Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 07:01 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/18/2014 12:37 PM, jd1008 wrote: Is there any other tool that can extract files from a partition that seems to have corrupted superblocks? I tried dumpe2fs, and fsck -b to no avail. Tried all available block numbers that are listed when origin

Re: WiFi Tx power question

2014-09-18 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 19:46 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > I do not have a physical access to the access point. > It is a public hotspot (at a restaurant). My laptop > has no antennas :) Probably, their system is crap, with nothing you can do about it. It seems to be par for the course with those things.

Re: WiFi Tx power question

2014-09-18 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 18:23 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > So, reason I am asking is that I would like to increase Tx power to > 30dBm due to poor connectivity with the hotspot router. Something tells me that wouldn't help. WiFi seems to work well with quite weak signals, so boosting them when your neari

Re: Problem with smplayer

2014-09-18 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 10:38 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > I don't know why it wont work for me. Try working backwards, then. Open the smplayer playlist, add a few songs to it, save the playlist. Open the saved playlist, check it plays. Edit and simplify the playlist to the way you can make your script

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 12:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/18/2014 11:45 AM, jd1008 issued this missive: I have been searching for ext2/3 design docs to see where the on-disk superblock is located relative to starting sector of the partition, and how many bytes it occucpies. I was also looking for t

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 07:01 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/18/2014 12:37 PM, jd1008 wrote: Is there any other tool that can extract files from a partition that seems to have corrupted superblocks? I tried dumpe2fs, and fsck -b to no avail. Tried all available block numbers that are listed when origin

[389-users] NSS SSL failure.

2014-09-18 Thread William
Hi, (Off list posting, please include me in replies) I'm having issues getting a freshly provisioned instance of 389 working with SSL. In my instance directory, I created a self signed CA and server cert with: certutil -S -n "CA certificate" -s "cn=CAcert" -x -t "CT,," -m 1000 -v 120 -d . -2 -

Re: WiFi Tx power question

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 07:28 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/18/2014 05:23 PM, jd1008 issued this missive: # lspci | grep -i wifi 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 dmesg | grep -i iwlwifi [ 10.019366] iwlwifi :0c:00.0: Detected Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN, REV=0x54 dmesg

Re: WiFi Tx power question

2014-09-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/18/2014 05:23 PM, jd1008 issued this missive: # lspci | grep -i wifi 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 dmesg | grep -i iwlwifi [ 10.019366] iwlwifi :0c:00.0: Detected Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN, REV=0x54 dmesg also shows [ 266.827254] wlan0: Limiting TX

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/18/2014 12:37 PM, jd1008 wrote: Is there any other tool that can extract files from a partition that seems to have corrupted superblocks? I tried dumpe2fs, and fsck -b to no avail. Tried all available block numbers that are listed when original mkfs was done, and it's output was saved. No

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 11:42 AM, Nathan Schwarz wrote: Unmount the partition, `debugfs $partition` and then `extract $fileOnDamagedFilesystem $targetFileOnExternalFilesystem`. That should do it - but you should check the man-page since I can't recall if it was exactly that. - Nathan Well, I tried debu

WiFi Tx power question

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
# lspci | grep -i wifi 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 dmesg | grep -i iwlwifi [ 10.019366] iwlwifi :0c:00.0: Detected Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN, REV=0x54 dmesg also shows [ 266.827254] wlan0: Limiting TX power to 36 (36 - 0) dBm as advertised by 00:0d:67

New gtk-2.0 theme in KDE

2014-09-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
When evolution is run under KDE the color scheme is not good; the color of the selected message is barely different from that of unselected messages. Various themes (available from System Settings->Application Appearance->GTK+ Appearance) produce various color schemes. The one I like best is Adwa

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:44:09PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > One other thing I've seen work: Put the disk in the freezer for > a while. I have to comment--only do this if the data on the disk is NOT very important to you, if you must do it. If it _is_ important, give the disk to someone like G

Re: checking for hexadecimal vals only in a string in bash

2014-09-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 16:31 -0500, Chris Kottaridis wrote: > if [[ $val =~ '/^[A-Fa-f0-9]+$/' ]] ; then > echo is hex > else > echo is not hex > fi You don't need the / or ' Also, this isn't searching for any hex string, it's searching for lines consisting only of a single hex string. po

Re: checking for hexadecimal vals only in a string in bash

2014-09-18 Thread Dennis Kaptain
try this: if [[ $VAL2 =~ ^[A-Fa-f0-9]*$ ]] ; then echo is hex else echo is not hex fi 2014-09-18 17:34 GMT-05:00 Fred Smith : > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 04:31:03PM -0500, Chris Kottaridis wrote: >> In a bash shell script I want to see if a string has nothing but >> hexadecimal values in

Re: Where did pulseaudio profile "off" go?

2014-09-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 18:41:41 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > Sometime in the past few weeks, this seems to have stopped > working, and now the sound control center only has 1 choice > listed in the set of profiles for each device (and none of > the choices are "off"). Running "pacmd list-cards" does s

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:39:38 +0200 (CEST) Francisco J. Tsao Santin wrote: > And you have a last chance with data carving methods (i.e. Foremost or > Testdisk/Photorec) One other thing I've seen work: Put the disk in the freezer for a while. Sometimes it works better cold and you have a few minut

Where did pulseaudio profile "off" go?

2014-09-18 Thread Tom Horsley
Once upon a time, when I'd run "gnome-control-center sound" there would be a option to select profile "off" for some sound devices, which basically meant that pulseaudio would pretend it wasn't there, and I could use the alsa device directly in mplayer (for example). Sometime in the past few weeks

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread Francisco J. Tsao Santin
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, jd1008 wrote: > Is there any other tool that can extract files from a partition that > seems to have corrupted superblocks? > I tried dumpe2fs, and fsck -b > to no avail. Tried all available block numbers that are listed > when original mkfs was done, and it's output was save

Re: checking for hexadecimal vals only in a string in bash

2014-09-18 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 04:31:03PM -0500, Chris Kottaridis wrote: > In a bash shell script I want to see if a string has nothing but > hexadecimal values in it. > > So: > > A098FE or af098fe > > should be true > > hello > > should not. > > How do I check for that ? > > I've been playing wit

checking for hexadecimal vals only in a string in bash

2014-09-18 Thread Chris Kottaridis
In a bash shell script I want to see if a string has nothing but hexadecimal values in it. So: A098FE or af098fe should be true hello should not. How do I check for that ? I've been playing with if [[ $val =~ '/^[A-Fa-f0-9]+$/' ]] ; then echo is hex else echo is not hex fi I've tr

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 01:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:45:37 -0600 jd1008 wrote: I was also looking for the formula that is used to compute the location of all of the backup superblocks. OK, I found my notes from the last time I did this the paragraph about units may be the importa

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:45:37 -0600 jd1008 wrote: > I was also looking for the formula that is used to compute the location > of all of the backup superblocks. OK, I found my notes from the last time I did this the paragraph about units may be the important part :-). I was able to mount the buste

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 11:42 AM, Nathan Schwarz wrote: Unmount the partition, `debugfs $partition` and then `extract $fileOnDamagedFilesystem $targetFileOnExternalFilesystem`. That should do it - but you should check the man-page since I can't recall if it was exactly that. - Nathan Thank you Nathan.

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 12:57 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/18/2014 11:45 AM, jd1008 issued this missive: I have been searching for ext2/3 design docs to see where the on-disk superblock is located relative to starting sector of the partition, and how many bytes it occucpies. I was also looking for t

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/18/2014 11:45 AM, jd1008 issued this missive: I have been searching for ext2/3 design docs to see where the on-disk superblock is located relative to starting sector of the partition, and how many bytes it occucpies. I was also looking for the formula that is used to compute the location

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
I have been searching for ext2/3 design docs to see where the on-disk superblock is located relative to starting sector of the partition, and how many bytes it occucpies. I was also looking for the formula that is used to compute the location of all of the backup superblocks. Thnaks for any poi

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 11:58 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: I recently got some files off a damaged disk by mounting it using an alternate superblock (I don't remember any details, but I know I found how to do it via google searches). Non of the alternate superblock I tried worked. All of them have bad magic. A

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread Tom Horsley
I recently got some files off a damaged disk by mounting it using an alternate superblock (I don't remember any details, but I know I found how to do it via google searches). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread Nathan Schwarz
Unmount the partition, `debugfs $partition` and then `extract $fileOnDamagedFilesystem $targetFileOnExternalFilesystem`. That should do it - but you should check the man-page since I can't recall if it was exactly that. - Nathan -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / - against HTML emails X - aga

Recovering files from ext2/3

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
Is there any other tool that can extract files from a partition that seems to have corrupted superblocks? I tried dumpe2fs, and fsck -b to no avail. Tried all available block numbers that are listed when original mkfs was done, and it's output was saved. None of the blocks seem to work - all of

Re: 64bit skype client needed

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 11:11 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/17/2014 11:26 PM, Marcel J.E. Mol issued this missive: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 02:14:21PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: On 09/17/2014 01:54 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: OK, I have the rpm pf skype which was built for fc18: skype-4.2.0.11-3.fc18.x86_64.

Re: 64bit skype client needed

2014-09-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/17/2014 11:26 PM, Marcel J.E. Mol issued this missive: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 02:14:21PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: On 09/17/2014 01:54 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: OK, I have the rpm pf skype which was built for fc18: skype-4.2.0.11-3.fc18.x86_64.rpm but it still depends on i686 libs and othe

Re: 64bit skype client needed

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/18/2014 12:26 AM, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 02:14:21PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: On 09/17/2014 01:54 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: OK, I have the rpm pf skype which was built for fc18: skype-4.2.0.11-3.fc18.x86_64.rpm but it still depends on i686 libs and other components.

Re: 64bit skype client needed

2014-09-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/17/2014 07:22 PM, jd1008 issued this missive: On 09/17/2014 02:45 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/17/2014 01:25 PM, jd1008 issued this missive: On 09/17/2014 01:54 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: OK, I have the rpm pf skype which was built for fc18: skype-4.2.0.11-3.fc18.x86_64.rpm but it st

Re: Problem with smplayer

2014-09-18 Thread jd1008
On 09/17/2014 10:10 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: You can simplify the playlist, quite a bit. You don't need the info, just the file lists. m3u files can simply be "file:///" prefixed filepaths, such as: file:///home/tim/music/one.ogg file:///home/tim/music/two.ogg And pls files can be simpli

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 00:53 +0930, Tim wrote: > Dunno how well people cope with non-polarised two-pin mains plugs that > can be plugged in either way. Some people realise to try plugging it > in > the opposite way, many probably would not. That's a problem we don't > have in my country, the plugs

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-18 Thread Tim
Tim: >> I can't see see why an ordinary powerboard would be a problem, it's >> just >> a series of sockets wired in parallel, just like your wall sockets >> are. >> >> However, if you have a filtered powerboard, of the type that remove >> electrical noise (usually with a core wound around ferrite)

Re: Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

2014-09-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 13:48 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 08:01 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > > One of my collegues that I work with uses a homeplug type device > and > > tells me it works very well, so I could look at that although I'm > not > > sure how well it would work in a powe

Re: PyCon India 2014 - Volunteers Meeting at RH BLR - 20 September 2014

2014-09-18 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 09/18/2014 03:57 PM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > Hi, > > Red Hat Bangalore will be hosting the PyCon India 2014 Volunteers Meeting. > > Date: Saturday, 20 September 2014 > Venue: Cafeteria, RH BLR > Time: 12:30 to 17:30 > > Calling all Red Hatters who have purchased a ticket to PyCon India 2014, >

PyCon India 2014 - Volunteers Meeting at RH BLR - 20 September 2014

2014-09-18 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
Hi, Red Hat Bangalore will be hosting the PyCon India 2014 Volunteers Meeting. Date: Saturday, 20 September 2014 Venue: Cafeteria, RH BLR Time: 12:30 to 17:30 Calling all Red Hatters who have purchased a ticket to PyCon India 2014, and are already volunteers, or propose to be volunteers, to come