Re: preserving partitions during reinstall

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:17:43PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 09/10/2012 03:47 PM, Suvayu Ali uttered this comment: > > > >You say your original partitioning was custom partitioning, then how do > >you expect Anaconda will figure it out without help? The way to do what > >you want would be to

Re: gparted question

On 11.09.2012, Tom Horsley wrote: > Or is that too easy, and something I can't think of > might go horribly wrong (which is why I ask :-)? The only thing I can think of by now is something like WDs "advanced format", that the drive uses 512/4096 sectorsize. If the partition is properly aligned,

Re: Japanese fonts for romaji input

On 09/11/2012 08:32 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > What fonts have you tried? I don't use Japanese all that much I'm checking with some of my friends to see if they know of any good rpm's to download and install. However, I found this page http://www.geocities.jp/ep3797/japanese_fonts.html I

Re: Japanese fonts for romaji input

On 09/11/2012 07:46 AM, jonetsu wrote: > Hello, > > There are many nice fonts for rendering kanji characters. > Unfortunately the ones that I got so far does not work with the standard > ibus anthy romaji input. Many render the resulting kanji as a square, > no matter what. They are mapped dire

Japanese fonts for romaji input

Hello, There are many nice fonts for rendering kanji characters. Unfortunately the ones that I got so far does not work with the standard ibus anthy romaji input. Many render the resulting kanji as a square, no matter what. They are mapped directly to the keyboard keys and so are useless. Als

Re: Adding fonts

Le Dimanche, 09 Sep 2012 18:32:57 +0200, François Patte a écrit : > If you want to have any chances to make the difference between what > comes from the distribution and what you have added, you should create > your local font directories in /usr/local/share/fonts and be shure > that you have a f

Re: preserving partitions during reinstall

On 09/10/2012 03:47 PM, Suvayu Ali uttered this comment: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:08:47PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: The point is that *none* of the Ananconda install options: Use all space Replace Existing Linux System(s) Shrink current system use Free space Create

gparted question

We just replaced a small disk that was going bad with a bigger disk that the IT department cloned from the smaller disk. It works fine, but the partition table (naturally) doesn't know anything about the additional space. If I boot the system from a live CD, can I just tell gparted to grow the ext

Re: Post install customization

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:41:49PM +0100, Sophie Sperner wrote: > Cool, so I fixed my problem. Do you know though how to create my own extension > which will just hide the Online Accounts item because I guess my change will > be > overridden when I update my Fedora system and thus system files inc

Re: preserving partitions during reinstall

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:08:47PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > The point is that *none* of the Ananconda install options: > Use all space > Replace Existing Linux System(s) > Shrink current system > use Free space > Create custom layout > will read the existing partitioning

Re: how to stop yum update -

On 09/05/2012 04:02 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: "killall yum" is your friend If you do, yum may refuse to run. If that happens, do this as root: rm /var/run/yum.pid Because that will get rid of yum's lock file. Yes, it should go away when you kill yum, but I've had it fail. -- users mailing

Re: Clams.....

Am 09.09.2012 18:19, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: >> Just become root (su -) and edit the file. >> >> > There's no place for me to do that.(is there?) I mean it's not like I am > logging out and logging back in as > root...(AM I?) sometimes I feel SO stupid!...LoL! which place? * open wh

Re: Clams.....

Am 09.09.2012 05:37, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: > This is oddI KNOW the file is there because I've navigated to it using > Nautilus and SEE it with my own > eyesbut it WON'T show in a Terminal?...even AFTER I've entered the > commands for listing files? > > total 564 > drwx--.

Re: Failure to acquire IP over DHCP

Am 08.09.2012 22:31, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: >> All that information only a web search away :). Yes, I am employed by >> Nikhef, and I am based at CERN at the moment. >> > Ok.so I know this is going to sound stupid, but I'm currently unavailable > to do a "search"whatexactly

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

Am 08.09.2012 22:14, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.:> In all my years using Thunderbird (since version 10!) years? version 10? kidding? thunderbird-10.0-1.fc16 2012-01-31 13:32:06 for a user of thunderbird since 1.0.x (2006) your post sounds like a joke :-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

Am 08.09.2012 00:05, schrieb JD: > I will wait for fc18 in the hopes it will do a better job of upgrading from > 16 to 18 you can NOT expect that a F16->F18 upgrade will do USrMove better > The yum route, due to the time it takes to download everything uninstall unused crap to reduce the amou

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

Am 08.09.2012 19:46, schrieb Heinz Diehl: > On 08.09.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> not all users have plain setups where you can easily >> do a fresh install, this works not well if you have >> customiized many configurations of many services > >> and that is why a distribution with a new re

Re: Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

Am 08.09.2012 19:38, schrieb Heinz Diehl: > On 08.09.2012, JD wrote: > >> It fails after it displays that the installed fedora 16 will be upgraded, >> and I click next. > [] > > Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously. > Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will

Re: Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

Am 08.09.2012 16:17, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 00:43 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 08:34:10 +0200 >> Lukáš Šembera wrote: >> >>> on my home LAN network, there are 2 fedora computers. The problem is that >>> I'm unable to access one from the another by hostname

Re: Accessing fedora on LAN by hostname

if you do not want /etc/hosts you need a DNS server in my opinion a nameserver for TWO hostnames is wasted time you have much more work configure a dns as with TWO text-lines which of the two is the dns-server? are both the dns-server with slave/master? why so much wasted time for two computers?

Re: LVM [WAS Re: Yum cache memory space -]

Am 06.09.2012 21:35, schrieb Steven Stern: > On 09/06/2012 01:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 09/06/2012 11:23 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> For which I am deeply grateful. Most of the time LVM is fine, even >>> preferred, but some times I really "want it my way" and now that's easy. >> >> Personally

Re: Yum cache memory space -

Am 05.09.2012 18:52, schrieb Bob Goodwin - Zuni: >Error Downloading Packages: > 1:libreoffice-core-3.5.6.2-2.fc17.x86_64: Insufficient space >in download directory /var/cache/yum/x86_64/17/updates/packages > * free 45 M > * needed 70 M > >[

Re: how to stop yum update -

"killall yum" is your friend Am 05.09.2012 12:55, schrieb Yashar Pezeshki: > CTRL+C doesn't work for me neither! But you don't need to know the process id > of yum, "kill `pidof yum`" > will automatically replace the process id in front of the kill command. And > if anything went wrong with your

Re: Linux uncrackable...?

Am 05.09.2012 01:10, schrieb Peter Gordon: > On 09/03/2012 03:26 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> the point i was making is that all the security updates are after the fact > > I don't understand what you're getting at, here. Fixing a security hole > before you even know that security hole is there i

Re: preserving partitions during reinstall

On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 10:32:16AM -0600, JD wrote: > > On 09/09/2012 01:22 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 05:12:31AM -0600, JD wrote: > >>On 09/09/2012 12:33 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: > >>>I just did a re-install of a F14 system to bring it up to F17. > >>>I wanted to keep the

Re: Cheese webcam software - audio and video out of sync

That answer is so full of fail as to be nearly epic. 1) It does not answer the original question. 2) Any answer which includes "nodeps" without a really, really good explanation of why is fail. 3) It doesn't answer the follow-on question about another tool for web cam management. 4) Did I ment

Re: F17: power consumption on wired ethernet port

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:52:04AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 09/08/2012 06:21 PM, fred smith uttered this comment: > >I've just started messing around with powertop 2.1, and I notice something > >that strikes me as decidedly ODD... > > > >On my eeepc 901, powertop reports that network interfa

Re: I/O or CPU bandwidth issue or wget issue or perhaps isp???

On 09/08/2012 10:07 AM, JD uttered this comment: fc16 (latest updates) + wget-1.12-4.fc16.i686, and system load negligible when I start wget. CPU is Athlon64 3700+ (but I run i686 kernel/apps). Sometimes, wget chokes 25% [+=> ] 1,000,855,688 --.-K/s eta 27m

Re: F17: power consumption on wired ethernet port

On 09/08/2012 06:21 PM, fred smith uttered this comment: I've just started messing around with powertop 2.1, and I notice something that strikes me as decidedly ODD... On my eeepc 901, powertop reports that network interface p33p1 consumes in the range of 5.6 to 7.7 watts, depending on factors t

Re:

O that I had a botnet to ram down your sockets. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:42 PM, burslem2...@yahoo.com < burslem2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://www.eliw.cba.pl/655784.php > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.f

Re: Post install customization

Cool, so I fixed my problem. Do you know though how to create my own extension which will just hide the Online Accounts item because I guess my change will be overridden when I update my Fedora system and thus system files including userMenu.js On 10 September 2012 15:30, Sophie Sperner wrote: >

Re: Cheese webcam software - audio and video out of sync

Sophie Sperner wrote: [snip] > Because '# yum remove cheese' does not remove 'cheese-libs' which if you > want to remove by '# yum remove cheese-libs' you will just stuck because > it will show you non-obvious dependencies which MUST not be as > dependencies.. You may be interested to know there i

Re: Post install customization

Thank you for this command. Now I want to show you that I found some suspicious file that I might have investigated, which is not in the /home/myself/ (either ~/.local or ~/.config)... directory, but in the system directory which comes together with the installation: [sophie@lyon ~]$ grep -i -e on

Re: Cheese webcam software - audio and video out of sync

Agree in general, but I would recommend to developers make packages as more independent as possible. Because '# yum remove cheese' does not remove 'cheese-libs' which if you want to remove by '# yum remove cheese-libs' you will just stuck because it will show you non-obvious dependencies which MUS

Re: Post install customization

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 01:35:52PM +0100, Sophie Sperner wrote: > The problem is that I do not know in which file the "Online Accounts" is > stored > : > You could give the following a try to locate the file: $ grep -i -e online -r ~/.config ~/.local GL -- Suvayu Open source is the fu

digikam

Hello, digikam work when I am root, but not as a user: Failed to connect to the camera. Please make sure it is connected properly and turned on. Would you like to try again? How can I solve this issue? thank. -- == Patrick

Re: Cheese webcam software - audio and video out of sync

Sophie Sperner wrote: > rpm -e --nodeps cheese cheese-libs :) Please, do not recommend using the "--nodeps" option. The proper procedure, if Thomas wanted to remove cheese, would be to call: # yum remove cheese -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscrip

Re: Cheese webcam software - audio and video out of sync

rpm -e --nodeps cheese cheese-libs :) On 10 September 2012 13:58, Thomas Cameron wrote: > On 09/02/2012 02:42 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > >> I was just playing around with Cheese on my Lenovo T510 laptop. It's a >> relatively fast laptop, with a pretty new i7 CPU and 8GB memory. >> >> I noticed t

Re: Cheese webcam software - audio and video out of sync

On 09/02/2012 02:42 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: I was just playing around with Cheese on my Lenovo T510 laptop. It's a relatively fast laptop, with a pretty new i7 CPU and 8GB memory. I noticed that, even at the lowest resolution possible, I get a bad audtio delay. In other words, when I play back

Re: Stemming a flood of kernel warnings

On 09/10/2012 01:31 PM, Dave Ulrick wrote: > Is there any possible way I could configure ABRT to stop nagging me about > this particular bug? Note this "bug" is really just a WARN()/assertion in > a kernel module (i915). Other than the annoyance caused by the frequent > bug reports, it causes no

Re: Stemming a flood of kernel warnings

yum remove abrt abrt-libs :) On 10 September 2012 13:31, Dave Ulrick wrote: > Starting around when kernel 3.4.x came out for FC16, I started getting > frequent ABRT reports for this kernel warning: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=854070

Re: Post install customization

The problem is that I do not know in which file the "Online Accounts" is stored : On 10 September 2012 13:30, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/10/2012 07:53 PM, Sophie Sperner wrote: > > 'm not going to create new accounts and migrate configuration. I need to > fix the problem from within my single

Stemming a flood of kernel warnings

Starting around when kernel 3.4.x came out for FC16, I started getting frequent ABRT reports for this kernel warning: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854070 As I note in the bug, a new report is generated every time I log off or resume the laptop from suspend. Sometimes ABRT notice

Re: Post install customization

On 09/10/2012 07:53 PM, Sophie Sperner wrote: > 'm not going to create new accounts and migrate configuration. I need to fix > the problem from within my single account. > > The only thing I need is to find the appropriate file to hide the "Online > Accounts" user menu item. > > If someone know,

Re: Post install customization

On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 10:41 +0100, Sophie Sperner wrote: > Now, I did *yum remove gnome-online-accounts* but the item "Online > Accounts" is still appearing in the user menu on the right side of the > gnome panel when you click the quick-quit button. I thought a little > and did (with intent to hid

Re: Clams.....

It sometimes boggles the mind how much the "Average User" DOESN'T know about the system they're using! (I myself am guilty of this very crime!) EGO II On 09/10/2012 04:38 AM, Roger wrote: Actually with Windows 7 (and apparently Vista, too) it is more like you are logged in to an account th

Re: Clams.....

Actually with Windows 7 (and apparently Vista, too) it is more like you are logged in to an account that is more or less sort of (and more weasel words) equivalent to a Linux account in the wheel group for running sudo. You CAN do "most" "root" commands; but, you must perform a GUI based equival

Re: how uncover what start iptables?

Frantisek Hanzlik pise: > I have disabled (not masked) iptables.service on F17 box. > But occasionally are this services started. There isn't any > record about it in system logs. Is there some (systemd native) > manner how detect who start this service? > (maybe via inotify tools I'm able detect a