Re: cnn.com video weirdness solved (though not understood)

2009-06-13 Thread Carl D. Roth
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:17:44 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: Something in my old .mozilla directory was apparently preventing me from seeing cnn.com video. I could look at youtube, videos from the mythbusters site, etc, just never got anything to work on cnn.com. I could even chroot to my old

dead drive behavior has changed?

2009-05-20 Thread Carl D. Roth
I've noticed that my Fedora systems have recently changed in the way that they deal with dead or dying disks. It used to be the case that if a disk went off-line for any reason, the processes attached to it would die due to I/O errors. This is unfortunate, but otherwise doesn't hobble the

Re: FC10 - External USB drive and LVM

2009-04-25 Thread Carl D. Roth
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:23:11 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi folks. I tried upgrading my FC7 desktop to FC10 which resulted in the PC not booting, crashing during GRUB. I have now installed FC10 onto a new HDD and want to copy the contents from my old drive to

crash in btrfsck

2009-04-21 Thread Carl D. Roth
I crashed btrfsck fairly easily; there doesn't appear to be a btrfsck man- page. Also, I cannot find a bugzilla.redhat.com category for it (btrfs- progs-0.18-4.fc11.i586): [r...@t60 ~]$ btrfsck -h Segmentation fault [r...@t60 ~]$ sudo yum --enablerepo='*-debuginfo' install /usr/lib/

Re: useradd and the default group

2009-04-14 Thread Carl D. Roth
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:29:41 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 13Apr2009 16:28, Carl D. Roth r...@ursus.net wrote: | Can some one explain the following weird behavior with useradd? | # useradd -g mock -r -m -d /var/lib/mockuser mockuser | -- create a new 'mockuser' user that can be used

useradd and the default group

2009-04-13 Thread Carl D. Roth
Can some one explain the following weird behavior with useradd? # useradd -g mock -r -m -d /var/lib/mockuser mockuser -- create a new 'mockuser' user that can be used to run /usr/bin/mock # id mockuser uid=494(mockuser) gid=491(mock) groups=491(mock) # grep mock /etc/group

upstart bug (tty1 and Xorg) and bugzilla?

2009-04-04 Thread Carl D. Roth
I wanted to post this to the Redhat/Fedora BZ, but there doesn't appear to be an upstart entry for Fedora... My system is misbehaving right now because Xorg and upstart are fighting over tty1. My CPU load for Xorg is at 100%, and I see a stream of kernel log messages of the form Apr 4

Re: Since F9, Images on Firefox Fuzzy

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

Re: Since F9, Images on Firefox Fuzzy

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

Re: Need help with getopts

2008-07-21 Thread Carl D. Roth
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:13:32 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: I have: while getopts achrv:d:e opt What I wanted was single flags as: -a -c -h -r -v in any order as well as -d directory -e encodeType in any order as well. But the above use of `:' is not doing what I want. What

Re: Firefox 3 keeps losing my bookmarks

2008-07-05 Thread Carl D. Roth
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:21:43 -1000, Chris Stark wrote: Hi All, My home network consists of a few workstations that NFS-mount my home directory which is hosted on a central CentOS 5.2 server (clients use use autofs). Ever since I installed F9, I have lost my bookmarks several times, and it