/etc/passwd and shadow was blank

2011-04-06 Thread Rod James Bio
Hello new fedora user here, long time Linux(debian/ubuntu & centos) user though. I experienced a problem with one of our server with Fedora 9(I know its old but the developer insisted this version). 3 days ago the dev team was suddenly disconnected when they were uploading files. I was called

KVM error

2011-04-06 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, I want to use KVM hypervisor to setup virtual machines. The installation seems to be ok, the modules are well loaded and libvirtd is running. But when I want to install my virtual machine, I have a crash described in 'messages' : vmwrite error: reg c08 value 0 (err 0) Call Trace: kernel:

Re: Hardware for learning graphics.

2011-04-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/07/2011 01:19 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/06/2011 10:05 PM, Unknown wrote: >> It is too difficult to use Nvidia graphics with Fedora and I do not >> reccomend it. > There, at least, I have to differ. If you use the guides at the Fedora > Forum or install fedoraplus (I've given pointers to b

Re: Hardware for learning graphics.

2011-04-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/06/2011 10:05 PM, Unknown wrote: > It is too difficult to use Nvidia graphics with Fedora and I do not > reccomend it. There, at least, I have to differ. If you use the guides at the Fedora Forum or install fedoraplus (I've given pointers to both, recently, but will be happy to do so agai

Re: Hardware for learning graphics.

2011-04-06 Thread Marvin Kosmal
On 4/6/11, Unknown wrote: > On 04/07/2011 02:31:27 PM, Phatsakone Chanhchom wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am planning to buy computer hardwares and assemble them by myself, >> with installing 64-bit Fedora OS. >> >> My purpose is to learn using gimp, inkscape, blender, scribus etc. >> kinda multimedias st

Hardware for learning graphics.

2011-04-06 Thread Unknown
On 04/07/2011 02:31:27 PM, Phatsakone Chanhchom wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to buy computer hardwares and assemble them by myself, > with installing 64-bit Fedora OS. > > My purpose is to learn using gimp, inkscape, blender, scribus etc. > kinda multimedias stuff. > > Can you tell me both

Re: F14 - No audio

2011-04-06 Thread JD
On 04/06/2011 09:50 PM, Brendan Jones wrote: > On 07/04/11 14:01, JD wrote: >> $ pulseaudio --start >> E: main.c: Daemon startup failed. >> >> That's it? No clear reason given? >> How can I fix it?? >> What's missing? >> >> $ lsmod | grep snd >> snd_intel8x0 22695 0 >> snd_intel8x0m

Re: F14 - No audio

2011-04-06 Thread Brendan Jones
On 07/04/11 14:01, JD wrote: > $ pulseaudio --start > E: main.c: Daemon startup failed. > > That's it? No clear reason given? > How can I fix it?? > What's missing? > > $ lsmod | grep snd > snd_intel8x0 22695 0 > snd_intel8x0m 9544 0 > snd_ac97_codec 87363 2 snd_intel

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2011-04-06 Thread Phatsakone Chanhchom
Hi, I am planning to buy computer hardwares and assemble them by myself, with installing 64-bit Fedora OS. My purpose is to learn using gimp, inkscape, blender, scribus etc. kinda multimedias stuff. Can you tell me both minimal and maximal hardware specifications (system requirements) that

F14 - No audio

2011-04-06 Thread JD
$ pulseaudio --start E: main.c: Daemon startup failed. That's it? No clear reason given? How can I fix it?? What's missing? $ lsmod | grep snd snd_intel8x0 22695 0 snd_intel8x0m 9544 0 snd_ac97_codec 87363 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m ac97_bus 770 1

F14 yum update conflict

2011-04-06 Thread JD
# rpm -e libmad0-0.15.1b-4.fc14.i686 error: Failed dependencies: libmad.so.0 is needed by (installed) xine-lib-1.1.19-22.1.fc14.i686 libmad.so.0 is needed by (installed) mplayer-4:1.0-81_snap20110324.fc14.i686 libmad.so.0 is needed by (installed) vlc-1.1.8-68.1.fc14.i686 libmad

Re: unable to build qgit v2.3 from source on fedora 13 - solved

2011-04-06 Thread Jim Cromie
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Jim Cromie wrote: >> qmake is part of qt3 - is this why it breaks with qt4 ??? > > I'm not a Qt expert, but you may need to use "qmake-qt4" instead. > doh yes. -ETOORUSHED I tried qmake4, didnt think to check for other spellings thank

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 06 April 2011 20:49:20 Walter Cazzola wrote: > Unfortunately some bad written packages (such as R) rely > on the presence of a tex-based rpm this is what my hack solves. The packages are well written, since they depend on latex the rpm package should require the equivalent rpm packag

Re: My "swap" space seems to have vanished....

2011-04-06 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:24 PM, DB wrote: > On 03/18/2011 04:42 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: >> Subject: >> Re: My "swap" space seems to have vanished >> From: >> "Michael D. Setzer II" >> Date: >> Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:42:33 +1000 >> >> To: >> Martin Airs , users@lists.fed

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread JD
On 04/06/2011 03:21 PM, John Mellor wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 10:31 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 07:20:40 PM compdoc wrote: >>> So what you're saying is, while the M-Audio 1010 is working the ps/2 stuff >>> fails, and when the M-Audio 1010 has stopped working due to >

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread John Mellor
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 10:31 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 07:20:40 PM compdoc wrote: > > So what you're saying is, while the M-Audio 1010 is working the ps/2 stuff > > fails, and when the M-Audio 1010 has stopped working due to > > suspend/hibernate the PS/2 stuff works fine

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread Ken Smith
Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/06/2011 11:57 AM, James Wilkinson wrote: > >> Stupid debugging idea 1: does it make any difference if you power-up >> with the PS/2 mouse unplugged and the USB mouse plugged in? If you could >> borrow a USB keyboard, you could try a similar trick with that. >> >

Re: unable to build qgit v2.3 from source on fedora 13

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jim Cromie wrote: > qmake is part of qt3 - is this why it breaks with qt4 ??? I'm not a Qt expert, but you may need to use "qmake-qt4" instead. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/user

Strange problem booting a current release mainline kernel under F14

2011-04-06 Thread JD
Hi All, I have uograded to F14 and all was well. Because I was tracking a bug I had reported to bugzilla.kernel.org, I was advised to see if I could replicate it in 2.6.38.2. Well, I built that kernel and booted and was not able to replicate the bug, so I assumed it was fixed in in 2.6.38.2. So, I

Re: CPU utilization

2011-04-06 Thread aragonx
> Hi, > > to answer to both : > > * I 'm not using Fedora but RHEL 5, and no package is available > including atop or htop > * Like a server, it runs under level 3 not 5, so I need a command > line tool Hi, atop works from the command line.  I believe you can find a packag

unable to build qgit v2.3 from source on fedora 13

2011-04-06 Thread Jim Cromie
I just grabbed qgit4 v2.3 from sourceforge, but I cannot build it. [jimc@groucho qgit]$ date Wed Apr 6 14:35:08 MDT 2011 [jimc@groucho qgit]$ qmake [jimc@groucho qgit]$ ll total 52 -rw-r--r--. 1 jimc jimc 12394 Dec 21 2007 exception_manager.txt -rw-rw-r--. 1 jimc jimc 1540 Apr 6 14:35 Makefile

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/06/2011 03:56 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: > uhm, this sounds really strange since it is complaining on a rm > statement and I suppose you have rm in your system. > > In my view two things could be wrong: > 1. I'm using tcsh as a shell and maybe something differ when you use > bash > 2. d

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread Walter Cazzola
uhm, this sounds really strange since it is complaining on a rm statement and I suppose you have rm in your system. In my view two things could be wrong: 1. I'm using tcsh as a shell and maybe something differ when you use bash 2. did you install the rpmdevtools and prepared the rpmbuild di

RE: The list

2011-04-06 Thread mattias
Answer to my own mail no -Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of mattias Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 9:51 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: The list Have the list get a subject tag? -- us

The list

2011-04-06 Thread mattias
Have the list get a subject tag? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: [Fedora] Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:39:00 +0200 (CEST) > Walter Cazzola wrote: > >> Dear Fedora Experts, >> after a little work-out and a big help from people in comp.text.te >> and others on this group I solved the issue and wrote down a rpm spec >> for a fake texliv

Re: BCRYPT - Why not using it?

2011-04-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, johhny_at_poland77 said: > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10326/does-openbsd-use-bcrypt-by-default > > Why doesn't every modern Linux Distribution use BCRYPT? You can if you want; the support is there (at least in Fedora). Fedora defaults to iterated-SHA512 (with stro

Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/06/2011 01:14 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 04/06/2011 12:39 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: >> Dear Fedora Experts, after a little work-out and a big help from people >> in comp.text.te and >> others on this group I solved the issue and wrote down a rpm spec for a Tried to build have a pro

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/06/2011 11:57 AM, James Wilkinson wrote: > Stupid debugging idea 1: does it make any difference if you power-up > with the PS/2 mouse unplugged and the USB mouse plugged in? If you could > borrow a USB keyboard, you could try a similar trick with that. Not stupid at all. In fact, I'll go fa

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread James Wilkinson
Ken Smith wrote: > I've seem problems like this reported in various forums. I have a i7 > Asus MB system with FC13 x64 and I'm using a PS2 keyboard and mouse. > They are old but they work well. > > After the machine has been running for around 10-15 mins all input from > the keyboard and mouse

Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:39:00 +0200 (CEST) Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Fedora Experts, > after a little work-out and a big help from people in comp.text.te > and others on this group I solved the issue and wrote down a rpm spec > for a fake texlive rpm that fools the yum system. > > Since I thin

Re: BCRYPT - Why not using it?

2011-04-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/06/2011 11:42 AM, johhny_at_poland77 wrote: > Why doesn't every modern Linux Distribution use BCRYPT? Probably for the same reason they don't all use SELinux: not everybody sees the need. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

BCRYPT - Why not using it?

2011-04-06 Thread johhny_at_poland77
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10326/does-openbsd-use-bcrypt-by-default Why doesn't every modern Linux Distribution use BCRYPT? http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bcrypt WHY -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-04-06 Thread les
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 20:11 +0930, Tim wrote: > Lamar Owen: > >> Lots of DVD drives use the Z80 and the successor chips > > Tom Horsley: > > That must explain why it takes 'em 10 minutes to figure > > out what kind of disk you just put in the drive :-). > > LOL! I've never really understood why

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread Ken Smith
Ken Smith wrote: > compdoc wrote: > >>> The problem is that I have some other hardware that does not work all >>> that well after suspend/hibernate and so I can have either that hardware >>> (M-Audio 1010) working and the mouse at risk of failing or the 1010 not >>> working. >>> >>> >

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/06/2011 10:28 AM, Ken Smith wrote: > Its Heisenberg's Uncertainty > Principle at work. Yes, and there's a name for it: Heisenbug. See http://foldoc.org/heisenbug for details. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://adm

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread Ken Smith
compdoc wrote: >> The problem is that I have some other hardware that does not work all >> that well after suspend/hibernate and so I can have either that hardware >> (M-Audio 1010) working and the mouse at risk of failing or the 1010 not >> working. >> > > So what you're saying is, while the

Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/06/2011 12:39 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Fedora Experts, after a little work-out and a big help from people > in comp.text.te and > others on this group I solved the issue and wrote down a rpm spec for a > fake texlive rpm that fools the yum system. > > Since I think this is can help

Re: native texlive and yum

2011-04-06 Thread Walter Cazzola
Dear Fedora Experts, after a little work-out and a big help from people in comp.text.te and others on this group I solved the issue and wrote down a rpm spec for a fake texlive rpm that fools the yum system. Since I think this is can help someone else I'll attach to this message the .spec file

Re: FC13 PS2 Mouse/Keyboard stops working after a while

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 07:20:40 PM compdoc wrote: > So what you're saying is, while the M-Audio 1010 is working the ps/2 stuff > fails, and when the M-Audio 1010 has stopped working due to > suspend/hibernate the PS/2 stuff works fine. Coincidence? > > I find it odd that anything would interfe

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 02:29:04 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:06:03 -0400 > Lamar Owen wrote: > > Lots of DVD drives use the Z80 and the successor chips > That must explain why it takes 'em 10 minutes to figure > out what kind of disk you just put in the drive :-). Heh. Yours

Re: compile 32 bit on 64 bit machine

2011-04-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick Dupre writes: Hello, I am trying to compile a very simple application on a 64 bit machine which may run on a 32 bit machine. gcc -m32 ttt.c gives me an error: In file included from /usr/include/features.h:385, from /usr/include/stdio.h:28, from ttt.c:2

Re: Installing F14 from DVD hangs

2011-04-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 07:50 -0300, Burkhard Plache wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 19:29 -0300, Burkhard Plache wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > >> wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 15:49 -0300, Bur

Re: compile 32 bit on 64 bit machine

2011-04-06 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:01:13PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to compile a very simple application on a 64 bit machine > which may run on a 32 bit machine. > gcc -m32 ttt.c > > gives me an error: > In file included from /usr/include/features.h:385, > fro

compile 32 bit on 64 bit machine

2011-04-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am trying to compile a very simple application on a 64 bit machine which may run on a 32 bit machine. gcc -m32 ttt.c gives me an error: In file included from /usr/include/features.h:385, from /usr/include/stdio.h:28, from ttt.c:2: So, it seems that the

Re: Using hdparm to enable diabled features of a hard drive

2011-04-06 Thread Gordan Bobic
Apologies for necroposting, but I've been looking for a similar feature and the lack of it annoyed me sufficiently that I wrote a patch to add the required functionality to hdparm. Details here: http://www.altechnative.net/?p=140 Patch here: http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=327651

Re: Installing F14 from DVD hangs

2011-04-06 Thread Burkhard Plache
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 19:29 -0300, Burkhard Plache wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 15:49 -0300, Burkhard Plache wrote: >> >> After inserting the DVD, I get the menu: >>

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-04-06 Thread Tim
Lamar Owen: >> Lots of DVD drives use the Z80 and the successor chips Tom Horsley: > That must explain why it takes 'em 10 minutes to figure > out what kind of disk you just put in the drive :-). LOL! I've never really understood why computer hardware is handled so crapily. The computer can do

ecryptfs: Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING

2011-04-06 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, when I do: # mkdir secret $ sudo mount -t ecryptfs secret secret Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING; there is something wrong with your kernel keyring. Did you build key retention support into your kernel? $ lsmod | grep crypt ecryptfs

Re: Booting USB squashfs with CD

2011-04-06 Thread stefan riemens
I would try the "plop" boatloader. Its basically a bootable cd which can chainload to quite a few other devices. Stefan Op 6 apr. 2011 00:29 schreef "theblues gnr" het volgende: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Fedora on a MacBook but ran into a problem. Basically, the computer's CD drive is not