Re: Cifs with no writing permissions

2009-11-26 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:27pm on Thursday, November 26, 2009 (UK time), Paul Smith scrawled: I have just upgraded from F11 to F12, and now when I mount a samba partition with command mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user=xxx,rw //xxx /mnt/mydir I do not have writing permissions on the mounted

Re: installation through Fedora

2009-11-26 Thread Jerry Ro
My other computer is a laptop, so I can't plug in the drive into it... I don't have other computers. On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Mick M. off_b...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, This is almost like a riddle to me... I want to install Windows XP on a computer that currently has only

Re: [Bulk] Re: Reorganising F11 partitions - how to?

2009-11-26 Thread DB
On 11/26/2009 08:13 PM, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/11/26 DBfreddog...@yahoo.co.uk: PS is therre a way of searching 'man' pages to look for a command that does 'x' ? You can try `apropos x' or `man -k x' Thanks! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Cifs with no writing permissions

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Steve Searle st...@stevesearle.com wrote: I have just upgraded from F11 to F12, and now when I mount a samba partition with command mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user=xxx,rw //xxx /mnt/mydir I do not have writing permissions on the mounted directory.

Difference between screen saving in F11 and F12

2009-11-26 Thread Brian Wood
With F11 the screen saver would gradually (fade in), but with F12 it happens suddenly. I would like to have it fade in gradually again on F12. I've looked at the screen saver preferences but didn't see a way to control that. How can I make it behave the way I want? TIA -- Brian Wood

Anyone using curlftpfs?

2009-11-26 Thread Andrea
I get hangs of the Konsole running it (not just the terminal running it). I need to kill curlftpfs. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

copy xfce configuration?

2009-11-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have a Fedora 12 computer on which I have set the screen configuration to satisfy me. That includes launchers with icons and panels 1, 2, and 3. Can I transfer my configuration to another user by copying a file/s? Or do I have to recreate it for each user? If so can I copy it to

Restoring Windows MBR over GRUB stage 1

2009-11-26 Thread Andrew Hall
I have a two disk setup with Windows on /dev/sda and Linux on /dev/sdb GRUB stage 1 is in the MBR of /dev/sda and boots each OS by directing to stage 2 on /dev/sdb I now wish to entirely remove /dev/sdb but continue to boot Windows from /dev/sda I guess I need to do one of two things. Either...

embedded You Tube not working in FF with F12

2009-11-26 Thread Steven Stern
Embedded YouTube videos are no longer working for me in Firefox. If I right click and select view on You Tube, they're fine. I have removed the FlashBlock addon without helping the situation. Embedded videos work in Chrome. Ideas? -- Steve -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: copy xfce configuration?

2009-11-26 Thread suvayu ali
2009/11/26 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net:   I have a Fedora 12 computer on which I have set the screen   configuration to satisfy me. That includes launchers with icons and   panels 1, 2, and 3. Can I transfer my configuration to another user   by copying a file/s? Or do I have to

Macbook pro not bootable after f12 install

2009-11-26 Thread Matt Morgan
Installing onto a macbook pro (an older one--a core duo, not core 2, with ati x1600 radeon) from a live cd results in an unbootable disk. Any suggestions? In this case I took all default install options except that I told the installer to use the entire disk. Thanks, Matt -- Sent from my

Re: embedded You Tube not working in FF with F12

2009-11-26 Thread Antonio M
2009/11/26 Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com: Embedded YouTube videos are no longer working for me in Firefox. If I right click and select view on You Tube, they're fine.  I have removed the FlashBlock addon without helping the situation. Embedded videos work in Chrome. Ideas?

Re: copy xfce configuration?

2009-11-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 26/11/09 17:04, suvayu ali wrote: 2009/11/26 Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net: I have a Fedora 12 computer on which I have set the screen configuration to satisfy me. That includes launchers with icons and panels 1, 2, and 3. Can I transfer my

Re: installation through Fedora

2009-11-26 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:45:16 Jerry Ro wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Mick M. off_b...@yahoo.com wrote: I want to install Windows XP on a computer that currently has only fedora installed. It does not have a CD-ROM (not working) and I cannot boot from disk on key, though

Re: embedded You Tube not working in FF with F12

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Steven Stern wrote: Embedded YouTube videos are no longer working for me in Firefox. If I right click and select view on You Tube, they're fine. I have removed the FlashBlock addon without helping the situation. Embedded videos work in Chrome. Ideas? Do you have security setting like 'do not

Re: reinstalling grub MBR on first drive

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Colin Brace wrote: Hi all, Several weeks ago, I installed a new motherboard in my Fedora system. During the switchover, the SATA drives (I have five) were reconnected in a slightly different order. As a result, the grub menu wasn't displayed; rather I was dumped into the grub prompt and had to

Re: Prius Gas Mileage

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Steven P. Ulrick wrote: The gas mileage on my Prius has slowly declined from about 40 mpg when I bought it in 2005 (2d hand, it's a 2004 model year) to about 35 mpg today. Has anyone else noticed this? Any ideas why? It could, of course, be just that I'm paying less attention to driving

Re: How to import a Fedora Core 7 era KVM Image to Fedora 12?

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael N. Moran wrote: I recently installed Fedora 12 after using Fedora Core 7 for last couple of years. I have a Windoze KVM/Qemu image that I would like to import to run on my shiny new Fedora 12. I've launched Virtual Machine Manager, but it doesn't seem to like my old .raw image file.

Re: Apologies for: Anaconda loses ~100 GByte of disk...

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
M. Fioretti wrote: On Wed, November 25, 2009 8:39 am, M. Fioretti wrote: Greetings, I have looked a little more into the system I just installed, so now I am posting the same issue I mentioned in that other thread, but hopefully in a clearer form. I had this 350 GByte SATA disk which had

Re: Creating a local RPM repository

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 10:44 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: I have a hard time thinking of a case where I'd use both 'cost' and 'priority' was my point. They seem to provide the same capability to select which repo is getting used most, with a different spin. I wonder why priority was

Re: Difference between screen saving in F11 and F12

2009-11-26 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 14:59 -0600, Brian Wood wrote: With F11 the screen saver would gradually (fade in), but with F12 it happens suddenly. I would like to have it fade in gradually again on F12. I've looked at the screen saver preferences but didn't see a way to control that. How can I

Re: F12 EEEPC 1000H WLAN with hidden SSID no go

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tim wrote: Tim (re hidden SSIDs): It doesn't add *ANY* security. It *does* add problems. It doesn't hide your access point, at all. It still appears as an access point that can be used. Anybody, and everybody, can see that there's one there. It just doesn't have a name associated with it.

F12 install looses ext3 fs

2009-11-26 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Installation of Fedora 12 (ie., not update) went well except that it does not recognize two partitions that had ext3 file systems. Any ideas on recovering? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: F12 EEEPC 1000H WLAN with hidden SSID no go

2009-11-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Bernd Bartmann wrote: Hi, I just installed F12 on my EEEPC 1000H. Everything is working fine besides the WLAN connection to an access point with hidden SSID. I installed the rt2860 drivers from rpmfusion, activated wpa_supplicant and now I can see the WLAN acces point of my neighbors in Network

Re: F12 EEEPC 1000H WLAN with hidden SSID no go

2009-11-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Tim wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:14 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: I don't use hidden SSID much, as it only lends a tiny bit of security It doesn't add *ANY* security. It *does* add problems. It doesn't hide your access point, at all. It still appears as an access point that can be

Re: F11 - F12 from DVD: error; unable to read package metadata

2009-11-26 Thread Mikkel
Colin Brace wrote: Hi all, I would like to upgrade an existing F11 system to F12. However, the installer throws up an error message: Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been properly generated.

Re: Restoring Windows MBR over GRUB stage 1

2009-11-26 Thread Mikkel
Andrew Hall wrote: I have a two disk setup with Windows on /dev/sda and Linux on /dev/sdb GRUB stage 1 is in the MBR of /dev/sda and boots each OS by directing to stage 2 on /dev/sdb I now wish to entirely remove /dev/sdb but continue to boot Windows from /dev/sda I guess I need to do

Re: F12 EEEPC 1000H WLAN with hidden SSID no go

2009-11-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Bill Davidsen wrote: Tim wrote: Tim (re hidden SSIDs): It doesn't add *ANY* security. It *does* add problems. It doesn't hide your access point, at all. It still appears as an access point that can be used. Anybody, and everybody, can see that there's one there. It just doesn't have a name

F12 KDE - slow response when clicking task bar items

2009-11-26 Thread Craig White
Since I upgraded to F12, I have noticed that it is very slow to respond to clicks in the task bar - i.e., a long delay if I click the 'fedora' start button or any of the applications in the 'Task Switcher' widget. Discernibly slower than F11 FWIW, I am booting with nomodesetting option and using

Re: F12 EEEPC 1000H WLAN with hidden SSID no go

2009-11-26 Thread Tim
Tim: And the lack of a name doesn't prevent anyone from using it. Robert Moskowitz: No. You MUST have the name to associate with the AP. But all you have to do is force a current user of the AP to reassociate to get the name. There are now attack tools that will do this for you Only

Re: F12 EEEPC 1000H WLAN with hidden SSID no go

2009-11-26 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:39 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: The only way to absolutely prevent unauthorized use is to turn off the machine. That's why there are security updates regularly, *all* measures are about making it harder, forcing the evildoer to find and use the more difficult exploit.

Re: Is F12 ready to upgrade ? Is it worth it ?

2009-11-26 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 12:53 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: It surprises me that there is not a greater attempt to get feed-back on the frequency of problems, or equally, the lack of problems. I would have thought it would be relatively easy to design an online form that Fedora users could be

Re: Reorganising F11 partitions - how to?

2009-11-26 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 19:19 +0100, DB wrote: When I first installed F11 on the laptop, I setup several partitions (suggestions from O'Reilly's running Linux...), which now doesn't seem such a good idea or necessary idea. Not knowing exactly what advice you read, I can only say that sometimes

buffer overflow in system-config-httpd

2009-11-26 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
system-config-httpd-1.4.6-1.fc12.noarch appears to be badly borked: # system-config-httpd *** buffer overflow detected ***; /usr/bin/python terminated === Backtrace: = ... long backtrace ... 3743809000-374380a000 rw-p 9000 08:02 353257

Self Introduction

2009-11-26 Thread Matías Kreder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, My name is Matias Kreder, I've been using Fedora since Fedora Core 5, I'm an Ambassador for Buenos Aires, Argentina where I live. I'd like to join the Marketing group and also this mailing list in order to be in touch, and to receive suggestions

Re: Self-introduction: Ryan Rix (PhrkOnLsh)

2009-11-26 Thread Robyn Bergeron
Yay Phoenix! :) how 'bout this chilly 82-degree thanksgiving weather? Welcome! -robyn (a former north canyon rattler!) On 11/26/09, Ryan Rix phrkonale...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, After talking with Mel Chua and Ankur Sinha on the #Fedora-mktg channel last night, Ankur and I have

[Bug 541427] ocaml-cairo-devel needs to require ocaml-lablgtk-devel

2009-11-26 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541427 --- Comment #1 from Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com 2009-11-26 04:41:39 EDT --- Created bug 541542 for the

[Bug 541427] ocaml-cairo-devel needs to require ocaml-lablgtk-devel

2009-11-26 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541427 Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

Re: yum install ocaml-lacaml

2009-11-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:27:21PM +0530, onkar bhardwaj wrote: Hi, I did it after your mail but still the problem persists. I also executed updatedb to check the possibility of stale databases. As far as I'm aware, it should work. If it doesn't it may be a bug - please file a bug giving full

[Bug 541542] ocaml-cairo: cairo_ps_surface_set_dpi_REPLACED_BY_cairo_surface_set_fallback_resolution

2009-11-26 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541542 Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com changed: What|Removed |Added

rpms/perl-Digest-MD4/devel perl-Digest-MD4.spec,1.10,1.11

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Howarth
Author: pghmcfc Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/perl-Digest-MD4/devel In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv2447 Modified Files: perl-Digest-MD4.spec Log Message: spec cleanup Index: perl-Digest-MD4.spec === RCS

[Bug 456357] rpm: perl.prov fails to detect $VERSION correctly on multiple assignments

2009-11-26 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456357 Panu Matilainen pmati...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 202210] Errorneously detected perl provides

2009-11-26 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=202210 Panu Matilainen pmati...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

Add translations to start.fp.o

2009-11-26 Thread Sijis Aviles
I'm setting up translations for start.fp.o website (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/537). I've already have start.fp.o on the fedora-web repo configured and working for using genshi so that translations can be setup. Before i commit those changes I want to make sure I have

fedore ps3 ınstall

2009-11-26 Thread azyaka azyaka
hi. please help me fedore core 12 ppc ınstalling ps3 Somehow I can not be successful ve done everything. I made the choice I would choose the keyboard clock and then install the repo file and install the system restarts I do not do please help

Re: fedore ps3 ınstall

2009-11-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi Azyaka, azyaka azyaka wrote: hi. please help me fedore core 12 ppc ınstalling ps3 Somehow I can not be successful ve done everything. I made the choice I would choose the keyboard clock and then install the repo file and install the system restarts I do not do please help

I modified the FUDCon talk:Toronto 2009 web page by mistake

2009-11-26 Thread Juan Pablo Molina Matute
hi there, the following web page is a wiki web page I modified by mistake, i deleted a note about the registration and added my full name instead and I'm not able to change it back could you fix it in order to avoid any trouble? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_talk:Toronto_2009 thanks --

Re: I modified the FUDCon talk:Toronto 2009 web page by mistake

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Frields
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Juan Pablo Molina Matute juanp1...@gmail.com wrote: hi there, the following web page is a wiki web page I modified by mistake, i deleted a note about the registration and added my full name instead and I'm not able to change it back could you fix it in order to

New sponsor!!

2009-11-26 Thread Mike McGrath
We've got a new sponsor, bodhost.com! I've attached their logo, they are awesome for providing us a presence in the UK and canada. Also can we add them to the new site specific sponsors that we've been working on? Should I send requests like this to webmas...@fp.o or should I be using the new

Re: New sponsor!!

2009-11-26 Thread Darren VanBuren
Change requests typically do get put in things like Trac and Bugzilla. In short, yes please. Darren L. VanBuren = http://theoks.net/ On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 13:43, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: We've got a new sponsor, bodhost.com! I've attached their logo,

Re: New sponsor!!

2009-11-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
Mike McGrath wrote: We've got a new sponsor, bodhost.com! Cool! Also can we add them to the new site specific sponsors that we've been working on? Should I send requests like this to webmas...@fp.o or should I be using the new websites ticketing system? IMO, it doesn't hurt to send a

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