a new question on iptables and port 5353

2012-03-24 Thread Paul Allen Newell
To all: With help from Craig and Reindl, I've understood what happens with the automated entry of port 631 for udp/tcp and how to rewrite to not make it a world access (in/out) rule. Waiting for next install of F16 to test when and how the automated entry happens. I saw this entry in iptable

Re: question on iptables, port 631 and CUPS

2012-03-24 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/24/2012 7:43 PM, Craig White wrote: On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 19:18 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 3/24/2012 6:30 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.03.2012 14:29, schrieb Craig White: On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:07 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hello: I am noticing that when I install a pri

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.03.2012 04:00, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 03/24/2012 06:40 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> As a rule, someone who says whatever-agnostic means whatever-apathetic. > > Possibly referring to it as "DE indifferent" would be best. why do you not realize that all your stiff is off-topic? the answer

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/24/2012 07:41 PM, Craig White wrote: a victory for the intellectually incurious is a victory indeed. Fix the symptom, and let someone else fix the problem. Sarcasm and insults have their place. I didn't know that this list was it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: question on iptables, port 631 and CUPS

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 19:18 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 3/24/2012 6:30 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Am 24.03.2012 14:29, schrieb Craig White: > >> On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:07 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > >>> Hello: > >>> > >>> I am noticing that when I install a printer on my loca

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 19:35 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/24/2012 07:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > In any case, it is*not* a "requirement" as you've stated. It is a > > "kludge" to get > > around another problem. > > *Shrug!* I'm only quoting what I was told and reporting that it worked > for

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/25/2012 10:35 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > *Shrug!* I'm only quoting what I was told and reporting that it worked for > me. > You can argue all you want about whether or not it's a "requirement," but the > fact > remains that it worked for me, 2 for 2. Yes, it worked for you. But, just like d

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/24/2012 07:28 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: In any case, it is*not* a "requirement" as you've stated. It is a "kludge" to get around another problem. *Shrug!* I'm only quoting what I was told and reporting that it worked for me. You can argue all you want about whether or not it's a "requi

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/25/2012 10:16 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > No. However, I tried to get sound just before adding myself to the group. It > failed on both boxes. On my desktop, it started working as soon as I made the > change. On the laptop, I had to log out and back in before I got sound. On > both > boxes, t

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

2012-03-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
I managed to boot from the F13, F14 and F15 install isos. Still no go with F16. To boot F13, I needed to point at a partition that was a copy of the F13 iso. To boot F14 and F15, I needed to point at a filesystem that had their respective isos as files. For F15, I did the install. F16 seems to

Re: question on iptables, port 631 and CUPS

2012-03-24 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/24/2012 6:30 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.03.2012 14:29, schrieb Craig White: On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:07 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hello: I am noticing that when I install a printer on my local network, I get an entry added to iptables to the effect of: +++ -A INPUT -m state --s

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/24/2012 07:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Have you since gone back and removed yourself from the "audio" group to check your work? No. However, I tried to get sound just before adding myself to the group. It failed on both boxes. On my desktop, it started working as soon as I made the cha

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/25/2012 09:57 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/24/2012 04:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Where did you get that nugget of information? > > I got it from fedoraforum.org. And, after "upgrading" both my desktop and > laptop > to F16, neither of them had sound until I did it. You said "requirement" a

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/24/2012 06:40 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: As a rule, someone who says whatever-agnostic means whatever-apathetic. Possibly referring to it as "DE indifferent" would be best. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fe

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/24/2012 06:27 PM, Craig White wrote: regardless of whatever DE you choose, packages run because the necessary libs are installed. Yes. I know. I also know that I can install Gnome-centric programs without pulling in other parts of Gnome because they're already installed. Thus, it's h

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/24/2012 04:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Where did you get that nugget of information? I got it from fedoraforum.org. And, after "upgrading" both my desktop and laptop to F16, neither of them had sound until I did it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.03.2012 19:49, schrieb Joe Zeff: On 03/24/2012 11:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: how does this matter? It means that if I already have the program I have no way of knowing if it's DE agnostic, or simply left over from when I used Gnome what is "

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 11:30 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/24/2012 06:18 AM, Craig White wrote: > > No - but I was assuming that a Fedora user would at least at least have > > enough sense to try running system-config-services before jumping to any > > conclusions and thus find out that it is an ex

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/25/2012 05:15 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/24/2012 01:52 PM, don fisher wrote: >> >> but no sound:-( > > Make sure you're in the audio group, because that's required as of F 16. You > may > need to log out and back in to get it working. Yes, I know that it's a stupid > requirement, but it w

Re: Updates not occuring, manual update errors out

2012-03-24 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 24 Mar 2012 at 11:58, les wrote: Subject:Re: Updates not occurring, manual update errors out From: les To: Michael Schwendt Date sent: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:58:38 -0700 Copies to: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > H

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/24/2012 01:52 PM, don fisher wrote: but no sound:-( Make sure you're in the audio group, because that's required as of F 16. You may need to log out and back in to get it working. Yes, I know that it's a stupid requirement, but it wasn't *my* idea. -- users mailing list users@lists.

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread don fisher
On 03/23/12 18:38, stan wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:05:26 -0700 don fisher wrote: I am trying to find documentation on the alsa/pulse audio system. My goal is to set it up independent of gnome or KDE. This is the default configuration for Fedora out of the box. If I run KDE the sound wor

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers at runlevel3

2012-03-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 24 March 2012 11:14, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 24.03.2012 11:58, schrieb Ian Malone: >> Exhibit B: >>> seems you do not realize that Linux is these days >>> the OS supporting most hardware of all out of the >>> box and you must do something terrible wrong buy >>> unsupported hardware >>> >>

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/24/2012 11:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: what is "DE agnostic"? you will not believe it but you can even make "yum install gftp gedit" on KDE systems Yes, by bringing in whatever Gnome packages it needs. "DE agnostic" doesn't care what the DE is because it doesn't need any support package

Re: Updates not occuring, manual update errors out

2012-03-24 Thread les
Hi, Ed and Michael, For now I ran manual updates on everything that did not depend on the GCC stuff (none of that would update anyway.), and now fingers crossed that we get the other bit done soon. Are any of rest of you having the same issue? I was going to ask what would make my

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2012 19:49, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 03/24/2012 11:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> how does this matter? > > It means that if I already have the program I have no way of knowing if it's > DE > agnostic, or simply left over from when I used Gnome what is "DE agnostic"? you will not belie

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/24/2012 11:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: how does this matter? It means that if I already have the program I have no way of knowing if it's DE agnostic, or simply left over from when I used Gnome. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription op

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2012 19:30, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 03/24/2012 06:18 AM, Craig White wrote: >> No - but I was assuming that a Fedora user would at least at least have >> enough sense to try running system-config-services before jumping to any >> conclusions and thus find out that it is an executable that

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/24/2012 06:18 AM, Craig White wrote: No - but I was assuming that a Fedora user would at least at least have enough sense to try running system-config-services before jumping to any conclusions and thus find out that it is an executable that will run irrespective of the DE. My finding it

Re: .bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-03-24 Thread stan
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:46:01 +0100 Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > I'm accustomed have longer bash history - usually my HISTSIZE=1. > Never from Redhat 4 epoch was problems with this, but now at F15 and > F16 I in several cases I found weirdness, when my commands are > missing in history, in one c

Re: Tracker crashes

2012-03-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.03.2012, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I don't think I have hardware problems, since I don't have problems with > any other programs. Tracker is not easy to disable or remove. Obvious > ways to disable it don't seem to work. Other packages depend on it, in > particular totem, grilo, and bras

Re: Tracker crashes

2012-03-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 20:30 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 08.03.2012, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > What is "Tracker" > > http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/ > > > and why is it crashing all the time? Almost every > > time I start my system, I get an Abrt warning with this message: > > > >

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:43:11 -0700 Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 08:24 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:18:45 -0700 Craig White > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 10:37 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > > On 03/23/2012 05:27 AM, Craig White wrote: > > > > >

Re: Voting for packages waiting on FE-NEEDSPONSOR state

2012-03-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:44:05 +0200 Alek Paunov wrote: > On 20.03.2012 20:30, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:12:37 +0200 > > Alek Paunov wrote: > > > >> Which is the proper way to vote and describe potential benefits of > >> a new package, with candidate maintainer who needs sponso

Re: .bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-03-24 Thread James Wilkinson
Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > And more - at several important machines when I want reboot > them, I press for logging off and then login on for this only > "shutdown -r now" command. And by then I at these machines not > observed problems with bash history. Maybe it is speculation, > but seem for me a

Re: Help with sound on Fc16

2012-03-24 Thread David G . Miller
don fisher comcast.net> writes: > > I am trying to find documentation on the alsa/pulse audio system. My > goal is to set it up independent of gnome or KDE. > > Thanks, > don I ran into a similar problem with my FC16 installation of the Xfce re-spin. The solution I finally came up with was t

Re: why is ipv6 fixly compiled in latest F15 and all F16 kernels?

2012-03-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Hello, up to Fedora 15 including, there was ipv6 as loadable kernel > module and was not problem disable/not load it. But recent F15 and > F16 kernels have IPV6 support compiled in kernel, know anyone for > which reason? For IPv4-only sites (which is absolute majority) th

Re: .bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-03-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:39, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: >> suvayu ali wrote: >>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:46, Frantisek Hanzlik >>> wrote: IMO it is problem in newer bash versions, but yet more I suspect when it may be any cripled systemd behavior at init 0/6 (sorr

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 08:24 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:18:45 -0700 Craig White > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 10:37 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 03/23/2012 05:27 AM, Craig White wrote: > > > > no - if command line syntax/invocations are challenging, you can do t

Dell 14z Mini DisplayPort

2012-03-24 Thread Dave Cross
I have a Dell 14z laptop. That has Nvidia Optimus technology. $ lspci | grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 1050 (rev a1) Currentl

why is ipv6 fixly compiled in latest F15 and all F16 kernels?

2012-03-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Hello, up to Fedora 15 including, there was ipv6 as loadable kernel module and was not problem disable/not load it. But recent F15 and F16 kernels have IPV6 support compiled in kernel, know anyone for which reason? For IPv4-only sites (which is absolute majority) this is unneeded... -- users mail

Re: question on iptables, port 631 and CUPS

2012-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2012 14:29, schrieb Craig White: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:07 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> Hello: >> >> I am noticing that when I install a printer on my local network, I get >> an entry added to iptables to the effect of: >> +++ >> -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --d

Re: question on iptables, port 631 and CUPS

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:07 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Hello: > > I am noticing that when I install a printer on my local network, I get > an entry added to iptables to the effect of: > +++ > -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dprot 631 -j ACCEPT > +++ > > It actually shows up

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:18:45 -0700 Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 10:37 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 03/23/2012 05:27 AM, Craig White wrote: > > > no - if command line syntax/invocations are challenging, you can do this > > > rather simply via the 'system-config-services' gui. > > >

Re: .bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-03-24 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:39, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:46, Frantisek Hanzlik >> wrote: >>> IMO it is problem in newer bash versions, but yet more I suspect >>> when it may be any cripled systemd behavior at init 0/6 (sorry, i >>> want say powerof

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 10:37 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/23/2012 05:27 AM, Craig White wrote: > > no - if command line syntax/invocations are challenging, you can do this > > rather simply via the 'system-config-services' gui. > > Assuming, of course, that your DE has something like that. Not a

Re: .bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-03-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:46, Frantisek Hanzlik > wrote: >> IMO it is problem in newer bash versions, but yet more I suspect >> when it may be any cripled systemd behavior at init 0/6 (sorry, i >> want say poweroff.target/reboot.target ;), whether systemd (in >> order to halt/

Re: .bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-03-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:46, Frantisek Hanzlik > wrote: >> IMO it is problem in newer bash versions, but yet more I suspect >> when it may be any cripled systemd behavior at init 0/6 (sorry, i >> want say poweroff.target/reboot.target ;), whether systemd (in >> order to halt/

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers at runlevel3

2012-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2012 11:58, schrieb Ian Malone: > Exhibit B: >> seems you do not realize that Linux is these days >> the OS supporting most hardware of all out of the >> box and you must do something terrible wrong buy >> unsupported hardware >> > Like buy graphics cards from one of the major manufactur

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers at runlevel3

2012-03-24 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 March 2012 22:25, Reindl Harald wrote: Exhibit A: > the other OSs just work? > who told you? > > they only do because the manufactoror put a driver > CD in the package or the OS is preinstalled Exhibit B: > seems you do not realize that Linux is these days > the OS supporting most hardware

Re: .bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-03-24 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:46, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > IMO it is problem in newer bash versions, but yet more I suspect when > it may be any cripled systemd behavior at init 0/6 (sorry, i want > say poweroff.target/reboot.target ;), whether systemd (in order to > halt/reboot computer several mi

Re: Updates not occuring, manual update errors out

2012-03-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:01:44 -0700, L (les) wrote: > Hi, everyone, > I thought I saw this go by on someone else's dime, but I can't find the > requisite thread now. Googling did not help me. Here is the error > message: > == > Error: Package: clang-2.

Fedora 16 installer kernel crash

2012-03-24 Thread Neil Bird
I finally set aside time to try to upgrade my Fedora 14 box to F16, but I'me failing at the first hurdle. Anaconda is crashing out with a kernel bug shortly after selecting the OS to update: kernel bug security/selinux/ss/services.c:655 invalid opcode [#1] SMP Pid: 855, comm: anaco

.bash_history in F15/16 randomly truncated/incomplete/damaged

2012-03-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
I'm accustomed have longer bash history - usually my HISTSIZE=1. Never from Redhat 4 epoch was problems with this, but now at F15 and F16 I in several cases I found weirdness, when my commands are missing in history, in one case I had .bash_history completely empty. IMO it is problem in newer

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >> How they were started does not seem to have much to do with chkconfig. > > The init system used a series of hard-coded numbers in the init scripts > to judge which services were to be started in which sequence, which was > a horrible mess. > > You had to make su

Re: Updates not occuring, manual update errors out

2012-03-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/24/2012 04:21 PM, les wrote: > I must have typed something wrong in the search last time, because this > time it came up. > > The message from September said to use the following command, but on my > system I didn't get much joy. Any hints out there? > > # yumdownloader evolution-data-serv

Re: Updates not occuring, manual update errors out

2012-03-24 Thread les
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 01:01 -0700, les wrote: > Hi, everyone, > I thought I saw this go by on someone else's dime, but I can't find the > requisite thread now. Googling did not help me. Here is the error > message: > == > Error: Package: clang-2.9-6.fc

Updates not occuring, manual update errors out

2012-03-24 Thread les
Hi, everyone, I thought I saw this go by on someone else's dime, but I can't find the requisite thread now. Googling did not help me. Here is the error message: == Error: Package: clang-2.9-6.fc16.x86_64 (@updates) Requires: gcc-c++ = 4.6.