Re: Checking which application is taking bandwidth

2012-06-13 Thread Martin Airs
On Thursday 14 Jun 2012 09:04:46 Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: > Hello, > > What is the way to check which application is using the bandwidth? I use > GNOME 3 with Fedora 17 . > > Thanks :) Using ss can tell you what sockets and ports are open, in particular ss -p will tell you which process is

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-13 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 14:35 +0930, Tim wrote: > It *is* a *basic* thing. Are they purely aiming at a server market? > Home users *do* turn their PCs off. How difficult is pressing the alt button? I don't understand what the cribbing is all about really: 1. press alt button 2. install the exte

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-13 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 19:57 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Pick one of four ways to fix that: > > yum install gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu > > or > > yum groupinstall xfce > > or > > yum groupinstall lxde > > or > > yum groupinstall kde > > +1 I'll request you to please

Re: Checking which application is taking bandwidth

2012-06-13 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 09:04 +0600, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: > Hello, > > What is the way to check which application is using the bandwidth? I > use GNOME 3 with Fedora 17 . > > Thanks :) > -- > Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor > Developer, Hulu & Diaspora > Twitter - @Nirjhor > I'm not sure if the

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.06.2012, Neal Becker wrote: > Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about > buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux > compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? If you don't buy the latest and greatest, all

nouveau configure problems

2012-06-13 Thread George R Goffe
Hi, I'm trying to use the nouveau driver on my FC 16 x86_64 system and need some help please. lspci | grep vid gives: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0df6 (rev a1) Here is a snippit from /var/log/messages. This problem is readily re-creatable so if anyone needs m

Re: Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 6/13/2012 9:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Welcome. And, pardon me for saying. Matt Cain throws the *First* perfect game in SF Giants History! :-) Thanks for posting ... OT as it may be ... wow! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-13 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 00:10 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > Furthermore, updates to extensions are reviewed by GNOME shell > developers. If they break stuff, it means additional work for them to > review the updated extension. ... just one reason why basic normal functionality should be part of the m

Re: Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/2012 12:57 PM, John Wendel wrote: > Thank you very much! I really appreciate the help. Welcome. And, pardon me for saying. Matt Cain throws the *First* perfect game in SF Giants History! :-) -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the

Re: Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread John Wendel
On 06/13/2012 09:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/14/2012 11:12 AM, John Wendel wrote: Nwtwork manager is also loading a bunch of wireless networking modules, which I also don't have, but I bitch about that in another post. Thanks for the reply. OK I have an answer for you. Edit the file..

Re: Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/2012 11:12 AM, John Wendel wrote: > Nwtwork manager is also loading a bunch of wireless networking modules, which > I > also don't have, but I bitch about that in another post. > > Thanks for the reply. OK I have an answer for you. Edit the file /usr/share/dbus-1/system-servi

Re: Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/2012 11:12 AM, John Wendel wrote: > Sorry for the lack of detail in the original post. > > The system is running F17 with Gnome. Modem manager is a process that gets > loaded > by network manager. In /var/log/messages, I see modem manager and a bunch of > plugins (with modem names) being

Re: Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread John Wendel
On 06/13/2012 07:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/14/2012 10:16 AM, John Wendel wrote: Anybody know how to tell network manager to not load modem manager? I don't have a modem, but modem manager and all of its plugin drivers get loaded. I'm trying put this pig on a diet, but not having a lot of

Checking which application is taking bandwidth

2012-06-13 Thread Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Hello, What is the way to check which application is using the bandwidth? I use GNOME 3 with Fedora 17 . Thanks :) -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Developer, Hulu & Diaspora Twitter - @Nirjhor -- users mailing list us

Avahi/KDE widget sharing

2012-06-13 Thread Fedora User
Here's where I am at from my client (acer) to my media server (dell): # avahi-browse -a + wlan0 IPv4 Now Playing on dell_plasma._tcp local + wlan0 IPv4 acerSSH Remote Terminal local + wlan0 IPv4 dell [00:23:ae:15:5b:07] Workstationlocal + wlan0 IPv4 acer

Re: Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/2012 10:16 AM, John Wendel wrote: > Anybody know how to tell network manager to not load modem manager? > > I don't have a modem, but modem manager and all of its plugin drivers get > loaded. > I'm trying put this pig on a diet, but not having a lot of luck. > > Can we safely assume that

Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread John Wendel
Anybody know how to tell network manager to not load modem manager? I don't have a modem, but modem manager and all of its plugin drivers get loaded. I'm trying put this pig on a diet, but not having a lot of luck. Thanks, John Wendel -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Yumex fails to validate user

2012-06-13 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
When I start yumex it runs up to the point of validating the user but never puts up the box asking for my password; and then hangs. Looks like a library problem. Here are the messages produced when yumex is invoked from a console. $ yumex ** (process:18132): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype

Re: F17 KDE Breakage

2012-06-13 Thread Fedora User
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:17:23 -0500 (CDT) "Matthew J. Roth" wrote: > Fedora User wrote: > > > > That's it! I never set the proxy in the first place. Clearing the > > entry restored connectivity! > > That can be a bad sign. Some malware likes to set the proxy > in order to hijack your network tr

Re: boot without ramdisk

2012-06-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/13/2012 06:54 PM, Jinze Xue wrote: hello I want to boot linux without ramdisk. The purpose not using ramdisk is to speed up the boot time of my computer while Load the ramdisk used about 15s in my computer. Yes, you can comment out the line loading your initramfs in grub.conf and you'l

Re: back button in firefox?

2012-06-13 Thread John Wendel
On 06/13/2012 10:02 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the "back" button in firefox on fedora 17 rarely if ever does anything the first time you click it? I seem to always need to click it multiple times before it actually goes back to the previous page. I'm running Aurora (FF

boot without ramdisk

2012-06-13 Thread Jinze Xue
hello I want to boot linux without ramdisk. The purpose not using ramdisk is to speed up the boot time of my computer while Load the ramdisk used about 15s in my computer. The system have start up successfully, but there are some problems: I have boot my system by add root=/dev/sda2 fastboot re

Re: F17: problems with bash-completion

2012-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/2012 04:55 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > Well, it now in bugzilla because both, the current behavior > and remove bash-completion are destroing my complete workload > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831835 Yes And I'm happy to see the problems have been identified so quick

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 05:10:02PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > want. Please note that they have made it very clear that they're > not going to make the slightest effort to avoid breaking third-party > plugins, even (especially!) those that correct some of Gnome 3's > most glaring flaws. There is a b

Re: Fedora vs Gnome

2012-06-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:37:53AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > It is true that Gnome is product of the Gnome people not the fedora > people. But since (it seems to me) Fedora is the only major distribution > that uses Gnome as its default Desktop Environment the Fedora Board > should be listened

Fedora vs Gnome

2012-06-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
It is true that Gnome is product of the Gnome people not the fedora people. But since (it seems to me) Fedora is the only major distribution that uses Gnome as its default Desktop Environment the Fedora Board should be listened to by Gnome and the opinions of the Fedora users about the direction of

Re: NetworkManager and bridge support

2012-06-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 03:54:53PM -0400, David Mansfield wrote: > Implying, of course, that SOME non-gui bits are here now. Which > bits and how can I find them/evaluate them etc? As I mentioned, I No idea. I responded to what I knew. -- Regards, Olav -- users mailing list users@lists.fedora

Re: F17: problems with bash-completion

2012-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.06.2012 17:59, schrieb Ed Greshko: > On 06/13/2012 11:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: why is this completion for empty a textfile no longer working? >> "cat mess" still works I see this same herebut don't have an answer or theory at the moment >> this is simply a bug and

Re: NetworkManager and bridge support

2012-06-13 Thread David Mansfield
On 06/13/2012 12:54 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:06:44AM -0400, David Mansfield wrote: 1. There's nothing in the GUI GUI bit is scheduled for GNOME 3.6. Implying, of course, that SOME non-gui bits are here now. Which bits and how can I find them/evaluate them etc?

Re: back button in firefox?

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Wright
On 06/13/2012 11:39 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Martin Airs wrote: yes, I have noticed that, glad its not just me also sometimes right click does nothing first time you do it, and needs a second go to bring up a menu I have no idea why tho. I'm on FF 13 and do not experience any performan

Re: back button in firefox?

2012-06-13 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 13.06.2012 19:02, Tom Horsley wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that the "back" button in firefox on > fedora 17 rarely if ever does anything the first time you click it? > > I seem to always need to click it multiple times before it actually > goes back to the previous page. Yes, me too. I confi

Re: Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora (root password for printers)

2012-06-13 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 12:50 -0400, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 06/13/2012 02:44 PM, > valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > > Why is Administrator type account being asked for root pasword when > accessing printer settings? > > Is there some user group I need

Re: back button in firefox?

2012-06-13 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Martin Airs wrote: > yes, I have noticed that, glad its not just me > > also sometimes right click does nothing first time you do it, and needs a > second go to bring up a menu > > I have no idea why tho. I'm on FF 13 and do not experience any performance problems with the back button. Overall,

Re: back button in firefox?

2012-06-13 Thread Martin Airs
On Wednesday 13 Jun 2012 13:02:50 Tom Horsley wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that the "back" button in firefox on > fedora 17 rarely if ever does anything the first time you click it? > > I seem to always need to click it multiple times before it actually > goes back to the previous page. yes,

Re: back button in firefox?

2012-06-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
I use "alt-left-arrow" and i find that more convenient, so the answer to your question: not me, sorry. Ranjan On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:02:50 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that the "back" button in firefox on > fedora 17 rarely if ever does anything the first time you click it

Re: F17 KDE Breakage

2012-06-13 Thread Matthew J. Roth
Fedora User wrote: > > That's it! I never set the proxy in the first place. Clearing the > entry restored connectivity! That can be a bad sign. Some malware likes to set the proxy in order to hijack your network traffic. This is usually more of a Windows problem, but the question is: If you di

back button in firefox?

2012-06-13 Thread Tom Horsley
Has anyone else noticed that the "back" button in firefox on fedora 17 rarely if ever does anything the first time you click it? I seem to always need to click it multiple times before it actually goes back to the previous page. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: Fedora 17 - CPU Fan Speed

2012-06-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 18:42:12 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Hey! It works! My video card is quiet again (I can hear my hard drive working again :) )! Now I must find out how to make this changes to /sys persistent across system reboots. Then see if there is some stock Fedora/X.org too

Re: NetworkManager and bridge support

2012-06-13 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:06:44AM -0400, David Mansfield wrote: > 1. There's nothing in the GUI GUI bit is scheduled for GNOME 3.6. -- Regards, Olav -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Re: NetworkManager and bridge support

2012-06-13 Thread Frank Pikelner
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > On 13.06.2012 16:06, David Mansfield wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In Fedora 17, according to: >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NMEnterpriseNetworking >> >> we should have bridge support in NetworkManager.  But I can't see any >> re

Re: Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora (root password for printers)

2012-06-13 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 06/13/2012 02:44 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Why is Administrator type account being asked for root pasword when > accessing printer settings? > > Is there some user group I need to be part of? Do I need to edit some > system files? Are there some PolicyKit options that need to be edi

Re: Fedora 17 - CPU Fan Speed

2012-06-13 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 13.06.2012 16:44, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 14:43:18 +0200, > Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply. I'm now trying to identify which fan is noisy. The >> problem is that I already have latest BIOS update installed and week ago >> on Ubuntu 12.04 I had

Re: Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora (root password for printers)

2012-06-13 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:40 PM, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 16:42 +0200, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:44 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> > Why is Administrator type account being asked for root pasword when >> > accessing printer setti

Re: F17: problems with bash-completion

2012-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/13/2012 11:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> why is this completion for empty a textfile no longer working? >>> >> "cat mess" still works >> > >> > I see this same herebut don't have an answer or theory at the moment > this is simply a bug and affects also brand new installs of F17 > i am

Re: F17 KDE Breakage

2012-06-13 Thread Fedora User
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:07:14 +0200 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > Hi Rex > > > > Nope Konqueror is dead. Ktorrent will download torrents but won't > > do a search. I can work around everything but MyMoney. > > Messed up proxy settings? > That's it! I never set the proxy in the first place. Clearing

Re: Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora (root password for printers)

2012-06-13 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org Thanks for providing this link, i asked this question also there; http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/1884/why-are-administrator-users-being-asked-for-root -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: Fedora 17 - CPU Fan Speed

2012-06-13 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 13.06.2012 14:43, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > On 13.06.2012 09:04, agraham wrote: >> On 06/12/2012 06:52 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >>> I've just installed Fedora 17 (x86_64) on my Dell XPS 8300 with Intel >>> Core i7-2600 and I noticed a very strange behavior: CPU and/or >>> motherboard

Re: F17: problems with bash-completion

2012-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.06.2012 16:45, schrieb Ed Greshko: > On 06/13/2012 10:22 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Hi >> >> i have two problems noticed in F17 >> >> "dmesg " -> "dmesg bash: cur: command not found" >> >> this happens for some commands after > > Both as root and a normal user I typed > > dmesg > > a

Re: Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora (root password for printers)

2012-06-13 Thread Jayson Rowe
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:44 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Why is Administrator type account being asked for root pasword when > accessing printer settings? > > Is there some user group I need to be part of? Do I need to edit some > system files? Are there some PolicyKit options that need

Re: Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora (root password for printers)

2012-06-13 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:44 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Why is Administrator type account being asked for root pasword when > accessing printer settings? > > Is there some user group I need to be part of? Do I need to edit some > system files? Are there some PolicyKit options that need

Re: NetworkManager and bridge support

2012-06-13 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 13.06.2012 16:06, David Mansfield wrote: > Hi, > > In Fedora 17, according to: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NMEnterpriseNetworking > > we should have bridge support in NetworkManager. But I can't see any > reference other than this, and it appears to be not working. > > 1. There's

Re: Fedora 17 - CPU Fan Speed

2012-06-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 14:43:18 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Thanks for the reply. I'm now trying to identify which fan is noisy. The problem is that I already have latest BIOS update installed and week ago on Ubuntu 12.04 I had no such problem with fans going to fast. My load avg is 2

Re: F17: problems with bash-completion

2012-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/13/2012 10:22 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > Hi > > i have two problems noticed in F17 > > "dmesg " -> "dmesg bash: cur: command not found" > > this happens for some commands after Both as root and a normal user I typed dmesg and no completion was attempted and I didn't get a command not fo

Re: F17 KDE Breakage

2012-06-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Fedora User wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:28:03 -0500 > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Fedora User wrote: >> >> > I seem to be having a problem with any KDE application that has to >> > communicate with the world. >> >> I wonder if you're hitting some sort of ipv6'ism (or some other >> network conne

F17: problems with bash-completion

2012-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Hi i have two problems noticed in F17 "dmesg " -> "dmesg bash: cur: command not found" this happens for some commands after _ [root@rh:~]$ ls messages lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2012-03-30 01:21 messages -> /var/log/messages [root@rh:~]$ cat messages Jun 13 16:13:04

Re: Weird Networking(?) problem....

2012-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/13/2012 08:21 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > There could be invisible files in /tmp directory. > Check if the available disk space gets lower and lower while streaming; > writing on an almost full disk can become slow. Nope, it is pure streaming as there is no change in disk usage while streami

NetworkManager and bridge support

2012-06-13 Thread David Mansfield
Hi, In Fedora 17, according to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NMEnterpriseNetworking we should have bridge support in NetworkManager. But I can't see any reference other than this, and it appears to be not working. 1. There's nothing in the GUI 2. There's nothing in the cli 3. Havi

Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora (root password for printers)

2012-06-13 Thread valent.turko...@gmail.com
Why is Administrator type account being asked for root pasword when accessing printer settings? Is there some user group I need to be part of? Do I need to edit some system files? Are there some PolicyKit options that need to be edited? How? Here are screenshots for printer dialog and user accoun

cpu scaling

2012-06-13 Thread Matej Kosik
Hello, On Fedora 16, CPU scaling works fine for me. On Debian, I was able to determine minimal/maximal frequencies of CPU-s by looking to files like this: cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_{min,max}_freq Is there a way how can I do the same on Fedora? Is there a way h

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 16:59 -0400, Jayson Rowe wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Dokuro wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Andre Robatino > > wrote: > >> Aaron Konstam sbcglobal.net> writes: > >> > >>> I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets > >>> an

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 20:48 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > Aaron Konstam sbcglobal.net> writes: > > > I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets > > annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains > > the stupidity of having to hold down the alt

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-13 Thread Jeff Gipson
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:32:08AM -0500, Jeff Gipson wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:24:23PM +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: hi all, asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the login box. i can

Re: Fedora 17 - CPU Fan Speed

2012-06-13 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 13.06.2012 09:04, agraham wrote: > On 06/12/2012 06:52 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >> I've just installed Fedora 17 (x86_64) on my Dell XPS 8300 with Intel >> Core i7-2600 and I noticed a very strange behavior: CPU and/or >> motherboard fans are constantly working at very high speed which ma

Re: Weird Networking(?) problem....

2012-06-13 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06/13/2012 01:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > I've run into what I find to be a weird problem which may be network stack > related...or something else. > > Running a fully updated F16/KDE system and the latest flash plugin installed. > > I watch MLBtv which uses flash but seems to do only streaming

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-13 Thread Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains the stupidity of having to hold down the alt key to get to the power off option. It's annoying, but it has an extremely easy fix. Has no one told you about

Re: DropBox does not work on F17

2012-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> >> When I start DropBox, I get the following error: >> >> >> >> $ /home/psmith/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.3.3' not >> >> found (required by /lib64/libxml2.so.2) >> >> Failed to load module: /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsd

Re: DropBox does not work on F17

2012-06-13 Thread Jayson Rowe
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > I installed DropBox through the respective rpm. What do you mean by WM/DE? > > Paul Hi Paul, By WM/DE I meant "Window Manager" or "Desktop Environment". If you installed via the RPM provided by Dropbox, it should've set up a repo for you. If yo

Re: DropBox does not work on F17

2012-06-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:17:06 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Bruno Martins wrote: > >> When I start DropBox, I get the following error: > >> > >> $ /home/psmith/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.3.3' not > >> found (required by /lib64/libxml2.so.2) > >> Faile

Weird Networking(?) problem....

2012-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
I've run into what I find to be a weird problem which may be network stack related...or something else. Running a fully updated F16/KDE system and the latest flash plugin installed. I watch MLBtv which uses flash but seems to do only streaming as it doesn't produce any temp files that I can see.

Re: DropBox does not work on F17

2012-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Bruno Martins wrote: >> When I start DropBox, I get the following error: >> >> $ /home/psmith/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.3.3' not >> found (required by /lib64/libxml2.so.2) >> Failed to load module: /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so >> >> $ >>

Re: DropBox does not work on F17

2012-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Jayson Rowe wrote: >> When I start DropBox, I get the following error: >> >> $ /home/psmith/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.3.3' not >> found (required by /lib64/libxml2.so.2) >> Failed to load module: /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so >> >> $ >> >>

Re: DropBox does not work on F17

2012-06-13 Thread Bruno Martins
On 06/13/2012 11:47 AM, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, When I start DropBox, I get the following error: $ /home/psmith/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.3.3' not found (required by /lib64/libxml2.so.2) Failed to load module: /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so $ Any workaround? Thank

Re: F17 KDE Breakage

2012-06-13 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06/13/2012 08:15 AM, Fedora User wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:28:03 -0500 > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Fedora User wrote: >> >>> I seem to be having a problem with any KDE application that has to >>> communicate with the world. >> >> I wonder if you're hitting some sort of ipv6'ism (or some oth

Re: DropBox does not work on F17

2012-06-13 Thread Jayson Rowe
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > When I start DropBox, I get the following error: > > $ /home/psmith/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.3.3' not > found (required by /lib64/libxml2.so.2) > Failed to load module: /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so > > $

DropBox does not work on F17

2012-06-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, When I start DropBox, I get the following error: $ /home/psmith/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.3.3' not found (required by /lib64/libxml2.so.2) Failed to load module: /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so $ Any workaround? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list u

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-13 Thread Pasha R
> Just installed Fedora 17 on VM in VirtualBox and can't undersand what > stupidity you are talking about. I don't need to hold down alt key. Just > click on the user name in right top corner and then click on "Power Off..." > on the botton of the menu. That's because VirtualBox's "BIOS" does not

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On 12/06/12 16:38, Aaron Konstam wrote: I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains the stupidity of having to hold down the alt key to get to the power off option. It is certainly a stupid feature a

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

2012-06-13 Thread Jon Ingason
2012-06-12 17:38, Aaron Konstam skrev: I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains the stupidity of having to hold down the alt key to get to the power off option. It is certainly a stupid feature an

Re: Fedora 17 - CPU Fan Speed

2012-06-13 Thread agraham
On 06/12/2012 06:52 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: I've just installed Fedora 17 (x86_64) on my Dell XPS 8300 with Intel Core i7-2600 and I noticed a very strange behavior: CPU and/or motherboard fans are constantly working at very high speed which makes a lot of noise (fan speed is at the same