Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-07 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 08:22 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Thanks for your response. I guess iPlayer is exactly what I'm looking for, but unfortunately it is restricted to UK residents. I did wonder if I could use my son, in Cardiff, to re-send the stream over to me in Dublin (or Italy)? Could I do

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 02:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour

Re: Which model raid adapter controll card is good for work with Fedora 12 ?

2010-01-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 02:32 PM, Edward S.P. Leong wrote: Dear All, Happy New Year ! As the title... Would you mind to help ( suggestion ) ? Thanks ! Edward. -ENOTENOUGHINFO What sort of RAID card? How much do you want to spend? What capacities are you looking for? What features do you

Re: Latest updates broke KDE sound

2010-01-06 Thread Mick M.
and all was ok. I have a Radeon HD 3450 PCI Express, with NO HDMI. Mick M Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first. # find / -name *your base* -exec chown us:us {} \; -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Hard Drive upgrade with Fedora 12 installed

2009-12-29 Thread William M. Quarles
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade the hard drives in my computer, and I could use some help transitioning the Fedora 12 installation that I have to the new hard drive without reinstalling the operating systems that I have on my computer. I have had PC DOS 2000 installed on a 6 GiB hard drive,

Re: Hard Drive upgrade with Fedora 12 installed

2009-12-29 Thread William M. Quarles
On 12/29/2009 11:09 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: William M. Quarles wrote: The XP and the PC DOS I can handle, but I am unsure of how to transition the Fedora 12 installation due to the fact that I know next to nothing about SELinux, how it affects /etc/fstab since Fedora started enabling SELinux

Re: Support for my USB UMTS stick - which package to patch?

2009-12-28 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/28 Felix Schwarz felix.schw...@oss.schwarz.eu: Hi, I'm using a Huawei K3765 UMTS stick. I got it working using usb_modeswitch and a specific 'MessageContent'. After that the device changes its usb id and can be used as a modem. Now I want this stick to be supported by Fedora out of

Re: [Fedora] IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-27 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
... then load you Linux release. Why? The system is working just fine. Rebooted with the new kernel and everything's working fine. -- H | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. + Ashley M. Kirchner mailto:ash

Re: [Fedora] IBM Netfinity 5000 - SOLVED

2009-12-27 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Jussi Lehtola wrote: You just should have added the SOLVED keyword to the subject a few days ago :) Actually, not quite. While the system is up and running just fine, with all updates and all, that doesn't solve the issue of those warnings received during the update process. That's why I

Re: [Fedora] Re: IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-26 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Gene Heskett wrote: Then I would have to assume there is a hardware problem that memtest86 didn't exercise. But without being there, with schematics and my scope, I'm afraid I can't be any more help. My scope is probably too slow anyway, its just the usual dual trace 100mhz half computerized

IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I have an old Netfinity 5000 server that used to run WinNT and I'd like to install Fedora on it, any recent version would do (basically, from 10 up). I started with a Fedora 12 DVD and it booted partway ... froze, then the screen said 'Cannot find root partition.' So I decided to try a

Re: [Fedora] Re: IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Roberto Ragusa wrote: I woud try some other Live distribution, just to have more data (does if fail? what kind of controller does it see? ...). Old glorious Knoppyx, for example Unfortunately, Old Glorious is failing almost instantly. Using Knoppix 6.2 CD: Welcome to Knoppix 6 based on

Re: [Fedora] Re: IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Matthew Saltzman wrote: Another possibility: Does it boot from CD1 of the CD distro? Negative. It just stops loading: Loading vmlinuz . [ continues on ] Loading initrd.img ... [ stops at random spots ] Every time I did a hard reset and let it boot again,

Re: [Fedora] Re: IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Jussi Lehtola wrote: Yes, it sounds indeed like an IDE problem. If you want to install Fedora, there's another thing you can do: just get the minimal boot iso, boot the system with it and perform an installation over the internet. Amazingly enough, this is (so far) working. It booted the

Re: [Fedora] Re: IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Gene Heskett wrote: Sounds to me like the next disk I put in it would be a copy of memtest86, you have flaky hardware Actually, that was the very first thing I did before even considering the machine usable. memtest86 ran for 5 days non-stop, no errors. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: [Fedora] Re: IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Jack Lauman wrote: You need to boot up with the IBM NetFinity SmartStart disk and install a service partition for NT4. Compaq Presario DL-360 rackmount servers don't have a BIOS than can save parameters, as I recall from working on the NetFinity 5000 years ago at Gannett, they don't either.

Re: [Fedora] IBM Netfinity 5000

2009-12-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
We've got success. After the net install finished, first it wouldn't boot at all, so I went into rescue mode and tried booting the drive then only to have it tell it that it didn't have any bootable partitions. So, a little bit of grub-install magic, the system now boots without a

Re: [fedora-virt] how to active XEN on Fedora 12

2009-12-23 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno mar, 22/12/2009 alle 11.05 -0800, Boris Derzhavets ha scritto: http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/setup-ubuntu-9-10-server-pv-domu-at-xen-3-4-1-dom0-2-6-31-6-pvops-kernel-on-top-of-fedora-12/ Thank Boris for reply, but I want only

Re: Unable to use USB Modem Virgin Broadband, Australia

2009-12-22 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/23 Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com: 2009/12/23 Ankit Bhatnagar ankit_...@yahoo.co.in: Hi all, currently using Fedora12 unable to get USB modem detected as modem it appears it recognizing as flash drive, make of the USB modem is HUAWEI E169, earlier i googled HUAWEI  E22 works

Re: FESCo election results December 2009

2009-12-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
Fri, 2009-12-18 at 13:06 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:19 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: Information: At close of voting there were: 216 valid ballots Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of 864 votes (4*216).

Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

2009-12-18 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/18 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Antonio M wrote: how do I add an other type of attachment?? I don't see such option, maybe too early in the morning (I have only OpenDocument text and PDF document, I want to add a MicrosoftOffice text...) AFAIK, you can't add new attachment

Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

2009-12-18 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/18 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Antonio M wrote: 2009/12/18 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Antonio M wrote: how do I add an other type of attachment?? I don't see such option, maybe too early in the morning (I have only OpenDocument text and PDF document, I want to add

two minor issues with Thunderbird

2009-12-18 Thread Antonio M
1) I am using filters on incoming mail...I note that there is a difference in the way regrouped messages are listed, i.e. in the Incoming folder mail if you get a new message in a discussion all discussion is moved according to received mail date i.e. on top of the list , while in the filtered

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:44 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Kevin Kempter wrote: I updated my DELL bios this way, it worked great: http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/create-a-bios-recovery-cd-in- linux/ I'm not sure I understand the term recovery in this

Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

2009-12-18 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/18 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:50 +0100, Antonio M wrote: I got an attachment (Microsoft Office doc) but I didn't get the option of F11 to open it with Openoffice or any other application, there is no open with option, same attachment open  fine in F12

F12 and wi-fi dongles

2009-12-18 Thread Antonio M
As I cannot connect by a Huawei dongle in F12 (on two different boxes), I re-installed F11 on a third machine and bam, I was immediately on-line (after some modification on usb_modeswitch.conf file). Digging on different files I could not find any usb_modeswitch.rules files in /etc/udev/rules.d Is

Re: How to identify 32 or 64 bits -

2009-12-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:48 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: bash-4.0$ grep lm /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est

Re: How to identify 32 or 64 bits -

2009-12-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:44 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 17/12/09 07:50, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I'm sorry, I missed the grep. So all I did was cat the /proc/info and didn't know what to look for? This F-11 box yields: [b...@box9 ~]$ grep lm /proc/cpuinfo nothing returned This

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 09:07 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain

Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

2009-12-17 Thread Antonio M
I am running F11 fully updated on this box, thunderbird-3.0-3.fc11.i586, openoffice.org-3.1.1-19.8 When I receive an attachment, if it is *.odt Openoffice is started, if it is *.doc I have only the option to save it... Both files start openoffice from nautilus. What shall I do to have the

Re: how to get F12 to 'send host-name' in dhcp request?

2009-12-17 Thread M. Milanuk
On 12/17/2009 2:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:29:46 -0800 M. Milanuk wrote: Can someone help me out here? This is driving me nutty. How do I make F12 send the right request to the dhcp server? Every distro seems to do this differently (sometimes each distro changes

Re: Some Thunderbird attachments don't start application

2009-12-17 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/18 Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com: Antonio M wrote: I am running F11 fully updated on this box, thunderbird-3.0-3.fc11.i586, openoffice.org-3.1.1-19.8 When I receive an attachment, if it is *.odt Openoffice is started, if it is *.doc I have only the option to save it... Both

Re: How to make a Huawei 1692 3g card work

2009-12-16 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/15 Antonio M antonio.montagn...@gmail.com: 2009/12/14 Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) frankl...@gmail.com: --snip--  Bug 541686 -  Huawei 1692 is not recognized as a 3G card with standard file already reported, but now it is worst, as it seems not be working at all... I mean: in F11

how to get F12 to 'send host-name' in dhcp request?

2009-12-16 Thread M. Milanuk
Hello, I have a couple virtual machines hooked together on a virtual LAN inside Virtualbox. The server box has CentOS 5.4 running dnsmasq providing local name resolution, dns caching, and dhcp. Specifically, it is configured so that when a client sends a dhcp request containing 'send

updating F12 broke KDE display

2009-12-15 Thread Mick M.
not test gnome wireless before the update. I cannot test wireless in kde now as The menu's are unreadable. I userdel mick and removed /home/mick, then useradd mick, same. This laptop uses an intel centrino motherboard. Mick M. Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first

3G dongles

2009-12-15 Thread Antonio M
are these kinds of dongles working in F12??? -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag SIP: antoniomon...@ekiga.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: How to make a Huawei 1692 3g card work

2009-12-14 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/14 Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) frankl...@gmail.com: On 13/12/09 21:41, Antonio M wrote: I cannot make it work any more, it was working in F11 with this usb_modeswitch.conf file: Did you check for an existing Bugzilla? -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded. -- fedora-list

Re: linux as router

2009-12-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 22:59 +0100, paul van der meij wrote: I don't think that it makes sense to configure a router with one physical network card. If another PC on the same cable segment tries to reach something it needs a router that has connection with more than the same network cable. Not

Re: Real Audio on F12

2009-12-14 Thread Mick M.
.fc12.x86_64 xine-plugin-1.0.2-3.fc12.x86_64 xine-ui-0.99.5-16.fc12.x86_64 xine-lib-1.1.16.3-4.fc12.x86_64 xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.16.3-4.fc12.x86_64 Mick M. Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first. # find / -name *your base* -exec chown us:us

Re: How to make a Huawei 1692 3g card work

2009-12-14 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/14 Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) frankl...@gmail.com: --snip--  Bug 541686 -  Huawei 1692 is not recognized as a 3G card with standard file already reported, but now it is worst, as it seems not be working at all... I mean: in F11 it was working with tuning usb_modeswitch.conf file in

How to make a Huawei 1692 3g card work

2009-12-13 Thread Antonio M
I cannot make it work any more, it was working in F11 with this usb_modeswitch.conf file: # Huawei E1692 DefaultVendor= 0x12d1 DefaultProduct= 0x1446 TargetVendor= 0x12d1 TargetProduct= 0x140c MessageEndpoint=0x01

F12 installation woes with DVD plus online repositories

2009-12-13 Thread William M. Quarles
Hi all, I'm trying to install Fedora 12 with the installation DVD plus downloading extra packages and updates with an Internet connection to the online repositories for extra packages and updates. However, the speed of the installation process is seriously troubling me. I know that yum is

Re: How to make a Huawei 1692 3g card work

2009-12-13 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/14 L yuan...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Antonio M antonio.montagn...@gmail.com wrote: I cannot make it work any more, it was working in F11 with this usb_modeswitch.conf file: # Huawei E1692 DefaultVendor=  0x12d1 DefaultProduct= 0x1446 TargetVendor=   0x12d1

Re: The Phantom Update

2009-12-11 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Sam Varshavchik wrote: A tiny orange octogon keeps popping up on my toolbar. Mousing over it brings up a tooltip bubble: There is 1 update available. Clicking on the icon runs gpk-update-viewer, which immediately tells me that no updates are available. Closing packagekit

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/11/2009 12:57 AM, Craig White wrote: problems typically occur because Fedora always names the LVM groups/partitions with the same naming scheme and when you want to This is a posibility here with older releases (although F12 doesn't do this (thank you! thank you!); it now includes the

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/10/2009 09:18 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Yes, I posted the question and found the response interesting and helpful. I spent a couple of hours reading man pages and experimenting with the lvm commands on various drives. But I have not been able to open a volume and list the directories and

Re: Is this possible in Fedora?

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/11/2009 02:37 PM, jarmo wrote: In gnome screensaver found somekind worm, are Fedora/redhat pakages infected also? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349678 Jarmo A user with root privileges (or who has configured the necessary authorizations for their user account via

Re: Is this possible in Fedora?

2009-12-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/11/2009 03:02 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On 11/12/09 14:55, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 12/11/2009 02:37 PM, jarmo wrote: In gnome screensaver found somekind worm, are Fedora/redhat pakages infected also? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349678 Jarmo Given

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-10 Thread Justin M. Forbes
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:20:28PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: On Wednesday, 09 December 2009 at 22:11, Kevin Kofler wrote: Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: Actually, x86_64 is an AMD invention (originally called AMD64) and is called EM64T by Intel. The only Intel 64

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/10/2009 03:07 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: I bought a new gadget, a USB2 Universal Drive Adapter which does essentially what an external drive box does but it is not limited to SATA drives, On the F-12 computer it shows up in lsusb and I can see a drive at /dev/sdc

Re: Universal drive adapter -

2009-12-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/10/2009 03:28 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 10/12/09 10:19, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: blkid /dev/sdc1 Ok, thank you, that gives me a bit more information: [r...@box6 bob]# file -s /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: LVM2 (Linux Logical Volume Manager) , UUID

Fedora 12 on Sun Blade x6250

2009-12-09 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi I'm trying to install Fedora 12 x86_64 in a Sun Blade x6250 with PXE boot but the installation hangs when loading Anaconda, both in graphical and text mode. I'm using the Sun management tool (Sun eLOM) to do the network install, maybe Fedora requirements are to high to this tool, but does

Is anybody using screentoaster with Fedora 12?

2009-12-05 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I am running Fedora 12 x86_64 and I have noticed that I cannot use www.screentoaster.com. The java app used to make screencasts starts, seems to run, but I cannot stop it or control it in any way. For example, there is a pop-up windows to set the audio: if I try to click on the button

OT M.I.T. TED new way of I/O

2009-12-04 Thread Mick M.
Whoa check this video out: http://www.snotr.com/video/3471 same but 3rd person: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html Mick M. Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first. # find / -name *your base* -exec chown us:us

error during Rpm transaction

2009-12-03 Thread Antonio M
during an update we get: Running RPM test transaction - si è fermato lì e non procede oltre...la barra va avanti e indietro... [22:01:54] Raffaella Mura: rpmdb: Thread/process 2203/3078203072 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library errore: errore(4) db-30974 da dbenv-failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY:

Re: error during Rpm transaction

2009-12-03 Thread Antonio M
2009/12/3 Clint Dilks cli...@scms.waikato.ac.nz: Hi You could try rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb But please check with http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch04s05.html first tnx for the tip that worked and also for the link to the rpm-guide! -- Antonio

Firefox loses sound if left

2009-12-02 Thread Mick M.
it works. Mick M. Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first. # find / -name *your base* -exec chown us:us {} \; -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http

Skype misses webcam on FC12 x86_64

2009-11-30 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I am running Fedora 12 x86_64 with all the updates as of this morning installed and I also enabled the Skype repository. If I install skype 2.0.0.72 via yum, it sees and detects correctly the webcam (/dev/video). When I press test I see myself in the skype window. but there is no way

F12 KDE questions

2009-11-27 Thread Mick M.
the icons on my desktop get a big bright background box. If I rollover the icon, or click on the desktop the box disappears. This sometimes happens to the taskbar too. I updated downloadhelper - but it fails, the directory is correct. Thanks Mick M Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds

Re: installation through Fedora

2009-11-26 Thread Mick M.
on that computer, but I can still copy files from another computer through the disk on key. How can I install windows XP on it? Put the drive into another computer - install - swap it back. Mick M Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first. # find / -name *your base

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?

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

2009-11-25 Thread M. Fioretti
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 Fedora 9

Re: [F12] Firefox + Flash = crash

2009-11-25 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
It's a little bit strange to answer own articles ... Just freshly installed my old Fedora 10 system with Fedora 12 (32 bit), and I was suprised to see that Firefox 3.5.5 (directly from mozilla.org) crashes on any site with flash (Flash plugin 10.0.32.18 from adobe.com). Both are

Hide the kittens and the babies, a message from your friendly KDE-SIG

2009-11-24 Thread Steven M. Parrish
-- = Steven M. Parrish - gpg fingerprint: 4B6C 8357 059E B7ED 8095 0FD6 1F4B EDA0 A9A6 13C0 http://tuxbrewr.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: SMParrish

Re: Part of hard disk disappeared after installing Fedora 12?

2009-11-24 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, November 24, 2009 7:10 am, fedora wrote: check your LVM settings, apparently, the partition mounted as / is from an LVM construct. pvdisplay vgdisplay lvdisplay the output of those commands is pasted below. I don't understand what's going on, because the disk is 350 GB. If I read the

Anaconda loses ~100 GByte of disk when installing Fedora 12, was Part of hard disk disappeared...

2009-11-24 Thread M. Fioretti
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 Fedora 9 on it, on several separate partitions filling the whole disk, called

Re: Anaconda loses ~100 GByte of disk when installing Fedora 12, was Part of hard disk disappeared...

2009-11-24 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, November 25, 2009 8:47 am, Jussi Lehtola wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 08:39 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: Monday I installed Fedora 12 x86_64 on that disk, accepting all the defaults. Installation went OK, but I ended up with a disk that (see command outputs below) has logical volumes

bug in usb_modeswitch

2009-11-23 Thread Antonio M
how do I report a bug against it if not included in package list in bugzilla??? Tnx -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag SIP: antoniomon...@ekiga.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

RE: how to convert .lit (dot lit) files in F12

2009-11-23 Thread Mick M.
What error message do you get when compiling clit? The alternative is to use the windows binary (from http://convertlit.com/download.php) and run it under wine. Regards, Sanya Rajan Hi; I was missing the file ltm-0.39.tar.bz2. thanks Mick M. -- fedora-list mailing

Part of hard disk disappeared after installing Fedora 12?

2009-11-23 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I just put a spare disk I had into the computer and installed Fedora 12 x86_64 on it. Installation went fine (I just told anaconda to install a basic desktop and accepted all defaults) except that I seem to be missing some space from the disk. What I mean is that the disk is 350 GB and

Re: Part of hard disk disappeared after installing Fedora 12?

2009-11-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, November 23, 2009 9:13 pm, M. Fioretti wrote: I have pasted below the outputs of fdisk -l and mount. Please don't hesitate to suggest more commands, ask more information etc.. Thanks in advance for any feedback, Sorry, here they are: [r...@polaris /]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.1

Re: f12 how can I fix my thrashed gnome panels

2009-11-22 Thread Antonio M
2009/11/22 Skunk Worx skunkw...@verizon.net: Hi, I thrashed my gnome panel geometries-- some components are in bad locations or not working properly, etc. I had my KVM on another machine while f12 booted, then I logged in at the wrong (low) resolution to restart runlevel 5 (1,5) and this

[F12] Firefox + Flash = crash

2009-11-21 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Hi folks! Just freshly installed my old Fedora 10 system with Fedora 12 (32 bit), and I was suprised to see that Firefox 3.5.5 (directly from mozilla.org) crashes on any site with flash (Flash plugin 10.0.32.18 from adobe.com). Both are the most recent versions. No other custom plugins

Re: logwatch?

2009-11-21 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Tom Horsley tom.hors...@att.net wrote: I don't see logwatch installed by default in f12. Is there a preferred substitute these days, or should I just yum install logwatch to get it back? After installation from DVD, I also missed some kind of daily system report (be it generated by

how to convert .lit (dot lit) files in F12

2009-11-21 Thread Mick M.
Hi; I have some ebook files in .lit format. How do I read/convert them in F12? clit and libtomath will not compile. thanks Mick M. Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https

Bug Triage workflow for F13 and beyond

2009-11-18 Thread Steven M. Parrish
these changes. Steven = Steven M. Parrish - gpg fingerprint: 4B6C 8357 059E B7ED 8095 0FD6 1F4B EDA0 A9A6 13C0 http://tuxbrewr.fedorapeople.org/ IRC nick

Re: F12 work around for out of space on /boot for preupgrade?

2009-11-18 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Steven Stern wrote: There is an upgrade directory on /boot. Can I move the upgrade directory to another partition and link them? That is, will this work? cd /boot mv upgrade /tmp/upgrade ln -s /tmp/upgrade upgrade You can move some of the files in that directory,

Re: Urgent Help Needed for Boot Problems After Data Restoration

2009-11-18 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: After restoring data from a backup image set for a 500GB harddisk to a 1000 GB harddisk, I am unable to boot up my F11 OS. I have already restored *both* the MBR backup and the dump output from sfdisk. It isn't that simple. The MBR

Re: Auto CAD drawings

2009-11-16 Thread Antonio M
2009/11/16 Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:58:23 +0530 RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.kopp...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any software available for fedora to open Auto CAD drawings? For DXF you can usually open them in qcad and in inkscape. -- fedora-list mailing

Re: Auto CAD drawings

2009-11-15 Thread Antonio M
2009/11/16 RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.kopp...@gmail.com: Is there any software available for fedora to open Auto CAD drawings? Thank you. Kishore -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: How to Backup and Restore MBR within Logical Volumes?

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 09:23 +, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: Hi All, I have several Xen virtual machines within logical volumes using LVM2. I did not use disk images for performance reasons. Conventionally, if I want to clone my virtual machines, I have to dd the LV to an

Re: [Xen-users] How to Backup and Restore MBR within Logical Volumes?

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 09:45 +, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: dd if=/dev/virtualmachines/windows7-x64 of=mbr.w7-x64 bs=512 count=1 I think if you do this, you are only backing up the first 512 bytes of the logical volume, not the MBR. Someone correct me if I am wrong. That

Re: what's with that trailing . for the mode from ls -l

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits in the output from ls -l? Let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ls+dot+permissions Bryn. --

Re: what's with that trailing . for the mode from ls -l

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:23 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i once knew this, really. what's the explanation of that recent introduction of an extra period after the normal mode bits

Re: what's with that trailing . for the mode from ls -l

2009-11-12 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 08:58 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: that's ok, it was only an issue because of the incredibly hacky way that a numeric mode was being reproduced from an existing file -- by grabbing the current symbolic mode, then running it through sed to get the numeric mode back.

Re: Old Dual Pentium III 500Mhz Servers

2009-11-10 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 03:50 +1030, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 23:47 +1100, David Timms wrote: Things to think about: - if you are talking about the same machine, disk drive tiredness would have reduced the access speed that you can achieve, when r/w to disk. Beg yours... drive

nonresponsive maintainer for clamtk

2009-11-07 Thread Dave M
Hi, The clamtk package has not been updated since February 2009. One of the two bugs opened against it is a missing dependency which prevents it from running at all. Unfortunately, it has been rebuilt for F12 with the same missing dependency, so it will not run there either. I have tried

Re: Introduction and kickstart

2009-11-07 Thread Jose M Manimala
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello vivek, The best place to start would be the #fedora-admin irc channel. Every from the infrastructure team will be there. Come on by and say hello :) Regards Jose Vivek Shah wrote: Hi All, My name is Vivek

Re: Kernel using LZMA compression

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 11/04/2009 06:18 PM, Ikem Krueger wrote: The executive summary is: Xen does not let a kernel boot itself, because mimicking bare hardware is too tedious (and pointless.) Instead, Xen instantiates an instance of a kernel into the Xen environment. To do this instantiation, Xen does its own

Re: Kernel using LZMA compression

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 11/04/2009 06:37 PM, Ikem Krueger wrote: I am reading between the lines here (I have never looked at this stuff in Xen) but I would assume it's for the reason given above. The kernel's own decompression routines must run very early on in the boot process - well before the first line of C code

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:10 +, Dan Track wrote: Hi, I'm running a command like this: for i in server1 server2;do ssh r...@$i `hostname`;done. However the hostname command always outputs the hostname of the server that the above command is run from. I'd like to know how to run this

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:13 +, Dan Track wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm running a command like this: for i in server1 server2;do ssh r...@$i `hostname`;done. However the hostname command always outputs the hostname of the

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:14 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: On 11/04/2009 02:10 PM, Dan Track wrote: Hi, I'm running a command like this: for i in server1 server2;do ssh r...@$i `hostname`;done. However the hostname command always outputs the hostname of the server that the above

Re: [OT] run command via ssh - problem

2009-11-04 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:32 +, Dan Track wrote: Hi Bryn, Many thanks. I tried hostname -s but I keep getting the following: hostname: Host name lookup failure Possibly your resolver on the servers is not configured to search its own local domain. Add a line like this to

Re: Question about Cups

2009-11-02 Thread Antonio M
2009/11/2 Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 16:26 +0100, Antonio M wrote: I have to investigate the cause, but my question is related to mime files in /Etc/cups. I remember that in the past I had mime.convs and mime.type present, that now are missing...any reason??? They're

Re: Question about Cups

2009-11-02 Thread Antonio M
2009/11/2 paul van der meij phjvdm...@gmail.com: did you not forget to allow access in iptables to  port 631 ?? paul No firewall on that machine. -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag SIP: antoniomon...@ekiga.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Question about Cups

2009-11-01 Thread Antonio M
I connected a Vista PC to my network and I cannot print from it while I can go to my shared folders on other PC. I have to investigate the cause, but my question is related to mime files in /Etc/cups. I remember that in the past I had mime.convs and mime.type present, that now are missing...any

Re: misguided flash player warning?

2009-10-30 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Mike McLean wrote: After updating Firefox it gave me the You should update Adobe Flash Player right now. page. However, I already have the latest version (10.0.32.18). I don't see anything newer. Am I missing something, or is Firefox just getting it wrong? I had time, and

Re: [OT] any good online doc for the details of compiling hello, world?

2009-10-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 02:36 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: not really a fedora question, but i'm interested in a step-by-step description of what happens when one compiles and runs hello, world. it's sort of a fedora question since i want to relate those steps to the essential fedora packages

Re: firefox 3.5.4 broken?

2009-10-30 Thread Antonio M
2009/10/30 Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de: On 10/30/2009 12:26 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: 1. Highlight a word on a web page. 2. Right click on word. 3. Select Search Google for word... 4. ??? 5. Crash box appears. Anyone else? I am not observing this issue, but I already had 2

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