Re: Frustrating upgraded behaviour

2014-04-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/11/14 04:10, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: LibreOffice is hanging also with the new Kernel. Saw this mentioned somewhere elsebut can't remember where. I just tried and verified that... yum erase libreoffice-kde will fix the hang. Also explains why I didn't see the hang since, even

Re: Frustrating upgraded behaviour

2014-04-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/11/14 06:09, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/11/14 04:10, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: LibreOffice is hanging also with the new Kernel. Saw this mentioned somewhere elsebut can't remember where. I just tried and verified that... yum erase libreoffice-kde will fix the hang. Also

Re: Bug in PDL::Graphics::PLplot

2014-04-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/12/14 19:12, Patrick Dupre wrote: 3 months ago, I submitted a bug: 1055054 Since that time I contacted Michael Schwendt, but I cannot fix it. So, what is next? I cannot upgrade my other computers to fedora 20 without this bug fixed. Is there an alternative to this package? One thing

Re: lightdm fails to start a gnome session

2014-04-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/15/14 21:51, Joachim Backes wrote: having the problem that lightdm is'nt able to start a gnome-session: only seeing a screen with the (well known): Oh no! Something has gone wrong. Please log out and try again. Login in again shows the same phenomena, and so on... No problem to start

Re: CUPS service seems to have suddenly stopped working

2014-04-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/16/14 09:38, Claude Jones wrote: On 04/15/2014 05:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: There isn't such a thing (AFAIK) as service.service. Try this, as root: systemctl start cups.service And see if it starts up properly. well, there is no output at all when I run that, but if I check the status

Re: Notification area audio widget suddenly invisible on Fedora LXDE spin

2014-04-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/16/14 16:04, Someone wrote: My sound abruptly stopped working, and the notification area widget stopped appearing. It hasn't been working for a couple of weeks, at this point, though it had been working fine before that. (Before it stopped working, the notification area widget had been

Re: Fedora 20 freezes at the login screen. System Temperature over limit.

2014-04-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 10:51, Sudhir Khanger wrote: I am having a really terrible experience with Fedora 20 KDE on Thinkpad 420i. I installed Fedora 20 KDE on Thinkpad 420i, upgraded it to the latest and system freezes at the login screen. System temperature goes over limit either burning the system

Re: Fedora 20 freezes at the login screen. System Temperature over limit.

2014-04-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 11:26, Sudhir Khanger wrote: Although I appreciate Dhaval commenting but response sounded like off-topic. Not so sure that his suggestions where that off topic. But anyway... If I were to see any process eating CPU would have solved the problem but as far as I can see there are

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 13:49, M. Fioretti wrote: Greetings, a while ago, I noticed that on my Fedora box digiKam would not load and display picture galleries anymore, and when launched from the prompt would produce this message: digikam(14981)/digikam (core): Reached inotify limit which IIUC means

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 14:09, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 14:11:24 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: I don't know how the system sets this value. 8192 seems rather small to me. good point, thanks. This, in fact, is a side question that I forgot to ask in my original email: what are the criteria

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 15:08, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 14:40:07 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: One silly question. What version of Fedora are you running. I found a message on the mailing lists back in 2010 which, from a reliable source, indicated this is happening on an F17

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 16:28, M. Fioretti wrote: ok that's why then. So the only thing I need, if anything, is further confirmation that increasing it on F17 would not cause problems. I'll wait until tomorrow for further comments and then risk the increase :-) FWIW, I just made the change in

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 20:51, Ahmad Samir wrote: The value of fs.inotify.max_user_watches was increased in F18, and later releases, due to this bug[1] in nepomuk. It's configured by /usr/lib/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf which is installed by nepomuk-core, so ideally you'd get that

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 21:38, Ahmad Samir wrote: /usr/lib/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf is included in the initramfs by dracut when a kernel is installed/updated. Check `lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img | grep sysctl`. So in effect you'd have to re-create the initramfs after

Re: Fedora 20 freezes at the login screen. System Temperature over limit.

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/21/14 00:13, Sudhir Khanger wrote: I booted into runlevel 3 and saw system being flooded with nouveau errors. Here is a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/qET8Zxrl.jpg nouveau W[ PFIFO][1000 and more numbers. I can boot fine with any kernel with nomodeset. I can boot fine with any kernel

Re: Fedora 20 freezes at the login screen. System Temperature over limit.

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/21/14 06:24, Ed Greshko wrote: Of course you always have the option of switching to the nVidia drivers from rpmfusion. I'm sure that you've thought of that already To continue the thought before my cat hit send. alreadyI was forced to move to nVidia when noveau produced nothing

Re: Fedup issue with thunderbird

2014-04-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/23/14 19:40, linuxnuts...@videotron.ca wrote: I upgraded to fedora 20 from fedora 19 using fedup. Everything went well except for some weird issues with Thunderbird. The latter is now giving me a pile of weird permission errors and disk space errors. There is 215GB free space, so I

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/25/14 04:08, Tucker wrote: Agreed. When you initially suggested it, I figured it was a problem with me and something I could fix if I understood what was going on. When you file the bugzilla, would you kindly post the link for it here? -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and

Re: Run application with other user

2011-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/08/2011 07:06 PM, kellyremo wrote: I need to run an application with another user then the default (normally used). Purpose: create a .desktop file on my desktop to run e.g.: Google Chrome with another user (NOT ROOT! - so beesu doesn't count.) There aren't any gksu, or kdesu packages

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/11/2011 03:50 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 February 2011 02:48:18 Fernando Cassia wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: One could avoid this problem to a good extend by cherry picking updates and doing just security updates on your system

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup?

2011-02-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/13/2011 01:00 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: The nslookup shipped with Fedora is a toy, with most of the important parts returning not implemented status. Can someone point me to a source for the real program, such as I used on other systems like AIX? The lack of functionality is becoming a

Re: fc8 upgrade

2011-02-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/25/2011 02:54 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: If you're going to use a rapidly-changing distro like Fedora you need to keep it up to date if you don't want to suffer the consequences of being several years behind the curve. Actually, in his case it wouldn't have mattered what distro he was

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/27/2011 07:31 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: After some checking, it appears that AIX has dropped support for nslookup between AIX 5 and 6, the management solution was to look harder for the fully functional source. :-( You're management *still* has it wrong. AIX and every Linux distro

Re: Where can I find a functional nslookup? ***AIX 6.11 is no better ***

2011-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/27/2011 08:30 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: These people not only don't pay for good advice, they won't even take it for free in many cases. Good luck to you. No matter what direction you take, the chances are sometime in the future the situation will become totally untenable. I've seen

Re: .rnd

2011-03-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/06/2011 03:14 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: I didn't see anything that is. That is about files with the extension .md, while I was asking about a file called .rnd (. r n d). While that is true, you can always type .rnd in that site's search box to find what it has to say. -- When

Re: My backintime app is busted on Fedora 14.

2011-03-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/07/2011 11:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 09:44 +0800, Dick Roark wrote: I have been using backintime since Fedora 11. Since Fedora 14, it no longer works. I have been unable to get it working. Finally, I did a F14 reinstall which did not change the situation at

Re: My backintime app is busted on Fedora 14.

2011-03-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/07/2011 12:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Yes, I can look it up as well. My point was, it's tiresome to have to look it up just because the OP can't be bothered to add as much as a URL. (This is a package which -- despite what the website says -- is not in the standard repos.)

Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

2011-03-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/11/2011 07:23 AM, John Mellor wrote: (Sorry for the top-post, but I've had enough of this thread.) Can we take this offline to a bit-bucket somewhere, and maybe point the original poster to a basic course on language and locales and character sets? This thread has gone on far too long,

Re: [OT Humor] Obviously designed by morons

2011-03-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/22/2011 12:14 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Doesn't work for me ... nothing happens Just wondering Now this thread has moved on to a general discussion on Gnome wouldn't it make some sense to start a new thread with a more meaningful subject? I think there were some interesting things

Re: [WAYYY OT] Begs the question

2011-03-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/22/2011 09:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Even more OT: since we're talking about English grammar and orthography, there are certain errors that tend to crop up on this list (and on others of course), to wit: 1) This looks like an error? 2) How do I do this. Sadly, they are often

Re: Direction of Fedora desktop manager Gnome, related to complaints in OT morons thread

2011-03-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/22/2011 10:38 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: That may be true of English, but is it true of all languages? The Academie Francaise tries to tell the world what is correct in French; I don't know how many people listen to them. I can assure you that the French Canadians don't listen to them...

Re: [WAYYY OT] Begs the question

2011-03-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/22/2011 10:36 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: I was actually surprised to find out that in some languages the statement and the question have exactly the same form, the only difference being the question mark vs. period at the end of the sentence. You may also be interested to know that

Re: Need help with rpmbuild

2011-03-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/24/2011 09:41 AM, JD wrote: See these (long) URL's (sorry, my mail client broke each URL into 3 lines):

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/26/2011 11:37 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi everyone, I just bought a 1TB WD Passport. It came formatted as NTFS, on plugging it in, it auto-mounted as the regular user. But after I formatted it to use ext4 (with gparted), it keeps getting auto-mounted as root both on F13 and F14. Any ideas

Re: [OT Humor] Obviously designed by morons

2011-03-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/27/2011 09:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 03/23/2011 08:03 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: FC15 uses the GNOME wallpaper by default instead of the Fedora theme, does that tell you anything? It's not official but sure a warning sign. Inaccurate. Fedora GNOME uses a GNOME based wallpaper

Re: [OT Humor] Obviously designed by morons

2011-03-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/29/2011 01:08 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: In Gnome3 such a UI doesn't exist, users are being forced to dig into keyboard short cuts == Lack of usability. Seeing as F15 is alpha maybe it would be helpful to bring up your observations on the t...@lists.fedoraproject.org list? And, of

Re: [OT Humor] Obviously designed by morons

2011-03-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/29/2011 01:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: I've done so for many years, but with Gnome3 my feel is things have developed into a direction, they have broken my Camel's back. Well, I'm sorry to hear about your camel. But, as I've heard it, the folks on the test list may not be here and isn't

Re: Facebook on Fedora -- a couple of questions/suggestions.

2011-03-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/30/2011 08:23 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:09 PM, William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: Any suggestions on how I might set up a notification monitor that shows in my system tray, or beeps or something like my email monitor. Looked in FB apps -- nothing.

Re: OT? copy live ubuntu iso image to usb for boot

2011-04-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/01/2011 05:11 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: OK, I guess this would be unacceptable to ask in an Ubuntu mailing list and I was trying to get help with a Fedora iso but since F15 has been pushed back to be nice to mirrors because another distribution is releasing just before the original date,

Re: /dev/ull

2011-04-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/03/2011 01:54 PM, suvayu ali wrote: I can confirm this too. Is their a bug report where I can follow? Go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and search on /dev/ull -- The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe. 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台北市八德路四段 signature.asc Description:

Re: SSH Support on Remote Desktop Viewer

2011-04-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/03/2011 05:46 PM, Michael Liendl wrote: Thank you. Looks like a good programm but it doesn't work for me: VNC Server closed connection FWIW, remmina works just fine for me with ssh tunneling. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list

Re: OT: one huge monitor or 2 smaller or bigger ones ? SOLVED.

2011-04-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/03/2011 10:25 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: However, the U2711 and the U3011 are too large to have 2 such monitors side by side. The 2711 is about 25 inches wide and the 3011 is 27.5 inches wide. My desk isn't wide enough to have 2 such monitors, especially when I like one monitor to be

Re: Changing Owner on a backup drive

2011-04-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/04/2011 08:24 PM, Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 07:20 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 21:41 -0400, Jim wrote: Fedora 14 I have a backup drive at sdb1 a Vfat (fat32) partition a USB hard drive that before upgrading from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14 , the owner

Re: OT: one huge monitor or 2 smaller or bigger ones ? SOLVED.

2011-04-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/04/2011 09:15 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: I'll post back how I like it once I've used it for a while. Don't worry No matter what you say about how well it works for you there will be someone that will argue that what you are doing isn't optimal and you should do it their way'. :-) --

Re: Changing Owner on a backup drive

2011-04-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/04/2011 11:20 PM, JD wrote: Which essentially was my reply to the OP. What, you expect me to read every reply... :-) Sorry I missed it. -- If you don't drink it, someone else will. 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台北市八德路四段 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list

Re: verifying the boot.iso for fedora 15

2011-04-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/05/2011 10:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: How does one verify boot.iso for the alpha version? I've imported the key file, but I don't see a proper signature or an sha256 checksum. I downloaded from a mirror and it was there e.g.

Re: verifying the boot.iso for fedora 15

2011-04-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/05/2011 11:12 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/05/2011 10:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: How does one verify boot.iso for the alpha version? I've imported the key file, but I don't see a proper signature or an sha256 checksum. I downloaded from a mirror and it was there e.g. ftp

Re: verifying the boot.iso for fedora 15

2011-04-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/06/2011 09:38 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: I just pushed a fix for this to the fedora-web git repository¹. When the website syncs next it should be on the /keys page. That is the proper key and fingerprint (though I don't expect you to just take my word for that ;). The key file was

Re: verifying the boot.iso for fedora 15

2011-04-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/06/2011 10:22 AM, Joel Rees wrote: Okay, Trying to verify the alpha netinst.iso, I seem to have forgotten the way these files work, again. Step 1 is to verify the signature on the CHECKSUM file gpg --verify *-CHECKSUM That gives you confidence that the data in that file comes from

Re: verifying the boot.iso for fedora 15

2011-04-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/06/2011 10:14 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: gpg: Signature made Thu 03 Mar 2011 11:34:51 AM CST using RSA key ID 069C8460 gpg: Good signature from Fedora (15) fed...@fedoraproject.org gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! gpg: There is no indication

Re: Hardware for learning graphics.

2011-04-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/07/2011 01:19 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/06/2011 10:05 PM, Unknown wrote: It is too difficult to use Nvidia graphics with Fedora and I do not reccomend it. There, at least, I have to differ. If you use the guides at the Fedora Forum or install fedoraplus (I've given pointers to both,

Re: Get access to my pictures and more

2011-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/10/2011 03:25 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/09/2011 11:36 AM, AMRISH SONAWANE wrote: I have created a Netlog profile and would like to give you I've reported this lusing ID10T to the Netlog abuse department and I hope that everybody else receiving his spam does the same. Don't be so

Re: Get access to my pictures and more

2011-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/10/2011 04:28 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/09/2011 12:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: It is most likely that when people sign up for the service it automatically sent out notices to everyone in their address book to invite them. In the words of the infamous Dr. T, I, on the other hand, am

Re: Get access to my pictures and more

2011-04-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/10/2011 04:55 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: Yes, I see. However, their rapid response suggests that they don't take such things lightly. That is what they'd like you to believe. In many cases even those replies you get are automated. Or, their highly trained staff gives canned responses.

Re: Thunderbird, web links in email, and Firefox

2011-04-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/14/2011 01:41 PM, JD wrote: Because I do not see in the TB, or FF settings where to set Firefox as the default browser. Firefox is the only browser installed on the system. Furthermore, this problem started after upgrade to F14. The settings for Firefox being the default browser is not

Re: Reasons for choosing Fedora over Debian

2011-04-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/17/2011 09:23 AM, Digimer wrote: Fedora is more security-focused where Ubuntu is more usability focused. Your first user in Fedora will not have sudo setup. You will need to setup sudo yourself or use su as needed. FYI, this is changed in the coming F15. When you create the user on

Re: Please help me installing RT3070STA

2011-04-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/26/2011 08:40 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: The best thing for you to do is to return your network adapter and get one that's natively supported in Linux. Unlike MS-Windows, where hardware drivers are typically supplied by the manufacturer, all drivers for most common hardware are

Re: Please help me installing RT3070STA

2011-04-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/26/2011 09:08 PM, 신승원 wrote: I tried to find it but it is all named like 'rt3070-kmod.~~~.src.fc14' or 'rt3070-kmod-debuginfo.~~~.fc14'. The first one is something that I've tried before(Unpack and there's the src), but I haven't tried the latter one. Thanks. After you enabled the

Re: Please help me installing RT3070STA

2011-04-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/27/2011 06:17 AM, 신승원 wrote: I know yum, but my computer can only access to internet by wireless. I don't have any LAN cable in my room. Well, then the question is how will you get what you need to your computer? Are you saying your have to download to another computer, put it

Re: Please help me installing RT3070STA

2011-04-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/27/2011 06:25 AM, 신승원 wrote: Oh, I know, but the reason why I want to use wireless internet is because it is the only way to connect the internet in this computer! So, you don't have access to the internetbut you need to get the packages to this computer...and they are only

Re: When there are only 15 days to go for the release of Fedora 15 , Why does the Documentation for Fedora 15 only has two sections, Release Notes and Technical notes?

2011-04-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/01/2011 10:58 AM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: When there are only 15 days to go for the release of Fedora 15 ,Why does the Documentation for Fedora 15 only has two sections Release Notes and Technical notes What about other sections? How can anybody try out and learn Fedora 15 without

Re: Firefox 4 ?

2011-05-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/04/2011 05:54 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 19:31 +0300, jarmo wrote: Suvayu Ali kirjoitti tiistai, 3. toukokuuta 2011 18:19:11: [1] http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/ How about try Remi's package? Updates 3.6 FF. If I understood,

Re: F14 NFS client gets wrong ownership IDs on NFS mounted partition

2011-05-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/04/2011 09:27 AM, Mark Eackloff wrote: Tried it but no banana. Same result. The comments in that file say that the default is the host's DNS name, which is what I was using, against popular advice, for my NISDOMAIN. What you said is a bit unclear...so just want to make sure You

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-05-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/20/2011 05:07 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: If you think that hiding SSID will help with security, you might as well add that hanging a pack of onions in front of the house will also help make your wireless more secure There's your problem It should be garlic! :-) :-) -- Sight is

Re: Antivirus for Fedora 14

2011-05-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/20/2011 11:08 PM, Tim wrote: It's generally regarded that you don't need anti-virus software for Linux. I haven't bothered, haven't seen the need for it, and I think it's been around a decade that I've been running Linux this way. (And I do mean it runs, not hobbles about in a broken

Re: does btrfs finally have fsck?

2011-05-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/25/2011 08:23 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote: Does btrfs finally have a fully functional fsck? Or is btrfs install not recommended for the faint of heart? Last time I tried btrfs (~year ago), FS got corrupted after a kernel oops. Luckily it was only a test machine. From the release

32bit libs on 64bit system

2011-05-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Hi, For all these years I've only been using 32bit Linux. Decided to install F15 as 64bit and I've run into a minor issue and looking for a simple solution. It seems that google earth does use some 32bit libs. Probably will run into other non-packaged apps that will need 32bit libs. So, is

Re: 32bit libs on 64bit system

2011-05-24 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: So, is there a quick way to tell yum to install all (majority) of 32 bit libs? OK Memory kicked in yum install redhat-lsb -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- users mailing list users

Re: KDE Pager - Desktops won't retain names

2011-05-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it 100% reproducible, I think you should fill a bug. Looks like a known issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273002 Ah yes. I should have checked upstream. Thanks. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. --

NFS mounts at boot broken on F15?

2011-05-27 Thread Ed Greshko
It seems that NFS automounts on F15 are broken? I have the usual bits set in fstab, one of them being misty:/syntegra /syntegra nfs4rw 0 0 It doesn't get mounted, and following the advice in the boot.log I see the following [egreshko@meimei ~]$ sudo

Re: NFS mounts at boot broken on F15?

2011-05-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/28/2011 08:55 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: Anyone else seeing this? Is it related to this bugzilla? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690292 A mount after book works just fine I think it may be this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692008 Anyway, you are not

Re: VirtualBox problem in F15

2011-05-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/28/2011 10:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I haven't touched my home directory where the VM is kept, so any light on this would be welcome. No info on your particular error. I don't see your issue on my Win2K, and Vista guest. However, USBs don't work in any of my guests. So, I'm

Re: VirtualBox problem in F15

2011-05-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/28/2011 11:37 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: OK, thanks. I haven't got as far as trying the USB stuff as I can't even run my VM, but if USB doesn't work it's no use to me. I only run VB when I want to update my iPhone. FWIW I did file this to their bugtracker

Re: Checksum

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, Where is the CHECKSUM file ? https://fedoraproject.org/en/verify -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: NFS mounts at boot broken on F15?

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/28/2011 06:26 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: I solaved the problem by adding a comment=systemd.automount for the NFS mounts in fstab. See man systmd.automount Louis That is a very nice workaround. Thanks, Ed -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: F15- IMPORTANT Network Manager

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/28/2011 09:19 PM, antonio wrote: re-upgraded again and I confirm that I loose all networks (I get a two screen applet wit a red cross on it on upper right part of the screen. I am running it on an Acer laptop with Intel motherboard and wireless card Works fine here. I've got an MSI

Re: VirtualBox problem in F15

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/28/2011 10:56 PM, Steven Stern wrote: Make sure your user account is in the vboxusers group or USB won't work. This was a change in the 4.x series on VirtualBox. Doh! I hate when that happens Somehow I recall VBox giving a more informative error message when you forgot one of the

Re: NFS mounts at boot broken on F15?

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2011 01:51 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Where is the comment= feature documented? It's not in the man page given above, nor in the man pages for mount or nfs. I fount the man page Louis wrote about by googling man systmd.automount -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: NFS mounts at boot broken on F15?

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2011 06:43 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: You mean man systemd.automount (Louis misspelled it as well). Yes... I used cp to respond. Good that you found it nonetheless. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: VirtualBox problem in F15

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2011 07:38 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: It's really all Ed's fault for changing the subject Guilty as charged :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

kmod-nvidia or dkms?

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
I've just installed F15 x86_64 and have been trying my best to use the nouveau driver. However, it is falling short. I could probably live with the failures in some of the desktop effects in KDE. But, the one I can't seem to accept is the inability run GNOME 3 in a Vbox guest. In F11 to

Re: kmod-nvidia or dkms?

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2011 12:19 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: rpmfusion auto kernel module rebuild is done with akmods not dkms .. so instead of installing kmod-nvidia (or in addition if you like) install akmod-nvidia which will build kmod-nvidia for you if its not there. seems to be operating with

WEP key selection in GNOME

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
In GNOME 3 I could find no way to select which WEP key to use (1-4). I suppose I could manually edit the file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. But, am I missing something? In KDE it is simple to select. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: kmod-nvidia or dkms?

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2011 01:39 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: rpm -q --scriptspackagename should tell you such info Doesn't the package have to be installed for this to work? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: kmod-nvidia or dkms?

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2011 01:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/29/2011 01:39 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: rpm -q --scriptspackagename should tell you such info Doesn't the package have to be installed for this to work? Sorryforgot to add that maybe you forgot to add the -p parameter... -- users mailing

Re: kmod-nvidia or dkms?

2011-05-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2011 01:55 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Yes. Don't see a problem there. Install it and run the query. If you must avoid installing the package for some reason, install the srpm and look at the spec file. Being the cautious type, I find it better to download the packages and run what

Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

2011-05-29 Thread Ed Greshko
Hi, I've enabled the rpmfusion repos and have just tried to do yum install kmod-nvidia. It offered to install the following Installing: kmod-nvidia Installing for dependencies: kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64 nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig xorg-x11-drv-nvidia

Re: WEP key selection in GNOME

2011-05-29 Thread Ed Greshko
Dave Ihnat dih...@dminet.com wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 01:14:28PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: In GNOME 3 I could find no way to select which WEP key to use (1-4). ... With all due respect, why bother? WEP as security is no security at all. I knew I should have added the caveat that anyone

Re: Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

2011-05-29 Thread Ed Greshko
Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011 16:35:04 +0800 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Hi, I've enabled the rpmfusion repos and have just tried to do yum install kmod-nvidia. ...snip... So, I think it should have failed with a dependency error, yes? Would

Re: Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

2011-05-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2011 09:47 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: What does: rpm -q kernel return? That would be 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 (as mentioned in the first post... :-) ) Do you have the 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15 kernel installed? Yes, it is still installed. I think I have it set to keep 3 kernels.

Re: Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

2011-05-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/29/2011 10:52 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Then thats why. rpmfusion doesn't have one for your current kernel, but it does for the release kernel. Since that kernel is installed (even though it's not booted), it will meet the dep. Seriously? It looks at what you've got installed, and not what

Re: Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

2011-05-29 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/30/2011 12:53 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: In a perfect world that would never happen. Of course, this is*not* a perfect world and people sometimes either make mistakes or get behind. Tish happens. I don't want those designers anywhere near my nuclear power plant or airplane. :-) -- users

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 - 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/30/2011 04:11 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode 1,3, or 5. In view of this it

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 - 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/30/2011 04:11 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode 1,3, or 5. In view of this it

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 - 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/31/2011 02:53 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Come on. Let's assume good will. His warning might not be helpful with more details but he is certainly just trying to warn users. Over reaction to a personal experience is *never* a good thing not matter how well intended. FUD is FUD. -- users

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 - 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/31/2011 03:09 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: I wish I could say the same, it's failed twice for me now, even from a minimal Fedora 14 KDE reinstall/update. Might be FUD in your world,but I hope for your sake you never come across a similar problem. Rest assured if our places are ever

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 - 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/31/2011 03:03 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I think you are doing the same thing that you are accusing the other person of doing IMO. You can just point out what is wrong. The OP specifically told people DON'T EVEN TRY!!! to upgrade from F14 to F15. No details, no suggestion as to what

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 - 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/31/2011 03:09 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: No, upgrading F15 is a pain. Beware, expect danger! That statement is not FUD. That statement is measured and reasonable. That statement would normally be followed by Make backups before proceeding with any upgrade. -- users mailing

Re: Unable to copy my Kodak Cam Photos

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/31/2011 02:08 PM, JD wrote: Sorry for the false alarm. I had forgotten that I had moved those 2 directories to a different location, so when I did not see my collection there, I thought shotwell clobbered them all. Apologies to the shotwell developers This was test of the emergency

Re: how to regenerate/create /etc/securetty file if deleted ???

2011-05-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/31/2011 10:59 PM, Jatin K wrote: Dear all by mistake I've deleted a file securetty from /etc directory :-( how do I regenerate that file again I've tried rpm -ivh --force setup-2.* but problem is not solved any help is appreciated One way to do this is to use rpm2cpio and

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