Re: Howto enable IPv6 privacy extensions

On 1/4/2013 1:30, Patrick Lists wrote: > Hi all, > > On an up-to-date F17 x86_64 box I was testing IPv6 and it was pointed > out that the IPv6 address that Fedora uses is traceable because it ends > in the MAC address of the nic. I don't like that and want to enable > privacy extensions which shou

Howto enable IPv6 privacy extensions

Hi all, On an up-to-date F17 x86_64 box I was testing IPv6 and it was pointed out that the IPv6 address that Fedora uses is traceable because it ends in the MAC address of the nic. I don't like that and want to enable privacy extensions which should replace the MAC address with some random st

Re: Fedora Game Day

On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 00:14:52 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Anytime from 02:00 UTC to 06:00 UTC works best for me. This weekend would be great, or anytime in the next few days. Reply to this message if you can make it in my time range in the next week and I'll put together a solid d

Fedora Game Day

It's been a while (years?) since Fedora folks have gathered to best each other. Would anyone be interested in putting together a Fedora Game Day? Game: 0ad http://play0ad.com/ # yum install 0ad I would be willing to host a server and play a few matches. The game can support up to 8 people.

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:27:31PM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 01/03/2013 10:58 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I guess the story is that there is no high-vertical resolution > > available yet. Confirms what I have also found. > > Apple is printing money selling high-end laptops with 16:10 screens

Re: F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

On 01/03/2013 02:57 PM, Geoffrey Leach issued this missive: On 01/03/2013 04:03:57 AM, Joel Rees wrote: After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange stuff where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login screen too long. Problem got worse, and after (finally) g

Re: F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

On 01/03/2013 04:03:57 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange > stuff > where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login > screen > too long. Problem got worse, and after (finally) getting a good (?) > yum update, and installing the

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

On 03.01.2013, Chris Smart wrote: > If you don't want to/can't install a different card, maybe try disable > i915 driver, kernel based mode-setting and use the vesa driver. In this case you could try to boot with i915.i915_enable_rc6=0 and using SNA: Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Dr

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

On 03.01.2013, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Now I ended up with 55MB kernel image, that is 10x bigger than fedora > kernels, and 140MB initramfs for 3.7.1 kernel which I don't have space for > on my /boot partition :( > great. My whole /boot is just around 83M, and it contains at least thr

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

On 03.01.2013, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Downloaded and compiled 3.7.1 vanilla kernel from kernel.org and used this > awesome tutorial: > http://linuxtweaking.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-compile-kernel-from-kernelorg-in.html You can keep things easy if you're not used to compile your ow

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

On 01/03/2013 11:07 AM, Joe Wulf issued this missive: I second that motion of having a computer function as a computer. I had the opportunity when buying my latest laptop to go with something older and less capable, but having a decent screen resolution of 1920x1200 or a newer, more capable mode

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

I second that motion of having a computer function as a computer.  I had the opportunity when buying my latest laptop to go with something older and less capable, but having a decent screen resolution of 1920x1200 or a newer, more capable model with LESS resolution.  Unfortunately, the FAD a tel

Re: F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:15 -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > Do you see excessive or constant hard disk activity at that time? I > get into similar states now and then with my laptop, and it's always > accompanied by constant hard disk activity. No ideas on what is > causing it, though. Look at th

Re: Reconfiguring packages

Frank McCormick videotron.ca> writes: > On 02/01/13 04:22 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:03:33 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> On 01/01/2013 04:26 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >>> On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:37:11 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > Having come from

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:58:55AM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:41:06 -0600 Richard Shaw > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Dale Dellutri > > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra > > > wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I will be in the ma

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 01/03/2013 10:58 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I guess the story is that there is no high-vertical resolution > > available yet. Confirms what I have also found. > > Apple is printing money selling high-end laptops with 16:10 screens. > Meanw

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

On 01/03/2013 10:58 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I guess the story is that there is no high-vertical resolution > available yet. Confirms what I have also found. Apple is printing money selling high-end laptops with 16:10 screens. Meanwhile, Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. would kill their firstborn children

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:41:06 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra > > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I will be in the market for a laptop pretty soon, and would like to > >> find a laptop with 1200 vertical

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:41:06 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra > > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I will be in the market for a laptop pretty soon, and would like to > >> find a laptop with 1200 vertical

Re: F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:15:32 -0500, "Darryl L. Pierce" wrote: Do you see excessive or constant hard disk activity at that time? I get into similar states now and then with my laptop, and it's always accompanied by constant hard disk activity. No ideas on what is causing it, though. This

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I will be in the market for a laptop pretty soon, and would like to >> find a laptop with 1200 vertical resolution (at the very least). I >> looked around a couple of websit

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I will be in the market for a laptop pretty soon, and would like to > find a laptop with 1200 vertical resolution (at the very least). I > looked around a couple of websites (Dell, Toshiba, Thinkpad) some but > was unable to spot much

laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

Hi, I will be in the market for a laptop pretty soon, and would like to find a laptop with 1200 vertical resolution (at the very least). I looked around a couple of websites (Dell, Toshiba, Thinkpad) some but was unable to spot much (did not look at everything). Are these available anymore? What w

Re: [389-users] AD <-> LDAP password expiration sync

On 01/02/2013 10:46 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: Is it possible to synchronize password expiration times between AD and LDAP? We're just discovering that the AD sync to LDAP doesn't update shadowLastChange which we are currently using on the LDAP side. Should we use a different scheme for passw

Re: On the trail of the stopped rsyslog.

Am 03.01.2013 14:37, schrieb Frank Murphy: > On 2\3 boxes, (F17) > rkhunter will tell me > Start Rootkit Hunter Scan -- > Warning: The syslog daemon is not running. > > > Going by: > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/troubleshoot.html > (needing it to be on longer to find a cause)

Re: F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > Quite possibly it's the slow keys feature. I found that if I use gdm to > log in, when you hold the shift key for several seconds, the slow key > feature is turned on Yes, I have exactly this problem, specifically on F17. But SlowKeys ge

Re: F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:03:57PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange stuff > where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login screen > too long. Problem got worse, and after (finally) getting a good (?) > yum update, and instal

Re: Steam on Fedora

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Re: F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

On 2013-01-03 13:03, Joel Rees wrote: > After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange stuff > where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login screen > too long. Problem got worse, and after (finally) getting a good (?) > yum update, and installing the GIMP, inksca

Re: sound card configuration

ps: a web page said that I should enable the sound card in bios instead of letting it auto detect, but that did not solve the problem the web pages I have found suggested that this is a problem with the fujitsu machines but there was no solution On 3 January 2013 14:35, Gergely Buday wrote:

On the trail of the stopped rsyslog.

On 2\3 boxes, (F17) rkhunter will tell me Start Rootkit Hunter Scan -- Warning: The syslog daemon is not running. Going by: http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/troubleshoot.html (needing it to be on longer to find a cause) Tried to create a debug.log from the service file: [Service] E

Re: iptables is like alchemy

On 01/02/2013 06:54 PM, Alan Evans wrote: This is really related to iptables, not I presume Fedora-specific. But I'm really hoping that somebody here will be able to school me on iptables, so I don't have to find and subscribe to some other list just to ask one question. For what it is worth

F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange stuff where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login screen too long. Problem got worse, and after (finally) getting a good (?) yum update, and installing the GIMP, inkscape, libreoffice, and some others, a reboot and

Re: iptables is like alchemy

Ok, I've posted a similar setup I've used in the past that worked like a charm. The script is the actual /etc/sysconfig/iptables. You'll notice the syntax there is somehow different than when you manually create the rules (or put in a script) but you get the idea. Those rules WERE THE MINIMUM re

Re: iptables is like alchemy

I'll try this tomorrow when I get into work. But at first look it seems awfully familiar, like it's something that I've already tried. Thanks, though. At this point I'll try whatever somebody thinks might work. -Alan Maybe I should have put it this way. This one does the redirect. iptables -t

Re: iptables is like alchemy

On 01/03/2013 03:47 AM, Alan Evans wrote: > Anyway, the rule I posted is the only rule in use here. I have tried other > iterations that did involve a MASQUERADE rule, but they didn't work either. > Like I said, I've been scouring google to solve this for a long time. I see but this doesn't makes

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

On 01/03/2013 08:49 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > Now I ended up with 55MB kernel image, that is 10x bigger than fedora > kernels, and 140MB initramfs for 3.7.1 kernel which I don't have space for > on my /boot partition :( > great. Could you just build/install kernel 3.7.0 from rawhide?

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

On 01/03/2013 07:11 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm I not in 2013? Is this back to 1999 so I need to recompile my own > kernel to get anything working? I have been using Fedora since FC1 and > reported numerous bugs but none stopped me from working, since F16 kernel > (sandybridge atleas

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

I already thought it was some hardware issue, so I changed memory but still that doesn't explain why windows works without crashing for days when fedora freezes after 2-5 days. So my guess is that it is still a kernel issue. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Juan Orti Alcaine wrote: > I can only s

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

Now I ended up with 55MB kernel image, that is 10x bigger than fedora kernels, and 140MB initramfs for 3.7.1 kernel which I don't have space for on my /boot partition :( great. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:31 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com < valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, it is not tainted,

Re: many crashes of X server, what should I investigate?

It just froze again after user switch. I could connect from another computer via ssh. What happens is that the X server is taking 100% of CPU while doing nothing. Here is the result of top: top - 10:24:48 up 2:23, 5 users, load average: 0.96, 0.63, 0.44 Tasks: 296 total, 2 running, 294 sleepi

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

No, it is not tainted, I only use floss drivers. Downloaded and compiled 3.7.1 vanilla kernel from kernel.org and used this awesome tutorial: http://linuxtweaking.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-compile-kernel-from-kernelorg-in.html Fedora wiki si no help for compiling from kernel.org soruces On Th

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

I can only say I'm runnig on a sandybridge CPU i7-2600K with GPU kernel driver i915 and have absolutly no problems at all. Is your kernel tainted? check this: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted 2013/1/3 valent.turko...@gmail.com > I'm I not in 2013? Is this back to 1999 so I need to recompile my o

Re: Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!

I'm I not in 2013? Is this back to 1999 so I need to recompile my own kernel to get anything working? I have been using Fedora since FC1 and reported numerous bugs but none stopped me from working, since F16 kernel (sandybridge atleast) is shit. I have F17 and F18beta on few other machines and they