[389-users] SASL Mappings Question

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Gettes
I have a need to use a search filter in SASL mappings where it looks like something ((uid=\1)(|(objectclass=x)(objectclass=y))) the is being substituted like \1 as seen with tracing turned on. I have tried escaping it as \ and \\ smb://. I can't find any documentation on how the

Re: [389-users] Possible problems on 1.2.10-0.6.a6.fc15.x86_64

2012-02-11 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Hello folks, We upgraded to 1.2.10-0.10.rc1.fc15 and it still crashed within half an hour of normal operation. Edward Excerpts from Rich Megginson's message of Wed Feb 08 11:02:55 -0500 2012: On 02/08/2012 08:53 AM, Edward Z. Yang wrote: Hello folks, We recently updated our dirsrv

Re: preupgrade grub2 failed: now can't boot

2012-02-11 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 12:25 -0700, don fisher wrote: 3. Why do they force a boot partition? As far as I know using /boot has worked since Fedora2. Because the boot process can only start from certain filing systems, it's more restricted than other things. But the system, once booted, can make

Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices fails and blocks boot for about 1 minute

2012-02-11 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, Since last update, booting my ssd powered notebook takes quite a lot of time (2-3min instead of 30s). In /var/log/boot.log I found the following message: Failed to start LSB: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices. Is this a known problem? Is there anything I can do to get a

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
Pete Travis wrote: Why do you need to run this as root? I ran it with and without sudo, just to see if there was any difference. There wasn't. It it in your best interests to get out of that habit. You are going to start seeing strange problems you don't understand, and things will

Re: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices fails and blocks boot for about 1 minute

2012-02-11 Thread John Pilkington
On 11/02/12 13:28, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, Since last update, booting my ssd powered notebook takes quite a lot of time (2-3min instead of 30s). In /var/log/boot.log I found the following message: Failed to start LSB: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices. Is this a known

X won't start in fedora 16

2012-02-11 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Hi, When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in screen a message pops up: Oh no! Something has gone wrong etc. I am advised to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs every time. The weird thing is that when I hit the windows-key the ususal X-screensaver appears.

Re: X won't start in fedora 16

2012-02-11 Thread Jatin K
On Saturday 11 February 2012 09:51 PM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: Hi, When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in screen a message pops up: Oh no! Something has gone wrong etc. I am advised to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs every time. The weird thing is

F16: gnome-shell question

2012-02-11 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, if pressing activities-applications, seeing a lot of applications I had already uninstalled, but still appearing in the all submenu. Question: Is there a gnome-shell tool which can be used to cleanup those applications from the gnome-shell menus? Kind regards -- Joachim Backes

Re: X won't start in fedora 16

2012-02-11 Thread James Wilkinson
Peter Lesterhuis wrote: Hi, When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in screen a message pops up: Oh no! Something has gone wrong etc. I am advised to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs every time. The weird thing is that when I hit the windows-key the

WiFi issues better

2012-02-11 Thread Steven Stern
I'm happy to report that the WiFi issues reported here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785951 seem to have been resolved with kernel 3.2.5-3 -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
As F14 is EOL, I'm planning to install F16 real soon now. The plan is to install F16 on a completely different set of partitions. I've never had an install go right the first time. Adding to the fear and trepidation, is the change from grub to grub2. I'd like to be sure that after the disaster I

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: As F14 is EOL, I'm planning to install F16 real soon now. The plan is to install F16 on a completely different set of partitions. I've never had an install go right the first time. Adding to the fear and trepidation, is the change from grub to grub2.

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/11/2012 12:01 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've never had an install go right the first time. Have you ever tried to find out why? Part of the testing every new version of Fedora is supposed to go through is making sure that it will install correctly on as many different

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread JD
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote: As F14 is EOL, I'm planning to install F16 real soon now. The plan is to install F16 on a completely different set of partitions. I've never had an install go right the first time. Adding to the fear and

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/11/2012 12:18 PM, JD wrote: Is it even possible to boot F16 using Grub 1? AIUI, if you upgrade to F16 you will end up with both versions of grub installed but will still be using legacy grub. You have to run grub2-install yourself. I've no idea why, or why the upgrade process

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/11/2012 12:01 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've never had an install go right the first time. Have you ever tried to find out why? Part of the testing every new I know part of the reason. Long before the struggle is over, I feel more like killing

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, JD wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote: I've never had an install go right the first time. Adding to the fear and trepidation, is the change from grub to grub2. I'd like to be sure that after the disaster I can

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread JD
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 02/11/2012 12:18 PM, JD wrote: Is it even possible to boot F16 using Grub 1? AIUI, if you upgrade to F16 you will end up with both versions of grub installed but will still be using legacy grub. You have to run

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread JD
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/11/2012 12:01 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've never had an install go right the first time. Have you ever tried to find out why? Part of the testing

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/11/2012 12:39 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I feel more like killing something than writing down what, if anything, I learned. The result is that the next install doesn't go any better than the previous. Take notes as you go along. By hand, if you don't have a better way. Until you can

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/11/2012 12:48 PM, JD wrote: So, I have no idea if the problem is with Gnome 3, or with the latest X driver for my chipset. Use a cli to install a different DE and see if that runs. Either way, you'll probably know where the trouble is. -- users mailing list

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread JD
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 02/11/2012 12:48 PM, JD wrote: So, I have no idea if the problem is with Gnome 3, or with the latest X driver for my chipset. Use a cli to install a different DE and see if that runs.  Either way, you'll probably know where

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.02.2012 22:04, schrieb JD: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 02/11/2012 12:48 PM, JD wrote: So, I have no idea if the problem is with Gnome 3, or with the latest X driver for my chipset. Use a cli to install a different DE and see if that runs.

Re: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices fails and blocks boot for about 1 minute

2012-02-11 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hmm, the more I think about it, the more I think its actually a systemd bug. Updating to updates-testing didn't help unfourtunatly. In /var/boot/boot.log the following problem is reported, which seems to actually delay the boot: Failed to start LSB: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI

Re: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices fails and blocks boot for about 1 minute

2012-02-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:18:09 +0100 Clemens Eisserer wrote: Any idea what could be the problem? Having to wait 2-5min for the machine to boot is more annoying than one would expect ;) I see iscsi is still using a sysV init script. I just ran into this with an old init script:

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:48 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: I can tell you my Oh crap after installing F16! The latest version of Gnome does not give the gnome login prompt. Only a black screen. My GPU is the legacy ATI  Radeon Mobility 9600/M10. So, I have no idea if the problem is with

Re: X won't start in fedora 16

2012-02-11 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in screen a message pops up: Oh no! Something has gone wrong etc. I am advised to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs every time. The weird thing is that when I hit the windows-key the ususal X-screensaver appears. But

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Steven I Usdansky
My desktop PC is organized something like this: sda1: Windows sda2: Boot sda3: data sda4: extended partition container sda5: F15 sda6: F16 sda7: Rawhide sda8: more data  Until I was confident grub2 would work for me, sda2 held a copy of legacy grub, which I configured to chainload the various

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 12:38 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/11/2012 12:18 PM, JD wrote: Is it even possible to boot F16 using Grub 1? AIUI, if you upgrade to F16 you will end up with both versions of grub installed but will still be using legacy grub. You have to run grub2-install

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Greg Woods writes: As has been mentioned in other threads, grub2 requires 2048 sectors at the start of the disk. If you were upgrading from a previous version, chances are your disk is not partitioned this way, but instead has only 63 sectors at the start of the disk. In this event, if you

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.02.2012 02:18, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: Greg Woods writes: As has been mentioned in other threads, grub2 requires 2048 sectors at the start of the disk. If you were upgrading from a previous version, chances are your disk is not partitioned this way, but instead has only 63 sectors

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/11/2012 01:04 PM, JD wrote: You lost me there! What's a DE? :) Desktop Environment. Try installing either KDE or XFCE and see if either of them works. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Reindl Harald writes: Not exactly. This generally happens only with mdraid volumes. Without mdraid, grub2 should fit within 63 sectors, and one of my laptops was succesfully upgraded to F16+grub2, and everything got squeezed into the 63 sectors. the main question here is: was this luck

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.02.2012 04:20, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: this is a practical question because i have 20 virtual servers installed/cloned 2008 with the old layout, no RAID because this is provided by the SAN-STorage behind Well, if I were you, I'd start figuring out what to do about it, now. And

Re: F16: gnome-shell question

2012-02-11 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 11, 2012 9:49 AM, Joachim Backes joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote: Hi, if pressing activities-applications, seeing a lot of applications I had already uninstalled, but still appearing in the all submenu. Question: Is there a gnome-shell tool which can be used to cleanup those

Re: grub vs. grub2

2012-02-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/11/2012 07:38 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: this is only a minus for GRUB2 And it's only a one-time problem. Once you've done it you'll never have to do it again. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Googlecl

2012-02-11 Thread Pete Travis
On Feb 11, 2012 7:19 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Pete Travis wrote: Why do you need to run this as root? I ran it with and without sudo, just to see if there was any difference. There wasn't. It it in your best interests to get out of that habit. You are going