Re: Repeated segfaults in F17

2012-10-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.10.2012, Temlakos wrote: Beginning about an hour ago, I've been hit with a ton of application terminations. All of them say the same thing: Signal 11 (SIGSEGV). Which I believe translates as Signal segmentation violation. [] I bet you have hardware problems. E.g. faulty memory,

Re: Printing problem with acroread

2012-09-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.09.2012, Steven Stern wrote: F17, AdobeReader_enu-9.5.1-1.i486 [htd@wildsau ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i adobe adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch AdobeReader_enu-9.5.1-1.i486 When I attempt to print from Acrobat Reader, I can print all pages or the current page. But, an entering 4-5 in the

Re: Printing problem with acroread

2012-09-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.09.2012, Ed Greshko wrote: adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch Does it make a real difference if you are subscribed to the i386 or the x86_64 repository? I've always been using the i386 one on my 64-bit machines.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: UEFI bootkit

2012-09-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.09.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Sorry for my maybe stupid question but why there must my Microsoft's key on motherboard and not Fedora's one? Because Microsoft dominates the hardware market, if you like it or not. Why Linux vendors don't intend to install theirs keys to revers

Re: UEFI bootkit

2012-09-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.09.2012, Eddie O'Connor wrote: Right? And the only way to be able to iunstall/boot another OS would be to turn the UEFI offbut without the proper keythat is impossible? To be able to boot any other system than Windows, you have to turn off secure boot or you could use your own

Re: UEFI bootkit

2012-09-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.09.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: To be able to boot any other system than Windows, you have to turn off secure boot or you could use your own keys signed by Microsoft. It's not (U)EFI which is the problem, it's the secure boot. AAAhhh!! NOW I think I understand!.. You can

Re: Skype 4 i Fedora 17

2012-09-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.09.2012, Ed Greshko wrote: [egreshko@meimei ~]$ rpm -q skype skype-4.0.0.8-fc16.i586 [egreshko@meimei ~]$ uname -r 3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64 No problems, no hacks I have the just the same on my business machine, and I've never managed to get a good UDP-connection on both sides.

Re: Why did they f*ck with GIMP?

2012-09-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.09.2012, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: What is it that you don't like in the new GIMP? For me the single window interface is far preferable to the old lets-hunt-around-the-workspace mode and it's optional if you do prefer the free-floating layout. Gimp and single window interface? What Fedora

Re: gparted question

2012-09-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.09.2012, Tom Horsley wrote: Or is that too easy, and something I can't think of might go horribly wrong (which is why I ask :-)? The only thing I can think of by now is something like WDs advanced format, that the drive uses 512/4096 sectorsize. If the partition is properly aligned, you

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

2012-09-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.09.2012, JD wrote: It fails after it displays that the installed fedora 16 will be upgraded, and I click next. [] Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously. Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of time and hairpull. -- users mailing

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

2012-09-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.09.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: not all users have plain setups where you can easily do a fresh install, this works not well if you have customiized many configurations of many services and that is why a distribution with a new release each month should be much carefuller in context of

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

2012-09-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.09.2012, JD wrote: The pain is in remembering all the apps for which conf files were modified. To address that, inserting a comment like # this is a modified conf file Whenever I change a config, I keep a copy of the same file with the ending .OWN in the same location. Now, a single

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.09.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: Please do not kill it as advised in the other response to the thread. You could corrupt your package database. If you use plain kill, a SIGTERM is sent to the process. If you send a SIGHUP, there will be no data loss (kill -HUP pid). -- users mailing list

Re: how to stop yum update -

2012-09-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.09.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: But isn't that the same as Ctrl+c? No. Ctrl+c sends a SIGINT. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: f16 error on starting emacs from root as su -

2012-09-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.09.2012, jackson byers wrote: (emacs:2071): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or

Re: What the 'H is going on with Flash-plugin ???

2012-09-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.09.2012, Jim wrote: I used fedorautils to install flash-plugin, and repaired it one time by deleting flash-plug and reinstalling it with fedorautils, but the second time around that did not work . Download the .tar.gz version of the plugin here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Re: Euro symbol under Fedora-17/KDE

2012-08-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.08.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: [1] Actually everything except Emacs. Emacs has many input methods of it's own; I prefer a TeX-like input method. Emacs is easy :-) AltGr+e is all you need to get the € sign. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Euro symbol under Fedora-17/KDE

2012-08-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.08.2012, Alan Cox wrote: May be a vim problem. With a UK keyboard btw compose is shift-altgr so shift-altgr (remove fingers) e = produces € AltGr+e works both in emacs and vim for me, with en_US.UTF-8 locale and a Norwegian keyboard. -- users mailing list

Re: correct way to start gpg-agent

2012-08-30 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 30.08.2012, Maurizio Marini wrote: `gpg-agent --daemon` or, with f17, something different should be configured? That will be sufficient. However, you could let the agent write GPG_AGENT_INFO into a file, to inform other programs/processes about it (esp. kmail). See --write-env-file

Re: Umlaut 'ü' not displayed correctly in Firefox/Chrome

2012-08-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.08.2012, Felix Schwarz wrote: - http://python-verband.org/community - http://spiegel.de No problem here (F17). Besides some german, I'm reading a lot of swedish, danish and norwegian articles, and I've never encountered a single problem with its special characters (ä, ü, å, æ, ø ...).

Re: F16F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, sean darcy wrote: ata_id[273]: unable to open '$devnode' ata_id[275]: unable to open '$devnode' dracut unable to process initqueue dracut warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/89af does not exist Looks like this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=827997

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO pos81n-nds-36.positionstrends.com) (184.172.130.36) by mta1050.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:51:30 + Somebody claiming to be pos81n-nds-36.positionstrends.com with the IP adress 184.172.130.36

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: your MTA get a connection and have the IP of the last machine involved in mail tzransmission, bit all other received headers before YOOR machine are nOT trustable because i can write whatever i want and how many received-headers i want and submit the

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, Tim wrote: Yes, reporting spam to someone in control of sending spam, isn't going to work, you'll get even more of it. [] I gave up reporting spam many years ago, and let crm114 sort out most of it.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: F16F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, sean darcy wrote: Finally got it to boot. Used /dev/sda2 instead of UUID. BTW, using root=LABEL gives same devnode error. Nice to hear! I'll try to force-install kernel.rpm. But which kernel? Does it matter? The most recent F17 kernel on koji is 3.5.2-3, which is that same

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: whois 75.103.120.181 [Querying whois.arin.net] [Redirected to rwhois1.crystaltech.com:4321] [Querying rwhois1.crystaltech.com] [Unable to connect to remote host] If all fails, try tracing it (tcptraceroute, in this case). These are the last four hops:

Re: F16F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, sean darcy wrote: Thanks for all the help. I never would have figured this one out. You're welcome! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: F16F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

2012-08-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote: And anyone know why dracut is having such a problem with uuid? I've never encountered a single problem with dracut and uuids. Can you please post your /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and the output of blkid /dev/your/root/partition? -- users mailing list

Re: F16F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

2012-08-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote: Not sure how to do this, since it won't boot. I'll try to email out of a Live boot. You can e.g. use sysresccd. Download an image here: http://www.sysresccd.org You could e.g. run isohybrid on the image and copy it to an USB memory stick and boot from it

Re: No irq handler for vector - dead keyboard

2012-08-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.08.2012, DJ Delorie wrote: Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 05:20:39 ... kernel:[647218.583886] do_IRQ: 3.191 No irq handler for vector (irq -1) What happens when you boot with pci=nomsi,noaer? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: F16F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

2012-08-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.08.2012, sean darcy wrote: [liveuser@localhost ~]$ blkid /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: LABEL=root UUID=89afb6ff-4fb2-4602-94b5-99dbf022b100 TYPE=ext4 I can't find something wrong in your grub.cfg. What do you see when you try to boot, are there any errors / is there any related output on the

Re: Spam question

2012-08-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: Is there someway from the mail header to deduce the origin of the messages? Yes, the Received: headers. Please post the _full_ header of one of these mails. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Spam question

2012-08-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: all other machines before can write what they like in mail headers You can claim to be who you want to while connecting to a mailserver, but you can't fake the IP from which you are connecting. It is logged by the mailserver while connecting between two

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: and for that is STRG+ALT+Print+K which kills X really and bring you back to the login-screen which is way more helpful than a complete reboot or reset You can have that cheaper, without using m-sysrq, just press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. -- users mailing list

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: Huh, I turned it on not off. Yep, blame that one on me. Didn't read carefully enough :-\ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.08.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: When I say they're locked, all the data is missing or hidden by something called WD SmartWare...there's nothing visible on the drive but some folders with user manuals in various languages, and three .exe files...the SmartWare oneanother called

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: why should reboot turn it off? Because he turned off the option in sysctl.conf, and a reboot will activate it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-(version)/Documentation/sysrq.txt I appreciate all these tips but none make the sysrq suctions work. I'll just give up. 1. Look into your kernel .config if m-sysrq is in your kernel: CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y Standard Fedora

Re: Connection Count -

2012-08-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: if it is DNS-rverse-lookup 4096 is a LARGE count Sure it is reverse lookups which are performed here. The router logs the ip-adresses and resolves them on demand. try netstat without and with reverse-lookups there are very few cases where it doe snot hurt

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.08.2012, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Can someone tell me the proper command to save log data to /home/bobg/xxlog instead of filling up var/log/messages nothing I've tried has worked? Here's what works for me: 1. Go to /etc/sysconfig/rsyslog and add the -r option to the

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.08.2012, Joe Zeff wrote: If you have any suggestions about how to make it work properly, I'll be more than happy to do some more testing. As far as I remember, Fedora has it compiled in, but the standard is disabled. Look in /etc/sysctl.conf after kernel.sysrq, and if it's set to 0 or

Re: Save rsyslog data -

2012-08-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.08.2012, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: [bobg@box9 rsyslog.d]$ cat emptyfile # /etc/rsyslog.d/emptyfile :source, isequal, 192.168.1.9 /var/log/tomato.log :source, isequal, 192.168.1.9 ~ Actually I even tried naming it emptyfile.conf out of desperation.

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.08.2012, Joe Zeff wrote: Now, by pressing and holding down AltGr+Prt(SysRq) do you mean that I hold those two keys down, let go and then press the other key? No. You press these two keys, hold it down, and add the other keys while you are holding AltGr+Sysrq. The AltGr key is most

Re: Connection Count -

2012-08-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.08.2012, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Whatever is going on it's worrisome, I do little surfing and have no MS Windows. I have installed fail2ban in the last hour. As far as I know, dd-wrt does only count the connections, but not what direction they are coming from, so

Re: Connection Count -

2012-08-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.08.2012, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: As I said I also have a router running tomato v. 1.28. I am looking at it now. QOS it is not obvious to me which menu item can track connections or how to configure it? Log into your router, go to Qos and View Details there. At

Re: Connection Count -

2012-08-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: this sounds more like enable DNS-resolution which may be dangerous to self-dos if i understand it right There's a max. limit of connections (4096; in my case it's 1024), which is far too low to harm, so there's no danger here. The main purpose is to track

Re: Fedora 17 - Unlocking LUKS encrypted LVM volume with key file

2012-08-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.08.2012, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: 3) Modify /etc/default/grub by changing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX: rd.luks.key=filename:device I agree that the available documentation is horrible. However, I think you should mention here that device should be specified with the UUID prefix, e.g.

Re: Refering to current message headers in mutt macros

2012-08-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hei, On 12.08.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: I am trying to write a mutt macro where I need to refer to a header from the current message. The use case is something like this: [] I'm not quite shure what you want mutt to do in this case. Functions as e.g. limit can match on specific content of

Re: Lockups with F17 kernel 3.5.0-2 on Lenovo ThinkPad T61P

2012-08-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.08.2012, Tim Evans wrote: Getting fairly frequent (couple of times a day) lock ups with the latest F17 kernel on my ThinkPad T61P. Couple of times, it was when clicking a link in a Thunderbird e-mail; others, the machine was idle, still others, on putting the machine to sleep. No

Re: Fedora 17 cannot boot on my pc...

2012-08-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.08.2012, Georgios Petasis wrote: Actually their answer to linux not booting without acpi_skip_timer_override, is install windows. But after backing up your data :D Yes, what else did you expect? ;-) I had some discussion with Gigabyte-folks before, on the same topic, and although I

Re: kernel.x86_64 3.5.0-2.fc17 question

2012-08-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.08.2012, Terry Polzin wrote: Is this kernel, configured for kdump or do I have to roll my own? AS far as I know, the kernel side of kdump depends on kexec. The .config for your Fedora kernel lives in /boot: [htd@wildsau boot]$ cat config-3.5.0-2.fc17.x86_64 | grep -i kexec

Re: failed f16 preupgrade, now stuck in grub2 rescue, can't exit

2012-08-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.08.2012, jackson byers wrote: I am now stuck in an unresponsive grub2: ] grub rescue [] One difficulty is that my f14 is installed to external usb, but my bios won't boot from usb, so the boot files have to be put somewhere on my two internal scsi disks, which works for me

Re: fedora 16 to 17upgrade fails again

2012-08-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: a seperate /usr is USELESS because it makes no sense on a single machine Since about 90% of the whole / thing go to /usr (especially if you hold a little bit source in /usr/local/src and a few kernel sourcetrees in /usr/src) it can definitely make sense to

Re: Firefox install-problem

2012-08-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.08.2012, James Wilkinson wrote: Even though the build was OK, you still might want to do a memtest of your system. I solved the problem. The culprit is prelink, which lets parts of the package clash. Didn't find the related bugreport st once, though, and spent some hours digging into

Re: kernel-headers downgrade failure

2012-08-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: adn yes i installed the first 3.5 MINUTES after it was built on koji on a for me very important machine An important machine should only be updated (stable or not - whatever) with a complete and functional backup prior to updating. New code doesn't only

Firefox install-problem

2012-08-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, Firefox, built from .srpm from F17-updates repository, fails to install: This is the error-message which shows up: Unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox;501bceec: cpio: Digest mismatch The package is original Fedora and not altered in any way. Extracted it, ran

Re: Fedora 17 cannot boot on my pc...

2012-08-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.08.2012, Georgios Petasis wrote: Thanks for the tip, I search for this option and seems to relate to nvidia nforce 2 chipsets, but I also get a lot of references for gigabyte boards, i.e.: [] The problem is related to the APIC timer interrupt, the CPU goes into enhanced halt state

Re: Fedora 17 cannot boot on my pc...

2012-08-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.08.2012, Georgios Petasis wrote: So, this is a processor bug? I would expect that Linux should detect these automatically... If I remember all correctly, there were two mainly independend issues with C1E in Linux, one which is processor-related, and one BIOS-related. Processor-bugs are

Re: Fedora 17 cannot boot on my pc...

2012-08-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.08.2012, Georgios Petasis wrote: I have contacted gigabyte for a BIOS update (saying to them that there is a bug in the ACPI section of their BIOS), but I am getting irrelevant answers, like using linux drivers from the vendors of the board parts, or removing the BIOS battery and

Re: Fedora 17 cannot boot on my pc...

2012-08-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.08.2012, Georgios Petasis wrote: This sounds too difficult for me. I played with the bios settings, and I found out that the freeze happens when the option AMD C1E is enabled in the BIOS. If C1E is disabled, I don't need the acpi=off to get Linux to boot. And this time the pc can be

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2012, Ed Greshko wrote: The last phase of the installation takes a fair amount of time. It seems to hang and do nothing. I didn't time it, but I feel it was more than 5 minutes. I have installed F17 on several different machines, and that hang occured in all of the installations,

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2012, Michael Schwendt wrote: Would be easy to submit a bug report or RFE. Jepp, I'll do. There's one bug report already that complains about a missing Estimated Time value, but I could not find a ticket specifically covering the final Verification step of all installed packages.

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2012, Phil Dobbin wrote: I started using Fedora starting with Constantine the hang always seems to happen at 'selinux-policy-targeted' YES! Now that you are writing it, I remember. Here it stops. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.07.2012, Michael Schwendt wrote: Depending on system speed. That's not a hang, but the package scripts being busy working on something. Look what it does: rpm -q --scripts selinux-policy-targeted It took around 20 min on an AMD quadcore 3.6 GHZ with 8 GB RAM and WD Scorpio Black

Re: F17 takes so long to reboot/poweroff

2012-07-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.07.2012, sguazt wrote: 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. I bet it's systemd which causes the long shutdown. In my case, it hangs the shutdown/reboot for several minutes

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

2012-07-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.07.2012, Max Pyziur wrote: Any personal favorites from their respective user bases? Notes-mode (emacs). http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/NOTES_MODE/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.07.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: I observe that after a connection change mutt cannot send emails anymore. It fails with Cannot find smtp.gmail.com. However it works again once I have restarted Mutt. I've never used mutt to connect directly to a mailserver (I run my own local postfix) and

Re: Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.07.2012, Paul W. Frields wrote: Heinz, I think you may find that running your own local mail server -- which can, itself, connect to other mail servers when connections are up -- may solve your problem. [...] It's not me who has problems with mutt and mail delivery :-) But I think

Re: Mutt over intermittent connection

2012-07-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.07.2012, Heinz Diehl wrote: It's not me who has problems with mutt and mail delivery :-) But I think you're right, a local mailserver could resolve the problems. When I'm at home, I'm using mutt and POP3, and when I'm travelling, I access my mailbox via IMAP and Mew (emacs). Home again

Re: best practices for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

2012-07-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.07.2012, Joe Zeff wrote: Not swap. If you really need swap, it gets written to over and over, which isn't exactly the best thing for an SSD. My thoughts were that nowadays, on laptops with a fairly amount of RAM, swap gets mainly used for hibernating, and I think it will be a

Re: best practices for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

2012-07-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.07.2012, Robert P. J. Day wrote: does an f17 install *require* me to create a swap partition? No. It's up to you to have one or omit it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: best practices for using a small SSD boot drive and a big regular one?

2012-07-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.07.2012, Robert P. J. Day wrote: anyway, is there a doc that gives one advice about a sane partitioning? None that I'm aware of. Peoples needs are different. I would consider having /boot swap / on the SSD. 500M is enough for /boot, swap should at least be the size of your

Re: FC 16, firefox 13, java 7 incompatible??!!

2012-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2012, Fernando Cassia wrote: I read something about latest Firefox versions blocking plugins by default. So I suggest you type about:plugins and see if the Java plug-in is disabled, and if so, manually enable it. Works flawlessly for me: [root@wildsau ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i firefox

Re: How to debug high system load?

2012-07-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.07.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: 1. `fsync() on a file': Firefox, Google Chrome, pidgin, emacs 2. `Waiting for buffer IO to complete': jbd2/dm-* [] Fsync is expensive, but that's the way it is. If you're using cfq as your scheduler, try this in rc.local: echo 32

Re: Motherboards

2012-07-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.07.2012, Gary Hodder wrote: I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box? I have had good experiences with Gigabyte mainboards the last 5 years, both with regards to Linux compatibility and quality. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: CPU frequency in f17?

2012-07-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.07.2012, Tom Horsley wrote: Other than the xfce4-cpufreq-plugin, I can't find any tools for fiddling the CPU frequency in f17. I do that via rc.local. Here is what I'm using on my laptop (i5-450M based): echo ondemand /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo ondemand

Re: OT: Spam Problems

2012-07-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.07.2012, James Wilkinson wrote: Bounces should be sent to the SMTP envelope FROM address, not the address in the header. I didn't think on bouncing spam (which I personally regard as useless traffic), but a complaint to the servers admin where it originates. The IP-adress in the last

Re: OT: Spam Problems

2012-07-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.07.2012, Errol Mangwiro wrote: Here's a sample of the spam bounces. [] All this is unuseable, because most of the header fields are missing. See here for what the full header is: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Fedora 17 - Only one kernel

2012-07-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.07.2012, Joe Zeff wrote: My laptop is running F17 with a kernel from F14 because every F16 kernel I've tried on it fails to boot with the exact same problem. Do you have any information on this problem? What did you try to solve it? So far, I've never used any Fedora-kernel longer

Re: Fedora 17 - Only one kernel

2012-07-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.07.2012, Joe Zeff wrote: See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769747 for details. Note that I'm not the original reporter, and I seem to be the only one who can't boot because of it. I think you should compile a completely fresh 3.4.4. from kernel.org and report this on

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.07.2012, Paul W. Frields wrote: I'm no mutt expert, but I keep my configs here for public copying/use: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/configs/mutt/ My config, including keybind, colours and other stuff is here: http://www.fritha.org/dot-muttrc.tar.xz -- users mailing list

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.07.2012, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using mutt for years as my only email client, and I can tell you from personal experience that mutt is _much_ faster to get around in and read and process mail than one with a gui. In fact, that's it's chief selling point. And it has by far

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.07.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: How does one handle attachments? I saw the pipe command and tried to pipe a pdf file to Evince, but it didn't seem to work as I had expected. Do I need an old school viewer like gv for this to work? Press v and save your attachments on disk. Then you can open

Re: OT: Spam Problems

2012-07-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.07.2012, Errol Mangwiro wrote: Recently I started receiving bounces from mail purporting to having been sent from addresses in my domain. But the addresses don't exist. So I thought that someone was faking the sender header and sending spam. Please post the _full_ header of such a

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.07.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: I'm a very intense Emacs user. :) In my search for IMAP capable email clients, Mutt and Gnus (another Emacs based news/email reader) were on the top. I'll include Mew to that. Gnus is great. Another alternative is wanderlust, which handles IMAP _very_ fast,

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.07.2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: Actually several years back I looked into Wanderlust. Then I ran into those dependencies which I couldn't resolve. I filed an RFE on the Redhat bugzilla for inclusion into Fedora. Someone picked it up and was working on it for a while[1], but that was closed

Re: Fedora 18 and UEFI

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2012, suvayu ali wrote: PS: If you are wondering, what I took from the thread, it's going to be a pain if at some point the optional requirement to secure boot is removed. This reminds me on the past, before the mainboard/BIOS manufacturers picked it up as an sales-idea:

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2012, suvayu ali wrote: This is what I have tried: reply-hook ~h 'Delivered-To: mygmailid+keyword@gmail\.com' \ set from = 'emai...@otherdomain.com' It's the other way 'round (look at your ' and ): reply-hook '~h Delivered-To: +mygmailid\\+keyword@gmail\.com''my_hdr

Re: Fedora 18 and UEFI

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2012, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: This is why I consider Linux the better technology!not many other vendors of software would ALLOW you to hack away at their code just for your own personal achievement! Jupp! Using Wind*ws and Endnote (which my University provides gratis), I

Re: Fedora 18 and UEFI onlist

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2012, Roger wrote: Microsoft caused Linux to happen. Linus Torvalds caused Linux to happen, as a hobby and being disappointed with minix.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2012, suvayu ali wrote: However I used `\\.' instead of `\.', I believe the former should match a literal `.' just like `\\+'? Yes, of course. I simply overlooked the second slash here, sorry! If the expression only should match on a single point, you have to double-escape the .

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2012, suvayu ali wrote: Thanks a lot for the confirmation! I am liking mutt a lot. I think I'll fiddle some more. :) You're welcome! Mutt has served me as a mail client over a long time, and though I've looked at other clients as well, none could really convince me. When I need

Re: sendmail

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.07.2012, rb wrote: I'm trying to send email, using sendmail, with authentication port 587 and credentials. [] Save yourself from a lot of trouble, painfull configuration and even more painfull debugging, and use postfix as your MTA. Yes, that's not a solution to your problem, and

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.07.2012, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: If I may?...exactly what IS mutt?is it something I should concern myself with? Mutt is a console/textbased MUA, see http://www.mutt.org . It is highly customizeable/configurable, but for the most common cases you want to run a local mailserver

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.07.2012, Heinz Diehl wrote: Mutt is a console/textbased MUA, see http://www.mutt.org . It is highly customizeable/configurable, but for the most common cases you want to run a local mailserver and POP3-client (e.g. fetchmail) to be able to use it fully. You can see three snapshots

Re: Matching message headers in mutt hooks

2012-07-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.07.2012, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: HmmmI guess it's because I've never used something like it, but I imagine it's pretty hard to move around in if it's all text based? It's actually quite easy, I just need my right hand and nothing else. This is freely configurable, you can write

Re: Fedora 18 and UEFI

2012-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2012, suvayu ali wrote: Can I freely choose to use proprietary (or for that matter alternative free) drivers for my hardware from whatever source I prefer? As long as you use UEFI/secure boot, your driver has to be signed. So you have to build and deploy your own keypair/signatures

Re: Fedora 18 and UEFI

2012-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2012, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: I think we are bigger enough to say no and buy only hardware compatible. We're not. Micr*soft dominates, and they can virtually do anything they like. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Fedora 18 and UEFI

2012-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: do not buy the cheapest consumer crap and you are on the safe side in the BUSINESS market microsoft has nothing to say, really! Here in Norway, ~99% of all institutions use Windows. Both Windows 7 for their desktop environment, and Windows server for their

Re: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: There are some important data files I must save off of sda2 Before you start any rescueing, take a full snapshot of the partition, e.g. dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/on_an_external_disk or something like that. Otherwise, your efforts to rescue the data can actually ruin

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   >