deja dup

2011-11-13 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang: I just yesterday installed Fedora16 and have found that Deja Dup won't completely restore. I thought it was me, but installing a previous backup did not work either How long do you think it will be before we can get this working? Is it something I can repair on my end? Some of us are poli

Re: deja dup

2011-11-13 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/14/2011 01:12 AM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > Hi Gang: > > > > I just yesterday installed Fedora16 and have found that Deja Dup won't > > completely restore. I thought it was me, but installing a

printing

2011-11-14 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi gang, I'm having a problem that I haven't had for years. With each upgrade since maybe 2005 until Fedora 16, I have been able to install the xqx driver for my HP P1005 with no problems; I just followed the directions at http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/. But with Fedora 16 it is not working. Is there a

Re: printing

2011-11-14 Thread Richard Vickery
I figured it out! I had my user's name typed into the Allow/Deny. I deleted this name and it worked. On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Frank Murphy wrote: > > yum install hplip hplip-gui system-config-printer > > hplip only supports that printer with a proprietary plugin. :-(

Re: Libs with applications

2011-11-20 Thread Richard Vickery
Does anybody know of anything I can try in Fedora 16 to get the other half of my files from the Deja DUP backup? Thanks, Richard On Nov 20, 2011 7:17 AM, "Steve Grubb" wrote: > Hello, > > I was curious how many library packages we have that also includes > applications in > them, so I wrote a s

Re: Audacity - audio editor - test request

2012-02-17 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi David: Have you received an indication from anyone to do this? I would like to help test it; how am I to get it off the site using Google-Chrome? On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:58 AM, David Timms wrote: > Hi, It appears Audacity is getting close to v2 release (it's been in 1.3 > beta mode for a fe

Re: Fedora 18 Release name voting and Poll for whether to continue naming releases

2012-04-24 Thread Richard Vickery
My two bits: The users don't really care what we call the release. Heck, all I go by is the number. I use this distro rather than he others for the amount of tools we have at the command line, and it's not a far stretch to believe that others do as well. Some might call me a tech-geek; I love the

Re: F16->F17 preupgrade (Re: F17 Beta to slip by an additional week.)

2012-04-28 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang, For those of us who have let our command-line skills wane slightly, what is the command for preupgrade, if this is how it is accomplished? Thanks, Richard On 2012-04-26 10:50 AM, "Michał Piotrowski" wrote: > Hi, > > W dniu 9 kwietnia 2012 17:46 użytkownik Michał Piotrowski > napisał:

Re: F16->F17 preupgrade (Re: F17 Beta to slip by an additional week.)

2012-04-30 Thread Richard Vickery
I get a kernel panic when I boot up into the preupgrade. It seems like this could be the lack of hard drive space left. does this sound accurate? On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Pavel Alexeev wrote: > 29.04.2012 15:00, Ian Malone wrote: > > On 29 April 2012 01:05, Richard Vickery

Re: F16->F17 preupgrade (Re: F17 Beta to slip by an additional week.)

2012-05-02 Thread Richard Vickery
I forgot what the command is to get the text-readout of what happened during boot; can someone remind me of this? Else my contribution may be late in coming - apologies. On 2012-05-02 2:11 AM, "Adam Williamson" wrote: > On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 00:39 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > > 2012/4/28 Mic

Re: Logwatch - looking for testers

2012-05-05 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Jan: I just ran this; what qualifies as an "unmatched entry"? How am I to spot one? Richard On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Michal Schmidt wrote: > Reindl Harald wrote: > > i do not speak about pushig them to updates-testing or even stable > > i speak about "give me a koji-build which i can

Re: Logwatch - looking for testers

2012-05-05 Thread Richard Vickery
never-mind. I found them; I was just being lazy. Jan: How do you want me to report these? On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > Hi Jan: > > I just ran this; what qualifies as an "unmatched entry"? How am I to spot > one? > > Richard > >

Re: Logwatch - looking for testers

2012-05-05 Thread Richard Vickery
- Selinux Audit Begin **Unmatched Entries** type=1131 audit(1335206040.736:102): pid=0 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg=' comm="mcelog" exe="/bin/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' type=1131

Re: Logwatch - looking for testers

2012-05-09 Thread Richard Vickery
Glad I could help out, Jan! Of course, I will be getting a newer computer shortly, because this one is showing signs of ware. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Jan Synacek wrote: > On 05/05/12 at 08:46pm, Richard Vickery wrote: > > - Selinux Au

Re: Another heads up for F17 upgrades from F16 (via yum)

2012-05-13 Thread Richard Vickery
How exactly is the Fedora-17-TC4-i386-DVD.iso file supposed to work? Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Another heads up for F17 upgrades from F16 (via yum)

2012-05-13 Thread Richard Vickery
thanks, On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Richard Vickery < richard.vicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > How exactly is the Fedora-17-TC4-i386-DVD.iso file supposed to work? > > Richard > -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Another heads up for F17 upgrades from F16 (via yum)

2012-05-14 Thread Richard Vickery
d was that which was supposed to take place. hope this helps, Richard On May 13, 2012 10:36 PM, "Adam Williamson" wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 21:01 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > thanks, > > > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Richard Vickery > > wrote

Re: Another heads up for F17 upgrades from F16 (via yum)

2012-05-14 Thread Richard Vickery
:47 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > > TC4 won't install, and because of this, thinking that it was not > > supposed to install, I was wondering what one was supposed to do with > > it. I realise that my thought-process may have been wrong and it &g

Re: Another heads up for F17 upgrades from F16 (via yum)

2012-05-15 Thread Richard Vickery
320GB 320GB and gparted doesn't have a so-named "/root" nor a "/home" filesystem, which probably goes to why dracut can't find it. Regards, Richard On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Richard Vickery < richard.vicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Adam,

Re: Another heads up for F17 upgrades from F16 (via yum)

2012-05-15 Thread Richard Vickery
t; On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 08:09 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > What I get when I attempt to install TC4 is the following: > > > > > > mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow' > > > > > > dracut Warning: Can't mount root filesystem >

Re: Another heads up for F17 upgrades from F16 (via yum)

2012-05-17 Thread Richard Vickery
TC6 won't put a boot loader in after installation. -- Richard On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Richard Vickery < richard.vicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh okay, I guess I'll try again. > > Perhaps my initial question about whether it is supposed to install makes > mo

Re: Another heads up for F17 upgrades from F16 (via yum)

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Vickery
012-05-17 at 20:16 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > TC6 won't put a boot loader in after installation. > > No, really, it does. > > You can pretty much assume that anything really basic in a late TC / > early RC stage like we're at now actually works, unless you see &

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

2012-05-19 Thread Richard Vickery
After having this installed, is it adequate, or acceptable, to ask what kind of information you want? Is it adequate to offer that I am prevented from installing software in the add/remove software (market)? Those that I attempted thus far to install consisted of Libra-office and Thunderbird softwa

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

2012-05-19 Thread Richard Vickery
r with the mouse-button, which can be slightly annoying. hope this helps, Richard On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Richard Vickery < richard.vicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > After having this installed, is it adequate, or acceptable, to ask what > kind of information you want? Is it ad

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Vickery
I'm not sure; how do I test for this? If I have RC1, how do I get RC2? I can, however, yum the software I need/want, and have since done so. On May 21, 2012 8:27 AM, "Adam Williamson" wrote: > On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 10:44 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > After havi

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Vickery
Do you think I could be provided a link to PK, since, to be hionest, I don't know what PK stands for - though I will try to find out in the duration until your reply? Thanks so much, Richard On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 09:08 -0700,

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Vickery
No problem :-) On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 20:21 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > > * Richard Vickery [21/05/2012 20:20] : > > > > > > Do you think I could be provided a link to PK, since, to be hionest, I > >

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Vickery
it works! On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Richard Vickery < richard.vicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > No problem :-) > > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 20:21 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >> >

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Vickery
had helped the community out earlier, I may not ignorantly feel the need to bring up whether these glitches will be fixed in the following release. -- Richard Vickery On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 12:09 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > >

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 17:51 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > no problem. > > > > > > I may know better next time an RC comes out than to bring these up, it > > is probably better that I wait until the nex

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Vickery
I'm slightly uneasy to install this boot.iso as it looks really small. On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > As per the Fedora 17 schedule [1], Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 3 > (RC3) is now available for testing. Content information, including > changes, can be found at ht

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 17 Final Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

2012-05-21 Thread Richard Vickery
I thought I should report that I was shutting down for the night and got a kernel-panic; is there a file to look at so that I can report it? I may not reply for the next 10 hours. On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 22:22 -0700, Richard Vickery wr

Re: Still begging for reviews...

2012-05-25 Thread Richard Vickery
I have the time, and lack the knowledge of compiling(?) these; could you tell me how to get them to run? - Richard On May 25, 2012 6:40 AM, "Simone Caronni" wrote: > Hello, > > I'm still begging for reviewers; I tried to contact many people with > Review Requests open that I could review but had

Printer

2012-05-28 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang: I no longer have the kernel panic at shut-down, and it's great! Thanks! However, Now the xqx driver for my HP P1005 won't go in correctly and so the printer doesn't work right now. In all likelihood, it is something I have done wrong; is it, or is it a programming in Fedora? -- devel mai

System problems

2012-06-07 Thread Richard Vickery
since the upgrade to 17, I've been experiencing system freezes on frequent occasions when getting up from the computer. The term "frequent" used in this context has a different meaning from "constantly"; there are many moments when I can get up to accomplish other tasks, and come back to a usable c

Re: Laptop screen stuck on very low brightness

2012-06-08 Thread Richard Vickery
I used to get stuck on this one and end up going to "system settings" and "brightness". This is the first I have heard of the Fn combination; thanks On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Björn Persson wrote: > Corey Richardson wrote: > > How are you trying to modify the brightness? > > Holding down

Re: Fedora ARM and SecureBoot

2012-06-08 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Oron Peled wrote: > On Friday, 8 בJune 2012 20:07:20 Gerry Reno wrote: > > On 06/08/2012 01:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > That is only assuming that Windows on ARM is successful, of which so > far > > > there's been precious little indication. > > > > There i

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-16 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Jay Sulzberger wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, drago01 wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Nicu Buculei >> wrote: >> > On 06/12/2012 12:58 PM, drago01 wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> The p

double

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Vickery
Before F-17 I had become accustomed to using the double to get a list of the commands; perhaps you set it bu default at least in the release on the website. This time I upgraded through the link in the mail. Perhaps I asked this before and forgot the method: what is the proper command to get a lis

Re: double

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Vickery
> > > Perhaps you wanted to post this to the fedora-users list? > > Best, > Orcan Thanks Orcan: I just thought of this immediately after posting the question here... Best, Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Unable to login to Koji website

2012-07-09 Thread Richard Vickery
I heard that there was a DNS problem that was to affect a relatively significant number of people today On Jul 9, 2012 5:20 PM, "Matt Spaulding" wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: > >> >> check "Valid from 27-05-2012 23:17:21 to 23-11-2012 22:17:21" and see if >> is

Re: Fedora ARM weekly status meeting minutes 2012-07-18

2012-07-18 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Paul Whalen wrote: > Good day all, > > Thanks to those who were able to join us for the weekly status meeting > today. For those that were unable, the minutes are posted below: > > Minutes: > http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2012-07-18/fedora-meet

Re: Weekly ARM status meeting - Wed 2012/07/25

2012-07-25 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Paul Whalen wrote: > Good day all, > > This weeks Fedora ARM status meeting will take place today (Wednesday July > 25th) in #fedora-meeting-1 on Freenode. > Times in various time zones (please let us know if these do not work): > > PDT: 1pm > MDT: 2pm > CDT: 3pm

self-removal

2012-08-09 Thread Richard Vickery
Can someone remind me how to remove my address from the lists? Thanks -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

bacula

2012-10-21 Thread Richard Vickery
I don't know if it is related, however, I just had a bacula crash take place, and can't make a bug report because I have forgotten my username and/or password; is there a link on the site to retrieve this information so that I can make the proper bug report? Thanks. -- devel mailing list devel@li

Re: bacula

2012-10-21 Thread Richard Vickery
10 AM, Fabian Affolter wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/21/2012 04:24 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > I don't know if it is related, however, I just had a bacula crash > > take place, and can't make a bug report because I have forgot

Re: bacula

2012-10-21 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > * Richard Vickery [21/10/2012 21:24] : > > > > It was so long ago that I can't even remember my login, and may have been > > before I changed my email. I signed up shortly after 1998 and think that > I > &g

Re: bacula

2012-10-21 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:38 PM, J. Randall Owens < jrowens.fed...@ghiapet.net> wrote: > On 10/21/2012 04:20 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Emmanuel Seyman > <mailto:emman...@seyman.fr>> wrote: > > > >

R

2012-10-21 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang, For some strange reason, something has gone wrong with R, the statistics program. R doesn't know where to find rJava and perhaps the other programs to run JGR. so I thought I might try uninstalling - and re-installing - it, but yum won't / can't remove the non-X part. Has anyone experien

Re: R

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 10/21/2012 11:24 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > Hi Gang, > > > > For some strange reason, something has gone wrong with R, the statistics > > program. R doesn't know where to find rJava and perhaps the oth

Re: R

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Vickery
sability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes configure: checking whether gcc -m32 -std=gnu99 s

Re: R

2012-10-23 Thread Richard Vickery
Here's what I get: $ sudo yum install R-java [sudo] password for : Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00 google-chrome| 951 B 00:00 rpmfusion-free-updates

Re: R

2012-10-23 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 10/22/2012 09:39 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > sorry I mistakenly deleted the R discussion from my inbox. Here is what > > Based on your errors, I'm wondering if you're using the R packages in > Fedora, or i

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-12 Thread Richard Vickery
If dnf is no improvement, then I'd rather we stick with yum; messing with something new just means spending time that I don't have trying to learn that new command. This is incredibly cumbersome. If at all possible, please stay with yum. On Nov 12, 2012 10:53 AM, "Kevin Kofler" wrote: > Seth Vida

Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

2012-11-12 Thread Richard Vickery
Change still frightens people to varying degree s., and many busy end-users may not have time to read pages in order to learn a new command On Nov 12, 2012 1:46 PM, "Chris Adams" wrote: > Once upon a time, Richard Vickery said: > > If dnf is no improvement, then I'd

Re: BlueZ Status in Fedora.

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:28:34PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: > >> Basically we ship Fedora 20 in a state where one only of our major desktop >> environments supports bluetooth in a stable fashion? That seems kind of like >> a >> disaster wait

Re: Fedora 20 Alpha TC2 AMI's

2013-08-29 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:11:01AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: >> images for Alpha TC2 have been uploaded to us-east-1 >> i386: eb82cf82 >> x86_64: ami-1583ce7c > > Thanks Dennis! Booted one up and it looks good at very first glance. > > --

Re: Fedora 20 Alpha TC2 AMI's

2013-08-29 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 03:21:36PM -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: >> >> i386: eb82cf82 >> >> x86_64: ami-1583ce7c >> > Thanks Dennis! Booted one up and it looks good at very first glance. >> How doe

upgrading R

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Vickery
I used to do this by scrolling up through the commands, but it's no longer there: I don't know if I remember it correctly: sudo yum upgrade updates.testing R Do I have this correct, or am I missing something? I don't want to forge ahead fearing that I might screw something up. Any ideas? Thanks

Re: Screen blackened

2013-09-04 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 09/04/2013 04:33 PM, richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Has anyone had the problem where the screen dims very close to black >> the moment Fedora start or finishes booting after the bios has booted up? >> > Yes, I have a bunch of laptop

Re: Screen blackened

2013-09-05 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 09/04/2013 06:27 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: >> >> I was at Starbucks where I guess it was too light. When I got back I >> could read the screen and under the user name it told me to reboot to >> install updat

Re: Screen blackened

2013-09-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sep 5, 2013 7:12 PM, "David Beveridge" wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Frankie Onuonga < frankie.onuo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> >>> On 09/04/2013 08:07 PM, Frankie Onuonga wrote: It is irritating to constantly have t

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 20 Alpha Test Compose 5 (TC5) Available Now!

2013-09-08 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: > NOTE: The 32- and 64-bit DVDs, the 64-bit Desktop Live, the 32-bit MATE > and Security Spins, and the 64-bit LXDE and MATE Spins are over their > respective size targets. > > As per the Fedora 20 schedule [1], Fedora 20 Alpha Test Compose 5

Re: Screen blackened

2013-09-23 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sep 23, 2013 5:19 AM, "Ville Skyttä" wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:49 AM, David Beveridge wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Richard Vickery > > wrote: > >> > >> On Sep 5, 2013 7:12 PM, "David Beveridge" wrote: > &

Re: Screen blackened

2013-09-23 Thread Richard Vickery
On Sep 23, 2013 7:52 PM, "Richard Vickery" wrote: > > > On Sep 23, 2013 5:19 AM, "Ville Skyttä" wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:49 AM, David Beveridge wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Richard Vickery > > > wr

Re: OSSD motivations

2013-04-18 Thread Richard Vickery
On Apr 18, 2013 1:55 AM, "Mohamed Lamine Aknouche" wrote: > > Hi > > > Don't know if this is a bit off topic, but I am in real need of you. Thing is, I am a frequent user of open source software, and I am often amazed by the efforts people make in order to provide me with products and services for

Re: OSSD motivations

2013-04-18 Thread Richard Vickery
On Apr 18, 2013 7:48 AM, "Richard Vickery" wrote: > > > On Apr 18, 2013 1:55 AM, "Mohamed Lamine Aknouche" wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > Don't know if this is a bit off topic, but I am in real need of you. Thing is, I am a fre

audacity

2013-04-28 Thread Richard Vickery
For F18, it appears that the Audacity mp3 build is broken - it won't install - and mp3 support is rather important to me; is it possible to get this particular build working? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: audacity

2013-04-28 Thread Richard Vickery
On Apr 28, 2013 7:21 AM, "Frank Murphy" wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:09:30 -0700 > Richard Vickery wrote: > > > For F18, it appears that the Audacity mp3 build is broken - it won't > > install - and mp3 support is rather important to me; is it po

Re: take your bullshit from public maling lists

2013-05-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > keep you NON-FEDORA political bullshit offlist > > if you have quetstions provide informations about your environemnt > if you are not able to provide this informations read the fucking > manuals to learn the basiscs to express you and your pr

Re: Fedora 19 status is ALIVE, GA on July 02, 2013

2013-06-28 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:26:52PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: >> >> If at 9:50am on release morning, aliens threatened to blow up the >> world if we shipped, we'd certainly do something about it. >> >> But it would be insane to expect us to

Re: Problem with abrt update on F18?

2013-07-03 Thread Richard Vickery
On Jul 2, 2013 2:20 PM, "Richard Shaw" wrote: > > I saw this during the update: > > Updating : abrt-libs-2.1.5-1.fc18.x86_64 10/76 > cp: cannot create regular file â/var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2013-03-27-09:24:26-2877/environâ: No such file or directory > cp: cannot create regular file â/var/tmp/abrt/cc

RE: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-09 Thread Richard Vickery
Hey Dan, In all the given distributions in your post, is there one that you prefer more than the others? Richard On Dec 8, 2012 1:25 PM, "Dan Mashal" wrote: > Kevin, > > This is great and is exactly what I was talking about. > > Michael, > > For the record, yes I run rawhide. > > I have Fedora

Re: Am I the only one who missed the election?

2012-12-10 Thread Richard Vickery
Brian's comments sound a lot like those that I made to another email group that I was once part of - email may be awesome for communication, but it is a truly horrible avenue for conducting parliamentary business of any sort, the least of which are elections and voting. If there were money involved

Re: Fedora ARM F18 Beta VFAD - Test Images posted

2013-01-04 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Lukas, Have you tried kernel.org? On Jan 4, 2013 7:01 AM, "Lukas Zapletal" wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but where can I find the kernel images? These are > just root systems, right? I'd love to try Kirkwood on NSA-310. > > Thanks! > > LZ > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:57:19PM -0500, Paul Wha

Re: Quite serius political "bug" in Fedora 18

2013-01-06 Thread Richard Vickery
It is extremely important to be sensitive to global cultures. War is very hard on everyone, and, to make this short rather becoming an essay on the depth and length of its affects, supporting this is the least we can do. I'd we do super it, we might get a bigger user-base as a result of or care an

Re: comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Vickery
Lennart, Just my $0.02 on halting the inclusion of these: we might want to make these available in case there is a user out there who can only afford the older hardware. On Jan 10, 2013 7:00 AM, "Lennart Poettering" wrote: > Heya, > > I noticed that comps' "standard" group includes a lot of pa

Deja DUP

2013-01-18 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Gang, I backed up some sensitive files with DUP and upgraded to F18. Now calling up the Deja DUP program sends the computer into a mode where nothing is available; it doesn't respond to any key-strokes. Is there anything I can so at the command-line to correct this? I really need these one of t

upgrade

2013-01-20 Thread Richard Vickery
since the updated files yesterday, my screen had been going blank right after bootup -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Vickery
...and what are we to do when the screen goes black? On Jan 20, 2013 2:15 AM, "Muayyad AlSadi" wrote: > hi, > > the fedora's new installer got many innovative features > > but it's missing many critical easy to fix final touches from user > experiance point of view > > let me mention some > I've

Re: installer final touches matters

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Vickery
For the last four hours I was trying to install Fedora 18-64 on the computer and for an hour and a half I've been trying to do an install that hasn't worked; if was like experiencing Microsoft's "blue screen of death". Thankfully after pulling out the CD I had 17 installed. And... um... this isn't

Re: Drupal 8

2013-02-28 Thread Richard Vickery
Hi Shawn: I'm willing to help, though I haven't done any real programming I'm ten years our so, and don't know how much "help" I would actually be, but it's an offer. Richard On Feb 27, 2013 6:50 PM, "Shawn Iwinski" wrote: > I have started packaging the development version of Drupal 8. There i

Re: system freezes after loading gdm/gnome

2013-02-28 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Jan Dvořák wrote: > > > Do you see the same problem starting KDE instead? > > > > I will try again with something that does not use cogl and with > > disabled rc6, now that I have btrfs root with snapshots. > > Both KDM and Xfce4 work flawlessly. > > I have tried

Re: Qt 5.0

2013-03-09 Thread Richard Vickery
Try to take the criticism as something more productive than mere rudeness. I doubt anyone here has the internation of being rude, though at times we may appear as such. We're all just trying to make progress, and some have other pressures. Hope this helps, Richard On Mar 9, 2013 3:20 PM, "Samuel S

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience -> no plymouth!

2013-03-12 Thread Richard Vickery
+1 On Mar 12, 2013 7:37 AM, "Dan Mashal" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Reindl Harald > wrote: > > > > > > Am 12.03.2013 13:52, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: > >> > >> Le Mar 12 mars 2013 13:30, Fabian Deutsch a écrit : > Von: Máirín Duffy > On 03/11/2013 05:13 PM, seth vidal wro

Re: Packages requires /sbin/service.

2013-03-19 Thread Richard Vickery
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 19.03.2013 13:42, schrieb Michal Sekletar: > > On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 11:27 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Reindl Harald wrote: > >> > >>> Am 16.03.2013 19:26, schrieb Rex Dieter: > Lukáš Nykrýn wrote: > > > After usr move

Re: Packages requires /sbin/service.

2013-03-19 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mar 19, 2013 12:13 PM, "Reindl Harald" wrote: > > > > Am 19.03.2013 18:40, schrieb Richard Vickery: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Reindl Harald > > > wrote: > > > > Am 19.03.2013 13:42, schrieb Micha

unaccessability

2013-11-07 Thread Richard Vickery
Is / was a rather political decision to make BitchX unavailable through this app-market / Software GUI thing? Since having to yum install it, I am beginning to have a negative feeling toward the app market idea; the thought being: what else is being left out? Regards, Richard -- devel mailing lis

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-07 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Christian Schaller wrote: > >> Hi, >> The core principle of the installer is that it operates on an application >> level and not a package level. The current way it determines if something >> is an

Re: unaccessability

2013-11-07 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On 7 Nov 2013 17:13, "Richard Vickery" wrote > > > Is / was a rather political decision to make BitchX unavailable through > this app-market / Software GUI thing? > > How do you launch bitchx from

VOB

2013-11-27 Thread Richard Vickery
Being on the test kernel - or, more likely, using a more stable one from the list that is compiled - is probably the answer to the issue: how am I to watch a VOB file? Linux 3.11.9-300.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 20 22:23:25 UTC 2013 x86_64 Thanks -- Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedo

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > look like it starts to happen again: a replacement which is not ready > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/444565.html > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/444563.html > > please realize th

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Richard Vickery > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Reindl Harald > > wrote: > >> > >> look like it starts to happen aga

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:28 PM, yersinia wrote: > >5 PM, poma wrote: > > On 02.01.2014 20:36, Steve Clark wrote: > > > >> Also at least yum stood for something - Yellowdog Updater, Modified - > as opposed to being some > >> nonsensical conglomeration of letters. The only thing I am aware of > th

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-02 Thread Richard Vickery
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 02:18:52AM +0100, poma wrote: > > On 03.01.2014 01:06, Bob Arendt wrote: > > > > > As a runner, DNF already has a specific meaning for me. > > > If you're picking random letters for a project to avoid > > > existing c