Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/26/2011 10:22 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/27/2011 12:24 PM, Tim wrote: >> To be pedantic, that's a complete misconception about what "formatting" >> means... > > The other utterly funny thing is the very last paragraph. > > "Once the drive has been formatted, the files on it will have been

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread charles zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall  be the whole  of the Law. On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 18:55, Alan Cox wrote: >> No another meaningless option that wouldn't actually do anything. >> >> If you want to blank a drive into a new file system format you j

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/27/2011 12:24 PM, Tim wrote: > To be pedantic, that's a complete misconception about what "formatting" > means... The other utterly funny thing is the very last paragraph. "Once the drive has been formatted, the files on it will have been completely removed, so you can't get them back. It i

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 20:07 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Hey, look here > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/disk-format.html.en > > "If you have a removable disk like a USB memory stick or an external > hard disk, you may wish to completely remove all of the files you have > on

Re: telnet on local LAN question (progress?)

2011-08-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:49 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 23:33 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > I went back through archives of my installs and found a sufficiently > > different factory-install of /etc/hosts that I wanted to post it for > > comment given your "bad idea to bodge (si

Re: can not remove from list

2011-08-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/26/2011 07:14 PM, William Biggs wrote: > can you please remove me from this list > > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or > change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users ^^

can not remove from list

2011-08-26 Thread William Biggs
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Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-26 Thread panicloop
Run your machine with the rescue mode. And check the contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf which is mounted under /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/grub.conf In my case, when F15 upgrade was done, F15 didn't startup and I found that the contents of grub.conf was broken. So I commented out the lines of upgraded k

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 18:55, Alan Cox wrote: > No another meaningless option that wouldn't actually do anything. > > If you want to blank a drive into a new file system format you just need > to be sure to clean up any confusing superblocks and get the type right. > For the same fs you will hit

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Alan Cox
> No, the tool may be harder to find, but the need for it still exists. Most drivers cannot be 'reformatted' in the sense of putting back down address marks. They simply don't work like that any more. > You've obviously never had to reformat an IDE disk drive when power was > inexplicably lost du

Re: configuring bridge with wlan0 on libvirt (KVM) (RHEL6)

2011-08-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kernel Guardian writes: Put into ifcfg-wlan0 : # bridged interface for wlan0 BRIDGE=br1 ifcfg-br1 : DEVICE=br1 TYPE=Bridge ONBOOT=yes ... the rest of config is standard. after restart network service or whole system, you can use br1 as interface in KVM guest What confidence level exists th

Re: kadischi post failed -- Reposted here -- iptables always started no matter what

2011-08-26 Thread j.e.aneiros
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: > Please tolerate this post intended for the livecd-creator list. They > are bouncing me now days. Maybe its time I changed deodorant? I dunno ... > > I am desperate! > > --- > > livecd-tools-15.7-1.fc15.x86_64 > > Kickstarts all contain: > >

kadischi post failed -- Reposted here -- iptables always started no matter what

2011-08-26 Thread Phil Meyer
Please tolerate this post intended for the livecd-creator list. They are bouncing me now days. Maybe its time I changed deodorant? I dunno ... I am desperate! --- livecd-tools-15.7-1.fc15.x86_64 Kickstarts all contain: firewall --disabled selinux --disabled I even went as far as this: %p

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 17:08, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> I'm not 100% sure now, but I believe even 1992's IBM OS/2 2.0 featured >> a "format" option on any drive object's pop-up menu > > Yes, another piece of software that was afraid to do something too > different from Windows Oh, give me

Re: F15: Where is the Rescue-Mode

2011-08-26 Thread Reindl Harald
> "Use the old style: when the system boots" jokingly when nothing boots :-) anyways, solved - it was a bad grub-version from updates-testing i booted after print out the "grub.conf" and typing the whole stuff with all UIDs in the GRUB-shell from the DVD, jesus this Id's are long Am 26.08.2011

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/26/2011 01:26 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 14:05, Kevin J. Cummings > wrote: >> A pen drive does not need a low level format > > A pen drive is a "mass storage device" per USB specs. It doesn't > matter if the data is then stored magnetically on a spinning disk, on >

Re: F15: Where is the Rescue-Mode

2011-08-26 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Use the old style: when the system boots, choose to edit the grub parameters, and delete just the rhgb and the quiet option and replace with an single 1 and hit enter. That boots into single user mode with full root access. HTH, Zoltan 2011/8/25 Reindl Harald : > > > Am 25.08.2011 20:43, schrieb

Re: F14 locks up during graphical login into KDE

2011-08-26 Thread linux guy
Any progress on this issue ? I'm hoping that an update will appear that fixes the problem. Am I dreaming ? My next step would be to install an older kernel and roll back the kmod-nvidia. Is it worth doing ? I deleted all but the most recent kernel to prepare for an update to F15. -- users ma

Re: F15: Where is the Rescue-Mode

2011-08-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.08.2011 20:43, schrieb Andre Robatino: > Reindl Harald thelounge.net> writes: > >> Jesus where is the rescue mode gone in F15 >> booting from full x86_64-DVD offerns only install/update > > Install a new system or upgrade an existing system > Install system with basic video driver > Resc

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 15:16, Bryce Hardy wrote: > No, for one thing there are no desktop icons in Gnome 3, and > right-clicking its entry in the Nautilus sidebar only offers to open > or safely remove it. I should file a RFE then... FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Bryce Hardy
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > For the record, is there a Format option available in the current F15, > when you right-click on a removable storage device? Just curious... No, for one thing there are no desktop icons in Gnome 3, and right-clicking its entry in the Naut

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 14:05, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > A pen drive does not need a low level format A pen drive is a "mass storage device" per USB specs. It doesn't matter if the data is then stored magnetically on a spinning disk, on flash memory, or hammered in wood by a robotic arm. "low l

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/26/2011 12:49 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 13:31, Bryce Hardy wrote: >> As a workaround, use Gnome Disk Utility, (search yum for >> gnome-disk-utility if not already installed.) Hopefully it's available >> for F10, I wouldn't know for sure. Hope this helps. > > Thank

Re: [389-users] too many fds open

2011-08-26 Thread Paul Robert Marino
well her is the section from that file that talks about it # In order to make more file descriptors available # to the directory server, first make sure the system # hard limits are raised, then use ulimit - uncomment # out the following line and change the value to the # desired value # ulimit -n

Re: [389-users] too many fds open

2011-08-26 Thread cfr100
That is not enough. You have to update /etc/sysconfig/dirsrv Otherwise, the process will still only get 1024. On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > you need to edit /etc/security/limits.conf > add an entry for nofile the the default is 1024 the max is 65536 (1024 * > 64 )

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 13:31, Bryce Hardy wrote: > As a workaround, use Gnome Disk Utility, (search yum for > gnome-disk-utility if not already installed.) Hopefully it's available > for F10, I wouldn't know for sure. Hope this helps. Thanks Bryce! For the record, is there a Format option avail

Re: rar

2011-08-26 Thread William Biggs
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 11:29 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 08/26/2011 10:54 AM, William Biggs wrote: > > I install unrar . But when I try to use it I get an error on all rar > > files . is there a better one or what . I'm I doing wrong . I'm the > > program that is pre installed ? > > > It

Re: Can keys off the numpad be configured for different functions based on NumLock?

2011-08-26 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I would like to configure some keys to have dual functions, such as > hjkl for the arrows and sdf for cut/copy/paste. Can the alphanumeric > keys be configured for different functions based on NumLock on/off? > This is the xev output for the nu

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-08-26 Thread Bryce Hardy
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I know I can probaly just format it from Bash, but I'm curious of what > is the expected way to initiate a drive format from the Gnome GUI > > I'm using an ancient system with Fedora 10 here... uname -a >  2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.i686

Re: rar

2011-08-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/26/2011 10:54 AM, William Biggs wrote: > I install unrar . But when I try to use it I get an error on all rar > files . is there a better one or what . I'm I doing wrong . I'm the > program that is pre installed ? > It would help to see the comm

Re: Can keys off the numpad be configured for different functions based on NumLock?

2011-08-26 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/26, Dotan Cohen : > I would like to configure some keys to have dual functions, such as > hjkl for the arrows and sdf for cut/copy/paste. Can the alphanumeric > keys be configured for different functions based on NumLock on/off? If you mean the numeric keypad, then probably yes, but I have

Re: configuring bridge with wlan0 on libvirt (KVM) (RHEL6)

2011-08-26 Thread Kernel Guardian
Put into ifcfg-wlan0 : # bridged interface for wlan0 BRIDGE=br1 ifcfg-br1 : DEVICE=br1 TYPE=Bridge ONBOOT=yes ... the rest of config is standard. after restart network service or whole system, you can use br1 as interface in KVM guest On 26 August 2011 07:41, Jatin K wrote: > Dear All, > > I

Can keys off the numpad be configured for different functions based on NumLock?

2011-08-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
I would like to configure some keys to have dual functions, such as hjkl for the arrows and sdf for cut/copy/paste. Can the alphanumeric keys be configured for different functions based on NumLock on/off? This is the xev output for the numpad 1 button in both states: state 0x10, keycode 87 (ke

rar

2011-08-26 Thread William Biggs
I install unrar . But when I try to use it I get an error on all rar files . is there a better one or what . I'm I doing wrong . I'm the program that is pre installed ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

Re: configuring bridge with wlan0 on libvirt (KVM) (RHEL6)

2011-08-26 Thread Marcos Luis Ortiz Valmaseda
Look here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/kvm-wireless-bridge-network-691953/ http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Creating_an_RHEL_6_KVM_Virtual_Machine 2011/8/26 Jatin K > Dear All, > > I want to bridge a wireless LAN-card to use with KVM on my machine > (RHEL6) , luckily I'

Re: Install Fedora 15 on DELL Precision M6600 Laptop

2011-08-26 Thread Robert McCullough
On 8/26/2011 10:07 AM, Brian Millett wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 09:00 -0400, Robert McCullough wrote: >>> Here is the current config for my Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation >> M6600: >>> >>> Quantity Parts # Part Description >>> 1 4G9KX Technical Sheet, Information, 512E-HD, World

Re: [389-users] too many fds open

2011-08-26 Thread Paul Robert Marino
you need to edit /etc/security/limits.conf add an entry for nofile the the default is 1024 the max is 65536 (1024 * 64 ) here is an extreme example setting it to the max for all users " * hardnofile 65536 * soft nofile 65536 " after you have

Re: Install Fedora 15 on DELL Precision M6600 Laptop

2011-08-26 Thread Brian Millett
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 09:00 -0400, Robert McCullough wrote: > > Here is the current config for my Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation > M6600: > > > > > > Quantity Parts # Part Description > > 1 4G9KX Technical Sheet, Information, 512E-HD, World Wide > > 1 TDK7R Assembly, Heatsink, M

Re: Install Fedora 15 on DELL Precision M6600 Laptop

2011-08-26 Thread Robert McCullough
On 8/25/2011 10:02 AM, Robert McCullough wrote: > Michael Dinon gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Robert McCullough > promessinc.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> When I try to install Fedora 15 on my new DELL M6600 the install >> locks-up / freezes. >> Any Ideas? >> Is this new

Re: F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

2011-08-26 Thread linux guy
Nobody has any ideas ? Where do I go from here ? Thanks -- 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

Re: telnet on local LAN question (progress?)

2011-08-26 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 23:33 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > I went back through archives of my installs and found a sufficiently > different factory-install of /etc/hosts that I wanted to post it for > comment given your "bad idea to bodge (sic?) anything else into those > two lines. I checked 3