Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/15/2011 06:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 15:11 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/15/2011 02:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Which email virus are you thinking of? I don't know any that would work on both Windows and Linux, but no doubt someone has tried. I'm not t

Re: Won't boot. udevd: worker not accepting message.

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
I pulled the hard drive from my laptop and installed it in my server and it behaves exactly the same way. The drive itself is an SSD and it tests cleans. Its not initramfs either... I only touched one kernel when I was testing the nvidia driver. None of the other kernels will boot either. Somet

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:52 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > I've seen disk errors when voltages start losing power. Turns out it not the power supply or the laptop. I pulled the drive and installed it in my server and it behaves exactly the same way. The drive itself is an SSD and it tests clea

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 20:57 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > this is all simply laughable > > tell me why i never had any malware or intrusions on my computers? Because, unlike them, you don't have an obvious mental problem, perhaps? It seems quite apparent, to me, and probably others, that the oth

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-15 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 12/16/2011 01:43 AM, linux guy wrote: I double checked dmesg and found a complaint about /dev/sdb1. I pulled it and now I'm getting a different error altogether. I think the hard drive controller is failing. Seems odd, check the power supply voltages (there might be a monitor in your BIOS s

EEEpc webstorage

2011-12-15 Thread Ankur Sinha
Hello! I intend to install Fedora 16 on my eeepc 701sd. I wanted to know if anyone whose already running fedora on the eeepc has managed to use the free webstorage that Asus offers with the netbook? Can you please share how you did it? -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" http://fedoraprojec

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 13:08 +, Jake Shipton wrote: > My next advise would be to do the following: > > 1) Regularly change your password, say every 3/6 months. Personally, I don't see the point in this. I think it's a fallacy. If they haven't guessed/cracked your password, there's no point

Re: Won't boot. udevd: worker not accepting message.

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
I double checked dmesg and found a complaint about /dev/sdb1. I pulled it and now I'm getting a different error altogether. I think the hard drive controller is failing. During boot it hangs on Started monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots, etc using dmeventd or progress polling. After a few m

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:46 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> Is this related to regenerating initramfs ? > > Possibly.  Do you have any older kernels listed in GRUB?  Can you boot > from them? I have 5 kernels installed and they all generate the same error. > If not, you can boot from a livecd

Won't boot. udevd: worker not accepting message.

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
I get hundreds of the following error when I boot any one of the kernels on my F16 computer. udevd[983]: worker [] did not accept mesage -1 (Connection refused), kill it. I also see udevd[1215] error opening ATTR{/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1:1.0/power level} for writing: N

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-15 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:40 PM, linux guy wrote: > I rebooted my computer tonight and got "Welcome to maintenance mode" > > It happens for all the kernels I have loaded on the computer. > > Its giving me obscure (to me) udevd errors. > udevd[ > > When I log in to maintenance mode and snoop aroun

Re: Disable (broken) nvidia drivers, enable nouveau drivers again ???

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
I rebooted my computer tonight and got "Welcome to maintenance mode" It happens for all the kernels I have loaded on the computer. Its giving me obscure (to me) udevd errors. udevd[ When I log in to maintenance mode and snoop around, everything seems fine. boot.log is clean, Xorg.0.log is clea

Re: Replace libreoffice with openoffice rpms

2011-12-15 Thread Gene Smith
On 12/15/2011 10:46 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.12.2011 04:42, schrieb Gene Smith: Therefore, I need to go back to just OO.org. Is there a way to cause f16 to not try to update libreoffice-ure when libreO is removed and replaced with OO? [root@buildserver:~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.r

Re: Replace libreoffice with openoffice rpms

2011-12-15 Thread Gene Smith
On 12/15/2011 10:49 PM, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 22:42 -0500, Gene Smith wrote: I have had a problem with libreoffice properly rendering graphics in documents (vertical and hoizontal lines do not display). Never had this problem with OO.org in<=f14. Therefore I removed libreoffic

Re: Replace libreoffice with openoffice rpms

2011-12-15 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 22:42 -0500, Gene Smith wrote: > I have had a problem with libreoffice properly rendering graphics in > documents (vertical and hoizontal lines do not display). Never had this > problem with OO.org in <=f14. Therefore I removed libreoffice and > installed OO from rpms from

Re: Replace libreoffice with openoffice rpms

2011-12-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.12.2011 04:42, schrieb Gene Smith: > Therefore, I need to go back to just OO.org. Is there a way to cause f16 to > not try > to update libreoffice-ure when libreO is removed and replaced with OO? [root@buildserver:~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo [fedora] name=Fedora $releasever - $ba

Replace libreoffice with openoffice rpms

2011-12-15 Thread Gene Smith
I have had a problem with libreoffice properly rendering graphics in documents (vertical and hoizontal lines do not display). Never had this problem with OO.org in <=f14. Therefore I removed libreoffice and installed OO from rpms from OO.org site. I am now able to read the documents OK. Howev

Re: The Curse of the Mad Power-Saver

2011-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 20:20 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > This is F16 fully updated, under KDE (ditto). For no readily apparent > > reason my monitor goes black, and shortly thereafter enters power-saving > > mode. Looks like a

Re: The Curse of the Mad Power-Saver

2011-12-15 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > This is F16 fully updated, under KDE (ditto). For no readily apparent > reason my monitor goes black, and shortly thereafter enters power-saving > mode. Looks like a screensaver, right? However: > > It only happens under KDE. > > It doe

The Curse of the Mad Power-Saver

2011-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
This is F16 fully updated, under KDE (ditto). For no readily apparent reason my monitor goes black, and shortly thereafter enters power-saving mode. Looks like a screensaver, right? However: It only happens under KDE. It doesn't happen in every session, just sometimes. When it happens, the timeo

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 15:11 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/15/2011 02:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Which email virus are you thinking of? I don't know any that would work > > on both Windows and Linux, but no doubt someone has tried. > > I'm not thinking of any of them. I was using email

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 17:09 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > The windows ones are becoming REAL problems, the good anti-malware > programs block them, though. There are also ones for MACs and I have no > information on how well they will work on generic Linux. Thing is, > there are also one

Re: recent updates followed by NXNomachine failures to complete connection (paging Craig White) [Solved]

2011-12-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:44:44 -0500 Claude Jones wrote: > Impossible to say what fixed it. I just tried my home to work connection over NX (two fully up to date x86_64 fedora 16 boxes at either end), and I had no problems. If something broke for me it got fixed by another update before I happened

Re: recent updates followed by NXNomachine failures to complete connection (paging Craig White) [Solved]

2011-12-15 Thread Claude Jones
Impossible to say what fixed it. qt was updated today. Did a lot of forensics on the NX server trying to fix a dhcp problem - don't see what these could have had to do with it. Rebooted many, many times. When I got home, the client machine took a long time, but, connected... Not much help to oth

SSH Limiting -- Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I did a little digging through my various notes and found the following for limiting SSH connections: simply limit the amount of connections a host is allowed to the ssh port iptables -N SSHSCAN iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j SSHSCAN iptables -A SSHSCAN -m recent --

Re: Gnome-Shell

2011-12-15 Thread David Quigley
On 12/15/2011 05:43, Alan Cox wrote: gnome-shell itself doesn't care, it just uses x.org. If x.org runs, and gives 3D capability, that's all that gnome-shell cares about. Actually it does seem to care in a few cases. On FC15 it would unilaterally decide to do fallback on > 2048 pixel wide Inte

Re: Amarok problem

2011-12-15 Thread Brendan Jones
On 12/15/2011 10:16 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: The Linux Journal's picks for favorite software has come out. The favorite Audio Player so I decided to try it. But something strange happens. In the playlist track 10 and 11 comes between track 1 and 2. Track 10 and 11 appear also in their proper plac

Re: [389-users] console issues

2011-12-15 Thread Rich Megginson
On 12/15/2011 03:17 PM, Ellsworth, Josh wrote: OK, I got it by installing a bunch of RPMs that put the .jar files in the right places. I don't understand - is the windows console now working for you? Exactly what rpms did you install? What jar files did you place in which right places?

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 20:07 +, mike cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:04 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Genes MailLists > > wrote: > >> > >> I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI > >> crash - and wanting to download 1.2

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/15/2011 02:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Which email virus are you thinking of? I don't know any that would work on both Windows and Linux, but no doubt someone has tried. I'm not thinking of any of them. I was using email viruses as an example of something we used to think was impo

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Claude Jones
On 12/15/2011 05:57 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: I see you have fixed that now but have fallen into a different problem:-) yeah, layered issues - I'm on #3 now... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/15/2011 04:45 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > I tried both suggestions, singly, and both together though I didn't > think the forward slash in lieu of "netmask" was right. > > Nothing worked. It's so strange... > bah sorry - the "/" wasn't supposed to be literal ... i just meant change the .1

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 13:21 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/15/2011 01:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > They're usually libraries and may be cross-platform, e.g. the mplayer > > non-free codecs are designed for Windows but work in Linux as well. > > I see. Thank you. However, considering the

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Claude Jones
On 12/15/2011 05:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > my whole dhcpd.conf file this has nothing to do with your dhcpd.conf look at your /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd AND you network-config of the machine has the machine a 192.168.2.x address? this below is my config for having dhcp only on internal subnet wh

Re: Big email mess ! How do I clean it up ? (Evolution, Thunderbird, maildir, mbox)

2011-12-15 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/15 06:20, Genes MailLists wrote: On 12/15/2011 08:24 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 23:56 -0700, linux guy wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Scott Doty wrote: And if that doesn't work, you could just use mutt -- it will read the maildirs and can save t

Re: Fedora 16's Performance

2011-12-15 Thread Lawrence Graves
On 12/15/2011 07:35 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Ian Malone wrote: [63.506] (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on Quadro FX 2500M at PCI:1:0:0 [63.506] (--) NVIDIA(0): none [63.506] (EE) NVIDIA(0): No display devices found for this X

Re: [389-users] console issues

2011-12-15 Thread Ellsworth, Josh
OK, I got it by installing a bunch of RPMs that put the .jar files in the right places. From: 389-users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:389-users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Ellsworth, Josh Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:07 PM To: General discussion list for the

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/15/2011 03:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/15/2011 12:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: There are some other attack vectors. For example you download an audio recording or get one in your email and it starts up with a message that a codec is needed and you ALLOW it. Thing is that codec that is

Re: [389-users] console issues

2011-12-15 Thread Ellsworth, Josh
Not sure if it helps, but when attempting to use the browser I now get errors like this in the console.log: ClassLoader: :loadClass():name:javax.swing.ComboBoxEditor ClassLoader: :loadClass():loading:javax.swing.ComboBoxEditor ClassLoader: javax/swing/ComboBoxEditor.class NOT in 389-ds-1.2.6

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.12.2011 22:56, schrieb Claude Jones: > On 12/15/2011 04:28 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 15.12.2011 22:10, schrieb Claude Jones: >>> > /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf line 9: subnet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0: >>> > bad subnet number/mask combination. >>> > Can anyone spot what's wrong w

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Claude Jones
On 12/15/2011 04:28 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.12.2011 22:10, schrieb Claude Jones: > /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf line 9: subnet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0: bad subnet number/mask combination. > Can anyone spot what's wrong with that subnet number/mask combo? 192.168.2.1 is not a subnet

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Claude Jones
On 12/15/2011 04:23 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 12/15/2011 04:21 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/15/2011 04:10 PM, Claude Jones wrote: >> The relevant line from my dhcpd.conf is the top one here: >> >> subnet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 { ... > >Try 192.168.1.0 / 255.255.25

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.12.2011 22:10, schrieb Claude Jones: > /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf line 9: subnet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0: bad > subnet number/mask combination. > Can anyone spot what's wrong with that subnet number/mask combo? 192.168.2.1 is not a subnet, 192.168.2.0 is signature.asc Description:

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/15/2011 04:21 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/15/2011 04:10 PM, Claude Jones wrote: >> The relevant line from my dhcpd.conf is the top one here: >> >> subnet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 { ... > > Try 192.168.1.0 / 255.255.255.0 > typo - your net is 192.168.2.0 / 255.255.255.

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/15/2011 01:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: They're usually libraries and may be cross-platform, e.g. the mplayer non-free codecs are designed for Windows but work in Linux as well. I see. Thank you. However, considering the differences between the two environments, especially the dif

Re: dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/15/2011 04:10 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > The relevant line from my dhcpd.conf is the top one here: > > subnet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 { > range 192.168.2.100 192.168.2.199; > option routers 192.168.2.1; > default-lease-time 600; > max-lease-time 7200; > > From my messages l

Re: messages log is empty

2011-12-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 13:32 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > On 12/15/2011 01:17 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > Claude Jones wrote: > >> my messages log is 0 bytes, completely empty > >> has this functionality been moved elsewhere? > > > > Is your rsyslog service running? > > > > # systemctl statu

Amarok problem

2011-12-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
The Linux Journal's picks for favorite software has come out. The favorite Audio Player so I decided to try it. But something strange happens. In the playlist track 10 and 11 comes between track 1 and 2. Track 10 and 11 appear also in their proper place in the playlist. What can one do to straight

dhcpd server failing to start

2011-12-15 Thread Claude Jones
The relevant line from my dhcpd.conf is the top one here: subnet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.2.100 192.168.2.199; option routers 192.168.2.1; default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 7200; From my messages log, it says: /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf line 9: subnet 192.168.2.1

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 12:29 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/15/2011 12:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > There are some other attack vectors. For example you download an audio > > recording or get one in your email and it starts up with a message that > > a codec is needed and you ALLOW it. Thing

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/15/2011 12:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: even if someone is sniffing my whole traffic i can not imageine how he would intruse my system - packages are signed, the real relevant traffic is encrypted, ssh must not use the same passwords like any unimportant web-account I didn't say I believed

OT? Guest machine on VirtualBox-4.1 "BOOTMGR is compressed".

2011-12-15 Thread Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi friends, Sorry for the inconvenient, if this is the wrong list but, I was in paradise. Than...wellcome to jungle. No way out. I updated from Fedora14-x86_64 to Fedora16-x86_64 host, and I thought VirtualBox-4.0 was ok. When I started Winvista64

Re: [389-users] console issues

2011-12-15 Thread Ellsworth, Josh
After looking at the directory settings, I found that there were a lot of references to the wrong IP address. After solving all of those I am able to get past the issue I raised earlier but the console does not have labels on the settings tabs. What file stores these labels? It seems that my in

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.12.2011 21:24, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 12/15/2011 11:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> what you are trying to tell us here is simply impossible if you >> are not so dumb and everytime you reinstall your computer restore >> a compromised userhome with a autostart > > There's another possibility

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/15/2011 12:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: There are some other attack vectors. For example you download an audio recording or get one in your email and it starts up with a message that a codec is needed and you ALLOW it. Thing is that codec that is retrieved is malware. So in this case e

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/15/2011 11:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: what you are trying to tell us here is simply impossible if you are not so dumb and everytime you reinstall your computer restore a compromised userhome with a autostart There's another possibility. Back when I was working in tech support, I helped

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/15/2011 02:45 PM, Linda McLeod wrote: Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out... From: "Michael Schwendt" [Add] To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 3:33 PM (18 hours 45 minutes ago) Show message - Delete attached message - Save copy of atta

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.12.2011 20:45, schrieb Linda McLeod: > Seems they never get-in while the OS is updating, but when FF is up, > they do so get in, and mess things up, like a brat kid with a full > diaper leaking streaks all over mum's living-room white shag carpet... > Sometimes they lock-out FF's tools head

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Linda McLeod
Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out... From: "Michael Schwendt" [Add] To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 3:33 PM (18 hours 45 minutes ago) Show message - Delete attached message - Save copy of attached message Show full header On Wed, 14

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/15/2011 11:34 AM, Jake Shipton wrote: On 15/12/11 15:23, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I will provide a disclaimer up front that I work in the security field, but I design security protocols (e.g. co-chaired IPsec, author of HIP, contributor to 802.11i) and OS security I learn from osmosis from

Re: messages log is empty [Solved}

2011-12-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.12.2011 19:41, schrieb Claude Jones: > I opened the Services program and found rsyslog was still listed as not > running - maybe enabling wasn't sufficient > using the systemctl command. I need to spend some time on the commands from > systemctl. I started it from the > services program G

Re: messages log is empty [Solved}

2011-12-15 Thread Claude Jones
I opened the Services program and found rsyslog was still listed as not running - maybe enabling wasn't sufficient using the systemctl command. I need to spend some time on the commands from systemctl. I started it from the services program GUI interface and it started right up and started fill

Re: messages log is empty

2011-12-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 15/12/11 18:32, Claude Jones wrote: I tried: systemctl enable rsyslog.service ln -s '/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rsyslog.service' Running the status command now shows it as enabled but still "inactive (dead)" systemctl start rsyslog.ser

Re: messages log is empty

2011-12-15 Thread Claude Jones
On 12/15/2011 01:17 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Claude Jones wrote: my messages log is 0 bytes, completely empty has this functionality been moved elsewhere? Is your rsyslog service running? # systemctl status rsyslog.service That's it, but, how do I enable it? systemctl status rsyslog.

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/15/2011 11:30 AM, Jake Shipton wrote: On 15/12/11 15:32, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Jake Shipton wrote: [snip] Some of your advice is good, but some of it is not. Even though your reply was to a known troll of this list, I'd like to respond to some of your comments. Okay :-). I'll respo

Re: messages log is empty

2011-12-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Claude Jones wrote: my messages log is 0 bytes, completely empty has this functionality been moved elsewhere? Is your rsyslog service running? # systemctl status rsyslog.service -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fed

Boot error: "*ERROR* failed to get supported _DSM functions"

2011-12-15 Thread CS DBA
Hi all; I see this (see below snippit from my latest /var/log/messages file) each time I boot (Fedora 15 x86_64, fully up to date, Thinkpad T410, i7 chip, 8G ram) Thoughts? Thanks in advance... Dec 15 10:48:16 Issac kernel: [2.932891] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Dec 15 10:48

messages log is empty

2011-12-15 Thread Claude Jones
my messages log is 0 bytes, completely empty has this functionality been moved elsewhere? F16 running KDE -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Gu

[389-users] console issues

2011-12-15 Thread Ellsworth, Josh
I am working on deploying 389 in my organization but I'm having an issue with the Windows console. After I log in, the console looks like the screenshot here: http://imgur.com/W1hVd When I click on the Directory Server tree it changes to say "this server component has not yet been downloade

Re: Help! Gnome-Shell segfault.

2011-12-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:08:52 + Arthur Dent wrote: >>> whack > To tell you the truth I have not noticed any real difference between > the nvidia and the nouveau drivers. I guess I should just stay with > nouveau. Is there anything I should be aware of while using nouveau > instead of the prop

Re: 2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread Emilio Lopez
> I have several thousand emails to download from that account.  Why > Thunderbird getting 200 emails at a time ?  Is this a gmail problem or > a Thunderbird problem ? I have the same behavior with a clear Thunderbird installation under Fedora 16 and POP protocol and download only headers options.

Re: 2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread Jake Shipton
On 15/12/11 15:25, linux guy wrote: > Yesterday I migrated my email activities from Evolution to Thunderbird > after my Evolution setup had been non operational for 4 months. > Painful. > > Fortunately, I use gmail as my mail server, so I accessed my several > email accounts via a web browser. Pa

Re: 2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > You can configure TB to only download messages when required. Disable: > > Edit > Acct Settings > Some Acct > Sync & Storage > Keep Messages on this > Computer > > That will reduce the download requirements, which may or may not b

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Jake Shipton
On 15/12/11 15:23, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I will provide a disclaimer up front that I work in the security field, > but I design security protocols (e.g. co-chaired IPsec, author of HIP, > contributor to 802.11i) and OS security I learn from osmosis from my > colleagues. I myself am not working

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Jake Shipton
On 15/12/11 15:32, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Jake Shipton wrote: >> [snip] > > Some of your advice is good, but some of it is not. Even though your > reply was to a known troll of this list, I'd like to respond to some of > your comments. Okay :-). I'll respond back to yours. > >> Ensure when

Re: Help! Gnome-Shell segfault.

2011-12-15 Thread Rich Boyce
On 15/12/11 16:08, Arthur Dent wrote: On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 14:11 +, Rich Boyce wrote: On 14/12/11 12:54, Arthur Dent wrote: On 14/12/11 09:18, Arthur Dent wrote: Hello all, Urgent help required! I have turned on my Fedora 16 machine today. It booted quite normally to the GDM login scree

Re: Help! Gnome-Shell segfault.

2011-12-15 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 14:11 +, Rich Boyce wrote: > On 14/12/11 12:54, Arthur Dent wrote: > >> On 14/12/11 09:18, Arthur Dent wrote: > Hello all, > > Urgent help required! > > I have turned on my Fedora 16 machine today. It booted quite normally > to > the > >>

Re: 2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 12/15/2011 10:25 AM, linux guy wrote: Thunderbird is working OK, but I have 2 issues. 1. It is taking forever to download the emails from one of my gmail accounts. When I Get Mail on that account, it comes back saying a You can configure TB to only download messages when required. Disabl

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jake Shipton wrote: > [snip] Some of your advice is good, but some of it is not. Even though your reply was to a known troll of this list, I'd like to respond to some of your comments. Ensure when setting up your system you do not use the same password twice, or the same password you use any

Re: Is Fedora good for Java developers?

2011-12-15 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 12/14/2011 07:47 PM, Rich Boyce wrote: On 14/12/11 10:37, Caffeine Lee wrote: Thank you guys, I have the feeling that Fedora is like a tech preview and for Fedora developers rather than a platform for something serious. That's precisely what Fedora is. That doesn't mean its not fairly rob

2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
Yesterday I migrated my email activities from Evolution to Thunderbird after my Evolution setup had been non operational for 4 months. Painful. Fortunately, I use gmail as my mail server, so I accessed my several email accounts via a web browser. Painful, but it worked. Thunderbird is working OK

Re: Big email mess ! How do I clean it up ? (Evolution, Thunderbird, maildir, mbox)

2011-12-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 08:54 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 23:56 -0700, linux guy wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Scott Doty wrote: > > > > > And if that doesn't work, you could just use mutt -- it will read the > > > maildirs and can save them as mboxes.

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I will provide a disclaimer up front that I work in the security field, but I design security protocols (e.g. co-chaired IPsec, author of HIP, contributor to 802.11i) and OS security I learn from osmosis from my colleagues. On 12/15/2011 08:08 AM, Jake Shipton wrote: On 14/12/11 23:13, Linda

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread tom
thx everyone. this is a old 1.4ghz cpu, and i assumed that f12 would be faster on that as the latest fedora. any ideas? i tried lxde spin, but the system didnt boot up ;-( thx On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:43 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth < tchollingswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:03

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:03 AM, tom wrote: > well, i didnt specify any size limitations during installation. > so how do i change that now? First, you need to shrink your root (/) volume. This will shrink it to 10GB, but you can change that if you'd like, just change the "10G": lvresize -rL 10G

Re: Gnome-Shell

2011-12-15 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:40pm on Thursday, December 15, 2011 (UK time), Aaron Konstam scrawled: > I will bite, what is a binary blob? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob Steve -- Website: www.stevesearle.com Twitter: @ReddishShift Facebook: www.facebook.com/steve.searle 14:43:16 up 7 days, 20:14,

Re: Gnome-Shell

2011-12-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 22:19 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Dave Quigley writes: > > > Is there a list anywhere of supported hardware for gnome-shell? I've tried > > It's the same as the list of supported 3D hardware for x.org, on > http://mesa.freedesktop.org, which seems to be down right now

Re: Fedora 16's Performance

2011-12-15 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > [    63.506] (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on Quadro FX > 2500M at PCI:1:0:0 > [    63.506] (--) NVIDIA(0):     none > [    63.506] (EE) NVIDIA(0): No display devices found for this X screen. This is definitely an issue with Nvidi

Re: Fedora 16's Performance

2011-12-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 21:31 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > On 12/15/2011 10:02 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 12/14/2011 05:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > >> If I recall correctly, you had another incident of getting multiple > > >> copies for another indivi

Re: Big email mess ! How do I clean it up ? (Evolution, Thunderbird, maildir, mbox)

2011-12-15 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
I have several thousand maildir emails in about 10 directories in Evolution. I need to get them into existing directories in Thunderbird which uses mbox format. Why don't you keep the maildirs, and serve them up through IMAP using dovecot? Then any decent email client can access them, locally

Re: Big email mess ! How do I clean it up ? (Evolution, Thunderbird, maildir, mbox)

2011-12-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/15/2011 08:24 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 23:56 -0700, linux guy wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Scott Doty wrote: >> >>> And if that doesn't work, you could just use mutt -- it will read the >>> maildirs and can save them as mboxes. :) >> >> >> Where d

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Christina Salls
I have been mostly just reading this forum, but I decided it is time to comment on this thread. To Craig, I agree. Courtesy and respect would go a long way in making this forum more attractive to new attendees. I find myself afraid to post questions because of some of the snide responses. To Ja

Re: Big email mess ! How do I clean it up ? (Evolution, Thunderbird, maildir, mbox)

2011-12-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 23:56 -0700, linux guy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Scott Doty wrote: > > > And if that doesn't work, you could just use mutt -- it will read the > > maildirs and can save them as mboxes. :) > > > Where does the "new" evolution keep them ? The default for lo

Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

2011-12-15 Thread Jake Shipton
On 14/12/11 23:13, Linda McLeod wrote: > Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out the previous pix, but... > Re: "RE: F14 login fails on backup copy; gdm error?" > > From: > "Joe Zeff" > To: > > > > > "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. What evidence do you >

Re: Learning Linux offline material: RUTE tuts expired

2011-12-15 Thread suvayu ali
Hi g and LinuxIsOne and whoever else is feeling like chiming in, It would be nice if you could refrain from this line of discussion. Lets keep to Fedora related discussions. In other words, I am requesting people to stop responding to this thread. Thanks, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. I

Re: md/raid1 fails to detect on boot

2011-12-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Pavel Lisy writes: Sam Varshavchik píše v St 14. 12. 2011 v 18:41 -0500: > j...@bubble.org writes: False raid detection is often caused by wrong partition type. It suppose to be fd "Linux raid autodetect" What do you have? fdisk -l /dev/sda or fdisk -l /dev/sdb What it should be. My partit

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread Emilio Lopez
> well, i didnt specify any size limitations during installation. > so how do i change that now? > thx Well, if it is a new system, it could be easy to copy all your home data to a usb pendrive or hard drive, and reinstall, also think about installing a new version F15 or F16. If you have too muc

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 15 December 2011 11:03, tom wrote: > well, i didnt specify any size limitations during installation. > so how do i change that now? > thx > > Don't use LVM myself, but see the LVM HOWTO for some info: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ You'll want to review section 11.10 to shrink the systemro

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread Reindl Harald
no idea, especially with both in LVM, that is why "ok, ok, ok, take defaults" is always a bad idea and "customized layout" exists one of the most important decisions before install any os is the partition-layout Am 15.12.2011 12:03, schrieb tom: > well, i didnt specify any size limitations during

Re: Gnome-Shell

2011-12-15 Thread Andy Campbell
Regarding Alans comment about gnome-shell falling back on > 2048 pixel wide displays, I had the same thing with gnome-shell on an nvidia card using the nouveau drivers. So, I guess this might not be specific to i9xx displays. In my case, one symptom was that these errors appeared in Xorg.0.log --

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