Backup logs

2014-02-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. Could anybody tell me where Fedora's Backup program writes its logs to? Any help appreciated. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using Arch Linux, CentOS 6.5, Debian Squeeze Wheezy, Fedora 19 20, OS X Snow Leopard, RHEL 7, Ubuntu Saucy GnuGPG Key :

yumBackend.py

2014-01-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I know this has been discussed on here before but I'm struggling to stop 'yumBackend.py' hogging the CPU sending the load averages over 2.00. I've disabled it via the GUI in Software rebooted but it's still running every five minutes. Is there a way of dealing with this via the

Re: yumBackend.py

2014-01-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 23/01/14 18:49, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jan 23, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all. I know this has been discussed on here before but I'm struggling to stop 'yumBackend.py' hogging the CPU sending the load averages over 2.00. I've disabled it via

Re: Yum update failure -

2013-12-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 15/12/13 09:16, Bob Goodwin wrote: This is an error message I have not had before: [root@box10 bobg]# yum update Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit adobe-linux-x86_64 | 951 B 00:00:00 fedora/20/x86_64/metalink | 18 kB 00:00:00 fedora | 3.8 kB 00:00:00 rpmfusion-free-rawhide

Re: Strange Warnings on updating tonight

2013-12-13 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 13/12/13 09:54, Frank Murphy wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:45:30 -0800 Les Howell hlhow...@pacbell.net wrote: Hi, everyone, Asked and answered Read the previous threads which also mention yum groups. I too have this problem despite searching for 'yum groups' on list, I cannot find

Re: Strange Warnings on updating tonight

2013-12-13 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 13/12/13 19:43, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 13/12/13 09:54, Frank Murphy wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:45:30 -0800 Les Howell hlhow...@pacbell.net wrote: Hi, everyone, Asked and answered Read the previous threads which also mention yum groups. I too have this problem despite searching

Re: Log viewer

2013-11-09 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 10/11/13 01:53, Javier Perez wrote: Hi Could somebody recommend a program to view logs like Xorg.0.log, dmesg, boot.log, messages and others I use lnav: https://github.com/tstack/lnav Recommended. Cheers, Phil... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Weird network problem

2013-10-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 26/05/13 02:00, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. A couple of days ago the IP changed since then, one of the machines running Fedora 17 always fails first time to connect

no operating system found error

2013-09-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, I've been using Fedora 19 quite happily for a while now but today when I booted her I got an error message along the lines of '62: No operating system found' she refused to boot. I'm guessing it's a Grub problem but I've no clue as to go about doing requisite repair work, even after

Re: no operating system found error

2013-09-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 25/09/13 18:40, Jan Litwiński wrote: Dnia 2013-09-25, o godz. 18:19:06 Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com napisał(a): Hi, I've been using Fedora 19 quite happily for a while now but today when I booted her I got an error message along the lines of '62: No operating system found' she

Ananconda on 19

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've just tried to install Fedora 19 over the top of CentOS I.(e. erasing Centos) I can't figure out how to do it. There's no option for erase install as with other distros. Could anybody point me in the right direction? Cheers, Phil... -- users mailing list

Re: Ananconda on 19

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 09/21/2013 03:35 PM, poma wrote: On 21.09.2013 15:57, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've just tried to install Fedora 19 over the top of CentOS I.(e. erasing Centos) I can't figure out how to do it. There's no option for erase install as with other distros. Could anybody point me

Fedup error

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
I'm trying to upgrade 17 - 18 I keep getting this message: ' $ sudo fedup-cli --network 18 setting up repos... default-installrepo/metalink | 34 kB 00:00:00 fedora/18/i386/metalink | 34 kB 00:00:00 No upgrade available for the following repos: fedora updates Error: can't get boot

Re: Fedup error

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 21/09/13 23:13, Phil Dobbin wrote: I'm trying to upgrade 17 - 18 I keep getting this message: ' $ sudo fedup-cli --network 18 setting up repos... default-installrepo/metalink | 34 kB 00:00:00 fedora/18/i386/metalink | 34 kB 00:00:00 No upgrade available for the following repos

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/27/2013 04:51 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 27 May 2013, Timothy Murphy sent: As a matter of interest, how do you configure DHCP to work with a dynamic IP? Um, generally you don't... It does that by default. Your DHCP client (your usual personal computer) asks a DHCP

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 02:21 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/25/2013 06:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. A couple of days ago the IP changed since then, one of the machines running Fedora 17 always

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 11:54 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On 05/25/2013 08:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. A couple of days ago the IP changed since then, one of the machines

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 02:54 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On 05/26/2013 07:18 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 05/26/2013 11:54 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On 05/25/2013 08:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning always the same addresses

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 02:54 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [...] Dumb question - have you checked the network connection? See if changing the cable or the port on the switch helps. It seams strange that the external IP address changing would cause this, but for some strange reason hardware problems

Weird network problem

2013-05-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. A couple of days ago the IP changed since then, one of the machines running Fedora 17 always fails first time to connect to the network: launch Thunderbird, no start screen,

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

2013-04-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/24/2013 05:55 PM, poma wrote: On 24.04.2013 16:17, Regina Anger wrote: Hello Ed, Yes, it has been mentioned on the test list several times. It has been suggested to try adding 'slub_debug=-' to the kernel parameters. Thx a lot, works now like a charme :)

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

2013-04-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/24/2013 10:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.04.2013 23:21, schrieb Phil Dobbin: On 04/24/2013 05:55 PM, poma wrote: On 24.04.2013 16:17, Regina Anger wrote: Hello Ed, Yes, it has been mentioned on the test list several times. It has been suggested to try adding 'slub_debug

Re: FedUp

2013-04-09 Thread Phil Dobbin
on a minimal/server though on the Dell. Cheers, Phil... On 4/8/2013 9:09 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: As a coda to this, I installed 17 in a VM via the network install then grabbed FedUp from Testing ran it. Three hours later it completed, rebooted all was well. This was, of course

Re: FedUp

2013-04-09 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/09/2013 11:08 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Apr 9, 2013 6:54 AM, Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com mailto:bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/09/2013 05:39 AM, Thomas Dineen wrote: What brand of VM??? KVM running on Fedora 17 64-bit on a Lenovo ThinkCentre. I also used KVM

Re: FedUp

2013-04-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
As a coda to this, I installed 17 in a VM via the network install then grabbed FedUp from Testing ran it. Three hours later it completed, rebooted all was well. This was, of course, a completely clean distro (I only installed git grabbed my dotfiles off of GitHub before running FedUp).

FedUp

2013-04-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've been away for some weeks am now back so I'm looking at possibilities for upgrading 17 - 18 seeing as 17 will be EOL in around eight to ten weeks. After the initial problems with FedUp, I read last night over on Bugzilla about its progress the latest testing (which looks like it's

Re: FedUp

2013-04-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/06/2013 03:56 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 04/06/2013 03:05 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've been away for some weeks am now back so I'm looking at possibilities for upgrading 17 - 18 seeing as 17 will be EOL in around eight to ten weeks. After the initial problems with FedUp

Re: FedUp

2013-04-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/06/2013 09:28 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 04/06/2013 03:56 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 04/06/2013 03:05 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've been away for some weeks am now back so I'm looking at possibilities for upgrading 17 - 18 seeing

Re: OT Web servers and ISP

2013-01-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/28/2013 10:35 PM, Roger wrote: I have run into a gotcha with the ISP which will not provide Rails 3 on a shared server. Can someone please enlighten me as to why not. What are the problems? Apologies for OT but google so far doesn't help. I had a similar situation I just started

FedUp: best plan?

2013-01-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've been watching the developments regarding everybody trying to upgrade via FedUp can anyone advise me whether issuing: 'sudo fedup-cli —network 18 —debuglog fedupdebug.log' is still the recommended way to approach the upgrade? I'm running a rock solid Fedora 17 with all updates

Re: FedUp: best plan?

2013-01-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/17/2013 01:59 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:41:41AM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've been watching the developments regarding everybody trying to upgrade via FedUp can anyone advise me whether issuing: 'sudo fedup-cli —network 18 —debuglog fedupdebug.log

Re: F-18/64 Install Methods -

2013-01-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/15/2013 04:09 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I have two different F-18 installs to deal with. F-18 beta upgraded almost daily, once more just now, do I need to do any more than that? and This F-17 XFCE Live install which is configured the way I want

Re: Howto fedup?

2013-01-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/15/2013 04:37 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 11:27 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: How do I use fedup to update f17-f18 (via net)? I tried: sudo fedup --network 18 setting up repos... default-installrepo/metalink | 26 kB 00:00

Re: Fedora 18 on MacBook Pro

2013-01-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/12/2013 07:50 PM, William Brown wrote: Anyone has a clue please? As I'm suspecting it's using the BIOS emulation (how to check??), I'd like to try booting it as a real EFI OS but I have no clue of how that would work, and couldn't find much literature on this subject, at least not

Go/NoGo Meeting

2013-01-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. Would I be right in thinking that tonight (at 20:00 UTC) is the Go/NoGo Meeting to determine whether Fedora 18 is released next Tuesday the Eight? Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 6.3, Debian Squeeze Wheezy, Fedora Beefy Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow

Re: Go/NoGo Meeting

2013-01-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/01/2013 11:49 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:40:28 + Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all. Would I be right in thinking that tonight (at 20:00 UTC) is the Go/NoGo Meeting to determine whether Fedora 18 is released next Tuesday the Eight? Nope

Re: Fedora Planet Reader

2012-12-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/27/2012 11:20 AM, Mark Klein wrote: Hello everyone, I am Mark Klein, a 14-year-old high school student from Honolulu, Hawaii. (UTC-10) I am participating in the Google Code-In contest and for my task[0], I designed an android application[1] for Planet Fedora[2], which is a website

Re: Compiling Failed

2012-12-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/19/2012 01:42 AM, Jim wrote: Fedora 17 Compiling failed, could someone give me a ideal what caused the failure. #sh run.sh running install running build cc -I/usr/include/ffmpeg -c /home/mickey/Downloads/Miro-5/miro-5.0/linux/miro-segmenter.c -o

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/17/2012 03:30 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: OMG!...incredible! Why? Granted, it was back in 1968, but the computer I was working on (IBM 1620, MOD 2) was already outdated, and nearly obsolete. My brother (he's eleven years older than I

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/17/2012 11:02 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 12/17/2012 05:28 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 12/17/2012 04:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 12/16/2012 10:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: OMG!...incredible! Why? Granted, it was

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/16/2012 08:47 AM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 11:18 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Unless you think you have a chance of being singled out by a goverment or if you don't trust some of the people/machines on your local network, this isn't a significant risk. You don't think some

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/16/2012 10:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/16/2012 02:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: http://ohjeezlinux.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/fedup-a-little-background/ (this link is referenced on the Fedup Wiki page). Thanx. Alas, the first paragraph contains a gross error that tells me just

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/15/2012 05:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 09:53 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 12/15/2012 09:07 AM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 13:08 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: preupgrade is going away in f18. It's being replaced by fedup.

Re: Fedora 17

2012-12-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/10/2012 12:59 PM, Henrik Frisk wrote: Hi, I have now migrated to Fedora 17 (clean install) and configured and installed most of what I need. Though I think everything looks very good my computer is considerably less responsive than under fedora 13. I haven't worked that much yet but

Re: fedora without texlive

2012-12-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/06/2012 06:04 PM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I just completed an F-17 install. I choosed the customize now option and ask to not install texlive, but texlive is installed. Is it possible to have an install without texlive? I use texlive, but fedora package for texlive is

Re: setting filters in thunderbird.

2012-12-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/03/2012 07:58 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: How does one set a mail. filter in thunderbird? I want mail from the users list, for example tp gp into the users folder. I find the easiest method is to create your mailbox folder that you wish to filter messages into first (or use an existing

Re: fedora books

2012-12-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/01/2012 06:37 AM, Brian West wrote: Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general way. each distribution has its own unique set

Re: Need help with minimal install on ee701

2012-11-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/26/2012 04:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I did the minimal install on my ee701. At least the first attempt. I set my swap at 768Mb, and left /boot at 500Mb (probably could shrink this next time). This left 2.7Gb for / That swap will be too small for hibernate So a minimal

Re: Need help with minimal install on ee701

2012-11-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/26/2012 04:54 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 11/25/2012 11:46 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 11/26/2012 04:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I did the minimal install on my ee701. At least the first attempt. I set my swap at 768Mb, and left /boot at 500Mb (probably could shrink this next

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/19/2012 12:04 PM, Alan Cox wrote: Indeed. Most of the time they are not going to give a crap about a simple abuse report, let alone do anything to stop spam/bruteforcing. Maybe the American and British ISPs but not the others. The ISPs are mostly not in the loop, but some of them

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/18/2012 11:16 PM, Roger wrote: Is there any way to trace ip addresses back past the originating ISP. I've been using whois but it seems limited. I use nmap http://nmap.org then Google does the rest. Cheers, Phil... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: MySQL installation on Fedora 17

2012-11-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
Yashar Pezeshki wrote: Why not try to install it using yum, and then reply if you you got any problem?!! :D On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Rafnews raf.n...@gmail.com mailto:raf.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to know if someone already installed MySQL on Fedora 17

Re: Fedora 17 and laptop IBM T42

2012-10-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
Rafnews wrote: Hi, i discovered that i can use fedora 17 on my old laptop IBM T42. i works great but my wireless adapter doesn't work. i found several websites (e.g.: http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml) where some steps are written how to make it works...however in my

Re: Fedora 17 and laptop IBM T42

2012-10-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
Rafnews wrote: On 28.10.2012 15:03, Phil Dobbin wrote: Rafnews wrote: Hi, i discovered that i can use fedora 17 on my old laptop IBM T42. i works great but my wireless adapter doesn't work. i found several websites (e.g.: http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml) where some

Re: spam and newbies and niceness

2012-10-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
Digimer wrote: On 10/19/2012 06:23 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 06:01:19PM -0400, David wrote: I had this 'fixed' about two weeks ago and then you Newbies opened the sluice gate. Can't fix *your* email? At least please don't re-swan it for those of us that can. Hey,

Re: ZenCoding in Fedora with Gedit/GMate?

2012-10-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
Manuel Escudero wrote: Can someone help me with this question in #AskFedora?: http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/2620/zencoding-in-fedora-with-geditgmate According to the only other hit in Google apart from your question: $ sudo yum install python-pygments Untested. HTH. Cheers,

Re: Byobu

2012-09-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
Phil Dobbin wrote: After the last kernel upgrade (= 3.5.3-1) notifications in Byobu ceased to work (amongst other things: an existing kvm machine no longer works as Nautilus keeps crashing when it's launched so I had to re-install that). I've tried reverting back to 5.17 with no luck

Byobu

2012-09-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. After the last kernel upgrade (= 3.5.3-1) notifications in Byobu ceased to work (amongst other things: an existing kvm machine no longer works as Nautilus keeps crashing when it's launched so I had to re-install that). I've tried reverting back to 5.17 with no luck (both via Yum

Re: Natural Selection.....

2012-08-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Ok so after scouring this site called DistroWatch.which has a MILLION different versions of Linux I've decided to go with: PeppermintOS - laptop Ubuntu LTS - desktop Fedora laptop Linux Mint desktop PC-BSD

Re: Change Fedora Releases source

2012-08-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:27:22AM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: I have both Beefy on a desktop machine a laptop. On the desktop variety, `yum update` works fine but on the laptop it's always throwing errors (timing out, 401s, etc

Change Fedora Releases source

2012-07-31 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I have both Beefy on a desktop machine a laptop. On the desktop variety, `yum update` works fine but on the laptop it's always throwing errors (timing out, 401s, etc). The laptop was upgraded from 12 - 15 - 16 - 17 using preupgrade as

Re: Change Fedora Releases source

2012-07-31 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/01/2012 07:27 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I have both Beefy on a desktop machine a laptop. On the desktop variety, `yum update` works fine but on the laptop it's always throwing errors (timing out, 401s, etc). The laptop

Re: Linux or GNU/Linux

2012-07-30 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Wendel wrote: On 07/29/2012 10:09 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: Hello all, Just thought about asking you guys what the actual name is, Linux or GNU/Linux (In our Bangladeshi community, we're really divided on this issue). I

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:33:34 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: This behaviour is clearly a bug. Not because it takes so long time, but because the user isn't informed and waits speculating about what went wrong and when to push

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:42:56 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: I started using Fedora starting with Constantine the hang always seems to happen at 'selinux-policy-targeted' which is understandable when using preupgrade

Re: need help: nfsv4 idmap

2012-07-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neal Becker wrote: I'm wondering if I can use nfsv4 idmap so that I can share files between systems without syncing uids. Thing is, I don't want to have to learn kerberos, ldap, etc. Is it possible to use idmap functionality without any

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

2012-07-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fedora 18: `grubby fatal error unable to find a suitable template' Cheers, Phil... - -- currently (ab)using CentOS 6.2, Debian Squeeze, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Precise -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2

Re: Fedora 17

2012-06-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/12 07:16, Roger wrote: After all the hype, problems and dislikes with Fedora 17, I am interested to know is it worth fresh installing over Fedora 16 or would it be best to wait a month or so? I've both upgraded from Verne - Beefy via

Re: partition question

2012-05-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/27/2012 08:45 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I've Googled this question quite extensively before I proceed I thought I'd ask for an opinion. It's quite a common predicament so apologies in advance if I'm creating noise. I have a machine running Fedora 16 X86_64 which is a recent addition now

partition question

2012-05-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've Googled this question quite extensively before I proceed I thought I'd ask for an opinion. It's quite a common predicament so apologies in advance if I'm creating noise. I have a machine running Fedora 16 X86_64 which is a recent addition now I need to use some of the unused

Re: Upgrade F15-F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade

2012-05-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/12 21:44, Max Pyziur wrote: Hoping to at least be on the trailing edge, I've started an upgrade process on my Dell Laptop Inspiron 600m. It is currently running F15, and I'd like to upgrade to F16. However, after going through the

Re: gnome3 - nothing but problems (for me)

2012-05-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 06/05/12 22:50, JD wrote: Hi All, Without dissing or criticizing gnome3, I must say I have nothing but problems with using it. For example, selecting the Gnome, or the Classic Gnome desktop manager, I can no longer see the desktop in other workspaces that I created, except workspace 1.

Re: READ ME: When replying to users digest...

2012-03-22 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *n.b.* I originally sent this as a c.c. to the list but it doesn't seem to have happened... On 21/03/2012 21:47, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 21Mar2012 11:48, Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote: | Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au | On 21Mar2012

Re: READ ME: When replying to users digest...

2012-03-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au Date: 21/03/2012 00:24 To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org On 21Mar2012 00:49, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: | Well from my experience when I subscribed to this list

Re: READ ME: When replying to users digest...

2012-03-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/03/2012 13:02, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:48:29 +, Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote: Digest mode is perfectly acceptable for use when searching for relevant topics but a bore when replying. Mailing list

Re: Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE

2012-03-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Re: Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE.emlSubject: Re: Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDEFrom: n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.comDate: 02/03/2012 00:23To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org On 01/03/12 22:31, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all

Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE

2012-03-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I've been using Fedora 14 (i686) on an old IBM Think Pad T42 after swapping from Debian Squeeze am really enjoying the experience. Fedora 14 having reached EOL, I'm looking to upgrade but at present I'm running Gnome 2 16 uses Gnome 3.