vncserver giving Oh No. Something has gone wrong?

2012-11-19 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Have a machine that I setup Fedora 17 on some time ago, and vnc works just fine, but have recently done a clean install on another machine, and it connects fine, prompts for password, but then displays the Oh No. Something has gone wrong. The machines have the same video cards, and have the sam

Re: Te curious case of DST

2012-11-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:28:39 -0800 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Suddenly my two (count 'em) computers networked together and connected > to the internet have been booting up in DST - i.e. one hour later than > the actual time. A pointer to where this setting is stored or can be > accessed would be

Re: Te curious case of DST

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/19/2012 08:28 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Suddenly my two (count 'em) computers networked together and connected to the internet have been booting up in DST - i.e. one hour later than the actual time. A pointer to where this setting is stored or can be accessed would be greatly appreciated.

Te curious case of DST

2012-11-19 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Suddenly my two (count 'em) computers networked together and connected to the internet have been booting up in DST - i.e. one hour later than the actual time. A pointer to where this setting is stored or can be accessed would be greatly appreciated. They are set up to get time via NTP, FWIW. O

Re: mp4 video to AMV 160x120

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am getting back to this. To my disgust, the Trio Win utility does not support mp4 as a video input format! So much for truth in advertising. So now to ffmpeg built for amv output support... On 11/11/2012 01:01 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 11.11.2012 18:56, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: On 11

Re: [Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/19/2012 01:31 PM, Sergio wrote: yumex is working just fine here. Don't mess with its desktop files, your issue is something else. BTW, that looks like yumex-local.desktop which is made to install local rpm's. yumex.desktop is attached in case you lost it (?) I don't have a desktop file f

Re: f17 gnome-shell-extension-weather

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/19/2012 04:50 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: On 11/19/2012 02:24 PM, Arun SAG wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: The weather setup is not letting me change the city. It defaulted to Cambridge, GB and when I put in any city from its selection list, the

Re: f17 gnome-shell-extension-weather

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/19/2012 04:24 PM, Arun SAG wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: The weather setup is not letting me change the city. It defaulted to Cambridge, GB and when I put in any city from its selection list, the OK button remains greyed out and only cancel is a

Re: f17 gnome-shell-extension-weather

2012-11-19 Thread Lawrence Graves
On 11/19/2012 02:24 PM, Arun SAG wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: The weather setup is not letting me change the city. It defaulted to Cambridge, GB and when I put in any city from its selection list, the OK button remains greyed out and only cancel is a

Re: [Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Sergio
--- Em seg, 19/11/12, Joe Zeff escreveu: > De: Joe Zeff > Assunto: [Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install > Para: "Community support for Fedora users" > Data: Segunda-feira, 19 de Novembro de 2012, 19:02 > A correction to my last post: when I > went to edit the menu to add --update-only to the

Re: [389-users] ACI for single user access

2012-11-19 Thread James Chamberlain
Hi Ludwig, That's an interesting thought. I'm guessing that access to the branch is covered by the default "Enable anonymous access" ACI. To check my logic, if I can exclude this single branch from the "anonymous" ACI, and then add an ACI to the branch to cover access for this single us

Re: f17 gnome-shell-extension-weather

2012-11-19 Thread Arun SAG
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > The weather setup is not letting me change the city. It defaulted > to Cambridge, GB and when I put in any city from its selection list, > the OK button remains greyed out and only cancel is avaiable. > > Any tips on getting this

[Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
A correction to my last post: when I went to edit the menu to add --update-only to the yumex command line, I saw this: /usr/bin/yumex -X install %F This means that, as installed, yumex is expecting to be given a program to install on the command line. No wonder it doesn't work! Removing tha

Re: [Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Sergio
> Just to close things off, I've logged onto the laptop, > removed myself from wheel and things are working the way I > want.  However, if I run it from the menu and there are > no updates, it simply tells me there's nothing to do and > exits. I never saw it behave this way (close itself). Maybe

Re: [Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/19/2012 03:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/19/2012 11:38 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Did you select for you to be in the administartors group? If so you can now do a lot of things previously restricted to root; one of them is install software. But everytime you have to authenticate YOURSEL

[Solved] Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/19/2012 11:38 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Did you select for you to be in the administartors group? If so you can now do a lot of things previously restricted to root; one of them is install software. But everytime you have to authenticate YOURSELF. Just to close things off, I've logge

Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/19/2012 11:38 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Did you select for you to be in the administartors group? If so you can now do a lot of things previously restricted to root; one of them is install software. But everytime you have to authenticate YOURSELF. I kind of like this move. OK, that's

Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/19/2012 11:26 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: I finally broke down and replaced F16 with F17 on my laptop with a clean install, except for /home. The good news is that the boot issue went away, proving that it was a software issue not a kernel

Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/19/2012 02:26 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: I finally broke down and replaced F16 with F17 on my laptop with a clean install, except for /home. The good news is that the boot issue went away, proving that it was a software issue not a kernel

Re: Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > I finally broke down and replaced F16 with F17 on my laptop with a clean > install, except for /home. The good news is that the boot issue went away, > proving that it was a software issue not a kernel issue. The bad news is > that after install

Yumex issue on new install

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Zeff
I finally broke down and replaced F16 with F17 on my laptop with a clean install, except for /home. The good news is that the boot issue went away, proving that it was a software issue not a kernel issue. The bad news is that after installing yumex I can't get it to run. It asks me to authen

Re: Is nspluginwrapper needed for AdobeReader?

2012-11-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.11.2012 19:36, schrieb Ed Greshko: > On 11/20/2012 01:02 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> -- if so, you won't _need_ the >>> wrapper, but you may want it anyway, because it keeps the process spaces >>> separate, which protects you from crashes. >> >> Ah. Will install then. > > FWIW..

Re: Is nspluginwrapper needed for AdobeReader?

2012-11-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/20/2012 01:02 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> -- if so, you won't _need_ the >> wrapper, but you may want it anyway, because it keeps the process spaces >> separate, which protects you from crashes. > > Ah. Will install then. FWIW. [egreshko@meimei ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i adobe adobe

RE: Firefox certificates for Fedora sites?

2012-11-19 Thread Patrick Kobly
-Original message- From: Reindl Harald Sent: Mon 19-11-2012 09:08 Subject:Re: Firefox certificates for Fedora sites? Attachment: signature.asc To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org; > these are self signed certs because they do the same: encryption > if you want you certs

RE: Firefox certificates for Fedora sites?

2012-11-19 Thread Patrick Kobly
-Original message- From: Blake Hudson Sent: Mon 19-11-2012 09:42 Subject:Re: Firefox certificates for Fedora sites? To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org; > That is not how HTTPS works. HTTPS does not require an expensive > commercial CA like Thawte. First, if Fedora/Redhat w

Re: ata3 and ata4 disk errors

2012-11-19 Thread Alan Cox
> If the cardbus esata adapter were having HW problems, what sort > of errors should I see in the system log regarding that card? Hard to tell - really there is nothing there to identify the root cause. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: Firefox certificates for Fedora sites?

2012-11-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.11.2012 17:42, schrieb Blake Hudson: > > Reindl Harald wrote the following on 11/19/2012 10:08 AM: >> >> Am 19.11.2012 17:03, schrieb Sergio: >>> Is it the case that these site owners should contact Mozilla for >>> them to update the certificate bundle or, in the case of official >>> Fedor

Re: Is nspluginwrapper needed for AdobeReader?

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/19/2012 11:44 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:38:48AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On f17 x86_64 I have installed AdobeReader and it seems to work just fine without nspluginwrapper.i686 Do I really need nspluginwrapper.i686? (When I googled about how to yum install

Re: Firefox certificates for Fedora sites?

2012-11-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:03:51 -0800 (PST) Sergio wrote: > Hi. I'm using F18. > When accessing koji.fedoraproject.org, for instance, Firefox has no > security certificate for it. ...snip... koji has it's own cert authority and setup, because it uses certs to identify packagers and admins. You ca

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-19 Thread jdow
On 2012/11/19 01:14, Roger wrote: On 11/19/2012 05:02 PM, Brian West wrote: On 11/19/2012 12:28 AM, NOSpaze wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 10:16 +1100, Roger wrote: Is there any way to trace ip addresses back past the originating ISP. I've been using whois but it seems limited. Could mtr be of

Re: Is nspluginwrapper needed for AdobeReader?

2012-11-19 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:38:48AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On f17 x86_64 I have installed AdobeReader and it seems to work just > fine without nspluginwrapper.i686 > Do I really need nspluginwrapper.i686? > (When I googled about how to yum install AdobeReader, the site > showed needing to

Re: Firefox certificates for Fedora sites?

2012-11-19 Thread Blake Hudson
Reindl Harald wrote the following on 11/19/2012 10:08 AM: Am 19.11.2012 17:03, schrieb Sergio: Is it the case that these site owners should contact Mozilla for them to update the certificate bundle or, in the case of official Fedora sites, should an extra package with Fedora certificates be cr

Is nspluginwrapper needed for AdobeReader?

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On f17 x86_64 I have installed AdobeReader and it seems to work just fine without nspluginwrapper.i686 Do I really need nspluginwrapper.i686? (When I googled about how to yum install AdobeReader, the site showed needing to install nspluginwrapper) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-19 Thread jdow
On 2012/11/19 01:02, Brian West wrote: On 11/19/2012 12:28 AM, NOSpaze wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 10:16 +1100, Roger wrote: Is there any way to trace ip addresses back past the originating ISP. I've been using whois but it seems limited. Could mtr be of any help? ISP and a rough location i

Re: ata3 and ata4 disk errors

2012-11-19 Thread JD
On 11/19/2012 07:43 AM, Alan Cox wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:09:38 -0700 JD wrote: I am getting lots of ata3 and ata4 errors in the system log. In spite of these errors, when I unmount the partitions of both drives and I fsck every partition, no errors are found. The out of dmesg with the e

Re: Firefox certificates for Fedora sites?

2012-11-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.11.2012 17:03, schrieb Sergio: > Is it the case that these site owners should contact Mozilla for > them to update the certificate bundle or, in the case of official > Fedora sites, should an extra package with Fedora certificates be > created? they won't these are self signed certs be

Re: NetworkManager-resolv.conf -

2012-11-19 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 19 November 2012, Ed Greshko sent: > So, you've disabled the DHCP server on the AP and allow the broadcast > through to your server to service DHCP requests. I've got a LAN set up that way, too. An access point acting, more or less, like a network switch. I saw no reason t

Re: on screen display from audio volume buttons

2012-11-19 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/19/2012 09:42 AM, Sergio wrote: > > > --- Em seg, 19/11/12, Steven Stern escreveu: > >> De: Steven Stern >> Assunto: on screen display from audio volume buttons >> Para: "Community support for Fedora users" >> Data: Segunda-feira, 19 de Novembro de 2012, 13:05 >> 1) I'm using XFCE on F1

Re: on screen display from audio volume buttons

2012-11-19 Thread Sergio
--- Em seg, 19/11/12, Steven Stern escreveu: > De: Steven Stern > Assunto: on screen display from audio volume buttons > Para: "Community support for Fedora users" > Data: Segunda-feira, 19 de Novembro de 2012, 13:05 > 1) I'm using XFCE on F17 > > 2) I have a Logitech keyboard with multimedi

f17 gnome-shell-extension-weather

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
The weather setup is not letting me change the city. It defaulted to Cambridge, GB and when I put in any city from its selection list, the OK button remains greyed out and only cancel is avaiable. Any tips on getting this to work? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

New system - need help with

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I killed my old system (f16) with a bottle of pepsi last week at IEEE 802 :( Was rather interesting to do my 'slides' on paper and run off copies at the business center! Well I have a new system; basically the same Lenovo x120e, but with the duo core. I installed f17 and have been rsyncing f

Re: What are these for?

2012-11-19 Thread Michael Cronenworth
lee wrote: > what is auditd for? The manpage doesn't tell me, and I can't find any > documentation about it telling me what the purpose is. Is there > anything that speaks against disabling it? $ man auditd > > Similar with mcelog: What do I need that for? And benefits from it? I > can proba

Re: What are these for?

2012-11-19 Thread Alan Cox
> And I still don't see what makes the light of the onboard SATA > controllers flash all the time. Why is it flashing though nothing > connected to the controllers is mounted? See > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878042 Ask the hardware vendor - the LED is not software controlled. -

on screen display from audio volume buttons

2012-11-19 Thread Steven Stern
1) I'm using XFCE on F17 2) I have a Logitech keyboard with multimedia buttons 3) Sometimes, when I press the volume-up and volume-down, I see an on-screen display showing the volume going up or down. Sometimes, not. Does anyone know how I can control this? I like the effect and I'd like it on al

What are these for?

2012-11-19 Thread lee
Hi, what is auditd for? The manpage doesn't tell me, and I can't find any documentation about it telling me what the purpose is. Is there anything that speaks against disabling it? Similar with mcelog: What do I need that for? And benefits from it? I can probably just disable it. Do I need

Re: ata3 and ata4 disk errors

2012-11-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:09:38 -0700 JD wrote: > I am getting lots of ata3 and ata4 errors in the system log. > In spite of these errors, when I unmount the partitions of both drives > and I fsck every partition, no errors are found. > The out of dmesg with the errors is at > http://www.sendspace.c

Re: ata3 and ata4 disk errors

2012-11-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 19.11.2012 15:09, schrieb JD: > I am getting lots of ata3 and ata4 errors in the system log. > In spite of these errors, when I unmount the partitions of both drives > and I fsck every partition, no errors are found. > The out of dmesg with the errors is at > http://www.sendspace.com/file/761t

ata3 and ata4 disk errors

2012-11-19 Thread JD
I am getting lots of ata3 and ata4 errors in the system log. In spite of these errors, when I unmount the partitions of both drives and I fsck every partition, no errors are found. The out of dmesg with the errors is at http://www.sendspace.com/file/761te2 The drives are esata-2 (300mbits/s) and

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/19/2012 12:04 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> Indeed. Most of the time they are not going to give a crap about a >> simple abuse report, let alone do anything to stop spam/bruteforcing. >> >> Maybe the American and British ISPs but not the others. > > The ISPs are mostly not in the loop, but some of

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-19 Thread Alan Cox
> Indeed. Most of the time they are not going to give a crap about a > simple abuse report, let alone do anything to stop spam/bruteforcing. > > Maybe the American and British ISPs but not the others. The ISPs are mostly not in the loop, but some of them certainly do care or collate reports. The

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-19 Thread staticsafe
On 11/19/2012 0:57, Roger wrote: > On 11/19/2012 02:13 PM, staticsafe wrote: >> On 11/18/2012 18:16, Roger wrote: >>> Is there any way to trace ip addresses back past the originating ISP. >>> I've been using whois but it seems limited. >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> Roger >>> >>> >> In short, no. >>

Re: Preupgrade vs other upgrade methods, caveats?

2012-11-19 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
I see, thanks! Best, Christopher Svanefalk mob: +46762628251 skype: csvanefalk On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Sergio < sergiocmailbox-userl...@yahoo.com.br> wrote: > No, preupgrade only up to Fedora 17. For Fedora 18 go with yum and when > functional 'fedup'. > > --- Em *seg, 19/11/12, Chr

Re: Preupgrade vs other upgrade methods, caveats?

2012-11-19 Thread Sergio
No, preupgrade only up to Fedora 17. For Fedora 18 go with yum and when functional 'fedup'. --- Em seg, 19/11/12, Christopher Svanefalk escreveu: De: Christopher Svanefalk Assunto: Re: Preupgrade vs other upgrade methods, caveats? Para: "Community support for Fedora users" Data: Segunda-feir

Re: Bridge LAN and WiFi interfaces

2012-11-19 Thread Juan Orti Alcaine
Use a bonding interface for that 2012/11/15 Frank Pikelner > Hello, > > I'm running a couple of Lenovo T410 with Fedora 16 and 17. The laptops are > generally connected via LAN or WiFi to the same subnet (typically same DHCP > address). > > Is there a way to bridge both the LAN and Wifi interfa

Re: Preupgrade vs other upgrade methods, caveats?

2012-11-19 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Thanks everyone for the replies. So, for going 17->18, I should still be using Preupgrade, and after that this new Fedup application? Best, Christopher Svanefalk mob: +46762628251 skype: csvanefalk On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/18/2012 05:45 AM, Sergio wrote

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-19 Thread Roger
On 11/19/2012 08:30 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: On Monday 19 November 2012 06:18:03 Roger wrote: You are SOooo right, denial of responsibility is what happens! I am aware of instances recently where windows machines are obviously hacked and email addresses appropriated. It's no use telling the peo

Re: Hack attacks

2012-11-19 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Monday 19 November 2012 06:18:03 Roger wrote: > You are SOooo right, denial of responsibility is what happens! > I am aware of instances recently where windows machines are obviously > hacked and email addresses appropriated. It's no use telling the people > they deny it. Not always the case, b

Re: Preupgrade vs other upgrade methods, caveats?

2012-11-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/18/2012 05:45 AM, Sergio wrote: Preupgrade isn't supported any more, AFAIK. That's only true for Fedora 18 and later releases. For the current release, PreUpgrade is still the recommended upgrade path: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade?rd=PreUpgrade For Fedora 18, y

Re: Bridge LAN and WiFi interfaces

2012-11-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/14/2012 05:34 PM, Frank Pikelner wrote: Is there a way to bridge both the LAN and Wifi interfaces so that the communication is done using the bridge and serviced by either interface that is currently active? I'm using the default Network Manager and mostly use the laptops for working and t

Wine + Netflix on Fedora 17

2012-11-19 Thread Konstantin Svist
In case anyone is interested, it's now possible to get netflix running on patched wine. I've written out the way I did it on my machine, here: http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_watch_Netflix_%28Watch_Instantly%29_in_Linux#Running_with_Wine For Ubuntu there's a PPA that installs everything for