Re: dnf error , rpm database damaged ???

2021-01-20 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 20/1/21 2:18 μ.μ., ο/η George N. White III έγραψε: On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 19:28, Kostas Sfakiotakis mailto:kosta...@cha.forthnet.gr>> wrote: Στις 19/1/21 11:09 μ.μ., ο/η Garry T. Williams έγραψε: > On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 3:15:59 PM EST Kostas Sfakiotakis

Re: dnf error , rpm database damaged ???

2021-01-19 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 19/1/21 11:09 μ.μ., ο/η Garry T. Williams έγραψε: On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 3:15:59 PM EST Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: dnf info sendmail error: SELECT hnum, idx FROM 'Providename' WHERE key=?: 11: database disk image is malformed error: SELECT hnum, idx FROM 'Providename' WHERE key

dnf error , rpm database damaged ???

2021-01-19 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , I tried to run the command bellow and i was unsuccessful . Well  dnf clean all doesn't work either . Does anyone have any clue as to what the messages below mean and what might have caused it ?? More importantly how do i rectify this situation ??  dnf info sendmail error:

Re: usb stick problem

2021-01-03 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 3/1/21 3:33 π.μ., ο/η Chris Murphy έγραψε: Slight tangent, but once getting new flash, test it. I recommend using f3 on any new USB stick. It's in Fedora repo. The project is originally intended to identify fake flash. It'll report a larger capacity than it has flash memory for, and has

Re: usb stick problem

2021-01-02 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 3/1/21 12:32 π.μ., ο/η Ed Greshko έγραψε: On 03/01/2021 06:11, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 11:48:00PM +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Am trying to plug a usb memory stick onto my computer .  From the looks of it , at first it looks that it gets recognized up

Re: usb stick problem

2021-01-02 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
+ Στις 3/1/21 12:11 π.μ., ο/η Matthew Miller έγραψε: On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 11:48:00PM +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Am trying to plug a usb memory stick onto my computer . From the looks of it , at first it looks that it gets recognized up to a point , initially it gets asigned letter

usb stick problem

2021-01-02 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Am trying to plug a usb memory stick onto my computer . From the looks of it , at first it looks that it gets recognized up to a point , initially it gets asigned letter "f" /dev/sdf but then some error pop up and i can't see it on dolphin or access it somehow . The attached files contains

Re: dnf exclude option not working

2020-12-29 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
< snip > That is a fallacy. As soon as cpu-x would be installed again, the problem would return, since nothing has changed, and as long as the incompatible test update of libcpuid remains available, you cannot update that package since it would break dependencies. The way forward would be to

Re: dnf exclude option not working

2020-12-29 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
The cpu-x package is installed already. You cannot exclude it. Erasing and reinstalling it would not avoid dependency breakage as long as the incompatible libcpuid pkg is offered in the repos. [root@Orion ~]# dnf repoquery --whatrequires libcpuid Last metadata expiration check: 0:52:55

Re: dnf exclude option not working

2020-12-29 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
< snip > Well that's the problem . I am not able to exclude cpu-x . No matter how i try to syntax the dnf command , cpu-x doesn't get excluded and the whole update fails . The only "solution" that comes to mind is delete the cpu-x package , perform the upgrades and then

Re: dnf exclude option not working

2020-12-28 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 28/12/20 8:15 μ.μ., ο/η Michael Schwendt έγραψε: On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:57:05 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Error:  Problem: problem with installed package cpu-x-4.0.1-5.fc33.x86_64   - cannot install the best update candidate for package cpu-x-4.0.1-5.fc33.x86_64   - package

Re: dnf exclude option not working

2020-12-28 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
With an exclude [root@f32k ~]# dnf check-update --exclude=firefox Last metadata expiration check: 2:22:01 ago on Mon 28 Dec 2020 07:08:30 PM CST. kernel.x86_64 5.9.16-100.fc32  updates kernel-core.x86_64 5.9.16-100.fc32  updates kernel-modules.x86_64

Re: dnf exclude option not working

2020-12-28 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 28/12/20 2:36 π.μ., ο/η Ed Greshko έγραψε: On 28/12/2020 08:05, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Can someone please tell me the correct syntax of the exclude option ( the -x option will not work as well ) ?? dnf upgrade  --best --allowerasing --exclude=cpu-x-4.0.1-5.fc33.x86_64 Have you

dnf exclude option not working

2020-12-27 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Can someone please tell me the correct syntax of the exclude option ( the -x option will not work as well ) ?? dnf upgrade  --best --allowerasing  --exclude=cpu-x-4.0.1-5.fc33.x86_64 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: KDE Connect SMS

2020-12-27 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 27/12/20 4:57 π.μ., ο/η Alex Gurenko via users έγραψε: Did you check the KDE Connect app on the phone? You actually need to grant permissions for respective plugins within the app in order to most of the functions to work. Yes i did , i have multiple permissions set and among them ,

Re: KDE Connect SMS

2020-12-27 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 27/12/20 3:55 π.μ., ο/η Ed Greshko έγραψε: On 27/12/2020 07:19, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Am trying to send an SMS by means of KDE Connect SMS . Although the phone is paired to the Computer , KDE Connect is running on both the computer and the phone , the attempt fails without any clue

KDE Connect SMS

2020-12-26 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , Am trying to send an SMS by means of KDE Connect SMS . Although the phone is paired to the Computer , KDE Connect is running on both the computer and the phone , the attempt fails without any clue as to what is going wrong . Any ideas ??

Re: Search engines -

2020-12-18 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 19/12/20 12:18 π.μ., ο/η Tim via users έγραψε: On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 10:57 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: I find that it's artificial intelligence is getting worse. Well google's artificial intelligence is superb for one thing : Having a great laugh ( in google translate try to translate a

Re: Book for Fedora & one for bash

2020-12-18 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 18/12/20 10:15 μ.μ., ο/η Dave Stevens έγραψε: On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:52:18 +0200 Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Can someone suggest a good book for Fedora ( well at least with systemd ) and one for bash a relatively recent one but please not just for bash scripting . https://www.gnu.org

Book for Fedora & one for bash

2020-12-18 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Can someone suggest a good book for Fedora ( well at least with systemd ) and one for bash a relatively recent one but please not just for bash scripting . Also another question if i may ask , is there a way to monitor the boot process on Fedora and see what get's written to the disk and if

Re: F33 , System wide failure

2020-12-11 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 11/12/20 8:51 π.μ., ο/η Chris Murphy έγραψε: On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 1:59 PM Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: It would seem that F33 was failing to boot due to a damaged var partition ( /dev/mapper/F31-F31Var ) and it was asking me to run e2fsck manually . The question is can really

F33 , System wide failure

2020-12-10 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , Well i have just managed to recover from a system wide failure ( aka the system wasn't booting , it was basically asking me to run journalctl -xb , whatever that is ) . It would seem that F33 was failing to boot due to a damaged  var partition ( /dev/mapper/F31-F31Var ) and it

Re: Logical Volume Resize

2020-12-06 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 7/12/20 1:24 π.μ., ο/η Jorge Fábregas έγραψε: On 12/6/20 7:10 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:   Insufficient free space: 2560 extents needed, but only 2559 available It'll all depended on the extent size ; you can see you're short of just one extent (which is probably 4MB or 8MB don't

Re: Logical Volume Resize

2020-12-06 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 7/12/20 12:21 π.μ., ο/η Jorge Fábregas έγραψε: On 12/6/20 6:18 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: One last question though , do i need to resize the filesystem of the /var partition or will it be resized automatically ?? It will be resized automatically due to the "-r" switch w

Re: Logical Volume Resize

2020-12-06 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 6/12/20 11:53 μ.μ., ο/η Jorge Fábregas έγραψε: On 12/6/20 5:07 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Now what's the safest way to enlarge / resize the /var partition with the use of  /dev/sdb space ??? Ok, assuming you're not interested in the information within OldData volume-group that resides

Re: Logical Volume Resize

2020-12-06 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 7/12/20 12:00 π.μ., ο/η Samuel Sieb έγραψε: On 12/6/20 1:53 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: p.d. you could create a partition in /dev/sdb and flag it as LVM so you'll end up with /dev/sdb1 but since you already were using the whole device, that's what I used. I recommend using a partition

Logical Volume Resize

2020-12-06 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , My Fedora Core 33 installation resides on a hard disk with the use of Logical Volumes like below ( lsblk ) : sda 8:0    0   3.6T  0 disk ├─sda1  8:1    0 2M  0 part ├─sda2  8:2    0    50G  0 part /boot ├─sda3

Re: Discover

2020-12-03 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 3/12/20 1:59 μ.μ., ο/η Ed Greshko έγραψε: On 03/12/2020 17:08, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Well can't pretend that am a Flatpak expert myself either . The only question that remains is . Since i was using rpms , is there a way to check the integrity of the RPM Database ( theoretically

Re: Discover

2020-12-03 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 3/12/20 12:35 π.μ., ο/η Ed Greshko έγραψε: On 03/12/2020 05:29, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Greetings , As am browsing the internet category ( for example ) looking if there is anything interesting ( usually there are a lot  ) i find that programs like Viber,Skype, Anydesk are offered

Discover

2020-12-02 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , As am browsing the internet category ( for example ) looking if there is anything interesting ( usually there are a lot  ) i find that programs like Viber,Skype, Anydesk are offered to be installed although there are alread installed on my computer . Well up to a point at least

Re: F32 --> F33 upgrade fails .

2020-11-26 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 26/11/20 10:19 μ.μ., ο/η Chris Murphy έγραψε: system-upgrade fails when openssh-ldap is installed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902084 Thanks for the pointer. Sidenote on my Thunderbird at least the Fedora Users List appears as sender of my original post instead of

Re: F32 --> F33 upgrade fails .

2020-11-26 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Στις 26/11/20 9:24 μ.μ., ο/η Chris Murphy έγραψε: On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 4:10 AM Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Greetings , Upon trying to download the files in order to be able to upgrade from F32 to F33 i get the following errors Error: Problem 1: package openssh-ldap-8.3p1-3.fc32.x86_64

F32 --> F33 upgrade fails .

2020-11-26 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , Upon trying to download the files in order to be able to upgrade from F32 to F33 i get the following errors Error:  Problem 1: package openssh-ldap-8.3p1-3.fc32.x86_64 requires openssh = 8.3p1-3.fc32, but none of the providers can be installed   - openssh-8.3p1-3.fc32.x86_64

Re: hbk file

2014-07-18 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 07/18/2014 08:31 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 18.07.2014, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Best result i have had so far was to upload the hbk back to my cell phone and then back it up with another application that would export the data i wanted in another format This one's free, without any

hbk file

2014-07-17 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , I wanted to ask if there is a program which will be able to open an .hbk file under Fedora 20 ? This file is supposed to be a backup copy of the sms messages from my HTC Desire X . -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: hbk file

2014-07-17 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 07/17/2014 09:44 PM, Jack Craig wrote: vim ?! ;) Nope , it will not do the work since it isn't a text file . Unfortunately file doesn't have a clue about the type of the file . It will just report :data -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: hbk file

2014-07-17 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 07/17/2014 09:47 PM, JD wrote: Well, you might try google!!! Found this: http://www.solvusoft.com/en/file-extensions/file-extension-hbk/ I did tried Google and didn't really found anything helpful apart from reloading the file to my phone and then trying to back it up with another

Re: hbk file

2014-07-17 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 07/17/2014 10:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Have you tried nano? If that doesn't work, I'm sure that there are hex editors for Linux. Just tried nano and it didn't worked as the ,hbk file isn't a text file . Any recommendations for hex editors ??? -- users mailing list

Re: hbk file

2014-07-17 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 07/17/2014 11:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/17/2014 01:07 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Just tried nano and it didn't worked as the ,hbk file isn't a text file . Any recommendations for hex editors ??? A little research told me that mcedit, the text editor that midnight commander uses

Re: hbk file

2014-07-17 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 07/17/2014 11:13 PM, Michael Parker wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:07:36PM +0300, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: On 07/17/2014 10:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: If you just want to read it, you could use od. Can you be a bit more specific , what exactly do you mean with od yum search od

Re: hbk file

2014-07-17 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 07/18/2014 01:30 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: od is one of those basic Unix/Linux utilities that's always there but that people using DEs tend to forget about. man od for more. Thanks for pointer , i found od I tried od --strings and od -t c but neither returned something

Απάντ.: f20 - Anyone else having problems installing x64

2013-12-21 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Hi, back in the early days of CDR media, we used to consider some drives even incompatible with certain colors. It was a long time ago so if I recall the dark blue ones were the best choose and the silver the worst. Where did your elephant memory recalled that ?? It should have remained in a

Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB 2.0 tv tuner , no sound .

2011-01-31 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
I have the above named tv tuner card ( which has usb connection ) . I can tune to any tv channel that i wish but the problem is that i can´t hear any sound . lsusb would print Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2304:0208 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Studio PCTV USB2 The output of lsusb -v concerning the above

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 01:29 πμ, JB wrote: snip Now with regard to OpenOffice. I would suggest that you reinstall Writer: # yum reinstall openoffice.org-writer If that does not help, reinstall all your OO packages: # yum reinstall openoffice.org-* Tell us how you start your OO Writer when

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 12:37 μμ, JB wrote: This is OK. Btw, I am in GNOME desktop, but I see you can find things I asked for in KDE. Well , you pointed the way , beyond that there was only one place to go , so i didn´t actually discovered the New World . Well the fact that you are using Gnome would

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 12:37 μμ, JB wrote: # yum distro-sync Well i used this command twice , the first time i just exited X Windows and issued the command on runlevel 3 and then i rebooted the computer and run the command for a second time . All that happened was Jan 30 16:28:36 Updated:

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 05:04 μμ, JB wrote: Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr writes: Let me go back, as promised, to this problem. In any way i try to run it . For example if i download a document through firefox and then ask it to open the file then Writer will crash . Can you

Skype - No sound from microphone

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
I have an issue with Skype . Although am able to hear sounds ( in a call i can hear the caller ) the caller can´t hear me . System wide i have sounds. The version of Skype am using is : skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586 Now the odd thing is that if i go to PulseAudio Volume Control under Multimedia

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 05:32 μμ, JB wrote: Now, make a note somewhere. If you suddenly experience a problem with OO Writer again, do the following to debug it: $ strace openoffice.org -writer or to capture the debugging output to a file $ strace -o strace.oo-writer.debug openoffice.org -writer and

Re: Skype - No sound from microphone

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 07:52 μμ, Marko Vojinovic wrote: What devices are selected, and what are available for the microphone, speakers and ringing options? Well after thinking of it , i think that here is the problem . Skype only gives me the option of PulseAudio server , so i have it for microphone

Re: Skype - No sound from microphone

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 07:52 μμ, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Well at first all i managed to do is mess up everything . I couldn´t even hear anything system wide .Then after trying to revert changes didn´t brought the sound back i did a nice reboot which fixed up everything . So now i have playback sound and i

OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-29 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , Lately i have been having a lot of issues running the Word Processor of OpenOffice . It just seem to crash a bit after i try to execute it without a message or something . Anybody knows what might be going wrong here : openoffice.org-ooolatex-4.0.0-0.8.beta2.fc14.1.x86_64

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-29 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 29/01/2011 11:04 μμ, JB wrote: Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr writes: Greetings , Lately i have been having a lot of issues running the Word Processor of OpenOffice . It just seem to crash a bit after i try to execute it without a message or something . ... try

Audacious

2011-01-28 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , After yesterdays updates audacious seems to have lost the mp3 plugin and can no longer play mp3 files . The version with the problem is audacious-2.4.3-1.fc14.x86_64 audacious-plugins-freeworld-mp3-2.4.0-1.fc14.x86_64 audacious-plugins-2.4.3-1.fc14.pl1.x86_64

Re: Audacious

2011-01-28 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 28/01/2011 11:38 μμ, Greg Woods wrote: the mp3 plugin seems to be installed but audacious ( the freeworld-mp3-2.4.0-1.fc14.x86_64) doesn´t seem to recognize it . Can someone tell me what´s going wrong ? The freeworld plugin comes from rpm-fusion, not from Fedora. You need to enable

Re: Audacious

2011-01-28 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 29/01/2011 12:14 πμ, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:24:08 +0200, Kostas wrote: Greetings , After yesterdays updates audacious seems to have lost the mp3 plugin and can no longer play mp3 files . The version with the problem is audacious-2.4.3-1.fc14.x86_64

Re: SELinux

2011-01-23 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 23/01/2011 05:12 πμ, Tim wrote: snip I'm surprised you had to install it, or anything to read a PDF file. As far as I was aware, a PDF file reader gets installed by default. So any attempts to read a PDF file would open that, automatically. For most things, it's fine. Sometimes

Re: SELinux

2011-01-23 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 22/01/2011 12:15 μμ, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 17:46 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: A desktop computer which runs at home doesn´t necessarily need all the security restrictions that a computer in a company needs . It may need an awful lot more. A work computer might only

Re: SELinux

2011-01-21 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 21/01/2011 02:51 πμ, Tim wrote: For the average user, it shouldn't be a problem. It shouldn't really be noticeable, unless they're doing something stupid with their computer. Agreed . Well to be honest it felt kind of awkward this whole thing with Acrobat Reader , as i had no idea

Re: SELinux

2011-01-20 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 20/01/2011 03:58 πμ, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:51:03 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis kosta...@cha.forthnet.gr wrote: snip Personally, I'd recommend not using acrobat reader. PDFs are more like executable programs than documents. So besides having to worry about

Re: SELinux

2011-01-20 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 20/01/2011 06:30 μμ, Alan Cox wrote: snip Use an open source PDF reader, most of which always run with the document untrusted in safe mode and don't implement some of the more fun stuff in a PDF. Agreed . Well Adobe Reader was the one i got . If u know another one i would be happy to

Re: SELinux

2011-01-20 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 20/01/2011 07:25 πμ, Mark Eggers wrote: snip My thought is that if you need to run some extended commands as root, open a shell and use the command line. You'll have all of your other tools available as a normal user. Here's an approach to fixing Adobe Acrobat. Your mileage may

Re: SELinux

2011-01-20 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
snip Using evince would be an improvement, but I wouldn't trust it to read PDFs that I thought had a significant chance of being trojans. sandbox -X evince random.pdf On Fedora or RHEL6, as a normal user would run the pdf with a locked down sandbox. What exactly is sandbox ? If i

Re: SELinux

2011-01-20 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 20/01/2011 11:36 πμ, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 04:23 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Additionally, I note that quite a bit of the bandwidth on the Fedora and CentOS echoes relate to SELinux making ordinary people doing ordinary things difficult. I really don't know why people have

Re: SELinux

2011-01-19 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 18/01/2011 06:22 πμ, Tim wrote: snip SELinux is another of the protective measures on your system, A small comment here , actually SELinux is an NSA invention which is supposed to provide extra security to your system by controlling everything and everyone . Being root doesn't mean

Re: SELinux

2011-01-19 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 18/01/2011 03:40 πμ, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 01/17/2011 09:29 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: The source process : acroread Attempted this access : execstack On this proccess : Ok, there has been a lot of these lately (execstack). I had those with AviDemux and solved it by removing

Re: SELinux

2011-01-19 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 18/01/2011 03:46 πμ, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 01/17/2011 09:29 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: The source process : acroread Attempted this access : execstack On this proccess : I found this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630217 It appears to have been fixed

Re: SELinux

2011-01-19 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 18/01/2011 03:46 πμ, Jorge Fábregas wrote: On 01/17/2011 09:29 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: The source process : acroread Attempted this access : execstack On this proccess : I found this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630217 It appears to have been fixed

Re: SELinux

2011-01-19 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 20/01/2011 02:27 πμ, Tim wrote: It's been years since I've logged in as root, since I haven't had to do that. Well i do usually login as root , i have been doing so for the last few years , ok i know it´s not the best thing to do but let´s say it´s just a bad habbit. When I did do it, to

Re: SELinux

2011-01-19 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 20/01/2011 02:39 πμ, Tim wrote: Which, suggests, some checking of the normal permissions on that directory, and it's parent. Likewise, some checking for SELinux contexts. You can do that with the ls -Z command. ls -Zd /home ought to be: drwxr-xr-x root root

SELinux

2011-01-17 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , Well i want to ask what problem Selinux has if i want to run for example Acrobat Reader or not . Even the last user of a system is entitled to run a program if he wishes to , not to me mention that fact that am the root of the system ? Why can´t it just back off and let me do what

Re: SELinux

2011-01-17 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 18/01/2011 01:15 πμ, Jorge Fábregas wrote: snip Could you please elaborate? What error messages are you getting? How do you know it's a SELinux related problem? What is the SELinux message? Well it´s certainly SELinux Related . As soon as i try to launch acrobat reader 9 then i get

Re: Play DVD

2011-01-13 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 13/01/2011 12:38 πμ, Suvayu Ali wrote: Sorry, forgot to mention. I tried that and hence my confusion. It refuses to identify an audio CD or even a data CD! Well i don´t think that the audio CDs have a file system so any attempt to mount an audio cd would fail . The media player though

Re: Play DVD

2011-01-12 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 12/01/2011 01:09 μμ, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 00:46 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: A possible candidate could be the new kernel as I don't see any of the usual suspects among the updates during this period (24th of December to now). My understanding of a system is rather limited,

Re: Play DVD

2011-01-11 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 11/01/2011 06:40 μμ, suvayu ali wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: Fedora 14 is having some problems reading DVD=/dev/dvd , in VLC I had to change settings to read DVD=/dev/sr0 to play a movie dvd. 'Sometimes' it would play using DVD=/dev/dvd .

Play DVD

2011-01-10 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings, I have made several efforts to play a dvd movie but without success . Am using Fedora 14 ( Linux Orion.Andromeda.Galaxy.local 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 23 16:04:50 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ) . I have installed the following packages : rpm -qa | grep

Re: Play DVD

2011-01-10 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 10/01/2011 09:34 μμ, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: 2011/1/10 Temlakos temla...@gmail.com: On 01/10/2011 02:15 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Greetings, I have made several efforts to play a dvd movie but without success . Am using Fedora 14 ( Linux Orion.Andromeda.Galaxy.local 2.6.35.10-74

Re: Build custom Xen Kernel

2010-12-03 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Hiisi wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 01:00 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: You said that it installs nicely , well am currently downloading the rpm As I also have to used closed version from virtualbox.org I've created virtualbox.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d to beup2date

Re: Build custom Xen Kernel

2010-12-02 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 12/02/2010 11:47 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 11/29/2010 04:22 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Greetings , I have a Fedora 14 64 bit installation running on a machine with a dual core AMD 64 bit at 3,00 GHz cpu , 2 GB of RAM and a lot of hard disk space ( the Fedora installation

Build custom Xen Kernel

2010-11-29 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , I have a Fedora 14 64 bit installation running on a machine with a dual core AMD 64 bit at 3,00 GHz cpu , 2 GB of RAM and a lot of hard disk space ( the Fedora installation resides on a 1,5 TB hard disk drive ) . I have succesfully installed and run a virtual machine running

Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB 2

2010-11-10 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings , I need a couple of hints in order to configure the above named card I searched google and i found some information but since my system runs Fedora 14 i need a bit of help in order to put the pieces together . My exact card is : 4 3 - Pinnacle PCTV USB 2

Re: Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB 2

2010-11-10 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 11/10/2010 10:41 PM, stan wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:30:40 -0700 stan gr...@q.com wrote: snip Check for error messages in /var/log/messages after you try to use it. Check for SELinux denials. Well the short version of the answer is that i could not find any SELinux denials or