Re: Can't increase sudo session

2012-06-14 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: > But it is not working, the sudo password is prompting nonetheless :( Any > help? I think you want the NOPASSWD option. Look in "man sudo" for details. That said I would suggest not to use it. Using sudo with nopasswd for all admin

Re: 64 bit version of Adobwe Reader

2012-06-14 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:25:25 -0500 Aaron Konstam wrote: > Where do you find a 64bit version of Adobe Reader? You don't. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 19:35 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Just curious, before I try this... what else does this change, besides > the power off option (if anything). > > Thanks, > FC > > Hi Fernando, Please take a look at this page[1]. It has the info about the extension, including a scree

Can't increase sudo session

2012-06-14 Thread Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Hello, I want to type in sudo password once and not worry about it for next 15 mins, here's what I did (Drivers > line 11) : http://pastie.org/4090180 But it is not working, the sudo password is prompting nonetheless :( Any help? -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Developer, Hulu

64 bit version of Adobwe Reader

2012-06-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
Where do you find a 64bit version of Adobe Reader? -- === Q: What do you call a WASP who doesn't work for his father, isn't a lawyer, and believes in social causes? A: A failure. ===

Re: DNS resolver configuration

2012-06-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/15/2012 08:05 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > Nothings changed. I'm pretty much sure right now that some app or script > is silently messing with resolvers configuration. It's exactly the > behavior of /etc/resolve.conf with search opt configured but I have only > single line there! Well,

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-06-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Caffeine Lee wrote: > I've installed Fedora 17 and trying to install Microsoft fonts from > http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ > But I couldn't install *msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm* file because * > chkfontpath* is missing. > > Please help me install them. Thank

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Kernel Guardian
I deeply reconsider should I involve myself in this thread. Finally “Alea iacta est“. This will be completely OT but I could not resist. Actually, this post is about attitude and professionalism in Fedora community. Lately I saw in to many threads negative attitude about suggestions, complains, bu

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-06-14 Thread nonameodotc
Unless you want to build the rpm, you can download it from this link http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f16.html#ttf -- nonamedotc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/user

Re: DNS resolver configuration

2012-06-14 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 15.06.2012 01:19, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/15/2012 06:56 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >> $ ping furdishcamp.com >> PING furdishcamp.my.domain.here (x.y.z.9) 56(84) bytes of data. >> >> >> This happens with Firefox too which is the most annoying for me because >> I drop to my personal web ser

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Gnome 3 (Was: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17)

2012-06-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/14/2012 04:43 PM, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote: * to keep Gnome shell as an option but no longer make it the default; Given the choice, this is the option I'd pick. Of course, if Fedora stopped using Gnome shell as the default, we'd probably have to pick a different one. Either that,

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Gnome 3 (Was: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17)

2012-06-14 Thread Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan
Again, this being the Fedora userlist, it isn't the place to agitate to get Gnome fixed. The relevant choice for Fedora as such, concerning the user shell, is amongst these: * to keep Gnome shell as the default user shell; * to keep Gnome shell as an option but no longer make it the defaul

Re: cpu scaling

2012-06-14 Thread Thibault Nélis
On 06/13/2012 03:27 PM, Matej Kosik wrote: Hello, On Fedora 16, CPU scaling works fine for me. From this I assume you're now using F17 as you seem to suggest it doesn't work fine anymore, but I believe everything holds for F16 as well. On Debian, I was able to determine minimal/maximal fre

Re: DNS resolver configuration

2012-06-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/15/2012 06:56 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > $ ping furdishcamp.com > PING furdishcamp.my.domain.here (x.y.z.9) 56(84) bytes of data. > > > This happens with Firefox too which is the most annoying for me because > I drop to my personal web server every time the domain is not found. I'd > p

Re: Checking which application is taking bandwidth

2012-06-14 Thread Thibault Nélis
On 06/14/2012 09:16 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't "ss -p" essentially the same as the older "netstat -anp"? net-tools (including netcat) are somewhat deprecated in favor of iproute2 programs (which include ss as a netcat replacement) in some circles. -- t -- us

Re: DNS resolver configuration

2012-06-14 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 15.06.2012 00:37, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/15/2012 05:45 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >> I have noticed a strange (for me) behavior of dns resolver in Fedora 17. >> If the domain name being resolved simply doesn't exists I'm provided >> with my IP address instead of an error. It behaves like

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-06-14 Thread Edward M
On 06/14/2012 11:26 AM, Caffeine Lee wrote: Hi Edward, Is it safe to download from there? Yes, like Richard Shaw pointed out it is a well known third party repo for many years. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://adm

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-06-14 Thread Shawn Badger
Or just do yum -y install http://dl.atrpms.net/all/chkfontpath-1.10.1-2.fc17.x86_64.rpm On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Caffeine Lee wrote: >> Hi Edward, >> >> Is it safe to download from there? > > Yes, it's a well known 3rd party rep

Re: DNS resolver configuration

2012-06-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/15/2012 05:45 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > I have noticed a strange (for me) behavior of dns resolver in Fedora 17. > If the domain name being resolved simply doesn't exists I'm provided > with my IP address instead of an error. It behaves like when the search > option is present in /etc

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Pick one of four ways to fix that: > > yum install gnome-shell-extension-**alternative-status-menu > Just curious, before I try this... what else does this change, besides the power off option (if anything). Thanks, FC -- During times o

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Olav Vitters writes: Venting makes it difficult to understand the issue. State your problem calmly, otherwise most @ GNOME will quickly ignore either you, or the whole mailing list. Too late. The aforementioned "most @ GNOME" have already been ignoring feedback for a long time. There are un

Authorization failed: Failed to obtain authentication

2012-06-14 Thread Rich Emberson
About a week ago I updated my version of fedora16 on both my laptop and server. After that update, every 5 minutes I would get a Notification popup stating: Authorization failed with reason: Failed to obtain authentication At the time I did not do anything figuring that it might be some bug in fed

DNS resolver configuration

2012-06-14 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
I have noticed a strange (for me) behavior of dns resolver in Fedora 17. If the domain name being resolved simply doesn't exists I'm provided with my IP address instead of an error. It behaves like when the search option is present in /etc/resolv.conf but it isn't. I suspect that it was added by so

Re: Upgrading to F16, keep ext3 or use ext4?

2012-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2012 22:36, schrieb Max Pyziur: > Per the subject line, I've been slowly updating my Fedora-running hardware > to be within prevailing release cycles. > > Should I stick with ext3 or make a move to ext4? we made the chnage to ext4 in the year 2009 on all datadrives in production for al

Upgrading to F16, keep ext3 or use ext4?

2012-06-14 Thread Max Pyziur
Per the subject line, I've been slowly updating my Fedora-running hardware to be within prevailing release cycles. Should I stick with ext3 or make a move to ext4? Thanks. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

lyx on F16 and F17 does not pront to the default printer

2012-06-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
Both F16 and F17 have the same version of lyx (lyx-2.0.3). On neither version of Fedora will lyx print to the default printer. I had to convert the .lyx files to .pdf files to get any printing of the document. Have others had different experiences and does someone know how to make printing work f

Re: OT: Routers, DD-WRT -

2012-06-14 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 14/06/12 13:39, Jim wrote: http://dd-wrt.com look to top of site and click on Forum, you can get help there. -- Thanks Jim but the forum is worthless. The people on it don't seem to know any more than I do and have never provided a meaningful answer to any question I've asked,

Re: Checking which application is taking bandwidth

2012-06-14 Thread Kevin Martin
On 06/14/2012 01:47 AM, Martin Airs wrote: > On Thursday 14 Jun 2012 09:04:46 Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: >> Hello, >> >> What is the way to check which application is using the bandwidth? I use >> GNOME 3 with Fedora 17 . >> >> Thanks :) > > Using ss can tell you what sockets and ports are open

Re: git and selinux

2012-06-14 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/2012 12:18 PM, Pete Stieber wrote: > On 6/14/2012 6:26 AM, PS = Pete Stieber wrote: PS>> Dan, how do I undo the > original semanage command? > > On 6/14/2012 7:37 AM, DW = Daniel J Walsh wrote: DW> # semanage fcontext -d > "/home/git(/.*)?" >

f17 yum update failure

2012-06-14 Thread Rich Emberson
After upgrading from f16 to f17 a couple of weeks ago using preupgrade and then doing an initial 'yum update', everything worked fine - the yum update worked. This weekend tried to do a yum update on either my lagtop or server and I get the same error condition: --> Processing Dependency: libxapi

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2012 20:08, schrieb Caffeine Lee: > Hi everybody, > > I've installed Fedora 17 and trying to install Microsoft fonts from > http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ > But I couldn't install *msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm* file because > *chkfontpath* is missing. > > Please help me install

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-06-14 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Caffeine Lee wrote: > Hi Edward, > > Is it safe to download from there? Yes, it's a well known 3rd party repository for Fedora. You could configure the whole repository[1] and then just do the usual: yum install chkfontpath Richard [1] http://atrpms.net/docume

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-06-14 Thread Caffeine Lee
Hi Edward, Is it safe to download from there? -- 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_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-06-14 Thread Edward M
On 06/14/2012 11:08 AM, Caffeine Lee wrote: Hi everybody, I've installed Fedora 17 and trying to install Microsoft fonts from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ But I couldn't install *msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm* file because *chkfontpath* is missing. Please help me install them. Thank yo

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 08:09:57PM +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > Now it really goes OT and becomes venting. I'm far from complaining > every time and for everything and you'll see in previous mails I don't. Oops.. didn't want to imply that you did. Just wanted to explain about venting _in

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 14.06.2012 19:24, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:50:16PM +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >> As you already know it does. This stupidity in GNOME is changed in next >> releases so each voice from frustrated users is important. It is the way >> wrong things can be heard and re

installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-06-14 Thread Caffeine Lee
Hi everybody, I've installed Fedora 17 and trying to install Microsoft fonts from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ But I couldn't install *msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm* file because * chkfontpath* is missing. Please help me install them. Thank you Best regards, Hoang -- users mailing list us

Re: git and selinux

2012-06-14 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/2012 09:49 AM, Pete Stieber wrote: > On 06/11/2012 07:08 PM, PS = Pete Stieber wrote: PS>> I'm trying to setup a > git server on a Fedora PS>> 17 box. I created user name git and setup > PS>> bare Git repos under /home/git/repos. When PS>>

Re: Checking which application is taking bandwidth

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Berg
> Try nethogs. It may give you exactly what you need. It's kind of like > iftop, but tells you the name of the process involved as well. That's handy! Thanks, I never knew of that app before but I can see it's potential. -- * Stephen Berg * * sb...@mississippi.com * * Sinners

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.06.2012, Alan Cox wrote: > > Any Intel with embedded grafics will do. > Almost. Anything containing GMA500, GMA600, GMA3600 or GMA3650 is an > intergrated Imagination core and not properly supported on Linux (no > acceleration etc). Thanks Alan, for the good information! I will soon hav

Re: Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora (root password for printers)

2012-06-14 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:50 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 06/13/2012 02:44 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > > Why is Administrator type account being asked for root pasword when > accessing printer settings? > > Is there some user group I need to be part of? Do I need to edit some > s

Re: OT: Routers, DD-WRT -

2012-06-14 Thread Jim
On 06/14/2012 11:12 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 14/06/12 10:54, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:23:47 -0400, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: I've had this trouble with two Cisco E3000 "wireless" routers which in addition to that problem f

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:50:16PM +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > As you already know it does. This stupidity in GNOME is changed in next > releases so each voice from frustrated users is important. It is the way > wrong things can be heard and repaired. Venting makes it difficult to underst

Re: Checking which application is taking bandwidth

2012-06-14 Thread Sjoerd Mullender
On 2012-06-14 08:47, Martin Airs wrote: > On Thursday 14 Jun 2012 09:04:46 Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: >> Hello, >> >> What is the way to check which application is using the bandwidth? I use >> GNOME 3 with Fedora 17 . >> >> Thanks :) > > Using ss can tell you what sockets and ports are open, i

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 07:31:43AM -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > From where I'm sitting, that looks like venting *did something*. Nope, it is totally pointless. I talked to a few designers personally, explained calmly a better approach. The announced change pretty much matches with what I said.

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 02:35:43PM +0930, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 00:10 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > Furthermore, updates to extensions are reviewed by GNOME shell > > developers. If they break stuff, it means additional work for them to > > review the updated extension. > > ... just

Re: OT: Routers, DD-WRT -

2012-06-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:12:18 -0400, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: I've looked at OpenWRT via googling a few times but was never able to decide where to start. I guess I was looking for something I could download and install in a specific router model. Perhaps my approa

Re: git and selinux

2012-06-14 Thread Pete Stieber
On 6/14/2012 6:26 AM, PS = Pete Stieber wrote: PS>> Dan, how do I undo the original semanage command? On 6/14/2012 7:37 AM, DW = Daniel J Walsh wrote: DW> # semanage fcontext -d "/home/git(/.*)?" Thanks for the help. I seem to be stuck using the original solution suggestion made by audit2why.

Re: OT: Routers, DD-WRT -

2012-06-14 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 14/06/12 10:54, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:23:47 -0400, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: I've had this trouble with two Cisco E3000 "wireless" routers which in addition to that problem fail periodically and have to have the ac power switched on and o

Re: OT: Routers, DD-WRT -

2012-06-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:23:47 -0400, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: I've had this trouble with two Cisco E3000 "wireless" routers which in addition to that problem fail periodically and have to have the ac power switched on and off. That causes complaints from other fam

Re: pk-gtk-module?

2012-06-14 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 08:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Mostly just curiosity here: Why does every gtk program in > the universe always print this message to stderr? > > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module" > > And if they all want it so bad, why do I never notice > any problem run

Re: git and selinux

2012-06-14 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/2012 09:26 AM, Pete Stieber wrote: > On 06/11/2012 08:34 AM, Pete Stieber wrote: PS I'm trying to setup a > git server on a PS Fedora 17 box. I created user name git PS and > setup bare Git repos under PS /home/git/repos. When

Re: Evolutioon pop and stmp pawsswds not remembered

2012-06-14 Thread Manish Kathuria
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Suddenly Evolution seems unable to remember the pop and smtp paswswds.. > Has any one else had this problem and know how to fix this? > -- By any chance did you stop or remove the Gnome Keyring service from the auto run applications ? It can

Re: Crash (segfault) adding new invoice

2012-06-14 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/14/2012 08:33 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > When I attempt to add a new invoice, GnuCash just disappears. Running > from the command line, I can see that it segfaults. Everything else > related to invoices (e.g., payments) seems to be OK. > > Running from the RPM gnucash-2.4.10-1.fc17.i686 >

OT: Routers, DD-WRT -

2012-06-14 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
This is probably off topic but then most of us need routers. I've run three different routers in as many months, all running some version of DD-WRT, none without problems. My experience has been that the manufacturers software works but doesn't have some of the functions I want tha

Re: rpmfusion is down?

2012-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2012 16:13, schrieb Neal Becker: > I tried from 2 different machines. I tried yum clean all. I get: > > http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/50a3ec209ea701cb92976a80a229cb43674186ce36b0d16961f487b2276561b0- > primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14]

rpmfusion is down?

2012-06-14 Thread Neal Becker
I tried from 2 different machines. I tried yum clean all. I get: http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/50a3ec209ea701cb92976a80a229cb43674186ce36b0d16961f487b2276561b0- primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found : http://mirror.us.lease

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 12:12 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 14:35 +0930, Tim wrote: > > It *is* a *basic* thing. Are they purely aiming at a server market? > > Home users *do* turn their PCs off. > > How difficult is pressing the alt button? > > I don't understand what the c

Re: pk-gtk-module?

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Michael Schwendt wrote: > Because it's an optional module. ;) Unfortunately the GTK2 module was removed in Fedora 17 so every GTK2 program will echo the warning to the console. Richard mentioned[1] today that he is going to put a stub module back in for GTK2 so this warning will go away soon. [

Re: FC16 screen continuously cycling, blacked-out, only visible for short time every few seconds.

2012-06-14 Thread Mark Haney
I do use Xfce (no desktop wars, please), but don't think this is a factor because the black-out begins so very early. Has anybody else seen anything quite like this? I have. However there are a couple of caveats I have to mention though. I didn't notice that issue until the later 3.0 kern

Crash (segfault) adding new invoice

2012-06-14 Thread Steven Stern
When I attempt to add a new invoice, GnuCash just disappears. Running from the command line, I can see that it segfaults. Everything else related to invoices (e.g., payments) seems to be OK. Running from the RPM gnucash-2.4.10-1.fc17.i686 Any ideas on how to fix this? -- -- Steve -- users

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Matthew J. Roth
Ankur Sinha wrote: > > Discussions on *this* list did *not* cause it. Gnome folks do *not* > monitor this list. They should. Feedback from the users is paramount to creating a good graphical *user interface*. > Here's the thing. A lot of people worked very hard to make each Fedora > release for

Re: nouveau configure problems

2012-06-14 Thread Kevin Martin
nomodeset will *disallow* X11, not allow it. If you remove nomodeset what happens? Kevin On 06/14/2012 12:50 AM, George R Goffe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use the nouveau driver on my FC 16 x86_64 system and need some > help please. > > lspci | grep vid gives: 01:00.0 VGA compatible cont

Re: git and selinux

2012-06-14 Thread Pete Stieber
On 06/11/2012 08:34 AM, Pete Stieber wrote: PS I'm trying to setup a git server on a PS Fedora 17 box. I created user name git PS and setup bare Git repos under PS /home/git/repos. When I clone these PS repos from another machine using PS PS $ git clone git@server_name/

Re: Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora

2012-06-14 Thread Jayson Rowe
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: >> umhe *does* use Fedora > > > Hm, the only evidence of that is from Fedora 9. Does he still? > > http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/linux-torvalds-on-linux-distri.html > > I read somewhere he doesn't like Gnome3... > > -- > Greetz, >

FC16 screen continuously cycling, blacked-out, only visible for short time every few seconds.

2012-06-14 Thread Ron Flory
Since a recent 'yum update', my FC16 display is blacked-out, only flashing with visible content for a very small fraction of a second every 2.5 seconds or so. Needles to say, this make it very difficult to use- luckily I still have remote access... I have created a bugzilla entry: https:/

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 16:44 +0930, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> It *is* a *basic* thing. Are they purely aiming at a server market? > >> Home users *do* turn their PCs off. > > Ankur Sinha: > > How difficult is pressing the alt button? > > The big gripe is that it's an unnecessary thing. Also, it's

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 07:31 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > Ankur Sinha wrote: > > > > I just don't like random folks venting on mailing lists. > > What, exactly, is it that you're doing? I asked them to: 1. Accept the current condition 2. Use one of the numerous solutions that have been out *si

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 12:50 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > On 14.06.2012 11:32, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 09:46 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > > > You must be kidding or you are a masochist. It is idiotic to force > > > users to know the magical commands to turn of

Re: pk-gtk-module?

2012-06-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:48:33 +0200 Michael Schwendt wrote: > # repoquery --whatprovides > \*pk-gtk-module\*PackageKit-gtk3-module-0:0.7.4-4.fc17.x86_64 > PackageKit-gtk3-module-0:0.7.4-3.fc17.x86_64 I dimly recall trying that once, but the warning still showed up on everything because they are a

dv7-4273us Installation Halts

2012-06-14 Thread edk
I have an HP dv7-4273us, which halts during boot of the DVD and CDROM installation media for Fedora 17. Has anyone installed Fedora 17 on a dv7-4273us? I am using F15, and have not tried F16. Or, is there anyway that I can step through the startup routine? Here is where the halt happens: 1

Re: Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora

2012-06-14 Thread Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
umhe *does* use Fedora Hm, the only evidence of that is from Fedora 9. Does he still? http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/linux-torvalds-on-linux-distri.html I read somewhere he doesn't like Gnome3... -- Greetz, Roelof Kusters aka Ben The internet isn't a highway, it's a swamp: the more you

Re: pk-gtk-module?

2012-06-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:22:16 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Mostly just curiosity here: Why does every gtk program in > the universe always print this message to stderr? > > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module" > > And if they all want it so bad, why do I never notice > any problem ru

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Matthew J. Roth
Ankur Sinha wrote: > > I just don't like random folks venting on mailing lists. What, exactly, is it that you're doing? > If you haven't learnt yet, venting does nothing. It doesn't bring > any changes. All it does is waste infra. > > From F18, you'll have your poweroff back. From where I'm si

pk-gtk-module?

2012-06-14 Thread Tom Horsley
Mostly just curiosity here: Why does every gtk program in the universe always print this message to stderr? Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module" And if they all want it so bad, why do I never notice any problem running the gtk app that complained about? What the heck is a pk-gtk-mo

Re: avahi and firewall rules

2012-06-14 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 14.06.2012 14:07, Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA) wrote: > I have a service that advertises itself via avahi. > > Is there a way to hook into avahi to watch for the advertisement, and then > automatically push the appropriate iptables rules to open the port? > > Thanks > > - Jonathan Miner I thin

Re: avahi and firewall rules

2012-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2012 14:07, schrieb Miner: > I have a service that advertises itself via avahi. > > Is there a way to hook into avahi to watch for the advertisement, and then > automatically push the appropriate iptables rules to open the port? hopefully not, this would mean that security is compro

avahi and firewall rules

2012-06-14 Thread Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA)
I have a service that advertises itself via avahi. Is there a way to hook into avahi to watch for the advertisement, and then automatically push the appropriate iptables rules to open the port? Thanks - Jonathan Miner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chan

Some PDF files are not printed from Evince

2012-06-14 Thread antonio.montagn...@alice.it
I note that some PDF files are not printed by Evince, while they are printed from Xournal and Adobe reader. When I print them I get a set of blank pages. Running a network printer, but I think that it is not important. Tnx -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 14.06.2012 11:32, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 09:46 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >> You must be kidding or you are a masochist. It is idiotic to force >> users to know the magical commands to turn off the computer! On my >> desktop, yes - I can hold and even 10 other keys o

Re: Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora (root password for printers)

2012-06-14 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
I have updated the bugzilla page: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596711 David, in the bugzilla you said that it was upstream bug, but in this thread that it is not. Please clarify your opinion in Fedora Bugzilla, thank you. Cheers, Valent. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 16:44 +0930, Tim wrote: > The big gripe is that it's an unnecessary thing. Also, it's not > intuitive. Menus should present your choices. You shouldn't have to > go > right clicking, or alt-clicking on menus, trying to find *hidden* > options. And, you have to know that yo

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 09:46 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > You must be kidding or you are a masochist. It is idiotic to force > users to know the magical commands to turn off the computer! On my > desktop, yes - I can hold and even 10 other keys only to change > menu item and power off. But

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Cox
> Any Intel with embedded grafics will do. Almost. Anything containing GMA500, GMA600, GMA3600 or GMA3650 is an intergrated Imagination core and not properly supported on Linux (no acceleration etc). GMA500 is the old Poulsbo (some Dell minis for example) but not in current production. GMA600 is

Re: F17 - false positive? -> Fwd: rkhunter Daily Run on testserver

2012-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2012 10:41, schrieb Ed Greshko: > On 06/14/2012 04:16 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> after upgrade a test-VM to F17 i get this rkhunter warnings >> i can not really believe that there is a rootkit not existing >> on the F16 setup and think this is a false positive >> >> can anybody confirm

Re: F17 - false positive? -> Fwd: rkhunter Daily Run on testserver

2012-06-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/2012 04:16 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > after upgrade a test-VM to F17 i get this rkhunter warnings > i can not really believe that there is a rootkit not existing > on the F16 setup and think this is a false positive > > can anybody confirm this or should i make a bugreport now? > > ---

Re: Fedora 15 versus 17, files missing on the same filesystem

2012-06-14 Thread Pavel Lisy
Thibault Nélis píše v Po 04. 06. 2012 v 13:56 +0200: > Okay, so just to be clear, you mean that you have *not* copied files > from a f15 filesystem to a new f17 system, but actually have copied > files (with a file manager, GNOME Nautilus) from an external system to a > unique filesystem that is

F17 - false positive? -> Fwd: rkhunter Daily Run on testserver

2012-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
after upgrade a test-VM to F17 i get this rkhunter warnings i can not really believe that there is a rootkit not existing on the F16 setup and think this is a false positive can anybody confirm this or should i make a bugreport now? Original-Nachricht Betreff: rkhunter Daily Run

Re: F17: SOLVED: swap monitors: minimal xrandr to xorg.conf translation

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, On 14/06/12 17:53 +1000, Nick Urbanik wrote: Dear Folks, My two monitors come up the wrong way round, and I quickly came up with the xrandr command which I've been running when I log in: xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1600x1200 --output DVI-0 --mode 1920x1200 --right-of VGA-0 Howev

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-14 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 08:22 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > If you don't buy the latest and greatest, all should work just fine. Kind of hard to do... /me walks into the shop and asks the shop keeper if I can buy a two year old laptop, please, and with a specific chipset for graphics, for sound, for

F17: swap monitors: minimal xrandr to xorg.conf translation

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, My two monitors come up the wrong way round, and I quickly came up with the xrandr command which I've been running when I log in: xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1600x1200 --output DVI-0 --mode 1920x1200 --right-of VGA-0 However, I am not sure how to express this in xorg.conf any more

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 14.06.2012 08:42, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 14:35 +0930, Tim wrote: >> It *is* a *basic* thing. Are they purely aiming at a server market? >> Home users *do* turn their PCs off. > How difficult is pressing the alt button? > > I don't understand what the cribbing is all about

Re: digikam does not show fotos any more after update

2012-06-14 Thread Jens Neu
On 06/11/2012 08:21 PM, Jens Neu wrote: Dear all, I just updated my FC16, and digikam does not show my fotos any more. Albums are all there, rescan collection does not do any difference. Digikam did not update itself today, still 2.5.0-3.fc16. When I click on an Album, it gives me a: digikam(29

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-14 Thread Tim
Tim: >> It *is* a *basic* thing. Are they purely aiming at a server market? >> Home users *do* turn their PCs off. Ankur Sinha: > How difficult is pressing the alt button? The big gripe is that it's an unnecessary thing. Also, it's not intuitive. Menus should present your choices. You shoul