Re: Problems with DNS name server in Fedora 16

2011-11-12 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 11/13/11 00:29, Michael Hannon wrote: > Greetings. I just installed Fedora 16 (x86_64) on my home computer today. > Not an altogether pleasant experience so far, I must say. > > I've got one issue in particular that's really puzzling me. I use my > linux > box as a nameserver for a few other c

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-12 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2011 01:15 AM, JB wrote: > Hi, > > every Fedora release is going downhill ... Erm, no. Each Fedora release has brought in numerous technical improvements. Virtualization, clustering, directory services, more and more features and performance

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:15 AM, JB wrote: > Hi, > > every Fedora release is going downhill ... > > Time for Fedora to decouple from RH and become quality UNIX-like distro on > its own ? I usually try to simply ignore obvious flame posts. ... But never the less, one question: Fedora is a RH produ

Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-12 Thread JB
Hi, every Fedora release is going downhill ... Time for Fedora to decouple from RH and become quality UNIX-like distro on its own ? Linux distros: http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux/all/y Fedora, Red Hat: http://www.google.com/trends?q=fedora%2C+redhat&ctab=0&geo=all&date

ATI Catalyst on Fedora 16

2011-11-12 Thread Miguel Cardenas
Hello I\m trying to install ATI Catalyst driver in my Fedora 16, based on this guide http://drivers.downloadatoz.com/tutorial/28193,how-to-install- but it does not work, after installation when I reboot it stalls when trying to start the graphic mode... Reviewing the log /usr/share/ati/fglrx-inst

Systemd

2011-11-12 Thread jarmo
After upgrade F15>F16 spamassassin service did'nt start. Just for notification... Jarmo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_

Problems with DNS name server in Fedora 16

2011-11-12 Thread Michael Hannon
Greetings.  I just installed Fedora 16 (x86_64) on my home computer today. Not an altogether pleasant experience so far, I must say. I've got one issue in particular that's really puzzling me.  I use my linux box as a nameserver for a few other computers at our house, just to save myself the troub

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:10:36 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:13 -0500 > Fedora User wrote: > > > The system does seem to > > boot faster but this is really arcane compared to sysV which seemed > > very straightforward. > > Arcane is the word. One big problem is the complete

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:13 -0500 Fedora User wrote: > The system does seem to > boot faster but this is really arcane compared to sysV which seemed > very straightforward. Arcane is the word. One big problem is the complete lack of anything like chkconfig --list for systemd services (it would b

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-12 Thread Fedora User
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:27:34 -0700 "T.C. Hollingsworth" wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Fedora User > wrote: > > I've been doing this since RH 7.3. I'm an old fart and I don't do > > change well. There are 49 SystemD man pages. Each one is more > > esoteric than the Talmud. Seriously.

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-12 Thread Fedora User
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:53:05 -0700 "T.C. Hollingsworth" wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Genes MailLists > wrote: > > On 11/11/2011 09:27 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > \ > >> > >> systemd replaces numerical runlevels with named "targets".  Apart > >> from that, it works very simila

Re: More stuff doesn't work at boot.

2011-11-12 Thread Fedora User
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:30:16 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > I sure look forward to the day systemd can actually figure out > when the network is functional :-). Frankly, I would be very happy to regress to SysV. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

recent changes in gdm or num lock default in F15?

2011-11-12 Thread Andre Robatino
I never use the numeric keypad, and so never paid attention to either it or to the num lock setting. But I just learned that my father, who hasn't been able to log in for around 2 weeks, has been using it all the time, and his password contains numbers. He has been able to clean install Fedora up t

Touchpad right button same as left button

2011-11-12 Thread Miguel Cardenas
Hello I've just installed Fedora 16 on my new notebook but have a problem with the touchpad buttons... First, the right button acts the same as the left button, and if I press both buttons it equals to right button... and, what if I want to emulate 3 buttons? It works fine with my old laptop, but

Little Yellow Boxes

2011-11-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Ever since my upgrade to Fedora-16, whenever I center click on the background of KDE running the activity "Search and Launch" I get a small yellow box at the bottom of the screen, just above the panel. Does anyone know what these boxes are (i.e. what application they are associated with), or how t

Re: iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/12/2011 04:52 PM, Roger wrote: > I read about this and am concerned that if my computer dies and I > replace mb or other components, the RSA key could be different and I > won't be able to log in with the previous RSA. > Not understanding the process made me a bit nervous. The key is store

Re: iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:20:18 -0700 T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > The "key" is just a file on your hard drive. As long as you back it > up you'll be fine. Yep. You can keep the same host key by backing up and restoring all the files: /etc/ssh/*key* I've been copying mine from release to release wh

Re: More stuff doesn't work at boot.

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:10:46 -0700 T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > That's very strange. /etc/init.d/network shouldn't exit until the > link is up. Have you filed a bug? Actually, I think I have just figured out that the alternatives program doesn't include anything to switch the sendmail service to

Re: iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Roger wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 20:37 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> On 12.11.2011, Roger wrote: >> >> > Is there a way to limit: >> > -number of log in attempts to 2, >> > -the duration of a log in attempt to 3 seconds or less >> > -the number of times a userna

Re: More stuff doesn't work at boot.

2011-11-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> > I sure look forward to the day systemd can actually figure out >> > when the network is functional :-). >> >> Are you using NetworkManager? > > Nope, I have to use network because I need to setup a bridge which > NetworkManager still doesn't

Re: iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread Roger
On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 20:37 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 12.11.2011, Roger wrote: > > > Is there a way to limit: > > -number of log in attempts to 2, > > -the duration of a log in attempt to 3 seconds or less > > -the number of times a username can be tried, prefer it set at 2 and > > then not

Re: More stuff doesn't work at boot.

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Horsley
> > I sure look forward to the day systemd can actually figure out > > when the network is functional :-). > > Are you using NetworkManager? Nope, I have to use network because I need to setup a bridge which NetworkManager still doesn't support. > To make systemd wait for the the connection to b

Re: More stuff doesn't work at boot.

2011-11-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've been configuring my f16 partition to make it my primary > system, and I now have the following set of lines in my > /etc/rc.d/rc.local script in order to get things to actually > work correctly after a reboot: > > /bin/bash -c 'sleep 5 ;

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 11/11/2011 09:27 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > \ >> >> systemd replaces numerical runlevels with named "targets".  Apart from >> that, it works very similar to how chkconfig works under the hood. >> "chkconfig --level 3 squid off" ess

Re: iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Williams
> On 12.11.2011, Roger wrote: > >> Is there a way to limit: >> -number of log in attempts to 2, >> -the duration of a log in attempt to 3 seconds or less >> -the number of times a username can be tried, prefer it set at 2 and >> then not again for 24 hours if it fails. > [] Here is what I use,

Re: Installing Fedora 16 from USB

2011-11-12 Thread Roy Six
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/2011 03:32 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Friday 11 November 2011 18:44:31 Miguel Cardenas wrote: >> I've download Fedora 16 to install in onto my new notebook that >> comes with no dvd drive... so I used liveusb to create a bootable >> USB w

Re: More stuff doesn't work at boot.

2011-11-12 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/12/2011 01:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've been configuring my f16 partition to make it my primary > system, and I now have the following set of lines in my > /etc/rc.d/rc.local script in order to get things to actually > work correctly after a reboot: > > /bin/bash -c 'sleep 5 ; service st

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/11/2011 09:27 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: \ > > systemd replaces numerical runlevels with named "targets". Apart from > that, it works very similar to how chkconfig works under the hood. > "chkconfig --level 3 squid off" essentially just does "rm > /etc/rc3.d/squid". "chkconfig --level 5

Re: personal file sharing

2011-11-12 Thread antonio montagnani
n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 12/11/2011 19:25: > On 12/11/11 18:07, antonio montagnani wrote: >> I have 2 computer connected on same network, they share printer, I can >> ping from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 1, I activated the Personal file share >> option but

Re: iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 12.11.2011, Roger wrote: > Is there a way to limit: > -number of log in attempts to 2, > -the duration of a log in attempt to 3 seconds or less > -the number of times a username can be tried, prefer it set at 2 and > then not again for 24 hours if it fails. [] Switch off login with passw

Re: Installing Fedora 16 from USB

2011-11-12 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 11/11/2011 07:05 PM, Joel Gomberg wrote: > On 11/11/2011 04:14 PM, Michael Ekstrand wrote: >> On 11/11/2011 12:44 PM, Miguel Cardenas wrote: >>> I've download Fedora 16 to install in onto my new notebook that comes >>> with no dvd drive... so I used liveusb to create a bootable USB with the >>>

More stuff doesn't work at boot.

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Horsley
I've been configuring my f16 partition to make it my primary system, and I now have the following set of lines in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local script in order to get things to actually work correctly after a reboot: /bin/bash -c 'sleep 5 ; service stunnel restart' > /dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null & /bin/bash

Re: personal file sharing

2011-11-12 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 12/11/11 18:07, antonio montagnani wrote: > I have 2 computer connected on same network, they share printer, I can > ping from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 1, I activated the Personal file share > option but from computer 1 I can see 1 and 2 sharings, from computer > 2 I can't see any of them (I

personal file sharing

2011-11-12 Thread antonio montagnani
I have 2 computer connected on same network, they share printer, I can ping from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 1, I activated the Personal file share option but from computer 1 I can see 1 and 2 sharings, from computer 2 I can't see any of them (I should see at least the shard folder on same machine

Re: Help installing Thunderbird v8.0 on F16-x86_64.

2011-11-12 Thread Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Frank Murphy, thanks for the help. Em 12-11-2011 13:11, Frank Murphy escreveu: > On 12/11/11 15:02, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> FF7.0& TB7.0 installed on F16-x86_64 ok. Also Lightinning. >> >> Please, any help instaling TB8 on F

Re: F16 upgrade disaster

2011-11-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bruno Wolff III writes: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:21:02 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > But then, a reboot gets stuck at "Error 16". I tried everything I > could think of, but I give up. I'm pxe-booting this brick into > rescue mode, pulling my files off, and reinstalling. A change in the

Re: F16 upgrade disaster

2011-11-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:21:02 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > But then, a reboot gets stuck at "Error 16". I tried everything I > could think of, but I give up. I'm pxe-booting this brick into > rescue mode, pulling my files off, and reinstalling. A change in the gcc compiler broke grub i

F16 upgrade disaster

2011-11-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
TL;DR: grub2 turned out to be a disaster. Grub from F15 was still there, so it was able to boot F16, but after applying the updates, uninstalling grub2, installing F16's grub, it fails to boot with "Error 16". Anyway, I started an upgrade of F15 to F16. I got a complaint that Anaconda could

lock-keys-applet

2011-11-12 Thread Elliott Chapin
Apparently it is not built for F16 (failed for F15). Hoping for news here. My laptop doesn't have the lights. TIA, E. -- clients.teksavvy.com/~echapin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Video card gets hot and fan speeds up loud under Fedora 16

2011-11-12 Thread Antonio Bove
I tried the Fedora 16 live cd before installing it. Everything runs smoothly, but after a few minutes, one of the fans starts becoming loud and the temperature meter says it's 36.5 C. Its normal operating temperature with Fedora 14 is 28.5 C. I suspect the culprit is the video card fan. As I sa

Re: fedora repo error with yum [solved]

2011-11-12 Thread Peter Gueckel
Michael Schwendt wrote: > Work-around is to downgrade the packages. That worked. I have been able to revert the repo files to using the mirrorlist and all works again. Thanks. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: F16 / HTTPD will not start

2011-11-12 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/12/2011 10:04 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > It was working under F15, before the upgrade. Now, > > systemctl httpd.service start results in > > Nov 12 10:00:40 sds-desk kernel: [318989.216715] httpd[5371]: segfault > at d ip 008239f5 sp bff691c0 error 4 in mod_perl.so[807000+33000] > Nov 12 10

Re: fedora repo error with yum

2011-11-12 Thread Peter Gueckel
Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:03:40 -0700, KF (Kevin) wrote: > >> How about: >> >> rpm -q nss >> >> ? nss-3.13.1-2.fc16.x86_64 >> Might be this bug: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750376 > That repo error is due to the bad "nss, nss-util, nspr critical p

Re: Installing Fedora 16 from USB

2011-11-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:26:32 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > > Cool! Especially if it's 8 GB and not "8 billion bytes." I've been bit > by that one before. A friend of mine got what turned out to be a 16 It is standard in the disk/flash drive business to have 8 GB mean that instead of 8 GiB.

F16 / HTTPD will not start

2011-11-12 Thread Steven Stern
It was working under F15, before the upgrade. Now, systemctl httpd.service start results in Nov 12 10:00:40 sds-desk kernel: [318989.216715] httpd[5371]: segfault at d ip 008239f5 sp bff691c0 error 4 in mod_perl.so[807000+33000] Nov 12 10:00:40 sds-desk systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process

Re: Help installing Thunderbird v8.0 on F16-x86_64.

2011-11-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On 12/11/11 15:02, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > FF7.0& TB7.0 installed on F16-x86_64 ok. Also Lightinning. > > Please, any help instaling TB8 on F16-x86_64 ? > yum install (update) thunderbird --enablerepo=updates-testing --

Help installing Thunderbird v8.0 on F16-x86_64.

2011-11-12 Thread Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, FF7.0 & TB7.0 installed on F16-x86_64 ok. Also Lightinning. Please, any help instaling TB8 on F16-x86_64 ? Thx, - -- Lucélio Gomes de Freitas ETFCSF-> U.G.F.-> P.U.C.(RJ) Engº, Analista Suporte(Free Mind). Email: aa.luce...@gmail.com Tel:

how to deal with rpmfusion when running preupgrade

2011-11-12 Thread Claude Jones
What's the proper sequence for bringing rpmfusion up to date when running preupgrade. I'm assuming preupgrade doesn't auto-update the rpmfusion-release package, but, maybe I'm wrong. Does anyone know? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 04:03 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Roger wrote: > > Is there a way to limit: > > -number of log in attempts to 2, > > -the duration of a log in attempt to 3 seconds or less > > -the number of times a username can be tried, prefer it set

Re: Need to change uid and gid

2011-11-12 Thread Andras Simon
As someone has pointed out here a few days ago, chown has a --from option where you can specify the current owner and group, so there's no need to use find. Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

Re: iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Roger wrote: > Is there a way to limit: > -number of log in attempts to 2, > -the duration of a log in attempt to 3 seconds or less > -the number of times a username can be tried, prefer it set at 2 and > then not again for 24 hours if it fails. "NumberOfPasswordP

Re: iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread Itamar Reis Peixoto
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Roger wrote: > I'm learning about iptables... > I find the same ip address sometimes 100 times or more and trying the > same user name. > After reading and applying much of the help in google I have tried and > failed to achieve a successful result. > > for example

iptables in linux

2011-11-12 Thread Roger
I'm learning about iptables... I find the same ip address sometimes 100 times or more and trying the same user name. After reading and applying much of the help in google I have tried and failed to achieve a successful result. for example: /var/log/btmp shows: user ssh:notty Thu Nov 10 17:10 - 1

Re: fedora repo error with yum

2011-11-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:03:40 -0700, KF (Kevin) wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:18:24 -0700 > Peter Gueckel wrote: > > > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > > What does: > > > > > > rpm -q ca-certificates > > ca-certificates-2011.78-1.fc16.noarch > > > > > rpm -V ca-certificates > > {no output} > > >

Re: Digikam and Mysql problem

2011-11-12 Thread Alberto Ferrante
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dear all, I tried Digikam 2.3 from the testing repo and the problem is still there. MySQL DBs cannot be created. Digikam is able to create the tables in the digikam profile, but not in the thumbnails one. It looks like a Fedora-only problem. Regards

Re: ugliness inF16 / Gnome

2011-11-12 Thread antonio montagnani
Errol Mangwiro ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 12/11/2011 07:46: > Same issue here. Also using nvidia graphics card. I'm going to try the driver > fromn rpmfusion repo next > --- > The code that is hardest to debug is the code that you know cannot possibly > be wrong > >