Re: Fedora 17

2012-06-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/12 07:16, Roger wrote: > After all the hype, problems and dislikes with Fedora 17, I am > interested to know is it worth fresh installing over Fedora 16 or > would it be best to wait a month or so? I've both upgraded from Verne -> Beefy via

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

2012-07-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fedora 18: `grubby fatal error unable to find a suitable template' Cheers, Phil... - -- currently (ab)using CentOS 6.2, Debian Squeeze, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Precise -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17

Re: need help: nfsv4 idmap

2012-07-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neal Becker wrote: > I'm wondering if I can use nfsv4 idmap so that I can share files between > systems > without syncing uids. > > Thing is, I don't want to have to learn kerberos, ldap, etc. > > Is it possible to use idmap functionality without

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:33:34 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > >> This behaviour is clearly a bug. Not because it takes so long time, >> but because the user isn't informed and waits speculating about what >> went wrong and when t

Re: installation fails

2012-07-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:42:56 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> I started using Fedora starting with Constantine & the hang always seems >> to happen at 'selinux-policy-targeted' which is underst

Re: Linux or GNU/Linux

2012-07-30 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Wendel wrote: > On 07/29/2012 10:09 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Just thought about asking you guys what the actual name is, Linux or >> GNU/Linux (In our Bangladeshi community, we're really divided on this >> issue). >>

Change Fedora Releases source

2012-07-31 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I have both Beefy on a desktop machine & a laptop. On the desktop variety, `yum update` works fine but on the laptop it's always throwing errors (timing out, 401s, etc). The laptop was upgraded from 12 -> 15 -> 16 -> 17 using preupgrade as &

Re: Change Fedora Releases source

2012-07-31 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/01/2012 07:27 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> I have both Beefy on a desktop machine & a laptop. On the desktop >> variety, `yum update` works fine but on the laptop it's always >> throwing

Re: Change Fedora Releases source

2012-08-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:27:22AM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> I have both Beefy on a desktop machine & a laptop. On the desktop >> variety, `yum update` works fine but on the laptop it's always throwi

Re: Natural Selection.....

2012-08-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > Ok so after scouring this site called "DistroWatch".which has a > MILLION different versions of Linux I've decided to go with: > > PeppermintOS - laptop > > Ubuntu LTS - desktop > > Fedora laptop > > Linux Mint desktop > > PC-BSD

Byobu

2012-09-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. After the last kernel upgrade (=> 3.5.3-1) notifications in Byobu ceased to work (amongst other things: an existing kvm machine no longer works as Nautilus keeps crashing when it's launched so I had to re-install that). I've tried reverting back to 5.17 with no luck (both via Yum & compi

Re: Byobu

2012-09-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
Phil Dobbin wrote: > > After the last kernel upgrade (=> 3.5.3-1) notifications in Byobu ceased > to work (amongst other things: an existing kvm machine no longer works > as Nautilus keeps crashing when it's launched so I had to re-install that). > > I've tried

Re: ZenCoding in Fedora with Gedit/GMate?

2012-10-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
Manuel Escudero wrote: > Can someone help me with this question in #AskFedora?: > > http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/2620/zencoding-in-fedora-with-geditgmate According to the only other hit in Google apart from your question: $ sudo yum install python-pygments Untested. HTH. Cheers, P

Re: spam and newbies and niceness

2012-10-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
Digimer wrote: > On 10/19/2012 06:23 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 06:01:19PM -0400, David wrote: >>> I had this 'fixed' about two weeks ago and then you Newbies opened the >>> sluice gate. Can't fix *your* email? At least please don't re-swan it >>> for those of us that can

Re: Fedora 17 and laptop IBM T42

2012-10-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
Rafnews wrote: > Hi, > > i discovered that i can use fedora 17 on my old laptop IBM T42. > i works great but my wireless adapter doesn't work. > > i found several websites (e.g.: > http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml) where some steps are > written how to make it works...however i

Re: Fedora 17 and laptop IBM T42

2012-10-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
Rafnews wrote: > On 28.10.2012 15:03, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Rafnews wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> i discovered that i can use fedora 17 on my old laptop IBM T42. >>> i works great but my wireless adapter doesn't work. >>> >>>

Re: MySQL installation on Fedora 17

2012-11-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
Yashar Pezeshki wrote: > Why not try to install it using yum, and then reply if you you got any > problem?!! :D > > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Rafnews > wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to know if someone already installed MySQL on Fedora 17 > witho

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/18/2012 11:16 PM, Roger wrote: > Is there any way to trace ip addresses back past the originating ISP. > I've been using whois but it seems limited. I use nmap then Google does the rest. Cheers, Phil... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/19/2012 12:04 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> Indeed. Most of the time they are not going to give a crap about a >> simple abuse report, let alone do anything to stop spam/bruteforcing. >> >> Maybe the American and British ISPs but not the others. > > The ISPs are mostly not in the loop, but some of

Re: Need help with minimal install on ee701

2012-11-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/26/2012 04:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I did the minimal install on my ee701. At least the first attempt. > > I set my swap at 768Mb, and left /boot at 500Mb (probably could shrink > this next time). This left 2.7Gb for / > > That swap will be too small for hibernate > > So a m

Re: Need help with minimal install on ee701

2012-11-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/26/2012 04:54 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 11/25/2012 11:46 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> On 11/26/2012 04:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> I did the minimal install on my ee701. At least the first attempt. >>> >>> I set my swap at 7

Re: fedora books

2012-12-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/01/2012 06:37 AM, Brian West wrote: > Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it > comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are > countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general way. > each distribution has its own unique se

Re: setting filters in thunderbird.

2012-12-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/03/2012 07:58 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > How does one set a mail. filter in thunderbird? I want mail from the > users list, for example tp gp into the users folder. I find the easiest method is to create your mailbox folder that you wish to filter messages into first (or use an existing one

Re: fedora without texlive

2012-12-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/06/2012 06:04 PM, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I just completed an F-17 install. I choosed the "customize now" option > and ask to not install texlive, but texlive is installed. > > Is it possible to have an install without texlive? > > I use texlive, but fedora package for te

Re: Fedora 17

2012-12-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/10/2012 12:59 PM, Henrik Frisk wrote: > Hi, > > I have now migrated to Fedora 17 (clean install) and configured and > installed most of what I need. Though I think everything looks very > good my computer is considerably less responsive than under fedora 13. > I haven't worked that much yet

Weird network problem

2013-05-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. A couple of days ago the IP changed & since then, one of the machines running Fedora 17 always fails first time to connect to the network: launch Thunderbird, no start screen,

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 02:21 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/25/2013 06:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning >> always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. >> >> A couple of days ago the IP changed & since then, o

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 11:54 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 05/25/2013 08:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning >> always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. >> >> A couple of days

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 02:54 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 05/26/2013 07:18 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> On 05/26/2013 11:54 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> On 05/25/2013 08:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >>>> Hi, all. >>>> >>>> I've got

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 02:54 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [...] > Dumb question - have you checked the network connection? See if > changing the cable or the port on the switch helps. It seams strange > that the external IP address changing would cause this, but for some > strange reason hardware probl

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/27/2013 04:51 PM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 27 May 2013, Timothy Murphy sent: >> As a matter of interest, how do you configure DHCP >> to work with a dynamic IP? > > Um, generally you don't... It does that by default. Your DHCP client > (your usual personal computer) asks a DHC

Ananconda on 19

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've just tried to install Fedora 19 over the top of CentOS I.(e. erasing Centos) & I can't figure out how to do it. There's no option for erase & install as with other distros. Could anybody point me in the right direction? Cheers, Phil... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: Ananconda on 19

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 09/21/2013 03:35 PM, poma wrote: On 21.09.2013 15:57, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've just tried to install Fedora 19 over the top of CentOS I.(e. erasing Centos) & I can't figure out how to do it. There's no option for erase & install as with other distros. Could

Fedup error

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
I'm trying to upgrade 17 -> 18 & I keep getting this message: ' $ sudo fedup-cli --network 18 setting up repos... default-installrepo/metalink | 34 kB 00:00:00 fedora/18/i386/metalink | 34 kB 00:00:00 No upgrade available for the following repos: fedora updates Error: can't get boot imag

Re: Fedup error

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 21/09/13 23:13, Phil Dobbin wrote: I'm trying to upgrade 17 -> 18 & I keep getting this message: ' $ sudo fedup-cli --network 18 setting up repos... default-installrepo/metalink | 34 kB 00:00:00 fedora/18/i386/metalink | 34 kB 00:00:00 No upgrade available for th

no operating system found error

2013-09-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, I've been using Fedora 19 quite happily for a while now but today when I booted her I got an error message along the lines of '62: No operating system found' & she refused to boot. I'm guessing it's a Grub problem but I've no clue as to go about doing requisite repair work, even after sp

Re: no operating system found error

2013-09-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 25/09/13 18:40, Jan Litwiński wrote: Dnia 2013-09-25, o godz. 18:19:06 Phil Dobbin napisał(a): Hi, I've been using Fedora 19 quite happily for a while now but today when I booted her I got an error message along the lines of '62: No operating system found' & she re

Re: Weird network problem

2013-10-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 26/05/13 02:00, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. A couple of days ago the IP changed & since then, one of the machines running Fedora 17 always fails first time to conne

Re: Log viewer

2013-11-09 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 10/11/13 01:53, Javier Perez wrote: > Hi > Could somebody recommend a program to view logs like Xorg.0.log, dmesg, > boot.log, messages and others I use lnav: Recommended. Cheers, Phil... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/15/2012 05:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 09:53 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >> On 12/15/2012 09:07 AM, Tim wrote: >>> On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 13:08 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: preupgrade is going away in f18. It's being replaced by fedup.

Re: Getting to F18

2012-12-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/16/2012 08:47 AM, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 11:18 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> Unless you think you have a chance of being singled out by a goverment >> or if you don't trust some of the people/machines on your local >> network, this isn't a significant risk. > > You don't thin

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/16/2012 10:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/16/2012 02:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> http://ohjeezlinux.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/fedup-a-little-background/ >> (this link is referenced on the Fedup Wiki page). > > Thanx. Alas, the first paragraph contains a gross error that tells me >

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/17/2012 03:30 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >> OMG!...incredible! >> > > Why? Granted, it was back in 1968, but the computer I was working on > (IBM 1620, MOD 2) was already outdated, and nearly obsolete. My brother (he's eleven years older

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

2012-12-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/17/2012 11:02 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 12/17/2012 05:28 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 12/17/2012 04:11 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >>> On 12/16/2012 10:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/16/2012 07:12 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > OMG!...incredible! > W

Re: Compiling Failed

2012-12-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/19/2012 01:42 AM, Jim wrote: > Fedora 17 > Compiling failed, could someone give me a ideal what caused the failure. > > > > #sh run.sh > running install > running build > cc -I/usr/include/ffmpeg -c > /home/mickey/Downloads/Miro-5/miro-5.0/linux/miro-segmenter.c -o > build/miro-segmenter/

Re: Fedora Planet Reader

2012-12-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/27/2012 11:20 AM, Mark Klein wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am Mark Klein, a 14-year-old high school student from Honolulu, > Hawaii. (UTC-10) > > I am participating in the Google Code-In contest and for my task[0], I > designed an android application[1] for Planet Fedora[2], which is a >

Go/NoGo Meeting

2013-01-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. Would I be right in thinking that tonight (at 20:00 UTC) is the Go/NoGo Meeting to determine whether Fedora 18 is released next Tuesday the Eight? Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leo

Re: Go/NoGo Meeting

2013-01-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/01/2013 11:49 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:40:28 + > Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> Hi, all. >> >> Would I be right in thinking that tonight (at 20:00 UTC) is the >> Go/NoGo Meeting to determine whether Fedora 18 is released next >>

Re: Very OT Rails 3 enquiry

2013-01-11 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/12/2013 07:03 AM, Roger wrote: > Apologies for off topic but I've looked everywhere and don't find answers. > Using Fedora 16, latest Ruby and latest Rails. > > I have been following Pragmatic Agile Web Dev with Rails 4th edition. > > Have a scaffold person with some fields, it all works

Re: Fedora 18 on MacBook Pro

2013-01-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/12/2013 07:50 PM, William Brown wrote: > >> >> Anyone has a clue please? >> >> As I'm suspecting it's using the BIOS emulation (how to check??), I'd >> like to try booting it as a "real EFI" OS but I have no clue of how >> that would work, and couldn't find much literature on this subject, a

Re: F-18/64 Install Methods -

2013-01-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/15/2013 04:09 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > >I have two different F-18 installs to deal with. > >F-18 beta upgraded almost daily, once more just now, do I need to do >any more than that? > >and > >This F-17 XFCE Live install which is configured the way

Re: Howto fedup?

2013-01-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/15/2013 04:37 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 11:27 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: >> How do I use fedup to update f17->f18 (via net)? >> >> I tried: >> sudo fedup --network 18 >> setting up repos... >> default-installrepo/metalink | 26 kB 0

FedUp: best plan?

2013-01-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've been watching the developments regarding everybody trying to upgrade via FedUp & can anyone advise me whether issuing: 'sudo fedup-cli —network 18 —debuglog fedupdebug.log' is still the recommended way to approach the upgrade? I'm running a rock solid Fedora 17 with all updates ap

Re: FedUp: best plan?

2013-01-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/17/2013 01:59 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:41:41AM +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I've been watching the developments regarding everybody trying to >> upgrade via FedUp & can anyone advise me whether issuing: >>

Re: OT Web servers and ISP

2013-01-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/28/2013 10:35 PM, Roger wrote: > I have run into a gotcha with the ISP which will not provide Rails 3 on > a shared server. > Can someone please enlighten me as to why not. What are the problems? > > Apologies for OT but google so far doesn't help. I had a similar situation & I just start

FedUp

2013-04-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've been away for some weeks & am now back so I'm looking at possibilities for upgrading 17 -> 18 seeing as 17 will be EOL in around eight to ten weeks. After the initial problems with FedUp, I read last night over on Bugzilla about its progress & the latest testing (which looks like it

Re: FedUp

2013-04-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/06/2013 03:56 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 04/06/2013 03:05 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I've been away for some weeks & am now back so I'm looking at >> possibilities for upgrading 17 -> 18 seeing as 17 will be EOL in around &g

Re: FedUp

2013-04-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/06/2013 09:28 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: > On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> On 04/06/2013 03:56 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >>> On 04/06/2013 03:05 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >>>> Hi, all. >>>> >>>> I've been away f

Re: FedUp

2013-04-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
As a coda to this, I installed 17 in a VM via the network install & then grabbed FedUp from Testing & ran it. Three hours later it completed, rebooted & all was well. This was, of course, a completely clean distro (I only installed git & grabbed my dotfiles off of GitHub before running FedUp). Whe

Re: FedUp

2013-04-09 Thread Phil Dobbin
rks fine on a minimal/server though on the Dell. Cheers, Phil... > On 4/8/2013 9:09 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> As a coda to this, I installed 17 in a VM via the network install & then >> grabbed FedUp from Testing & ran it. >> >> Three hours later it compl

Re: FedUp

2013-04-09 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/09/2013 11:08 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2013 6:54 AM, "Phil Dobbin" <mailto:bukowskis...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 04/09/2013 05:39 AM, Thomas Dineen wrote: >> >> > What brand of VM??? >> >> KVM running on F

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

2013-04-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/24/2013 05:55 PM, poma wrote: > On 24.04.2013 16:17, Regina Anger wrote: >> Hello Ed, >> >>> Yes, it has been mentioned on the "test" list several times. >>> It has been suggested to try adding 'slub_debug=-' to the kernel parameters. >> >> Thx a lot, works now like a charme :) > > https:

Re: Why is Fedora-19-alpha so extremely slow?

2013-04-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/24/2013 10:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 24.04.2013 23:21, schrieb Phil Dobbin: >> On 04/24/2013 05:55 PM, poma wrote: >> >>> On 24.04.2013 16:17, Regina Anger wrote: >>>> Hello Ed, >>>> >>>>> Yes, it has

Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE

2012-03-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I've been using Fedora 14 (i686) on an old IBM Think Pad T42 after swapping from Debian Squeeze & am really enjoying the experience. Fedora 14 having reached EOL, I'm looking to upgrade but at present I'm running Gnome 2 & 16 uses Gnome 3. N

Re: Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE

2012-03-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Re: Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE.emlSubject: Re: Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDEFrom: "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" Date: 02/03/2012 00:23To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org On 01/03/12 22:31, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >

Re: READ ME: When replying to users digest...

2012-03-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Simpson Date: 21/03/2012 00:24 To: Community support for Fedora users > On 21Mar2012 00:49, suvayu ali > wrote: | Well from my experience when I subscribed to this list as new user, I | started with the digest (with gmail) intending to only

Re: READ ME: When replying to users digest...

2012-03-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/03/2012 13:02, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:48:29 +, > Phil Dobbin wrote: >> >> Digest mode is perfectly acceptable for use when searching for >> relevant topics but a bore when replyin

Re: READ ME: When replying to users digest...

2012-03-22 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *n.b.* I originally sent this as a c.c. to the list but it doesn't seem to have happened... On 21/03/2012 21:47, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 21Mar2012 11:48, Phil Dobbin wrote: | > Cameron Simpson | > On 21Mar2012 00:49, suvayu al

Re: gnome3 - nothing but problems (for me)

2012-05-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 06/05/12 22:50, JD wrote: Hi All, Without dissing or criticizing gnome3, I must say I have nothing but problems with using it. For example, selecting the Gnome, or the Classic Gnome desktop manager, I can no longer see the desktop in other workspaces that I created, except workspace 1. Viewin

Re: Upgrade F15->F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade

2012-05-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/12 21:44, Max Pyziur wrote: > Hoping to at least be on the trailing edge, I've started an > upgrade process on my Dell Laptop Inspiron 600m. > > It is currently running F15, and I'd like to upgrade to F16. > > However, after going through t

partition question

2012-05-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've Googled this question quite extensively & before I proceed I thought I'd ask for an opinion. It's quite a common predicament so apologies in advance if I'm creating noise. I have a machine running Fedora 16 X86_64 which is a recent addition & now I need to use some of the unuse

Re: partition question

2012-05-28 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/27/2012 08:45 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: I've Googled this question quite extensively & before I proceed I thought I'd ask for an opinion. It's quite a common predicament so apologies in advance if I'm creating noise. I have a machine running Fedora 16 X86_64 wh

Re: Strange Warnings on updating tonight

2013-12-13 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 13/12/13 09:54, Frank Murphy wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:45:30 -0800 Les Howell wrote: Hi, everyone, Asked and answered Read the previous threads which also mention yum groups. I too have this problem & despite searching for 'yum groups' on list, I cannot find an answer. Would

Re: Strange Warnings on updating tonight

2013-12-13 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 13/12/13 19:43, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 13/12/13 09:54, Frank Murphy wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:45:30 -0800 Les Howell wrote: Hi, everyone, Asked and answered Read the previous threads which also mention yum groups. I too have this problem & despite searching for 'yum g

Re: Yum update failure -

2013-12-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 15/12/13 09:16, Bob Goodwin wrote: This is an error message I have not had before: [root@box10 bobg]# yum update Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit adobe-linux-x86_64 | 951 B 00:00:00 fedora/20/x86_64/metalink | 18 kB 00:00:00 fedora | 3.8 kB 00:00:00 rpmfusion-free-rawhide |

yumBackend.py

2014-01-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I know this has been discussed on here before but I'm struggling to stop 'yumBackend.py' hogging the CPU & sending the load averages over 2.00. I've disabled it via the GUI in Software & rebooted but it's still running every five minutes. Is there a way of dealing with this via the

Re: yumBackend.py

2014-01-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 23/01/14 18:49, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jan 23, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I know this has been discussed on here before but I'm struggling to stop 'yumBackend.py' hogging the CPU & sending the load averages over 2.00. I've disabled it

Backup logs

2014-02-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. Could anybody tell me where Fedora's Backup program writes its logs to? Any help appreciated. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using Arch Linux, CentOS 6.5, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora 19 & 20, OS X Snow Leopard, RHEL 7, Ubuntu Saucy GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey