Re: Cannot recompile grub - checking whether the C compiler works... no

2011-07-04 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:41:41PM +0200, Joshua C. wrote: > 2011/6/12 Joshua C. : > > As the subject says I cannot recompile grub. Everytime I get "checking > > whether the C compiler works... no". I explicitely installed all > > packages from > > http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/grub/0

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 7/4/2011 9:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > You may be thinking of the r* commands (rcp, rsh, ...) but I can't be > bothered looking up the details. They are frowned on nowadays in any > case. > > poc > Maybe as that was "convention" back then ... its all s* commands now and I suppose that

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 21:20 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 7/4/2011 9:06 PM, Tim wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 22:34 +, g wrote: > >> if you are a user on multi systems on multi machines and you wish to > >> log into other machines, user name, id's, _and_ password need to be > >> same.

Re: Strange symbolic link behaviour?

2011-07-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 13:59 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > ls is behaving correctly. Bash is presenting a ridiculous fiction to > you via its "pwd" builtin, which lies. Try doing your test above > again, and wherever you type "pwd", also run "/bin/pwd" immediately > afterwards. Observe the differe

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 7/4/2011 9:06 PM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 22:34 +, g wrote: >> if you are a user on multi systems on multi machines and you wish to >> log into other machines, user name, id's, _and_ password need to be >> same. > Um, no, generally the passwords don't need to be the same. You jus

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 22:34 +, g wrote: > if you are a user on multi systems on multi machines and you wish to > log into other machines, user name, id's, _and_ password need to be > same. Um, no, generally the passwords don't need to be the same. You just need to be able to log in. -- [tim

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-04 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 12:52 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > might I suggest trying Google Public DNS servers? 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 > are the IP addresses. My ISP apparently runs some sort of filtering > and occasionally I have problems with their DNS, so I switched to > Google and that pretty much reso

Re: Strange symbolic link behaviour?

2011-07-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 04Jul2011 23:18, Eric B. wrote: | I'm running FC14 and running into a strange situation with symbolic | links that I have never seen or noticed before. | | | If I create the following symbolic link: | [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ pwd | /home/eric | [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ls Mail | draft inbox queue

Strange symbolic link behaviour?

2011-07-04 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm running FC14 and running into a strange situation with symbolic links that I have never seen or noticed before. If I create the following symbolic link: [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ pwd /home/eric [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ls Mail draft inbox queue sent trash [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ln -s Mail/in

Re: Where will be the next FUDCon ?

2011-07-04 Thread Marcos Ortiz
Good, thanks a lot, John On 07/04/2011 09:46 PM, inode0 wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Marcos Ortiz wrote: >> Regards and thanks a lot reading >> I'm very happy with Fedora after 4 years like a normal user >> and I think it's time to contribute to the project. So, I'm very >> interested

Re: Where will be the next FUDCon ?

2011-07-04 Thread inode0
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Marcos Ortiz wrote: > Regards and thanks a lot reading > I'm very happy with Fedora after 4 years like a normal user > and I think it's time to contribute to the project. So, I'm very > interested to participate on the next FUDCon. > > I've seen that the last one in

Re: Where will be the next FUDCon ?

2011-07-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/05/2011 08:31 AM, Marcos Ortiz wrote: > Regards and thanks a lot reading > I'm very happy with Fedora after 4 years like a normal user > and I think it's time to contribute to the project. So, I'm very > interested to participate on the next FUDCon. > > I've seen that the last one in Panamá,

Re: F15: two keys from keyboard not recognized on Acer TM6465 laptop

2011-07-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Patrick Lists wrote: > Does anyone have an idea how I can make these keys work? There used to be something about atkbd messages in /var/log/messages, but I believe that is only for the old PS/2 keyboards and not USB keyboards. I don't know what built-in laptop keyboards are classed as. Keep us

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 18:56 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote: > > nameserver 1.2 3.4 > > > > then try: > > > > $ dig @1.2.3.4 mit.edu > > > > Do the same on your other machines. Are they all using the same > > nameserver? > > > > poc > > > Yes i mean my router's ip. > > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > # Generate

Where will be the next FUDCon ?

2011-07-04 Thread Marcos Ortiz
Regards and thanks a lot reading I'm very happy with Fedora after 4 years like a normal user and I think it's time to contribute to the project. So, I'm very interested to participate on the next FUDCon. I've seen that the last one in Panamá, was a completed success, so I want to be part of this a

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 7/4/2011 3:34 PM, g wrote: > On 07/04/2011 09:09 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > <> > >> The issue of 500 vs 1000 was the new bit I learned from this >> thread and need to add to the process. > another to add, if you are a user on multi systems on multi machines and > you wish to log into other m

Re: Cannot recompile grub - checking whether the C compiler works... no

2011-07-04 Thread Brendan Jones
On 05/07/11 08:03, Joshua C. wrote: > 2011/7/4 Brendan Jones: >> On 07/05/2011 07:41 AM, Joshua C. wrote: >>> 2011/6/12 Joshua C.: As the subject says I cannot recompile grub. Everytime I get "checking whether the C compiler works... no". I explicitely installed all packages from >>

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread g
On 07/04/2011 09:35 AM, Tim wrote: <> > If you're going to change defaults, for where user IDs start from. You > want to move Fedora's up to start at 1000, not Debian's down to start > from 500. > Because each distro considers user IDs below their threshold > to be system/application IDs, and tr

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread g
On 07/04/2011 09:09 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: <> > The issue of 500 vs 1000 was the new bit I learned from this > thread and need to add to the process. another to add, if you are a user on multi systems on multi machines and you wish to log into other machines, user name, id's, _and_ password

Re: Cannot recompile grub - checking whether the C compiler works... no

2011-07-04 Thread Joshua C.
2011/7/4 Brendan Jones : > On 07/05/2011 07:41 AM, Joshua C. wrote: >> 2011/6/12 Joshua C.: >>> As the subject says I cannot recompile grub. Everytime I get "checking >>> whether the C compiler works... no". I explicitely installed all >>> packages from >>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packag

Re: F15-64 update process out of sync

2011-07-04 Thread Elliott Chapin
On 07/03/2011 10:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 20:44 -0400, Elliott Chapin wrote: >> Use of update repo's causes general update process to stall because some >> packages depend on rawhide. This situation needs to be fixed. > > For example? > > poc > I'll put one up next

Re: Cannot recompile grub - checking whether the C compiler works... no

2011-07-04 Thread Brendan Jones
On 07/05/2011 07:41 AM, Joshua C. wrote: > 2011/6/12 Joshua C.: >> As the subject says I cannot recompile grub. Everytime I get "checking >> whether the C compiler works... no". I explicitely installed all >> packages from >> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/grub/0.97/74.fc15/data/logs/x

Re: F15 fails to suspend/hibernate on Thinkpad W510+

2011-07-04 Thread patrick korsnick
I experience this behavior on a T61 so I don't think it's a Sandy Bridge problem. I've experienced it since F14. I also use a docking station and external display and remember back when I was running F14 I found a bug report somewhere confirming that (at least on F14) it was related to the external

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/04/2011 11:56 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > But there's still the issue of Fedora using the preferred UTC time for the > system clock and Debian-like systems using local. Debian changes the clock on > you. That is a major peeve of mine. When you reboot Fedora, the clock is now > local,

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 21:48 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > Something is really wrong. Using the standard Fedora 15 DVD there is no > > option "Install new system". Check the Fedora 15 Installation Guide and > > you will see that this is tru

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/04/2011 11:48 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > Thanks Ed - I am really puzzled - is there any way that installing in > a VM is possibly different to a bare metal install? I mean if the VM > set up bridging to the host machine's network then it presumably > thinks there is a network available even

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/05/2011 12:15 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 07/04/2011 12:09 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > >> At what point does it ask about NTP - I thought that came later in the >> install process? If you select a timezone but leave the default utc >> flag unset then this system does hit the network request

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 7/4/2011 2:26 AM, Tim wrote: > > If you simply mean being able to understand how each system works, then > fine. But if you mean that you're going to share discs, or other > storage devices, or NFS mounts, between different people's computers. > You're going to have to manually work out, betwee

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 21:51 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:48 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Aaron Konstam > > wrote: > > > >> Something is really wrong. Using the standard Fedora 15 DVD there is no > >> option "Install new system". Check the F

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:48 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> Something is really wrong. Using the standard Fedora 15 DVD there is no >> option "Install new system". Check the Fedora 15 Installation Guide and >> you will see that this is true. You

Re: Buttonless Touchpads

2011-07-04 Thread Adalbert Prokop
Am 03.07.2011 20:48, schrieb Chris Tyler: > Questions: > - Is there a better driver (or group of settings) available? > - Is there any way to generate left- and middle-clicks on this type of > touchpad at this point in time? Difficult to say for sure. You may have luck with the synaptics driver.

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Something is really wrong. Using the standard Fedora 15 DVD there is no > option "Install new system". Check the Fedora 15 Installation Guide and > you will see that this is true. Your DVD is not the standard one so who > knows what the insta

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 21:14 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > That is not an installer bug. If you have a network connection and have > > defined repos the installer updates the rpms during the install process. > > So after the install complet

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > That is not an installer bug. If you have a network connection and have > defined repos the installer updates the rpms during the install process. > So after the install completes your system is completely updated, so > running :yum updates

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > That is not an installer bug. If you have a network connection and have > defined repos the installer updates the rpms during the install process. > So after the install completes your system is completely updated, so > running :yum updates >

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 20:52 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > The original request for a network connection should not have to be > > done. The real problem arises when you are trying to installer the > > repos. Without a network active you ca

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > The original request for a network connection should not have to be > done. The real problem arises when you are trying to installer the > repos. Without a network active you cannot install the repo references. > But the rpms on the disk shou

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 14:29 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 14:13 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > >> I have been installing f15 on several machines without any issue - but > >> today I was asked to help someone instal

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/04/2011 06:29 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> (reason is that I was trying to install ahead of the network >> people amending the local LAN database to include the NIC MAC in the >> next few days - so until that is done there will be no network ac

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:44 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 07/04/2011 06:29 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> (reason is that I was trying to install ahead of the network >>> people amending the local LAN database to include the NIC MAC in the >>> next f

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/04/2011 06:29 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > (reason is that I was trying to install ahead of the network > people amending the local LAN database to include the NIC MAC in the > next few days - so until that is done there will be no network access > or IP address assigned from DHCP - but getting

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 07/04/2011 12:09 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > >> >> At what point does it ask about NTP - I thought that came later in the >> install process? If you select a timezone but leave the default utc >> flag unset then this system does hit the net

Re: tftp from home dir running under xinetd

2011-07-04 Thread Marcos Ortiz Valmaseda
For that reason, you have to see the avc denials; where you can check which is the process and system calls that are been denied (xinetd or tftpd) Which is the SELinux policy version in your machine? Regards - Mensaje original - De: "Gene Smith" Para: users@lists.fedoraproject.org CC: se

Re: tftp from home dir running under xinetd

2011-07-04 Thread Gene Smith
Marcos Ortiz Valmaseda wrote, On 07/04/2011 01:44 PM: > We need the /varlog/messages or the /var/log/audit/audit.log to see what > happens on the system. > > CC to selinux list too > > Try to do this: > 1- setenforce 0 to change to "permissive" mode > > 2- stop tftpd daemon: > # service tftpd

Re: tftp from home dir running under xinetd

2011-07-04 Thread Marcos Ortiz Valmaseda
We need the /varlog/messages or the /var/log/audit/audit.log to see what happens on the system. CC to selinux list too Try to do this: 1- setenforce 0 to change to "permissive" mode 2- stop tftpd daemon: # service tftpd stop 3- unload any rules that silently deny access # semodule -DB

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-04 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 06:59:34PM +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote: > Le 04/07/2011 18:56, Eric Tanguy a écrit : > > Le 04/07/2011 16:29, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit : > >> On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 16:26 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote: > >>> Since few days now i have a name resolution problem. For example when i >

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-04 Thread Eric Tanguy
Le 04/07/2011 18:56, Eric Tanguy a écrit : > Le 04/07/2011 16:29, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit : >> On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 16:26 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote: >>> Since few days now i have a name resolution problem. For example when i >>> entrer a new address in firefox it returns that the name can't be

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-04 Thread Eric Tanguy
Le 04/07/2011 16:29, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit : > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 16:26 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote: >> Since few days now i have a name resolution problem. For example when i >> entrer a new address in firefox it returns that the name can't be >> resolved. Reloading the page and firefox disp

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon July 4 2011, Eric Tanguy wrote: > Since few days now i have a name resolution problem. For example when i > entrer a new address in firefox it returns that the name can't be > resolved. Reloading the page and firefox display fine the page. I have > the same problem from thunderbird or cli us

Re: F15 intermittent kernel dump with skge network driver for D-Link DGE-530T card

2011-07-04 Thread Deron Meranda
Problem still not solved. More details, # lspci -v -s 03:06 03:06.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 11) (rev 11) Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 11) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64

RE: GRUB problem

2011-07-04 Thread Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA
Petrus, Thanks for your help, but the solution from Antonio worked well. It seems like there is really a bug with GRUB and recent versions of Debian-based Clonezilla. Sincerely, Bruno Martins Assistente Técnico / Technical Assistant GALILEU Lisboa bmart...@galileu.pt (+351) 21361 (+351) 9

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/04/2011 12:09 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > At what point does it ask about NTP - I thought that came later in the > install process? If you select a timezone but leave the default utc > flag unset then this system does hit the network request issue - I > checked three times to make sure I wa

Re: tftp from home dir running under xinetd

2011-07-04 Thread Gene Smith
Marcos Ortiz wrote, On 07/04/2011 02:02 AM: > Can you show here the error in the log? > Do you have SELinux enabled in enforcing mode? > Try to do this: getsetbool -a | grep tftpd to see all boolean related to > this service. > > Regards $ getsebool -a | grep tftp tftp_anon_write --> off I have s

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 July 2011 22:46, JD wrote: > On 07/03/2011 02:26 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: >> JD wrote: >> Machine one..johan 1000:1000 Machine two ..johan 500:500 >> This is the problem I had with Debian and friends. >> >> Fedora starts users at 500, while Debian&c uses 1000. So, if you use

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > Maybe I should try again with the utc box ticked! (Though I still > can't see that it should ask about networking anyway) > This looks related too - maybe it was not fully resolved? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689018 -- mike

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> When I rebooted I made sure not to request NTP as an option.  Also, I >> picked "Advanced" when creating the first user an picked UID/GID=1000. > > Great stuff! At what point does it ask about NTP - I thought tha

RE: GRUB problem

2011-07-04 Thread Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA
I'm gonna try that, mate. Thanks for your response. Best regards, Bruno Martins Assistente Técnico / Technical Assistant GALILEU Lisboa bmart...@galileu.pt (+351) 21361 (+351) 933612205   Formação / Training Açores | Algarve | Aveiro | Beja | Braga | Leiria | Lisboa | Porto Educação

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Ed Greshko wrote: > When I rebooted I made sure not to request NTP as an option. Also, I > picked "Advanced" when creating the first user an picked UID/GID=1000. Great stuff! > So, that answers another issue raised on this list earlier. :-) But there's still the issue of Fedora using the pref

Re: GRUB problem

2011-07-04 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA wrote: > I'm having problems with booting Fedora 14 X64 after I clone the hard disk > with Clonezilla. > > Disk imaging goes nices until it reaches the end, when it tries to > reinstall GRUB on the target hard disk. It hangs, but I can boot that disk > one time. Onc

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/04/2011 10:40 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> Nope - no additional repos defined. >> >> Can anyone else tell me if they have been able to install f15 on a >> machine with no network connection - i.e. pull out the ethernet plug >> and have

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/04/2011 11:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > It is currently in the installing packages phase. Have I gotten past > the point you've talked about? FWIW, the install is finished. When I rebooted I made sure not to request NTP as an option. Also, I picked "Advanced" when creating the first user a

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/04/2011 10:40 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > Nope - no additional repos defined. > > Can anyone else tell me if they have been able to install f15 on a > machine with no network connection - i.e. pull out the ethernet plug > and have no wireless and tell me if you can install f15 from a DVD.

Re: GRUB problem

2011-07-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Mon, 7/4/11, Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA wrote: From: Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA Subject: GRUB problem To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Monday, July 4, 2011, 4:22 AM Hello everyone,   I’m having problems with booting Fedora 14 X64 after I clone the hard disk

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-04 Thread Marcos Ortiz
Regards, Eric Are you using a proxy for Internet connection? Because, this kind of issues I've seen on it. 1- I think that you have to check your /etc/resolv.conf which are the entries that you have there. 2- The second advice that I give you is to analyze your network connection (rates, bandw

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > On Monday, July 04, 2011, mike cloaked wrote: > >> Ahh!  It was from a physical DVD - with the DVD install iso - > >> nothing fancy - just a straightforward install as I have been > >> doing since FC1 days - this is the first time I have come >

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Claude Jones
On Monday, July 04, 2011, mike cloaked wrote: > Ahh! It was from a physical DVD - with the DVD install iso - > nothing fancy - just a straightforward install as I have been > doing since FC1 days - this is the first time I have come > across any problem doing a standalone clean install from a DVD

Re: Name resolution

2011-07-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 16:26 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote: > Since few days now i have a name resolution problem. For example when i > entrer a new address in firefox it returns that the name can't be > resolved. Reloading the page and firefox display fine the page. I have > the same problem from thu

Name resolution

2011-07-04 Thread Eric Tanguy
Since few days now i have a name resolution problem. For example when i entrer a new address in firefox it returns that the name can't be resolved. Reloading the page and firefox display fine the page. I have the same problem from thunderbird or cli using yum. The network is up using network man

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 14:13 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> I have been installing f15 on several machines without any issue - but >> today I was asked to help someone install f15 on a machine which >> currently does not have a network con

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 14:13 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > I have been installing f15 on several machines without any issue - but > today I was asked to help someone install f15 on a machine which > currently does not have a network connection (all previous installs > were on machines with an active

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 02:55 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:59 PM, JD wrote: > > > > How about just modifying the user's uid gid (while su'ed to root): > > You won't be able to change a user's UID while that user's logged in. Yes you will, except that since his running processes

Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-04 Thread mike cloaked
I have been installing f15 on several machines without any issue - but today I was asked to help someone install f15 on a machine which currently does not have a network connection (all previous installs were on machines with an active network connection). I may be a complete idiot but I could not

Re: HD permissions stay put (SOLVED)

2011-07-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 July 2011 08:45, Johan Scheepers wrote: > On 03/07/2011 20:25, JD wrote: >> On 07/03/2011 11:09 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote: >>> On 03/07/2011 20:01, JD wrote: On 07/03/2011 10:55 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Johan Scheepers wrote: A bit late replying, but some things others may

GRUB problem

2011-07-04 Thread Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA
Hello everyone, I'm having problems with booting Fedora 14 X64 after I clone the hard disk with Clonezilla. Disk imaging goes nices until it reaches the end, when it tries to reinstall GRUB on the target hard disk. It hangs, but I can boot that disk one time. Once the machine is restarted, I

Re: F15: two keys from keyboard not recognized on Acer TM6465 laptop

2011-07-04 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/04/2011 10:10 AM, Marcos Ortiz wrote: > > > On 07/04/2011 03:01 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On my Acer TravelMate 6465WLMi laptop I have F15 x86_64 installed and >> updated. On the laptop there are two keys that don't do anything: one >> with the $ sign and another with the Euro sig

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Tim
Petrus de Calguarium: >> It was a real mess! And the problem with Debian systems is that I could not >> find a way to get users to start at 500, so as to be the same as Fedora. g: > check for file '/etc/login.defs'. > > if not present as 'login.defs', you might find it in '/etc' by running; > >

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 21:42 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Friends run different Linuxes (is that the right plural?) and I'd > prefer to have a pid/gid that is valid on both. Never bumped into > issue before but my needs for Linux are changing and this might be an > issue in the future, so I wan

Re: HD permissions stay put

2011-07-04 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 13:33 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote: > Creating that first user throught the firstboot dialogue isn't > required, it is just a nice way to get the ball rolling. A suggestion: For your first user, don't create *your* user account, set up a test user to play with. Set up your account, s

Re: Laptop processor.

2011-07-04 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On 07/04/2011 07:52 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > On 07/03/2011 07:50 PM, Javier Perez wrote: >> USD $1,400s . You could practically purchase anything. >> >> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Johan Scheepers >> mailto:johans...@telkomsa.net>> wrote: >> >> On 03/07/2011 14:58, Christopher Sva

Re: Laptop Graphics

2011-07-04 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:13:57 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/03/2011 10:46 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > > Johan Scheepers wrote: > > > >> Looking around to buy a new laptop. > > > > I like Intel. > > > > That's what I have on the laptop I'm using right now. It has the > advantage that you d

Re: [ubuntu-za] Laptop processor.

2011-07-04 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 03/07/2011 21:14, Wesley Werner wrote: > Good eve > > Find out what your options re graphics, get make and models, search on > the forums to see the success rates of those models. > > Nvidia provide drivers on their site (albeit still proprietary) and > just now I see AMD have some open source

Re: Laptop Graphics

2011-07-04 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 03/07/2011 19:46, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Johan Scheepers wrote: > >> Looking around to buy a new laptop. > I like Intel. > Thanks to all that responded. Will take my latest live cd's to the shop and try them out Johan S -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: HD permissions stay put (SOLVED)

2011-07-04 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 03/07/2011 20:25, JD wrote: > On 07/03/2011 11:09 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote: >> On 03/07/2011 20:01, JD wrote: >>> On 07/03/2011 10:55 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Johan Scheepers wrote: > I have a multiple boot internal drive (different linux > flavors)(excluding windows).

Re: F15: two keys from keyboard not recognized on Acer TM6465 laptop

2011-07-04 Thread Marcos Ortiz
On 07/04/2011 03:01 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: > Hi, > > On my Acer TravelMate 6465WLMi laptop I have F15 x86_64 installed and > updated. On the laptop there are two keys that don't do anything: one > with the $ sign and another with the Euro sign (note: these are not the > "4" key which has the "$

F15: two keys from keyboard not recognized on Acer TM6465 laptop

2011-07-04 Thread Patrick Lists
Hi, On my Acer TravelMate 6465WLMi laptop I have F15 x86_64 installed and updated. On the laptop there are two keys that don't do anything: one with the $ sign and another with the Euro sign (note: these are not the "4" key which has the "$" above the "4" or the "5"" key which has the Euro sig