Re: F20 - Can't Select Desktop Environment at Login

2014-02-09 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 02/10/2014 08:12 AM, BHanks wrote: >> You can still choose what session, but only *after* selecting the username >> (if using gdm, at least). >> >> -- Rex > > Wow, now I see it in the upper right corner of the screen rather than in > the Login Badge. > > On my one machine, I did a fedup upgr

Re: Radeon Driver question

2014-02-09 Thread Max
On 02/09/2014 09:31 PM, poma wrote: On 09.02.2014 00:42, Max wrote: Is there some sort of configuration that needs to be done with the Radeon Driver to get resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 ? My system looks like crap at that resolution but its seems to be the best I can get. The above is the

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2014-02-09 Thread Stephen Davies
I recently tried to build the FreeCAD application on my Fedora 14 installation. Somehow that process broke yum so that now, any attempt to use yum gives: [root@mustang ~]# yum --version Traceback (most recent call last): File "/bin/yum", line 4, in import yum File "/usr/local/lib/python

FC20 and (":No such file or directory)

2014-02-09 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have created a new F20 install on a Toshiba laptop this afternoon, and everything has gone well until I tried to set the laptop up for our system with some perl scripts. Some of the perl scripts worked fine, but one script would not activate and resulted in a command line error messa

Re: Gimp on fedora 20 is unable to allocate memory

2014-02-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 09:51:35 +0100 Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: > Hi all, > > gimp 2.8.10 with new kernels core dump on creating or opening large > image. > > There is a workaround to solve the problem. > I aliased the gimp command with > #alias gimp='MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_=0 gimp' Thanks! That does i

Re: F20 - Can't Select Desktop Environment at Login

2014-02-09 Thread BHanks
> You can still choose what session, but only *after* selecting the username > (if using gdm, at least). > > -- Rex Wow, now I see it in the upper right corner of the screen rather than in the Login Badge. On my one machine, I did a fedup upgrade from F19 to F20 and there is the option to selec

Re: # systemctl start nfs.service works -- # systemctl enable nfs.service doesn't [SOLVED]

2014-02-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 17:55 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Setting up an nfs server on a laptop running Fedora-20, I get the > following perplexing results: > > # systemctl start nfs.service > # systemctl enable nfs.service > Failed to issue method call: No such file or d

Re: Radeon Driver question

2014-02-09 Thread poma
On 09.02.2014 00:42, Max wrote: > Is there some sort of configuration that needs to be done with the > Radeon Driver to get resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 ? My system > looks like crap at that resolution but its seems to be the best I can get. > > The above is the only question that I have,

Re: # systemctl start nfs.service works -- # systemctl enable nfs.service doesn't

2014-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/10/14 09:55, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Setting up an nfs server on a laptop running Fedora-20, I get the > following perplexing results: > > # systemctl start nfs.service > # systemctl enable nfs.service > Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory > > Sure

Re: Strange problem -

2014-02-09 Thread poma
On 10.02.2014 02:21, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 09/02/14 13:23, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >> Fedora 20 64 bit XFCE >> >> When logging out from gui I get: >> >> "Received error while trying to log out >> Session manager must be in idle state when requesting a shu

Re: # systemctl start nfs.service works -- # systemctl enable nfs.service doesn't

2014-02-09 Thread poma
On 10.02.2014 02:55, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Setting up an nfs server on a laptop running Fedora-20, I get the > following perplexing results: > > # systemctl start nfs.service > # systemctl enable nfs.service > Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory > >

Re: Strange problem -

2014-02-09 Thread David
On 2/9/2014 8:21 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 09/02/14 13:23, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >> Fedora 20 64 bit XFCE >> >> When logging out from gui I get: >> >> "Received error while trying to log out >> Session manager must be in idle state when requesting a shu

Re: Controlling Appearance of GTK+ applications in KDE

2014-02-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 17:25 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > The appearance of gtk (Gnome) applications under KDE is controlled by a > > System Settings function: > > > > System Settings->Application Appearance->GTK+ Appearance->Widget > > Style > > > > wh

# systemctl start nfs.service works -- # systemctl enable nfs.service doesn't

2014-02-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Setting up an nfs server on a laptop running Fedora-20, I get the following perplexing results: # systemctl start nfs.service # systemctl enable nfs.service Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory Sure enough, as promised, nfs works up to the next reboot, th

Re: Strange problem -

2014-02-09 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 09/02/14 13:23, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Fedora 20 64 bit XFCE When logging out from gui I get: "Received error while trying to log out Session manager must be in idle state when requesting a shutdown." Each time I reboot a number of windows/tabs are loaded, I go through a

Re: Fedora on a Thinkpad W540

2014-02-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/09/2014 04:23 PM, Edward Mart wrote: On 2/7/2014 12:29 PM, CS DBA wrote: Unfortunately it's web order only... I can send it back if needed but some level of confidence before I pull the trigger would be nice... Seems this store installs fedora 20 on that exact model, they may be

Using Kino for video capture

2014-02-09 Thread Fred Smith
I know Kino is officially obsoleted by its maintainer, but I have chosen to TRY using it anyway, since it'll do video capture from firewire, AND let me see what it's capturing. So, I've got a bazillion commercial VHS tapes, a considerable number of them are series of TV shows, so I'm to have to sp

Re: F20 - Can't Select Desktop Environment at Login

2014-02-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Brian Hanks wrote: > I've had quite a challenge getting Fedora 20 to work on any of my > machines, but I have finally managed to work through the issues and I > have it running on two of them. The problem I'm having now is that I am > not able to select the Desktop Environment at Login. In the p

Re: Controlling Appearance of GTK+ applications in KDE

2014-02-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The appearance of gtk (Gnome) applications under KDE is controlled by a > System Settings function: > > System Settings->Application Appearance->GTK+ Appearance->Widget > Style > > which works as advertised: the theme chosen for the widget style affects

Re: Fedora on a Thinkpad W540

2014-02-09 Thread Edward Mart
On 2/7/2014 12:29 PM, CS DBA wrote: Unfortunately it's web order only... I can send it back if needed but some level of confidence before I pull the trigger would be nice... Seems this store installs fedora 20 on that exact model, they may be willing to help, however, they are located i

Re: Case of the ghost CD

2014-02-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
Perhaps an entire CD was buffered and for some reason a change of CD went unnoticed. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods -- user

Re: Case of the ghost CD

2014-02-09 Thread g
On 02/09/2014 10:18 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 17:44 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: On 02/07/2014 02:34 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: I have 2 linux systems. Both are running fc18. In one I play a CDby Katey Mathey Matesthsgt id what plays. same CD is palce in the drive a CD by Wa

Strange problem -

2014-02-09 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
Fedora 20 64 bit XFCE When logging out from gui I get: "Received error while trying to log out Session manager must be in idle state when requesting a shutdown." Each time I reboot a number of windows/tabs are loaded, I go through and close them all. However there is garbage running when I l

Re: Case of the ghost CD

2014-02-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:18:54 -0600 > > -- > > -- Steve > Machines have only one CD drive. > Is it a saved playlist that takes precedence? ___ Regards Frank frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Case of the ghost CD

2014-02-09 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 17:44 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > On 02/07/2014 02:34 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I have 2 linux systems. Both are running fc18. In one I play a CDby > > Katey Mathey Matesthsgt id what plays. same CD is palce in the drive a > > CD by Waylon Jennings is played. > > > > Ca

Re: alias ymu yum?

2014-02-09 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 09 February 2014, Frank Murphy sent: > I can do ymu update #frequently > I used an alias ymu yum, > works as user and root. > sudo ymu doesn't work, > > I have placed alias sudo="sudo " > in home /.bashrc > still no joy What about both together: alias ymu="sudo yum" --

Re: is "groupmems" not being setgid worth a bugzilla report?

2014-02-09 Thread g
hi p.j., On 02/09/2014 03:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/09/14 17:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: on my f20 system, perusing the account-related commands and ran across the "groupmems" command, whose man page reads: "SETUP The groupmems exe

Re: alias ymu yum? [solved]

2014-02-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 14:24:17 +0200 Ahmad Samir wrote: > I tested here by adding: > alias sudo='sudo ' > alias ymu='yum' > forgot to add it to root bashrc ___ Regards Frank frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: alias ymu yum?

2014-02-09 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 9 February 2014 14:13, Frank Murphy wrote: > Due to slight dyslexia > when working on cli. > I can do ymu update #frequently > I used an alias ymu yum, > works as user and root. > sudo ymu doesn't work, > > I have placed alias sudo="sudo " > in home /.bashrc > still no joy > > Have checked Go

Re: alias ymu yum?

2014-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/09/14 20:13, Frank Murphy wrote: > Due to slight dyslexia > when working on cli. > I can do ymu update #frequently > I used an alias ymu yum, > works as user and root. > sudo ymu doesn't work, > > I have placed alias sudo="sudo " > in home /.bashrc > still no joy > > Have checked Google for

alias ymu yum?

2014-02-09 Thread Frank Murphy
Due to slight dyslexia when working on cli. I can do ymu update #frequently I used an alias ymu yum, works as user and root. sudo ymu doesn't work, I have placed alias sudo="sudo " in home /.bashrc still no joy Have checked Google for sudo alias (expansion) ___ Regards Frank frankly3d.com --

Re: F20 ping wildcard!

2014-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/09/14 20:04, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:58:46 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Does >> >> host foo.example.com >> >> return >> >> foo.example.com is an alias for wildcard.example.com >> >> > You're right it does. > OK, that means the DNS record for foo is a CNAME record. I

Re: F20 ping wildcard!

2014-02-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:58:46 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Does > > host foo.example.com > > return > > foo.example.com is an alias for wildcard.example.com > > You're right it does. ___ Regards Frank frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: F20 ping wildcard!

2014-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/09/14 18:01, Frank Murphy wrote: > How can I stop ping putting in wildcard.* > > If I want to check say > ping -c 3 foo.example.com > > ping goes > PING wildcard.example.com > Does host foo.example.com return foo.example.com is an alias for wildcard.example.com -- Getting tired of non

Re: is "groupmems" not being setgid worth a bugzilla report?

2014-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/09/14 17:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i thought as much, which means that the man page is still > confusingly worded and, IMHO, still merits a BZ report. For the man page, OK. You should simply rewrite it and submit it I suppose. -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serv

Re: Best practices for SSD

2014-02-09 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 09.02.2014, Chris Murphy wrote: > > - reduce swappiness: /etc/sysctl.conf > > vm.swappiness=1 > > vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 > I wouldn't do this. If swap is needed, then swap is needed. While vfs_cache_pressure = 50 is the standard, swappiness set to 1 does not mean that the ker

F20 ping wildcard!

2014-02-09 Thread Frank Murphy
How can I stop ping putting in wildcard.* If I want to check say ping -c 3 foo.example.com ping goes PING wildcard.example.com ___ Regards Frank frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mai

Re: Creating multiple BTRFS partitions

2014-02-09 Thread sam tygier
On 08/02/14 20:46, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 8, 2014, at 10:51 AM, sam tygier wrote: I'd like to install with an encrypted /home, but unencrypted /. I would also like to use BTRFS. 1. Click on /home, confirm Device Type is set to Btrfs, then click on Modify. In the Configure Volume panel,

Re: is "groupmems" not being setgid worth a bugzilla report?

2014-02-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/09/14 17:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > on my f20 system, perusing the account-related commands and ran > > across the "groupmems" command, whose man page reads: > > > > "SETUP > >The groupmems executable should be in mode 2770 as user root

Re: is "groupmems" not being setgid worth a bugzilla report?

2014-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/09/14 17:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > on my f20 system, perusing the account-related commands and ran > across the "groupmems" command, whose man page reads: > > "SETUP >The groupmems executable should be in mode 2770 as user root and in > group groups. The system administrator ca

Re: CentOS on home machine HD

2014-02-09 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 10:12 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > One issue might be the sharing of your home directory. Usually the > issue is with the desktop and the dot files. The opposite of what they're trying to do (keep things isolated). Having said that, when I've networked systems, or with mult

is "groupmems" not being setgid worth a bugzilla report?

2014-02-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
on my f20 system, perusing the account-related commands and ran across the "groupmems" command, whose man page reads: "SETUP The groupmems executable should be in mode 2770 as user root and in group groups. The system administrator can add users to group groups to allow or disall

Gimp on fedora 20 is unable to allocate memory

2014-02-09 Thread Ambrogio De Lorenzo
Hi all, gimp 2.8.10 with new kernels core dump on creating or opening large image. There is a workaround to solve the problem. I aliased the gimp command with #alias gimp='MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_=0 gimp' The problem is related to new metods for allocation memory on the kernel 3.12. More datails on ht