Re: '10 Years of Fedora' t-shirt

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Vickery
My apologies: I submitted twice - second time because, as Google Chrome tends to complete the form form for the user, I neglected to make note if everything was correct the first time. I do not think I need two shirts, however I felt the need to make sure that the details are correct. -- test

Re: '10 Years of Fedora' t-shirt

2014-01-11 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:15:23 -0800 Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to get this mail sent out again? I missed it and would like a t-shirt as well. When did the email come out

Re: '10 Years of Fedora' t-shirt

2014-01-11 Thread Richard Vickery
Trombini Fedora Ambassador FedoraOnLine staff member Il giorno 11/gen/2014, alle ore 19:20, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net ha scritto: On 2014-01-11 17:32 (GMT) Frank Murphy composed: On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:15:23 -0800 Richard Vickery wrote: Is it possible to get this mail sent out

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fedup failure

2013-12-08 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang: I just tried a fedup 20 and got the following after it showed some upgrade files: testing upgrade transaction Traceback (most recent call last): File /bin/fedup-cli, line 181, in module main(args) File /bin/fedup-cli, line 128, in main transaction_test(pkgs) File

Re: fedup failure

2013-12-08 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz mmarzantow...@osdf.com.pl wrote: On 08.12.2013 18:42, Richard Vickery wrote: Hi Gang: I just tried a fedup 20 and got the following after it showed some upgrade files: testing upgrade transaction Traceback (most recent call

Re: deja-dup

2013-12-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 12:45 +1100, Ankur Sinha wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 02:06 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: in the cases I recall seeing, that wasn't it. It just never showed. It'd be a bug then. Working

deja-dup

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi gang, I've got my files backed up with the deja dup. Now I have found that the program doesn't have an easy GUI. Is there a reason that we have neglected this? If only I knew how to take its inclusion on myself - how to update programs... Of course, there might be a reason that I'm unaware of

Re: deja-dup

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 13:31 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: Hi gang, I've got my files backed up with the deja dup. Now I have found that the program doesn't have an easy GUI. Is there a reason that we have

Re: deja-dup

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 16:08 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: Thanks! deja-dup-preferences worked! Of course, you were probably well-aware of this. It's there in the applications menu too. Searching for deja dup

Re: deja-dup

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 16:08 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: Thanks! deja-dup-preferences worked! Of course, you were probably well

Re: deja-dup

2013-12-05 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Adam Williamson ad...@happyassassin.netwrote: Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.comwrote

Re: VOB

2013-11-28 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.comwrote: On 11/28/13 07:36, Richard Vickery wrote: Being on the test kernel - or, more likely, using a more stable one from the list

VOB

2013-11-27 Thread Richard Vickery
Being on the test kernel - or, more likely, using a more stable one from the list that is compiled - is probably the answer to the issue: how am I to watch a VOB file? Linux 3.11.9-300.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 20 22:23:25 UTC 2013 x86_64 Thanks -- Richard -- test mailing list

Re: Fedora 20 Swastika

2013-11-20 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.comwrote: On Nov 19, 2013, at 6:27 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: I see a closeup of 200 count Egyptian cotton weave. I could in no why, no matter how hard I tried or squinted, see anything close to a swastika.

Re: Fedora 20 Swastika

2013-11-20 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com said: I think that for a sake of everyone who can see a swastika on this wallpaper, just change it to something else. I disagree. There will _always_ be somebody

Re: Fedora 20 Swastika

2013-11-19 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.comwrote: On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 11:25 -0800, James Patterson wrote: Hello, I noticed the new Fedora 20 wallpaper looks like a swastika. It would be great if it didn't for the final release, it would upset a few people.

Re: Fedora 20 Swastika

2013-11-19 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.comwrote: On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 15:31 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 11:25 -0800, James Patterson wrote

Re: touchpad

2013-11-18 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Samuel Sieb sam...@sieb.net wrote: On 11/17/2013 08:22 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: I need something a /little/ more technical than this. I had it working on after the first install of Fedora; lost it through working with the settings menu; tried to get

Re: touchpad

2013-11-18 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Samuel Sieb sam...@sieb.net wrote: On 11/18/2013 10:08 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: The computer is an Acer Travelmate X483-6691 http://www.linux.org/threads/acer-travelmate-x483-6691- root-localhost.4883/ mentions Fn-F7 which is probably the touchpad toggle

Re: touchpad

2013-11-18 Thread Richard Vickery
off because kwin wasn't picking up synaptic. xinput allows you to turn off or on just about anything detected by X. On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Samuel Sieb sam...@sieb.net wrote: On 11/18/2013 10

touchpad

2013-11-17 Thread Richard Vickery
I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad? Best, Richard -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: touchpad

2013-11-17 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-11-17 at 12:34 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: I wonder if anyone knows how to bring up a touchpad? On what version of Fedora? What desktop? Is this what you're looking for: https://fedoraproject.org

Fwd: mouse track-pad

2013-11-08 Thread Richard Vickery
-- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:34 PM Subject: Re: mouse track-pad To: Community support for Fedora users us...@lists.fedoraproject.org On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag

dnf

2013-11-06 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang: I've got this dnf-o.4.6-1...fc20 has occurred: is it worth making a bug report, or is this something that I ought to ignore? Richard -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: dnf

2013-11-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.comwrote: On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 12:39 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: Hi Gang: I've got this dnf-o.4.6-1...fc20 has occurred: is it worth making a bug report, or is this something that I ought to ignore? You mean, an abrt

system question

2013-10-27 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang: I called journalctl and got two lines that sparked a question: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/input.conf failed: No such file or directory Oct 17 15:17:36 localhost.localdomain bluetoothd[502]: Parsing /etc/bluetooth/serial.conf failed: No such file or directory Should I be creating a

blackened screen 2

2013-09-09 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi gang: I'm on F20. The only way I get a screen that anyone can see is not by using the portable computer's screen, but plugging it into another screen. I tried going into the Power control but it's already on maximum brightness. Any Ideas on how else I might try to fix it? Thanks, Richard --

x11 problem

2013-09-09 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi gang: I'm having a problem with a blackened screen. I plugged the portable into computer screen so as to read it. I am just attempting to configure x11, assuming that it will help. Any other ideas are greatly appreciated. Regards, Richard -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 20 Alpha Test Compose 5 (TC5) Available Now!

2013-09-08 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Andre Robatino robat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: NOTE: The 32- and 64-bit DVDs, the 64-bit Desktop Live, the 32-bit MATE and Security Spins, and the 64-bit LXDE and MATE Spins are over their respective size targets. As per the Fedora 20 schedule [1], Fedora 20

cups

2013-07-28 Thread Richard Vickery
I have to take a moment and shout out KUDOS to whomever it was / is that is working on cups! Although, by necessity, I and others who have been around a while know how to work with the commands, having the machine do it for the user makes it so much more convenient, especially if / when the North

fedup...--instrepo?

2013-07-20 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi gang: If I have time, I may check the man page later to see how it is done; in the mean time, what is it asking me for: $ sudo fedup-cli --network 19 [sudo] password for richard: setting up repos... adobe-linux-x86_64 | 951 B 00:00:00

3.9.9.302

2013-07-15 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi gang, sorry I can't give a more technical-speak: I just had the system up on this test, tried to reboot for some reason and it hung at the circle for 20 seconds until I did control-alt-delete, and the same, new, 3.9.9.302 sat seemingly idle on boot after the circle filled for over 10 seconds,

Re: Youtube, not all songs-videos can be played, F19_64

2013-07-12 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Joerg Lechner julech...@aol.com wrote: Hi, tried to hear the song Power of Love from different singers. Jennifer Rush - ok, Helene Fischer - ok, Panflute - ok, but Celine Dion does not work. It's said, You need the newest Flash Player. I installed the last one

Re: Youtube, not all songs-videos can be played, F19_64

2013-07-12 Thread Richard Vickery
On Jul 12, 2013 4:15 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:35:32 -0400 (EDT), Joerg Lechner wrote: Hi in that file, that Adobe classifies as Yum there seems Adobe presents an older Flash Plugin version. The version classified by Adobe as rpm is -as I have

Re: Youtube, not all songs-videos can be played, F19_64

2013-07-12 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Joerg Lechner julech...@aol.com wrote: Hi Michael, I installed the Flash Player via the Adobe Home Page http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/;. First I tried the link Yum for Linux (I know Yum, Yum Extender from Fedora), there is the version number

Re: option to install extlinux to a partition???

2013-07-11 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: [I hate newUI.] Chris Murphy wrote in Bug 872826: Extlinux goes on /boot if it's a separate partition. This is possible with Fedora 19 netinst using the extlinux kernel parameter. It's not on the DVD or live media

Re: user list

2013-07-10 Thread Richard Vickery
On Jul 9, 2013 11:40 PM, John Morris jmor...@beau.org wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 20:34 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: This email was not helpful nor being excellent to each other. It also shows a biased view that shows that the user didn't even try the version that shipped in at

Re: user list

2013-07-09 Thread Richard Vickery
On Jul 9, 2013 1:23 PM, Michael Knepher mknep...@bluethingy.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Karel Volný kvo...@redhat.com wrote: Dne úterý, 9. července 2013 16:24:11 CEST, Michal Jaegermann napsal(a): OTOH I really dislike to advertise too wide who is just sitting by a

Re: user list

2013-07-09 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On 2013-07-09 16:12, Richard Vickery wrote: On Jul 9, 2013 1:23 PM, Michael Knepher mknep...@bluethingy.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Karel Volný kvo...@redhat.com wrote: Dne úterý, 9

Re: user list

2013-07-09 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On 2013-07-09 16:12, Richard Vickery wrote: On Jul 9, 2013 1:23 PM, Michael Knepher mknep...@bluethingy.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 9

Re: user list

2013-07-07 Thread Richard Vickery
On Jul 7, 2013 3:57 PM, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 07:33:55AM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 07:21:52PM -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:08 PM, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/6/2013 9:02 PM

user list

2013-07-06 Thread Richard Vickery
A nit-picking issue, (forgive me for my lack of tech-speak): I just updated to Linux 3.9.9-301.fc19.x86_64 and found that the nice list of users to get into the system has been replaced by a bar. It's replacement is not so necessary for those of us who are familiar with Linux, especially if we

Re: user list

2013-07-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:08 PM, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/6/2013 9:02 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: A nit-picking issue, (forgive me for my lack of tech-speak): I just updated to Linux 3.9.9-301.fc19.x86_64 and found that the nice list of users to get into the system has been replaced

F19 test updates

2013-07-02 Thread Richard Vickery
I went to boot into the new test updates and as happened with the updates within the last 2 weeks, the GUI gets stuck on the blue circle after filling up. I stopped running in to this problem with the updates almost a couple days before the Canada Day July 1 weekend, a day or so after I mentioned

Re: F19 test updates

2013-07-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:49 PM, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/2/2013 11:38 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: I went to boot into the new test updates and as happened with the updates within the last 2 weeks, the GUI gets stuck on the blue circle after filling up. I stopped running

Re: F19 test updates

2013-07-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On 2013-07-02 21:16, Richard Vickery wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:49 PM, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/2/2013 11:38 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: I went to boot into the new test updates and as happened

Re: F19 test updates

2013-07-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.an...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 20:38 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: the GUI gets stuck on the blue circle after filling up So GDM doesn't come up? Does restarting GDM in a virtual terminal work around this issue? Any errors

Re: Booting and poweroff

2013-06-30 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Pedro Francisco pedrogfranci...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: Frequently when booting the GUI hangs on the full F blue circle, and when going to poweroff or reboot it hangs while shutting

Blackberry / sd card

2013-06-30 Thread Richard Vickery
For F19: Is it possible to see files on a Blackberry 10 via usb? I plugged the unit in, it made the connecting sound, and it creates a file /dev/sg2. Yet I don't get a device in nautilus? I want to add some files to the sd card, and if I plug it into the sd-card slot it is, and had forever been,

Booting and poweroff

2013-06-29 Thread Richard Vickery
Frequently when booting the GUI hangs on the full F blue circle, and when going to poweroff or reboot it hangs while shutting down until I lose patience. At times I have left it hang over night only to wake to see it still hanging for poweroff, so I reboot without waiting. I never experienced this

Re: sound

2013-06-11 Thread Richard Vickery
, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/11/2013 02:22 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: Hi gang: It may be my ignorance - I probably know this but am unaware of it at the moment; since upgrading to tc2 (and perhaps tc1), I lost my sound. Any hints on how to get

Re: Schr@*!dinger*#@s Cat

2013-06-11 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R c...@omen.com wrote: It seems the name of the Fedora 19 release is getting corrupted in various places. It might be breaking some scripts as well. It might be wise to eliminate the special characters (including the ' ) before

Re: sound

2013-06-11 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 10:38 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: Thanks for the reply, I may likely have needed them had I not figured out the solution; although Mr. Guomundsson's solution returned the following

Re: errors upgrading to 2

2013-06-11 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 11:42 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: In the middle of updating , I got these; how important are they? and,I supopose, is the command to recover db_runrecovery? error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process

sound

2013-06-10 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi gang: It may be my ignorance - I probably know this but am unaware of it at the moment; since upgrading to tc2 (and perhaps tc1), I lost my sound. Any hints on how to get it back? Thanks, Richard -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

errors upgrading to 2

2013-06-09 Thread Richard Vickery
In the middle of updating , I got these; how important are they? and,I supopose, is the command to recover db_runrecovery? error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 3820/139765024729088 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv-failchk: BDB0087

Shrodinger's Cat pixels and gnash

2013-06-01 Thread Richard Vickery
I don't know the tech terms to properly describe this, but having having a photo as a background to look at as I type, the photo is slightly out of focus and has blotches that were absent in F18. And, speaking as a political scientist, if I knew what I was doing, I would take on gnash, because

upgrading to F19

2013-04-25 Thread Richard Vickery
I have no clue how to start this, since the context of what I have done thus far to indeed upgrade to the alpha project is on the users lost under Why is Fedora 19-alpha so extremely slow, which I did not start. How do I get up on alpha after having followed instructions at the wiki? -- test