Fedora Weekly News Issue 129

2008-06-03 Thread Max Spevack
The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Weekly News Issue 129. = Fedora Weekly News Issue 129 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 129 for the week ending June 1, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue129 Fedora Weekly News returns after a several

Re: [Echo] Revamped system-search icons set

2008-06-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: Ok, finished [1]. Check it out. Comments welcome :) Useful stuff. I used this page as a guideline on how to add my own tips page (about grids and guides) and linked both in a tips section of the Guidelines page. On the topic of the icon itself, the icon really needs

Re: Quicklaunch mockuo

2008-06-03 Thread Mark
2008/6/3 Martin Sourada [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I like having two panels and I hate to wait until they appear. That's why I don't autohide them. I also like to have applications I use regularly easily accessible - and it's that lot of icons you see in the screen-shot. Also I don't like nearly

Introduction - Harrison Conlin

2008-06-03 Thread Harrison Conlin
Hi, My names Harrison Conlin and I currently live in Sydney, Australia (UTC+10). For the past month or so I have just been subscribed to the mailing list and watching the IRC channel seeing how things work in the infrastructure world, although I decided that it was time I said Hi. I've been using

Introduction

2008-06-03 Thread Galyean, Timothy
Hi, My name is Tim Galyean. I currently work for Time Warner's Engineering Operations Center. I assist in monitoring our plant as well as network, and capacity based provisioning system. I have been using Linux/Unix for about 4 years now. I have various levels of experience with the Linux OS,

python-fedora: Refactoring of variable and parameter names

2008-06-03 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
With some prompting from lmacken, I've just committed the attached patch to python-fedora-devel. This brings the names of variables used in python-fedora into conformance with PEP8. However, it does cause breakage in public instance and class variables as well as the parameter names. Since

Re: iptables help needed

2008-06-03 Thread Simon Slater
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:21 +0200, François Patte wrote: I don't understand what you mean by reset. Sorry François, I meant the TCP packet returned from the gateway has the flags reset and ack set, even after the command iptables -F. I will try this script now and post back. -- Regards,

Re: Mono sound only, PulseAudio and Fedora 9... or where's system-config-sound?

2008-06-03 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 21:36 +0300, Antti Aspinen wrote: On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:27:52 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:  Sorry, Antti. I'm still running F7 and I have no clue. I pine for simpler days and feel your pain. This may be even more clueless, but Thanks for the message Ric. It gave

Re: (fedora) Re: Problems playing audiostreams in F9

2008-06-03 Thread Jouk Jansen
Bill Crawford wrote on 2-JUN-2008 17:08:39.40 2008/6/2 Jouk Jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If they are installed at the standard location. Actually this is an system which upgraded from F8-F9. When running F8 the web-page above just worked. I checked and all installed gstreamer-packages are now

Re: no more ddcprobe? where is /etc/sysconfig/hwconf? is kudzu gone?

2008-06-03 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me what tool have replaced ddcprobe? Also where I could look for my hardware I used to look in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, now I can't find it? Does kudzu still being used on FC9? I have it on my

Re: iptables help needed

2008-06-03 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 03.06.2008 02:26, Simon Slater a écrit : | On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:17 +0200, François Patte wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Le 02.06.2008 10:26, Simon Slater a écrit : | | G'day all, | | I've

xorg-x11-drv-mga problems

2008-06-03 Thread Frederick William New
Does anyone else have problems with the xorg-x11-drv-mga driver on Fedora 9? (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442533) Two of my three Fedora systems have Matrox G550 AGP video cards, and one is about to reach Fedora 7's end of life. Is there something I can do to help debug this?

Unable to set LC_COLLATE system-wide

2008-06-03 Thread John Horne
Hello, I have noticed that despite setting both LC_COLLATE and LANG in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, it seems that the LC_COLLATE does not get set for normal users, but does get set for root. The file contains: #LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_GB LC_COLLATE=C but

Re: [Slightly OT] mplex RPM?

2008-06-03 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Mark Haney wrote: Can anyone point me to the RPM that contains mplex? # yum whatprovides /usr/bin/mplex Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit mjpegtools.x86_64 : Tools to manipulate MPEG data mjpegtools from livna. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej

Re: Dual monitors in F9 ?

2008-06-03 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
linuxguy wrote: Has anyone gotten dual monitors to work in F9 with Nvidia ? I've go the latest Livna Nvidia packages installed. Xorg works OK with a single monitor, but it hangs when I start X with 2 connected. Any idea ? Thanks. I used the kmod packages from Livna and have a dual head

[Slightly OT] mplex RPM?

2008-06-03 Thread Mark Haney
Can anyone point me to the RPM that contains mplex? I found transcode on livna, so that's okay, but I need to mplex the files once Im done editing, encoding them. Any ideas? -- Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC

surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
Hi, While looking through the updates mail, I saw something that sounded intriguing, hamster-applet. Did a yum info query on it, then thought I'd install it to have a look. But it wanted to drag in a ridiculous number of dependencies, most of them devel packages. Surely a precompiled non-devel

Re: Mono sound only, PulseAudio and Fedora 9... or where's system-config-sound?

2008-06-03 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 02:57 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: That's all I ever wanted. Sound out of my speakers. You would think it would be something made rock-solid stable many versions of Fedora before ...then left alone. The less layers of crap and code between the file and the speakers is good

Re: Unable to set LC_COLLATE system-wide

2008-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 15:19 +0100, John Horne wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:41 +0100, John Horne wrote: I have noticed that despite setting both LC_COLLATE and LANG in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, it seems that the

Re: F9: The good and the bad

2008-06-03 Thread TNWestTex
lanas wrote: Video is: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) A quite slow glxgears reports: Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic. 4790 frames in 5.0 seconds = 957.905 FPS XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily

place for 'firstboot' configuring

2008-06-03 Thread andrey i. mavlyanov
Hello! While installing Fedora 9 I had a problem with keyboard layout switching: I chose Enlish for installer inrerface and Russian for kbd layout supposing it will be en,ru (or even en,ru(winkeys), but unfortunately it was just ru and I didn't find a place where I can change this behaiviout

Re: Installing Fedora-9 from Live CD - silent update

2008-06-03 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
If this normally occurs, it seems to me that it could cause problems, since someone might easily re-boot while the installation was only half-say through, leaving something of a mess. I think the PackageKit-Gnome's system tray icon shows what the package management system is currently doing.

Re: install from f9live on 64bit system

2008-06-03 Thread Henning Larsen
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:58 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: HI! Is it ok to use the livecd to install on a 64bit system? will I get the 64bit architecture? That will probably depend on whether or not you downloaded the 64bit livecd. -- I'm sorry, I did forget there was livecd's for each

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:56:30 -0400 (EDT), Mike Burger wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:49 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: Quite often, those -devel packages have library files included on which the non-devel package depends. Packages that depend on the kernel-devel packages spring to mind, but

Re: iptables help needed

2008-06-03 Thread Bill Crawford
2008/6/3 Simon Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have run the script but the results may be a little unexpected. Following are messages from the script. None are as a result of requesting web pages from the laptop, which still has the message that the proxy server is refusing requests and

Re: PackageKit bug report -- where?

2008-06-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Beartooth wrote: Poking around http://packagekit.org/, I got to a page that looks like it'll let me report my crash-on-launch bug there; and also a new (to me) command ( /usr/sbin/packagekitd --verbose) that got me a 13 KB report. Should I send this to the packagekit folks, referring to

Re: how to change the default ugly background for gdm?

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:22 -0500, Brian Millett wrote: I just can not express how much I deplore the cheese background for the GDM screen in F9. Seconded. But to me it looks like there's a UFO hovering overhead, coming down to get you... ;-) The whole thing's an ugly retrograde step (loss

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Mike Burger
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:49 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: Quite often, those -devel packages have library files included on which the non-devel package depends. Packages that depend on the kernel-devel packages spring to mind, but many others do, as well. It rather begs the question though:

End of Support for F8?

2008-06-03 Thread Henok Mikre
Does anyone know the end of support date for Fedora 8? I could only find the one for FC6 at http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-9/f-9-all-tasks.html which is set for Fri 2007-12-07. Thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

how to change the default ugly background for gdm?

2008-06-03 Thread Brian Millett
I just can not express how much I deplore the cheese background for the GDM screen in F9. I feel like I'm in a nightmare tron movie. How is that changed? Thanks. -- Brian Millett - [ Delenn (re: Japanese stone garden), The Gathering] Notice the waves, each moving in its own order.

Re: End of Support for F8?

2008-06-03 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:43 -0400, Henok Mikre wrote: Does anyone know the end of support date for Fedora 8? I could only find the one for FC6 at http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-9/f-9-all-tasks.html which is set for Fri 2007-12-07. A look at

install from f9live on 64bit system

2008-06-03 Thread Henning Larsen
HI! Is it ok to use the livecd to install on a 64bit system? will I get the 64bit architecture? Henning Larsen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: install from f9live on 64bit system

2008-06-03 Thread Mike Burger
HI! Is it ok to use the livecd to install on a 64bit system? will I get the 64bit architecture? That will probably depend on whether or not you downloaded the 64bit livecd. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:49 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: Quite often, those -devel packages have library files included on which the non-devel package depends. Packages that depend on the kernel-devel packages spring to mind, but many others do, as well. It rather begs the question though: why

Re: Unable to set LC_COLLATE system-wide

2008-06-03 Thread gerrynix
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:41 +0100, John Horne wrote: I have noticed that despite setting both LC_COLLATE and LANG in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, it seems that the LC_COLLATE does not get set for normal users, but does get set for root. Did you reboot? Yup. OK, just checking.

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Brian Morrison
Michael Schwendt wrote: I'd wager that xine has libxine statically linked and/or compiled in. No, libxine.so is just a symlink pointing to the real and versioned library file in the xine-lib package. This symlink is needed only when building software -- it's the link that makes the -lxine

Re: NessusClient's embedded qt4 busted

2008-06-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike Burger wrote: The issue was that the NessusClient application, compiled for Fedora 9, includes a copy of various QT libraries, and the installation process places them in /opt/nessus/lib, places an entry in /etc/ld.so.conf, pointing at that directory, and then runs ldconfig. Because

Wiki Support?

2008-06-03 Thread Jonathan Allen
Is there a mailing list like this one for supporting a Wiki running on Fedora? I have done the installation of the latest version but hit this error: Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /share/wiki/includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php on 566 Jonathan -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Dual monitors in F9 ?

2008-06-03 Thread linuxguy
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 07:49 -0500, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: I used the kmod packages from Livna and have a dual head setup working just fine at home. Did you run the nvidia-xconfig utility? That seemed to do the trick for me without any manual tweaking needed. Yeah, I used the

Re: Unable to set LC_COLLATE system-wide

2008-06-03 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 07:52 -0700, gerrynix wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:41 +0100, John Horne wrote: I have noticed that despite setting both LC_COLLATE and LANG in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, it seems that the LC_COLLATE does not get set for normal users, but does get set for

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:49:13 -0400 (EDT), Mike Burger wrote: Hi, While looking through the updates mail, I saw something that sounded intriguing, hamster-applet. Did a yum info query on it, then thought I'd install it to have a look. But it wanted to drag in a ridiculous number of

Re: Unable to set LC_COLLATE system-wide

2008-06-03 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:41 +0100, John Horne wrote: I have noticed that despite setting both LC_COLLATE and LANG in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file, it seems that the LC_COLLATE does not get set for normal users, but does get set

Re: Installing Fedora-9 from Live CD - silent update

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 18:29 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: I think the PackageKit-Gnome's system tray icon shows what the package management system is currently doing. You can even click on it and see the queue of tasks to be done. Only that it's doing something, not what it's doing. I've sat

Re: End of Support for F8?

2008-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:11 +0100, John Horne wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:43 -0400, Henok Mikre wrote: Does anyone know the end of support date for Fedora 8? I could only find the one for FC6 at http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-9/f-9-all-tasks.html which is set for Fri

Re: PackageKit bug report -- where?

2008-06-03 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:13:18 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: Beartooth wrote: Poking around http://packagekit.org/, I got to a page that looks like it'll let me report my crash-on-launch bug there; and also a new (to me) command ( /usr/sbin/packagekitd --verbose) that got me a 13 KB report.

Re: how to change the default ugly background for gdm?

2008-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 01:13 +0930, Tim wrote: Even the old plain greeter was less crap than this. I'm thinking of seeing whether GDM can be replaced, completely. Perhaps XDM, if I don't want to go down the KDE route. You can use KDM with Gnome. poc -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: End of Support for F8?

2008-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:45 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:11 +0100, John Horne wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:43 -0400, Henok Mikre wrote: Does anyone know the end of support date for Fedora 8? I could only find the one for FC6 at

Re: VIM Q again

2008-06-03 Thread Rick Stevens
Ed Greshko wrote: Rick Stevens wrote: The Z80 had: JR idx(unconditional) JR Z,idx (jump relative if zero) JR NZ,idx (jump relative if non-zero) JR C,idx (jump relative if carry) JR NC,idx (jump relative if non-carry) And one of my favorites for loops: DJNZ idx

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:49:52 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: I'd wager that xine has libxine statically linked and/or compiled in. No, libxine.so is just a symlink pointing to the real and versioned library file in the xine-lib package. This symlink is needed only

Re: Thunderbird

2008-06-03 Thread andrey i. mavlyanov
Daniel B. Thurman пишет: Couple of problems: 1) Deleting any item(s) from the folders do not actually remove items from the folders. It just does not appear in Thurnderbird and subsequently moved into Trash. But using a different IMAP client on another system still shows the item

Re: xorg-x11-drv-mga problems

2008-06-03 Thread Braden McDaniel
Frederick William New wrote: Does anyone else have problems with the xorg-x11-drv-mga driver on Fedora 9? (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442533) Yes: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446726 -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE 4.1 screen cast.

2008-06-03 Thread Arthur Pemberton
2008/6/3 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 03 June 2008 18:31:05 Gilboa Davara wrote: Hello all, Just saw this KDE4.1 screen cast: http://www.ereslibre.es/?p=104 (http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/06/kde41.ogg) Very impressive. Very. It looks as though many of the things we have

remove liberation-fonts

2008-06-03 Thread andrey i. mavlyanov
Hello All! How can I remove liberation-fonts package from my f9 system? I was trying to do it with yumex, but it wants to remove OO.org either, which is not acceptable at all for me... -- /aim [ http://aim.pp.ru/ ] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: remove liberation-fonts

2008-06-03 Thread Rex Dieter
andrey i. mavlyanov wrote: How can I remove liberation-fonts package from my f9 system? I was trying to do it with yumex, but it wants to remove OO.org either, which is not acceptable at all for me... unacceptable to you or not, OO.org defaults use liberation, and so have a dependency on it.

Re: KDE 4.1 screen cast.

2008-06-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 20:53:12 Rex Dieter wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Fair enough. I haven't done much multimedia lately, so wasn't sure. Thanks for answering offtopic here, but couldn't resist... As a bonus, kde-4.1's kwin will include a plugin for generating screencasts (via

Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-03 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm having a problem setting my address properly on a French site. The address includes the line, 2 Chemin de L'AA. L'AA is composed of L plus apostrophe plus AA, in case you are seeing this different. When I set L'AA in my address box on this site, it views as set, but when I validate the

Re: Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-03 Thread TNWestTex
Nigel Henry-3 wrote: I'm having a problem setting my address properly on a French site. The address includes the line, 2 Chemin de L'AA. L'AA is composed of L plus apostrophe plus AA, in case you are seeing this different. When I set L'AA in my address box on this site, it views as

Re: KDE 4.1 screen cast.

2008-06-03 Thread Arthur Pemberton
2008/6/3 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 03 June 2008 20:53:12 Rex Dieter wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Fair enough. I haven't done much multimedia lately, so wasn't sure. Thanks for answering offtopic here, but couldn't resist... As a bonus, kde-4.1's kwin will include a plugin

Re: remove liberation-fonts

2008-06-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:27:00 +0400 andrey i. mavlyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the place to configure this? Read up on how to create a default template in the OpenOffice help function. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: testing hardware - use what software ?

2008-06-03 Thread max bianco
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Roger Heflin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Laing wrote: max bianco wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 00:08 +1000, David Timms wrote: Yes, and shoot it with the heat gun and so on. But is there some

Re: Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 22:09, TNWestTex wrote: Nigel Henry-3 wrote: I'm having a problem setting my address properly on a French site. The address includes the line, 2 Chemin de L'AA. L'AA is composed of L plus apostrophe plus AA, in case you are seeing this different. When I set L'AA

Re: PGP signatures.

2008-06-03 Thread max bianco
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 14:32 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Even if you are using it for security purposes, you should not need to protect the public keys. Probably not what you meant, but just to be absolutely

Re: testing hardware - use what software ?

2008-06-03 Thread Roger Heflin
max bianco wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Roger Heflin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Laing wrote: Compiling up something called HPL (with something called MPI) at least does nicely at finding that you have a memory/overheat/internal CPU issue. If the results corrupt or the machine

Gnome Session Management under Fedora 9

2008-06-03 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 13 May 2008 10:22:21 +0100 (02:22 PDT) Chris G. wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:29:56AM +0930, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:40 +0100, Chris G wrote: Is it possible in Gnome to save a desktop layout and have it restored when you start Gnome again? Have you played

Re: remove liberation-fonts

2008-06-03 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 00:06 +0400, andrey i. mavlyanov wrote: Hello All! How can I remove liberation-fonts package from my f9 system? I was trying to do it with yumex, but it wants to remove OO.org either, which is not acceptable at all for me... It looks like you're stuck, unless you

Re: Huh? ~/.xsession no longer honored?

2008-06-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: Finally got enough stuff working on F9 that I thought I could finish customizing it the way I have F8, but when I create a ~/.xsession script, it don't run it. What the heck do I have to do to get gdm to start my own custom session script in F9??? yum install

Re: remove liberation-fonts

2008-06-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:25:21 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like you're stuck, unless you rebuild the Open Office RPMs to remove their dependency on the Liberation fonts. He could probably install the program as downloaded directly from http://www.openoffice.org and

Re: KDE 4.1 screen cast.

2008-06-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2008 20:53:12 Rex Dieter wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Fair enough. I haven't done much multimedia lately, so wasn't sure. Thanks for answering offtopic here, but couldn't resist... As a bonus, kde-4.1's kwin will include a plugin for generating

Re: how to change the default ugly background for gdm?

2008-06-03 Thread Todd Zullinger
Brian Millett wrote: I just can not express how much I deplore the cheese background for the GDM screen in F9. I feel like I'm in a nightmare tron movie. How is that changed? I've successfully used gconftool-2 to set a background for gdm: su -c 'gconftool-2 --direct --config-source

Re: iptables help needed

2008-06-03 Thread Simon Slater
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:40 +0200, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 03.06.2008 14:11, Simon Slater a écrit : | On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 18:17 +1000, Simon Slater wrote: | On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:21 +0200, François Patte wrote: | I don't understand what

Re: iptables help needed

2008-06-03 Thread Simon Slater
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 15:32 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: 2008/6/3 Simon Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have run the script but the results may be a little unexpected. Following are messages from the script. None are as a result of requesting web pages from the laptop, which still has

Problems in Fedora 8

2008-06-03 Thread antonio . barragan
Dear All I have a linux box which is as follows: MSI K8T Neo-V Mainboard, 1 GB RAM Athlon 3000 processor Samsung 160 GB HDD SATA Seagate 40 GB IDE HDD Lite-On DVD RW unit SATA PNY Verto Nvidia 6200 graphics card, 256 MB, Digital and analog output Samsung SyncMaster 940 BW monitor (19 inch, WXGA

Re: Installing Fedora-9 from Live CD - silent update

2008-06-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: If this normally occurs, it seems to me that it could cause problems, since someone might easily re-boot while the installation was only half-say through, leaving something of a mess. I think the PackageKit-Gnome's system tray icon shows what the package management

Re: Weird SELinux problem after upgrade to F9

2008-06-03 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
Does anyone have any suggestions here? I would really love to get SELinux working correctly on my F9 upgraded box. What can I do to debug this? On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 03:25:17AM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Hi everyone, Over the last few days, I have managed to upgrade myself from FC4

Re: Problems in Fedora 8

2008-06-03 Thread Nicolae Ghimbovschi
Press any key (except enter) while it boots from the DVD. And choose text mode installation. On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:38 AM, antonio.barragan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I have a linux box which is as follows: MSI K8T Neo-V Mainboard, 1 GB RAM Athlon 3000 processor Samsung 160 GB HDD

Re: Logwatch report on another machine?

2008-06-03 Thread Nicolae Ghimbovschi
Fedora uses syslogd to provide a syslog service. The default configuration of syslogd rejects messages from remote systems. To configure a Fedora system to accept log messages from other systems on the network, edit the file /etc/sysconfig/syslog. You must use root privileges to edit the file

Problems with mailserver spamming itself due to loop

2008-06-03 Thread Mark
Hello, I have a recurring problem with my mailserver redelivering the same email over and over again to itself, until it gets entirely overloaded. I am not sure what triggers this, it seems that mostly some incoming spam emails might be to blame. I guess there is an underlying configuration

Re: Fedora 9 + Network Manager = Wireless NOT Connecting

2008-06-03 Thread Marc Ferguson
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 13:46 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: The NM developers suffer from the delusion that NM always works. Of course it always works. Says so right here in the man page :-) poc -- fedora-list

Re: Fedora 9 runlevel 3

2008-06-03 Thread Bob Barrett
g wrote: Kevin J. Cummings wrote: menu.lst is better known in the Fedora world as: /etc/grub.conf if menu.lst is left as a link, which it does not seem to have to be. I have employed the brute force solution: /usr/sbin/gdm [F8:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/rc.d]# l /usr/sbin/gdm

f9 vino problem

2008-06-03 Thread David L
I'm unable to get a vncviewer to connect to my f9 gnome desktop using vncviewer after enabling remote viewing with vino-preferences. I think I'm doing the same thing that worked in f8, but now on the client side I get a unable to connect to host: no route to host error. Any ideas? Thanks,

Re: Fedora 9 runlevel 3

2008-06-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:44:19 -0400 Bob Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd sure like to know what other process is running while /bin/login is waiting for me to login. Maybe you could replace telinit with a script that does a ps to a log file, then execs the original telinit? I certainly

Re: Logwatch report on another machine?

2008-06-03 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 02:54 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: Dave Burns wrote: How can I get the logwatch report on one machine (helen.gayleard.com) sent to another machine (alfred.gayleard.com) on the same LAN? I tried editing /etc/aliases on the first machine, changing the last line to

FC9 KDE Desktop Behavior

2008-06-03 Thread Joseph L. Casale
How does one return the behavior of KDE's new desktop back to that of FC8 where you could actually right click an item on the desktop and move/delete it etc... Thanks! jlc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: gecko-mediaplayer - the continuing saga?

2008-06-03 Thread Knute Johnson
Mauriat wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Knute Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a clean install of F9 on my old laptop. I installed gecko-mediaplayer and it still doesn't play what the old mplayerplug-in used to play. In addition it blows up firefox. Any help would be

Re: gecko-mediaplayer - the continuing saga?

2008-06-03 Thread Knute Johnson
Craig White wrote: note to original poster (Knute I think)...if you are using livna mplayer, you have to comment out the line in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf #flip-hebrew = no Craig OK, I don't know if the flip-hebrew fixed it or one of the zillion little libraries that came in with xine.

Re: how to change the default ugly background for gdm?

2008-06-03 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tim wrote: But can it be installed without dragging in a slew of KDE at the same time? And how would you install it, anyway? I tried yum install kdm last night, but get a no package available error response. Without installing KDE I don't know what I'm looking for to try and install KDM.

Re: Is the single quote character the same as an apostrophe

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 21:44 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: Is the single quote the same as an apostrophe? No, but a lot of things use them for the same thing. In plain old ASCII, you didn't have any alternative (only one character was available, and it was used for both purposes). With Unicode, you

Re: Slightly OT: Verify certificate?

2008-06-03 Thread g
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:12 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: While reading my mail I have just received a pop-up asking me to verify that the certificate identified as blah blah has the fingerprint more-blahs. Just how do you do that? I don't think I've ever seen that.

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Portuguese pt_PT spins

2008-06-03 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Pedro Silva wrote: Hi! I pulled the latest .ks through git and changed the files accordingly to create pt_PT localized spins of fedora. Attached are the following spins: - Electronic Lab - KDE - XFCE - Developer - Games Just has Jeroen said, on gnome based livecds, I added the %post hack for

Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Portuguese pt_PT spins

2008-06-03 Thread Pedro Silva
Ter, 2008-06-03 às 14:25 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen escreveu: Pedro Silva wrote: Hi! I pulled the latest .ks through git and changed the files accordingly to create pt_PT localized spins of fedora. Attached are the following spins: - Electronic Lab - KDE - XFCE - Developer

High flyer hangs hat on open source

2008-06-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23797416-24169,00.html Some people ask us why we aren't in the consumer desktop space, but we are. It's called Fedora. If you don't need high levels of support you shouldn't have to pay anything. Rahul -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing

Re: Screencast Ideas wiki

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Beckwith
Diego Escobar wrote: Thanks for your response. Is a excelent way to do Fedora better. As you know ambassadors usually are the connection point between the final user and Fedora community in general. In my case, many people tell me some suggestions about they would like to have in Fedora.

Re: Screencast Ideas wiki

2008-06-03 Thread Fabian Affolter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Beckwith wrote: | Here's a page for anyone to add to the list of ideas for screencasts. | | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/ScreencastIdeas | This page [1] contains the ideas for the LinuxTag video [2] I made. Fabian [1]

Fedora i386 rawhide rebuild in mock status 2008-06-01

2008-06-03 Thread Matt Domsch
Fedora Rawhide-in-Mock Build Results for i386 based on rawhide as of 01-June-2008. Bugs will be automatically filed for each of the failures below, if there is not already a bug that (recursively) blocks the master FTBFS bug. If your package fails due to a bug in another package, be sure there

rpms/perl-Net-Server/devel perl-Net-Server.spec,1.19,1.20

2008-06-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Author: nim Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/perl-Net-Server/devel In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv16861/devel Modified Files: perl-Net-Server.spec Log Message: make closer to the current perl template Index: perl-Net-Server.spec

[Bug 449405] FTBFS perl-Text-Kakasi-2.04-8.fc9

2008-06-03 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: FTBFS perl-Text-Kakasi-2.04-8.fc9 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed

rpms/perl-Text-CSV_XS/EL-5 perl-Text-CSV_XS.spec, 1.5, 1.6 sources, 1.2, 1.3

2008-06-03 Thread Xavier Bachelot
Author: xavierb Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/perl-Text-CSV_XS/EL-5 In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv14903 Modified Files: perl-Text-CSV_XS.spec sources Log Message: sync EL-4 and EL-5 branches Index: perl-Text-CSV_XS.spec