Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 23, 2013 3:49 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings you all After bit of irc discussion there is a compelling reason to move entirely away from Red Hat bugzilla as well as away from concept of hosting our own. Now it pretty much boils down to this. 1. Generic

systemd-cryptsetup and TrueCrypt volumes.

2013-09-08 Thread Pete Travis
anyone with access to a TrueCrypt volume speak to the support for TrueCrypt in Fedora, and confirm that systemd-cryptsetup does its job if the volume is added to /etc/fstab? - -- - -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanet...@fedoraproject.org -BEGIN

Documenting Changes

2013-08-29 Thread Pete Travis
, don't worry about presentation and such; it can be difficult to know what needs to be written about in the distribution and a point in the right direction really helps. -- -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanet...@fedoraproject.org signature.asc

Re: Review swap request: web-assets

2013-08-23 Thread Pete Travis
On Aug 23, 2013 6:00 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Would someone be willing to trade me a review for: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997678 It's dead simple at the moment: it just provides a couple directories and RPM macros. Later on it will

Re: [CentOS] Motherboard and chipset compatibility

2013-08-12 Thread Pete Travis
On Aug 12, 2013 1:57 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs wrote: On 08/12/2013 07:30 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote: Since the reqirements are (relatively) modest (except those two), I was hoping to squeeze something in. Looks like I'm out of luck, and buying another full tower to hold a

Re: no mention of interface naming in Fedora 19 Release Notes

2013-07-16 Thread Pete Travis
On Jul 16, 2013 11:22 AM, Andrew McNabb amcn...@mcnabbs.org wrote: Fedora 19 has gone through yet another change to how network interfaces are renamed (biosdevname, etc.). This isn't mentioned in the Changes in Fedora for System Administrators section of the Release Notes, though it does

Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Application Installer

2013-07-10 Thread Pete Travis
On Jul 10, 2013 5:25 AM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Proposed Self Contained Change: Application Installer = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstaller Change owner(s): Richard Hughes rhug...@redhat.com, together with the desktop team We will replace the existing

Re: .cache/gdm/session.log is empty

2013-06-19 Thread Pete Travis
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: Yeah, the transition from ~/.xsession-errors to ~/.cache/gdm/session.log to the systemd journal wasn't really that well-executed, unfortunately. I don't know if we have any documentation about this, either. --

Re: icedtea-web installed and enabled by default in Fedora 19

2013-06-18 Thread Pete Travis
On Jun 17, 2013 9:03 AM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: ... I think given all the trouble this plugin has caused recently, it wouldn't be wise to install it for everyone. If you need it, great, install it, but if a users doesn't need it, it's really just creating a level of

Re: git rebase master

2013-05-27 Thread Pete Travis
On May 27, 2013 11:17 AM, Sérgio Basto ser...@serjux.com wrote: Hi, git puts me crazy in here : http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/debconf.git/ I have master now correct and want F19 be the same (git merge master) but do a commit just in F19, seems that never will be the same . I try

Re: Maintainer input on release notes

2013-05-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:52 PM, John J. McDonough wb8...@arrl.net wrote: We had a short discussion of this at this morning's meeting but felt a broader discussion here was warranted. When preparing the Release

Re: Telnet server broken in TC4

2013-05-11 Thread Pete Travis
On May 11, 2013 2:24 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sat, 11 May 2013 13:22:39 -0700 Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Release-note worthy, perhaps? perhaps. I don't know how many people are still using telnet server. I would hope very few. SSH is much more secure

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-03 Thread Pete Travis
**will** bitch about being able to read the password as they type it. Any Press is Good Press is a bromide that Fedora shouldn't test. - Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanet...@fedoraproject.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: UEFI testing of F19 Alpha RC2 requested

2013-04-10 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 10, 2013 11:08 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, folks. This is a special testing request for F19 Alpha. There are known to be a couple of bugs that can cause UEFI installation to fail because there isn't enough space in the firmware NVRAM; as a fix for that

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-05 Thread Pete Travis
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:55 AM, David Lehman dleh...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 08:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:29:21AM -0600, Pete Travis wrote: equated to the memory requirements for the running environment, especially for cloud guests

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-05 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 5, 2013 2:23 PM, David Lehman dleh...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 08:59 -0600, Pete Travis wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:55 AM, David Lehman dleh...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 08:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-03 Thread Pete Travis
- but does anyone want to run Fedora with less memory than that, or is doing so venturing out of reasonable guidelines and into proof-of-concept adventureland? -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize at fedoraproject.org -- devel mailing list devel

Re: System Requirements

2013-04-03 Thread Pete Travis
user, and guidelines for other use cases. We can steer towards a lighter spin for machines with low resources, for example, or boast about the node size we can use in the cloud. -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize at fedoraproject.org -- test mailing

How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-02 Thread Pete Travis
comprehensive documentation. Beyond a basic desktop, what use cases would you like to see us represent? -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize at fedoraproject.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

System Requirements

2013-04-02 Thread Pete Travis
validation of hardware requirements. Your thoughts? -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize at fedoraproject.org -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Is there a reason we do not turn on the file system hardlink/symlink protection in Rawhide?

2013-03-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 15, 2013 10:13 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/15/2013 10:52 AM, Chris Adams wrote: I agree that it doesn't really need a feature page, but IMHO it should be in the release notes (this is something that could break existing programs). Here you go

Re: Fedora Knowledge Base / Help Center Idea

2013-03-13 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 13, 2013 11:31 AM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 03/13/2013 11:53 AM, Nils Philippsen wrote: I imagine that some kind of well discoverable (e.g. advertised during installation, or in the default browser homepage) knowledge-base beyond installation guides, release

Re: Fedora Knowledge Base / Help Center Idea

2013-03-13 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 13, 2013 1:55 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/13/2013 02:52 PM, Pete Travis wrote: . Guides are getting updated too, of course. More writers make for better docs, so if you want that for our users, please help write docs instead of competing. Have you thought

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 12, 2013 9:12 AM, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On UEFI systems, which is most new desktops: 1) we don't need any grub UI whatsoever 2) we don't need the 5 second timeout 3) we don't need to indicate to the firmware that we need USB probed unless it's the device we're booting

Fwd: Bug 911415 fixed on Bugzilla

2013-02-23 Thread Pete Travis
just needs updating; I'm passing this on to the websites folks for comment. - -- - -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanet...@fedoraproject.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRJyDYAAoJEL1wZM0+jj2ZWioH

Re: Request for a firewalld secondary DHCP + PXEBOOT HOWTO

2013-02-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 15, 2013 6:39 AM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: Pete, Yeah that's the easy bits, they need details too. The bit I have yet to find out how to do is to forward HTTPS and DNS ports between the primary internet network and the secondary DHCP BOOTP network on 192.168.1.x. I

Re: Non-responsive Maintainer: mediawiki

2013-02-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 15, 2013 5:34 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On 08/02/13 01:36 PM, Pete Travis wrote: . I haven't poked at mediawiki in a while, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it fairly self contained? I recall copying the content from /usr/share/ to /var/www

Re: Request for a firewalld secondary DHCP + PXEBOOT HOWTO

2013-02-14 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 9, 2013 3:47 AM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 February 2013 16:41, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/07/2013 04:23 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: Can someone who knows firewalld please do a HOWTO to on setting up a secondary DHCP with DNS and HTTPS

Re: Request for a firewalld secondary DHCP + PXEBOOT HOWTO

2013-02-14 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 14, 2013 12:03 PM, Pete Travis li...@petetravis.com wrote: On Feb 9, 2013 3:47 AM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 February 2013 16:41, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/07/2013 04:23 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: Can someone who knows firewalld

Re: [cobbler] exclude packages from core repo

2013-02-13 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 13, 2013 12:07 PM, Tony Schreiner anthony.schrei...@bc.edu wrote: On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:04 PM, James Cammarata wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Tony Schreiner anthony.schrei...@bc.edu wrote: I'm using cobbler to install Fedora 16. I imported the distro, and added Fedora

Re: Non-responsive Maintainer: mediawiki

2013-02-08 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 8, 2013 12:54 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: . Two the fix is to upgrade to a very new version which will break everyone who upgrades until they (or the first person who gets to the website :) ) runs the upgrade mode.. which might not work due to either custom changes

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 28, 2013 9:56 AM, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: (snip) I'm happy to see renewed discussion about the future of the Fedora desktop. After four releases it isn't bad to step back and take a look at how things are working out. I hope we can do that with an eye to where we want to go in

Re: [Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 18.

2013-01-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 15, 2013 4:45 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/15/13, cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com wrote: Release Notes say: For a detailed listing of all changes, refer to the Fedora Technical Notes. Where can Fedora Technical Notes be found? I don't think

Re: [Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 18.

2013-01-15 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 15, 2013 7:01 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 18:30 -0700, Pete Travis wrote: They are assembled using the repodata on the release media, which generally means they aren't published until after the release ships. F17 was an exception

Re: Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

2013-01-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 9, 2013 12:32 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet nathan...@gnat.ca wrote: On 01/09/2013 12:26 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Kevin Fenzi wrote: One of the big questions to answer is distribution. I can see good arguments on the one hand distributing formulas via RPM and on the

Re: Connecting remotely to f18 in single user mode

2013-01-07 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 1, 2013 5:30 PM, Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cec...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Sometimes when doing various types of maintenance for a server,I work this way in rhel based systems and fedora pre-18: - boot in single user mode - service network start - service sshd start - connect via ssh

Re: GRUB menu hidden by default?

2013-01-03 Thread Pete Travis
A simple short term solution might be to purge this statement from the documentation for affected releases. If we should expect the splash only in certain cases, of course the docs should state that expected behavior. Since you folks are testing, would anyone mind filing a bug against the

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Pete Travis
I don't see why these are features at all. Surely it's better towards the end of each release cycle for someone to compare the versions of packages and add something in the release notes for each major GUI / programming language / user application that got a big update. Rich. I only have

Re: Yum update chnages BIOS setting

2012-11-27 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 27, 2012 7:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: (snip) 2. dmesg reports this (Here: Fedora 16): [ 26.904380] ata_id[762]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument Many - most? - USB to SATA bridge chips don't pass through these kind of requests. I suspect

Re: [CentOS] What's The Odds?

2012-11-27 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 27, 2012 8:25 AM, Gene Poole gene.po...@macys.com wrote: What's the odds of retaining the data in a software raid-1 array when falling back to CentOS 5.8 x86_64 from CentOS 6.3 x86_64? The array is made up of 2 - 1.5 TB hard disks. The original array was defined under CentOS 5.3

Re: QQ

2012-11-06 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 6, 2012 4:29 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/06/2012 11:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: People that want to try Fedora can do so via live cd/dvd/usb or in a vm and those that dont need to reformat/repartition and reinstall windows and then install Fedora assuming

Re: HEADS UP several very old sysconfig files are being deprecated

2012-10-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 26, 2012 7:27 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: Just a bit of heads up about the recent changes taking place in systemd ( 195 ) for F18+... (snip) https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test Thanks for the writeup, Jóhann. There's a lot of good info here.

Re: HEADS UP several very old sysconfig files are being deprecated

2012-10-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 26, 2012 8:01 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/27/2012 01:43 AM, Pete Travis wrote: On Oct 26, 2012 7:27 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: Just a bit of heads up about the recent changes taking place in systemd ( 195 ) for F18+... (snip

F18 Release Notes

2012-09-17 Thread Pete Travis
a handful of docs maintainers trying to follow all of hundreds of features. Thanks for helping us represent your work to the users, Pete Travis, The Fedora Docs Team ___ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: [CentOS] Configure Kickstart

2012-06-19 Thread Pete Travis
On Jun 19, 2012 9:04 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: jiten jha jitenjh...@googlemail.com I want you help to configure kickstart on my centos5.4 server . I search on google and found so many way to configure it even on centos web site also. But It is not working and i am know so

Re: DVD not booting

2012-03-19 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 19, 2012 2:04 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 03:01:22PM -0400, 86vfr750 wrote: Durring boot-up I press a key to boot from CD, the DVD drive starts, then stops after 1 second and then I boot from the HD. No boot recoard found. The Live

Re: recover from a bad F16 install

2012-03-18 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 18, 2012 12:04 AM, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: On 3/17/2012 10:50 PM, Pete Travis wrote: On Mar 17, 2012 11:37 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: On 3/17/2012 9:52

Re: recover from a bad F16 install

2012-03-17 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 17, 2012 11:37 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: On 3/17/2012 9:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/18/2012 12:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Though I appreciate the suggestion, I can't

Re: root= for Fedora 17 pxeboot?

2012-02-27 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 26, 2012 11:00 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: I have been using the following for the default file in tftpd. It has worked until Fedora 17, which needs a root= phrase. However I can find no information on what that phrase should be. What should it be changed to?

Re: FirewallD is not running. (fwd)

2012-02-27 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 27, 2012 1:30 PM, Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, Could I get some comments about my email. Should I clarify teh point? Thank for your help. -- --- == Patrick DUPRÉ

Re: ntp

2012-02-27 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 27, 2012 2:56 PM, Patrick Dupre patrick.du...@york.ac.uk wrote: Hello, My machine (fedora 16) does not synchronize its time. ntpd is running, but ntpdate 0.fedora.pool.ntp.org generate an error: 27 Feb 21:44:29 ntpdate[3184]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting Here is my ntp.conf

Re: Fedora 16 Stuck on Welcome Screen

2012-02-23 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 23, 2012 7:16 AM, Greg Woods wo...@ucar.edu wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 05:28 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Oh, let me join the game: systemd.unit=multi-user.taret. (the multi- as opposed to mult-...). Who's next? :-D OK, why not? That's systemd.unit=multi-user.target (target as

Re: Fedora 16 Stuck on Welcome Screen

2012-02-22 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 22, 2012 1:19 PM, J.T. Blaylock jblayl...@mymacmail.com wrote: Hey all, I have a fresh Fedora 16 64 bit KDE install from DVD iso on USB. It boots up to the Welcome screen but when I click Forward to proceed to the license information screen the button darkens like it's been pressed and

Re: fuzzed desktop in F16

2012-02-16 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 16, 2012 7:52 AM, Greg Woods wo...@ucar.edu wrote: I don't know how to describe it better; if I bring up windows mode in GNOME shell, all the icons and fonts on the desktop are blurry and pixelated. This only happens after a normal login followed by a suspend or hibernate. Upon

Re: fuzzed desktop in F16

2012-02-16 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 16, 2012 2:44 PM, Greg Woods wo...@ucar.edu wrote: On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 14:18 -0700, Pete Travis wrote: On Feb 16, 2012 7:52 AM, Greg Woods wo...@ucar.edu wrote: I don't know how to describe it better; if I bring up windows mode in GNOME shell, all the icons and fonts

Re: F15 update: no more nvidia

2012-02-12 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 12, 2012 3:15 PM, jonetsu jone...@teksavvy.com wrote: Hello all, This afternoon I updated the F15 x86_64 workstation I use. There were quite a few updates in the pipe, so why not. There was properly working nvidia setup which gave high Xorg resolution. Before proceeding there

Re: F16: gnome-shell question

2012-02-11 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 11, 2012 9:49 AM, Joachim Backes joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote: Hi, if pressing activities-applications, seeing a lot of applications I had already uninstalled, but still appearing in the all submenu. Question: Is there a gnome-shell tool which can be used to cleanup those

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-11 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 11, 2012 7:19 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Pete Travis wrote: Why do you need to run this as root? I ran it with and without sudo, just to see if there was any difference. There wasn't. It it in your best interests to get out of that habit. You are going

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-10 Thread Pete Travis
chop -- [tim@blanche ~]$ sudo google contacts list --title '.*' --user timothygayleardmur...@gmail.com chop Hey Tim, Why do you need to run this as root? Pete -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-10 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 10, 2012 2:58 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Pete Travis wrote: Why do you need to run this as root? I ran it with and without sudo, just to see if there was any difference. There wasn't. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090

Re: Yum and Fedora 16

2012-02-08 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 8, 2012 11:50 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 08/02/12 18:37, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 08.02.2012 19:27, schrieb n2xssvv.g02gfr12930: Currently I'm using Fedora 14, but after upgrading my PC I decided to try and install Fedora 16 from the KDE

Re: Yum and Fedora 16

2012-02-08 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 8, 2012 5:27 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 08/02/12 22:36, Pete Travis wrote: On Feb 8, 2012 11:50 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com mailto:n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 08/02/12 18:37, Reindl Harald

Re: Fedora 16 and Chromium

2012-02-04 Thread Pete Travis
I'm not in front of my desk at the moment to investigate chromium dependencies, but for what its worth, Chrome from Google's repo is stable, reliable, and coexists sanely with both Fedora and RPM fusion (I believe it installs strictly in /opt.) --pete On Feb 4, 2012 6:48 PM, Roger

Re: MySQL is not working on PHP with Fedora 16

2012-01-24 Thread Pete Travis
For cases where I can't (be bothered to take the time to) find the proper context and end up using this method, I make a habit of moving/flushing audit.log then recreating the specific issue. This way, nothing unexpected slips by. I probably should be paying more attention to what's in there,

Re: Operating a laptop when closed. Disabling the lid switch ?

2012-01-19 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 19, 2012 1:11 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 01/19/2012 03:03 PM, linux guy wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Fulko Hew fulko@gmail.com wrote: I won't go so far as say 'over-heat', but _my_ laptop does get 'a lot warmer' with its lid shut. Its due to

Re: Only desktop wallpaper after login F15

2012-01-18 Thread Pete Travis
.fnord Is there a way I can skip Gnome and go directly into CLI (barring systemd). .fnord SystemD is Fedora's init system, and is wholly responsible for targeting runlevels and system services. Attempting to administer these things while avoiding the utilities provided to accomplish these

Re: flash drive reporting wrong size, how to fix?

2012-01-15 Thread Pete Travis
As part of your experiment, you should dd an image of the card and examine it with testdisk and photorec. --pete On Jan 15, 2012 2:17 PM, Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 January 2012 19:59, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 01/15/2012 11:45 AM, Ian Malone wrote: The only reason I

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-14 Thread Pete Travis
.fnord HTH, :-) Marko This thread contains 32 messages, and has served as a forum for the list regulars to discuss the relative merits of NetworkManager since the eighth message. I'm not trying to single you out, Marko - the OP hasn't been helped by anyone. -- users mailing list

Re: Reading Linux files from Windows?

2012-01-12 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 12, 2012 10:29 AM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas aa.luce...@gmail.com wrote: Hi timothy, Em 12-01-2012 12:07, Timothy Murphy escreveu: Emilio Lopez wrote: I recently acquired a Samsung Smart TV (model D5520). This has a facility for looking at photos on a PC using Picasa. I tried

Re: Dual boot on SSD. No Windows disks. How ?

2012-01-12 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 12, 2012 11:13 AM, Armelius Cameron armeli...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 01:25:40 PM linux guy wrote: It turns out the gparted can copy partitions. http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/03/copy-partitions-with-gparted/ I'm not 100% sure that I am going to need

Re: no internet connection with Fedora16

2012-01-11 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 11, 2012 8:17 PM, John De Graw jldeg...@gmail.com wrote: I have the computer wired to a hub which is wired to the router. Three other computers (wireless wired) are going through the same router and having no difficulties. When I run the ifconfig command in terminal it says it is up

Re: [SOLVED ] failure to display twitter on F16

2012-01-09 Thread Pete Travis
Disabling SELinux entirely may be an overreaction. Like cutting off your hand because of dirt under your fingernails. The link provided seems to offer an easy solution - did it not work for you? On Jan 9, 2012 3:59 PM, Paolo De Michele pa...@paolodemichele.it wrote: On 01/09/2012 09:26 AM,

Re: f16 - locked out again

2012-01-06 Thread Pete Travis
I've noticed that occasionally the authentication box doesn't come up, but you can still type in your password and press enter to unlock the session. I suspect killing the screensaver process from another tty would get you in as well. I haven't bothered to track down the cause, but I know the

Re: Another Fedora 16 + Gnome 3.2 question!?

2012-01-05 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 5, 2012 8:16 AM, Alan Evans ame.fed...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: And what, pray tell, does 'r' do? restart gnome-shell (keeps existing applications; state is not perfectly preserved). Quicker than rebooting the entire machine just to

Re: [CentOS] A simplistic parental-control setup

2012-01-05 Thread Pete Travis
It won't help more than /etc/hosts entries, but I've found using OpenDNS with a free account and a script / client to keep the IP in sync to be very effective. DNS redirects can be applied categorically or with a per domain blacklist. The metrics and charts are interesting too, on a nicely basis

Re: [CentOS] an actual hacked machine, in a preserved state

2012-01-03 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 3, 2012 12:36 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: On 01/03/2012 04:47 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Having been on vacation, I'm coming in very late in this Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Bennett Haseltonbenn...@peacefire.org wrote: snip OK

Re: [CentOS] an actual hacked machine, in a preserved state

2012-01-03 Thread Pete Travis
Here's the qualifying statement I made, in an attempt to preempt pedantic squabbles over my choice of arbitrary figures and oversimplified math: I am not a statistician, but Here is a statement intended to startle you into re-examining your position: Simplistic probability puts the odds of

Re: F16 - a good experience

2011-12-31 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 31, 2011 1:12 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 12/30/2011 06:41 PM, Pete Travis wrote: So, if you don't like gnome3, and you don't use it, why talk about it? Is there a benefit to yourself or the project to be gained? Are these complaints contributing to the signal, or the noise

Re: F16 - a good experience

2011-12-30 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 30, 2011 11:00 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 12/30/2011 08:51 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: Luckily the frippery extensions and some other good stuff on extensions.gnome.org allow me to mimick GNOME2 pretty well. Doesn't it bother anybody else here that many people have to use a

Re: F16 - a good experience

2011-12-30 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 30, 2011 12:59 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 12/30/2011 10:42 AM, Pete Travis wrote: But! Have you looked at extensions.gnome.org http://extensions.gnome.org ? No. fnord (I like that one!) Please, humor me, try it. Log into a gnome session, pop open a few windows, and point

Re: F16 - a good experience

2011-12-30 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 30, 2011 5:04 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 12/30/2011 03:25 PM, Pete Travis wrote: your reply suggests I didn't clearly communicate the concept of extensible behavior sets (my words). I understand what you're getting at. What you don't seem to understand is that I've only

Re: Implementing a sometimes RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Pete Travis
A 17 laptop cuts an awfully large profile. Are you sure there aren't two SATA bays? On Dec 28, 2011 10:27 AM, linux guy linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: Good discussion. Thanks for the replies. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Why would a particular flash-drive reconfigure itself to be read only, and lock-out admin..?

2011-12-28 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 28, 2011 4:09 PM, Linda McLeod lindavald...@fastmail.fm wrote: Anyone know why a particular flash-drive would reconfigure itself to be read only..? This F-drive has done this three times, forcing me to format it, and reload the hd backup.. and another has done it once.. I run with

Re: How To Install Miro Arista In Fedora 16

2011-12-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 26, 2011 9:02 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I can't find Miro and Arista in Fedora repos (have also installed Live and RPM Fusion). I need these two apps to convert movies for my Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tab (and also writing a review). Is there any easy way to

Re: How to uninstall nvidia drivers in runlevel3

2011-12-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 26, 2011 2:07 PM, Lawrence Graves lgrave...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to do an update on my Dell 9400 Inspiron which is running 275.43 nvidia drivers. Is there a command that will allow me this option if need. Please help. -- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all

Re: How to uninstall nvidia drivers in runlevel3

2011-12-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 15:56 -0600, Kevin Martin wrote: On 12/26/2011 03:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.12.2011 22:07, schrieb Lawrence Graves: I would like to do an update on my Dell 9400 Inspiron which is running 275.43 nvidia drivers. Is there a command that will allow me

Re: How to uninstall nvidia drivers in runlevel3

2011-12-26 Thread Pete Travis
Lawrence, I didn't think I was introducing any new ideas. If you need more detailed, step by step support, IRC is a much better venue. On Dec 26, 2011 5:22 PM, Lawrence Graves lgrave...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/26/2011 05:07 PM, Pete Travis wrote: On Dec 26, 2011 2:07 PM, Lawrence Graves

Re: How To Install Miro Arista In Fedora 16

2011-12-26 Thread Pete Travis
On 12/26/2011 05:17 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Sorry for the sweeping generalizations, but: Your last couple posts ar saying, in effect, in Ubuntu, I used $METHOD to accomplish $USER_TASK. How can Fedora replicate the $METHOD I used in Ubuntu? Hi Pete, You might run into some trouble,

Re: Giving Up On Fedora

2011-12-25 Thread Pete Travis
On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 13:55 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Hi, I did not want that subject line, but am forced to. I have been writing about Fedora on Muktware and the review was massive hit -- around 80,000 reads. Users liked the review and our articles. But since now I myself am not

Re: mouse and keyboard locking up [Solved - card reader was culprit - correction: problem caused by failing motherboard USB header/port]

2011-12-21 Thread Pete Travis
Some USB ports are designed to supply more power than others. It could be the header is functional, but can't supply as much current as the card reader would like. On Dec 21, 2011 9:37 AM, Claude Jones cjonesli...@tehogeeservices.com wrote: On 12/20/2011 5:14 PM, Claude Jones wrote: No one

Re: Can't copy lists in Yumex...

2011-12-21 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 20, 2011 5:40 PM, Linda McLeod lindavald...@fastmail.fm wrote: Sure would be nice if I could bring up installed in Yumex, and copy the list.. then paste that list into Yumex install for when I'm rebuilding a freshly formatted hd, to eliminate the lengthy search in Yumex in locating my

Re: FC16 newbe questions

2011-12-08 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 8, 2011 7:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: So I skipped FC15. I never worked on Vista of WIn7, always using the 'classic' windows desktop in XP. So I have some REAL challenges adjusting th GNOME in FC16 Like where are my workspaces? I work with 4 of them for

Re: Can RedHat get-into an OS to determine an OS's intentional faults via the Net..?

2011-12-07 Thread Pete Travis
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 11:48 -0800, Linda McLeod wrote: Mindless toilet-class kooks are targeting my PC's via the Internet.. I got this message mess when I attempted an update... _ Error Type: class 'yum.Errors.ConfigError' Error Value: File contains no section

Re: Bug 648732 – Intel wireless broken on 11n for many users

2011-12-06 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 6, 2011 7:52 AM, R. G. Newbury newb...@mandamus.org wrote: On 12/05/2011 10:47 PM, Lawrence Graveslgrave...@gmail.com On 12/05/2011 01:32 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: On 12/04/2011 09:44 PM, Lawrence Graveslgrave...@gmail.com On 12/04/2011 07:44 AM, Ian Malone wrote: 1 Add

Re: Anyone got three monitors working?

2011-11-29 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 29, 2011 12:47 PM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com writes: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_nvs_450_us.html Support for 4 monitors from one card. Pricey, though. :-( Note: this card has two GPUs. This probably means

Re: [CentOS] megaraid/PERC

2011-11-29 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 29, 2011 1:36 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I've got two drives from a now-dead server, they were RAIDed, a mirror, I'd assume. I need to see if there's anything on them I need to transfer to the replacement, so I just shoved them into another Dell server, with a PERC 5 controller - I

Re: [CentOS] megaraid/PERC

2011-11-29 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 29, 2011 1:50 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Pete Travis wrote: On Nov 29, 2011 1:36 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I've got two drives from a now-dead server, they were RAIDed, a mirror, I'd assume. I need to see if there's anything on them I need to transfer to the replacement, so I

Re: Is android linux done right?

2011-11-18 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 17, 2011 11:44 PM, Skunk Worx skunkw...@verizon.net wrote: Android may be the fastest growing linux distribution in history. Now that Google has open sourced Ice Cream Sandwich, will some linux distribution leverage the Android Java Desktop just as Android leveraged the linux kernel?

Re: Aaugh! Worthless disk device screen is back!

2011-11-08 Thread Pete Travis
I use and appreciate this feature. Its comforting to know that the installer won't mess with disks I tell it not to, and some have mounting requirements I don't want to address until after the install. I'm glad you were able to work around this to complete your installation. No software can fit

Re: Aaugh! Worthless disk device screen is back!

2011-11-08 Thread Pete Travis
On Nov 8, 2011 5:44 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:36:35 -0700 Pete Travis wrote: I use and appreciate this feature. Its comforting to know that the installer won't mess with disks I tell it not to, and some have mounting requirements I don't want

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