Re: OT gmail alert -- spam or real?

2010-05-06 Thread alan
On Thu, 6 May 2010, fchan wrote: I don't know how to tell whether the below quoted email is really from gmail or some sort of spam/scan. I don't recall ever giving my birthdate to gmail before, or having to put in my password except when starting gmail. .? Any other users on this

Network Speed issues on Fedora 12

2010-06-03 Thread alan
I have a couple of systems with gigabit ethernet cards. If I copy a large quantity of data to the machine I notice the data throughput start to fall off after about 4-5 gigs. It keeps getting slower and slower the more data that flows through the interface. This happens on x86_64 and i386. A

Re: Compiling a kernel problems

2010-07-05 Thread alan
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote: Alex wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile a kernel with aacraid support for a dual Opteron 246 box with two 36GB disks on a Tyan S2891, using an initrd and lilo. There is an older kernel on there that works just fine, so I suspect it's something I'm

Re: Question about F14 x64...

2010-10-22 Thread alan
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Kevin Martin wrote: On 10/22/2010 03:10 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 14:59 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: I've been building out a new laptop and trying to copy over the contents of my userspace from my old laptop to my new laptop. I keep running out of

Re: SSH ??

2011-08-18 Thread alan
Is there a ssh app that will connect to a host or try to connect and show where or why it can't connect to that host ? Have you tried ssh with the -v flag? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Thunderbolt support?

2014-05-30 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 23:52 +0200, Henrik Frisk wrote: Hi, I'm seeing different things about thunderbolt support and Linux. Anyone have any experience? Specifically I would like to connect a PCIe thunderbolt expansion unit to my MBP running Fedora 20. It is my impression it will not

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread alan
On 02/26/2015 04:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 26.02.2015, Jim Lewis wrote: Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. It was on floppy disks. I remember clearly, because I reformatted them some time ago, in need for empty disks to check an external floppy disk drive. I

Re: Oracle no longer builds VB for latest Fedora release

2015-05-13 Thread alan
On 05/13/2015 02:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: I am curious as to why Oracle decided not to build and distribute VB built with latest Fedora release. I sent the question to Oracle. Awaiting their reply. The RPMs are there: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/21/ That is a symlink

Re: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-27 Thread alan
On 05/26/2015 05:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 17:50 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: YMMV. In my case it was all over in 30 minutes, but I have a reasonably fast machine and Internet connection. I wouldn't expect the total elapsed time to vary much with alternative

Re: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-26 Thread alan
On 05/26/2015 05:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 17:50 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: YMMV. In my case it was all over in 30 minutes, but I have a reasonably fast machine and Internet connection. I wouldn't expect the total elapsed time to vary much with alternative

Re: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-26 Thread alan
On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 16:00 -0700, a...@clueserver.org wrote: I had about 2800 packages to update, cleanup, and verify. There is a big difference doing an upgrade on a system with an SSD vs a SATA hard drive. Having a fast pipe also helps a lot. Forgot to mention that I have / on an SSD.

Re: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-26 Thread alan
On 05/26/2015 05:45 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 16:06 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: On 05/26/2015 03:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/26/2015 12:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: IIRC yum used to be recommended

Re: xorg 1.18 released

2015-11-11 Thread alan
> I see the official announcement of xorg server 1.18: > > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-November/002655.html > > Anyone have any clues about when the final release > will show up in fedora 23, and vastly more important, > when nvidia binary drivers will show up now that 1.18 > is

Re: xorg 1.18 released

2015-11-11 Thread alan
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:14:40 -0800 > a...@clueserver.org wrote: > >> There is a guide to installing the NVidia drivers on Fedora 23. It >> involves back-reving xorg to 1.17. > > I find the safest and easiest way to do this is keep my fedora 22 > partition the default and wait for f23 to get all

Re: Laptop screen recommendations - Fedora 22 & KDE

2015-10-19 Thread alan
> Hi all; > > I'm currently running Fedora 22 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (3rd > gen). Fedora works well on it, my only complaint is that the screen has > a built in anti glare filter and seems washed out, I'm not sure if this > is the anti glare filter or if it's that Linux support for the

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-06-29 Thread alan
> I was so happy when the nouveau driver finally worked > on my nvidia maxwell card in fedora 24, but now after > about a week, this happened: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351286 > > Total screen freeze :-(. > > At least it took as long as a week. > > If it happens a lot, I may

Re: diff or deduplicate two volumes with different folder structures

2016-09-20 Thread alan
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:52:10PM +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote: >> One last try (sometimes an issue nags): >> $ find A -exec md5sum '{}' + > a-md5 >> $ find B -exec md5sum '{}' + > b-md5 >> $ cat a-md5 b-md5 > All >> $ sort -u -k 1,1 All > dupes >> >> Now, (I hopefully got my head around it this

Re: Freezing

2017-03-24 Thread Alan
On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 11:43 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Rick Stevens > wrote: > > Killing gnome-shell will not necessarily free the > > machine up and make the GUI work as it is a significant component > > of > > the desktop > > > > It

Re: Interpreting smartctl data -

2017-03-15 Thread alan
> I just salvaged the hard drive from an > abandoned DirectTV box that "smoked." > Note: With their approval ... > > I'm just trying to determine how much > confidence I can have in it. It was > interesting to see that it was formatted > Linux XFS initially. I reworked it with > gparted and ext4

Re: dnf update strange comment

2017-11-08 Thread alan
> On 11/08/2017 12:01 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: >> tnx for your reply. What do you suggest?? Wait and see?? > > Yes. You could try occasionally using the --refresh option with dnf to > make sure it checks for new metadata. "sudo dnf clean all" also helps. perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py

Compile issues after F27 -> F28 upgrade

2018-05-16 Thread alan
I did an upgrade from Fedora 27 to the Fedora 28 beta a while back. (About a week before final release.) After the update I tried to recompile a program I use often. The program would compile after a bit of patching, but it would not start. Using ldd I was able to determine that the ldconfig

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-05 Thread alan
> Greetings, > > I'm a Debian user(from almost 3 years). And I've question Why should I > choose Fedora over Debian as a my operating system? Debian tends to distribute older versions of packages, where Fedora ships "bleeding edge" versions. It depends what your needs are. Do you need a known

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-05 Thread alan
> On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 10:59 -0800, a...@clueserver.org wrote: >> Fedora also ships or gives you access to a number of packages that are >> not >> "ideologically pure". (NVIDIA drivers and the like.) It depends on >> whether >> you need those packages. > > AFAIK this is not the case. Fedora's

Odd problem with kmodtool

2018-12-07 Thread alan
I have a relatively new Fedora 29 install. (I did a reinstall after getting a couple of new SSDs for my laptop and changing over to a UEFI boot.) When I try using akmodbuild for any module, it claims that it cannot find "/app/bin/kmodtool". Why does it think I have a Mac? I have grepped

Login problems with Fedora 29

2018-12-07 Thread alan
This one is a bit of a mystery... I have a newish install of Fedora 29. I am using two SSD drives on a Lenovo W540 laptop with UEFI boot. Every once in a while the system stops accepting my password. Rebooting does not help. I can mount the drive with a live F29 distro and chroot the root

Re: Login problems with Fedora 29

2018-12-07 Thread alan
> On 12/07/2018 11:01 AM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: >> I can mount the drive with a live F29 distro and chroot the root drive. >> I >> have a backup of the /etc/shadow file and there are no changes to the >> user. "changing" the password fixes the problem. > > I don't know why this happens, but

Re: Odd problem with kmodtool

2018-12-07 Thread alan
> On 12/7/18 9:56 AM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: >> When I try using akmodbuild for any module, it claims that it cannot >> find >> "/app/bin/kmodtool". > > Have you tried running just "akmods"? Yes. I actually used "akmods --force". I misremembered which command I used. It does this for any

Re: Login problems with Fedora 29

2018-12-07 Thread alan
> Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2018, a...@clueserver.org sent: >> Every once in a while the system stops accepting my password. >> Rebooting does not help. > > Is it a regular interval? There are "expire password" options in the > user configuration, perhaps yours has been set. > > I see

Re: Fedora 29 (and 28) very slow

2018-11-26 Thread alan
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:45:48 - > Ron Sigal wrote: > >> I'm just bewildered. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Spectre and Meltdown kernel changes are reputed to slow > things down, but I don't know if it would be that much. They have removed some of the Spectre and Meltdown patches

nvidia-settings causing problems

2019-05-15 Thread Alan
I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users. What happens is if you have the nvidia-settings app installed, after a while the X server will no longer open any windows. xlsclients will show a bunch of nvidia-settings

Re: nvidia-settings causing problems

2019-05-15 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 17:54 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/15/2019 05:03 PM, Alan wrote: > > I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree > > repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users. > > Rpmfusion has its own bugzilla at https://bugzil

Re: nvidia-settings causing problems [SOLVED]

2019-05-17 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 17:54 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/15/2019 05:03 PM, Alan wrote: > > I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree > > repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users. > > Rpmfusion has its own bugzilla at https://bugzil

Another issue to be aware of when you upgrade from F29 to F30

2019-04-30 Thread Alan
Make sure you turn off any Gnome extensions that you have downloaded from gnome.org. There is an issue where some gnome extensions that are loaded from the user account will cause gnome-shell to crash. What you will see is you try to log in and after a few seconds it returns back to the login

Re: How to find out which wifi card

2019-06-27 Thread alan
> On 6/28/19 6:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I am hoping it is a config problem.  If not I have an rtl card that is >> in an x120e 'hanger queen' that I can use instead. > > Well, if the rtl card connects fine and the broadcom with the same > configuration doesn't > then it is

Re: gnome frozen

2019-07-10 Thread alan
>> >> On 6/17/19 1:03 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> >> From: "Samuel Sieb" >> >> Where are you entering this? From a console or ssh? >> > Yes >> >> That wasn't intended to be a yes or no question. I assume from the >> answer below that it's a terminal console. >> >> >> Try using "kill -HUP" on

Re: gnome frozen

2019-07-10 Thread alan
>> I have seen this happen before. If you have nvidia-settings installed, >> but >> do not have the commercial nvidia driver running, nvidia-settings makes >> a >> whole bunch of duplicate connections to the xserver. Once it is full, >> you >> cannot open new windows. (Things get very strange.) >

Re: gnome frozen

2019-07-10 Thread alan
> On 7/10/19 2:07 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py >>> Am I supposed to run this command? >> >> That is a sig line joke. It removes leading white space from Python >> programs. Don't run that. > > That is a very dangerous joke with no indication that it is your sig.

Re: Is Fedora 30 able to support Intel Core i9-9980XE Extreme Edition or AMD Ryzen 9 3950X?

2019-07-25 Thread alan
> CONFIG_NR_CPUS=1024 for Fedora kernels since a while, I'm not sure how > long. If you look in /boot you can find the config file used for each kernel. The issue may be CONFIG_NR_CPUS_DEFAULT=64 The larger Intel servers exceed that number by quite a bit. -- Q: Why do programmers confuse

System upgrade from F30 to F31-beta error messages

2019-09-20 Thread Alan
System upgrade from Fedora 30 to Fedora 31-beta gives these errors (with --skip-broken) Problem 1: conflicting requests - nothing provides module(platform:f30) needed by module eclipse:2019-06:3020190807134759:6ebe2c0f-0.x86_64 Problem 2: module jmc:latest:3120190813124555:7188e41a-0.x86_64

Switching desktops on Fedora 32

2020-04-28 Thread Alan
Seems the GDM option to switch desktops has been removed on Fedora 32. switchdesk no longer works either. How do you switch desktops on Fedora 32? It has become non-obvious. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: Switching desktops on Fedora 32

2020-04-29 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 20:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-04-29 05:06, Alan wrote: > > Seems the GDM option to switch desktops has been removed on Fedora > > 32. > > switchdesk no longer works either. > > > > How do you switch desktops on Fedora 32? It ha

Sound problems on Tiger Lake

2020-12-04 Thread alan
I have a brand new HP Spectre X360 14 with a Tiger Lake processor. I have Fedora 33 installed on it as a dual boot. Sound works fine under Windows, but not under Fedora. Anyone know the status of this? I have seen some information that claims that it will be supported in kernel 5.10.0, but the

Sound Problems on Tiger Lake (Updated)

2020-12-09 Thread alan
I have a bit more information on the sound problems on my HP Spectre x360 14 Tiger lake laptop. I have gotten sound to work. There is an initialization bug somewhere. If I boot into Windows and then reboot (not shutdown) into Fedora, the sound works. If I shutdown and boot Fedora, the sound

Re: Restored f33 on new drive from a tarball now a problem

2021-04-25 Thread alan
> On 26/04/2021 07:09, Robert McBroom via users wrote: >> On 4/25/21 5:34 PM, George N. White III wrote: >>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 17:04, Robert McBroom via users >>> mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> New drive has the same msdos partition structure as the old. >>>

FAS login issue

2021-02-26 Thread alan
I created a Fedora FAS account a long while back. I cannot find the account name I used and there seems to be no way to find it. The password reset assumes you know what account name you used. Who do I talk to to get this fixed? --- Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? A:

Re: Fedora 35 and Intel Iris XE Graphics

2022-01-12 Thread alan
> All; > > > Does anyone know if Fedora 35 works well with the Intel Iris XE Graphics? I have an HP Spectre x360 14 with Tiger Lake and Xe graphics. It works fine with Wayland. --- Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? A: Because OCT 31 == DEC 25.

Re: SSL Level?

2022-01-22 Thread alan
> Hi All, > > Is there a way to get one of those fancy tool > in nmap to tell me the "level" (version) > of SSL and/or TLS that a web site is using? The script for ssl in nmap does not deal with ssl v3. Try this instead: https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh.git This gives you all sorts of

Re: Is there an officially Fedora supported replacement for the old rc.local? - still an issue

2022-07-22 Thread alan
> On 7/22/22 13:34, James Szinger wrote: >> I first encountered UNIX after years of using VMS, IBM mainframes, and >> a plethora of personal computers. They ALL had editors better than >> vi. Who writes an editor where the arrow keys don’t work! > > To be fair, when vi was written, there

[389-users] Can't login as Admin

2017-04-03 Thread alan
Hello, I just installed 398-ds on an Amazon Linux EC2. I performed a "typical" setup, with what I thought were completely "standard" choices during the set-up process. The directory server appears to be working... it's listening on the correct ports, it's responding to queries. That being

[389-users] Re: Can't login as Admin

2017-04-03 Thread alan
I have confirmed that ports 389 and 9830 are available from my remote laptop. ___ 389-users mailing list -- 389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to 389-users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: serial8250: too much work for irq18

2010-01-26 Thread Alan Cox
. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Between F11 and F12, which would you choose?

2010-01-29 Thread Alan Cox
The question remains: Do you just want to experiment and incur the problems that require expertise to fix, or do you want to use the os to drive applications which achieve results, if the latter then stick with Fedora 11. 12 is visually much nicer, and has some good improvements - but I

Re: Serial port (/dev/ttySX) question.

2010-01-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:19:15 -0500 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Greetings all; rs-232 tech is getting old, like me. Do we have a tool that can display graphically in near real time, the status of the commonly used wires/signals in the '7 wire' protocol? cat

Re: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Detected Tx Unit Hang

2010-02-01 Thread Alan Cox
, or is this a problem with Fedora 12? Please file a bug in the bugzilla.kernel.org then the folks who know the hardware can take a look. Alan (for once with his Intel hat on ;)) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
clearly separating out 'trustable thing I distribute and read' from 'application in a document'. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-08 Thread Alan Cox
what they expect. In which case please remmeber to do the following mv ssh openssh mv sshd opensshd mv cp gnucp mv ls gnuls etc.. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: Fedora 12 problem with USB serial device

2010-02-08 Thread Alan Cox
that is worth checking is that the newer USB serial driver versions properly honour carrier handling and the like. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora 12 problem with USB serial device

2010-02-08 Thread Alan Cox
Sine I am using the default driver that comes with F12, I am not sure how to do this. Any suggestions? I've not used uucp for years so can't realy help there. Does minicom talk to the modem ok on that port ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Document Viewer can not open latest PDF?

2010-02-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:20:42 -0500 Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Well, the reason appears to be that cdrecord is not available in Fedora unless you install it yourself, Fedora has chosen to take the respected cdrecord name and put wodim in its place

Re: Moblin is dead, Fedora on netbooks?

2010-02-16 Thread Alan Cox
www.meego.com I run Fedora/xfce/claws on my travelling netbook and its fast and useful. Not the quickest kernel compile box on the planet but that's not surprising. I do wish claws was better at handling slow imap links over mobile phone though. Alan -- users mailing list users

Fedora 12 doesn't recognise Firewire Drive

2010-02-19 Thread Alan Milnes
2.0.4-1.fc12 libiec61883.x86_64 1.2.0-3.fc12 Google doesn't provide any useful hints, anyone able to help me here? TIA Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Fedora 12 doesn't recognise Firewire Drive

2010-02-19 Thread Alan Milnes
On 19 February 2010 21:04, Aioanei Rares fedora.lis...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/19/2010 10:59 PM, Alan Milnes wrote: My newly installed F12 doesn't recognise my external Firewire drive. lspci shows the following:- 04:09.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): ALi Corporation M5253 P1394 OHCI 1.1 Controller

Re: Fedora 12 doesn't recognise Firewire Drive

2010-02-19 Thread Alan Milnes
On 19 February 2010 22:44, Aioanei Rares fedora.lis...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/20/2010 12:34 AM, Alan Milnes wrote: On 19 February 2010 22:22, Aioanei Rares fedora.lis...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/20/2010 12:03 AM, Alan Milnes wrote: On 19 February 2010 21:04, Aioanei Rares fedora.lis

Re: Installing Fedora Core 12 on a system with a IT8212 SATA Controller

2010-02-28 Thread Alan Cox
it either way. Some of the RAID firmwares are a bit flakey so if you get a problem boot it with the device in non-RAID mode. (if the BIOS won't let you set it then try 'pata_it821x.noraid=1' as a boot option. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Background image on dual screen?

2010-03-01 Thread Alan Evans
a few months ago, I can no longer do this. My background image is displayed, either clipped or scaled, once on each screen instead of once across all screens, no matter what style I choose from the Appearance Preferences dialog. Is there a way to fix it? -Alan -- users mailing list users

Re: Background image on dual screen?

2010-03-02 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com wrote: I have two monitors an my background image is exactly the size of both combined. I used to be able to display this background image across both screens as if they were a single display. I think I chose Tiled to make

Re: Background image on dual screen?

2010-03-02 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: There is a bug[1] for this and there is a fix available, which was accidentally unpushed last week. It should be going back out into updates-testing soon. Hurray! Waiting expectantly for the update to come soon... --

Re: RLIMIT_DATA problem: NOTABUG?

2010-03-06 Thread Alan Cox
to be just that There should be a way of doing what you want Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-15 Thread Alan Cox
Distrowatch says that Red Hat 6 will be about 2 years late because Fedora is too goddamned buggy. In which way will Fedora's bugs help Red Hat succeed better than Canonical or Novell? Red Hat 6 was released many many years ago 8) If you mean a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 then nobody who knows

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
virtualised under the old OS build. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: [OT] Deafening silence

2010-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
are doing 'maintenance' (I guess you might consider it 'service pack 2' 8) on victorian structures that will then be good for just light maintenance for another century. This gives people a rather different sense of time and upgrading to software engineers. Alan -- users mailing list users

Re: midori in LXDE/F-12 spin

2010-03-22 Thread Alan Cox
I'll be more than happy to use any GNOME alternative there is, but for NM I don't think there is an alternative. Suggestions are welcome though, not only for NM but also for other packages. Moblin uses conman which is also worth looking at and serves a similar functionality. Alan -- users

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:49:43 + (UTC) Thufir hawat.thu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:56:08 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: I guess what I am saying is there needs to be a way for the new user to keep their machine updated without all the headaches. This is why some will stick

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-07 Thread Alan Cox
not a printer and doesn't work via the Linux printing layer (in fact as its a cutting machine the existing behaviour is plain dangerous) Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: is skype using encryption?

2010-04-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:58:44 +0200 Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone [same subnet, e.g.: with a hub, not switch..] sniff my skype (Switches just make sniffing harder) password when i'm using Skype? Is it encrypted? I'm always wary of pointing people at Wackypedia but

Re: Clamav

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
it's fairly robust nowdays - which is one reason viruses took to email and file sharing to get around this. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

can't create live USB stick with Fedora 12

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Holt
Hello everybody, I've got the next problem, I can't create live USB stick with Fedora 12. I downloaded iso image and tried to make it the program Unetbootin, but without any result. Also I tried to do it with the command *# sudo dd if=/media/Passport/Images/Fedora-12-i686-Live of=/dev/sdc1

Re: can't create live USB stick with Fedora 12

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Holt
to or somebody knows how to do it, please write it. 2010/4/19 NoSpaze nosp...@gmail.com Am Montag, den 19.04.2010, 16:29 +0300 schrieb Alan Holt: # ls -la /media/CARD/ ls: невозможно получить доступ к /media/CARD/φ▒u ç▄8d.╤ìi: Input/output error ls: невозможно получить доступ к /media

Re: can't create live USB stick with Fedora 12

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Holt
/2010 9:49 AM, Alan Holt wrote: no, USB disk is OK, I tried with Ubuntu 10.04 and 9.10 and it's ok. Also I tried with Fedora 11 (KDE GNOME) and it's OK too. So I coul't create live USB disk with Fedora 12 13. If F13 it's beta it's ok but F12 it's a stable realease and I can't do

Re: can't create live USB stick with Fedora 12

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Holt
It's working just on Fedora or Windows. So I don't have Fedora and Windows :-) 2010/4/19 David dgbo...@gmail.com On 4/19/2010 9:49 AM, Alan Holt wrote: no, USB disk is OK, I tried with Ubuntu 10.04 and 9.10 and it's ok. Also I tried with Fedora 11 (KDE GNOME) and it's OK too. So I

Re: can't create live USB stick with Fedora 12

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Holt
to be a part of Fedora ? OMG, it's terrible guys really terrible situation. 2010/4/19 David dgbo...@gmail.com On 4/19/2010 10:21 AM, Alan Holt wrote: It's working just on Fedora or Windows. So I don't have Fedora and Windows :-) If you spent as much time as *I* did finding this information

Re: can't create live USB stick with Fedora 12

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Holt
--- On Mon, 4/19/10, Alan Holt berber...@gmail.com wrote: I've got the next problem, I can't create live USB stick with Fedora 12. I downloaded iso image and tried to make it the program Unetbootin, but without any result. [snip] Did you read and follow these instructions? http

Re: can't create live USB stick with Fedora 12

2010-04-20 Thread Alan Holt
Alan, On 19 April 2010 08:59, Alan Holt berber...@gmail.com wrote: I solved my problem by using liveusb-creator for Windows. It's work great. But it's not a unix way. I just want to try and to install fedora, because of this I don't have it on my machine and I can't use commands like

Re: can't create live USB stick with Fedora 12

2010-04-20 Thread Alan Holt
Yeeah, I will try for sure)) Thanks 2010/4/20 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com On 04/20/2010 03:32 PM, Alan Holt wrote: All this methods they are don't working. If you want I can explain. *Ubuntu Live USB creater* - is an official tool to create Live USBs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: Clamav

2010-04-21 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: Bugfix (by a non-Albanian): FIRST send this mail to everyone you know, and AFTER THAT delete all the files on the disk. See. Open source works! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: 32bit vs 64bit in the filesystem structures

2010-04-22 Thread Alan Cox
system on a x86 machine without any problems but this could just be that I have not been bitten yet and I'd rather avoid that if possible. That is certainly the intention. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Home directory files invisible!

2010-04-23 Thread Alan Cox
to fix /tmp. A couple of systems use it for other 'magic' on non-executable files. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: IDE controller card problem

2010-05-05 Thread Alan Cox
-vvxxx (as root) and the boot dmesg would be of interest. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: seeking resolution to Network Device difficulties

2010-05-06 Thread Alan Cox
So, I guess I will just have to edit my aliases and scripts to use the new IP address. For a lot of cards you can do this ifconfig eth0 hw xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (if you know what the old addr was) Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
This is an on-again-off-again kind of problem. It usually hits me when it is least convenient, like when I only have shell access to the machine. Example: [a...@agena ~]$ cd /media/My\ Book/ bash: cd: /media/My: No such file or directory [a...@agena ~]$ cd /media/My Book/ bash: cd: /media/My: No

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM, jack wallen jlwal...@monkeypantz.net wrote: This is an on-again-off-again kind of problem. It usually hits me when it is least convenient, like when I only have shell access to the machine. Example: [a...@agena ~]$ cd /media/My\ Book/ bash: cd: /media/My: No

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Fennix cn.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com wrote: This is an on-again-off-again kind of problem. It usually hits me when it is least convenient, like when I only have shell access to the machine. Example

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Mike Wright mike.wri...@mailinator.com wrote: Alan Evans wrote: This is an on-again-off-again kind of problem. It usually hits me when it is least convenient, like when I only have shell access to the machine. Example: [a...@agena ~]$ cd /media/My\ Book

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyare...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure it is a space? how about pressing a tab after typing in 'My' (without the quotes)? Yes. It is certainly a space. Auto-completion is how I arrived at the first example. -- users mailing list

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Michael Hannon jm_han...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Alan.  Are you sure that the spaces are causing the error?  I.e., if the directory were actually named:    Media My Book you'd get the behavior you describe.  I don't usually use spaces in file names, but I've

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Fennix cn.ste...@gmail.com wrote: I made the directory My Book and tested before replying and it worked here. You can also try cd /media/My* which also should work. I believe you. And like I said, it usually works for me. But sometimes bash gets in a mood and

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 05/10/2010 11:56 AM, Alan Evans wrote:  Obvious question - could it be a file not a directory (perhaps it is not mounted yet for example)  ... try ls -lZ instead (to check permissions whlie you're

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Jeff Voskamp javos...@uwaterloo.ca wrote: Try cd /media ls -bl and send us the results. Ok: [a...@agena ~]$ cd /media [a...@agena media]$ ls -bl total 4 drwx--. 1 alan alan 4096 2010-05-10 08:12 My\ Book -- users mailing list users

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames? [SOLVED]

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: Then try putting the cd command in single quotes as well - it may be some alias that isn't dealing correctly with escaped args. Somebody just sent me a private reply along these same lines. Here is my reply to him (I

Re: What's up with bash shell and spaces in filenames?

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Try looking at the kernel messages (dmesg).  I have seen media errors, especially on auto-mounted external devices like this, give similar results. Does mount show the correct device mounted there? Is it possibly some

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