Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-21 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> Five seconds is probably ambitious, but I still like how my old Amiga >>> would COLD BOOT in 13 seconds, warm boot was 11 seconds. That's from >>> off, to fully working system. > > g: >> also, think about how much memory you had and was it 8

Re: Installing packages on f10

2008-12-21 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Vincent Onelli wrote: > 2. I downloaded the geda package using: System, Administration, > Add/Remove Software, all OK then I noted there was an update waiting so > I let go ahead and complete the update I then rebooted. when I look for > the geda package I noted tha

Re: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-21 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:53 AM, tom wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 16:00:29 -0600, >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> >>> The low cost residential account comes with terms that say you won't run >>> servers on it. If you aren't running a server, it do

Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)

2008-12-21 Thread Richard Hughes
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 22:36 +0100, DB wrote: > I just did the latest batch of F9 PackageKit updates - with disastrous > effect! (See attached list) I don't see how applying the updates removed yum. Did you try removing yum manually? Richard. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com T

Re: Hidden download performance problem with Fedora 6-10

2008-12-21 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Joshua C. wrote: > +1 > > I've seen really fast mirrors but when it comes to update the speed > drops to ~300kbps. when directly downloading from a mirror I get ~ > 1,6mbps. with other distro I haven't seen this, though. it is not a > connection problem but a fedo

RE: FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine

2008-12-21 Thread Frank Millman
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Frank Millman wrote: > > > > Still no luck, I am afraid. This is what I have done. > > > > #chroot /mnt/sysimage. > > > > 'uname -r' shows 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586 > > > > I ran 'mkinitrd -v /boot/test.img 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586'. > I put the > > -v in to see wha

Re: dbus preventing system-config-services from running

2008-12-21 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 08:53 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > "upgrade" also processes Obsoletes tags. You should always use > "upgrade". According to /etc/yum.conf that's already done. obsoletes=1 -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mai

Re: FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine

2008-12-21 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Frank Millman wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > > Frank Millman wrote: > > > > > > Still no luck, I am afraid. This is what I have done. > > > > > > #chroot /mnt/sysimage. > > > > > > 'uname -r' shows 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i586 > > > > > > I ran 'mkinitrd -v /

Re: FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine

2008-12-21 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Frank Millman wrote: > >> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> > >> > Frank Millman wrote: >> > > >> > > Still no luck, I am afraid. This is what I have done. >> > > >> > > #chroot /mnt/sysimage. >> > > >>

X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, After I installed Fedora10 from scratch, I start in text mode, log and startx. Then I got the Fedora background image and the arrow pointer but not the time shape around, and it stay frozed here. I have to reboot with an hardware switch. It is a Radeon RV100 QY (Radeon 7000/VE) with a moni

Re: libgtkhtml3 bug??

2008-12-21 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 05:18:43AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > I'm trying to compile gnomesword. > > You _do_ realize that gnomesword is already packaged in Fedora? > > Kevin Kofler Um,... No, I wasn't :( I thought I'd searched for it in "add/remove software" and

A few more Network Manager issues

2008-12-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
First, on my home system, when NM comes up it starts up in Auto Eth0 although I have defined Manual Eth0. I am not able to remove the Auto eth0 becuase it is read-only, even as root. I've read some of the other posts here and on the Fedora Forum where some said to make some changes to /etc/sysc

Re: How do you start the desktops that come with Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 05:11:20AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Dave Feustel wrote: > > yum groupinstall LXDE fails (not found). > > Are you on F10? LXDE is new in F10. > > Kevin Kofler I'm running F9. I tried to build LXDE myself but have not yet succeeded. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: Auto-run a DVD

2008-12-21 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 16:15 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On a F10 laptop, when I insert a commercial movie dvd I get a window that > tells > me "you have just inserted a video dvd" and gives me an opportunity to select > a > default application to open it with. However, the bar to make the selectio

Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 RPM - Did anyone make it?

2008-12-21 Thread Mark
Hi, I would like to try out the latest Thunberbird beta but i can't find a rpm for it anywhere. Is a RPM of that latest beta even build by anyone? If it is.. please send me a link. Thanx, Mark -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/lis

Re: Auto-run a DVD

2008-12-21 Thread Peter Boy
Am Sonntag, den 21.12.2008, 08:05 -0600 schrieb Aaron Konstam: > > So how can I tell this thing to automatically crank up gnome-mplayer when I > > insert a video dvd? > Try: System->Preferences->Personal->File Management I tried, but (the installed) xine ist not on the list to select from (not eve

Re: Lets test the h...@!! out of KDE4.2 before it releases...

2008-12-21 Thread Ian Pilcher
Is dual-head support any better than 4.1? Until I can set different wallpapers on different screens and different virtual desktops, I'll consider KDE 4 to be a horrible regression from 3.5. (This is, after all, the main reason I've been using KDE instead of GNOME all these years.) -- ==

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Anoop
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > After I installed Fedora10 from scratch, I start in text mode, log and > startx. Then I got the Fedora background image and the arrow pointer > but not the time shape around, and it stay frozed here. I have to > reboot with an hard

Re: Simple question regarding touch and mv

2008-12-21 Thread Roger Heflin
Don't some programs interpret -- as stdin? No. But some programs do interpret -- as no more options after this. so: "touch -- -foo" will work as the -- tells touch that there are no options after this. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.re

Re: Lets test the h...@!! out of KDE4.2 before it releases...

2008-12-21 Thread Mark
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Mark wrote: >> Also something important. >> I also installed (and removed) compiz fusion. KDE seems to go way more >> smoother with compiz fusion then with anything else so perhaps good to >> try that out. >> I had to install and use the emera

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, After I installed Fedora10 from scratch, I start in text mode, log and startx. Then I got the Fedora background image and the arrow pointer but not the time shape around, and it stay frozed here. I

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Anoop
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> After I installed Fedora10 from scratch, I start in text mode, log and >>> startx. Then I got the Fedora background image and

Re: Simple question regarding touch and mv

2008-12-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Roger Heflin wrote: > >>> >> >> Don't some programs interpret -- as stdin? >> >> >> > > No. > > But some programs do interpret -- as no more options after this. > > so: > > "touch -- -foo" will work as the -- tells touch that there are no > options after this. > I think it works for almost

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, After I installed Fedora10 from scratch, I start in text mode, log and startx. Then I got the Fedora back

Re: fuse changed my mount points?

2008-12-21 Thread Steve
Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 13:12 -0500, Steve wrote: > > It appears that this started between Dec 9 and Dec 10 and the only > > thing that was updated was cups. > > Any ideas? > > Look through yum.log rather than just the logwatch email, for other > things around that date. Logwat

Re: FC10 does not boot when HDD moved to another machine

2008-12-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Frank Millman wrote: > > I tried the suggestion of running 'yum update kernel' while in rescue mode > on the second machine. It seemed to work, but it still would not boot. > This will only work if you booted in the rescue mode on the new machine, and ran chroot /mnt/sysimage. (Mount /boot after

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Anoop
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: >>> >>> It does not help. >>> In fact I was expecting to find a /etc/X11/xorg.conf >> >> You mean 'X -con

Re: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-21 Thread Les Mikesell
NiftyFedora Mitch wrote: Port 25 in and out may be negotiated in some areas... The default in my area was to block it but a polite call to SBC unblocked it for me. I still had issues at the other end as my reverse DNS was known home DHCP class sites and I had to use them as a 'smart' host. HTTP

RE: Plymouth Config

2008-12-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Not to sound rude, but could you copy/paste the exact grub line? If it >turns out to be correct, you should probably file a bug. Priceless, Wasn't at all rude, but needed! I had been editing it so many times I never noticed an extraneous character:) My bad! Now that 1600x1000 works, it looks go

Re: Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 RPM - Did anyone make it?

2008-12-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Mark wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to try out the latest Thunberbird beta but i can't find a > rpm for it anywhere. > Is a RPM of that latest beta even build by anyone? AFAIK there is no RPM yet (and I wouldn't expect there to be until the thing is actually releas

Re: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-21 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 09:50 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Comcast bundles several accounts with email and space on their servers > for storage and http service along with the connection. There's not a > lot of reason to run your own server unless you have dynamic content. Or space? I don't know a

Re: fuse changed my mount points?

2008-12-21 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 10:39 -0500, Steve wrote: > The Dec 07 entries are mostly screensaver stuff. You might want to post that list, in case someone can spot the culprit. I'd be highly surprised at CUPS having anything to do with it. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686 Don't sen

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 21:13 +0530, Anoop wrote: > You can also try coping it to /etc/X11 and rebooting once. Simply restarting X would be less drastic, and less time consuming. Especially if you need to test out various different modifications. This isn't Windows. If the system is still freezing,

Re: Fedora 10 Stables feed broken?

2008-12-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Andre Costa wrote: > anyone managed to subscribe to Fedora 10 Stables feed? I always get: > > "500 Internal error > > The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from > fulfilling the request." > > Other feeds (Pending, Testing and Security) are all fine. I think this is h

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
> >> Run 'X -configure' > >> This will create xorg.conf. > >> > > It does not help. > > In fact I was expecting to find a /etc/X11/xorg.conf > You mean 'X -configure' is not creating xorg.conf > file ? X -configure creates a file /root/xorg.conf.new You(the user) run the test that is asked and the

Re: Auto-run a DVD

2008-12-21 Thread Frank Cox
> > So how can I tell this thing to automatically crank up gnome-mplayer when I > > insert a video dvd? > Try: System->Preferences->Personal->File Management That definitely looks like the correct screen. However, when I go to the Media tab I have the following list: CD Audio * Ask what to do

Re: Hidden download performance problem with Fedora 6-10

2008-12-21 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:09:27 -0800 Chuck wrote: > Sorry to bother you with this, but my reply to you on the fedora-list > was rejected by the list moderator. Probably too long. Or else I > don't know how to reply correctly...(I get the Digest version.) Yeah, I think there is a size limit...

Re: Hidden download performance problem with Fedora 6-10

2008-12-21 Thread Chuck
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Joshua C. wrote: > > +1 > > > > I've seen really fast mirrors but when it comes to update the speed > > drops to ~300kbps. when directly downloading from a mirror I get ~ > > 1,6mbps. with other distro I haven't seen this, though. it is not a > > connection

Re: Lets test the h...@!! out of KDE4.2 before it releases...

2008-12-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ian Pilcher wrote: > Is dual-head support any better than 4.1? As far as I know, it is (thanks to the new Kephal library in kdebase-workspace), but you should test for yourself, that's why there is a live image. :-) Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsu

Re: How do you start the desktops that come with Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Dave Feustel wrote: > I'm running F9. Then you need to upgrade to F10 to get the LXDE group. Some of those packages might be available as F9 updates though, I haven't checked. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/

Re: Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 RPM - Did anyone make it?

2008-12-21 Thread Mark
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Mark wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to try out the latest Thunberbird beta but i can't find a >> rpm for it anywhere. >> Is a RPM of that latest beta even build by anyone? > > AFAIK there is no RPM ye

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 15:37 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > Afte

Re: Unable to login after latest FC10 updates (i386 on Dell GX270)

2008-12-21 Thread Janez Košmrlj
Al Dunsmuir wrote: Hello Al, Sunday, December 7, 2008, 11:11:42 AM, I wrote: I'm running FC10 on 3 systems - 2x 32-bit (DELL GX270, D810 laptop) and 1x 64-bit (AMD quad). After applying all the recent updates, the D810 and AMD box are fine. Unfortunately, on the GX260

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 12:43 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: > $HOME/xorg.conf.new # /root/xorg.conf.new because it's must be run root # And, srsly, I's cant's grammatic neithr. -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-l

Re: X session frozes

2008-12-21 Thread Mike Cloaked
Patrick Dupre wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> After I installed Fedora10 from scratch, I start in text mode, log and >>> startx. Then I got the Fedora background image and the arrow pointer >>> but not

Re: Unable to login after latest FC10 updates (i386 on Dell GX270)

2008-12-21 Thread Janez Košmrlj
I have the same problem on an Dell Latitude D600 with an ati chipset. There is no text or icons. i can click on the screen an things happen but there is no icons buttons or text just grey and white windows. One more thing i forgot to mention. I did an yum uprate yesterday and with other things

Re: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-21 Thread john wendel
Tim wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 09:50 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Comcast bundles several accounts with email and space on their servers for storage and http service along with the connection. There's not a lot of reason to run your own server unless you have dynamic content. Or space? I don

Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-21 Thread john wendel
NiftyFedora Mitch wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: Five seconds is probably ambitious, but I still like how my old Amiga would COLD BOOT in 13 seconds, warm boot was 11 seconds. That's from off, to fully working system. g: also, think about how much memory you had an

Re: fuse changed my mount points?

2008-12-21 Thread Steve
Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 10:39 -0500, Steve wrote: > > The Dec 07 entries are mostly screensaver stuff. > > You might want to post that list, in case someone can spot the culprit. > I'd be highly surprised at CUPS having anything to do with it. A bit more research shows that /et

Getting DHCP to work/f10 declines to start network

2008-12-21 Thread tom
I'm giving f10 a try on a new disk, and therefor a fresh install. I'm supposed to be picking up (and was with f8) the ip4 address from a dnsmasq server via dhcp, but f10 is barfing. Well, not entirely, as the IP6 style networking shows on ifconfig, but since I don't want IP6 networking at this mo

backup of my / filesystem

2008-12-21 Thread Kevin Kempter
I'm looking for a clean way to backup my laptop in part so before I apply any updates I have a clean backup to revert to if needed. I have a / and /home filesystems in order to backup before I run a set of updates from yum I suspect I need to backup / separately this way I dont need to restore

Re: Getting DHCP to work/f10 declines to start network

2008-12-21 Thread Anoop
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:48 PM, tom wrote: > > I'm giving f10 a try on a new disk, and therefor a fresh install. > I'm supposed to be picking up (and was with f8) the ip4 address > from a dnsmasq server via dhcp, but f10 is barfing. Well, not > entirely, as the IP6 style networking shows on ifco

Re: Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 RPM - Did anyone make it?

2008-12-21 Thread Mark
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Mark wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Mark wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to try out the latest Thunberbird beta but i can't find a >>> rpm for it anywhere. >>> Is a RPM of that latest

/etc/profile

2008-12-21 Thread Dave Feustel
I've been running F9 for a while. About two weeks ago I started getting sequences like the following every time I log in: [1] 3875 [2] 3877 [3] 3879 [4] 3880 [5] 3881 [6] 3882 [7] 3883 [8] 3885 [9] 3888 [10]3891 [11]3895 [12]3899 [13]3901 [14]

Re: /etc/profile

2008-12-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Dave Feustel wrote: > I've been running F9 for a while. About two weeks ago > I started getting sequences like the following every > time I log in: > > [1] 3875 > [2] 3877 > [3] 3879 > [4] 3880 > [5] 3881 > [6] 3882 > [7] 3883 > [8] 3885 > [9] 3888 > [10]389

laptop issues and F10

2008-12-21 Thread Wade Hampton
G'day, I think the second set of major problems I had reported to the list about my Fedora 10 laptop were due to the first Beta of 64-bit Flash Details were: - Fedora 10 x86-64 with updates - First Flash 64-bit alpha - Gateway MX 6421 laptop with Radeon Xpress 200M video - Have to use nomode

How should I set the overlay and home options of livecd-iso-to-disk ?

2008-12-21 Thread Linuxguy123
I've been using the livecd-iso-to-disk utility to make F10 KDE4.1.8x Live USB installations. It works pretty well. But I am not exactly sure what a couple of the options mean. I'm just using them. Here is the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo Here is what the usage i

KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Alain Roger
Hi, i'm new to fedora 10 and i got the full version (with Gnome environment). as former Mandrake and KDE user, i would be glad to know how can i install KDE 4.1 on this version ? i do not want to download the Fedora 10 live with KDE already installed... :-) thanks a lot, -- Alain --

is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

2008-12-21 Thread Mail Lists
I am a long time KDE user - in part for similar reasons to Linus - it was configurable, flexible and let me set things up the way I wanted - easily and simply. It had a very nice configuration manager. Gnome by contrast was rigid, inflexible and to configure it - the bits it allowed you to -

Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

2008-12-21 Thread Alain Roger
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Mail Lists wrote: > > I am a long time KDE user - in part for similar reasons to Linus - it > was configurable, flexible and let me set things up the way I wanted - > easily and simply. It had a very nice configuration manager. Gnome by > contrast was rigid, in

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 December 2008 19:05:32 Alain Roger wrote: > Hi, > > i'm new to fedora 10 and i got the full version (with Gnome environment). > as former Mandrake and KDE user, i would be glad to know how can i install > KDE 4.1 on this version ? > i do not want to download the Fedora 10 live with KDE

Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-21 Thread Konstantin Svist
john wendel wrote: > NiftyFedora Mitch wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Tim >> wrote: >>> Tim: > Five seconds is probably ambitious, but I still like how my old Amiga > would COLD BOOT in 13 seconds, warm boot was 11 seconds. That's from > off, to fully working system. >>>

Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-21 Thread Konstantin Svist
john wendel wrote: > I really surprised that no one has mentioned this work here ... > >http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ > > 5 second boot is coming soon! > > Regards, > > John > > That was the article I indirectly referenced in the opening message, actually :) -- fedora-list mailing li

Re: /etc/profile

2008-12-21 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 01:47:06PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Dave Feustel wrote: > > I've been running F9 for a while. About two weeks ago > > I started getting sequences like the following every > > time I log in: > > > > [1] 3875 > > [2] 3877 > > [3] 3879 > > [4] 3880 > > [5

Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

2008-12-21 Thread Dave Feustel
I was a die-hard KDE/Konqueror user. But became an instant convert to Firefox when I discovered NoScript. Now I have stopped using KDE because several years of experience with it on 4 different platforms (OpenBSD, Fedora, OpenSuse, and FreeBSD) have convinced me that KDE has security holes (or bugs

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Alain Roger
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 19:05:32 Alain Roger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i'm new to fedora 10 and i got the full version (with Gnome environment). > > as former Mandrake and KDE user, i would be glad to know how can i > install > > KDE 4.1 on th

Re: Fedora 10 Stables feed broken?

2008-12-21 Thread Andre Costa
Hi Todd, On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 14:41, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Andre Costa wrote: > > anyone managed to subscribe to Fedora 10 Stables feed? I always get: > > > > "500 Internal error > > > > The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from > > fulfilling the request." > >

Re: Comcast permanent block on port 25

2008-12-21 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:02 AM, john wendel wrote: > Tim wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 09:50 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> >>> Comcast bundles several accounts with email and space on their servers >>> for storage and http service along with the connection. There's not a >>> lot of reason

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 December 2008 19:38:28 Alain Roger wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 19:05:32 Alain Roger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > i'm new to fedora 10 and i got the full version (with Gnome > > > environment). as former Mandrake and KDE u

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 19:38:28 Alain Roger wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 19:05:32 Alain Roger wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > i'm new to fedora 10 and i got the full ve

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Alain Roger
> > > for Fedora 10, only the following command worked well : yum groupinstall > > "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" > ok soeverything is installed but i do not have the same interface as under Fedora 10 Live KDE 4.1.3. howcan i get it ? i did notfind into menu or system/administration a piece of word

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Paulo Cavalcanti
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Alain Roger wrote: > > for Fedora 10, only the following command worked well : yum groupinstall >> > "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" >> > > ok soeverything is installed but i do not have the same interface as under > Fedora 10 Live KDE 4.1.3. > howcan i get it ? i d

Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)

2008-12-21 Thread DB
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:12:37 + From: Richard Hughes Subject: Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!) To: freddog...@yahoo.co.uk, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." Message-ID: <1229854357.3382.6.ca...@hughsie-work.lan> Content-Type: text/plain On

Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)

2008-12-21 Thread DB
Message: 7 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:18:22 -0700 From: Kevin Fenzi Subject: Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!) On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:36:30 +0100 DB wrote: Hi Kevin, thanks for the speedy reply... My responses are in-line: > Evening all, > > I just did the latest batch of

Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

2008-12-21 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Mail Lists wrote: > [ snip ] > (1) Are the fedora KDE users moving back to gnome ? ... is KDE dead > or alive ? KDE has never been more alive. I stiull prefer it to Windows, MacOS and Gnome > (2) Are there fedora Gnome users moving to KDE ? It is after all ve

Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

2008-12-21 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Dave Feustel wrote: > I was a die-hard KDE/Konqueror user. But became an instant convert to > Firefox when I discovered NoScript. Now I have stopped using KDE because > several years of experience with it on 4 different platforms (OpenBSD, > Fedora, OpenSuse, and F

WARNING: at drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c:311 serial_write+0x72/0x98

2008-12-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear fellow fedora users, I had found a way to run this machine(the one that froze a great many times). I used boot parameter acpi=off and it worked fine, except when I connected to internet. I connected with an external usb modem and it worked for a while till it froze. [r...@asus-amd64-a

Re: How do I activate compiz on kde with F10?

2008-12-21 Thread cromworshipper-fedorastuff
There are many guides on this topic around the web. Very little of this is fedora specific. If you want to just try it, assuming everything is installed and configured, try this: dbus-launch fusion-icon This should give you the tray icon. More here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/C

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:12:58 Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Alain Roger wrote: > > > for Fedora 10, only the following command worked well : yum > > > groupinstall > > > > >> > "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" > > > > ok soeverything is installed but i do not have t

Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-21 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 01:26 -0800, NiftyFedora Mitch wrote: > There are two places to pay critical attention to first: > > A. hardware initialization. > > For a system to boot all hardware has to be known in advance. > NO probes that time out for this and that... SCSI timers are LONG... > No pr

Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)

2008-12-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:21:10 DB wrote: > error: Failed dependencies: >     pygpgme is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch >     python-iniparse is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch So what happened when you installed these? Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)

2008-12-21 Thread DB
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:21:10 DB wrote: error: Failed dependencies: pygpgme is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch python-iniparse is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch So what happened when you installed these? Anne Hi Anne, any suggestions on an ad

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Em Dom 21 Dez 2008, Anne Wilson escreveu: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:12:58 Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Alain Roger wrote: > > > > for Fedora 10, only the following command worked well : yum > > > > groupinstall > > > > > > >> > "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" >

Re: Problem with rpm

2008-12-21 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, David Timms wrote: Geoffrey Leach wrote: RPM version 4.6.0-rc1 # rpm -q rpm rpmdb: Thread/process 20260/3086157584 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library ... hange here Any suggestions? --rebuilddb gets the same reply - backup the /var/lib/rpm/ - reboot with a resc

Re: Getting DHCP to work/f10 declines to start network

2008-12-21 Thread tom
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Anoop wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:48 PM, tom wrote: I'm giving f10 a try on a new disk, and therefor a fresh install. I'm supposed to be picking up (and was with f8) the ip4 address from a dnsmasq server via dhcp, but f10 is barfing. Well, not entirely, as the IP6 s

Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)

2008-12-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:21:01 DB wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:21:10 DB wrote: > >> error: Failed dependencies: > >> pygpgme is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch > >> python-iniparse is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch > > > > So what happened when you

Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-21 Thread jdow
From: "Frank Cox" Sent: Saturday, 2008, December 20 09:36 On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:29:37 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One other thing - was the Amiga booting from ROM? Depends on the Amiga. On the 500 and 1000 models, you had to boot from a Kickstart disk, then boot from a Workbench dis

Re: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-21 Thread jdow
Gag me with a pitch-fork. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Mark" To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" ; "Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora." Sent: Thursday, 2008, December 18 12:56 Subject: Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora

F10 failing at GNOME and KDE logon

2008-12-21 Thread Steve Searle
Running Fedora 10 on a desktop and it has just stopped logging on. When logging on to a KDE session, the message "Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation" is displayed. Clcikign OK (the only option available) returns to the logon screen. If I attempt to logon to GNOME, "Naultilus can

Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)

2008-12-21 Thread DB
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:21:01 DB wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:21:10 DB wrote: error: Failed dependencies: pygpgme is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch python-iniparse is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch So wh

Re: Getting DHCP to work/f10 declines to start network

2008-12-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:34:15 -0500 (EST) tom wrote: > Is the dhcp system busted here? Or am I nuts? It is possible that the F10 default install includes draconian firewall rules (I'm not really sure, but they seem to be trying to be fanatically secure at every turn). You could diable iptables an

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:52:07 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:25:42 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > > Em Dom 21 Dez 2008, Anne Wilson escreveu: > > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:12:58 Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Alain Roger > > > > wr

Re: 1-second kernel

2008-12-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 01:26 -0800, NiftyFedora Mitch wrote: >> There are two places to pay critical attention to first: >> >> A. hardware initialization. >> >> For a system to boot all hardware has to be known in advance. >> NO probes that time out for this and that... SCSI timers

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:25:42 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > Em Dom 21 Dez 2008, Anne Wilson escreveu: > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:12:58 Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Alain Roger > > wrote: > > > > > for Fedora 10, only the following command worked wel

Re: PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)

2008-12-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 December 2008 22:00:16 DB wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:21:01 DB wrote: > >> Anne Wilson wrote: > >>> On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:21:10 DB wrote: > error: Failed dependencies: > pygpgme is needed by yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch > pyth

F9: Sendmail Issues...

2008-12-21 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I am having a bit of trouble getting sendmail to work properly. Strangely, I encountered something that I never saw before (in messages log file when (re)starting sendmail), but found resolution for, was this: in Messages log file: STARTTLS: CRLFile missing The solution is: 1) cd /etc/pki/tls/

Re: Fedora User Guide

2008-12-21 Thread Karsten Wade
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:09:14AM +, N. James Bridge wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 17:42 -0500, Matthew Daniels wrote: > > Fedora User Guide Update > > > > > > The user guide for Fedora 8 has been hidden within the > > FedoraProject.org wiki for some time now. It ha

Re: Getting DHCP to work/f10 declines to start network

2008-12-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:34:15 -0500 (EST) > tom wrote: > > >> Is the dhcp system busted here? Or am I nuts? >> > > It is possible that the F10 default install includes draconian > firewall rules (I'm not really sure, but they seem to be trying > to be fanatically secure

Re: is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

2008-12-21 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 02:53:23PM -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Dave Feustel wrote: > > I was a die-hard KDE/Konqueror user. But became an instant convert to > > Firefox when I discovered NoScript. Now I have stopped using KDE because > > several years of exper

Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

2008-12-21 Thread Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Anne, Em Dom 21 Dez 2008, Anne Wilson escreveu: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:52:07 Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:25:42 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote: > > > Em Dom 21 Dez 2008, Anne Wilson escreveu: > > > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:12:58 Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > > >

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