Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> What 4 bytes did it want to read, incidentally? > AFAIK it's actually an error from rsync (I've seen it in rsnapshot as > well, which is also rsync-based). Google for more. Do you mean that rsync actually sent the message, or that it was an error in rsync that motiv

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-22 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 22 June 2014, Timothy Murphy sent: > Incidentally, in defence of my rant, I've found that > when I actually try to trace an error message in the source - > I used to do this quite a lot with NetworkManager > when it used to send out error messages which just said > "Failure 2

Re: fc20 gnome windows random banging

2014-06-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2014-06-21 at 17:01 -0700, Randolph Jones wrote: > fc20 new install, 23" samsung flat screen recognized by gnome. windows > and fonts on desktop open-close at random, fail to update. > unreadable login screen > desktop fonts unreadable > terminal and firefox and evolution fonts ok, but wind

Re: BackupPC - a brief rant

2014-06-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-06-22 at 15:24 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Do you mean that rsync actually sent the message, > or that it was an error in rsync that motivated BackupPC to send it? IIRC when I saw it it was something in /var/log/rsnapshot or /var/log/cron, but it was a while back. poc -- users m

fc20 gnome windows random banging

2014-06-22 Thread Randolph Jones
asus mb with Radeon HD onboard card lsmod gives radeon 1157862 3 i2c_algo_bit 13065 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 44716 1 radeon ttm68283 1 radeon drm 230162 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon Xorg log says no screen section in in xo

Re: how to keep firmware loaded

2014-06-22 Thread lee
poma writes: > On 21.06.2014 21:36, lee wrote: >> poma writes: >> >>> On 21.06.2014 11:13, lee wrote: > poma writes: > > Why not solve the problem with the device, entirely. That's what I'm trying. >>> >>> Super duper, and you know this is not the only mail list out t

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-22 Thread lee
poma writes: > On 21.06.2014 21:29, lee wrote: >> poma writes: >> >>> On 21.06.2014 10:57, lee wrote: poma writes: >>> # yum-config-manager --add-repo >>> https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/nightly/rpm/jitsi.repo >>> # yum install jitsi >> >> Shouldn't there be a pa

Re: Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat, Web Conferences, Desktop Sharing, Secure communications, Multi Platform, 32 & 64 bit version

2014-06-22 Thread lee
Rahul Sundaram writes: > Hi > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:09 PM, lee wrote: > >> > # yum-config-manager --add-repo >> https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/nightly/rpm/jitsi.repo >> > # yum install jitsi >> >> Shouldn't there be a package for it in the Fedora repos? >> > > It has a lot of bundled d

Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-22 Thread JD
Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates. Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into Mate Desktop. These are the installed mate packages. Am I missing something? It my be worthwhile to note that at the login screen, Cntrl-Alt-F keys DO WORK!! After login, into mate desktop, they

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
works for me... Fedora 20 amd_64  uname -a Linux pauls-server 3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 16 21:57:53 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux running MATE.. [root@pauls-server ~]# yum list |grep mate imsettings-mate.x86_64 

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-22 Thread JD
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > ​ > > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates. > Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into Mate Desktop. > > These are the installed mate packages. Am I missing something? > > It my be worthwhile to note that at the lo

LDAP login from console

2014-06-22 Thread Jerry Feldman
I have a system that uses LDAP. Originally I set this up as a stand-alone until all my company's security issues were mitigated. The problem is that on the GDM login, it does not display the name. I have this set up on our RHEL servers but not my laptop, so I log in as a local user and ssh to the s

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 06/22/2014 04:32 PM, JD wrote: I hope someone could come up with a way to diagnose the cause of my problem. Cheers, do you get any error messages in /var/log?? like /var/log/messages , any output? -- Paul Cartwright

Burning Blu-Ray media on fedora20

2014-06-22 Thread Alex
Hi, Does anyone know what happened to the Shilling cdrecord? I've tried to download it from several locations, and the domain appears to no longer exist. How are people burning BD-R media these days? These links no longer exists: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ http://cdrecord.berlios.de

Re: Burning Blu-Ray media on fedora20

2014-06-22 Thread JD
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Alex wrote: > > Hi, > Does anyone know what happened to the Shilling cdrecord? I've tried to download it from several locations, and the domain appears to no longer exist. > > How are people burning BD-R media these days? > > These links no longer exists: > ftp://f

Yum/dnf Search Functionality

2014-06-22 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, I undertook a search for the string blueray in both yum and dnf and both, in my view, behaved strangely. From yum I received the following messages: yum search Blueray Loaded plugins: aliases, axelget, changelog, fastestmirror, filter-data, keys, langpacks, list-data, merge

Re: Yum/dnf Search Functionality

2014-06-22 Thread JD
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > I undertook a search for the string blueray in both yum and dnf > and both, in my view, behaved strangely. > > From yum I received the following messages: > > yum search Blueray > Loaded plugins: aliases, axelget, chang

fc20 gnome windows random banging

2014-06-22 Thread Randolph Jones
asus mb m4a785-m with radeon hd 4200 onboard gpu desktop windows crash and open-close at random; fonts unreadable. firefox and evolution seem to run ok, openoffice flakey previous msg has part of lsmod showing drivers; xorg log full of attempts to id card, no default screen display app sees 23"

Re: Cntrl-Alt-F[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] do not work

2014-06-22 Thread JD
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 06/22/2014 06:10 PM, JD wrote: > > >> [root@pauls-server ~]# ps -ef|grep getty >> root 1580 1 0 16:14 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear >> tty3 >> root 2397 1 0 17:50 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear

Re: fc20 gnome windows random banging

2014-06-22 Thread JD
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Randolph Jones wrote: > > asus mb m4a785-m with radeon hd 4200 onboard gpu > > desktop windows crash and open-close at random; fonts unreadable. > firefox and evolution seem to run ok, openoffice flakey > > previous msg has part of lsmod showing drivers; > xorg log

Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

2014-06-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will be here tomorrow. I had two questions: 1) It comes with Windoze 7 (with an upgrade option/disc for W8). Not sure if I want to wipe it off (ideally, I would hav