Re: jbd2 headache

2012-06-06 Thread Patrick Lists
On 06-06-12 05:19, Doug Wyatt wrote: [snip] However, I can't run badblocks on /dev/sdc1 because it is apparently in use. lsof tells me there are 3 instances of jbd2/sdc1. Have you tried booting the box with the F17 LiveCD/DVD (make sure you don't let it mount your disks) and then run badblocks

Re: A file named [?

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:41:59 -0700, jdow wrote: On 2012/06/05 13:17, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:35:34 -0700, jdow wrote: On 2012/06/05 11:55, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 14:40:23 -0400, Alex wrote: It's used in shell scripts, such as an if

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-06-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2012 10:06 PM, Thibault Nélis wrote: On 06/01/2012 04:45 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Or is the ext4 code able to mount ext3 now (I didn't think so)? I'm pretty sure it is fully backward compatible yes, even with ext2 from what I read. It

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-06 Thread Steve Dowe
On 02/06/12 18:11, Joe Zeff wrote: ... please don't call me Shirley. Cigarette? :-) -- Steve Dowe Warp Universal Limited http://warp2.me/sd -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

AMD/Ati catalyst drivers for Fedora 17

2012-06-06 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
Good day Fedora lovers, I have just updated my notebook to Fedora 17 using a network install from a bootable USB flash drive. Apart from the AMD/ATi Catalyst drivers causing a minor problem getting KDE to work, now fixed, (allowed Gallium drivers from modprobe, and removed references to

Re: AMD/Ati catalyst drivers for Fedora 17

2012-06-06 Thread Patrick Lists
On 06-06-12 12:13, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: [snip] Anybody got any idea when some working Catalyst drivers will be available? No but check this link to monitor progress of F17 Catalyst drivers: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2354 Regards, Patrick -- users mailing list

Re: kde lcd weather station not working in Holland

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Rouch
On 5 June 2012 12:12, Jan Litwiński jlitwin...@vp.pl wrote: Dnia wtorek, 5 czerwca 2012 11:55:31 Chris Rouch pisze: I used to use the kde plasma lcd weather station widget to show current weather at Schiphol (amsterdam airport), but although search still returns results (from wettercom and  

Re: jbd2 headache

2012-06-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2012 04:19 AM, Doug Wyatt wrote: I have a 2TB HD with 1463 pending bad blocks, 0 reallocated so far. All the data has been moved to another HD, the problem HD unmounted. Full SMART scan verified the pending bad blocks. However, I can't

Re: AMD/Ati catalyst drivers for Fedora 17

2012-06-06 Thread Rudolf Kastl
2012/6/6 Patrick Lists fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl: On 06-06-12 12:13, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: [snip] Anybody got any idea when some working Catalyst drivers will be available? No but check this link to monitor progress of F17 Catalyst drivers:

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-06-06 Thread Roberto Ragusa
, you may be interested in rsync -av --delete /home/psmith/ --link-dest /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120605 /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120606 You can easily have 60 backups taken each day of the last two months and restore whatever you have deleted or messed up (e.g. diff on what the file

Re: What's wrong with this /etc/fstab ?

2012-06-06 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:36:19AM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Nope. You have found the problem. As soon as I created the ntfs group, everything started to work. Though I found this error message # mount /mnt/c mount: only root can mount UUID=E0649EB1649E8A44 on /mnt/c

bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-06 Thread Fajrian Yunus
hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse around. but the login box is

Re: jbd2 headache

2012-06-06 Thread Doug Wyatt
On 6/6/2012 7:45 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2012 04:19 AM, Doug Wyatt wrote: I have a 2TB HD with 1463 pending bad blocks, 0 reallocated so far. All the data has been moved to another HD, the problem HD unmounted. Full SMART scan

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-06 Thread Jeff Gipson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:24:23PM +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-06 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:24 +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my mouse

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-06 Thread Fajrian Yunus
oh yeah. i use 2 monitors indeed. let me try :D On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.comwrote: On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:24 +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen,

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-06-06 Thread Paul Smith
--delete /home/psmith/ --link-dest /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120605 /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120606 You can easily have 60 backups taken each day of the last two months and restore whatever you have deleted or messed up (e.g. diff on what the file is and what the file

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-06 Thread Fajrian Yunus
bingo, i think you are right when i started my computer with 1 monitor only, things work well. when i started my computer with both monitors, the following things happen: 1. at 1 screen, i can see the fireworks background image without the login box 2. at the other screen, i see faintly blinking

Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

2012-06-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
. ;-) As you use rsync, you may be interested in rsync -av --delete /home/psmith/ --link-dest /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120605 /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120606 You can easily have 60 backups taken each day of the last two months and restore whatever you have deleted

Re: any suggestions for these F17 upgrade problems (can not boot)?

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Caudle
On Fri, June 1, 2012 7:21 pm, Sam Varshavchik wrote: advice on getting kernel fixed up /mnt/sysimage, run /sbin/grub2-mkconfig. ... 'rpm -q --scripts ' on the kernel version you want to boot. Manually execute the call to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg that includes the --update parameter. ... Then,

Re: AMD/Ati catalyst drivers for Fedora 17

2012-06-06 Thread DJ Delorie
Rudolf Kastl che...@gmail.com writes: the 12.6 beta drivers work just fine. +1. I'm running 12.6 with an HD 6870 and four monitors, works fine (except for the known youtube-fullscreen-hang bug, and XVideo cropping) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-06 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16 system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this approach. I use the same user name on both systems but on F14 I got userID 500 whereas on F16 it became 1000. I wasn't aware of that but

Re: Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/07/2012 05:26 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16 system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this approach. I use the same user name on both systems but on F14 I got userID 500 whereas on

Re: Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-06 Thread Jeff Gipson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16 system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this approach. I use the same user name on both systems but on F14 I got userID

Re: Permission problems after install of F16 comming from F14.

2012-06-06 Thread JD
On 06/06/2012 04:39 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:26:03PM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have a number of F14 partitions which must be mounted unchanged on the new F16 system. It turns out that I get unexpected permission problems with this approach. I use the same user name

Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-06 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm trying to copy a USB stick that I purchased that's supposed to contain a bootable desktop with a bunch of applications like firefox, openoffice, etc. The USB stick somehow actually contains two devices. One has a vfat filesystem and the other appears to be NTFS. When mounted, it has some

Re: Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-06 Thread JD
On 06/06/2012 05:41 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I'm trying to copy a USB stick that I purchased that's supposed to contain a bootable desktop with a bunch of applications like firefox, openoffice, etc. The USB stick somehow actually contains two devices. One has a vfat filesystem and the other appears

Re: Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-06 Thread Alex
Hi, What's the proper way to copy the entire USB stick as an image? I suspect the issue is that the bootsector is within the first four blocks, and the filesystem begins after that. How can I tell mount to look for the filesystem after the first four blocks? Somehow when I insert the USB

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/02/2012 08:14 AM, Thibault Nélis wrote: If the technical task of signing a kernel is too much for people who don't care much about security, they can disable secure boot. Anyone here have password-protect set for their bios? I don't, never have. So, I have no beef whatsoever if I can

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/02/2012 01:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/02/2012 08:35 AM, Thibault Nélis wrote: Anyway, this would only affect OEMs and Windows users who want to install their copy of Windows on machines they assemble themselves (or in any way non-approved by Microsoft). Do we really care about them?

Re: Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-06 Thread JD
On 06/06/2012 06:57 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, What's the proper way to copy the entire USB stick as an image? I suspect the issue is that the bootsector is within the first four blocks, and the filesystem begins after that. How can I tell mount to look for the filesystem after the first four