Re: hacked - looking for doc/suggestions on hardening/securing systems from the start

2013-12-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 10:22 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Keepass and friends are worthy alternatives, but AFAIK they aren't usable from phones. I use Keepassdroid on an Android phone and it works just fine. It's a bit clunkier than on a desktop, but then, isn't everything? I manually

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:43 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: On 12/20/2013 11:28 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: my question: When creating the new VM in VBox Manager, did you choose the correct version of Fedora? I clicked on Fedora and I missed that there was an entry Fedora (64bit) ... It

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 09:53 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/20/13 09:26, Greg Woods wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 08:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Yes. Been installing and testing F20 on a VM for a while now. But make sure you're running VirtualBox 4.3.6 Thanks for the tip, I

Re: hacked - looking for doc/suggestions on hardening/securing systems from the start

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 18:35 +1030, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 19 December 2013, Greg Woods sent: it is very risky to use the same password at multiple locations, even if it is an easy-to-remember but hard-to-guess password. It definitely is, and I've seen the results, even

Re: f20 - suspend and hibernate buttons

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 13:46 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: How do I get these available somewhere? I would assume on that top bar pulldown that has poweroff and screen lock? What desktop environment are you using? If it's Gnome 3, in the gnome-tweak-tool you can select Shell Extensions, then

Re: What to try instead of gnome - Re: f20 - gedit

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 17:32 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/18/2013 05:20 PM, Dennis Kaptain wrote: Mate is a fork of Gnome2. I use it and like it a lot. This is selectable at install? The desktop environments that you can select at install time are pretty limited; I don't think

F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
I am running VirtualBox under F19, and I wanted to try F20 in a VM, but I can't get it to install. With both the Live ISO and the full DVD iso, if I point the virtual DVD drive at the ISO, it boots into the main syslinux/Anaconda menu, but as soon as I select Install Fedora, the screen goes black

Re: hacked - looking for doc/suggestions on hardening/securing systems from the start

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 03:46 +1030, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 18 December 2013, Rick Stevens sent: 3. Make sure you enforce complex passwords and require them to be rotated at least every 90 days. I take issue with the continually changing passwords idea. I agree with you on this

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 08:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Yes. Been installing and testing F20 on a VM for a while now. But make sure you're running VirtualBox 4.3.6 Thanks for the tip, I was on 4.3.4 . So I upgraded to 4.3.6, installed the extension pack, and... I still get a black screen

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 18:26 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 08:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: Yes. Been installing and testing F20 on a VM for a while now. But make sure you're running VirtualBox 4.3.6 Thanks for the tip, I was on 4.3.4 . So I upgraded to 4.3.6

Re: OT: majordomo and ezmlm are so uncool

2013-12-11 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 14:29 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: the ezmlm mailing-list software, which according to Wikipedia has not been updated since 1997, and which only works with the qmail mail transfer agent. (Can this really be true?) Yes, it could. But they mean that qmail has to be

Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-09 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 13:36 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: My Computer-Edit-Preferences? (F18 MATE) F19 and Gnome 3 here. No My Computer. If I get into Nautilus, I can click on the Files icon in the upper panel and go to Preferences, but there is nothing in there about turning off the sidebar. The

Re: systemd restart service on resume

2013-12-09 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 18:22 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 08.12.2013, Greg Woods wrote: I am trying to find a way to get a service to restart when the system is resumed from suspend or hibernation. You can place a script in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep Thanks for the tip on that. I

Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-09 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 18:38 +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote: gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-sidebar false Thanks, that worked! I'm not a Gnome-3 hater, but one thing I don't like is that there are now a lot of things like this, that can only be set from the command line. I

Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 23:50 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: I almost never want a directory displayed as per view items as a grid of icons. Is there a way that I can make my choice of view (view items as a list) the default? I waste so much time and motion selecting this. And while we're

systemd restart service on resume

2013-12-08 Thread Greg Woods
I am trying to find a way to get a service to restart when the system is resumed from suspend or hibernation. I can get something to run when the system is put to sleep by using sleep.target (for example, I have an ssh-suspend service that kills all the ssh sessions because they are always hung

Re: Why some say rpm hell

2013-11-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 20:59 +0530, AP wrote: Well I just heard a couple of guys saying rpm hell. Probably a reference to the very early days of RPM (pre-yum). You'd install a package, then find some library was missing and go to install that, which led to something else missing, etc. A few

Re: Creating a Locked user that has access to one dir

2013-11-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 08:29 +, Ian Malone wrote: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/chroot-users-with-openssh-an-easier-way-to-confine-users-to-their-home-directories/ That looks a lot less kludgy than my third party hack. I don't think this was available when I did it

Re: F19 did not install boot loader

2013-11-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 11:20 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote: 2. grub2-install /dev/hda I think it's been quite a while since Fedora used /dev/hd* for hard disk names. You probably need /dev/sda instead. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Creating a Locked user that has access to one dir

2013-11-07 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 21:27 -0500, b...@acustat.org wrote: they are uploading files using winscp. I want to completely lock them to /home/user/upload (no other dirs) I did this once, and I did it by giving the users a restricted shell, which was a perl script that checked the arguments to be

Re: hibernate/suspend immediately resumes [SOLVED]

2013-11-01 Thread Greg Woods
I remain surprised that nobody seems interested in this issue or that nobody else seems to have seen it. I discovered while searching that I myself posted about a similar problem on a different machine a couple of years ago, and got zero response then too. That said, what happened is that I built

hibernate/suspend immediately resumes

2013-10-29 Thread Greg Woods
Judging from the results of Google searches about this, this is a problem that has been around for a while, but I have not found a solution that works for my case. Most of the hits were on postings in the Ubuntu forums, and regarding pretty old versions of Ubuntu at that (which means they don't

Re: Fwd: Converting Fedora 19 machine to dual-boot with pre-installed Windows 7

2013-10-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 17:09 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: On 10/18/2013 09:50 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker issued this missive: I have a Lenovo T430 that had Windows 7 Pro pre-installed, but I wiped out Windows and installed Fedora 19 instead (actually, I first installed Ubuntu and then Fedora).

Re: F19 not able to boot by UUID

2013-08-29 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 08:55 -0500, g wrote: On 08/29/2013 06:46 AM, Mark Haney wrote: My first guess would be to check that you're using the exact same UUID in the boot parameter as on the drive partition. Check the partition UUID is what you thought it is. Check for typos in the

Re: F19 not able to boot by UUID

2013-08-29 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:16 -0500, g wrote: On 08/29/2013 09:26 AM, Greg Woods wrote: If the file system is ext2, ext3, or ext4, then the UUID for a file system on a physical or LVM device can be printed with UUID: # tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 or # tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/ROOT-ROOT

Re: VirtualBox wont run -

2013-08-01 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 10:45 -0400, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: However, systemctl setup vboxdrv.service still does not run: [root@box10 bobg]# /sbin/service vboxdrv setup Redirecting to /bin/systemctl setup vboxdrv.service Unknown operation 'setup'. Virtual Box apparently

Re: yum expected to work in rescue mode on install DVD?

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 16:33 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: After a failed fedup upgrade from F18 to 19 I was left with a broken system... No problem, I figured, I would just boot a F19 install DVD and go into rescue mode and fix things using yum --installroot=... After booting into rescue

Re: yum expected to work in rescue mode on install DVD?

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 09:38 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: # export PYTHONPATH=/mnt/sysimage/usr/share/yum-cli # yum --installroot=/mnt/sysimage . Interesting, I'll have to give that a try before submitting a bug. Now that I'm thinking about this again, I think I

Re: Booting

2013-07-06 Thread Greg Woods
On 07/05/2013 10:06 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: systemctl reboot gdm has too many arguments That should be systemctl restart gdm --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: f17 no internet after power failure, power restored

2013-05-26 Thread Greg Woods
If it keeps resetting to the same wrong date, chances are the power failure caused your machine's hardware clock to be set to the wrong time. Try first getting your OS system clock set properly (as you have done already), and then use hwclock to sync the hardware clock to the system clock. I have

Re: f17 no internet after power failure, power restored

2013-05-26 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 17:36 -0700, jackson byers wrote: I am concerned re notes section from 'man hwclock' It is important that the System Time not have any dis‐ continuities such as would happen if you used the date(1L) program to set it while the system is

Re: Cannot mount MMC (don't see the partition with fdisk -l)

2013-05-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 07:29 +0300, Andy Johnson wrote: I am trying to mount an SD/MMC card on Fedora x86_64 and I cannot see it in fdisk -l. What does fdisk -l actually show? lsusb shows it: lsusb ... Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0cf2:6230 ENE Technology, Inc. ... what is strange for me

Re: Has my fedora 18 installation been hacked?

2013-03-15 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 08:25 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: It is not really my intent to be rude, but each of us hack out own systems and the kernel all the time. Unfortunately, this battle over the word hack and hacker has already been fought and lost. The media, and just about everyone

Re: replace grub (not grub2)

2013-03-14 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 12:08 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: When I installed f18 xen it replaced grub with grub2 on the f14 system. Needless to say, my f14 xen system is no longer bootable. Why needless to say? When I did this, my Fedora 14 install was presented as a boot option in grub2, and it

Re: fedup @ System Upgrade - time to complete? - on different sources

2013-03-11 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 16:50 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: So, how do I recover the use of my machine. That, of course, depends on exactly what's wrong with it. I used fedup to upgrade five different machines (two laptops and three desktops). Only one of them was left in a totally hosed state,

Re: Installing Fedora 18 with prexisting fedora 17 partitions

2013-02-25 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 07:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I have all sorts of problems installing the proprietary nvidia driver from the rpmfusion directories as the install does not remove the nouveau driver from the initrd This has been covered on this list before. You need to add

Re: Terminal tabs, how to remove -

2013-02-12 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 14:17 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA If you hit the Ctrl+Shift+t key combination by accident, you can disable it under Edit Preferences Shortcuts. No, it seems highly improbable that I would ever hit that key combination by accident. That depends on

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 12:12 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: one reason more to have one priamry OS and use virtualization for anything else There are some cases where this doesn't work. One I know of is commercial games under Windows. Some of them just do not work when Windows is running in a

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:11 +, Ian Malone wrote: Actually the grub2 install thing should not affect dual-booting windows. You're right, it doesn't. I can dual boot Windows just fine with grub2. I was responding to the comment that there is no reason to ever need a native boot when a VM

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:02 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: The game CD has some stuff written beyond the end of the disc. I would have thought that correct emulation would allow those same low-level calls in a VM. AFAIK the guest

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 18:24 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 09:45 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:02 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: The game CD has some stuff written beyond the end

Re: Bash - an odd problem using sed or awk or for

2012-11-30 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 23:33 +, John Horne wrote: (the '=' are not part of the variable) abc def hijk xyz So in this case what is wanted is: hijk xyz to be shown. echo $XX | sed -e '1,/^$/d' -- users mailing list

Re: Brother HL5250 vs. Cups (Again)

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
You might want to try looking at www.linuxprinting.org, which has, among other things, driver recommendations for specific printers and lists of features that are known to work/not work in Linux. For this printer, it ends up pointing to:

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 13:10 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: What would be nice would be something like the traditional ./configure that didn't just examine the build environment, but probed the hardware and included the drivers you needed and only those. There would also be (I hope) a way to

Re: irq 19: nobody cared

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 15:35 -0700, JD wrote: Kernel-3.7.0-rc6.git local build, belched out [90658.498609] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) irq19 belongs to my Atheros AR-5008 mini-pci card. [...] Is there a user util to force a soft reset of a mini-pci wifi card?

Re: F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 08:55 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: How could he use Calibre, or any other graphical interface for that matter, if the system below does NOT see the Kindle in the first place? Because the system DOES see the Kindle, note the lsusb output from the OP. It just doesn't see it

Re: F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-27 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 09:48 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote: Just got a Kindle Fire HD (brand new in my country): when I connect to my Fedora 17 nothing happens: I get from lsusb: Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1949:0007 Lab126 but I don't see any USB drive connected. Any help??? You can

hibernate and suspend broken on F17 i686 desktop

2012-07-03 Thread Greg Woods
I have an i686 desktop (dual core 2GHZ Pentium 4), on which suspend and hibernate have not worked properly since sometime in the 3.1 kernel series. This system has 4GB RAM and uses the PAE kernel. Under F16, I kept updating the kernel and finding each time that suspend and hibernate did not

Re: Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-07 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 11:14 -0400, Alex wrote: I believe the problem is that the filesystem starts at block 4 and not at the beginning, so mount can't figure out how to mount it. Use an offset, e.g. # mount -o loop,offset=4 --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

timezone confusion (new F17 install)

2012-06-04 Thread Greg Woods
I have a fresh install of F17 that has some confusion about its timezone. The date displays as MDT (which is correct), but every time I boot the machine, it displays six hours ahead. Not coincidentally I'm sure, that is the offset between MDT and GMT, so what I'm seeing is correct GMT time but

Re: timezone confusion (new F17 install)

2012-06-04 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 10:28 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: until the next reboot, at which point it's off by six hours again. Tacky to answer myself, but I figured it out. I needed to run: # hwclock --systohc ...to get the hardware clock updated. ntpdate only updates the system clock. --Greg

F17 Gnome3 workspace names

2012-05-31 Thread Greg Woods
Under F16, I was able to create a file ~/.gconf/apps/metacity/workspace_names/%gconf.xml that would allow me to name my workspaces, so they don't show up as Workspace 1, Workspace 2, etc. After a fresh install of F17, this is no longer working although the file is still present. Is there a way

Re: F17 Gnome3 workspace names

2012-05-31 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 12:14 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: gsettings set org.gnome.wm.preferences workspace-names ['name1', 'name2'] I tried this, and I get: No such schema 'org.gnome.wm.preferences' I suspect that's related to why the xml file doesn't work. --Greg -- users mailing list

Re: F17 Gnome3 workspace names

2012-05-31 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 12:14 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: gsettings set org.gnome.wm.preferences workspace-names [' Poked around a little, gsettings list-schema shows that the schema maybe should be org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences, so I tried that: [greg@diamondage greg]$ gsettings set

Re: F17 Gnome3 workspace names

2012-05-31 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 21:50 +0100, Ron Yorston wrote: [greg@diamondage greg]$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences workspace-names ['Local','E-mail','Web','Virtual','Systems',Misc'] 44-45:unknown keyword There's a typo in the command: a missing single quote before Misc. Thank you

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 11:42 -0400, Andre Goree wrote: I currently have this same issue on a laptop I use for work running F16/KDE4, so perhaps this has something to do with graphics drivers (shot in the dark). Do you happen to be running Intel graphics? In my case, no; it's an Nvidia

Re: fedora main edition

2012-05-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 12:36 -0400, Osmanys Fuentes Lomba wrote: Hi community, one question: why the main edition of Fedora is with Gnome desktop? You will find after not much time on this list that this is a religious issue. I suspect the real reason is that many (but by no means all) of

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 10:31 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/23/2012 09:17 AM, Greg Woods wrote: In my case, no; it's an Nvidia card. What driver are you using? Nouveau, the binary blob or kmod-nvidia? kmod-nvidia-3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64-290.10-1.fc16.4.x86_64 Installed via the akmod rpmfusion

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 11:40 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: I doubt that updating the system will help, but if you've the time, it shouldn't hurt. It's not so much a matter of time, as not wanting to hose things up for my wife. We geeks are used to having updates occasionally break things; it is the

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 12:45 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: (I take it, BTW, that simply switching to a different DE isn't an option.) In fact, that is the option we took. We switched her from Gnome to XFCE, which works around the problem. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 14:07 -0400, Brian Wood wrote: Yesterday the desktop was fine, but today the bar across the top of the screen is no longer legible. I can't read the time in the center top or the stuff on the right or left. When I put the focus on some of the icons in that bar, the

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

2012-05-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 22:17 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: On 18/05/12 20:32, Timothy Murphy wrote: Alan Cox wrote: OpenOffice then got given to Apache in what a lot of people consider a face saving exercise. I guess what puzzles me is why Apache took it. Does it have a different model

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-17 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 23:52 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: Quite right. Only someone who never uses a laptop could think hibernate and suspend are no longer needed. I use hibernate daily on my desktop too. For various reasons, recovering a complete session, for me, can take quite a while. The

Re: nscd and DNS cache

2012-05-16 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 09:47 -0600, JD wrote: On 05/16/2012 03:33 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: I've seen cases where the TTL has been set to as low as 300 seconds. Interesting point. Hard to believe that most domain controllers would that. Must be a small percentage? As a DNS administrator, I

Re: nscd and DNS cache

2012-05-16 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 00:13 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: when you do a look up on www.cnn.com it will return 4 IP addresses. Now, since bind would have that in its cache it wouldn't have to send out a query. What I don't know is if an application would make a request would the list be

Re: What is removing files from /tmp?

2012-05-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 11:40 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: When someone on this list asks for help in modifying a behavior to suit their needs/desires why are they often asked to justify their requests? Probably because the intent is not to justify but to clarify, and we geeks are often fairly

Re: mount to NFS server 'julie' failed: No route to host

2012-04-12 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 11:33 -0700, don fisher wrote: This one keeps coming back on F16:-( I can ssh to and from the host, so part of the system knows it is there. I exported the file systems on julie again to make sure that was set up. What can No route to host mean? Sounds like a firewall

Re: PPTPD security

2012-04-02 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 14:53 +0200, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: I've seutp a PPTPD daemon to let an external iPad access to my network via a tunnel. All seem to work fine. But I wonder if it is enough secure ? http://www.schneier.com/pptp.html As usual, the answer to is this secure enough is it

Re: is fedora really bleeding edge?

2012-03-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 23:26 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Umm, now I'm confused. While I do understand what you are trying to say, I see that the outputs of yum list selinux* and yum list selinux\* are exactly the same: That is because, in THIS case, selinux* doesn't match any files in

Re: Need help USB modem

2012-03-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 11:38 +1100, Roger wrote: no /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 in ubuntu. You are running Ubuntu, and this is the Fedora users list. Have you tried asking this question on an Ubuntu-oriented list or forum? --Greg -- users mailing list

Re: Fedora 16 Stuck on Welcome Screen

2012-02-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 05:28 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Oh, let me join the game: systemd.unit=multi-user.taret. (the multi- as opposed to mult-...). Who's next? :-D OK, why not? That's systemd.unit=multi-user.target (target as opposed to taret :-) The fact that so many typos are being

Re: F16 Live install to 2nd hard disk, grub failure

2012-02-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 14:53 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote: On a Dell 745 with WinXP on the first disk, we added a second disk (SATA) and tried installing Fedora 16 i386 from the live CD to the second disk. If you want the system to boot from the second disk, you probably need to change the boot

Re: [Bulk] re-mapping an older disk ??

2012-02-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:00 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: On 02/22/2012 10:56 AM, William Case wrote: 1) Hardware from switching the disk's order around (channel 1 == channel 2 in BIOS) 2) Improperly installing or using LVM 3) Remapping 4) Hard drive really is broken. SMART talks

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012-02-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 20:19 +0200, Alchemist wrote: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html That appears to say that the Flash plugin for 64-bit Linux will only be distributed as part of the Chrome browser? That is certainly not good

fuzzed desktop in F16

2012-02-16 Thread Greg Woods
I don't know how to describe it better; if I bring up windows mode in GNOME shell, all the icons and fonts on the desktop are blurry and pixelated. This only happens after a normal login followed by a suspend or hibernate. Upon resume/thaw, the desktop is fuzzy. Sometimes the fonts in the top

Re: fuzzed desktop in F16

2012-02-16 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 14:18 -0700, Pete Travis wrote: On Feb 16, 2012 7:52 AM, Greg Woods wo...@ucar.edu wrote: I don't know how to describe it better; if I bring up windows mode in GNOME shell, all the icons and fonts on the desktop are blurry and pixelated. This only happens after

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-12 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 20:18 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Greg Woods writes: As has been mentioned in other threads, grub2 requires 2048 sectors at the start of the disk Not exactly. This generally happens only with mdraid volumes. Without mdraid, grub2 should fit within 63 sectors I

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 12:38 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/11/2012 12:18 PM, JD wrote: Is it even possible to boot F16 using Grub 1? AIUI, if you upgrade to F16 you will end up with both versions of grub installed but will still be using legacy grub. You have to run grub2-install

Re: preupgrade grub2 failed: now can't boot

2012-02-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:36 -0500, sean darcy wrote: Almost all (all?) users of preupgrade are using grub1. As I understand it, most (all?) grub1 systems have the first partition starting at 63. Any system with a first partition starting at 63 will be bricked if it runs preupgrade to

Re: preupgrade grub2 failed: now can't boot

2012-02-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 18:57 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: This last part seems not to be true. Someone else pointed out that there is a way to force grub2 to install on a disk with only 63 free blocks at the beginning Which brings up another related question. Is it possible to install grub2

Re: preupgrade grub2 failed: now can't boot

2012-02-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:48 -0500, sean darcy wrote: grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sdg /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it.. /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-14 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 00:47 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/13/2012 06:32 PM, Greg Woods wrote: I had read somewhere that you can only shrink partitions from the top end. Was I wrong? That would be a lot easier than the dump/restore I had been planning, similar to what Lester described. You

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 14:18 -0500, Lester M Petrie wrote: #grub2-install /dev/sdb /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it.. /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists.

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 16:43 -0500, Lester M Petrie wrote: Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 3 32.3kB 526MB 526MB primary ext4boot Doesn't prove I'm right, but it's another data point. My laptop that doesn't allow me to update grub2

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 17:10 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: Boot from a gparted LiveCD, shrink the next partition slightly and move /boot enough to leave at least 1MB free at the beginning. I had read somewhere that you can only shrink partitions from the top end. Was I wrong? That would be a lot

Re: Very frustrated with F16

2012-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 14:27 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: configure windows so that they become active as soon as the mouse enters them. For this, install gnome-tweak-tool. This will create an Advanced Settings application. When you start that, the Windows item will be there. --Greg --

Re: Another Fedora 16 + Gnome 3.2 question!?

2012-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 16:55 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: But it does seem a bit annoying to have restarting as a side effect of a stray 'r' in Console 2. I suppose if you want a console, using Console 3 would get around the issue. I think you are confusing ALT-CTRL-F2 with ALT-F2. Not

Re: Very frustrated with F16

2012-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 19:28 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I installed the gnome-tweak-tool package. I ran Application-System Tools-System Settings I'm not sure where it is in fallback mode (which this sounds like), but the name of the application that runs gnome-tweak-tool is Advanced Settings,

Re: passwordless sudo

2011-11-30 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 15:32 -0500, Mike Williams wrote: Not sure if there are other reasons to add a user to the wheel group. Don't think there is any other use for the wheel group. Maybe not for the OP, but there is also a pam_wheel module that will succeed only if the invoking user is in

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 10:02 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 07:42:13PM -0700, Greg Woods wrote: Yep. Sure enough, if I activate the alternate-status-menu extension, it works, but as soon as I log out, I can't log back in again without the Oh no screen until I

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 22:14 +, Andre Robatino wrote: Bryce Hardy brycehardy at gmail.com writes: In addition to holding down the ALT key, you can install the extension that provides the Shutdown option: yum install gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu Unfortunately,

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 18:16 -0500, Elliott Chapin wrote: Greg Woods woods at ucar.edu writes: I haven't had it abort login, but the extension did stop working when I upgraded from F15 to F16. yum install gnome-tweak-tool Yep. Sure enough, if I activate the alternate-status-menu

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 18:47 -0800, Bryce Hardy wrote: It's called Advanced Settings in the Applications Overview Thanks, I don't know how I missed that. , or actually it works for me to type tweak in overview mode I learn something new every day. I didn't know you could type into the

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 16:07 -0700, Craig White wrote: Google indicates that there used to be a package-cleanup argument to shut it up, but it doesn't seem to exist anymore. :-( $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/package-cleanup yum-utils-1.1.28-1.fc14.noarch Correct. package-cleanup is not

Re: F15 to F16 upgrade via DVD does not recognize previous installation

2011-11-16 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 15:59 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: I did get the upgrade to succeed, by using the workaround of copying /var/lib/rpm to the root partition. But now I have a number of broken packages that I cannot update. Most of them are qemu packages that want to install something called

Re: F15 to F16 upgrade via DVD does not recognize previous installation

2011-11-15 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 05:21 -0500, Deron Meranda wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Deron Meranda deron.mera...@gmail.com wrote: I'm attempting to upgrade a Fedora 15 installation using the F16 DVD. However anaconda is never giving me a choice to upgrade; instead it I may be getting

Re: F15 to F16 upgrade via DVD does not recognize previous installation

2011-11-15 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 07:31 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 05:21 -0500, Deron Meranda wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Deron Meranda deron.mera...@gmail.com wrote: I'm attempting to upgrade a Fedora 15 installation using the F16 DVD. However anaconda is never

Re: F15 to F16 upgrade via DVD does not recognize previous installation

2011-11-15 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 15:11 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: yum provides */libunwind Still get No Matches found --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: F15 to F16 upgrade via DVD does not recognize previous installation

2011-11-15 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 15:59 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 07:31 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 05:21 -0500, Deron Meranda wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Deron Meranda deron.mera...@gmail.com wrote: I'm attempting to upgrade a Fedora 15

Re: Thanks to Fedora community; Installation Disk Partitioning ISSUE

2011-11-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 08:55 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/05/2011 08:42 AM, Greg Woods wrote: The master boot block contains pointers to the /home boot configuration that has nothing in it but chainloaders. Then grub inside Fedora is installed only on the Fedora root partition Wouldn't

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