Timeout for service shutdown in legacy services

2011-06-04 Thread Leonid Podolny
Hi, When systemd tries to shutdown a service, after a certain timeout, it just kills all the processes belonging to this service. There is a configuration option that allows to change that timeout. However, it is available only for the new systemd formatI and not for the "legacy" (i.e. /etc/init.d/

Re: Email problem, evolution asking for unknow password

2011-06-04 Thread Pasha R
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Vincent wrote: > Hello, > I just switched to F15, I had every thing working OK then the log in on > boot up stop appearing, then when I try to log in to evolution the > message appeared: "Enter password to unlock your login keyring the login > keyring did not get un

tortoisehg-nautilus doesn't work at all on Fedora 15 gnome 3?

2011-06-04 Thread H Xu
Hello, I've installed tortoisehg-nautilus and found it doesn't work, then I reinstalled it, it still does not work. Does anyone know what's the problem? Thanks. Regards, H Xu 06/05/2011 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://a

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-04 Thread H Xu
On 06/05/2011 10:49 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/05/2011 07:46 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 06/04/2011 05:16 PM, H Xu wrote: >>> I didn't use PackageKit when I was using Fedora 14. Now it seems that I >>> can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling those packages. Is this >>> a package bug? T

Re: KDE Laggy in Fresh F15

2011-06-04 Thread Mark Eggers
On Sat, 28 May 2011 05:30:10 -0400, Kevin H. Hobbs wrote: > I just did a fresh install of Fedora 15 x86_64 with KDE. > > KDE is mostly unusable in Fedora 15 while it was fine in Fedora 14 (with > nvidia driver). > > The display seems to freeze for a few seconds every few seconds. > > Menus take

Re: Unable to microphone

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 19:50, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:49 PM, JD wrote: >> On F14. >> Pulseaudio daemion is running. >> I can hear media playing. >> But I am unable to use microphone. >> i,e. no matter what app I use the mic >> with, (as in skype, or gnome-sound-recorder >> or aure

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 19:28, David wrote: > On 5 June 2011 12:21, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 06/04/2011 10:15 PM, David wrote: >>> On 5 June 2011 12:07, JD wrote: On 06/04/11 19:02, David wrote: > On 5 June 2011 11:42, JDwrote: >> I think you can read the kernel source code as well >

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/05/2011 07:46 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/04/2011 05:16 PM, H Xu wrote: >> I didn't use PackageKit when I was using Fedora 14. Now it seems that I >> can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling those packages. Is this >> a package bug? Thanks. No. More software components now use Packag

Re: No Minimize Button

2011-06-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/04/2011 10:46 PM, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > > But the long and short of it is, if you want the buttons (and more) > back, just install gnome-tweak-tool and pick the right options to > re-enable them. > Or just switch to KDE or xfce or lxde .. all of which have the button with no fuss or m

Re: Unable to microphone

2011-06-04 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:49 PM, JD wrote: > On F14. > Pulseaudio daemion is running. > I can hear media playing. > But I am unable to use microphone. > i,e. no matter what app I use the mic > with, (as in skype, or  gnome-sound-recorder > or aurecord), my mic does not pick up my voice. > I have a

Re: No Minimize Button

2011-06-04 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Mike Flannigan wrote: > > I've installed Fedora 15 64 bit on my machine. > I am brand new to Fedora. > > I notice that all my windows have the "X" for closing > the window in the upper right, but no minimize or > restore button.  From my internet searching I suspec

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 19:15, David wrote: > On 5 June 2011 12:07, JD wrote: >> On 06/04/11 19:02, David wrote: >>> On 5 June 2011 11:42, JDwrote: I think you can read the kernel source code as well as anyone. So you have to do some homework :) >>> [david@kablamm partition]$ rpm -qf /sbin/mkfs.

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread David
On 5 June 2011 12:21, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/04/2011 10:15 PM, David wrote: >> On 5 June 2011 12:07, JD wrote: >>> On 06/04/11 19:02, David wrote: On 5 June 2011 11:42, JD  wrote: > I think you can read the kernel source code as well > as anyone. So you have to do some homewo

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/04/2011 10:15 PM, David wrote: > On 5 June 2011 12:07, JD wrote: >> On 06/04/11 19:02, David wrote: >>> On 5 June 2011 11:42, JD wrote: I think you can read the kernel source code as well as anyone. So you have to do some homework :) >>> [david@kablamm partition]$ rpm -qf /sbin/mk

No Minimize Button

2011-06-04 Thread Mike Flannigan
I've installed Fedora 15 64 bit on my machine. I am brand new to Fedora. I notice that all my windows have the "X" for closing the window in the upper right, but no minimize or restore button. From my internet searching I suspect this is very unusual. Has anybody heard of this or do you know ho

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread David
On 5 June 2011 12:15, David wrote: > > Partitioning is done by mkfs variants. Nothing to do with the kernel. s/Partitioning/Filesystem creation -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/user

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/04/2011 05:16 PM, H Xu wrote: > I didn't use PackageKit when I was using Fedora 14. Now it seems that I > can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling those packages. Is this > a package bug? Thanks. There are some packages that are listed as dependencies by a large number of others, som

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread David
On 5 June 2011 12:07, JD wrote: > On 06/04/11 19:02, David wrote: >> On 5 June 2011 11:42, JD  wrote: >>> I think you can read the kernel source code as well >>> as anyone. So you have to do some homework :) >> [david@kablamm partition]$ rpm -qf /sbin/mkfs.ext3 >> e2fsprogs-1.41.9-5.fc12.i686 >> >

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 19:02, David wrote: > On 5 June 2011 11:42, JD wrote: >> I think you can read the kernel source code as well >> as anyone. So you have to do some homework :) > [david@kablamm partition]$ rpm -qf /sbin/mkfs.ext3 > e2fsprogs-1.41.9-5.fc12.i686 > > kernel ? Well, you can peruse the latest

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread David
On 5 June 2011 11:42, JD wrote: > I think you can read the kernel source code as well > as anyone. So you have to do some homework :) [david@kablamm partition]$ rpm -qf /sbin/mkfs.ext3 e2fsprogs-1.41.9-5.fc12.i686 kernel ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or ch

Re: install.img missing from Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso

2011-06-04 Thread Mike Williams
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:53:57 -0400 > Mike Williams wrote: > >> Where can I get an install.img for fedora 15? > > It seems to be built into the initrd.img file now, > you can go back to doing installs with only the > iso file, vmlinux, and initrd.

Unable to microphone

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On F14. Pulseaudio daemion is running. I can hear media playing. But I am unable to use microphone. i,e. no matter what app I use the mic with, (as in skype, or gnome-sound-recorder or aurecord), my mic does not pick up my voice. I have a built-in and an external. Neither one is picking my voice.

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 18:18, David wrote: > On 5 June 2011 10:59, JD wrote: >> On 06/04/11 17:36, David wrote: >>> On 5 June 2011 10:19, Aaron Konstamwrote: It would be better if partition ends on a cylinder boundary but the system will still work. >>> I am curious about *how* specifically tha

F15 & Mediatomb

2011-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I had Mediatomb working under F13 & 14 with no issues, since upgrading to F15 I am unable to have Mediatomb be seen by the media players. My mediatomb.conf file is pretty simple - ## Network interface on which the server will run, you need to edit this! MT_INTERFACE="em1.2" ## User defined comma

Re: Vmware Workstation on Fedora 15

2011-06-04 Thread Michael Eager
On 06/04/2011 12:33 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: > > > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 09:19 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: >> Has anyone been able to install VM Workstation 6.5 on Fedora 15? >> >> -- >> Michael Eager ea...@eagercon.com >> 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 > > > FWIW,I hav

Re: Where is Open Office?

2011-06-04 Thread Mike Flannigan
On 6/4/2011 5:47 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Hi Mike, I assume you have installed Fedora 15. Since Fedora 15, Fedora has drop the OpenOffice suite in favor of LibreOffice (which is a fork of OpenOffice born after the acquisition of OpenOffice by Oracle). You can find the L

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread David
On 5 June 2011 10:59, JD wrote: > On 06/04/11 17:36, David wrote: >> On 5 June 2011 10:19, Aaron Konstam  wrote: >>> It would be better if partition ends on a cylinder boundary but the >>> system will still work. >> I am curious about *how* specifically that "it would be better". >> In what situat

Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop (sorry not the right thread just do not read the previous message and this one)

2011-06-04 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Adam Tong wrote: > > > > > - Original Message > From: Adam Tong > To: Community support for Fedora users > Sent: Sat, June 4, 2011 1:25:34 PM > Subject: Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop > > Hi, > > you are right. HEre the new output: > > - > # yum list ker

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 17:36, David wrote: > On 5 June 2011 10:19, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 12:50 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> Does this matter? >>> If so, what can you do about it? >>> I get it after partitioning with fdisk, >>> choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. >> It would be

Re: install.img missing from Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso

2011-06-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:53:57 -0400 Mike Williams wrote: > Where can I get an install.img for fedora 15? It seems to be built into the initrd.img file now, you can go back to doing installs with only the iso file, vmlinux, and initrd.img (the way it worked before they decided you had to have instal

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 17:19, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 12:50 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Does this matter? >> If so, what can you do about it? >> I get it after partitioning with fdisk, >> choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. >> >> Is it really better to give the block count? >> >> I

install.img missing from Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso

2011-06-04 Thread Mike Williams
Hi there.  I've been doing hard disk updates for quite a while and was able to do that with fedora 14 the same as for the last several releases, but for fedora 15 there is no install.img file in /images on the DVD.iso.  Here's what ls shows for the last two DVD iso images: Fedora-14-i386-DVD.iso

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread David
On 5 June 2011 10:19, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 12:50 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Does this matter? >> If so, what can you do about it? >> I get it after partitioning with fdisk, >> choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. > It would be better if partition ends on a cylinder

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 12:50 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Does this matter? > If so, what can you do about it? > I get it after partitioning with fdisk, > choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. > > Is it really better to give the block count? > > Incidentally, I notice that lshal takes a block a

Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-04 Thread H Xu
Hello, I didn't use PackageKit when I was using Fedora 14. Now it seems that I can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling those packages. Is this a package bug? Thanks. Regards, H Xu 06/05/2011 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread David
On 4 June 2011 21:50, Timothy Murphy wrote: [Partition does not end on cylinder boundary] > Does this matter? > If so, what can you do about it? > I get it after partitioning with fdisk, > choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. The message refers to an attempt to describe the end sector using an

Re: outdated Tor version in Fedora (missing security fixes)

2011-06-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/04/2011 02:50 PM, Enrico Scholz wrote: > for the other versions: there are simply no users who test the updates. > E.g. 0.2.1.29 was pushed to testing at 2011-01-22 and nobody tested it > for f13. Link to f13 update? > Footnotes: > [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tor-0.2.1.30-

Re: Fedora-15-i686-Live-XFCE.iso /dev/fb0 problem

2011-06-04 Thread Philip Rhoades
Kevin, On 2011-05-28 00:30, users-request@lists. Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Fri, 27 May 2011 23:46:43 +1000 Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > On my Gateway LT30 netbook, I am still getting similar problems to > the ones I got after the Beta and RCs XFCE Live CD version installs > to HD. > > Boo

Re: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. (GNOME 3 login issue)

2011-06-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/05/2011 02:33 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Rahul, > > I had reported this problem in another post on this list. There is > already a bug reported but I have not been able to get any responses. > My view is that this is going to be a major problem, at least it is for > me. If there is anythi

Re: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. (GNOME 3 login issue)

2011-06-04 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 05/27/2011 02:01 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: > I tried also loading nvidia proprietary module but it looks it doesn't > support latest X in Fedora 15. > > I'm willing to work with devels to track down bugs and make Fedora 15 > and GNOME Shell better but need some guidance Best thing f

Re: OpenOffice and Fedora

2011-06-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 16:36, Miroslaw Baran wrote: > that even a huge corporation like Oracle I´m not affiliated in any way with Oracle Corp. I´m a freelance journalist struggling to make ends meet. I was just a happy OpenOffice.org user and saw nothing wrong with Contributor Agreements by Sun

FC 13 will recognize DVD when inserted into drive

2011-06-04 Thread Ralph Blach
I have a FC 13 x86_64 system with a sata dvd+-rd drive. When I insert a cd drive, it is not recognized and mounted by system Below is the scsi. [2:0:0:0]diskAMCC 9650SE-4LP DISK 4.10 /dev/sda [3:0:0:0]cd/dvd ATAPIiHAS324 Y BL1W /dev/sr0 [6:0:0:0]diskATA

Re: Where is Open Office?

2011-06-04 Thread sguazt
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Mike Flannigan wrote: > > I'm a new Fedora user. > > I understand Open Office is part of the core > distribution, but I can't find it.  In Add/ > Remove programs "Office/Productivity" is checked, > but only Evolution is in my Office Applications. > How can I start

Where is Open Office?

2011-06-04 Thread Mike Flannigan
I'm a new Fedora user. I understand Open Office is part of the core distribution, but I can't find it. In Add/ Remove programs "Office/Productivity" is checked, but only Evolution is in my Office Applications. How can I start Open Office? Mike Flannigan I get the digest version of the list.

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 10:00 -0700, JD wrote: > On 06/04/11 09:54, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:02:48 -0700 > > JD wrote: > > > >> What tool did you use to create the partition in the first place. > >> I thought that fdisk, sfdisk and gparted always round up (or down) > >> to end

Re: OpenOffice and Fedora

2011-06-04 Thread Miroslaw Baran
On 4 June 2011 20:11, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:07, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Clearly this is a developing story, I just wanted to make the point that > > having two projects may thin the resources and reduce the progress of > > either. I'd like to believe that won't happ

Re: Vmware Workstation on Fedora 15

2011-06-04 Thread Mark C. Allman
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 09:19 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > Has anyone been able to install VM Workstation 6.5 on Fedora 15? > > -- > Michael Eager ea...@eagercon.com > 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 FWIW,I have VMware 7.1.4 build-385536 running. No issues. $ uname -r

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15

2011-06-04 Thread Javier Perez
Actually, that would be selinux=0, instead of enforcing=0 On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 20:16:09 +0100, NG wrote: > > > How to collect technical information when Fedora 15 fails to boot? > > To check whether your theory of SELinux problems could be

Re: CUPS service not starting after upgrade to F15

2011-06-04 Thread Javier Perez
Clyde: cupsd -f is supposed to hang :) Remember, cupsd is a daemon that usually sits in the background doing nothing until it is time to print. Anytime it wants to say something it either talks to the client, the printer or writes it on any of its three logs (access, error, page). When you start

Re: OpenOffice and Fedora

2011-06-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:07, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Clearly this is a developing story, I just wanted to make the point that > having two projects may thin the resources and reduce the progress of > either. I'd like to believe that won't happen, but I suspect it will. After all, the small group

Re: T-Bird won't open URL

2011-06-04 Thread john wendel
On 06/04/2011 11:57 AM, JD wrote: > On 06/04/11 11:07, john wendel wrote: >> I'm getting the following error when I click on a URL in Tbird. >> >> This is the 3.1.10 Tbird from F14 using Aurora browser (yeah I know, >> it's broken and I get to keep the pieces). >> >> Error: uncaught exception: [Exc

Re: T-Bird won't open URL

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 11:07, john wendel wrote: > I'm getting the following error when I click on a URL in Tbird. > > This is the 3.1.10 Tbird from F14 using Aurora browser (yeah I know, > it's broken and I get to keep the pieces). > > Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure > co

Re: flash reader/writer slot not detected by OS

2011-06-04 Thread Matias Kreder
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, JD wrote: > None of the Fedora installations I have had (since fc6) > have been able to detect the presence of the SD/SDHC > flash card reader/writer built-in my laptop. > lspci does not show it. > Needless to say, kernel is oblivious to any cards I insert > into th

Re: T-Bird won't open URL

2011-06-04 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/04/2011 01:07 PM, john wendel wrote: > > I'm getting the following error when I click on a URL in Tbird. > > This is the 3.1.10 Tbird from F14 using Aurora browser (yeah I know, > it's broken and I get to keep the pieces). > > Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failu

Email problem, evolution asking for unknow password

2011-06-04 Thread Vincent
Hello, I just switched to F15, I had every thing working OK then the log in on boot up stop appearing, then when I try to log in to evolution the message appeared: "Enter password to unlock your login keyring the login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into the computer" I entered the us

T-Bird won't open URL

2011-06-04 Thread john wendel
I'm getting the following error when I click on a URL in Tbird. This is the 3.1.10 Tbird from F14 using Aurora browser (yeah I know, it's broken and I get to keep the pieces). Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIExternal

Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop (sorry not the right thread just do not read the previous message and this one)

2011-06-04 Thread Adam Tong
- Original Message From: Adam Tong To: Community support for Fedora users Sent: Sat, June 4, 2011 1:25:34 PM Subject: Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop Hi, you are right. HEre the new output: - # yum list kernel* Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit adobe-linux-i386

Re: plymouth hangs

2011-06-04 Thread Albert de Jongh
Happens on my machine too. I had been too tired fighting F15 issues by then, and just took out the "splash" bit in the kernel boot parameters. On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > One of the machines I upgraded to F15 can't quite finish booting. It hangs > at plymouth-quit-wa

Re: Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown & Restart options

2011-06-04 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:47:58 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 19:02:28 +, > BeartoothHOS wrote: >> On Thu, 26 May 2011 07:55:30 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >> Is there a way to do that with a live CD or DVD? Or a respin meant >> to resemble Gnome2? > >

Re: yum update error in fedora 15

2011-06-04 Thread Genes MailLists
[Please reply to the list not to me directly] On 06/04/2011 11:05 AM, sandeep Patel wrote: > Hi, > I set proxy, proxy_username,proxy_password in the yum.conf file.My > machine hostname is by default is localhost.localdomain. > Can u please describe in more detail how i'll check host command in m

Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop

2011-06-04 Thread Adam Tong
Hi, you are right. HEre the new output: - # yum list kernel* Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00 fedora-firefox4

Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop

2011-06-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:10 PM, solarflow99 wrote: > its definitely installed, I wouldn't have forgot that. > OK - I guess you already tried to check if you could login using DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/lxdm instead - and get a working desktop. The other directive was for new users to get lxde aas t

Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop

2011-06-04 Thread solarflow99
its definitely installed, I wouldn't have forgot that. On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, solarflow99 wrote: > > Does anyone know why the directives in /etc/sysconfig/desktop don't work > in > > F-15 anymore? > > > > DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/bin/s

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 09:54, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:02:48 -0700 > JD wrote: > >> What tool did you use to create the partition in the first place. >> I thought that fdisk, sfdisk and gparted always round up (or down) >> to end of cylinder. > Over the years, I have used lots of differen

Re: /etc/sysconfig/desktop

2011-06-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, solarflow99 wrote: > Does anyone know why the directives in /etc/sysconfig/desktop don't work in > F-15 anymore? > > DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/bin/slim-dynwm > PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde > > This is how it was explained in the wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Fedora Did

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:02:48 -0700 JD wrote: > What tool did you use to create the partition in the first place. > I thought that fdisk, sfdisk and gparted always round up (or down) > to end of cylinder. Over the years, I have used lots of different partitioning tools, and one thing I have found

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-06-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:06:56 -0700, JD wrote: > On 06/04/11 07:15, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > Neither is illegal to export (except to a few countries the US wants to > > punish) as long as you follow the rules. You can also write it as a book > > and publish the book, which is what was done.

Vmware Workstation on Fedora 15

2011-06-04 Thread Michael Eager
Has anyone been able to install VM Workstation 6.5 on Fedora 15? -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

flash reader/writer slot not detected by OS

2011-06-04 Thread JD
None of the Fedora installations I have had (since fc6) have been able to detect the presence of the SD/SDHC flash card reader/writer built-in my laptop. lspci does not show it. Needless to say, kernel is oblivious to any cards I insert into that slot. Interestingly enough, WinXP display it in HW m

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 07:15, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Neither is illegal to export (except to a few countries the US wants to > punish) as long as you follow the rules. You can also write it as a book > and publish the book, which is what was done. DJB also got some rulings > on whether the restrictions on p

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 04:50, Timothy Murphy wrote: Does this matter? If so, what can you do about it? I get it after partitioning with fdisk, choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. Is it really better to give the block count? Incidentally, I notice that lshal takes a block as 512B, w

Re: OpenOffice and Fedora

2011-06-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
> >> It seems that the future of OO is not so bleak as > was originally > >> thought. OO is now handed to Apache, with the > support of Oracle and IBM, > >> as well as others. > >> > >> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060211-faq-whats-the-future-of.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2011-06-03 >

Re: F15: Using gedit and evince under lxde

2011-06-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/04/2011 03:01 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > As the documentation on LXDE is rather sparse I don't know where > to get basic information before experimenting on my own. > > Can anybody help or should I post to the Fedora LXDE list or a LXDE > forum? Better to ask in https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Reset gnome 3?

2011-06-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sat, 6/4/11, Neil wrote: From: Neil Subject: Re: Reset gnome 3? To: "Community support for Fedora users" Date: Saturday, June 4, 2011, 7:06 AM Hi, maybe you can remove the .gconf/ dir of your home dir, if you do not care about other settings 在 2011-6-4 下午5:39,"Gary Waters" 写道: > On 06

Does gnome3 network config support wpad

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I have wpad set up on my lan. With Firefox configured to "autodetect" proxy settings, it picks up and uses my proxy settings correctly. Telling Firefox to use "system" setting does not pick up the correct proxy settings. But in system settings, proxy is set to "automatic", with no url given

Re: Protected WLAN

2011-06-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 17:45:53 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > Cryptographic algorithms and making their internal workings public. > BTW, there are TWO versions of PGP, one that uses the still patented RSA > front end and the other uses IDEA. Guess which one is stronger and RSA is used fo

Re: problem with fedora when booting

2011-06-04 Thread solarflow99
test On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Neil wrote: > Hi, have you install a video card driver not OOS? If it is, pls edit the > grub line with video default settings. > 在 2011-6-4 下午9:19,"Adel ESSAFI" 写道: > > Dear list > > My fedora system does not boot after selecting fedora from grub. > > I ge

Re: problem with fedora when booting

2011-06-04 Thread Neil
Hi, have you install a video card driver not OOS? If it is, pls edit the grub line with video default settings. 在 2011-6-4 下午9:19,"Adel ESSAFI" 写道: > Dear list > My fedora system does not boot after selecting fedora from grub. > I get a black screen with a cursor and after that, nothing happens (no

Re: Reset gnome 3?

2011-06-04 Thread Neil
Hi, maybe you can remove the .gconf/ dir of your home dir, if you do not care about other settings 在 2011-6-4 下午5:39,"Gary Waters" 写道: > On 06/03/2011 09:30 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 14:10 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >>> On 3 June 2011 13:15, Gary Waters wrote: Is ther

/etc/sysconfig/desktop

2011-06-04 Thread solarflow99
Does anyone know why the directives in /etc/sysconfig/desktop don't work in F-15 anymore? DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/bin/slim-dynwm PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde This is how it was explained in the wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Fedora -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

problem with fedora when booting

2011-06-04 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Dear list My fedora system does not boot after selecting fedora from grub. I get a black screen with a cursor and after that, nothing happens (no error messages appears...) Even when I boot with single mode, the same bevaviour happens. I have fedora 14 on a dell laptop. Can you help? Regards Adel

Re: OpenOffice and Fedora

2011-06-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 13:05:47 -0400, >Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> It seems that the future of OO is not so bleak as was originally >> thought. OO is now handed to Apache, with the support of Oracle and IBM, >> as well as others. >> >> http://www.networkworld.com/n

Re: Preupgrade still sucks. Maybe sucks less, maybe sucks more.

2011-06-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 12:33:50 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > As a matter of interest, what exactly is _the_ yum upgrade method? > I've seen the term used by several people, > but as far as I can see they refer to different methods. yum update --releasever=f?? > And don't all upgrade meth

plymouth hangs

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
One of the machines I upgraded to F15 can't quite finish booting. It hangs at plymouth-quit-wait.service. plymouth just doesn't seem to want to go away. /bin/plymouth --wait spins forever, stracing plymouthd shows that it's stuck in an epoll(). More details in bug 710737. Anyone know what's g

Re: Massively parallel (8 to 10 stream) music server/generator ?

2011-06-04 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 07:47 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'd like to build a server that generates music for each of the zones. > I'm thinking that it would serve web pages that would allow users to > select various music material and direct it to one or more zones via any > device that supports a w

Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
Does this matter? If so, what can you do about it? I get it after partitioning with fdisk, choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. Is it really better to give the block count? Incidentally, I notice that lshal takes a block as 512B, while fdisk has 1kB blocks. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gaylear

Re: CUPS service not starting after upgrade to F15

2011-06-04 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 06/03/2011 11:50 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:09 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: >> Just tried it and still failing. Should something else be updated >> besides cups? > > What output do you get if you first stop cups, then run "cupsd -f" as > root from the command line? > > Tim.

Re: outdated Tor version in Fedora (missing security fixes)

2011-06-04 Thread Christoph A.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/04/2011 11:20 AM, Enrico Scholz wrote: > "Christoph A." writes: > >> I suppose you are the maintainer of the tor package in Fedora. >> I'm wondering why Fedora (13,14,15) currently doesn't contain the latest >> stable Tor version 0.2.1.30 >

Re: Preupgrade still sucks. Maybe sucks less, maybe sucks more.

2011-06-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
Michael H. Warfield wrote: > Classically, for those servers (some of which originally started out on > FC1) have been upgraded using the yum upgrade method. As a matter of interest, what exactly is _the_ yum upgrade method? I've seen the term used by several people, but as far as I can see they r

Re: F15: Using gedit and evince under lxde (SOLVED)

2011-06-04 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:31:20AM +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote: > I have been having problems with nouveau/nvidia under gnome3 > on my desktop. So not to waste anymore time I installed F15 LXDE. > > I rather like it, reminds me of my blackbox/fluxbox days. > > However some LXDE apps are a bit

Re: Reset gnome 3?

2011-06-04 Thread Gary Waters
On 06/03/2011 09:30 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 14:10 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 3 June 2011 13:15, Gary Waters wrote: >>> Is there some way to reset gnome 3's setttings? I have been googling >>> around about tips and tweaks for gnome 3 and noticed I am missing a few >

Re: Reset gnome 3?

2011-06-04 Thread Gary Waters
On 06/03/2011 09:10 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 3 June 2011 13:15, Gary Waters wrote: >> Is there some way to reset gnome 3's setttings? I have been googling >> around about tips and tweaks for gnome 3 and noticed I am missing a few >> things, such as "places," "recent documents," and the plus/minu

F15: Using gedit and evince under lxde

2011-06-04 Thread Alexander Volovics
I have been having problems with nouveau/nvidia under gnome3 on my desktop. So not to waste anymore time I installed F15 LXDE. I rather like it, reminds me of my blackbox/fluxbox days. However some LXDE apps are a bit raw compared to their gnome counterparts, i.e. leafpad/gedit, ePDF/evince. So

Re: outdated Tor version in Fedora (missing security fixes)

2011-06-04 Thread Enrico Scholz
"Christoph A." writes: > I suppose you are the maintainer of the tor package in Fedora. > I'm wondering why Fedora (13,14,15) currently doesn't contain the latest > stable Tor version 0.2.1.30 f15 contains 0.2.1.30 for the other versions: there are simply no users who test the updates. E.g. 0.2

Re: scrollbar and gnome3

2011-06-04 Thread Marc Blanc
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:51:01 +0200 Marc Blanc wrote: > Hello, > > i am usually using WindowMaker but gnome is installed because Gthumb > and other soft which need gnome. After upgrade f14 --> f15 the scrollbars > in WindowMaker are blue like this picture : > http://www.flickr.com/photos/flore-alp

Re: F15 Firefox crashes after latest update

2011-06-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/03/2011 08:41 PM, john wendel wrote: > Looks like the latest update has broken Firefox, I get a crash every few > minutes. I had this same issue back in F13. I finally told Firefox to start without addons and it worked. Then I did a little experimentation and found out which one was caus