I had to add a --force but it worked like a charm.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:42 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth
wrote:
>
> Also, since that guide (unnecessarily) tells you to regenerate your
> initramfs, re-regenerate it or restore the backup copy you made.
How do you regenerate it ? Is that the dracut command ?
I'm just ge
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:38 PM, linux guy wrote:
> I installed the proprietary nvidia drivers using the isntructions here:
> http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/fedora-16-nvidia-drivers-install-guide-disable-nouveau-driver/
>
> My computer locks up after being logged into a KDE session fo
I installed the proprietary nvidia drivers using the isntructions here:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/fedora-16-nvidia-drivers-install-guide-disable-nouveau-driver/
My computer locks up after being logged into a KDE session for a
minute or so with them.
How do I switch back to the no
On 12/13/2011 07:45 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 18:35:40 -0800,
Konstantin Svist wrote:
I've gotten burned while removing duplicates in the past.
package-cleanup --cleandupes will normally work pretty well. There can be
some problems if there were packages not updated
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> hi
>
> i am trying to suspend / start my VMware-Workstation machines automatically
> below my systemd-unit and the two shell-scripts
> start works like a charme (yes i use a seperated user for VM's)
>
> shutdown works on a machine with one sm
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 18:35:40 -0800,
Konstantin Svist wrote:
>
> I've gotten burned while removing duplicates in the past.
package-cleanup --cleandupes will normally work pretty well. There can be
some problems if there were packages not updated as part of a broken
transaction. You want to
On 12/13/2011 07:17 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/13/2011 06:35 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
I've gotten burned while removing duplicates in the past.
The safest way that I came up with is to simply run "yum reinstall
" for each package that has duplicates. This will make sure
that none of the newer
On 12/13/2011 06:35 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
I've gotten burned while removing duplicates in the past.
The safest way that I came up with is to simply run "yum reinstall
" for each package that has duplicates. This will make sure
that none of the newer package's files get removed, while the ol
On 12/13/2011 06:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
As part of getting my system back to where it should be, I've gotten a
list of dupes from package-cleanup. Simply telling it to resolve the
issues doesn't work because of some dependency issues. What I'm doing
now is taking things listed as having probl
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:00:25 -0800
Joe Zeff wrote:
> As part of getting my system back to where it should be, I've gotten a
> list of dupes from package-cleanup.
When my system got screwed up, I simply made a script to
forceably remove the older duplicates, but
avoid taking dependencies with the
Am 14.12.2011 02:54, schrieb CS DBA:
>>> I installed Postgresql from source and set SHMMAX to 2198066816
>>> I set postgres to use 2GB for shared_buffers and I get this when I try to
>>> start:
>>>
>>> FATAL: shmat(id=4096103) failed: Cannot allocate memory
>>>
>>> The only real difference from
As part of getting my system back to where it should be, I've gotten a
list of dupes from package-cleanup. Simply telling it to resolve the
issues doesn't work because of some dependency issues. What I'm doing
now is taking things listed as having problems, and with versions
pre-fc16 and tryi
On 12/13/2011 06:26 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, g wrote:
>
>> i am familiar with the dd options of -skip and -seek. just not familiar
>> with proper way to use dd with cdrecord.
>>
>> can someone elaborate?
>
> cdrecord can read from a pipe.
-=-
i have read 'man cdrecord',
On 12/12/2011 10:07 PM, Linda McLeod wrote:
In F-14.. when "screensaver slideshow" runs, the previous pix takes
quite a while to fully fade-out, and is completely gone only a few
seconds before the pix changes again.. but on an old tower, with only
250-megs of RAM, the fade is nearly instant..?
On 12/13/2011 06:51 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 14.12.2011 02:45, schrieb CS DBA:
Hi All;
I just installed Fedora 16, I was running fedora 14.
I installed Postgresql from source and set SHMMAX to 2198066816
I set postgres to use 2GB for shared_buffers and I get this when I try to start:
FAT
Am 14.12.2011 02:45, schrieb CS DBA:
> Hi All;
>
> I just installed Fedora 16, I was running fedora 14.
>
> I installed Postgresql from source and set SHMMAX to 2198066816
>
> I set postgres to use 2GB for shared_buffers and I get this when I try to
> start:
>
> FATAL: shmat(id=4096103) fai
Hi All;
I just installed Fedora 16, I was running fedora 14.
I installed Postgresql from source and set SHMMAX to 2198066816
I set postgres to use 2GB for shared_buffers and I get this when I try
to start:
FATAL: shmat(id=4096103) failed: Cannot allocate memory
The only real difference fro
On 12/14/2011 12:09 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> On 12/13/2011 9:27 AM, g wrote:
>> back to the begining. thread has gotten so long, this is easier than
>> finding my post that i know caused you more confusion.
>>
>>
>> in that post, i stated to install 'partedmagic' on a usb stick;
>>
>>http
On 12/13/2011 05:03 PM, Linda McLeod wrote:
As far as "properly detailing what's happning to my machine", I think I
have detailed it as much as words can say it.. what parts of, "crazy
people are targeting and torturing my life", can't you understand sir..?
Extraordinary claims require extraor
Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out the previous pix, but...
Re: "RE: F14 login fails on backup copy; gdm error?"
From:
"Michael Schwendt"
"Rather than getting rude and flaming Harald, who is a knowledgeable
subscriber of this list (and it may be helpful to have available suc
On 12/13/2011 03:14 PM, jackson byers wrote:
From F14usb8 have run 'e2fsck /dev/sdc7'
[sdc7 unmounted] numerous times,
always ends with 'recovery complete'.
When you do, does it report that it's fixed anything? If not, running
it repeatedly isn't going to do anything more. However, you
On 12/13/2011 9:27 AM, g wrote:
back to the begining. thread has gotten so long, this is easier than
finding my post that i know caused you more confusion.
in that post, i stated to install 'partedmagic' on a usb stick;
http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=creating_the_liveusb
and add 'g4l'
On 12/13/2011 5:42 AM, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
Paul,
My advice is to keep it simple. Burn the Clonezilla Live¹ ISO to a
CD/DVD and use it to save an image of the current hard drive to the
USB drive. Step-by-step directions for saving and restoring the
image² are provided.
I've been following
On 12/13/2011 5:22 AM, John Aldrich wrote:
Quoting "Michael D. Setzer II" :
Perhaps the best option to look at it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/#screenshots
Let me say I have used G4L at a previous employer to do backups of
machines, etc and it's
On 12/12/2011 11:13 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
Perhaps the best option to look at it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/#screenshots
Michael:
Much better, thanks for the additional info
Paul
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On 12/12/2011 09:10 PM, Linda McLeod wrote:
>
> Is there a super secure way to lock "Home File" with an encrypted
> password..?
>
> Is there anything in Linux that locks a file behind a tier or key of
> passwords..?
>
This looks like it will do what you want:
http://www.rootninja.com/how-to-us
On 13Dec2011 09:51, Joe Zeff wrote:
| On 12/13/2011 04:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
| >This works if you have a single-user system, but it's not great if you
| >have a shared machine. I think he's asking for a file vault of some sort
| >where you can maintain your own home directory as encrypte
On 12/13/2011 01:39 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/13/2011 03:26 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:57:54 -0500
>> Genes MailLists wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI
>>> crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files
F14 error messages re sdc7--is disk sdc going bad?
** working system is F14usb8 on usb external disk, sda8.
** problem system is F14sdc7, on scsi internal disk, sdc7,
which is a backup copy of F14usb8.
I have been unable to login to F14sdc7.
Until recently booting F14sdc7 otherwise looked no
> > Which file sizes are you talking about?
>
> Depends what crashes - but probably of the order of 1,000 times less than
> a big set of debug packages
I can think of a couple of ways to improve things:
1. Separate out the debuginfo rpms into a zillion independent
rpms with one and only one libr
I have a Sansa PMP (I would have to look up the invoice to see what
model, as it doesn't say on or 'in' the unit). Back on f14, sometimes I
could and sometimes I could not view the folders on the internal and SD
memory and move files. So far in f16, it is polling the folders, but no
directori
hi
i am trying to suspend / start my VMware-Workstation machines automatically
below my systemd-unit and the two shell-scripts
start works like a charme (yes i use a seperated user for VM's)
shutdown works on a machine with one small VM
on my homeserver i see that it is executed (script output)
b
> > It's not bright in some cases. Just tell it not to. The newest version of
> > abrt will upload dumps to a server to crunch instead which is a lot more
> > sociable.
>
> Which file sizes are you talking about?
Depends what crashes - but probably of the order of 1,000 times less than
a big set
Am 13.12.2011 22:45, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> On 12/13/2011 01:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> if you are totally unsure install smaba with a root account
>
> Are you sure you didn't mean samba? If so, I'd not have any use for it
> because I run a Windows-free LAN, except
> for my sister's laptop, a
On 12/13/2011 01:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
if you are totally unsure install smaba with a root account
Are you sure you didn't mean samba? If so, I'd not have any use for it
because I run a Windows-free LAN, except for my sister's laptop, and I
never need to connect to it. If you're think
UPDATE:
I changed my web browser away from Epiphany, and this had a radical impact
- system runs much cooler.
Also, try hdparm -B 1 /dev/sd* (or be specific which discs you want to
power down).
Using powertop could also help.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:10 PM, g wrote:
> On 12/12/2011 01:59 PM,
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:07 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:04 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>>>
>>> I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI
>>> crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of deb
Am 13.12.2011 21:52, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> On 12/13/2011 12:17 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> sounds like something is messed by an interrupted upgrade
>> however "yum --releasever=16 reinstall fedora-release" should fix the
>> version-problem
>>
>
> Thanx! That got the repolist straight.
>
>> aft
Am 13.12.2011 21:52, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> On 12/13/2011 12:17 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> sounds like something is messed by an interrupted upgrade
>> however "yum --releasever=16 reinstall fedora-release" should fix the
>> version-problem
>>
>
> Thanx! That got the repolist straight.
>
>> aft
On 12/13/2011 12:17 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
sounds like something is messed by an interrupted upgrade
however "yum --releasever=16 reinstall fedora-release" should fix the
version-problem
Thanx! That got the repolist straight.
after that "package-cleanup --dupes" and "package-cleanup --pr
Hello all,
Urgent help required!
I have turned on my Fedora 16 machine today. It booted quite normally to the
GDM login screen. When I selected one of my 3 users it started to login to the
account as usual, but got no further than loading the background. I
CTRL-ALT-BKSPC'd back to the login scr
Am 13.12.2011 21:06, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> My desktop is now out of the ICU, but it's still not running the way it
> should. At best, it's convalescent. One
> of the problems is that unless I use --releasever=16 I can't update my
> system, even though /etc/fedora-release has
> the correct value
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:04 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>>
>> I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI
>> crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including
>> things it quite obviously (to a hu
My desktop is now out of the ICU, but it's still not running the way it
should. At best, it's convalescent. One of the problems is that unless
I use --releasever=16 I can't update my system, even though
/etc/fedora-release has the correct value. This might be because all of
my repos are stil
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>
> I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI
> crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including
> things it quite obviously (to a human) does not need.
>
>
> I think abrtd needs help with its
On 12/13/2011 10:39 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
At least around here, it's common that a home user's DSL or cable
connection's upstream bandwidth is a magnitude smaller than his
downstream bandwidth.
Yes. That's why it's correctly called ADSL, with the A standing for
"Asynchronous." It's almos
Hie
2011/12/13 Carsten Grzemba
> For SSHA Passwords needs Solaris a proper pam configuration, for SSH
> especially the section :
>
> other auth requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1
> other auth required pam_dhkeys.so.1
> other auth required pam_unix_cred.so.1
> other auth bindingpam_u
On 12/13/2011 03:26 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:57:54 -0500
Genes MailLists wrote:
I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI
crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including
things it quite obviously (to a human) does not need.
Hi,
> I want to ask if Fedora is good for me a Java developer? I will be
working with Java EE technologies and possibly developing Eclipse plugins
also.
As a Java developer I like Fedora because of the many java tools and
libraries that are part of the distribution. Fedora Eclipse does not
include
On 12/13/2011 09:21 AM, mike cloaked wrote:
>
> Indeed so - however it is not unusual for abrt to require pulling in
> several hundred megabytes of debuginfo stuff in order to file a report
> - and I wonder if that might put a significant number of users off and
> abandon completing the report at
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, g wrote:
i am familiar with the dd options of -skip and -seek. just not familiar
with proper way to use dd with cdrecord.
can someone elaborate?
cdrecord can read from a pipe.
The data does not have to be a *.iso file.
dd can get the data back by reading the raw device.
For SSHA Passwords needs Solaris a proper pam configuration, for SSH especially
the section :
other auth requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1
other auth required pam_dhkeys.so.1
other auth required pam_unix_cred.so.1
other auth binding pam_unix_auth.so.1 server_policy
other auth requi
On 12/13/2011 06:21 AM, mike cloaked wrote:
This may already be inhibiting the provision of some fraction of
important abrt entries? It would be interesting to hear other people's
view on this aspect?
In some cases, that might even be a good thing, IMAO. As I mentioned in
another thread, I'm
On 12/13/2011 04:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
This works if you have a single-user system, but it's not great if you
have a shared machine. I think he's asking for a file vault of some sort
where you can maintain your own home directory as encrypted separate
from the whole filesystem.
I supp
On 12/12/2011 05:54 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
<>
> Before I consider actually doing it, I wanted to ask if there is the
> equivalent of "a recovery disk" that I can create with k3b so,
back to the begining. thread has gotten so long, this is easier than
finding my post that i know caused you
Hi all,
I want to ask if Fedora is good for me a Java developer? I will be working
with Java EE technologies and possibly developing Eclipse plugins also. I'm
considering Fedora for working in my new company.
I used Fedora for about a year. It was Fedora 12 and 13. F13 was quite
stable and I like
On 12/13/2011 08:36 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
On 12/12/2011 03:33 AM, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 12:09 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
By default 5% of the disk is "reserved for root", totally stupid
default. Use tune2fs -m 0 to recover this space.
That rather depends on what you're putting o
On 12/12/2011 02:13 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 12.12.2011 15:11, schrieb Shibi:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 12.12.2011 14:44, schrieb Shibi:
I forward my ports through ssh on fedora 16 to a VPS server as a socks
proxy tunnel.
how can I get the connection on b
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:57:54 -0500
Genes MailLists wrote:
>
> I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI
> crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including
> things it quite obviously (to a human) does not need.
It's not bright in some cases. Just
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:36 -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
>> It appears that upgrading abrt in F16 from 2.0.6-1 to 2.0.7-2 is going
>> to require installation of PackageKit, which I long ago purged from my
>> system. Just wondering, why
On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 12:36 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> if you spent some time on explaining what threats you believe you're
> exposed to with your machine and what makes you think that you need to
> reinstall frequently due to damage done to your system by strangers
I don't think they're cap
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:27 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> The more I hear about things like this from the Gnome devs the more it
> sounds like they're only interested in having Gnome 3 able to do
> things the devs need and don't care about anybody else.
You get that impression, don't you...
It's not t
Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>
> Given that all I want is to make an image of the current hard drive
> that I can copy back onto the hard drive as a "recovery",
Paul,
My advice is to keep it simple. Burn the Clonezilla Live¹ ISO to a
CD/DVD and use it to save an image of the current hard drive to
On 12/12/2011 03:33 AM, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 12:09 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
By default 5% of the disk is "reserved for root", totally stupid
default. Use tune2fs -m 0 to recover this space.
That rather depends on what you're putting on the drive (e.g. whopping
huge video editing f
Quoting "Michael D. Setzer II" :
Perhaps the best option to look at it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/#screenshots
Screen Show 1 - shows the syslinux boot menu screen.
Usually just press Enter to boot the default kernel.
Press right arrow of side of
On 12/13/2011 07:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> This works if you have a single-user system, but it's not great if you
> have a shared machine. I think he's asking for a file vault of some sort
> where you can maintain your own home directory as encrypted separate
> from the whole filesystem.
>
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 20:13 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 19:10 -0800, Linda McLeod wrote:
> > Is there a super secure way to lock "Home File" with an encrypted
> > password..?
> >
> > Is there anything in Linux that locks a file behind a tier or key of
> > passwords..?
>
> O
I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI
crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including
things it quite obviously (to a human) does not need.
I think abrtd needs help with its decisions ... it appears way too
naive in the debuginfo files it n
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:57:53 -0800, LM (Linda) wrote:
> Re: "RE: F14 login fails on backup copy; gdm error?"
>
> From:
> "Reindl Harald" <> [Add]
>
>
> "why do you not leave the world in peace with your
> useless quotes? if you have something fedira-related
> to say: say it - if not -> do n
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:07:30 -0800, LM (Linda) wrote:
>
> In F-14.. when "screensaver slideshow" runs, the previous pix takes
> quite a while to fully fade-out, and is completely gone only a few
> seconds before the pix changes again..
Have you checked whether this is still like that with Fedor
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:01:54 -0500, WC (William) wrote:
> "
> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> compiz-fusion-extras = 0.8.6 is needed by
> compiz-fusion-extras-gnome-0.8.6-1.fc14.x86_64
> Please report this error at http://yum.baseurl.org/report "
Ignore Yum's request to report it there.
"
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
compiz-fusion-extras = 0.8.6 is needed by
compiz-fusion-extras-gnome-0.8.6-1.fc14.x86_64
Please report this error at http://yum.baseurl.org/report "
I get the above warning when trying to update compiz. I have tried yum
remove compiz and get another warni
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:45:40 -0800
Alan Evans wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> The boss dropped one of those DisplayLink USB display adaptors on my
> desk today, and I'm drooling at the prospect of having a third monitor
> on my devel machine.
Oh don't get too excited
> screen. But Xorg doesn't seem to
In Fedora 15, when I lock down the display, the whole display went black.
Now in Fedora 16, when Ilock down the display, it is locked but the image
of whatever I was working with is left on display.
How can I go back to the behaviour of Fedora 15?
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