Re: Connect to nfs from iPad -

2012-09-19 Thread Emilio Lopez
Does anyone have any experience connecting to an nfs4 server from an iPad/ What about using ssh or ftp as server, and find any ios client that support ssh or ftp? Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Linux on tablets [was: installing fedora linux on Arnova 10]

2012-09-05 Thread Emilio Lopez
I myself would be happier with a real community-developed tablet OS than the current somewat open source Andoid. And of course I'm curious to see wether the new ideas from Gnome 3 actually work (or not) on a real tablet, instead of a touch-enabled PC. me too!! Now im trying to install linux

Re: Fixing KDE Desktop FC16

2012-08-01 Thread Emilio Lopez
How can I fix this? I 've been googling around but have not found anything useful yet, maybe I am not using the right keywords. Thanks! I've never seen what you're describing. But, since you just set this up today, why not just delete the user account (saving any data you need to save)

Re: F17 takes so long to reboot/poweroff

2012-07-26 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello, On my system, the boot phase takes only approximately 28 seconds but both the reboot and shutdown phase take approximately 1 minute and 10 seconds. This did not happen with F16. I think this is not normal. In my case, F16 spend less than half time shutting down than F15 in the same

Re: Linux note-taking apps -- what's your favorite

2012-07-25 Thread Emilio Lopez
I'm considering using one of Linux's note-taking apps: Zim gnote tomboy and some others. Any personal favorites from their respective user bases? I use just kwrite. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: problem with mounting iphone on F15

2012-05-08 Thread Emilio Lopez
When I plug my iphone to the usb, I get this message and then the iphone is not mounted. dmes prints this messages. Could you help please. the iphone is under ios 5.x You can use ftp to transfer files, this will work forever independent of what apples changes in its phone. Emilio. -- users

Re: Starting postgres at boot time [SOLVED]

2012-04-11 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello, I usually start postgresql database by running root@fedorasu postgres -c postgres -D /home/postgres I'm trying to do it automatically at boot time, so I added that line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. However database doesn't start. Any Ideas? I found the problem. It was Selinux. I also

Starting postgres at boot time

2012-03-17 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello, I usually start postgresql database by running root@fedorasu postgres -c postgres -D /home/postgres I'm trying to do it automatically at boot time, so I added that line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. However database doesn't start. Any Ideas? Thanks. Emilio. -- users mailing list

Re: Power off button acting differently?

2012-03-17 Thread Emilio Lopez
I have found some more strange things. If I switch to a regular terminal window (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and press the power button it does a regular shutdown, but if either at the login screen or logged into gnome it seems to cause a suspend shutdown that doesn't work. Try to configure it in your Desktop

Re: wodim. Burning an iso image

2012-03-06 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello, Im trying to burn a dvd, but I get an error with wodim. What I'm missing? Thank you. Emilio. You need a bigger disc? Total size:     5283 MB wodim: WARNING: Data may not fit on current disk. Frank So obvious and I didn't see it. Thanks Emilio. -- users mailing list

Re: Problem with su -

2012-03-05 Thread Emilio Lopez
The only way you can get a prompt containig root is by using su - . su will only produce a root prompt by starting as root. It it not posible to do this: [bobg@box6 ~]$ su Password: [root@box6 bobg]# Im doing exactly this to become root for years with fedora

Re: Problem with su -

2012-03-05 Thread Emilio Lopez
finally settled things seem to work normally except I still get that strange prompt bash-4.2# when it has always been [root@box6 bobg]#. I don't know if that helps but I have seen 'your strange prompt' doing this: [emilio@mipc]$ su password: [root@mipc]# su jhon bash-4.2# Emilio -- users

wodim. Burning an iso image

2012-03-05 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello, Im trying to burn a dvd, but I get an error with wodim. What I'm missing? Thank you. Emilio. I created the image like this $genisoimage -J -V mulo0 -o /media/backups/pcAlmeria/isos2/image0.iso /media/backups/pcAlmeria/mulo/mulo.7z.001 /media/backups/pcAlmeria/mulo/mulo.7z.002 When I

Re: Installing GCC-4.3.0 in Fedora 16

2012-02-27 Thread Emilio Lopez
You’ve had some good suggestions: one other would be to install Fedora 9 in a virtual machine, and see if that works. James. +1 In this way you will be 99% sure than your home work will work at school -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

2012-02-22 Thread Emilio Lopez
I can't get a VBox guest to see a connected USB flash drive. You can also use Shared Folder, and share /media directory. Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Recovery mode. Login as root without password

2012-02-22 Thread Emilio Lopez
Ok, my curiosity is killing me. What is Recovery mode and how do you get in to it? I have an entry in the grub menu for recovery mode. Probably you have the options hidden. Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Recovery mode. Login as root without password

2012-02-16 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello, If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without asking for password. Is this the expected behavior? Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Recovery mode. Login as root without password

2012-02-16 Thread Emilio Lopez
If I select recovery in grub menu, Fedora starts as root without asking for password. Is this the expected behavior? If someone has physical access to the machine, you've already lost. Yes, but so easy fast like selecting repair... Think so. Here's a snippet from a kickstart file that will

Re: Error X11 Maximum number of clients when starting firefox [SOLVED]

2012-02-16 Thread Emilio Lopez
Yesterday, I updated my fedora 16 Box and I get this error message when starting Firefox : I don't know what was the problem, but I found a solution: removing ~/.kde Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Messy PulseAudio Solution

2012-02-15 Thread Emilio Lopez
The symptom is not being able to select the correct audio output device. What seems to work is, from root, pulseaudio --kill pulseaudio -D The same problem here, but I can do it without root. Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Error X11 Maximum number of clients when starting firefox

2012-02-14 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello! Yesterday, I updated my fedora 16 Box and I get this error message when starting Firefox : cannot open display: :0 reachedMaximum number of clients. Any suggestions? Thanks Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: pyQt on Windows and Mac ? Android ?

2012-01-30 Thread Emilio Lopez
Is there anything better for a simple multi platform app ? For Windows, Linux, Mac, I would use Java, but if you need Android and IOS, what about a web application? Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Pulse Audio Continues to be a Menace

2012-01-30 Thread Emilio Lopez
Today, I have no sound. The ONLY choices I have in the hardware settings are HDMI or dummy. If I reboot it might offer the proper Same problem here, I use this as a temp solution Start pulse audio service $pulseaudio --start Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: LVM boot issue?

2012-01-19 Thread Emilio Lopez
I have booted from a F16 live CD and can see the data on the drive but can not seem to get enough access to copy off the data or get around the check When I need to do this kind of rescue, I like to use Knoppix distro, I never had permissions problems copying hdd data with it. Emilio. --

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows won't boot after update

2012-01-16 Thread Emilio Lopez
After a Windows Update, Windows 7 Won't boot anymore. I have no idea why and how can I restore it. There is a Windows 7 Restore CD which could solve that, but surely this will remove grub completely. Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

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

2012-01-16 Thread Emilio Lopez
I'm trying to transfer files from F16 to my Galaxy Nexus You can use a ssh ftp client in your android, to connect to Fedora. If you have no wifi, but a laptop, you can create a wifi ad-hoc connection in your Fedora, and connect android to it. Emilio. -- users mailing list

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows won't boot after update

2012-01-16 Thread Emilio Lopez
After a Windows Update, Windows 7 Won't boot anymore. I have no idea why and how can I restore it. There is a Windows 7 Restore CD which could solve that, but surely this will remove grub completely. Emilio. This is a OEM edition... I'm not talking about the restore CD that comes with

Re: Reading Linux files from Windows?

2012-01-12 Thread Emilio Lopez
I recently acquired a Samsung Smart TV (model D5520). This has a facility for looking at photos on a PC using Picasa. I tried briefly using Picasa under Wine, What about installing windows in virtualbox and using shared folder functionality to allow windows to read your pictures folder

Re: cannot reach F16 box via ssh

2012-01-11 Thread Emilio Lopez
Before F16, the same box was running Ubuntu and I could log in via ssh without problems. Now every attempt from my home times out. 1. Try in your friend computer ssh localhost to see if the ssh server is running properly 2.Try telnet x.x.x.x 22 where x.x.x.x is your's friend ip, from your

Re: cannot reach F16 box via ssh

2012-01-11 Thread Emilio Lopez
telnet his.ip.address 22 times out Also check router NAT. 99% times this is the problem. Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: cannot reach F16 box via ssh

2012-01-11 Thread Emilio Lopez
Well, the old pc can have a dhcp static assigned ip based on his mac. I should try also, ssh-ing from another LAN pc, as the old ubuntu box Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-11 Thread Emilio Lopez
I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17.  I also want to install Fedora 15.   I don't have any Windows disks. Probably, you could create a rescue cd kit from your old hard drive, you should have a menu item in start menu labeled Rescue CDs or something like that. After creating them, you

Re: F16-X86_64-Live-KDE won't boot on XPS 17

2012-01-07 Thread Emilio Lopez
You didn't install grub. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away:

Re: sharing printer fails: Unable to change server settings: Forbidden

2012-01-05 Thread Emilio Lopez
Unable to change server settings: Forbidden Did you use root user to enter http://localhost:631/admin/ ?? Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Fedora iso checksums

2012-01-05 Thread Emilio Lopez
Yes. I also needed a lot time to find the checksums. Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a

Re: Clean Installs are Remarkable

2011-12-23 Thread Emilio Lopez
I never upgrade. I must be stupid, but I prefer clean installs. Including the download, I'm usually done in about 6 hours. You are not alone, I prefer clean install too. Last time, I just spend 2hours using net-install cd, (cd download burn excluded) Emilio. -- users mailing list

Re: unmount external hdd in f14

2011-12-22 Thread Emilio Lopez
I found many threads on the internet about the bad behavior of safely remove but I did not find any solution to it Probably this works better in F16 Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Network service - is it still available?

2011-12-21 Thread Emilio Lopez
Yesterday, NM went into some kind of fit on my Fedora/KDE laptop, with a small window entitled Secret appearing on my desktop, with a space to write a password, which unfortunately did not accept input. I had the same issue. Last weekend, the Secrets for window appeared, but after some

Re: Network service - is it still available?

2011-12-19 Thread Emilio Lopez
Yesterday, NM went into some kind of fit on my Fedora/KDE laptop, with a small window entitled Secret appearing on my desktop, with a space to write a password, which unfortunately did not accept input. I had the same issue. Last weekend, the Secrets for window appeared, but after some

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread Emilio Lopez
well, i didnt specify any size limitations during installation. so how do i change that now? thx Well, if it is a new system, it could be easy to copy all your home data to a usb pendrive or hard drive, and reinstall, also think about installing a new version F15 or F16. If you have too much

Re: 2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread Emilio Lopez
I have several thousand emails to download from that account.  Why Thunderbird getting 200 emails at a time ?  Is this a gmail problem or a Thunderbird problem ? I have the same behavior with a clear Thunderbird installation under Fedora 16 and POP protocol and download only headers options. I

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

2011-12-12 Thread Emilio Lopez
Before I consider actually doing it, I wanted to ask if there is the equivalent of a recovery disk that I can create with k3b so, assuming the problem is fixable, I can reinstall without having to go back to the original install disk (and then go through all the customizations and additional

Re: Fedora 13 Networking : Fedora 15 Networking

2011-12-12 Thread Emilio Lopez
Fedora 13 I used several ethernet aliases (ifcfg-eth0:0 and ifcfg-eth0:1) so that additional IP addresses could be defined. Now I'm seeing devices named p5p1 and p6p1. How do I create aliases off of these devices? Did you tried using the same way, this is, p5p1:0 and p5p1:0 ?? Emilio. --

Re: Tablet Acer Iconia W500, anyone?

2011-11-30 Thread Emilio Lopez
Anybody knows if there are any attempt to port fedora to other tabs (non x86) hardware, as Samsung Galaxy Tab?? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: passwordless sudo

2011-11-30 Thread Emilio Lopez
I'm trying to set up passwordless sudo for myself Im not familiar with sudo, but doing it, sudo without password, is not a bad practice that allow any program to run anything as root without your knowledge, (calling sudo internally)??? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Problem serving DHCP to Virtual Guests

2011-11-29 Thread Emilio Lopez
I have a couple of VMs on that workstation What VM Software are you using? What kind of virtual network card are you using, Bridged, NAT? Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

panic at boot

2011-11-23 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello! I just started fedora 16, and I get a panic message before kde starts. I did a hard reboot (laptop power button pushed for a while) and there are no problems. I think a boot.log should exists, and this information should be useful to develop team. Where is that file, and where should I

Re: BUG: VirtualBox does not start

2011-11-21 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello, I had the same issue. I solved it, installing from VirtualBox repository instead of rpmfussion, instructions here (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads [section RPM-based Linux distributions] ) Emilio. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Cristian Sava cs...@central.ucv.ro

Re: F15: reboot and poweroff not working

2011-11-21 Thread Emilio Lopez
Did you tried to open ssh and: $reboot Emilio On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:53 PM, sean darcy seandar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to reboot a remote machine, but no luck: systemctl --force reboot Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to authenticate in time. any suggestions? sean --

Re: windows migrant: choosing linux distribution

2011-11-02 Thread Emilio Lopez
I think Fedora is a good distro to start. As Joe Wulf said, is a good idea to install it in VirtualBox first, so you can play with linux windows at the same time, and make the transition easier. Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: imac on lan, printing to f14: network host '192.168.2.8' is busy, will retry in 30 seconds

2011-10-18 Thread Emilio Lopez
initially it acts like it is starting, but then goes into 'paused' state can you see your printing job in http://your-fedora-ip:631 ?? There are a tab where you can browse pending printing jobs. Did you tried to print a test-page in cups administration (http://your-fedora-ip:631). I'm almost

Re: Booting a live ISO without mounting the hard drive ?

2011-10-17 Thread Emilio Lopez
To make hard disk maintenance operations I prefer using Knoppix or Slax distros. I found them lighter and easier to use. emiliollbb -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: imac on lan, printing to f14: network host '192.168.2.8' is busy, will retry in 30 seconds

2011-10-17 Thread Emilio Lopez
It sounds like port 631 is closed in Fedora Firewall. Did you check that? You should see cups admin page at http:\\your-fedora-ip:631 emiliollbb On 10/14/11, jackson byers byers...@gmail.com wrote: I recently got help from this list and was able to print from imac on my lan to an hp printer