Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 00:15 -0800, Hosea Phiri wrote: > I have a client who lost root password for his machine running FC 11. > I made an attempt to recover password by booting in single mode. I am > familiar with editing the GRUB boot menu and appending "linux single" > to make the server boot in

Acroread security problem?

2009-12-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I stumbled on this warning in a recent issue of Computerworld Online, at http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142479/Adobe_explains_PDF_patch_delay and have taken Adobe's advice, which is to disable Javascript in acroread. Adobe has confirmed a critical vulnerability in Adobe Re

Re: Sunbird Calendar Broken

2009-12-16 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:32 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I have just installed the latest sunbird, namely > sunbird-1.0-0.11.20090715hg.fc11.x86_64 > When started, it shows two error boxes and no calendar information. > The error boxes read... Running from a cons

Sunbird Calendar Broken

2009-12-16 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have just installed the latest sunbird, namely sunbird-1.0-0.11.20090715hg.fc11.x86_64 When started, it shows two error boxes and no calendar information. The error boxes read: Box 1: An error was encountered preparing the calendar located at moz-profile-calendar://?id=

Re: yum install mencoder makes X11 flaky

2009-12-16 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 00:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 12/11/2009 11:08 PM, Kelly Jones wrote: > > Ever since I "yum install mencoder", my X server's been flaky + > > frequently crashing. > > > > I remember yum installing/upgrading libraries when I ran the command > > above, but don't remem

Re: Writn a slash in Evolution

2009-12-10 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 14:20 +0100, Joerg Bergmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 08:04 -0500 schrieb Marcel Rieux: > > 2009/12/10 Christoph Höger : > > > Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 02:58 -0500 schrieb Marcel Rieux: > > >> If you start a new message in Evolution and go under Format, you

Re: Prius Gas Mileage

2009-11-25 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 19:33 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The gas mileage on my Prius has slowly declined from about 40 mpg when I > bought it in 2005... Please accept my apologies for posting this message, which was intended for another list (8-(. jon -- fedora-list mailing list

Prius Gas Mileage

2009-11-25 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
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 for good gas mileage, or have

Building an rpm with a modified Makefile

2009-11-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I may need to build audacity with the Makefile modified to set __WXDEBUG__ . The natural way to do this would seem to be to invoke $ rpmbuild -bb SPECS/audacity.spec edit the Makefile, and then run something like $ rpmbuild --short-circuit -bb audacity.spec but --short circuit only

Re: Error: Missing Dependency: VirtualBox-OSE-kmodsrc

2009-11-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 07:56 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 11/10/2009 09:11 PM, Hiisi wrote: > > For about a couple of days I have this error when trying to update my > > system (F11): > > ... > > Should I wait until some miracle with mirrors? > > I can confirm: Something seems to be odd with

Point Update [was Re: Why can't I ugrade Fedora like Centos?]

2009-11-07 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 20:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > ... > Did you file any bug reports? Fedora has a shorter lifecycle, no point > updates and software changes far more often... I'm not familiar with the terms "point update" and "point release", which R.S. used in an earlier message. What

Re: How to run a php script which contains a pdf

2009-11-04 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:29 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Nigel Henry > wrote: > > I was trying to read an online tool catalogue, and noticed a PDF button at > > the > > bottom of the webpage. Clicked on it, and it opened the dialog box to > > download. What ha

Re: Gnome applications and .bash_profile

2009-11-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:03 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On 11/02/09 12:20, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan: > > My *question* is what process is reading .bash_profile and acquiring > > LC_COLLATE=POSIX. Let me repeat it: > > > > The invocation chain for evolution, name

Re: Gnome applications and .bash_profile

2009-11-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:34 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > It looks like environment variables set in .bash_profile are visible > > to applications started in gnome but not via a shell. For example > > evolution knows when I modify LC_COLLATE. > >

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 12:24 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 11:39 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: res > > > 41/40:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) > > > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > >

Gnome applications and .bash_profile

2009-10-31 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
It looks like environment variables set in .bash_profile are visible to applications started in gnome but not via a shell. For example evolution knows when I modify LC_COLLATE. But how? Here's the invocation chain from login down to evolution -- no shells here. 1710 ?Ss 0:00 /us

Re: What are .config parameters for my kernel?

2009-10-29 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 15:17 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > The kernel source RPM ("kernel-whatever.src.rpm" package) does not > contain a ".config" file. You must create one by copying one of the > other "config-*" files in the RPM or via the "make menuconfig" or "make > xconfig" operations and savi

Re: What are .config parameters for my kernel?

2009-10-29 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 12:14 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I had thought that they would come from the .config file from either the > > kernel-source.rpm or the kernel-devel.rpm for my current kernel. But > > these two files are different.CER=y &g

What are .config parameters for my kernel?

2009-10-29 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I had thought that they would come from the .config file from either the kernel-source.rpm or the kernel-devel.rpm for my current kernel. But these two files are different. I run the latest kernel, namely linux-2.6.30.x86_64 . In particular, is my current kernel PREEMPT or VOLUNTARY_PREEMPT? An

Gnome Keyring: Automatic Unlocking / PAM

2009-10-22 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I would like my gnome keyring to unlock at login, exactly as described in the article with this title at URL: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Pam I am trying to get this to work in Fedora-11 running on an x86_64 system. The configuration (automatically generated at installation time,

Shockwave [was Re: Flash Problem in Firefox]

2009-10-13 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 10:11 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > see if the flash plug-in here: www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ This reminds me I don't have Shockwave on my x86_64 system. Is there a Shockwave plugin available for linux Firefox? jon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.

Re: grub.conf options

2009-10-08 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 12:38 +0200, Chris Rouch wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Where are they documented? > > In particular: > > * What does the quiet option do? > > * How can I get the system to display messages durin

Re: grub.conf options [redux]

2009-10-07 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:09 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Where are they documented? > In particular: > * What does the quiet option do? > * How can I get the system to display messages during shutdown? > rhgb suppresses messages during bootup. Is the

grub.conf options

2009-10-07 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Where are they documented? In particular: * What does the quiet option do? * How can I get the system to display messages during shutdown? rhgb suppresses messages during bootup. Is there a similar option for shutdown? If so what is it? * In my grub.conf, timeo

Re: Mock can't build x86_64 packages

2009-10-06 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 11:00 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Clodoaldo Neto wrote: > > Trying to build rpm packages with mock in F11 i386: > > > > I can build i386 packages but not x86_64 as I get this: > > You can't build for x86_64 on i386. Doing it the other way around > works fine though. Why

Re: Latest updates are missing a dependency

2009-09-30 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 13:02 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Just what I planned to do. But it seemed to be a good idea to tell the > > packagers that there is a problem, otherwise it might be a while before > > they fixed it (8-). > > If that's the goal, please use bugzilla. > http://bugz.fedora

Re: Latest updates are missing a dependency

2009-09-29 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:12 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > An attempt to install the latest updates produced the following errors from > > yumex. > > Machine is x86_64 with all updates except the latest. > > > > jon > > > >

Latest updates are missing a dependency

2009-09-29 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
An attempt to install the latest updates produced the following errors from yumex. Machine is x86_64 with all updates except the latest. jon Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package ibus-chewing-1.2.0.20090818-1.fc11.x86_64 (installed) Missing Dependency: libibus.so.0()

Re: Kernel 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP lockups

2009-09-25 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:12 +0100, Andrew Gray (Default) wrote: > have now had two lockups of Kernel 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 others > having problems, any ideas what is causing it :- > > Sep 25 03:19:38 lquad kernel: general protection fault: [#2] SMP > Sep 25 03:19:38 lquad kernel: last sy

Re: reading ancient floppy formats

2009-09-20 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 10:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Fernando Cassia > > | On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > | > Unfortunately, the setfdprm command was dropped from Fedora around > | > Fedora Core 6. > > | Have you tried what happens if you run F

Re: Suddenly I can't play audio CDs in F11 -- Also Grip Problem

2009-09-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 15:38 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > in bugzilla # 513495 > Aram Agajanian poses a solution for the Audio CD problem and it works. I have encountered this problem recognizing audio CDs, and also a problem with Grip, which may be related (or not). Grip recognizes CDs, looks th

Re: F11 and jackd

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 22:07 -0400, lanas wrote: > Le Lundi, 14 Sep 2009 18:25:02 -0700, > Jonathan Ryshpan a écrit : > > > I've been running jackd successfully along with pulseaudio, though > > with some xrun problems. In order to avoid xruns, jackd needs a > >

Re: F11 and jackd

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 20:07 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: > > On 9/15/09, lanas wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Using yum I've installed jackd and qjackctl on an fully updated F11 > >> x86_64 system. When using qjackctl to start jackd it reports that it > >> cannot connect t

Re: KDE RPMs look strange -- duplicates?

2009-09-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 06:48 -0500, Rex Dieter and José Matos wrote: Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > I have trouble with the KDE solitaire program (shameful to admit). It > > keeps putting up an error box saying: > > ... > > Looking over the situation, I noticed a stran

KDE RPMs look strange -- duplicates?

2009-08-31 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have trouble with the KDE solitaire program (shameful to admit). It keeps putting up an error box saying: We are sorry KbuildSycoca closed unexpectedly and offering to let me submit a but. Unfortunately the bug submission procession produces similar messages. And, in fact, invoking "$

Re: Fedora Kernel Versioning

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 03:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 08/28/2009 03:12 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I'm building a new kernel, and am trying to follow the Fedora kernel > > version rules, so far without success. The new kernel differs from the > > current ke

Fedora Kernel Versioning

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I'm building a new kernel, and am trying to follow the Fedora kernel version rules, so far without success. The new kernel differs from the current kernel only in using PREEMPT instead of VOLUNTARY_PREEMPT. I've modified the Makefile so that EXTRAVERSION = .6-217.2.8.fc11-jon.x86_64 inste

Re: What is the plan for sound for F12 ?

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:44 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: > Follow the advice under "Release Notes" pertaining to "tsched=0" and > see if PulseAudio issues go away. It worked miracles for me. Where in the release notes is this? I assume you're writing about the release notes for Fedora-11 at:

Re: OT: Is the AMD Phenom processor upwards compabible with the Opteron

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Thanks for your info, but your message leaves open exactly the two questions that I was asking: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 12:15 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Configuring the kernel I came across a choice between generic-x86_64 > > processors, and the Optero

OT: Is the AMD Phenom processor upwards compabible with the Opteron

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Configuring the kernel I came across a choice between generic-x86_64 processors, and the Opteron/Athlon/Hammer/K8 processors. My system has a 4-core Phenom processor. Questions: 1. Is the Phenom compatible with the Opteron/etc? I.e. if I configure for the Opteron, will my kernel be

Re: About configuring a kernel, and CONFIG_PREEMPT (Solved)

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 08:23 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I need to rebuild the Fedora Kernel, something I haven't done for > many years, to (hopefully) reduce the large number of xruns that I'm > getting using jackd. The plan is to build a preemtable kernel. > 3. Th

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:39 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On 08/26/09 13:03, quoth Jonathan Ryshpan: > > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 09:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > >> stan wrote: > >>> If you are using the default Fedora setup, you have your own version of > >

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 09:25 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > stan wrote: > > If you are using the default Fedora setup, you have your own version of > > pulse started when you log in. I notice that it also can be started by > > programs that need its services, and that seems to be gconf-helper. > >

About configuring a kernel, and CONFIG_PREEMPT

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I need to rebuild the Fedora Kernel, something I haven't done for many years, to (hopefully) reduce the large number of xruns that I'm getting using jackd. The plan is to build a preemtable kernel. 1. It look like the file .config in the kernel-devel RPM contains the configuration p

About configuring a kernel, and CONFIG_PREEMPT

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I may need to rebuild the Fedora Kernel, something I haven't done for many years, to (hopefully) reduce the large number of xruns that I'm getting using jackd. The plan is to build a preemtable kernel. 1. It look like the file .config in the kernel-devel RPM contains the configurati

Sound Howto for Fedora-11

2009-08-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
How can I get my various sound utilities and functions namely: Amarok Firefox Sound (npviewer) Xmms Audacity Pulseaudio and its Controls Gnome Advanced Volume Control Jack Qjackctl Computer Line in to play nice togethe

[OT?] Web looks slow

2009-08-08 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Web access has been really s.l.o.w since the last upgrade to Firefox (to Firefox-3.5.2). It looks like a web issue, maybe related to the Twitter denial of service attacks, or maybe to changes to service by my ISP. Or maybe it's a Fedora or Firefox issue. Has anyone else noticed this? jon -- f

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Algol 60 guru required

2009-08-04 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:28 +0400, Hiisi wrote: > Here's a fragment of the initial code: > PROCEDURE QUINEQ(INTEGER VALUE N1,N2; REAL ARRAY Y,B,C,D,E,F(*)); >IF N2>N1+1 THEN >BEGIN > INTEGER N; > REAL P,Q,R,S,T,U,V; > N:=N2-3; P:=Q:=R:=S:=T:=0.0; > FOR I:=N1 STEP 1

Re: OFF-TOPIC: Algol 60 guru required

2009-08-03 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 01:58 +0400, Hiisi wrote: > Dear All! > Sorry for this off-topic, but I could not see any solution to my > problem. I'm trying to transform old Algol 60 program to C++. I can > understand every syntax of it except this construction: > D(N+1):=N(N+2):=0.0; > > Variables type

Re: The ideal mail client?

2009-08-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:21 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: > Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 16:17 -0700 schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: > > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 23:29 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: > > > For your personal needs evolution seems perfect. > > > > I find evoluti

Re: The ideal mail client?

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 23:29 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: > For your personal needs evolution seems perfect. I find evolution (which I am using right now) to be very buggy. It has been crashing several times per day, sometimes only minutes after being started. I have a fairly large number of me

Evolution painfully slow

2009-07-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Evolution (evolution-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64 running under Fedora-11) is painfully slow performing some actions. In particular, I've been clearing out the the 1579 deleted messages in my Junk folder for the past hour. The status (bottom) line has been displaying: Updating Search Folders for

Brother HL-1440 print drivers: Most don't work at all; one works badly

2009-07-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
System-config-printer allows a number of drivers for the HL-1440 printer. I tried them all and printed the standard test page. These are my results. Everything was done as "su root", which may just possible have some effect on things. The bad printers are marked with a *, the passable one with a

Re: two F11 issues (brother printer)

2009-07-22 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:28:54 -0400 > Joe Smith wrote: > > > These two look relevant, at least: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_id=507628,507629 > > For that model brother printer, this might also be relevant: > > https://bu

Re: OT: Can Reformatting A Hard Drive To ext3 Destroy All the Data On It?

2009-06-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
> On 05/30/2009 04:49 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > How do you access the security erase facility? All kidding aside, there's a web site from which you can download a little DOS utility to invoke security erase on a drive. The README claims that security erase is better than smashing the drive to bit

Re: How to recover data from a defective CDROM

2009-05-21 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 09:23 +0100, Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > It's a Sony Optiarc AD-7220S > There appear to be a number of people having problems with it. > Check the firmware, in case of fixes. > http://www.sony-optiarc.us/en/support-s

Re: How to recover data from a defective CDROM

2009-05-21 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 08:26 +0100, Frank Murphy (Frankly3d) wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > > The drive does read other CDs without trouble. It's almost new; I > > bought the system in March. Two other systems, both old but reliable > > won't read

Re: How to recover data from a defective CDROM

2009-05-21 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 22:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > >My computer is no longer able to read a CDROM with some fairly valuable > >data. I have been able to read this CDROM successfully in the past. > >... > >

How to recover data from a defective CDROM

2009-05-20 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
My computer is no longer able to read a CDROM with some fairly valuable data. I have been able to read this CDROM successfully in the past. Inserting the CDROM into the drive produces this in /var/log/message: May 20 14:31:05 localhost kernel: sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyt

Re: Colors different under mplayer and Gnome Mplayer

2009-05-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 18:07 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I've been using mplayer to view videos till today, when I decided to try > > out totem and gnome-mplayer. Both totem and gnome-mplayer play videos > > smoothly and with good sound, bu

Colors different under mplayer and Gnome Mplayer

2009-05-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I've been using mplayer to view videos till today, when I decided to try out totem and gnome-mplayer. Both totem and gnome-mplayer play videos smoothly and with good sound, but the colors are different from the ones I get with mplayer. Totem and gnome-mplayer both display the same, but I think th

Evolution locks up [ was Re: mail-notification applet locks up evolution ]

2009-04-25 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 13:53 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I ran the mail-notification applet > (mail-notification-5.4-4.fc10.x86_64 to be exact) > and was very satisfied with it except for one thing. It makes evolution > lock up. > > If mail-notification is run

Usb printer not usable at startup

2009-04-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
My usb printer does not work properly at system startup. If the usb cable is unplugged and then plugged in again, it works fine. Details: $ uname -srvmpio Linux 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23 23:08:10 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ lsusb

mail-notification applet locks up evolution

2009-04-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I ran the mail-notification applet (mail-notification-5.4-4.fc10.x86_64 to be exact) and was very satisfied with it except for one thing. It makes evolution lock up. If mail-notification is running, after a time varying from minutes to hours, evolution will stop updating or restoring t

Re: Fcron

2009-04-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 15:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Has anybody used it? Anybody like it? Anybody have anything to say > > about it at all? > > > Sounds like it has much in common with anacron which already comes > with fedora. It do

Fcron

2009-04-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Has anybody used it? Anybody like it? Anybody have anything to say about it at all? jon -- 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

Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts with > the X Window System running. What am I missing? > ... > # Default runlevel. The runlevels used are: > # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault t

Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 23:13 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:23 +0930, Tim wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts > > > with the X Window

Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:23 +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > --- On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan > wrote: > | I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts > with > | the X Window System running. What am I missing? > | > | id:1:initdefau

Re: initdefault has no effect

2009-04-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:23 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:42 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts > > with the X Window System running. What am I missing? > > > # id:5:initdefault: > >

initdefault has no effect

2009-04-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have /etc/inittab set up as follows, but the system always starts with the X Window System running. What am I missing? Thanks - jon # Default runlevel. The runlevels used are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3,

Accessing vfat filesystem via nfs locks up server & client

2009-04-04 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I am exporting a vfat filesystem from a machine "server" to another machine "client" using nfs. The filesystem appears to mount OK on client, but any attempt to actually access it on the client -- say by running [client $] ls vfat-filesystem locks up the ls process on the client and also l

Re: Umount nfs strangely slow

2009-04-03 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 23:11 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 19:08 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I am mounting a few filesystems from one F10 machine to another. Mount > > works rapidly but umount of each of the filesystems takes about 20 > >

Umount nfs strangely slow

2009-04-03 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I am mounting a few filesystems from one F10 machine to another. Mount works rapidly but umount of each of the filesystems takes about 20 seconds. Is this normal? Could I have the systems misconfigured in any obvious way? Both machines have x86_64 processors. Here is the file /etc/exports on t

Re: Firewall and RPC Setup for NFS

2009-03-28 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 21:22 +, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > 2009/3/27 Jonathan Ryshpan : > > Setting up to use NFS I've found that RPC doesn't work; it's blocked by > > the firewall. I surmise that RPC is one of the services listed in > > System->Administratio

Firewall and RPC Setup for NFS

2009-03-27 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Setting up to use NFS I've found that RPC doesn't work; it's blocked by the firewall. I surmise that RPC is one of the services listed in System->Administration->Firewall under the "Trusted Services" tab. But which one? If my surmise is not correct, how do I enable RPC service without turning of

OT: Sleep Mode (?)

2009-03-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have recently bought a new computer and a fancy keyboard with many keys I have never seen before. I accidentally pressed a key at the upper right of the keyboard marked "WAKE", which seems to have put the computer to sleep. Symptoms are that the monitor has gone dark displaying "No Signal", and

Boot Windows XP from high block number?

2009-03-20 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have installed Linux and Windows XP on my hard drive and am trying to set up a dual boot. Unfortunately XP is installed at a high sector, namely block 204438565. The partition table starts: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 2040254

Virtual Memory gone mad

2009-03-10 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Investigating why my computer had suddenly become very s.l.o.w, I noticed that virtual memory usage had become very large. Following is an extract from a "$ ps axuw" for the system sorted according to VM usage, the top 20 processes in VM usage. Does anyone know why evolution + evolution evolution

Re: Firefox Running Slow in Linux

2009-02-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 15:02 -0500, Marc Ferguson wrote: > I know I'll probably get hazed by this already saturated question, but > I haven't found any solid answers to my issue from the archives. I'm > running Fedora 10 x86_64 and loving the "adventure" of running an 64 > bit system. I'm also run

Setting gnome-terminal default size

2009-01-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Is there any way to make gnome-terminal have a default size of (say) 90 wide x 30 high, rather than the system default of 80x24? I am getting tired of setting the size every time I start the system. Thanks - jon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.r

Re: Jackd Problems -- alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 1227061150613.504 msecs

2009-01-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 18:49 -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > In the past I've never had any problems running jackd. Now I'm > getting > a very large number of messages reading: >

Two loud clicks booting F10

2009-01-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Booting F10, I hear two loud clicks about 500 msec apart just after the "Starting udev" message appears (close to the start of the boot sequence). There were similar clicks starting F9, but they disappeared after a kernel upgrade (Sorry, I don't remember which one.) Has anyone else noticed this

Re: Pasuspender broken in F10?

2008-12-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 09:10 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Has anyone been able to use pasuspender successfully in F10? Here's > > what I get when I try to start it; it looks like the argument parsing > > code is now working right. Al

Pasuspender broken in F10?

2008-12-23 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Has anyone been able to use pasuspender successfully in F10? Here's what I get when I try to start it; it looks like the argument parsing code is now working right. Also the help function looks weird since it doesn't give any program to start, and it doesn't correspond to the man page. $ pasuspe

Re: Announcing Omega 10

2008-12-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 07:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I am pleased to announce the general release of Omega 10, a Linux based > operating system and a community Fedora Remix for desktop and laptop users. What packages are included in the -10 (Omega 10) spin? Is there any way to find out exc

Re: Pulseaudio(?) vs. Flash vs. Amarok

2008-12-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:27 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > If you start Firefox to play a Flash URL, Amarok is silent, till you > > kill Firefox and Amarok, and restart Amarok. Similarly, if you start > > Amarok, Firefox/Flash will be silent till

Pulseaudio(?) vs. Flash vs. Amarok

2008-12-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
If you start Firefox to play a Flash URL, Amarok is silent, till you kill Firefox and Amarok, and restart Amarok. Similarly, if you start Amarok, Firefox/Flash will be silent till Amarok is killed and Firefox is restarted. I thought Pulseaudio was supposed to provide multiplex capabilities for Li

Re: Parts of *.ps file cut off when printed, but not when displayed

2008-12-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 21:19 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:33:13 -0800 > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Printer might not be aligned correctly. Does "print test page" > print a nice visible ruler around all 4 sides, or is it cut off > as well? The printe

Parts of *.ps file cut off when printed, but not when displayed

2008-12-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The attached file (my calendar for the coming week) displays correctly using either evince or gv, but prints about 1/4 in too low and about 1/2 in too far left. This just cuts off the bottom line of the table (vertically) and the "2" of "2008" (horizontally). Does anyone know what is going on?

Re: Emacs Fonts vs. F10

2008-12-06 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 22:15 +, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > Emacs 22 (in F10) uses the legacy Xorg fonts, so you need to install > those... Many thanks. This fixes the problem. And good luck in getting emacs maintained again. Also ... I gathered from the web that there is a way to get emacs

Emacs Fonts vs. F10

2008-12-06 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
When I start emacs under F10 it displays everything in a very small font, and reports that it can't find any fonts. In particular running $ emacs --debug-init produces this line in the emacs message buffer: Warning: no fonts matching `-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso885

Re: Evolution and F10 [Evo is S L O W]

2008-12-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 17:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: ... > I don't see slowness. Quite the contrary in fact, as the new code is > faster at searching than the old. I could live with some initial > slowness as Evo re-indexed a large message store, but I would expect > that to be a once-only

Re: Evolution and F10 [Evo is S L O W]

2008-12-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 10:24 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The version of Evo in F10 is 2.24, which has some changes to the > indexing machinery (it now uses an SQL database), and there are still > some kinks with virtual folders (e.g. the unread message count is often > wrong). Since Unread i

gvfs total wierdness

2008-11-28 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
There's a file named .gvfs in my home directory that is totally unaccessible. Here's a couple of tries, both run as root: # ls -l .gvfs ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied # ls -lA ... -rw-r--r-- 1 jonrysh jonrysh 181 Aug 17 22:16 .gtk-custom-papers -rw-r--r-- 1 jonrysh jonrysh

Keyboard repeat is too fast in F10 / Gnome

2008-11-27 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
System->Preferences->Hardware->Keyboard opens of a control box for the keyboard which provides control over the delay after which keyboard repeat starts and the repeat rate. Both functions work as advertized. The repeat rate is OK, but the delay, even at its longest setting is too short. Is there

Re: Portaudio-devel missing definitions in Fedora-9

2008-11-22 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 12:42 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:37:00 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > Portaudio-devel as released in the F9 distro is missing some entries in > > its header files: in particular the definitions for the declarators (is

Re: Jackd Problems -- alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 1227061150613.504 msecs

2008-11-20 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 11:16 +0100, Jeremy wrote: > Hello Jonathan, > > To get jack running properly you need: > - Planet CCRMA packages > (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/) which are not > available for F9 > - low latency kernel, Planet CCRMA also provides these, unfortunately >

Portaudio-devel missing definitions in Fedora-9

2008-11-20 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Portaudio-devel as released in the F9 distro is missing some entries in its header files: in particular the definitions for the declarators (is this the right word) PaTimestamp and PortAudioStream are missing. Possibly a whole header file is missing. These problems are in the source rpm as well as

Jackd Problems -- alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 1227061150613.504 msecs

2008-11-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
In the past I've never had any problems running jackd. Now I'm getting a very large number of messages reading: alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 1227061150613.504 msecs I'm running F9 on an x86_64 system with all updates installed. Pulseaudio is not running. Jackd is started via qjackctl.

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