[Solved]Re: Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

2012-06-06 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 06/05/2012 02:52 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On 06/05/2012 07:46 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: $ /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau nouveau 785681 1 nxm_wmi 12823 1 nouveau wmi 18697 2 mxm_wmi, nouveau video18980 1 nouveau drm_kms_helper 40

Re: Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-06 Thread JD
On 06/06/2012 06:57 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, What's the proper way to copy the entire USB stick as an image? I suspect the issue is that the bootsector is within the first four blocks, and the filesystem begins after that. How can I tell "mount" to look for the filesystem after the first four bloc

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/02/2012 01:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/02/2012 08:35 AM, Thibault Nélis wrote: Anyway, this would only affect OEMs and Windows users who want to install their copy of Windows on machines they assemble themselves (or in any way non-approved by Microsoft). Do we really care about them? I

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/02/2012 08:14 AM, Thibault Nélis wrote: If the technical task of signing a kernel is too much for people who don't care much about security, they can disable secure boot. Anyone here have password-protect set for their bios? I don't, never have. So, I have no beef whatsoever if I can hi

Re: Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-06 Thread Alex
Hi, >> What's the proper way to copy the entire USB stick as an image? >> >> I suspect the issue is that the bootsector is within the first four >> blocks, and the filesystem begins after that. How can I tell "mount" >> to look for the filesystem after the first four blocks? >> >> Somehow when I

Re: Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-06 Thread JD
On 06/06/2012 05:41 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I'm trying to copy a USB stick that I purchased that's supposed to contain a bootable desktop with a bunch of applications like firefox, openoffice, etc. The USB stick somehow actually contains two devices. One has a vfat filesystem and the other appears t

Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-06 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm trying to copy a USB stick that I purchased that's supposed to contain a bootable desktop with a bunch of applications like firefox, openoffice, etc. The USB stick somehow actually contains two devices. One has a vfat filesystem and the other appears to be NTFS. When mounted, it has some s

Re: Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-06 Thread JD
On 06/06/2012 04:39 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16 system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this approach. I use the same user name

Re: Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-06 Thread Jeff Gipson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16 system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this approach. I use the same user name on both systems but on F14 I got userID 500

Re: Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/07/2012 05:26 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new > F16 > system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this > approach. > I use the same user name on both systems but on F14 I got userID 500 whereas

Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-06 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16 system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this approach. I use the same user name on both systems but on F14 I got userID 500 whereas on F16 it became 1000. I wasn't aware of that but learn

Re: AMD/Ati catalyst drivers for Fedora 17

2012-06-06 Thread DJ Delorie
Rudolf Kastl writes: > the 12.6 beta drivers work just fine. +1. I'm running 12.6 with an HD 6870 and four monitors, works fine (except for the known youtube-fullscreen-hang bug, and XVideo cropping) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: any suggestions for these F17 upgrade problems (can not boot)?

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Caudle
On Fri, June 1, 2012 7:21 pm, Sam Varshavchik wrote: advice on getting kernel fixed up > /mnt/sysimage, run /sbin/grub2-mkconfig. ... > 'rpm -q --scripts ' on the kernel version you want to boot. > Manually execute the call to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg that includes the > --update parameter. ... > Then

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-06-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
by mistake. > > And keep the "weekly" one in a different (more secure) place. ;-) > > > > As you use rsync, you may be interested in > > > > rsync -av --delete /home/psmith/ --link-dest > > /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120605 /media/IOmega/backups/my

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-06 Thread Fajrian Yunus
bingo, i think you are right when i started my computer with 1 monitor only, things work well. when i started my computer with both monitors, the following things happen: 1. at 1 screen, i can see the fireworks background image without the login box 2. at the other screen, i see faintly blinking

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Smith
> As you use rsync, you may be interested in > > rsync -av --delete /home/psmith/ --link-dest > /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120605 /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120606 > > You can easily have 60 backups taken each day of the last two months and > restore whatever you have

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-06 Thread Fajrian Yunus
oh yeah. i use 2 monitors indeed. let me try :D On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:24 +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: > > hi all, > > > > asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i > > (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only sh

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-06 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:24 +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: > hi all, > > asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i > (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background > image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image > (fireworks image), i can see my m

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-06 Thread Jeff Gipson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:24:23PM +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mous

Re: jbd2 headache

2012-06-06 Thread Doug Wyatt
On 6/6/2012 7:45 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/06/2012 04:19 AM, Doug Wyatt wrote: >> I have a 2TB HD with 1463 pending bad blocks, 0 reallocated so >> far. All the data has been moved to another HD, the problem HD >> unmounted. Full SMART s

bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-06 Thread Fajrian Yunus
hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse around. but the login box is no

Re: What's wrong with this /etc/fstab ?

2012-06-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:36:19AM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Nope. You have found the problem. As soon as I created the ntfs group, > everything started to work. Though I found this error message > > # mount /mnt/c > mount: only root can mount UUID=E0649EB1649E8A44 on /mn

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-06-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
) As you use rsync, you may be interested in rsync -av --delete /home/psmith/ --link-dest /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120605 /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120606 You can easily have 60 backups taken each day of the last two months and restore whatever you have deleted or messed up (e.g. dif

Re: AMD/Ati catalyst drivers for Fedora 17

2012-06-06 Thread Rudolf Kastl
2012/6/6 Patrick Lists : > On 06-06-12 12:13, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > [snip] >> Anybody got any idea when some working Catalyst drivers will be >> available? > > No but check this link to monitor progress of F17 Catalyst drivers: > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2354 > > Regard

Re: jbd2 headache

2012-06-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2012 04:19 AM, Doug Wyatt wrote: > I have a 2TB HD with 1463 pending bad blocks, 0 reallocated so > far. All the data has been moved to another HD, the problem HD > unmounted. Full SMART scan verified the pending bad blocks. > > However, I ca

Re: kde lcd weather station not working in Holland

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Rouch
On 5 June 2012 12:12, Jan Litwiński wrote: > Dnia wtorek, 5 czerwca 2012 11:55:31 Chris Rouch pisze: >> I used to use the kde plasma lcd weather station widget to show >> current weather at Schiphol (amsterdam airport), but although > search >> still returns results (from wettercom and  bbcukmet),

Re: AMD/Ati catalyst drivers for Fedora 17

2012-06-06 Thread Patrick Lists
On 06-06-12 12:13, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: [snip] > Anybody got any idea when some working Catalyst drivers will be > available? No but check this link to monitor progress of F17 Catalyst drivers: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2354 Regards, Patrick -- users mailing list users

AMD/Ati catalyst drivers for Fedora 17

2012-06-06 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
Good day Fedora lovers, I have just updated my notebook to Fedora 17 using a network install from a bootable USB flash drive. Apart from the AMD/ATi Catalyst drivers causing a minor problem getting KDE to work, now fixed, (allowed Gallium drivers from modprobe, and removed references to Catays

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-06 Thread Steve Dowe
On 02/06/12 18:11, Joe Zeff wrote: ... please don't call me "Shirley." Cigarette? :-) -- Steve Dowe Warp Universal Limited http://warp2.me/sd -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-06-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 10:06 PM, Thibault Nélis wrote: > On 06/01/2012 04:45 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> Or is the ext4 code able to mount ext3 now (I didn't think so)? > > I'm pretty sure it is fully backward compatible yes, even with ext2 > from what I read

Re: A file named "["?

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:41:59 -0700, jdow wrote: > On 2012/06/05 13:17, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:35:34 -0700, jdow wrote: > > > >> On 2012/06/05 11:55, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >>> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 14:40:23 -0400, Alex wrote: > >>> > It's used in shell scripts, suc

Re: jbd2 headache

2012-06-06 Thread Patrick Lists
On 06-06-12 05:19, Doug Wyatt wrote: [snip] > However, I can't run badblocks on /dev/sdc1 because it is "apparently > in use". lsof tells me there are 3 instances of jbd2/sdc1. Have you tried booting the box with the F17 LiveCD/DVD (make sure you don't let it mount your disks) and then run badblo