Re: 'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:12 AM, sawrub wrote: > > I created a user by the name test, and after doing with my testing was going > to delete the user using the following command, userdel and also added '-f' > for cleaning out the home without leaving any traces of 'test'. But the > command says :

Re: where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings?

2010-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 May 2010 23:05:55 -0400 fred smith wrote: > it keeps the stuff under ~/.gconf/system/networking/connections, in a > series of subdirectories with config files named %gconf.xml. several > subdirectories (and %gconf.xml files) per vpn connection. That would be the "gconf" database - the

RE: [Fedora] 'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?

2010-05-30 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
So this would be my guess: The first time you invoked userdel, it removed the user from the system (/etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow) but didn’t delete the home folder because according to lastlog the user was still logged in. When you invoked it a second time, it failed because the us

'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?

2010-05-30 Thread sawrub
Hi List, I created a user by the name test, and after doing with my testing was going to delete the user using the following command, userdel and also added '-f' for cleaning out the home without leaving any traces of 'test'. But the command says : [r...@xbox ~]# userdel -f test userdel: use

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 30 May 2010 07:47 PM, Mikkel wrote: > On 05/30/2010 05:21 PM, Leonard Adjei wrote: >> I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. >> Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew >> problems with the naming convention used by default. >> For

Does anyone know how to debug cups and or lpr

2010-05-30 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey All, I'm trying to get my printer to work. I have a driver configurator and System/Administration/Printing tools. Both find the printer and pass all tests of the printer, device and backend, and send a file to the print queue. [mlap...@mushroom ~]$ lpq ml1740 is ready and printing Rank

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Alan Evans
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > I do have, so I continued; and then after finally >>> downloading all the packages (much time) and rebooting it apparently >>> couldn't find the driver for my network card. Bother. > > What network card? The one on my motherboard. Lspci tells

Re: where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings?

2010-05-30 Thread fred smith
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:19:15PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010 19:09:35 -0700 (PDT) > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > Check for a . file?  > > Yea, if they are somewhere in home directory you might try something > like this: > > cd ~/ > touch timestamp > > find . -newer times

Re: where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings?

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2010 09:56 PM, fred smith wrote: > > When using NM (in Gnome) to configure a VPN (Sysco, which uses vpnc as the > backend) where does it store the VPN configuration settings? > > Trying to find them so I can move them to a new F13 installation rather than > re-creating all of 'em. > > T

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-30 Thread Mikkel
On 05/30/2010 05:21 PM, Leonard Adjei wrote: > I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. > Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew > problems with the naming convention used by default. > For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('),

Re: where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings?

2010-05-30 Thread fred smith
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:09:35PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > --- On Sun, 5/30/10, fred smith wrote: > > > From: fred smith > > Subject: where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings? > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 6:56 PM > > > > When using N

Re: where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings?

2010-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 May 2010 19:09:35 -0700 (PDT) Antonio Olivares wrote: > Check for a . file?  Yea, if they are somewhere in home directory you might try something like this: cd ~/ touch timestamp find . -newer timestamp Or you could even try it on the whole filesystem, but the find might take a whi

Re: Power management capacity dialog removed in F13

2010-05-30 Thread Mika Kuusela
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 17:17 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > In F12, the left mouse button over the battery icon opened a dropped down > menu with a "Laptop battery" menu entry. Selecting the menu entry opened a > small dialog with the battery's details, specifically the battery's current > capac

Re: where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings?

2010-05-30 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sun, 5/30/10, fred smith wrote: > From: fred smith > Subject: where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings? > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 6:56 PM > > When using NM (in Gnome) to configure a VPN (Sysco, which > uses vpnc as the > backend) where do

Re: Monitor disconnects (?) in F13

2010-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick O'Callaghan writes: The only recourse seems to be a hard reset as there's no reaction to the keyboard or mouse. I haven't yet tried ssh from another machine to poke around. If anyone tells me what to look for I'll be happy to do it next time. Try the ssh. This sounds like a kernel cras

where does Network-Manager store its VPN settings?

2010-05-30 Thread fred smith
When using NM (in Gnome) to configure a VPN (Sysco, which uses vpnc as the backend) where does it store the VPN configuration settings? Trying to find them so I can move them to a new F13 installation rather than re-creating all of 'em. Thanks in advance! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.s

encrypted disk/partition

2010-05-30 Thread fred smith
in F13, Anaconda seems to allow encrypted partitions ONLY if you use LVM. If I set up the disk as simple partitions with no lvm/VG/raid, how can I realize encrypted partitions or even whole disk? Thanks! -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -

Monitor disconnects (?) in F13

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
F13, KDE. I have the screensaver set to activate after 5 minutes and it seems to work fine. Nevertheless if I leave the machine for a long period, say an hour or two (I'd need to experiment more to be sure, and that takes time of course) the monitor refuses to wake up but just shows a small error m

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Miles
On 05/30/2010 06:02 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >> On 05/30/2010 04:47 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >> > Hello Everyone > I'm going to try all of this again. This time, I'm going to give a > > precise, > > blow by blow account of what I am doing: > 1. "yum

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> On 05/30/2010 04:47 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > >>> Hello Everyone > >>> I'm going to try all of this again. This time, I'm going to give a precise, > >>> blow by blow account of what I am doing: > >>> 1. "yum update": No Packages marked for Update > >>> 2. [st...@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci |

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Miles
On 05/30/2010 04:47 PM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >>> Hello Everyone >>> I'm going to try all of this again. This time, I'm going to give a precise, >>> blow by blow account of what I am doing: >>> 1. "yum update": No Packages marked for Update >>> 2. [st...@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep VGA >>>

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Sunday 30 May 2010 03:53 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Suvayu Ali   >> wrote: >>> On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: > > Sda

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sunday 30 May 2010 03:53 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: >> On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: Sda1 ext4 /boot is 200 meg and locked, Will not allow me to do

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> > Hello Everyone > > I'm going to try all of this again. This time, I'm going to give a > > precise, > > blow by blow account of what I am doing: > > 1. "yum update": No Packages marked for Update > > 2. [st...@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep VGA > > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia

fedora 13 - upgarding from DVD with no /boot

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
I have an existing install (f10) with a root partition and /home partition. When I boot the install DVD - there is no screen which offers me a choice whether i want to upgrade or do a fresh install - it -assumes- I want to install fresh. Is this a bug or is there an option I need to put in so

Re: F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.

2010-05-30 Thread fred smith
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 06:05:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:31:47 -0400 > fred smith wrote: > > > I'm stumped, anyone got any sage adivce for me? Tom: Yes, disabling selinux removes the problem. I had looked at the selinux labeling and thought it looked OK, but appare

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> Hello Everyone > I'm going to try all of this again. This time, I'm going to give a precise, > blow by blow account of what I am doing: > 1. "yum update": No Packages marked for Update > 2. [st...@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep VGA > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2010 06:29 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Genes MailLists wrote: >> >>> I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use >>> and collaborate with my colleagues. >> >> As a matter of interest, what do you need that is not

Re: "yum grouplist" under Fedora-13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tom H wrote: > >> yum groupinfo 'Administration Tools' > > Thanks. > That does indeed list the packages in each group, > and confirms that I do not in fact have installed > the groups listed as such by "yum grouplist", > after installing fro

Re: "yum grouplist" under Fedora-13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 29/05/10 02:22, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> Frank Murphy wrote: >>> take each one at a time: yum grouplist "Administration Tools" > --snip-- >> yum groupinfo 'Administration Tools' >

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: >>> >>> Sda1 ext4 /boot is 200 meg and locked, Will not allow me to do anything >>> except format >> >> Supposedly /boot cann

Re: some i686 libraries for Fedora 13 x64 missing

2010-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 05/30/2010 09:07 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > I assume the missing i686 libraries for Fedora 13 x64 are in the > pipeline. This caused me a few minor headaches, but could be more like > migraines to those less experienced. Otherwise Fedora 13 seems fine, and > I'll start on kdevelop 4 usa

Network crash in F13

2010-05-30 Thread Clodoaldo Neto
Whenever a heavy nfs4 file copy or internet file download is done connectivity is lost and restarting NetworkManager does not fix it. Only a reboot fixes it. [ cut here ] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:255 dev_watchdog+0xf0/0x192() Hardware name: A780GM-A NETDEV WATCHD

Re: radeon to nvidia to radeon produces pain

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 29 May 2010, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:45 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >>> I'm on my third video card. >>> The first was a radeon. >>> After I zapped that one, I had it replaced with >>> an nvidia card because it had

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: >> >> Sda1 ext4 /boot is 200 meg and locked, Will not allow me to do anything >> except format > > Supposedly /boot cannot be ext4 as it's not yet supported by Grub, so I > don't k

Re: Fedora 13 Upgrade Going Badly

2010-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
philbrog writes: The system installed without any error messages, then when I re-boot I see several error messages, then these messages repeated over and over: init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process () terminated with status 1 init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process () ended, respawning init: tt

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Genes MailLists wrote: > >> I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use >> and collaborate with my colleagues. > > As a matter of interest, what do you need that is not in TeXlive 2007? My guess is that there was a change in s

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Elsner
On Sun, 30 May 2010 22:21:32 + Leonard Adjei wrote: > I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. > Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew > problems with the naming convention used by default. > For example it has a problem with apostrophe

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 08:19 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Sun, 30 May 2010, N James Bridge wrote: >> >>> Personally, I prefer to do a clean install, since it gets rid of >>> accumulated clutter. That assumes you have a convenient way of back

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Genes MailLists wrote: > I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use > and collaborate with my colleagues. As a matter of interest, what do you need that is not in TeXlive 2007? I often use LaTeX packages that are not in TeXlive, but I just get them from one of the CTANs

Fedora 13 Upgrade Going Badly

2010-05-30 Thread philbrog
The system installed without any error messages, then when I re-boot I see several error messages, then these messages repeated over and over: init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process () terminated with status 1 init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process () ended, respawning init: tty (/dev/tty3) main p

Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-05-30 Thread Leonard Adjei
I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew problems with the naming convention used by default. For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('), I want to be able to create a script which goes to t

Re: How to set monitor refresh rate more than 60hz in Fedora 13

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Note: for Nvidia, ATI, and Intel graphics this probably won't work because the > enhanced drivers do things as they see fit. There are vendor (closed source) In my case, a problem is that the radeon driver is using the preferred frequency, 135 Mhz, eve

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> > Well, no luck so far... But here are some excerpts from log files > > that might > > help someone see what my problem is: > > > > First, the output of 'grep -i "nvidia" messages': > > > > [r...@localhost log]# grep -i "nvidia" messages > > May 28 15:27:16 localhost kern

Re: F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.

2010-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:31:47 -0400 fred smith wrote: > I'm stumped, anyone got any sage adivce for me? If selinux is enabled, it wants its mysterious labeling on /home, and if you create /home later, it may need fixes to make selinux happy. You could temporarily disable selinux and see if proble

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Andre Costa
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 13:34, Andre Costa wrote: > Hi Steven, > > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 23:09, Steven P. Ulrick > wrote: > >> > Hello Everyone, >> > If the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA" is: >> > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 >> GT] >> (rev >> > a

Re: 64 versus 32 flash mystery

2010-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 May 2010 21:39:07 + (UTC) Andre Robatino wrote: > > Any idea why some sites think the 64 bit flash > > is a version number < 9? > > Do you get the same error if flash isn't installed at all? I just tried it, and I get an "install missing plugins" prompt from firefox with no flas

Record "Stereo Mix" (what you hear) from PulseAudio

2010-05-30 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello everyone, I'm on Fedora 12 and I'm using an internal soundcard (HDA-Intel) which doesn't provide, as an input source, the so called "Stereo Mix" (the audio that comes out of your speakers). I simply would like to record from it for applications like Audacity and recordmydesktop. Apparen

Re: Cool it Down Please was: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 21:33, g wrote: > Frank Murphy wrote: > > >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg4.html >> >> "Máirín Duffy proposed[13] a few ideas for a new Fedora website design" > > that was for fedora 12, and i do not believe it was accepted. > Work on Fe

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> I am thinking that your problem is nouveau must be blacklisted in the > grub.conf file > > http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia Hello Again, I just checked the instructions at the above link. They seem to be a simplified version of what I've already tried. Steven P. Ulrick -- users mailing l

Re: 64 versus 32 flash mystery

2010-05-30 Thread Andre Robatino
Tom Horsley gmail.com> writes: > Any idea why some sites think the 64 bit flash > is a version number < 9? Do you get the same error if flash isn't installed at all? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
> I am thinking that your problem is nouveau must be blacklisted in the > grub.conf file > > http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia > > See the Fedora 12/13 install guide for the instruction to install > > Selinix protection must be lowered to allow the nvidia driver to load and > > rdblacklist=nou

F13 installation: successful with small problem and larger one.

2010-05-30 Thread fred smith
Hi gang! I installed F13 on my eeepc 901 on Friday. Since I changed the partitioing scheme, I backed up the whole thing onto a USB HD first so I could restore my home directory afterwards (in fact I also kept dd images of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in case I decided to put F12 back on it later.) first

Power management capacity dialog removed in F13

2010-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
In F12, the left mouse button over the battery icon opened a dropped down menu with a "Laptop battery" menu entry. Selecting the menu entry opened a small dialog with the battery's details, specifically the battery's current capacity, in watts, its original capacity, in watts, and its current ch

Re: How to set monitor refresh rate more than 60hz in Fedora 13

2010-05-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ravi Saini wrote: > I have installed the Fedora 13 on my computer today. I am using HCL's > 17" Monitor whose screen resolution is 1024*768 @85 hz. But in Fedora > 13, I can't be able to set my monitor's refresh rate more than 60 hz due > to which the screen is blurring. There is no Xorg.conf fi

64 versus 32 flash mystery

2010-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
I tried the 64 bit flash plugin, and while it mostly worked, several sites just showed an error telling me that I need a version of flash > 9. If I install the 32 bit flash from the adobe repo, those same sites work fine. Yet both the 64 and 32 bit flash report a version > 10 when I check the ver

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread g
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I suspect there's a (possibly subconscious) view among many of us that > website design means "making the website look pretty" and for the most > part we aren't that bothered. The fact that of course it also refers to > functionality is something we all need to intern

Re: Cool it Down Please was: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread g
Frank Murphy wrote: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-August/msg4.html > > "Máirín Duffy proposed[13] a few ideas for a new Fedora website design" that was for fedora 12, and i do not believe it was accepted. at least i do not recall fedora 12 looking like it an

Re: Fedora 13 AdobeReader_enu nss-softokn-freebl multiple version conflict

2010-05-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 05/29/2010 01:11 PM, Rich Emberson wrote: > Yesterday I installed Fedora 13, first on my laptop > and then my main machine. Both are 64bit with > nvidia cards. > > On the laptop everything went as expected, but on > the big box I could not install AdobeReader_enu. > > When I try: > > yum install

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Joshua C.
2010/5/30 Frank Murphy : > On 30/05/10 15:08, Joshua C. wrote: > --snip-- >> >> This is not exactly correct. It foo+1 isn't in the build system then >> the automatic script will throw out an error. > > No because how will an auto script know to expect foo+1. > It will accept fooX (the borked one) >

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Joshua C.
2010/5/30 Kevin Fenzi : > On Sun, 30 May 2010 10:54:37 +0200 > "Joshua C." wrote: > >> Under http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ are >> supposed to be the nightly-builds of the "latest" code. However, a >> quick look at the logs shows that those are build once in a week or >> ev

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2010 03:55 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 05/30/2010 03:34 PM, Mohamed El Morabity wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-April/371585.html >> Also the official release seems to be 2009 - also isn't 2010 still in pre-release ? Or has it been releas

Re: kernel-devel problem (broken link, no PAE) [SOLVED]

2010-05-30 Thread Brian Mury
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 14:47 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > Try 'yum install kernel-PAE-devel'. I had looked for kernel-PAE-devel in the gnome packagekit application, it wasn't there. Yum found it. I have no idea why the packagekit application didn't show it - but now that it is installed, it does sh

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2010 03:34 PM, Mohamed El Morabity wrote: > > Hi, > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-April/371585.html > > Bis repetita placent... > > Yes I am aware of that - and it has had a few glitches - if it was ready it would be in updates ... the fedora build seems to b

Re: kernel-devel problem (broken link, no PAE)

2010-05-30 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/30/2010 02:16 PM, Brian Mury wrote: > I am trying to build the VirtualBox kernel module. It fails with this > error: > > Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current > Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again. Stop. > > In /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686

Re: Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Mohamed El Morabity
Le dimanche 30 mai 2010 à 15:08 -0400, Genes MailLists a écrit : > I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use > and collaborate with my colleagues. > > So I will install the rpm's from CPAN - the downside is for some reason > R requires the fedora texlive to install and

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Miles
On 05/30/2010 09:34 AM, Andre Costa wrote: Hi Steven, On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 23:09, Steven P. Ulrick mailto:lists-fed...@afolkey2.net>> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > If the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA" is: > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForc

Re: ssh into kvm-clients

2010-05-30 Thread brizly vaan van Ulciputz
when i installed the guests the was one possible way in the 'advanced options' with nat. the bridged one for eth0 and eth1 was disabled (gray). did i miss something or have to install something do be able to use bridging? no matter for me if it's nat or bridge, at the end all mashines should be in

kernel-devel problem (broken link, no PAE)

2010-05-30 Thread Brian Mury
I am trying to build the VirtualBox kernel module. It fails with this error: Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again. Stop. In /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE there is a "build" symlink that links to /usr/src/k

Tex and F13 - help please

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use and collaborate with my colleagues. So I will install the rpm's from CPAN - the downside is for some reason R requires the fedora texlive to install and I need R too ... Can someone help me make and RPM or something that tel

Re: Personal file share (Bluetooth) folder elimination howto -Permantently?

2010-05-30 Thread H. Willstrand
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Darr wrote: > On Saturday, 29 May, 2010 @ 19:44 zulu, KC8LDO scribed: > >> I keep getting the Bluetooth file sharing folder reappearing and >> I want to eliminate it - permanently. I'm not using Bluetooth or >> the personal file sharing feature. I erase the folder

How to set monitor refresh rate more than 60hz in Fedora 13

2010-05-30 Thread Ravi Saini
I have installed the Fedora 13 on my computer today. I am using HCL's 17" Monitor whose screen resolution is 1024*768 @85 hz. But in Fedora 13, I can't be able to set my monitor's refresh rate more than 60 hz due to which the screen is blurring. There is no Xorg.conf file in /etc/X11. Please help m

Re: Personal file share (Bluetooth) folder elimination howto -Permantently?

2010-05-30 Thread Darr
On Saturday, 29 May, 2010 @ 19:44 zulu, KC8LDO scribed: > I keep getting the Bluetooth file sharing folder reappearing and > I want to eliminate it - permanently. I'm not using Bluetooth or > the personal file sharing feature. I erase the folder but it always > seems to come back. How do I get rid

bug reporting tool - auto download/install?

2010-05-30 Thread Dj YB
hello, I just had a crash with emarald, however following the steps in the error reporting wizard I filled in my BugZilla login details and the next thing I see is a download+install of 38 debug required packages. now I don't remember giving my root password and it is not possible to install w

Re: ssh into kvm-clients

2010-05-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 May 2010 19:02:00 +0200 brizly vaan van Ulciputz wrote: > the guests are behind nat (default in kvm?). I have never seen the default KVM nat work at all, and I suspect something about the firewall rules it constructs interact badly with the firewall rules I already have on my host, but

ssh into kvm-clients

2010-05-30 Thread brizly vaan van Ulciputz
Hello Everyone, ich wonder why i am not able to ssh-in in this case: i have an kvm-'server' running 4 'guests'. the guests are behind nat (default in kvm?). running fresh fedora on all machine (host and guest), installed from live-cd, enabled sshd and made sure system-config-firewall allows ssh

Re: F13 install on lappy, comments

2010-05-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Imagine my surprise when I found the capability of setting local >> addresses etc right in NM for a change, and it worked! I didn't have to >> go hacking about to make the new install work with my local network >> gateways etc. >

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 30 May 2010 10:54:37 +0200 "Joshua C." wrote: > Under http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ are > supposed to be the nightly-builds of the "latest" code. However, a > quick look at the logs shows that those are build once in a week or > even not that "often". > > Can som

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-05-30 Thread Andre Costa
Hi Steven, On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 23:09, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > If the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA" is: > > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 > GT] > (rev > > a1) > > > > are the correct instructions for installing the propriet

'userdel' irony -- what do you say ?

2010-05-30 Thread sawrub
Hi List, I created a user by the name test, and after doing with my testing was going to delete the user using the following command, userdel and also added '-f' for cleaning out the home without leaving any traces of 'test'. But the command says : [r...@xbox ~]# userdel -f test userdel: user

Re: DVD Installer on USB...?

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 07:40 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > Anyone have a how-to/magic incantation to do this? Could we eventually > make this an option for Fedora installers too? IIRC the Installation doc has a section on this. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:16 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: > > > Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in > > /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. > > It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network > > connecti

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 10:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/30/2010 10:38 AM, g wrote: > > posting notification and a link to new page design to all list can help in > > prevention because if someone does complain, it is a simple matter to point > > out that notice was given and comments were

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 08:19 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010, N James Bridge wrote: > > > Personally, I prefer to do a clean install, since it gets rid of > > accumulated clutter. That assumes you have a convenient way of backing > > up your /home directory. > > I back up rega

Re: F13 - K3B - Won't burn dual layer BluRay

2010-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 08:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > You neglected to say what K3B actually does with this, such as any > error messages it outputs. > > > The error message was included in the first post, wasn't it? Look again. There was no error message of any kind quoted in the OP's pos

Re: DVD Installer on USB...?

2010-05-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I love the speed of the USB installer from the Live CD...! > > But I would also like to stop using so many DVDs for, well everything. > USB drives are much more convenient, portable, durable, and reusable. > My ideal scenario would

Re: DVD Installer on USB...?

2010-05-30 Thread stefan riemens
Have you tried just dd'ing the iso to de usb-disk? I know that works for live-cds, so it might work for the installer dvd as well (I haven't tried) Good luck! 2010/5/30, Christopher A. Williams : > I love the speed of the USB installer from the Live CD...! > > But I would also like to stop using

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Jonathan Underwood wrote: >> Am I alone in thinking that preupgrade was a nice idea >> which has never worked perfectly, and which should be quietly dropped? > > preupgrade is actively maintained and developed by some of the > smartest contributors to Fedora, so I am certain that if you file bug

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 15:08, Joshua C. wrote: --snip-- > > This is not exactly correct. It foo+1 isn't in the build system then > the automatic script will throw out an error. No because how will an auto script know to expect foo+1. It will accept fooX (the borked one) An error will only be thrown iirc, i

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2010 01:31 AM, g wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > The original announce was good. Do you know if there was a followup - with something like 'Hey All - we now have a test version of the new website - please take a look and let us know ... ' One of the strengths of open source mod

Re: Why are the _nightly_ builds build once in a ... week???

2010-05-30 Thread Joshua C.
2010/5/30 Frank Murphy : > It's also based on tester feedback. > Package foo doesn't work. > If Package foo+1 doesn't make it into the build system for a week, > there's a weeks builds down the swanee. > That's why eyes rather than automation is used. > > -- > Regards, > > Frank Murphy This is no

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 08:29 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > Why can't they just admit that LVM is a bad idea? > > It belongs to a past age when disk-space was limited. > > LVM is probably useful. > That said, I was innoculated against its virtues

Re: F13 - K3B - Won't burn dual layer BluRay

2010-05-30 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sun, 5/30/10, Bill Davidsen wrote: > From: Bill Davidsen > Subject: Re: F13 - K3B - Won't burn dual layer BluRay > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 5:33 AM > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 06:17 -0500, Steve Berg wrote: > >> I

DVD Installer on USB...?

2010-05-30 Thread Christopher A. Williams
I love the speed of the USB installer from the Live CD...! But I would also like to stop using so many DVDs for, well everything. USB drives are much more convenient, portable, durable, and reusable. My ideal scenario would be able to put the DVD installer ISO onto a bootable USB stick as well - s

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Why can't they just admit that LVM is a bad idea? > It belongs to a past age when disk-space was limited. LVM is probably useful. That said, I was innoculated against its virtues when it was sprung on me as a surprise during an install. If one has *on

Re: Installing F13

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 30 May 2010, N James Bridge wrote: > Personally, I prefer to do a clean install, since it gets rid of > accumulated clutter. That assumes you have a convenient way of backing > up your /home directory. I back up regardless. If you have a /home partition and do a custom install, you can te

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/10 14:07, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:43 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: >> preupgrade is actively maintained and developed by some of the >> smartest contributors to Fedora, so I am certain that if you file bug >> reports about how it's not worked for you they will get fixed. >

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:43 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > preupgrade is actively maintained and developed by some of the > smartest contributors to Fedora, so I am certain that if you file bug > reports about how it's not worked for you they will get fixed. It strike me that it will be used b

Re: F13 - K3B - Won't burn dual layer BluRay

2010-05-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Bill Davidsen wrote: > OP: does K3B actually do a burn, or call something else to do it? I've had > burn problems because Fedora doesn't have genuine cdrecord installed, they > ship a look-alike which is really named tokem, or hokem, or something like > that, which doesn't work well on some burner

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-30 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 30 May 2010 13:16, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Alan Evans wrote: > >> Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in >> /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. >> It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network >> connection. I do have, so

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