Re: fedup to F20 but did not switch from kdm to sddm

2013-12-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: > I ran fedup from F19 to F20 without any trouble. > I was excited to discover sddm but kdm came back as before. > I then installed sddm with yum but kdm still came. > I the tried > $ system-switch-displaymanager sddm > but got that answe

fedup to F20 but did not switch from kdm to sddm

2013-12-26 Thread Frédéric Bron
I ran fedup from F19 to F20 without any trouble. I was excited to discover sddm but kdm came back as before. I then installed sddm with yum but kdm still came. I the tried $ system-switch-displaymanager sddm but got that answer: The graphical display manager sddm is not supported yet. How am I sup

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:17:04 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > That's pretty much it. After upgrading to F20, launching gnome terminal > starts a shell with its current directory of / instead of $HOME. Very > annoying. > > gnome-terminal appears to inherit the parent proc

Re: screwed up a drive (i think)!

2013-12-26 Thread bruce
Hey Chris. Thanks for the reply. I took a look using gparted, and didn't see the partitions. However, I think the major issue has to do with the hacked/rootkits on the box that I'm getting rid of. My gut tells me the drive is ok.good regarding the data. I managed to completely copy all the data

Re: What happened to 'play' command line music player?

2013-12-26 Thread Edik Landaveri
Sox! Thanks a lot! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guid

Re: screwed up a drive (i think)!

2013-12-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 26, 2013, at 3:17 PM, bruce wrote: > > Here's the output of the fdisk -l > [root@dell-1 ~]# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 byt

Re: What happened to 'play' command line music player?

2013-12-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/27/13 08:31, Edik Landaveri wrote: > Please, can you tell me why I can't find the 'play' command line music > player. It used to be on the Fedora repositories 'till a few releases ago. > Was it outdated & not developed anymore? I liked it because it just let me > play my ogg files on the

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/27/13 07:28, Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:15 PM, John Wendel wrote: >> Give Handbrake a try. It produces mp4 or mkv output with great quality and >> the output will be much smaller than your VOB files. > Thanks, John. Is handbrake in Fedora repos? It seems not. > No, it is

What happened to 'play' command line music player?

2013-12-26 Thread Edik Landaveri
Please, can you tell me why I can't find the 'play' command line music player. It used to be on the Fedora repositories 'till a few releases ago. Was it outdated & not developed anymore? I liked it because it just let me play my ogg files on the fly without even going to runlevel 5. If it's n

Re: gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:17:04 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > That's pretty much it. After upgrading to F20, launching gnome terminal > starts a shell with its current directory of / instead of $HOME. Very > annoying. > > gnome-terminal appears to inherit the parent process's home directory. I

gnome-terminal in F20 defaults to / for the initial directory

2013-12-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
That's pretty much it. After upgrading to F20, launching gnome terminal starts a shell with its current directory of / instead of $HOME. Very annoying. gnome-terminal appears to inherit the parent process's home directory. If I launch gnome-terminal from another terminal window, the new she

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:15 PM, John Wendel wrote: > Give Handbrake a try. It produces mp4 or mkv output with great quality and > the output will be much smaller than your VOB files. Thanks, John. Is handbrake in Fedora repos? It seems not. Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: live usb

2013-12-26 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 06:41:48PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to create a bootable pen stick. > for super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.00s1-beta6.iso > and rescatux_cdrom_usb_hybrid_i386_amd64-486_0.31b5_sg2d.iso > I tried liveusb-creator. However, every time I get: > There was a

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread John Wendel
On 12/26/2013 03:11 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 26 December 2013, Paul Smith sent: I have a video DVD with the following structure: $ dir AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS $ I would like to upload the video into YouTube. However, it seems that I

Re: Freezing mouse cursor in 19

2013-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/13 04:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/26/2013 01:16 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: The mouse cursor remains in one place but as I move the mouse around I can see that it's hovering over other things. So it's only the pointer that stops moving, while the computer "knows" that the mouse is in

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 26 December 2013, Paul Smith sent: >> I have a video DVD with the following structure: >> >> $ dir >> AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS >> $ >> >> I would like to upload the video into YouTube. However, it seems that >> I have first to convert

Re: screwed up a drive (i think)!

2013-12-26 Thread bruce
update:: [root@dell-1 ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 80 625131864 sda 81 512000 sda1 82 624618496 sda2 2530 262144000 dm-0 25318028160 dm-1 2532 78643200 dm-2 2533 157286400 dm-3 2534

screwed up a drive (i think)!

2013-12-26 Thread bruce
Hi. I have a 640G drive I put back in a laptop, that now is showing up in the "File System" as a vg_dell45 icon, as well as showing up under the disk utility as a "Multi-disk Device" The drive didn't appear in these areas before. Here's the situation: -Took the drive out of the laptop -Inserted

Re: Freezing mouse cursor in 19

2013-12-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/26/2013 01:16 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: The mouse cursor remains in one place but as I move the mouse around I can see that it's hovering over other things. So it's only the pointer that stops moving, while the computer "knows" that the mouse is in a different position, right? Have you

Freezing mouse cursor in 19

2013-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
I have noticed the pasts few weeks the mouse cursor freezes whenever I watch youtube videos in chrome. I am running the same Chrome version in Debian Sid and it doesn't happen when I am running that distro. The mouse cursor remains in one place but as I move the mouse around I can see that it's ho

Re: Change locale globally (f20)?

2013-12-26 Thread Michael Hannon
Great. Thanks, Tom. -- Mike On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Michael Hannon > wrote: > > > > Greetings. I evidently did not pay enough attention when I recently > > installed Fedora 20 on my desktop system, as my system appears to be set > fo

Re: fedup leaves half done 18 > 19

2013-12-26 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting Sean Darcy : I'm trying to upgrade FC18 to FC19. Ran fedup --network 19. got this "non-fatal" error: 120.813] (II) fedup.yum:build_update_transaction() systemd-sysv-201-2.fc18.9.x86_64 requires systemd = 201-2.fc18.9 120.815] (II) fedup.yum:build_update_transaction() libgudev1-201-2.fc

Re: Auto OS Install Process

2013-12-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 26, 2013 12:33 PM, "bruce" wrote: > > Pete, > > umm - regarding partition, i was under the impression that an OS > install can have multiple "partitions" > Yes, this is part of why I suggested not using the term "partition" to describe an installation. > In my case though, I want to have

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 26 December 2013, Paul Smith sent: > I have a video DVD with the following structure: > > $ dir > AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS > $ > > I would like to upload the video into YouTube. However, it seems that > I have first to convert the video DVD to one of the formats accepted > by You

Re: Auto OS Install Process

2013-12-26 Thread bruce
Pete, umm - regarding partition, i was under the impression that an OS install can have multiple "partitions" In my case though, I want to have the ability to set/invoke whatever process needs to occur so I can programatically set the boot OS. All of this will occur via ssh, so the process won't

Re: System mail (Fedora 20)

2013-12-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 26, 2013 11:46 AM, "Lars E. Pettersson" wrote: > > On 12/26/2013 07:32 PM, Pete Travis wrote: >> >> Try `journalctl -u crond --since today` for example. journalctl has >> filtering options built in, the man page is worth skimming. > > > OK, took 12 seconds (cat /var/log/cron is even faste

Re: Auto OS Install Process

2013-12-26 Thread Pete Travis
> > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > > > > On Dec 26, 2013 10:52 AM, "bruce" wrote: > >> > >> Hey Suvayu, > >> > >> Not to be insensitive.. but I've had left-post/right-post/top-post > >> args etc for damn near 30 years... > >> > >> My motto - if I create the post, I'll pos

Re: fedup leaves half done 18 > 19

2013-12-26 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/26/2013 08:01 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: Rebooted. No FC19. Booted into FC18. What does 'cat /etc/issue' say? Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson http://www.sm6rpz.se/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

fedup leaves half done 18 > 19

2013-12-26 Thread Sean Darcy
I'm trying to upgrade FC18 to FC19. Ran fedup --network 19. got this "non-fatal" error: 120.813] (II) fedup.yum:build_update_transaction() systemd-sysv-201-2.fc18.9.x86_64 requires systemd = 201-2.fc18.9 120.815] (II) fedup.yum:build_update_transaction() libgudev1-201-2.fc18.9.x86_64 requires

Re: Auto OS Install Process

2013-12-26 Thread bruce
Hi Pete. Thanks for the reply. If I understand your following statement:: > If we assume that you have functioning ssh access to the machine, you can > change the default boot option for grub in /etc/default/grub (and run > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/path/to/grub.cfg) > this implies that for each in

Re: System mail (Fedora 20)

2013-12-26 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/26/2013 07:32 PM, Pete Travis wrote: Try `journalctl -u crond --since today` for example. journalctl has filtering options built in, the man page is worth skimming. OK, took 12 seconds (cat /var/log/cron is even faster though :). But 'journalctl -u crond --since today' does not produce

Re: Auto OS Install Process

2013-12-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 26, 2013 10:52 AM, "bruce" wrote: > > Hey Suvayu, > > Not to be insensitive.. but I've had left-post/right-post/top-post > args etc for damn near 30 years... > > My motto - if I create the post, I'll post/add to it as i see fit. > Everyon else is welcome to reply, or not!! > > > Now that th

Re: System mail (Fedora 20)

2013-12-26 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 26, 2013 10:47 AM, "Lars E. Pettersson" wrote: > ... > > # time journalctl | grep cron > ...lots of lines since July 28 (!)... > > real26m0.921s > user10m25.731s > sys 3m7.579s > # > > Not that useful. Any idea on how to improve that? ... > > Lars > -- > Try `journalctl -u crond

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I have a video DVD with the following structure: $ dir AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS $ I would like to upload the video into YouTube. However, it seems that I have first to convert the video DVD to one of the formats a

Re: f20 - gedit

2013-12-26 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/19/2013 09:07 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: AppMenu is only used when running under GNOME, when using any other DE it's not used. FWIW, you can get the old behaviour back under GNOME by editing the 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides' key: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daem

Re: Auto OS Install Process

2013-12-26 Thread bruce
Hey Suvayu, Not to be insensitive.. but I've had left-post/right-post/top-post args etc for damn near 30 years... My motto - if I create the post, I'll post/add to it as i see fit. Everyon else is welcome to reply, or not!! Now that that's out of the way... My need is in the case a system get

Re: System mail (Fedora 20)

2013-12-26 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/26/2013 06:46 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On my desktop it took 6 seconds, starting July 6, but it had only a few lines about the yum-cron problems the last two weeks. So on that computer I seem to miss a lot of lines in the systemd-log, that is present in the /var/log/cron file. Ah, so

Re: System mail (Fedora 20)

2013-12-26 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/25/2013 06:56 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 06:30:22 +0100 lee wrote: A system cannot correctly function without a way for such processes to send email. Yes, they can. Cron can work whether you know about it or not eg. "journalctl | grep cron | less # time journalctl |

Re: gedit as root now locks desktop hard

2013-12-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:11:59 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Again, after a bunch of tweaking, I needed to edit a system config file, > so sued, and ran "gedit file.conf &" and the desktop locked hard. Only > option was a power off via the switch. I rebooted and after logging in, > just open

live usb

2013-12-26 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am trying to create a bootable pen stick. for super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.00s1-beta6.iso and rescatux_cdrom_usb_hybrid_i386_amd64-486_0.31b5_sg2d.iso I tried liveusb-creator. However, every time I get: There was a problem executing the following command: `checkisomd5 while the md5 file is a

Re: Auto OS Install Process

2013-12-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Bruce, Please read the mailing list guidelines (linked from the list signature); top-posting is frowned up on on this list. Now some comments... On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:14:52AM -0500, bruce wrote: > > What I'd really like is the ability to set two partitions > > > PartitionA - base/mini

Re: gedit as root now locks desktop hard

2013-12-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:51:07AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 12/26/2013 10:16 AM, bruce wrote: > >what happens if you use gedit, but you open the file as a non root user? > > Works fine as me. Only locks as root. Maybe it is a problem with the .Xauthority file? You could test with

Re: System mail (Fedora 20)

2013-12-26 Thread Mike Wright
12/26/2013 12:49 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:17:17 +0100 Suvayu Ali wrote: I know I can always look in the logs, but I would probably miss something if I have to do this manually for every daemon that is running. It is much simpler to monitor this through system mail. Henc

Re: gedit as root now locks desktop hard

2013-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/26/2013 10:16 AM, bruce wrote: robert. ouch. do you have vi on the system. do you get the same hard lock when you use vi? Yes. I fell back to vi. Been using vi for 20+ years. Sigh. what happens if you use gedit, but you open the file as a non root user? Works fine as me. Only l

Re: gedit as root now locks desktop hard

2013-12-26 Thread bruce
robert. ouch. do you have vi on the system. do you get the same hard lock when you use vi? what happens if you use gedit, but you open the file as a non root user? On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Again, after a bunch of tweaking, I needed to edit a system config f

Re: Auto OS Install Process

2013-12-26 Thread bruce
Hey Suvayu, Thanks, but in looking at kickstarter, it doesn't allow as to how you'd be able to set the system to boot into one or the other OS partitions. What I'd really like is the ability to set two partitions PartitionA - base/minimal OS -used to just do a netinstall to setup partitionB

gedit as root now locks desktop hard

2013-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Again, after a bunch of tweaking, I needed to edit a system config file, so sued, and ran "gedit file.conf &" and the desktop locked hard. Only option was a power off via the switch. I rebooted and after logging in, just opened a terminal, sued, and opened gedit and locked hard. This was wor

Screen lock stopped working

2013-12-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have been doing a lot of customizing (tweaking) of Gnome on f20. Now screen lock does not work. I can still lock with the action button on the topbar pull down. I don't see this in tweaking. Where might I have mis-set it? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: Auto OS Install Process

2013-12-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 09:01:46AM -0500, bruce wrote: > > Here's my question: > > Is there a way to do the same basic process, except to always leave > the CD in, and to then be able to "switch" the system, so it "knows" > which media to install from. > > If this can be done, one can setup a sy

Auto OS Install Process

2013-12-26 Thread bruce
Hi, In order to do an OS install, you need to have an external media to start the install process. This media provides a "base"/small system that you can then use to do a larger netinstall, or a larger update process to get the drive/system setup the way you want. All of the larger system install

Re: bumblebee fun

2013-12-26 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Robert Dady wrote: > Hi everyone! > Merry Christmas! > > I have successfully installed bumblebee on my F20 laptop according to > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee. > I use my laptop mostly as xen server with F20 dom0, and in this setup > optirun fails with

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/26/13 20:59, Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> I have a video DVD with the following structure: >>> >>> $ dir >>> AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS >>> $ >>> >>> I would like to upload the video into YouTube. However, it seems that >>> I have first to convert the v

Re: relabel

2013-12-26 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I try to uncompress the new img, but it does not work > cpio -i -d -H newc -F ../initramfs-3.12.5-200.fc19.i686.PAE.img > --no-absolute-filenames > > cpio: premature end of file It's gzipped too. gzip -dc ../initramfs-3.12.5-200.fc19.i6

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I have a video DVD with the following structure: >> >> $ dir >> AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS >> $ >> >> I would like to upload the video into YouTube. However, it seems that >> I have first to convert the video DVD to one of the formats accepted >> by Y

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/26/13 20:33, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a video DVD with the following structure: > > $ dir > AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS > $ > > I would like to upload the video into YouTube. However, it seems that > I have first to convert the video DVD to one of the formats accepted > by YouTube. Cou

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread davidschaak1
Sorry for the top post. If you are running kde you can rip the tracks you want with k3b providing transcode does not crash Hth dave Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity -Original Message- From: Paul Smith Sender: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Thu, 26

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:33:47 + Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a video DVD with the following structure: > > $ dir > AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS > $ > > I would like to upload the video into YouTube. However, it seems > that I have first to convert the video DVD to one of the formats > acc

Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I have a video DVD with the following structure: $ dir AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS $ I would like to upload the video into YouTube. However, it seems that I have first to convert the video DVD to one of the formats accepted by YouTube. Could someone please direct me about how to achieve that in

Re: relabel

2013-12-26 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello Chris, Thank for your help. I did exactly like you said, but the result is the same as before. I am sure that the issue is with the initramfs. According to the tests that I made. it is probably due to the /boot which is not found However, how can I know exactly what is going on? I try to u

Re: System mail (Fedora 20)

2013-12-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 08:49:23AM +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:17:17 +0100 > Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > I know I can always look in the logs, but I would probably miss > > something if I have to do this manually for every daemon that is > > running. It is much simpler to mon

Re: Kmail and QP

2013-12-26 Thread Martin S
On Wednesday, December 25, 2013 03:18:45 AM Kenneth Marcy wrote: > On 12/25/2013 12:32 AM, Martin S wrote: > > I have one contact that uses an email client that sends everyting in QP- > > encoded. Unfortunately she is also one of the more important contacts I > > have. Apparently KMail chokes on th

Re: System mail (Fedora 20)

2013-12-26 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:17:17 +0100 Suvayu Ali wrote: > I know I can always look in the logs, but I would probably miss > something if I have to do this manually for every daemon that is > running. It is much simpler to monitor this through system mail. > > Hence, I would like to know what happe