Re: From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

2009-07-16 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 22:36 -0400, gil...@altern.org wrote: > Somebody has enough confidence in filling bugs to fill this one? I > find bugzilla is a nightmare. You really need to fill in bugzilla yourself, because unless you provide them with the answer at the same time, or they're able to reprod

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 13:11 -0400, linux guy wrote: > if I do a cd /boot from the chroot session, it shows a blank > directory. However, if I cd to /media/-/boot, its definitely not > empty. > > I think I need to link the /boot directory to /media/-/boot and then > to an rpm -i against the F12 k

Re: F9 ---> F11 server update with preupgrade?

2009-07-16 Thread stan
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:29:06 -0700 stan wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:11:52 +0200 > Peter Diercks wrote: > > > Hello List! > > > > I am running Fedora 9 on a remote dedicated server leased from a > > service provider. Access is through SSH. It is a LAMP server with > > moodle (an educational

Re: PulseAudio...

2009-07-16 Thread Amadeus W.M.
> So Ill ask, is there either a way to get this pos working, or is there > any way to just turn it off so it wont bother me? > Like many others I had troubles with pulseaudio so I understand. I skipped from F9 to F11 so I'm not sure about the F10 specifics, but as of F9 I came up with the fol

Re: f11 upgrade question

2009-07-16 Thread suvayu ali
2009/7/16 w bugar : > I know that fresh install is the recommended path but getting all the mplayer > deps installed is just too painfull to go thru again, if I can help it. I can't help you with your other problem, but as for the mplayer and its deps just follow this. http://www.mjmwired.net/re

Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-16 Thread gilpel
> On 07/16/2009 10:40 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote: > What you're missing is that the codecs are required for the player to > load and play the media. The codecs are not required to read the > contents of the CD. I see. You're teaching me a lot here. I always thought that, when you install the mp

f11 upgrade question

2009-07-16 Thread w bugar
Hello list, I was trying to upgrade from f10 to f11 (from DVD) but am getting a "insufficient disk space" message after the "preparing transaction" step gets to 90%. I have a 10G disk with df showing 1.9G avail. Any way to get the upgrade to finish? Is 10G now too small? I think the disk just

Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-16 Thread Shannon McMackin
On 07/16/2009 10:40 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 22:26 -0400, gil...@altern.org wrote: Why is it that, when I insert an audio disk, I see it as an audio disk on my desktop, but when I click it, GNOME shows the .wav files that are present. No application is suggested, even u

Re: How to get vsftpd working

2009-07-16 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-16 18:59:02, Ed Landaveri wrote: ... > The reason your directory listing fails is because of iptables. > Remember vsftp as any ftp server uses incoming port 21 connections > but not well-known ports outgoing connections. Google and you'll find > the exact configuration. He's using PASV

Re: PulseAudio...

2009-07-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Reg Clemens wrote: > I had hoped, that since f10 has been out now for at least 6months, that the > children that wished pulseaudio on us, would have fixed it so that it would > work 'out of the box' > > Alas, Im sure that they are off breaking something else in Fedo

Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-16 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 22:26 -0400, gil...@altern.org wrote: > Why is it that, when I insert an audio disk, I see it as an audio disk on > my desktop, but when I click it, GNOME shows the .wav files that are > present. No application is suggested, even under "Open", to play the > damned music. If I

Re: F9 ---> F11 server update with preupgrade?

2009-07-16 Thread Kam Leo
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Peter Diercks wrote: >>> Hello List! >>> >>> I am running Fedora 9 on a remote dedicated server leased from a service >>> provider. Access is through SSH. It is

Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-16 Thread gilpel
> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 22:26 -0400, gil...@altern.org wrote: >> Why is it that, when I insert an audio disk, I see it as an audio disk >> on >> my desktop, but when I click it, GNOME shows the .wav files that are >> present. No application is suggested, even under "Open", to play the >> damned mus

Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-16 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Thu, 7/16/09, gil...@altern.org wrote: > From: gil...@altern.org > Subject: Ranter or evangelist? > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 7:26 PM > Why is it that, when I insert an > audio disk, I see it as an audio disk on > my desktop, but when I click it, GNOME

Re: From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

2009-07-16 Thread gilpel
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 10:04 -0400, gil...@altern.org wrote: >> peter wrote: >> >> > What you could do is install pavucontrol. >> > Start pavucontrol and select the Configuration tab. >> > Try to find the correct output device. >> >> pavucontrol doesn't work in x86_64. Well, not here. Maybe somebo

Re: Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 22:26 -0400, gil...@altern.org wrote: > Why is it that, when I insert an audio disk, I see it as an audio disk > on > my desktop, but when I click it, GNOME shows the .wav files that are > present. No application is suggested, even under "Open", to play the > damned music. Wh

Ranter or evangelist?

2009-07-16 Thread gilpel
Why is it that, when I insert an audio disk, I see it as an audio disk on my desktop, but when I click it, GNOME shows the .wav files that are present. No application is suggested, even under "Open", to play the damned music. If I go to Application, sound and video, the first option, "Audio Player"

Re: PolicyKit - Authorizations - VNC - Add/Remove - Non-Root User

2009-07-16 Thread Albert Graham
F-IN-A /* RANT ON I can't help but think that all of this policy junk on a default install of the Linux Operating System is akin to microsoft's implementation of the standard unix operating philosophy of operating as a non-root user. If we want to tighten up our security, then we should ha

A graphics driver problem - poor quality and resolution on F11.

2009-07-16 Thread Simon Slater
G'day all, I have a s3virge graphics card and Acerview56c monitor. All looked fine with FC6 but with F11 there are vertical lines and following the mouse pointer are some pixels in contrasting colours. The maximum screen size available through system-config-display is 832x

Re: PulseAudio...

2009-07-16 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 18:38 -0600, Reg Clemens wrote: > I had hoped, that since f10 has been out now for at least 6months, that the > children that wished pulseaudio on us, would have fixed it so that it would > work 'out of the box' > > Alas, Im sure that they are off breaking something else in F

Re: How to get vsftpd working

2009-07-16 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Ed Landaveri wrote: >> I would advise you NOT to allow WRITE_ENABLE. If your clients are other >> *.nix clients you only need scp/sftp or psftp on Windows clients. If you >> have MAC clients they also can

Re: F9 ---> F11 server update with preupgrade?

2009-07-16 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Peter Diercks wrote: >> Hello List! >> >> I am running Fedora 9 on a remote dedicated server leased from a service >> provider. Access is through SSH. It is a LAMP server with moodle (an >> educational cms) as the

PulseAudio...

2009-07-16 Thread Reg Clemens
I had hoped, that since f10 has been out now for at least 6months, that the children that wished pulseaudio on us, would have fixed it so that it would work 'out of the box' Alas, Im sure that they are off breaking something else in Fedora instead. I have had had audio working on Redhat/Fedora fo

Re: F9 ---> F11 server update with preupgrade?

2009-07-16 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Peter Diercks wrote: > Hello List! > > I am running Fedora 9 on a remote dedicated server leased from a service > provider. Access is through SSH. It is a LAMP server with moodle (an > educational cms) as the only application. I want to upgrade to Fedora > 11, and I

Re: How to get vsftpd working

2009-07-16 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Ed Landaveri wrote: > I would advise you NOT to allow WRITE_ENABLE. If your clients are other *.nix > clients you only need scp/sftp or psftp on Windows clients. If you have MAC > clients they also can use scp. These clients run over ssh that come stardard > on F

Re: F9 ---> F11 server update with preupgrade?

2009-07-16 Thread stan
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:11:52 +0200 Peter Diercks wrote: > Hello List! > > I am running Fedora 9 on a remote dedicated server leased from a > service provider. Access is through SSH. It is a LAMP server with > moodle (an educational cms) as the only application. I want to > upgrade to Fedora 11,

Re: SOLVED. Was Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 16:16 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I fixed it. The problem had nothing to do with Linux whatsoever. It > was a bonehead problem caused by me. Someday when I am not mad at > myself and way behind schedule I'll talk about it. > > I re installed kernel kernel-2.6.31-0.69.rc3.f

F9 ---> F11 server update with preupgrade?

2009-07-16 Thread Peter Diercks
Hello List! I am running Fedora 9 on a remote dedicated server leased from a service provider. Access is through SSH. It is a LAMP server with moodle (an educational cms) as the only application. I want to upgrade to Fedora 11, and I need some advice as to which method to choose. Should I - use p

Re: How to get vsftpd working

2009-07-16 Thread Ed Landaveri
I would advise you NOT to allow WRITE_ENABLE. If your clients are other *.nix clients you only need scp/sftp or psftp on Windows clients. If you have MAC clients they also can use scp. These clients run over ssh that come stardard on Fedora/CentOS/Red Hat boxes. If you have Debian you install th

Re: vlc 1.0.0 for Fedora 10

2009-07-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 17:04 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 12:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > An RC version has been available for at least a couple of weeks: > > > > % rpm -q vlc > > vlc-1.0.0-0.12rc4.fc11.x86_64 > > That looks like a F11 package. I was aski

Re: missing audio after F11 install on IBM T61 Thinkpad

2009-07-16 Thread stan
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Globe Trotter wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been missing audio after installing F11 (from the XFCE spin) > on my IBM Thinkpad T61. I looked around and even tried the following: > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206868&highlight=problems+sou

Re: Fedora 11: can't read debugging symbols anymore

2009-07-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:13:12 +0200 Mildred Ki'Lya wrote: > Since recently, in Fedora 11, debugging software is becoming difficult. > Neither GDB nor Valgrind can read debugging symbols from my executables. I just tried building my Qt app "kewpie" with debug info and running it under debugger, and

Re: How to get vsftpd working

2009-07-16 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I've been trying to get vsftpd working but have had no luck so far.  This is > my config: > > anonymous_enable=NO > local_enable=YES > write_enable=YES > local_umask=022 > dirmessage_enable=YES > xferlog_enable=YES > connect_from_port_20=YES

Re: From the top... how do I get sound working in F11 ?

2009-07-16 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 23:37 -0700, john wendel wrote: > On 07/14/2009 10:02 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 20:31 -0700, john wendel wrote: > >> Looks like our junk is similar - Intel chip > >> > >> I had lots of sound problems until I moved to a 2.6.30 kernel. You'll > >> note tha

SOLVED. Was Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Linuxguy123
I fixed it. The problem had nothing to do with Linux whatsoever. It was a bonehead problem caused by me. Someday when I am not mad at myself and way behind schedule I'll talk about it. I re installed kernel kernel-2.6.31-0.69.rc3.fc12.i586.rpm. It works OK as far as I can tell. LG -- fedora

Fedora 11: can't read debugging symbols anymore

2009-07-16 Thread Mildred Ki'Lya
Hi, Since recently, in Fedora 11, debugging software is becoming difficult. Neither GDB nor Valgrind can read debugging symbols from my executables. Debug symbols shipped with the distribution are readable. So for example, when i'm debugging my code, I can access local variables when I'm inside t

Re: hp-setup not working on F11

2009-07-16 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Try running strace hp-setup This should tell you where it is hanging. I tried hp-setup on my F11 system and it works fine. Note you may have to install the strace package. strace will tell you what system calls are being executed by the program being traced. There is also ltrace which traces

Re: lightweight spam filter

2009-07-16 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/16/09 15:33, quoth Christoph Höger: > Hi, > > is there a lightweight spam filter out there that works well with > postfix? > Especially important would be to whitelist some servers I forward mail > from that already run a spamfilter. > > regard

Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Mick M.
--- On Thu, 7/16/09, linux guy wrote: > Here is my grub file.  The boot > partition is /dev/sda1.  That should > be hd0,0, right ?    The root partition is > sda2.  That should be > hd0,1, right ? > > Does anyone see anything wrong with my grub setup ? > Check your /boot/grub/device.map fi

RE: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:59:19 -0400 > From: cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows > > Peter J. Stieber wrote: > >> Thanks for all of the help Kevin. >> >> What can I do to start obtain

missing audio after F11 install on IBM T61 Thinkpad

2009-07-16 Thread Globe Trotter
Hi, I have been missing audio after installing F11 (from the XFCE spin) on my IBM Thinkpad T61. I looked around and even tried the following: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206868&highlight=problems+sound but this did nothing. alsamixer -c0 brought in a while lot of stuff and I

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Pete Stieber PS So your feeling is I should abort the PS currently stuck install? KC = Kevin J. Cummings KC>>> If you can't find out what's been installed KC>>> and what isn't, yes, I'd abort and try again. KC>>> Seems I always end up doing that anyways. B^) KC>>> KC>>> 24x80 is *not

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Peter J. Stieber wrote: PS = Pete Stieber PS>> Thanks for all of the help Kevin. PS>> PS>> What can I do to start obtaining fc11 PS>> rpms with yum? KC = Kevin Cummings KC> Check your fedora-release package. It KC> should be the f11 one. If so, you'll KC> use f11 repos. If not, you'll use f10

RE: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:33:51 -0700 > From: develo...@toyon.com > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows > > PS = Pete Stieber > PS So your feeling is I should abort the > PS currently stuck install? > > KC

RE: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:56:07 -0700 > From: develo...@toyon.com > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows > > PS = Pete Stieber > PS>> So your feeling is I should abort the > PS>> currently stuck install? > > KC = Ke

RE: Cannot get Flash working with Fedora 11

2009-07-16 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> From: akons...@sbcglobal.net > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:38:40 -0500 > Subject: Re: Cannot get Flash working with Fedora 11 > > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:32 -0400, Doctor Who wrote: >> When I visit a site with Flash, either t

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Pete Stieber PS>> Thanks for all of the help Kevin. PS>> PS>> What can I do to start obtaining fc11 PS>> rpms with yum? KC = Kevin Cummings KC> Check your fedora-release package. It KC> should be the f11 one. If so, you'll KC> use f11 repos. If not, you'll use f10 KC> repos. Get/install

Re: vlc 1.0.0 for Fedora 10

2009-07-16 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 12:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > An RC version has been available for at least a couple of weeks: > > % rpm -q vlc > vlc-1.0.0-0.12rc4.fc11.x86_64 That looks like a F11 package. I was asking about a F10 update. I may just abandon 3D for a while and move up to F11

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Peter J. Stieber wrote: Thanks for all of the help Kevin. What can I do to start obtaining fc11 rpms with yum? Check your fedora-release package. It should be the f11 one. If so, you'll use f11 repos. If not, you'll use f10 repos. Get/install it by hand if you have to Pete --

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Pete Stieber PS So your feeling is I should abort the PS currently stuck install? KC = Kevin J. Cummings KC>>> If you can't find out what's been installed KC>>> and what isn't, yes, I'd abort and try again. KC>>> Seems I always end up doing that anyways. B^) KC>>> KC>>> 24x80 is *n

Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread jackson byers
> I downloaded the supergrub iso and installed it onto my usb drive. > When I boot from it, it gives me the grub> command line. Is that a > sign I don't have the USB installation right or is that the tool that >I am supposed to use to fix my non booting drive ? I dont know supergrub but my advic

Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:59:58 -0400, linux guy wrote: > I downloaded the supergrub iso and installed it onto my usb drive. > When I boot from it, it gives me the grub> command line. Is that a > sign I don't have the USB installation right or is that the tool that > I am supposed to use to fi

hp-setup not working on F11

2009-07-16 Thread Andrea
Hi, I've tried to run hp-setup and after the copyright it just hangs there. those are the packages I have installed hplip-gui-3.9.2-4.fc11.i586 hplip-3.9.2-4.fc11.i586 hplip-libs-3.9.2-4.fc11.i586 the debug option does not add much [r...@thinkpad andrea]# hp-setup -g HP Linux Imaging and Pri

Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:58:00 -0400, linux guy wrote: > > default=0 > timeout=15 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro > root=UUID=f543d554-9344-4cad-a7da-47de47

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Peter J. Stieber wrote: PS = Pete Stieber PS>> So your feeling is I should abort the PS>> currently stuck install? KC = Kevin J. Cummings KC> If you can't find out what's been installed KC> and what isn't, yes, I'd abort and try again. KC> Seems I always end up doing that anyways. B^) KC> KC>

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Rich Mahn
> Here is my grub file. The boot partition is /dev/sda1. That should > be hd0,0, right ?The root partition is sda2. That should be > hd0,1, right ? > Does anyone see anything wrong with my grub setup ? > I don't understand how installing an f12 kernel and then uninstalling > it could stil

Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Seann Clark
linux guy wrote: I downloaded the supergrub iso and installed it onto my usb drive. When I boot from it, it gives me the grub> command line. Is that a sign I don't have the USB installation right or is that the tool that I am supposed to use to fix my non booting drive ? Thanks On 7/16/09, lin

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Pete Stieber PS>> So your feeling is I should abort the PS>> currently stuck install? KC = Kevin J. Cummings KC> If you can't find out what's been installed KC> and what isn't, yes, I'd abort and try again. KC> Seems I always end up doing that anyways. B^) KC> KC> 24x80 is *not* enough buf

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > You don't want a live CD but to run the f11 DVD in rescue mode. Then you > can chroot to the F11 / directory and apply any fixes. That way the > programs you run will be F11 programs. > If you read the thread, I did chroot. Chroot runs w

Re: lightweight spam filter

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Christoph Höger wrote: Hi, is there a lightweight spam filter out there that works well with postfix? IMHO, if there was an effective lightweight SPAM filter out there, SPAM wouldn't be the problem that it is today Especially important would be to whitelist some servers I forward mail

Re: lightweight spam filter

2009-07-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 21:33 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: > Hi, > > is there a lightweight spam filter out there that works well with > postfix? > Especially important would be to whitelist some servers I forward mail > from that already run a spamfilter. > > regards > > christoph spamassassin i

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Peter J. Stieber wrote: So your feeling is I should abort the currently stuck install? If you can't find out what's been installed and what isn't, yes, I'd abort and try again. Seems I always end up doing that anyways. B^) 24x80 is *not* enough buffer space on any of the 3 log screens to b

Re: Cannot get Flash working with Fedora 11

2009-07-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:32 -0400, Doctor Who wrote: > When I visit a site with Flash, either the area containing Flash > animations does not work (like adobe.com) or with a video (like > YouTube) I get the video initally then it just changes to a gray box. > I'm not sure what's going on here. > >

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 16:07 +, davide wrote: > linux guy gmail.com> writes: > > > > I am now running from a Fedora 9 live CD I had laying around. I can > > see the hard drive and its partitions from the live session. How > > would I fix the F11 installation so it runs again ? Is it pos

lightweight spam filter

2009-07-16 Thread Christoph Höger
Hi, is there a lightweight spam filter out there that works well with postfix? Especially important would be to whitelist some servers I forward mail from that already run a spamfilter. regards christoph signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- fedora-list

RE: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:26:11 -0700 > From: develo...@toyon.com > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows > > PS = Pete Stieber > PS>> Thanks Kevin. That's exactly what I needed! > PS>> > PS>> In the shell I ran top,

Re: Query about fedora 11

2009-07-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 21:02 +0530, Anant More wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install 'fedora 11' in to my system, while this I'm not > able to make '/boot' partition. I have 2 HDD's in system, in 1st disk > I have windows XP, and want to install 'fedora 11' on 2nd disk! > If I'm trying for '/boot'

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Pete Stieber PS>> Thanks Kevin. That's exactly what I needed! PS>> PS>> In the shell I ran top, and Xorg is consuming 97% PS>> of CPU with anaconda consuming the rest. Maybe PS>> the video driver is causing me grief. PS>> PS>> Is there anything I can do to give anaconda more PS>> priority o

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Peter J. Stieber wrote: Thanks Kevin. That's exactly what I needed! In the shell I ran top, and Xorg is consuming 97% of CPU with anaconda consuming the rest. Maybe the video driver is causing me grief. Is there anything I can do to give anaconda more priority or get Xorg out of the way?

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Peter J. Stieber
TM = Timothy Murphy TM I'm trying to upgrade a Thinkpad T23 (with TM preupgrade) from F10. Everything went fine TM until "Finishing upgrade process", which TM has been running now for 14 hours, with that TM ghastly imitation-Windows yo-yo swinging TM from side to side. TM>

Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
I downloaded the supergrub iso and installed it onto my usb drive. When I boot from it, it gives me the grub> command line. Is that a sign I don't have the USB installation right or is that the tool that I am supposed to use to fix my non booting drive ? Thanks On 7/16/09, linux guy wrote: > He

RE: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:52:09 -0700 > From: develo...@toyon.com > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows > > PS = Pete Stieber > PS>> How did you get a shell when you were in the > PS>> "Please wait while setup is f

Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
Here is my grub file. The boot partition is /dev/sda1. That should be hd0,0, right ?The root partition is sda2. That should be hd0,1, right ? Does anyone see anything wrong with my grub setup ? I don't understand how installing an f12 kernel and then uninstalling it could still result in a

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Pete Stieber PS>> How did you get a shell when you were in the PS>> "Please wait while setup is finished. This PS>> may take a while" state? KC = Kevin J. Cummings KC> CTRL-ALT-F2 usually does it when you are running KC> anaconda PS>> I'm stuck in this state with a desktop machine. PS>

Re: [FC] Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Peter J. Stieber
TM = Timothy Murphy wrote: TM I'm trying to upgrade a Thinkpad T23 (with TM preupgrade) from F10. Everything went fine TM until "Finishing upgrade process", which TM has been running now for 14 hours, with TM that ghastly imitation-Windows yo-yo TM swinging from side to sid

How to get vsftpd working

2009-07-16 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I've been trying to get vsftpd working but have had no luck so far. This is my config: anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES write_enable=YES local_umask=022 dirmessage_enable=YES xferlog_enable=YES connect_from_port_20=YES xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log xferlog_std_format=YES ascii_upload_enabl

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
Peter J. Stieber wrote: How did you get a shell when you were in the "Please wait while setup is finished. This may take a while" state? CTRL-ALT-F2 usually does it when you are running anaconda I'm stuck in this state with a desktop machine. I'm updating F10 -> F11 with the network in

RE: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:17:50 -0700 > From: develo...@toyon.com > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows > > TM = Timothy Murphy wrote: > TM>> I'm trying to upgrade a Thinkpad T23 (with preupgrade) from F10. > TM>>

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Joerg Bergmann
See the "software upgrade failed" thread on this list. Due to all mirrors out of sync, any network install (or install with online repositories included) is impossible at now. I learned that on Sunday, July 12. I did terminate an installation from DVD with online repositories included. An offline

fwbackups failure in Fedora 10

2009-07-16 Thread Jack Howarth
Is anyone else seeing this failure in fwbackups under Fedora 10? I find that when I start fwbackups, click on the One-Time Backup, select a directory in my user account and then select a directory on an external usb firewire drive (ext3) which I have write permission to that the backup fails wit

Re: F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Peter J. Stieber
TM = Timothy Murphy wrote: TM>> I'm trying to upgrade a Thinkpad T23 (with preupgrade) from F10. TM>> Everything went fine until "Finishing upgrade process", TM>> which has been running now for 14 hours, TM>> with that ghastly imitation-Windows yo-yo swinging from side to side. TM>> TM>> I am told

Re: [fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Rich Mahn
> I did that, twice, first off, before I ever posted to the group. The > f12 kernel installed to default 0 and then I had 2 f11 2.6.29 kernels > in positions 1 and 2. I changed the default to both of them and > neither would boot. I have had this problem often when I've been moving disks aroun

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
All traces of the f12 kernel have been removed without errors via rpm. My computer still won't boot. When I run fdisk on sda (the hard disk), partition 1 is still set to boot and the ID is still 83/Linux. Everything looks good. Why won't my computer boot ? On 7/16/09, linux guy wrote: >> To f

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Seann Clark
linux guy wrote: To fix Grub fast and easy, after editing the kernel grouping, or anything else out of /boot/grub/grub.conf, you can grab a livecd that works good on fixing a broken grub boot, called super grub disk (I have used it plenty of times when a borked boot of a fedora box happened to m

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
> To fix Grub fast and easy, after editing the kernel grouping, or > anything else out of /boot/grub/grub.conf, you can grab a livecd that > works good on fixing a broken grub boot, called super grub disk (I have > used it plenty of times when a borked boot of a fedora box happened to > me) and it

Re: Linksys Wireless WSUSB54G ?

2009-07-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
Jim wrote: On 07/16/2009 11:55 AM, suvayu ali wrote: You rename it to what ever name is mentioned in the page and put it in /lib/firmware. I'm sorry but I don't understand this paragraph, what page ? suvayu, Thanks for your help on this. I am sorry for being unclear. Was getting late for a

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
So here is what I did: - open a regular (non chroot) session. - cd to /media/-/ - mount /dev/sda1 boot /dev/sda1 is the /media/-boot/ drive. I found this out by doing a df and looking at the mappings. - the mount has to be done in the NON chroot session because the chroot session doesn't have a

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Fennix
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Seann Clark wrote: > linux guy wrote: > >> No joy. All I got was the same blinking cursor. I'm running from the >> F9 Live CD. >> >> BTW: chroot above was actually /usr/sbin/chroot. And the yum problem >> with the repos wasn't the repos at all. The chroot sess

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread Seann Clark
linux guy wrote: No joy. All I got was the same blinking cursor. I'm running from the F9 Live CD. BTW: chroot above was actually /usr/sbin/chroot. And the yum problem with the repos wasn't the repos at all. The chroot session doesn't have access to the network. ping www.google.com returns

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
No joy. All I got was the same blinking cursor. I'm running from the F9 Live CD. BTW: chroot above was actually /usr/sbin/chroot. And the yum problem with the repos wasn't the repos at all. The chroot session doesn't have access to the network. ping www.google.com returns "unknown host" in t

Getting rt2860 to work in FC11

2009-07-16 Thread Markus Kesaromous
After installing fc11 from dvd, I discovered there was no rt2860sta.ko module. I then downloaded the kernel source rpm, reconfig'ed to support rt2860 and rebuilt and installed. Now, rt2860sta.ko gets loaded and wpa_supplicant is happy. ___

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
I think I got it fixed. Here is what I did in case someone needs it someday :) - booted F9 Live. Just because I had it around. - opened Dolphin, because it displays the hard drives for the machine - opened a terminal in Dolphin - browse to the root directory of the hard drive - did a pwd in the

Re: vlc 1.0.0 for Fedora 10

2009-07-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 23:57 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone know if rpm fusion will be releasing vlc 1.0.0 for F10? I > want to try out the improved AVCHD support in 1.0.0, but I don't want to > move up to F11 (not until I have 3D support for my HD3850 video card). A

Re: Linksys Wireless WSUSB54G ?

2009-07-16 Thread Jim
On 07/16/2009 11:55 AM, suvayu ali wrote: You rename it to what ever name is mentioned in the page and put it in /lib/firmware. You rename it to what ever name is mentioned in the page and put it in /lib/firmware. I'm sorry but I don't understand this paragraph, what page ? suvayu, Thanks for

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
Will chroot work when the target system has a broken kernel ? It keeps running the old kernel ? I tried using rpm with --dbpath so that it used the F11 rpm data. It wouldn't run because of incompatible rpm versions. On 7/16/09, davide wrote: > linux guy gmail.com> writes: > > >> I am now ru

Re: Query about fedora 11

2009-07-16 Thread Patrick Mansfield
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:02:09PM +0530, Anant More wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install 'fedora 11' in to my system, while this I'm not able > to make '/boot' partition. I have 2 HDD's in system, in 1st disk I have > windows XP, and want to install 'fedora 11' on 2nd disk! > If I'm trying for

Re: How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

2009-07-16 Thread davide
linux guy gmail.com> writes: > I am now running from a Fedora 9 live CD I had laying around. I can > see the hard drive and its partitions from the live session. How > would I fix the F11 installation so it runs again ? Is it possible to > do an rpm -e on the non running F11 partition fro

Re: Status of a 2.6.30 kernel ? Other sources for a 2.6.30 kernel.

2009-07-16 Thread linux guy
I'll give adjusting the timeout a try. Thanks On 7/16/09, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:30:59 -0400, > linux guy wrote: >> So... I found the koji site and I found a 2.6.31-rc3 kernel rpm for >> fc12. It installed on my machine just fine with rpm -i. >> >> However, when

suggestions for library pc environment

2009-07-16 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Probably I have the opportunity to set-up (in my spare time) 4 PC for the library of the town where I live. They have been given as a present and are Dell GX260 PC with good cpu and ram (but) with 20Gb hard disk. There is not a robust infrastructure in the library at the moment. There are 5 PC with

Re: Query about fedora 11

2009-07-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anant More wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install 'fedora 11' in to my system, while this I'm not > able to make '/boot' partition. I have 2 HDD's in system, in 1st disk I > have windows XP, and want to install 'fedora 11' on 2nd disk! > If I'm trying for '/boot' partition it will generate a 'Unex

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