Re: audio notification from system
On 05/12/2012 02:29 PM, JD wrote: > FC16. > What is the daemon that plays a sound, seemingly > at random, and it sounds like a rattle ? > > I have heard this while running previous versions of fedora. > > I'm fairly sure it is DE dependent. One can make KDE quite noisy by going to "System Settings-->Common appearance and Behavior-->Application and System Notifications". Applications such as T-Bird have their own settings My cat managed to enable that, in the middle of the night, and it took a while to track down the "random beeps". -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: failures in boot.log
On 05/12/2012 12:59 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/12/2012 02:53 PM, JD wrote: I ran rpm -qa | grep -i tpm and got nothing. # /usr/sbin/tcsd -f TCSD TDDL ERROR: Could not find a device to open! The kernel I am running is the vanilla fedora 16 release kernel-3.3.4-3.fc16.i686. So, I turned tcsd off. Is this service enabled by default even though the machine has no tpm device? Thanx for the heads up. Well, if you install the trousers package that service is installed and defaults to on. Since you don't have any TPM hardware there is no need to have it installed. I've never have seen it installed by default on any of my systems. Soit isn't needed. While is doesn't hard anythingyou may want to remove it just to have one less unnecessary app installed. The same goes for uuidd. I don't know if you use akmodsbut if you use that for your nvidia driver updates from rpmfusion...you may need/want it. Unfortunately, ecryptfs-utils-96-1.fc16.i686 requires libtspi.so.1 # rpm -qv --whatprovides /usr/lib/libtspi.so.1 trousers-0.3.6-1.fc16.i686 I need to use the ecryptfs tools, which is not restricted tp tpm devices. To wit: excerpt from /usr/share/doc/ecryptfs-utils-96/README: "In general, it is probably best to just type in your passphrase via stdin every time you need to perform a mount. Future versions of eCryptfs will allow hardware token devices, such as a TPM chip, to protect your secret keys." -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: audio notification from system
On 05/12/2012 01:28 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/12/2012 02:29 PM, JD wrote: FC16. What is the daemon that plays a sound, seemingly at random, and it sounds like a rattle ? I have heard this while running previous versions of fedora. I'm fairly sure it is DE dependent. One can make KDE quite noisy by going to "System Settings-->Common appearance and Behavior-->Application and System Notifications". Applications such as T-Bird have their own settings My cat managed to enable that, in the middle of the night, and it took a while to track down the "random beeps". Well, my current (and first time use of) is xfce4. I have had this on my machine for several iterations of fedora, from as far back as fc4. I had been a gnome user until fc16, where gnome3 really made my day :) -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: failures in boot.log
On 05/12/2012 03:32 PM, JD wrote: > Unfortunately, ecryptfs-utils-96-1.fc16.i686 requires libtspi.so.1 > # rpm -qv --whatprovides /usr/lib/libtspi.so.1 > trousers-0.3.6-1.fc16.i686 > > I need to use the ecryptfs tools, which is not restricted tp tpm devices. > To wit: excerpt from /usr/share/doc/ecryptfs-utils-96/README: > > "In general, it is probably best to just type in your passphrase via > stdin every time you need to perform a mount. Future versions of > eCryptfs will allow hardware token devices, such as a TPM chip, to > protect your secret keys." I see, but you don't need the daemon So "systemctl disable tcsd.service" would seem to be in order. -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: failures in boot.log
On 05/12/2012 01:36 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/12/2012 03:32 PM, JD wrote: Unfortunately, ecryptfs-utils-96-1.fc16.i686 requires libtspi.so.1 # rpm -qv --whatprovides /usr/lib/libtspi.so.1 trousers-0.3.6-1.fc16.i686 I need to use the ecryptfs tools, which is not restricted tp tpm devices. To wit: excerpt from /usr/share/doc/ecryptfs-utils-96/README: "In general, it is probably best to just type in your passphrase via stdin every time you need to perform a mount. Future versions of eCryptfs will allow hardware token devices, such as a TPM chip, to protect your secret keys." I see, but you don't need the daemon So "systemctl disable tcsd.service" would seem to be in order. Yep! Thanx Ed! -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
SOLVED Re: F16 Default Plytouth Theme?
On 12/05/12 02:36, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Michael Schwendt writes: # plymouth-set-default-theme --list charge details text charge is the default theme, for anyone who cares. Thanks Michael and Sam. -- Regards, Frank "Jack of all, fubars" -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: volume levels
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 15:24 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > But for the OP, couldn't you just make 11 louder? Actually, it's a > serious question, because it might be that your card's mixer isn't > correctly handled in ALSA (I had this problem with early Pulseaudio). > Might be worth getting onto the alsa-u...@lists.sourceforge.net list > and asking about it. The greater-than 100% volumes allow digital amplification (the computer processing the sound), to deal with under-recorded audio (too quiet). Not something that you'd, normally, want to do. Normally, sound card mixers give you 0% to 100% control of the audio going in, so that something like a wave file with a recording at the absolute maximum level it can be recorded at, will play at the maximum level that the audio hardware can re-produce. If you tried to boost its audio above 100%, you'd get shocking distortion. It's better that such boosting be done as a deliberate over-range adjustment, as and when needed (to cope with poor recordings). Rather than let the volume controls go above 100 without warning. I've certainly had my ears hurt when turning up the volume too far, without any hint, and then played a normal sound file. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: evil calibre?
2012/5/11, Stephen Gallagher : > This would best be reported to Calibre's upstream bug tracker: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre > > > They're a very responsive upstream, so I imagine you'll get a prompt > answer. Thanks, I'll try this next, but first I'm following the official way and reported it as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=821135 Andras -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
file not found in "texlive" under F15
hello, I am using fedora 15 to compile a latex document I have this error message when I compile: ! I can't find file `pgflibrarytikzpositioning.code.tex'. when I try to find that file I get no entry. Could you help please. regards Adel -- PhD candidate in Computer Science Address 3 avenue lamine, cité ezzahra, Sousse 4000 Tunisia tel: +216 97 246 706 (+33640302046 jusqu'au 15/6) fax: +216 71 391 166 -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: evil calibre?
Stephen Gallagher wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 14:11 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: Isn't there an unwritten law prohibiting document viewers changing the documents they open? If there is, ebook-viewer, part of calibre, doesn't respect it: diff -r m/META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt m1/META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt 1c1 < calibre_current_page_bookmark^7# *:eq(0)> *:eq(1)> *:eq(0)> *:eq(4)> *:eq(6) |0.19047619047619047 --- calibre_current_page_bookmark^15# *:eq(0)> *:eq(1)> *:eq(0)> *:eq(8)> *:eq(43) |0.36197917 The directories that I compared contain unzipped versions of the same epub file before and after an invocation of ebook-viewer. Probably calibre_bookmarks.txt was put in the epub file by ebok-viewer in the first place. Now one could say, that this is harmless, because it doesn't change the way the epub file will appear in any reader. But it changes filesize and timestamp, enough to make backup software notice. Hopefully, unchecking the "Remember the current page when quitting" in the Preferences is a workaround, but even then, it's just a workaround. ebook-viewer is welcome to have its own little database of bookmarks, but shouldn't annotate my books. This would best be reported to Calibre's upstream bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre They're a very responsive upstream, so I imagine you'll get a prompt answer. I can see value in having the bookmarks be a separate thing, it allows multiple readers against a single document, which might be shared in a business environment, or even read-only. Being able to have a single original document and let everyone have their own personal current page and bookmarks and possibly annotation, would be a good thing. Unfortunately that sounds like a fairly major change to the existing behavior, so it may not be practical. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: file not found in "texlive" under F15
2012/5/12 Adel ESSAFI : > I have this error message when I compile: > > ! I can't find file `pgflibrarytikzpositioning.code.tex'. Hi, the TikZ positioning library is part of recent PGF releases. Unfortunately, Fedora provides by default TeX Live 2007 with an outdated version of PGF. You could take the latest version of PGF on the CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf) and install it in ~/texmf... Or simply upgrade to TeX Live 2011 thanks to the Novy's dedicated repository: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive (be careful, the page refers to TeX Live 2012 which is still in development; the yum repository for TL 2011 can be set using this RPM: http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2011/packages.fc15/texlive-release.noarch.rpm). -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Network problems
I think what you have is dhcp on your router but the interface ip on the router does not change when you change the ip... So when you try to reach it after the change you can't. I would suggest you do Netstat -nr Which should show the ip and default gateway ... Try this then change the server again .. Traceroute would also show you what the next hop is ... Oluwagbenga Shobowale -Original Message- From: Timothy Murphy Sender: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 16:25:12 To: Reply-To: gayle...@eircom.net, Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Network problems Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:44:16PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I couldn't find a clear account of the effect of the line >> anywhere in the shorewall documentation. > > Add it, apply the changes and run the following as root: > iptables -t nat -L -n > > That'll tell you what it does. I did do that: -- [tim@grover two-interfaces]$ sudo iptables -t nat -L -n Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination dnat all -- 0.0.0.0/00.0.0.0/0 Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination eth0_masq all -- 0.0.0.0/00.0.0.0/0 Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain dnat (1 references) target prot opt source destination net_dnat all -- 0.0.0.0/00.0.0.0/0 Chain eth0_masq (1 references) target prot opt source destination MASQUERADE all -- 192.168.2.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 -- I don't find this very clear. I take it that it supports what I said, namely == --- I have the lines #INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS PROTO PORT(S) IPSEC MARK eth0 eth1 in /etc/shorewall/masq on my server. --- My question is: what exactly is the effect of this? Does IP masquerading by default only apply to the firewall server to modem interface (eth0 in my case)? And does the above line mean that it will also be applied to packets reaching the firewall server on the eth1 LAN? == If I was right, wouldn't it have been simpler just to say, "Yes, you are right"? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: totem hangs on startup
2012/5/12 Paul Allen Newell : > On 5/11/2012 8:13 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: >> >> I just finished upgrading from F15->F16 and I noticed that when ever I >> start totem y hangs (a video hang) immediately. >> >> For example, if I start it with a video (avi for example) all the >> window hangs but the audio gets played OK. Same video works OK on >> another F16 I have on my desktop computer (exact same version of >> totem). >> >> If I start totem without a video, I can't access the menu, as it is >> too hanged. Can't close it either. I have to kill the window. >> >> Already tried removing conf files (.gconf/, .gnome2/, etc.). >> >> Any thoughts? >> > Martín: > > For what it is worth, I migrated from F14 to F16 under Xfce and had problems > with Totem. Advice from this list was switch to smplayer and/or vlc. I'm > quite happy with the advice I got. Any and all bugs I have with Totem never > got addressed, let alone commented on ... including F14 under Gnome. Pretty crappy advice they gave you, IMHO! I am using gnome-mplayer (I didn't like so much dragon player) so it's not that I have too much of a problem now, but I was used to totem, and now it doesn't work (but does on my home computer, same version). -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: F15 : Flash not working on firefox 12
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:02:24PM -0400, David wrote: > On 5/11/2012 8:55 PM, Edik Landaveri wrote: > You do understand that the reason Flash gets updates is to patch > security holes and bugs? > > To go 'backwards' to solve a viewing problem opens you to those old > security attacks. > > Look for the solution and repair your problem. It is a really bad idea, > normally, to downgrade to an know bad application. > > -- > > David Yes but allowing the flash plugin to have text relocation is a potential security problem. Most libraries do not need this permission. Libraries are sometimes coded incorrectly --Thanks Adobe who no longer will maintain its linux releases except for Chrome. I rather trust my SELinux security context rather than an proprietary company :-< -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: F15 : Flash not working on firefox 12
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Edik Landaveri wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:02:24PM -0400, David wrote: >> On 5/11/2012 8:55 PM, Edik Landaveri wrote: > >> You do understand that the reason Flash gets updates is to patch >> security holes and bugs? >> >> To go 'backwards' to solve a viewing problem opens you to those old >> security attacks. >> >> Look for the solution and repair your problem. It is a really bad idea, >> normally, to downgrade to an know bad application. >> >> -- >> >> David > > Yes but allowing the flash plugin to have text relocation is > a potential security problem. Most libraries do not need this permission. > Libraries are sometimes coded incorrectly --Thanks Adobe who no longer will > maintain its > linux releases except for Chrome. > > I rather trust my SELinux security context rather than an proprietary company > :-< I can understand that. :-) The only problem with the last Flash for Linux, that I have seen talked about was a green screen tint with Nvidia cards. Perhaps this will spur on the Linux Flash project. Gnash I think it is called. Or perhaps HTML5 will get going. Good luck. -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Screen Size Problem in X11 / F14.
I keep several old versions of Fedora around for testing of some software, so PLEASE dont tell me to just move to the most recent release. OK, I set my screen size to 1280x1024 in my xorg.conf This worked fine up thru Fedora 11 (I dont currently have running copies of F12 or F13 to test it there) but it DOES NOT WORK in Fedora14. In Fedora14 I get 1024x768 with or without the xorg.conf. Now my actual screen is behind a KVM so that is part of the problem, if I connect the monitor directly to the computer everything works correctly. So my question. Is there some way to FORCE X11 to run at 1280x1024 in Fedora14, independent of any tests it may make of the screen? Having something to override this (incorrect) behavior would be REALLY helpful. -- Reg.Clemens r...@dwf.com -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: F15 : Flash not working on firefox 12
On 05/12/2012 08:28 AM, Edik Landaveri wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:02:24PM -0400, David wrote: On 5/11/2012 8:55 PM, Edik Landaveri wrote: You do understand that the reason Flash gets updates is to patch security holes and bugs? To go 'backwards' to solve a viewing problem opens you to those old security attacks. Look for the solution and repair your problem. It is a really bad idea, normally, to downgrade to an know bad application. -- David Yes but allowing the flash plugin to have text relocation is a potential security problem. Most libraries do not need this permission. Libraries are sometimes coded incorrectly --Thanks Adobe who no longer will maintain its linux releases except for Chrome. I rather trust my SELinux security context rather than an proprietary company :-< Several years ago, AMD (and perhaps also Intel) introduced processors that prevented a program from modifying the text pages to thwart exactly the kind of malware that did this. -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
How to change the display's dots per inch setting
Everything on my laptop's screen is too small. I calculated that my DPI is 140, not the default 96. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Better_DPI does not tell me anything that's useful. Remote X clients, from an ssh-tunnelled connection, don't give a hoot about my desktop's usability settings. There should be an easy way I can tell Xorg what my real DPI is, so everything looks sane. pgp5mpLO3Gu3B.pgp Description: PGP signature -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting
On Sat, 12 May 2012 14:49:49 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > There should be an easy way I can tell Xorg what my real DPI is, so > everything looks sane. Welcome to the twilight zone: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451562 The simplest fix is to switch to KDM for your login manager and add the -dpi 140 option to the X server args. -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting
Tom Horsley writes: On Sat, 12 May 2012 14:49:49 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > There should be an easy way I can tell Xorg what my real DPI is, so > everything looks sane. Welcome to the twilight zone: Google already showed me the way. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451562 The simplest fix is to switch to KDM for your login manager and add the -dpi 140 option to the X server args. Really, Gnome upstream is doing their best to encourage everyone to flush their crap down the toilet, and switch to something else. Thanks for confirming that my Google skills have NOT deterioriated. pgpTQabra032l.pgp Description: PGP signature -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting
On 05/12/2012 12:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Really, Gnome upstream is doing their best to encourage everyone to flush their crap down the toilet, and switch to something else. I wouldn't go that far, but only because I don't think the Gnome devs are even aware of how many people they're antagonizing by their "my way or the highway" attitude and their utter indifference to what anybody who isn't an active Gnome dev thinks or wants. Remember, "Never attribute to malice anything that can adequately be explained by stupidity." In this case, of course, I'd define stupidity as being a complete unwillingness to take the needs of their current userbase into account. -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Upgrade F15->F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade
Greetings, Hoping to at least be on the trailing edge, I've started an upgrade process on my Dell Laptop Inspiron 600m. It is currently running F15, and I'd like to upgrade to F16. However, after going through the usual preliminaries (select time, keyboard, language), then Basic Storage devices, hostname, root password, I'm given a choice to: Use All Space Replace Existing Linux Shrink Current System Use Free Space Create Custom Layout Each one of these indicates that "this option will remove date from the selected devices. Make sure you have backups" What happened to "Upgrade an existing system" as seen on this Fedora 16 documentation page: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/sn-upgrading-system-x86.html Plus all of the other choices: "Use LVM" (I assume that I don't need this for a basic laptop) "Encrypt system" (suggestions?) "Review and modify partitioning layout" (definitely, before everything gets possibly wiped) And I have done a full data backup. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Upgrade F15->F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/12 21:44, Max Pyziur wrote: > Hoping to at least be on the trailing edge, I've started an > upgrade process on my Dell Laptop Inspiron 600m. > > It is currently running F15, and I'd like to upgrade to F16. > > However, after going through the usual preliminaries (select time, > keyboard, language), then Basic Storage devices, hostname, root > password, I'm given a choice to: Use All Space Replace Existing > Linux Shrink Current System Use Free Space Create Custom Layout > > Each one of these indicates that "this option will remove date from > the selected devices. Make sure you have backups" > > What happened to "Upgrade an existing system" as seen on this > Fedora 16 documentation page: > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/sn-upgrading-system-x86.html > > > > Plus all of the other choices: "Use LVM" (I assume that I don't > need this for a basic laptop) "Encrypt system" (suggestions?) > "Review and modify partitioning layout" (definitely, before > everything gets possibly wiped) > > And I have done a full data backup. I personally upgraded from 15 -> 16 using preupgrade & it worked flawlessly apart from it hung for about twenty minutes at the selinux-policy stage but it eventually carried on & in the end I had a F16 system with everything working fine. Cheers, Phil... - -- currently (ab)using Debian Squeeze, Fedora Verne, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Oneiric -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPrtVLAAoJECPmYW6gk8JjDgsH/0XAYVmrHAyIpt/d8hnX1OwC UfV8ow2ExtAnY1KZufsCoXWGaqu012K0GL5N5fZudG7AtySyZ0MKQP+XrJAmfP1D LOsc6z4vSvayoIJlOYDkI6I/svCsduqPxWIjr1h1ew9T+QyGggBYmFO8wuwsrxIE rkqnqyz0cB1NtgMZH4nOXMSxsf34fn+c/6WwCYc35ha+bawWybyxUzDpnF9DXsgW xmdUqZIVZmedNRUN9TxuDEfpuOvF6UkVgbMkstpEmm1YrTJ2v22f32OYiYUIbwtG xffFnJ9xD1OGl2EPsa2Zg5WEJQz6GbeV6DmYz3+M+RBrGEv6O4YffAAtI2VacHk= =eJfn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Upgrade F15->F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/12/2012 5:25 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 12/05/12 21:44, Max Pyziur wrote: > >> Hoping to at least be on the trailing edge, I've started an >> upgrade process on my Dell Laptop Inspiron 600m. > >> It is currently running F15, and I'd like to upgrade to F16. > >> However, after going through the usual preliminaries (select >> time, keyboard, language), then Basic Storage devices, hostname, >> root password, I'm given a choice to: Use All Space Replace >> Existing Linux Shrink Current System Use Free Space Create >> Custom Layout > >> Each one of these indicates that "this option will remove date >> from the selected devices. Make sure you have backups" > >> What happened to "Upgrade an existing system" as seen on this >> Fedora 16 documentation page: >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/sn-upgrading-system-x86.html > >> >> > > >> Plus all of the other choices: "Use LVM" (I assume that I don't >> need this for a basic laptop) "Encrypt system" (suggestions?) >> "Review and modify partitioning layout" (definitely, before >> everything gets possibly wiped) > >> And I have done a full data backup. > > > I personally upgraded from 15 -> 16 using preupgrade & it worked > flawlessly apart from it hung for about twenty minutes at the > selinux-policy stage but it eventually carried on & in the end I > had a F16 system with everything working fine. It has been my observation in that past that the users that problems upgrading and 3rd party repos and packages. Those are 'not there' for the update and the Fedora updates gets 'stuck' trying to figure out what to do with what. I may be wrong but that is what it looks like to me. - -- David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPrtbvAAoJEObJ14kUYB6p/1QIAKY3S9MyRZmcX7Yn1Ui9ARAt oEbhUTguQVyiX2f9NJi6rbFeafS5sfcOxyDu3e+Rxh9qv1AqFCjml2REVEHb5oSB XJs1lofw65BfIOs9qjpozn2JN5+7Ohc0UkYJ7Pp/UvwG1gdYFZVPwUEcxHSyuOfx U2bIQEBiYeQOtSAGyNrjwRbw1MV7KrpH3OWMH4a/x7A5yFnxnbCRDxffxFdlTgBC unL2aiayZ656NEshsl7D0WvnngkfhomYDSDwDhtgrvlHXXb7Sjb7tLTvGtHNyQP3 NSkBdZkByKB0zZjtxaflAeVqy6ssUwjJfvew9Zgjto3L4zVFOP7lko9I9RpUXWQ= =x7jz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Upgrade F15->F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade - Followup #1
On Sat, 12 May 2012, David wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/12/2012 5:25 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 12/05/12 21:44, Max Pyziur wrote: Hoping to at least be on the trailing edge, I've started an upgrade process on my Dell Laptop Inspiron 600m. It is currently running F15, and I'd like to upgrade to F16. However, after going through the usual preliminaries (select time, keyboard, language), then Basic Storage devices, hostname, root password, I'm given a choice to: Use All Space Replace Existing Linux Shrink Current System Use Free Space Create Custom Layout Each one of these indicates that "this option will remove date from the selected devices. Make sure you have backups" What happened to "Upgrade an existing system" as seen on this Fedora 16 documentation page: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/sn-upgrading-system-x86.html Plus all of the other choices: "Use LVM" (I assume that I don't need this for a basic laptop) "Encrypt system" (suggestions?) "Review and modify partitioning layout" (definitely, before everything gets possibly wiped) And I have done a full data backup. I personally upgraded from 15 -> 16 using preupgrade & it worked flawlessly apart from it hung for about twenty minutes at the selinux-policy stage but it eventually carried on & in the end I had a F16 system with everything working fine. Much thanks for the quick replies. In order to expite the upgrade, is it possible to use rpms from the F16 DVD rather than download them? That way there could be some possible time savings. Much thanks again, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com It has been my observation in that past that the users that problems upgrading and 3rd party repos and packages. Those are 'not there' for the update and the Fedora updates gets 'stuck' trying to figure out what to do with what. I may be wrong but that is what it looks like to me. - -- David -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Upgrade F15->F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade - Followup #1
Am 13.05.2012 00:01, schrieb Max Pyziur: > In order to expite the upgrade, is it possible to use rpms from the F16 DVD > rather than > download them? That way there could be some possible time savings. if you do not want to download the packages and have the DVD why are you simpply update with booting from the DVD? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Upgrade F15->F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade
Max Pyziur writes: Greetings, Hoping to at least be on the trailing edge, I've started an upgrade process on my Dell Laptop Inspiron 600m. It is currently running F15, and I'd like to upgrade to F16. However, after going through the usual preliminaries (select time, keyboard, language), then Basic Storage devices, hostname, root password, I'm given a choice to: Use All Space Replace Existing Linux Shrink Current System Use Free Space Create Custom Layout As I dimly recall the installer's UI, the next step after the basic storage device drivers get loaded is the prompt to upgrade the existing system, if one is found, or a new install. If you're getting to the point where it's asking you for hostname and the root password, you've taken the wrong fork in the road. Those won't be prompted for, when taking the upgrade path. The prompt to upgrade or install can be confusing. Rerun the installer, and take it slowly, taking note of every option on the screen that you see, and don't take the obvious one, without considering everything else that's on there. pgp65adhhTf25.pgp Description: PGP signature -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting
Joe Zeff writes: On 05/12/2012 12:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Really, Gnome upstream is doing their best to encourage everyone to flush their crap down the toilet, and switch to something else. I wouldn't go that far, but only because I don't think the Gnome devs are even aware of how many people they're antagonizing by their "my way or the highway" attitude and their utter indifference to what anybody who isn't an active Gnome dev thinks or wants. Remember, "Never attribute to malice anything that can adequately be explained by stupidity." In this case, of course, I'd define stupidity as being a complete unwillingness to take the needs of their current userbase into account. Whatever. What you're saying is that this is indifference or ignorance, rather than arrogance. Whichever the case, the end result is that, according to those bugzilla entries, this hole has been known for years. Years. /facepalm The good news here, I think is that these kinds of situations tend to solve themselves, eventually, one way or the other. It's only a matter of time. I just need a free weekend. pgpk4CZt4hXv5.pgp Description: PGP signature -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: How to change the display's dots per inch setting
On 05/12/2012 03:27 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Whatever. What you're saying is that this is indifference or ignorance, rather than arrogance. Indifference and arrogance masquerading as malice. -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Upgrade F15->F16 Dell Inspiron 600m from DVD: no dialog box - Fresh Installation or Upgrade - Followup #1
On Sun, 13 May 2012, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.05.2012 00:01, schrieb Max Pyziur: In order to expite the upgrade, is it possible to use rpms from the F16 DVD rather than download them? That way there could be some possible time savings. if you do not want to download the packages and have the DVD why are you simpply update with booting from the DVD? Because when I start the update process from the DVD, it goes straight into an install process, indicating that it is going to delete all data on existing partitions. Max Pyziur p...@brama.com -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Why isn' t xbindkeys-config part of Fedora?
Fedora includes the xbindkeys program for keyboard remapping to launch certain apps etc. But not the GTK GUI that makes it user-friendly to use. http://pkgs.org/download/xbindkeys-config Why? FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: F15 : Flash not working on firefox 12
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 11:02 -0400, David Boles wrote: > The only problem with the last Flash for Linux, that I have seen > talked about was a green screen tint with Nvidia cards. Perhaps this > will spur on the Linux Flash project. Gnash I think it is called. Or > perhaps HTML5 will get going. Much as I'd like to see the end of Flash, for something superior. Abandoning playback software will render old websites unreadable. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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 question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
