Re: [Fedora 23] Installing KDE Plasma as a second Desktop Environment! [bug]

2015-11-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 24 November 2015 02:27:58 Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> If I install two or more different desktops, which display manager > >> should it enable by default, then? Does it ask you that question? > > Allegedly, on or about 23 November 2015, Paul Cartwright sent: > > I switched from GDM to light

Re: [Fedora 23] Installing KDE Plasma as a second Desktop Environment! [bug]

2015-11-24 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 24 November 2015 00:07:00 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 19:23 +, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > I must be missing the point here, but I have always found that after > > installing multiple desktops and leaving gdm as the login manager, > &

Re: rsyslog problem

2015-11-25 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Wednesday 25 November 2015 13:57:49 Timothy Murphy wrote: > imjournal: fscanf on state file `/var/lib/rsyslog/imjournal.state' failed A quick google gives something that may be relevent https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095784 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 02:19:59 Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:34 +, Christopher Ross wrote: > > # rpm -qi fedora-release > > Occasionally, even *that* package gets updated, so it's not an indicator > of install time. Unless someone else knows of something intended to show > you the i

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-16 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 02:19:59 Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:34 +, Christopher Ross wrote: > > # rpm -qi fedora-release > > Occasionally, even *that* package gets updated, so it's not an indicator > of install time. Unless someone else knows of something intended to show > you the i

Re: selinux??

2016-01-26 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 25 Jan 2016 19:06:11 Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: > LOL!!! > > I feel you bruce :) > > I think a LOT of people are struggling (and frustrated, rightfully so) with > SELinux and simply place it in permissive mode. There is nothing wrong with > doing this. Don't buy into the fear mongering hype.

Re: selinux??

2016-01-26 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 25 Jan 2016 19:06:11 Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: > LOL!!! > > I feel you bruce :) > > I think a LOT of people are struggling (and frustrated, rightfully so) with > SELinux and simply place it in permissive mode. There is nothing wrong with > doing this. Don't buy into the fear mongering hype.

Re: how to tell where it booted from

2016-02-18 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 19 Feb 2016 06:41:04 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2016, g sent: > > gone are the 'good old days' of boxes 4 and 5 5" drive bays where one > > could install install 3" drives in removable drive carriers and swap > > drives. > > Yet computer cases are still ridiculously

Re: Laptop Printer Problem

2016-03-10 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Thursday 10 Mar 2016 13:31:36 stan wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:08:00 + > > Jonathan Allen wrote: > > I agree - the print job never seems to leave the laptop. There is > > nothing that I can see in the server logs that shows an access or > > attempt to access the printers apart from th

Re: man sections

2014-12-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Try man 1 intro man 2 intro man 3 intro man 7 intro man 8 intro Regards Andy On Tuesday 23 December 2014 08:52:42 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 12/23/2014 08:29 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > FWIW, "man man" does tell one the purpose of each of the sections. > >1 Executable programs or s

Re: what is the process number of a "running application" ?

2015-01-12 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 12 January 2015 19:25:45 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know the process number of an application that actually is > running (Netbeans in my case), with the purpose to kill it (when is froze). > > But am am not able to know this process number.. > > - In the window

Re: swapping

2015-01-17 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 16 January 2015 16:31:03 Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/15/2015 11:28 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. Most of > > the people I installed Linux for didn't even know it was there or what > > it's good for. > > If you do not use file s

Radeon driver with FC20 latest kernel update

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi, I am running fedora 20 X86_64 I have an Intel Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz. I have an AMD radeon based GPU card : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV535 [Radeon X1650 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 9e) I have two monitors : ACER Technolgies – on DVI-0 (1920x1080) Views

Re: Radeon driver with FC20 latest kernel update

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:31:32 poma wrote: > On 20.01.2015 12:52, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running fedora 20 X86_64 > > > > I have an Intel Processor: > > Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz. > > > > I have an AMD radeo

Re: Radeon driver with FC20 latest kernel update

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 15:10:15 poma wrote: > On 20.01.2015 14:44, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:31:32 poma wrote: > >> On 20.01.2015 12:52, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> I am running fedora 20 X86_64 > >&g

Re: Radeon driver with FC20 latest kernel update

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:31:09 Andrew R Paterson wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 15:10:15 poma wrote: > > On 20.01.2015 14:44, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:31:32 poma wrote: > > >> On 20.01.2015 12:52, Andrew R Paterson w

Re: Radeon driver with FC20 latest kernel update

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 16:20:26 poma wrote: > On 20.01.2015 15:46, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:31:09 Andrew R Paterson wrote: > >> On Tuesday 20 January 2015 15:10:15 poma wrote: > >>> On 20.01.2015 14:44, Andrew R Paterson wrote

Re: Mediacast to TV

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Is this any use? http://realmike.org/blog/2011/02/09/live-desktop-streaming-via-dlna-on-gnulinux/comment-page-1/ andy On Sunday 01 February 2015 23:57:31 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 00:12 +0100, poma wrote: > > On 01.02.2015 23:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Sun, 201

Re: DHCP Reservations

2015-02-03 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 00:55:29 Tim wrote: > Jim Lewis wrote: > >> Quick question about DHCP reservations: I have laptops with both > >> wired and wireless NICs, is it okay to have the router assign the > >> same IP to both interface? > > I wrote: > > I seem to recall being able to do that,

Re: Samba share without username and password

2015-02-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 20 February 2015 12:35:30 gol...@aon.at wrote: > Hi, > > I try to share one directory to watch movies and listen to music on tv. I > habe a mediabox, which is connected and have an own ip in the same ip > range. The problem is, i could not access without username and password. > In the m

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
I have to say I find this disucssion interesting I have spent what amounts to a small fortune (for me!) making sure that when I upgrade from one version of LINUX to another (initially slackware but so far fedora 9 - 20) that I can minimise the risk of (anaconda or whatever the current insta

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
This poroblem occurs on other unices as well, try using the bg option in your nfs fstab entry. Andy On Sunday 22 February 2015 21:39:13 Pete Travis wrote: > On Feb 22, 2015 1:01 AM, "Jens Neu" wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > maybe since 2 weeks (close to upgrade to Twenty_One), my nfs shares are >

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 23 February 2015 09:10:24 Andrew R Paterson wrote: > I have to say I find this disucssion interesting > I have spent what amounts to a small fortune (for me!) making sure that when > I upgrade from one version of LINUX to another (initially slackware but so > far fedora

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 23 February 2015 14:03:17 Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Andrew R Paterson > > wrote: > > I have to say I find this disucssion interesting > > I have spent what amounts to a small fortune (for me!) making sure that > > when I

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 23 February 2015 15:45:26 Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Andrew R Paterson > > wrote: > > But maybe the problem is that not many people install/reinstall/fedup > > often > > enough to get familiar with it. > > Nor should they. T

Re: Problem booting Fedora 21

2015-03-06 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 06 March 2015 06:20:48 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 03/06/2015 05:28 AM, Daniel Jonsson wrote: > > The problem is that when I boot either of the computers, it gets stuck > > during the Plymouth splash screen, when the Fedora logo is being filled > > up. It can be stuck there for tens of mi

Re: Raid vs rsync -

2015-03-10 Thread Andrew R Paterson
One assumes that if you are migrating a filesystem to RAID, you are installing a new disk (for e.g. RAID 1) (you need multiple disks - as in the acoronym RAID). So, if you install your new disk alongside your existing disk, create a RAID mirror with only one partition (from the new disk) create

FC21 system-config-services

2015-05-22 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi, I have recently upgraded from FC20 to FC21 using fedup - it was a pleasantly smooth upgrade.. However. I do not appear to be being notified of any pending package updates (maybe there arent any? - doubtfull!).. And so (using KDE) I am trying to run system-config-services to c

Re: FC21 system-config-services

2015-05-22 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 22 May 2015 12:04:52 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/22/2015 11:48 AM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > Is this a dbus problem? > > have I got some other problem with my system config? > > Am I just being stupid? > > Any clues? > > I don't use package-kit, so

Re: FC21 system-config-services

2015-05-22 Thread Andrew R Paterson
12:25 PM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for that - I know of yumex (and agree - its very nice). > > yum check-update however demonstrates why I get the feeling there is a > > dbus > > related problem. > > Good! If nothing else, you'

Re: backup snapshot

2015-08-11 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi, this stupid argument rears its head again - snapshots vs "backups". At least now someone advocating time-consuming "backups" has come up with a logical argument - You "usually" put the system into a static state before performing a "backup". Trouble is - the "backup" usually means you

Re: Audacity Won't Start

2015-08-16 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Sunday 16 August 2015 21:14:38 Martin Cigorraga wrote: > Hello Craig, > > Could you please copy the output it produces when you launch the > application from the command line? > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 17:17 Craig Lanning wrote: > > Something has happened in the last couple of months that cau