rsync (ssh) authorisation weirdness on F18

2013-01-22 Thread William Murray
Dear Fedora enthusiasts, I have been doing backup of my system using a custom pair of scripts. One sits in ./NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ and looks at new network connections. If it sees one machine some criteria it calls a backup script in /etc/cron.daily/ which rsyncs various

F18: notebook sometimes hangs up if switching between gnome3 desktop and TTY's

2013-01-22 Thread Joachim Backes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear F18 users, having an old Fujitsu Siemens Amilo notebook with ATI graphics: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] Sometimes, if switching between GNOME3 desktop and some TTY (ctr

Re: Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-22 Thread David
On 1/22/2013 10:05 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: > 2013/1/22 Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> > > On 01/22/2013 03:34 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > > Please Joe, if you don't know the answer to my question don't > try to be > sarcastic, thanks Edward for your useful answer!.

Re: Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-22 Thread Sergio Belkin
2013/1/22 Joe Zeff > On 01/22/2013 03:34 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: > >> >> Please Joe, if you don't know the answer to my question don't try to be >> sarcastic, thanks Edward for your useful answer!. I always addressed >> with respect. And you say "we" who are "we/us"? Why don't limit to say >> "I

Re:Re: How to set up a hotspot with networkmanager in F18

2013-01-22 Thread Zhangsan
At 2013-01-23 02:08:56,"Bill Davidsen" wrote: >I was waiting to see your answer, there's also a netmanager option on the menu >to create a new network, I thought that might be what you want, since it asks >for an SSID, but doesn't seem to be. I believe the interface does AP, and NM >should re

Re: Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/22/2013 03:34 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: Please Joe, if you don't know the answer to my question don't try to be sarcastic, thanks Edward for your useful answer!. I always addressed with respect. And you say "we" who are "we/us"? Why don't limit to say "I/me"? I've said that it could be nice

Re: Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-22 Thread Sergio Belkin
2013/1/22 Joe Zeff > On 01/22/2013 05:27 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: > >> >> No, the question is Why must we do it? ;) Why must we use a disc when >> install from a file is feasible, it's a pity that Fedora lacks this >> feature >> > > No, the question was "Why?" and that's what I meant because the

Re: potential sshd gotcha

2013-01-22 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 01/22/2013 02:11 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I spent hours at work today getting sshd to function on > my desktop which I just switched to booting from the > fedora 18 partition. I finally discovered this: > > [root@zooty ~]# ls -l /etc/ssh > total 276 > -rw--- 1 root root 245058 Dec 3 11

Re: f18: nautilus: how to re-enable tree view in "view item as a list" and some other function.

2013-01-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:21:37 +0100 Dario Lesca wrote: > Nautilus 3.6.x ... > > The [+] to the left of the folders in "view item as a list" mode is > gone > > The total disk free space in bottom status bar, when click on blank > zone, is gone > > The function menu is gone (to top left,

potential sshd gotcha

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Horsley
I spent hours at work today getting sshd to function on my desktop which I just switched to booting from the fedora 18 partition. I finally discovered this: [root@zooty ~]# ls -l /etc/ssh total 276 -rw--- 1 root root 245058 Dec 3 11:43 moduli -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2104 Dec 3 11:

Re: Do people still install from CDs ?

2013-01-22 Thread Kenneth Marcy
From: Timothy Murphy To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 9:14 AM Subject: Do people still install from CDs ? Do most people install Fedora from CDs? This seem to be the default in all the Fedora-18 documentation I have seen. I w

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Lailah
El mar, 22-01-2013 a las 11:10 +, Ian Malone escribió: > On 22 January 2013 11:03, Cristian Sava wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 06:46 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > >> On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > >> > but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up. > >> > >> You're n

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

2013-01-22 Thread Lailah
El lun, 21-01-2013 a las 16:55 -0500, Tom Horsley escribió: > 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? I tried to do it but says that the file .fonts.conf doesn't exis

Re: Fonts missing

2013-01-22 Thread Lailah
El lun, 21-01-2013 a las 15:12 -0600, Frank Cox escribió: > 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 > > -- Oh! How interesting! Thanks Lailah -- users mailing

Re: F18: USB flash drives do not mount

2013-01-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/22/2013 11:17 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: I prefer no automount because I don't necessarily like the file manager popping up when I insert a USB stick or a CD/DVD but that's just me. Neither do I. That's why I have Xfce set to automount but not browse. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: F18: USB flash drives do not mount

2013-01-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/22/2013 10:18 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I'm using XFCE, and that doesn't auto mount, but it does put an icon on the screen so I can choose to mount, or put the device in /etc/fstab, in which case it will get mounted. All USB devices should be mounted in fstab by UUID, use blkid to find out w

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread John Austin
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 09:51 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:35:20 + > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 04:28 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > > On 1/22/13, Cristian Sava wrote: > > > > and grub2 for dual boot ... "Beginning in Fedora 18, GRUB2 can n

Re: f18: nautilus: how to re-enable tree view in "view item as a list" and some other function.

2013-01-22 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 06:21:37PM +0100, Dario Lesca wrote: > Nautilus 3.6.x ... > > The [+] to the left of the folders in "view item as a list" mode is > gone You mean to get something like a tree list view? > The total disk free space in bottom status bar, when click on blank > zone, is g

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 18:24 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 09:45 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:02 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > > > The game CD has some stuff written > > > > beyond

Re: Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/22/2013 05:27 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: No, the question is Why must we do it? ;) Why must we use a disc when install from a file is feasible, it's a pity that Fedora lacks this feature No, the question was "Why?" and that's what I meant because the best way for us to help you is to kno

Re: F18: USB flash drives do not mount

2013-01-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/22/2013 10:18 AM, Bill Davidsen issued this missive: Zoltan Hoppar wrote: 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

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 01/22/2013 10:51 AM, Bill Davidsen issued this missive: Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis wrote: Look this topic: http://thessdreview.com/Forums/linux/225-post2940.htm#post2940 I using Fedora 17 with this options. PS: my logs put in other HD. Always good to get another view, however I would like

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread ergodic
Do not forget the finite number of writes SSDs have. For instance I would keep /temp out of the SSD. - Original Message - Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis wrote: > Look this topic: > http://thessdreview.com/Forums/linux/225-post2940.htm#post2940 > I using Fedora 17 with this options. > > PS:

Re: scan a document into a pdf

2013-01-22 Thread ergodic
Neither Linux nor Microsoft recipients of PDF documents I have created with Libre Office (File > Export as PDF...) have experienced difficulties viewing the files. You can scan images an then insert them into your document (Insert > Picture > File) or you may scan the image directly to the docu

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:12:37PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Alexander Volovics > wrote: > > Neither KVM nor VirtualBox can present the virtual machine in > > the same 16:9 fullscreen format as your primary OS. > Are you implying that Virtualbox doesn´t h

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis wrote: Look this topic: http://thessdreview.com/Forums/linux/225-post2940.htm#post2940 I using Fedora 17 with this options. PS: my logs put in other HD. Always good to get another view, however I would like to see a better explanation of what those changes do before

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 09:45 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:02 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > > The game CD has some stuff written > > > beyond the "end" of the disc. > > > I would have thought that correct emulatio

[389-users] Announcing 389 Directory Server version 1.3.0.2 Stable

2013-01-22 Thread Noriko Hosoi
The 389 Project team is pleased to announce the release of 389-ds-base-1.3.0.2. The 1.3.0 release started supporting slapi transactions, improved performance, as well as fixed bugs. Installation yum install 389-ds The 389-ds-base-1.3.0.2 is currently being pushed to stable (389-ds-base-1.3.

Re: scan a document into a pdf

2013-01-22 Thread Mike Wohlgemuth
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 12:05 -0500, JOYCE POLZIN wrote: > Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work) I use simple-scan and have never had any issues. Woogie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fed

Re: F18: USB flash drives do not mount

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Zoltan Hoppar wrote: 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 too

Re: How to set up a hotspot with networkmanager in F18

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Zhangsan wrote: Fedora 18 has a feature of realhotspot, but I am unable to find a way to set up a hotspot with kde-plasma-networkmanagement. My card supports AP mode, so I am not sure whether some packages are not installed. Is there any more infomation? I was waiting to see your answer, t

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis
Look this topic: http://thessdreview.com/Forums/linux/225-post2940.htm#post2940 I using Fedora 17 with this options. PS: my logs put in other HD. -- Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis -> Oportunix IT Services Brasil - ME -> Site: http://www.facebook.com/oportunix -> Fone: +55 (11) 4221-8163 -> Móvel: +5

Re: scan a document into a pdf

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tethys wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, JOYCE POLZIN wrote: Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work) You don't need a standalone application. This should suffice: scanimage | pnmtops | ps2pdf - output.pdf Obviously, each of those commands can take va

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert P. J. Day wrote: after a while living with ubuntu, i'm moving back to fedora as of F18, and would like some advice. i have an ASUS G74S with twin 750G drives, but i want to replace the boot drive with an SSD, and install F18 in such a way as to maximize the benefit of the SSD for boot

Re: scan a document into a pdf

2013-01-22 Thread Tethys
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, JOYCE POLZIN wrote: > Is there an application other than gscan2pdf (which doesn't work) You don't need a standalone application. This should suffice: scanimage | pnmtops | ps2pdf - output.pdf Obviously, each of those commands can take various flags to c

Re: fedora 16, ext4 corruption

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ian Malone wrote: Hi, Is anyone else seeing problems with F16 ext4? I recently moved my install onto a new harddisc (which is reporting SMART is fine after running a full test) and did that by making a new ext4 fs (previously ext3) then rsyncing across. I'm now seeing occasional system 'freezes'

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:18:00PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Which reminds me of something I noticed that the latest Ubuntu > features an optional kernel ("Linux-virt" package) that is supposedly > optimized for running Linux virtualized is there such a package in > Fedora? (never loo

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Phil Meyer
On 01/22/2013 06:08 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: after a while living with ubuntu, i'm moving back to fedora as of F18, and would like some advice. i have an ASUS G74S with twin 750G drives, but i want to replace the boot drive with an SSD, and install F18 in such a way as to maximize the bene

Re: Text rendering wacko in f18?

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Horsley
> It gets weirder. I have near identical f18 installs on > my system at home and at work, and it only happens on my > home system. I take that back. Once I swapped back in my old home directory at work, the truncation started again. So obviously all I need to do is binary search all the funky sett

f18: nautilus: how to re-enable tree view in "view item as a list" and some other function.

2013-01-22 Thread Dario Lesca
Nautilus 3.6.x ... The [+] to the left of the folders in "view item as a list" mode is gone The total disk free space in bottom status bar, when click on blank zone, is gone The function menu is gone (to top left, yes, but not when the focus is on the other windows)... The button "up to

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > one reason more to have one priamry OS and use virtualization > for anything else these days where the virt-overhead is nearly > zero and in many cases virtual machines are faster than physical > setups That is only partially accurate on CPU

Re: scan a document into a pdf

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
JOYCE POLZIN wrote: 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

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > Neither KVM nor VirtualBox can present the virtual machine in > the same 16:9 fullscreen format as your primary OS. Are you implying that Virtualbox doesn´t have a full screen mode? Because, believe me, I have used it on Windows hosts t

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Bill Oliver
I've basically given up trying to view multiple OSs on one medium-sized screen. My basic setup when not on the road is to have two screens and run the other OS in the second screen. Unfortunately, I use a couple of programs that are built for Ubuntu, and I can't get the dependencies to work

Re: Nautilus sidepane tree view

2013-01-22 Thread ergodic
Thanks Mike! The function key still works. But as before, it just toggles the sidebar on/off. My objective is to change the sidebar view mode to "tree view" from the current "places view". Best regards, Ergodic - Original Message - 01/21/2013 03:24 PM, ergodic wrote: > Any possibili

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:35:20 + Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 04:28 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > On 1/22/13, Cristian Sava wrote: > > > and grub2 for dual boot ... "Beginning in Fedora 18, GRUB2 can no > > > longer be installed to a partition." > > > http://docs.fed

Re: Nautilus sidepane tree view

2013-01-22 Thread Mike Wright
01/21/2013 03:24 PM, 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. Have you tried function key ? That used to toggle the sidebar on/off. -- users ma

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:02 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > The game CD has some stuff written > > beyond the "end" of the disc. > I would have thought that correct emulation would allow those same > low-level calls in a VM. AFAIK the gue

Re: Nautilus sidepane tree view

2013-01-22 Thread ergodic
Thanks for your reply Joachim. In the gconf-editor I have (3.0.1-3.fc18.x86_64) there is no nautilus entry under apps only nautilus-open-terminal and nautilus-sound-converter. A search for a sidebar gnome schema (gsettings list-schemas) was equally unsuccessful. Best regards, Ergodic - O

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:11 +, Ian Malone wrote: > Actually the grub2 install thing should not affect dual-booting > windows. You're right, it doesn't. I can dual boot Windows just fine with grub2. I was responding to the comment that there is no reason to ever need a native boot when a VM wo

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew Haley
On 01/22/2013 01:08 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > is there a recommendation for installing F18 in terms of separating > what's appropriate for the SSD versus what isn't? most of that is > fairly obvious, just wondering if anyone wrote up something about > their experience doing just that and how

Re: How to use a sound theme?

2013-01-22 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 22/01/2013 alle 06.26 -0500, Sam Varshavchik ha scritto: > > That would be a logical guess, except that I'm unable to find anything > in Gnome's setup that actually does that. Yes, I understood what you meant to ask, I wanted to repeat it so that it was clear. This is a setting th

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:02 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 12:12 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > > one reason more to have one priamry OS and use virtualization > > for anything else > > There are some cases where this doesn't work. One I know of is > commercial games unde

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Malone
On 22 January 2013 15:02, Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 12:12 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >> > >> one reason more to have one priamry OS and use virtualization >> for anything else > > There are some cases where this doesn't work. One I know of is > commercial games under Windows. Some

Re: fedora 16, ext4 corruption

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Malone
On 22 January 2013 11:32, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 01/22/2013 12:08 PM, Ian Malone wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is anyone else seeing problems with F16 ext4? I recently moved my >> install onto a new harddisc (which is reporting SMART is fine after >> running a full test) and did that by making a new ext

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 12:12 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > one reason more to have one priamry OS and use virtualization > for anything else There are some cases where this doesn't work. One I know of is commercial games under Windows. Some of them just do not work when Windows is running in a

Re: Text rendering wacko in f18?

2013-01-22 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/22/2013 07:58 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:22:50 -0200 > Lailah wrote: > >> How weird... It doesn't happen to me. May be a desktop >> issue? I have Mate and you? > > It gets weirder. I have near identical f18 installs on > my system at home and at work, and it only hap

Re: Text rendering wacko in f18?

2013-01-22 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/22/2013 08:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/20/2013 01:40 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> I know google-chrome isn't a fedora product, but it is probably using >> fedora libraries, so I thought I'd ask about this weirdness: >> >> On fedora 18 the folder names in the bookmarks bar are randomly >> tr

Re: Text rendering wacko in f18?

2013-01-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/20/2013 01:40 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I know google-chrome isn't a fedora product, but it is probably using > fedora libraries, so I thought I'd ask about this weirdness: > > On fedora 18 the folder names in the bookmarks bar are randomly > truncated (it can spell out "Computer" in full, but

Re: Text rendering wacko in f18?

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:22:50 -0200 Lailah wrote: > How weird... It doesn't happen to me. May be a desktop > issue? I have Mate and you? It gets weirder. I have near identical f18 installs on my system at home and at work, and it only happens on my home system. I'm now suspecting I've changed s

Re: Cinnamon desktop icons

2013-01-22 Thread Lailah
El sáb, 19-01-2013 a las 11:53 -0600, Steven Stern escribió: > I'm trying out Cinnamon on f18. > > Under Cinnamon settings, I've checked all the options for "icon visible > on desktop", but none appear. What's the trick? > > > -- > -- Steve That happened to me on Ubuntu 12.04, and I solve i

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-22 Thread Lailah
El lun, 21-01-2013 a las 10:01 +0100, Roberto Ragusa escribió: > 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.

Re: Text rendering wacko in f18?

2013-01-22 Thread Lailah
El sáb, 19-01-2013 a las 12:40 -0500, Tom Horsley escribió: > I know google-chrome isn't a fedora product, but it is probably using > fedora libraries, so I thought I'd ask about this weirdness: > > On fedora 18 the folder names in the bookmarks bar are randomly > truncated (it can spell out "Com

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.01.2013 14:35, schrieb Matthew Saltzman: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 04:28 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> On 1/22/13, Cristian Sava wrote: >>> and grub2 for dual boot ... "Beginning in Fedora 18, GRUB2 can no longer >>> be installed to a partition." >>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-U

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:35:20 + Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > But is there some danger associated with doing this as part of an > upgrade? If not, why was the option removed from Anaconda? Why would you be changing Grub-install /some/part as part of an upgrade, if is in going in the same place

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 04:28 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On 1/22/13, Cristian Sava wrote: > > and grub2 for dual boot ... "Beginning in Fedora 18, GRUB2 can no longer > > be installed to a partition." > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s1-grub-installi

Re: Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-22 Thread Sergio Belkin
2013/1/21 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 op

Re: Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-22 Thread Sergio Belkin
2013/1/21 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? > -- > > No, the question is Why must we do it? ;) Why must we use a disc when install from a file is feasible, it's a pity that Fedora lacks this f

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Tethys
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > If you are trying to keep a system running to get work done without big > changes you want Centos rather than Fedora - definitely. Even then, I'm not so sure any more. My recent CentOS 6 install was a pretty horrendous experience, and I still ca

recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
after a while living with ubuntu, i'm moving back to fedora as of F18, and would like some advice. i have an ASUS G74S with twin 750G drives, but i want to replace the boot drive with an SSD, and install F18 in such a way as to maximize the benefit of the SSD for booting and (mostly) R/O storag

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm facing ALL the new changes you mentioned and, since I'm already > feeling overwhelmed, I decided to skip the learning of some new stuff > for later: If you are trying to keep a system running to get work done without big changes you want Centos rather than Fedora - definitely. That or somet

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:03:48 +0200 Cristian Sava wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 06:46 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > > > but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up. > > > > You're not alone there! And for me, since I'm still on Fedora 14

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:37:14PM +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:34:39 +0100 > Alexander Volovics wrote: > > When I tried with Ubuntu in F16 I could only get 4:3 fullscreen > > not 16:9 fullscreen. Is there some special trick or has KVM > > 'advanced'? > I did nothing sp

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:34:39 +0100 Alexander Volovics wrote: > When I tried with Ubuntu in F16 I could only get 4:3 fullscreen > not 16:9 fullscreen. Is there some special trick or has KVM > 'advanced'? > > AV > I did nothing special just qxl video driver in the Guest -- Regards, Frank ln -

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:16:52PM +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:48:04 +0100 > Alexander Volovics wrote: > > Neither KVM nor VirtualBox can present the virtual machine in > > the same 16:9 fullscreen format as your primary OS. > I am using Full Widescreen with KVM. F17 h

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread John Austin
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 13:31 +0200, Cristian Sava wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 04:28 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > On 1/22/13, Cristian Sava wrote: > > > and grub2 for dual boot ... "Beginning in Fedora 18, GRUB2 can no longer > > > be installed to a partition." > > > http://docs.fedorapro

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:48:04 +0100 Alexander Volovics wrote: > Neither KVM nor VirtualBox can present the virtual machine in > the same 16:9 fullscreen format as your primary OS. > > AV > I am using Full Widescreen with KVM. F17 host. F18 guest. -- Regards, Frank ln -s http//www.frankly3d.c

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.01.2013 12:48, schrieb Alexander Volovics: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:12:30PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> one reason more to have one priamry OS and use virtualization >> for anything else these days where the virt-overhead is nearly >> zero and in many cases virtual machines are f

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:12:30PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > one reason more to have one priamry OS and use virtualization > for anything else these days where the virt-overhead is nearly > zero and in many cases virtual machines are faster than physical > setups Which is OK on desktops with

Re: fedora 16, ext4 corruption

2013-01-22 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 01/22/2013 12:08 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone else seeing problems with F16 ext4? I recently moved my > install onto a new harddisc (which is reporting SMART is fine after > running a full test) and did that by making a new ext4 fs (previously > ext3) then rsyncing across. I'm now

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Cristian Sava
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 04:28 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On 1/22/13, Cristian Sava wrote: > > and grub2 for dual boot ... "Beginning in Fedora 18, GRUB2 can no longer > > be installed to a partition." > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s1-grub-installin

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread James Freer
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up. > > You're not alone there! And for me, since I'm still on Fedora 14, > there's also GNOME 3! > > I will install F18 in the next couple of

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On 1/22/13, Cristian Sava wrote: > and grub2 for dual boot ... "Beginning in Fedora 18, GRUB2 can no longer > be installed to a partition." > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s1-grub-installing.html *anaconda* won't install GRUB2 to a partition. You can still

Re: How to use a sound theme?

2013-01-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Dario Lesca writes: Il giorno dom, 20/01/2013 alle 10.42 -0500, Sam Varshavchik ha scritto: > How do I go about switching to a different sound theme? ... from a Fedora or Gnome GUI panel, like other Operating System or DE do ? That would be a logical guess, except that I'm unable to find anyt

Re: How to use a sound theme?

2013-01-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
g writes: On 01/22/2013 02:50 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > But, it's rather depressing that I have to resort to this kind of crap. what do you mean 'resort'. all you would be doing is following gnome's setup. Ok, can you tell me where in gnome's setup I would find the right buttons to pus

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Cristian Sava
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 12:12 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 22.01.2013 12:10, schrieb Ian Malone: > > On 22 January 2013 11:03, Cristian Sava wrote: > >> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 06:46 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > >>> On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > but I must admit I'm

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.01.2013 12:10, schrieb Ian Malone: > On 22 January 2013 11:03, Cristian Sava wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 06:46 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: >>> On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up. >>> >>> You're not alone there! And fo

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Malone
On 22 January 2013 11:03, Cristian Sava wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 06:46 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: >> On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> > but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up. >> >> You're not alone there! And for me, since I'm still on Fedora 14, >> there's al

fedora 16, ext4 corruption

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Malone
Hi, Is anyone else seeing problems with F16 ext4? I recently moved my install onto a new harddisc (which is reporting SMART is fine after running a full test) and did that by making a new ext4 fs (previously ext3) then rsyncing across. I'm now seeing occasional system 'freezes' (not hard freezes,

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Cristian Sava
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 06:46 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > > but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up. > > You're not alone there! And for me, since I'm still on Fedora 14, > there's also GNOME 3! > > I will install F18 in the next couple

Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade

2013-01-22 Thread Shibi
Actually the package which you were looking for is gstreamer1-libav which is I think pretty exclusive to Fedora 18, I don't think reinstalling any of gstreamer-plugins could do the trick for you. On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:21:22 +, Dav

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up. You're not alone there! And for me, since I'm still on Fedora 14, there's also GNOME 3! I will install F18 in the next couple of weeks. I've always used Fedora every 4 releases (that's a new vers

Re: How to use a sound theme?

2013-01-22 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno dom, 20/01/2013 alle 10.42 -0500, Sam Varshavchik ha scritto: > How do I go about switching to a different sound theme? ... from a Fedora or Gnome GUI panel, like other Operating System or DE do ? Thanks -- Dario Lesca - sip:da...@solinos.it (Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 17 Gnome3) -

Re: Boot Fedora 18 from LiveCD ISO file

2013-01-22 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:13:37 -0300 Sergio Belkin wrote: [...] > > But it fails, it says something like > > /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is does not exist Do you want to buy a wovel? :) > /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist > > > I haven't figured it out how to wirte the r