Re: Notecase for F-16 -

2012-01-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On 13/01/12 01:41, Bob Goodwin wrote: I've just installed F-16 but can't find a Notecase What are my options? Bob In Fedora repos. yum install notecase_pro Some paid for features disabled -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list

Re: Notecase for F-16 -

2012-01-13 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 13/01/12 03:27, Frank Murphy wrote: On 13/01/12 08:13, Frank Murphy wrote: In Fedora repos. yum install notecase_pro Some paid for features disabled Scrap that, I did a yum search notecase* it's in my loal repo :( Yes, I just went through that on this F-15 and the F-16

Re: Notecase for F-16 -

2012-01-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On 13/01/12 08:57, Bob Goodwin wrote: If it is available for a price within reason I will buy it. I will search further. Thanks to all, Bob Try: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2649 it should give you a break until F17? -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded

Re: Notecase for F-16 -

2012-01-13 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 13/01/12 04:13, Frank Murphy wrote: On 13/01/12 08:57, Bob Goodwin wrote: If it is available for a price within reason I will buy it. I will search further. Thanks to all, Bob Try: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2649 it should give you a break until F17?

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 17:18 -0500, Jim wrote: E [12/Jan/2012:17:08:55 -0500] PID 15290 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc) crashed on signal 11. Samsung's CUPS filter crashed. You need to let them know about it so they can fix it. Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: Fedora 16-i386 Can't get Samsung printer to print, Error Log Messages below. Samsung CLX3170. How did you install the printer? With many Samsung printers now the splix package will provide suitable opensource drivers that

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 17:18 -0500, Jim wrote: E [12/Jan/2012:17:08:55 -0500] PID 15290 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc) crashed on signal 11. Samsung's CUPS filter crashed.  You need to let them know about it so

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +, mike cloaked wrote: However nowadays I simply install the splix package and the system recognises the printer and it works without any fuss or bother. Oh, do you use the Fedora splix package, or rpmfusion? If the Fedora one, it would be useful to add the

Grub for F-16/init 3 -

2012-01-13 Thread Bob Goodwin
It looks like I need to edit /etc/default/grub however it provides some unfamiliar lines; GRUB_TIMEOUT=15 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Fedora GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0

Re: Grub for F-16/init 3 -

2012-01-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On 13/01/12 13:01, Bob Goodwin wrote: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyr You need to remove quiet, and check for rhgb on the same line somewhere I also edit /etc/grub2.cfg and remove rhgb and quite from it also. then: grub2-mkconfig -o

Re: Grub for F-16/init 3 -

2012-01-13 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 13/01/12 08:01, Bob Goodwin wrote: It looks like I need to edit /etc/default/grub however it provides some unfamiliar lines; GRUB_TIMEOUT=15 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Fedora GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread Jim
On 01/13/2012 05:20 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 17:18 -0500, Jim wrote: E [12/Jan/2012:17:08:55 -0500] PID 15290 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc) crashed on signal 11. Samsung's CUPS filter crashed. You need to let them know about it so they can fix it. Tim. */

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread Jim
On 01/13/2012 06:22 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +, mike cloaked wrote: However nowadays I simply install the splix package and the system recognises the printer and it works without any fuss or bother. Oh, do you use the Fedora splix package, or rpmfusion? If the

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: Personally, I think NM tries to do too much; I would much prefer an application that just dealt with WiFi. Really, wired connections require absolutely nothing extra that NetworkManager wouldn't have to deal with for wifi connections, so why not let it handle

Re: OT: How much RAM should I get in a new laptop ?

2012-01-13 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:18 PM, linux guy linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: Update. After a bunch of order tuning, I ordered my XPS 17 with the 3D screen (which got me 4 DIMM slots) and 16GB of RAM. Yes, 16 GB. I don't feel I need that much right now, but as a package, it was cheap to add it.

Re: Moodle on Fedora 16

2012-01-13 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/12/2012 07:39 AM, Ester Muñoz Aparicio wrote: Hello list members! I'm having a hard time trying to make moodle work on my Fedora 16. Few days ago I got the greatest news: one of my clients is moving to Moodle and that means a lot of work

Re: Grub for F-16/init 3 -

2012-01-13 Thread Kevin Martin
On 01/13/2012 07:46 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 13/01/12 08:01, Bob Goodwin wrote: It looks like I need to edit /etc/default/grub however it provides some unfamiliar lines; GRUB_TIMEOUT=15 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Fedora

Re: OT: How much RAM should I get in a new laptop ?

2012-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:18 PM, linux guy linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: Update. After a bunch of order tuning, I ordered my XPS 17 with the 3D screen (which got me 4 DIMM slots) and 16GB of RAM.  Yes, 16 GB.  I don't

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 09:08 -0500, Jim wrote: Tim there is something that puzzles me , that same driver work fine in Fedora 13,14,15 but not on Fedora 16. Perhaps Samsung did not test on Fedora 16. There can be valid changes and optimizations in e.g. the C library that can break assumptions

Re: Fc16 printer not running

2012-01-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 09:58 +1000, david walcroft wrote: On 01/13/2012 09:47 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/13/2012 07:38 AM, david walcroft wrote: On 01/13/2012 09:32 AM, david walcroft wrote: I have just done a Fc16 x86_64 minimal install,I could not print so I tried installing hplip for

Re: Fc16 printer not running

2012-01-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:29 +1000, david walcroft wrote: On 01/13/2012 10:17 AM, david walcroft wrote: On 01/13/2012 10:05 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/13/2012 07:58 AM, david walcroft wrote: bash: systemctl status cups.service: command not found [david@reddwarf ~]$ Thanks david

Re: More on date/time format problems

2012-01-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 07:44:33AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So is this a bug with the locked panel NOT using the same format as the unlocked panel? Obviously there is an intermitent problem of the system loosing track of things. And as I think back, once it gets confused, locking then

Re: Fc16 printer not running

2012-01-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 11:02 +1000, david walcroft wrote: On 01/13/2012 10:49 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/13/2012 08:42 AM, david walcroft wrote: No I used 'david', not root user. Well, that is your problem. A normal user isn't generally permitted to make system wide configuration

Re: Notecase for F-16 -

2012-01-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 22:41 -0500, Fedora User wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:41:22 -0500 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: I've just installed F-16 but can't find a Notecase rpm for Fedora 16. I have a very extensives set of notes that I rely on in

Re: Notecase for F-16 -

2012-01-13 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 13/01/12 10:48, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 22:41 -0500, Fedora User wrote: There are Fedora RPM's on the NotecasePro site. You MIGHT be able to import your notes into tomboy - which I have not used in several years. tomboy has been supplanted by gnote. I

Re: F16 concurrency problem between network and sshd service

2012-01-13 Thread JB
Corinna Vinschen fedora at cygwin.de writes: ... I would suggest that you post it on Fedora devel list, or, file a report for a systemd component at bugzilla.redhat.com, in order to make the systemd devs aware of it (they may not read this list). JB -- users mailing list

Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Lester M Petrie
Hi I have recently done a fresh install of Fedora 16. My machine has 2 1TB SATA drives, and came with Windows 7 installed on the 1st drive. I then partitioned the second drive into several partitions; one for /boot, one for /opt, one for /usr/local, 2 for /, and one for /home. I keep the

Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to boot a computer in EFI mode. -- === The end of labor is to gain leisure. === Aaron Konstam

Re: Grub for F-16/init 3 -

2012-01-13 Thread Shawn Badger
I would try removing quiet form the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Kevin Martin kevi...@ameritech.net wrote: On 01/13/2012 07:46 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 13/01/12 08:01, Bob Goodwin wrote:            It looks like I need to edit /etc/default/grub however it  

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-13 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/13/2012 03:23 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to boot a computer in EFI mode. I have an EFI netbook and installed F16 on it. Worked fine, not sure what you mean. -- Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint and Slackware user Linux counter #386175

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 14:18 -0500, Lester M Petrie wrote: #grub2-install /dev/sdb /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it.. /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists.

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote: On 01/13/2012 03:23 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to boot a computer in EFI mode. I have an EFI netbook and installed F16 on it. Worked fine, not sure what you mean. --

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-13 Thread Timothy Davis
On 01/13/2012 04:21 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote: On 01/13/2012 03:23 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to boot a computer in EFI mode. I have an EFI netbook and installed F16 on it.

yum 'updates' file too big?

2012-01-13 Thread charles zeitler
-- Do what thou wilt shall  be the whole  of the Law. [fedora16@azatot ~]$ sudo yum update Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit google-chrome | 951 B 00:00 google-chrome/primary | 1.4 kB 00:00

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Lester M Petrie
On 01/13/2012 03:49 PM, Greg Woods wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 14:18 -0500, Lester M Petrie wrote: #grub2-install /dev/sdb /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it.. /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 16:43 -0500, Lester M Petrie wrote: Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 3 32.3kB 526MB 526MB primary ext4boot Doesn't prove I'm right, but it's another data point. My laptop that doesn't allow me to update grub2

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Itamar Reis Peixoto
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Greg Woods wo...@ucar.edu wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 16:43 -0500, Lester M Petrie wrote: Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags   3      32.3kB  526MB   526MB   primary   ext4            boot Doesn't prove I'm right, but it's

Re: Moodle on Fedora 16

2012-01-13 Thread Roger
Hello May I suggest, if at all possible, 'Forget Cutting Edge Fedora of any version' for business and enterprise application. Cutting edge Fedora is volatile and in my understanding, unsuitable for most real life on going enterprises until it gets to end of life, by then a New Fedora with

Re: yum 'updates' file too big?

2012-01-13 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:39 PM, charles zeitler cfzeit...@gmail.com wrote: -- Do what thou wilt shall  be the whole  of the Law. snipped yum output and, the 'user' who exited wasn't me. (i'm the only human user) any clues on this one? Try cleaning the metadata cache for the updates repo:

To Alan Cox (ref: stunning Fedora 15 x64/Win 7 x64 Ultimate performance gap)

2012-01-13 Thread A A
Alan, You are a world famous Linux kernel developer and one of the very few able to unravel this mystery. Follows he message I sent to the users list a few days ago: Hardware platform: Dell Studio XPS, Core i7 950, 8Mb L3

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Lester M Petrie
On 01/13/2012 05:06 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Greg Woodswo...@ucar.edu wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 16:43 -0500, Lester M Petrie wrote: Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 3 32.3kB 526MB 526MB primary ext4

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread Jim
On 01/13/2012 06:22 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: Fedora splix package The splix driver does not support the Samsung CLX-3175FN XAA. I notified Samsung of problem and will have to wait see what they do. Or go back to Fedora 15. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/13/2012 04:29 PM, Lester M Petrie wrote: That partition is the /boot partition, and its 526MB. How feasible would it be to backup /boot, reboot the install DVD in rescue mode, delete and recreate the partition leaving the 1MB at the beginning, and then restore the backed up partition?

Re: To Alan Cox (ref: stunning Fedora 15 x64/Win 7 x64 Ultimate performance gap)

2012-01-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/13/2012 04:13 PM, A A wrote: You are a world famous Linux kernel developer and one of the very few able to unravel this mystery. You're asking a Linux developer to explain why your code is slow on Windows. It's unlikely that they will be able to, given that they don't have access to

Re: yum 'updates' file too big?

2012-01-13 Thread charles zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:05 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: Try cleaning the metadata cache for the updates repo: yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=updates clean all Then try again. -T.C. worth trying, but no

Re: yum 'updates' file too big?

2012-01-13 Thread charles zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. in addition: yum provides grabber.py Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Error: database disk image is malformed does this call for rebuilding something? could it be related to original problem? charles zeitler -- Love

F16 ddclient fails to start

2012-01-13 Thread Terry Polzin
o/p from /var/log/messages; Jan 13 20:54:13 columbia ddclient[1758]: Stopping ddclient: [FAILED] Jan 13 20:56:32 columbia systemd[1]: Failed to read PID file /var/run/ddclient/ddclient.pid after start. The service might be broken I created a /run/ddclient folder, no help. Anyone have an idea?

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-13 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 14:26 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: That's why I wish NM would stick to WiFi. It's there to deal with changing networks, such as my laptop being either wired or wireless, on any LAN, automatically. And it does that fine, for me. To force it into only dealing with WiFi

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 17:10 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: Boot from a gparted LiveCD, shrink the next partition slightly and move /boot enough to leave at least 1MB free at the beginning. I had read somewhere that you can only shrink partitions from the top end. Was I wrong? That would be a lot

Re: yum 'updates' file too big?

2012-01-13 Thread charles zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. and now: [fedora16@azatot ~]$ sudo yum update Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/yum, line 29, in module yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File

Re: Moodle on Fedora 16

2012-01-13 Thread edik landave
Ester, On And now, into the other question - using a subfolder in /home as the data folder for moodle I'll try to read some more, I think it has something to do with http not being allowed to show user directories, but we'll see. You would need to configure your apache config file with

Ctrl key bind error in f16

2012-01-13 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
Hi, I have an issue with ctrl key binding. For example in gedit when I select all with Ctrl+a and press s, it shows the save dialog. The ctrl key is not released I think (although it is physically released). It's the same with both the Ctrl keys in my keyboard and once the bind is there, it is

Re: yum 'updates' file too big?

2012-01-13 Thread charles zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:05 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: Try cleaning the metadata cache for the updates repo: yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=updates clean all Then try again. -T.C. thank you for the tip.

Re: yum 'updates' file too big?

2012-01-13 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:16 PM, charles zeitler cfzeit...@gmail.com wrote: Do what thou wilt shall  be the whole  of the Law. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:05 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: Try cleaning the metadata cache for the updates repo: yum --disablerepo='*'

Re: How (or why) does this bash script snippet work?

2012-01-13 Thread Dean S. Messing
On Fri, 13 January 2012 at 15:37, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 12Jan2012 19:07, Dean S. Messing de...@sharplabs.com wrote: | On 13 Jan 2012 at 13:55:27, Cameron Simpson wrote: | snip | The: | |foo command [args...] | | form is handy for programmatically constructed pipelines, too.

Re: Moodle on Fedora 16

2012-01-13 Thread Ester Muñoz Aparicio
El 14/01/12 05:41, edik landave escribió: Ester, On And now, into the other question - using a subfolder in /home as the data folder for moodle I'll try to read some more, I think it has something to do with http not being allowed to show user directories, but we'll see. You would need to