Fedora Weekly News, Issue 140

2008-08-25 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 140 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 140 for the week ending August 24, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue140 Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues,

Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 Re-Spin

2008-08-25 Thread ben
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD Sets) of Fedora 8. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 8 installation media and include all updates released as of August 14th, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64

Re: Hi from Paolo

2008-08-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paolo Leoni wrote: Hi Fedora Art Group, my name's Paolo Leoni (username: Deepsky), I'm from Italy and I would want to contribute to the growth of Fedora. I'm studying Physics at University, apart Physics, my interests are Computer Science, Astronomy,Cinema and Music (I play the guitar).

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
Here are the sources for a few basic gears elements: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/stuff/f10_steampunk_elements.svg I will think about adding some in the next few days. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open

Re: Hi from Paolo

2008-08-25 Thread Paolo Leoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicu Buculei ha scritto: While from a graphic point of view it is interesting and I notice you used the correct font face, I can see two shortcomings: - think freely is NOT the Fedora slogan, in fact we are trying to come with posters for the

rpms/un-core-fonts/devel import.log, NONE, 1.1 un-core-fonts.spec, NONE, 1.1 .cvsignore, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.1, 1.2

2008-08-25 Thread Dennis Jang
Author: smallvil Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/un-core-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv4660/devel Modified Files: .cvsignore sources Added Files: import.log un-core-fonts.spec Log Message: --- NEW FILE import.log ---

rpms/un-core-fonts/F-8 import.log, NONE, 1.1 un-core-fonts.spec, NONE, 1.1 .cvsignore, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.1, 1.2

2008-08-25 Thread Dennis Jang
Author: smallvil Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/un-core-fonts/F-8 In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv5185/F-8 Modified Files: .cvsignore sources Added Files: import.log un-core-fonts.spec Log Message: --- NEW FILE import.log ---

[Bug 458592] Incorrect glyph points and missing hinting instructions for U+0079, U+03BC, U+0431, U+2010..2012.

2008-08-25 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458592 Caius CHANCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 331716] 'fi' and 'fl' ligatures overlap following glyph with justified text in pango builds

2008-08-25 Thread bugzilla-daemon
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331716 Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (Mozilla Corporation) [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

[Issue 43029] support PS-OpenType/OTF/(SFNT with CFF) fonts for PDF export and printing

2008-08-25 Thread lcdsantos
To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43029 --- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 25 16:59:51 + 2008 --- vga, Can I download and install XeTeX into my Linux, and after this I would use

[Issue 43029] support PS-OpenType/OTF/(SFNT with CFF) fonts for PDF export and printing

2008-08-25 Thread vgivanovic
To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43029 --- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 26 03:36:43 + 2008 --- @lcdsantos, What XeTeX can and cannot do is independent of what OOo can and

rpms/liberation-fonts/devel .cvsignore, 1.6, 1.7 liberation-fonts.spec, 1.22, 1.23 sources, 1.9, 1.10

2008-08-25 Thread Caius Chance
Author: cchance Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/liberation-fonts/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv3940 Modified Files: .cvsignore liberation-fonts.spec sources Log Message: * Thu Jul 17 2008 Caius Chance [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 1.04.90-1.fc10 - Resolves: rhbz#258592

[Bug 458592] Incorrect glyph points and missing hinting instructions for U+0079, U+03BC, U+0431, U+2010..2012.

2008-08-25 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458592 Caius CHANCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 460090] New: Check all font files in liberation-fonts for hinting problems.

2008-08-25 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: Check all font files in liberation-fonts for hinting problems. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460090 Summary: Check all font files in

liberation-fonts is updated: fixed some hinting problems.

2008-08-25 Thread Caius Chance
Hi, liberation-fonts (1.04.90.devel) is updated. There are some hinting problem fixes: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=785966 The files are available here: https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/ Please feel free to provide your valuable feedback. Best

Re: Maintaining a partial cvs workarea

2008-08-25 Thread Axel Thimm
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0700, Chris Weyl wrote: 2008/8/24 Dennis Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That shouldnt work with the Makefiles. since they all use cvs.fedoraproject.org not the old legacy address :) s/cvs.fedora.redhat.com/cvs.fedoraproject.org/ in the above then :) I've

Re: securing FAS certs

2008-08-25 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 09:43 +0200, Mark Wormgoor wrote: Most of these cards work with OpenSSL just fine - though I'm not sure what additional hardware drivers are required to interface to the card. The crypto cards I'm aware of require a binary kernel driver. Not suitable for Fedora

Notification - 2008-08-26 23:00 UTC

2008-08-25 Thread Mike McGrath
There was an outage starting at 2008-08-26 23:00 UTC, which lasted approximately 1 hour. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-08-26 23:00 UTC' Affected Services: Websites Buildsystem Database Unaffected

UNIX Process range 32769-65535 impossible?

2008-08-25 Thread todd . e . rinaldo
Hi, We have a need to increase the kernel pid_max. Right now it's at the default 32768. The maximum allowable we can increase to is 99,999 due to 3rd party vendor limitations. When we increased it to that value this weekend, we noticed that even though next pid increased sequentially, the

boot failures on very-large systems with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED not set

2008-08-25 Thread Doug Chapman
Sometime leading up to the F9 kernel my very large ia64 system (64 cpu 1TB ram, bunch of PCI busses and I/O) fails to boot. It appears to be something in how nash/mkinitrd gets information from sysfs. Since this is an early boot-time issue and nash isn't very easy to debug I am having trouble

Re: Since F9, Images on Firefox Fuzzy

2008-08-25 Thread Carl D. Roth
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:48:08 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Dear friends, Since I upgraded to Fedore 9, all images appear fuzzy on Firefox. I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop with a nVidia card and work with a resolution of 1680x1050. If I save the images and display them outside

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] NVIDIA license

2008-08-25 Thread Michel Salim
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Mamoru Tasaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, again: Tom spot Callaway wrote, at 06/15/2008 04:06 AM +9:00: On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 03:36 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: Hello, all: Now I am trying to review rerver (bug 450409). First I checked the license

Re: multibooting ppc with Mac OS 9 X on an ancient iBook

2008-08-25 Thread Joel Rees
(Giving a little more detail:) On Aug 23, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 09:58 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: I recently tried installing Fedora 9 on an iBook that I need to boot both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X on. I also have some other partitioning constraints, so I ended

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:08:21 +0800 Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody here wishes Fedora any ill. If we did, we wouldn't be here. You can't assume that... I sincerely hope that I can, Ed. Starry-eyed as it may sound, I always try to think the best of people.

Re: CNN Video - Flash

2008-08-25 Thread Waleed Harbi
Hello, Try install nspluginwrapper rpm On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Tom Horsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:19:31 +0800 Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I then went to cnn video and watches several videos without problem. FWIW, my system is a 32-bit system.

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Joel Rees
I think most of us were more peeved about not getting a *clear* warning, promptly, and wanting to know whether it really was a safety issue (do not download) or just broken servers (downloads may fail). They didn't say hardware, they didn't say source code control or other distribution

Re: Adobe Reader Plugin on F9

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:46:23 +0530, TV Sivaraman wrote: Hi: I installed as per instructions in http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html#acroba and my FF3 has no problem opening a pdf file in the browser. Please return to the original message that started this thread and

Re: H.D. install problem -

2008-08-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 19:58 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: I had hoped to make the new drive a third one but sadly I found only two SATA connectors on the motherboard so I had to revert to plan B. Or there's plan c - buy a SATA card to plug into your motherboard. Yes, I

RE: corrupted ISOs, or wrong SHA1SUMs ?? *WARNING*

2008-08-25 Thread SCHAER Frederic
Hi All, While I thank you for your answers, I'd just like to add that I'm no Linux beginner... I just downloaded yet another *2* DVD images directly from Linux : - one using

Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
Weird problem. I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error. I am root and the permissions were and are 0775...chmod changes nothing, even trying 0777. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? The

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 03:11 -0700, Craig White wrote: I fully expect that the reason that they took the system off-line 10 days ago was a clear indication of their doubt of the sanctity of the packages and they didn't put it back online until they felt that they felt that they knew the extent

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Tim
Jeff Spaleta: communication problems are not equivalent to trust issues. Tim: To many, they are. Jeff Spaleta: Those people are wrong In your opinion... I say that you're quite wrong about trying to disassociate the two of them. Being upfront and honest is what engenders trust. Being

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080825 03:08]: Jeff Spaleta wrote: Did we have a communication problem? Maybe. You make it sound like it was something in the past. I'd say a week and a half ago fits squarely in the definition of past. Does anyone know yet whether or not the intrusion

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 23:07 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: Nobody can take any protective measures short of switching everything to another distribution entirely without that sort of information in hand. Are protective measures even required? We don't know that either. To be blunt, you don't even

Re: update error on F9

2008-08-25 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 04:39 -0700, Craig White wrote: I would guess that updates are failing because some process is running which is blocking other processes from running at this point The thing that automatically checks for updates and a user manually doing updates can't both do their trick

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080825 05:53]: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:37:02 -0800 Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, while a policy for future incidents would be nice, I don't set

nautilus: moving files with emblems

2008-08-25 Thread Colin Brace
Hi all, On my F9 system with nautilus v2.22.5.1, files and folders lose their emblems when I move them from one partition to another (no problems with moves on the same partition). Has anyone else see this behaviour? Anyone come up with a workaround? Thanks. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam

Re: Nvidia driver

2008-08-25 Thread Per Anton Rønning
Dave Burns wrote: Also note that nvidia either ignores or screws up settings set with the display panel after the real drivers are installed. I forget the name of the config utility that gets installed with the rpms at the moment, but look at rpm -q --filesbypkg, you should be able to figure it

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:42:03 +0930, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 03:11 -0700, Craig White wrote: I fully expect that the reason that they took the system off-line 10 days ago was a clear indication of their doubt of the sanctity of the packages and they didn't put it back online until

Re: nautilus: moving files with emblems

2008-08-25 Thread Colin Brace
Colin Brace wrote: On my F9 system with nautilus v2.22.5.1, files and folders lose their emblems when I move them from one partition to another (no problems with moves on the same partition). Correction: not *files and folders* but folders, and the files in them. Individual files not

Re: CNN Video - Flash

2008-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 August 2008, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:06:18 -0700 Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it makes anyone feel better, Ubuntu Hardy, FF3, Flash plugin from Adobe...CNN Video doesn't work a lick. At least on Fedora, it tries to work (but does fail after a little

Re: 13. Re: FC9 NetworkManager WPA (Tim)

2008-08-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tim wrote: I have noticed that NetworkManager takes its own sweet time to find this router, yet ones (much further away) from the neighbours pop up into the list quite quickly. I had this (minor) problem when I re-booted this morning: NM tried to connect to another, weaker, access point

Re: corrupted ISOs, or wrong SHA1SUMs ?? *WARNING*

2008-08-25 Thread Mogens Kjaer
SCHAER Frederic wrote: Hi All, While I thank you for your answers, I'd just like to add that I'm no Linux beginner... I just downloaded yet another *2* DVD images directly from Linux : - one using

Re: CNN Video - Flash

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 21:06 -0700, Craig White wrote: If it makes anyone feel better, Ubuntu Hardy, FF3, Flash plugin from Adobe...CNN Video doesn't work a lick. At least on Fedora, it tries to work (but does fail after a little while). Youtube does work though. Craig It must be the luck

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Craig White wrote: clearly the people with problems with pulseaudio are in the minority or it would have been removed. Sadly, this is nonsense. How do the pulseaudio developers know what percentage of users have problems with it? As far as I know, Fedora has never tried to run any kind of

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tim wrote: I've had mixed results with pulseaudio. I have wondered if we can totally rip it out, or if it's become another one of those required things. What I find completely baffling about pulseaudio is that in my case it doesn't seem to make the slightest difference whether it is working

RE: corrupted ISOs, or wrong SHA1SUMs ?? *WARNING*

2008-08-25 Thread SCHAER Frederic
Ah great, thanks a lot for this check :) I had'nt yet thought about diff'in the 2 DVD trees... OK, doesn't look bad to me either, I prefer that. Thanks again :] -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Mogens Kjaer Envoyé : lundi 25 août 2008

Re: Adobe Flash only works sometimes

2008-08-25 Thread Amadeus W.M.
Hummm... Always works for me. FWIW, I am running FF 3.0.1 on RHELv4. Will have to give it a go on F9, time permitting. I'm having no problems with any of these in CentOS 5.2 either. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread Alan Cox
How do the pulseaudio developers know what percentage of users have problems with it? Bugzilla count ? As far as I know, Fedora has never tried to run any kind of poll to find what problems users might have. Nor with the kernel, cat, ed, cp ... so that is rather a silly point. Also it

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
R. G. Newbury wrote: Weird problem. I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error. I am root and the permissions were and are 0775...chmod changes nothing, even trying 0777. Does anyone have any idea what

Re: Nvidia driver

2008-08-25 Thread Claude Jones
On Sun August 24 2008 1:09:54 pm Per Anton Rønning wrote: TV Sivaraman wrote: Hi: Did yum install both the kmod-nvidia drivers? One is nvidia GP dependent and the other kernel dependent (look at http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/i386/). You may also have to install

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread laurence orchard
Thomas Cameron wrote: R. G. Newbury wrote: Weird problem. I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error. I am root and the permissions were and are 0775...chmod changes nothing, even trying 0777. Does

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 13:20 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: What exactly is pulseaudio meant to give someone like me, who is only interested in the most basic aspects of computer sound? The furthest my ambitions would ever reach would be to plug headphones into my laptop and listen to Bob Dylan.

service; ps grep help

2008-08-25 Thread James Pifer
I could use a little help with ps and grep. When running a command like: # ps -ewf | grep sendmail root 2730 1 0 Jul14 ?00:00:01 sendmail: accepting connections smmsp 2739 1 0 Jul14 ?00:00:00 sendmail: Queue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue

Re: service; ps grep help

2008-08-25 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Pifer wrote: I could use a little help with ps and grep. When running a command like: # ps -ewf | grep sendmail # ps -ewf | grep sendmail | grep -v grep run 'man grep' - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates.

Re: service; ps grep help

2008-08-25 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 g wrote: James Pifer wrote: I could use a little help with ps and grep. When running a command like: # ps -ewf | grep sendmail # ps -ewf | grep sendmail | grep -v grep run 'man grep' oops. left off, same as in your script. - --

Re: service; ps grep help

2008-08-25 Thread Mogens Kjaer
James Pifer wrote: ... A little background, I have a java based application that I've used a custom start and stop script for. Basically the stop script does: stop() { for pid in `ps -efww | grep myapp | grep -v grep | cut -b 10-15`;do #echo $pid kill

Re: service; ps grep help

2008-08-25 Thread Sjoerd Mullender
Anders Karlsson wrote: * James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080825 15:03]: I could use a little help with ps and grep. When running a command like: # ps -ewf | grep sendmail root 2730 1 0 Jul14 ?00:00:01 sendmail: accepting connections smmsp 2739 1 0 Jul14

Since F9, Images on Firefox Fuzzy

2008-08-25 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Dear friends, Since I upgraded to Fedore 9, all images appear fuzzy on Firefox. I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop with a nVidia card and work with a resolution of 1680x1050. If I save the images and display them outside Firefox, they all look sharp. This is true for gif, jpg and svg.

Re: time stupidity

2008-08-25 Thread Todd Denniston
Craig White wrote, On 08/25/2008 01:53 AM: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 22:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote: Craig White wrote: crap...the clock moves ahead 7 hours when I boot Fedora ;-( that is my offset from GMT I need someone to toss me a bone here... Craig Have you checked

Pending updates have been piling up

2008-08-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Is there an estimate on when pending updates are going to be pushed to updates and updates-testing? If it's going to be a while, I might start grabbing packages of interest directly from Koji, but if its going to happen, say tonight, I'll just wait. Thanks. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: strange error

2008-08-25 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:55:10 +, g wrote: Beartooth wrote: snip From that second one, I get a notice saying it doesn't exist yet. i looked at it before sending it. thought you might want to write it. ;o) no, really, it was for 'existing pages'. [...] i would say that you and i

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 August 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote: Tim wrote: I've had mixed results with pulseaudio. I have wondered if we can totally rip it out, or if it's become another one of those required things. What I find completely baffling about pulseaudio is that in my case it doesn't seem to make

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 August 2008, Alan Cox wrote: How do the pulseaudio developers know what percentage of users have problems with it? Bugzilla count ? As far as I know, Fedora has never tried to run any kind of poll to find what problems users might have. Nor with the kernel, cat, ed, cp ... so

Re: [Vym-forum] SuSE RPMs on Fedora

2008-08-25 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Frode Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, I got Vym 1.10, not 1.12. I don't know what has changed between the No, Frode. I am running Vym 1.12 here: $ rpm -q vym vym-1.12.0-1.fc9.i386 $ :-o Sorry for sending the last message directly to you and not

Re: Adobe Reader Plugin on F9

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:22 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:46:23 +0530, TV Sivaraman wrote: Hi: I installed as per instructions in http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html#acroba and my FF3 has no problem opening a pdf file in the browser. Please

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:50am on Monday, August 25, 2008 (UK time), R. G. Newbury scrawled: Weird problem. I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error. Is the directory on an NFS mount? If so, was it mounted with the

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Gene Heskett wrote: As far as I know, Fedora has never tried to run any kind of poll to find what problems users might have. Nor with the kernel, cat, ed, cp ... so that is rather a silly point. With you Alan, I will respectfully disagree. If it doesn't work, we do not think our

Re: Sony videocam w/ USB

2008-08-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mark Haney wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: g wrote: Great site, but doesn't seem to address the problem. Have you tried Kino? It's a KDE app, but it works in GNOME and Ive successfully used it to pull raw video data from a Sony camcorder via USB. It's slower than the firewire connection

Re: [Vym-forum] SuSE RPMs on Fedora

2008-08-25 Thread Frode Petersen
Paul Smith: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Frode Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, I got Vym 1.10, not 1.12. I don't know what has changed between the No, Frode. I am running Vym 1.12 here: $ rpm -q vym vym-1.12.0-1.fc9.i386 $ :-o Sorry for sending the last message directly to you

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a stake holder and I don't see any problem stating that my interests weren't properly protected. With Fedora's stances on openness, I believed they extended to security breaches as well. You have just stated an

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
From: R. G. Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775? To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Weird problem. I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder,

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread Chris Snook
Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Because many of you said to use it, it worked just fine, I re-installed it all and I haven't had any noise from anything but kmail and maybe kino since then, kino audio seemingly depending on the phase of the moon, day of thew week and possibly multiplied by the

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 August 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote: Craig White wrote: clearly the people with problems with pulseaudio are in the minority or it would have been removed. Sadly, this is nonsense. How do the pulseaudio developers know what percentage of users have problems with it? An excellent

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread max
Timothy Murphy wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: As far as I know, Fedora has never tried to run any kind of poll to find what problems users might have. Nor with the kernel, cat, ed, cp ... so that is rather a silly point. With you Alan, I will respectfully disagree. If it doesn't work, we do

Re: pulseaudio, howto make it work?

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:44pm on Monday, August 25, 2008 (UK time), Timothy Murphy scrawled: but I think Fedora _does_ need to adopt a more newbie-friendly approach, if it wants to overthrow the giant, which I hope it does. Assuming overthrow the giant = replace MS Windows with Fedora, then I am not sure that

Re: update error on F9

2008-08-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paul Newell wrote: Finally managed to get FC5 upgraded to F9 by forgetting the upgrade and doing a full re-installation (the thread on 6 - 9 made it clear I had to do that if I had any errors). Even managed to get internet access which I could never do on FC5, so I'm already ahead of the

Re: Permission denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
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Re: Since F9, Images on Firefox Fuzzy

2008-08-25 Thread Carl D. Roth
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:48:08 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Dear friends, Since I upgraded to Fedore 9, all images appear fuzzy on Firefox. I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop with a nVidia card and work with a resolution of 1680x1050. If I save the images and display them outside

Re: Permission denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Stuart Sears
R. G. Newbury wrote: [ edited for relevance ] Thanks to both of you. Good pointers. The drive is a partition on the same spindle, mounted '-t ext3 /dev/sda5 /keep', BUT /etc/fstab has the partition as 'users,defaults'...so it IS possible that 'defaults' = 'noexec'...easily tested: thank you.

Re: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775?

2008-08-25 Thread Dave Feustel
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:05:21PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: From: R. G. Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Permission Denied error for root user when perms are 0775? To: fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Weird

Re: automatically mount removable devices

2008-08-25 Thread Phil Meyer
Carlo Nyto wrote: I have a system with four removable drives (in USB enclosures). I want them to be mounted automatically in the same location every time. I want this to happen at bootup. I also want this to happen if the system is booted without the drives and they are plugged in later,

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Anders Karlsson wrote: * Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080825 16:06]: Thomas Cameron wrote: I understand that the path to recovery from this kind of breach is incredibly painful, and there are numerous folks managing that recovery. Knowing that, doesn't it bother you that your system

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:57:34 -0800, Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without a policy document in place, we run the risk of different people blamelessly repeating history they personally did not live. Can't really expect people to have read the specific griping in this thread,

F8/F9 updates

2008-08-25 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Has there been any updates as of 1 week or so. Seems that I am not getting any updates since the announcement. Do I need to do anything if there were updates? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

2008-08-25 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think you could get a copy of the process document that was used in this incident (or perhaps a redacted version of it) that we could use as a starting point? I know of no Fedora specific process document. I very

Re: F8/F9 updates

2008-08-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:46:35 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has there been any updates as of 1 week or so. Seems that I am not getting any updates since the announcement. Pending updates are flowing again. They seem to be stuck in pending right now. So you do have the

Re: Automount of CD-ROMs no longer works

2008-08-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: The CD drive works as expected. The DVD does not. When I put a written CD into the CD drive, it mounts, and shows the label. When I put the same disc into the DVD drive, it brings up the CD Creator box, like it was blank. Closing that, and doing a

Re: [OT] Machine won't boot [SOLVED]

2008-08-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Marko Vojinovic wrote: Ok, just for the record --- the problem turned out to be a rather rare situation of both hard drive *and* dvd drive failing simoultaneously. Once both of them were replaced, the machine came back to life. I figured this out by using Alan's approach of removing

Re: Estimating System wattage

2008-08-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Michael Semcheski wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Christopher Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You only need massive power supplies in a desktop if you're running high-end video cards or something else that needs separate power inputs. Enjoy your very long UPS runtime. In my

Re: H.D. install problem -

2008-08-25 Thread Roger Heflin
Bob Goodwin wrote: Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 19:58 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: I had hoped to make the new drive a third one but sadly I found only two SATA connectors on the motherboard so I had to revert to plan B. Or there's plan c - buy a SATA card to plug into your

Re: Automount of CD-ROMs no longer works

2008-08-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: The CD drive works as expected. The DVD does not. When I put a written CD into the CD drive, it mounts, and shows the label. When I put the same disc into the DVD drive, it brings up the CD Creator box, like it was blank. Closing that, and doing a

Format /dev/dsp expects?

2008-08-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Can anyone tell me what formats /dev/dsp, /dev/dsp56k, /dev/audio, etc. expect? It seems that I can copy a WAV format file directly to /dev/dsp and get recognizable sound. I wonder just what format they actually expect. Mike -- p=p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);};main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}

Re: time stupidity

2008-08-25 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd Denniston wrote: snip If the machine is always running Unix/Linux, then UTC is usually better. If you are also running MSWIN then you either need to use LOCAL or find the tweak someone posted ~1 week ago, that you can do to windows so it

Re: H.D. install problem -

2008-08-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
Roger Heflin wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 19:58 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: I had hoped to make the new drive a third one but sadly I found only two SATA connectors on the motherboard so I had to revert to plan B. Or there's plan c - buy a SATA card to

Re: strange error

2008-08-25 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beartooth wrote: snip http://packagekit.org/ just looked at site. looks a lot like mandrake 'system control center' package installer gui with more 'guu'. I *think* I've seen a claim somewhere that you can use it with KDE that was noted on one

Re: time stupidity

2008-08-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd Denniston wrote: snip If the machine is always running Unix/Linux, then UTC is usually better. If you are also running MSWIN then you either need to use LOCAL or find the tweak someone posted ~1 week ago, that you can do to

Re: time stupidity

2008-08-25 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Goodwin wrote: snip what is there to tweak if you just tell msbsos that time zone is london, england? time + 0 is time + 0. I thought I was the only one running Windows on GMT? It doesn't matter since it really gets booted. my really

Re: Format /dev/dsp expects?

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:26:25 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Can anyone tell me what formats /dev/dsp, /dev/dsp56k, /dev/audio, etc. expect? It seems that I can copy a WAV format file directly to /dev/dsp and get recognizable sound. I wonder just what format they actually expect. /dev/audio used

Re: time stupidity

2008-08-25 Thread Todd Denniston
g wrote, On 08/25/2008 03:31 PM: Todd Denniston wrote: snip If the machine is always running Unix/Linux, then UTC is usually better. If you are also running MSWIN then you either need to use LOCAL or find the tweak someone posted ~1 week ago, that you can do to windows so it treats the

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