Re: fix a broken gnome desktop ?

2014-07-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 11 July 2014, Mike Wright sent: Usually there is no mouse after this happens. A return returns me to the login screen and I can choose one of the different desktops from there, all of which work. Do you have a second test login to try out, one without any configuration

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 12 July 2014, Rolf Turner sent: (1) From time to time, for no reason that I can discern, Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribes all (or perhaps most of) my email folders and subfolders. You might want to try and find out if those times coincide with your system

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-12 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 12.07.2014 01:10, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: Hi On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I have no idea what HW is a problem; or if it's even the hardware. Could be a race condition due to the different software packages. Different modules being started by systemd,

Re: making fc20 backup

2014-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2014, Rick Stevens wrote: /proc, /sys and /dev are dynamically created at boot so backing them up is sort of a bad idea (well, backing them up is OK but restoring them would be bad). Why would this be bad? The content of those dirs is dynamically generated and of variable and often

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2014, Rolf Turner wrote: (1) From time to time, for no reason that I can discern, Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribes all (or perhaps most of) my email folders and subfolders. [] This is surely not an answer you would expect, but: Thunderbird is badly suited to handle big

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On Jul 12, 2014 3:57 PM, Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org wrote: On 12.07.2014, Rolf Turner wrote: (1) From time to time, for no reason that I can discern, Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribes all (or perhaps most of) my email folders and subfolders. [] This is surely not an answer

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 07/12/2014 08:34 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 12 July 2014, Rolf Turner sent: (1) From time to time, for no reason that I can discern, Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribes all (or perhaps most of) my email folders and subfolders. You might want to try and find out if those times

Re: fix a broken gnome desktop ?

2014-07-12 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 11/07/14 21:42, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, Following a recent kernel update I rebooted and can no longer use Gnome3. I receive this error: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. All extensions have been disabled as a precaution.

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 17:32, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/12/14 12:51, Rolf Turner wrote: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libxul.so: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Couldn't load XPCOM. Naturally I have no idea what this really means, or what if anything can be done

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 12/07/14 17:41, poma wrote: On 12.07.2014 06:51, Rolf Turner wrote: ... ***Is*** there anything that can be done about it? If so, what? Please keep it simple and explicit, if you would be so kind. I need a *recipe* --- Do this, and then this, and then this I understand a fair bit of

Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Now that I have your attention, the background is as follows. This is a server with only statically configured network interfaces. NetworkManager is not installed. All network interfaces are statically configured via /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. The server is regularly updated to

Re: fix a broken gnome desktop ? [solved]

2014-07-12 Thread Mike Wright
07/11/2014 11:22 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 11 July 2014, Mike Wright sent: Usually there is no mouse after this happens. A return returns me to the login screen and I can choose one of the different desktops from there, all of which work. Do you have a second test login to try

Re: making fc20 backup

2014-07-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 09:50 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: The content of those dirs is dynamically generated and of variable and often temporary nature. Thus, it shouldn't do any harm restoring them. Restoring /proc (if such a thing is even possible) would pretty much guarantee screwing up your

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:00:45 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: Now, here's my hack, which is basically a clone of that NetworkManager subpackage: You're willing to invest a lot more time in systemd than I am :-). I just put a batch of systemctl restart commands in the rc.local file with different

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 12:46 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You might want to try and find out if those times coincide with your system operators restoring a backup to their drives. Some SysOps do a really half-arsed job at restore and backup, mangling things terribly. Though I am not

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 12 10:00, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Now that I have your attention, the background is as follows. This is a server with only statically configured network interfaces. NetworkManager is not installed. All network interfaces are statically configured via /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Corinna Vinschen writes: On Jul 12 10:00, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Now that I have your attention, the background is as follows. This is a server with only statically configured network interfaces. NetworkManager is not installed. All network interfaces are statically configured via

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:00:45 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: Now, here's my hack, which is basically a clone of that NetworkManager subpackage: You're willing to invest a lot more time in systemd than I am :-). I just put a batch of systemctl restart commands in the

Re: *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun

2014-07-12 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, You mean once I update to yet another kernel, things should be working again? Would you mind explaining the reason for this hope? Not sure about the quoted diff - I don't see how my problem is related to backlights? Thanks! Best, Oliver On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at

Re: *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun

2014-07-12 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:12 PM, poma pomidorabelis...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_t430 https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-intel/bugs/all http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems#All_bug_reports ... output of the

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
So, I would encourage you to ask the systemd list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel for a probably more detailed answer than you might get here. Or... file a bug if you think you have found one.

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Fenzi writes: So, I would encourage you to ask the systemd list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel for a probably more detailed answer than you might get here. There's a very specific reason why I don't wish to do that. Or... file a bug if you think you have

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Now that I have your attention, the background is as follows. This is a server with only statically configured network interfaces. NetworkManager is not installed. All network interfaces are statically configured

Adobereader won't install

2014-07-12 Thread Mickey
Fedora 20 /KDE yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages. I Downloaded the AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.bin and installed it

Re: Adobereader won't install

2014-07-12 Thread Mickey
On 07/12/2014 02:07 PM, Mickey wrote: Fedora 20 /KDE yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader won't start and nothing shows in /var/log/messages. I Downloaded the

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 12 12:01, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: [something] This is certainly a valid workaround for the bug. But this wasn't my point. I am looking for validation, based on the data I posted, that systemd's dependency resolution is broken. [...] Hmm, ok. Let's try.

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Edward M
On 07/12/14 09:43, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, I would encourage you to ask the systemd list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel for a probably more detailed answer than you might get here. Or... file a bug if you think you have found one.

How to make usb stick for F20 Xfce live ??

2014-07-12 Thread sean darcy
I've got a new HP laptop running Windows 8.1, with uefi boot. I've shrunk the windows partition, so I have 500+ gigs free. I've dl'd the F20 Xfce Live iso. I checked the sha256, which matched. I've got a 2gig usb stick. I followed the instructions on

Re: How to make usb stick for F20 Xfce live ??

2014-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:37:28 -0400 sean darcy seandar...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a new HP laptop running Windows 8.1, with uefi boot. I've shrunk the windows partition, so I have 500+ gigs free. I've dl'd the F20 Xfce Live iso. I checked the sha256, which matched. I've got a 2gig usb

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Edward M wrote: On 07/12/14 09:43, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, I would encourage you to ask the systemd list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel for a probably more detailed answer than you might get here. Or... file a bug if you think you have

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:05:59 -0400 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Kevin Fenzi writes: So, I would encourage you to ask the systemd list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel for a probably more detailed answer than you might get here. There's a

Re: fix a broken gnome desktop ? [solved]

2014-07-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 12 July 2014, Mike Wright sent: Tried that this AM and it didn't work but an error message popped up long enough to see that it had a problem with gnome-shell-3.10.4-6.fc20. Yum erase/install gnome-shell gnome-tweak-tool and all is well in happy land. Hmm, I don't

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:43:34 + (UTC) Bill Oliver ven...@billoblog.com wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Edward M wrote: On 07/12/14 09:43, Kevin Fenzi wrote: So, I would encourage you to ask the systemd list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel for a probably

Re: fix a broken gnome desktop ? [solved]

2014-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 04:21:06 +0930 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Allegedly, on or about 12 July 2014, Mike Wright sent: ...snip... Rhetorical question of the day: Why are gnome3's hidden directories named .gnome2 ? I don't think it does. gnome3 (along with most other

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom H writes: NetworkManager-wait-online.service has: begin After=NetworkManager.service Wants=network.target Before=network.target network-online.target /end Perhaps you should replicate that in wait-for-network.service for it to behave as you intend it. I assume that you can replicate

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com writes: What would you suggest people do when they find a bug? Reporting it to the people who can fix it is very much more likely to get it fixed or worked around than complaining about it in a place where no one will fix it. Seeing the recent reactions in this

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2014, Bill Oliver wrote: But then, I guess Gentoo is the only distro left that hasn't adopted systemd, or will be doing so shortly. You could run Arch with openrc.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: How to make usb stick for F20 Xfce live ??

2014-07-12 Thread sean darcy
On 7/12/2014 2:40 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:37:28 -0400 sean darcy seandar...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a new HP laptop running Windows 8.1, with uefi boot. I've shrunk the windows partition, so I have 500+ gigs free. I've dl'd the F20 Xfce Live iso. I checked the sha256,

Re: How to make usb stick for F20 Xfce live ??

2014-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:52:30 -0400 sean darcy seandar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the response. Not sure how else to verify the download. I ran sha256sum, and it matched https://fedoraproject.org/en/static/checksums/Fedora-Live-x86_64-20-CHECKSUM. If I use dd, will that boot under

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/12/2014 12:52 PM, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: I'm affected by a systemd bug, that I have no intention of reporting. My workaround takes me far less time, than getting through the endless layers of fanboys would. You don't care, then, that if you're affected by this bug others are and

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 12 Jul 2014 21:52:22 +0200 Anders Wegge Keller we...@wegge.dk wrote: Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com writes: What would you suggest people do when they find a bug? Reporting it to the people who can fix it is very much more likely to get it fixed or worked around than complaining about

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us writes: On 07/12/2014 12:52 PM, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: I'm affected by a systemd bug, that I have no intention of reporting. My workaround takes me far less time, than getting through the endless layers of fanboys would. You don't care, then, that if you're

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/12/2014 01:20 PM, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: Why bother? When trying to diagnose the problem, I found several well-documented bug reports with the soame contet. Some were almost old enough to get rid of their diapers. They haven't been resolved, so why should I spend time on another

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com writes: On 12 Jul 2014 21:52:22 +0200 Anders Wegge Keller we...@wegge.dk wrote: Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com writes: What would you suggest people do when they find a bug? Reporting it to the people who can fix it is very much more likely to get it

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 12 Jul 2014 22:24:13 +0200 Anders Wegge Keller we...@wegge.dk wrote: I'm not following your logic here. Given 2 ways of reacting to a bug: A) complain about it on a users mailing list that few developers follow. B) report a bug on it that developers will see and be able to

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us writes: On 07/12/2014 01:20 PM, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: Why bother? When trying to diagnose the problem, I found several well-documented bug reports with the soame contet. Some were almost old enough to get rid of their diapers. They haven't been resolved, so

Re: removing plymouth

2014-07-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Reminds me of this oldie: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006386 I was looking for a bug report against Plymouth that is current. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Fenzi writes: On 12 Jul 2014 22:24:13 +0200 Anders Wegge Keller we...@wegge.dk wrote: I'm not following your logic here. Given 2 ways of reacting to a bug: A) complain about it on a users mailing list that few developers follow. B) report a bug on it that developers will see

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/12/2014 11:43 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: I really am starting to see this as an example of the Microsoft-ish philosophy of tell the users where they must go and let them catch up as they can. It works when the users don't have any other choice. But then, I guess Gentoo is the only distro

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/12/2014 01:34 PM, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: In this case, the wheel will get a pail of water, when the squeek starts smoldering. So - even if I jinx my effort by stating the intention - my best option is angst-inducing vague posts on a non-technical mailing list. I may well be wrong,

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2014, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: C) Report a bug and be ignored, told to fsck off to someplace else, and be ridiculed to boot. I fully understand your reaction. I reported a (quite different) bug with systemd and got zero response. After some (longer) time, I finally got a

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com writes: I think that systemd should not be fixed. I think it should be dumped, and replaced. It's fundamentally broken, even without this latest fallout. So, why would I want to report systemd bugs, and help improve it? I can't think of any reason why I'd

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:45:56 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: put in what you think an old-school linux should have and call it Steampunk Linux to grab a bit of glamour No, call it potskedeerf linux, and make the guiding principle be that nothing advocated by freedesktop is included in the distro :-).

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us writes: On 07/12/2014 01:34 PM, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: In this case, the wheel will get a pail of water, when the squeek starts smoldering. So - even if I jinx my effort by stating the intention - my best option is angst-inducing vague posts on a non-technical

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On 12 Jul 2014 22:59:31 +0200 Anders Wegge Keller we...@wegge.dk wrote: Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com writes: I think that systemd should not be fixed. I think it should be dumped, and replaced. It's fundamentally broken, even without this latest fallout. So, why would I want to

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Bill Oliver
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/12/2014 11:43 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: I really am starting to see this as an example of the Microsoft-ish philosophy of tell the users where they must go and let them catch up as they can. It works when the users don't have any other choice. But

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread poma
On 12.07.2014 15:28, Rolf Turner wrote: On 12/07/14 17:41, poma wrote: On 12.07.2014 06:51, Rolf Turner wrote: ... ***Is*** there anything that can be done about it? If so, what? Please keep it simple and explicit, if you would be so kind. I need a *recipe* --- Do this, and then this, and

Re: Adobereader won't install

2014-07-12 Thread bitlord
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:13:12 -0400 Mickey binary...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/12/2014 02:07 PM, Mickey wrote: Fedora 20 /KDE yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the command acroread the Adobereader

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/12/2014 02:10 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: Yeah, I know. Thanks for that useful suggestion. Any time. And, I wasn't even intending to be sarcastic. I wanted to point out that, unlike Windows, if you don't like the way Linux works, you're free in every sense of the word to Do Something

Re: *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun

2014-07-12 Thread poma
On 12.07.2014 18:34, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:12 PM, poma pomidorabelis...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_t430 https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-intel/bugs/all

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/12/14 21:18, Rolf Turner wrote: Nearly there I think. I downloaded the second tarball (I *do* prefer British English) and unpacked it; I cd-ed to the resulting thunderbird directory and executed ./thunderbird. The program started OK --- I am now using it (i.e. I am using thunderbird

delayed messages

2014-07-12 Thread lee
Hi, how long do the moderators intend to delay my messages? It seems that the code of conduct the moderators are referring to actually means that everyone who disagrees will be silenced. If that is so, just say so. -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- users mailing list

Re: delayed messages

2014-07-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:55:51 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Hi, how long do the moderators intend to delay my messages? If you are referring to the ones in the 'why do we use systemd?' thread then I suspect it's forever, as that thread was closed. It seems that the code of conduct

Re: Adobereader won't install

2014-07-12 Thread Mickey
On 07/12/2014 05:24 PM, bitlord wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:13:12 -0400 Mickey binary...@comcast.net wrote: On 07/12/2014 02:07 PM, Mickey wrote: Fedora 20 /KDE yum -y localinstall AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm Yum does install AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm but when I run the

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 13/07/14 03:37, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 12:46 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You might want to try and find out if those times coincide with your system operators restoring a backup to their drives. Some SysOps do a really half-arsed job at restore and backup,

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 13/07/14 12:14, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/13/14 07:35, Rolf Turner wrote: Yes, I had to muck around a bit to get Adobe Reader installed; yum didn't directly work (probably because my Fedora 17 is EOL). According to notes that I kept, the recipe (found somewhere on the web) that I used was:

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 13/07/14 09:11, poma wrote: SNIP Always try to contact the admins if there are problems. It is always good practice. I have in the past not found the U. of Auckland IT people to be very helpful. They don't like the fact that I am using my own laptop on which I have superuser privileges

Re: OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

2014-07-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/13/14 08:32, Rolf Turner wrote: Now, you probably will run into a bit of difficulty or inconvenience.You have 2 copies of t-bird installed. One is well integrated with Fedora. The other not. So, if you were to click on a mailto: link in a web page, the older version of T-Bird will

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi Sam, I don't know anything about Systemd, nor have I read the rest of the responses to this, but just looking at the logical interpretation of your named-chroot.service statements it seems to me that you are requesting that named-chroot.service be started after network.target but

Re: Adobereader won't install

2014-07-12 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi Mickey, This might be a moot point, but have you tried deleting the adobereader profile in your home directory, which fixed my 9.5.5 64bit reader problem when its execution produced errors about being unable to read a file? regards, Steve On 07/13/2014 09:37 AM, Mickey wrote: On

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Stephen Morris writes: Hi Sam, I don't know anything about Systemd, nor have I read the rest of the responses to this, but just looking at the logical interpretation of your named-chroot.service statements it seems to me that you are requesting that Well, technically it's not my

Re: fix a broken gnome desktop ? [solved]

2014-07-12 Thread Mike Wright
07/12/2014 11:55 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 04:21:06 +0930 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Allegedly, on or about 12 July 2014, Mike Wright sent: ...snip... Rhetorical question of the day: Why are gnome3's hidden directories named .gnome2 ? I don't think it does.