[389-users] replication stopped after server restart - problem to reenable

2014-02-12 Thread Jan Kowalsky
Hi all, this is my first post on the list. I'm using 389ds inside a kolab environment. We are going to migrate to the new kolab version which runs now 389ds. At the moment we are testing different scenarios for replication. I don't have much experience with ldap and particular with 389ds.

Re: [389-users] Searches Hang - Apparently entryrdn index related

2014-02-12 Thread Rich Megginson
On 02/11/2014 10:32 PM, Timothy Pollard wrote: Hi, After our LDAP instance has been running for a while large LDAP searches in our userRoot start hanging. This appears to be caused by the entryrdn index becoming corrupt since it can be fixed by regenerating the entryrdn index. To give an

Re: [389-users] Searches Hang - Apparently entryrdn index related

2014-02-12 Thread Noriko Hosoi
Rich Megginson wrote: On 02/11/2014 10:32 PM, Timothy Pollard wrote: Hi, After our LDAP instance has been running for a while large LDAP searches in our userRoot start hanging. This appears to be caused by the entryrdn index becoming corrupt since it can be fixed by regenerating the entryrdn

Re: [389-users] replication stopped after server restart - problem to reenable

2014-02-12 Thread Jan Kowalsky
Hi Rich, thank you for answering, Since this is my first experience with replication I don't know if I do something completely wrong or it's a but. I folled the documentation on

Re: [389-users] Searches Hang - Apparently entryrdn index related

2014-02-12 Thread Timothy Pollard
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:22:19 -0800 Noriko Hosoi nho...@redhat.com wrote: Rich Megginson wrote: On 02/11/2014 10:32 PM, Timothy Pollard wrote: Our system: $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.5 (Final) $ uname -r 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64 $ rpm -q 389-ds

Re: [389-users] Searches Hang - Apparently entryrdn index related

2014-02-12 Thread Noriko Hosoi
Hi Timothy, Timothy Pollard wrote: Oddly it didn't get broken over night, but I did copy the entryrdn.db4 file last time it broken, so I can take dbscans of the backup of the broken one and of the currently working one. Unfortunately both files are over 140MB, and the best compression I can

Re: [389-users] replication stopped after server restart - problem to reenable

2014-02-12 Thread Rich Megginson
On 02/12/2014 02:34 PM, Jan Kowalsky wrote: Hi Rich, thank you for answering, Since this is my first experience with replication I don't know if I do something completely wrong or it's a but. I folled the documentation on

Re: [389-users] Searches Hang - Apparently entryrdn index related

2014-02-12 Thread Timothy Pollard
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:20:11 -0800 Noriko Hosoi nho...@redhat.com wrote: Hi Timothy, Timothy Pollard wrote: Oddly it didn't get broken over night, but I did copy the entryrdn.db4 file last time it broken, so I can take dbscans of the backup of the broken one and of the currently working

Re: yumdownloader --source doesn't need enabled source repos, does it?

2014-02-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:52:36 +0800 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: That'll work, as long as you disable any 3rd party repos you may have which don't have rawhide components. Hence place skip_if_unavailable=1 in 3rd party repos. Notes, the 404's but carries on. as user: yumdownloader

Service multiplex

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Dady
Hi! I have a workplace that only allows access of free internet servers at :80 (and :443). What if my server should have several services (https, ssh, vnc etc), that need to be accessed from this restricted subnet? My server has an own domain, e.g. mydomain.net My idea was to create as many tap

Re: yumdownloader --source doesn't need enabled source repos, does it?

2014-02-12 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 12 February 2014 00:45, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 02/12/14 06:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:23:37 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: currently (against my better judgment)

Re: Service multiplex

2014-02-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/12/2014 12:26 AM, Robert Dady wrote: Could this work? What else do I need to make this work? This is actually a brainstorming, but who knows maybe it results something useful. To be honest, this sounds like you're trying to violate (or at least circumvent) your company's security policy

yum check-update F20

2014-02-12 Thread Frank Murphy
I can't remember, but used yum check-update return no updates available, if there was none. [root@]# yum check-update Loaded plugins: langpacks, local, versionlock #repo checking snipped [root@]# yum-3.4.3-132.fc20.noarch ___ Regards Frank frankly3d.com -- users mailing list

F20 gnome inactivity causes mouse/kbd unresponsiveness, must restart gnome-shell

2014-02-12 Thread Pekka Savola
Hello, I've two systems running F20 + updates-testing, a T400 laptop and a desktop PC. PC was upgraded with yum from F18, laptop was a fresh install. Both experience the same problems, at least for roughly two weeks now, maybe longer (not sure when this started, maybe even from the install

Re: building a new kernel, and firmware

2014-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, poma wrote: On 11.02.2014 23:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote: last question about building kernel wiki page, i promise. here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel#Build_the_New_Kernel one reads: To build with firmware included, do:

Re: Service multiplex

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Dady
The thing is that circumvention is also possible by disabling direct proxy script download and set direct internet access, in that case there is no need set up service-subdomain multiplexing. It could also be possible to set httpd:80 and everything else on 443 where some php script switches which

Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Roger
A friend who is not computer literate at all has a Dell 1520 laptop which when new, Dell required it have xp installed. I insisted at the time that the hd have 2 partitions as I intended to install either Fedora or Ubuntu but that was years ago and I had forgotten all about it till today.

Re: yumdownloader --source doesn't need enabled source repos, does it?

2014-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, poma wrote: On 11.02.2014 23:48, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/12/14 06:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:23:37 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca

Re: yum check-update F20

2014-02-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:56:40 +, Frank Murphy wrote: I can't remember, but used yum check-update return no updates available, if there was none. yum update does that. yum check-update returns zero (False) if no updates are available and non-zero (True), if updates are available.

Re: yumdownloader --source doesn't need enabled source repos, does it?

2014-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:   currently (against my better judgment) updating one of the fedora wiki pages:   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel and i'm fairly sure

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:34:55 +1100 Roger are...@bigpond.com wrote: A friend who is not computer literate at all has a Dell 1520 laptop which when new, Dell required it have xp installed. XP will be EOL on April 8th 2014 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx

Re: yumdownloader --source doesn't need enabled source repos, does it?

2014-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/12/14 15:38, Frank Murphy wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:23:56 +0800 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: --enablerepo would need to be available to yumdownloader since the user may well want to download the source from rawhide so they

Re: systemd security?

2014-02-12 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 08:11:43PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: So, does this mean people will soon (if not already) be writing malicious web pages that use d-bus and systemd to take over your system if you happen to visit the page? No. There's no mechanism for them to do this. Or forget web

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 12 February 2014, Roger sent: A friend who is not computer literate at all has a Dell 1520 laptop which when new, Dell required it have xp installed. As has already been said, XP support dies very soon. It's not safe to use XP on the net after then. It was never

Re: Recommendations for web-based photo album

2014-02-12 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm interested in setting up an online photo album. I've used Gallery in the past, but wondered if anyone had any other recommendations that would work well with Fedora? A PHP or perl based application would be best. http://coppermine-gallery.net/ Thanks TIm, looks like a good project

Re: Recommendations for web-based photo album

2014-02-12 Thread fedora
http://shalbum.org/ I did it with shalbum and no problem. suomi On 2014-02-12 15:47, Alex wrote: Hi, I'm interested in setting up an online photo album. I've used Gallery in the past, but wondered if anyone had any other recommendations that would work well with Fedora? A PHP or perl based

New Install

2014-02-12 Thread Leo Simmonds
Hi, I have v20 on a USB drive and want to install on a new machine with no OS currently in place. When I boot, the Fedora install page comes up but then goes into Starting Dracut Emergency Shell after the Warning: Can't mount root filesystem What now? --

Re: New Install

2014-02-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:40:05 +1030 Leo Simmonds leo.simmo...@live.com wrote: Can't mount root filesystem What now? https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/02/04/more-on-booting-a-practical-fedora-uefi-guide-and-dont-use-universal-usb-stick-writers/ ___

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread eoconno...@gmail.com
I would just tell her to backup all her data that she wants saved to an external device.then do a clean install of Ubuntu...and then she can transfer her data back. ditch WinXP altogether.makes for an easier time when its time to support it remotely. - Reply message -

recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a friend asks me if there's a way to solve the following, not out of any sense of urgency (since there are backups) but more out of a sense of curiosity as to whether it can even be done. long story short, a 750G drive which *used* to be the primary drive in a laptop was replaced with a

Re: New Install

2014-02-12 Thread eoconno...@gmail.com
Maybe try downloading the F20 installer again?...did you use Unetbootin to get the files on the USB? - Reply message - From: Leo Simmonds leo.simmo...@live.com To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: New Install Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 11:10 am

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-12 Thread murph
Try the poorly-named testdisk to see if it can get any of the old partition information. I've had good luck with recovering accidentally-partitioned disks. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: a friend asks me if there's a way to solve the

Re: [389-users] replication stopped after server restart - problem to reenable

2014-02-12 Thread Rich Megginson
On 02/12/2014 06:29 AM, Jan Kowalsky wrote: Hi all, this is my first post on the list. I'm using 389ds inside a kolab environment. We are going to migrate to the new kolab version which runs now 389ds. At the moment we are testing different scenarios for replication. I don't have much

Re: Service multiplex

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:10:19 +0100, Robert Dady robert.d...@gmail.com wrote: The thing is that circumvention is also possible by disabling direct proxy script download and set direct internet access, in that case there is no need set up service-subdomain multiplexing. Doing this might

Re: Service multiplex

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:09:13 -0600, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:10:19 +0100, Robert Dady robert.d...@gmail.com wrote: The thing is that circumvention is also possible by disabling direct proxy script download and set direct internet access, in that

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, murph wrote: Try the poorly-named testdisk to see if it can get any of the old partition information. I've had good luck with recovering accidentally-partitioned disks. so far, basic usage of testdisk is showing me just the two small partitions at the front of the

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-12 Thread Joe Wulf
One option to consider would be the tools from runtime.org. They have been working on Linux oriented tools, though I've purchased and extensively used the window-related tools with stellar success. From: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca To: Fedora Users

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 12, 2014 9:37 AM, eoconno...@gmail.com eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: I would just tell her to backup all her data that she wants saved to an external device.then do a clean install of Ubuntu...and then she can transfer her data back. ditch WinXP altogether.makes for an easier

RE: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Powell, Michael
A friend who is not computer literate at all has a Dell 1520 laptop which when new, Dell required it have xp installed. I insisted at the time that the hd have 2 partitions as I intended to install either Fedora or Ubuntu but that was years ago and I had forgotten all about it till today.

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 12, 2014, at 3:34 AM, Roger are...@bigpond.com wrote: I understand how to get linux to clean install on the second partition and I think I remember about how to use it's own boot record not the MBR but have no idea how she would access linux with windows on the first partition. If

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 12, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Powell, Michael michael_pow...@mentor.com wrote: Why did you insist that a computer illiterate person dual boot? One OS is enough to deal with, why would you trouble her with two? I agree. Continue updating Windows XP via Windows Update until everything has

Re: Service multiplex

2014-02-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/12/2014 09:09 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:10:19 +0100, Robert Dady robert.d...@gmail.com wrote: The thing is that circumvention is also possible by disabling direct proxy script download and set direct internet access, in that case there is no need set up

Re: FC20 and (:No such file or directory)

2014-02-12 Thread Peter Oliver
On 10 Feb 2014 03:20, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: Some of the perl scripts worked fine, but one script would not activate and resulted in a command line error message of : (: No such file or directory) I added the parenthesis, but the initial single quote is part of the

Re: Service multiplex

2014-02-12 Thread Robert Dady
Ok guys I see, point taken. :) and you are absolutely right! I was blinded by my enthusiasm, I didn't count with the non-technical part at all. On 12/02/2014, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 02/12/2014 09:09 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:10:19 +0100, Robert Dady

Re: F20 gnome inactivity causes mouse/kbd unresponsiveness, must restart gnome-shell

2014-02-12 Thread g
hello pekka, On 02/12/2014 08:59 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: Hello, I've two systems running F20 + updates-testing, a T400 laptop and a desktop PC. PC was upgraded with yum from F18, laptop was a fresh install. Both experience the same problems, at least for roughly two weeks now, maybe longer

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, murph wrote: Try the poorly-named testdisk to see if it can get any of the old partition information. I've had good luck with recovering accidentally-partitioned disks. while the documentation suggests this utility can handle LVM, i finished a scan earlier and, based

Re: F20 gnome inactivity causes mouse/kbd unresponsiveness, must restart gnome-shell

2014-02-12 Thread Tom Horsley
After inactivity timeout, you need to swipe the screen or use keyboard to reactivate it (I've disabled screen locking). The problem that often occurs is that mouse movement works, but clicking doesn't do anything. Similarly keyboard is unresponsibe. The clock has been frozen to the inactivity

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 12, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: /dev/vg1/home /opt/home ext4defaults1 2 so that (obviously) what used to be the home logical volume in the old vg1 volume group appeared under /opt/home, and was available for the occasional

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 12, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: /dev/vg1/home /opt/home ext4defaults1 2 so that (obviously) what used to be the home logical volume in the old vg1 volume group appeared under

Re: F20 gnome inactivity causes mouse/kbd unresponsiveness, must restart gnome-shell

2014-02-12 Thread Pekka Savola
Hello, Thanks for ideas; I'll need to check at least reverting to updates and checking the input source and report back tomorrow. Combining replies: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, g wrote: After inactivity timeout, you need to swipe the screen or use keyboard to reactivate it (I've disabled screen

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, murph wrote: Try the poorly-named testdisk to see if it can get any of the old partition information. I've had good luck with recovering accidentally-partitioned disks. so here's the current output from that utility after it finished a lengthy scan of the (corrupted)

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread eoconno...@gmail.com
YesI'm sorry but the original poster mentioned UbuntupersonallyI would install Fedorabut I'm just giving feedback.sorry! - Reply message - From: Pete Travis li...@petetravis.com To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Installing

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread William Mckee
By chance does she live somewhere with a local linux users group or computer club? Where I live there is a local community center where people can bring their computer once a month and have their problems sorted. Maybe have a hunt around and see if there is something similar? Goodluck, William On

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: it was 2G that was overwritten, not just 2M. so i'm quite willing to believe that it's unrecoverable. but that testdisk utility claims to be finding *something*, so i'll just let it finish and post what it reports.

Re: recommendations on how to recover a corrupted, LVM-based hard drive?

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, murph wrote: Try the poorly-named testdisk to see if it can get any of the old partition information. I've had good luck with recovering accidentally-partitioned disks. so here's the

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Edward M
On 2/12/2014 2:34 AM, Roger wrote: Dell 1520 laptop which when new, Dell required it have xp installed. As many have said windows xp eol is taking place in two months, and the laptop probably may require more ram to be added so it can be upgraded to either windows 7 or windows

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread g
greetings roger and tim. On 02/12/2014 02:40 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 12 February 2014, Roger sent: A friend who is not computer literate at all has a Dell 1520 laptop which when new, Dell required it have xp installed. As has already been said, XP support dies very soon. It's

Fun observation after installing a new UPS

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Stern
The very old APC 900VA unit I had under my desk died over the weekend. I replaced it with an Cyber Power System, Inc. CP1500, $99 from Amazon with free shipping. Anyhow, the front display shows the power drawn by the stuff plugged into it, currently computer and monitor. Typically, they're

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread g
On 02/12/2014 10:28 PM, Edward M wrote: On 2/12/2014 2:34 AM, Roger wrote: Dell 1520 laptop which when new, Dell required it have xp installed. As many have said windows xp eol is taking place in two months, and the laptop probably may require more ram to be added so it can be upgraded to

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Roger
I know your pain. But a clean Linux install shouldn't take that long. Only an update-install, which is based on what was previously installed (and has to churn through assessing it and all the updates that will be needed), should take that long to run. agreed. centos with a default install

Re: 'module' object has no attribute 'RPMSENSE_GREATER'

2014-02-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Stephen Davies sdav...@sdc.com.au wrote: I think I need to start with force reloading of the original Python setup. Could you please advise on how to do this. It will be a lot easier if you have another Fedora system or virtual machine with a working yum. If

Re: 'module' object has no attribute 'RPMSENSE_GREATER'

2014-02-12 Thread Stephen Davies
Sounds good to me. I do have another box with a properly working Fedora 20. I shall use that as you suggest. (I shall update this box to 20 as soon as the rest is sorted.) Thank you very much again for your help. Cheers, Stephen On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 07:08:50 PM T.C. Hollingsworth

RE: New Install

2014-02-12 Thread Leo Simmonds
I used LiveUSB, I've now tried the Unetbootin and that doesnt work either, as comes up with a different error, saying BOOTMGR is missing... To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: eoconno...@gmail.com Subject: Re: New Install Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:42:19 -0500 Maybe try downloading the

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread g
On 02/13/2014 02:05 AM, Roger wrote: I know your pain. But a clean Linux install shouldn't take that long. Only an update-install, which is based on what was previously installed (and has to churn through assessing it and all the updates that will be needed), should take that long to run.

Re: New Install

2014-02-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:05:47 +1030 Leo Simmonds leo.simmo...@live.com wrote: I used LiveUSB, I've now tried the Unetbootin and that doesnt work either, as comes up with a different error, saying BOOTMGR is missing... use dd /iso to /usb/disk method.

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Edward Mart
On 2/12/2014 4:55 PM, g wrote: it is a good suggestion, but installing linux and keeping xp for games, etc and never putting it back on internet is also a better choice over upgrading until one those games or apps require an update or windows itself to continue working properly;-) --

Re: Installing Linux on a windows hd

2014-02-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 23:28:29 -0800 Edward Mart edwardm...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/12/2014 4:55 PM, g wrote: it is a good suggestion, but installing linux and keeping xp for games, etc and never putting it back on internet is also a better choice over upgrading until one those games