Re: Blocked Ports

On 03/19/2012 02:47 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/20/2012 01:56 AM, Mike Dwiggins wrote: Good summation. I also did not think I had made any changes at all but somehow I must have inadvertently done so. The point being that I do not know what if any changes I may have stumbled into! For the ca

F16 security spin, LibreOffice instabilities

Lenovo S-100 pseudo-netbook (intel 64 running 32 bit) with Fedora installed from the F16 Security spin (LXDE) live USB. Posted earlier, no response, about it generally hanging the X11 session on logout if I switch to a virtual console to do something while logged in on an X11 session. Can telinit

Re: A bit OT: git - ridiculous memory requirements

On 03/30/2012 08:43 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a cloned GCC git repository, on PC with 1.5GB of RAM and 3GB swap. > > When I run "$git gc --aggressive", I will get after few hours an error: > > $ git gc --aggressive > Counting objects: 1332887, done. > Delta compression using u

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:16:11 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, stan wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:33:49 -0500 (CDT) > > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > >> Since /boot and / are on disk sdb, I'd like the bootloader there > >> also. Frustration is bad for my brain. I

Re: Samba service with Windows and dual boot...

Hello Craig, Thanks for the advice and direction. I'll give these a try to see what happens, and separate the items if any follow up questions. :) Bob W. On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 21:13 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 14:01 -0600, R. Welsh wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Have a couple

Re: L2TP

On Thursday 29 March 2012 10:42 PM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: how to setup a L2TP over IPSEC tunnel for Fedora may be this[1] [1] http://strongvpn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1093 Warm Regards -- °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Jatin Khatri RHCSA,RHCE,CCNA Registerd Linux user No #501175 www.linuxcounter.net No

Various Sound Backend - Why?

Hello, This one is general Linux question. Up until Fedora 15, there was xine and then there was gstreamer (Which contains good,bad & ugly) . Then there was fluendo. Except xine, the later ones still exist. I mean, they all are sound backend / codec, right? Then why having many of them? --

Re: Nightingale RPM or Repo

On 03/29/2012 10:00 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: You're THE man. Attach the link to download the SRPM :) I haven't had a chance to test it but here you go! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/nightingale-1.11.0-1.fc16.src.rpm Richard

Re: Samba service with Windows and dual boot...

On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 14:01 -0600, R. Welsh wrote: > Howdy, > > Have a couple of open items in forum that I haven't been able to resolve > and am looking for guidance. > > Item 1: > > I have F16 installed on a system with Samba server 3.x. I have > configured both directory shares and a printer

A bit OT: git - ridiculous memory requirements

Hi all, I have a cloned GCC git repository, on PC with 1.5GB of RAM and 3GB swap. When I run "$git gc --aggressive", I will get after few hours an error: $ git gc --aggressive Counting objects: 1332887, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to

Re: grub2 prompt vs LVM

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > I've had an rpm upgrade from Fedora 15 tio 16 go slightly sideways and I've > wound up with a grub prompt upon boot.  I found > ; alas, it seems to be missing > information about what one does when one

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

--- On Thu, 3/29/12, Rex Dieter wrote: > From: Rex Dieter > Subject: Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 4:22 PM > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > Since Fedora still uses texlive2007 on fedora[except > the

disable automatic updates for ALL users (F16)

On Fedora 16, the system defaults to do automatic updates for security, which can cause the system to break if you use external modules (like nvidia). I know that I can disable the automatic updates via gnome when I am logged into the machine, but if a different user later logs into the machine an

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

Antonio Olivares wrote: > Since Fedora still uses texlive2007 on fedora[except the ones using > texlive-repos by J Novy > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive ] > > The packaging and patents are issues that hold TeXLive in Fedora back. > KerTEX is BSD licensed and has no such issues

grub2 prompt vs LVM

I've had an rpm upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16 go slightly sideways and I've wound up with a grub prompt upon boot. I found ; alas, it seems to be missing information about what one does when one's root partition is on an LVM volume. Do I need a Live

interactive kickstart ?

Is there any way to keep environment variables across different sections of a kickstart file ? E.g., if during %pre I solicit some input: %pre echo "enter bootloader password now:" > /dev/tty read -s GRUBPW < /dev/tty echo "you entered: ${GRUBPW}" > /dev/tty export GRUBPW %end ... is there any wa

2 bogs please report a mayor and minnor

hello can't post the bug, sorry the mayor one happends when a crash report is about to be generated on a crash while showing the overview if the crash is about to happen and the overview is activated the gnome shell crashes for good with a woops and no rebot helps the minor one is that while copy

Samba service with Windows and dual boot...

Howdy, Have a couple of open items in forum that I haven't been able to resolve and am looking for guidance. Item 1: I have F16 installed on a system with Samba server 3.x. I have configured both directory shares and a printer share through Samba. I can access these shares from Win7, I can acc

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Mark Haney wrote: > On 03/29/2012 11:11 AM, Alan J. Gagne wrote: > >>> >>> I'm really not trying to be difficult here, but this is driving me nuts. >> >> >> You could also just add a file to /etc/sudoers.d. I believe these >> entries get processed last. >> >> I use

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On 03/29/2012 10:33 AM, Mark Haney wrote: On 03/29/2012 11:11 AM, Alan J. Gagne wrote: I'm really not trying to be difficult here, but this is driving me nuts. You could also just add a file to /etc/sudoers.d. I believe these entries get processed last. I use the wheel group set-up with pas

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On 03/29/2012 06:23 AM, Mark Haney wrote: Yep. Use that a lot. Still doesn't mean I'll always think to run it before doing something. Trust me, I'm one of those 'oooh, something shiny' kinda people. Better safe than sorry. :) Put the host name into the prompt as well as the username. -- us

Re: xinetd reload via systemctl impossible: another systemd shortness or what?

T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik > wrote: >> "systemctl reload xinetd.service" return message: >> >> Failed to issue method call: Job type reload is not applicable for unit >> xinetd.service. >> >> It is on Fedora 16 i386, fully actualised. >> Comman

Re: [389-users] Changelog

2012/3/29 Jim Finn > Is it possible to view the contents of the changelog? > > cl-dump decodes the changelog you could refer: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8.2/html/Configuration_and_Command-Line_Tool_Reference/Perl_Scripts.html > -- > 389 users mailing list > 389

[389-users] Changelog

Is it possible to view the contents of the changelog? -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On 03/29/2012 11:11 AM, Alan J. Gagne wrote: I'm really not trying to be difficult here, but this is driving me nuts. You could also just add a file to /etc/sudoers.d. I believe these entries get processed last. I use the wheel group set-up with passwd in sudoers file so I just added a file

Re: xxxterm for fedora

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:09:06 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I have been using this browser for a while and I wonder whether the ISC > license (something I had never heard of before) is something that > allows for it to be packaged for fedora. > > Here is the license: https://opensource.conformal.co

Re: xinetd reload via systemctl impossible: another systemd shortness or what?

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > "systemctl reload xinetd.service" return message: > > Failed to issue method call: Job type reload is not applicable for unit > xinetd.service. > > It is on Fedora 16 i386, fully actualised. > Command "kill -HUP XINETD_PID" is working fl

Re: xinetd reload via systemctl impossible: another systemd shortness or what?

Am 29.03.2012 19:13, schrieb Frantisek Hanzlik: > "systemctl reload xinetd.service" return message: > > Failed to issue method call: Job type reload is not applicable for unit > xinetd.service. > > It is on Fedora 16 i386, fully actualised. > Command "kill -HUP XINETD_PID" is working flawlessly

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, stan wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:33:49 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: Since /boot and / are on disk sdb, I'd like the bootloader there also. Frustration is bad for my brain. Ignore my previous request on this subject. I know how to change the boot hard disk in my

xinetd reload via systemctl impossible: another systemd shortness or what?

"systemctl reload xinetd.service" return message: Failed to issue method call: Job type reload is not applicable for unit xinetd.service. It is on Fedora 16 i386, fully actualised. Command "kill -HUP XINETD_PID" is working flawlessly. It is some known systemd problem? Franta -- users mailing li

L2TP

Hi, I'm looking for a HowTo that explains how to setup a L2TP over IPSEC tunnel for Fedora. Has someone an idea ? Thanks for any help -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guide

xxxterm for fedora

Hi, I have been using this browser for a while and I wonder whether the ISC license (something I had never heard of before) is something that allows for it to be packaged for fedora. Here is the license: https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/Main_Page And the software page is here: https://open

Re: Sound Problem with USB Headphone

On 03/29/2012 09:55 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: Hello, I'm running 64 bit Fedora 16 (All up to date) and gstreamer backend. Now the problem is: I was having no issues with sound whatsoever. But few days back I plugged in an USB head

Re: Nightingale RPM or Repo

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: > You're THE man. Attach the link to download the SRPM :) I haven't had a chance to test it but here you go! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/nightingale-1.11.0-1.fc16.src.rpm Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Sound Problem with USB Headphone

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running 64 bit Fedora 16 (All up to date) and gstreamer backend. Now the > problem is: > > I was having no issues with sound whatsoever. But few days back I plugged in > an USB headphone. That thing got proper sound a

Sound Problem with USB Headphone

Hello, I'm running 64 bit Fedora 16 (All up to date) and gstreamer backend. Now the problem is: I was having no issues with sound whatsoever. But few days back I plugged in an USB headphone. That thing got proper sound and all but now I can't hear anything with it plugged in. I tried chang

Re: Nightingale RPM or Repo

On 03/29/2012 09:15 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: Let me know if you have an update :-) Well, I have good news and I have bad news. First the bad: This thing is a nightmare to package. The whole build process is designed for an individ

Re: Nightingale RPM or Repo

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: > Let me know if you have an update :-) Well, I have good news and I have bad news. First the bad: This thing is a nightmare to package. The whole build process is designed for an individual to do a personal install. Not only does it

RE: Is it me or is it sudo?

That's true. However, as I've explained, that line is commented out while I'm debugging the issue with the username. I suppose, push comes to shove that I can use an empty sudoers file except for that one line in order to make absolutely certain nothing else is interfering, but since Aaron Konst

Re: xorg.conf for HDMI

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:44 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Lokesh, > > A small comment before we get on to your problem. Please do not top > post, it makes it difficult to follow the thread. You should also read > the mailing list guidelines at the end of every message. > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at

Re: booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:33:49 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > Since /boot and / are on disk sdb, I'd like the bootloader there also. > Frustration is bad for my brain. Ignore my previous request on this > subject. I know how to change the boot hard disk in my BIOS. > What else do I need to

Re: Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 07:57 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > On 03/28/2012 04:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > I am still unable to boot to gnome3 without going to failsafe mode; your > > help would be appreciated. > > What happens when you boot from a LiveCD? > >>> > >

Re: xorg.conf for HDMI

Hi Lokesh, A small comment before we get on to your problem. Please do not top post, it makes it difficult to follow the thread. You should also read the mailing list guidelines at the end of every message. > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:01 PM, suvayu ali > wrote: >> >> xorg.conf has been phased ou

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On 03/29/2012 09:17 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: no, i have no good documentation, i googled around for colors i searched :-) I'm aware of BASH's use of colors, but, I'm not always at a console that displays colors. (I've not found an Android app that will display them on my Galaxy Tab for

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On 03/29/2012 09:13 AM, Alick Zhao wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:48:47 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: I think William Hooper has explained that sudo will look through the conf file and use the line that matches. So it is quite possible that the line with %wheel comes after the line with your user n

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On 03/29/2012 08:59 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 29/03/12 13:53, Mark Haney wrote: in the short term: whaoami Yep. Use that a lot. Still doesn't mean I'll always think to run it before doing something. Trust me, I'm one of those 'oooh, something shiny' kinda people. Better safe than

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

Am 29.03.2012 14:53, schrieb Mark Haney: > On 03/28/2012 04:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> the promt in linux supports colors since long ago >> which is smarter than guess by error messages that >> it was a root command happily with not enough >> permissions >> >> /root/.basrhc (red prompt): >

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:48:47 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > On 03/28/2012 04:26 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >>> >>> Hmm, no, not that I can see. That's the only entry with my username >>> in it. >> >> Are you a member of the "wheel" group? (You are added to this group >> when you check the "Adm

Re: xorg.conf for HDMI

hey suvayu, Thanks for yr reply , When i am trying to run xrandr command i am getting ,error "can't open display 0:0" ,i have removed all xorg.conf files do you have any clue abt what could be wrong with my xrandr. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:01 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hey Lokesh, > > On Thu, Mar

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On 29/03/12 13:53, Mark Haney wrote: Besides, I think a healthy dose of paranoia is not a bad thing. If it works for you, that's great. I've found that it's not always good to rely on things like that if you have to access consoles from odd devices like mobile phones. in the short term: whao

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On 03/28/2012 04:27 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: the promt in linux supports colors since long ago which is smarter than guess by error messages that it was a root command happily with not enough permissions /root/.basrhc (red prompt): PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] " ~/.bashrc (green p

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On 03/28/2012 04:26 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: Hmm, no, not that I can see. That's the only entry with my username in it. Are you a member of the "wheel" group? (You are added to this group when you check the "Administrator" checkbox on the user account setup screen that appears on the f

Re: Is it me or is it sudo?

On 03/28/2012 03:58 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: Wild guess: try cat -vet /etc/sudoers This should show if you have any unexpected control characters in your file (tab is shown as ^I, and the line feed at the end of a line by $). Hope this helps, James. This is the output of that command. I

Re: xorg.conf for HDMI

Hey Lokesh, On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 14:04, lokesh kumar wrote: > I want to have a display on tv from a customize board via HDMI port, > what modifications i need to make in xorg.conf and other configuration files > xorg.conf has been phased out for many releases now. The support is there for cas

Re: Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

On 03/28/2012 04:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: I am still unable to boot to gnome3 without going to failsafe mode; your help would be appreciated. What happens when you boot from a LiveCD? II my case the live DVD comes up in regular Gnome 3 mode but the i -- installed system does not. See if

Re: Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

> Target window never fires up (in this case) - this thought is however > not relevant as it used to work 100% correctly on older Gnomes, hence my > request insinuating "focus strategy" type differences in the DEs Actually I suspect its very relevant - if you've got timing dependancies in your a

Re: Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

Hi Alan, Thanks for your thoughts. Please see my comments interspersed with yours. Regards, Zoltan On 2012/03/29 13:10, Alan Cox wrote: Does XFCE work in multiseat mode (or must it too wait for the F17 drivers/methodology) I've run multiple XFCE sessions at once as *different* users on the same

Re: Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

> Does XFCE work in multiseat mode (or must it too wait for the F17 > drivers/methodology) I've run multiple XFCE sessions at once as *different* users on the same box to different displays. That works - and to be honest - that ought to work on any desktop. Trying to do multiple as one user ends

Re: External eSATA drive not recognized on 2nd power up

On 03/29/2012 03:14 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Will you settle for something easy to give a data point? When powered down, unplug the eSATA box and replug. If /var/log/messages tells you anything, share it with us, if it suddenly works again, that's a data point. No change and no messages at all.

camera

Hello, I have a Canon Power shot G2 that I can easily mount with fedora 14 (it appears as an icon under nautilus and which shotwell), but it fails with fedora 16! lsusb Bus 006 Device 008: ID 04a9:3055 Canon, Inc. PowerShot G2 but digikam says: Failed to connect to teh camera: Please make sure i

Re: a daemon uses too much cpu also Cross-Posted to Selinux-List.

On 29/03/12 08:50, Gergely Buday wrote: Hi, today I booted my fedora 15 box and setroubleshootd consumed all the cpu cycles and swapped a lot so for ten minutes my machine was unusable. Please don't cross post to various lists. Wait for the selinux-list to respond. -- Regards, Frank "Jack

a daemon uses too much cpu

Hi, today I booted my fedora 15 box and setroubleshootd consumed all the cpu cycles and swapped a lot so for ten minutes my machine was unusable. Is there a way to make a quarantine for such processes so that they get less cpu cycles? For five minutes I was not even able to start a terminal to se

Re: Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

On 2012/03/29 09:06, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/28/2012 11:55 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Does XFCE work in multiseat mode (or must it too wait for the F17 drivers/methodology) Which screen-focus methodology does XFCE use? (Like the older Gnome, or the newer Gnome) This probably isn't the best place

Re: Gnome vs XFCE - Multiseat & window focus

On 03/28/2012 11:55 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Does XFCE work in multiseat mode (or must it too wait for the F17 drivers/methodology) Which screen-focus methodology does XFCE use? (Like the older Gnome, or the newer Gnome) This probably isn't the best place to ask, partially because Fedora is