Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.08.2013, Marko Vojinovic wrote: While one could consider not answering a bugreport to be a display of bad manners It first and foremost is demotivating, which in turn results in fewer bug reports, which in turn results in worse software.. -- users mailing list

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.08.2013, inode0 wrote: Failure to have your expectations met leads to demotivation and the easiest way to fix that is to change your expectations. It's free software, and therefore I'm not expecting that people find the time to fix my bug. In 99% of all cases, the bug is reported

Re: F19 Disc Chundering

2013-07-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.07.2013, Jonathan Allen wrote: Jul 30 18:58:38 brush kernel: [ 3538.326139] ata4: hard resetting link Jul 30 18:58:38 brush kernel: [ 3538.989992] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jul 30 18:58:38 brush kernel: [ 3539.007104] ata4.00: configured for PIO0 Jul 30

Re: Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

2013-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2013, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: I have a Lenovo T530 with Optimus. But I only use the nVidia chipset on the laptop. But I run the Nouveau drivers (after initially having to use the closed source drivers fro nVidia) and all works fine for me. How can you do that? Do you have a switch

Re: Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

2013-07-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.07.2013, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: I'm considering buying a laptop with Nvidia Optimus, and this looks really bad! Do yourself a favour and don't buy a laptop with optimus. I have one, and to spare you the details: the nvidia gpu is not useable without a lot of trouble. I finally

Re: Native Nvidia Optimus and Fedora 19

2013-07-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.07.2013, Alexander Volovics wrote: Are you not being a little harsh on the Intel GPU support. There might be 'TONS' of reports but I myself have experience with 6 Dell/Lenovo desktops/laptops (3 in house with daily use), Sandybridge and Ivybridge, and have never experienced 'Hangcheck

Re: Partition fuckup

2013-07-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.07.2013, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: / is 50 Gb /home is 250 Gb I want them the other way round really. What would be the best way of trying to achieve this? This seems quite fine to me. Anyway, if you want to change this, the easiest way would be to make a backup og both on an

Re: unstable libreoffice

2013-07-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.07.2013, lee wrote: I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple things like mailmerge didn't work... I have been using it extensively during my mastergrade studies, and it has been working for me, without any major annoyances or bugs. LaTeX works great for what

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.07.2013, Thomas Dineen wrote: If I were moderator I would have unsubscribed him by now (To reduce the health care cost (Headaches) of everyone involved. I consider this whole thread as completely useless. Somebody doesn't want to read somebodys mail? No problem. Use your

Re: Fedora 19 did not install boot record

2013-07-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.07.2013, Vinny Onelli wrote: grub-install: command not found did I missed some thing during the installation? You want grub2-install ;-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: install /boot with encrypted partition

2013-07-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.07.2013, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: The /boot partition must of course remain unencrypted, otherwise you can't boot your encrypted system at all. Are you sure about that? Afaicr grub2 was supposed to be able to have /boot inside the encrypted area. (there still remains some

Re: install /boot with encrypted partition

2013-07-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.07.2013, Ranjan Maitra wrote: So, I tried to encrypt the disk (option in Fedora) and failed because /boot can not be in encrypted partition. The /boot partition must of course remain unencrypted, otherwise you can't boot your encrypted system at all. I have only one HDD and it

Re: How to remove nouveau driver without using rpmfusion ?

2013-07-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.07.2013, John Wendel wrote: Can someone please post the incantation necessary to remove the nouveau driver in Fedora 19. I'd really like to install the driver directly from Nvidia, instead of from rpmfusion. You have to recompile your kernel with nouveau switched it off in your kernel

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2013, Joe Zeff wrote: Yes, but is their experience recent enough to matter? If they tried to upgrade using the earliest version of preupgrade, had problems and decided never to try again, how relevant is that, especially when preupgrade's been replaced with fedup? Unless you know

Re: crypted partition

2013-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2013, Patrick Dupre wrote: How can I know what is the physical partition ? Try lsblk. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2013, Joe Zeff wrote: It might be a good idea for everybody who's already moved to F19 to say so, including what method, what results and how many machines. That way we can get a (slightly) better idea of how well different ways work. And, before anybody asks, clean installs are

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2013, Kevin Fenzi wrote: The sample size of people in this thread isn't really enough to extrapolate to 'most people', IMHO. And taking into account the simple fact that usually those who encounter(ed) problems are dominating the list, you have to deal with publication bias :-)

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2013, Joe Zeff wrote: I'm still running F17, but I plan to upgrade my laptop to 19 RSN, and once that's working properly, I'll do the same to my desktop. I skipped 18 because of all the upgrade issues I read about here and other Fedora help groups I infest. I have two machines

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2013, lee wrote: That is not an option. I can't start from scratch every half year and waste a week or two to get the system back to how I need it. Have you considered to switch to some kind of rolling distribution, then? I for myself like very much Arch.. -- users mailing list

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

2013-07-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2013, lee wrote: What kind of crap is that? I don't know. And does it mean that there again will be problems with updating when I try to move to F19? In general, I would always prefer a fresh install over any update. Experience over the years has shown (for me) that updating is

Re: retrofitting LUKS encryption on installed system

2013-06-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.06.2013, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Full disc encryption on a athom demands some extra patience :-) :-) ..if you expect performance on any general loads from Atom, you need to get your head examined. (Linus Torvalds 01.09.2011 in

Re: retrofitting LUKS encryption on installed system

2013-06-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.06.2013, Roberto Ragusa wrote: CPUs with AES-NI make encryption speed penalty basically null (even on a SSD); This is not true in my case. My OCZ Vertex delivers 465 MB/s unencrypted, and 167 MB/s encrypted with aes-xts-plain64:sha256 using the Core i5-2450's AES-NI and AVX instruction

Re: retrofitting LUKS encryption on installed system

2013-06-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.06.2013, Roberto Ragusa wrote: You should try aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, it could give you 330 MB/s. After encountering the mentioned performance drop, I didn't encrypt at all. The only purpose of encrypting for me is to protect my data in case my laptop gets lost or stolen. I decided to have

Re: retrofitting LUKS encryption on installed system

2013-06-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.06.2013, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: The only valid reason I can think about, is that other people have physically access to your machine If somebody has physical access to your machine, you're hosed. A hardware keylogger could have been installed, a camera which spies on you and

Re: Analyzing system shutdown

2013-06-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.06.2013, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 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 is. This has been an ongoing problem on all of my machines, and it boils down to systemd itself. You can recompile

Re: How to find out the size of my computer hard disk?

2013-06-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.06.2013, Paul Smith wrote: How can I see the total disk size of my hard disk? hdparm -I /dev/sda -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: install the plugin of the Adobe Flash Player

2013-06-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.06.2013, Lingxian Guo wrote: Just but unfamiliar,I am using Fedora 18 64bit .The plugin of the Adobe Flash Player should be installed to Firefox,I do not know how to do? 1. Download the plugin from Adobe from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and choose the tar.gz. file. 2. Copy

Re: configuring mutt

2013-05-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.05.2013, Richard Vickery wrote: From: Mail Delivery Subsystem MAILER-DAEMON@localhost.localdomain To: richard@localhost.localdomain Is this routable? This is not a mutt, but a mailserver issue. You'll have to get your local mailserver configured to accept mail for you. -- users

Re: configuring mutt

2013-05-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.05.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: [] Forget my previous mail, I read too fast. Sorry! Fedoraprojects mailserver has problems. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Bootable distro on Flash - Howto?

2013-05-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.05.2013, j.halif...@seznam.cz wrote: Please advise, how to create a USB Flash memory to be bootable and contain a full FC18 distribution (~4GB like on DVD)? 1. isohybrid fedora18.iso 2. cat fedora18.iso /dev/sdX (your USB-stick) Isohybrid is in the Fedora syslinux package. -- users

Re: Fedora xfs can't open files

2013-05-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.05.2013, Shelby, James wrote: I did an upgrade to Fedora 16 and this did not work either. Apparently there is something new in the Fedora 17 xfs that now allows it to work. I guess your problem has nothing to do with Fedora. I've never had problems with XFS, neither on Fedora 14-18

Re: UEFI Notebook

2013-05-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.05.2013, Martín Marqués wrote: I have a new Acer Aspire One with Windows 8. The question that came up was when I realized that it had UEFI instead of BIOS (which I read, is what we're going to have to deal with from now on). What precautions should I take with UEFI? Disable the Secure

Re: Unable to login - Cannot open font file true, previous help not working

2013-04-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.04.2013, Alexandre Fernandes wrote: after re-start the computer I got the message: cannot open font file true. I'm not quite shure that this message points to the root cause of why your system won't boot. It's a long standing bug in Fedora, but I have not seen it to stop a machine from

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.04.2013, Paul Erickson wrote: I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access them, I get an error message stating

Re: Off Topic - Block iCloud -

2013-04-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.04.2013, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I had not seen that page but scanning through it the most likely candidate is port 443 which I had seen elsewhere. However I see no simple way of closing that port in DD-WRT. As afar as I know, DD-WRT uses iptables. So you can insert a

Re: Fedora 18 won't print in Landscape mode.

2013-04-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.04.2013, Jim wrote: Does anyone have any Ideal what the problem is with Libreoffice ? See my previous emails in this thread, where I describe the problem and give a solution. Btw, this is not only a Fedora problem, it exists on Arch, Ubuntu and more... -- users mailing list

Re: Fedora 18 won't print in Landscape mode.

2013-04-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.04.2013, Jim wrote: Has anyone had this problem, even tho you change settings to print Landscape it will only print in Portrait My Fedora installation prints fine in both modes. BUT: can it be that you are using Libreoffice? That seems to be a long standing but, and you have to go to

Re: Fedora 18 won't print in Landscape mode.

2013-04-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.04.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: That seems to be a long standing but s/but/bug/; -- 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

Re: Fedora 18 won't print in Landscape mode.

2013-04-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.04.2013, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 09:18 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: BUT: can it be that you are using Libreoffice? That seems to be a long standing but, and you have to go to properties - device in the printer settings dialog and set the printer language type from PDF

Re: best fedora solution to securely erase folders/clean free space?

2013-03-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.03.2013, M. Fioretti wrote: - shouldn't this be done several times, to make sure that whatever was in the free space really is unrecoverable? One single write/overwrite operation is sufficient. No need for more. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-89862-7_21 --

Re: Anyone that can Recommend a Laser Printer

2013-03-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.03.2013, Jim wrote: I'm looking to buy a Laser Printer that will work great in Fedora, in the price range of $200 - $400 price range. any recommendations ? HP Laserjet Pro 1606dn We have to of them at work, and they have been working hassle-free and reliably several years. -- users

Re: how to change luks password

2013-03-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.03.2013, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: how to change the password for thesse partitions cryptsetup luksAddKey does that. or I will do that manually one-by-one ? Yes. In fact, you can't change a LUKS password directly. First, you have to add the new password, then you can remove

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19

2013-02-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.02.2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: And without java, you won't get access to your internet banking here in Norway.. Wow! I never knew Java was as prevalent as that! From http://www.bankid.no : BankID-programvaren er en digitalt signert Java-applet som lastes ned på din

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19

2013-02-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.02.2013, Jim wrote: A lot of Federal and State Gov. websites require Java to access their websites in the U.S. And without java, you won't get access to your internet banking here in Norway.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: copy full system from old disk to a new one

2013-02-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: which misalignment? Aligment to a 4k blocksize. This is what most of the SSDs and advanced format HDDs use. Both your partitions have to be aligned to 4k block boundaries and the filesystem you create on top of them must support the 4k blocksize. If you do

Re: copy full system from old disk to a new one

2013-02-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: i can not remember when the last ext3/ext4 had 512 bytes blocksize [] Most of the conventional harddisks have a sectorsize/blocksize of 512/512. All the newer and bigger WD/Seagate drives and SSDs are using advanced format, which means 512/4096. To

Re: copy full system from old disk to a new one

2013-02-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: and why did you strip the part where i showed you that any of my filesystems of the last 5 years have a 4 KB blocksize as also any of my hardware of the last 5 years is newer? Because what you posted doesn't give any information on how your partitions are

Re: copy full system from old disk to a new one

2013-02-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.02.2013, Martín Marqués wrote: How can I pass my whole system from an old SATA disk (which is giving me some trouble) to a new disk. [] I'm a bit concerned about the root file system, how to change grub, and if I'll have trouble with non-regular files from /var. You can do that

Re: copy full system from old disk to a new one

2013-02-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.02.2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Just curious, will this apply to moving /_everything _/over from a smaller drive to a bigger one?...likesay from a 320GB SATA HDD to a 500GB SATA HDD?will the OS automatically be able to identify and recognize the free space on the new

Re: copy full system from old disk to a new one

2013-02-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: if wouldn't do this and stick with dd / disk images and use gparted to resize partitions because if i clone machines i want to have all UUID's the same You can easily change/tailor your UUIDs with tools like tune2fs, xfs_admin etc.. The dd approach has a

Re: new kernel 3.7.7 prevents booting

2013-02-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: ..and since 2 years i am buying SandyBrdige/IvyBdrige and use the on-chip graphcis unit which is well supported.. The Intel graphics have been subject to really a lot of bugs. Just google after Hangcheck timer elapsed.. -- users mailing list

Re: cpuinfo, bogomips and duo core

2013-02-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: is it hardcoded in the CPU? No. is it measured? Yes. See init/calibrate.c in your kernel source, it's calculated as loops per timeslice. As far as I can see, it does no longer serve any purposes and is eventually kept because of historical reasons. --

Re: cpuinfo, bogomips and duo core

2013-02-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: -O3 -march=corei7 -mtune=corei7 -mmmx -msse2 -msse3 -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -maes -fopenmp -mfpmath=sse You can do that more easily by -march=native. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: cpuinfo, bogomips and duo core

2013-02-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: 2 different virtual machines, same host [] impossible that they have exactly the same loops per timeslice on a host with 20 guests and that each of their cores have the same is even more unlikely It's calculated at boot time, on the same host as you

Re: cpuinfo, bogomips and duo core

2013-02-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: and since all the guests are sharing the same host CPU it is unlikely that there are the same values over weeks if there is something relieable meassured because in this moment boot time is only for one of them while the others in full production load

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: you simply have no opinion because you are lacking the experience most grown up people have to realize that this time libreoffice and openoffice are the same application I suspect you missed my point. I'm aware of that Libreoffice is a fork from

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.02.2013, Gordan Bobic wrote: Guys, this thread is just turning into trolling. If you don't like Libre/Open Office and you just have to use MS Office, go use Windows and quite trolling on a Linux mailing list. Or at the very least take the whining about the nuances of similarity to a

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.02.2013, Aaron Konstam wrote: The best program for handling academic documents is LaTex. Any Mictosoft like product can't hold a candle to LaTex for this job. Of course, you would have to learn a new document producing system. The learning curve is not easy but once it is learned you

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: your argumentation is not valid you do not know what the 1% difference is you do not know if it affects you in any way but you are start whining? [] Ok. End of disussion for me. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: said this: whar was exactly your point at all? if you want stable layouts DO NOT USE OFFICE PACKAGES for layouts and this is a known fact since at least 10 years Using an office package and delivering files in its format is mandatory, as I already

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.02.2013, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Tell them what Linus told to nvidia, it usually works. Right, giving them a f*ck you will solve the problem immediately, with no further need of a specific office version (and no need of further studying either) :-) -- users mailing list

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.02.2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: As long as I will still be able to USE LibreOffice, then I guess I wouldn't mind the devs inserting another office suite for variety, and choice! And are you a student who's used Libreoffice/Openoffice a long time, you would not want to tuck with

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.02.2013, Gordan Bobic wrote: You would chose another distribution over having a choice between two nearly identical packages? Wow. I would choose to stay with the package (=Libreoffice) that I'm used to. If this wouldn't be possible, I would switch. All my templates, all my documents

Re: LibreOffice version 4

2013-02-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: most of the people using fedora since years did not notice any difference except the loading-screen by the switch to libreoffice Well, I didn't see this will end up in flames. Otherwise I wouldn't have participated in this thread. Nevermind. Don't using M$

Re: util-linux /mount / df broken most of the time

2013-02-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.02.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: AND look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887763#c13 util-linux-2.22.2-3.fc18.x86_64 kills output of mount completly There are more problems with util-linux, at least in Fedora. Here's another example: [root@m14 ~]# blockdev --report RO

Re: F18 - prelink fails

2013-02-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.02.2013, Gabriel VLASIU wrote: chroot: failed to run command '/usr/sbin/prelink': Permission denied /var/tmp is mounted noexec. F*ck, you're right! Thanks a lot! I think the message it's harmless. Yes, it is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

F18 - prelink fails

2013-02-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, installing a vanilla kernel and doing a make install after a successful kernel build, prelink fails with chroot: failed to run command '/usr/sbin/prelink': Permission denied I'm installing as root (of course) and SELinux is disabled. I'm somewhat clueless where to look/how to solve the

Re: Random Kernel Panics in Fedora 18 since 3.7.2-204 Why?

2013-01-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.01.2013, Manuel Escudero wrote: Can Anyone help me with this problem? https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/3675/random-kernel-panics-in-fedora-18-since-372-204 Can you try a -stable kernel from kernel.org? I've run all versions up to latest 3.7.5 and don't have this problem. --

Re: Procmail issue

2013-01-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.01.2013, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: So perhaps someone here might be able to help. I'm trying to figure out why a recipe isn't working (when it used to in the past.) First let procmail write a logfile: LOGFILE=${HOMEDIR}/procmail.log And then let it be verbose: VERBOSE=on After

Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.01.2013, Ranjan Maitra wrote: F18 appears to give two options for installing from scratch: lvm or btrfs. Which one is better from the point of view of the longer-term. While btrfs is a filesystem, lvm is not. Therefore, you can't compare them. See e.g.

Re: Do people still install from CDs ?

2013-01-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.01.2013, Timothy Murphy wrote: Do most people install Fedora from CDs? I'm using the DVD version.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: rpmbuild without minidebuginfo

2013-01-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.01.2013, Reindl Harald wrote: ..that doesn't explicitly disable debuginfo generation)... Setting %_include_minidebuginfo 0 in /etc/rpm/macros or in one of the architecture related macro-files should do it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.01.2013, Gordon Messmer wrote: Google results for xorg hangs Sandybridge i915 turn up a whole lot of results (sadly). Among the first page results is one report that a bad BIOS was responsible for the problem. Have you updated yours? Switching off the acceleration or switching to SNA

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.01.2013, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Downloaded and compiled 3.7.1 vanilla kernel from kernel.org and used this awesome tutorial: http://linuxtweaking.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-compile-kernel-from-kernelorg-in.html You can keep things easy if you're not used to compile your own

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.01.2013, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Now I ended up with 55MB kernel image, that is 10x bigger than fedora kernels, and 140MB initramfs for 3.7.1 kernel which I don't have space for on my /boot partition :( great. My whole /boot is just around 83M, and it contains at least three

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.01.2013, Chris Smart wrote: If you don't want to/can't install a different card, maybe try disable i915 driver, kernel based mode-setting and use the vesa driver. In this case you could try to boot with i915.i915_enable_rc6=0 and using SNA: Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2013-01-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.01.2013, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Shit, frozen again after almost 5 days of uptime. I'm switching to debian if Fedora 18 kernel turns out to be shit as F16 F17 :( How about just installing a plain vanilla 3.6.11 or 3.7.1 from kernel.org? -- users mailing list

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.12.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this when I don't have another laptop with the same exact specs as the Gateway? - Connect your new HDD to your laptop (e.g. as an external drive). - Get the new HDD partitioned and formatted -

Re: copy corrupting last block of file?

2012-12-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.12.2012, Tim wrote: Though that may be due to it being used on a different computer, with a different power supply, rather than the OS. That's quite possible, of course.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: copy corrupting last block of file?

2012-12-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.12.2012, Tom Horsley wrote: I switched to a different sdcard reader, and suddenly all the errors went away, so (today, anyway) all the errors seem to be correlated with the sdcard reader (which will probably be headed to the recycling pile soon :-). Sorry to say, but I had such

Re: building ppp from src rpm failed in f17

2012-12-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.12.2012, Kevin Wilson wrote: make[1]: Entering directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/ppp-2.4.5/chat' cc -c -DTERMIOS -DSIGTYPE=void -UNO_SLEEP -DFNDELAY=O_NDELAY -o chat.o chat.c cc -pie -o chat chat.o /bin/ld:

Re: building ppp from src rpm failed in f17

2012-12-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.12.2012, Kevin Wilson wrote: But wasn't the process of installing the src rpm as I did was supposed to look for it? isn't the src.rpm is the origin when preparing rpm in the Fedora project release process ? Yes, I see your point, and I'm thinking the same. This raises the question how

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.12.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: * use chkrootkit and rkhunter on any machine If you really know your installation you could consider aide. Chkrootkit and rkhunter have produced a lot of false alarms on my machine... http://aide.sourceforge.net/ -- users mailing list

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.12.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: /etc/rkhunter.conf.local is your friend you can not expect any intrusion detection working out of the box for your environment without take care to eliminate false positives while not step over real intrusions Here you take for granted that I'm running

Re: Fedora 17

2012-12-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.12.2012, Henrik Frisk wrote: Anyone knows of something I can do to get it a bit more speedy? Here's what works for me. For deeper explanation, use Google (I'm sitting with my exams in statistics and have no time for explaining, sorry!) 1. Buy a fast(er) harddisk 2. Compile a preempt

Re: Fedora 17

2012-12-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.12.2012, Alan Cox wrote: Throw out Gnome 3 and use Xfce as the desktop. That should get you back a ton of memory and video bandwidth. I'll second that (using XFCE myself). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Fedora 17

2012-12-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.12.2012, Heinz Diehl wrote: 3. Write this in /etc/rc.config Don't know how I could write this BS. Here's the correct file: /etc/rc.d/rc.local Sorry! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 17

2012-12-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.12.2012, Phil Dobbin wrote: As for emacs, I can't comment as I use vim that doesn't suffer from bloat in the least :-) I use emacs daily, and it's fast on my machine (F17). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-12-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.12.2012, JD wrote: But it of course did not understand what I would like to accomplish. mkdir ~/kernel git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git kernel After that, you have a complete copy of Linus' tree. You can keep it up to date by doing a git

Re: install dvd image via usb (not live cd/dvd)

2012-12-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.12.2012, Brian West wrote: ive been able to do this using a live dvd image but not the install dvd image any thoughts? ishoybrid install-dvd.iso cat install-dvd.iso /dev/sdX (where /dev/sdX is your flashdrive) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-12-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.11.2012, JD wrote: However, because of the current kswapd, building a kernel is taking an inordinately long time, so it will be likely 2 or 3 days on my old unicore Athlon64 3700+ before I can boot the new 3.7X Now you can checkout the latest Linus git, the fixes for the mm/kswapd

Re: Multi-Threaded make

2012-11-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.11.2012, John Wendel wrote: I think you're seeing something seriously broken if your builds are taking a huge amount of time. That's surely an oversimplification. Build speed depends on several factors, e.g. how many options you have enabled in your .config has huge impact. You can't

Re: 3.7 kernels and kswapd

2012-11-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.11.2012, JD wrote: However, because of the current kswapd, building a kernel is taking an inordinately long time, so it will be likely 2 or 3 days on my old unicore Athlon64 3700+ before I can boot the new 3. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/27/487 -- users mailing list

Re: squid consuming near all (95+ %) CPU, it is normal?

2012-11-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.11.2012, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: It this CPU load normal, or can be there done some performance tunnning for it? I guess you would be better off posting this to the squid-users mailinglist.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Clive being blocked by youtube???

2012-11-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.11.2012, Hiisi wrote: Me seeing this in browser: This video contains content from UMG. It is not available in your country. Sorry about that. This is the same what I'm seeing. Not that I'm a Dire Straits fan, but... I'm living in Norway, btw. -- users mailing list

Re: Fedora 18, future isn't too good as it seems :-

2012-11-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.11.2012, Matthew Miller wrote: Ubuntu has also shipped a known-broken release just to meet the date. We don't do that. Right so! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

2012-10-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.10.2012, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Because screen goes off I'm starting to think that it could be i915 driver fault maybe? Is anybody else having issues like these and has i915 driver with Sandybridge gpu? Is there anything showing up in the logs? You could compile a kernel with

Re: systemd bug response delay [was ...shutdown/reboot problems]

2012-10-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.10.2012, Matthew Miller wrote: Neither Fedora nor sysyemd-people really care, so expect to be on your own. This isn't true. I'm a Fedora person, and I care very much. And, I know that I'm one of many. I know. I was unreflective and wrote this statement as a generalization, which it

Re: systemd shutdown/reboot problems

2012-10-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.10.2012, Ian Chapman wrote: I have a home server which runs F17 and for a long time now it just doesn't reboot or shutdown cleanly. I've had the same issue since it was running F16 and possibly F15. When the server shuts down, I get spurious messages about some services failing or a

Re: LIST-MODERATION ... Re: Purge old eth1, add new nic as eth0

2012-10-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.10.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: FIRST: if list-owners decide to moderate DO IT it makes NO SENSE to release posts after many days while a thread has passed many steps As far as I know, this list isn't moderated.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

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