Re: Is there an officially Fedora supported replacement for the old rc.local? - still an issue

2022-07-22 Thread alan
> On 7/22/22 13:34, James Szinger wrote: >> I first encountered UNIX after years of using VMS, IBM mainframes, and >> a plethora of personal computers. They ALL had editors better than >> vi. Who writes an editor where the arrow keys don’t work! > > To be fair, when vi was written, there were

Re: SSL Level?

2022-01-22 Thread alan
> Hi All, > > Is there a way to get one of those fancy tool > in nmap to tell me the "level" (version) > of SSL and/or TLS that a web site is using? The script for ssl in nmap does not deal with ssl v3. Try this instead: https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh.git This gives you all sorts of i

Re: Fedora 35 and Intel Iris XE Graphics

2022-01-12 Thread alan
> All; > > > Does anyone know if Fedora 35 works well with the Intel Iris XE Graphics? I have an HP Spectre x360 14 with Tiger Lake and Xe graphics. It works fine with Wayland. --- Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? A: Because OCT 31 == DEC 25. __

Re: Restored f33 on new drive from a tarball now a problem

2021-04-25 Thread alan
> On 26/04/2021 07:09, Robert McBroom via users wrote: >> On 4/25/21 5:34 PM, George N. White III wrote: >>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 17:04, Robert McBroom via users >>> mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> New drive has the same msdos partition structure as the old. >>> Le

FAS login issue

2021-02-26 Thread alan
I created a Fedora FAS account a long while back. I cannot find the account name I used and there seems to be no way to find it. The password reset assumes you know what account name you used. Who do I talk to to get this fixed? --- Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? A: Becau

Sound Problems on Tiger Lake (Updated)

2020-12-09 Thread alan
I have a bit more information on the sound problems on my HP Spectre x360 14 Tiger lake laptop. I have gotten sound to work. There is an initialization bug somewhere. If I boot into Windows and then reboot (not shutdown) into Fedora, the sound works. If I shutdown and boot Fedora, the sound does

Sound problems on Tiger Lake

2020-12-04 Thread alan
I have a brand new HP Spectre X360 14 with a Tiger Lake processor. I have Fedora 33 installed on it as a dual boot. Sound works fine under Windows, but not under Fedora. Anyone know the status of this? I have seen some information that claims that it will be supported in kernel 5.10.0, but the re

Re: Switching desktops on Fedora 32

2020-04-29 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 20:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-04-29 05:06, Alan wrote: > > Seems the GDM option to switch desktops has been removed on Fedora > > 32. > > switchdesk no longer works either. > > > > How do you switch desktops on Fedora 32? It ha

Switching desktops on Fedora 32

2020-04-28 Thread Alan
Seems the GDM option to switch desktops has been removed on Fedora 32. switchdesk no longer works either. How do you switch desktops on Fedora 32? It has become non-obvious. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an e

System upgrade from F30 to F31-beta error messages

2019-09-20 Thread Alan
System upgrade from Fedora 30 to Fedora 31-beta gives these errors (with --skip-broken) Problem 1: conflicting requests - nothing provides module(platform:f30) needed by module eclipse:2019-06:3020190807134759:6ebe2c0f-0.x86_64 Problem 2: module jmc:latest:3120190813124555:7188e41a-0.x86_64 r

Re: Is Fedora 30 able to support Intel Core i9-9980XE Extreme Edition or AMD Ryzen 9 3950X?

2019-07-25 Thread alan
> CONFIG_NR_CPUS=1024 for Fedora kernels since a while, I'm not sure how > long. If you look in /boot you can find the config file used for each kernel. The issue may be CONFIG_NR_CPUS_DEFAULT=64 The larger Intel servers exceed that number by quite a bit. -- Q: Why do programmers confuse Hall

Re: gnome frozen

2019-07-10 Thread alan
> On 7/10/19 2:07 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py >>> Am I supposed to run this command? >> >> That is a sig line joke. It removes leading white space from Python >> programs. Don't run that. > > That is a very dangerous joke with no indication that it is your sig.

Re: gnome frozen

2019-07-10 Thread alan
>> I have seen this happen before. If you have nvidia-settings installed, >> but >> do not have the commercial nvidia driver running, nvidia-settings makes >> a >> whole bunch of duplicate connections to the xserver. Once it is full, >> you >> cannot open new windows. (Things get very strange.) >

Re: gnome frozen

2019-07-10 Thread alan
>> >> On 6/17/19 1:03 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> >> From: "Samuel Sieb" >> >> Where are you entering this? From a console or ssh? >> > Yes >> >> That wasn't intended to be a yes or no question. I assume from the >> answer below that it's a terminal console. >> >> >> Try using "kill -HUP" on t

Most of the system can't print to network printer.

2019-07-03 Thread Alan Evans
18]: EPSON-ET-4500-Series alan 17 [03/Jul/2019:12:39:29 -0700] 1 1 - localhost notes - - Jul 3 12:39:33 phantom cupsd[1218]: EPSON-ET-4500-Series alan 17 [03/Jul/2019:12:39:33 -0700] total 0 - localhost notes - - Jul 3 12:39:33 phantom cupsd[1218]: Print job canceled at printer. However, Libre

Re: How to find out which wifi card

2019-06-27 Thread alan
> On 6/28/19 6:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I am hoping it is a config problem.  If not I have an rtl card that is >> in an x120e 'hanger queen' that I can use instead. > > Well, if the rtl card connects fine and the broadcom with the same > configuration doesn't > then it is unlik

Re: nvidia-settings causing problems [SOLVED]

2019-05-17 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 17:54 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/15/2019 05:03 PM, Alan wrote: > > I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree > > repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users. > > Rpmfusion has its own bugzilla at https://bugzil

Re: nvidia-settings causing problems

2019-05-15 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 17:54 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/15/2019 05:03 PM, Alan wrote: > > I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree > > repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users. > > Rpmfusion has its own bugzilla at https://bugzil

nvidia-settings causing problems

2019-05-15 Thread Alan
I have not filed a bug on this because it is from rpmfusion-nonfree repository, but the cause will be unclear to most users. What happens is if you have the nvidia-settings app installed, after a while the X server will no longer open any windows. xlsclients will show a bunch of nvidia-settings c

Another issue to be aware of when you upgrade from F29 to F30

2019-04-30 Thread Alan
Make sure you turn off any Gnome extensions that you have downloaded from gnome.org. There is an issue where some gnome extensions that are loaded from the user account will cause gnome-shell to crash. What you will see is you try to log in and after a few seconds it returns back to the login scree

Re: Login problems with Fedora 29

2018-12-07 Thread alan
> Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2018, a...@clueserver.org sent: >> Every once in a while the system stops accepting my password. >> Rebooting does not help. > > Is it a regular interval? There are "expire password" options in the > user configuration, perhaps yours has been set. > > I see tha

Re: Odd problem with kmodtool

2018-12-07 Thread alan
> On 12/7/18 9:56 AM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: >> When I try using akmodbuild for any module, it claims that it cannot >> find >> "/app/bin/kmodtool". > > Have you tried running just "akmods"? Yes. I actually used "akmods --force". I misremembered which command I used. It does this for any modu

Re: Login problems with Fedora 29

2018-12-07 Thread alan
> On 12/07/2018 11:01 AM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: >> I can mount the drive with a live F29 distro and chroot the root drive. >> I >> have a backup of the /etc/shadow file and there are no changes to the >> user. "changing" the password fixes the problem. > > I don't know why this happens, but I

Login problems with Fedora 29

2018-12-07 Thread alan
This one is a bit of a mystery... I have a newish install of Fedora 29. I am using two SSD drives on a Lenovo W540 laptop with UEFI boot. Every once in a while the system stops accepting my password. Rebooting does not help. I can mount the drive with a live F29 distro and chroot the root drive.

Odd problem with kmodtool

2018-12-07 Thread alan
I have a relatively new Fedora 29 install. (I did a reinstall after getting a couple of new SSDs for my laptop and changing over to a UEFI boot.) When I try using akmodbuild for any module, it claims that it cannot find "/app/bin/kmodtool". Why does it think I have a Mac? I have grepped everythi

Re: Fedora 29 (and 28) very slow

2018-11-26 Thread alan
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:45:48 - > Ron Sigal wrote: > >> I'm just bewildered. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Spectre and Meltdown kernel changes are reputed to slow > things down, but I don't know if it would be that much. They have removed some of the Spectre and Meltdown patches from

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-05 Thread alan
> On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 10:59 -0800, a...@clueserver.org wrote: >> Fedora also ships or gives you access to a number of packages that are >> not >> "ideologically pure". (NVIDIA drivers and the like.) It depends on >> whether >> you need those packages. > > AFAIK this is not the case. Fedora's of

Re: Debian vs Fedora

2018-11-05 Thread alan
> Greetings, > > I'm a Debian user(from almost 3 years). And I've question Why should I > choose Fedora over Debian as a my operating system? Debian tends to distribute older versions of packages, where Fedora ships "bleeding edge" versions. It depends what your needs are. Do you need a known qua

Compile issues after F27 -> F28 upgrade

2018-05-16 Thread alan
I did an upgrade from Fedora 27 to the Fedora 28 beta a while back. (About a week before final release.) After the update I tried to recompile a program I use often. The program would compile after a bit of patching, but it would not start. Using ldd I was able to determine that the ldconfig data

Re: dnf update strange comment

2017-11-08 Thread alan
> On 11/08/2017 12:01 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: >> tnx for your reply. What do you suggest?? Wait and see?? > > Yes. You could try occasionally using the --refresh option with dnf to > make sure it checks for new metadata. "sudo dnf clean all" also helps. perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py _

Re: Freezing

2017-03-24 Thread Alan
On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 11:43 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Rick Stevens > wrote: > > Killing gnome-shell will not necessarily free the > > machine up and make the GUI work as it is a significant component > > of > > the desktop > > > > It won't. If you unceremoni

Re: Interpreting smartctl data -

2017-03-15 Thread alan
> I just salvaged the hard drive from an > abandoned DirectTV box that "smoked." > Note: With their approval ... > > I'm just trying to determine how much > confidence I can have in it. It was > interesting to see that it was formatted > Linux XFS initially. I reworked it with > gparted and ext4 t

Re: diff or deduplicate two volumes with different folder structures

2016-09-20 Thread alan
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:52:10PM +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote: >> One last try (sometimes an issue nags): >> $ find A -exec md5sum '{}' + > a-md5 >> $ find B -exec md5sum '{}' + > b-md5 >> $ cat a-md5 b-md5 > All >> $ sort -u -k 1,1 All > dupes >> >> Now, (I hopefully got my head around it this tim

Re: f24: touchpad "Tap to click" & C. configuration

2016-07-05 Thread Alan Gagne
in the gnome control panel for mouse and TP. [dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-synaptics] YMMV Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://

Re: Nouveau, Oh No!

2016-06-29 Thread alan
> I was so happy when the nouveau driver finally worked > on my nvidia maxwell card in fedora 24, but now after > about a week, this happened: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351286 > > Total screen freeze :-(. > > At least it took as long as a week. > > If it happens a lot, I may

Re: Can't rename files on KDE desktop.

2016-05-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Note that there is a list for KDE on Fedora, where you might get more > help with this. See: > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/k...@lists.fedoraproject.org I'll move this there, then. -- users mailing list users@lists.

Re: Can't rename files on KDE desktop.

2016-05-23 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/23/16 07:07, Alan Evans wrote: > > > Or rather, I can rename them, but then I can't access them. > > > > If I create a new file on my F23 KDE desktop, I have no trouble > accessing it. But if I > >

Can't rename files on KDE desktop.

2016-05-22 Thread Alan Evans
or folder /home/alan/Desktop/// does not exist." ( is the name the file was before I renamed.) This is a real bother in the case of folders, because I rename them often. But then I can't access them. Everything seems to work from within the File Manager, but fails when dealing with D

Re: xorg 1.18 released

2015-11-11 Thread alan
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:14:40 -0800 > a...@clueserver.org wrote: > >> There is a guide to installing the NVidia drivers on Fedora 23. It >> involves back-reving xorg to 1.17. > > I find the safest and easiest way to do this is keep my fedora 22 > partition the default and wait for f23 to get all t

Re: xorg 1.18 released

2015-11-11 Thread alan
> I see the official announcement of xorg server 1.18: > > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-November/002655.html > > Anyone have any clues about when the final release > will show up in fedora 23, and vastly more important, > when nvidia binary drivers will show up now that 1.18 > is

Re: Laptop screen recommendations - Fedora 22 & KDE

2015-10-19 Thread alan
> Hi all; > > I'm currently running Fedora 22 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (3rd > gen). Fedora works well on it, my only complaint is that the screen has > a built in anti glare filter and seems washed out, I'm not sure if this > is the anti glare filter or if it's that Linux support for the Vid

Re: passwordless rsync?

2015-05-28 Thread Alan Evans
google "ssh-keygen". You will find things like: http://www.linuxproblem.org/art_9.html and similar. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Dustin Kempter wrote: > Hi all, Ive been looking into a way to run rsync from server1 to server2 > using ssh-keys > but not allowing the user from server 1 to logi

Re: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-27 Thread alan
>> >> >> On 05/26/2015 05:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 17:50 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > YMMV. In my case it was all over in 30 minutes, but I have a reasonably > fast > machine and Internet connection. I wouldn't expect the total elapsed >

Re: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-26 Thread alan
> > > On 05/26/2015 05:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 17:50 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: YMMV. In my case it was all over in 30 minutes, but I have a >>> reasonably fast machine and Internet connection. I wouldn't expect the total >>> elapsed time to va

Re: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-26 Thread alan
> On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 16:00 -0700, a...@clueserver.org wrote: >> > I had about 2800 packages to update, cleanup, and verify. >> >> There is a big difference doing an upgrade on a system with an SSD vs >> a >> SATA hard drive. Having a fast pipe also helps a lot. > > Forgot to mention that I have

Re: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-26 Thread alan
> On 05/26/2015 05:45 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 16:06 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >>> On 05/26/2015 03:36 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/26/2015 12:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> IIRC yum used t

Re: Oracle no longer builds VB for latest Fedora release

2015-05-13 Thread alan
> On 05/13/2015 02:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: >> I am curious as to why Oracle decided not to build and distribute >> VB built with latest Fedora release. >> >> I sent the question to Oracle. Awaiting their reply. >> > The RPMs are there: > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/21/ That i

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread alan
> > On 02/26/2015 04:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> On 26.02.2015, Jim Lewis wrote: >> >>> Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. >> It was on floppy disks. I remember clearly, because I reformatted them >> some time ago, in need for empty disks to check an external floppy disk

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread Alan Evans
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Garry T. Williams wrote: > On 7-5-14 14:30:39 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > +1. One of my pet gripes about systemd is that it introduces a lot of > > new terminology without a clear explanation. > > Have you looked at the manual pages? I know of no other project t

Re: Thunderbolt support?

2014-05-30 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 23:52 +0200, Henrik Frisk wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm seeing different things about thunderbolt support and Linux. > Anyone have any experience? Specifically I would like to connect a > PCIe thunderbolt expansion unit to my MBP running Fedora 20. It is my > impression it will not

Re: Acrobat fonts compared to Evince fonts

2014-05-14 Thread Alan Evans
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ >> > > Nice, but that means you have to do the build yourself. Is this in any > additional repos for Fedora? > > > As I understand it, licensing of the fonts prevents distribution that way. But I did

Re: CPUFREQ on a Thinkpad Yoga i7 in a new Fedora 20 install

2014-05-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
What is the danger of messing with cpufreq? Alan On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > > On May 8, 2014 9:27 PM, "Alan E. Davis" wrote: > > > > I had a good experience, almost perfect, with Fedora some months ago, > staring with the Beta

Re: CPUFREQ on a Thinkpad Yoga i7 in a new Fedora 20 install

2014-05-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
The biggest question for me is this: is it a kernel issue that I am only seeing two governors, when other OSs see 4? Alan On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > > On May 8, 2014 9:27 PM, "Alan E. Davis" wrote: > > > > I had a good experience, almo

CPUFREQ on a Thinkpad Yoga i7 in a new Fedora 20 install

2014-05-08 Thread Alan E. Davis
does not function. Thank you, Alan Davis -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.or

Re: What happened to my printer!?!

2013-10-10 Thread Alan Evans
gt; > On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 14:13 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: > >> Is there any way to figure out why the current printer is offline, > >> beyond "Unable to connect"? Not being able to print is really messing > >> with my workflow. > > > > Enable debug

Re: What happened to my printer!?!

2013-09-09 Thread Alan Evans
een no change to the print-spooler's configuration. As for the firewall, it is disabled on this machine. For fun, I just issued a "setenforce 0" and tried resuming the printer. No change in status. So it is something of a mystery to me why I can't even browse for network print

What happened to my printer!?!

2013-09-09 Thread Alan Evans
connect"? Not being able to print is really messing with my workflow. -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproj

RE: Turning off SELINUX

2013-09-06 Thread Alan Gagne
ocess needs to be terminated. :-) Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: No sound for really old program

2013-08-21 Thread Alan Evans
st letting my kid play some old games. Thanks for the help! -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guid

No sound for really old program

2013-08-14 Thread Alan Evans
audio hooks to programs running on modern systems? -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fe

RE: VirtualBox wont run -

2013-07-31 Thread Alan Gagne
xdrv" VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.8_83876_fedora18-1.x86_64 : Oracle VM VirtualBox Repo: virtualbox Matched from: Filename: /etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxdrv Filename: /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chan

RE: VirtualBox wont run -

2013-07-30 Thread Alan Gagne
Description : A general-purpose full virtualizer and emulator for 32-bit and : 64-bit x86 based PC-compatible machines. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fe

RE: VirtualBox wont run -

2013-07-30 Thread Alan Gagne
ackage (not available on openSUSE) to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (/vboxdrv/,/vboxnetflt/and/vboxnetadp/) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next kernel update. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Partition fuckup

2013-07-26 Thread Alan Findly
On 7/26/2013 2:40 AM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: On Friday 26 July 2013 17.47.16 David Beveridge wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: I want them the other way round really. What would be the best way of trying to achieve this? You can do it with Logical Volume

RE: F19 raid 1 stuck read only after reboot

2013-07-22 Thread Alan Gagne
Alan Gagne https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users>> writes: >>/ >>/ />/ Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead..com kernel: device-mapper: table: />>/ />>/ />/ 253:4: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed />>/ />>/ />/

RE: F19 raid 1 stuck read only after reboot

2013-07-20 Thread Alan Gagne
aused it, someone else said removing a />>/ package that provides dmraid fixed it for them ... />/ Yea, I have been looking at those. I was hoping that between here and />/ filing a bug />/ I would get the best answer. / The dmraid package seems to be installed by default. I'd

RE: F19 raid 1 stuck read only after reboot

2013-07-19 Thread Alan Gagne
mraid fixed it for them ... Yea, I have been looking at those. I was hoping that between here and filing a bug I would get the best answer. Thanks Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.

RE: F19 raid 1 stuck read only after reboot

2013-07-19 Thread Alan Gagne
could be relevant? Since you're using the on-board fakeraid, I'm not sure what you would see and if you'd see anything at all. Maybe the BIOS tells you or has an option to test the disks for failures. These are the only messages that seem relevant from journalctl -xb Jul 1

RE: F19 raid 1 stuck read only after reboot

2013-07-19 Thread Alan Gagne
he jist of this post. F19 fails to detect something needed for the array to work properly. Rewriting the partition table just gets things working again. How do you know when any of the physical disks go bad? Hopefully smart will pick-up id there is a disk problem. So far it reports no errors fo

RE: F19 raid 1 stuck read only after reboot

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Gagne
already to make sure there was not any differences. Is md124 a RAID-1 on top of a RAID-0? Two separate arrays. Thanks Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Gu

RE: F19 raid 1 stuck read only after reboot

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Gagne
On Jul 18 11:45, Alan Gagne wrote: >/ Having an odd problem with my raid 1 array after upgrade to F19. />/ Upgraded using fedup from 18 to 19. Did not have any problems />/ with the upgrade itself but since my raid 1 array is stuck read only after />/ each reboot. />/ />

F19 raid 1 stuck read only after reboot

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Gagne
Having an odd problem with my raid 1 array after upgrade to F19. Upgraded using fedup from 18 to 19. Did not have any problems with the upgrade itself but since my raid 1 array is stuck read only after each reboot. This is a bios intel raid set-up I have been using for a little over three years.

RE: fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

2013-06-18 Thread Alan Gagne
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 16:18:14 Alan Gagne wrote: >/ Try to use xinput for both mouse and touchpad. />/ />/xinput list />/ # xinput list_props "$device_name_or_number" />/ xinput list-props 10 />/ Turn on three button emulation. />/ xinput set-prop 10 &q

RE: fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

2013-06-18 Thread Alan Gagne
middle-button-enabled true />/ />/ Alan / Thanks for this Alan, do you know what the KDE equiv of this? Sorry for the dumb question but I've already googled for things like this. Also, I've run the Scientific Linux Live DVD and my touchpad works fine. It's a drastic solution swapp

RE: fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

2013-06-18 Thread Alan Gagne
n this on. gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse middle-button-enabled true Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Maili

RE:Fedora 18

2013-05-30 Thread Alan Gagne
. Is there somewhere to set these default please I have looked in .config/geany /nautilus /nemo and .local with no luck. Try right click on the file you want to open with geany in nautilus. Go to properties then open with tab. Add your preferred app as the default. Alan -- users mailing

RE: F17 losing settings

2013-05-28 Thread Alan Gagne
-hidden-files true [agagne@dw-agagne ~]$ gsettings get org.gnome.nautilus.preferences show-hidden-files true Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Device Drivers in Fedora 18

2013-05-18 Thread Alan Findly
Dear users, I am on the verge of a rather thorough hardware upgrade, ie. motherboard/cpu, and in addition want to migrate from XP 32 to Fedora 18 64. So, now it occurs to me that all the drivers from Windoze will be gone--are there drivers in the Fedora CD package, or will I have to hunt th

Re: Howto configure KDE to always open new windows?

2013-05-07 Thread Alan Evans
x27;t be changed. In this case, the fix for opening editor files from Dolphin is an 80% solution for me, so I'm going to take that and be happy. Thanks again. -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

Re: Howto configure KDE to always open new windows?

2013-05-03 Thread Alan Evans
Tim wrote: > Perhaps redefining the complaint: You want the window to open in the > same screen as where the mouse currently is. > > If so, perhaps there's an option available along those lines. > Perhaps. But I'm not really bothered by the existing behavior when KDE is opening a new window. Th

Howto configure KDE to always open new windows?

2013-05-02 Thread Alan Evans
y to make files opened in Dolphin always appear in a new window. -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a

Re: "hackers"

2013-04-30 Thread Alan Evans
Richard Vickery wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> Richard Vickery wrote: >> > I have no clue what the term "I've been hacked" means. >> >> Then you'd have to be about the only one working with computers who >> cannot comprehend what the person meant when they wrote that: some form >> of unauthorised alter

Re: "hackers"

2013-04-24 Thread Alan Evans
Richard Vickery wrote: > [blah, blah, "hacker" has an unfair negative connotation, blah blah] > ... we could call them idiots, just as bad as Fox Do you see what you just did there? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fe

RE:Disability relief

2013-04-08 Thread Alan Gagne
se locate-pointer true Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

RE:Disability relief

2013-04-08 Thread Alan Gagne
mouse pointer in gnome 3 it comes with gnome tweak tool. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question

RE:getting back from a black screen

2013-04-08 Thread Alan Gagne
Kernel driver in use: nouveau Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

RE:presto

2013-04-08 Thread Alan Gagne
NoGo : yum-presto has been obsoleted. Don't know what to tell you. I have two F18 boxes that are both using the presto plugin for yum. Linux dw-agagne 3.8.5-201.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 28 21:01:19 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Alan -- users mailing list

RE:presto

2013-04-08 Thread Alan Gagne
yum-presto will download the deltarpm : for foo-1.0 => 1.1 rather than the full foo-1.1 rpm, and then build the full : foo-1.1 package from your installed foo-1.0 and the downloaded deltarpm. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

2013-03-21 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 21.03.2013 01:37, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > > Reindl Harald wrote: > >> well, and that is why i started with "unpack a existing src.rpm" > >> and look at the SPEC file which is cleraly doable for packages > >> which are only a few KB smal

RE: Transferring files to/from Android phone

2013-03-19 Thread Alan Gagne
This topic has been discussed several times before. With the recent update to KDE 4.10.1, Fedora (KDE) seems to be able to do this: Now, from Dolphin I can browse my phone as an "MTP-device", the internal memory as well as the SD-card. Works as well on Gnome Desktop. Alan -- use

Re: About that installer...

2013-03-11 Thread Alan Evans
pretty sad when the options become: 1. Accept the defaults. or 2. Roll your own from scratch. -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/

RE: Fedora 18 - from minimal to desktop system

2013-03-07 Thread Alan Gagne
x27;t find the right package name. Try yum grouplist to see the packaged groups. I think you want to install GNOME Desktop. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidel

Re: Fedora Live CD Spins - Are They Safe?

2013-01-24 Thread Alan Cox
- updating always has a tiny risk. Updating can albeit very rarely leave a machine in a state that needs a reinstall again - yes. Always make a backup. Thing like a power outage mid upgrade can be messy and hard to clean up. That really goes for any OS major upgrade. Alan -- users mailing

Re: KMail trash folder?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan Evans
worked! Notably, it must be "trash" and not "Trash". And I also missed that I had to exit and restart the application. I absolutely do not understand why all that was necessary. This belongs in the UI Hall of Shame. -Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: f18: nautilus: how to re-enable tree view in "view item as a list" and some other function.

2013-01-23 Thread Alan Cox
t of people who had enough with the continuous removal of important features did something about it. It's trying to build a Gnome 3 without the religious mania for feature removal. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: f18: nautilus: how to re-enable tree view in "view item as a list" and some other function.

2013-01-22 Thread Alan Cox
he function menu is gone (to top left, yes, but not when the focus is > on the other windows)... > > The button "up to the previous folder" (cd ..) is gone... > > How to re-enable this useful function/feature, like previous version > (nautilus 3.4) or Caja do ? Run

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alan Cox
success with Ubuntu than anything else - it just works, it's got Ubuntu One file back up services and it's got a community pitched at the "user" level. From a technical perspective there is plenty not to like about some areas of Ubuntu, and it lags Fedora on features and the li

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alan Cox
.html Similar to my experience - when it works its unusuably bad, but its quite capable of leaving you needing to reinstall an old release from scratch Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/

Re: Updating from Fedora 17 to Fedora 8 using FedUp and grub2

2013-01-20 Thread Alan Cox
You can also upgrade using yum... which right now appears the only tested way to do it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-20 Thread Alan Cox
Lots of routers don't broadcast and whoever is installing it may not control that. It's broken, just as not showing which disk is which is broken. Its a new installer, crap happens, but pretending its not a bug isn't remotely useful. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

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