Samba & Vista

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Blackwell
I'm trying to use smbclient to look at a Vista box but I keep getting # smbclient -L user-pc -U Kellie Password: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE I know the user/password combination is good. I googled around and got the impression that Vista didn't play well with Samba because of

Preupgrade/Anaconda problem - 3rd time a charm?

2008-12-09 Thread Steve Blackwell
I've posted this question twice before but have not received any replies. I want to use preupgrade to go from F8 to F9. I ran preupgrade, selected F9 and downloaded the data. When I rebooted to complete the process, Anaconda started, correctly detected my graphics card and started X. Unfortunately

Re: Preupgrade/Anaconda problem - 3rd time a charm?

2008-12-09 Thread Steve Blackwell
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Blackwell wrote: > > > > > > Q1. Where does Anaconda get the settings for the video card from? > > > > > From Xorg which gets it from H

Re: Preupgrade/Anaconda problem - 3rd time a charm?

2008-12-09 Thread Steve Blackwell
Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve wrote: > > > So do I report this against Anaconda, Xorg or HAL? All the above? > > Just one bug against Anaconda would do. The maintainers can reassign > if necessary. Seems like someone beat me to it - by 2 years! And this bug is marked as

Camera/F-spot problems

2009-07-31 Thread Steve Blackwell
It's been a while and several versions of Fedora since I tried this but F-spot used to start automatically when I plugged my camera in to a USB port. Now it doesn't but I see the appropriate USB messages in the system log that show the device is recognized correctly. What does happen is that afte

F10 SElinux issues

2009-08-03 Thread Steve Blackwell
Ever since I upgraded from F9 to F10 when F9 went EOL I've been having lots of SElinux warnings. Here's one. I get at seemingly random times, ie not when I log in. Aug 3 09:06:50 steve setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing polkit-read-aut (polkit_auth_t) "write" to /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log (xs

Linux humor (depending on your point of view)

2009-08-06 Thread Steve Blackwell
http://xkcd.com/619/ Steve -- 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

Epiphany package maintainer?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Blackwell
Anybody know how I can contact the epiphany Fedora package maintainer? Googling led me to believe that it was but an e-mail to that address was rejected. Reason:5.2.1 ... Mailbox disabled for this recipient In case whoever it is hangs out on this list, I want to know if there are plans to r

Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Blackwell
I found this article: http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/172-Wednesday-Why-How-does-Pulseaudio-start.html but it appears that it no longer applies. $ ps -ef | grep pulse steve30603 1 0 10:07 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog so either

Re: Epiphany package maintainer?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:37:05 +0100 "Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)" wrote: > On 23/08/09 16:15, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > Anybody know how I can contact the epiphany Fedora package > > maintainer? > > > > Googling led me to believe that it was but >

Re: Epiphany package maintainer?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:39:52 +0100 "Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)" wrote: > On 23/08/09 16:37, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-August/msg00722.html > That's the one. Read all the follow-ups. Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@

Re: Epiphany package maintainer?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:19:02 +0530 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 08/23/2009 08:45 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > Anybody know how I can contact the epiphany Fedora package > > maintainer? ... > > In case whoever it is hangs out on this list, I want to know if > > there ar

Re: Epiphany package maintainer?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:27:53 -0700 Peter Gordon wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 11:59 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > That's what I was afraid of. The effect is that epiphany is not > > maintained in F10. There won't be any bug fixes. > > That is certainly NOT

Re: Epiphany package maintainer?

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:14:10 -0500 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > Steve Blackwell wrote: > > > > When I filed a bug > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592612 > > > > the response from the epiphany developers was > > >

Re: Epiphany package maintainer?

2009-08-24 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:08:30 +0100 "Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)" wrote: > On 23/08/09 23:58, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:14:10 -0500 > > "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > > > >> Steve Blackwell wrote: > >>> When I fil

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-25 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:07:00 -0700 stan wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:25:09 -0400 > Steve Blackwell wrote: > > I am not a pulse expert, but will take a stab at this as I have been > wrestling with it for a while. > > > I can't find any reference to pulseaudio i

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-26 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:03:08 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > 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 p

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-26 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:21:20 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > > It's started in your session. If you're using Gnome, go to > > System->Preferences->Startup Applications > > and scroll down the list. Ah-ha! There's the answer. On my F10 system it is System->Preferences->Personal->Sessions

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-27 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:40:24 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 27 August 2009 05:16:33 Steven W. Orr wrote: > > Marko, I thank you for your help. I had read the pa material before > > but I did not realize that removing it from the system was really > That's good news, I'm glad you got

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-27 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:12:39 +0930 Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:12 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > I'd like to know where (which file) the information is > > stored in and what program starts it. gdm? gnome? gconf? > > A hint for finding out things like th

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-27 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:24:51 -0400 William Case wrote: > I have been following this thread with a great deal of interest. When > you finally get it figured out would you please be sure to let us all > know. > Don't hold your breath! Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-08-28 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:10:47 +0100 Mark Knoop wrote: > At 14:49 on 27 Aug 2009, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:12:39 +0930 > > Tim wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:12 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > > > I'd lik

Re: In the news: Soon to be published, Skype back-door trojan code?

2009-08-29 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:37:02 -0300 Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Daniel B. Thurman > wrote: > > > > > [perhaps off topic, but interesting security implications?] > > > > I wonder if backdoors are installed to comply with > > government & law enforcement requirements.

Re: Where is pulseaudio started?

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Blackwell
Some people had asked to keep this thread going so here is what I've found so far. (Note That I'm using GNOME and GDM so I started with GDM. There is, no doubt, something for equivalent KDE) For those who want the short version, I still don't have it figured out yet but I now think that the autost

xmessage alternative?

2009-10-08 Thread Steve Blackwell
I'm using xmessage from /etc/profile to put up a message whenever anyone logs in. It works fine but it is butt ugly! Does anyone know of an alternative? Perhaps something that uses a GNOME theme? I'm using gdm and gnome. Thanks, Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubs

Re: xmessage alternative?

2009-10-09 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:37:23 +0100 "Sharpe, Sam J" wrote: > 2009/10/9 Steve Blackwell : > > I'm using xmessage from /etc/profile to put up a message whenever > > anyone logs in. It works fine but it is butt ugly! Does anyone know > > of an alternative? Perha

Re: Warning: rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf setup.

2008-12-01 Thread Steve Blackwell
Linuxguy123 wrote: > Some of you may know this, but I didn't and thus I'll share what I > learned. > > The rpmfusion nvidia driver needs a special xorg.conf file. It might > not operate properly with a file that previously operated properly > with say a livna sourced driver. I posted this last

Re: gdm theme change

2009-11-08 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:55:35 -0500 Louis E Garcia II wrote: > I would like to change the color of the gdm window. I have looked > through the gdm config files and could not find a reference to a > theme. Can someone point me to the right config file or the source > file for this. > > -Thanks >

Preupgrade to F11 worked but...

2009-12-20 Thread Steve Blackwell
I ran preupgrade to go from F10 to F11 and I was pleasantly surprised (because F9->F10 was a mess) that it worked almost flawlessly. When I booted into F11 for the first time, I got a warning about a ssl library not being found. To cut a long story short, I have found that there are 62 packages t

Re: Preupgrade to F11 worked but... [can't get httpd to start]

2009-12-26 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:18:59 -0800 (PST) TNWestTex wrote: > > > > Steve Blackwell wrote: > > > > I ran preupgrade to go from F10 to F11 and I was pleasantly > > surprised (because F9->F10 was a mess) that it worked almost > > flawlessly. > > >

Re: Preupgrade to F11 worked but... [can't get httpd to start]

2009-12-30 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:55:59 -0800 (PST) TNWestTex wrote: > > > > Steve Blackwell wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:18:59 -0800 (PST) > > TNWestTex wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> > >> Steve Blackwell wrote: &g