You have been sent a file (Description: New desktop sound theme for GNOME)

2008-09-02 Thread sendspace
sendspace file delivery notification: You've got a file called freedesktop.tar.gz, (10 MB) waiting for download at sendspace.com (Your email address was provided by [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Description: New desktop sound theme for GNOME You can use the following link to retrieve your file:

Re: You have been sent a file (Description: New desktop sound theme for GNOME)

2008-09-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
sendspace wrote: You've got a file called freedesktop.tar.gz, (10 MB) waiting for download at sendspace.com (Your email address was provided by [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Description: New desktop sound theme for GNOME You can use the following link to retrieve your file:

Fedora 10 round 3

2008-09-02 Thread Samuele Storari
Hi all! Someone can say me what themes are in progress for the round 3? Samuele -- Samuele Storari Art Director Byte-Code srl mobile: +39 347 50 798 32 office: +39 02 9840047 http://www.byte-code.com ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list

Re: You have been sent a file (Description: New desktop sound theme for GNOME)

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Norman
Very good point, I will rework the attention sound. As I don't really want to go through all of them and change the length, I will wait for a definate problem before I start editing anything. Cheers. On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:03 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: sendspace wrote: You've got a file

Re: Fedora 10 round 3

2008-09-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
Samuele Storari wrote: Hi all! Someone can say me what themes are in progress for the round 3? Gears, Neon, InvinXible and Solar meet the requirements so they have progressed in Round 3 (no need for a formal decision). I am quite busy today and can't promise will find the time to publish a

Pungi kickstart packages - stage2 deps vs instaled pkgs

2008-09-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Perhaps this is by design: the build tools dependencies (anaconda-runtime an friends) which end up in stage2 AFAICS need to be listed (and their dependencies met) in the main packages listing in the kickstart file. Is there a way to control those package listings separately? As a (trivial)

Can someone approve me?

2008-09-02 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I have been hanging around the infrastructure team for a year now, I am also your friendly neighborhood beat writer for FWN, can some one please approve me in the sysadmin group? Thanks. - -- Regards, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC:

New Key Repo Locations v2

2008-09-02 Thread Warren Togami
Slight correction. Paths have not changed, but I have changed the repo names so debuginfo and source are always at the end. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2008-August/001627.html How these will be used is written here. Release Before (no yum repo file)

Re: Can someone approve me?

2008-09-02 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I have been hanging around the infrastructure team for a year now, I am also your friendly neighborhood beat writer for FWN, can some one please approve me in the sysadmin group?

Re: New Key Repo Locations v2

2008-09-02 Thread Matt Domsch
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:30:46PM -0400, Warren Togami wrote: Slight correction. Paths have not changed, but I have changed the repo names so debuginfo and source are always at the end. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2008-August/001627.html How these will be used is

[Fwd: [PATCH] modprobe: Read module options from kernel command line]

2008-09-02 Thread Jon Masters
Hi folks, This patch randomly turned up in my inbox this evening and does what was discussed on IRC the other day, so I'll be adding this feature to module-init-tools...I think it's the least worst option right now. Jon. ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing

Re: Ping KDE users

2008-09-02 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On 9/1/08, Bill Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/08/2008, Ian Pilcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect you're going to find that most real users of KDE (i.e. people who use it for real work) are still using KDE 3.5. Yup. Stuck with F8 in the office (though the weak multi-head

OT: just got a Qube 2

2008-09-02 Thread Mick M.
Hi; I bought a Cobalt Qube 2 locally yesterday. I saw some posts in my searches of RH 5.1 on this, but dead links. This has the mips cpu. Anyone done it? Any advice? Thanks Mick M. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

2008-09-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
Kyle Lanigan wrote: Have you tried logging in in text mode? ... Earlier you might have been able to enter text mode by Ctrl-Alt-F1, or alternatively by using something like Knoppix to edit /etc/inittab and change id:5 to id:3 . The Live CD works amazingly fine on my computer. If possible,

Re: Fedora home server using core 9

2008-09-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
g wrote: my reasons for having chosen sl are many. i read many pages of sl site, and all of what i read gave me a good feeling about sl. I must say I was fairly unimpressed with the error I got when browsing to the suggested URL, https://www.scientificlinux.org/. I know there was some sort of

Re: Fedora home server using core 9

2008-09-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
Anne Wilson wrote: The funny thing is that Ed speaks the truth - Scientific Linux, CenotOS and several others are in fact legitimate clones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, without the branding and without the official, enterprise-level, support. One small advantage (well actually quite large

Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-02 Thread Chris G
I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good solution. I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want. I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from various different

Re: When will Yum updates be working again?

2008-09-02 Thread Bill Crawford
On 02/09/2008, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would say it has been asked but not answered, many times. It's been answered, just not with a specific time, which is obviously what everyone wants, but ... sometime is still an answer. In this case, it's been explained that they have to

Re: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage

2008-09-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:53 +0100, Chris G wrote: Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do you do it? I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to look in /var/log/messages to see what the device name is and then manually issuing the

Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
In trying to swap a motherboard for the exact same type I kept having issues with the NIC not being started (network manager was disabled). I finally found 70-persistent-net.rules under udev had the mac address of the old nic as eth0 so I moved this file out and rebooted only to see it was

Re: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage

2008-09-02 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 08:58:35PM +0930, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:53 +0100, Chris G wrote: Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do you do it? I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to look in /var/log/messages to see

strange behavior of vim syntax highlighting

2008-09-02 Thread Uwe Kiewel
Hi world, I've got a problem using vim's syntax highlighting feature. System: Runlevel 5, KDE, Fedora 8 - in a text console (STRG-ALT-F1)- it works - ssh to localhost or ssh from a remote system - it works - as user doing su - user - it works - opening a xterm in KDE - it doesn't work My

Re: Fedora home server using core 9

2008-09-02 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:03 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: g wrote: my reasons for having chosen sl are many. i read many pages of sl site, and all of what i read gave me a good feeling about sl. I must say I was fairly unimpressed with the error I got when browsing to the suggested URL,

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Thomas Cameron
Travis Arnold wrote: Erm I've been using ubuntu recently but would like to use fedora, but am not sure how to install, is it best to use live cd, or the dvd install medium? Either one should work, the DVD route is nice because all of the packages are right there. LiveCD can require that

Re: Fedora home server using core 9

2008-09-02 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:12 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: The funny thing is that Ed speaks the truth - Scientific Linux, CenotOS and several others are in fact legitimate clones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, without the branding and without the official,

Re: OT: just got a Qube 2

2008-09-02 Thread Thomas Cameron
Mick M. wrote: Hi; I bought a Cobalt Qube 2 locally yesterday. I saw some posts in my searches of RH 5.1 on this, but dead links. This has the mips cpu. Ancient appliance, very slow, no recent Red Hat distro available for it that I know of. Anyone done it? Not recently. Any advice?

Re: Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:18 +0100, Chris G wrote: I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from various different Digikam albums) and place them in a new album in a specific order which has nothing to do with their dates, alphanumeric file name or anything of that sort (no

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Travis Arnold
Thomas Cameron wrote: Travis Arnold wrote: Erm I've been using ubuntu recently but would like to use fedora, but am not sure how to install, is it best to use live cd, or the dvd install medium? Either one should work, the DVD route is nice because all of the packages are right there.

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Tyler
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 08:49 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote: Erm I've been using ubuntu recently but would like to use fedora, but am not sure how to install, is it best to use live cd, or the dvd install medium? Also how can I have a seperate home directory? the LVM section in the partitioning

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 08:49 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote: Erm I've been using ubuntu recently but would like to use fedora, but am not sure how to install, is it best to use live cd, or the dvd install medium? Also how can I have a seperate home directory? the LVM section in the partitioning

Re: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage

2008-09-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:57 +0100, Chris G wrote: Er, as I said, Fedora 8. I didn't know if the question was because you were still using an older release, and were wondering whether updating to 8 would improve things for you. My Fuji S8000FD shows up automatically but that's not a USB mass

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Tim
Travis Arnold: Erm I've been using ubuntu recently but would like to use fedora, but am not sure how to install, is it best to use live cd, or the dvd install medium? Thomas Cameron: Either one should work, the DVD route is nice because all of the packages are right there. LiveCD can

Re: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage

2008-09-02 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:49:36PM +0930, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:57 +0100, Chris G wrote: Er, as I said, Fedora 8. I didn't know if the question was because you were still using an older release, and were wondering whether updating to 8 would improve things for you. My

Re: Fedora home server using core 9

2008-09-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:03 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: I must say I was fairly unimpressed with the error I got when browsing to the suggested URL, https://www.scientificlinux.org/. I know there was some sort of explanation given for this, and probably a solution; but I am rather lazy,

Re: strange behavior of vim syntax highlighting

2008-09-02 Thread Uwe Kiewel
Gilboa Davara schrieb: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 15:00 +0200, Uwe Kiewel wrote: Hi world, I've got a problem using vim's syntax highlighting feature. System: Runlevel 5, KDE, Fedora 8 - in a text console (STRG-ALT-F1)- it works - ssh to localhost or ssh from a remote system - it works - as

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:15 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote: so I don't even have to use LVM? That is so nice to know. I've looked around on Fedorasolved and I see the article about moving /home but is there another write up possibly dealing with how to instal l with out LVM? the interface

Re: OT: just got a Qube 2

2008-09-02 Thread Frode Petersen
Mick M.: This has the mips cpu. As a starting point, some distros support mips according to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions Apparently Gentoo and Debian are possible options. There are probably forums for those projects where you could get an

Re: Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-02 Thread Frode Petersen
Chris G: I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good solution. I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want. I want to select pictures randomly from various places (i.e. from various

Re: Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-02 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:10:27PM +0200, Frode Petersen wrote: Chris G: I seem to have this problem regularly but still haven't found a good solution. I currently use Digikam but the problem applies equally to other applications, I haven't found anything that does what I want. I want to

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part III

2008-09-02 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:01 AM, linuxguy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So where the #$%^*( is KDE4.1 ? And don't tell me its in testing ! I don't want to be a beta tester anymore. The infrastructure issues have put a serious delay on all packages that needed to be moved from updates-testing to

Re: Fedora home server using core 9

2008-09-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 23:06:08 +0930, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What really annoys me is when some fool thinks that getting a certificate made out to www.example.com is fine when they try to use it with mail.example.com, so I always see completely avoidable warnings. If they'd had the

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part III

2008-09-02 Thread Rex Dieter
linuxguy wrote: So where the #$%^*( is KDE4.1 ? And don't tell me its in testing ! If it makes you feel better, we had queue'd it for stable shortly before all the security hubbub, and it's been blocking on getting that all sorted out first. tinfoil hat It was a kde-hating hacker that did

Re: Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

2008-09-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:56 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: Kyle Lanigan wrote: Have you tried logging in in text mode? ... Earlier you might have been able to enter text mode by Ctrl-Alt-F1, or alternatively by using something like Knoppix to edit /etc/inittab and change id:5 to id:3 .

Re: tcsh and fedora 9

2008-09-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 22:14 -0700, Paul Newell wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Paul Newell wrote: Under FC5, tcsh was readily available as part of the installation I got (mind you, I didn't install, so I am only taking word from the installer that this was part of the install) On F9,

Re: Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

2008-09-02 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On 9/2/08, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kyle Lanigan wrote: Have you tried logging in in text mode? ... Earlier you might have been able to enter text mode by Ctrl-Alt-F1, or alternatively by using something like Knoppix to edit /etc/inittab and change id:5 to id:3 . The

Re: Fedora home server using core 9

2008-09-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
Craig White wrote: One small advantage (well actually quite large for me) with CentOS is that if you are running a Dell server [I got one a few months ago when they had an absurdly cheap offer] then CentOS is actually the recommended OS, and you can get automatic Dell upgrades, etc, if you

Re: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage

2008-09-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 14:30 +0100, Chris G wrote: I have a card reader, I have to mount that manually too, so it's exactly the same as reading from the camera. That works automatically here, too. So the issue would seem to be custom to your system. Are you using Gnome, KDE, or something

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:56 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote: Ok, thanks so if I take the dvd, then I can choose what I can install? keep it sort of simple, then there would be less updates correct? Also thank you Chris for the link to the chapter, that was helpful, I like directions...books are

Re: Fedora home server using core 9

2008-09-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Bruno Wolff III wrote: What really annoys me is when some fool thinks that getting a certificate made out to www.example.com is fine when they try to use it with mail.example.com, so I always see completely avoidable warnings. If they'd had the sense to had a wild-card type of certificate made

Help! DVD-RW drive access/writing error

2008-09-02 Thread Gary Waters
Hello from newbieland! I'm running FC8. Everything has been working fine until I tried to make a backup DVD this morning. I inserted the blank, the nautilus Disc burning interface popped up...it said "Choose disc type"...I chose "Make DVD." When I click "write to disc" and subsequently click

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:56 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote: if I take the dvd, then I can choose what I can install? Yes, you can customise the install, adding packages, removing default ones. Though be aware that if you remove something that something else depends on, what you removed will be

Re: Fedora home server using core 9

2008-09-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 23:06 +0930, Tim wrote: The average HTTPS website that just works for you has paid a lot of money to someone like Verisign to assert that they're who they claim to be The irony is that if you read Versign's documentation, they don't actually claim to guarantee this. They

Re: When will Yum updates be working again?

2008-09-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bill Crawford wrote: I would say it has been asked but not answered, many times. It's been answered, just not with a specific time, which is obviously what everyone wants, but ... sometime is still an answer. You are easily satisfied. If you asked what time the plane leaves, and you were

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part III

2008-09-02 Thread linuxguy
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:41 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: linuxguy wrote: So where the #$%^*( is KDE4.1 ? And don't tell me its in testing ! If it makes you feel better, we had queue'd it for stable shortly before all the security hubbub, and it's been blocking on getting that all sorted out

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2008-09-02 Thread landon kelsey
I have Fedora 9/KDE 4.0.5 and have used yum to get the latest updates! Now some mysterious software update system is updating! For example: One morning I woke up and I got a new kernel all of a sudden! 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 I have looked everywhere to find a dialog to shut off this software

Re: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage

2008-09-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Chris G wrote: Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do you do it? I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to look in /var/log/messages to see what the device name is and then manually issuing the mount command. If you are running

sorry but hotmail is clumping all my statements into one big mess!

2008-09-02 Thread landon kelsey
I have Fedora 9/KDE 4.0.5 and have used yum to get the latest updates! Now some mysterious software update system is updating! For example: One morning I woke up and I got a new kernel all of a sudden! 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 I have looked everywhere to find a dialog to shut off this software

Re: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage

2008-09-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Chris G wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:49:36PM +0930, Tim wrote: Have you given the (psuedo) disc a volume name? To be honest, I found things painfully slow if I plugged my camera into the USB port. I bought a card reader, and yank the card out of the camera to use the pictures. For me,

Re: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joseph L. Casale wrote: In trying to swap a motherboard for the exact same type I kept having issues with the NIC not being started (network manager was disabled). I finally found 70-persistent-net.rules under udev had the mac address of the old nic as eth0 so I moved this file out and

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part III

2008-09-02 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:23 AM, linuxguy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:41 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: linuxguy wrote: So where the #$%^*( is KDE4.1 ? And don't tell me its in testing ! If it makes you feel better, we had queue'd it for stable shortly before all the

RE: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage

2008-09-02 Thread landon kelsey
things are worse in F9/KDE Look in the file manager There was a time when flash memory/camera cards opened automatically and placed an icon on the screen. I have a beautiful screenshot of these icons! Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:52:05 -0500

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part III

2008-09-02 Thread linuxguy
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:57 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: This is what I did: # yum --enablerepo=updates-testing groupinstall kde-desktop Thanks And then disable the repo ? Or are there fixing coming for KDE4.1 and I need to keep it enabled ? -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part III

2008-09-02 Thread dexter
On Tue September 2 2008 09:23:17 linuxguy wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:41 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: linuxguy wrote: So where the #$%^*( is KDE4.1 ? And don't tell me its in testing ! If it makes you feel better, we had queue'd it for stable shortly before all the security hubbub,

Re: Fedora home server using core 9

2008-09-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Timothy Murphy wrote: Craig White wrote: I must say I was fairly unimpressed with the error I got when browsing to the suggested URL, https://www.scientificlinux.org/. I know there was some sort of explanation given for this, and probably a solution; but I am rather lazy, and if someone

Re: When will Yum updates be working again?

2008-09-02 Thread Bill Crawford
On 02/09/2008, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Crawford wrote: I would say it has been asked but not answered, many times. It's been answered, just not with a specific time, which is obviously what everyone wants, but ... sometime is still an answer. You are easily satisfied.

Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Having been a participant or project leader for system programs, systems and network administration, and security development and monitoring for some decades, it seems to me that the Fedora project is lacking the most important clue on handling a security issue, that of keeping the users

Re: Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

2008-09-02 Thread Kyle Lanigan
On 2-Sep-08, at 8:55 AM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: On 9/2/08, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kyle Lanigan wrote: Have you tried logging in in text mode? ... Earlier you might have been able to enter text mode by Ctrl-Alt-F1, or alternatively by using something like Knoppix to

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part III

2008-09-02 Thread linuxguy
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:57 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing groupinstall kde-desktop Its not finding KDE4.1 by the looks of it. yum --enablerepo=updates-testing groupinstall kde-desktop Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit Setting up Group Process

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-02 Thread Bill Crawford
On 02/09/2008, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is a known date before which packages can be trusted, that should be said. Users who lag the cutting edge will be reassured. People won't have to be checking security logs for a decade if the problem is more recent. People on

RE: Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

2008-09-02 Thread landon kelsey
speaking of freeze::: I have seen a tooltip on the taskbar icons literally stop/freeze a desktop process such as vi! Sometimes getting rid of the tooltip requires (get this) unplugging/replugging my flash memory stick! Sometimes hitting the keys Ctrl-Alt does the trick. Other wise power

Re: Where the h%^^%$#! is KDE 4.1 ? Part III

2008-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:02:58 linuxguy wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:57 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: This is what I did: # yum --enablerepo=updates-testing groupinstall kde-desktop Doing it in the yum command like that only enables it for that one occasion. You don't need to

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Travis Arnold
Tim wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:56 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote: if I take the dvd, then I can choose what I can install? Yes, you can customise the install, adding packages, removing default ones. Though be aware that if you remove something that something else depends on, what you

RE: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Check .etc.sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-interface. Probably ifcfg-eth0 in this case. Mikkel That was the first place I looked and it was edited in the beginning. I read something about MAKEDEV cache, could that be the culprit? Thanks, jlc -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage

2008-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 16:57:30 landon kelsey wrote: things are worse in F9/KDE Look in the file manager There was a time when flash memory/camera cards opened automatically and placed an icon on the screen. I have a beautiful screenshot of these icons! In KDE4 when you plug in

RE: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread landon kelsey
I'm not an expert but I've found that it is best to install everything but languages! I knew a guy who didn't and he *always* had dependency problems! I love downloading the dvd iso , burning it and installing everything but languages! I do remember a dependency problem because some strange

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Bill Crawford wrote: On 02/09/2008, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is a known date before which packages can be trusted, that should be said. Users who lag the cutting edge will be reassured. People won't have to be checking security logs for a decade if the problem is more

Re: F9 install: anaconda fails: Unable to read package metadata.

2008-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Colin Brace wrote: Hi all, I tried reinstalling F9 from the DVD on a new disk this afternoon, but anaconda kept failing at the point when it started installing packages: Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodate directory. Please ensure that your install tree has

Re: Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

2008-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:21:44 Kyle Lanigan wrote: I'm gonna give a go to some of the other suggestions to see if that   lets Fedora run. Have you changed the theme? I ask because I did, to Platinum, and got a similar freeze. I manually edited ~/.kde/share/config/kcmthememanagerrc,

RE: When will Yum updates be working again?

2008-09-02 Thread landon kelsey
Thanks!I didn't know yum was broken except that I have NOT been getting updates for some weeks! Some other program (packagekit??) delivered me a new kernel 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 without my usual yum update Under F9 there is a software update dialog for setting (must be ) auto updates! I

Re: When will Yum updates be working again?

2008-09-02 Thread tom
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote: Bill Crawford wrote: I would say it has been asked but not answered, many times. It's been answered, just not with a specific time, which is obviously what everyone wants, but ... sometime is still an answer. You are easily satisfied. If you asked

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-02 Thread Bill Crawford
On 02/09/2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When and how did the intrusion occur? How was it initially detected? *shrug* I don't actually need to know, so I'm not making a fuss. I suspect, as has been hinted at here multiple times, there may be legal reasons why they haven't

Re: Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

2008-09-02 Thread Kyle Lanigan
On 2-Sep-08, at 10:44 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:21:44 Kyle Lanigan wrote: I'm gonna give a go to some of the other suggestions to see if that lets Fedora run. Have you changed the theme? I ask because I did, to Platinum, and got a similar freeze. I manually

Re: F9 install: anaconda fails: Unable to read package metadata.

2008-09-02 Thread Colin Brace
Phil Meyer wrote: I have seen that exact symptom twice, on different versions of Fedora. In both cases, the system involved ended up having memory errors. It may be time for a memtest on the system you are trying to install to. Thanks for the suggestion. The system is nearly a year

Re: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
Joseph L. Casale wrote: In trying to swap a motherboard for the exact same type I kept having issues with the NIC not being started (network manager was disabled). I finally found 70-persistent-net.rules under udev had the mac address of the old nic as eth0 so I moved this file out and rebooted

RE: F9 install: anaconda fails: Unable to read package metadata.

2008-09-02 Thread landon kelsey
I've always wondered: If I have F8 and do frequent yum update s do I have essentially F9 when F9 arrives! Perhaps some root change in F9 cannot be transmitted by yum??? Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:54:28 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

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2008-09-02 Thread landon kelsey
I've always wondered: If I have F8 and do frequent yum update s do I have essentially F9 when F9 arrives! Perhaps some root change in F9 cannot be transmitted by yum??? Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:54:28 -0700 From:

RE: Udev net issues

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Good question, and yes, udev DOES keep track. check in /etc/udev/rules.d for file names with *persistant* in them. There are several, and one for -- you guessed it -- network/NIC data. By removing the persistent file(s), udev will rebuild it with the correct/current info. This is how you

wifi enabling

2008-09-02 Thread narendraw1 palavalli
hai i have installed fedora9 recently in my hp pavillion dv 9617nr laptop it has a broadcom802.11b/g wireless card i m not able to connect to the network i tried even giving the ip address and tryin its not possible so please can u help me with this -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Bill Crawford wrote: When and how did the intrusion occur? How was it initially detected? *shrug* I don't actually need to know, so I'm not making a fuss. Everyone needs to whether or not they are at risk with the same vulnerability and how to detect it. I suspect, as has been hinted

Re: Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

2008-09-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:34 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote: Tim wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:56 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote: if I take the dvd, then I can choose what I can install? Yes, you can customise the install, adding packages, removing default ones. Though be aware that if you

RE: F9 install: anaconda fails: Unable to read package metadata.

2008-09-02 Thread Colin Brace
cloudbuster wrote: I've always wondered: If I have F8 and do frequent yum update s do I have essentially F9 when F9 arrives! No, running 'yum update' will only update the current version. To go from F8 to F9, I first installed this new release RPM: # rpm -Uhv

Re: wifi enabling

2008-09-02 Thread dexter
On Tue September 2 2008 18:09:36 narendraw1 palavalli wrote: hai i have installed fedora9 recently in my hp pavillion dv 9617nr laptop it has a broadcom802.11b/g wireless card i m not able to connect to the network i tried even giving the ip address and tryin its not possible so please can u

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Crawford wrote: On 02/09/2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When and how did the intrusion occur? How was it initially detected? *shrug* I don't actually need to know, so I'm not making a fuss. I suspect, as has been hinted at here multiple times, there may be legal reasons

RE: F9 install: anaconda fails: Unable to read package metadata.

2008-09-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:00 -0500, landon kelsey wrote: I've always wondered: If I have F8 and do frequent yum update s do I have essentially F9 when F9 arrives! F9 arrived months ago. The next one is F10, around October-Novemeber. Anyway, you have to explicitly upgrade. There are many threads

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 17:51 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: On 02/09/2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When and how did the intrusion occur? How was it initially detected? *shrug* I don't actually need to know, so I'm not making a fuss. I disagree. I think we do need to know.

A simple bash case question...

2008-09-02 Thread Dan Thurman
I am trying to figure out how to do the following: case $foo in one || two) process_One_Two ;; three) process_Three ;; four || five) process_Four_Five ;; *) echo Nothing to process ;; esac The problem I am having is getting one || Two or four || five to work - so

RE: F9 install: anaconda fails: Unable to read package metadata.

2008-09-02 Thread landon kelsey
I installed F9 just after it came out. I've never had luck with updates Fn to F(n+1) The question was just for my curiosity..thanks! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 13:02:17 -0430 Subject: RE: F9 install:

Re: Secrecy and user trust

2008-09-02 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080902 19:15]: Bill Crawford wrote: When and how did the intrusion occur? How was it initially detected? *shrug* I don't actually need to know, so I'm not making a fuss. Everyone needs to whether or not they are at risk with the same vulnerability

Re: Fedora 9 Freeze At Login

2008-09-02 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 18:21, Kyle Lanigan wrote: On 2-Sep-08, at 8:55 AM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: On 9/2/08, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kyle Lanigan wrote: Have you tried logging in in text mode? ... Earlier you might have been able to enter text mode by

Re: Putting files (images in particular) in a 'custom' order

2008-09-02 Thread Frode Petersen
... and they'd *still* come out in filename (or possibly date) order and not the order I want. You're absolutely right! I should have read the message more thoroughly. I thought you had two sequences of images and wanted to choose one or the other of each pair (i.e. 1A, 2B, 3B, 4A...) I

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