, Tim wrote: Bruno Wolff III: An update isn't going to do that. If you were doing an erase or distro-sync then that would be a worry. You'd presume so. But updates can remove some obsoleted packages. And what if you were one of the rare cases where

Re: OT: bash help

2013-07-07 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:29pm on Sunday, July 07, 2013 (UK time), Mike Wright scrawled: I'm trying to write a bash command to transcode some videos into audios but am having trouble with filenames that contain spaces. ls *flv returns this: Jorge Drexler - Al otro Lado del Río.flv But in a bash

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-07 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 07.07.2013 17:53, lee wrote: Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org writes: On 07.07.2013, lee wrote: What kind of crap is that? I don't know. And does it mean that there again will be problems with updating when I try to move to F19? In general, I would always prefer a fresh install over any

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-07 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 7-7-13 19:21:33 lee wrote: So we have three options to upgrade: 1.) the recommended fedup which probably doesn't work 2.) the untested and unsupported way using yum which might work or not 3.) move away from Fedora and install a different distribution No. 1.) didn't work last time,

Re: OT: bash help

2013-07-07 Thread Mike Wright
07/07/2013 12:03 PM, Steve Searle wrote: Around 07:29pm on Sunday, July 07, 2013 (UK time), Mike Wright scrawled: I'm trying to write a bash command to transcode some videos into audios but am having trouble with filenames that contain spaces. ls *flv returns this: Jorge Drexler - Al otro

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2013-07-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net | I take it you are referring to modern machines? This one was new in '81, I | think. Maybe '82.? I'm confused. What machine built in 1981 or 1982 can run Fedora? A recent enough one that you can file a BZ on (i.e. F17, F18, F19)? Heck, I

ABI compliance checker on Fedora 19

2013-07-07 Thread Eduardo Bortolini
I am trying to install ABI compliance checker on Fedora 19. I followed the steps from: http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker;. I have installed all requirements indicated. After install I typed: abi-compliance-checker -test It tries to compile, but this error appears:

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2013-07-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I'm sorry about my last message. I got into a time warp and replied to a mesage from Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:26:48 -0500! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: OT: bash help

2013-07-07 Thread Ian Malone
On 7 July 2013 20:18, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.com wrote: 07/07/2013 12:03 PM, Steve Searle wrote: Around 07:29pm on Sunday, July 07, 2013 (UK time), Mike Wright scrawled: I'm trying to write a bash command to transcode some videos into audios but am having trouble with filenames

Re: Need help installing 19

2013-07-07 Thread Frank
On 06/07/2013 10:42 PM, Doug wrote: On 07/07/2013 01:12 AM, Frank wrote: I would like some help/opinions installing Fedora 19 on a new computer which came with Windows 7 installed. I have shrunk the Windows partition to 40 gigs ( it's an 80 gig hd) and now have 4 partitions, two devoted to

Re: Perplexed

2013-07-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Roger are...@bigpond.com | I just now used Fedup to update Fedora 18 to 19. It did it's thing quickly and | efficiently and awaited a reboot. | I have both Ubuntu and Fedora on the hard drive. It boots to the Ubuntu grub | from which I select the Fedora install. | I selected Fedora

Instability in F19 with KVM?

2013-07-07 Thread Martin Jackson
Hello, I seem to be having stability problems with F19 as of kernel 3.9.8-301. The problems have persisted in 3.9.9 and in the 3.10 kernel I tried from the bleeding edge repo. The symptom is that the system, and and VMs it's running (I have KVM running, with VLANs and traditional bridges)

Touchpad is not working anymore

2013-07-07 Thread Diego Vargas
Hello All! I've been playing with fedora a little bit and I just love it! I've have the gnome GDM and the Cinnamon Desktop. My Toshiba U945-S4140 is running Fedora 19 and Windows 7. Didn't like the pre-installed Windows 8 and I just remove it. They both were playing very well, until I've done two

Re: OT: bash help

2013-07-07 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 7-7-13 11:29:05 Mike Wright wrote: I'm trying to write a bash command to transcode some videos into audios but am having trouble with filenames that contain spaces. ls *flv returns this: Jorge Drexler - Al otro Lado del Río.flv But in a bash for loop it doesn't work. for f in

Re: Instability in F19 with KVM?

2013-07-07 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 07.07.2013 22:04, Martin Jackson wrote: Hello, I seem to be having stability problems with F19 as of kernel 3.9.8-301. The problems have persisted in 3.9.9 and in the 3.10 kernel I tried from the bleeding edge repo. The symptom is that the system, and and VMs it's running (I have KVM

Re: Instability in F19 with KVM?

2013-07-07 Thread Martin Jackson
Please, check this link for more info: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-July/436981.html Mateusz Marzantowicz Thanks, Mateusz. I'm not certain that what I'm seeing is the same thing, as it has happened even without VMs running. I believe I have seen this issue at least

Re: OT: bash help

2013-07-07 Thread Dave Ihnat
Once, long ago--actually, on Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 02:18:16PM CDT--Mike Wright (mike.wri...@mailinator.com) said: exactly what I needed. I'd never discovered IFS before As you've discovered, it's quite useful to manipulate IFS. Just a suggestion, however. In scripts where you modify IFS, do

Re: Perplexed

2013-07-07 Thread Roger
Thanks Hugh, this helps cheers Roger | From: Roger are...@bigpond.com | I just now used Fedup to update Fedora 18 to 19. It did it's thing quickly and | efficiently and awaited a reboot. | I have both Ubuntu and Fedora on the hard drive. It boots to the Ubuntu grub | from which I select the

Comics strip reader

2013-07-07 Thread Jim
Fedora use to have a App. that could download the Comics Strips and read, does anyone know the name and or still exist? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Comics strip reader

2013-07-07 Thread Diego Vargas
I think there's a punch of them. But my favorite one is Comix [yum install comix] It looks very good, has a lot of features and supports a lot of formats. Greets, Diego On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: Fedora use to have a App. that could download the Comics

Re: Touchpad is not working anymore

2013-07-07 Thread Diego Vargas
Definitely is the first INF/chipset update on windows. Now I cannot even move the touchpad on Fedora 19 installation. I wonder if I can remove the chipset update... On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Diego Vargas degva...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All! I've been playing with fedora a little bit

Google-earth-stable

2013-07-07 Thread Jim
Fedora 18 Does anyone know where I can get a working google-earth-stable.i386, one that won't conflict with Fedora ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Google-earth-stable

2013-07-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/08/13 08:57, Jim wrote: Fedora 18 Does anyone know where I can get a working google-earth-stable.i386, one that won't conflict with Fedora ? You can create your own. 1. rpmrebuild -ep google-earth-stable-XXX.x86_64.rpm (you may need to yum install rpmrebuild first) 2. Search for

Re: Comics strip reader

2013-07-07 Thread Kevin Cummings
Netcomics? The latest version is 0.14-1 and is over 11 years old. It's still running for my personal use on my home server. Available from netcomics.sourceforge.net. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User

Re: Google-earth-stable

2013-07-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:03:58 +0800 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 07/08/13 08:57, Jim wrote: Fedora 18 Does anyone know where I can get a working google-earth-stable.i386, one that won't conflict with Fedora ? You can create your own. 1. rpmrebuild -ep

Re: ABI compliance checker on Fedora 19

2013-07-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Jul 7, 2013 2:31 PM, Eduardo Bortolini ebortolini.lis...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to install ABI compliance checker on Fedora 19. I followed the steps from: http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker;. How about yum install ABI-compliance-checker? Richard -- users

Re: ABI compliance checker on Fedora 19

2013-07-07 Thread Eduardo Bortolini
Yes, I forgot to mention that I tried in this way too. I tried in three ways, first from git. after using yum and after using the link mentioned. No success in all 2013/7/7 Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com On Jul 7, 2013 2:31 PM, Eduardo Bortolini ebortolini.lis...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Touchpad is not working anymore

2013-07-07 Thread Diego Vargas
So, windows inf/chipset have nothing to do with what now doens't work on linux. My bad, I'm mixing stuffs. I've been researching a bit and I found that maybe, I should update the BIOS. Supposedly, there's an option on the BIOS to activate/deactivate the touchpad. I don't have that, only for the

nfs issues in fedora 19

2013-07-07 Thread Amadeus W.M.
I normally have an nfs server running on one of my machines. Now nfs itself and the portmapper start on fixed ports, but the rpc services start on random ports so they need to be assigned fixed ports in /etc/sysconfig/nfs like so: LOCKD_TCPPORT=4000 STATD_PORT=4002 RQUOTAD_PORT=4003

Re: nfs issues in fedora 19

2013-07-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/08/13 13:09, Amadeus W.M. wrote: I normally have an nfs server running on one of my machines. Now nfs itself and the portmapper start on fixed ports, but the rpc services start on random ports so they need to be assigned fixed ports in /etc/sysconfig/nfs like so: LOCKD_TCPPORT=4000

Re: Touchpad is not working anymore

2013-07-07 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 07 July 2013, Diego Vargas sent: My Toshiba U945-S4140 is running Fedora 19 and Windows 7. Didn't like the pre-installed Windows 8 and I just remove it. They both were playing very well, until I've done two things: 1. Update a INF/Chipset deal on the Windows part. 2.