Re: Problem with mounting usb flash drives

2012-07-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.07.2012, JD wrote: Is this a problem with desktop, the kernel, or the udevd? Maybe, it's a problem with none of them. I have one machine with F16/XFCE and one with F17/awesome (which has XFCE as a backup DE), and both machines work flawlessly regarding your scenario. I can have as many

Re: No grub2 menu display; can't boot F17

2012-07-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.07.2012, David A. De Graaf wrote: There are so many major faults with grub2 it's hard to see where to begin. The most egregious are these: [] Do you have any proof for your statements? I installed F17 on 12 different machines since it's release, and encountered not a single

Re: Fedora 17 BIG CRASH

2012-07-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.07.2012, Jim wrote: I'm very concern about the /home partition that has some very important data that needs to be retrieved . [] My friend say the Data Has got to be SAVED. If I can't do it he will have to take the hard drive out to someone that can. I have talk him into using

Re: what on earth is firefox up to?

2012-07-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.07.2012, Tom Horsley wrote: It is sitting there using between 50 and 100% of the CPU virtually all the time :-(. I did watch closely over a period of 15 min. now, and Firefox showed totally normal behaviour without any CPU-spikes. [root@wildsau ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i firefox

Re: Message when running yum update

2012-07-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.07.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: YOU GUY leave me fuck in peace as long you have not leant to use a mail-client and get rid of HTML mails [] Not long ago, after some mails on the topic 64 bit version of Adobwe Reader in this list, I got a private email of Harald Reindl, written in the

Re: Evolution loses its data.

2012-06-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.06.2012, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Use Thunderbird, it's more stable at last in my case. Don't know if this is important, but if he uses Evolution as an Outlook replacement (this is what I do at work, to avoid using Wind*ws), Thunderbird won't fit his needs, because there is no mapi or

Re: Installing Fedora on a USB connected Harddrive.

2012-06-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.06.2012, Jim wrote: this booting off CDrom is a Major problem for this Dell 2400, it's all over the internet, but no has came up with a fix on the problem. You could try using an USB-stick. Download the F17 DVD .iso, do an isohybrid xxx.iso on it, and copy it to your stick: cat xxx.iso

Re: Debugging a system freeze?

2012-06-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.06.2012, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: i7-3930K clocked at 4.2Ghz with 1.240 vcore (stable) I bet your problem lies here. Correct the overclocking to the parameters your CPU is designed for, and your problems will presumably be gone. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Debugging a system freeze?

2012-06-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.06.2012, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: Can somebody please answer my OP and point me to what syslogs I can examine to figure out what went on the freezes? Thanks! Works M-sysrq on this machine? If you have a kernel compiled with support for it (standard Fedora kernels have it), then

Re: OT: Routers, DD-WRT -

2012-06-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.06.2012, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Thank you Heinz, I am looking at the Tomato page now. Hopefully I can install it on one of the two Cisco E3000s that presently have DD-WRT on them. If it runs on your Cisco router, I'm quite shure that all these functions will

Re: 64 bit version of Adobwe Reader

2012-06-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.06.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: Not strictly an answer, but (given that the 64bit does not exist) why would you not use 32bit-compatibility libraries? for viewing PDFs? jokingly? Adobe Reader is the only .pdf reader that is capable of displaying embedded fonts sharply and precisely.

Re: postfix problem with systemd

2012-06-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.06.2012, Chris wrote: # rpm -qi postfix Name: postfix Epoch : 2 Version : 2.9.2 Release : 2.fc17 Architecture: x86_64 [] I'm using exactly the same postfix version (on F17) and don't have a chroot-update either. [root@wildsau postfix]# ls -l

Re: 64 bit version of Adobwe Reader

2012-06-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.06.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: system: x86_64 browser: x86_64 plugins: x86_64 Fedora 17 x86_64: [root@wildsau etc]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) Firefox 64-bit, Adobe Reader (en) 32-bit, no nspluginwrapper: [root@wildsau etc]# rpm -qa | grep -i firefox

Re: OT: Routers, DD-WRT -

2012-06-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.06.2012, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Two items I can't get to work are logging and saving the log information, and filtering access restrictions. Denial of access appears to work but not the filter function. You could install Tomato 1.28, where all this works..

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.06.2012, Neal Becker wrote: Currently have hp dv9000 17 used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? If you don't buy the latest and greatest, all

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.06.2012, Alan Cox wrote: Any Intel with embedded grafics will do. Almost. Anything containing GMA500, GMA600, GMA3600 or GMA3650 is an intergrated Imagination core and not properly supported on Linux (no acceleration etc). Thanks Alan, for the good information! I will soon have to

Re: Which to trust: chkrootkit or rkhunter?

2012-06-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.06.2012, Beartooth wrote: One tells me, on several machines, that /sbin/init is infected with the Suckit rootkit; the other says not. Is there a way to tell whether I'm seeing a false positive or a false negative? Seems to be a bug in chkrootkit.. -- users mailing list

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.06.2012, JD wrote: It's all about control control control - which translates into money money money which buys power and influence. Hell, it always has been.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Update F16-F17, errors

2012-06-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, after successfully upgrading from F16 to F17 via anaconda/DVD, I get this after a yum update. Does anybody know a solution? [] Total size: 635 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Check ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve: libcups.so.2 is needed by

Re: Update F16-F17, errors

2012-06-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.06.2012, Michael Schwendt wrote: Try yum remove awesome ; yum distro-sync. Taht didn't work. Besides, awesome is my main desktop environment (with XFCE as a backup). Alternatively, since this is on x86_64, you could yum remove … the i686 packages and reinstall them if necessary.

Re: Question on 64-bit + 32-bit

2012-06-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.06.2012, Timothy Murphy wrote: A very elementary question, I assume: Why are 32-bit applications (as well as 64-bit) downloaded on a 64-bit system? In a 64-bit only system, they are not needed. However.. Are they essential, ie would the system run without them? ..it can happen that

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.06.2012, Edward M wrote: so i guess i wont have too. just disabled secure boot and fedora 18 will be like regular fedora.:-) Are there machines which contain a BIOS which doesn't allow disabling this? In this case, you're hosed.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Problem shutting down laptop...

2012-05-31 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 31.05.2012, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: At this point I have to power down the old Irish way by holding the power button. I don't know if the Fedora kernels are compiled with m-sysrq support, but you could try to set kernel.sysctl = 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf, followed by a sysctl -p. Next time

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.05.2012, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Stop this! (please) That is something you can do by yourself, you don't need any others to do it for you. Just don't read this thread. It's that easy. Filter it out, filter the people contributing to it, whatever.. -- users mailing list

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.05.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: and even if - machines with 1 GB RAM are loughable these days since i remember that a yum-upgrade was killed with a OOM om a virtual machine witout GUI Millions of small notebooks with 1 GB RAM have been sold, because they are small, able to run many hours

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.05.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: Why do you think it's wrong? it is wrong This discussion ends here for me. Your claims and statements totally lack any evidence, which means that it's a waste of time to read any further. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: dracut in kernel-3.3.5-2.fc16.i686 and kernel-3.3.6-3.fc16.i686 fails to mount root

2012-05-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.05.2012, JD wrote: Bug ID 822792 at bugzilla.redhat.com is about this problem. However, I am stuck booting kernel-3.3.4-3.fc16.i686 which does not have this problem. JFYI: all of the vanilla 3.3.x kernels boot just fine, with dracut behaving as it should. Maybe the failure is related

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote: This is about the strangest thing I've seen since I've used linux (started in Redhat 5... ) Did you try to load the BIOS defaults? As mentioned above, I saw the same thing before, and this was the solution. Don't ask me why, it's totally irrational, but

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote: When you saw this, did it reboot after finish booting (i.e. get to KDM / GDM ) or was it just at the grub menu ? It started to boot, but never got into X, it rebooted somewhere in between. Nothing worked, and after a few days, just before trying to

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.05.2012, James Wilkinson wrote: I bet that Asus netbook is based on an Atom processor and an Intel chipset, and whatever else you might say about Intel (and who doesn’t?), they still (mostly) remember the twenty-year-old Pentium lesson that if it’s got their name on it, it ought to be

Re: Fedora 16 continously rebooting

2012-05-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.05.2012, Armelius Cameron wrote: I am running out of ideas. The only thing left is to completely re-install, and I don't really want to do that right now as I have lots of stuff there already. So, any help would be greatly appreciated. A shot in the dark, because this solved a

Re: The death of Hibernate?

2012-05-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.05.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: buying a cheaper machine than 800 € results usually in buy much more machines in a relative short term Maybe for you, but not for folks who hardly can afford a low end machine. Not having a computer is no longer an alternative these days either. cheaper

Re: Execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

2012-05-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.05.2012, Kevin Fenzi wrote: ^ you have a here that shouldn't be there. Should be simply: #!/bin/sh This is not true, you can hav as many blanks as you like. Try it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Encrypting swap

2012-05-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.05.2012, Konstantin Svist wrote: Problem is, I can't seem to find a way to encrypt the swap so that it would be usable for hibernation. Have you looked at luksSuspend and luksResume? I'm not sure if the same key problem exists in Fedora 16, I've tried setting it up this way and I'm

Re: what does this file mean? C\:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt

2012-04-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.04.2012, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: Is there a particular reason you need to use Adobe Reader? It has sharp fonts, which isn't the case with evince. That's the main showstopper for me. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: huge mail going throw my mail server how to protect

2012-04-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.04.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: anybody out there must not open port 25 from the internet becuase he was able to type yum install postfix In this case, one must indeed have opened port 25 manually, since yum install postfix does not install any postfix configuration which has port 25

Re: huge mail going throw my mail server how to protect

2012-04-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.04.2012, Joe Zeff wrote: I have, a few times, considered setting up a mailserver of my own for my domain so that even when I was away from home all mail went through it. Every time I have, I've decided against it for exactly that reason. If more people did the same, we'd not have as

Re: Gnome 3.4

2012-03-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.03.2012, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: [Gnome 3.4] Im seriously looking forward to checking this out. Would be nice if you could report back here on the list after you tried it :-) (Nevertheless, I'll never go back to Gnome again. After Gnome went v3 I changed to XFCE and awesome, and

Re: Tracker crashes

2012-03-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.03.2012, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I don't think I have hardware problems, since I don't have problems with any other programs. Tracker is not easy to disable or remove. Obvious ways to disable it don't seem to work. Other packages depend on it, in particular totem, grilo, and

Re: memory corruption with 3.2.10

2012-03-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.03.2012, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Maybe others have had different experiences, but if not, this may point to some possibilities? 3.2.10, .11 and .12 vanilla work(ed) fine here. I guess this problem is related to a Fedora patch?! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: flash or firefox?

2012-03-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.03.2012, Tom Horsley wrote: The weather radar pointed at by the http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ newspaper site stopped fully loading after a flash update a while back. If you mean the weather radar here: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/ It loads and works flawlessly on my F16

Re: Problem with RTL8178

2012-03-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.03.2012, Jonathan Allen wrote: So, as a novice, how do I switch the default desktop on F16 to the old Gnome that was used in F14? This is no longer possible, Fedora decided to go on with Gnome 3. So the choice is Gnome 3, or one of the other fine desktop environments as e.g. KDE or

Re: Tracker crashes

2012-03-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.03.2012, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: What is Tracker http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/ and why is it crashing all the time? Almost every time I start my system, I get an Abrt warning with this message: Process /usr/libexec/tracker-extract was killed by signal 11

Re: Portreserve on F16

2012-02-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.02.2012, Tim Waugh wrote: Feb 29 20:36:43 wildsau systemd[1]: portreserve.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1 Feb 29 20:36:43 wildsau systemd[1]: Unit portreserve.service entered failed state. What do you mean by failing? Are you getting an error message? Yes, of

Portreserve on F16

2012-02-28 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, since portreserve is constantly failing on my F16 systems, and based upon older and newer discussions on this topic, I wonder if it's still needed?! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012-02-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.02.2012, Tom Horsley wrote: I don't see it as a problem, I see it as yet another thing that will help hasten the demise of flash. For me as a student, this will force me to buy and use Windows immediately, which I haven't used since Windows 3.1. It is absolutely crucial for me to be

Re: Cryptsetup luks Invalid password F16

2012-02-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.02.2012, Frank Murphy wrote: Switched on this morning. Can get into /devsda4 (root) But as systemd starts doing it's stuff, dropped to emergency shell. Both /dev/sda3 (swap), /dev/sdb2 (home) invalid password I have encountered this several times on my job machine (F16), but

Re: Recovery mode. Login as root without password

2012-02-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.02.2012, Bruno Wolff III wrote: I prefer to use encrypted disks. This protects against casual stuff and going much farther gets a lot harder when you are assuming people have unsupervised physical access to your machine. If you have sensible data stored on your machine and somebody

Re: Fedora unusually unstable recently?

2012-02-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.02.2012, Terry Polzin wrote: XFCE has been rock solid on my two machines. +1 Btw: most of the crashes in Linux systems are somehow related to X.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Alsa-utils update broken

2012-02-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, seems like alsa-lib update is broken, does anybody see the same with F16? Guess there isn't any alsa-lib package = 1.0.25 in F16 updates. [root@wildsau ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction

Re: Changing kernel in grub 2

2012-02-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.02.2012, don fisher wrote: 1. edit the script that says do not edit That's what I do. However, I have never used any distribution kernel beyond the installing process. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: About expelling Linda and similar people

2012-01-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.01.2012, M. Fioretti wrote: Please don't embarass yourself by replying to messages without reading them entirely. Had you actually read what I posted, you would know very well that: [] Do what you want. I don't care. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: [mosty OT] trollfilter software

2012-01-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.01.2012, Craig White wrote: POP3 for a typical mail client is for people who are mired in the 1990's and thus slavishly move mail from computer to computer, program to program, either out of ignorance for a better way or just lack imagination. So far, I can't see that you provide any

Re: Giving Up On Fedora

2011-12-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.12.2011, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: The main was stuck at boot, after first reboot and installing Nvidia drivers. This is not a Fedora issue, but an nvidia one. The nvidia drivers are proprietary software, which means that you're on your own. Switching to another distribution won't help

Re: Giving Up On Fedora

2011-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.12.2011, Kevin Martin wrote: I have a system hang at least once a day these days running either the nVidia or the nouveau drivers against the latest rawhide kernels. I have never used any distribution kernel longer than during the distr. installation period, and have never encountered

Re: BIOS doesn't see hard drive with Fedora 16, may it be an install issue?

2011-12-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.12.2011, M. Fioretti wrote: [] If this is a laptop, you must have some kind of entry-key to get full access to the bios settings. If you can't permanently change the boot drive from within there, you have two possibilities left: 1. Get a bios update, flash it and see if things have

Re: Buy an SSD now, or wait?

2011-12-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.12.2011, Michael Cronenworth wrote: All you need is enough room to run your root partition on so the 60 to 80 gig models are plenty. A HDD is obviously still more cost-effective to store videos, music, etc., and you can still use a HDD as your home directory. Then, could you please

Re: Buy an SSD now, or wait?

2011-12-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.12.2011, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: I just wondered if anyone here has had any experience in using SSDs in general, and with Fedora in particular? I am thinking about an upgrade, but I am uncertain whether it is worth it to invest in an SSD now, or let the technology ripen for a few

Re: Fedora vs openSUSE

2011-12-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.12.2011, Rameshwar Kr. Sharma wrote: Now since my mind has become a little negative for Ubuntu, I just wanted to know the truth (remaining) between opensuse and Fedora, and for rest of the distributions more. Do a saerch and locate all the distribution of your interest. Download a live

Re: F16 unusable while writing to pendrive

2011-12-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 18.12.2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: This looks like a regression. Under F15 when I wrote large files to a pendrive, the system would become a little sluggish. Now it essentially freezes until the write terminates. What I mean is that the UI is almost completely unresponsive; even

Problems with java applet

2011-12-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, after upgrading to F16, my online banking does no longer work. With F15, all was fine. My bank uses a java applet to log in, and that works. After logging in, I'm no longer able to do a singe transaction, because I have to confirm the action by entering a special code and my password via this

Re: Problems with java applet

2011-12-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.12.2011, mike cloaked wrote: It's possible that the bank web site may only work with Oracle Java 1.7 (or Sun Java) but not openjdk - it may be worth installing it and get the browser to use the alternative java jre. Thanks Mike, that did the trick! However, this is strange, since it

Re: Writing a book w/F16?

2011-12-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.12.2011, Peter Gueckel wrote: I cannot anticipate your exact needs, but it sounds to me like scribus could be what you might be looking for. I like to second that. That's what I would have used. After having written a lot of scientific articles during my mastergrade studies using

Re: Problem with readline (command line editing)

2011-12-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.12.2011, suvayu ali wrote: The problem is a regression in gtk2. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649098 Downgrading to gtk2-2.24.7-2.fc16.x86_64 resolves the issue. I can confirm the bug on my F16 systems. Downgrading gtk2 helps. -- users mailing list

Re: Midnight commander: ALT+ENTER does no longer work

2011-12-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.12.2011, Michael Schwendt wrote: Is that the full output or truncated? It's the full output. Try yum downgrade gtk2\* to cover also subpackages. I ignored the dependencies, downloaded the according .rpm and downgraded by force now... -- users mailing list

Midnight commander: ALT+ENTER does no longer work

2011-12-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hei, upgraded to F16 (from F15) today. Now, mc lost its ALT+ENTER and CTRL+ENTER functionality to paste text into the command line (like ESC+ENTER does). I recompiled with --with-x (which is not standard in Fedora) and got back the CTRL+ENTER combination, but not ALT+ENTER. Does anybody know

Re: Midnight commander: ALT+ENTER does no longer work

2011-12-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.12.2011, suvayu ali wrote: Its a faulty update. Downgrade your gtk2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-December/408842.html Thanks a lot for clarifying this! Unfortunately, a downgrade is not possible on my system: [root@wildsau ~]# yum --skip-broken downgrade gtk2

Re: Firefox Issues Resolved

2011-11-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.11.2011, Fedora User wrote: I was having problems is FF 8.0-03 causing 100% usage spikes. I can observe the same behviour here. [htd@wildsau ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox firefox-8.0-3.fc15.x86_64 HOWEVER, FF 8.01 from source works perfectly and eliminates the problem completely. What

Re: Characters have become unpleaseant in F16

2011-11-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.11.2011, mike cloaked wrote: It should be included in the list of common problems or at least in one of the lists of Fedora hints and tips somewhere... You have full control over hinting and alike via the .fonts.conf file. This is what I'm used to have in there: ?xml version=1.0?

Re: Upgrade vs PreUpgrade - I'm confused

2011-11-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.11.2011, Smith, Herb wrote: With the changes that are introduced in FC16 (specifically the UID and GID numbering and the disk label changes) I was wondering if using PreUpgrade is preferred. After reading about problems with grub and uid/gid here, I would suggest doing a fresh

Re: iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.11.2011, Roger wrote: Is there a way to limit: -number of log in attempts to 2, -the duration of a log in attempt to 3 seconds or less -the number of times a username can be tried, prefer it set at 2 and then not again for 24 hours if it fails. [] Switch off login with password

Re: Is btrfs ready to be default fs in F17 ?

2011-11-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.11.2011, Alan Cox wrote: B tree based file systems ought to be wonderful things. They can do a lot of stuff a traditional cylinder group based file system cannot do nicely. But they've also proved to be very fragile, very hard to get right and very difficult to performance tune for

Re: windows migrant: choosing linux distribution

2011-11-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.11.2011, Linux Tyro wrote: i am new in this world of linux. getting confused seeing a lot of linux distro. I just want to use linux distro to learn linux from the scratch level. please suggest me if fedora is the best place to start with. There are lots of good distributions out there.

Re: Is it save to mount / with noatime?

2011-10-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.10.2011, JB wrote: Unfortunately there are apps that may act incorrectly, either with noatime or relatime. Possible examples: procmail, mutt, mailx, perhaps few more known and unknown yet (incl. sysadmin commands). I'm using noatime exclusively, and have been using it a long long

Re: Is it save to mount / with noatime?

2011-10-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.10.2011, JB wrote: Is breaking standards good ? :-) I don't care in this case :-) My filesystems are mounted the same as my root fs: /dev/sda2 on / type xfs (rw,noatime,attr2,delaylog,nobarrier,logbufs=2,logbsize=256k,noquota) Btw: noatime does already include nodiratime. -- users

Re: Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

2011-10-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.10.2011, Per Anton Rønning wrote: Error occurred during initialization of VM java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object Ring a bell? Unfortunately not. Does this one help? http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/06/noclassdeffounderror-exception-in.html -- users mailing list

Re: Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

2011-10-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.10.2011, Per Anton Rønning wrote: I downloaded the latest Firefox, and the latest Java as well. But now FF crashes when trying to start Java Plugin. My internet banking logon application is a good example, but it also crashes when trying to check if Java is correctly installed form

Re: I find FireFox is Fedora's biggest security flaw..

2011-10-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.10.2011, Linda McLeod wrote: I find FireFox is Fedora's biggest security flaw.. FF is way too easy to hack and crack by demon-bullies to get into to mess-up the browser... Well, I refuse to take this one unless you provide clear evidence for your point of view. -- users mailing list

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.09.2011, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: LXDE can easily be set up to have essentially the same look-and-feel as Gnome 2. Also, it's lightweight design seems to have led to a good performance increase at least on my machine. LXDE is great, but the file manager pcmanfm is not only

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

2011-08-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.08.2011, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Seems nobody likes it (me included). Frankly, Gnome3 is broken by design and a f*cking piece of cr*p :-) All the students at my college who use(d) Linux/Gnome2 before have switched, and

Re: Kernel upgrades?

2011-08-23 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.08.2011, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Just to provide a more complete answer: the issue with trying to use a 3.x kernel on Fedora 14 (or Fedora 15) is that a large number of applications and kernel models are designed to expect the 2.x version number. They fail to parse the 3.x version and

Re: strange behaviour of firefox

2011-08-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.08.2011, Tim wrote: Try http://localhost:901/ and maybe that'll circumvent Firefox's unhelpful URL correction. Also, don't just type localhost:901 into the address gadget. It must be a different problem he encountered. On my F15 systems, both localhost:631 and http://localhost:631;

Re: Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

2011-07-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.07.2011, James McKenzie wrote: If you even THINK that the current breed of developers CARE about what the user base wants/needs, you are living in dream-land. As you mentioned before, all is about choices. If there's no interest in what the user base needs, well, the user base will

Re: Status of flash support in Fedora 14 (64-bit)?

2011-06-19 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 19.06.2011, Colin Paul Adams wrote: http://live.shogi.or.jp/joryu_ouza/kifu/ricoh20110618.html Does this work for anyone else? If so, what flash plugin software are you using? Works perfectly for me. Version 10.2-d161 (64 bit). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Comparison of Desktop Environments in F15?

2011-05-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.05.2011, James McKenzie wrote: The developers are trying to capture some of those wanting to leave Windows but want a 'belt and suspenders' approach to running it. In other words, we have ID10T Windows users who want to leave it behind, sometimes for the perceived safety of Linux.

Re: /dev/ull

2011-04-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.04.2011, fred smith wrote: yeah, mine too. clearly a broken script, attemting to throw output away but missing the 'n'. Yes. The fix is rather trivial, just correct the .spec file, compile gdm and force-install the resulting .rpm. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: [OT Humor] Obviously designed by morons

2011-03-18 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.03.2011, john wendel wrote: After a week of struggling, she just asked me to wipe Windows and install Fedora so she can get some work done without fighting the desktop. This is when she proclaimed that W7 was, obviously designed by morons. Well, this could have been me :-) And yes,

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.02.2011, Andras Simon wrote: My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. Now I upgraded to Fedora 14, and this has only got worse: before, uptimes could be anything between 3 minutes and a month, now it's a few hours at most.

Re: XFS errors... can't repair them

2011-02-21 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.02.2011, Martín Marqués wrote: Feb 21 09:47:08 dagobah kernel: XFS internal error XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_RETURN at line 358 of file fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c. Caller 0xa0fc126e Feb 21 09:47:08 dagobah kernel: Pid: 979, comm: flush-8:0 Tainted: P 2.6.34.7-66.fc13.x86_64 #1 Feb 21

Re: System startup / tcsd failing to load tpm_atmel.ko

2011-02-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.02.2011, b1 wrote: So I do not need tcsd in order to mount encrypted directories? No, it has nothing to do with mounting directories. Tscd is a userspace daemon for TPM. As long as you don't have an Atmel TPM chip installed on your machine, you don't need tcsd in this case. For TPM to

Re: System startup / tcsd failing to load tpm_atmel.ko

2011-02-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.02.2011, b1 wrote: insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64/kernel/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.ko': -1 No such device You don't have the device, so the question here is why something wants to load the driver. Most probably this is a bug, introduced with one of

Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ?

2011-02-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.01.2011, Jim wrote: In Fedora is there a better email Browser ? I've been using mutt all my life, and never lost a single email. However, it's text only. http://www.mutt.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: intrusion tracking

2011-01-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.01.2011, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: The real issue is that there isn't a good activity log. While I can install tripwire to watch for changed files I would have used aide instead of tripwire. it probably won't tell me how they got in. Is there something that addresses that

Re: Not able to scale the cpu-frequency

2010-12-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 28.12.2010, JB wrote: It may be a case of outdated or misconfigured BIOS, hardware related. He might be affected by this phenomenon: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19702 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: External harddrive not spinning down on suspend

2010-12-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.12.2010, Norit wrote: Sorry about the swedish output, Filen eller katalogen finns inte means File or folder not found and kommandot finns inte means command not found Har du sjekka hva som står i linjen 17 og 48, og om opplysningene i de linjene er korrekte/passlige ift ditt system?

Re: External harddrive not spinning down on suspend

2010-12-06 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.12.2010, JB wrote: OpenSUSE distro is not equal Fedora distro. Each of them has a differently patched kernel and many packages are tweaked differently as well. So your assumption is wrong. The output he posted clearly states that some paths/executables are in the wrong place or

Re: Init fails on FC14

2010-12-03 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.12.2010, stan wrote: The error must have some dependency on the hardware you are running, or I have a software combination that negates it. I had F14 on four quite different machines: - an older Celeron based Laptop - Asus UJ45C (core i5) - AMD Quadcore - an old P4 The same

Re: Init fails on FC14

2010-12-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.12.2010, Michael Schwendt wrote: New information? Not that I know of. Except, there's a second ticket about it, filed a month later for gdm: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/649940 Yes, I know. This bug is ugly as hell, and in absence of a working fix or workaround, I'll be forced to use

Re: Init fails on FC14

2010-11-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.11.2010, Michael Schwendt wrote: init 1 in GNOME doesn't work https://bugzilla.redhat.com/640925 Could be the wrong component (after having been reassigned), but the current owner has yet to respond. :/ When I asked about it on test list on Oct 1st, nobody added any insight:

Re: Emacs dumps core on FC14

2010-11-17 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 17.11.2010, Joe Zeff wrote: I've noticed that it's almost always newcomers who use Fedora Core when referring to the distro. I used FC without thinking if this maybe could be incorrect. I just wanted to show what distribution my mails are related to. It's almost as though they're trying

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