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 data

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 s

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 so

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

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: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailma

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 ru

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: 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 Vid

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 t

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 tim

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 qua

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 of

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 from

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 everythi

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 drive.

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 I

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 modu

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 tha

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 scree

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 c

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

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 unlik

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 t

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 Hall

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 r

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 re

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 does

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

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 i

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 t

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

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 va

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 >

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 i

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 were

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 t

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 won't. If you unceremoni

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 _

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 e

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

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: Becau

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. >>> Le

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 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 /me

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 wrote: > Are you sure it is a space? how about pressing a 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 users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

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 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 &

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 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 won't let me express

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 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 a

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 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@lists.fe

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 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 thought I was replying t

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

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Mark Knoop wrote: > At 09:09 on 10 May 2010, Alan Evans wrote: >> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Jeff Voskamp >> wrote: >> > >> > Try >> > cd /media >> > ls -bl >> > >> > and send us the re

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

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Chris Adams 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 Unicode spac

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

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Alan Evans said: >> cd () >> { >>        builtin cd $1 || return >>        [[ -f ./.autorun ]] && . ./.autorun >> } > > Any shell functions should properly quote their argument

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

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Alan Evans wrote: > (I always find it mildly humorous when people are cocksure while being > totally wrong.) Not that I could ever be accused of doing this, of course! ;) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

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

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Ha, you didn't know cd has options? ;-) Well, you're probably right about that. And after looking at the man page, I'm not sure it matters that I didn't know. :) Really, though, the error had nothing to do with not knowing about options and

Re: RAM shows less

2010-05-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:17:38 -0500 Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 06:33 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > > Just a question here... are you running a 32-bit version of Fedora or a 64- > > bit version? 32-bit versions will only show about 3 gigs of memory, no > > matter how much if you

Re: rootless X

2010-05-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 12 May 2010 08:20:52 -0700 Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any future goals for Fedora regarding this? Phoronix reported > Ubuntu might implement this for its open source driver stack in about a > year. > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODIzNQ > https://wiki

Re: rootless X

2010-05-13 Thread Alan Cox
t. It's job is to make sure a user can't break the machine not define policy. 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: How to find a needle in a haystack?

2010-05-18 Thread Alan Cox
> I have a backup server that contains 10 ext3 file systems each with 12 > million files scattered randomly over 4000 directories. The files average OK 4000 directories for 12million files means you've got 3000 files per directory. If you are doing that make sure your fs has htree enabled. The in

Re: New to Linux - BIOS before 2000?

2010-05-21 Thread Alan Cox
low specced computers get a bit > painfully slow. You want plenty of RAM and a sensible desktop. There are several ways to run Linux on small platforms and removing all the crud some of the desktop people have written is an enormous improvement. XFCE + claws is snappy on old machines. Alan -- u

Re: New to Linux - BIOS before 2000?

2010-05-21 Thread Alan Cox
> Claws is awesome! Would be even better if it had Google calendar support ... > :-\ Claws-mail-plugins-vcalendar does ical. Never tried it with Google as I prefer to own my private data. And the geolocation plugin is worth trying out - not because its particularly useful yet however.

Re: OT: Cell phone connection to server

2010-05-24 Thread Alan Cox
> It was said that years ago, you could connect a modem to a cell phone and > that it would answer the call just like on a land line. If I could find > something like that, we would be in business. If your device can support incoming data calls then mgetty+sendfax is probably what you are looking

Re: OT: Cell phone connection to server

2010-05-24 Thread Alan Cox
7; can be activated from a phone. 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: f13 torrents?

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've looked at all the versions of the "get fedora 13" pages > I can find, and perhaps I am just blind, but I can't find any > pointer to http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ on any of the > download pages, even the one that claims to be "all the

Re: Linux vs. Vision Tek Radeon HD3650

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Cox
ss is half the size needed Alan -- [Answer] 1. 50% safety margin to avoid spillage 2. 50% safety margin on the beer volume, which needs a bigger glass to keep a margin on that too -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admi

Re: F13 upgrades post here, please.

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Evans
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'd love to hear about F13 upgrade experiences.  Once the issues are > worked out I'll be upgrading from F12. Do you want all the issues listed conveniently to you in a single thread? I, for one, would prefer that separate upgrade issues be in

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Evans
a search engine is available doesn't imply that it's my first choice, especially when I think I know where to find my answers without it. -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: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Evans
2010/5/26 Máirín Duffy : > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:22 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: >> 2010/5/26 Máirín Duffy : >> > The links you referenced were removed quite explicitly in the design. >> > The assumption was that if someone understands how to use bittorrent, >> &g

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Evans
Every-Way-To-Get-Fedora web page. Good information, that. I'll make a note of it. I'm unlikely to be following many developer-oriented lists, in any case. Like I said, I'm just a user. -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscript

preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Alan Evans
to death during the last upgrade cycle. And I think I have a non-upgraded install of F12 on this machine, yet /boot is still too small for preupgrade to work! Ack! Will this work if I go buy a generic network card? Apparently the one already installed (and that I'm using now) is no good

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Alan Evans
NOTE.. > I guess your mileage may vary depending on the hardware as Alan found out :( Apparently, my default 200MB fell a bit short: $ df -h Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_studio-lv_root                      868G  266G  558G  33% / tmpfs                 4.

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Alan Evans
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > It told me the same thing. At that point, I booted from a live CD, > installed gparted and resized the boot partition to take 500M (took > space from swap, which was 2G). Then preupgrade succeeded perfectly and > I'm running F13 right now.

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Alan Evans
eventually like to increase the size of my boot partition so this doesn't bite me again. But right now I need to relinquish the machine to my wife, who's been chomping at the bit to get back on her blog... -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Re: [Fedora] 'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?

2010-05-31 Thread Alan Evans
s to complete the requested operation totally. If not then it shouldn't do anything. Failing that, it should at least provide a message during the first pass that suggests that it did delete the user but couldn't delete the home directory. That's not really what the fir

Re: Improving the list climate [was Re: Fwd: Fedora Weekly News 228]

2010-06-03 Thread Alan Evans
list and preach to us about how we need to be moderated. -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: Fwd: Fedora Weekly News 228

2010-06-03 Thread Alan Evans
but I'm pretty sure that Máirín is, in fact, a woman: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MairinDuffy I don't think that making this assumption is in any way arrogant or insensitive, however irrelevant it is. -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: F13 Sadly Unusable

2010-06-05 Thread Alan Cox
nd what is in 'dmesg') One for the bluetooth (and if things other than DUN work probably start against NetworkMangler One for the video (against X giving your video info) There are always going to be some systems a release breaks - with any OS. It's not possible to test every combin

Redirecting mail in Thunderbird

2010-06-11 Thread Alan Evans
n any more from their mail client. Am I just outmoded for wanting this, or is there some other preferred method? -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorap

Re: Redirecting mail in Thunderbird

2010-06-11 Thread Alan Evans
that even in searches that I already did. Now that I know what it is, I see pointers to it everywhere. -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorapro

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-11 Thread Alan Evans
hat was a concern so much as write speed. This is also why I chose ext2 over ext3/4. I reasoned that, without journal writes, the processor would spend less time in IOWait. Do you think that reasoning is flawed? -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

F13 - can't detect network printer

2010-06-16 Thread Alan Evans
correct; I've triple-checked). The dialog says "Searching..." for a long time and finally, "No printer was found at that address." Now what? -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: F13 - can't detect network printer

2010-06-16 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Did you remember to poke a hole in your firewall? Sorry, forgot to mention: Firewall is disabled. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

Re: F13 - can't detect network printer

2010-06-16 Thread Alan Evans
ll is disabled. > Another thing to try if 'Find Network Printer' still doesn't work is to > select 'Windows Printer via SAMBA' and browse for the right shares. "Windows Printer via SAMBA" is not on the list of options. -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.

Re: F13 - can't detect network printer [SOLVED]

2010-06-16 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:21 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: >> "Windows Printer via SAMBA" is not on the list of options. > > Perhaps that's the problem.  Install the 'samba-client' package and try > ag

Re: Fedora 13 usb key failure

2010-06-17 Thread Alan Cox
O> At that point, after the installer's vmlinux has been > booted, the keystrokes on the usb keyboard are not > recognized when attempting to select the installation > media check options. This is quite odd because the > same usb keyboard is usable earlier in the installation Odd it may see but no

Re: 32bit Vs 64bit OS

2010-06-18 Thread Alan Cox
86 the CPU has a real shortage of registers. The 64bit mode changes this somewhat which means its not a simple 64bit extend but also other performance improving features that become available. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:43:19 -0700 JD wrote: > Greetings, > I have a 500GB hd which smarts daemon says has 1 re-mapped sector, and > 129 bad sectors. > How is it possible to have 129 bad sectors, but only 1 re-mapped sector? > Did the HD have only 1 spare sector when I purchased it? > Is that po

Re: bad HD sectors

2010-06-20 Thread Alan Cox
> I thought fsck simply checks the metadata > of the filesystem, free blocks and allocated > blocks, cylinder groups, inodes...etc. > > So, it is not clear that fsck will detect new > bad blocks. Yep cat /dev/sdwhatever >/dev/null -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-23 Thread Alan Evans
is their responsibility to explain how to uninstall that software. Simple. Fedora, for its part, doesn't advocate using proprietary software at all. What you're asking is equivalent to demanding that Microsoft provide instructions for how to switch from Firefox back to Internet Explorer. I

Re: Slow CD access while ripping music CD

2010-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
> > Notice it is running in UDMA mode. > > > At power-up, drop down into bios and change it there. The kernel ignores any BIOS mode settings except for unsupported controllers. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Slow CD access while ripping music CD

2010-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
> Jun 24 20:48:29 localhost kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 > SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen > Jun 24 20:48:29 localhost kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Volume set > (in), Read cd: be 00 00 03 f9 0f 00 00 1b f8 00 00 > Jun 24 20:48:29 localhost kernel: ata2.00: cmd > a0/00:00:00:10:f8/0

Re: Native ZFS in Fedora?

2010-06-27 Thread Alan Cox
e gone. It still leaves the NetApp patent spat with Sun to sort out. But beyond that hopefully Oracle will see sense depending how btrfs and zfs fit into their strategy. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
ecking naïvely simply helps the spam get through. SPF also breaks forwarding in many cases and has other problems including mailing list interactions. The lack of massive uptake is not I suspect chance.. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: Sendmail: How does one blacklist annoying spammers?

2010-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:38:12 -0700 "jdow" wrote: > From: "Alan Cox" > Sent: Monday, 2010/June/28 02:05 > > > > I believe that's what SPF is supposed to solve. Sites advertise in > > their DNS records which the "official" outgoing ema

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

2010-07-05 Thread Alan Cox
> Fact: the most difficult a process is to follow, the less people would follow > it Correct - and if that process is weeding odd emails from gigabytes of off-list spam then they won't read the list. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

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