Re: Minor problem with Fedora 19

2013-07-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/08/2013 08:05 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.07.2013 01:58, schrieb Frank McCormick: I installed Fedora 19 recently but wasn't paying attention when setting up the username portion of the installation. As a result I had an abbreviated form of my full name as a user name. So I used

Re: rant of the day: installing fedora

2013-07-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/08/2013 09:09 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 20:55:06 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: I don't understand,.. I had no trouble installing F19 on a system where I did NOT want to wipe out all the partitions, just some of them... How did you get past the screen that only lets you pick a

Re: Minor problem with Fedora 19

2013-07-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/08/2013 08:37 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 07/08/2013 08:05 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.07.2013 01:58, schrieb Frank McCormick: I installed Fedora 19 recently but wasn't paying attention when setting up the username portion of the installation. As a result I had an abbreviated form

Re: grub2-mkconfig not picking up all kernels

2013-06-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/24/2013 01:10 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:16:22 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 06/23/2013 01:47 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Reposting on Fedora list because it's not only 19 affected I noticed this morning that when I run grub2-mkconfig from my fedora 19

Re: grub2-mkconfig not picking up all kernels

2013-06-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/24/2013 12:25 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:03:19 +0200 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 23.06.2013 20:43, schrieb poma: On 23.06.2013 20:16, Frank McCormick wrote: Further to thisI checked the grub.cfg and the other kernels are in the list

Re: grub2-mkconfig not picking up all kernels

2013-06-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/23/2013 06:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 23.06.2013 20:43, schrieb poma: On 23.06.2013 20:16, Frank McCormick wrote: Further to thisI checked the grub.cfg and the other kernels are in the list. But Grub is not displaying them when advanced options is picked. It only displays

Re: Analyzing system shutdown

2013-06-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/23/2013 09:57 AM, poma wrote: On 23.06.2013 05:00, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Is there an equivalent of systemd-analyze for system shutdown processes. Something on a couple of my machines takes about 20 seconds to wind down, during a reboot or a shutdown, and I'd like to figure out what it

grub2-mkconfig not picking up all kernels

2013-06-23 Thread Frank McCormick
Reposting on Fedora list because it's not only 19 affected I noticed this morning that when I run grub2-mkconfig from my fedora 19 partition, or from my 18 partition it does not find all the kernels on a fedora 17 partition. There are 3 in Fedora 17 /boot...3.8.11, 3.8.13 and the latest

Re: grub2-mkconfig not picking up all kernels

2013-06-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/23/2013 01:47 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Reposting on Fedora list because it's not only 19 affected I noticed this morning that when I run grub2-mkconfig from my fedora 19 partition, or from my 18 partition it does not find all the kernels on a fedora 17 partition. There are 3

Re: grub2-mkconfig not picking up all kernels

2013-06-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/23/2013 02:43 PM, poma wrote: On 23.06.2013 20:16, Frank McCormick wrote: Further to thisI checked the grub.cfg and the other kernels are in the list. But Grub is not displaying them when advanced options is picked. It only displays the one kernel. Simplify, /etc/default/grub

Re: grub2-mkconfig not picking up all kernels

2013-06-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/23/2013 07:24 PM, poma wrote: … Oh yeah, this is the only problem I've found so far, which doesn't affect the functioning of the grub, $ rpm -ql grub2-tools-2.00-22.fc19 | grep default/grub /etc/default/grub $ file /etc/sysconfig/grub /etc/sysconfig/grub: broken symbolic link to

Re: Big problem with an update

2013-05-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/25/2013 12:44 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 22:35:14 -0400, Frank McCormick bea...@videotron.ca wrote: I was updating Fedora 19 tonight when my system crashed ( I suspect it's a memory error)but anyway it now **appears I have a lot of duplicate files on my

Re: Big problem with an update

2013-05-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/25/2013 10:34 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2013 10:27:20 -0400 Frank McCormick bea...@videotron.ca wrote: On 05/25/2013 12:44 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 22:35:14 -0400, Frank McCormick bea...@videotron.ca wrote: I was updating Fedora 19 tonight

Big problem with an update

2013-05-24 Thread Frank McCormick
I was updating Fedora 19 tonight when my system crashed ( I suspect it's a memory error)but anyway it now **appears I have a lot of duplicate files on my system, at least that what yum check all reports. The crash happened after the updates had been installed I think during the verify

Re: Big problem with an update

2013-05-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/24/2013 10:44 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 22:35 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I was updating Fedora 19 Let me stop you right there. This list is for F17 and F18. F19 is not released yet so you should go to the Fedora Test list (note that many testers don't even

Re: Big problem with an update

2013-05-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/24/2013 11:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Frank McCormick bea...@videotron.ca wrote: I was updating Fedora 19 tonight when my system crashed ( I suspect it's a memory error)but anyway it now **appears I have a lot of duplicate files on my system, at least that what yum check all reports

Password problem

2013-05-20 Thread Frank McCormick
Just installed Fedora 19 ( I know questions are supposed to go to that list, but this is more of a general thing). I was having a lot of problems with the GDM login manager so I disabled it and installed lightdm. Everything was working fine UNTIL I tried to change my password to something I

[SOLVED] Re: Password problem

2013-05-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/20/2013 09:14 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 05/20/2013 08:02 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Just installed Fedora 19 ( I know questions are supposed to go to that list, but this is more of a general thing). I was having a lot of problems with the GDM login manager so I disabled it and installed

Re: Howto convert DEB's to run in Fedora

2013-05-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/12/2013 11:53 AM, Steven Stern wrote: On 05/12/2013 10:09 AM, Jim wrote: How can I convert a DEB to install in Fedora ? http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/11/alien-command-examples/ Get alien here: http://krege.fedorapeople.org/alien/ Next question: Is it a good idea or would you be

Re: Disability relief

2013-04-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/13/2013 12:41 PM, Beartooth wrote: On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:56:03 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 04/11/2013 04:42 PM, Beartooth wrote: If it's no too much trouble, is there also a way I can make the yellow arrow bigger? I sent you this link a week ago. http

Re: Disability relief

2013-04-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/13/2013 05:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/13/2013 01:34 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Finally, select the cursor theme with MyUnity, gnome-tweak-tool or ubuntu-tweak. Restart, and you will see the pointer working for you. Wouldn't logging out and back in be sufficient

Re: Disability relief

2013-04-11 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/11/2013 04:42 PM, Beartooth wrote: On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:14:09 -0400, Alan Gagne wrote: / I do always set that, yes, as soon as I find it, and it does // help; but I have yet to find it in Gnome 3 or xfce4. Anybody know where // it lurks? / I have not read this entire thread so

Re: Disability relief

2013-04-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/06/2013 08:06 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 18:42 +, Beartooth wrote: I need cursor symbols that my antiquated eyeballs can spot even through trifocals. Last time I had a machine running CentOS (6.2 iirc) I had managed to get a big yellow arrow to show the

Re: mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

2013-04-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/04/13 01:15 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 10:59 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: O It's there. Again, the issue is NOT that Thunderbird is not getting launched, but the word mailto:; appears in the email address if launched from a link in Chrome. The address is just fine when

Re: mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

2013-04-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/04/13 01:15 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 10:59 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: O It's there. Again, the issue is NOT that Thunderbird is not getting launched, but the word mailto:; appears in the email address if launched from a link in Chrome. The address is just fine when

Re: mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

2013-04-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/04/2013 06:17 PM, Steven Stern wrote: If I click on a mailto link in Firefox, Thunderbird opens up a new email with u...@domain.com in the address field. If I click on the same link in Chrome, Thunderbird displays mailto:u...@domain.com; in the address field. Anyone have an idea where in

Re: mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

2013-04-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/04/2013 07:34 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 04/04/2013 06:19 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 04/04/2013 06:17 PM, Steven Stern wrote: If I click on a mailto link in Firefox, Thunderbird opens up a new email with u...@domain.com in the address field. If I click on the same link in Chrome

Re: mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

2013-04-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/04/2013 09:19 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 04/04/2013 07:29 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 04/04/2013 07:34 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 04/04/2013 06:19 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 04/04/2013 06:17 PM, Steven Stern wrote: If I click on a mailto link in Firefox, Thunderbird opens up a new

Update error

2013-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
During an update of my Fedora 18 this morning there was an unpack error on espeak-1.47.01-1.fc18.i686. Is this something I shoukd report or will it eventually be fixed? Who should the error report go to ? Thanks -- --Cheers-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Update error

2013-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/22/2013 11:32 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:29:59 -0400 Frank McCormick bea...@videotron.ca wrote: During an update of my Fedora 18 this morning there was an unpack error on espeak-1.47.01-1.fc18.i686. Is this something I shoukd report or will it eventually be fixed? Who

Strange file appearing in HOME

2013-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
I have noticed lately on my F18 installation that this file: C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt keeps popping up in my HOME. Anybody know the explanation or how to stop it ? Thanks -- --Cheers-- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Strange file appearing in HOME

2013-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/15/2013 12:32 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 03/15/2013 04:28 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I have noticed lately on my F18 installation that this file: C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt Ask Ubuntu :) http://askubuntu.com/questions/144408/what-is-the-file-c-nppdf32log-debuglog-txt keeps

Re: Non-fatal booting error in F17/F18

2013-03-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13-03-13 07:13 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, On bootup, just before the GRUB screen is shown there is a quick error/message; it's difficult to record the flash, but it is something like: error: /grub2/locale/ ??? ?Missing File? Is there some sort of validation check that takes

Re: Problem with installing google-chrome

2013-03-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/06/2013 10:37 PM, g wrote: On 03/06/2013 10:27 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: When I to install in F18 google-chrome-stable-17.0.963.56.12-121963.i386 I get the following error: file /usr/bin from install of google-chrome-stable... conflicts with package filesystem-3.1.2-fc18.X86_64 How do I

Re: grub2 cfg errors in 18

2013-03-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/03/2013 07:26 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 03/03/2013 12:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.03.2013 18:18, schrieb Frank McCormick: this does not matter /bin and /usr/bin is the same after UsrMove What does not matter? That which ld comes up with /bin/ld ? clearly yes /bin

Re: grub2 cfg errors in 18

2013-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 02/03/13 09:00 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Still trying to discover the cause of errors being generated when grub2-mkconfig is run. Tne problem first surfaced after a new kernel during a recent update on Fedora 18. The error was something along the lines of can't find

Re: grub2 cfg errors in 18

2013-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/03/2013 11:42 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.03.2013 17:33, schrieb Frank McCormick: and you made sure the damage was fixed? * /etc/mtab is there AND a symlink * which ld gives a correct output Sorry, I stand correctedit's early. [frank@localhost etc]$ stat mtab File

Re: grub2 cfg errors in 18

2013-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/03/2013 12:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.03.2013 18:18, schrieb Frank McCormick: this does not matter /bin and /usr/bin is the same after UsrMove What does not matter? That which ld comes up with /bin/ld ? clearly yes /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin /sbin is a symlink to /usr/sbin

grub2 cfg errors in 18

2013-03-02 Thread Frank McCormick
Still trying to discover the cause of errors being generated when grub2-mkconfig is run. Tne problem first surfaced after a new kernel during a recent update on Fedora 18. The error was something along the lines of can't find a usable template . So I tried to manually generate a grub.cfg file

holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Frank McCormick
I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't run on my machine. My compiled version is fine. I am now concerned Yum will replace my version with Fedoras the next time GThumb is updated. Is there a way to put GThumb on hold using Yum ? Thanks -- --Cheers-- -- users

Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/20/2013 09:44 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:31:36 -0500 Frank McCormick bea...@videotron.ca wrote: I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't run on my machine. Did you create bugzillas? Yes, but the problem seems to only affect certain

Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/20/2013 09:54 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:36:46 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.01.2013 15:31, schrieb Frank McCormick: I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't run on my machine. My compiled version is fine. I am

Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/20/2013 09:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.01.2013 15:31, schrieb Frank McCormick: I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't run on my machine. My compiled version is fine. I am now concerned Yum will replace my version with Fedoras the next time GThumb

Re: Replacing a messd up 18 with live install...fail

2013-01-16 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/01/13 09:38 PM, Fedora User wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 20:43 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I already have an 18 installation which is somewhat messed up because at one point I had rawhide repos in my list. Repairs have been unsucessful. I am assuming that you have a broken 18 install

Replacing a messd up 18 with live install...fail

2013-01-15 Thread Frank McCormick
I already have an 18 installation which is somewhat messed up because at one point I had rawhide repos in my list. Repairs have been unsucessful. So with 18 officially released I dl'ed the live iso via bittorrent... checked the disk...booted it and told it to install to HD. Picked the

Re: Replacing a messd up 18 with live install...fail

2013-01-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/01/13 09:38 PM, Fedora User wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 20:43 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I already have an 18 installation which is somewhat messed up because at one point I had rawhide repos in my list. Repairs have been unsucessful. I am assuming that you have a broken 18 install

Re: repo problems with 18

2013-01-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/01/13 09:20 PM, g wrote: On 01/10/2013 04:50 AM, FMcCormick wrote: i do not use 'gthumb' because i use 'kde'. i have used 'thumbnail' a couple times to create some thumbnail images. as for your errors, have you tried an search engines to find a solution? if you do not get any

Re: Reconfiguring packages

2013-01-02 Thread Frank McCormick
On 02/01/13 04:22 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:03:33 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: On 01/01/2013 04:26 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:37:11 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: Having come from Debian unstable, the switch to YUM from Aptitude

Re: Reconfiguring packages

2013-01-02 Thread Frank McCormick
On 02/01/13 04:22 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:03:33 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: On 01/01/2013 04:26 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:37:11 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: Having come from Debian unstable, the switch to YUM from Aptitude

Reconfiguring packages

2013-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
Having come from Debian unstable, the switch to YUM from Aptitude is a bit disconcerting for me. So far I have managed but i have a question. In Debian, a package can be reconfigured (package such as console-setup) using dpkg-reconfigure. Can the same thing be accomplished in Fedora. I

Re: Reconfiguring packages

2013-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/01/2013 04:26 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:37:11 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: Having come from Debian unstable, the switch to YUM from Aptitude is a bit disconcerting for me. So far I have managed but i have a question. In Debian, a package can

Re: Reconfiguring packages

2013-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/01/2013 04:21 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 15:37 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: Having come from Debian unstable, the switch to YUM from Aptitude is a bit disconcerting for me. So far I have managed but i have a question. In Debian, a package can be reconfigured

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