Re: Polkit General Protection Fault

2015-03-23 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 23:49 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Mar 22, 2015 2:54 PM, Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Hello All, I have, for some time, been getting these messages in my logs: =8= WARNING

Polkit General Protection Fault

2015-03-22 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello All, I have, for some time, been getting these messages in my logs: =8= WARNING: General Protection Faults in these executables traps: polkitd : 2 Time(s) **Unmatched Entries** polkitd: Acquired the name

Re: OpenSSL package updates coming shortly to mirrors

2014-06-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 01:28:51PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: Hi, if you weren't aware, there is an announcement about an OpenSSL security issue on the Fedora announce list. Here's the post: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2014-June/003216.html The updates referenced

Re: Samsung ML-2165W printer help

2014-06-01 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 09:39 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux support. Downloaded and installed the driver (it claims installation successful). The user manual seems to be flat out wrong. The Linux install

Re: Thunderbird can't read Mail

2014-04-25 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 11:36 -0400, Mickey wrote: On 04/25/2014 11:18 AM, Jatin K wrote: On Friday 25 April 2014 08:31 PM, Mickey wrote: On 04/25/2014 06:45 AM, Jatin K wrote: On Friday 25 April 2014 02:57 PM, Mickey wrote: On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote: On Thursday 24 April

Re: Fresh Install of F20 failed to install bootloader

2014-04-23 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 20:22 -0400, Jim wrote: On 04/22/2014 12:53 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: I had this same problem. I install F20 on a second drive, Like sdb instead of sda ?? I put a second drive in computer sdb and installed F20 on it but i couldn't boot into F20 sdb it kept going back

Fresh Install of F20 failed to install bootloader

2014-04-22 Thread Arthur Dent
I have finally found the time to upgrade my desktop machine from (ahem) F16 to F20. It is my habit to have 2xOS partitions, 1 partition for /home and 1 for swap. Each time I upgrade I actually do a clean install in the last-but-one OS partition (i.e. in this case where the F15 had previously

Re: Fresh Install of F20 failed to install bootloader

2014-04-22 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 12:17 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: The reboot put me back into my old F16 install (at least I know that hasn't been screwed up!) with the grub menu offering me only varying kernels from F16. It seems F20 has not installed the bootloader properly. What are the steps

Re: Dual Boot System

2014-04-17 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 00:43 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: My Idea is to have sda=SSD, sdb=HDD /dev/sda1 = /boot, about 1G /dev/sda2 = / Ubuntu 50G aprox /dev/sda3 = / Fedora 50G aprox /dev/sda4 = swap * (I know i know, let's forget about extended/logical for the moment)

Re: F20 Where's my system mail? SOLVED (I Hope)

2014-04-16 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, With what (I hope) will be my final update on this issue. This machine is a simple home server. It runs headless and is on 24/7. I an in the habit running yum update once per month and only then rebooting (and only then because the yum update usually brings down a new kernel). I long

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-16 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 16:40 +, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I have read this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSendmail Yes, Fedora's great plan of no default sendmail basically means that they simply do no longer

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-16 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 19:14 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.04.2014, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote: Finally, I got msmtp working but I'm still not really happy (it doesn't rewrite destination addresses for aliased forwards, and that's a big problem with today's spam filters), so I will

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-14 Thread Arthur Dent
Small update: Now that root mail is working, I have this morning received in my email the output of logwatch - which is great - I notice that (unlike with my previous Fedora installs) it includes a cron section. In this I can see the output of the cron jobs run as my user (mark) as well as those

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-14 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 09:10 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 09:20:09AM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: snip The test example I gave yesterday is in fact based on a real-life case. I have a job that runs hourly from cron. Occasionally this process fails (for reasons I won't bore

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-14 Thread Arthur Dent
I am tearing my hair out over this. I have read previous threads on the subject, but most seem to relate to getting root mail. That works now (thanks to Suvayu Ali) - putting: # Person who should get root's mail root: mark into /etc/aliases did the trick for root cron jobs. But I

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-14 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 20:25 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: [mark@Zaphod]$ send-mail: account default not found: no configuration file available It looks like this is the crux of your problem. I presume you checked mary gets mails for her cron jobs? Well I think we're narrowing down the

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-13 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 17:42 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: Around 04:47pm on Thursday, April 10, 2014 (UK time), Arthur Dent wrote: OK - So if just do yum install sendmail will everything work as before? Or will I have to spend a fortune on coffee and pizzas as I sit up night after night

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-13 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 12:43 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:54:18AM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: Can anybody help me achieve what I want - either avoid the need for an MTA altogether, or configure a simple MTA to process internal mail internally? If you

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-13 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 15:43 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:28:38PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 12:43 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:54:18AM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: This means that I get get system mail for root (my main

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-13 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 17:12 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 03:38:57PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 15:43 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:28:38PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 12:43 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-10 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 22:22 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: Hello all, I have read this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSendmail Having upgraded to F20 the new lack of an MTA caused me no end of trouble with my fetchmail-procmail-dovecot setup, but I think I have got

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-10 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 17:13 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: 2014-04-10 17:08 GMT+03:00 Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk: My impression is that an MTA is currently not installed by default because it was thought that most users do not use the things it provides. However, since you seem

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-10 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 15:51 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: Around 03:24pm on Thursday, April 10, 2014 (UK time), Arthur Dent wrote: 2) now that Fedora have removed the MTA as default, does it even generate system messages and cron output messages anymore? Yes it does. I install and configure

F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-08 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I have read this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSendmail Having upgraded to F20 the new lack of an MTA caused me no end of trouble with my fetchmail-procmail-dovecot setup, but I think I have got that sorted now. I had a brief flirtation with postfix, but gave

Booting into emergency mode - Help!

2014-03-23 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, For reasons I won't bore you with I am stuck on F17 for the moment (At Easter I have some time off and intend to upgrade then). I had left the kernel on 3.8.13-100FC17 which worked just fine, but had to install some packages this weekend and allowed the kernel to update too. Now when

Re: Booting into emergency mode - Help! -SOLVED

2014-03-23 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 09:27 -0500, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: That's very odd. Maybe the grub2.cfg file had something that got commented out? OK - thanks. My bad. Your reply got me to thinking instead of panicking. I realised that I had an entry in /etc/fstab for an external hard drive which is

Booting with external HD missing - WAS:Booting into emergency mode - Help! -SOLVED

2014-03-23 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 16:20 +0100, Patrick Laimbock wrote: On 23-03-14 16:08, Arthur Dent wrote: [snip] Sorry for the noise. I guess I should open another thread, but does anyone know how to auto-mount an external HD ONLY if it's present? Have a look at the 'nofail' option (see man fstab

Re: Apple Air-Print on Cups

2014-02-19 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:36 +, Arthur Dent wrote: Hello All, I have a Brother HL-2170W printer which works very well, but which is not of course an Apple Air-print printer. Most of my family seem to have Apple devices. I read somewhere that it is possible to make any printer Air-Print

Re: Apple Air-Print on Cups

2014-02-19 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 09:58 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 02/19/2014 09:41 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: I am a bit lost. Has anyone got this working on a Fedora machine? the HL-2170w should stand alone, Fedora shouls not have anything to do with the Apple Mac's printing. I have two Brother

Apple Air-Print on Cups

2014-02-17 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello All, I have a Brother HL-2170W printer which works very well, but which is not of course an Apple Air-print printer. Most of my family seem to have Apple devices. I read somewhere that it is possible to make any printer Air-Print compatible by modifying the Cups settings. This seemed like

Re: Messed up Grub!

2013-06-25 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 15:50 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/24/2013 01:35 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: What did I do wrong - and how do I get it to default to my working kernel? My suggestion is to uninstall the bad kernel and then update. OK Thanks - That turned out to be the best advice. I had

Messed up Grub!

2013-06-24 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello All, I can't update my Fedora 17 box until sometime in July due to issues I won't bore you with. In the meantime I have another problem. Some time ago I had a crash during a yum update, the net result of which was the fact that the kernel it was installing at the time became corrupted

Re: Messed up Grub!

2013-06-24 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 00:06 +0200, poma wrote: On 24.06.2013 22:35, Arthur Dent wrote: … What did I do wrong - and how do I get it to default to my working kernel? … rpm -q kernel ll /boot # rpm -q kernel package kernel is not installed ll /boot total 76176 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root

[OT] Microsoft Bashing

2012-11-13 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I was sitting in a dentist's waiting room and I came across this article from the August 2012 (really!) edition of Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer I know we all love to hate Microsoft, but after reading this I *almost* felt

Can't read Dovecot inbox!

2012-09-30 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello, I have just run yum update on my F17 server and it updated amongst other things selinux and dovecot (and a new kernel). I have rebooted, yet I cannot now ssh into it from outside my network, I can't get mail from outside my network (accessing the dovecot IMAP server running on the box)

Re: Can't read Dovecot inbox!

2012-09-30 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2012-09-30 at 15:19 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: [Snip] Help! What do I do - I need to be able to access my mail! Hmm..I *think* I've sorted it out. It seems to have been one corrupted email in the Inbox. Deleting that meant that I can now read mail as normal. Sorry for the noise

Re: Clamd and systemd

2012-09-21 Thread Arthur Dent
On 9/19/2012 5:54 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: [snip] Thanks for jogging my memory. It will work of course, but it still feels a bit of a kludge. Zdenek Pytela has pointed out that it does indeed seem to be hardcoded so I think I might report it as a bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi

Re: Clamd and systemd

2012-09-21 Thread Arthur Dent
Is this the default setting for clamd now? clamd_use_jit on Should we turn this on by default? On a fresh install there is # Bytecode mode # # This option has been set to 'ForceInterpreter' in Fedora due to # security concerns by default. You might need to enable the # 'clamd_use_jit'

Re: Clamd and systemd

2012-09-20 Thread Arthur Dent
On 9/19/2012 5:54 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 17:00 -0400, Bill Shirley wrote: On 9/19/2012 3:36 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 10:47 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: [snip] useful recipe (similar to mine). The thing is, for me clamdscan --no-summary --stdout

Re: Clamd and systemd

2012-09-19 Thread Arthur Dent
What tells it that it is a scan service? That bit of the puzzle seems to be missing... Whatever is the parameter after the @ and before the dot becomes %i in the service file. Look at the service file: [Unit] Description = clamd scanner (%i) daemon After = syslog.target nss-lookup.target

Re: Clamd and systemd

2012-09-19 Thread Arthur Dent
On 9/19/2012 5:47 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: What tells it that it is a scan service? That bit of the puzzle seems to be missing... Whatever is the parameter after the @ and before the dot becomes %i in the service file. Look at the service file: [Unit] Description = clamd scanner (%i

Re: Clamd and systemd

2012-09-19 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 10:47 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: What tells it that it is a scan service? That bit of the puzzle seems to be missing... Whatever is the parameter after the @ and before the dot becomes %i in the service file. Look at the service file: [Unit] Description = clamd

Re: Clamd and systemd

2012-09-19 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 17:00 -0400, Bill Shirley wrote: On 9/19/2012 3:36 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 10:47 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: All is not _quite_ perfect however. In calling clamdscan from my script (itself called from procmail) I get the error: ERROR: Can't

Re: Clamd and systemd

2012-09-18 Thread Arthur Dent
Arthur Dent pise: On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 11:04 +0200, Zdenek Pytela wrote: Arthur Dent pise: Hello all, Has anyone got a simple walkthrough for configuring clamd and getting it working with systemd on F17? I am getting lost in the myriad of SERVICE and PID (etc. etc.) things

Re: Clamd and systemd

2012-09-18 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 09:56 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: Arthur Dent pise: On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 11:04 +0200, Zdenek Pytela wrote: Arthur Dent pise: Hello all, Has anyone got a simple walkthrough for configuring clamd and getting it working with systemd on F17? I am

Re: Clamd and systemd

2012-09-17 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 11:04 +0200, Zdenek Pytela wrote: Arthur Dent pise: Hello all, Has anyone got a simple walkthrough for configuring clamd and getting it working with systemd on F17? I am getting lost in the myriad of SERVICE and PID (etc. etc.) things I have to change

Re: MSMTP Problem [OT] FIXED

2012-09-16 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 10:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:07 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: You can test msmtp without using a configuration file by creating a message and then doing something like cat message | /usr/bin/msmtp --host=smtp.blueyonder.co.uk -f y

Re: start SSHD in services

2012-09-16 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 13:00 -0400, Jim wrote: Fedora 17 SSHD is not in or started in Services , how do I start it ? As root: systemctl enable sshd.service (to ensure it starts at boot time) systemctl start sshd.service (to start it) systemctl restart sshd.service (to restart it) systemctl stop

MSMTP Problem [OT]

2012-09-09 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Not really a Fedora problem, but the level of helpful knowledge here is second to none :) My fedora 17 box hosts my small family web-server. I am trying to get an email contact form to work using php mail(). I have never had any success with sendmail so I installed msmtp and changed

Re: MSMTP Problem [OT]

2012-09-09 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 20:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/09/2012 06:28 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: Hello all, Not really a Fedora problem, but the level of helpful knowledge here is second to none :) My fedora 17 box hosts my small family web-server. I am trying to get an email contact

Re: MSMTP Problem [OT]

2012-09-09 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 20:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/09/2012 08:14 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: Well I don't know exactly how msmtp works, but I can't find any reference in maillog to the test outgoing mails. Here's what I have in /etc/msmtprchttp (the configuration file accessible

Re: Understanding my network

2012-08-30 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 19:47 -0500, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: ... So here's the thing - and I don't remember having this problem with F15 (or previous): I can access my mail using a client on another machine in my

Understanding my network

2012-08-29 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I am part-way through a bare-metal rebuild of my small home server (it was F15, I am rebuilding as F17). This machine serves up my IMAP mail with Dovecot and Squirrelmail and hosts my small (mainly static) website. The machine in question sits on my home network at 192.168.2.2. I have

Re: Understanding my network

2012-08-29 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 15:31 -0500, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Hello all, I am part-way through a bare-metal rebuild of my small home server (it was F15, I am rebuilding as F17). This machine serves up my IMAP mail

Re: Understanding my network

2012-08-29 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 16:32 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: On 08/29/2012 03:56 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 15:31 -0500, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Arthur Dent [snip] I think you are getting in a loop as it doesn't appear that you are NATing

Grub Error - Boot failure

2012-06-18 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello All, My F16 box which has given me years of faithful service has unexpectedly failed to boot. I made no configuration changes or updates yesterday and the system worked fine. Today the system fails to boot with the error: error: no such device: 53d08854-7c6d-49dc-aeec-6a5d3e462682.

Re: Grub Error - Boot failure

2012-06-18 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 12:47 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/18/2012 12:32 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: Can anyone guide me through troubleshooting and hopfully fixing this without hosing my system? Two questions: first, can you boot into an earlier kernel? Second, if you can't, do you have

Re: Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-30 Thread Arthur Dent
Anything above 2GB (or newer than 3 years) is SDHC (High Capacity) which is a small evolution of SD. However, some old card readers cannot do SDHC. Early on, there were several types of controllers on SD cards (yes, there is a tiny controller with software on all storage cards). Not all

Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-29 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I have had my Dell Dimension 5200 DM061 PC for about 3 years now. It has a built in multiple card reader that takes SD cards and others. In the entire time I have had the PC I have never even tried to use the card reader. Yesterday I got my Raspberry Pi (yipee!) and the first thing I

Re: Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-29 Thread Arthur Dent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/2012 03:26 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: So then I looked at lspci (see below). I may be wrong but I can't see anything which might be a card reader listed there. It's as if I don't actually have a card reader. Most internal card readers

Re: Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-29 Thread Arthur Dent
Device 002: ID 0644:0200 TEAC Corp. All-In-One Multi-Card Reader CA200/B/S Bus 006 Device 002: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. So there it is! So the next question is why won't it work? (or what do I need to do to get it to work?) You could use udevadm's monitor feature to watch for

Re: Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-29 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 17:15 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 05/29/2012 04:15 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: I have never used udevadm before. If I have read the man page correctly, all I need to do is to initiate udevadm monitor and then plug in the card, is that right? Yes - just run

Re: OT: Security threat from side channel attacks, linux vulnerable?

2012-05-02 Thread Arthur Dent
On 05/01/2012 05:59 PM, stan wrote: The main question, though; is Fedora vulnerable to this sort of attack? It sounds like it is a combination of hardware and software usage patterns that create the vulnerability, so do things like randomized heap make this impossible? To be completely

Re: Trouble with ddclient

2012-04-24 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 20:52 -0700, Lee wrote: can you paste your conf file (minus passwds of course)? [Please don't top-post on this list. See the Guidelines] Thanks but I think I've identified the possible culprit. Turns out my router is also updating DynDNS, so the problem may in fact be

Re: Root Script (Was No Subject)

2012-03-13 Thread Arthur Dent
I want a process to be running with root privileges, without providing the root password. Since i have my process in a remote machine. I want it such that, as soon as the system boots up, my process should be running with root privilege. Is there any way in which i can attain it? Is there any

How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Regular readers will know that I have just recovered from a kernel panic on my F16 box. This was caused by an automatic update not completing properly. I really don't like the new system of fully-automatic or manual-only updates. I preferred the pre F15 method of informing you by means

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 09:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 12:31 +, Arthur Dent wrote: I really don't like the new system of fully-automatic or manual-only updates. I preferred the pre F15 method of informing you by means of an applet when updates are available

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 14:31 +, Andy Blanchard wrote: First step is to check whether you actually have multiple versions of the same package installed, or just that RPM/Yum think so, ie. does the command: rpm -q glibc report one or more packages? If the former, the you can

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 22:53 +0100, suvayu ali wrote: On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 15:31, Andy Blanchard zoc...@gmail.com wrote: First step is to check whether you actually have multiple versions of the same package installed, or just that RPM/Yum think so, ie. does the command: rpm -q glibc

Kernel Panic is making me panic

2012-03-02 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, On Feb 29 my Fedora 16 box updated itself (I'm not wild about the only options being completely manual update or completely automatic update - but that's another story). It must have updated the Kernel because the next day when I turned on the PC I had a kernel panic (details below)

Re: Kernel Panic is making me panic

2012-03-02 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 13:33 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: On 03/02/2012 12:40 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: Hello all, On Feb 29 my Fedora 16 box updated itself (I'm not wild about the only options being completely manual update or completely automatic update - but that's another story). It must

Re: Help! Gnome-Shell segfault.

2011-12-15 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 14:11 +, Rich Boyce wrote: On 14/12/11 12:54, Arthur Dent wrote: On 14/12/11 09:18, Arthur Dent wrote: Hello all, Urgent help required! I have turned on my Fedora 16 machine today. It booted quite normally to the GDM login screen. When I selected one

Re: Help! Gnome-Shell segfault.

2011-12-14 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Urgent help required! I have turned on my Fedora 16 machine today. It booted quite normally to the GDM login screen. When I selected one of my 3 users it started to login to the account as usual, but got no further than loading the background. I CTRL-ALT-BKSPC'd back to the

Re: Help! Gnome-Shell segfault.

2011-12-14 Thread Arthur Dent
On 14/12/11 09:18, Arthur Dent wrote: Hello all, Urgent help required! I have turned on my Fedora 16 machine today. It booted quite normally to the GDM login screen. When I selected one of my 3 users it started to login to the account as usual, but got no further than loading

Help! Gnome-Shell segfault.

2011-12-13 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Urgent help required! I have turned on my Fedora 16 machine today. It booted quite normally to the GDM login screen. When I selected one of my 3 users it started to login to the account as usual, but got no further than loading the background. I CTRL-ALT-BKSPC'd back to the login

Re: Sloooow Boot [was NFS Mounting oddity...]

2011-12-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 19:42 +, Arthur Dent wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 18:08 +0530, Soham Chakraborty wrote: snip So the long boot times (c. 2 mins) seem to be random, given no changes in configuration. I looked at dmesg. I am no expert in what dmesg tells me, but here is the last

NFS Mounting oddity...

2011-12-05 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I have just upgraded my desktop to F16 from F14 (I skipped F15 because the live distro did not seem able to run gnome 3 on - now it does apparently!). I did a clean install (but with the existing /home partition) and copied accross some config files (see below). Now, although F16

Nvidia driver update problem

2011-08-25 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, On Tuesday night I allowed yum to update (amongst other things) the kernel and the nvidia driver on my Fedora14 desktop. Aug 23 20:02:14 Updated: nvidia-xconfig-1.0-9.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:26 Updated: nvidia-settings-1.0-11.fc14.i686 Aug 23 20:02:34 Updated:

Re: Nvidia driver update problem

2011-08-25 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 07:53 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: First, it would be more appropriate to send this to the RPM Fusion mailing list[1] since it appears to be a problem with a package that comes from

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 10:16 -0600, linux guy wrote: Hi people. My F14 system is hanging during graphical login/boot into KDE. The mouse becomes intermittent and then it freezes. However, if I start a CLI session before it hangs, the CLI session runs fine. The machine will NOT shut

Re: Latest update boots to blank screen (nvidia)

2011-08-25 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 08:48 -0600, CS DBA wrote: On 08/24/2011 02:10 PM, CS DBA wrote: Hi All; I have an IBM Thinkpad with an Nvidia card ( nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2) ) I currently have the nouveau driver black listed in my grub.conf setup:rhgb quiet

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-25 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 10:47 -0600, linux guy wrote: Sounds very similar Mark. Any other info you can share ? Video card ? Acceleration settings ? Nothing very much I can share at this time. I have a Dell Dimension E520 which had factory fitted Nvidia GeForce 7300. Other than install the

Re: Network printing in Fedora 15

2011-08-04 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 10:43 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 09:01 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: I recently upgraded (clean install) my wife to F15 On second thoughts, better not go there ... :-) :-) That cheered up my day! -- users mailing list

Re: No Gnome 3 for me

2011-08-04 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 22:32 -0700, John Wendel wrote: Anybody have a solution for the bug (?) that keeps Gnome 3 from working with Nvidia 7300 video cards? Specifically, the keyboard and mouse clicks don't work (but ctrl-alt-backspace does). It's been a while, I thought this would surely

Re: Living with Systemd

2011-08-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 02:46 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On 7/22/11, Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I was really hoping that someone would reply saying something like You idiot! - Don't you know, all you need to do is to use the --tellmewhatswrong switch with systemctl

Re: Living with Systemd

2011-08-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 10:32 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: I get the same error, but it appears to be harmless; console output WORKSFORME. Perhaps you're expecting output in xterm? Console == /dev/console (which usually == tty1), not the tty you happen to be running systemctl on. Ahh

Living with Systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello All, I am gradually getting used to systemd. I can now just about force my fingers to type systemctl restart httpd.service even though my brain is itching to write service httpd restart and I find this cheatsheet to be very useful:

Re: Living with Systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 15:46 +, Mark Eggers wrote: This really doesn't address the lack of information that's available when a service fails to start using systemd. I agree that more information would be great. However, for Apache HTTPD, you have another tool to see what's wrong with

Re: Clamd fails on reboot

2011-07-21 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 16:11 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: For the benefit of the archives this is what now works for me: #8=== # In the definitions section: CLAMD_PIDDIR=/var/run/clamd.${CLAMD_SERVICE} # and in the start stanza

Clamd fails on reboot

2011-07-20 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello All, When i do a reboot (about once per month) I carefully check all the essential services are running (I especially needed to do this as systemd was, until now, not starting sendmail - a bug that is now fixed). Clamd will not start after a reboot. A little investigation reveals that it

Re: Clamd fails on reboot

2011-07-20 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 07:41 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: On 07/20/2011 06:17 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: There are no other rm commands. So what deletes the /var/run/clamd.clamd/ directory on reboot? I wonder if you should look for what should be creating it instead - because

Re: Clamd fails on reboot

2011-07-20 Thread Arthur Dent
* On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 08:56 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: On 07/20/2011 07:59 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: ... Should I put a touch $PIDFILE in there? Or would I also need a mkdir command? This is a Fedora yum package. Shouldn't this just work? 1) I think clamd

Re: systemctl command that is the same as chkconfig --level

2011-06-18 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 16:41 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: I searched the man page of systemctl and I can't find one that is eqwuivalent to: chkconfig --level 35 service name on Is there such a command? This doesn't quite answer your question, but I have found this page to be useful:

Re: software time lock and web access control

2011-06-13 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 07:21 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: Hi Is there any easy to use and setup program to control web access for a user? also to set time of day allowed usage of certain programs? This for a home computer using Fedora 14. I know maybe a combintion of IPTABLES and probably

Re: Why is clamd so hard?

2011-06-09 Thread Arthur Dent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011/06/08 07:08, Arthur Dent wrote: If I try manually I get the same problem... # clamd ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf Any ideas? yes, as a matter of fact I do. man clamd ... -c FILE, --config-file

Re: Why is clamd so hard?

2011-06-08 Thread Arthur Dent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This may be better posted to a clamav forum - but I want to try here (vent a bit!) first. In the past (Fedoras 6ish - 13) I have installed clamd from source because I was frustrated with the slow speed of updates when a new version of clam

Re: Why is clamd so hard?

2011-06-08 Thread Arthur Dent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/11 11:29, Arthur Dent wrote: snip No-one here got clamd working with F15? http://blog.christophersmart.com/ search for configure-clamd Thanks for that Frank - although I had already found that script and tried it with a previous

Re: Why is clamd so hard?

2011-06-08 Thread Arthur Dent
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf Any ideas? Fundamentally the config file is actually in /etc/clamd.d/clamd.conf (which is where Fedora says it should be now), but it is resolutely

Why is clamd so hard?

2011-06-07 Thread Arthur Dent
This may be better posted to a clamav forum - but I want to try here (vent a bit!) first. In the past (Fedoras 6ish - 13) I have installed clamd from source because I was frustrated with the slow speed of updates when a new version of clam became available. However, this brough with it a raft of

What's with systemd?

2011-06-05 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I have just upgraded my F13 machine to F15. This acts as a server, providing mail and web etc. (only 3 users - it's for me and my family). I have tried very hard to understand how systemd works but I'm just not there yet. I was OK with init scripts and chkconfig, but now when I try to

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