Re: Help... Can't boot!

2009-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Stuart : At which point does it say that? Do you get as far as the grub menu? Partition type 0x5 is an 'Extended' partition. (/dev/sda4 or equivalent, usually) - this suggests to me that your grub.conf is incorrect, probably containing a line similar to root (hd0,3) But you can see thi

Re: Help... Can't boot!

2009-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Stuart : [snip] okay, how many are there? And which one do you want to boot from? According to the installer, it's going to write the boot info to /dev/sda. Boot is /dev/sdb1. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Help... Can't boot!

2009-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Stuart : At which point does it say that? Do you get as far as the grub menu? Yes. It gets that far, and when I select that, it gives me the error. Even if I go as far as editing it to try and get into single mode. Partition type 0x5 is an 'Extended' partition. (/dev/sda4 or equivale

Re: Help... Can't boot!

2009-01-03 Thread Stuart
'm using X86_64 where before I was using i386, but that shouldn't matter, should it? nope All data drives are IDE/PATA, but I'm installing off a SATA DVD ROM. okay, how many are there? And which one do you want to boot from? HELP!!! I need to get this up and running as it&#

Help... Can't boot!

2009-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
install over the old version (except for "/home" and a storage partition.) I'm using X86_64 where before I was using i386, but that shouldn't matter, should it? All data drives are IDE/PATA, but I'm installing off a SATA DVD ROM. HELP!!! I need to get this up and ru

Re: help! can't login

2008-12-29 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/29/2008 01:56 PM, Don Raikes wrote: Hi all, I have fedora 10 installed on my gateway desktop. It has been running fine for several weeks. Over the weekend, I had ot reboot the system, and when the grub boot menu appears, the system just locks up. I have no keyboard control, and cannot g

help! can't login

2008-12-29 Thread Don Raikes
Hi all, I have fedora 10 installed on my gateway desktop. It has been running fine for several weeks. Over the weekend, I had ot reboot the system, and when the grub boot menu appears, the system just locks up. I have no keyboard control, and cannot get the system to proceed at all. There is o

Re: Gnash help

2008-12-27 Thread Kevin Kofler
Simon Slater wrote: > An urgent but not life-or-death question. I went to > http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/yacht_tracker.asp?key=522 to check the race > progress but the yacht tracker downloaded but doesn't run. Right > clicking shows it is using gnash. Where do I start looking? Right now that si

Re: Gnash help

2008-12-27 Thread Simon Slater
On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 00:52 -0600, David Orman wrote: > Gave it a shot, like the others mentioned - the site is extremely slow > in > responding. Doesn't seem to be network related, looks like server load > issues. > > That said, it didn't work for me using Gnash on a Fedora 8 kick I > installed

Re: Gnash help

2008-12-26 Thread David Orman
Gave it a shot, like the others mentioned - the site is extremely slow in responding. Doesn't seem to be network related, looks like server load issues. That said, it didn't work for me using Gnash on a Fedora 8 kick I installed to test it for you, but it does work on Fedora 10 x64 beta flash plug

Re: Gnash help

2008-12-26 Thread Simon Slater
On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 08:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Simon Slater wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 20:18 +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > > > >>Merry Christmas All. > >> > >>An urgent but not life-or-death question. I went to > >> http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/yacht_tracker.asp?ke

Re: Gnash help

2008-12-26 Thread Ed Greshko
Simon Slater wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 20:18 +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > >> Merry Christmas All. >> >> An urgent but not life-or-death question. I went to >> http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/yacht_tracker.asp?key=522 to check the race >> progress but the yacht tracker downlo

Re: Gnash help

2008-12-26 Thread Simon Slater
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 20:18 +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > Merry Christmas All. > > An urgent but not life-or-death question. I went to > http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/yacht_tracker.asp?key=522 to check the race > progress but the yacht tracker downloaded but doesn't run. Right

Gnash help

2008-12-26 Thread Simon Slater
Merry Christmas All. An urgent but not life-or-death question. I went to http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/yacht_tracker.asp?key=522 to check the race progress but the yacht tracker downloaded but doesn't run. Right clicking shows it is using gnash. Where do I start looking?

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
use-emulator - since I don't really need it either - maybe later. I'm happy as a clam now ;) Thanks for all the help! Dan -- 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: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Alex Makhlin
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:05:20 -0800, Dan wrote: I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this send

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:05:20 -0800, Dan wrote: > > I get this error from Yum... > > ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on > :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place > prevents this sender from sending

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
Todd Denniston wrote: N. James Bridge wrote, On 12/17/2008 01:55 PM: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:40 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDeni

Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuratio

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Marc Ferguson wrote: > Funny thing though, if YUM is broken, will a "YUM update {package}" work? the dbus update last week should not have affected basic yum functionality. The post error is most likely being emitted by the refresh-packagekit yum plugin and not

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Todd Denniston
N. James Bridge wrote, On 12/17/2008 01:55 PM: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:40 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy i

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Marc Ferguson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:55 PM, N. James Bridge wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:40 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > > I get this error from Yum... > > > > ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on > > :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: > > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Acces

Re: Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread N. James Bridge
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:40 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > I get this error from Yum... > > ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on > :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place > prevents this sender from send

Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuratio

Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Thurman
I get this error from Yum... ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuratio

Re: RPM Fusion needs help/RPM Fusion only is as good as its contributors make it

2008-12-17 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
ow_bug.cgi?id=13 takes so long IOW: Not everything is as easy as it might look like. BTW - I have been trying to get into the RPMFusion Wiki to help with a few things documentation-wise. Just FYI, Steward (one of the amd and nvidia graphics driver maintainers) did some work a f

Re: RPM Fusion needs help/RPM Fusion only is as good as its contributors make it

2008-12-17 Thread Christopher A. Williams
s of that directory conflic). That > are more reasons why > > * it not a freebie / it's not that easy to grab the bits from the > livna package > > * https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13 takes so long > > IOW: Not everything is as easy as it might look like. BTW -

Re: RPM Fusion needs help/RPM Fusion only is as good as its contributors make it

2008-12-17 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
tested patches. After I posted my message I rechecked, found the new main web page, and the neutered release rpm. Bummer. I'm beginning to think this merger is a shotgun wedding. Then consider to help to make it better to suit your needs. BTW, quoting http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmf

Re: RPM Fusion needs help/RPM Fusion only is as good as its contributors make it

2008-12-17 Thread Kam Leo
and apt; I > guess the livna people will readd it if somebody sends tested patches. > After I posted my message I rechecked, found the new main web page, and the neutered release rpm. Bummer. I'm beginning to think this merger is a shotgun wedding. >> P.S. I would have submitt

Re: RPM Fusion needs help/RPM Fusion only is as good as its contributors make it

2008-12-16 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 17.12.2008 08:21, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 17.12.2008 07:53, Kam Leo wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: Here's a freebie: Borrow from Livna's install script. It already has provisions for smart and apt. Guess what: it's not free -- packaging it/adding it

Re: RPM Fusion needs help/RPM Fusion only is as good as its contributors make it

2008-12-16 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
RPM Fusion website layout overwhelmed me. Wanna help? The wiki afaics really needs a lot of improvements. But each day only has 24 hours and I right now put other things higher on my todo list. It's too modern, too much low contrast light blue on white, and required a login! Without

Re: RPM Fusion needs help/RPM Fusion only is as good as its contributors make it (was: Re: Apt-get really screwed up on F9)

2008-12-16 Thread Kam Leo
r it and do something do fix > it (which often, but not always works and sometimes takes a long time until > you get the outcome) > > (2) do it yourself/help other with it > > For smart complaining and waiting might be enough, because people work on > is; but if you help it might

RPM Fusion needs help/RPM Fusion only is as good as its contributors make it (was: Re: Apt-get really screwed up on F9)

2008-12-16 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
ity project open to everyone. Hence if you want that project to do something you can either (1) complain and hope that the right people hear it and do something do fix it (which often, but not always works and sometimes takes a long time until you get the outcome) (2) do it yourself/help other w

Re: Help Setting /dev/fw* Permissions

2008-12-16 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
RGH wrote: I know vaguely how to do this, but can't find the right file: What do I need to change so that the permissions on /dev/fw* aren't just root and ordinary users can access e.g. the video camera? Same question for /dev/video*. Cheers, rh Hi, You could look /etc/udev/rules.d and make t

Help Setting /dev/fw* Permissions

2008-12-16 Thread RGH
I know vaguely how to do this, but can't find the right file: What do I need to change so that the permissions on /dev/fw* aren't just root and ordinary users can access e.g. the video camera? Same question for /dev/video*. Cheers, rh -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubsc

ask for help

2008-12-16 Thread linuxy.com
你好,我用的电脑是Toshiba Satellite m215 , 显卡是ATI Mobility Radeon HD2400,在用fedora 10时,显卡驱动的问题还是没能解决, 请求帮助。-- 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: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help (SOLVED!)

2008-12-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 02:50:51 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Horsley) wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 23:44:19 -0800 (PST) > "Dean S. Messing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The FAQ entry also contains a pointer to _this bug_: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756 > > Yea, and i

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help (SOLVED!)

2008-12-06 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 23:48:32 -0800 (PST) "Dean S. Messing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forgot to say THANK YOU MAX! for providing the clue > to my problem with using the rpmfusion repos. Hey, you're welcome. :-) No problem. -Max -- http://www.everythingsolved.com/ Competent, F

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-06 Thread Dean S. Messing
Deepak Shrestha wrote: > Dean Messing wrote: >> ONBOOT=no >By the way isn't that ONBOOT should be set to "yes"? >From what I've read, I don't think so if Network Manager is running. > > I think NetworkManager > > is "taking care of things" for me. This is my first > > experience with NM. (I usu

Re: help

2008-12-06 Thread Tod Merley
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Md. Nazmul Hamid Reza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > i am running fedora 9 shulphur. i could not install any software in it. > when i try to install then it shows 'You don't have the necessary privileges > to install local packages&#

Re: help

2008-12-06 Thread Les
gt; privileges to install local packages'. > what can i do? > plz help me > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicat

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-06 Thread Jim
the baserul (i.e. remove the "#" character), and disable the mirrorlist (i.e place a "#" at beginning of line). See also: http://rpmfusion.org/FAQ [...] I did that already (by hand) before I wrote to the list; didn't help. [...]

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-06 Thread Deepak Shrestha
> ONBOOT=no By the way isn't that ONBOOT should be set to "yes"? > I think NetworkManager > is "taking care of things" for me. This is my first > experience with NM. (I usually hand edit > ifcfg-eth0 on mh other systems.) > > Right after installation I was able to yum update w/o > a proble

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help (SOLVED!)

2008-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 23:44:19 -0800 (PST) "Dean S. Messing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The FAQ entry also contains a pointer to _this bug_: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756 Yea, and it still isn't listed in the "Common Bugs" list the last time I checked. -- fedora-list m

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help (SOLVED!)

2008-12-05 Thread Dean S. Messing
I forgot to say THANK YOU MAX! for providing the clue to my problem with using the rpmfusion repos. Dean -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidel

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help (SOLVED!)

2008-12-05 Thread Dean S. Messing
This message, from Max Kanat-Alexander in a parallel thread, is the fix to my and many other people's similar problem: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:14:24 -0500 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Errno 4] IOError: > > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for > > repository: rpmfus

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-05 Thread Dean S. Messing
Deepak Shrestha wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Dean S. Messing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't imagine this being a network problem on my machine, router, or > > provider as I can get to the darn repomd.xml file (and look inside > > it!) via Firefox. > > > > Other suggestions? > >

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-05 Thread Dean S. Messing
d directory, enable the baserul (i.e. remove the "#" > >>> character), and disable the mirrorlist (i.e place a "#" at beginning > >>> of line). > >> See also: > >> http://rpmfusion.org/FAQ > >> > >[...] I did that already (by ha

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-05 Thread Janez Košmrlj
Jim wrote: Janez Košmrlj wrote: Jim wrote: Max Kanat-Alexander wrote: The simplest workaround is these instructions: http://www.fedorafaq.org/f10/#dns-slow They are working perfectly well for me. -Max Max is right, And I second that. Jim Hi, I tried the workaround me

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-05 Thread Jim
Janez Košmrlj wrote: Jim wrote: Max Kanat-Alexander wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:32:47 -0200 "Andre Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having a *real* hard time trying to use F10 due to DNS problems [ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756] The simplest workaround i

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-05 Thread Janez Košmrlj
Jim wrote: Max Kanat-Alexander wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:32:47 -0200 "Andre Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having a *real* hard time trying to use F10 due to DNS problems [ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756] The simplest workaround is these instructions:

Help installing software (was: help)

2008-12-05 Thread Todd Zullinger
equires root privileges. If you are using yum to install, you'd need to use su or sudo to run the command. For example: su -c 'yum install git' It might help others to help you if you provided a little more detail of what you are trying to do, how you are trying to do it, and how it

help

2008-12-05 Thread Md. Nazmul Hamid Reza
hi i am running fedora 9 shulphur. i could not install any software in it. when i try to install then it shows 'You don't have the necessary privileges to install local packages'. what can i do? plz help me -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To uns

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-05 Thread Jim
Max Kanat-Alexander wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:32:47 -0200 "Andre Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having a *real* hard time trying to use F10 due to DNS problems [ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756] The simplest workaround is these instructions:

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-05 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:32:47 -0200 "Andre Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a *real* hard time trying to use F10 due to DNS problems [ > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756] The simplest workaround is these instructions: http://www.fedorafaq.org/f10/#dns

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-04 Thread Deepak Shrestha
ion*free*repo" >> > }}} >> > >> > To undo the change later use this command: >> > {{{ >> > su -c "sed -i 's|^baseurl|#baseurl| ; s|^#mirrorlist|mirrorlist|' >> > /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion*free*repo" >> > }}} >

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-04 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
gested---namely to comment out the mirrorlist URL and uncomment the baseurl? Yes -- it was just meant as a "this is the easier way to do that" and "feel free to point to this FAQ entry if similar problems show up in the future". Sorry, should have mentioned that. If yes

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-04 Thread Dean S. Messing
#mirrorlist|mirrorlist|' > > /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion*free*repo" > > }}} > > Am I missing something here? Doesn't this `sed' script do precisely what Kam Lao suggested---namely to comment out the mirrorlist URL and uncomment the baseurl? If yes, then

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-04 Thread Dean S. Messing
oarch.rpm > > > > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm > > > > which installed just fine. > > > > In fact: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | fgrep rpmfus > > rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8-6.

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-04 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
elease-8-6.noarch I can get to the metadata file "repomd.xml" just fine by plugging the URL from the rpmfusion repo into Firefox, but try as I might, yum refuses to go there or work at all unless I disable the rpmfusion repos. Can anyone help me (other some others) fix this? Thanks

Re: Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-04 Thread Kam Leo
AIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | fgrep rpmfus > rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8-6.noarch > rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch > > I can get to the metadata file "repomd.xml" just fine by plugging the > URL from the rpmfusion repo into Firefox, but try as I might, yum > refuses to

Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

2008-12-04 Thread Dean S. Messing
sion repo into Firefox, but try as I might, yum refuses to go there or work at all unless I disable the rpmfusion repos. Can anyone help me (other some others) fix this? Thanks Dean -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-l

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-04 Thread Andre Costa
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 15:40, Tom Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:14:48 -0200 > Andre Costa wrote: > > > Any additional ideas? > > 'fraid not :-(. I don't know where that nnswitch line > came from, I've never seen that entry on my system, > I just had file nis dns (and r

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-04 Thread Mike Chambers
fault). I have NM with static IP working just fine. Using the GUI may or may not be causing the problems (as in, not writting to correct files or not getting it correct or whatever), but you can try to get around it or using a little simpler way to help? Try running "system-config-network-tu

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:14:48 -0200 Andre Costa wrote: > Any additional ideas? 'fraid not :-(. I don't know where that nnswitch line came from, I've never seen that entry on my system, I just had file nis dns (and removed nis when a different bug cropped up). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-li

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-04 Thread Andre Costa
Hi Tom, On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 13:12, Tom Horsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:32:47 -0200 > Andre Costa wrote: > > > Anyone knows what could cause this specific behavior? Any help will be > much > > appreciated. Let me know if you need add

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-04 Thread Todd Zullinger
Tom Horsley wrote: > The absolute simplest way to get things running again is to install > "bind" from the installation media (if it isn't already there), > don't configure it at all, but just go ahead and start the "named" > service it will install. This will get you a local DNS server that > talk

Re: Help with DNS hell

2008-12-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:32:47 -0200 Andre Costa wrote: > Anyone knows what could cause this specific behavior? Any help will be much > appreciated. Let me know if you need additional info. The absolute simplest way to get things running again is to install "bind" from the installat

Help with DNS hell

2008-12-04 Thread Andre Costa
's been designed for offline use... ;-) So, I'll sum it all up here, hoping someone can help me. I disabled ipv6 by putting alias ipv6 off alias net-pf-10 off on my modprobe.conf I installed 'named' so that I could have a IPv4-only local DNS cache, but its configuration is not a

Re: script help

2008-12-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 09:10 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I have a tiny program called "zeroify" which reads a line from input > up to a > newline, replaced the newline with a zero byte, and pushes it out > stdout. Then I > can use the "-0" option of xargs and not worry about special > characters

Re: script help

2008-12-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dave Ihnat wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:22:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: That won't work if filenames contain blanks, something I fight daily. For blanks, do something like "find . -name "*log" -exec rm -fr "{}" \; I have a tiny program called "zeroify" which reads a line from input u

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:35:15PM -0500, RGH wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> Dave Ihnat wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:10:50PM -0500, RGH wrote: ls -1d *log | xargs rm -Rf Note that the first option is a one, not an el. >>> >>> Or for that matter, just "echo *log" instead of

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread RGH
Gordon Messmer wrote: Dave Ihnat wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:10:50PM -0500, RGH wrote: ls -1d *log | xargs rm -Rf Note that the first option is a one, not an el. Or for that matter, just "echo *log" instead of ls. Neither of those are reliable. If there are enough matches to requi

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread RGH
Dave Ihnat wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:22:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: That won't work if filenames contain blanks, something I fight daily. For blanks, do something like "find . -name "*log" -exec rm -fr "{}" \; Of course, that's assuming the name pattern is what you want.

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dave Ihnat wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:10:50PM -0500, RGH wrote: ls -1d *log | xargs rm -Rf Note that the first option is a one, not an el. Or for that matter, just "echo *log" instead of ls. Neither of those are reliable. If there are enough matches to require xargs, then both ls

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:22:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > That won't work if filenames contain blanks, something I fight daily. For blanks, do something like "find . -name "*log" -exec rm -fr "{}" \; Of course, that's assuming the name pattern is what you want. You can also specify if you

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:10:50PM -0500, RGH wrote: > The problem is that you're getting things like "Nov28-log:" back, with > the trailing colon. Try this: >ls -1d *log | xargs rm -Rf > Note that the first option is a one, not an el. Or for that matter, just "echo *log" instead of ls. --

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 04:42 +0800, adrian kok wrote: > Hi > > I have script to remove files but it can't work in > directory > > > ls *log | sort -r | sed -e 1,1d | xargs rm -f > > those folders are: > > Nov28-log > Nov29-log > Nov30-log You need to explain what you're trying to do exactly.

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
adrian kok wrote: Hi I have script to remove files but it can't work in directory ls *log | sort -r | sed -e 1,1d | xargs rm -f those folders are: Nov28-log Nov29-log Nov30-log What is it you are trying to do here? Are you trying to remove files in the directory leaving the directory name,

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread Les Mikesell
adrian kok wrote: Hi I have script to remove files but it can't work in directory ls *log | sort -r | sed -e 1,1d | xargs rm -f those folders are: Nov28-log Nov29-log Nov30-log By 'folders', do you mean that these are directories? You need to 'rm -rf' directories to remove the with their

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread RGH
adrian kok wrote: Hi I have script to remove files but it can't work in directory ls *log | sort -r | sed -e 1,1d | xargs rm -f those folders are: Nov28-log Nov29-log Nov30-log The problem is that you're getting things like "Nov28-log:" back, with the trailing colon. Try this: ls -1

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread adrian kok
I did try it and it doesn't work! Thank you --- James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > adrian kok wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have script to remove files but it can't work in > > directory > > > > > > ls *log | sort -r | sed -e 1,1d | xargs rm -f > > > > those folders are: > > > > Nov28-log >

Re: script help

2008-12-01 Thread James Kosin
adrian kok wrote: > Hi > > I have script to remove files but it can't work in > directory > > > ls *log | sort -r | sed -e 1,1d | xargs rm -f > > those folders are: > > Nov28-log > Nov29-log > Nov30-log > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > You hav

script help

2008-12-01 Thread adrian kok
Hi I have script to remove files but it can't work in directory ls *log | sort -r | sed -e 1,1d | xargs rm -f those folders are: Nov28-log Nov29-log Nov30-log Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To un

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-28 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Read the thread from the beginning. Anne hadn't understood that a > synopsis line such as: i pick up on thread beginning with reg clemens post. problem is that i had picked up wrong glasses and was not focusing correctly.

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 19:17 +, g wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Indeed. In fact I don't know if it's even documented anywhere. > > years back when using cromix, it was documented. but i do believe that like > a lot of other man p

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-28 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Indeed. In fact I don't know if it's even documented anywhere. years back when using cromix, it was documented. but i do believe that like a lot of other man pages, things have been downsized or eliminated and moved into

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 15:53 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2008 14:20:57 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 20:49 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Thursday 27 November 2008 19:51:57 Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > > The options work, but they must be specified cor

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 November 2008 14:20:57 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 20:49 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 27 November 2008 19:51:57 Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > The options work, but they must be specified correctly. For example, > > > the --provides and --whatprovides

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 20:49 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 19:51:57 Todd Zullinger wrote: > > The options work, but they must be specified correctly. For example, > > the --provides and --whatprovides options are "select-options" which > > should be specified after the -q

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 19:51:57 Todd Zullinger wrote: >> SYNOPSIS >>    QUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES: >>        rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options] >> [...] >>    select-options >>         [PACKAGE_NAME] [-a,--all] [-f,--file FILE] >>         [-g,--group

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 November 2008 19:51:57 Todd Zullinger wrote: > The options work, but they must be specified correctly.  For example, > the --provides and --whatprovides options are "select-options" which > should be specified after the -q or --query option.  The man page does > show this IMO. > > SY

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-27 Thread Todd Zullinger
Anne Wilson wrote: > Yes, it all sounds very grand, doesn't it. But if all my efforts to > understand it, over a period of more than 6 years, have failed, > there is something not too smart about the situation. Why does the > 'help' for rpm give so many options tha

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 November 2008 16:34:13 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > Well, like you'd do with any other program :) > > 1. consult a program's man-pages (man ) > > 2. consult a program's "help" > GNU standard compliant programs issue it with "

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
es had been abandoned in RH's/Fedora's rpm a long time ago, because it's hardly applicable to dynamically evolving distros such as Fedora. No idea, why Mandriva has kept it. > All I've seen in my experiments is > 'no package provides packagename' but that coul

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:06:30 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How is anyone supposed to find their way through this maze? It is stuff like this that makes linux fun! Think of it as a game! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/ma

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 November 2008 05:10:50 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 22:00 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote: > > I posted this question several hours ago, but it has never shown up on > > the list,- here we go again... > > > > How do I find out what RPM package a given file is from? > > rpm

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
Reg Clemens wrote: > I posted this question several hours ago, but it has never shown up > on the list,- here we go again... It looks like the original message you sent was help up for moderation because it matched mailman's "administrivia" filter (it had only the word "

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:00:09 -0700 Reg Clemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I find out what RPM package a given file is from? > I know I knew how to do this at one time, but Ive reread the RPM > MAN page 3 times and I cant find the right magic. > > In particular, I would like to know what

Re: HELP (RPM - what package a file is from)

2008-11-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 22:00 -0700, Reg Clemens wrote: > I posted this question several hours ago, but it has never shown up on > the list,- here we go again... > > How do I find out what RPM package a given file is from? rpm -qf > I know I knew how to do this at one time, but Ive reread the RP

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