Re: Advice on what dmsetup/fdisk/lvm does!
On 13/10/09 18:33, Dan Track wrote: sda and sdb are the same, as there is only one disk but two separate paths to it, so it shows up twice under different device mappings. My question now is after restarting mutlipathd, what is the next step? Do I need to use dmsetup, searching the web I still can't understand why I need it. I'm looking to create a logical volume on this disk. Once multipath is working should I only see one entry in /proc/partitions, instead of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb? Posting your configuration file will probably help, but you don't need to touch /dev/sda or /dev/sdb. There should be an entry under /dev/mapper (eg /dev/mapper/SANVOL) or whatever you called it, which is the device you use to create the filesystems, logical volumes, partitions etc. You'll still see /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in /proc/partitions though. It's also recommended you exclude lvm (/etc/lvm/lvm.conf) from looking at /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, otherwise there's the potential to confuse it. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Clipboard manager by default in Fedora 11
On 26/07/09 05:06, Julian Aloofi wrote: I don't think that would count as a feature, and it isn't one. It's basically a program every system should have (in my opinion). The Gnome clipboard isn't working great. I often get complaints from new users I introduce to Fedora that their clipboard content was lost when they closed Firefox, or something similar. I'd like to see some consistency between how apps handle clipboard content, when 1. The user highlights content and pastes using the middle mouse button 2. The user uses the copy paste menu options or hot keys. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
Re: simple LDAP for address book?
On 13/07/09 22:39, Tom Horsley wrote: Anyone know of a simple howto somewhere on the net for setting up LDAP just to use for a personal address book? (Preferably some server offered in fedora repos). I haven't used either of these myself, but they might fit your needs if you haven't seen them already. http://freeldap.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/labe/ FWIW, a year or two back I setup an addressbook using Fedora Directory Services. I found that there was a lot of variation in what fields different applications expected entries to reside. Some applications could be configured to use certain fields, others couldn't and required some magic trickery on the server side. I could see the advantage for an enterprise with thousands of addresses, using a specific set of corporate apps pre-configured for LDAP but it was more pain that it was worth for a personal addressbook. YMMV of course. :) -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Don't show login names F11
On 06/07/09 23:04, Andrew Gray (Default) wrote: Hi Does anyone know how to stop showing a list of login names at the logon screen of F11 Gnome Thanks to all involved in producing a great F11 release. Assuming you're using GDM, this is probably want you want: gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true as referenced here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205633 -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to disable gnome automount feature
On 30/06/09 08:27, Mail Lists wrote: On 06/29/2009 09:43 AM, Ian Chapman wrote: On 29/06/09 12:01, Nataraj wrote: How can I stop the automount of these disks? Assuming a recent version of Fedora. Go to: System - Preferences - Authorisations Go down to: Disks - Mount a Device Set the following: Anyone: No Console: No Active Console: No Aren't automounting and authorizing mounts 2 completely different things ? Yes, but you're telling Gnome it's not authorised to automount. What's your point? -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: How to disable gnome automount feature
On 29/06/09 12:01, Nataraj wrote: How can I stop the automount of these disks? Assuming a recent version of Fedora. Go to: System - Preferences - Authorisations Go down to: Disks - Mount a Device Set the following: Anyone: No Console: No Active Console: No -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Are there Fedora people using Thunderbird 3Beta2?
On 27/06/09 11:16, Steven W. Orr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to get a sense of how stable (or unstable) it is. Has it crashed? Have you lost data? Any problems? Is it wonderful? It seems pretty stable, although having said that, yesterday I experienced my first real issue with it. After pulling some mail it was sitting in what appeared to be an endless loop eating 100% CPU time. I left it as I needed to go out and didn't want to risk losing mail by killing it, but suspected I most likely will have to when I got back. Came back to find 87,000 messages in my junk folder, the same 3 or 4 messages repeated over and over. After a bit of a clean up, everything appears fine for most part and I didn't lose any mail. I would say it feels less responsive than TB2 when doing multiple tasks and there's a few oddities that don't make sense. The first one that springs to mind is the lack of ability to show the total number of messages in a folder. Requires a 3rd party extension which I think is nuts. I've never had it segfault or lose mail yet. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: need to change non-existant xorg.conf
On 25/06/09 21:06, Gary Stainburn wrote: Using xrandr I get the following error message. I have been told that I need to change the virtual screen size in xorg.conf to fix this. however, when I went to do this I found that the file does not exist anywhere on my PC. Anyone know how I can have a working X/KDE system (I'm using it now with kmail to write this) without this file. Modern Xorg doesn't usually need one. It probes the hardware and display system to work out what is required and applies a set of defaults. If you have additional requirements or need to change any of the behaviour then just create /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the required settings and it will use it. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Updates to F10 now put windows partition icons on desktop! [Solved]
On 25/06/09 15:06, Mike Cloaked wrote: Ian, I had a quick look at the authorisations - you were spot on - there was indeed an explicit authorisation for me as user set up 14 days ago as permanent - though I do not remember adding this! Anyway removing it solved the problem. Thanks for your help and hints - it was useful No worries Mike. I think I can make a good guess as to where the authorisation came from too. When you mount an internal disk by clicking on one of the disk icons in the Places menu in Gnome it prompts for authorisation (ie the root password). Underneath there is a tick box which says something like, remember this authorisation permanently., which is enabled by default. If you don't untick it, then it essentially creates an explicit policy for you. Anyway, glad it worked. :-) -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Updates to F10 now put windows partition icons on desktop!
On 25/06/09 05:37, Mike Cloaked wrote: I just updated F10 tonight - and now when I log in I get a recovery partition icon and a windows OS partition on the gnome desktop - yuch. Anyone know how to turn this off? Are they actually being mounted, or is it just the icons? Do a df -h or a mount in a shell to see. If they are being mounted, it could be your policy settings. Open up System - Preferences - Authorisations, why it's in this menu is beyond me. Have a look at disks - Mount a system internal device Implicit Authorisations should read Anyone: No Console: No Active Console: Admin Authentication See if there's any entry in Explicit Authorisations for your user and if so remove it. If that makes no different, then it could be that the internal disks on your system are incorrectly being seen as external devices. Have a look at Disks - Mount a device and set it to the same settings as above. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Broadcom BCM43XX Nightmarte on F11
On 23/06/09 22:16, Christopher A. Williams wrote: I have a couple of laptops I've been working on that I have not been able to get WiFi to come up on at all. Both of them have the Broadcom BC43XX series adapters. One of them is a Gateway MX6030 laptop equipped with a Broadcom BCM4318 adapter and the other is a Dell Inspiron e1705 with a BCM4311 adapter. Despite that fact that Broadcom are arseholes when it comes to Linux I've found the adaptors work pretty damn well, thanks to the guys who've meticulously worked to provide the kernel drives. I would guess that you're missing the required firmware? It isn't distributed with Fedora for legal reasons. Have a look here, particularly the section about firmware installation: http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 This has worked perfectly for me, for both BCM4306 and BCM4311. If you try this, I would make sure broadcom-wl is uninstalled. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: modprobe warnings
On 24/06/09 00:49, Beartooth TpBkR wrote: One machine always gives me warnings during boot, saying that modprobe.conf is deprecated, and that all conf files belong into [sic] / etc/modprobe.d Do I simply become root and run mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/ modprobe.d?? (Or the equivalent using drag--drop, with modprobe.d open to receive it??) Yep, pretty much. If it's that simple, why doesn't the software just do it? Good question. Could be a number of reasons really, no clean upgrade route through rpm, high visibility that it'll be deprecated, users wondering where they /etc/modprobe.conf file disappeared to etc. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: NetworkManager and extra options in /etc/resolv.conf
On 18/06/09 18:31, Tarjei Knapstad wrote: Due to local network setup I need to add a line to /etc/resolv.conf (options single-request), otherwise I lose two out of three DNS lookups. Is there any way to make NM add this line when writing /etc/resolv.conf? (other than hacking the code and explicitly adding it for every network I connect to through DHCP) Not sure if NetworkManager uses dhclient underneath, but if it does then you can probably use dhclient.conf(5), which lets you override, add local settings etc. Alternatively, from the NetworkManager man page: NetworkManager will execute scripts in the /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d directory in alphabetical order in response to network events. It should be fairly trivial to add a script here which is executed automatically when NetworkManager brings an interface online to append/insert additional lines into /etc/resolv.conf -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
HP DV7-1005TX
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone here as the HP DV7-1005TX laptop? If so, do you have sound working without the irqpoll kernel option? Thanks. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: adding apps problem
Robert Holtzman wrote: System - Administration - Add/Remove Software selected a group The group was not found comps categories could not be loaded Any ideas, help, pointers, docs, web sites or anything else Where I can get some information? This is something that Add/Remove should be able to take care of itself IMHO but anyway doing: yum grouplist beforehand should sort you out. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Thunderbird and junkmail
Richard England wrote: Here I have set 'When I mark messages as junk, move them to the accounts junk folder'. I also have Mark messages determined to be junk as read set. Yep, I have identical settings to you here for all my accounts. - Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account - Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in: Personal Address Book - Trust junk mail headers set by: SpamPal - Move new junk messages to: Junk folder on : my account - Automatically delete junk mail older than 7 days. Yep, I have all of these set for each account except Trust junk mail headers and automatically delete is set to 14 days. Of course there are settings here you may wish to modify but this has been working for me for some time. I would verify that both sets of settings are as you wish them to be. Thanks Richard, as far as I can see it just looks like an esoteric bug which I have no idea how it's been triggered. The annoying thing is it used to work perfectly up until about two weeks ago when it just stopped, simultaneously for all accounts and it's been slowly driving me nuts ever since. :-) Thanks for the help. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Thunderbird and junkmail
Hi All, Does anybody have any idea why I can't get thunderbird to automatically move junk mail that arrives in my inbox, into the Junk folder? This used to work but for some reason it no longer is. It detects the junk, marks it as read but doesn't move it. If I manually mark a message as junk it does move it. In the account settings I also have move new junk messages to junk folder selected. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Thunderbird and junkmail
Richard England wrote: Does anybody have any idea why I can't get thunderbird to automatically move junk mail that ... OS version? Fedora 9 Thunderbird version? 2.0.0.14 Settings you have in place (filters)? Yes I have filters in place but only for one account which sorts out the various mailing lists into sub folders, however all email accounts are affected the same way. According to the manual, junk mail filtering is done after the normal message filtering. The spam is being left in the inbox albeit marked as such and marked as read. Just for some reason thunderbird won't move it to the junk folder automatically. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Gnash and youtube
Hi, Is gnash in F9 actually supposed to work with sites like youtube? It worked for me in F8 but I cannot get it to work in F9, despite having all the codecs installed including those from livna. Just curious if anyone has it working and what they did, particularly from PPC users. It works with flash in general just not with video streaming for some reason. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Gnash question regarding http://www.y8.com/games/Penalty_Fever
Antonio Olivares wrote: Is there some setting that can be modified so CPU behaves normally while playing Penalty_Fever, or just forget about playing it with Gnash? Well as someone who uses Gnash on a PPC laptop because it's really the only solution it's just simply very CPU intensive compared to Adobe's flash. I think it's largely in part because Adobe employ some kind of just-in-time compilation to speed things up. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10?
Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: KDE 4.1 will be incomplete and not suitable for most users. Software is rarely complete, but I find even KDE 4.0 very usable, though far from perfect. I found KDE 4.0 a real disappointment, especially when I was really looking forward to using it. I think it's currently lacking a lot of what I liked about KDE 3.5.x. I find Dolphin to be actually much better for file management than any Konqueror version I have ever tried. It's probably just a matter of preference. Yes I think the previous problem with konqueror was the bewildering range of options and views, many of which weren't that practical, Dolphin fairs much better in that respect. I think the new menu is great. Seriously? I think it's just god awful. I find it slow to navigate through and just plain awkward to use, I'm thankful they've left the option in to switch to the classic menu system. I usually don't want to browser for the application I am looking for in nested menus. The new menu lets me just type a few letters and have me launch the program instantly, of use the favorites feature. Doesn't seem too different from the old menus, frequently used apps etc were stored at the top of the menu, and well I could always type a program by name from konsole but then I had all my favourite apps on my taskbar for one-click launching which sadly appears missing from KDE 4. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10?
Kevin Kofler wrote: KDE 4.0 is incomplete and not suitable for most users. Not true, it is completely usable. Usability is more subjective than simply true or false. Sure KDE 4 is usable, but lacks a lot of the usability I liked in KDE 3.5.x. -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Fedora 9 PPC DVD wont boot
Hi All, Has anyone successfully booted the install DVD or install CDs on a Powermac G4 laptop? No matter what I do, the mac insists they are not bootable. I had no such issues with earlier versions of Fedora on the same machine. I've tried the DVDs, the CDs, using the boot.iso all with the same effect. The sha1sums match the ISOs and they were burnt with k3b on a PC. The same mac is quite happy booting from say the MacOS X installation DVD. Any ideas?? -- Ian Chapman. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
