Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-20 Thread psmith
On 07/11/09 13:30, Timothy Murphy wrote: n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: There is an application called createrepo available which will create the repo based on then RPMs in a directory. This should be a good place to start. I've used it before with any problems. But couldn't yum just hav

Re: F12 installs report here.

2009-11-19 Thread psmith
On 18/11/09 01:25, John Mellor wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 08:01 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: Subject says it all. Tell us about your experience. So far, I'm completely underwhelmed. I'm dead in the water, unable to install Fedora 12. I've added myself to Bugzilla 520044 as a blocker

Re: bash oom problem

2009-10-06 Thread psmith
On 04/10/09 15:28, Mikkel wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 13:54 +0100, psmith wrote: do you have any suggestions what/where i should be looking to get my required output? As Sam says, your initial attempt is trying to produce all 1.5TB at once,

Re: bash oom problem

2009-10-06 Thread psmith
On 04/10/09 14:03, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 13:54 +0100, psmith wrote: On 04/10/09 11:17, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/10/4 psmith: hi list, whilst trying to run this bash command for w in {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z} ;do ec

Re: bash oom problem

2009-10-04 Thread psmith
On 04/10/09 11:17, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/10/4 psmith: hi list, whilst trying to run this bash command for w in {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z} ;do echo $w;done> wl1 Consider that for a second... You are trying to generate a list of all possible combinations

Re: thunderbird 3b4 accounts problem

2009-10-04 Thread psmith
On 02/10/09 16:22, Steven Stern wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/2009 10:08 AM, brian wrote: On 10/02/2009 10:59 AM, brian wrote: I've just installed TB3b4 (because 3b3 was driving me nuts). I use IMAP, so on startup, it proceeded to download everything (

bash oom problem

2009-10-04 Thread psmith
hi list, whilst trying to run this bash command for w in {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z} ;do echo $w;done > wl1 on my aspire one (which is running rawhide) it kept crashing my system down with no reasons shown in any of the logs, so i tried it on my desktop machine which is

Re: F11 on Acer One - unpluging the power cable is not detected

2009-09-19 Thread psmith
On 16/09/09 19:25, Jim wrote: On 09/16/2009 01:46 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:08:02 +0100 jaivuk wrote: Yes, I mean Aspire One. I may try KDE, despite I found recommendation to use "lightweight" XFCE. Unfortunately Gnome is no-go as you cannot rename menus "Applications..." an

Re: naive live USB question

2009-08-13 Thread psmith
On 12/08/09 21:05, David L wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David L wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:23:00AM -0700, David L wrote: I recently took a f11 live USB stick and used it to install f11 on a second USB

Re: Hint on Linpus

2009-07-09 Thread psmith
On 08/07/09 03:06, Carlos Alberto Alves wrote: Hi! Is there anyone who can help me setting an Acer Aspire One 150 to run a Linpus Linux in US English with a keyboard ABNT2 (Portuguese brazilian)? Found no help in Linpus homepage... :( Thanks in advance, best option is to remove linpus all toge

Re: Building a custom kernel with directions from Fedora

2009-07-06 Thread psmith
stan wrote: The directions at the link http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel work great for building a custom kernel from Fedora source rpm. With one gotcha: they don't build the firmware and the kernel won't install unless the firmware is present (or you build it as a binary

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-23 Thread psmith
jackson byers wrote: ��� David's experience also was that there was no custom option. ��� I purchased my cd from OSDisc.com ��� Fedora 10 KDE Edition - install/Live CD ��� is this some outdated version? ��� or a deficient version? ��� not officially supported? ��� How is one to know? ��� Jac

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-23 Thread psmith
jackson byers wrote: ect: Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD jackson byers wrote: > Well, the f10liveinstall cd didnt work for me, > ( see f10 liveinstall cd trashed my main fc5) Well, FC5 is long out of support, that's what you get for waiting so long until you finally upgrade. (Hint: you

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-23 Thread psmith
suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 psmith : suvayu ali wrote: Thanks for the thought, but I'm aware of the XFCE Live CDs. My question is since live CDs don't offer the option to choose the kind of install, not even the option to choose the partition on the disk, upgrading to a

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread psmith
David wrote: On 4/22/2009 3:33 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David : On 4/22/2009 2:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David : As I understand the Live-CD installs to the primary (boot) disk. That would be sda. It will have a / in sda1 and a swap in sda6. It will be

Re: Q about installing F10 from Live DVD

2009-04-22 Thread psmith
suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David : On 4/22/2009 2:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/4/22 David : As I understand the Live-CD installs to the primary (boot) disk. That would be sda. It will have a / in sda1 and a swap in sda6. It will be LVM. All this talk about live

Re: Wireless Woes

2009-04-21 Thread psmith
Seann Clark wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: Seann Clark wrote: I apologize, I left that out by accident. How do you pull up the actual wireless network device? Try using NetworkManager. You'll want NetworkManager-gnome for the GUI part too (even if you aren't using GNOME - a KDE 4 Plasma

Re: kernel-2.6.29.1-30 doesn't boot

2009-04-16 Thread psmith
Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: 2009/4/16 Dan : Just updated the kernel about an hour ago. Fedora 10 (x86) Dell GX240 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF When booting it gets as far as "starting anacron" and then I just get a black screen with keyboard and mouse fr

Re: kernel compile error: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'. Stop

2009-04-11 Thread psmith
Yas say wrote: Not sure how to fix this. I compiled kernels with SuSE but never with Redhat or Fedora. someone please help. I made sure all develop tools are in and I need this for new hardware support. [r...@gbintel 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686]# make scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig

Re: [SOLVED] Re: xorg virtual / panning question

2009-04-11 Thread psmith
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 19:01 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/4/10 Craig White : On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 16:43 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/4/10 Sharpe, Sam J : 2009/4/10 Craig White : I am getting no traction on xorg mail list - perhaps

Re: xorg virtual / panning question

2009-04-10 Thread psmith
Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/4/10 Craig White : On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 19:01 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/4/10 Craig White : On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 16:43 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/4/10 Sharpe, Sam J : 2009/4/10 Craig White : I am getting

Re: Chown ???

2009-04-10 Thread psmith
Rick Stevens wrote: psmith wrote: my first computer was a spektrum 48k, it used a casette tape for storage and had great games like jet set willy and saboteur, we also used one at primary school where i started to learn to program spektrum basic, the first ever program being 10 print "

Re: Chown ???

2009-04-10 Thread psmith
Sharpe, Sam J wrote: 2009/4/9 psmith : my first computer was a spektrum 48k, it used a casette tape for storage and had great games like jet set willy and saboteur, we also used one at primary school where i started to learn to program spektrum basic. Then there was the Spectrum 48K

Re: Chown ???

2009-04-09 Thread psmith
James Kosin wrote: Rick Stevens wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 11:19 -0400, Jim wrote: Rick Stevens wrote: Jim wrote: Rick Stevens wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:27 +, g

Re: Chown ???

2009-04-08 Thread psmith
Alan Cox wrote: I was at BTL in the very early '80s. Writing kernel mods and drivers for Unix, and teaching Unix internals to BTL employees. It's always been "superuser". I don't know where anyone got this lame "substitute user" stuff, but it's not authentic. To quote the V7 manual page

Re: How to get send mail without localhost.localdomain

2009-03-28 Thread psmith
Ed Greshko wrote: Arthur Pemberton wrote: I put a .forward in /root so that I can receive logwatch emails from my desktop. But against everything I have tried, I can't get sendmail to use r...@example.com instead of r...@localhost.localdomain I don't want to stick example.com in to /etc/host

Re: recent update issues

2009-03-26 Thread psmith
Dennis Kaptain wrote: I have been following the fedora-list for several years off and on. From time to time I see as well as occasionally experience issues with updates breaking things. It seems to me that this week has been especially tough. There has been a flurry of problems including the

Re: kernel source code

2009-03-26 Thread psmith
David wrote: On 3/26/2009 12:47 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: And as a side note, I just pulled a source rpm off rawhide, for kernel 2.6.29-rc8-git and it would unpack due

Re: Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-24 Thread psmith
Alan Cox wrote: I've got boxes at home running FC6, F8, and F10. The FC6 box is an old AMD Athlon 2Ghz 1.5GB memory, the F8 box is a P4 3 Ghz 2GB memory, and the F10 box is an Intel Core2 2.2 Ghz 4GB memory. For the test, I created a 1,000,000 line (80 byte lines, 80 MB) text file and timed "c

Re: fedora LTS , why not?

2009-03-21 Thread psmith
Kevin Kofler wrote: Antonio Olivares wrote: I can understand the LTS support complaints, but CentOS, Scientific and others address this, but as far as the codecs part. There is a CD out there with everything prepackaged and Fedora based: ... where "everything" doesn't include KDE. IMH

Re: xfce 4.6.0 for F10

2009-03-20 Thread psmith
Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:05:31 + psmith wrote: kevin everything seems to be fine so far with 4.6 on F10 but for one problem, in replacing xfce-mcs-plugin-gsynaptics i can no longer change my touchpad settings with the gui, every time i try to start xfce4-mouse

Re: F10 and built-in Intel graphics

2009-03-20 Thread psmith
Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 09:49 +, psmith wrote: Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 22:25 +, psmith wrote: Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:14 +, psmith wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote

Re: F10 and built-in Intel graphics [SOLVED]

2009-03-19 Thread psmith
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 17 March 2009 19:18, Matthew Saltzman wrote: I can't find the other e-mail in which someone suggested using XAA acceleration, but that seems to have worked so far. Thanks, all! It doesn't work. It improves the time between two crashes, but does not e

Re: xfce 4.6.0 for F10

2009-03-18 Thread psmith
Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:12:41 + "Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)" wrote: Kevin Fenzi wrote: I can update that and let you know where the repo is if you want to test them? phil kevin I would also be willing to test. FRank that would be grea

Re: xfce 4.6.0 for F10

2009-03-18 Thread psmith
Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:12:41 + "Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)" wrote: Kevin Fenzi wrote: I can update that and let you know where the repo is if you want to test them? phil kevin I would also be willing to test. FRank that would be grea

Re: F10 and built-in Intel graphics

2009-03-17 Thread psmith
Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 22:25 +, psmith wrote: Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:14 +, psmith wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: M A Young wrote: I recommend that you do a text based install (add text to the boot

Re: F10 and built-in Intel graphics

2009-03-16 Thread psmith
Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:14 +, psmith wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: M A Young wrote: I recommend that you do a text based install (add text to the boot line), and once you have it installed, boot to a text console (add 3 to the boot line), then add Option

Re: F10 and built-in Intel graphics

2009-03-16 Thread psmith
Gordon Messmer wrote: M A Young wrote: I recommend that you do a text based install (add text to the boot line), and once you have it installed, boot to a text console (add 3 to the boot line), then add Option "NoAccel" "true" to the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf I'm curious whether

Re: xfce 4.6.0 for F9

2009-03-16 Thread psmith
Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:06:18 + psmith wrote: hi kevin, i don't mean to rush you but are you any nearer to having these built for F10? Sorry for the delay... been busy of late. ;( I will try and get something setup this week. tia phil

Re: xfce 4.6.0 for F9

2009-03-16 Thread psmith
Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:42:25 + phil wrote: kevin is it major surgery to build xfce 4.6 in F10? as i've literally >>>just finished downloading the full source tarball, (and the graphical >>>installer in case i came up against to much problems lol) and if it's >>>goin

Re: Shell confusion

2009-03-13 Thread psmith
Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote: You should not run GUI apps under a root shell. Do: sudo gedit or better yet: sudoedit /etc/the_config.ext Matt Flaschen Only, dave is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. So, I found the sudoers file, but not at all clear about exaclty what I

Re: timeline for python 3?

2009-03-13 Thread psmith
David wrote: On 3/13/2009 8:10 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: perhaps admitting my ignorance of python upgrades and backward compatibility, but is there a timeline for the adoption of python 3 into an official fedora release? thanks. see? a whole post from me without mentioning

Re: without a truly working "jigdo", re-spins are effectively useless

2009-03-11 Thread psmith
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, psmith wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... bitch bitch bitch whine whine whine ... :-) why not just download the respin over torrent? http://spins.fedoraunity.org/unity/torrent-files-fedora-10-20090210-re-spin while that is

Re: without a truly working "jigdo", re-spins are effectively useless

2009-03-11 Thread psmith
Robert P. J. Day wrote: as an admittedly frustrated followup from yesterday, i am giving up on jigdo and its variations since, quite simply, at the moment, they don't work. and given that the fedora re-spins explicitly state that they are available currently only via jigdo, that makes those re

Re: F10 updates breaking things

2009-03-09 Thread psmith
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 23:50:20 +, Alan wrote: Keyboard stuff has a bug in bugzilla if you search and a workaround, so its known but not yet fixed. Very annoying bug, shouldn't have gotten past the developer (but shouldn't have gotten past testing either which isn't t

Re: removing autorun from a flash drive

2009-03-09 Thread psmith
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:36:02PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: If I need a different drive, how, if at all, do I recognize one without an autorun.inf? Don't buy one with the U3 label. It's not like the thing wasn't plainly marked. you know it's very easy to