RE: vmware workstation 7 on 64-bit fedora 12?

2010-01-06 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:39 -0600, Dan Burkland wrote: > I'm running it just fine on my installation of Fedora 12 x86_64. When I > installed my custom kernel (2.6.32.2), > I had to do a bit of tinkering to get the network & vmci modules to > compile/install. > You shouldn't have any problems

Re: control-C and yum update

2010-01-04 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 07:14 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Paul Allen Newell writes: > > > A quick question which is hopefully just "an education request" ... > > > > While reinstalling f12 on a machine that I "messed up", I was following > > all my notes and directions and reached the point wh

Re: Flash drive name change -

2009-12-26 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 12:09 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Among the Christmas gifts were two small flash drives with the name > "HP v100w" which I would like to change but I haven't figured out > how to do it without reformatting them. > > Presently the appear to be formatted vfat and sh

Re: F12 NFS Failures

2009-12-21 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 00:39 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/24/2009 04:21 AM, John Austin wrote: > > > > Just tested my machine with UDP and TCP > > This was using md5sum for about 10GB over the NFS mount > > > > 1. The default for F12/Centos5.4 appear

Re: F12 NFS install locks up on "Performing post-installation configuration"

2009-12-03 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 21:18 -0500, Reuben Budiardja wrote: > On Wednesday 02 December 2009 19:10:14 Reuben Budiardja wrote: > > Hello, > > Has anyone tried installing F12 using NFS ? > > I created a boot USB, boot via USB, then use "linux askmethod", and then > > perform NFS install. I also created

Re: F12 NFS Failures

2009-12-01 Thread John Austin
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 11:00 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: > John Austin wrote, On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:21:58 +: > > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:00 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> On 11/21/2009 10:41 AM, John Austin wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 11:11 -0700, G

Re: system gets freeze ... where to check log files

2009-12-01 Thread John Austin
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 10:24 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 04:02 +0530, Jatin K wrote: > > Dear all > > > > I'm facing a strange problem in My FC12 64bit , suddenly my system > > freezes and nothing seems to work ... no keyboard works no mouse moves , > > what could be

Re: Sky2 NIC Problem? - Was F12 NFS Failures

2009-11-25 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 14:32 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have been fighting my problem with system freezes > > described in the previous thread > > I have added a 2nd NIC to the machine > > and tested across an NFS mo

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

2009-11-25 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:15 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:13:38 -0700 > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > I'm perplexed by the posts I am seeing regarding F12 upgrades. Lots of > > upgrade issues and darn faint praise as far as I can tell ? > > I installed from scratch on a new parti

Re: F12 NFS Failures

2009-11-24 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:00 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/21/2009 10:41 AM, John Austin wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 11:11 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > >> On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 10:09 +, John Austin wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> When

Sky2 NIC Problem? - Was F12 NFS Failures

2009-11-23 Thread John Austin
Hi I have been fighting my problem with system freezes described in the previous thread I have added a 2nd NIC to the machine and tested across an NFS mount using md2sum as before The machine now has An on board Marvell 8380 GB/s nic that uses the sky2 driver A D-Link 530T GB/s nic that uses the

Re: XV under x86_64

2009-11-22 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 21:18 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote: > I use XV for everyting, and it worked fine till I went to 64bit Fc11 > > Is there an rpm out there with a good 64bit xv in it? > Currently the 32bit version cant find a needed library, even tho > its in /usr/lib64 > -- >

Re: F12 NFS Failures

2009-11-21 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 11:11 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 10:09 +0000, John Austin wrote: > > > > > When copying a large file (2.7GB) from the server to the > > F12 m/c a complete freeze of the F12 machine occurs. > > > I haven't seen fr

Re: F12 NFS Failures

2009-11-21 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 06:33 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > --- On Sat, 11/21/09, John Austin wrote: > > > From: John Austin > > Subject: F12 NFS Failures > > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > > Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 2:09 AM > > Hi > >

F12 NFS Failures

2009-11-21 Thread John Austin
Hi I have just completed a clean install of F12 and subsequent yum update on a client machine. NFS was used for the install - no problems !! I am using a fully updated Centos 5.4 nfs server When copying a large file (2.7GB) from the server to the F12 m/c a complete freeze of the F12 machine occur

Re: should I go for 64bit version of Fedora 11 ?

2009-11-04 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 07:43 -0500, David wrote: > On 11/4/2009 6:14 AM, Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 03:58 +1100, Roger wrote: > >> Were I in your position I would opt for 32 bit install the software > >> and just 'use' the computer. In truth you probably will install 64 > >> bit and all t

Re: VMware Workstation 6.5.3 on F11

2009-10-24 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:10 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Has anyone succeeded in installing the 64bit VMware Workstation 6.5.3 > (the latest version) on F11? > > I've tried twice now and in both cases it's hung: > I picked this up on the web naxos hints_info 6# cat F11_vmware-6.5.3_install h

Re: anyone out there still using NIS?

2009-09-26 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 09:18 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 09/26/2009 08:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >i'm putting together a tutorial on network services, and i'm really > > uninterested in investing any time in covering NIS. anyone out there > > still using it? is it worth it? >

Re: Strange files, slow resopnse, evolution problem with recent updates

2009-09-24 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 14:03 +0100, John Austin wrote: > Hi > > I have just returned from holiday and updated F11 to latest state > Server Centos 5.3 also updated > > There was no problem afaik before the upgrades > > My F11 client uses kdm, xfce, evolution ... >

Re: Strange files, slow resopnse, evolution problem with recent updates

2009-09-24 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 14:03 +0100, John Austin wrote: > Hi > > I have just returned from holiday and updated F11 to latest state > Server Centos 5.3 also updated > > There was no problem afaik before the upgrades > > My F11 client uses kdm, xfce, evolution ... >

Strange files, slow resopnse, evolution problem with recent updates

2009-09-21 Thread John Austin
Hi I have just returned from holiday and updated F11 to latest state Server Centos 5.3 also updated There was no problem afaik before the upgrades My F11 client uses kdm, xfce, evolution ... and my home directory is an nfs4 mount from the server

Re: F11: No longer getting auto-mounted drive partitions to /media?

2009-08-26 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 12:06 +0930, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> Have we got a pain free method of relabelling Windows file systems, > >> yet? > > Rick Stevens: > > Uhm, "man mlabel"? > > Doesn't qualify as "pain free." > > You've got to assign a Windows drive letter to the device, first, before > you

Re: moving a working fedora install from old to new hardware?

2009-08-24 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 18:56 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 03:28 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > so is there a fedora way to say, "make *this* box look just like > > *that* box, but do it intelligently"? > > Using kickstart files to install a new box with the same packages, is a >

Re: Looking for Shuttle recommendations

2009-08-08 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 01:34 +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I'm looking into buying a Shuttle XPC to run Fedora. > > I am curious to know if anyone is running Fedora on a Shuttle, and if so, > which model? > > The models readily av

Re: Conf File Backup Idea

2009-08-01 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 08:41 +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: > On 08/01/2009 04:58 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: > > On 09-07-31 19:17:46, Thom Paine wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have a look at some of them and see > >> if I can figure something out. > >> > >> I don't mind manually making lists

Re: F11 + XFCE stability vs F10 + Gnome?

2009-07-26 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 18:46 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > I upgraded from F10 + Gnome to F11 + XFCE and found that I am getting > fairly frequent screen lockups which require a remote shutdown and at > least on one occasion required a power reset. I am having heat problems > thoug

Re: good external hard drives (e.g. WD Elements)?

2009-07-18 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 18:04 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 23:28 +0930, Tim wrote: > > Does anybody know if the "WD Elements" hard drives in enclosures with > > USB ports work with Fedora pain free? I've heard tales of some drive > > enclosures that go asleep on you, but can

Re: good external hard drives (e.g. WD Elements)?

2009-07-17 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 01:08 -0700, Mick M. wrote: > > > --- On Fri, 7/17/09, Tim wrote: > > > From: Tim > > > > Just get a good HD, same as you'd want as an internal > > drive, and a > > > simple enclosure. > > > > It does appear to be one of those, I guess I'm hoping to > > see someone say

yum update dependency problem today [libxcb-keysyms]

2009-07-01 Thread John Austin
yum update is giving following errors Has anyone seen anything similar ? I believe that it is telling me xcb-util.x86_64 0:0.3.4-1.fc11 will replace existing version but that the new version is missing libxcb-keysyms.so.0 [r...@naxos ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i xcb-util xcb-util-0.3.3-2.fc11.x86_64

Re: NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

2009-06-25 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 12:01 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:40 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > [snip] > > > I've found my problem - not that I had one !! > > Just a total lack of awareness !! > > > > I did not have > > >

Re: NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

2009-06-25 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 10:34 +0100, John Austin wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 01:15 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:53 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 14:15 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > > > [snip] > > &g

Re: NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

2009-06-25 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 10:34 +0100, John Austin wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 01:15 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:53 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 14:15 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > > > [snip] > > &g

Re: NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

2009-06-25 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 01:15 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:53 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 14:15 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > [snip] > > > > I have a similar error message: > > > > > >

Re: NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

2009-06-24 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 14:15 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 09:19 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 00:10 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:13 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2009-06-22 a

Re: NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

2009-06-24 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 00:10 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:13 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 18:38 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up automounting of home directories using NFS4 and > > > au

Re: NFS4 home mounts owned by nfsnobody

2009-06-23 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 18:38 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > I'm trying to set up automounting of home directories using NFS4 and > autofs. I seem to have it working except that all of the files in the > mounted directories have their owner and group set to "nfsnobody". > > /etc/exports on the s

Re: F11 install: cant install via NFS - ISO

2009-06-21 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:05 -0400, Andrew Parker wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Andrea wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install F11 via a ISO image via NFS. > > This on a PS3. > > I've tried the graphic installer and the text mode (passing boot option > > "linux text askmethod") >

Re: SATA Hotplug fails

2009-06-19 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 21:19 -0700, john wendel wrote: > I've got a WD external drive with an e-sata connection. Works fine if I > boot with it connected/powered. > > If I hot plug it, I see the following in the messages log > > Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x

Re: Anyone got F11 NIS working?

2009-06-19 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 08:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: > > I installed some fedora 11 virtual machines at work today, > > and tried to configure them to use NIS logins, and the ypbind > > service always times out when it tries to start. > > > > All the config files I can thi

Re: s-c-p: stupid app or PolicyKit annoyance?

2009-06-18 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 09:05 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 18:24 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I run system-config-printer as root, and it either hangs > > forever or tells me I'm not authorized when I want to do > > something like change printer default options. > > This is due t

F11 NFS4 idmapd Problem

2009-06-11 Thread John Austin
Hi Has anyone had a problem with F11 x86_64 and nfs4 mounts? I run a Centos 5.3 nfs server which is working fine using nfs4 with a fully updated F10 machine I installed F11 yesterday on a second machine with full updates On the F11 machine when I mount, either by hand, or autofs/NIS the names/

Re: Installing nspluginwrapper-i386 on a X86_64 box

2009-04-19 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 10:30 -0400, Jim wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > > > > --- On Sat, 4/18/09, Jim wrote: > > > > > >> From: Jim > >> Subject: Installing nspluginwrapper-i386 on a X86_64 box > >> To: "Fedora-Maillist" > >> Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009, 8:15 PM > >> FC10 -X86_64 bo

Re: blacklist mirrors?

2009-04-11 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 18:39 +0200, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 04/11/2009 05:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I was just poking around in the available yum plugins and I > > didn't see one for blacklisting mirrors. > > You could use the yum-fastestmirror plugin, and then in > /etc/yum/pluginconf.

Re: install to usb, when bios does not see usb?

2009-04-08 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 11:21 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:26 AM, jackson byers wrote: > > Please bear with me on this newbie question, > > my install experience is quite limited. > > > > Is it possible to install to usb external disk when bios does not see usb? > > > > > [snip]

Re: Linux on a pendrive

2009-03-25 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:56 -0400, Michael Weiner wrote: > Thought i would throw this out there to the those that have far more > experience than i in this matter. I have a need to create a bootable > USB pendrive, easy enough, thanks to the LiveUSB-Creator tool provided > on the fedoraproject site

Re: konsole trouble

2009-03-25 Thread John Austin
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 22:49 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 11:09 -0600, Robert Singleton wrote: > >> I'm running Fedora 10 under the Gnome desktop on a Toshiba laptop. Last > >> night I seem to have messed up the konsole applicatio

Re: XFCE 4.6 Success

2009-03-03 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 21:25 -0800, john wendel wrote: > For those of you lusting after XFCE 4.6, I just wanted to report that I > ran the graphical installer and installed in a sub-directory in my home > directory. The only tweak I had to do was edit the "gtk-doc.pc" > pkgconfig file and pretend

Re: Updated Packages - 21 February 2009

2009-02-25 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 19:37 -0500, Donald A. Greene wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 17:28 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 19:05 -0500, Donald A. Greene wrote: > > > 02 -21-2009: Installed (i.e. Updated) selinux-policy, > > > evolution-data-server-doc, selinux-policy-targeted, >

Re: WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!

2009-02-08 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 23:25 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote: > > I think you make less of a point about liking Fedora than the point you > > make in that you don't understand how it all works. > > > > Craig > > > > -- > Say what you will, which isn't true, but I have used Fedora for quite > sometime, be

Re: video crashes firefox

2008-12-24 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 19:33 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 17:52:43 Neal Becker wrote: > > Strange. Both links crash firefox here, with or without > > nspluginwrapper.i386 > > Firefox is crashing and causing freeze-ups so often here that I'm going to > explore getting

Re: video crashes firefox

2008-12-24 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 08:15 -0600, Steve Berg wrote: > > libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz > > firefox-3.0.5-1.fc10.x86_64 > > nspluginwrapper-1.1.10-1.fc10.x86_64 > > nspluginwrapper-1.1.10-1.fc10.i386 > > > > This link crashes firefox: > > tinyurl.com/6lhxy8 > > If you've installe

Re: fedora login window

2008-12-24 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:34 +0100, Alain Roger wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Kevin Kofler > wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > I have this in mine > > Pretty sure that its not all necessary !! > > > > ta

Re: fedora login window

2008-12-22 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 11:20 +0100, Alain Roger wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to have the fedora 10 KDE login window on the standard > fedora 10 (with KDE) ? > i find the KDE login nicer than the standard GNOME login window. > thanks a lot. > > -- > Alain > -

Re: Has anyone got Flash plugin working with Firefox on f9_64 (SOLVED)

2008-12-20 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 13:07 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > Reg Clemens wrote: > >> Thanks, I loaded all the modules mentioned above with yum. > >> BOY, the i386 modules pulled in a LOT of other 386 modules, but > >> I guess thats why we have big disks today... > >>

Re: Virtual DNS questiona and reverse lookup table conflicts

2008-12-07 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 09:19 -0800, John Cornelius wrote: > > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > > [WARNING! This is a long discussion!] > > > > Is it possible to have a single DNS server support > > two different domain names, with each domain > > name having it's own forward and reverse lookups? > >

Re: FC10 - What has replaced /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

2008-12-02 Thread John Austin
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:20 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am coming from Centos 5.2 (got over a dozen systems here running it). > This is my first Fedora Core install and I went right for Fedora Core > 10, as I need the 2.6.27 kernel. > > So I am looking for the /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file t

Re: Fedora 10 install issues

2008-12-01 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 12:19 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2008 16:31:29 Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:43:37AM -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > > > I'm trying to instal Fedora10 on my new laptop but I've run into a few > > > issues. > > > > > > It's a D

Re: Where is libflashsupport.i386?

2008-12-01 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 13:45 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Where is libflashsupport.i386? > From: Vivek J. Patankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Fedora Users List > Date: 12/01/2008 01:40 PM > > > Fedora 10 release notes say "Users of Fedora x86_64

Re: F10 NFS Install Query

2008-11-27 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 13:26 +, Simon Andrews wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:20 +, Simon Andrews wrote: > >> Simon Andrews wrote: > > >>> Someone else reported that you can bypass the problem by specifying your > >>&

Re: F10 NFS Install Query

2008-11-27 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:20 +, Simon Andrews wrote: > Simon Andrews wrote: > > John Austin wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> Previous versions of Fedora just needed the .iso file > >> on the server for an NFS install > >> > >> For F10

F10 RealPlayerGold

2008-11-26 Thread John Austin
Hi I have just tried to get realplayer running on F10 It seemed to install Ok but ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa|grep -i real RealPlayer-11.0.1.1056-20081001.i586 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ realplay (realplay.bin:4360): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "industrial",

Re: F10 NFS Install Query

2008-11-26 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 12:48 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote: > John Austin wrote: > > Hi > > > > Previous versions of Fedora just needed the .iso file > > on the server for an NFS install > > > > For F10 I needed to mount the file in loopback and copy th

F10 NFS Install Query

2008-11-26 Thread John Austin
Hi Previous versions of Fedora just needed the .iso file on the server for an NFS install For F10 I needed to mount the file in loopback and copy the contents of the DVD to a separate directory before anaconda could find it - is this a bug or a feature? Does anyone know if NFS exporting a loop m

Re: f10: what happened to XFCE?

2008-11-26 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:44 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm sure this is explained somewhere but i finally got a copy of F10 > for i386 and the first thing i noticed is that the desktop choices are > back to just GNOME and KDE -- XFCE, which i'm sure was there in F10 > preview, is gone. or am

Re: RPM Fusion repo?

2008-11-06 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:55 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 12:24 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:44:08 -0430 > > "Patrick O'Callaghan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > There are two repos, free and non-free. > > > > I actually took a look in the

Re: USB keyboard and mouse stopped working in X ?

2008-09-18 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 11:29 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > linux guy wrote: > > > I installed the latest F9 updates this morning via yum update. ... > > When I got to the graphical login screen, I found the keyboard and > > mouse no longer worked. ... > > > > Any idea how this might be fixed ? ... >

Re: can't get X to work after installing F9

2008-08-21 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 13:05 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 20:41 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I upgraded my aging F7 box to F9 yesterday by reinstalling from > > scratch. After I finished installing selected packages and rebooted, > > I discovered that X no longer worked. > > Be

Re: VMWare Workstation and Fedora 9?

2008-08-20 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 09:55 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:05:46 -0700 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Alan Evans") wrote: > > > Has anybody successfully configured VMWare Workstation (my version: > > 6.04, x86_64) for Fedora 9 (x86_64)? > ...snip... > > I don't use vmware, but many fo

Re: kernel update confuses nvidia drivers, where's error message?

2008-08-16 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 17:27 +, Mike wrote: > John Austin jaa.org.uk> writes: > > > So I would just try installing the matching kernel-devel for your system > > yum install kernel-devel > > should pull the one for the current kernel > > Well, I have not tried

Re: kernel update confuses nvidia drivers, where's error message?

2008-08-16 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 14:52 +, Mike wrote: > John Austin jaa.org.uk> writes: > > > > rpmdev-setuptree > > This downloads source rpms into home directory > > yumdownloader --enable=livna --source nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-2.lvn9. > > yumdownloader --enabl

Re: kernel update confuses nvidia drivers, where's error message?

2008-08-16 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 07:40 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 15.08.2008 07:10, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > Dave Burns wrote: > > ... > >> using rpmbuild command? What switches? > > This is not rocket science :-) > > > > For my x86_64 machine: > > > > # rpm -i nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-2.lvn9.src.rpm

Hiccup with latest F9 x86-64 update ?? gnome-packagekit

2008-07-31 Thread John Austin
I have just executed "yum update" on F9 x86-64 and get the following ... Updating : elfutils-libelf-devel [22/51] Updating : yum-packagekit [23/51] Updating : PackageKit [24/51

Re: Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

2008-07-31 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:08 +, Mike wrote: > John Austin jaa.org.uk> writes: > > > Please see below my notes to myself when doing the same for F5 > > Hope they help > > Your notes were just spot on - I adapted and ran these steps on the FC7 box > that needed

Re: Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?

2008-07-30 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:41 +, Mike C wrote: > Mark Haney ercbroadband.org> writes: > > > Yes you can use the current F9 src rpm and build it for F7. I did the > > same thing for FC6. As for Les' contention about the upgrade cycle, > > Thanks Mark - having never done this kind of buildin

Re: F9 LDAP Migration Tools

2008-07-16 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:30 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 18:19 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am just starting to play with LDAP on F9 and > > many of the Web articles reference things such as > > /usr/share/openldap/migration/

F9 LDAP Migration Tools

2008-07-16 Thread John Austin
Hi I am just starting to play with LDAP on F9 and many of the Web articles reference things such as /usr/share/openldap/migration/migrate_common.ph I have these migration tools on an F8 install but cannot find how to get them for F9 I must be missing something obvious !! John -- fedora-list

Re: Fedora 9: dbus problems with /home on nfs

2008-07-14 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 20:39 +0100, John Austin wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 08:06 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 13:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Monday 14 July 2008 12:47:25 Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 1

Re: Fedora 9: dbus problems with /home on nfs

2008-07-14 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 08:06 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 13:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 14 July 2008 12:47:25 Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:21:28 +0200 > > > > > > David Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Has anyone else seen this

Re: BIND patches versions for older Fedoras -- Update

2008-07-12 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 10:11 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > Also, what is the correct patched version RPM name so I know I'm getting > the right one if I need to build it myself? > > Since I fully expect that there will not be a build for BIND for > versions older than F8, I've built an RPM of bind-9.

Re: Package Updater NetworkManager Issue

2008-07-11 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 11:02 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:40:55 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: > > > I experienced an issue with one package supplied by the package > > manager. The NetworkManager package would not install due to unresolved > > dependencies. > > > Updat

Re: Package Updater NetworkManager Issue

2008-07-11 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 19:40 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: > I experienced an issue with one package supplied by the package > manager. The NetworkManager package would not install due to unresolved > dependencies. > > I tried to use yum directly. It turns out that there is one package > that is

Re: f9 and firefox-3 emacs keybindings

2008-06-27 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 21:41 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > It seems that with the change to firefox-3 on f9 I lost my emacs > keybindings. Firefox is back to using arrow keys (or soemsuch) for > motion commands. \C-a no longer takes me to the beginning of the > line, \C-b no longer takes m

Re: Can't load Nvidia driver on Fedora 9 x86_64

2008-06-25 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 13:09 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote: > New install on a machine with the following: > > 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce > 7050/nForce 610i (rev a2) > > Kernel: > > kernel-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 > > Livna is available, the following have been instal

Re: Firefox for ever

2008-06-18 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 09:40 -0400, John Burton wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 15:58 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > > >> full of blinky lights > >> > > > > Oh, and speaking of blinky lights. I always wondered what those sloping > > computer panels full of switches and blinking l