Re: KMail trash folder? [solved]

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/20/2013 05:03 AM, Peter Gueckel wrote:
<>

> Yes, this is what I did, too, and it worked exactly as you 
> described. I am glad it was so intuitive to understand, but I guess 
> I should have filed a bug report after all when I first encountered 
> the problem ;-)

now this is real interesting.

this thread started out:

}>On 11/01/2012 05:04 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
}> In KMail (F17), where is the "Trash" folder? If I select a message and then
}> click the "Move to Trash" button, where is the message moved to? How do I
}> recover accidentally deleted messages?
}>
}> On the sidebar, there is only "inbox," "outbox," and "sent-mail" listed
}> under Local Folders.
}>
}> -Alan

does "Alan Evans" use any alias of "Peter Gueckel"?

or, are you 2 different people?

if you are 2 different people, "Peter Gueckel" should let "Alan Evans"
declare when "Subject: KMail trash folder?" is [solved], because
"Alan Evans" may not have [solved] *his* problem yet.

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Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.01.2013, Ranjan Maitra wrote: 

> F18 appears to give two options for installing from scratch: lvm or
> btrfs. Which one is better from the point of view of the longer-term.

While btrfs is a filesystem, lvm is not. Therefore, you can't compare
them. See e.g. http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm
 
> My current HDDs are ext4s. I switched then because I understood that
> this was the future.

What's the "future" to others must not neccessarily be the future to
you. You decide. EXT4 as filesystem is a good choice, and there are
some other good and stable filesystems out there (I've been using XFS
exclusively a very long time..).

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Re: Switch to KDE on Fedora 18

2013-01-20 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:38:04 -0800
Joe Zeff  wrote:

> On 01/19/2013 04:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > it is a VERY bad idea for someone who simply wants KDE
> >
> > why should someone install some hundret MB of
> > software and dependecies just for fun?
> 
> I don't do kernel development, but I need to have kernel-devel and 
> kernel-headers installed.  (At least I think I need both of them.  I
> do know that I need at least one of those two installed.)  That's
> because I have an nVidia graphics card and use akmod-nvidia, which
> needs them.  My thought was that the OP might find out the hard way
> that some of the KDE software expects some of that to be available,
> but I wasn't sure. That's why I said that he *might* want it
> installed.

For nvidia you only need kernel-headers. 

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Re: Keyboard and mouse freezes with F18

2013-01-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:25:20 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> The problem appears after a long period of inactivity

I just came back to my f18 system which has been idle
all night, and it is talking now with no problems.
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Re: Keyboard and mouse freezes with F18

2013-01-20 Thread Frédéric Bron
> I'm having a problem with F18 (updated from F17 using fedup and
> distro-sync).
> The problem appears after a long period of inactivity (but only some of
> the time). I have the screensaver turned off and power management set to
> dim the monitor but not power it down. The screen is lit but keyboard
> and mouse are unresponsive, including Ctrl-Alt-Fn combinations. The
> system is not hung as I can SSH in and everything seems to be working,
> but attempts to use systemctl start runlevel3.target (or ... 5.target)
> have no effect. The only option appears to be rebooting.

do you also experience what is described in this bug report?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901405

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Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 14:50 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> Another idiocy in the F18 installer is that there is no way to
> configure wireless connectivity if the WAP does not broadcast its
> SSID. Clicking on the configure button does nothing unless you select
> an entry from the drop down list.  You don't even get a message saying
> you need to select a wireless connection.

Yeah, well, when you break networking by not broadcasting the SSID, what
do you expect?

SSID is a normal, and expected, part of wireless networking.
Hiding it is not a security solution, of any kind.

Hiding it is an idiocy promulgated by dimwits who have no idea what
they're talking about.

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Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-20 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 19:00 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> I move to lvm, or leave things as is, to ext4?

LVM is a container, if you like.  It can span multiple disk drives, so
they appear as one huge drive.  And it can be expanded across even more
drives, if you add them, in the future.  That gives you the advantage of
what appears to be a huge drive.  It gives you the disadvantage that a
failure of any drive could result in the total loss of everything on all
drives.

If you only have one drive, and if you never intend to try that spanning
trick, I recommend that you do not use LVM.  It just adds yet another
problem to a computer system.

Now, for ext4.  It's a filing system.  The partitions inside an LVM can
use ext4, and the partitions inside a single hard drive partitioned in
the traditional way can use ext4.  If you're happy with ext4, don't want
to try another filing system, stick with it.

If considering another filing system, think about why:  Is it faster?
Are their other advantages?  Are their any advantages over your current
one?

And think about why not:  Is there any point in changing?  Are there
disadvantages?  Are there any known flaws?  Are there recovery tools for
dealing with lost, or accidentally deleted data.


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Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 20.01.2013 14:48, schrieb Tim:
> On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 14:50 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>> Another idiocy in the F18 installer is that there is no way to
>> configure wireless connectivity if the WAP does not broadcast its
>> SSID. Clicking on the configure button does nothing unless you select
>> an entry from the drop down list.  You don't even get a message saying
>> you need to select a wireless connection.
> 
> Yeah, well, when you break networking by not broadcasting the SSID, what
> do you expect?
> 
> SSID is a normal, and expected, part of wireless networking.
> Hiding it is not a security solution, of any kind.
> 
> Hiding it is an idiocy promulgated by dimwits who have no idea what
> they're talking about.

that is technically true

but at the same time "security by obscurity" ADDITIONAL to other protections
of your network is not so bad - guess which network is more targeted the
one which cries out his SSID or the one which must be actively searched

the point is that a idiotic installer which ONLY can do some things automatic
and have no way for power-users to make their decisions is broken by design
and a homage to the "post-pc" or as i call it "all-designed-for-idiots"-area



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Re: Keyboard and mouse freezes with F18

2013-01-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 07:55 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:25:20 -0430
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > The problem appears after a long period of inactivity
> 
> I just came back to my f18 system which has been idle
> all night, and it is talking now with no problems.

As I said, it's only some of the time. I've just returned after leaving
it all night and had no problems. That makes it hard to reproduce and
debug.

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Re: [OT] posting and receiving post [*solved*]

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/17/2013 01:54 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 02:45 +, g wrote:
>> now i find out that the
>> ???great and wonderful??? yahoo email service has been marking good
>> emails as spam and then automatically deleting them for me. what is
>> even worse, this has been going on for almost a full year.
>
> No spam filter is perfect. You need to check what it's doing from time
> to time, and it's easy to forget, especially when it's mostly working.

i am hoping that it is perfect. yuckahoo help was of little help. i did
run a search via duckduckgo.com to find what is supposed to turn off
spam filter.

what grips me about yuckahoo is why, when i had spam filtering turned
off when i was enjoying bellsouth.net as email server and them they come
along and turn them back on.

another grip is now that i have spam filters turned, feature of
"Select or deselect all messages" and "Check All - Clear All" no longer
works in any of the Folders.

i guess that is a price one has to pay for turning off spam filtering. :)


btfw, tim was correct about 'tsl'. shame he does not like abbrevs. ;)

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Re: [OT] posting and receiving post [*solved*]

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/17/2013 02:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
<>

> Granted, I've had a few GT's tonight...   But, IMHO, too much time has
> been spent on this OT subject with no bearing Fedora as a whole.

i agree. 5 days and you did not make a suggestion to check if email
server was filtering.

plus, neither of your 2 post offer any type of suggestion as to what
might be problem. (GBWG)

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Re: [OT] posting and receiving post [*solved*]

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/17/2013 02:04 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 22:11 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
<>

>> Granted, I've had a few GT's tonight...   But, IMHO, too much time has
> been spent on this OT subject with no bearing Fedora as a whole.
>
> And yet you tempt us with another acronym :-)
>
> (I just figured out you meant Gin and Tonic. It's usually spelt G&T
> where I come from).

it would be nice if he sobered up and set his 'line wrap'.

+1 on the G&T.

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Re: [OT] posting and receiving post [*solved*]

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/17/2013 09:20 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> And yet you tempt us with another acronym :-)
>>  
>> (I just figured out you meant Gin and Tonic. It's usually spelt G&T
>> where I come from).
> 
> Here, GT is a car.  Holden GT.

also, it could stand for 'great t..ts', or 'great  t.ts'. depending
on where you are from. ;-)

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Re: Keyboard and mouse freezes with F18

2013-01-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 14:11 +0100, Frédéric Bron wrote:
> > I'm having a problem with F18 (updated from F17 using fedup and
> > distro-sync).
> > The problem appears after a long period of inactivity (but only some of
> > the time). I have the screensaver turned off and power management set to
> > dim the monitor but not power it down. The screen is lit but keyboard
> > and mouse are unresponsive, including Ctrl-Alt-Fn combinations. The
> > system is not hung as I can SSH in and everything seems to be working,
> > but attempts to use systemctl start runlevel3.target (or ... 5.target)
> > have no effect. The only option appears to be rebooting.
> 
> do you also experience what is described in this bug report?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901405

I haven't tried switching users, but I'll test it and report on the BZ
page if I get the problem.

I've also had a strange issue a couple of times where the mouse cursor
disappears. The mouse itself is still active (I can highlight links on
web pages etc., right-click to get a menu, etc.), but then a dialogue
pops up in the top left corner telling me that a monitor has been
disconnected and asking if I want to reconfigure. However this may be
unrelated to the other problem, it's hard to tell.

poc

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Re: [OT] posting and receiving post [*solved*]

2013-01-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 13:54 +, g wrote:
> > No spam filter is perfect. You need to check what it's doing from
> time
> > to time, and it's easy to forget, especially when it's mostly
> working.
> 
i am hoping that it is perfect.

It isn't. Think about it: a perfect spam filter would mean you would
only ever see mail you were interested in. There's no practical way to
do that.

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Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:18:18 +1030
Tim wrote:

> Hiding it is an idiocy promulgated by dimwits who have no idea what
> they're talking about.

Actually hiding it is a small mercy which can benefit your
neighbors, otherwise when they try to connect something
to their router, they see a dozen SSIDs all named "LINKSYS" :-).
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holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Frank McCormick


  I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't run 
on my machine. My compiled version is fine. I am now concerned Yum will 
replace my version with Fedoras the next time GThumb is updated.

Is there a way to put GThumb on hold using Yum ?


Thanks

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Re: [OT] posting and receiving post [*solved*]

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 20.01.2013 15:02, schrieb g:
> 
> On 01/17/2013 02:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> <>
> 
>> Granted, I've had a few GT's tonight...   But, IMHO, too much time has
>> been spent on this OT subject with no bearing Fedora as a whole.
> 
> i agree. 5 days and you did not make a suggestion to check if email
> server was filtering.

because everybody thought you would be smart
enough to check basics of OYUR mail account
at your own?

P.S:
stop write 20 replyies at you are doing now to same subject
why the hell can you not combine all your 1-liners in ONE message?



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Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 20.01.2013 15:26, schrieb Tom Horsley:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:18:18 +1030
> Tim wrote:
> 
>> Hiding it is an idiocy promulgated by dimwits who have no idea what
>> they're talking about.
> 
> Actually hiding it is a small mercy which can benefit your
> neighbors, otherwise when they try to connect something
> to their router, they see a dozen SSIDs all named "LINKSYS" :-)

the one who are using LINKSYS would not hdie at all because
these are the creatures with vendor-passwords and so on active
not confugure anything at their own



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Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 20.01.2013 15:31, schrieb Frank McCormick:
> 
> I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't run on my 
> machine. My compiled version is fine. I
> am now concerned Yum will replace my version with Fedoras the next time 
> GThumb is updated.
> Is there a way to put GThumb on hold using Yum?

google for rpmbuild and "Epoch"

on the other hand you can define "exclude=whatever" for the fedora-repos



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Re: Grub2 installation after upgrading to F18

2013-01-20 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 17:37 +, Jorge Martínez López wrote: 
> Hi!
> 
> 2013/1/19 Matthew Saltzman 
> 
> > I have two machines with atypical disk layouts that I am upgrading to
> > F18.  (So far, I've upgraded three using fedup network with no
> > significant issues other than this question.)
> >
> >  1. I have a machine with two drives and software RAID 1.  Do I need
> > to do anything special as far as installing grub2 on the second
> > drive?  Do I need to bother at all?
> >
> 
> I have the same setup and every time there is a grub update I run:
> # grub2-install /dev/sda
> # grub2-install /dev/sdb
> being /dev/sda and /dev/sdb the two hard drives in the RAID. It is
> important to install grub on /dev/sdb too because if /dev/sda fails your
> system will not boot.

Thanks for this advice.  Now I still need an answer to my other
question.  On the RAID1 disks on this machine, as on my laptop, I
installed grub on /boot (/dev/sda2) rather than on the MBR.  (On my
laptop, it's because I wanted to preserve the Windows MBR, but on this
machine, it was just force of habit.)  So /dev/sda2 is the active
partition.

So is it safe to install grub2 on /dev/sda2 (say) or should it be
installed on the MBR?  Or is there a way to tell of the former is OK for
a particular configuration?  If the latter, what partition should I make
active?

TIA.


> 
> Greetings,

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Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:31:36 -0500
Frank McCormick wrote:

> Is there a way to put GThumb on hold using Yum ?

You can put an exclude= line in /etc/yum.conf to
exclude packages from being updated, or you can
yum erase the fedora gthumb rpm.

Both of these techniques have problems of course
if there are dependencies involved that prevent
other things from being updated or force other
packages to be removed.

There is also the "big hammer" I use sometimes:

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/Mjolnir.html

A yum plugin that runs my hook to put things yum
might have just changed back the way I want them
every time yum runs :-).
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Re: Grub2 installation after upgrading to F18

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 20.01.2013 15:37, schrieb Matthew Saltzman:
> Thanks for this advice.  Now I still need an answer to my other
> question.  On the RAID1 disks on this machine, as on my laptop, I
> installed grub on /boot (/dev/sda2) rather than on the MBR.  (On my
> laptop, it's because I wanted to preserve the Windows MBR, but on this
> machine, it was just force of habit.)  So /dev/sda2 is the active
> partition.
> 
> So is it safe to install grub2 on /dev/sda2 (say) or should it be
> installed on the MBR?  Or is there a way to tell of the former is OK for
> a particular configuration?  If the latter, what partition should I make
> active?

grub2 should not be on a partition

but make your own picture with google:
https://www.google.com/search?q=grub2+install+in+a+partition



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Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:31:36 -0500
Frank McCormick  wrote:

> 
>I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't
> run on my machine. 

Did you create bugzillas?



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Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:36:46 +0100 Reindl Harald
 wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 20.01.2013 15:31, schrieb Frank McCormick:
> > 
> > I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't run on my 
> > machine. My compiled version is fine. I
> > am now concerned Yum will replace my version with Fedoras the next time 
> > GThumb is updated.
> > Is there a way to put GThumb on hold using Yum?
> 
> google for rpmbuild and "Epoch"
> 
> on the other hand you can define "exclude=whatever" for the fedora-repos
> 

I would also suggest filing a bug report on Bugzilla so that others may
potentially benefit?

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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/19/2013 04:46 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
<<>>
> Thanks for this important info!

my pleasure. glad to help and hope that i cleared up your questions.

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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/19/2013 04:03 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
<<>>
> Well thank you SO much for clearing that up for meI'm in the process 
> of moving ALL my "child" folders from the Inbox...and placing them on my 
> local hard drive!

again, you are welcome and i am glad to help.

for no more than what is involved, even tho you have had no problems,
you will be safer not taking any chances.

with the way thunderbird authors are, you never know if and when they
will make drastic changes to code and what it may do to your system.

with no 'children' under Inbox, you cyoa.

also, i suggest not to put 'children' under any folder that receives
or holds any email. it is too easy to create empty 'parent' folders.

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Re: [OT] posting and receiving post [*solved*]

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/20/2013 02:08 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 13:54 +, g wrote:
>>> No spam filter is perfect. You need to check what it's doing from
>> time
>>> to time, and it's easy to forget, especially when it's mostly
>> working.
>>
> i am hoping that it is perfect.
> 
> It isn't. Think about it: a perfect spam filter would mean you would
> only ever see mail you were interested in. There's no practical way to
> do that.

true. i will give you that one. ;)

also, being that it is yuckahoo, i well expect there to be problems.

as i stated in another post, tagging and untagging _all_ emails has
stopped working.

i will give thunderbird credit for it's spam filters. from building of
spam filters for around 15 years, only spam i see is what comes thru
a list. even that is rare because it does catch a lot of what is sent
thru the list. primarily, it comes in thru mozilla's list.

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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/18/2013 09:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 18.01.2013 22:05, schrieb g:
>> how does folder moving tie in between server and client?
> 
> switch to another folder and back if IDLE push
> does not refresh enough for you

"IDLE push"?


>> which tree structure is reflected to the other?
>
> uhm?
>
> the whole structure is on the server as also the mails
> there is no "the other" at all

in other words, email client reflects what is on server and email
client user does not have to build structure in client?

emails are on server because it is the server.  but as i recall, they
are downloaded to client and deleted from server if so configured.

years ago, when i was using imap, i filtered on my client, not on
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Re: [OT] posting and receiving post [*solved*]

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/20/2013 02:32 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 20.01.2013 15:02, schrieb g:
>> On 01/17/2013 02:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> <>
>>> Granted, I've had a few GT's tonight...   But, IMHO, too much time has
>>> been spent on this OT subject with no bearing Fedora as a whole.
>>
>> i agree. 5 days and you did not make a suggestion to check if email
>> server was filtering.
>
> because everybody thought you would be smart
> enough to check basics of OYUR mail account
> at your own?

as it is, when i first thought i had a problem, i did check server on
several occasions. as it now turns, my checks must have been after
yuckahoo had deleted what was in spam folder. plus, at those times of
checking, i did check what set was for spam filtering and it was not
clear at that time just what was going on. later on, when i posted
[*solved*], was after checking spam folder and finding over 900 emails
in spam folder. only 3 where actually spam.

> P.S:
> stop write 20 replyies at you are doing now to same subject
> why the hell can you not combine all your 1-liners in ONE message?

because i make replies as i am reading emails. not every one can be
as perfect as you seem to think you are. !not!

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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 20.01.2013 15:38, schrieb g:
> 
> On 01/18/2013 09:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 18.01.2013 22:05, schrieb g:
>>> how does folder moving tie in between server and client?
>>
>> switch to another folder and back if IDLE push
>> does not refresh enough for you
> 
> "IDLE push"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP_IDLE

>>> which tree structure is reflected to the other?
>>
>> uhm?
>>
>> the whole structure is on the server as also the mails
>> there is no "the other" at all
> 
> in other words, email client reflects what is on server and email
> client user does not have to build structure in client?

he can not build structure on the client
anything you do happens on the server

> emails are on server because it is the server.  but as i recall, they
> are downloaded to client and deleted from server if so configured.

please google the dfiffernce ebtween IMAP and POP3

> years ago, when i was using imap, i filtered on my client, not on
> server.

surely, you can configure your client to move around messages
between folders like for local ones, but that would be a dumb
solution if your server supports sieve because if you are on
a different client like smartphone and your client with the
filters has to run the whole time or no filtering

it is much more effective filter messages in folders via sieve
on the server which affects any client everywhere and saves
bandwith - usually filtering in the client is copy the message
to the destination folder and remove it after that from the old
one, this is not fast, no efficient and wasting bandwith and last
but not least makes all the troubles with the thunderbird indexes
especially if different clients are connected at the same time

maybe you should consider reading wikipedia and references how
IMAP works because your questions are showing you missed it



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How to use a sound theme?

2013-01-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik

How do I go about switching to a different sound theme?

Gnome's control center only lets me choose one of four lame sounds from  
/usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts.


I have a whole bunch of complete sound themes in /usr/share/sounds, but I  
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X and file permissions

2013-01-20 Thread Andras Simon
Is it possible that X somehow makes a file inaccessible not when
it's running but only when it (X) is shown?

Here's what happens:

In a virtual console,

$ cat /dev/snd/controlC0 [just to see if it's accessible]

returns

cat: /dev/snd/controlC0: File descriptor in bad state (in a VC)

so the file is accessible - that's all that matters now. (Of
course, it's not an ordinary file, and given its permissions:

crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Jan 20 02:34 /dev/snd/controlC0

and that the user I'm doing this as is not in the audio
group, I find this result surprising - but since it's
the one I want, I won't worry about it for now :-))

However, if I do

$ sleep 10 ; cat /dev/snd/controlC0

and then switch to X (which has been running all the time), wait
for more than 10 secs and switch back, I see

cat: /dev/snd/controlC0: Permission denied

(Meanwhile, the permissions are still crw-rw+)

It doesn't matter if X is just an X server, or a full xfce
desktop.

And lsof doesn't show anything that's using /dev/snd/controlC0

All this is interesting for me because I'm trying to find out the
reason why sound works in a VC but not in X, and strace led me
in this direction.

I'd appreciate any insight or hints about this.

Andras
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gscan2pdf F18 issue

2013-01-20 Thread Terry Polzin
File save doesn't work nor does e-mail as I don't see a place to enter
an address.

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Re: desktop choice on Fedora 17 (was Re: A Look at Fedora 18)

2013-01-20 Thread Lailah

Are you aware that your mails are totally ciphered so we can't read
them?


Greetings from
Lailah

El sáb, 19-01-2013 a las 14:46 +0200, Mika Suomalainen escribió:
> 
> Error al verificar la firma: Falló
> al ejecutar gpg.
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Re: F18 Splash screen is not shown

2013-01-20 Thread Lailah
El vie, 18-01-2013 a las 11:12 -0500, Bill Davidsen escribió:


> Animations in splash have gotten boring, I wish they would use something 
> exciting like the FC10 boiling surface of the sun instead of the "throbbing 
> meatball" as one student described it.
> 
> >
> 



I agree, I loved that sun.  What about a rain of stars now?   Or comets
or asteroids :-) 

Regards from the bottom,
Lailah
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Fonts missing

2013-01-20 Thread Lailah

Hello everybody!  Happy new year!

I've just installed the Spherical Cow and I can use my older
fonts.  I used to copy&paste from one /usr/share/fonts folder to the
other but this time it isn't working.
My fonts are in Ubuntu, as root I copy & paste from there to my new
Fedora.  But I can't use them anyway.
Somebody know why it happens and how can I fix it?


Thank you all very much!
Lailah



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Re: desktop choice on Fedora 17 (was Re: A Look at Fedora 18)

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald
are YOU aware that your mail-client is broken if it
can not handle multi-mime messages with inline GPG?

i have forwarded his message at bottom

Am 20.01.2013 01:25, schrieb Lailah:

> Are you aware that your mails are totally ciphered so we can't read them?
>
> El sáb, 19-01-2013 a las 14:46 +0200, Mika Suomalainen escribió:
>>  Error al verificar la firma: Falló al ejecutar gpg.
>>
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>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>>
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>> ZWNlcyBvZiBpdC4gTG9vayBoZXJlLgo+Pj4gCj4 

 Original-Nachricht 
Betreff: Re: desktop choice on Fedora 17 (was Re: A Look at Fedora 18)
Datum: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:46:43 +0200
Von: Mika Suomalainen 
Antwort an: Community support for Fedora users 
An: users@lists.fedoraproject.org

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On 18.01.2013 23:02, Tim wrote:
>
> Allegedly, on or about 18 January 2013, David sent:
>>> You will not be offered a choice of desktops unless you have
>>> more than one installed. From the way you describe what you
>>> have done you do not have the Mate desktop installed. Just a
>>> few pieces of it. Look here.
>>>
>>> yum grouplist
> Installed Groups:
<...>
> Available Groups:
<...>
> Done
>
> No sign of Mate, in either list.  Nonetheless, I tried the
> following:
>
>>> yum groupinstall "Mate Desktop"  (note the quote marks)
> And got the response I expected:
>
> Warning: Group Mate Desktop does not exist. No packages in any
> requested group available to install or update

There is group for MATE, but for some reason it's hidden group. Try
running "yum grouplist hidden" to see it. You can install it with
command "yum groupinstall MATE".

> By the way, lots of mirrors seem to be non-responsive, this
> morning.  It took quite some time for either command line to
> complete.

I recommend installing "yum-plugin-fastestmirror" and changing the
maxhostfileage from 10 to 1 in
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf . With that configuration it
checks what is fastest mirror daily and uses it and even tells you
what mirror it's using.

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Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Frank McCormick

On 01/20/2013 09:44 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:31:36 -0500
Frank McCormick  wrote:



I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't
run on my machine.


Did you create bugzillas?





  Yes, but the problem seems to only affect certain older Intel 
chipsets...so I'm not holding my breath awaiting a working update. Now 
why it works fine after being recompiled on my machine I don't know. Of 
course I left out some of GThumbs options...like uploading to pictures 
services etc.


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Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Frank McCormick

On 01/20/2013 09:54 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:36:46 +0100 Reindl Harald
 wrote:




Am 20.01.2013 15:31, schrieb Frank McCormick:


I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't run on my 
machine. My compiled version is fine. I
am now concerned Yum will replace my version with Fedoras the next time GThumb 
is updated.
Is there a way to put GThumb on hold using Yum?


google for rpmbuild and "Epoch"

on the other hand you can define "exclude=whatever" for the fedora-repos



I would also suggest filing a bug report on Bugzilla so that others may
potentially benefit?


  Already done

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Re: multiple audio file conversion

2013-01-20 Thread Bobcat

On 01/01/2013 10:31 AM, Claude Jones wrote:

Is there a way/tool to convert an entire folder of audio files from one
format to another? I know Audacity will let me convert files one at a
time, but I'm looking for a way to take a folder of multiple files and
convert all of them at once... My files are .wav and I'm looking to
create smaller compressed files to place on an iPod Touch



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Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
Yesterday my desktop PC was running Fedora 17 and I was able to watch
all kinds of video files using totem. This morning I used FedUp to
upgrade the PC to Fedora 18 and since then I haven't found a video
file that totem can play successfully. I always get an error message
that says:

  Videos requires[sic] additional plugins for this operation

  The following plugins are required:

  * MPEG Video decoder
  * MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder

  Do you want to search for these now?

  [Cancel] [Search]

I've tried pressing the search button but it just says that it can't
find the required plugins.

It looks to me like I have fc18 versions of all of the relevant RPMs

  $ rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer
  gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-5.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-5.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-2.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-3.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.8-3.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer1-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-5.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer-python-0.10.22-3.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64
  phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64
  PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64
  gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64

All of which leads me to two questions.

1/ How can I get back the ability to play videos?
2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this?

Please let me know if you need any more information or if there's a
more useful place for me to report this issue.

Cheers,

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Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:03:06 +
Dave Cross  wrote:

> 
> It looks to me like I have fc18 versions of all of the relevant RPMs
> 
>

did you: yum distro-sync?
did you re--enable rpmfuion repos?


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Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Frank McCormick

On 01/20/2013 09:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:



Am 20.01.2013 15:31, schrieb Frank McCormick:


I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't run on my 
machine. My compiled version is fine. I
am now concerned Yum will replace my version with Fedoras the next time GThumb 
is updated.
Is there a way to put GThumb on hold using Yum?


google for rpmbuild and "Epoch"



  Wow, after reading for 2 minutes my head was swimming...and close to 
drowning :)




on the other hand you can define "exclude=whatever" for the fedora-repos





  I'm trying this method. We'll see how it goes



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Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:03:06 +, Dave Cross wrote:

> Yesterday my desktop PC was running Fedora 17 and I was able to watch
> all kinds of video files using totem. This morning I used FedUp to
> upgrade the PC to Fedora 18 and since then I haven't found a video
> file that totem can play successfully. I always get an error message
> that says:
> 
>   Videos requires[sic] additional plugins for this operation
> 
>   The following plugins are required:
> 
>   * MPEG Video decoder
>   * MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder
> 
>   Do you want to search for these now?
> 
>   [Cancel] [Search]
> 
> I've tried pressing the search button but it just says that it can't
> find the required plugins.
> 
> It looks to me like I have fc18 versions of all of the relevant RPMs
> 
>   $ rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer
>   gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-5.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-5.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-2.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-3.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.8-3.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer1-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-5.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer-python-0.10.22-3.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64
>   phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64
>   PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64
>   gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64
> 
> All of which leads me to two questions.
> 
> 1/ How can I get back the ability to play videos?

Have you tried adding missing gstreamer1 plug-in packages?
 see: yum list gstreamer1\*

> 2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this?

Totem in F18 is based on GStreamer v1.0.x, while you've listed also packages
for GStreamer v0.10.x. Fedup cannot know if Totem needs additional plugins
from repos like RPMFusion.

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Re: holding a package

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 20.01.2013 19:17, schrieb Frank McCormick:
> On 01/20/2013 09:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 20.01.2013 15:31, schrieb Frank McCormick:
>>>
>>> I have compiled from source GThumb, as Fedoras package wouldn't run on my 
>>> machine. My compiled version is fine. I
>>> am now concerned Yum will replace my version with Fedoras the next time 
>>> GThumb is updated.
>>> Is there a way to put GThumb on hold using Yum?
>>
>> google for rpmbuild and "Epoch"
> 
> 
> Wow, after reading for 2 minutes my head was swimming...and close to drowning 
> :)

there is nothing to swim and drown

the package below wins even if version and release are
higher in the fedora package because the epoch is higher

Name:  postfix
Summary:   Postfix Mail Transport Agent
Version:   2.10
Release:   3%{?dist}
Epoch: 3




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Re: Fonts missing

2013-01-20 Thread Veeti Paananen
On 01/20/2013 04:45 PM, Lailah wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody!  Happy new year!
> 
> I've just installed the Spherical Cow and I can use my older
> fonts.  I used to copy&paste from one /usr/share/fonts folder to the
> other but this time it isn't working.
> My fonts are in Ubuntu, as root I copy & paste from there to my new
> Fedora.  But I can't use them anyway.
> Somebody know why it happens and how can I fix it?
> 
> 
> /Thank you all very much!/
> */Lailah/*

Try refreshing your font cache:

$ fc-cache -f

I'd also advise you to put the fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts or
~/.fonts instead of the global directory, since they won't be tracked by
the package manager.

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Re: gtk3 theme with arrows in scrollbars?

2013-01-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:58:03 +0800
Ed Greshko wrote:

> Not sure of your exact environment.  But you could always install oxygen-gtk3 
> from KDE.  It gets you back your arrows. 

Yea, I spent some time ploughing through all the themes under
/usr/share/themes/ which had definitions for both gtk 2.0 and
3.0, and finally did settle on oxygen-gtk as looking best
and still giving me arrows to click on.
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F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
I've been trying to upgrade my laptop from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 and
it hasn't been going well.

First I tried to use FedUp. FedUp downloaded all of the files it
required. I rebooted and selected the upgrade option. I got the
progress meter, but after only about thirty seconds the system
rebooted and I was left with the same grub options as before the
upgrade. No option to boot into Fedora 18 and no option to retry the
upgrade.

I booted into Fedora 17 and tried again with very similar results.
However I've since noticed that something has changed as when I now
run a "yum update" it tries to update over 2,000 RPMs to the Fedora 18
versions. This seems to go into an infinite loop of dependency
resolution - so I killed it.

I then decided that I'd download an installation DVD and try to
upgrade from that. I burnt a DVD and the media test completed
successfully, but I'm only offered the option to install Fedora, not
to upgrade my existing installation.

That's not such a problem. I have my /home directory on a separate
partition, so what I've done before is to reinstall from scratch and
reuse the /home partition (so I keep all of my data). But the new
Anaconda partitioning UI is confusing me and I can't work out how to
tell it to reuse the /home partition but reformat all the other Linux
partitions and use them for the new installation.

So currently I'm booted back into my Fedora 17 installation (that
thinks it might be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I
suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash the existing
installation. But I'd be disappointed if I can't work out a way to
reuse the /home partition.

Can anyone suggest a way forward for me?

Thanks,

Dave...

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Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Maurizio Marini
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:33:50 +
Dave Cross  wrote:

> That's not such a problem. I have my /home directory on a separate
> partition, so what I've done before is to reinstall from scratch and
> reuse the /home partition (so I keep all of my data). But the new
> Anaconda partitioning UI is confusing me and I can't work out how to
> tell it to reuse the /home partition but reformat all the other Linux
> partitions and use them for the new installation.
> 

I have planned to install by cd/dvd next days, i hame very interested in your
case, as i have /home in separated part. and my strategy is like your one.
hopefully someone will help :)

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f18: GUI for video converter

2013-01-20 Thread Dario Lesca
For audio exist soundconverter, there is something like this for video?

Thanks

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Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Joe Zeff

On 01/20/2013 11:33 AM, Dave Cross wrote:

So currently I'm booted back into my Fedora 17 installation (that
thinks it might be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I
suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash the existing
installation. But I'd be disappointed if I can't work out a way to
reuse the /home partition.


Have you tried using package-cleanup?  When I migrated my desktop from 
F14 to F16 it hung and for about a week I was only able to get into text 
mode.  There were a large number of dupes, and I ended up cleaning them 
up manually, a few at a time because package-cleanup seemed to choke on 
such a large number of issues.  (Of course, it might just have taken 
longer than I realized to work.)  Depending on how much time you have, 
it might be worth trying.

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f18: how to disable suspend when lid is closed without user logged in

2013-01-20 Thread Dario Lesca
... like old F14+Gnome2 does with a button "make default" ?

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Acer V5-171 and Fedora 18

2013-01-20 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello!

Is anyone had success with Acer V5-171 laptop and Fedora 18?

This laptop has Windows 8 preinstalled and I am not able to install
Fedora 18 with Secure Boot enabled or disabled. Similar problem with
other distribution. Looks like stuck at GRUB loader.

Bye,
a
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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread g

On 01/20/2013 03:18 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
<>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP_IDLE

good link. thank you.

<>
> he can not build structure on the client
> anything you do happens on the server

not quit true. i could build a tree on server and then add branches in
thunderbird to do do further filtering.

<>
> please google the dfiffernce ebtween IMAP and POP3

i admit i do not have a full understanding of current day imap, but i
do have an awareness of diff between imap and pop3.

<>
> surely, you can configure your client to move around messages
> between folders like for local ones, but that would be a dumb
> solution if your server supports sieve because if you are on
> a different client like smartphone and your client with the
> filters has to run the whole time or no filtering

no. what is dumb is taking for granted that all servers use/support
sieve, and being that i am talking about late 80's into 90's, before
sieve, my doing what i did was not dumb. :)

being that one of great advantages of imap is doing _pre_ filtering
at server allows one to download emails to various systems and then
further filter for needs of other systems.

to give you a better understanding, i played with computers when they
where run with punched cards. which is not counting the relay operated
tic-tac-toe system at museum of science in chicago. :)

shortly after zilog was formed, i built my first micro cpu system
using zilog z80 and s100 buss. and yes, i used 8" floppies.

> it is much more effective filter messages in folders via sieve
> on the server which affects any client everywhere and saves
> bandwith - usually filtering in the client is copy the message
> to the destination folder and remove it after that from the old
> one, this is not fast, no efficient and wasting bandwith and last
> but not least makes all the troubles with the thunderbird indexes
> especially if different clients are connected at the same time

basic filtering is, may be, more effective on server in some cases.
all/every client may not have need or use of all email that is handled
on server. ie, bookkeeping/accounting would not have need for emails
that go to an engineering dept. and many more examples, too many to
mention them and would be a waste of bandwidth. ;)

which is all where there are advantages of using thunderbird

> maybe you should consider reading wikipedia and references how
> IMAP works because your questions are showing you missed it

some of it, yes. a lot has changed in last 30 years. when i find time
i do plan to read up on what has happened in that time to imap. but
it will not be at wikipedia. i enjoy reading rfc's.

i do thank you for your replies.
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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 14:38 +, g wrote:
> On 01/18/2013 09:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >
> > Am 18.01.2013 22:05, schrieb g:
> >> how does folder moving tie in between server and client?
> > 
> > switch to another folder and back if IDLE push
> > does not refresh enough for you
> 
> "IDLE push"?
> 
> 
> >> which tree structure is reflected to the other?
> >
> > uhm?
> >
> > the whole structure is on the server as also the mails
> > there is no "the other" at all
> 
> in other words, email client reflects what is on server and email
> client user does not have to build structure in client?

By default no. The client can of course have its own folder structure,
but the two are entirely independent. Many clients also allow caching of
server folders locally (usually on a per-folder basis).

> emails are on server because it is the server.  but as i recall, they
> are downloaded to client and deleted from server if so configured.

I don't know of any client that does that. You may be thinking of POP,
which is entirely different. The whole point of IMAP is to keep the
master copy on the server where it's accessible from anywhere, and use
local copies only as a cache.

> years ago, when i was using imap, i filtered on my client, not on
> server.

That's because standardized server-side filtering never really got going
and isn't well-supported by any widely-used client. However in this case
we're specifically talking about Gmail, not about some random IMAP
server. Although the Gmail implementation of IMAP is slightly quirky,
the server-side filtering is effective. The only thing is you have to
set it up via the web interface.

poc

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Re: f18: GUI for video converter

2013-01-20 Thread Peter Gordon
On 01/20/2013 12:58 PM, Dario Lesca wrote:
> For audio exist soundconverter, there is something like this for video?

Perhaps you're looking for something like Transmageddon [1]?

[1] http://www.linuxrising.org/

The package is in Fedora, and a simple "yum install transmageddon" as
root should do the trick. :)

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Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Max Pyziur

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Dave Cross wrote:


I've been trying to upgrade my laptop from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 and
it hasn't been going well.

First I tried to use FedUp. FedUp downloaded all of the files it
required. I rebooted and selected the upgrade option. I got the
progress meter, but after only about thirty seconds the system
rebooted and I was left with the same grub options as before the
upgrade. No option to boot into Fedora 18 and no option to retry the
upgrade.

I booted into Fedora 17 and tried again with very similar results.
However I've since noticed that something has changed as when I now
run a "yum update" it tries to update over 2,000 RPMs to the Fedora 18
versions. This seems to go into an infinite loop of dependency
resolution - so I killed it.

I then decided that I'd download an installation DVD and try to
upgrade from that. I burnt a DVD and the media test completed
successfully, but I'm only offered the option to install Fedora, not
to upgrade my existing installation.

That's not such a problem. I have my /home directory on a separate
partition, so what I've done before is to reinstall from scratch and
reuse the /home partition (so I keep all of my data). But the new
Anaconda partitioning UI is confusing me and I can't work out how to
tell it to reuse the /home partition but reformat all the other Linux
partitions and use them for the new installation.

So currently I'm booted back into my Fedora 17 installation (that
thinks it might be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I
suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash the existing
installation. But I'd be disappointed if I can't work out a way to
reuse the /home partition.

Can anyone suggest a way forward for me?


This sounds like a case of not having enough space on your /boot 
partition. I had a similar set of issues going from (?) F15 to F16 (or F16 
to F17) on my laptop. At the time I had only a 100-200MB /boot partition 
(if anyting something smaller than what the upgrade could handle). Even 
with wiping out all of the backup kernels and leaving the most current 
one, there was still not enough space for the upgrade.


Consequently, I made sure I did a full backup of my data (/home partition 
and my Postgresql databases - pg_dumpall > somefile, along with a 
listing of all of the installed RPM packages), and then did a fresh 
install, increasing the /boot partition to something like 1GB. Once at 
that size, then the installation went very smoothly.



Thanks,

Dave...





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Re: Switch to KDE on Fedora 18

2013-01-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:44:21 -0800, Michael Eager wrote:

> I just installed F18 from the live CD.  I'm trying
> to install and switch to KDE.
> 
> If I enter "switchdesk kde", I get a message saying to
> run "yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)".
> Yum says that Group KDE does not exist.

Right.
 
> Other than re-installing from the F18-Live-KDE CD, how
> can I switch desktops?

$ yum grouplist|grep KDE
   KDE Plasma Workspaces

$ yum grouplist hidden|grep KDE
   KDE Plasma Workspaces
   Critical Path (KDE)
   KDE Applications
   KDE Educational applications
   KDE Multimedia support
   KDE Office
   KDE Plasma Workspaces
   KDE Software Development
   KDE Telepathy

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Re: Setting video monitor resolution on F18 X Windows Gnome

2013-01-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 15:31 +, Aaron Gray wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am trying to work out how to set the height and width to use the
> 1280 by 800 full resolution of my laptop monitor. At the moment Gnome
> is giving me 1024 by 768.
>  
> I have tried a few things from forums but none of them worked.
>  
> Hope someone can help me.
>  
> Many thanks in advance,
>  
> Aaron
>  

Have you tried System Tools ->System Settings-> Displays
if you are in Gnome
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Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
On 20 January 2013 20:12, Joe Zeff  wrote:
> On 01/20/2013 11:33 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
>>
>> So currently I'm booted back into my Fedora 17 installation (that
>> thinks it might be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I
>> suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash the existing
>> installation. But I'd be disappointed if I can't work out a way to
>> reuse the /home partition.
>
>
> Have you tried using package-cleanup?  When I migrated my desktop from F14
> to F16 it hung and for about a week I was only able to get into text mode.
> There were a large number of dupes, and I ended up cleaning them up
> manually, a few at a time because package-cleanup seemed to choke on such a
> large number of issues.  (Of course, it might just have taken longer than I
> realized to work.)  Depending on how much time you have, it might be worth
> trying.

package-cleanup doesn't show many obvious issues. Although this
worried me a bit:

$ package-cleanup --problems
Loaded plugins: local, presto, refresh-packagekit
Package xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64 has missing requires
of libudev.so.1()(64bit)
Package xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64 has missing requires
of libudev.so.1(LIBUDEV_183)(64bit)
Package xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64 has missing requires
of xserver-abi(videodrv-13) >= ('0', '0', None)

Which led me to this:

$ rpm -qa | grep fc18
nss-tools-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.4.fc18.x86_64
nss-sysinit-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
nss-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64
grubby-8.22-1.fc18.x86_64

So it looks like the aborted FedUp upgrade managed to install six RPMs
before bombing out.

Cheers,

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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik

Patrick O'Callaghan writes:


On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 14:38 +, g wrote:
> On 01/18/2013 09:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >
> >> which tree structure is reflected to the other?
> >
> > uhm?
> >
> > the whole structure is on the server as also the mails
> > there is no "the other" at all
>
> in other words, email client reflects what is on server and email
> client user does not have to build structure in client?

By default no. The client can of course have its own folder structure,
but the two are entirely independent. Many clients also allow caching of
server folders locally (usually on a per-folder basis).


IMAP is schizophrenic. On one hand, it's general design seems to be oriented  
towards letting clients cache server mail content.


But on the other hand, IMAP does several things that make reliable caching  
of mail content pretty much impossible. This is why, in general, IMAP  
clients over the years have been crap.


IMAP IDLE has been mentioned here. IDLE is a piggy-back extension. It's not  
part of the base protocol. Clients cannot assume the server supports it.  
Therefore, IMAP clients have to support the case of IDLE not being  
available, and there are servers that do not implement it.


Here's the problem. Not just with IMAP, but with any other kind of a  
client/server protocol with optional bits that are glued on as an  
afterthought. It takes a certain amount of effort to implement anything.  
Therefore, faced with the option of implementing and supporting just the  
base minimum, versus the base minimum and some optional bits, and then  
having the overhead of supporting multiple ways of accomplishing the same  
task, in perpetuity, you can pretty much draw your own conclusion as to how  
this is going to play out in the long run.



> emails are on server because it is the server.  but as i recall, they
> are downloaded to client and deleted from server if so configured.

I don't know of any client that does that. You may be thinking of POP,
which is entirely different. The whole point of IMAP is to keep the
master copy on the server where it's accessible from anywhere, and use
local copies only as a cache.


Unfortutunately, as I mentioned, IMAP makes it pretty much impossible to  
implement this reliably, and efficiently. IDLE lets the client synchronize  
itself with the server only while it is connected to it. But, IDLE has  
nothing that lets the client synchronize itself with the server after it  
goes offline, then get reconnected later.


After connecting and opening a folder, an IMAP client has no efficient means  
of synchronizing its cache of the folder's content with what's on the server  
right now. The IMAP client has no means of determining a precise list of  
changes to the mailbox on the server since the IMAP client was logged on  
last time. There are several kinds of changes that the IMAP client /can/  
quickly square away, but the protocol does not support actual syncing. It's  
not possible. IMAP is not designed for it.


I could get into the history of IMAP, how it came out, and the political  
reasons for that, but having my two remaining wisdom teeth pulled out would  
probably be a more pleasant experience.



> years ago, when i was using imap, i filtered on my client, not on
> server.

That's because standardized server-side filtering never really got going
and isn't well-supported by any widely-used client.


And, it's highly unlikely that it ever will.



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Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
On 20 January 2013 20:55, Max Pyziur  wrote:

[ snip ]

> This sounds like a case of not having enough space on your /boot partition.
> I had a similar set of issues going from (?) F15 to F16 (or F16 to F17) on
> my laptop. At the time I had only a 100-200MB /boot partition (if anyting
> something smaller than what the upgrade could handle). Even with wiping out
> all of the backup kernels and leaving the most current one, there was still
> not enough space for the upgrade.

I don't think I have a problem with the /boot partition size.

$ df -h /boot/
Filesystem  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5   485M  109M  352M  24% /boot

But in my description made you think that was the problem?

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Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Max Pyziur

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Dave Cross wrote:


On 20 January 2013 20:55, Max Pyziur  wrote:

[ snip ]


This sounds like a case of not having enough space on your /boot partition.
I had a similar set of issues going from (?) F15 to F16 (or F16 to F17) on
my laptop. At the time I had only a 100-200MB /boot partition (if anyting
something smaller than what the upgrade could handle). Even with wiping out
all of the backup kernels and leaving the most current one, there was still
not enough space for the upgrade.


I don't think I have a problem with the /boot partition size.

$ df -h /boot/
Filesystem  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5   485M  109M  352M  24% /boot

But in my description made you think that was the problem?


Your description of the issue reminds of me of my experience. I tried to 
both do a network-based upgrade (whatever preceded fedup), and and upgrade 
from a DVD.


I think that you not only need space for the new kernel, but also for the 
legacy one, in the event the upgrade fails. So, given the space you have 
shown could be the key limiting factor.



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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 20.01.2013 22:08, schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
>> > years ago, when i was using imap, i filtered on my client, not on
>> > server.
>>
>> That's because standardized server-side filtering never really got going
>> and isn't well-supported by any widely-used client.
> 
> And, it's highly unlikely that it ever will

says the developer of courier-imap ignoring that most people
these days are using dovecot or gmail and even niche-systems
like dbmail supports sieve since years

>> Sam Varshavchik — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:15:03 + (UTC)
>
> Sieve is both a client-side and a server-side filtering mechanism.
> Courier-IMAP does not implement sieve on the server side, and there are no
> plans to do so. There should not be any issues using an IMAP client that
> implements Sieve with Courier, that would be no different than using the
> same IMAP client with any other IMAP server.



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Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik

Dave Cross writes:


$ rpm -qa | grep fc18
nss-tools-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.4.fc18.x86_64
nss-sysinit-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
nss-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64
grubby-8.22-1.fc18.x86_64

So it looks like the aborted FedUp upgrade managed to install six RPMs
before bombing out.


If that's all, I'm wondering why is your 'yum update' looking to F18's repo?  
fedora-release isn't one of these six.




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Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 20.01.2013 22:37, schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
> Dave Cross writes:
> 
>> $ rpm -qa | grep fc18
>> nss-tools-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
>> java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.4.fc18.x86_64
>> nss-sysinit-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
>> nss-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
>> xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64
>> grubby-8.22-1.fc18.x86_64
>>
>> So it looks like the aborted FedUp upgrade managed to install six RPMs
>> before bombing out.
> 
> If that's all, I'm wondering why is your 'yum update' looking to F18's repo? 
> fedora-release isn't one of these six.

because even if you start "yum calean all; yum --releasever=18 whatever"
your yum setup points to the F18 repos unless "rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*"

it has cached the f18-urls and metadata and has no reasons to drop
them until manually intervention




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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik

Reindl Harald writes:




Am 20.01.2013 22:08, schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
>> > years ago, when i was using imap, i filtered on my client, not on
>> > server.
>>
>> That's because standardized server-side filtering never really got going
>> and isn't well-supported by any widely-used client.
>
> And, it's highly unlikely that it ever will

says the developer of courier-imap ignoring that most people
these days are using dovecot or gmail and even niche-systems
like dbmail supports sieve since years


Which standalone email clients can be used to adjust gmail's server-side  
filters?


Forget even that – which standalone, relatively common, email clients can  
even support server-side sieve filters? Or, even have a clue what sieve is?


I'm fully willing to consider the possibility that there are a plethora of  
sieve-supporting email clients out there that I just don't know about it.


But, for some reason, I don't think that to be the case. There are some  
email clients that might support sieve, I suppose. But I'd be shocked if, in  
the entire pool of email clients, they're more than statistical noise.


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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 20.01.2013 22:48, schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
>> > And, it's highly unlikely that it ever will
>>
>> says the developer of courier-imap ignoring that most people
>> these days are using dovecot or gmail and even niche-systems
>> like dbmail supports sieve since years
> 
> Which standalone email clients can be used to adjust gmail's server-side 
> filters?

does not matter, gmail is mostly used via http
and that said even if i never use http crap

> Forget even that – which standalone, relatively common, email clients can 
> even support server-side sieve filters?
> Or, even have a clue what sieve is?
> 
> I'm fully willing to consider the possibility that there are a plethora of 
> sieve-supporting email clients out there
> that I just don't know about it.
> 
> But, for some reason, I don't think that to be the case. There are some email 
> clients that might support sieve, I
> suppose. But I'd be shocked if, in the entire pool of email clients, they're 
> more than statistical noise.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/sieve/
used since many years here

http://sieve.info/clients

the problem is that there are too many servers to supporting
sieve so why should someone add it as default for the clients
and you are one of the server-side developers not interested





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Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

2013-01-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik

Reindl Harald writes:



> I'm fully willing to consider the possibility that there are a plethora of  
sieve-supporting email clients out there

> that I just don't know about it.
>
> But, for some reason, I don't think that to be the case. There are some  
email clients that might support sieve, I
> suppose. But I'd be shocked if, in the entire pool of email clients,  
they're more than statistical noise.


https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/sieve/
used since many years here

http://sieve.info/clients


Sure there's a Thunderbird extension, but how many people know or care about  
it? Right now, Thunderbird shows that this extension has been downloaded  
only 37182 times. It's not clear to me whether that's the lifetime of the  
extension, or just for the latest version.


Even if it's only the latest version, which was posted three months ago, you  
have to admit, this is insignificant. And, Thunderbird is the most visible  
client listed on Sieve's page.



the problem is that there are too many servers to supporting
sieve so why should someone add it as default for the clients
and you are one of the server-side developers not interested


I'm not sure I follow your logic. According to the description of the  
Thunderbird extension, the extension is not a client-side implementation,  
but it manages Sieve on the server side.


If that were the case, and Sieve's mind-share on the server side was,  
indeed, as much as you suggest, I would've thought that Sieve's server- 
side's popularity would translate to a much higher download rate.


As far as Courier-IMAP goes, I don't recall anyone offering a patch, and me  
capriciously rejecting it. I certainly don't have any particular interest in  
working on Sieve myself, at this time. But that doesn't mean that, at some  
point in the future, that won't change, or that I'll ignore someone's well- 
written Sieve code. The authpipe module in courier-authlib was written by  
someone else. I did not have, and have no interest right now, in anything  
like that, but so what.




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2013-01-20 Thread Cody Robinson
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Re: Acer V5-171 and Fedora 18

2013-01-20 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 20 January 2013, Artifex Maximus sent:
> This laptop has Windows 8 preinstalled and I am not able to install
> Fedora 18 with Secure Boot enabled or disabled. Similar problem with
> other distribution. Looks like stuck at GRUB loader. 

Your last sentence sounds more like won't boot, than won't install.

You should say what method you're trying to install (CD, DVD, USB).  And
have you tried any live discs (they run from the disc, rather than
install to the drive)?


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Updating from Fedora 17 to Fedora 8 using FedUp and grub2

2013-01-20 Thread Edward Diener
I have Fedora 17 installed, using grub2, and have grub2 installed in the 
/boot partition and not in the MBR. I have a multi-boot manager ( 
Acronis OSS ) in the MBR. Everything is working fine.


As I understand it I must use FedUp in fedora 17 to upgrade to Fedora 18 
since the install DVD can no longer upgrade. If I use FedUp will it work 
in my setup, ie. the software will know to update its boot code in the 
/boot partition and not in the MBR ? Do I have to re-install the Fedora 
18 grub2 in the /boot partition or does FedUp do it for me ? Are there 
any other upgrade issues for my setup ?


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Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Tim
Tim:
>> Hiding it is an idiocy promulgated by dimwits who have no idea what
>> they're talking about.

Tom Horsley:
> Actually hiding it is a small mercy which can benefit your
> neighbors, otherwise when they try to connect something
> to their router, they see a dozen SSIDs all named "LINKSYS" :-).

It's a *false* *belief* that hiding it does you any good.

Your router still announces itself, it just doesn't show up with a name
on the list.  Some clients won't put you on the list, others will list
you as "unnamed".  So, you're still at the mercy of the twits who'd hack
you.  And good luck when two, or more, foolish neighbours think it's a
good idea to be unnamed hidden SSIDs, and none of you can pick the right
ones.  You're still at the mercy of the neighbour running their WLAN on
the same channel, and jamming you (accidentally, or on purpose).

The sensible thing to do is to set it to something unique.  And probably
to something dull, if you're still obsessed about people wanting to
connect who shouldn't (but that's what encryption is for).

Turn the damn thing on, give it a unique name.  That's how it's supposed
to be done.  If *you* break networking, expect your networking to not
work.

And there's no such thing as security by obscurity.


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Re: Setting video monitor resolution on F18 X Windows Gnome

2013-01-20 Thread Aaron Gray
On 20 January 2013 21:02, Aaron Konstam  wrote:

> On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 15:31 +, Aaron Gray wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to work out how to set the height and width to use the
> > 1280 by 800 full resolution of my laptop monitor. At the moment Gnome
> > is giving me 1024 by 768.
> >
> > I have tried a few things from forums but none of them worked.
> >
> > Hope someone can help me.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance,
> >
> > Aaron
> >
>
> Have you tried System Tools ->System Settings-> Displays
>

Yeah, I have played with the /etc/X11 conf files from a quick hack "guide"
in a forum too, but obviously need to get a proper understanding of them.

Aaron
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Re: Updating from Fedora 17 to Fedora 8 using FedUp and grub2

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 21.01.2013 00:51, schrieb Edward Diener:
> I have Fedora 17 installed, using grub2, and have grub2 installed in the 
> /boot partition and not in the MBR. I have
> a multi-boot manager ( Acronis OSS ) in the MBR. Everything is working fine.
> 
> As I understand it I must use FedUp in fedora 17 to upgrade to Fedora 18 
> since the install DVD can no longer
> upgrade. If I use FedUp will it work in my setup, ie. the software will know 
> to update its boot code in the /boot
> partition and not in the MBR ? Do I have to re-install the Fedora 18 grub2 in 
> the /boot partition or does FedUp do
> it for me ? Are there any other upgrade issues for my setup?

upgrades typically do NOT touch GRUB at all
if you want to update GRUB you have to do this always at your own

means: he update bring only the new packages and commands



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Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 21.01.2013 01:07, schrieb Tim:
> And there's no such thing as security by obscurity

obscurity does not replace security
obscurity is there to EXTEND security

update your software to fix exploitable code
but additionally make it hard to guess even what
software and what versions you have running

what is more likely to be attacked?
someone who is crying out he is there and how is
he exploitable or someone where you need active work
to find out he exists - there is no and will never be
a "this is security" - security is always a concept
of many pieces in different layers

why?
because 100% security does not exist
only "make it as hard as possible"






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fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends,

I recently upgraded from F17 to F18. I chose not to use fedup but
rather I used fedora-upgrade, which is basically a wraparound around
yum upgrade (from the documentation). Everything went through
reasonably smoothly except for the following messages:

Font messages such as:

 Updating   : gnu-free-mono-fonts-20120503-3.fc18.noarch
1322/3028 Fontconfig warning:
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line 29: Having multiple
values in  isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line
41: Having multiple values in  isn't supported and may not work
as expected Fontconfig warning:
"/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line 53: Having multiple
values in  isn't supported and may not work as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-nhn-nanum-gothic.conf",
line 8: Having multiple values in  isn't supported and may not
work as expected

and the only selinux-policy-targeted message:

  Updating   : selinux-policy-targeted-3.11.1-67.fc18.noarch
1454/3028 libsepol.print_missing_requirements: matahari's global
requirements were not met: bool init_systemd (No such file or
directory). libsemanage.semanage_link_sandbox: Link packages failed (No
such file or directory). /usr/sbin/semodule:  Failed!



Other than that, everything went through fine. 

Upon reboot, I did not see the F18 grub splash screen, but the F17 one.

I did not get the SLiM display manager but text. startx gets me to the
desktop (LXDE). 

Other errors:

1. pcmanfm does not automount disks, indeed, I get the following errors
when I start it up:

(pcmanfm:605): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume
monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not
supported

(pcmanfm:605): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: :1:6:
Expected a valid selector

(pcmanfm:605): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: :7:7:
Expected a valid selector error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail
property error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
error: Invalid MS property section
calling convert
'/home/maitra/.thumbnails/normal/79594e24b205982ddb040918b50b267d.png.DWF3QW'
+matte -thumbnail 128x128
png:'/home/maitra/.thumbnails/normal/79594e24b205982ddb040918b50b267d.png'
error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer
error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer
error: No Zip trailer
error: No Zip trailer
error: No Zip trailer


2. batti gives me no response and the following error:

 
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.80:/org/freedesktop/UPower:
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply:
Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) Neither UPower
nor DeviceKit.Power could be initialized! This can have multiple
reasons. Here is the error for UPower:

org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.80 was not
provided by any .service files

And this is the error for DeviceKit.Power:

org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power was not provided by any .service files


3. sudo yum *whatever* always has the following:

Unable to send message to PackageKit

I am however able to install and update (and erase packages), most
functions, but does take forever to get started now.

Any suggestions, fixes?

Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan






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Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Alan Cox
Lots of routers don't broadcast and whoever is installing it may not control 
that. It's broken, just as not showing which disk is which is broken. Its a new 
installer, crap happens, but pretending its not a bug isn't remotely useful.

Alan

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Re: Updating from Fedora 17 to Fedora 8 using FedUp and grub2

2013-01-20 Thread Alan Cox
You can also upgrade using yum... which right now appears the only tested way 
to do it.

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Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.

On 01/18/2013 01:26 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:

David A. De Graaf wrote:

Fedora 18.

What a disaster!  What were they thinking when they threw away a
perfectly good installer and inflicted this new User Interface on us?
Whoever decided to reinvent disk partitioning and embed it in this
installer should be taken out to the woodshed and whupped.  Has
everyone forgotten the dictum that each program should do one thing
and do it well?  Reinventing disk partitioning here is a total disaster.
It isn't nearly as good as fdisk, gparted and a host of other perfectly
usable programs.

After reading this, and the first reply to it, I will cease trying to 
install fc18 on my laptop. "New for the sake of being different" is a 
way of life in Fedora, and I find that the need to have the latest is 
the only objective being given value, while no thought is being given 
to preserving the value of experience gained by current users. I 
suspect that most users of any new release are already users of some 
previous release, why change to some new way of doing things which is 
(a) less functional, (b) offers benefit only or mostly to new 
installations, and (c) appears to lack even a hint of convenience to 
those who have been installing Fedora (and before that Redhat) for 
decades.



I have been unable to use my existing partitions as I wish.


The chorus sings "Amen!!"


I have a pretty simple laptop configuration:
   /dev/sda1/boot.5 GB
   /dev/sda2Windows 3.7 GB
   /dev/sda3extended
/dev/sda5   /  20. GB encrypted
/dev/sda6   /f16   20. GB encrypted
/dev/sda7   /home 109. GB encrypted
/dev/sda8   swap1.5 GBencrypted

Note that /boot is not encrypted but all the other Linux partitions
are.  There are two root partitions that I use in a ping-pong fashion
to hold the latest and prior Fedora systems.  The boot menu allows
either kernel to be booted, which used to be easy with grub, but has
become nightmarishly difficult with grub2.  Either kernel uses the
same /home and swap.


My setup exactly.


Installing F18, I intended to switch /dev/sda6 to /, and save
/dev/sda5 as /f17.  But the installer wouldn't allow it.



I will repeat here the setup and selection process to document the
failures.

At this point, I'll stop saying "Me, too" and just say that this is 
the unfriendliest and least intuitive partitioning setup I have ever 
used, thinking that putting a GUI on an ill-designed process makes it 
somehow easy to use is a perfect example of "lipstick on a pig" thinking.


When I entered the Storage/Installation Destination (with no disks
selected) I selected the sole disk available for installation, an ATA
WDC WD1600BEVE-1, and a big blue area became highlighted.
I checked the box saying "Encrypt my data, I'll set a passphrase
later.".  Then clicked on "Full disk summary and options...".
This showed a box listing the one and only disk, and informed me that
of the 152.62 GB capacity, only 1.89 MB was free space.  That was
correct;  the disk was fully partitioned and previously allocated to
appropriate uses.  I clicked on "Set as Boot Device" just to be sure...
then Close.

There was nothing left to click on except Continue, so I Continued.

A warning presented:  I needed 3.36 GB to install Fedora but there's
only 276 MB free.  But there's 152.62 GB Space in selected disks
reclaimable by deleting (!) partitions.

Well thats nice, but I don't want to delete any partitions.
My existing partitions are fine; I just want to reuse one of them!
So now what?

There are three checkable boxes:
   Cancel & add more disks   (Not likely; it's a laptop)
   Modify software selection (I haven't even selected any yet)
   Reclaim space (Not appealing, but its all that's 
left)

But I'll check the box:  "I don't need help; let me customize disk
partitioning.".  That sounds like exactly what I want.

I'm asked to enter a passphrase for my encrypted disks.  (I'd better
type this carefully, to match what's already in use.)

I'm now presented with a list of existing filesystems that I can
remove to free up space.  However, they are not identified either by
partition name (/dev/sda1) or current role (/boot).  I have two
identically sized root partitions, /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6.  One 
contains

the old F16 that I want to discard; the other F17 that I want to keep.
Should I guess?  50:50 chance?  Right?  I have to guess.

I highlight one and mark it for deletion.  Then click "Reclaim space".

(BTW, I have no way to  know exactly when this deletion will occur.
I'm repeating this exercise to record this disastrous experience, 
intending

to stop just before committing the changes.  I'll be really pissed if
I lose my mostly completed new F18 installation.)

Surprise!  I'm popped back to the main menu.  The "Installation
Destination" item has no warning icon, so the installer seems perfectly
happy with the 20 GB space I've just freed up.  But it has ne

Drivers and devise manager

2013-01-20 Thread Cody Robinson
Don't know how to instal drivers for sony vgn-fw290 and wold like to know
if thers a device manager codyr...@gmail.com
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Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-20 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.

On 01/18/2013 01:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 01/18/2013 05:03 AM, Tim wrote:

On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 02:57 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

>I hate them too, but we probably aren't the intended audience.

Which raises the question of what the hell is the thought process behind
that?  Are they creating a distro to suit the people actually using it,
or for people who aren't using it?



All I know is that there are regular complaints on fedoraforum.org 
from people who lost their pretty little animations during boot and 
want them back NOW.
Not all of those complaints are about a simple animation, sometimes it 
becomes a matter of not wanting to risk losing some important settings 
and configuration files too...!!



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Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-20 Thread Joe Zeff

On 01/20/2013 05:16 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:

Not all of those complaints are about a simple animation, sometimes it
becomes a matter of not wanting to risk losing some important settings
and configuration files too...!!


That's always possible, of course.  Most of the time, the posters are 
complaining that they don't understand the boot messages and they don't 
want to see them; all they want is the animation back.  That's not to 
fault them; most computer users neither understand those messages nor 
need to.  All they want is a computer That Just Works and if they don't 
see the animation, they're (understandably) worried that somethings wrong.

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Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-20 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 21.01.2013 02:26, schrieb Joe Zeff:

> That's always possible, of course.  Most of the time, the posters are 
> complaining that they don't understand the
> boot messages and they don't want to see them; all they want is the animation 
> back. That's not to fault them; most
> computer users neither understand those messages nor need to.

and they will never understand anything if all is hidden

i also started years ago with linux and never minded at this
time that i would some times work as devleoper and sysadmin

i was interested and i loved to see what my system is doing
if someone don't give a damn what his computer does he could aslo use closed 
source



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Re: Updating from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 using FedUp and grub2

2013-01-20 Thread Edward Diener

On 1/20/2013 6:51 PM, Edward Diener wrote:

I have Fedora 17 installed, using grub2, and have grub2 installed in the
/boot partition and not in the MBR. I have a multi-boot manager (
Acronis OSS ) in the MBR. Everything is working fine.

As I understand it I must use FedUp in fedora 17 to upgrade to Fedora 18
since the install DVD can no longer upgrade. If I use FedUp will it work
in my setup, ie. the software will know to update its boot code in the
/boot partition and not in the MBR ? Do I have to re-install the Fedora
18 grub2 in the /boot partition or does FedUp do it for me ? Are there
any other upgrade issues for my setup ?


The title should be:  Updating from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 using FedUp 
and grub2



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Re: Updating from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 using FedUp and grub2

2013-01-20 Thread Edward Diener

On 1/20/2013 7:19 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:



Am 21.01.2013 00:51, schrieb Edward Diener:

I have Fedora 17 installed, using grub2, and have grub2 installed in the /boot 
partition and not in the MBR. I have
a multi-boot manager ( Acronis OSS ) in the MBR. Everything is working fine.

As I understand it I must use FedUp in fedora 17 to upgrade to Fedora 18 since 
the install DVD can no longer
upgrade. If I use FedUp will it work in my setup, ie. the software will know to 
update its boot code in the /boot
partition and not in the MBR ? Do I have to re-install the Fedora 18 grub2 in 
the /boot partition or does FedUp do
it for me ? Are there any other upgrade issues for my setup?


upgrades typically do NOT touch GRUB at all
if you want to update GRUB you have to do this always at your own


I don't want to update grub2. I just want the update to work with 
whatever grub2 is being installed.




means: he update bring only the new packages and commands


So if a new grub2 is installed I need to re-initialize it ? I will 
follow the instructions at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2.


Thanks for your help.


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Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-20 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.

On 01/20/2013 08:51 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:


Am 21.01.2013 02:26, schrieb Joe Zeff:


That's always possible, of course.  Most of the time, the posters are 
complaining that they don't understand the
boot messages and they don't want to see them; all they want is the animation 
back. That's not to fault them; most
computer users neither understand those messages nor need to.

and they will never understand anything if all is hidden

i also started years ago with linux and never minded at this
time that i would some times work as devleoper and sysadmin

i was interested and i loved to see what my system is doing
if someone don't give a damn what his computer does he could aslo use closed 
source



I agree with that! Although I'm not 100% competent with reading and 
understanding the messages I get from boot or from a system problem, I 
would rather see them than to have my computer just "not work" 
mysteriously without telling me WHY! At least with an error message I 
can "start" to try to figure it out but going to the place that error 
message points me to!



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Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-20 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
 wrote:
> One of the laptops I'm trying to upgrade to f18/x86_64 from f17/x86_64
> is printing row after row of asterisks after it rebooted into the fedup
> boot environment.

Sounds to me like you've encountered
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896010.  I know Ian Weller
and Wil Woods were investigating this one at FUDCon tonight.

-Jared
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Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-20 Thread David Highley
If we are expected to switch to firewalld we need to understand in
detail how it works. So far I see a GUI and empty XML files with little
information about how to do anything other than run firewall-cmd to add
or delete specific rules.

This really needs documentation so we can understand how it works and
maybe compare situations with iptables that we are to migrate from so
that we all do not have to figure this out from scratch. I'm not really
complaining, just think we need more information so we can move forward
and hopefully not make mistakes. Thanks for the help.
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Re: f18: how to disable suspend when lid is closed without user logged in

2013-01-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Dario Lesca wrote:

> ... like old F14+Gnome2 does with a button "make default" ?

I believe you can try to edit
/etc/systemd/logind.conf
and set
HandleLidSwitch=ignore

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Re: Drivers and devise manager

2013-01-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/21/2013 09:14 AM, Cody Robinson wrote:
>
> Don't know how to instal drivers for sony vgn-fw290 and wold like to know if 
> thers a device manager
>

Is this the first time you've installed Fedora or any Linux distro on this 
hardware?   Generally, no additional drivers would need to be acquired or 
installed.

Suggest you run the LiveCD on the system to check functionality.


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Re: Drivers and devise manager

2013-01-20 Thread Cody Robinson
Ill try that the problem is with my hdmi when I plug it in or unplug it. It
freeze the system
On Jan 20, 2013 10:20 PM, "Ed Greshko"  wrote:

> On 01/21/2013 09:14 AM, Cody Robinson wrote:
> >
> > Don't know how to instal drivers for sony vgn-fw290 and wold like to
> know if thers a device manager
> >
>
> Is this the first time you've installed Fedora or any Linux distro on this
> hardware?   Generally, no additional drivers would need to be acquired or
> installed.
>
> Suggest you run the LiveCD on the system to check functionality.
>
>
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Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-20 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 01/20/2013 10:34 PM, David Highley wrote:
> If we are expected to switch to firewalld we need to understand in
> detail how it works. So far I see a GUI and empty XML files with little
> information about how to do anything other than run firewall-cmd to add
> or delete specific rules.
> 
> This really needs documentation so we can understand how it works and
> maybe compare situations with iptables that we are to migrate from so
> that we all do not have to figure this out from scratch. I'm not really
> complaining, just think we need more information so we can move forward
> and hopefully not make mistakes. Thanks for the help.
> 
I just looked at this a few minutes ago.  The docs (such as they are)
are in the fedoraproject Wiki.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD/

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Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Bill Davidsen

David A. De Graaf wrote:


The other good news, that almost compensates for the horrible installer,
is that systemd has been partly fixed, so you no longer have to append
".service"  to every command.  What genius thought that up?

"No longer have to have" or "no longer are allowed to have?" Do config change 
carried forward still work? Or is that solved by blowing away the old files?



I'm sure Harald Reindl will point out that I am merely expressing joy that
a regression that was imposed two editions ago has finally been fixed.
Sigh...


Sad when reverting an enhancement feels like an improvement.

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Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Bill Davidsen

Tim wrote:

On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 14:50 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:

Another idiocy in the F18 installer is that there is no way to
configure wireless connectivity if the WAP does not broadcast its
SSID. Clicking on the configure button does nothing unless you select
an entry from the drop down list.  You don't even get a message saying
you need to select a wireless connection.


Yeah, well, when you break networking by not broadcasting the SSID, what
do you expect?

Actually "missing capability formerly working in previous releases" is not quite 
the same thing as "breaking networking," and on a related note, broadcasting an 
SSID which does not contain printing characters in YOUR character set isn't "not 
broadcasting the SSID." Yes, I have slightly broadened the discussion, that was 
what some WAP I have used did when no SSID was provided.



SSID is a normal, and expected, part of wireless networking.
Hiding it is not a security solution, of any kind.

There is no "a security solution," layered security includes many things, no one 
of which can be considered a solution.


When this discussion came up the years ago I actually set up two retired 
unsecured 801.11b WAP  (not connected to anything important), one called NODE41 
and one using all blanks. They were next to a college dorm. NODE41 got over 
hiding SSID, though before canned scripts and strong encryption there may have 
been some benefit, just a data point.



Hiding it is an idiocy promulgated by dimwits who have no idea what
they're talking about.

If my points are so weak that I have to resort to calling names, I avoid making 
them. That's why I actually checked to see if there was any difference.


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How to set up a hotspot with networkmanager in F18

2013-01-20 Thread Zhangsan
 Fedora 18 has a feature of realhotspot, but I am unable to find a way to 
set up a hotspot with
kde-plasma-networkmanagement. My card supports AP mode, so I am not sure 
whether some
packages are not installed. Is there any more infomation?
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Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-20 Thread Bill Davidsen

Reindl Harald wrote:



Am 20.01.2013 02:00, schrieb Ranjan Maitra:

Thanks again for your quick response.

OK, so you are suggesting I move to lvm, or leave things as is, to ext4?
The new installer does not give me an option to format ext4 (but I can
keep it as is, I guess).

How does one convert from ext4 to lvm? Is there any benefit to moving
to lvm?


you should really read some basic documentations

ext4 is a filesystem
btrfs is a filesystem
lvm is NOT a filesystem

you have ext4, btrfs, whatever FS ON TOP of LVM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_volume_management

for most private environments there is no real benefit of LVM
spread LVM over more than one disk with no RAID under it
is simply dumb becasue if ONE of the disks goes down
you have a problem

Your point about loss of data is well taken, but having data on any storage 
without RAID for error recovery is a risk, having data on just one machine is a 
risk. The admin has to balance cost and benefit, for both hardware and 
administrative learning curve considered as "cost." The benefit of LVM is being 
able to easily move data to other physical devices and expand the size of 
storage. LVM can do RAID by itself, although I have always created arrays with 
mdadm because I'm most familiar with doing it that way.


Note that the user interface to LVM, bad as it is, is still much easier to 
master than adding drives to a RAID array and growing filesystems. In my 
opinion,the fewer commands you need to use the less likely you are to make a 
mistake.


While there are unusual use cases in which btrfs is significantly faster than 
ext4, and btrfs provides some capabilities not in ext4, most users will see 
little benefit from it. The problems btrfs was created to address are not common.


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Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-20 Thread Dave Cross
On 20 January 2013 18:19, Michael Schwendt  wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:03:06 +, Dave Cross wrote:
>
>> Yesterday my desktop PC was running Fedora 17 and I was able to watch
>> all kinds of video files using totem. This morning I used FedUp to
>> upgrade the PC to Fedora 18 and since then I haven't found a video
>> file that totem can play successfully. I always get an error message
>> that says:
>>
>>   Videos requires[sic] additional plugins for this operation
>>
>>   The following plugins are required:
>>
>>   * MPEG Video decoder
>>   * MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder
>>
>>   Do you want to search for these now?
>>
>>   [Cancel] [Search]
>>
>> I've tried pressing the search button but it just says that it can't
>> find the required plugins.
>>
>> It looks to me like I have fc18 versions of all of the relevant RPMs
>>
>>   $ rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer
>>   gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-5.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-5.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-2.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-3.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.8-3.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer1-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-5.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer-python-0.10.22-3.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64
>>   phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64
>>   PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64
>>   gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64
>>
>> All of which leads me to two questions.
>>
>> 1/ How can I get back the ability to play videos?
>
> Have you tried adding missing gstreamer1 plug-in packages?
>  see: yum list gstreamer1\*

Thanks for the advice. I hadn't noticed that there were gstreamer and
gstreamer1 packages on my system.

Installing the missing gstreamer1 packages didn't solve the problem.
But from some googling I found the advice to reinstall
gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good. And that seems to
have done the trick.

>> 2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this?
>
> Totem in F18 is based on GStreamer v1.0.x, while you've listed also packages
> for GStreamer v0.10.x. Fedup cannot know if Totem needs additional plugins
> from repos like RPMFusion.

Ah. Yes, I see that now. I assume there's a good reason for the
version number to be in the name of the packages rather than in the
version number :-/

Cheers,

Dave...

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Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-20 Thread James Freer
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra
 wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I recently upgraded from F17 to F18. I chose not to use fedup but
> rather I used fedora-upgrade, which is basically a wraparound around
> yum upgrade (from the documentation). Everything went through
> reasonably smoothly except for the following messages:
>
> Font messages such as:
>
>  Updating   : gnu-free-mono-fonts-20120503-3.fc18.noarch
> 1322/3028 Fontconfig warning:
> "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line 29: Having multiple
> values in  isn't supported and may not work as expected
> Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line
> 41: Having multiple values in  isn't supported and may not work
> as expected Fontconfig warning:
> "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-khmeros-base.conf", line 53: Having multiple
> values in  isn't supported and may not work as expected
> Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-0-nhn-nanum-gothic.conf",
> line 8: Having multiple values in  isn't supported and may not
> work as expected
>
> and the only selinux-policy-targeted message:
>
>   Updating   : selinux-policy-targeted-3.11.1-67.fc18.noarch
> 1454/3028 libsepol.print_missing_requirements: matahari's global
> requirements were not met: bool init_systemd (No such file or
> directory). libsemanage.semanage_link_sandbox: Link packages failed (No
> such file or directory). /usr/sbin/semodule:  Failed!
> 
>
>
> Other than that, everything went through fine.
>
> Upon reboot, I did not see the F18 grub splash screen, but the F17 one.
>
> I did not get the SLiM display manager but text. startx gets me to the
> desktop (LXDE).
>
> Other errors:
>
> 1. pcmanfm does not automount disks, indeed, I get the following errors
> when I start it up:
>
> (pcmanfm:605): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume
> monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not
> supported
>
> (pcmanfm:605): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: :1:6:
> Expected a valid selector
>
> (pcmanfm:605): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: :7:7:
> Expected a valid selector error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail
> property error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: The metadata does not have a thumbnail property
> error: Invalid MS property section
> calling convert
> '/home/maitra/.thumbnails/normal/79594e24b205982ddb040918b50b267d.png.DWF3QW'
> +matte -thumbnail 128x128
> png:'/home/maitra/.thumbnails/normal/79594e24b205982ddb040918b50b267d.png'
> error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer
> error: No Zip trailer error: No Zip trailer
> error: No Zip trailer
> error: No Zip trailer
> error: No Zip trailer
>
>
> 2. batti gives me no response and the following error:
>
>
> ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.80:/org/freedesktop/UPower:
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply:
> Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) Neither UPower
> nor DeviceKit.Power could be initialized! This can have multiple
> reasons. Here is the error for UPower:
>
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.80 was not
> provided by any .service files
>
> And this is the error for DeviceKit.Power:
>
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power was not provided by any .service files
>
>
> 3. sudo yum *whatever* always has the following:
>
> Unable to send message to PackageKit
>
> I am however able to install and update (and erase packages), most
> functions, but does take forever to get started now.
>
> Any suggestions, fixes?
>
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Ranjan

From what i can see F18 seems an utter disaster... i put F17 back on.

james
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