Re: Yum update fails after upgrade from F15 to F16 while doing a transaction check

2011-11-16 Thread Deron Meranda
I just removed the i686 packages with rpm -ev mesa-dri-drivers-7.11-1.fc15.i686 mesa-dri-llvmcore-7.11-0.11.20110525.0.fc15.i686 llvm-libs-2.8-12.fc15.i686 then yum update could proceed, and now all my packages are up to date. Then yum check only reported one remaining problem:

Characters have become unpleaseant in F16

2011-11-16 Thread Antonio M
After latest updates I think that characters have become unpleasant (check for example Firefox menus and aldo Libreoffice menus) Anyone else experiencing same issue??? -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 Linux Fedora 16 Verne -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Characters have become unpleaseant in F16

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Horsley
Unplesant isn't much of a description :-). If you mean thin and spindly and hard to read, you might want to try this: cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/ ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf . -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

samba changes?

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Horsley
I've copied my smb.conf file from release to release for years now, but with fedora 16 my windows 7 box is now telling me I don't have permission to delete files from a directory where I always had permission previously. I had it setup for full guest r/w access and the guest user being me, but

Re: Characters have become unpleaseant in F16

2011-11-16 Thread Antonio M
2011/11/16 Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com: Unplesant isn't much of a description :-). If you mean thin and spindly and hard to read, you might want to try this: cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/ ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf . -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: samba changes?

2011-11-16 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: I've copied my smb.conf file from release to release for years now, but with fedora 16 my windows 7 box is now telling me I don't have permission to delete files from a directory where I always had permission

Re: samba changes?

2011-11-16 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 06:13 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: I've copied my smb.conf file from release to release for years now, but with fedora 16 my windows 7 box is now telling me I don't have permission to delete files from a directory where I always had permission previously. I had it setup for

[389-users] Log rotate question

2011-11-16 Thread Moisés Barba Pérez
Hi, I would like to configure the errors, access and audit logs to rotate every day at 00:00, regardless of the current size of the log, I would like to rotate them in files of 100MB each one, and finally, not to limit the number of log files. The thing is: 1.- To rotate every day at 00:00 I

Problem about Install Fedora16 using i686-Desktop via a USB stick

2011-11-16 Thread Rico
hello, I got a problem when i try to install fedora 16 using usb stick. I follow the instruction http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media.html But when I boot from usb, I got error like this 'no boot device live:/dev/disk/by-label/LIVEfound '. I also

Re: samba changes?

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:49:45 -0700 Craig White wrote: No reason to waste your time doing google searches for out of date configuration notions when the official samba documentation is thorough. Yea, that's what will take the 6 weeks to go through :-). Everything in all the documents I've seen

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-16 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 05:42:25PM +, Ian Malone wrote: On 15 November 2011 15:34, Darryl L. Pierce dpie...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:11:32PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:  If not, why not? - Drowning in F16 bugs. - being busy with getting things up again. -

Re: [389-users] slapd crashes when put the database on read only mode while updates are coming to the server

2011-11-16 Thread Rich Megginson
On 11/15/2011 09:34 PM, Das, Jyoti Ranjan (STSD) wrote: Hi Rich, Thanks a lot for your reply. Does it produce a core dump, or just exit? It's only just exit. There is a force exit ( PR_ASSERT (0);) after putting the below error meaasge File:

Re: [389-users] Log rotate question

2011-11-16 Thread Rich Megginson
On 11/16/2011 06:01 AM, Moisés Barba Pérez wrote: Hi, I would like to configure the errors, access and audit logs to rotate every day at 00:00, regardless of the current size of the log, I would like to rotate them in files of 100MB each one, and finally, not to limit the number of log

Re: Yum Error

2011-11-16 Thread Jeremy Moles
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 13:54 -0800, Joel Gomberg wrote: On 11/14/2011 12:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:55:39 -0800, JG (Joel) wrote: I've been getting the following error when running yum update today: Could not get metalink

Gnomescreensaver - What's up with this?

2011-11-16 Thread Christopher A. Williams
I'm really confused. I had information that gnomescreensaver was being removed from Gnome 3.X, but it's clearly still there and in use in F16 for screen blanking and locking. But I can't find any way to configure it at all. I tried removing it and replacing it with Xscreensaver instead, which

Re: bash update killed my shells

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 21:27 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:54:54 -0800, JR (Jonathan) wrote: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15725 Read through the comments.

Re: Characters have become unpleaseant in F16

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: Unplesant isn't much of a description :-). If you mean thin and spindly and hard to read, you might want to try this: cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/ ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf . Thank you for that lovely hint - it

yum-updatesd - not working - F16

2011-11-16 Thread Steven Stern
yum-updatesd is not notifying me of updates or downloading the updates when/if it finds them. I have it set to check once a day. The daemon is running, but there are no notifications. The config file follows. Is there any way to force it to verbalize its actions or produce a debug log? [main]

Re: Characters have become unpleaseant in F16

2011-11-16 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Tom Horsley wrote: cd/etc/fonts/conf.d/ ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf . Beware: This is not a miracle drug. In my case, adding this symbolic link makes fonts look worse. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

F16 KDE desktop effects - incomplete

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
I have two machines running f16 x86_64 fully up to date with a KDE desktop. One has the following graphics: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro FX 360M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 01ff Flags: bus master, fast

Re: F15 to F16 upgrade via DVD does not recognize previous installation

2011-11-16 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 15:59 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: I did get the upgrade to succeed, by using the workaround of copying /var/lib/rpm to the root partition. But now I have a number of broken packages that I cannot update. Most of them are qemu packages that want to install something called

Re: Yum Error

2011-11-16 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:56:52 -0500, JM (Jeremy) wrote: If you run with updates-testing enabled, pay extra attention to any threads about test-updates and comments on test-updates in the Fedora Updates System. There has been a faulty nss update:

Re: F16 KDE desktop effects - incomplete

2011-11-16 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 16 November 2011 15:25:16 mike cloaked wrote: I have two machines running f16 x86_64 fully up to date with a KDE desktop. [snip] This machine runs KDE desktop effects beautifully - the cube for virtual desktops switches wonderfully and wobbly windows works as I would

Re: Yum Error

2011-11-16 Thread Jeremy Moles
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 16:44 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:56:52 -0500, JM (Jeremy) wrote: If you run with updates-testing enabled, pay extra attention to any threads about test-updates and comments on test-updates in the Fedora Updates System. There

F15 - F16, sleep keys don't work

2011-11-16 Thread Digimer
Hi all, I upgraded from F15 to F16 (x86_64 on a Thinkpad T400s) and the Fn + F4 key combo no longer puts my laptop to sleep. When I tried 'acpitool -s', it fails to sleep the computer are returns; lework:/home/digimer# acpitool -s Function Do_Suspend : could not open file : /proc/acpi/sleep.

Re: F15 - F16, sleep keys don't work

2011-11-16 Thread Digimer
On 11/16/2011 11:40 AM, Digimer wrote: Hi all, I upgraded from F15 to F16 (x86_64 on a Thinkpad T400s) and the Fn + F4 key combo no longer puts my laptop to sleep. When I tried 'acpitool -s', it fails to sleep the computer are returns; lework:/home/digimer# acpitool -s Function

Re: Apologies for way off Topic but need help

2011-11-16 Thread g
On 11/16/2011 06:52 AM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:19 +1100, Roger wrote: Apologies for being a light year OT but I do not know who else to ask. Way back when car radios were first installed in cars there used to be a plug in filter that went between the arial connection and the radio

Re: F15 - F16, sleep keys don't work

2011-11-16 Thread Digimer
On 11/16/2011 12:44 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: Hi! On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Digimer li...@alteeve.com wrote: I upgraded from F15 to F16 (x86_64 on a Thinkpad T400s) and the Fn + F4 key combo no longer puts my laptop to sleep. When I tried 'acpitool -s', it fails to sleep the

Re: F16 KDE desktop effects - incomplete

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure the second machine is fully updated, and running the latest kernel? Try to do a yum update again, and reboot the machine, there were some recent (couple of days ago?) updates to some xorg packages... I had

Re: limitations of fedorapeople.org

2011-11-16 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda callka...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda callka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Danishka Navin

[SOLVED] Re: firefox taking foreground

2011-11-16 Thread g
On 11/16/2011 06:24 PM, goodwin wrote: On 11/16/2011 09:04 AM, g wrote: your text emoticon 8-D does not provide a graphic your problem, not mine. nor my fault. besides, most 'text/plain' users know what 8-D is and do not need a graphic. ;-) sorry is as sorry does. heh --- lol. if

F16 does not enable LUKS-encrypted swap device at boot

2011-11-16 Thread Deron Meranda
After upgrading to Fedora 16 (x86_64) my swap logical volume is no longer enabled. I had made no changes to this since F15, where swap worked fine. My swap device is actually a LUKS-encrypted logical volume. The encryption key is random (/dev/urandom). Does anybody know how the swap devices are

[SOLVED] Re: firefox taking foreground

2011-11-16 Thread g
*OOOPPPSSS* On 11/16/2011 06:24 PM, goodwin wrote: On 11/16/2011 09:04 AM, g wrote: my apoligies. i used 'nicknames' for my emails. i use 'fe' for fedora and 'ff' for firefox. other post to fedora tsl was in error. seems i used 'fe' instead of 'ff'. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please

Re: [SOLVED] Re: firefox taking foreground

2011-11-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/16/2011 11:52 AM, g wrote: my apoligies. i used 'nicknames' for my emails. i use 'fe' for fedora and 'ff' for firefox. other post to fedora tsl was in error. seems i used 'fe' instead of 'ff'. Tish and typos happen; don't worry about it. Still, you might want to consider changing

Re: [SOLVED] Re: firefox taking foreground

2011-11-16 Thread g
On 11/16/2011 07:56 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/16/2011 11:52 AM, g wrote: my apoligies. i used 'nicknames' for my emails. i use 'fe' for fedora and 'ff' for firefox. other post to fedora tsl was in error. seems i used 'fe' instead of 'ff'. Tish and typos happen; don't worry about it.

Documents in F16

2011-11-16 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
Hi, GNOME 3.2 is supposed to include a application called Documents (according to the release notes [1]) by which we can search documents. And F16 ships with GNOME 3.2. I've just installed F16 and I can't find this app. Can anyone help me to locate this application? [1]

Re: Documents in F16

2011-11-16 Thread Bryce Hardy
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda callka...@gmail.com wrote: GNOME 3.2 is supposed to include a application called Documents (according to the release notes [1]) by which we can search documents. And F16 ships with GNOME 3.2. I've just installed F16 and I can't find this

Re: Documents in F16

2011-11-16 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Bryce Hardy bryceha...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda callka...@gmail.com wrote: GNOME 3.2 is supposed to include a application called Documents (according to the release notes [1]) by which we can search documents. And

Errro in booting F16 DVD

2011-11-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
When I boot the F16 DVD I first get the screen with the: Install or Upgrade the Fedora After I hit return after what seems like an extended wait {30 sec. or so] I get the following error: systemd{1] failed to fully start up daemon : no such file or directory Then for a few seconds what looks

Error in booting F16 DVD

2011-11-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
I sent this again to correct my tendency to get my subjects misspelled. - When I boot the F16 DVD I first get the screen with the: Install or Upgrade the Fedora After I hit return after what seems like an extended wait {30 sec.

USB 3.0 / xhci_hcd suspend problem in F16

2011-11-16 Thread Christian Menzel
Hello, on F16 I'm facing the well known xhci_hcd suspend problem (the machine won't wake up after suspend if an USB 3.0 device had been connected before). The solution to unload the xhci_hcd module does not work in F16 since the module is not not loaded, although xhci_hcd is used to handle the

Re: Service questions with systemd/systemctl

2011-11-16 Thread Alex
Hi, # service lm_sensors restart Redirecting to /bin/systemctl  restart lm_sensors.service # service lm_sensors status Redirecting to /bin/systemctl  status lm_sensors.service lm_sensors.service - Initialize hardware monitoring sensors          Loaded: loaded

fedora 15: multitasking priorities poor, where to file?

2011-11-16 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, I've been noticing that desktop priorities are just wrong on my F15 system. Playing music back either from Rhythmbox or Youtube hits pauses (~0.5-1s long typically), typing into applications (for instance composing this email in Gmail on Firefox) also shows pauses while I'm typing and

Re: Characters have become unpleaseant in F16

2011-11-16 Thread nomnex
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:12:28 -0600 Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Tom Horsley wrote: cd/etc/fonts/conf.d/ ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf . Beware: This is not a miracle drug. In my case, adding this symbolic link makes fonts look worse. If it still helps the OP, I

Does Fedora repair itself..? What can't/doesn't Fedora repair in itself..?

2011-11-16 Thread Linda McLeod
Is there a Fedora package that can send an active front-lines point, crawling through the whole OS, determining and repairing any new damage.. to fix it with an always clean secondary read only image, after custom configs done and locked-in the archive OS..? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast,

Re: Does Fedora repair itself..? What can't/doesn't Fedora repair in itself..?

2011-11-16 Thread Robert Myers
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Linda McLeod lindavald...@fastmail.fmwrote: Is there a Fedora package that can send an active front-lines point, crawling through the whole OS, determining and repairing any new damage.. to fix it with an always clean secondary read only image, after custom

Re: Does Fedora repair itself..? What can't/doesn't Fedora repair in itself..?

2011-11-16 Thread Don Quixote de la Manvha
No but there are lots of ways to prevent damage. Learn how to work with selinux then always keep it enabled. Don't log in to the desktop as root. Learn about users, groups and permissions, then configure them properly. The Mac OS X Disk Utility can repair the permissions on the startup

Re: samba changes?

2011-11-16 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 08:17 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:49:45 -0700 Craig White wrote: No reason to waste your time doing google searches for out of date configuration notions when the official samba documentation is thorough. Yea, that's what will take the 6 weeks

F16: second monitor is not detected.

2011-11-16 Thread Steven F. LeBrun
Recently updated my laptop to Fedora 16. Fedora 16 is not detecting my second, external, monitor. The Monitor connects with an HDMI connector or a DVI connector through a USB docking station. Connecting it either way does not make a difference. What is strange is that during the boot

Re: Characters have become unpleaseant in F16

2011-11-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.11.2011, mike cloaked wrote: It should be included in the list of common problems or at least in one of the lists of Fedora hints and tips somewhere... You have full control over hinting and alike via the .fonts.conf file. This is what I'm used to have in there: ?xml version=1.0?

Re: F16: second monitor is not detected.

2011-11-16 Thread Chris Bredesen
On 11/17/2011 10:26 AM, Steven F. LeBrun wrote: Recently updated my laptop to Fedora 16. Fedora 16 is not detecting my second, external, monitor. The Monitor connects with an HDMI connector or a DVI connector through a USB docking station. Connecting it either way does not make a difference.