Re: Installation plays hardball
On Friday 01 January 2010, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Friday 01 January 2010 19:31:07 BeartoothHOS wrote: I know Anaconda offers an option to *hide* LVM, but I don't recall any choice to eschew it entirely. Am I just having a memory lapse? Ehmm, during the installation, at some point Anaconda will ask you how you want the disk set up, and you can choose between various partition layouts: default, this, that, and --- custom. So choose to create custom layout, and use the GUI interface (is it called disk druid?) to create all the partitions you want manually. The type of each partition is at your disposal to choose --- ext#, fat, this, that, etc... Alternetively, you may create LVM volumes and partitions inside them. It's all there in the GUI, and it's completely configurable. Nothing is forced down on you, AFAIK. That's true. However, it *defaults* to LVM. -- 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: Installation plays hardball
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: A large number of RHEL sites _will_ make use of LVM (indeed, may even require LVM). We are, remember, the experimental lab rats for the eventual RHEL releases, so LVM must be tested as thoroughly as the rest of the system. I for one am not testing LVM since I don't use it. I fact I go out of my way to remove it so I can have a system I understand. Those who don't have the skills to remove it aren't testing it in any meaningful sense either. That would seem to leave a fairly small subset of users, all of whom could certainly install it it they needed it and really would be testers in the proper sense of the word. Agreed. I'm not saying to not include LVM, but my suggestion is to not make it the default! -- 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: Installation plays hardball
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Garrick Sitongia wrote: I just installed Fedora for the first time on my Windows/Linux dual boot system. The Fedora installer gave me the option of installing over the present linux installation on the disk, an old Mandriva version. I assumed this meant the operating system partition. There were 2 other unrelated ext3 partitions for photo archives and e-mail backup. After booting into Fedora I discovered that the Fedora installer wiped every linux partition without confirmation or consent. I have installed other versions of Linux and I have always been given a choice. Your installer should indicate that ALL linux type file systems will be wiped, in addition to the operating system file system. that's why you should choose the customize option when installing. I installed F12 on a new hard drive and re-used my /home partition on another drive. While F12 didn't work (due to a problem with the way the BIOS has the drives -- need to change the boot order and refresh the install -- my problem, not Fedora's) my F11 system is still here. As I said, you need to choose to use a custom partition scheme, otherwise, Fedora will wipe every linux partition as happened to you. Granted, it's not obvious, but if you've been playing with linux for more than a couple distributions, I'd think you'd already have some notion of this by now. -- 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: Installation plays hardball
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Mike Chambers wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 08:25 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: At the bottom of that window when you make your choice, there is a box that says (paraphrasing) - Review modifications - that you can check to make sure it's doing the right thing. And if it's not, you can modify what is going on and change it, or at least hit back button and choose a different option. (this box won't appear if you customize obviously) Ya know, after reading this and discussing on irc, actually that box needs to either move up higher or actually just be automatically included in partitioning as sure it's not that much more bigger deal to include? That might not be a bad idea. That being said, I've been using linux since before RH stopped releasing free versions for home use and I have to say, I haven't had a real problem with it. OTOH, I almost always customize so I do NOT blow everything away and start from scratch. I have my home partition information almost from the very first linux install I ever did. Granted it's not on the same *drives* but the data is still there, due to having a separate partition for everything! I can see both sides of this. I don't think it would hurt anything to have a *little* hand-holding by the installer, something to the effect of If you don't want to blow everythign away and start from scratch, choose a different option when you just accept the default. OTOH, I don't really want to turn Fedora into the Microsoft of linux where you don't have to expend any brain power to install! -- 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: Installation plays hardball
On Thursday 31 December 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've been using Fedora since before it was Fedora, and have *never* had a situation in which LVM was any use to me. I understand the benefits it brings to large installations with complex and varying storage requirements, but that's not the case for most people and having to deal with its highly domain-specific terminology turns it into a mental obstacle that would be better avoided. On this we can agree. My last F11 install blew up because of a problem with LVM. I don't do LVM because I've got a fairly minimal computer. It's not like I've got a 100 Tbyte RAID array or anything like that... I just have no use for LVM so I can understand what you're saying. I agree that LVM should default to off but that it should be easy for more advanced users to turn it on should they need it. Perhaps someone will read this and say hey, these guys have a point. Let's change the defaults! :-) -- 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: Domain of sender address ... does not exist
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: Even if there's no website, there needs to be an A record. Since it's a valid domain. I would guess they're trying to set up an email-only domain and some mail servers don't like that. Just leave the parked website up and running at your registrar and that might work. OTOH, you might still need to put up a generic under construction website to fool the spam- checkers so that the A record and the MX record match. Why would I need an A record? All mailers should support MXing, right? As long as my MX points to a name that has a valid A record, I should be golden. In theory, you don't need an A record. However, some mail servers won't accept email from a domain that doesn't have an A record as an anti-spam measure. Even if the mail server has an A record, it may not be enough. -- 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: Domain of sender address ... does not exist
On Friday 11 December 2009, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 10:14 -0800, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: his message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: philipp...@redfish-solutions.com (generated from xy...@users.sourceforge.net) SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:philipp...@redfish-solutions.com: host mail.redfish-solutions.com [66.232.79.143]: 553 5.1.8 philipp...@redfish-solutions.com... Domain of sender address philipp...@redfish-solutions.com does not exist This is on an externally generated email that is coming into my domain (redfish-solutions.com). The mailbox name is valid (it's been munged here to protect against spam address harvesters). Well, according to my quick test, using the dig tool, that domain doesn't exist. Though, a whois check shows that it does. So, somewhere there's a problem with your public domain records. The dig tool might help you sort out where (you can query different DNS servers with it). dig redfish-solutions.com gets no answer But this does: dig redfish-solutions.com MX Sounds like there may be no A record for redfish-solutions.com. -- 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: Domain of sender address ... does not exist
On Friday 11 December 2009, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 06:08 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: Sounds like there may be no A record for redfish-solutions.com. There definitely wasn't, here. But the original poster didn't state whether there should be public records for the domain. External could just been another network they work with. Even if there's no website, there needs to be an A record. Since it's a valid domain. I would guess they're trying to set up an email-only domain and some mail servers don't like that. Just leave the parked website up and running at your registrar and that might work. OTOH, you might still need to put up a generic under construction website to fool the spam- checkers so that the A record and the MX record match. -- 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: Domain of sender address ... does not exist
On Friday 11 December 2009, Tony Nelson wrote: $ dig redfish-solutions.com SOA ... ;; ANSWER SECTION: redfish-solutions.com.86400 IN SOA ns09.domaincontrol.com. dns.jomax.net. 2005062000 28800 7200 604800 86400 ... $ dig @ns09.domaincontrol.com. redfish-solutions.com ANY ... ;; ANSWER SECTION: redfish-solutions.com.86400 IN SOA ns09.domaincontrol.com. dns.jomax.net. 2005062000 28800 7200 604800 86400 redfish-solutions.com.43200 IN MX 10 mail.redfish-solutions.com. redfish-solutions.com.3600IN NS ns09.domaincontrol.com. redfish-solutions.com.3600IN NS ns10.domaincontrol.com. redfish-solutions.com.43200 IN TXT v=spf1 mx -all ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: mail.redfish-solutions.com. 43200 IN A 66.232.79.143 ... Guessing here... perhaps the problem is that there's no A record for redfish-solutions.com??? -- 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: No system-config-display ?
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Bob Goodwin wrote: Ok, I installed [yum] kudzu but still the error persists. I have not re-booted though if that is required? [b...@box9 ~]$ system-config-display Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py, line 376, in module dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, rhpxl.videocard.VideoCardInfo()) File /usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py, line 641, in __init__ if len(self.xconfig.layout[0].adjacencies) 1: IndexError: index out-of-bounds I'm getting the same error. I've followed the same steps as Bob, and getting the same error. This is also F11. Kudzu is installed as is system- config-display. -- 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
What'd I do wrong?
I installed a new SATA drive in my linux box that had previously (except for my dvd-rw) been all PATA. I then tried to install F12 on it, and told it to put GRUB on the new drive. After I finished installing, I rebooted and it tried to boot F11 again. I rebooted, went into BIOS and changed the order of the drives to put the SATA drive in as the primary drive, and let it boot. It just hung. So obviously something isn't right. I went back into BIOS and changed the order of the drives back and now I'm back in F11. How do I get this fixed, w/o disconnecting the PATA drives? Do I need to change the order of the drives in BIOS and reinstall??? I've never tried to put a fresh drive in and boot off it, so I could use a bit of help here. :-) Thanks! -- 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: Upgrades driving me crazy....
Quoting Michael Pawlowsky mi...@clearskymedia.ca: Are there any other people using FC in a production enterprise environment? The constant upgrades are driving me nuts. We have machines at FC8-FC9-FC10 and FC-11. The main reason we are using FC is because one it's free (in a sense). The next one is that it does include more recent versions of packages that we use and are looking for the latest versions to take advantage of some new features and so on. But now since FC8 is no longer being supported, it has caused some real issues. One main one is that yum is not updated and even rpm packages that we create ourselves will no longer install on it. We've been through this before since we've been using FC ever since in broke out of RH. So basically we are in a never ending cycles of upgrades. And since we have had bad experiences trying to upgrade over the last version, our policy is to back up the data, re-install and put back in all the data. I'm thinking of trying ESXi to make installing quicker. Reconfigure an new image locally, clone it and push it to the virtual server. Also, I am wondering why it is not possible to simply keep upgrading packages, kernel and so on, as opposed to coming up with new versions every six months. To make things more difficult, our servers need to be up 24/7. Is FC simply a bad choice for enterprise production. I'm starting to want to try CentOS soon. Unfortunately this will mean not always being able to take advantage of the latest features in software and so on. So I was just wondering what other people in this situation do? Best bet is to upgrade everything to the latest release of Fedora and then let it automatically upgrade you when the new release is out. There has been a thread here recently on that very feature. :-) As part of the automatic updates, it will detect a new release and reconfigure YUM, etc to change to the new version repo and download and install the updates required to get the new version installed. Now, you'll have to start with F11, most likely, but once you get all your production machines to F11, it *should not* be a problem. Then again, I managed to kill my home system just by normal updates... *sigh* Gotta love free operating systems... :-) -- 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: Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?
On Saturday 07 November 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: I upgraded from CentOS-5.3 to CentOS-5.4 (and earlier from CentOS-5.2 to CentOS-5.3) just by running yum update. Why can't I upgrade to Fedora-12 like that? Is it just that the CentOS makers are cleverer...? Actually, that's exactly how I upgraded to F11 from F10. Fedora noticed that there was an updated version of Fedora available and asked if I wanted to upgrade. I said sure, so it downloaded all the RPMs and upgraded me. No more wipe and reload any more! -- 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: Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?
On Saturday 07 November 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: What do you mean by Fedora asked? Do you mean Yum? Yes. Actually, I believe it was the auto update tool (which seems to not work so well on my system... but running yum update a couple times a week does the same thing! G) -- 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 tell IP address of remote machine?
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: I had a little program which I ran each day as a cron job to mail me the IP address of a machine in a different country. I give the program sm.py below; I can't remember where I found it. In any case, the program has ceased to work because the site heliohost seems to have gone off-line. Why not use a Dynamic DNS client and set up a hostname on a free DDNS domain? That way you don't have to rely on a script like this, just use something that goes out and updates the DDNS server every day or twice a day or whenever the IP changes? noip.info is one of the DDNS systems I use and it's got it's own DDNS script which updates the DNS servers every time the IP changes, so you don't have to rely on email. :-) -- 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: KDE-PIM / Akonadi problems
On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Rex Dieter wrote: Options=UNIX_SOCKET=/oldhome/john/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.so cket This is a possible hint, which is it /home/john or /oldhome/john ? Thanks.. Looks like editing the akonadiserverrc file and correcting the above path fixed the problem. My question is this --what the heck happened that it suddenly decided two weeks after rebuilding my system that it was going to complain??? Yeah, I changed the location of my home directory, but that was when I rebuilt my system, about two weeks ago! Sheesh! -- 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
KDE-PIM / Akonadi problems
KMail / KDE-PIM was working FINE up until I got home tonight. Then when I tried to launch it, it gave me an AKONADI error, and now it won't launch any IMAP sessions. I have the following error log from Akonadi Server: Akonadi Server Self-Test Report === Test 1: SUCCESS Database driver found. Details: The QtSQL driver 'QMYSQL' is required by your current Akonadi server configuration. The following drivers are installed: QSQLITE, QMYSQL3, QMYSQL. Make sure the required driver is installed. File content of '/home/john/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc': [%General] Driver=QMYSQL SizeThreshold=4096 ExternalPayload=false [QMYSQL] Name=akonadi User= Password= Options=UNIX_SOCKET=/oldhome/john/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket ServerPath=/usr/libexec/mysqld StartServer=true [Debug] Tracer=null Test 2: SUCCESS MySQL server found. Details: You currently have configured Akonadi to use the MySQL server '/usr/libexec/mysqld'. Make sure you have the MySQL server installed, set the correct path and ensure you have the necessary read and execution rights on the server executable. The server executable is typically called 'mysqld', its locations varies depending on the distribution. Test 3: SUCCESS MySQL server is executable. Details: MySQL server found: /usr/libexec/mysqld Ver 5.1.36 for redhat-linux-gnu on x86_64 (Source distribution) Test 4: ERROR MySQL server log contains errors. Details: The MySQL server error log file apos;a href='/home/john/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err'/home/john/.local/share /akonadi/db_data/mysql.err/aapos; contains errors. File content of '/home/john/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err': 090825 18:58:06 [Note] Plugin 'ndbcluster' is disabled. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. 090825 18:58:06 InnoDB: Retrying to lock the first data file InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11 InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files. Test 5: SUCCESS MySQL server default configuration found. Details: The default configuration for the MySQL server was found and is readable at a href='/etc/akonadi/mysql-global.conf'/etc/akonadi/mysql-global.conf/a. File content of '/etc/akonadi/mysql-global.conf': # # Global Akonadi MySQL server settings, # These settings can be adjusted using $HOME/.config/akonadi/mysql- local.conf # # Based on advice by Kris Köhntopp k...@mysql.com # [mysqld] skip_grant_tables skip_networking # strict query parsing/interpretation # TODO: make Akonadi work with those settings enabled #sql_mode=strict_trans_tables,strict_all_tables, strict_error_for_division_by_zero,no_auto_create_user,no_auto_value_on_zero, no_engine_substitution,no_zero_date,no_zero_in_date,only_full_group_by, pipes_as_concat #sql_mode=strict_trans_tables # use InnoDB for transactions and better crash recovery default_storage_engine=innodb # case-insensitive table names, avoids trouble on windows lower_case_table_names=1 character_set_server=latin1 collation_server=latin1_general_ci
Re: FC11 - flash plugin for Firefox
Coming into this discussion late, but there *is* a Beta version of Flash for x86_64 linux here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html Scroll down to the bottom and you'll find the link to the download. -- 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
Whither KDELIBS-4.3?
For the past few days, my system has wanted to update KTorrent, but it can't since a pre-requisite is KDELIBS-4.3 or greater. The only version that appears to be available is 4.2.4-6. Any idea when kdelibs-4.3 will be released? I realize that KTorrent isn't a huge issue, but still... if you've got an updated package available, you need the prerequisites available too... Just wondering when the new kdelibs pacakage will be released??? -- 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: Whither KDELIBS-4.3?
On Saturday 22 August 2009, Steven M. Parrish wrote: 4.3 is in updates-testing atm. It should make in into updates later this week. Atleast that is the plan. Ahh...Ok. thanks. Seems a bit silly to me to release something for update when it depends on another package that's in testing, but who am I to say what makes sense to the folks who run the repo. :-) -- 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: Problem with CalmAV
On Friday 21 August 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote: I have installed CalmAV anti virus software on F11 and when I am trying to enable auto-scan following error is coming: Dazuko was not loaded successfully. Please check your installation. Auto-update is working. How to solve this problem? Known-issue. Disable the real-time scanner. That's about all you can do. It's been an issue for a LONG time. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215080 Basically, it can't be fixed. -- 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
ClamAV
Is there any to do on-access scanning with ClamAV *without* having Dazuko? Someone posted a problem here earlier and it got me thinking. We *know* we have a problem doing on-access scanning with ClamAV, and surely someone has thought about trying to find a way around not being able to use Dazuko. Why are we still having this problem with Dazuko??? Can someone not come up with a better way to interface between file access calls and the antivirus than having a kernel module that has to be recompiled each time? Not to mention that due to an incompatibility with the way the kernel is compiled, we can't compile Dazuko. Just something for some folks who can program to chew on. :-) I'm sure there are some really good programmers out there. I'm not one of them, unfortunately, or I'd take a crack at it. :-) -- 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
Flash 10 x64?
Anyone got an RPM version of Adobe's Flash 10 pre-release for x64? I really don't like trying to install tarball versions of plugins. For some reason it never seems to work right. :-( -- 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: Flash 10 x64?
On Saturday 15 August 2009, Andre Robatino wrote: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205642 Thanks... Despite my misgivings at using a tarball, I went ahead and used the tarball. Works fine. I'm still waiting for an official RPM, though. :-) I much prefer RPMs. Up until about 4 or 5 months ago, I was still using FC6 (I really hated having to blow everything away and reinstalling every 6 months! G) and could never get tarball versions of the plugins to work. This works like a charm thanks to all who encouraged me to install it. :-) -- 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
iBus
If I'm not going to be using any foreign languages, do I even *need* iBus? From what I was able to Google, it's only for i18n stuff, correct? If I only care about western languages (and pretty much ONLY English) I should be safe to uninstall all that stuff, right? Thanks! -- 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: iBus
On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 08/12/2009 12:36 AM, John Aldrich wrote: If I'm not going to be using any foreign languages, do I even *need* iBus? From what I was able to Google, it's only for i18n stuff, correct? If I only care about western languages (and pretty much ONLY English) I should be safe to uninstall all that stuff, right? Yes Thanks. :-) I'm sure it's of use to some folks, but since I don't read/speak any language that uses ideograms, I don't see a need for it. :-) -- 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: dellsysidplugin2??
On Monday 03 August 2009, Garry Williams wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Beartoothbearto...@comcast.net wrote: What is dellsysidplugin2 It's a plugin to identify a Dell system's firmware ID. It's referred to in the dell-firmware-repository.repo file. I suppose it's Dell's way of limiting your view of available firmware upgrades available to you based on the hardware that is running the yum command. I know I got this repository installed because I explicitly asked for it. Don't know how you may have come across it. I'm not the OP, but I was wondering what that is myself. I don't recall asking for this repo and I do NOT have a Dell PC. :-) After checking /etc/yum.repos.d, I see that I do not have this repo installed as best I can tell. Any more ideas? -- 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: dellsysidplugin2??
On Monday 03 August 2009, Beartooth wrote: Well, as the OP, I have something like half an idea. One (only one) of the four F11 PCs at my desk, a hand-me-down, was a Dell server before I got it. It makes some sort of sense that that machine should have such a plugin; but is there any way it could have contaminated any others?? Well, my F11 machine has never been anywhere near a Dell box, so that's not the answer for me at least... :-) I must say I'm curious as hell about that I have seen that plugin before, but never really bothered until you posted. :-) -- 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: dellsysidplugin2??
On Monday 03 August 2009, sam.sharpe+lists.red...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:00:53 -0400 John Aldrich wrote: Well, my F11 machine has never been anywhere near a Dell box, so that's not the answer for me at least... :-) I see that on my Acer Aspire One netbook too, but not on my other laptop or on any of my desktop computers. And I don't have any Dell machines at all. Everyone should probably document this on this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487130 Commented. Thanks. -- 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: Option to select desktop
On Monday 27 July 2009, Kam Leo wrote: The Gnome Desktop Manager (GDM) used to present a button (Session) that was visible on the login screen. With F11 the button is now hidden until a user name is clicked. Click a user name or other and a desktop configuration menu should appear at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on the Gnome portion of Sessions: Gnome should present a pop-up list of the installed desktops. By the way, the new configuration menu is poorly implemented. Language, Keyboard, and Sessions: are all scrunched up on the 800x600 default setting of my display. Some things don't get better with time. Please go back to the old GDM look and feel of F8. I concur. I liked the old way much better... Also, I have to say I've got a pretty peppy system (Athlon 64, 2200 Mhz, 1 Gb shared ram) but it's dog slow sometimes I'm wondering what the heck is going on, as I'm not swapping to disk a whole lot, and I've still got available RAM: [j...@slave1 ~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:884524 716996 167528 0 19232 191736 -/+ buffers/cache: 506028 378496 Swap: 6201048 2900325911016 So, why is my system so dog-slow? Is it the fact that I've got an integrated video card instead of a high-end gaming video card or something? -- 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
Video problems in F11
Ok, so in F10, I'm able to play FreeDoom on my machine using the built-in nVidia graphics. I just upgraded to F11 and all of a sudden, my graphics card is not an accelerated graphics card? What gives? Is there an updated nVidia driver I can try? I don't want to have to patch my kernel if I can avoid it (I'm not that into hacking the kernel I used to know LILO, but Grub scares the crap out of me since I had a problem a few versions of Fedora ago... G) Thanks! -- 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: Warning against preupgrade
On Thursday 25 June 2009, Kevin Bowling wrote: 2 out of 5 failures. F10-F11 is completely unusable for any kind of uncommon setup, i.e. LDAP login, Linux RAID, Xen DomU. Anything other than one IDE hard disk with default layout really. It worked well in the past, it doesn't now. Just a heads up since nobody bothered mentioning this beforehand. It should probably be added to common bugs and in a big banner on the release notes. Well, F10 -F11 worked fine for me. However, I let F10 update itself to F11. I was prompted that there was a new version of Fedora available and did I want to install it? I allowed Fedora to upgrade itself and everything went smoothly. I have a total of 3 HDDs in this system and do NOT have a standard layout. So, I think the phrase YMMV is appropriate here. That being said, I think that, yes, there may be some things that break in an upgrade like this, but it should be relatively easy to fix, I would think. Common sense says to back up any crucial config files in case they are overwritten. -- 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: Baffled by a Cable Modem solved
On Thursday 18 June 2009, dn...@yahoo.com wrote: My problem is solved, at least for now. My reservation is becauser I don't know what I did. Last night I tried to be sure I had no filters interfering., I turned off the firewall, booted and tried firefox and dillo. Neither worked. I made selinux permissive, rebooted and tried dillo and firefox. Neither worked. I went to bed. This morning I tried Puppy Linux, and it worked fine. So I tried ubuntu, and that worked fine. ( I had failed with both of them yesterday.) So I booted fedora and firefox -- success. I was baffled in the beginning, and I am more baffled now. I thank you all for your efforts. I tried ( to the best of my abilities) to implement all the suggestions, but I don't believe I ever really changed anything permanently. I am OK for now, but Who knows; maybe it only works on thursdays. My guess... your ISP had something messed up and just waiting fixed it. :-) Even if you called them, they probably would have denied there was anything wrong. Or, they might have admitted they had an outage or something. You never know. :-) -- 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: laptop battery died while upgrading using Pre-upgrade
On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Globe Trotter wrote: Hi, Don't know what to do. I guess I could reinstall. But this can not be that uncommon a problem? Surely people can lose power while upgrading using preupgrade, even tho I was careless in this case. I wonder if erasing the fc11 rpms would help. While I upgrading, I was told that I would have 1674 packages which would be updated. The laptop battery died while it was on 1047 (I think! but I am pretty sure of this number). If I do yum erase \* I get asked toremove 2752 packages. If I do yum erase \*fc11 I get asked to remove 1092 packages (incl deps). If I do yum erase \*fc10 I get asked to remove 1627 packages (incl deps). The total 1092+1627 = 2719 is less than 2752. So I was wondering if removing these fc11 and upgrading from scratch would help. Btw, going into Upgrade Leonidas at boot now causes the system to say that it can not find the root system of an existing installation. Any suggestions? Well, I'm thinking it might just be better to do a fresh install than trying to save a hosed setup. That being said, if you don't have fresh backups of important stuff, you might boot from a rescue or Live CD and see if you can back stuff up to External HDD / DVD/CD/Tape somehow from there. Oh, and next time, plug your laptop in *before* you try an upgrade. :-) Good luck! -- 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 you using LXDE?
On Wednesday 03 June 2009, kira.lau...@gmail.com wrote: sudo yum install system-config-display and then run system-config-display. it will create a new xorg.conf file. or you can just run nvidia-xconfig if you have kmod package. Thanks. That did it. Right now I'm logged in from remote on VNC, but when I get home, I'll let you know how switching to nouveau did as far as KDE goes. I think it may have helped, but I still think KDE is a bit of a resource hog. I have been using KDE/OpenBox. I can give straight KDE a shot and see if it helped any. -- 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 you using LXDE?
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: I wrote: John Aldrich wrote: NVidia graphics card ... that's why. Crap drivers. PS: If you haven't yet, try the nouveau driver, you won't get OpenGL that way yet, but at least it should have decent 2D. The proprietary driver is known crap, and the nv driver is a sorry excuse for a driver which doesn't do any form of acceleration. Can you supply a package name? I tried yum install noveau and didn't find squat. :-( -- 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 you using LXDE?
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 06/02/2009 09:59 PM, John Aldrich wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: I wrote: John Aldrich wrote: NVidia graphics card ... that's why. Crap drivers. PS: If you haven't yet, try the nouveau driver, you won't get OpenGL that way yet, but at least it should have decent 2D. The proprietary driver is known crap, and the nv driver is a sorry excuse for a driver which doesn't do any form of acceleration. Can you supply a package name? I tried yum install noveau and didn't find squat. :-( # yum search nouveau [j...@slave1 ~]$ sudo yum search noveau [sudo] password for john: Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Warning: No matches found for: noveau No Matches found -- 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 you using LXDE?
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Alan Cox wrote: Can you supply a package name? I tried yum install noveau and didn't find squat. :-( On the T61 I have: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.11-1.20090106git133c1a5.fc10.x86_64 and in /etc/X11/xorg.conf set Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver nouveau EndSection if it currently says nv or vesa I don't HAVE an xorg.conf. How does one configure Fedora 10 to use the nouveau driver if one does not have an xorg.conf? I know that the old way used to be to hand-edit the xorg.conf, but since that doesn't exist any more, I'm at a loss for how to fix this. I know that it's installed as when I tried to install it earlier yum said it was already installed. -- 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: DVD creation for Iso download.
Did you verify the hash to make sure you'd not gotten a corrupted image? That's what it sounds like happened. -- 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
Klamav
What sort of sense does it make to provide Klamav, but to not include Dazuko? If KlamAV *requires* Dazuko, then you should provide it when you install Klamav. However, if there's no need for it, why does KlamAV refuse to work without Dazuko? I recall asking this back when I tried Klamav in Fedora Core 6. We're now at Fedora 10. I tried installing Dazukofs from the tarball. Doesn't work according to directions. This is *extremely* aggravating. If you're going to provide half the project, then include *ALL* the parts to make it work! -- 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: Klamav
On Saturday 18 April 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: John Aldrich wrote: What sort of sense does it make to provide Klamav, but to not include Dazuko? If KlamAV *requires* Dazuko, then you should provide it when you install Klamav. However, if there's no need for it, why does KlamAV refuse to work without Dazuko? Klamav _works_ without Dazuko, you can scan files with it just fine. What does not work is on-access scan, which is what Dazuko provides. The big problems with Dazuko are: * It's an out-of-tree module, so it's unlikely to be allowed into Fedora proper (the kernel maintainers would have to accept the patch, standalone kernel module packages are banned in Fedora) unless/until it gets merged upstream. It would have to be packaged for RPM Fusion. * Until recently it kept breaking with stock Fedora kernels. There used to be 2 ways to use Dazuko with a 2.6 kernel: - As a LSM module: impossible without recompiling the kernel because the capabilities module which is builtin (not a module) in the Fedora kernel doesn't allow stacking any other LSM module on top of it. (At least that was the case at a time.) - By hooking some system calls: this kept running into Fedora's anti-rootkit protections. I got it working at one point (I submitted a patch to Dazuko upstream which unprotects the memory page before overwriting the syscall, drawing much ire from the Fedora kernel maintainer), but security got strengthened and this no longer works (I'm sure it's still possible to unprotect the memory in some way as the module runs inside the kernel, but nobody had the time or willingness to figure it out). These days, with DazukoFS, that problem should be finally solved though. That said, stackable file systems may have their own problems, I'm not familiar with DazukoFS as I've never tried it. One documented serious issue is this: - DazukoFS does not support writing to memory mapped files. This should not cause the kernel to crash, but will instead result in the application failing to perform the writes (although mmap() will appear to be successful from the application's viewpoint!). which looks badly broken to me, a lot of applications will just not work and even silently lose data over DazukoFS! * I'm not sure anybody audited Dazuko for TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) issues: some on-access scanners can be bypassed by exploiting those race conditions. * ClamAV is too slow for on-access scanning. If you try having ClamAV do on-access scanning on your entire system, it slows down a lot. Keeping in mind that GNU/Linux is not a prime target for viruses, I'm not sure on-access scanning is that useful. You may want to just explicitly scan those files you're exchanging with other operating systems instead (and you can do that with Klamav without Dazuko). If Dazuko is not required, why did KlamAV complain that it wasn't installed? I installed the F10 package and when I went to do a scan it griped about missing Dazuko. So, someone, somewhere (in my opinion) forgot to tell KlamAV that it no longer requries Dazuko. I do realize that GNU/Linux is not a good target for virii, however, that doesn't mean that we don't want to scan for virii, as some people will be allowing windows users to read/write files, including Windows executables on their systems. -- 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
Problem booting CentOS 5.2 machine
I have a CentOS 5.2 machine that is refusing to get past starting the System Message Bus. This machine is tied into an Active Directory as a test mail server. A little Googling shows that it's somehow related to being unable to talk to the LDAP server. How do I figure out what's causing the problem? Yesterday before rebooting the server, I downloaded and installed a newer version of NMAP on it, and suddenly yesterday, shortly after I rebooted it, it won't finish booting. As I said, I looked for an answer on Google and found that it's tied into LDAP, but I'm not sure 1) what is causing the problem and 2) how to solve it. Can someone here please provide some help? I'm not exactly a linux newbie, but I am new to tieing linux into Active Directory. -- 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
tons of LXSessions
I routinely connect to my system from remote via VNC. Apparently when I shut down VNC, it's not shutting off the lxsession that was running in that virtual desktop. Any suggestions on how to fix that? I'm usually shutting down the VNC server when I get done, and normally, in KDE or Gnome, that shuts down the window manager as well. I'm not exactly a newbie to linux, but I am new to LXDE. My system isn't exactly under powered, but when I have two dozen lxsessions running in the background because they didn't shut down with VNC, it bogs down the system. -- 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: BOINC
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: I'm not sure why that's the case. I do know that we explicitly do not require root privileges for K3b, as they aren't necessary. (We also disable the check from upstream K3b which warns if wodim is not suid root, it works just fine without it!) Have you tried filing a bug against xcdroast? Well, I haven't used XCDRoast in awhile. I'm just remembering back when I had that problem and went to the source who said it did NOT need to be SUID Root. That was several years ago. -- 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: BOINC
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Mike Burger wrote: It's not the case, any more, but I do recall it being an issue in FC3 or FC4, if memory serves. I've not seen it since FC5, and I know it's not the case in F8 or F9 (haven't tried in F10, yet). Yeah. I think that was about the time I discovered K3B or maybe I just downloaded the tarball and installed it. :-) Don't recall, as it has been several years. Just that it annoys me that this sort of thing happens... stuff that *used* to run just fine under normal user accounts gets changed without any fanfare or notification that it now requires special privileges to run. I also made a note of it on the boinc.berkeley.org wiki that someone needs to make this warning and work-around (which they publish as well) more prominent if this sort of thing is going to be going on. I figure it's their product and if they are aware of it and/or endorse the policy, they ought to publicize it. -- 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
BOINC
Guys, I've discovered that, for some strange reason, you *must* have elevated privileges to run / configure BOINC when it's installed via the F10 repositories. I've been trying to get BOINC configured to connect to my accounts ever since I installed the X86_64 version of Fedora 10 several months ago. Today I got a crazy idea and tried running the boincmgr binary as a superuser and to my surprise I was able to connect to the client and configure it, something that I have been trying off and on for the past several months to do without success. Since I never had to run it as a superuser when I installed from the tarball off the Boinc.berkeley.edu server, I suspect this is a RedHat/Fedora issue. Can someone explain the rationale behind requiring admin privileges to configure BOINC? I managed to work around it by chmod +s all the Boinc binaries, but I shouldn't have to do that! -- 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: BOINC
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:56 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: Guys, I've discovered that, for some strange reason, you *must* have elevated privileges to run / configure BOINC when it's installed via the F10 repositories. I'm running boinc on an unprivileged user. That's interesting. Did you install via YUM, or did you download the tarball? Did you configure the boinc password? Network access? Nope. I've got BOINC running on my workstation and am trying to connect on the same machine. In general you need to add --redirectio --allow_remote_gui_rpc to /etc/syscnofig/boinc-client (latest version only!), and save your clear-text password in $BOINC_HOME/gui_rpc_auth.cfg. But, I'm running it on the same machine. Default -Fedora- configuration doesn't accept network connection. The default upstream version does. Yes, that's the sort of behavior that annoys the crap out of me. Fedora/RedHat in their *infinite wisdom* have decided that we can't be trusted to run *anything* as a normal user (as witnessed by them requiring admin priveleges awhile back to run XCDRoast!) I managed to work around it by chmod +s all the Boinc binaries, but I shouldn't have to do that! Don't. Well, a friend on another group pointed out that BOINC creates a user/group to run as. I've added myself to that group. Hopefully that'll fix it. When I get home (or more likely tomorrow morning) I'll chmod -s all those binaries and give it a shot again. -- 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: KDE Terminal
On Thursday 08 January 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: Is konsole no longer available? As I mentioned a moment ago, MY Konsole does not auto-copy highlighted data. It must be an option somewhere. -- 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: KDE Terminal
On Thursday 08 January 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Is there a terminal in KDE 4 that behaves like the main console in CentOS for example where if I highlight text it automatically copies into the clipboard? Dang! That would be nice to have! If you find out, let me know. :-) I'm used to PuTTY which, at least in Windows, has that behavior automatically. -- 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: using VNC on Fedora
For the OP, here's a copy of my ~/.vnc/xstartup file which works great: #!/bin/sh # Red Hat Linux VNC session startup script unset SESSION_MANAGER #exec /usr/bin/startkde exec gnome-session [end xstartup] Note: I don't care for the way KDE is doing things in KDE4.0, so I'm switching to Gnome for my window manager for now. I can still run all my KDE apps but using Gnome for my window manager. Don't know what you prefer for your WM, but you can replace the exec gnome-session with whatever you use to start your preferred WM. Note the commented out exec /usr/bin/startkde as an example of how another window manager can be called. -- 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: Help -- can't SSH into my box
On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Stuart Sears wrote: Not wishing :) to open a massive can of worms (even though this probably will) but why do you hate it so much? Precisely because it interferes with so many other things. If SELinux ever gets to the point where it plays nice with other things, or at least has a nice, easy ignore this app sort of thing (like antivirus/anti-spyware apps in Windoze) I might reconsider it. Until then, I'm going to disable it whenever possible. I installed fail2ban and SELinux immediately threw up massive errors. I coudl understand that much better if it were some 3rd-party app, but something out of the default Fedora repos should be able to run w/o generating complaints from a security system. Fail2ban, especially, should be allowed to run w/o issue, due to the very nature of it. -- 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: Help -- can't SSH into my box
On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: As for quick launch icons, just right-click and Add to panel in the Kickoff menu, or dragdrop the menu entry to the panel in the classic menu. (You can right-click on the menu button and use Switch to Classic menu style to switch to the good old classic menu.) If that's the case, I think I'll switch back to Gnome, and just use my KDE apps. You can do that, but I'm sure KDE 4 _can_ be set up to your liking. :-) Well, when KDE4.2 gets here, I'll give it another shot. :-) -- 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
disabling selinux entirely
I thought that by setting selinux to disabled in the config file, I wouldn't be bothered by it's alerts any more. How do I stop SELinux from running, period? I don't want any alerts from SELinux regarding stuff I'm trying to install. -- 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: disabling selinux entirely
On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Stephen Smalley wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 10:23 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: I thought that by setting selinux to disabled in the config file, I wouldn't be bothered by it's alerts any more. How do I stop SELinux from running, period? I don't want any alerts from SELinux regarding stuff I'm trying to install. SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config should have done the trick for you. Can you provide the output of: $ cat /etc/selinux/config $ dmesg | grep SELinux: Well, no I have not rebooted... Is this one of those things like a new kernel where you *have* to reboot? Really don't want to do that... maybe I can do it tonight when I'm actually at home to watch it.. (yeah... I'm paranoid! so sue me! G) -- 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: disabling selinux entirely
On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Stephen Smalley wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 10:23 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: I thought that by setting selinux to disabled in the config file, I wouldn't be bothered by it's alerts any more. How do I stop SELinux from running, period? I don't want any alerts from SELinux regarding stuff I'm trying to install. SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config should have done the trick for you. Can you provide the output of: $ cat /etc/selinux/config $ dmesg | grep SELinux: [j...@slave1 ~]$ cat /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - SELinux is fully disabled. SELINUX=disabled # SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are: # targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected. # strict - Full SELinux protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted [j...@slave1 ~]$ dmesg | grep selinux SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts Note that I have not rebooted yet, if that's necessary. -- 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
MP3 playback in XMMS
What RPM do I need to install to get MP3 playback in XMMS? I forgot that RedHat in their sarcasminfinite wisdom/sarcasm removed MP3 capability from XMMS when they packaged it. Thanks... -- 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
Help -- can't SSH into my box
Well, for some strange reason, since installing Fedora 10, I can no longer SSH into my box. I've got SSHD running, both on the standard port and on a non-standard port. I don't even get a username/password prompt. Just a timeout error. Funny thing is I can SCP into the box all day long, I just can't SSH into it. Some things I've tried (in this order): 0) Put an exception for SSH and non-standard port in the firewall rules. 1) Disabled firewall entirely. 2) rebooted my router 3) Disabled Fail2Ban 4) Restarted networking Any ideas? I'd really like to be able to connect to my box. -- 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
Access from outside
Ok. I managed to *briefly* connect with my machine from outside. I still think there's something hinky about my config since I installed F10. It *was* working on FC6, and I wiped and reinstalled F10. Now, I can SSH in from my wife's XP box on the LAN, but I can't SSH in from outside, either on port 22 or the non-standard port I configured to make things more difficult for hackers (port number is in excess of 2000). I can SSH in from inside the LAN on either the standard port or the non-standard port, but I cannot access my machine from outside. I've tried several things, but none of them seem to work. Any suggestions where to look? -- 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: Help -- can't SSH into my box
Quoting Chris Snook csn...@redhat.com: I'm curious to know what, if anything, appears in /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure when you attempt to ssh in, as well as what appears when you successfully scp in. Initially, nothing was appearing in /var/log/secure. However, I did eventually find out that my DHCP wasn't handing my box the IP address I was expecting it to, so I fixed the statically-assigned entry in my DSL router for my box and I was able to SSH in from the LAN. When I did that, it showed the expected entry in /var/log/secure. I also saw some hack attempts from an unknown IP (NOT the IP I was coming in from.) Also, the fact that you're running sshd on a non-standard port implies that you've edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Could you try the default sshd_config, just for comparison? It's entirely possible that you're doing something that should be valid, but that some other security policy (PAM, SELinux, etc.) doesn't correctly handle in the default configuration. Hmm.. possibly. I compared it with the saved SSHD_CONFIG from my FC6 box (I copied it to my home directory before wiping and reinstalling) and it *appeared* to be identical. Also, I'm running SELINUX in Permissive mode (have I mentioned I *hate* SELINUX?!?!? G) since there doesn't appear to be any way to disable it entirely. In any case, I'll try that later... I was able to briefly enter my box at home from work this morning, but I got kicked out in less than a minute for some reason and have not been able to get back in. I have also hard-coded my work IP in /etc/hosts.allow. I got in on port 22, instead of the non-standard port (which I prefer not to reveal here for security sake! G) I'm not a total n00bie, but I'm not an experience sys-admin either. :-) -- 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: Help -- can't SSH into my box
Quoting Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org: John Aldrich writes: Any ideas? I'd really like to be able to connect to my box. No idea what's happening. But I'd try increasing verbosity with ssh -v or even ssh -vvv, maybe you will spot what's wrong then. Ok... Now I'm in again. How long, I don't know. However, a new issue... My desktop. I'm using VNC to connect to a new desktop (:1) and it does NOT look like my new F10 desktop. In fact, all my icons are in a window on my desktop and I have to browse it. There is no quick-launch tool bar either at top or bottom. On the other hand, it does have other features of my FC6 desktop, such as the workspace icons clustered together in a square, instead of beside each other as in F10. I'm guessing that this is the new KDE Desktop instead of the default Gnome desktop. If that's the case, I think I'll switch back to Gnome, and just use my KDE apps. -- 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: Help -- can't SSH into my box
On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: Are you saying having the line SELLINIX=disabled in the file /etc/selinux/conf does not disable Selinux? Interesting... From what I've read, it appeared that there was no way to *not* have selinux and that the best you could do was to have it run in permissive mode. I'll have to give that a shot. Thakns. -- 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: Access from outside
On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Ok. I managed to *briefly* connect with my machine from outside. I still think there's something hinky about my config since I installed F10. It *was* working on FC6, and I wiped and reinstalled F10. Now, I can SSH in from my wife's XP box on the LAN, but I can't SSH in from outside, either on port 22 or the non-standard port I configured to make things more difficult for hackers (port number is in excess of 2000). I can SSH in from inside the LAN on either the standard port or the non-standard port, but I cannot access my machine from outside. I've tried several things, but none of them seem to work. Any suggestions where to look? Got a router in the mix there? If you changed the port that ssh answers on you'll need to set the router to port forward incoming port 22 connections to your non-standard port. Yup. I got a Netgear ISDN router. I had it set to forward *only* the non- standard port, but for some reason that doesn't appear to be working. However, I got into the router and re-enabled the port 22 forward and it's working now. I don't like having that port enabled though, so I'm going to have to play with it and see if I can't get the non-standard port working again... funny thing, it *was* working in FC6. I think I'll back up the current sshd_config and copy the one from FC6 in and see if that makes a difference. -- 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
SELinux does not like fail2ban
Why has no one fixed selinux to ignore fail2ban? It's been reported as far back as Fedora 8 that it's a problem. The first instance I found was as follows: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463410 That was closed because F8 was nearing EOL. Surely someone else is running fail2ban and newer versions of Fedora... Why doesn't someone fix it? I'll admit, I'm not a programmer or a guru of linux. I just like to run it as my personal desktop. Unfortunately, it's stuff like this which causes all sorts of headaches. I've re-reported it as occurring in F10. Hopefully someone will fix it this time and put out an update to one of the things that is causing the problem, either fail2ban or selinux! -- 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
Help... Can't boot!
I was using Fedora Core 6, just fine, but decided since it was so out of date, that I'd upgrade to Fedora 10. Now, for some reason, it won't boot. It keeps saying Unknown Partition Type 0x5. This is the same *exact* system that was working with Core 6, all I did was install over the old version (except for /home and a storage partition.) I'm using X86_64 where before I was using i386, but that shouldn't matter, should it? All data drives are IDE/PATA, but I'm installing off a SATA DVD ROM. HELP!!! I need to get this up and running as it's my primary desktop machine. I am stuck using my wife's XP box until I can get it back up and running! :-( -- 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: Help... Can't boot!
Quoting Stuart stu...@sjsears.com: At which point does it say that? Do you get as far as the grub menu? Yes. It gets that far, and when I select that, it gives me the error. Even if I go as far as editing it to try and get into single mode. Partition type 0x5 is an 'Extended' partition. (/dev/sda4 or equivalent, usually) - this suggests to me that your grub.conf is incorrect, probably containing a line similar to root (hd0,3) Ahh... that would explain it. But you can see this (I hope) by hitting 'e' at boot time, assuming you get as far as the grub countdown/menu. How many disks do you have in the box and what's your partitioning scheme? Err... Three drives, one of which is on a Promise PATA controller (my motherboard only had one PATA controller.) /dev/sdb1 is /boot /dev/sdb2 is / /dev/sdb5 is /usr/local /dev/sda6 is /home /dev/sdc5 is an old /home (I think...not sure if that's my /home from FC6 or if sda6 is, so I'm not going to format it.) I am not formatting /dev/sda6 or /dev/sdc5. I am formatting everything else. I'm in the middle of reinstalling for the third or fourth time. Once it barfs again, I'll let you know exactly what the grub line says. -- 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: Help... Can't boot!
Quoting Stuart stu...@sjsears.com: [snip] okay, how many are there? And which one do you want to boot from? According to the installer, it's going to write the boot info to /dev/sda. Boot is /dev/sdb1. -- 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: Help... Can't boot!
Quoting Stuart stu...@sjsears.com: At which point does it say that? Do you get as far as the grub menu? Partition type 0x5 is an 'Extended' partition. (/dev/sda4 or equivalent, usually) - this suggests to me that your grub.conf is incorrect, probably containing a line similar to root (hd0,3) But you can see this (I hope) by hitting 'e' at boot time, assuming you get as far as the grub countdown/menu. Grub.conf is as follows: root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=1acff5c4-7a23-414a-9e04-f356c64e24bd rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img device.map is as follows: (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb When it tries to boot, I get the following (it skips the grub menu -- it's the only install there): root (hd1,0) fs type unknown, partition type 0x5. menu.lst is pretty much the same. as the grub.conf posted above. I went in and put in a 10 second delay on the menu.lst. I confirmed that it magically shows up in the grub.conf once I put it in the menu.lst. I also confirmed that i no longer need the old /home partition that I've been keeping around because I couldn't be sure what it was. :-) Maybe i'll move that down to /dev/sda and make it the /boot partition or something. -- 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: Help... Can't boot!
Quoting Stuart Sears stu...@sjsears.com: okay, what I would do here is use the grub console to find /boot... in case you don't know how: hit 'c' to bring up the console type root (hd TAB grub should fill in the disks it can see (hopefully hd0/1/2) for each of those, try root (hdX,TAB which should give you the partition layouts and types then for each of the (hdX,0) partitions, try kernel (hdX,0)/ TAB one of them should have your vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 file on it. use that one in your root (hdX,0) statement. hit ESC to get back to the menu and edit the 'root' statement accordingly. See if it works after that. I think, from your previous post, that you may be pointing grub at what you think is sdc, which may only have sdc1 - Extended sdc5 - first logical partition on it. I had a similar issue with the installer seeing my disks in a different order to what I expected. Well, when I boot off the install DVD in rescue mode, it shows up correctly. I'm reinstalling yet again, this time, I told the installer to swap the disk order from what is in bios. We'll see how that goes... Hopefully I didn't just end up wiping my /home (and all my MP3 files! G) If worse comes to worse, I guess I'll put the old SDC back in the system as the primary HDD, wipe it and let Fedora use it to boot off of. -- 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: Help... Can't boot!
Quoting Stuart Sears stu...@sjsears.com: I think, from your previous post, that you may be pointing grub at what you think is sdc, which may only have sdc1 - Extended sdc5 - first logical partition on it. Well, I went by what was on the system previously (custom partitioning, using the same labels as FC6.) I could be wrong, but we'll see. -- 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: Help... Can't boot!
Quoting Stuart Sears stu...@sjsears.com: Well, when I boot off the install DVD in rescue mode, it shows up correctly. I'm reinstalling yet again, this time, I told the installer to swap the disk order from what is in bios. We'll see how that goes... Hopefully I didn't just end up wiping my /home (and all my MP3 files! G) did you actually try what was suggested? I'm fairly certain this is fixable without repeated reinstalls. Well, SDC is no longer part of the equation. I removed the ribbon cable from the drive so it won't even be seen by the system. -- 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
SOLVED -- Re: Help... Can't boot! (but more issues)
Well, I got it working finally... but i'm having some issues... the display is slightly off screen to the right, and I can't adjust it on the monitor because the left side is already at 0. I used to be able to access the display settings, etc from the desktop, but that's not possible. Also, I discovered that the /home partition I wanted to save was on the disconnected drive, so when I was swapping my cable around on sda and sdb to get them to be in the order the system wanted, I also hooked /dev/sdc back up. Now, how do I get my old /home to be /home? All I have is a uuid in fstab. I suppose I could edit it and make it like the old style, but I'm not sure that would work. Two questions then: 1) How do I access the display settings to change the refresh rate to adjust the horizontal positioning? 2) How do I tell Fedora 10 to move /home to a different location? -- 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
Boinc
Anyone here running Boinc on Fedora 10 x86_64? I followed the instructions on their (Boinc/s...@home) website and ran yum install boinc... and it installed two packages. Now when I try to run boincmgr, I get the following error in the console: connect: Connection refused execvp(/oldhome/john/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager) failed with error 13! connect: Operation now in progress Any ideas? What the heck is error 13 -- 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: All I want for Christmas is... F10 KDE4.2 Live... for testing...
On Thursday 11 December 2008, stan wrote: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 10:53 -0700, stan wrote: what if nVidia wants more information from bug reporter? (very likely) Craig Aaahhh. Give them a Bugzilla login and let them ask the original reporter? -- 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: convert mpa files to mp3 ?
On Monday 17 November 2008, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; Anyone know if I can use lame (or another tool) to convert iTunes mpa files to mp3 format ? Thanks in advance Zamzar.com is your friend. :-) you upload the files to them and then they send you back a link to download the converted files. -- 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: any drawbacks to 64-bit versus 32-bit install?
On Monday 17 November 2008, Antonio Olivares wrote: Go with 64 bit. I have gotten 3 machines with AMD64 processors and I have installed Fedora 10 Preview with 64 bit version and they are working nicely :) It(64 bit) will make full use of the machines capabilities and if it were not for the flash player and other proprietary stuff, 64 is the way to go :) Not to mention that Adobe has released a beta of 64-bit flash. :-) -- 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
Pre-Upgrade
Silly Question, can Pre-Upgrade be used to upgrade a much older version of Fedora to the latest and greatest version? I've got FC6 and normally do a wipe and reinstall, but would love to just upgrade. :-) I think I know the answer, but confirmation would be appreciated. :-) -- 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: Pre-Upgrade
Quoting Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED]: not a silly question at all don't even try Assuming that you have reasonably fast bandwidth, the way to do it is to do 'stepped' upgrades 6 = 7 = 8 = 9 = 10 (you can use Yum to get you to F9 and then Pre Upgrade for 9 to 10 if you want). See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq There are notes to deal with each step Nahh... I'll just wipe and reinstall. :-) It'll be easier that way. :-) -- 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
32 or 64-bit?
I'm about to the point of having to wipe and reinstall (except for some data folders) my personal machine. I'm currently on FC6, but I'm looking at either installing F9 or F10. I use it more as a desktop machine, but I access it from remote via SSH and VNC. I also use a DDNS name to access the machine. My question is this: Is F9/F10 (Beta) ready for full 64-bit for a desktop machine? I've got an AMD64 CPU and I'd love to use it to the full potential, but only if it's ready for prime-time. -- 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: 32 or 64-bit?
On Monday 27 October 2008, Mark Haney wrote: F9 is certainly ready for primetime now (in my opinion). I run it on a half dozen 64-bit opteron servers and it works fantastic. For my production systems I tend to wait at least a month before upgrading versions, just to let the kinks get worked out, but in the main, it's been a great OS for me. Thanks... I feel better about planning to upgrade (probably) to F10 when it comes out.. I tend to like being on the bleeding edge, and then cussing like a sailor when everything doesn't just work (TM) ;-) -- 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: Using all of 4GB RAM... questions and Vista versus Linux...
On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Mike Chambers wrote: So to answer your question (c), yes, if you switch to a 64bit version of Linux you will be able to use all 4GB. Does that work on only 4Gb or more? I have 2Gb Ram, and running 64bit, and still only see 1.8Gb of memory, as it did with 32bit as well. Is your system using part of the memory for on-board video? That's the most logical explanation. -- 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: Using all of 4GB RAM... questions and Vista versus Linux...
On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Linuxguy123 wrote: Is your system using part of the memory for on-board video? That's the most logical explanation. I don't know. I'm running the Nvidia 8800, which has 512KB on board How does one check if the video card is using RAM ? If you've got a separate video card, then that's not the answer. Although some motherboards (including mine) come with an on-board video adapter, it does not sound like yours does. -- 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: 64 Bit Linux shows 4GB... was Using all of 4GB RAM...
On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Linuxguy123 wrote: sorry - reinstall is your only option Reinstall the kernel or the whole OS including the applications ? How do I reinstall and get the exact same set of applications that I currently have and keep all my user data ? I was hoping that I could change a setting from i386 to x86_64 and some magic would occur whereby everything got replaced. Even if I had to write a yum script to do it ? Well, what you could do would be to reinstall, but don't reformat. At least that way you'd keep all your user data. That's typically what I do, since I have a separate partition for /home. -- 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: spec file for rpms
On Monday 22 September 2008, David Hláčik wrote: Hi guys, i am new at this. I want to make a rpm from a program source. It does not contain rpm spec file by default so i need to create one. Is there any way to make creation of spec files easier? some tools etc ... ? David, I know it's not going to be much help, but there *are* tools to take a tarball and create an RPM from that. It's very much specific to your machine, so it wouldn't help to make it work on another machine, but for the purposes of keeping your installs clean, etc, it's very useful. Unfortunately for you, it's been so long since I've done anything, I've long since forgotten what those utils are, so you'll have to hope someone out there has a better memory than I! :-) -- 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: spec file for rpms
On Monday 22 September 2008, Tony Placilla wrote: One fairly good one is CheckInstall Yep. That's what I was thinking of. -- 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: Outlook Exchange Server to Open Source Alternatives?
On Monday 08 September 2008, Mike McMullen wrote: Hi All, As part of a larger project to move our company away from Microsoft products, I'm investigating options for replacing our enterprise exchange server. We have about 500 mailboxes that would need to ported out as well as public folders and contacts/calendars etc. Can anyone recommend a linux groupware solution that would enable us to provide an Outlook like environment? And allows importing of prior data? I'm currently looking at PostPath Email server (http://www.postpath.com) as it is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Exchange. It runs on SuSE, RHEL or CentOS (currently 4.5 is the latest version supported by PostPath.) I have not yet been able to get it to do a kerberos login and connect to the domain though. -- 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: Infrastructure status, 2008-08-19 UTC 0200
On Saturday 23 August 2008, Roger Grosswiler wrote: ah yes, and do we also expect, that packages to new install do have that problem too? I mean, i would like to try kde, but am not sure to get compromised packages there... My 2 Cents' worth: I was thinking of upgrading from Fedora 6 to Fedora 9, but now I think I might wait for Fedora 10. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9 thermal issue
On Saturday 23 August 2008, fnol wrote: have you updated your bios? On my way, I found some issues with Acer and APIC errors which might be related. The solution was to upgrade BIOS, unfortantly I have to re-install Vista or DOS :-( Thanks, for your reply. DOSEMU is your friend. :-) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR
On Saturday 09 August 2008, Nigel Henry wrote: On Saturday 09 August 2008 22:20, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:59:50 +0200 Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clean the video head? I'm thinking cleaning fluids here. Alcohol. That's what I use to clean crud out of the film projector in my theatre . Thanks Frank. I was sort of thinking along the alcohol line, but just wanted some confirmation. What are you showing in your theatre this evening? PLEASE don't go out and buy a bottle of rubbing alcohol. Go get some medical grade alcohol, or PGA (as pure as possible) and take a piece of an old, CLEAN sheet and soak it in the high-grade alcohol, hold it *LIGHTLY* against the drum and then spin the drum. Try very hard not to let it catch the cloth on the heads. FWIW, I've got my BS in Mass Comm and spent about 8 years as a videographer. If you can get ahold of it, there was some special cleaning solvent that the chief engineers used to use. I forget what it was called, but if you can find a TV engineer, they can probably help. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR
On Saturday 09 August 2008, g wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: snip Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clean the video head? I'm thinking cleaning fluids here. _do_not_ use anything abrasive, as are head cleaning tapes. pure grain alcohol or denatured alcohol only. no oil base like rubbing alcohol. apply with cotton swab or lint free cotton pad. remove any cotton fibers that may remain. also, clean all rollers and such surfaces that tape crosses. if they still carry it, and excuse me for suggesting, radio shack used to carry audio tape cleaning kits. cleaner and pads will work. hth. AMEN! Very good suggestions! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: fedoraproject.org IP adress?
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:58:14 -0400 Oliver Ruebenacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These two bring me to bugzilla.redhat.com. fedoraproject.org may be a virtual server that's hosted on bugzilla.redhat.com If that is the case, then associate the relevant IP address with fedoraproject.org in your /etc/hosts file and it should work. Thanks, I can now find fedoraproject.org, but I still can not connect to mirrors.fedoraproject.org. Any ideas? Thanks! Take care Oliver host mirrors.fedoraproject.org mirrors.fedoraproject.org is an alias for fedoraproject.org. fedoraproject.org has address 66.35.62.162 fedoraproject.org has address 209.132.176.122 fedoraproject.org mail is handled by 40 smtp.fedora.redhat.com. fedoraproject.org mail is handled by 10 mx1.fedoraproject.org. fedoraproject.org mail is handled by 20 mx2.fedoraproject.org. fedoraproject.org mail is handled by 30 mx3.fedoraproject.org. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Evolution Exchange breakage
On Sunday 08 June 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I am truly sorry about that. I really wish there were an enterprise-class alternative that I could persuade my enterprise to adopt, but that's not going to happen any time soon (whether due to lack of alternative or lack of ability to steer my lumbering enterprise...). I feel your pain :-) Zimbra and Groupwise look like viable alternatives, but it's a huge and potentially very disruptive decision for an enterprise to make. There's another one I read about...Postpath.com has a mail server that is a 'drop-in replacement for Exchange and runs on linux. If anyone on this list has tried it, I'd like to hear about it as I'm trying desperately to keep my boss from making me buy Exchange. :-) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Evolution Exchange breakage
On Sunday 08 June 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: There's another one I read about...Postpath.com has a mail server that is a 'drop-in replacement for Exchange and runs on linux. If anyone on this list has tried it, I'd like to hear about it as I'm trying desperately to keep my boss from making me buy Exchange. :-) Note that there's a free (libre) version of Zimbra which you could install as a test environment to persuade your boss. It might even do for production, depending on your requirements (the non-free version adds stuff like syncing with mobile devices, hot backups etc.) PostPath has a 25-user trial version as well. :-) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
