Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-02 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:23:48PM -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > >As a matter of fact, as Fedora is mainly financed by Red Hat as a test > >bench for RHEL. > > Fedora is more than a test bench for RHEL. > > >I can hardly see how Fed

Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play--SOLVED

2010-04-02 Thread Sawrub
On 04/02/2010 09:14 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:10 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:40:42 -0400 >> Temlakos wrote: >> >> >>> So: /all/ version of nspluginwrapper cause problems for videos called >>> with certain scripts. You can't eve

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-02 Thread Sawrub
On 04/01/2010 07:03 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about > 2 days ago. When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the > Fedora sign in the middle of the screen. It is hard for me to explain > exactly what is happening becau

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:49 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: > Javier Perez wrote: > >> > do I have to reformat my HD, reinstall FC12, and then > >> > install win2k, or can I just install yum install the > >> > virtual parts for kvm and have it start as a guest > >> > the already isntalled win2k ? >

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread R. G. Newbury
Javier Perez wrote: >> > do I have to reformat my HD, reinstall FC12, and then >> > install win2k, or can I just install yum install the >> > virtual parts for kvm and have it start as a guest >> > the already isntalled win2k ? From what I have read, you cannot port an existing win instance i

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread suvayu ali
On 2 April 2010 16:49, David Bartmess wrote: > On 4/2/2010 4:37 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> On Friday 02 April 2010 03:14 PM, David Bartmess wrote: >> >>> I'm on F12, and I've tried to install kvm via yum, but yum says no >>> matching packages... Is this a F13 thing? >>> >>> "sudo yum install kvm" re

Re: Problem with virt-manager

2010-04-02 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 03.04.2010 01:02, schrieb Paul: > Hi, > > I've managed to get virt-manager to run under rawhide (after the parted > problem was fixed), and can create the fake drive and install XP. > > Only problem is that when XP does the reset after the first part of the > install, I get > > Booting from H

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/03/2010 05:19 AM, David Bartmess wrote: > > I don't find kvm anywhere. Is there a specific repository I need to add > to my list? > KVM is a kernel module. There is no separate package or binary called KVM. The user space tool is qemu-kvm. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_starte

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread David Bartmess
On 4/2/2010 4:37 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Friday 02 April 2010 03:14 PM, David Bartmess wrote: > >> I'm on F12, and I've tried to install kvm via yum, but yum says no >> matching packages... Is this a F13 thing? >> >> "sudo yum install kvm" returns nothing... >> >> > Whenever in doubt a

Firefox not running : unable to load XPCOM (was Re:)

2010-04-02 Thread Don Vogt
I finally got straight on what you wanted for strace. I have attached a gzipped copy, but I don't know if it will go through the list, and I lost track of who wanted it. If it doesen't go through let me know and I will send it direct. It makes absolutely no sense to me at all. strace.l

Re: F12 crash

2010-04-02 Thread Roger
That is fine, but please do not recommend others disable it. >> Why? If it's the root of the problem... Besides "others" are free to make >> their own decisions, are they not? >> > Because if it turns out not to be the problem they need to sit through a > relabel when they turn it back on.

Problem with virt-manager

2010-04-02 Thread Paul
Hi, I've managed to get virt-manager to run under rawhide (after the parted problem was fixed), and can create the fake drive and install XP. Only problem is that when XP does the reset after the first part of the install, I get Booting from Hard Disk... A disk read error occurred. Any ideas o

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Friday 02 April 2010 03:14 PM, David Bartmess wrote: > I'm on F12, and I've tried to install kvm via yum, but yum says no > matching packages... Is this a F13 thing? > > "sudo yum install kvm" returns nothing... > Whenever in doubt about package names you can try commands like these, $ yum sea

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread jack craig
try a yum list | grep kvm i see only qemu-kvm.. On 04/02/2010 03:14 PM, David Bartmess wrote: On 4/2/2010 2:06 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: Javier Perez wrote: do I have to reformat my HD, reinstall FC12, and then install win2k, or can I just install yum install the virtual par

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread David Bartmess
On 4/2/2010 2:06 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Javier Perez wrote: > > >> do I have to reformat my HD, reinstall FC12, and then >> install win2k, or can I just install yum install the >> virtual parts for kvm and have it start as a guest >> the already isntalled win2k ? >> >> > I'

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri Apr 2 17:46:24 UTC 2010 *Javier Perez* wrote: > can I just > install yum install the virtual parts for kvm and have it start as a guest > the already isntalled win2k ? I used this kind of approach some years ago with VMware workstaion installed on a Linux partition, starting WIndows vm dir

Re: sync write to .bash_history file?

2010-04-02 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 2 April 2010 22:35, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > I see that in Linux, on Fedora, but in general with some flavours and > distros, it seems that write operations to the .bash_history are not > "consistent", in the sense that sometimes you will not find all the commands > in it. and sometimes the

Re: Chrome

2010-04-02 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Michael Miles wrote: > Well, I could never play youtube or fox news videos with firefox and > shockwave. > So I installed Chrome and youtube yes fox news no > > I disabled wrapper and still no go > > Any thoughts I don't know what/how you have installed but I run

sync write to .bash_history file?

2010-04-02 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I remember "my" plain old days (1995) when working on HP-UX typing on DCE terminals connected by MUX to the Unix host... At that time there were several guys using the same administrative root account at the same time with the Korn shell... and you had a synchronous write to the history file

Chrome

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Miles
Well, I could never play youtube or fox news videos with firefox and shockwave. So I installed Chrome and youtube yes fox news no I disabled wrapper and still no go Any thoughts I have been looking at the firefox emails but I can't seem to get it going properly -- users mailing list users@l

Re: Packagekit gnome and proxy

2010-04-02 Thread Richard Hughes
2010/4/2 Tanguy Eric : > I would like to know how to enable a proxy for packagekit. I know I can use > proxy in yum.conf but is it possible to use proxy server in gnome > preferences ? Yup, just set the proxy in System->Preferences->Network Proxy, or edit /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf if you wan

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Miles wrote: > On 04/01/2010 06:33 AM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: >> I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about >> 2 days ago. When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the >> Fedora sign in the middle of the screen. It is hard for me to explain >> exac

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Javier Perez wrote: > do I have to reformat my HD, reinstall FC12, and then > install win2k, or can I just install yum install the > virtual parts for kvm and have it start as a guest > the already isntalled win2k ? > In my experience, this does not work (I have tried to use a windows version i

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Javier Perez wrote: > Hi > I am sorry if it has been asked before, but could not come up with the > search terms to look it and I have not seen discussed on the WIKIs > > I am totally noob to virtualization and I was planning to start learning > myself. > I have a dual boot system (FC12, Win2k S

Re: no flash in chromium-browser (from /spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F12/)

2010-04-02 Thread Mail Lists
On 04/02/2010 08:57 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 12:01 -0400, Jim wrote: > >> FC12-X86_64 >> >> I'm using the same version 5.0.365.0 of Chromium and Flash is playing on >> all websites, in fact even on Foxnews where Firefox won't. >> >> I think your problem is in Fedora or you

Re: Fedora and long threads - positive rather than negative!

2010-04-02 Thread Patrick Kobly
G'day, Figured it may be an appropriate time to chime in here. I have been a Fedora user since FC4. Prior to that, I used Mandrake. Prior to that I used Slackware. During this time, we have seen a quantum leap forward in desktop Linux distributions (obv.) I recognize that I am not a typical us

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's "Check for Updates"?

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/02/2010 10:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith wrote: > >> then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers >> package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at >> volunteers who are giving you something for free? >> >> > T

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's "Check for Updates"?

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/02/2010 10:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith wrote: > >> then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers >> package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at >> volunteers who are giving you something for free? >> >> > T

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's "Check for Updates"?

2010-04-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/02/2010 11:19 PM, Craig White wrote: > > Rahul is a Fedora director, one of the kindest, gentlest and most > patient people on this list. > Thanks for the compliment but I am not really any kind of director. Just a Fedora contributor among many others. No special titles. Rahul -- user

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Javier Perez wrote: > Hi > I am sorry if it has been asked before, but could not come up with the > search terms to look it and I have not seen discussed on the WIKIs > > I am totally noob to virtualization and I was planning to start learning > myself. > I have a d

Re: Firefox not running: unable to load XPCOM (was Re: )

2010-04-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello Don, On Friday 02 April 2010 07:38 AM, David García Granda wrote: >>> >>> 1.- Did you try strace (strace -o strace.log firefox)?. If >>> not, please >>> do it and post trace output file (strace.log in the example >>> mentioned) >>> for inspection. >>> >>> 2.- Which architecture are you runni

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's "Check for Updates"?

2010-04-02 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 10:35 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: > On 04/02/2010 10:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith wrote: > > > >> then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers > >> package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at >

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's "Check for Updates"?

2010-04-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/02/2010 11:05 PM, Michael Miles wrote > then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers > package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at > volunteers who are giving you something for free? > > > Maybe they are asking because they do not know how. > This k

Virtualization

2010-04-02 Thread Javier Perez
Hi I am sorry if it has been asked before, but could not come up with the search terms to look it and I have not seen discussed on the WIKIs I am totally noob to virtualization and I was planning to start learning myself. I have a dual boot system (FC12, Win2k SP4). My question is ,If I want to c

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's "Check for Updates"?

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Miles
On 04/02/2010 10:06 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith wrote: > >> then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers >> package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at >> volunteers who are giving you something for free? >> >> > T

Fedora and long threads - positive rather than negative!

2010-04-02 Thread mike cloaked
Occasionally there are long threads in the Fedora forums which start with flame baiting by one or other poster and quite often run for ages without reaching a sensible conclusion but generate bad feeling and not much else. As a long standing fedora user and tester (since FC1) I have to say that I

Re: How to Update Firefox with Fedora 12 and use Firefox's "Check for Updates"?

2010-04-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/01/2010 11:12 PM, psmith wrote: > > then why don't you both get off your a**es and help the packagers > package and test the newer releases instead of just blowing off at > volunteers who are giving you something for free? > This type of language is completely unnecessary. The maintain

Re: F12 crash

2010-04-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 15:27:39 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Tue, 3/30/10, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > > >    > > That is fine, but please do not recommend others disable > > it. > > Why?  If it's the root of the problem...  Besides "others" are free to make > their own decisions, a

VOIP Qtel -

2010-04-02 Thread Bob Goodwin
Does anyone have experience using "qtel?" I installed it via yum. I am running an up to date F-12 and the problem is that it sometimes will not connect, usually to certain users, then something drives one cpu to 90%. Top attributes that to pulseaudio. I then kill pulse audio a

Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play--SOLVED

2010-04-02 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:10 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:40:42 -0400 > Temlakos wrote: > > > So: /all/ version of nspluginwrapper cause problems for videos called > > with certain scripts. You can't even get the embedding code with > > nspluginwrapper in place. > > It isn'

Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play--SOLVED

2010-04-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:40:42 -0400 Temlakos wrote: > So: /all/ version of nspluginwrapper cause problems for videos called > with certain scripts. You can't even get the embedding code with > nspluginwrapper in place. It isn't just videos. One of my credit cards has some silly flash app for gen

Re: [389-users] posix authentication - missing groups

2010-04-02 Thread Marco Strullato
What you suggest solved my problem! memberuid mustn't be the uid number but the username! Thank you very much! Marco 2010/4/2 Renato Ribeiro da Silva : > > In the memberuid attribute you need to put the uid not the uidnumber.  In > the memberuid attribute replace 496 by user and try again. > >

Re: [389-users] posix authentication - missing groups

2010-04-02 Thread Renato Ribeiro da Silva
In the memberuid attribute you need to put the uid not the uidnumber.  In the memberuid attribute replace 496 by user and try again.   Regards, Renato. Em 02/04/2010 11:53, Marco Strullato < marco.strull...@gmail.com > escreveu:I use the memberuid attribute: to be as clear as possible I'll pastehe

Re: [389-users] posix authentication - missing groups

2010-04-02 Thread Marco Strullato
I use the memberuid attribute: to be as clear as possible I'll paste here the ldif. I hope it will be useful. This is the ldif of the user # entry-id: 709 dn: uid=user,ou=ssh,c=it,o=organisation modifyTimestamp: 20100331104156Z modifiersName: cn=directory manager gidNumber: 601 uidNumber: 496 cn:

Re: Stable Fedora Releases

2010-04-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: [snip] > I would like to do that which I said I could do and which you suggested. > > I am not a yum or yumex expert (which I prefer yumex to packagekit), but I > would love to put in a restriction whereby to only > download the primary

CD burning problems

2010-04-02 Thread Alberto Ferrante
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, with Fedra 12, since the advent of kernel 2.6.32 I have a strange problem with both my CD burners (a Plextor and an Asus): I can burn CDs (apparently) without any problem, but those CDs are unreadable. I am currently using Brasero as K3B had

Re: [389-users] posix authentication - missing groups

2010-04-02 Thread Renato Ribeiro da Silva
Are you sing the memberuid or the uniquemember attribute in the ldap? What are the values?   Renato Em 02/04/2010 11:38, Marco Strullato < marco.strull...@gmail.com > escreveu:Thanks for the answer but I already disabled nscd...Marco2010/4/2 Renato Ribeiro da Silva :> Marco,>> Try to stop the the n

Amarok 2.3: how to change playlist order

2010-04-02 Thread Andrea
Hi, In Amarok 2.3 Fedora 11 I don't seem to be able to rearrange the order of songs in the playlist. On the right side of the screen there is the playlist of songs currently played. When I try to drag and drop one of them in a different place nothing seems to happen, but I can see visual feedba

Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play--SOLVED

2010-04-02 Thread Temlakos
On 04/02/2010 09:31 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:22 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > >> On 04/01/2010 09:23 PM, Aram J. Agajanian wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:49:27 -0400 >>> Temlakos wrote: >>> >>> >>> I've come back to this issue of the Fo

Re: [389-users] posix authentication - missing groups

2010-04-02 Thread Marco Strullato
Thanks for the answer but I already disabled nscd... Marco 2010/4/2 Renato Ribeiro da Silva : > Marco, > > Try to stop the the nscd service. Sometimes it gives you the wrong > information. > > > > Regards, > > Renato > > > > > > Em 02/04/2010 07:27, Marco Strullato < marco.strull...@gmail.com > e

Re: Firefox not running: unable to load XPCOM (was Re: )

2010-04-02 Thread David García Granda
Hi Don, >> > >>> or advice would be appreciated. >> >> Is it possible for you to check if XPCOM >> files related >> >>> from VirtualBox >> conflict with Firefox/xulrunner ones?. >> Maybe something >> >>> not compatible >> from VirtualBox is loaded instead of the >> right one. >

Re: [389-users] posix authentication - missing groups

2010-04-02 Thread Renato Ribeiro da Silva
Marco, Try to stop the the nscd service. Sometimes it gives you the wrong information.   Regards, Renato     Em 02/04/2010 07:27, Marco Strullato < marco.strull...@gmail.com > escreveu:Hi all,I'm using fedora ds as authentication server for my network. I'veconfigured the environment so that linux g

Re: Firefox not running: unable to load XPCOM (was Re: )

2010-04-02 Thread Don Vogt
--- On Fri, 4/2/10, David García Granda wrote: > From: David García Granda > Subject: Firefox not running: unable to load XPCOM (was Re: ) > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Cc: "Don Vogt" > Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 3:48 AM > Hi Don, > > >>> or advice would be appreciated. > >>>

Re: Stable Fedora Releases

2010-04-02 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
From: "Ralf Corsepius" To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org On 04/02/2010 06:22 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > While the weekly updates might b

Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play

2010-04-02 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:22 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > On 04/01/2010 09:23 PM, Aram J. Agajanian wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:49:27 -0400 > > Temlakos wrote: > > > > > >> I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not > >> wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more i

Re: semantics

2010-04-02 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:56 -0600, charles zeitler wrote: > Do what thou wilt > shall be the whole of the Law. > > > On 4/1/10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 04/02/2010 05:27 AM, charles zeitler wrote: > >> > >> 1) "free and open source software" is redundant ( if it's free software ) > >> > >

Re: no flash in chromium-browser (from /spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F12/)

2010-04-02 Thread Mike Chambers
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 12:01 -0400, Jim wrote: > FC12-X86_64 > > I'm using the same version 5.0.365.0 of Chromium and Flash is playing on > all websites, in fact even on Foxnews where Firefox won't. > > I think your problem is in Fedora or you haven't imported all the > settings over from Firef

Re:

2010-04-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/02/2010 05:27 AM, charles zeitler wrote: >> 1) "free and open source software" is redundant ( if it's free software ) >> > > Not quite. FOSS is a umbrella term and using it is one way of avoiding > the free beer vs freedom confusion Further on this way: FLOSS, w

Re: semantics

2010-04-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/02/2010 11:26 AM, charles zeitler wrote: > yes, i can see that ( although i have seen some potentially > misleading references to just "open source software" What is misleading about that? Some context would be useful.uh huh. but is there really something _called_ the "stable release" >

Packagekit gnome and proxy

2010-04-02 Thread Tanguy Eric
I would like to know how to enable a proxy for packagekit. I know I can use proxy in yum.conf but is it possible to use proxy server in gnome preferences ? Thanks Eric <>-- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: Windows partition?

2010-04-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thursday 01 April 2010 10:48 AM, Paul wrote: > > That said, I can't get -enable-kvm to be accepted as a command line > under qemu... > I believe the command is `qemu-kvm '. I would suggest using virt-manager or virsh. If you are using kvm, they provide you with a very easy to use interface. v

Re: Firefox not running: unable to load XPCOM (was Re: )

2010-04-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Don, Please have proper a subject and trim the replies appropriately, I missed your earlier reply because of a missing subject and it was quite difficult to pick out your responses. On Friday 02 April 2010 12:48 AM, David García Granda wrote: > Hi Don, > > I tried starting firefox in a t

Firefox not running: unable to load XPCOM (was Re: )

2010-04-02 Thread David García Granda
Hi Don, Yesterday I updated to kernel 2.6.32.9.70 fc12 and to >>> firefox-3.5.9-1.fc12 and now firefox won't start. I get a >>> notice in the bottom bar for a few seconds and then it goes >>> blank. >>> >>> Strange, I have the same package versions and firefox runs >>> fine... >>> I trie