How to reinstall Fedora without formatting all disks in system

2011-05-24 Thread John Nissley
I am running fedora 12 on two computers I have. It is time to upgrade for obvious reasons and I want to do a clean install of Fedora 15 when it becomes available in a few days. Both computers have multiple disks with a relativity small disk that the operating system is on and then some

Fedora 14 hangs on shutdown

2011-01-10 Thread John Nissley
I am using KDE an doing the normal shutdown I have always done from the gui. Shutdown starts and I see the normal shutting down xxx items on my screen. When it reaches shutting down sssd it just hangs. I look at the logs and see the following: Jan 10 14:05:03 home-office sssd[nss]: Shutting

How do I change the desktop manager

2010-11-10 Thread John Nissley
I am running Fedora 14 and installed the KDE desktop on the initial installation. I now want to try other desktops like open box and or LXDE but can not seem to figure out how to switch to a different desktop. I have installed the files for the new desktops but can not figure out how to make

Error No matching domain found for 5001 in sssd_nss.log

2010-07-10 Thread John Nissley
I will admit that getting fedora 13 to authenticate against my dirsrv ldap server has been an interesting experience. I still do not think I have it right since getent passwd does not display the ldap users but for some reason I am able to log in with my ldap user name and password and the

Re: Pulseaudio only available output device on Fedora 12?

2010-02-08 Thread John Nissley
On 02/08/2010 04:28 PM, John Nissley wrote: I am running fedora 12 (2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP) and I am only showing pulseaudio as an output device for sound. I have been trying to get a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio card working with no luck but even when I go back