[CentOS] Newby- New install forgot Login - pwd

2009-04-03 Thread rock
Hi, I have just spent a whole day installing Centos 5.3 on an old machine and now as I take disc 4 out and reboot, I get the first black screen with Login and Password. I can remember being asked for one Login and pwd early in the install but chose not to use one, then it asked what the box is

Re: [CentOS] Newby- New install forgot Login - pwd

2009-04-03 Thread rock
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Which is why I should password protect grub on my desktop -- have done so >> now on my laptop. >> > > Don't bother, that's the dumbest feature I ever saw. You can edit the > password out of the grub > line to... > ___ > C

[CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread rock
Hi, I have joined the Centos forum a few days ago and still do not have my activation email. My user name and email address is in there but I cannot do anything until I activate. I have left a message with the webmaster and I have requested a lost password, but get nothing. I have checked a

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread rock
Ned Slider wrote: > Ned Slider wrote: > >> rock wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have joined the Centos forum a few days ago and still do not have my >>> activation email. >>> >>> My user name and email address is in

[CentOS] Initial 5.3 install box froze at end of CD 3

2009-04-05 Thread rock
a way I can get to CD 4 and continue the install, or am I back to the top again?? Thanks rock ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Is there a way to get these messages in one daily one ?

2009-04-11 Thread rock
Hi ! Happy Easter! I have looked on the web however I can't see if I can get the messages sent to me in one daily email rather than immediately. At time I would like to choose that option if I am very busy. Thanks oz :-) ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to get these messages in one daily one ?

2009-04-11 Thread rock
Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:54 PM, rock <1...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> I have looked on the web however I can't see if I can get the messages >> sent to me in one daily email rather than immediately. >> >> At time I would like to choose that option if I am very bu

[CentOS] What can I do to UNDERSTAND why I can't reach centos.org (but everyone else can)?

2013-02-28 Thread Rock
What can I do to UNDERSTAND why, periodically, I can't reach www.centos.org (but everyone else can)? Every few months, http://www.centos.org just drops off for me and for me only. It's not the web site, because I can reach it via a proxy (e.g., TOR browser bundle) and other tests show it to be al

Re: [CentOS] What can I do to UNDERSTAND why I can't reach centos.org (but everyone else can)?

2013-02-28 Thread Rock
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:40:55 -0500, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: > Could you define "me"? Are you using this at home, or at work? What kind > of connection? If this is work, are you paying for a fixed IP? I have a fixed IP address at home. > I get to 20 (except for me it's 15), and www.c

Re: [CentOS] What can I do to UNDERSTAND why I can't reach centos.org (but everyone else can)?

2013-02-28 Thread Rock
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:06:35 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > thats a rather high hop count to get that far. Assuming you're in Santa Cruz, I'm not more than 20 miles from you, but, I'm using a mountain WISP (with radio relays on all the hilltops), so that's likely why I have many more hops than

Re: [CentOS] What can I do to UNDERSTAND why I can't reach centos.org (but everyone else can)?

2013-02-28 Thread Rock
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:01:03 +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > Do you always have the same number of hops? Wondering if the WISPs you > bounce through might change. Perhaps one of those is problematic. Dunno the exact number of hops but it's always long but I only have 1 WISP so I don't have a cho

Re: [CentOS] What can I do to UNDERSTAND why I can't reach centos.org (but everyone else can)?

2013-02-28 Thread Rock
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:56:44 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > This seems to be a directory of those sites: http://www.lookinglass.org/ Thanks. I had never heard of this. Going there, it wasn't obvious what to do, so, I'll hunt and peck a bit. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] What can I do to UNDERSTAND why I can't reach centos.org (but everyone else can)?

2013-03-01 Thread Rock
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:57:26 +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > It is worth noting that www.centos.org was inaccessible from Serbia and > http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/centos.org on 27.01.2013 around > 16:30, for about 1-2 hours. I can see pretty bad connectivity for Centos.org over her

Re: [CentOS] What can I do to UNDERSTAND why I can't reach centos.org (but everyone else can)?

2013-03-01 Thread Rock
>> try a traceroute to tempotv.com.tr, >> which takes 23 hops from my computer. For the record, I was unable to get to any of these long-hop destinations: $ traceroute tempotv.com.tr ==> died on the 23rd hop $ traceroute -I www.centos.org ==> died on the 19th (penultimate) hop $ traceroute www.gu

Re: [CentOS] What can I do to UNDERSTAND why I can't reach centos.org (but everyone else can)?

2013-03-01 Thread Rock
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:26:27 -0500, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: > Back to the question: have you spoken to level two, at least, tech > support of your provider of network access, to see if they have some > explanation? Hi Mark, My WISP provider is as perplexed as I because I'm the first

Re: [CentOS] What can I do to UNDERSTAND why I can't reach centos.org (but everyone else can)?

2013-03-01 Thread Rock
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:27:12 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Those 'looking glass' sites can show you if the bgp > routes are propagating to various locations. I saw the reference to the lookingglass site, e.g., http://www.lookinglass.org But, I'm sorry ... I'm totally clueless as to how to properl

[CentOS] My linux keeps logging me off when I run Firefox (how to debug)?

2013-04-15 Thread Rock
This is a strange one to me. Just recently, my Centos 6 has been "gentle crashing" where it doesn't crash, per se, but the screen goes black, and the login prompt pops up. It only happens when I run Firefox and it only started happening this morning. However, it has happened a dozen times, and

Re: [CentOS] My linux keeps logging me off when I run Firefox (how to debug)?

2013-04-15 Thread Rock
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:38:27 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > Your desktop is crashing, not the entire machine. > > Try renaming ~/.mozilla to something else, then run firefox and see if it > still > crashes. Ah, that makes sense that the "os" isn't crashing, but that the "Desktop" is. I tried with

Re: [CentOS] My linux keeps logging me off when I run Firefox (how to debug)?

2013-04-15 Thread Rock
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:07:46 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > Do you have an NVIDIA graphics card? Yes, I do. And, come to think of it, I "did" recently run a "yum update". Maybe the El Repo Nvidia driver has a problem with Firefox? I remember it was miserable installing the Nvidia driver a while ag

Re: [CentOS] My linux keeps logging me off when I run Firefox (how to debug)?

2013-04-15 Thread Rock
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:21:33 +, Rock wrote: > Is there a Desktop crash log somewhere? Given that the advice was that X was crashing due to Nvidia driver mismatch problems after my "yum update", I took a look at the ~/.xsession-errors log file before and after the crash. And

Re: [CentOS] My linux keeps logging me off when I run Firefox (how to debug)?

2013-04-15 Thread Rock
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:50:12 -0400, Robert wrote: > I too would suggest that you install the Nvidia > drivers from the Nvidia site. That is what I do. > You will need to install the kernel headers in order > to install the drivers from Nvidia site. Thanks for the advice to install the Nvidia d

Re: [CentOS] My linux keeps logging me off when I run Firefox (how to debug)?

2013-04-16 Thread Rock
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:55:27 +0100, James Pearson wrote: > Any Xorg crash details will be in /var/log/Xorg.?.log - however, if Xorg > has restarted since the crash, then the error should be in > /var/log/Xorg.?.log.old > > The error may also be in one of the log files in /var/log/gdm/ Thanks J

Re: [CentOS] My linux keeps logging me off when I run Firefox (how to debug)?

2013-04-16 Thread Rock
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:19:23 +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Note that there are now 4 branches of the nvidia driver (3 legacy + > latest), each supporting different devices. To know which branch you > need, simply install nvidia-detect from elrepo and run it. > http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidi

[CentOS] Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?

2013-05-01 Thread Rock
Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native? It was difficult, to say the least, on Centos anyway, to get Pan to post to Mixmin servers, which require SSL (so we have to use Stunnel to add SSL capabilities to Pan) on Centos. Had Pan native SSL support, this wouldn't have bee

Re: [CentOS] Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?

2013-05-01 Thread Rock
On Wed, 01 May 2013 18:20:46 +, Rock wrote: > Had Pan native SSL support, this wouldn't have been a problem. I found out elsewhere that the latest Pan handles SSL, but the one in the rpmforge repository doesn't. Every time I try to compile source, it's a disaster, so, fo

Re: [CentOS] Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?

2013-05-02 Thread Rock
On Thu, 02 May 2013 20:36:53 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > I like knode (in kdepim rpm) Googling whether Knode handles SSL: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43875 It looks like SSL was implemented in KDE 4.0: Volker Krause 2007-05-21 18:15:08 UTC, Implemented SSL for KDE4.0. So, looking for

Re: [CentOS] Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?

2013-05-04 Thread Rock
On Fri, 03 May 2013 12:27:01 +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > you likely missed it because of all the language rpms. > As rex told us ;-) Ah, indeed! I had seen the "personal information manager" but I was looking for it to say "nntp usenet reader" or something of the sort since an nntp client isn'

Re: [CentOS] Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?

2013-05-04 Thread Rock
On Fri, 03 May 2013 12:32:28 +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > What exactly do you mean with that? When setting up Thunderbird for NNTP, TB asked questions like "incoming and outgoing user name", which are meaningless for NNTP (AFAIK); and TB didn't give any place to add any other server than an SMTP

Re: [CentOS] Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?

2013-05-05 Thread Rock
On Sat, 04 May 2013 13:53:53 +, Rock wrote: > $ sudo yum install kdepim -y Well, it's installed. A bunch of junk came with knode, so, that's definitely unfortunate. Here's a log of the setup results: $ knode -v ==> Qt: 4.6.2, KDE: 4.3.4 (KDE 4.3.4), KNode: 4.3.5 $ kno

Re: [CentOS] Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?

2013-05-05 Thread Rock
On Sun, 05 May 2013 07:09:01 +, Rock wrote: > I'm debugging (without any debugging tools) ... I was easily able to post to Aioe using Knode: http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/12853710/img/12853710.png So, it must be the Mixmin SSL setup that's bad. Do you see anything wr

Re: [CentOS] Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?

2013-05-05 Thread Rock
On Sat, 04 May 2013 05:39:24 +, Stef wrote: > Try xpn. On Sat, 04 May 2013 10:49:46 +, J G Miller wrote: > you can get the source code from > http://xpn.altervista.ORG/index-en.html Since no easily-found repository existed for xpn: $ yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --disa

Re: [CentOS] Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?

2013-05-05 Thread Rock
On Sun, 05 May 2013 14:34:36 +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > I think that with thunderbird you get a kind of first start setup wizard. > *skip that* ("I think I'll configure my account later") > > Preferences (you *will* find that ;-) -> Account Settings -> Account Actions > -> Add Other Account ->

[CentOS] What is the recommended method to obtain Pan 0.136+ (with SSL) for Centos 6?

2013-05-08 Thread Rock
Q: What is the recommended method to obtain Pan 0.136+ (with SSL) for Centos 6? I've been successfully using Pan 0.135 from the RPMForge repository for about a year now: $ yum --noplugins --showduplicates --enablerepo \* --disablerepo c6-media,\*-source,\*debug\* provides "*/pan" ==> 1:pan-0.13

Re: [CentOS] What is the recommended method to obtain Pan 0.136+ (with SSL) for Centos 6?

2013-05-09 Thread Rock
On Thu, 09 May 2013 11:55:58 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > Right, it requires glib2(-devel) >= 2.26.0 and gmime(-devel) >= 2.5.5 > You're in for a lot of work as at least the dependency on glib 2.26 is > real I'm really no good at compiling unless all I have to do is issue the make command. So,

[CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-09 Thread Rock
My 15GB backup USB drive somehow got "corrupted" such that a "chkdsk /f E:" on WinXP removed the file allocation table (or whatever) making the NTFS drive appear empty. I tried Windows Recuva freeware to recover the files, and it has been working for 24 hours; but it has dumped about 65,000 files

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-09 Thread Rock
On Thu, 09 May 2013 16:51:48 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: > Are you sure that the FAT was mangled, and not just the MBR? How can I tell? All I know is the following: a) The WinXP PC had a virus or something making it slow b) So I decided to re-install the WinXP OS c) I connected t

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Rock
On Thu, 09 May 2013 18:53:30 -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > Is it already "putting" your files somewhere? If so it's almost > certainly too late to throw a linux recovery tool at it. Nothing, to my knowledge, is being written to the external NTFS USB hard drive. The files are being put on the C:

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Rock
On Fri, 10 May 2013 08:32:35 -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > I think that the user was too quick to assume that the computer "had a > virus or something". If he thought it might have a virus, why didn't he > try an anti-virus program first? Good question. The Windows XP machine is an old Dell B

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Rock
On Fri, 10 May 2013 13:04:01 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: > I'd guess that whatever infected your system had a protection mechanism, > so that if you tried to backup the whole drive, it would mangle > something on the recipient drive, so that *it* couldn't be examined > easily. I u

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Rock
On Fri, 10 May 2013 17:27:34 +, Rock wrote: > And, I did google for the solution for a corrupt disk and I did follow > Microsoft Support instructions. > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176646 > > Of course, in hindsight, I *should* have run a dd first ... but I had > not e

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-10 Thread Rock
> For the record, this is the Microsoft Support KB I had followed: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176646 Just by way of update, it's currently at 95,000 of about 100,000 files; so I would expect the Recuva file recovery to complete by tomorrow morning (day 3): http://www5.picturepush.com/pho

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-11 Thread Rock
On Sat, 11 May 2013 21:27:59 +1000, Anthony K wrote: > I'd suggest you still make a copy of the disk with dd and > work on the image! Since I may only get one shot, and since I've never formatted a USB hard drive, nor ever even mounted one, how does this procedure look for my 149GB NTFS disk?

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-11 Thread Rock
On Sat, 11 May 2013 11:23:35 -0400, Fred Roller wrote: > There are some linux solutions I had at the time and I > am trying to dig up my notes. Thanks if you can find them. Currently I'm at day 3, and almost done recovering the files; but the results (sadly, due to my error in the Recuva sett

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-11 Thread Rock
On Sat, 11 May 2013 15:35:31 +, Rock wrote: > Currently I'm at day 3, and almost done recovering the > files; but the results (sadly, due to my error in the > Recuva settings) are flatter than the plains of Kansas! Just for the record, Recuva finished at 66 hours

[CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-23 Thread Rock
SUMMARY: Maybe this all boils down to "how do we debug when Java fails on Centos 6? DETAILS: If you don't have the Samsung Galaxy S3, then you might not realize how frustratingly difficult it is to transfer multiple files from the smartphone to Centos 6. It should be as simple as hooking up a

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-23 Thread Rock
On Thu, 23 May 2013 22:03:48 -0700, centos-CKKfVXLCbtqEK/hMebVsMw wrote: > I had the same problem until I stumbled upon the solution: > Airdroid Thanks for that tip! I just installed AirDroid on the Samsung Galaxy S3, and tested it out. On single files, it seems to work exactly like Kies Air do

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-23 Thread Rock
On Thu, 23 May 2013 19:47:26 -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > I'd install an scp or sftp client on your Android and use that for file > transfer to your CentOS box, as suggested by many folks on that thread. > There are probably a bunch of clients in the Play store. I guess the point would be to set

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-24 Thread Rock
On Thu, 23 May 2013 23:40:17 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > On more current distributions, that is, just about everything but RHEL6 and > clones, one can install a version of mtpfs, simple-mtpfs on Fedora, for > example, jmtpfs on Arch, and get it to work. Just my luck that Centos is one of those

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-24 Thread Rock
On Fri, 24 May 2013 08:03:52 -0700, Craig White wrote: > I think most people are using cloud storage with the smart phones these days I understand. Anyway, here's a summary for the next person with this same problem (Note: This affects other phones but I don't know which are affected.) Summary

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-24 Thread Rock
On Fri, 24 May 2013 08:21:09 -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > It's intentional. RHEL deliberately follows older, > more stable versions of software, Good point! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-24 Thread Rock
On Fri, 24 May 2013 08:30:51 -0700, Craig White wrote: > obviously beyond you. Indeed! :) I'm just a regular Joe user of a smartphone & Centos (which is the OS choice of my employer who provides the laptop). While most of you, on Centos, are experienced with compiling source code (e.g., MPT sou

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-24 Thread Rock
On Fri, 24 May 2013 08:30:51 -0700, Craig White wrote: > [USB] is simply not an option for main memory but an option for expansion > cards. I do appreciate your explanation & apologize for my rant. So that I better understand, does that mean if I bought a microSD card, and stored the photos fr

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-24 Thread Rock
On Fri, 24 May 2013 09:05:09 -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > What do you think are the "standard" repositories? >From the school of hard luck, the repos I was forced to install are: $ ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d adobe-linux-x86_64.repo CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Media.repo CentOS-Media

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-24 Thread Rock
On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:45:59 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > I also have FSync set-up to daily backup all important files via SFTP. I found out the following, if it matters: QUOTE 1: You can use tools like gphoto or digikam to access the images, should be just plug the phone to the computer

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-24 Thread Rock
On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:59:34 -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > Only the CentOS* repositories are official CentOS repos. If I could, I'd stick with those official repositories. Looking at my installation log file, it seems that I've only needed the non-official repositories about 30 times in the past

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-24 Thread Rock
On Fri, 24 May 2013 12:56:43 -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > would you ask Upstream when rpmforge was going to carry > these packages? Ah, I see. Sorry for being dense. I understand. I'm not sure *who* handles the MTP package, but, what you're saying is whomever it is that feels they should own i

[CentOS] nb

2013-05-25 Thread Rock
On Sat, 25 May 2013 10:08:45 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > So best course of action could be to ask Red Hat to upgrade libmtp > add mtp packages from Fedora, and only if they refuse to, > ask RPMFusion or Repoforge repositories to add them to their repo. Wow. Thanks for all that detective

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-25 Thread Rock
On Sat, 25 May 2013 10:08:45 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Requested 'libmtp >= 1.1.0' but version of libmtp is 1.0.1 > (libmtp is provided by RHEL, so it's not so easy to upgrade)" I am not a coder, nor have my compiles ever gone well; so I can't do this; but is it possible for someone who

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-27 Thread Rock
On Sun, 26 May 2013 01:46:34 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > If you want 64 bit then > http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/libmtp-1.1.6-0.el6.x86_64.rpm > Note that if you hav VLC installed, this will conflict with its required > version of libmtp. Thanks. I made a bunch of guesses how

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-27 Thread Rock
On Mon, 27 May 2013 12:22:26 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > You can always use Uvh which should update. > If there is nothing to be updated, Uvh will just install. Thanks. Next time I'll use "Uvh". > As I think I said, I removed the older version first. I "thought" I removed the older version

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-27 Thread Rock
On Mon, 27 May 2013 19:27:28 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > You should have just used two commands: > sudo yum remove vlc I guess I should have done it this way? $ sudo yum remove vlc $ sudo yum remove rhythmbox Or would you have left rhythmbox in place? > and > yum update > Yum will alw

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-28 Thread Rock
On Tue, 28 May 2013 09:25:57 +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > To summarize, you did the right things as far as libmtp is concerned. > Now the issue lies beyond that, probably with gvfs-photo2 as suggested > by Farkas via Ljubomir, but I can't help you much with that. Except > Farkas suggest

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-31 Thread Rock
On Thu, 30 May 2013 14:04:33 -0700, sms wrote: > I thought that the Galaxy S3 has PTP mode. > If so, put the phone in PTP mode. > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671906 The bug report doesn't show *how* to put the Samsung Galaxy S3 in "PTP" mode (which I know nothing about). Googling

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-31 Thread Rock
On Fri, 31 May 2013 16:57:32 +, Rock wrote: > I'm not sure if there is a graceful way to disconnect; > and, I'm not sure if I should leave the phone in PTP mode; In summary, the solution to transferring files by wire from the Samsung Galaxy S3 (and other Android 4.x phones)

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-31 Thread Rock
On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:50:03 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > leave it in the mode you want the USB > connection to operate in. Thanks. I'll leave the Android 4.0.4 phone in PTP mode then. In order to be thorough, I wanted to write up a summary to help others; so, to see if it was the updated libm

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-31 Thread Rock
On Sat, 11 May 2013 23:31:07 +1000, Anthony K wrote: > dd if=/dev/sda of=/path/to/hdd-image-file.img bs=4M I'm not sure how to figure out what to put into that dd command. Q: Is this the right sequence given the disk information below? 1. Boot to Centos 6 2. Plug in the old (500GB) & new (

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-05-31 Thread Rock
On Sat, 11 May 2013 22:28:53 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > here is a quick list of what to do: Thanks. I needed this step-by-step procedure; and I'll report back. I bought a new 2TB disk, named "My Passport". I will test the procedure with a spare 500GB disk, named "Signature Mini". > 1) connec

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-31 Thread Rock
On Mon, 27 May 2013 16:31:01 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > As I mentioned, I've only used the file browser method (and > things were accessible) in a more recent distribution. > Otherwise, I've used the manual commands. > Sorry I can't be of more help here. Hi Scott, You've been a GREAT help, a

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-31 Thread Rock
On Fri, 31 May 2013 20:50:00 +, Rock wrote: > So, I guess the question is: > Q: How do I install rhythmbox & vlc with the newer libmtp? To follow up on that question, here's a summary that I *think* is correct. 0. The real solution is to have libmtp updated by the Redhat deve

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-06-01 Thread Rock
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:30:04 +1000, Anthony K wrote: > 1. sudo lsmod > file-without-s3 Creates a file with headers "Module, size, & used by". > 2. ensure S3 is locked then connect to PC OK. Done. > 3. sudo lsmod > file-with-locked-s3 OK. Done. > 4. sdiff-s file-with-s3 file-with-locked-s3| e

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-06-01 Thread Rock
are 500MB USB disk, so, I'm about to run the procedure on the "bad" 150MB disk as we type. Plugging in the spare 500MB disk, I run the suggested command: a. Open a wide window & type "sudo tail -f /var/log/messages" b. Plug in the spare 500MB USB disk & look for

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-06-01 Thread Rock
g in the good disk & note where it mounted: ==> Jun 1 08:26:39 rock kernel: usb 1-1.2: ==> new high speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd ==> Mounted /dev/sdb1 (Read-Write, label "SignatureMini", NTFS 3.1) ==> Cmdline options: rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=50

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-06-01 Thread Rock
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 16:00:06 +, Rock wrote: > OK. This is where we don't want to make a mistake! > Q: Does the block size matter? I kicked it off, as follows, and will wait to report: $ cd /mnt $ script recovery.log ==> Script started, file is recovery.log Backing up the M

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-06-01 Thread Rock
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 16:40:46 +, Rock wrote: > Now comes the biggie, backing up the entire 150MB disk: > Q: Maybe I should have used the "conv=noerror" option > as suggested in the dd wikipedia entry? > $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/mnt/image.dd bs=1M The dd finished ba

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-06-01 Thread Rock
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:22:03 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > http://marcofalchi.blogspot.com/2012/02/android-ics-usb-storage-on-fedora-16.html, > downloaded the tarball from the link on the page, ran .configure && make && > sudo make install. > As for libmtp, rpm -qi shows that I'm using the standar

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-06-01 Thread Rock
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:49:52 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > Still, as of today, I'm way ahead of where I was before reading your post. > > Rock, I can almost certainly make an x86_64 rpm for you, but it would > probably require that later libmtp which might cause its own issue

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-06-02 Thread Rock
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:01:05 +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > You don't have to purchase a redhat subscription to file into their bugzilla. OK. I opened an account, and can file the bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi What should I say? I'm confused how to write that bug report so

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-06-02 Thread Rock
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:08:28 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > I thought we're having the problem with RHEL6 My mistake. I don't really understand any of this, so, I'm really *not* the right guy to file the bug report, as I'm out of my league. I can "append" to it though. :) ___

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-06-03 Thread Rock
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:08:28 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > I thought we're having the problem with RHEL6. (and offshoots). What's a good one-line description of the problem? Is it this? RHEL6 mtpfs does not properly mount Samsung Galaxy SIII in MTP media mode If not, would someone kindly corre

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-06-03 Thread Rock
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:02:33 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > perhaps a feature request OK. Please take a look at the bug and feel free to correct anywhere that I err or misrepresent the problem. If nobody corrects anything, I'll know you didn't look :) (because I really can't have accurately por

Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

2013-06-03 Thread Rock
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:41:29 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > testdik can work on a disk image, so I recommend using that. Don't risk > chaging the original disk (although testdisk is not supposed to touch it > IIRC) > /Louis Thanks Louis for sticking with me. I do greatly appreciate your help! I

Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-06-03 Thread Rock
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:55:47 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > I don't see anything to add--you linked to the forum thread, which covers > most of the information we have had here. Thanks. Now I'll go back to my file recovery problems! :) ___ CentOS maili

[CentOS] What method would you suggest for installing the Pinta screenshot editor on CentOS 6.4?

2013-06-19 Thread Rock
A screenshot editor needs to do a few things - but it must do these three things easily and well: 1. Draw curved and straight arrows, dotted or solid line, with various end dots and points 2. Draw open circles of various shapes to highlight areas of interest 3. Text easily without having to pre-

Re: [CentOS] What method would you suggest for installing the Pinta screenshot editor on CentOS 6.4?

2013-06-20 Thread Rock
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:05:29 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > You can try installing package for Fedora 14 > You can also take .src.rpm from Fedora 14 and try to recompile Someone much smarter than I am already failed today due to dependencies: "Pinta looks interesting. I had been using Js

Re: [CentOS] What method would you suggest for installing the Pinta screenshot editor on CentOS 6.4?

2013-06-20 Thread Rock
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:32:41 +0100, Nux! wrote: > install Shutter; does what you said and more. I have had Shutter all along on my CentOS 6.4 laptop. Here's how Shutter compares to Paint.NET on those 3 key annotation items: (IMHO) 1. Curved & dashed arrows: Shutter arrows are primitive and d

Re: [CentOS] What method would you suggest for installing the Pinta screenshot editor on CentOS 6.4?

2013-06-20 Thread Rock
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:37:42 +0100, Nux! wrote: > Well, Shutter is more than enough for my needs, but if you _must_ use > Pinta, have you tried running it in Wine? I abhor Wine, and feel that, over time, I should strive to find the best native Linux programs to do the job. At the moment, nothin

Re: [CentOS] What method would you suggest for installing the Pinta screenshot editor on CentOS 6.4?

2013-06-20 Thread Rock
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:43:08 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Have you looked for or tried anything in java like > http://www.heliospaint.com/. The description looks enticing. I couldn't find anything in the aforementioned repos; so I downloaded the java applet. But nothing happened when I ran: $

Re: [CentOS] What method would you suggest for installing the Pinta screenshot editor on CentOS 6.4?

2013-06-20 Thread Rock
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:11:32 +, Rock wrote: > Someone much smarter than I am already failed today due to dependencies: Here's a response from the Pinta Developer's Group today: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/pinta/JiJoNTNCGFA [quote] IgorZ Currently th

Re: [CentOS] What method would you suggest for installing the Pinta screenshot editor on CentOS 6.4?

2013-06-21 Thread Rock
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:14:16 +, Rock wrote: > Can you please be so nice and report this ideas on Pinta's idea web page: For the record, I did post this screenshot summary to the Pinta Developers Group: --- < warning > long ... slightly off topic < / warning >

Re: [CentOS] What method would you suggest for installing the Pinta screenshot editor on CentOS 6.4?

2013-06-22 Thread Rock
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:34:38 +, Rock wrote: > Given that information, what avenue would you pick to install Pinta on a > 64-bit CentOS 6.4 laptop to test it out? Now that I know the arrowing isn't implemented yet; and that it's problematic to install on CentOS, I&#

Re: [CentOS] What method would you suggest for installing the Pinta screenshot editor on CentOS 6.4?

2013-06-22 Thread Rock
On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 18:16:44 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Have you set proper java alternative (default java to use)? Maybe it > requires specific java version. Unfortunately, I've set up nothing overt with respect to Java, so this is all I know about the java that is installed currently:

[CentOS] This isn't supposed to be difficult (how to nntp post to the Gmane Pan user group)

2013-07-04 Thread Rock
just want that USENET group to work like *this* USENET group, where I can post using a server:port login:password combination such as we use here: Server: news.gmane.org Port: 119 Login: blank Password: blank User: Rock I've looked here (http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.use

Re: [CentOS] This isn't supposed to be difficult (how to nntp post to the Gmane Pan user group)

2013-07-04 Thread Rock
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:16:55 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: > why not asking them http://gmane.org/faq.php ? It's not in that FAQ, nor in the web page for the pan users group. I did ask "Lars" but he controls gmane, not the pan users group. Amazingly, the pan users group just (apparently) assumes yo

Re: [CentOS] This isn't supposed to be difficult (how to nntp post to the Gmane Pan user group)

2013-07-08 Thread Rock
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 22:50:33 +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > if you post the first time to a mailing list per gmane > then gmane will send you a mail that you must answer. UPDATE: Ah. *That* was the problem! Lars had written back, but his answer was unhelpful. He had written, verbatim: "If you c

[CentOS] How to get Centos to recognize a Motorola RAZR V3 as a USB device?

2013-07-15 Thread Rock
I have a mini-USB cable, but simply connecting a Motorola RAZR to a Linux (Centos 6) PC to download stored pictures doesn't work, at least not automatically. Any idea what I need to do to get Centos to recognize that a Motorola RAZR V3 is plugged in as a USB device? (I don't have a data plan o

Re: [CentOS] How to get Centos to recognize a Motorola RAZR V3 as a USB device?

2013-07-16 Thread Rock
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 06:58:32 +, Woehrle Hartmut SBB CFF FFS (Extern) wrote: > What does dmesg say when you plug that device in? > Is there an output when using lsusb and does it correspond to your devices? $ lsusb REPORTED: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 22b8:4902 Motorola PCS Triplet GSM Phone (A

Re: [CentOS] How to get Centos to recognize a Motorola RAZR V3 as a USB device?

2013-07-16 Thread Rock
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:05:52 -0400, Phil Gardner wrote: > many of the recent android phones are using MTP as opposed to > USB mass storage MTPfs is problematic on Centos, so I don't think that will work. Even so, this RAZR V3re was built sometime around 2004 or 2005, so, I doubt it's using anyt

Re: [CentOS] How to get Centos to recognize a Motorola RAZR V3 as a USB device?

2013-07-16 Thread Rock
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:21:57 +, Woehrle Hartmut SBB CFF FFS (Extern) wrote: > it realizes the telephone part (modem and ISDN), > but nothing about a storage device that you will need. > When googling I found a user saying that "moto4lin" can be used to download > photos > (http://linuxgaze

Re: [CentOS] How to get Centos to recognize a Motorola RAZR V3 as a USB device?

2013-07-16 Thread Rock
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:25:00 +, Rock wrote: > I wonder if my Centos bluetooth is working (I know the Motorola V3re RAZR > bluetooth works to the speakerphone in the car). BTW, to at least focus on the right direction, which *direction* should I focus on getting working? Do I set: A)

Re: [CentOS] How to get Centos to recognize a Motorola RAZR V3 as a USB device?

2013-07-16 Thread Rock
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:36:48 -0700, John Doe wrote: > I did not follow the whole thread but, the doc seems to talk about > a "mass storage" mode... > https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/88616 > It does not work without special drivers? I'm still failing to access

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