Re: upgrade to kde plasma 5 from 4

2014-10-20 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > I believe that the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Testing repo has > what you're looking for. But, I've not contemplated that upgrade so that is > why I'd take the question to the KDE list. Frameworks is already available in stable

Re: upgrade to kde plasma 5 from 4

2014-10-20 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:36 AM, William Biggs wrote: > I running kde in fedora 20 I would like to know how do I upgrade from kde 4 > to kde plasma 5 ? 1. Install KDE frameworks yum install kf5-\* 2. Add copr repo dnf copr enable dvratil/plasma-5 3. Install Plasma 5. yum install plasma-5 Y

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:42 PM, poma wrote: > On 21.10.2014 03:26, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:53 PM, poma wrote: >> >>> On 20.10.2014 17:14, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel packages to update bootloade

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread poma
On 21.10.2014 03:10, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:53:42AM +0200, poma wrote: >>> The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel >>> packages to update bootloader configuration scripts: GRUB legacy, >>> GRUB2, syslinux, yaboot, and probably a bunch of other boo

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread poma
On 21.10.2014 03:26, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:53 PM, poma wrote: > >> On 20.10.2014 17:14, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >>> >>> The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel packages to >>> update bootloader configuration scripts: GRUB legacy, GRUB2, syslinux,

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:53 PM, poma wrote: > On 20.10.2014 17:14, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> >> The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel packages to >> update bootloader configuration scripts: GRUB legacy, GRUB2, syslinux, >> yaboot, and probably a bunch of other bootloade

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 20, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Stefan Huchler wrote: > > Chris Murphy writes: >> There should be packages somewhere on http://czarc.org but I'm not >> sure where. If you can't find them lemme know and I'll go dig around. > > thank you is that the file? > http://czarc.org/fedora/repo/20/x86_64/g

Re: Password Needed

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 20, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:51:43 -0600, > Bill Kuns wrote: >> I inherited a computer running Windows 8. When I power up the machine, >> it asks for a >> password. I don't have that password. What can I do to use the >> machine? > > A BI

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:53:42AM +0200, poma wrote: > > The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel > > packages to update bootloader configuration scripts: GRUB legacy, > > GRUB2, syslinux, yaboot, and probably a bunch of other bootloaders > > are all supported by grubby. It

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread poma
On 20.10.2014 17:14, Chris Murphy wrote: > > The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel packages to > update bootloader configuration scripts: GRUB legacy, GRUB2, syslinux, > yaboot, and probably a bunch of other bootloaders are all supported by > grubby. It looks at the e

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread Stefan Huchler
Chris Murphy writes: > There should be packages somewhere on http://czarc.org but I'm not > sure where. If you can't find them lemme know and I'll go dig around. thank you is that the file? http://czarc.org/fedora/repo/20/x86_64/grubby-8.35-4%2b.gc759.fc20.x86_64.rpm > /boot on Btrfs isn't a p

Re: Permanently mount a USB Hard Disk for Security purpose

2014-10-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/20/14 23:24, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > the output is: > > [angelo@zorro dev]$ blkid > /dev/sda1: UUID="DE7CD8197CD7EA73" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="f043f043-01" > /dev/sda5: UUID="62F0169EF016790D" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="f043f043-05" > /dev/sdb1: LABEL="data_storing" UUID="080CD0150CCFFC1E" TYPE="

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-20 Thread Bill Oliver
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Am 18.10.2014 um 01:41 schrieb Bill Oliver: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:30:08 + Bill Oliver > wrote: > > > > 3) One specific statistics package that I use about four times a > > ye

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-20 Thread Rolf Turner
On 21/10/14 03:41, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:16:42 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 08:31 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: On 20/10/14 01:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 01:10 +, Bill Oliver wrote: Here's the problem. Let's say you

Re: Browsing Insecurity

2014-10-20 Thread jd1008
On 10/20/2014 05:07 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 21:04 -0600, jd1008 wrote: is much worse than I thought :) See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/22/canvas_fingerprinting_is_privacy_pirates_new_web_weapon/ I wonder if web browser developers will do something to coun

Re: 64bit skype client needed

2014-10-20 Thread jd1008
On 10/19/2014 10:34 PM, jarmo wrote: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:58:51 -0600 jd1008 kirjoitti: Hi Jon, I actually did run yum localinstall /./x86_64/skype-4.2.0.11-3.fc20.x86_64.rpm and yum downloaded and installed all the i686 libs, so I did not have An how come you get that 4.2.xxx version wo

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-20 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 18.10.2014 um 01:41 schrieb Bill Oliver: On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:30:08 + Bill Oliver wrote: 3) One specific statistics package that I use about four times a year Just curious: what is this specific statistics package that you use abou

Re: Password Needed

2014-10-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:51:43 -0600, Bill Kuns wrote: I inherited a computer running Windows 8. When I power up the machine, it asks for a password. I don't have that password. What can I do to use the machine? A BIOS/EFI password or a Windows password? If there is a BIOS password you

Re: Browsing Insecurity

2014-10-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:07:23PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/22/canvas_fingerprinting_is_privacy_pirates_new_web_weapon/ > > I wonder if web browser developers will do something to counteract this > > attack on privacy. > Possibly an interesting top

Re: 4k video fails after update

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Underwood
On 10/20/2014 10:17 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | I have a Seiki "4k" monitor that I'm using on my Fedora 20 system. I'm | using the nvidia proprietary driver with a Geforce GTX 650 video card. It | has been working well for a while. | After updates from the last

Re: Password Needed

2014-10-20 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:51:43AM -0600, Bill Kuns wrote: > I inherited a computer running Windows 8. When I power up the machine, > it asks for a password. I don't have that password. What can I do > to use the machine? Not really Fedora, but hey, we're here to help. Go to: http://pogosti

Re: Password Needed

2014-10-20 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 20, 2014 9:52 AM, "Bill Kuns" wrote: > > I inherited a computer running Windows 8. When I power up the machine, it asks for a > password. I don't have that password. What can I do to use the machine? > > Thank you. > -- > Bill Kuns > > > > > -- Since you are asking a Fedora support list

Password Needed

2014-10-20 Thread Bill Kuns
I inherited a computer running Windows 8. When I power up the machine, it asks for a password. I don't have that password. What can I do to use the machine? Thank you. -- Bill Kuns -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://a

Re: Requesting ethernet address for wired connection

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> Odd. I don't see this problem on my systems. I run both NAT interfaces as >>> well as Bridgedmostly Bridged. I am, however, using the VBox supplied >>> by Oracle and not the one from the Fedora repositories. >> Thanks again, Ed. I am als

Re: Permanently mount a USB Hard Disk for Security purpose

2014-10-20 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi Ed, thank you for answering me the output is: [angelo@zorro dev]$ blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="DE7CD8197CD7EA73" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="f043f043-01" /dev/sda5: UUID="62F0169EF016790D" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="f043f043-05" /dev/sdb1: LABEL="data_storing" UUID="080CD0150CCFFC1E" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="2c5

Re: Lost grub on EFI BIOS update

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 17, 2014, at 5:57 PM, sean darcy wrote: > I updated the BIOS on an acer EFI laptop. Now there's no grub boot menu, it > just boots to W 8.1. > > How do I reinstall grub ? You don't reinstall it. The problem almost certainly is that the firmware update blew away the contents of NVRAM,

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 16, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Stefan Huchler wrote: > thx so far, I dont see one of the 2 solutions a good solution for me, I > dont see packages for this grubby version, There should be packages somewhere on http://czarc.org but I'm not sure where. If you can't find them lemme know and I'll go

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:16:42 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 08:31 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: > > On 20/10/14 01:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 01:10 +, Bill Oliver wrote: > > >> Here's the problem. Let's say you have a set of data and you

Re: 4k video fails after update

2014-10-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:17:35 -0400 (EDT) D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > Now it works. I have no idea why. If you are using the rpmfusion drivers, perhaps it just took a while for them to rebuild the driver modules after you installed updates? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Permanently mount a USB Hard Disk for Security purpose

2014-10-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/20/14 21:44, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I am sorry for not be able to answer you properly... > > I_made this operation for the first time_ and I used GParted to do it: > > Inside GParted I selected "new partition", there is something like a wizard.. > I remember that I had to take few decisio

Re: 4k video fails after update

2014-10-20 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | I have a Seiki "4k" monitor that I'm using on my Fedora 20 system. I'm | using the nvidia proprietary driver with a Geforce GTX 650 video card. It | has been working well for a while. | After updates from the last week or so, when I boot, I no longer see | anyth

Re: Requesting ethernet address for wired connection

2014-10-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/20/14 21:24, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Odd. I don't see this problem on my systems. I run both NAT interfaces as >> well as Bridgedmostly Bridged. I am, however, using the VBox supplied by >> Oracle and not the one from the Fedora reposit

Re: Permanently mount a USB Hard Disk for Security purpose

2014-10-20 Thread Angelo Moreschini
I am sorry for not be able to answer you properly... I* made this operation for the first time* and I used GParted to do it: Inside GParted I selected "new partition", there is something like a wizard.. I remember that I had to take few decision (one or two) and then I took all the "default optio

Re: Requesting ethernet address for wired connection

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> Whenever I start a virtual machine with VirtualBox, I get the >>> following message on the network Fedora icon >>> >>> "requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1" >>> >>> Any ideas? >> How have you defined

Re: Requesting ethernet address for wired connection

2014-10-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/20/14 19:00, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Paul Smith wrote: >> Whenever I start a virtual machine with VirtualBox, I get the >> following message on the network Fedora icon >> >> "requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1" >> >> Any i

Re: Permanently mount a USB Hard Disk for Security purpose

2014-10-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/20/14 19:13, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > > > Hi Nathan, > > Thank you for your suggestions, > > > I began my works using GParted to create the partitions; I made two > partitions: > > - /dev/sdd1 (label=source_sync) (size=390.62 MB) (type=primary) (fs > =ntfs > > - /dev/sdd2

Re: Permanently mount a USB Hard Disk for Security purpose

2014-10-20 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi Nathan, Thank you for your suggestions, I began my works using GParted to create the partitions; I made two partitions: - /dev/sdd1 (label=source_sync) (size=390.62 MB) (type=primary) (fs =ntfs - /dev/sdd2 (label=svn_rep_backup) (size=540.86 MB) (type=primary) (fs =ntfs but afte

Re: Browsing Insecurity

2014-10-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 21:04 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > is much worse than I thought :) > > See > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/22/canvas_fingerprinting_is_privacy_pirates_new_web_weapon/ > > I wonder if web browser developers will do something to counteract this > attack on privacy. > Possi

Re: Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

2014-10-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 17:20 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/19/2014 04:16 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > It can be either Distribution or Density. Also a few other things (see > > Wikipedia). That's the problem with specialist terminology where the > > context isn't completely clear, e.g. we all

Re: Requesting ethernet address for wired connection

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Whenever I start a virtual machine with VirtualBox, I get the > following message on the network Fedora icon > > "requesting ethernet address for wired connection 1" > > Any ideas? How have you defined your network

Re: XFCE is working very badly

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > XFCE is working very badly, with the mouse clicking autonomously > without the user command. > > Initially, I suspected that such a misbehaviour was caused by > Mathematica 10, but without Mathematica running since the beginning of > the XFCE s

XFCE is working very badly

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, XFCE is working very badly, with the mouse clicking autonomously without the user command. Initially, I suspected that such a misbehaviour was caused by Mathematica 10, but without Mathematica running since the beginning of the XFCE session, the problem occurs. Any ideas? Thanks in ad

RE: Permanently mount a USB Hard Disk for Security purpose

2014-10-20 Thread J.Witvliet
Hi Angelo, Before embarking on such exercise, what are your objectives? Permanently mounting an USB-hard-drive could be useful, but is does have its drawbacks I would only suggest it if the main drives (internally) have a problem with capacity or so, and even then only as a temporary stop-gap.

Re: Permanently mount a USB Hard Disk for Security purpose

2014-10-20 Thread Nathan Schwarz
On 10-20/11:47, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Secondly, the HD should be mounted on the computer ... permanently. > > Mkdir /media/resqueHD > > mount -t fat32 /dev/sdd1 /media/resqueHD > > and finally, the mounting should be made permanent by adding the line: > > > /dev/sdd1 > /media/mydata ext

Re: Windows manager misbehaviour when Mathematica 10 runs

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > When I run Mathematica 10 on Fedora 20 under XFCE, the windows manager > misbehaviours (for instance, some single mouse clicks are recognized > as two sequential clicks). The issue seems related to the following: > > http://mathematica.stackexc

Permanently mount a USB Hard Disk for Security purpose

2014-10-20 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi, for the first time I have to solve this kind of problem, that's way I would like to ask for some advice how to make correctly the installation of a "permanent" USB hard drive to use for saving data ... The HD in question should have two partitions: - the first one to be used to sy