Re: Problem installing Vmware Workstation 10.0.3

2014-10-25 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > It will not compile. Is there a patch available to fix this problem. I have > searched the web and vmware.com I personally could not find one. Thank for > your help. Follow the instructions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMwa

Re: Beta / Final release criteria for Workstation

2014-09-30 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Appearance is something we'd want to enforce if it were actually done, > but I get the impression the Qt variant of Adwaita isn't actually > written yet. There's no need for such a thing. Qt renders apps with native GTK widgets when run i

Re: slow mirror workaround?

2014-04-21 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > This time Ctrl-C and immediate repeat worked a charm. Is it a normally OK > thing to do? Isn't there some way to configure Yum to see when ETA on a > package is and stays beyond reasonable length to try some other mirror? Oh, as for your other

Re: slow mirror workaround?

2014-04-21 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > This time Ctrl-C and immediate repeat worked a charm. Is it a normally OK > thing to do? Isn't there some way to configure Yum to see when ETA on a > package is and stays beyond reasonable length to try some other mirror? In yum.conf, you can

Re: Criterion revision proposal: KDE default applications

2013-12-14 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > Indeed! There are environments/situations where there is no network > connectivity (at least to the Internet) and never will be. It is this type > of situations that will require a DVD. I run Fedora on a system that exists in on the side

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-17 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Well, now it's failing to mount on boot: Did you change anything yet? That kind of looks like the same exact bug Mike is running into. But "bg" mounts are supposed to keep trying to mount in a loop, and automounts ought not to even try to mo

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-17 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > With the fix above, the really wait script now works. Rebooted twice to > be sure and the nfs dir got mounted both times as it should. Thanks for > that :) > > So it is nm-online that is saying it's online when really it's not? > Then obvi

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Tried your script but got an exit code, ugh can't remember it now. That was my fault, sorry. The quoting was screwed up and an escape character was transposed. (I blame Monday. :-p) The correct line should be: ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "un

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-14 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Dunno. Whatever I got by installing F17 with anaconda then > incrementally upgrading through F18, F19, and now F20, and where I set > up my /etc/fstab by copying the same configuration that worked for me > since F12 pre-systemd days. So it mig

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-14 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > I've got a similar problem - I've got my laptop set up to automount an > NFS share over wifi, and frequently hit a hang during system shutdown > because systemd allows Networkmanager (and the wifi) to be taken down > before NFS is fully unmounte

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-14 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Ok, think I've figured out the problem, but might be beyond my expertise > to fix it.. > > 1 - Network Manager is set to come online/start > 2 - Network Manger wait-online shows in log as well here. > 3 - Network Manger device itself shows up

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-13 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Got this from the logs just after a reboot a few mins ago... > > Oct 13 09:58:45 scrappy systemd: Starting NFS file locking service > Oct 13 09:58:45 scrappy mount: mount.nfs4: mount system call failed > Oct 13 09:58:45 scrappy systemd: h

Re: Fedora 20 nfs

2013-10-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 11:34 +0200, Adam Williamson wrote: >> Check 'remote-fs.target': this is the systemd target that controls >> mounting anything considered a 'remote' filesystem, similar to the old >> 'netfs' service. > > Looked and it is

Re: maintaining minimal

2013-09-29 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > In trying to find a way to reach a state similar to #2 using KDE instead of > Gnome, I had tried installing several KDE apps individually to see what > didn't seem to be required, since if trying to install all the apps I wanted > at once I wo

Re: how do I tell what release yum upgrade will give me?

2013-07-30 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > There isn't a particularly easy way, you just have to make sure > fedora-release-rawhide is installed and tweak the enabled repos, AFAIK. > I guess if you edited the .repo files directly they wouldn't get > overridden on updates? I haven't

Re: Negative karma for missing update descriptions?

2013-07-14 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Jul 14, 2013 6:21 PM, "Ankur Sinha" wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 11:59 +1000, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > Getting back on topic, I propose the wiki page be modified to say that > > karma only depends on whether the package update works or not, > > irrespective of the update description. A 0 karm

Re: need PreferredMode troubleshooting help [solved]

2013-06-21 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > KDE has a checkbox for *everything in the world*, KScreen actually "fixes" this. The old display config pretty much exposed every xrandr option under the sun, and just as tersely. (In fact, I think it just shelled out to xrandr and only

Re: need PreferredMode troubleshooting help [solved]

2013-06-21 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > That was it. 'yum remove kscreen' wanted to remove kde-workspace. 'rpm -e > --nodeps kscreen' mostly fixed it. There's a strong flicker I can't recall > ever seeing before from the Radeon's DVI output (also in SUSE) as if running > below 60 re

Re: Beta TC4 karma requests

2013-05-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > It's sorta messy to use GRUB2-EFI as a boot manager. Ideally the firmware > manufacturer would supply a decent GUI boot manager so you can choose the OS, > rather than rely on GRUB acting as a boot manager. > > The better alternative right n

Re: Beta TC4 karma requests

2013-05-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > If anyone has a UEFI install of Windows and can test installing F19 Beta > TC4 alongside it, please do - the os-prober update should mean that the > Windows install will now be present in Fedora's grub menu (before it was > not). I haven't

Re: Beta TC3 karma requests

2013-05-04 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On May 4, 2013 6:44 PM, "Ed Greshko" wrote: > > On 05/05/13 04:08, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 12:57 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> Hey folks! Just wanted to let everyone know, if TC3 installation is more > >> or less working for you, please up-karma > >> https://admin.fed

Re: Rawhide dead slow on my laptop

2013-04-08 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know where to start for debugging but current rawhide on my > SandyBridge laptop is barely usable. Even a window switch takes 1-2 > seconds. I looked over powertop and top outputs, load average when > idle (even no gnome-termin

Re: [Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 18.

2013-01-15 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On 1/15/13, cornel panceac wrote: > Release Notes say: > > "For a detailed listing of all changes, refer to the Fedora Technical > Notes." > > Where can Fedora Technical Notes be found? I don't think the docs team is doing technical notes anymore; they don't seem to have been done for Fedora 17 e

Re: Rawhide file-conflict gnupg <> gnupg2

2012-07-27 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Friday, July 27, 2012, Frank Murphy wrote: > Transaction Check Error: > file /usr/share/man/man1/gpg-zip.1.gz from install of gnupg2-2.0.19-3.fc18.i686 conflicts with file from package gnupg-1.4.12-2.fc18.i686 Please file a bug against both these packages. File conflicts are forbidden by the

Re: Seeing a lot of systemd-namespace-* directories in /tmp

2012-05-09 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi all, > > during a running F17 I always see a lot of directories in /tmp called > systemd-namespace- with owner root and colord. Can I remove > them safely? These are private tmp directories for various daemons. They're part of this new

Re: running speakup on f17 beta

2012-05-05 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Hussain Kadhem wrote: > I want to get speakup working on the Fedora 17 beta installation I'm > running. IIRC, speakup is now packaged with the mainline linux kernel. > However, it doesn't seem to be present -- running modprobe > speakup_soft fails, nothing shows up

Re: google-chrome transaction error...

2012-05-03 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Rob Healey wrote: > Greetings: > > Upon trying to install this software, I got this issue... > > Transaction Check Error: >   file /usr/bin from install of > google-chrome-unstable-20.0.1123.4-135092.x86_64 conflicts with file from > package filesystem-3.1-1.fc18.x8

Re: Oracle 11gR2 on F17

2012-04-27 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Tommy Pham wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having another problem installing Oracle 11gR2 on F17.  I'm getting: > This is a known bug in Oracle's installer, and apparently they don't care since they don't support Fedora. There is a workaround described here: https://forum

Re: /var/log/messages permissions issue...

2012-03-18 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Rob Healey wrote: > Greetings: > > I was trying to look at the system messages this evening, and this is what I > got... > > [root@BurningBushes ~]# grep shell | /var/log/messages > -bash: /var/log/messages: Permission denied You were attempting to pipe the output

Re: Alert from turning off/on wireless

2012-03-11 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > On my (very old) laptop, I turned off the wireless (via the hardware > switch) then turned it back on, generating an alert.  This action > should be allowed by the default policy.  (Fedora 17) > > > SELinux is preventing NetworkManager from r

Re: sudo-1.8.3p1-5.fc17.x86_64 breaks sudo functionality

2012-02-29 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > After updating to  sudo-1.8.3p1-5.fc17.x86_64, all sudo command calls > are broken. > > Example: > > sudo ls > > sudo: unable to dlopen /usr/libexec/sudoers.so: /usr/libexec/sudoers.so: > undefined symbol: sss_sudo_sudo_free_result > sudo: f

Re: Grub2 mkconfig

2012-02-22 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Timothy Davis wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 08:22 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Timothy Davis wrote: >> > Once again grub2 has installed dozens (at least 20) different entries in my >> > boot men

Re: Grub2 mkconfig

2012-02-22 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Timothy Davis wrote: > Once again grub2 has installed dozens (at least 20) different entries in my > boot menu. I understand that Fedora is bleeding edge and not for the feint > of heart > I accept that and have no problem tweaking anything. But come on now! I feel