Re: F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot

2010-01-21 Thread Tom H
 When a few weeks ago the new auto-updated kernel would not boot, used an older kernel, waiting for the next update. This was today, and now the two latest kernels don't work. Booting stops after the Fedora logo fills up white, after which it says (copying manually from screen, whitespaces

Re: F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot

2010-01-23 Thread Tom H
 When a few weeks ago the new auto-updated kernel would not boot, used an older kernel, waiting for the next update. This was today, and now the two latest kernels don't work. Booting stops after the Fedora logo fills up white, after which it says (copying manually from screen, whitespaces

Re: [SPAM] bug/feature in host/nslookup command - queries wrong server

2010-02-03 Thread Tom H
Alternatively, you can use the dig command to query specific servers. Yea, but you can't understand anything dig prints to stdout, so using it to do queries is hopeless :-). So the ;; QUESTION SECTION: header is not enough of a hint? :) Furthermore, you can create aliases of the following

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-08 Thread Tom H
There's lots of variegated advice around on turning off ipv6, much of it out of date. What's the canonical way of doing this in Fedora (12), or at least getting named to shut up about it? ipv6 is now compiled into the kernel so all the previous advice about modprobe.conf, modprobe.d, and

Re: Turning off ipv6

2010-02-09 Thread Tom H
ipv6 is now compiled into the kernel so all the previous advice about modprobe.conf, modprobe.d, and sysctl.conf no longer works. You now have to (1) add ipv6.disable=1 to the kernel (grub1) or linux (grub2) line or (2) recompile the kernel without ipv6 or with ipv6 as a module I

Re: [OT] Hardlinks and directories

2010-02-12 Thread Tom H
A hard link is a directory entry that references an inode. Every property of the file is represented in the inode, including its type, ownership, permissions, size and pointers to the actual data, i.e. the directory entry is simply a (name, inode) pair. As such, there can be multiple

Re: Firewall setting needed for NFS?

2010-02-27 Thread Tom H
I'm trying to figure out the firewall options for NFS setup. If I completely disable the firewall, it works fine. I've found a number of pages that say what ports  need to be opened, but it continues to fail even with  all those ports open. I don't have a need for the NFS, but I've had a

Re: How to install software without root password (PolicyKit?)

2010-03-07 Thread Tom H
Fedora 12 should was planned to have installation of packages without users needing to enter root password. How do I enable this feature via Is this a question for developers list if nobody here know how to do that? This was the default when F12 was released and I reversed it with

Re: How to install software without root password (PolicyKit?)

2010-03-09 Thread Tom H
Fedora 12 should was planned to have installation of packages without users needing to enter root password. How do I enable this feature via Is this a question for developers list if nobody here know how to do that? This was the default when F12 was released and I reversed it with

Re: UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-10 Thread Tom H
I have a few systems on site which have common users installed with wrong UID values from the rest of the machines, and particularly those installed from a live CD which created one or more odd IDs when install to disk was used. I remember using UID mapping tables to cause an NFS access

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-10 Thread Tom H
Fedora IA32 comes with PAE enabled by default. Still, it's better using AA64; also ctrl+alt+backspace is disabled by default. What genius decided that?  Stupid.  Are you sure?  That little three-key combo has gotten me out of more than a few X-server lockups with Fedora due to

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Tom H
What genius decided that? Stupid. Are you sure? That little three-key combo has gotten me out of more than a few X-server lockups with Fedora due to misconfiguration by the installer. Upstream X.Org. I'm sure if you search it, you will find lots of discusions about it. You can always switch

Re: Firewall config and ftp server

2010-03-11 Thread Tom H
To clarify, several kernels ago the IPV4 iptables was defaulted to being built into the kernel so it doesn't need a modprobe or insmod. Ditto with the IPV4 conntrack (snippet of the default kernel config file): CONFIG_NF_DEFRAG_IPV4=y Built into kernel CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4=y

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-13 Thread Tom H
You can enable ctrl+alt+backspace through the GUI: System - Preferences - Keyboard - Layout - Layout Options That works only if the GUI is working. You are supposed to set this up right after the install not after the GUI goes AWOL! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Can udev be told to hide a device?

2010-03-13 Thread Tom H
This nonsense showed up in my /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules file when I plugged in my new usb hard drive. It is all windows nonsense, and I would just as soon pretend it doesn't exist at all and not have it cluttering my /dev/ directory and wot-not: # Virtual_CD_1110

Re: manager sudo file

2010-03-15 Thread Tom H
Rather than create different /etc/sudoers for each box, can't you use a name service (with 1500 boxes you must already have one running) and set up netgroups for users, commands, boxes, and auths? Yes, name service (DNS) is running but not supported by my department. This infrastructure has

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-16 Thread Tom H
You are supposed to set this up right after the install not after the GUI goes AWOL! Guess you missed my other replies on this thread about that. Had forgotten them... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Shared home directory and NIS

2010-03-19 Thread Tom H
I have access to several linux machines at work and they're all on a single nis domain. My home dir is on an nfs mount and is the same for all machines. I have xrdp installed on all of them but because the home dir is shared I find that the second session behaves badly. firefox wont start and

Re: Sorbet on Fedora's future

2010-03-21 Thread Tom H
The OP has a point however inept he is at getting it across. The problem is larger because it is his expectation that Fedora is apparently supposed to provide him with some level of software stability that is at odds with the development speed, the release early and often philosphy, the

Re: find /etc -size -1G return only empty files

2010-03-25 Thread Tom H
You are correct.  Doing -size -1G on both F11 and F12 return only zero-length files.  Yep, that's a bug in my book. Two explanations given in the bug link that someone posted earlier: In answer to: Would someone please explain -- completely and carefully -- just exactly how find's behavior is

Re: cleaning /tmp directory

2010-03-31 Thread Tom H
i need a cron script that cleans every day crap into /tmp I have there a lot of temp files but i dunno which ones can be safely wiped, and it is very time comsuming job, too. There already is a cron that will delete file out of /tmp that are 10 days old. In addition, at shutdown time

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-01 Thread Tom H
Get a blog for your uninformed opinions. I think you are seriously underestimating the amount of hostility your ramblings generate. +1 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Changing host name

2010-04-07 Thread Tom H
I've never found a need to reboot on changing hostnames.  The most drastic action I've taken was to service network restart. One wold assumme if yo are using 'service network start' you are not using NM so your comments about the changing hostname may not apply to the OP's system. Unless

Re: Changing host name

2010-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:51:37PM -0400, Tom H wrote: There is a NM_CONTROLLED variable that can be set in the ifcfg-* scripts to use one or the other (although I do not see where my F13 init.d scripts check for its

Re: Changing host name

2010-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: On 04/07/2010 10:51 AM, Tom H wrote: I've never found a need to reboot on changing hostnames.  The most drastic action I've taken was to service network restart. One wold assumme if yo are using 'service network start' you

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-09 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com wrote: Can this thread DIE?? Not until Marcel finds something else to rant about. This month it is FPL. Last month it was apparmor in the kernel and something (I have forgotten exactly what) about bugs... -- users mailing list

Re: Busted installer for F13

2010-04-14 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Trying to see if F13 is something I want to use, so its installing on my laptop. Unforch when I get to the window of install choices, it unchecks the graphical desktop if I check software devel, and a web server

Re: Busted installer for F13

2010-04-14 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Trying to see if F13 is something I want to use, so its installing on my laptop. Unforch when

Re: Installing Linux on sdb ??

2010-04-20 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 04/19/2010 07:41 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Yes. If you are willing to edit the BIOS you don't even need GRUB to boot off different drives. The BIOS on my 3 year old motherboard allows me to specify the drive (IDE, SATA,

Re: WTH is up with this network config?

2010-04-29 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, jack craig jcr...@extraview.com wrote: When I learned about ip address, the network host portions of the IP and the netmask to differentiate the host network numbers. I learned a class A addr used a mask of 10.255.255.255. While my FC11 works fine, I was

Re: seeking resolution to Network Device difficulties

2010-05-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: On 05/06/2010 06:26 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Tim wrote: Another approach is to do it at the computer.  Have your computer connect with the address you want to lose, then issue a DHCP release command. I haven't got

Re: OpenOffice Should Be Included On Version 13 LiveCD...

2010-05-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby miham...@gulfsat.mg wrote: Jesse Palser slnth...@aol.com : Ubuntu 10.04 LiveCD has OpenOffice installed. Don't understand why Fedora LiveCD can't do the same. I dont understand why each Linux distribution must make all the same choices.

Re: OpenOffice Should Be Included On Version 13 LiveCD...

2010-05-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby miham...@gulfsat.mg wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com : True, but if a Linux distribution wants to attract Windows and OSX desktop users (_IF_), OO is an essential package because it is what those users expect, an integrated office

Re: OpenOffice Should Be Included On Version 13 LiveCD...

2010-05-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:58 AM, David Boles dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/13/2010 11:31 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: True, but if a Linux distribution wants to attract Windows and OSX desktop users (_IF_), OO is an essential package

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my specific bitch. And I think its perfectly

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010 08:40:31 pm Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Clarify here: I

Re: how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Clarify here: I can do all that as the user.  What I can't do, until somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user.

Re: root password prompts

2010-05-26 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen claims on this list that the root password is remembered for a small amount of time so you don't keep getting asked. That has never worked for me, but I assumed it was just because I was running a

Re: root password prompts

2010-05-26 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 26 May 2010 02:27 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Tom Horsleyhorsley1...@gmail.com  wrote: I have seen claims on this list that the root password is remembered for a small amount

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 08:07 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 13:32:51 +0100,   Mike Martin redt...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi when I was trying (and failing) to get a bootable pen-drive, with the

Re: yum grouplist under Fedora-13

2010-05-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Aaron Konstam akons...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:21 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:19:12 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: Is yum grouplist obsolete? Or was this a bye-product of my installation method? I thought grouplist

Re: yum grouplist under Fedora-13

2010-05-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: take each one at a time: yum grouplist Administration Tools it will give you a list of pkgs. save that list to a file. It doesn't seem to tell me anything: -

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Sda1 ext4 /boot is 200 meg and locked, Will not allow me to do anything except format

Re: yum grouplist under Fedora-13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/05/10 02:22, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: take each one at a time: yum grouplist Administration Tools --snip-- yum groupinfo

Re: yum grouplist under Fedora-13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Tom H wrote: yum groupinfo 'Administration Tools' Thanks. That does indeed list the packages in each group, and confirms that I do not in fact have installed the groups listed as such by yum grouplist, after

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 30 May 2010 03:53 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Suvayu Alifatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com   wrote: On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06

Re: 'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?

2010-05-31 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:12 AM, sawrub saw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I created a user by the name test, and after doing with my testing was going to delete the user using the following command, userdel and also added '-f' for cleaning out the home without leaving any traces of 'test'. But

Re: Fwd: Fedora Weekly News 228

2010-06-05 Thread Tom H
2010/6/3 Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org: On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 21:10 +, g wrote: it is now beginning to appear that you are better at evading my question than you are at designing web pages. We're done here. I'm amazed that you hung in here for as long! Even without a link to

Re: labeling swap partitions

2010-06-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: What tool do I use to relabel a swap partition?.  It is currently labeled for another disto.  tune2fs fails of course. mkswap -L ... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: labeling swap partitions

2010-06-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2010, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: What tool do I use to relabel a swap partition?.  It is currently labeled for another disto.  tune2fs

Re: Gnome-terminal Output

2010-06-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Overkill overk...@sadiqs.net wrote: Greetings, does anyone know how to save the entire session output of a gnome-terminal session?  I've tried using tee and script at the startup but it doesn't seem to work.  I was hoping to get something similar to the putty

Re: Amazing problem of /boot

2010-06-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Pallav Jain b330...@gmail.com wrote: today i am amazed to see that my /boot folder is empty and i am unable to decide and generate the reason(s) for it, why suddenly is it happening, i my self not able to understand though i have installed fedora core 11 and

Re: Amazing problem of /boot

2010-06-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Pallav Jain b330...@gmail.com wrote: today i am amazed to see that my /boot folder is empty and i am unable to decide and generate the reason(s) for it, why suddenly is it happening, i my self not able to understand though i have installed fedora core 11 and

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see any component in bugzilla for mailing lists, so I'm posting here. In order to do that I have to subscribe, which takes more than a few bounces, and that's the problem. Public mailing lists should

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Orthogonal to this is that the mailing lists should not mingle

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: Is it so much to ask for you to hit reply to all instead

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: No. I am saying that if you are not willing to subscribe, you are not, AFAIC, part of the community. So if somebody is participating in IRC

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is not in the system. The sender has to realise

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-06 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:  What about allowing subscribers of f...@lists.f.o to be allowed to post to b...@lists.f.o. That would help only if Reply-To wasn't

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Thomas Taylor li...@comcast.net wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:24:08 -0400 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: This way when a non-subscriber posts something, he doesn't have to add the Please CC me as I'm not in the mailing list; it will happen automatically

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote: Felipe Contreras wrote: For some reason when I receive mail from you I see: reply-to: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org, users@lists.fedoraproject.org It must be your mail client or something

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-08 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote: Tom H wrote: You (Todd) and others have the following: from  Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com reply-to      Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org to    Community support for Fedora

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:02 -0400, Tom H wrote: You (Todd) and others have the following: from    Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com reply-to        Community support for Fedora users users

Re: Reply-To munging summary (was: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers)

2010-07-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't seen a summary of this big thread, so I'm going to try to write one. I'll focus on Reply-To munging here (orthogonal to non-subscribers). An unsurprisingly biased and inaccurate summary... -- users

Re: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

2010-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Tim: It doesn't double up the *to* addresses, when I reply here.  I second the motion that it's most likely to be a gmail problem.  Either what it does, or how you're using it. Tom H: Thanks for the info. The way

Re: Reply-To munging summary (was: Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers)

2010-07-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: In my opinion, many lists set the reply-to address because those lists are intended to keep replies on the list, and the list managers know

Re: VBOX problem

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:26 AM, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.kopp...@gmail.com wrote: I am using VBOX with F13 to run Windows XP. Today I got following error: Start tag expected, '' not found. Location: '/home/rkbabu/.VirtualBox/Machines/WinXP/WinXP.xml', line 1 (0), column 1.

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 12 July 2010 10:20 AM, H.S. wrote: On 12/07/10 12:50 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Monday 12 July 2010 08:08 AM, H.S. wrote: I am using LVM. F13 is installed with its / mounted on /dev/mapper/vg1-lv8 and its

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: On 07/12/2010 10:20 AM, H.S. wrote: On 12/07/10 12:50 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Monday 12 July 2010 08:08 AM, H.S. wrote: I am using LVM. F13 is installed with its / mounted on /dev/mapper/vg1-lv8 and its boot on /dev/sdc5.

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:39 PM, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/07/10 01:42 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: /dev/sdc5 is an extended partition.  IIRC, update-grub only checks primary partitions--primarily because your BIOS can't boot anything in an extended partition, either. hmm .. then why

Re: Wo, I'm asking RPMfusion how to uninstall Kmod nvidia

2010-07-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: As everybody suggested I wrote to RPMFusion on how to make a clean uninstall of Kmod Nvidia. E.g.: suggested by: Alan Evans, who wrote: It is their responsibility to explain how to uninstall that software. Simple.

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/19/2010 12:43 AM, Tom H wrote: Installing gettext allows you to run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to create a grub.cfg and be able to chainload grub2 from grub1 (I hope that Fedora will eventually add

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Doron Bar Zeev doronbr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 22:13, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: For the record: Installing grub2 added an entry to the grub1 menu pointing to grub2's stage 1 img in /boot/grub2. The grub boot menu remains grub1's

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:54 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote:  On 07/18/2010 12:13 PM, Tom H wrote: I have just installed grub2 in an f13 vbox (built through an f13 live cd install) and it looks to me like that: (1) grub1 is still in control and the mbr is untouched (2) you can just uninstall

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:44:37 -0400 Tom H wrote: I wonder what the status of grub2 is in Fedora. Hopefully, the status is we'll stick with grub forever. The newest ubuntu releases default to grub2 and I find

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:53:03 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: It isn't quite that bad Tom, I have composed new stanza's for it several times now. It isn't horrible, but it is a lot more inconvenient that the current grub,

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Tom H wrote: To be fair, the difference between grub1/2 and lilo remains that grub1/2 don't update the mbr for every config change but only when they are set up. grub2's update is the equivalent of grubby on Fedora

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:02:12 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: What is the supposed advantage of grub2 over grub? As near as I can tell grub2 is a classic example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect It is

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/20/2010 06:29 AM, Tom H wrote: The official manual is (fairly recent, AFAIK) http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/ (which is the url of the now MIA grub1 manual). grub1 is called grub legacy now

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the bottom posted material.  It's still there if you need to read it, but generally you don't. ;-) I use Gmail in TB3, but someone asked me about bottom

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 07/21/2010 05:46 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the bottom posted material

Re: install guide to get Fedora 13 on the new 2010 mac mini

2010-07-28 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Jurgen Kramer gtmkra...@xs4all.nl wrote: Just for the interested... I've finally managed to get F13 working properly on the new 2010 mac mini. I use it as a MythTV frontend. There are some caveats and issues regarding SATA and HDMI audio which need to be

Re: Still no kmod for new nvidia

2010-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: What I'm looking forward to is RHEL 6 being based on this new X. I can't wait till large paying corporate customers find all their video busted. (That's when you'll find the quality of the drivers suddenly improving at

Re: Changing Forgotten Root Password

2010-07-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:18 -0400, binary...@comcast.net wrote: Fedora 11, 12 Changing Forgotten Root Password. Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the x in /etc/passwd and restarting

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:25 PM, JB jb.123...@yahoo.com wrote: JB jb.123abc at yahoo.com writes: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes /

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:52 PM, JB jb.123...@yahoo.com wrote: Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com writes: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:25 PM, JB jb.123abc at yahoo.com wrote: JB jb.123abc at yahoo.com writes: # fdisk -l ...   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote: this is part 2. Above you see your disk layout. You have noticed that there is one primary partition missing - the sda3 should be a primary partition (even if unused free space), the

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:11 PM, JB jb.123...@yahoo.com wrote: good to hear from you. I hoped that Tom and Marko would join us again, but they are lurking only and are reluctant a bit :) Was out, LOL. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote: /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2            4463        4717     2048287+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA) /dev/sda3            4718       12162    

Re: how not to initialize HD

2010-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote: /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Re: Accessing a DNS server fails on an alternate IP address

2010-08-12 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com wrote: I have a DNS server running on a physical server 192.168.126.1. However I like to split all my services onto their own IP addresses for ease of migration, so I logically assign 192.168.126.154 to this server using the

Re: Accessing a DNS server fails on an alternate IP address

2010-08-12 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:56 AM, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Searle steve at stevesearle.com writes: ... I have got round it by getting the dhcp server to give out the ...126.1 address, but would prefer to get the ...126.154 address working. is this still valid ? If you are

Re: HowTo , Connecting wlan0 when in Single user mode

2010-08-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 14:42 -0700, JD wrote: On 08/13/2010 12:58 PM, binary...@comcast.net wrote:    Fc12, X86_64 While in Single User mode, how do I start wlan0 to connect to a WEP 192.168.1.1 Router .

Re: HowTo , Connecting wlan0 when in Single user mode

2010-08-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 14:42 -0700, JD wrote: On 08/13/2010 12:58 PM, binary...@comcast.net wrote:    Fc12, X86_64 While in Single User mode

Re: HowTo , Connecting wlan0 when in Single user mode

2010-08-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:38 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote:  On 08/13/2010 03:24 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com  wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 14:42 -0700, JD wrote: On 08/13/2010 12:58 PM, binary...@comcast.net wrote:     Fc12

Re: HowTo , Connecting wlan0 when in Single user mode

2010-08-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:51 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote:  On 08/13/2010 03:30 PM, Tom H wrote: ifconfig wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 essidessid  key s:asciikey dhclient wlan0 Are you so sure?? sudo ifconfig ra0 up sudo iwconfig ra0 essid MYEssID key s:SomeLongText

Re: how is it possible?

2010-08-16 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Parshwa Murdia b330...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: Think again. As a new user, I would be saying you again that that command is not being grasped by me! http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%2Bfedora+%2Bgdesklets

Re: iptables question

2010-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:14 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote:  I would like to set up my iptables firewall so that when I issue the command $ sudo iptables -L -n I would like to see only the following: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target     prot opt source               destination ACCEPT  

Re: iptables question

2010-08-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 08/17/2010 02:08 AM, Tom H wrote:  #! /bin/sh IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables $IPTABLES --table filter --policy INPUT ACCEPT $IPTABLES --table filter --policy FORWARD ACCEPT $IPTABLES --table filter --policy OUTPUT ACCEPT

Re: iptables question

2010-08-18 Thread Tom H
 On 08/17/2010 08:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 08/17/2010 11:36 PM, JD wrote: Well, what does your iptables start out with?      iptables -P INPUT  DROP      iptables -P OUTPUT DROP      iptables -P FORWARD DRO Sorry, my question was not clear. I meant cat the first few lines of your

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