Re: Kernel panic during boot - what now?

2013-01-21 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 22 January 2013 01:22, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Reindl Harald writes: > >> some years ago you had the possibility to boot from >> install DVD in rescue mode and "chroot /sysimage" >> but these days all this extended options seems to >> go away or perfectly hidden > > > I'm pretty sure that the

Re: How to use a sound theme?

2013-01-21 Thread g
On 01/22/2013 02:50 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > g writes: >> On 01/20/2013 03:42 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >>> How do I go about switching to a different sound theme? >>> >>> Gnome's control center only lets me choose one of four lame sounds from >>> /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts. >>> >

Re: Nautilus sidepane tree view

2013-01-21 Thread Joachim Backes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/2013 12:24 AM, ergodic wrote: > Any possibility to have the some of the previous schema restored > to nautilus-3.6.3-4.fc18.x86_64? > > For instance the missing sidebar tree view hinders Nautilus > functionality. > > Hi ergodic, 1. Instal

Re: Blinking wireless LED in Elitebook 8440p

2013-01-21 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
I have either HP probook, where I have to know that hp wmi driver is not really in good shape, and sometimes the BIOS is also leaky. I suggest check for BIOS upgrade, and check the rfkill stats - maybe some part are not really trully enabled, or the driver has some flaws. Lets hope the driver not p

Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-21 Thread David G . Miller
Patrick O'Callaghan gmail.com> writes: > Lots of SNIPPING > From > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD?rd=FirewallD/#Direct_options > > The arguments of the passthrough option are the same as > the corresponding iptables, ip6tables and ebtables arguments. > > poc > So, c

F18: Gnome panel icons w a s t e s p a c e !

2013-01-21 Thread NOSpaze
Hi. After update to F18, my gnome panel icons (20px) spacings are too wide (perhaps 1cm, fallback mode). Googled, tried modifying spacings width gconf-editor, gconftool-2 gtk-widgets.css, ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, but no success. They are still wasting space. Am I missing something? How c

Re: How to use a sound theme?

2013-01-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
g writes: On 01/20/2013 03:42 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > How do I go about switching to a different sound theme? > > Gnome's control center only lets me choose one of four lame sounds from > /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts. > > I have a whole bunch of complete sound themes in /usr/shar

Re: How to use a sound theme?

2013-01-21 Thread g
On 01/20/2013 03:42 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > How do I go about switching to a different sound theme? > > Gnome's control center only lets me choose one of four lame sounds from > /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts. > > I have a whole bunch of complete sound themes in /usr/share/sounds,

Re: Battery life improved with F18

2013-01-21 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Check in command line too, the acpi/bat0 available in cli either. If it says the same, then you win. But ordinary laptops average is not more just 3-4 hours (or with huge battery longer, but thats rare), some netbooks more, and smartbooks (ARM) logically has the longest cca. 5-10 hours. Are you sur

Re: Battery life improved with F18

2013-01-21 Thread g
On 01/21/2013 05:35 PM, William Murray wrote: > Thanks guys, > I don't know what you did, but after upgrading my laptop FC17->FC18 I > saw a 5 hr battery life being quoted - I never saw that long before. watch out. it may well be that you found a bug in battery monitor. -- peace out. tc.hago

Re: Inspiron HHDD not recognized at installation

2013-01-21 Thread Ivan Pazmiño
Ha, funny answer. Thanks for your help, I'll try to answer your questions best possible. Yeah, what I meant was hard disk drive. I'm trying to install linux over a win8 laptop. I need to have it to boot on win and linux. The installation I tried was the only one in the boot menu screen. Regards,

Re: Where else to look? (aka Can't think of a Better Subject)

2013-01-21 Thread g
On 01/21/2013 10:48 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > 1: Where else can I check to see if someone is still in another area > of the Project? <> your answer is in postmasters message; > For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. so ask what happened to him. i hate to say, he could have died

Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-21 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 01/21/2013 09:26 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Not necessarily, you could do what I did: > > systemctl mask firewalld.service > systemctl enable iptables.service > systemctl enable ip6tables.service That's great! Thanks Tom. -- Jorge -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: Inspiron HHDD not recognized at installation

2013-01-21 Thread g
On 01/22/2013 12:21 AM, Iván Pazmiño wrote: > Hi, not right now. i can not answer all of your questions, but i can get you headed in > I was trying to install fedora 18 on a Dell Inspiron 14z but the HHDD please set line wrap to somewhere between 76 and 80 characters per line. > Any ideas on

Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:13:03 -0800 Konstantin Svist wrote: > Does that mean that any old config in /etc/sysconfig/iptables is no > longer used? They could have made firewalld load any existing iptables sysconfig files at startup, but that's what'd they'd expect you to do! (works best if imagine L

Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:45:25 -0400 Jorge Fábregas wrote: > I wish there was more info than that. It appears that I'll have to > throw away everything I know about iptables. Not necessarily, you could do what I did: systemctl mask firewalld.service systemctl enable iptables.service systemctl ena

Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-21 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 01/21/2013 03:45 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 01/21/2013 01:00 PM, David Highley wrote: >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD/ >> Yes, I read that information. > I wish there was more info than that. It appears that I'll have to > throw away everything I know about iptables. Is

Re: Kernel panic during boot - what now?

2013-01-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Reindl Harald writes: some years ago you had the possibility to boot from install DVD in rescue mode and "chroot /sysimage" but these days all this extended options seems to go away or perfectly hidden I'm pretty sure that the F18 install image has a boot option for rescue mode that'll autom

Inspiron HHDD not recognized at installation

2013-01-21 Thread Iván Pazmiño
Hi, I was trying to install fedora 18 on a Dell Inspiron 14z but the HHDD was not recognized by the installer. It prompted a message asking me to hook a hard drive to the system and restart the installation. None of the network interfaces were recognized either, but I saw that was a normal issu

Blinking wireless LED in Elitebook 8440p

2013-01-21 Thread Bruno Martins
Hey list, I have recently acquired an HP Elitebook 8440p machine and I am facing a very strange problem that is: sometimes (randomly) my wireless LED starts blinking. Red and blue (as an on/off switch) but network connectivity is not affected, it's just the LED blinking... My system: [skorze

Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 19:45 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 01/21/2013 01:00 PM, David Highley wrote: > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD/ > >> > > > Yes, I read that information. > > I wish there was more info than that. It appears that I'll have to > throw away everything I

Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-21 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 01/21/2013 01:00 PM, David Highley wrote: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirewallD/ >> > > Yes, I read that information. I wish there was more info than that. It appears that I'll have to throw away everything I know about iptables. Is there any tool to convert current iptables rul

Nautilus sidepane tree view

2013-01-21 Thread ergodic
Any possibility to have the some of the previous schema restored to nautilus-3.6.3-4.fc18.x86_64? For instance the missing sidebar tree view hinders Nautilus functionality. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-21 Thread Edward M
On 1/21/2013 3:13 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: } EOF But it fails, it says something like /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is does not exist /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist I haven't figured it out how to wirte the root option. Please could you help me? while back

Re: /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf

2013-01-21 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 01/21/2013 01:55 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:40:43 -0800 > Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> Still does it during yum update, though > Maybe the root user needs the same ~/.fonts.conf fix? you're right, that must've been it -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:40:43 -0800 Konstantin Svist wrote: > Still does it during yum update, though Maybe the root user needs the same ~/.fonts.conf fix? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

Re: [May be OT] Linux box as Load-balancer

2013-01-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21Jan2013 15:37, Patrick Lists wrote: | On 01/21/2013 03:24 PM, Jatin K wrote: | > I need your helpI want to configure a Linux box with 3 NIC, ( | > Centos/RHEL ) as a load balancer/fail-over mechanism for 2 windows web | > application server , if any app server goes down user must not be

Re: Fonts missing

2013-01-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:18:51 -0200 Lailah wrote: > I have 2 users in this system, and fonts are around 300MBs. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/rpm.html -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! -- user

Re: /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf

2013-01-21 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 01/19/2013 05:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > So all sorts of apps I run from the command line > spew this message: > > Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading > configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. > > If it is gonna spew to the terminal anyway, wouldn't >

Re: Fonts missing

2013-01-21 Thread Lailah
El dom, 20-01-2013 a las 20:33 +0200, Veeti Paananen escribió: > On 01/20/2013 04:45 PM, Lailah wrote: > > > > Hello everybody! Happy new year! > > > > I've just installed the Spherical Cow and I can use my older > > fonts. I used to copy&paste from one /usr/share/fonts folder to the >

Re: /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf

2013-01-21 Thread Lailah
El sáb, 19-01-2013 a las 20:30 -0500, Tom Horsley escribió: > So all sorts of apps I run from the command line > spew this message: > > Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading > configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. > > If it is gonna spew to the termina

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-21 Thread Lailah
El sáb, 19-01-2013 a las 17:47 -0700, Paolo Galtieri escribió: > On 01/19/13 14:57, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > > > Am 19.01.2013 22:50, schrieb Paolo Galtieri: > >> I think I'll stay on F14 > > > > strange logic > > > > you stay on F14 because you do not like the F18 installer? > > WTF - and you

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:14:20 -0500 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: > On 01/21/2013 01:53 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:28:12 -0500 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." > > wrote: > >> I too was going to install F18...but I will wait until F19 or F20 before > >> I move forwardI have w

Re: Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/21/2013 03:13 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: I'm trying to avoid burning LiveCD iso file and boot from it. Why? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorapro

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:59 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 19:53, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: In my mind, the biggest issue with F18 is the installer which has been commented on, and which puts things like disk partitioning under the rug. Perhaps the goal is to mimic other popular (by ways of mob vo

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:53 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:28:12 -0500 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: I too was going to install F18...but I will wait until F19 or F20 before I move forwardI have way too much riding on this laptop working properly...and since it's an "old" Gateway.

Re: Kernel panic during boot - what now?

2013-01-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.01.2013 20:01, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 19:59:30 +0100, > Markus Lindholm wrote: >> >> What now, how can I repair the system? > > Normally, you want to reboot with the previous kernel you missed "I've got two kernel versions to choose from, 3.6.10-4 and 3.7.2.

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> semodule -r matahari > > Should remove matahari policy. > > >>> > >>> Thanks, but I get the following (in F18): > >>> > >>> sudo semodule -r matahari libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove: Module > >>> matahari was not found. semodule: Failed! > >>> > >> Ok so it is remov

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 19:44, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: I am currently running Fedora 17 on my laptop. I'm the only one who uses it, and can access it, but I worry sometimes about someone trying to hack into it when I access the internet...is there som

Re: Kernel panic during boot - what now?

2013-01-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 19:59:30 +0100, Markus Lindholm wrote: What now, how can I repair the system? Normally, you want to reboot with the previous kernel. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mai

Kernel panic during boot - what now?

2013-01-21 Thread Markus Lindholm
Hi I've run into a nasty problem with kernel panic during boot. I did a fresh installation of F18 last Wednesday and it was a smooth experience, but then yesterday I did a 'yum update' that ended up causing a kernel panic (there wasn't much more happening on the machine at that time) and after tha

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.01.2013 19:53, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: > In my mind, the biggest issue with F18 is the installer which has been > commented on, and which puts things like disk partitioning under the > rug. Perhaps the goal is to mimic other popular (by ways of mob vote) > OS's, but some of us have never use

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:28:12 -0500 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: > I too was going to install F18...but I will wait until F19 or F20 before > I move forwardI have way too much riding on this laptop working > properly...and since it's an "old" GatewayI'd rather not have to > deal with v

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.01.2013 19:44, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: > I am currently running Fedora 17 on my laptop. I'm the only one who uses it, > and can access it, but I worry > sometimes about someone trying to hack into it when I access the > internet...is there some security measures I can > take that m

Re: F17 -> F18 Laptop Problems

2013-01-21 Thread Dave Cross
On 20 January 2013 21:39, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 20.01.2013 22:37, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: >> Dave Cross writes: >> >>> $ rpm -qa | grep fc18 >>> nss-tools-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64 >>> java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.4.fc18.x86_64 >>> nss-sysinit-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64 >>> nss-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_6

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:26 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 21 January 2013 15:32, Tim wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht: I assume that there is a human-factors study that indicates that non-technical users don't like to be reminded of how complicated things really are under the hood. At least that is why I thou

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 19:13, schrieb Tim: ...complete snippage of what indicates why he gets moderated... oh and your "Put your tin hat on, your fingers in your ears, and start chanting la la la la la, now" was fine? Yes, I may be lucky in that my softwar

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/2013 12:30 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:16:12 -0600 Daniel J Walsh > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 01/21/2013 12:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:04:10 -0600 D

Re: scan a document into a pdf

2013-01-21 Thread JOYCE POLZIN
- Original Message - On 21.01.2013 19:05, JOYCE POLZIN wrote: > Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work) have a look at xsane, works for me. -Jens So how do you get the Portable Document Format (PDF) files readable in windoze? Other linux machines don;t ha

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.01.2013 19:13, schrieb Tim: > ...complete snippage of what indicates why he gets moderated... oh and your "Put your tin hat on, your fingers in your ears, and start chanting la la la la la, now" was fine? > Yes, I may be lucky in that my software can use another identifier to > connect to

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:16:12 -0600 Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/21/2013 12:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:04:10 -0600 Daniel J Walsh > > wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 01/

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 01/21/2013 01:04 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/2013 01:19 AM, James Freer wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Dear friends, I recently upgraded from F17 to F18. I chose not to use fedup but rather I used fedora-u

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-21 Thread Ian Malone
On 21 January 2013 15:32, Tim wrote: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht: >>> I assume that there is a human-factors study that indicates that >>> non-technical users don't like to be reminded of how complicated things >>> really are under the hood. At least that is why I thought such cover-up >>> screens ex

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/2013 12:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:04:10 -0600 Daniel J Walsh > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 01/21/2013 01:19 AM, James Freer wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Ranj

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:04:10 -0600 Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/21/2013 01:19 AM, James Freer wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra > > wrote: > >> Dear friends, > >> > >> I recently upgraded from F17 to F18. I chose no

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-21 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 17:15 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: ...complete snippage of what indicates why he gets moderated... The original topic /was/ what it was, and still is, the offshoot thread is what /that/ is, separately. That's how mailing lists work. People discuss the bits that they discuss

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

2013-01-21 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/2013 01:19 AM, James Freer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra > wrote: >> Dear friends, >> >> I recently upgraded from F17 to F18. I chose not to use fedup but rather >> I used fedora-upgrade, which is basically a wrap

Battery life improved with F18

2013-01-21 Thread William Murray
Thanks guys, I don't know what you did, but after upgrading my laptop FC17->FC18 I saw a 5 hr battery life being quoted - I never saw that long before. It may be something to do with optimus? My nvidia video card is not working inF18 as there is no bumblebee rpm yet, but maybe

Re: F18: USB flash drives do not mount

2013-01-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi Zoltan, Thanks very much for the response. On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:00:44 +0100 Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Hi Ranjan, > > Please give me a bit more detailed feedback - > - what kind of UI you are using with F18? LXDE+openbox, but this did "work" with F17. > - uname -a - current kernel Linux kh

Re: scan a document into a pdf

2013-01-21 Thread Jens Neu
On 21.01.2013 19:05, JOYCE POLZIN wrote: Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work) have a look at xsane, works for me. -Jens -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

scan a document into a pdf

2013-01-21 Thread JOYCE POLZIN
Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a quest

Re: F18: USB flash drives do not mount

2013-01-21 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi Ranjan, Please give me a bit more detailed feedback - - what kind of UI you are using with F18? - uname -a - current kernel - did you know that Fedora has an /run folder that has been added? - lsusb ? If you are using LXDE witch is basicaly openbox with some graphics tools, you have to know th

Re: Where is the detailed docs on firewalld?

2013-01-21 Thread David Highley
"G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:" > > On 01/20/2013 10:34 PM, David Highley wrote: > > If we are expected to switch to firewalld we need to understand in > > detail how it works. So far I see a GUI and empty XML files with little > > information about how to do anything other than run firewall-cmd to add

F18: USB flash drives do not mount

2013-01-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I am a bit at a loss as to how to get USB flash drives to mount on F18. It has been such a long tome since this has not worked from off-the-shelf in Fedora or anything that I have perhaps forgotten what to do (maybe I never knew): Here is the output from tail -f /var/log/messages (as the USB

Re: which repos for fedora 18

2013-01-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
FMcCormick wrote: I noticed today that on Fedora 18 the Fedora-updates-testing repo is not enabled. Should it be ?? Probably not by default. THere are two reasons not to use this repo unless it has something you really need, or really intend to test: 1 - packages here are really for testing,

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.01.2013 17:05, schrieb Tim: > Let me repeat that, it is completely impossible to stop anyone from > being able to connect to an access point by hiding the SSID. Therefore > it is categorically not a security measure, in any way shape or form. > Anyone who argues otherwise is a fool. Put yo

F18: yum complains "Unable to send message to PackageKit"

2013-01-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
So, I keep getting this message: Unable to send message to PackageKit when I go into yum. Looking through the archives, it was suggested that one should have PackageKit-yum and PackageKit-yum-plugin if not, we should install. I did have it, but I went an did a sudo yum reinstall PackageKit

Re: Installer inadequacies

2013-01-21 Thread Tim
Tim: >> And there's no such thing as security by obscurity Reindl Harald: > obscurity does not replace security > obscurity is there to EXTEND security In this case (not broadcasting SSID), has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with security, and it NEVER can. Hiding it cannot prevent anyone connecting t

Re: Setting video monitor resolution on F18 X Windows Gnome

2013-01-21 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 15:31 +, Aaron Gray wrote: > I am trying to work out how to set the height and width to use the > 1280 by 800 full resolution of my laptop monitor. At the moment Gnome > is giving me 1024 by 768. Some time ago, I posted this message, regarding Fedora 17:

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-21 Thread Tim
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht: >> I assume that there is a human-factors study that indicates that >> non-technical users don't like to be reminded of how complicated things >> really are under the hood. At least that is why I thought such cover-up >> screens exist. I assumed that it's just stupidly copy

Re: [May be OT] Linux box as Load-balancer

2013-01-21 Thread Patrick Lists
On 01/21/2013 03:24 PM, Jatin K wrote: Dear all, I need your helpI want to configure a Linux box with 3 NIC, ( Centos/RHEL ) as a load balancer/fail-over mechanism for 2 windows web application server , if any app server goes down user must not be affected by the failure. And if both app s

[May be OT] Linux box as Load-balancer

2013-01-21 Thread Jatin K
Dear all, I need your helpI want to configure a Linux box with 3 NIC, ( Centos/RHEL ) as a load balancer/fail-over mechanism for 2 windows web application server , if any app server goes down user must not be affected by the failure. And if both app servers are up they should be load-ba

Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:21:22 +, Dave Cross wrote: > > Reinstalling gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good (both > > packages from Fedora) is very unlikely to fix decoding of MPEG and MP3. > > I was dubious too. But it worked. I think it was something to do with > forcing the plug

Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-21 Thread Dave Cross
On 21 January 2013 11:04, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:48:25 +, Dave Cross wrote: > >> Installing the missing gstreamer1 packages didn't solve the problem. >> But from some googling I found the advice to reinstall >> gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good. And

Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-21 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi Fedora community, I'm trying to avoid burning LiveCD iso file and boot from it. I've added an entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom : #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be care

Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:48:25 +, Dave Cross wrote: > Installing the missing gstreamer1 packages didn't solve the problem. > But from some googling I found the advice to reinstall > gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good. And that seems to > have done the trick. Dubious. I wish peo

Re: f18: GUI for video converter

2013-01-21 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno dom, 20/01/2013 alle 12.55 -0800, Peter Gordon ha scritto: > On 01/20/2013 12:58 PM, Dario Lesca wrote: > "yum install transmageddon" Thanks Peter. Yes, this is what I am looking for. -- Dario Lesca - sip:da...@solinos.it (Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 17 Gnome3) -- users mailing li

Re: f18: how to disable suspend when lid is closed without user logged in

2013-01-21 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno dom, 20/01/2013 alle 22.16 -0600, Rex Dieter ha scritto: > I believe you can try to edit > /etc/systemd/logind.conf > and set > HandleLidSwitch=ignore Ok, this is what I'm looking for. Question: There is a GUI to do this kind of setting (like f14 do)? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca - sip:

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-21 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 01/18/2013 11:57 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > I assume that there is a human-factors study that indicates that > non-technical users don't like to be reminded of how complicated things > really are under the hood. At least that is why I thought such cover-up > screens exist. Could we

Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.01.2013 07:43, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 20.01.2013 02:00, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: >>> Thanks again for your quick response. >>> >>> OK, so you are suggesting I move to lvm, or leave things as is, to ext4? >>> The new installer does not give me an option to fo

Re: Time/Date shell-thingy in F18

2013-01-21 Thread Jon Ingason
2013-01-21 09:00, William Murray skrev: Dear list, (What do we call the shell thingies which replaced applets?) I wanted to have the date at the top of my shiny new FC18 screen, not just the time. Install gnome-tweak-tool (sudo yum install gnome-tweak-tool) I installed dconf-editor,

Time/Date shell-thingy in F18

2013-01-21 Thread William Murray
Dear list, (What do we call the shell thingies which replaced applets?) I wanted to have the date at the top of my shiny new FC18 screen, not just the time. I installed dconf-editor, went to org->gome->shell and found 'calendar' and 'clock' each of which have booleans, one for 'show-week