Re: How is (k)networkmanager supposed to work these days ?

2010-06-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
> I set up networking with network > manager on my laptop back in F11.  Or > was it F10 ?  Not sure.  Everything has worked > fine since then.  I had > an icon in my system tray that showed me signal strength > and I could > click to select various APs, connect, etc.  I > accomplished this using >

Strange message from yum.

2010-06-10 Thread George R Goffe
Howdy, Thanks to all the kind people who responded to my situation. I have removed the local yum plugin and removed the "/plugins/local" duplicate pkgs and have been able to successfully update openoffice. Regards, George... "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain

Re: Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 22:44 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > Have you run memcheck? > > You mean fsck ? Something runs about every 20 boots and it comes > back clean. I haven't specifically run fsck. No, I mean memcheck, that checks your RAM. You have to run it manually at boot time. poc -- us

VRRP and GLBP

2010-06-10 Thread Rambod Kamaei
Hi All, i have 2 sun servers and i insttaled 8 giga port per each server and compiled the Kernel . The OS is Centos. how i can install HSRP or VRRP or GLBP?? Best Regards,  Rambod Kamaei (PhD) Chief network Engineer (CNE) Grand Technology Resources (GT

Re: Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-10 Thread Gabriel Ramirez
>> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:22 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: >>> I've checked the hard drive. All the SMART data says the drive is fine. >>> And grub has never failed to run. are you tried running: smartctl -t short /dev/sda that takes a couple of minutes smartctl -t long /dev/sda that can take hour

Anyone got sound with Intel ICH10 chipset? (stopped after F13 upgrade)

2010-06-10 Thread Graham TerMarsch
Before filing a bug I thought I'd ask and see if anyone here has got sound working on Fedora-13 using an Intel ICH10 chipset. When I'd installed Fedora-12 on it last time I remember having to go through some grief in getting PulseAudio working with it, but once I followed the instructions onlin

Re: Why is Dolphin in Lost and Found ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 23:54 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:10 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I use Dolphin a lot and thus I had an icon for it installed in my lower > > panel on my KDE desktop. > > > > One day after doing an update my Dolphin icon disappeared. When I

Re: Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 23:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:22 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I've had boot problems for months and I'm trying to figure out if its > > the hard drive or a kernel problem. > > > > I just upgraded to F13. I've been running F12 since it ca

Re: Why is Dolphin in Lost and Found ?

2010-06-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:10 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I use Dolphin a lot and thus I had an icon for it installed in my lower > panel on my KDE desktop. > > One day after doing an update my Dolphin icon disappeared. When I went > searching for the Dolphin application in the application launche

Re: Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:22 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I've had boot problems for months and I'm trying to figure out if its > the hard drive or a kernel problem. > > I just upgraded to F13. I've been running F12 since it came out. > > Back in January, 2010 I began experiencing boot problems.

Re: How is (k)networkmanager supposed to work these days ?

2010-06-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:04 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Last night I upgraded from F12 to F13. Everything went fine except > when I booted I was without wifi functionality. I got everything > working but I don't have an icon in my system tray anymore. 1) yum install knetworkmanager 2) select k

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Joel Rees writes: > >> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:08:09 -0400 >> Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> >>> I've never understood the appeal of preupgrade. >> >> It "feels" like it knows more about what's going on than the netinstall >> CD, for instance. B

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:08:09 -0400 > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Joel Rees writes: >> [...] > Text mode may not have been a good idea, although it seemed necessary with > the CD. > > (At the boot prompt for the CD, typed "linux text", for the

Re: Why is Dolphin in Lost and Found ?

2010-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I use Dolphin a lot and thus I had an icon for it installed in my lower > panel on my KDE desktop. > > One day after doing an update my Dolphin icon disappeared.   When I went > searching for the Dolphin application in the application launcher

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jarmo
Darlene Wallach kirjoitti torstai, 10. kesäkuuta 2010 22:10:19: > How did you get the mic to work? > > I still have Fedora 10 on my laptop > > $ yum list skype* > Installed Packages > skype.i586 2.1.0.81-fc10 > @skype skype.i586

Re: GNOME is slow after preupgrade

2010-06-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/11/2010 09:06 AM, W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote: > Hi all, > > My laptop is acer aspire 4736Z > > I did a preupgrade from F12 to F13 recently. After that I notice a > significant delay of GNOME from the point I login and to the point > where it completes loading the desktop. Now (in F13) it takes a

GNOME is slow after preupgrade

2010-06-10 Thread W.H. Kalpa Pathum
Hi all, My laptop is acer aspire 4736Z I did a preupgrade from F12 to F13 recently. After that I notice a significant delay of GNOME from the point I login and to the point where it completes loading the desktop. Now (in F13) it takes about a minute to the process whereas earlier it showed the de

Re: Pulseaudio being Muted after each Reboot

2010-06-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/11/2010 01:02 AM, Jim wrote: > FC13/KDE > > After I reboot computer I have no Audio. > > I have to go to Pulseaudio Control and unmute the Output Devices. > > Why is it being muted after each reboot ? > Probably an ALSA bug. Please file a bug report with more details on your hardware.

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jarmo
jack craig kirjoitti torstai, 10. kesäkuuta 2010 23:25:03: > > one thing that bit me was previous installs. a ~/.skype directory didnt > get cleaned upon removal. > > you might try, ... > > 1. remove skype > 2. cd ~ (your home dir) > 3. mv .skype .skype.old > 4. reinstall skype and retest...

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jarmo
stan kirjoitti torstai, 10. kesäkuuta 2010 22:49:41: > You can install the pulseaudio volume control (pavuctl?). In that > control you can disable one of the devices in the configuration tab and > then alsa has it. > Gnome: Applications -> Sound and Video -> Mixers -> pulse audio volume > cont

Bad hard drive or bad kernels ???

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
I've had boot problems for months and I'm trying to figure out if its the hard drive or a kernel problem. I just upgraded to F13. I've been running F12 since it came out. Back in January, 2010 I began experiencing boot problems. When I boot, grub will always run reliably but about 2/3rds of the

Why is Dolphin in Lost and Found ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
I use Dolphin a lot and thus I had an icon for it installed in my lower panel on my KDE desktop. One day after doing an update my Dolphin icon disappeared. When I went searching for the Dolphin application in the application launcher I couldn't find the Dolphin app in Utilities anymore. But I d

How is (k)networkmanager supposed to work these days ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
I set up networking with network manager on my laptop back in F11. Or was it F10 ? Not sure. Everything has worked fine since then. I had an icon in my system tray that showed me signal strength and I could click to select various APs, connect, etc. I accomplished this using the NetworkManager

Re: Can't change boot order in BIOS

2010-06-10 Thread g
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was trying unsuccessfully to install Fedora-13 on a rather old > Has anyone else met this problem? yes. easy solutions was to upgrade bios. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 17:10 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > > for SSDs ? > > There's a few "SSD specific" file systems, but you won't gain much in > everyday computing from switching. ext4 will be

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 15:08 -0700, jack craig wrote: > On 06/10/2010 02:55 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > > >> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> > >>> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under

Re: Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10Jun2010 13:51, James Wellnitz wrote: | Something like this will basically do the "increment target link" part | (making some big assumptions, doing no error checking, not handling | wrap-around, etc.): | | cur_link=$(readlink target | sed -e "s#./##") | cur_number=${cur_link%% *} | cur_numbe

Re: Bash issues on reinstall

2010-06-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Bob Kinney wrote: >> >> >> BTW, my /etc/skel is empty. >> > > Bob: > > Empty or hidden? Try: > > ls -al /etc/skel/ > On freshly installed f13 systems there are a number of hidden directories that are empty. ls -

Re: Bash issues on reinstall

2010-06-10 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Bob Kinney wrote: > > > BTW, my /etc/skel is empty. > Bob: Empty or hidden? Try: ls -al /etc/skel/ -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu June 10 2010, Germán "A. Racca" wrote: > > What happens if you first uninstall the fc10 versions > > compat-db45-4.5.20-5.fc10.x86_64 > compat-db46-4.6.21-5.fc10.x86_64 > > and then install compat-db-4.7.25-2.fc13.x86_64 again? Maybe yum will > push the correct dependencies. > Thanks. Lo

Re: Bash issues on reinstall

2010-06-10 Thread Bob Kinney
--- On Wed, 6/9/10, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > From: Roberto Ragusa > Subject: Re: Bash issues on reinstall > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 11:44 AM > Bob Kinney wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how to avoid this issue?  I > don't think I'm doing > > a

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dale J. Chatham wrote: > I had not thought of that. > > However, the purpose of this exercise is that I need to VPN into a > client site. I don't want the VPN to wipe out routing and network info > on the host, so I thought I'd install a vm and let VPN cripple the > network on it. Thus, I don

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jamie Bohr wrote: > My initial question was geared toward getting generic advice and if > someone else was successful getting FC13 installed as a KVM VM. > > Trying to install FC13 x64 as a VM on a FC12 (AMD) server with a running > kernel of 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 and KVM version > qemu-kvm

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jack craig
On 06/10/2010 12:08 PM, jarmo wrote: > 2. > > That's the version, what does not work for me... It didn't work in > fc12 either. I have two cards, intel-hda and ens-1370 and with > pulseaudio it is impossiple to set? skype to use one and then use > another card just for listening music. This p

Re: Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word, >> and returns the paragraphs in which it appears (rather than the lines), >> where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines. > If by "looking for" you mean finding a script which does y

Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under Linux ? I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem for SSDs ? Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as switching ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Can't change boot order in BIOS

2010-06-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
I was trying unsuccessfully to install Fedora-13 on a rather old (maybe 11 years) machine with an Asus P2B-LS motherboard, using pxeboot (which worked on several other machines), and I found after some time that changing the boot order in the BIOS had no effect. Whatever order I chose the machine b

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 June 2010, Mike McCarty wrote: >Timothy Murphy wrote: > >[...] > >> Do floppy disks still exist? > >Yes, I've got several hundred. > And I have at least 2,000 or more, mostly 5.25" formatted for os9 (no not the mac os9, the trs-80 Color Computer version.) >> Are computers with flop

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread jack craig
On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > Linux ? > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > for SSDs ? > > Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as switching ? > > Thanks >

Re: Can't change boot order in BIOS

2010-06-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was trying unsuccessfully to install Fedora-13 > on a rather old (maybe 11 years) machine > with an Asus P2B-LS motherboard, using pxeboot > (which worked on several other machines), > and I found after some time that changing the boot ord

Pulseaudio being Muted after each Reboot

2010-06-10 Thread Jim
FC13/KDE After I reboot computer I have no Audio. I have to go to Pulseaudio Control and unmute the Output Devices. Why is it being muted after each reboot ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jarmo
Paolo Galtieri kirjoitti torstai, 10. kesäkuuta 2010 21:58:02: > > You can find version skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586 on the skype web site. As > far as I know this is the latest skype for fedora and works fine on > F12. That's the version, what does not work for me... It didn't work in fc12 eithe

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joel Rees writes: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:08:09 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: I've never understood the appeal of preupgrade. It "feels" like it knows more about what's going on than the netinstall CD, for instance. But that's because a lot of the work is being done by a fully functioning sys

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/10/2010 03:56 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:50 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under >>> Linux ? >>> >>> I'm using ext4 for that drive right now

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Timothy Murphy writes: I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide to setup a pxeboot server, and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt . (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seems to b

Re: Re: Help required

2010-06-10 Thread kalinix
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 00:21 +0530, Pallav Jain wrote: > thx tim, your method is too good for securing the data. but i have som > doubts which are as follows: > > as you mentioned, i did, but frankly speaking, i am new user, so > facing much problem. the issues are as follows: > > 1. i edited the

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread stan
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:08:24 +0300 jarmo wrote: > > fc12 either. I have two cards, intel-hda and ens-1370 and with > pulseaudio it is impossiple to set? skype to use one and then use > another card just for listening music. This pulse* has made my > audio use quite limited... You can inst

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jarmo
Jerry Feldman kirjoitti torstai, 10. kesäkuuta 2010 22:00:24: > I have not used skype recently, but the Linux rpm is ancient. You might > try installing easylife (http://www.easylifeproject.org/) and use it as > a tool to help you install skype. The last time I used it was really a > pain to ins

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > > Linux ? > > > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > > for SSDs ? > > > > Is there

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Darlene Wallach
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On 06/10/2010 11:40 AM, jarmo wrote: >> Hi >> Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 >> ? >> That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, >> and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all

RE: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Tim Van Dyne
>>On 06/10/2010 02:40 PM, jarmo wrote: >> Hi >> Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 >> ? >> That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, >> and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all ok, but using mic is >> no way. >> So any help? >> >

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:50 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > > Linux ? > > > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > > for SSDs ? > > > > Is

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > Linux ? > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > for SSDs ? > > Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as switching ? > > Thanks >

firefox bookmarks really slow?

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
I have always run with the bookmarks shown in the sidebar in firefox. I have started noticing an annoying delay when I click on one of them. If I make a web page with the same links and click in the web page, I get instant response. If I click on a bookmark in the sidebar, I get a second or so dela

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread jack craig
On 06/10/2010 02:55 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, jack craig wrote: > >> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under >>> Linux ? >>> >>> I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 06/10/2010 02:56 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:50 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under >>> Linux ? >>> >>> I'm using ext4 for that drive right no

Re: sshd get path to authorized_keys file wrong

2010-06-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Barry Scott wrote: > We are seeing an sshd_config that used to work on f12 failing on f13. > > When doing ssh r...@host: > Jun 10 11:34:32 f12barry sshd[23030]: Failed publickey for root from > 192.168.7.232 port 39169 ssh2 > > Notice the public key file is //.ssh

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > for SSDs ? There's a few "SSD specific" file systems, but you won't gain much in everyday computing from switching. ext4 will be just fine. > > Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as swit

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Konstantin Svist wrote: > * align the FS properly (this'll be the biggest PITA to figure out > whether it's done correctly, seek help from google). Latest firmware on > Intel SSDs claims to not need this, but I'd do it just in case. Don't need to do it, period. > * enable noatime,nodiratime in /e

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Timothy Murphy wrote: [...] > Do floppy disks still exist? Yes, I've got several hundred. > Are computers with floppy drives still being made? Yes. Recently I bought one which didn't have a floppy drive, and I put one in. > It seems to me that as an absolute minimum > any documentation mentio

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 22:29 +0300, jarmo wrote: > I can install skype, but this newest version of it with my hw and > pulseaudio makes life unconfortable. You might try running it under "padsp" while pulseaudio is installed and running. You will need the pulseaudio-utils package to get padsp. P

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/10/2010 02:40 PM, jarmo wrote: > Hi > Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 > ? > That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, > and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all ok, but using mic is > no way. > So any help? > > Jarmo >

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/10/2010 11:40 AM, jarmo wrote: > Hi > Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 > ? > That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, > and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all ok, but using mic is > no way. > So any help? > > Jarmo > Yo

Re: Re: Help required

2010-06-10 Thread Pallav Jain
thx tim, your method is too good for securing the data. but i have som doubts which are as follows: as you mentioned, i did, but frankly speaking, i am new user, so facing much problem. the issues are as follows: 1. i edited the grub.conf file, by adding in it the line: password --md5 $xxx/ jus

Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jarmo
Hi Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 ? That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all ok, but using mic is no way. So any help? Jarmo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Jamie Bohr
Thank you for letting me know, I will track down any error messages and resubmit to the list. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:56:13 -0600 > Jamie Bohr wrote: > > > Has anyone successfully installed FC13 (or FC12) as a VM on KVM server? > If > > so

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:37:31 -0500 Dale J. Chatham wrote: > Thus, I don't think VNC is going to work for me unless > I'm happy with the display packets going halfway across the US and back > to get from the virtual machine to the host machine. The native console uses VNC as well, but has a some

Re: missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread A. Racca
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 09:19 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > Trying to keep my newly installed (update from F12) system updated and I > keep running up against an unresolved dependency in compat-db.x86_64 > 0:4.7.25-2.fc13. Anyone know when this will be resolved? > > The specific error I'm getting i

Re: missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread A. Racca
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 09:19 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > Trying to keep my newly installed (update from F12) system updated and I > keep running up against an unresolved dependency in compat-db.x86_64 > 0:4.7.25-2.fc13. Anyone know when this will be resolved? > > The specific error I'm getting i

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread James Wellnitz
Something like this will basically do the "increment target link" part (making some big assumptions, doing no error checking, not handling wrap-around, etc.): cur_link=$(readlink target | sed -e "s#./##") cur_number=${cur_link%% *} cur_number=${cur_number#0} let new_number=cur_number+1 new_number=

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I had not thought of that. However, the purpose of this exercise is that I need to VPN into a client site. I don't want the VPN to wipe out routing and network info on the host, so I thought I'd install a vm and let VPN cripple the network on it. Thus, I don't think VNC is going to work for m

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:50:31 -0500 Dale J. Chatham wrote: > I'm finding KVM VMs desktop painfully jerky. It's bad enough at > 800x600, but at 1600 x 1100 (or whatever the res is) as all but > unusable. I never use the emulated video console at all once I have the machine installed. If I need a

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I'm finding KVM VMs desktop painfully jerky. It's bad enough at 800x600, but at 1600 x 1100 (or whatever the res is) as all but unusable. When I ran vmware the performance was quite good. Are there any obvious gotchas, is there a better pick than KVM or should I just go back to vmware server?

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:56:13 -0600 Jamie Bohr wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed FC13 (or FC12) as a VM on KVM server? If > so, was there something special you did to make it work? I've installed fedora versions as KVMs from f8 through f13 without any problems using the DVD iso images as

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Just to nail the point home, if you have spaces in the name, you must put quotes around the name of the variable containing the name. Or: FILE="a b c.txt" cat "$FILE" cat "a b c.txt" If it has things like "?", "*", or others, Danger Will Robinson!! On 06/10/2010 11:14 AM, Roberto Ragusa wro

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Hi folks! :-) > > This is the story: I have a directory full of files named as: > > 01 Some file > 02 Some other file > 03 & yet another file > 04 etc... > > There is also a symbolic link called "target" pointing to one of them. > The numbers at the beginning of file nam

Re: F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Will do. However, I started FF with a new session, tossing the old one and the problem has not repeated. When it was crashing, I could run FF for 2 - 3 minutes before it locked the system. The system was totally unresponsive. No mouse cursor movement, Ctl-Alt-F2, etc., did not work. Ctl-Alt

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> It seems to me that as an absolute minimum >> any documentation mentioning floppy drives >> should at least explain how CDs can be used to the same end. >> > Should we read this as "I am starting a crusade to research the proper

Re: F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Frank Murphy
On 10/06/10 16:56, Dale J. Chatham wrote: > The first time this happened with FC13 was last night. Now it happens > every time, shortly after I open T-bird. > > I am using FC13 with FF 3.6.3. > Try opening it from a cli, to see what if any info shows up. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encode

Re: F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
The first time this happened with FC13 was last night. Now it happens every time, shortly after I open T-bird. I am using FC13 with FF 3.6.3. Please expand On 06/10/2010 10:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:37:25 -0500 "Dale J. Chatham" > wrote: > > >> I susppect recent

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Jamie Bohr
My initial question was geared toward getting generic advice and if someone else was successful getting FC13 installed as a KVM VM. Trying to install FC13 x64 as a VM on a FC12 (AMD) server with a running kernel of 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 and KVM version qemu-kvm-0.11.0-13.fc12.x86_64. The inst

Re: F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:37:25 -0500 "Dale J. Chatham" wrote: > I susppect recent updates. > > It appears that Java/nsplugins/Firefox is causing the system to hang in F13. > > Has anyone else seen this behavior recently? All the time in F12 (FF3.5.9). Do not know about F13 which has FF3.6.?. Ra

F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I susppect recent updates. It appears that Java/nsplugins/Firefox is causing the system to hang in F13. Has anyone else seen this behavior recently? -- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." --Thomas Jefferso

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:46 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Surely virtually everyone nowadays has enough room on their disks > for a spare partition to be reserved for a new Fedora version? This requires thinking of this in advance. I think most people have existing partitions that fill their ent

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/10/2010 08:32 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Hi folks! :-) > > This is the story: I have a directory full of files named as: > > 01 Some file > 02 Some other file > 03& yet another file > 04 etc... > > There is also a symbolic link called "target" pointing to one of them. > The numbers at the

Re: missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:19:49 -0400, John wrote: > Trying to keep my newly installed (update from F12) system updated and I > keep running up against an unresolved dependency in compat-db.x86_64 > 0:4.7.25-2.fc13. Anyone know when this will be resolved? > > The specific error I'm getting is as f

[OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Marko Vojinovic
Hi folks! :-) This is the story: I have a directory full of files named as: 01 Some file 02 Some other file 03 & yet another file 04 etc... There is also a symbolic link called "target" pointing to one of them. The numbers at the beginning of file names are there so that there is some specific o

Re: Help required

2010-06-10 Thread stan
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:21:59 +0530 Pallav Jain wrote: > ## password ['--md5'] passwd > # If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all > # interactive editing > # control (menu entry editor and command-line) > # and entries protected by the > # command 'lock' > > which was not there

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu June 10 2010, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > HI > > I have FC12 and am thinking of going to FC13. > > Will I have the same options? > > I was thinking FC13 would overlay FC12 making it FC13... Is that not > going to happen.?? With the same partitions.. > > FC 12 is ONLY thing on drive.. > No,

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:08:09 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Joel Rees writes: > > > Ran for ten or twenty minutes and finished with no output. > > > > No news is good news in this case? Or bad? > > Correct. That's good news. > > >> Weed those > >> out. For what's left, run rpm -q again to g

Re: gscan2pdf won't save files [SOLVED]

2010-06-10 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/10/2010 08:22 AM, kalinix wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 08:04 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> I just fired up gscan2pdf and it says "missing libtiff, unable to save". >> >> [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep tiff >> libtiff-3.9.2-3.fc13.i686 >> [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep gscan

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide > to setup a pxeboot server, > and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation > in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt . > (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seem

Re: Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word, and returns the paragraphs in which it appears (rather than the lines), where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines. All suggestions gratefully received. It would be relatively easy t

Re: missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread Frank Murphy
On 10/06/10 14:19, John Aldrich wrote: > Trying to keep my newly installed (update from F12) system updated and I > keep running up against an unresolved dependency in compat-db.x86_64 > 0:4.7.25-2.fc13. Anyone know when this will be resolved? > --snip-- > >>From the looks of things, it appears

Re: gscan2pdf won't save files

2010-06-10 Thread kalinix
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 08:04 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > I just fired up gscan2pdf and it says "missing libtiff, unable to save". > > [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep tiff > libtiff-3.9.2-3.fc13.i686 > [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep gscan > gscan2pdf-0.9.30-3.fc13.noarch > > > S

missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
Trying to keep my newly installed (update from F12) system updated and I keep running up against an unresolved dependency in compat-db.x86_64 0:4.7.25-2.fc13. Anyone know when this will be resolved? The specific error I'm getting is as follows: Error: Package: compat-db-4.7.25-2.fc13.x86_64 (fed

Re: Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-10 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:36:07PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word, > and returns the paragraphs in which it appears (rather than the lines), > where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines. perl -ne 'BEGIN { $/=

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
vijay bhide wrote: > I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my existing > Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start upgrade.I reached > a stage where 4installation options were offered.One was to remove completely > existing installations ,second was r

gscan2pdf won't save files

2010-06-10 Thread Steven Stern
I just fired up gscan2pdf and it says "missing libtiff, unable to save". [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep tiff libtiff-3.9.2-3.fc13.i686 [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep gscan gscan2pdf-0.9.30-3.fc13.noarch SAVE is grayed out in the menu, but EMAIL AS PDF is there and it does, in f

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jamie Bohr wrote: > I have an FC12 device running KVM and would like to install FC13 as a > VM. I am having lot of problems from the installer failing when > packages start to install to nearly all the way through package > installation. I have disabled "ACPI" and added "acpi=off" to the > in

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