During some CD operations Fedora freezes for some seconds

2012-03-01 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, having a weird effect (in F16, [F17 too]): during some CD operations, ejecting for example, or clicking on the CD symbol by nautilus if a new CD is inserted in the drive, my system freezes, so my desktop is insensitive for some seconds. Somebody sees this too, and how to get rid from this ef

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012-03-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 17:11, Joe Zeff wrote: > Why?  All of the Microsoft fanbois will have it and you'll be able to use it > on your Mac.  Like it or not, that's well over 90% of the market, and to > Adobe, that's all that matters. I think that´s looking at it from the wrong side. What Google

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/1/2012 7:32 PM, nomnex wrote: On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:46:11 -0800 Paul Allen Newell wrote: I haven't hit anything that doesn't play in my base tests (mp4, qt, avi, wmv, and mov). Do you know of a format that isn't picked up in whatever yum/rpm pulls in for mplayer/rpmfusion? Possibly "Real

Re: empathy - is it for real?

2012-03-01 Thread Dan Irwin
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > I've seen some Empathy crashes 6+ months ago, but nothing lately. Did > you file bugs for the crashers? Have they've been handled / forwarded > upstream? No, not yet. I was mainly fishing to see if anyone else has the problems i am seeing. Gi

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012-03-01 Thread nomnex
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:46:11 -0800 > Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > I haven't hit anything that doesn't play in my base tests (mp4, qt, > avi, wmv, and mov). Do you know of a format that isn't picked up in > whatever yum/rpm pulls in for mplayer/rpmfusion? Possibly "Real Player" crap, among oth

Re: Need help USB modem

2012-03-01 Thread Roger
Quick question about the device What does it show up as when you plug it in and type lsusb? I don't know, I'll ask tomorrow Thanks Roger Hi Rick, Terry and Doug Re. the student's laptop my daughter asked about with the Sierra aircard modem I asked h

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-03-01 Thread stan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:26:45 -0800 ny6...@gmail.com wrote: [script removed] > I don't know if this answers your question, but maybe it helps. :) Yes, it answers my question and I will keep the script for future use. I have already received an answer from Andras Simon that is very closely related

Re: During boot keyboard not working for passphrase

2012-03-01 Thread Patrick Lists
Hi Rick, On 01-03-12 20:35, Rick Stevens wrote: [snip] So during boot my wireless USB keyboard stops working. This happens with all currently installed kernels: 3.2.3, 3.2.5 and 3.2.6. The wireless USB keyboard used to work fine when asked for the passphrase. Anyone have a suggestion how I can

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/1/2012 5:21 PM, nomnex wrote: You are welcome. Make sure you have the MPlayer all-codecs pack installed. You have to install them manually (unless to be wrong, they are not in the RPMFusion package). download: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ info: Binary Codec Packages

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012-03-01 Thread nomnex
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:56:33 -0800 > Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > On 2/25/2012 8:13 AM, Alchemist wrote: > > 2012/2/25 nomnex: > >> > > Yes SMPlayer is highly recommended GUI for mplayer > > nomnex and alchemist: > > Sorry for the delay in getting back as I had family visit descend > upon my h

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 2/24/2012 5:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:02:30 -0800 Paul Allen Newell wrote: I've got this wacky setup (I don't actually use, but have tested) for running mplayer from my phone via a web browser and some cgi scripts that inject artificial LIRC keypresses (I would have dra

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 2/25/2012 8:13 AM, Alchemist wrote: 2012/2/25 nomnex: Yes SMPlayer is highly recommended GUI for mplayer nomnex and alchemist: Sorry for the delay in getting back as I had family visit descend upon my house. I downloaded smplayer and gave it a test drive, works great ... many thanks

Re: Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE

2012-03-01 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 01/03/12 22:31, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi, all. > > I've been using Fedora 14 (i686) on an old IBM Think Pad T42 after > swapping from Debian Squeeze & am really enjoying the experience. > > Fedora 14 having reached EOL, I'm looking to upgrade but at present I'm > running Gnome 2 & 16 uses Gnome

Re: [389-users] replication errors

2012-03-01 Thread Rich Megginson
On 03/01/2012 04:53 PM, Ellsworth, Josh wrote: I am trying to set up replication between 2 389 servers. The master is running the following packages: 389-admin.x86_64 1.1.16-1.el5 installed 389-admin-console.noarch 1.1.7-1.el5

Re: F16 installation problems

2012-03-01 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 01/03/12 21:49, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > Nevertheless, do think about reporting a complete bug if you can make > the same problem happen repeatedly. Start here for beginner > information, but if you're going to file a kernel bug, I *highly* > recommend you press on to read the more detail

[389-users] replication errors

2012-03-01 Thread Ellsworth, Josh
I am trying to set up replication between 2 389 servers. The master is running the following packages: 389-admin.x86_64 1.1.16-1.el5 installed 389-admin-console.noarch 1.1.7-1.el5 installed 389-admin-console-doc.noarc

Re: [389-users] managing 389 with a different admin server

2012-03-01 Thread Ellsworth, Josh
The solution was to run setup-ds-admin.pl -u. That changed all the settings for me. From: 389-users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:389-users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Ellsworth, Josh Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 11:52 AM To: General discussion list for the 389

Re: Strangness of Firefox 10.0.1 in F16

2012-03-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 15:54 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > This just started happening to me. When I login and open Firefox 10.0.1 > it starts loading my homepage www.google.com. > > Then the loading stops and I get a message: > The connection was interrupted > The connection wwto www.google/cpm wa

Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE

2012-03-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I've been using Fedora 14 (i686) on an old IBM Think Pad T42 after swapping from Debian Squeeze & am really enjoying the experience. Fedora 14 having reached EOL, I'm looking to upgrade but at present I'm running Gnome 2 & 16 uses Gnome 3. N

Strangness of Firefox 10.0.1 in F16

2012-03-01 Thread Aaron Konstam
This just started happening to me. When I login and open Firefox 10.0.1 it starts loading my homepage www.google.com. Then the loading stops and I get a message: The connection was interrupted The connection wwto www.google/cpm was interrupted while the page was loading. It offers me te option to

Re: F16 installation problems

2012-03-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 08:36:34PM +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 01/03/12 18:44, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:05:44PM +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > >> > >> I have tried to do a network install of Fedora 16 multiple times, but it > >> has failed every time! Mo

Fedora 16 and Software Raid 10 on install

2012-03-01 Thread Aero Maxx
Hello Users, Could someone help me with a Software RAID 10 setup on Fedora 16 with disk druid, as trying to do it on a brand new install. If I chose 1 hard drive at install I can see how this is setup, but I am having difficulty knowing what to change to make it into a software raid, have go

Re: F16 installation problems

2012-03-01 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 01/03/12 18:44, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:05:44PM +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> >> I have tried to do a network install of Fedora 16 multiple times, but it >> has failed every time! More to the point I also discovered that the >> anaconda install ignores changes

Re: Password request after resuming from suspend/hibernation

2012-03-01 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:26:58AM +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > If I resume from suspend on my desktop box I'm asked for the login > password. But after resuming from hibernation, no password is requested. > > Questions: > > 1. why this difference? > 2. is it possible to adapt these tw

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-03-01 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:04:01AM -0700, stan wrote: > I'm looking at alternative window managers to Gnome fallback, the only > Gnome my old hardware and work preference will support. The more I > investigate fvwm, the more it seems like a nice stable, > extremely configurable solution to my prob

Re: gphoto2 image directory -

2012-03-01 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 01/03/12 14:30, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Bob Goodwin wrote: Can someone tell me how/where to set where the gphoto2 image files are stored? I don't want them dumped to /home/bobg/. I can find all kinds of information except this most basic need. I don't use gphoto2

Re: During boot keyboard not working for passphrase

2012-03-01 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/01/2012 04:59 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: Hi all, On a box with F16 x86_64 I have two disks in RAID1 (Linux software raid) and an encrypted root and swap partition. The box has a wireless Logitech K520 USB keyboard. In the past this worked fine: I boot the box, select a kernel if required, t

Re: gphoto2 image directory -

2012-03-01 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Bob Goodwin wrote: Can someone tell me how/where to set where the gphoto2 image files are stored? I don't want them dumped to /home/bobg/. I can find all kinds of information except this most basic need. I don't use gphoto2, but does it write to the current working dire

Re: F16 installation problems

2012-03-01 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:05:44PM +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > I have tried to do a network install of Fedora 16 multiple times, but it > has failed every time! More to the point I also discovered that the > anaconda install ignores changes I requested for the partition layout. > Excuse

Re: Alternative to a Pogoplug

2012-03-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
For now I am backing away from the Pogoplug. I found a mini-itx system quite afordable on ebay to use as my new server. I will follow the Raspberry Pi development and hope that it will move from just boards to nice little systems that run current Fedora. This system presents a major gateway

gphoto2 image directory -

2012-03-01 Thread Bob Goodwin
Can someone tell me how/where to set where the gphoto2 image files are stored? I don't want them dumped to /home/bobg/. I can find all kinds of information except this most basic need. Thanks, Bob -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: Badblocks on the hd.

2012-03-01 Thread Jim
On 03/01/2012 04:13 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: /sbin/badblocks has informed that there are 5 bad blocks on a hd. Not in a position to replace at the moment, Only dust in the wallet. Had a look at e2fsck man e2fsck -l filename -L filename Is the "filename" automatically created. or something I ne

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-03-01 Thread stan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 07:26:42 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Just curious, has anyone tried pekwm yet? www.pekwm.org, and it is in > the Fedora repositories. Haven't tried it. Yet, at least. Now that you have pointed it out, I will probably give it a whirl. The site below has a comprehensive lis

F16 installation problems

2012-03-01 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
I have tried to do a network install of Fedora 16 multiple times, but it has failed every time! More to the point I also discovered that the anaconda install ignores changes I requested for the partition layout. Excuse me for suggesting this, but Fedora 15 and 16 releases seem to be the most troub

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-01 Thread jdow
On 2012/03/01 06:28, Aaron Konstam wrote: Sometimes I wonder if we are all speaking the same language. I can't comment on what VirtualBox does, nor what Windows 7 does, but here is my experience. My hardware was set to UTC time. My system time was set to local time CDT. But until UTC was checked

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-01 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 16:02 -0800, jdow wrote: > On 2012/02/29 06:33, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:10 -0800, jdow wrote: > >> On 2012/02/28 07:38, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 18:06 -0800, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-01 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/29/2012 07:02 PM, jdow wrote: > On 2012/02/29 06:33, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:10 -0800, jdow wrote: >>> On 2012/02/28 07:38, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 18:06 -0800, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > > >

Re: empathy - is it for real?

2012-03-01 Thread Hiisi
On 1 March 2012 05:53, Dan Irwin wrote: > Hi list, <--RANT SNIPPED--> > Thanks for reading. > > Regards, > > Dan I had similar problems with empathy in F15. It caused X freezes whenever new messages arrived. Then I switched to pidgin. On my current F16 installation I decided to give it a try - at

Re: how to start fvwm from the console command line?

2012-03-01 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Just curious, has anyone tried pekwm yet? www.pekwm.org, and it is in the Fedora repositories. Also, is it possible to make a LiveCD with a WM environment (not with a DE)? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscript

Re: empathy - is it for real?

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 07:56:41AM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > Let others know what you find to be better alternative as that can be > helpful as well. He already mentioned Pidgin. -- Regards, Olav -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

During boot keyboard not working for passphrase

2012-03-01 Thread Patrick Lists
Hi all, On a box with F16 x86_64 I have two disks in RAID1 (Linux software raid) and an encrypted root and swap partition. The box has a wireless Logitech K520 USB keyboard. In the past this worked fine: I boot the box, select a kernel if required, the kernel boots, when asked I enter the pa

Re: empathy - is it for real?

2012-03-01 Thread Genes MailLists
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:53:17AM +1000, Dan Irwin wrote: >> Over several successive versions (Since Fedora 10), empathy has never >> "just worked" or "worked right" on my laptop. It will crash. Modules >> will crash. People will complain that I am signed in and ignoring >> them, when I don't a

Re: Portreserve on F16

2012-03-01 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 20:43 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > "systemctl status portreserve.service" says: > > portreserve.service - Port reservation utility > Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/portreserve.service; disabled) > Active: failed since Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:36:43 +0100; 2s ago >

Re: empathy - is it for real?

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:53:17AM +1000, Dan Irwin wrote: > Over several successive versions (Since Fedora 10), empathy has never > "just worked" or "worked right" on my laptop. It will crash. Modules > will crash. People will complain that I am signed in and ignoring > them, when I don't appear t

Re: Badblocks on the hd.

2012-03-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:13:20 + Frank Murphy wrote: > /sbin/badblocks > > has informed that there are 5 bad blocks on a hd. > Not in a position to replace at the moment, > Only dust in the wallet. > > Had a look at e2fsck > man e2fsck > > -l filename > -L filename > > Is the "filename" aut

Badblocks on the hd.

2012-03-01 Thread Frank Murphy
/sbin/badblocks has informed that there are 5 bad blocks on a hd. Not in a position to replace at the moment, Only dust in the wallet. Had a look at e2fsck man e2fsck -l filename -L filename Is the "filename" automatically created. or something I need do. The fs is ext4. To my mad eyes it loo

Password request after resuming from suspend/hibernation

2012-03-01 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, If I resume from suspend on my desktop box I'm asked for the login password. But after resuming from hibernation, no password is requested. Questions: 1. why this difference? 2. is it possible to adapt these two cases? Kind regards -- Joachim Backes http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes