How to make temperature applet report in celsius

2011-11-21 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The KDE temperature panel widget on my system reports the temperatures in degrees F. I would prefer it to report in degrees C, since all the literature about max safe temperature, etc. gives values in degrees C. How can the thermometer scale be controlled? System is Fedora-16 running on an x86_64

Re: Having a large desktop. (Font, icon and application sizes)

2011-11-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/22/2011 01:00 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 21 November 2011 20:43:07 linux guy wrote: >> No replies to this ? Am I asking the question wrong ? All I want is >> everything on the desktop to be larger. > Decrease monitor resolution? > > The xrandr will tell you what resolutions are

Re: Having a large desktop. (Font, icon and application sizes)

2011-11-21 Thread Dean S. Messing
Marko Vojinovic wrote > On Monday 21 November 2011 20:43:07 linux guy wrote: > > No replies to this ? Am I asking the question wrong ? All I want is > > everything on the desktop to be larger. > > Decrease monitor resolution? > > The xrandr will tell you what resolutions are supported by your

Re: Having a large desktop. (Font, icon and application sizes)

2011-11-21 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 21 November 2011 20:43:07 linux guy wrote: > No replies to this ? Am I asking the question wrong ? All I want is > everything on the desktop to be larger. Decrease monitor resolution? The xrandr will tell you what resolutions are supported by your monitor. You can make a custom xorg

Re: Having a large desktop. (Font, icon and application sizes)

2011-11-21 Thread Rex Dieter
linux guy wrote: > I use my Dell Duo, running F16, as a car PC, where I want the fonts > icons and running applications to be LARGE so that I can see and > control them from a distance. > > In KDE, how do I adjust the size of the desktop so that this happens ? krandrtray, you can adjust resoluti

Re: Having a large desktop. (Font, icon and application sizes)

2011-11-21 Thread linux guy
No replies to this ? Am I asking the question wrong ? All I want is everything on the desktop to be larger. Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://

Re: BUG: VirtualBox does not start

2011-11-21 Thread David
On 11/21/2011 10:22 AM, Cristian Sava wrote: > You dont understand a simple thing: A BUG MUST DE FIXED not shiping > updates for a not working (usefull) package. > Do you think I do not know this simple way to have VirtualBox or a > simple gogle search is enough for you? Wow. Chill out friend. I

RE: TPM device not found

2011-11-21 Thread Arindam Choudhury
tpm_tis.interrupts=0 did not worked. > Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:28:27 +0100 > From: fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: TPM device not found > > On 11/21/2011 11:47 AM, Arindam Choudhury wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am unable to install Fedora on my lapt

Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-21 Thread Jim
Fedora 16 Printer has been working fine in Fedora 14, 15. F16 doesn't like it. I'am not getting any Selinux errors. Printer state: Idle - /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc failed /var/log/messages Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne kernel: [ 1582.570767] rastertosamsung[13644] general protectio

Anybody using lxdm or slim with xfce?

2011-11-21 Thread Konstantin Svist
I tried switching the default login manager (gdm) to lxdm, but it just crashes after I enter my password. lxdm writes a bunch of errors into /var/log/lxdm.log: ** Message: find greeter (nil) ** Message: find idle (nil) xauth: file /var/run/lxdm/lxdm-:0.auth does not exist ** Message: add xser

Re: F15/Gnash: can watch YouTube, but not Dailymotion

2011-11-21 Thread Shiv Manas
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:42 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>     Hello, >> >>  I'm running F15 with Gnash as a flash plugin on Firefox. I can now >> watch videos on YouTube, but not on DailyMotion - the area where the >> video would a

Re: F15/Gnash: can watch YouTube, but not Dailymotion

2011-11-21 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >     Hello, > >  I'm running F15 with Gnash as a flash plugin on Firefox. I can now > watch videos on YouTube, but not on DailyMotion - the area where the > video would appear first turns black and then white and nothing else > happens.

Re: [389-users] Setting account to inactive

2011-11-21 Thread Rich Megginson
On 11/21/2011 01:15 PM, David Hoskinson wrote: I would like to script inactivating an account. From my investigation it looks like the nsaccountlock is set to true, and nsrole is set to cn=nsdisabledrole,dc=xxx,dc=yyy and nsroledn=cn=nsmanageddisabledrole,dc=xxx,dc=yyy. Can anybody confirm

[389-users] Setting account to inactive

2011-11-21 Thread David Hoskinson
I would like to script inactivating an account. From my investigation it looks like the nsaccountlock is set to true, and nsrole is set to cn=nsdisabledrole,dc=xxx,dc=yyy and nsroledn=cn=nsmanageddisabledrole,dc=xxx,dc=yyy. Can anybody confirm this for me that I haven't left out anything vital

Re: Can't find /dev/sr0 -Fixed

2011-11-21 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 13:57 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > When trying to play and audio CD after installing F16 I get a message > can't find /dev/sr0. Well /dev/sr0 is there so what is wrong and how can > it be fixed? I don't know how but the situation fixed itself. -- ==

Help w/ F15 on Dell M4600 Precision Laptop purchase decision

2011-11-21 Thread Dean S. Messing
I'm at the point of ordering a Dell M4600 laptop. I plan to run either F15 (or F16). Wanting very much to avoid tears and depression later, I'd like to briefly know your good and bad experiences. The laptop has been out since April and yet there is no Linux-on-Laptop page for it. I'm aware of th

Can't find /dev/sr0

2011-11-21 Thread Aaron Konstam
When trying to play and audio CD after installing F16 I get a message can't find /dev/sr0. Well /dev/sr0 is there so what is wrong and how can it be fixed? -- === Violence in reality is quite different from theory. -- Spock, "The

F15/Gnash: can watch YouTube, but not Dailymotion

2011-11-21 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, I'm running F15 with Gnash as a flash plugin on Firefox. I can now watch videos on YouTube, but not on DailyMotion - the area where the video would appear first turns black and then white and nothing else happens. How can I fix this? Thanks! Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ru

Re: TPM device not found

2011-11-21 Thread Patrick Lists
On 11/21/2011 11:47 AM, Arindam Choudhury wrote: > Hi, > > I am unable to install Fedora on my laptop because of TPM device not > found error. Though OpenSuse 12.1 installed without any error. Not sure if I understand you correctly but if you have issues with TPM hanging during boot then you can

Re: Where did grub-md5-crypt go?

2011-11-21 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 11/21/2011 04:14 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > The new grub provides a grub2-mkpasswd-pbkdf2 command that generates > password hashes using the "password-based key derivation function 2"[1] > that can be used with the new bootloader. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 Yeah, I had to look it

Re: Where did grub-md5-crypt go?

2011-11-21 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 11/21/2011 03:58 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > Went to encrypt a passwd for a kickstart file and no grub-md-5-crypt. > The grub-md5-crypt script is part of the grub1 (well, grub-0.97 ;) package which has been replaced by grub2 in F16. The new grub provides a grub2-mkpasswd-pbkdf2 command that gen

Where did grub-md5-crypt go?

2011-11-21 Thread Terry Polzin
Went to encrypt a passwd for a kickstart file and no grub-md-5-crypt. -- 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: BUG: VirtualBox does not start

2011-11-21 Thread Cristian Sava
You dont understand a simple thing: A BUG MUST DE FIXED not shiping updates for a not working (usefull) package. Do you think I do not know this simple way to have VirtualBox or a simple gogle search is enough for you? On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 09:13 -0500, David wrote: > On 11/21/2011 8:53 AM, Cristi

Re: F15: reboot and poweroff not working

2011-11-21 Thread Emilio Lopez
Did you tried to open ssh and: $>reboot Emilio On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:53 PM, sean darcy wrote: > I'm trying to reboot a remote machine, but no luck: > > systemctl --force reboot > Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to authenticate in time. > > any suggestions? > > sean > > -- > users mai

Re: BUG: VirtualBox does not start

2011-11-21 Thread David
On 11/21/2011 8:53 AM, Cristian Sava wrote: > I complained on this list because rpmfusion people were warned about > this bug some time ago > http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2011-November/000983.html > Today we got an update related to VirtualBox (kernel module), for a not > wo

Re: BUG: VirtualBox does not start

2011-11-21 Thread Cristian Sava
I complained on this list because rpmfusion people were warned about this bug some time ago http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2011-November/000983.html Today we got an update related to VirtualBox (kernel module), for a not working virtual machine. C. Sava On Mon, 2011-11-21 at

Re: Bullies get into FireFox, and make a mess in F-14, way too easily, forcing me to DBAN the hd & reinstall...

2011-11-21 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Same here, even on out-of-date releases. >> I'm beginning to suspect KarlBot 3.0. Ed Greshko: > It can't be. My understanding is that KarlBot 3.0 only infects Ubuntu > installations. That was ver 2.0, not sure about 3.0. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don'

Re: BUG: VirtualBox does not start

2011-11-21 Thread Mohamed El Morabity
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Cristian Sava wrote: >> Still no working VirtualBox (from rpmfusion). >> This bug is a kwnown one. >> >> VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyFileInternal: Failed to open >> "/usr/lib64/virtualbox/components/VBoxXPCOMBase.xpt": No such file or >> directory (2) The bug wa

Re: BUG: VirtualBox does not start

2011-11-21 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello, I had the same issue. I solved it, installing from VirtualBox repository instead of rpmfussion, instructions here (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads [section RPM-based Linux distributions] ) Emilio. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Cristian Sava wrote: > Still no working

Re: BUG: VirtualBox does not start

2011-11-21 Thread Frank Murphy
On 21/11/11 12:28, Cristian Sava wrote: > Still no working VirtualBox (from rpmfusion). > This bug is a kwnown one. > > VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyFileInternal: Failed to open > "/usr/lib64/virtualbox/components/VBoxXPCOMBase.xpt": No such file or > directory (2) > > C. Sava > > rpmfusion has

BUG: VirtualBox does not start

2011-11-21 Thread Cristian Sava
Still no working VirtualBox (from rpmfusion). This bug is a kwnown one. VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyFileInternal: Failed to open "/usr/lib64/virtualbox/components/VBoxXPCOMBase.xpt": No such file or directory (2) C. Sava -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Fedora 16+ uid numbers

2011-11-21 Thread Frank Murphy
I hope to change all of my real\virt stuff boxes rather than reinstall all from F16 on. I have F14,15,16,Rawhide. I have a proprietry linux NAS (Storcenter ix-200) with lots of folders for different users. and I will backup /etc /home on the boxes first. How do I upgrade the uid numbers. eg: Ne

TPM device not found

2011-11-21 Thread Arindam Choudhury
Hi, I am unable to install Fedora on my laptop because of TPM device not found error. Though OpenSuse 12.1 installed without any error. -Arindam -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://

Re: Bullies get into FireFox, and make a mess in F-14, way too easily, forcing me to DBAN the hd & reinstall...

2011-11-21 Thread Frank Murphy
On 21/11/11 10:32, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/21/2011 06:22 PM, Tim wrote: >> Same here, even on out-of-date releases. >> I'm beginning to suspect KarlBot 3.0. > > It can't be. My understanding is that KarlBot 3.0 only infects Ubuntu > installations. > Just check Linda's previous posts to the list

Re: Bullies get into FireFox, and make a mess in F-14, way too easily, forcing me to DBAN the hd & reinstall...

2011-11-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/21/2011 06:22 PM, Tim wrote: > Same here, even on out-of-date releases. > I'm beginning to suspect KarlBot 3.0. It can't be. My understanding is that KarlBot 3.0 only infects Ubuntu installations. -- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Cl

Re: Bullies get into FireFox, and make a mess in F-14, way too easily, forcing me to DBAN the hd & reinstall...

2011-11-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 19:11, Linda McLeod wrote: > The bullies who have been targeting my PC with computer problems have > got into FireFox yet again, changing things.. Quickly, erect a wall -or better, electrified fence- around your PC That will keep the ´bullies´ and the ´monsters´ away. FC

Re: SELINUX is kicking my butt!

2011-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Frank Murphy : > On 21/11/11 00:00, Thomas Cameron wrote: > >> >> 2) If SELinux is really disabled, your boot problem almost certainly >> isn't SELinux related. >> >> 3) How did you disable SELinux? By that I mean, exactly what file did >> you edit and how did you edit it? Did you use perl

Re: SELINUX is kicking my butt!

2011-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Fedora User : > > You changed the wrong line. I suspect that you changed SELINUXTYPE > rather than the line about 4 lines above it that is just SELINUX. > Tried that too. Didn't work. One thing I probably should have mentioned that MIGHT make a difference is that when I was reinstalling,

screen strange after updates

2011-11-21 Thread Antonio M
I am noting that Gnome 3 screen is strange in particular On the far right of the screen the search space is going slightly out of the screen and also the application menu is slighty out of the screen (last letters in the menu may be cut!! -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 Linux Fedora 16

Re: Bullies get into FireFox, and make a mess in F-14, way too easily, forcing me to DBAN the hd & reinstall...

2011-11-21 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 14:20 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > I've done nothing exceptional to harden my system, but I've also done > nothing, such as turn off SELinux to weaken the built in security. > I've not had the slightest problem of the type you describe with > FireFox on either my desktop or my lap

Re: SELINUX is kicking my butt!

2011-11-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/21/2011 05:03 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > I just installed a new boot drive and installed F16. Since I > absolutely HATE SELINUX, I've gone into the config file and set > selinux to "disabled." Now when I attempt to boot, I get an error that > it can't find the policy file and it hangs th

Having a large desktop. (Font, icon and application sizes)

2011-11-21 Thread linux guy
I use my Dell Duo, running F16, as a car PC, where I want the fonts icons and running applications to be LARGE so that I can see and control them from a distance. In KDE, how do I adjust the size of the desktop so that this happens ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Switch 32 bit to 64 bit how to do

2011-11-21 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 11/21/2011 09:57 AM, Reinhard Sy wrote: > Am Montag, den 21.11.2011, 09:50 +0100 schrieb Maciek Borzecki: >> If you value your time and have a /home on a separate partition, >> install F16 from scratch. Really, I've never managed to do a hassle >> free upgrade, and it's not worth the time. Gra

Re: Switch 32 bit to 64 bit how to do

2011-11-21 Thread Reinhard Sy
Am Montag, den 21.11.2011, 09:50 +0100 schrieb Maciek Borzecki: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Reinhard Sy > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to switch my server from 32bit to 64bit (8GB of RAM) . What > > is the best method to do that ? > > Can I upgrade my running FC14 from 32 to 64

Re: Switch 32 bit to 64 bit how to do

2011-11-21 Thread Maciek Borzecki
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Reinhard Sy wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to switch my server from 32bit to 64bit (8GB of RAM) . What > is the best method to do that ? > Can I upgrade my running FC14 from 32 to  64 and and then I will > preupgrade to FC16. > > Or should I install a fresh FC16

Switch 32 bit to 64 bit how to do

2011-11-21 Thread Reinhard Sy
Hello, I would like to switch my server from 32bit to 64bit (8GB of RAM) . What is the best method to do that ? Can I upgrade my running FC14 from 32 to 64 and and then I will preupgrade to FC16. Or should I install a fresh FC16 64 bit. I have found and old document about crossupgrade: http://