Re: Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)

2012-03-03 Thread Chris Tyler
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 02:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > BTW, F15 is Gnome 2. Umm, every box I've seen running F15 that's running Gnome is running Gnome 3... -Chris -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)

2012-03-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 20:37 -0700, r...@dwf.com wrote: > > Why do you wat to use an obsolete program like Netscape? That certainly > > was not installed with your F14. Firefox is what is there to use. > > OK, I didn 't notice that. > YES, FIREFOX is what I'm using, somehow when I typed it it came

no sound after yum update of working FC16

2012-03-03 Thread dave perry
This evening I did a "sudo yum update" which included a new kernel and kernel headers. So I reinstalled the Nvidia proprietary driver (290.10), rebooted and now I have no sound. /var/log/yum.log shows the following record of this evening's update: Mar 03 21:12:39 Updated: libpinyin-0.5.91-3.

Re: sudo

2012-03-03 Thread Kazuo Ishii
Why don't you set as: user1ALL=(ALL) ALL ? 2012/3/4, Patrick Dupre : > Hello, > > With fedora 14 I cannot make sudo works fine. > > sudo-1.7.4p5-2.fc14.x86_64 > > I edited /etc/sudoers (with visudo)B > > I set: > user1 teucidide=/sbin/shutdown -h now > or > %wheelALL=(ALL)

Re: Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)

2012-03-03 Thread reg
> Why do you wat to use an obsolete program like Netscape? That certainly > was not installed with your F14. Firefox is what is there to use. OK, I didn 't notice that. YES, FIREFOX is what I'm using, somehow when I typed it it came out Netscape (sorry for the confusion). But YES I do want to

Re: Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)

2012-03-03 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 16:22 -0700, r...@dwf.com wrote: > OK, Im sure this has been covered a dozen times, but my scans of the > listdon't come up with anything. > > I just recently brought up F14 on one machine. > Netscape is there, but when I go to watch a video from Netscape it tells > me >

fedora vs. ubuntu minimal install

2012-03-03 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Just wondering: why is the fedora minimal install iso (266 M) so much larger than the ubuntu one (26 M)? Clearly, these are two different distributions and I do not mean to imply that one is more preferable than the other in this aspect, so I was just wondering. For the Fedora minimal install

sudo

2012-03-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, With fedora 14 I cannot make sudo works fine. sudo-1.7.4p5-2.fc14.x86_64 I edited /etc/sudoers (with visudo)B I set: user1 teucidide=/sbin/shutdown -h now or %wheelALL=(ALL) ALL user1 is member of wheel user1 teucidide=/sbin/shutdown -h now But every time I get: user1 is

Re: Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE

2012-03-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Re: Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE.emlSubject: Re: Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDEFrom: "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" Date: 02/03/2012 00:23To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org On 01/03/12 22:31, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I've been using Fedora

Re: Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)

2012-03-03 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 03/03/2012 06:22 PM, r...@dwf.com wrote: OK, Im sure this has been covered a dozen times, but my scans of the listdon't come up with anything. I just recently brought up F14 on one machine. Netscape is there, but when I go to watch a video from Netscape it tells me This CNN feature is

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
On 3 Mar 2012, at 23:23, Reindl Harald wrote: > BTW: > > normally you have the option to include updates-repo while doing > a fresh install (hopefully this was not messed in F16) and so you > can avoid the most release-bugs by get the latest versions including > kernel > > but this helps only if

Re: nx

2012-03-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Aram J. Agajanian wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:34:32 + (GMT) Patrick Dupre wrote: After: nxserver --keygen I have: /usr/NX/share/keys total 6 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 668 Feb 26 00:01 default.id_dsa.key -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 668 Feb 19 14:40 default.id_dsa.key.bac

Re: Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)

2012-03-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 16:22 -0700, r...@dwf.com wrote: > OK, Im sure this has been covered a dozen times, but my scans of the > listdon't come up with anything. > > I just recently brought up F14 on one machine. F14 was EOLed some time ago, meaning it won't get any more support, even for serious

Re: Need help USB modem

2012-03-03 Thread Roger
Thanks Greg, My reading over the past days shows that this is a Linux problem across all Linux variations. Imposed by Telstra Bigpond in Australia seemingly because they do not support Linux and seem to provide modems limited to windows in some way. It's not simply a ubuntu problem, it just

Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)

2012-03-03 Thread reg
OK, Im sure this has been covered a dozen times, but my scans of the listdon't come up with anything. I just recently brought up F14 on one machine. Netscape is there, but when I go to watch a video from Netscape it tells me This CNN feature is optimized for Adobe Flash Player v

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.03.2012 00:19, schrieb Aero Maxx: >>> how are they supposed >>> to know there is a problem with fedora 16 and raid >>> I've googled this extensively and not found any mention of this! >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#Boo

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
On 3 Mar 2012, at 14:44, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 03.03.2012 15:33, schrieb Aero Maxx: > >> I'm using fedora 16. So do you suggest I try fedora 15, will fedora 16 be >> fixed in >> the ISO? Or some hot fix patch later? > > usually bugs get fixed of the lifetime of a version > look in the wikis

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
On 3 Mar 2012, at 18:30, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Also, you might want to check your settings for quoted material. The > current message is virtually incomprehensible not only only because of > the top-posting but because you don't distinguish between quoted > material and your own comments (

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 22:53 +0100, suvayu ali wrote: > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 15:31, Andy Blanchard wrote: > > First step is to check whether you actually have multiple versions of the > > same package installed, or just that RPM/Yum think so, ie. does the command: > > > >rpm -q glibc > > > >

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 15:31, Andy Blanchard wrote: > First step is to check whether you actually have multiple versions of the > same package installed, or just that RPM/Yum think so, ie. does the command: > >    rpm -q glibc > > report one or more packages? Shouldn't use yum-complete-transactio

Re: Cleaning /tmp

2012-03-03 Thread James Wilkinson
Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Fedora (not just 16) leaves junk in /tmp. It's also using some of that > junk, for example keyring-PRgjGV/. > > So what's the best way to reduce the clutter? Is there a service? One option is tmpfs. Put something like this in /etc/fstab: none/tmp

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2012 11:19 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 03.03.2012 17:50, schrieb Mikkel L. Ellertson: >> >> On 03/03/2012 10:13 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> Whatever you theorize, here is what happened. The hardware clock >>> was set to UTC, and the so

Re: Cleaning /tmp

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.03.2012 18:35, schrieb Frank Murphy: > On 03/03/12 17:18, Reindl Harald wrote: >> cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch >> >> #! /bin/sh >> >> flags=-umc >> >> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -x/tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix \ >> -x/tmp/.font-unix -x/tmp/.ICE-unix -x/tmp/.Test-unix \ >>

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 14:33 +, Aero Maxx wrote: > Ok thanks for that, am now confused as to where supposed to put my > reply doesn't seem to make sense to put it at the bottom now. It makes even less sense to keep top-posting. Also, you might want to check your settings for quoted material. T

Re: Support for RFC 6187 and smartcard authentication in OpenSSH

2012-03-03 Thread Anamitra Dutta Majumdar
Hi Anthony, Thanks for the response. That would be helpful. Do you happen to know about the support for RFC 6187. Thanks Anamitra On 3/3/12 7:18 AM, "Anthony R Fletcher" wrote: > >On 03 Mar 2012 at 01:19:21, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar wrote: >> Hi Anthony , >> >> Thanks for your responses. >> I

Re: Cleaning /tmp

2012-03-03 Thread Frank Murphy
On 03/03/12 17:18, Reindl Harald wrote: cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch #! /bin/sh flags=-umc /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -x/tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix \ -x/tmp/.font-unix -x/tmp/.ICE-unix -x/tmp/.Test-unix \ -X '/tmp/hsperfdata_*' 1d /tmp /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" 1d /va

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.03.2012 17:50, schrieb Mikkel L. Ellertson: > > On 03/03/2012 10:13 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> Whatever you theorize, here is what happened. The hardware clock >> was set to UTC, and the software clock was local time. However, the >> UTC box in system-config-date was not checked. Result w

Re: Cleaning /tmp

2012-03-03 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 3 March 2012 16:55, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Fedora (not just 16) leaves junk in /tmp. It's also using some of that > junk, for example keyring-PRgjGV/. > Another instance of a Linux regression, IMHO. Used to be anything in /tmp was supposedly safe to be erased on boot, and often was. Then a

Re: Cleaning /tmp

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.03.2012 17:55, schrieb Geoffrey Leach: > Fedora (not just 16) leaves junk in /tmp. It's also using some of that > junk, for example keyring-PRgjGV/. > > So what's the best way to reduce the clutter? Is there a service? as default there are 30d instead my 1d [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc

Cleaning /tmp

2012-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Fedora (not just 16) leaves junk in /tmp. It's also using some of that junk, for example keyring-PRgjGV/. So what's the best way to reduce the clutter? Is there a service? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2012 10:13 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Whatever you theorize, here is what happened. The hardware clock was set to UTC, and the software clock was local time. However, the UTC box in system-config-date was not checked. Result was cups browsing

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-03 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 22:08 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 07:34 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > The above is exactly what happened to me, which prevented cups > > browsing to occur. > > Not so much that CUPS is upset that you had the setting for UTC set, but > that you had time and/or

Re: Need help USB modem

2012-03-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 11:38 +1100, Roger wrote: > no /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 in ubuntu. You are running Ubuntu, and this is the Fedora users list. Have you tried asking this question on an Ubuntu-oriented list or forum? --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: Support for RFC 6187 and smartcard authentication in OpenSSH

2012-03-03 Thread Anthony R Fletcher
On 03 Mar 2012 at 01:19:21, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar wrote: > Hi Anthony , > > Thanks for your responses. > I have initiated a new thread. > Can you provide me with further details. > > Thanks, > Anamitra > > > > Hello Anamitra, > > I suggest you start a new thread on the list but, yes, there

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 14:48:47 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > > It was the latter (2 copies of e.g. qlibc) so I ran > package-cleanup --cleandupes > This caused me to take a bit of a deep breath as it also wanted to > remove various dependencies and amounted to some 50 packages to be > removed.

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 14:31 +, Andy Blanchard wrote: > First step is to check whether you actually have multiple versions of > the same package installed, or just that RPM/Yum think so, ie. does > the command: > >rpm -q glibc > > report one or more packages? > > If the former, the you ca

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 14:33:35 +, Aero Maxx wrote: > Ok thanks for that, am now confused as to where supposed to put my reply > doesn't seem to make sense to put it at the bottom now. What you are supposed to do for the most part is answer questions inline and just after the questions the

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.03.2012 15:33, schrieb Aero Maxx: > I'm using fedora 16. So do you suggest I try fedora 15, will fedora 16 be > fixed in > the ISO? Or some hot fix patch later? usually bugs get fixed of the lifetime of a version look in the wikis for "upgrade with yum" > how are they supposed > to kn

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread BEN
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:07:27 + Arthur Dent wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 09:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 12:31 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > > > I really don't like the new system of fully-automatic or > > > manual-only updates. I preferred the pre F15 method

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
Ok thanks for that, am now confused as to where supposed to put my reply doesn't seem to make sense to put it at the bottom now. what fedora version are you trying to install? F16 AFAIk has some troubles with RAID as said Sorry I had thought I had put it in the subject or the body of my original

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Andy Blanchard
First step is to check whether you actually have multiple versions of the same package installed, or just that RPM/Yum think so, ie. does the command: rpm -q glibc report one or more packages? If the former, the you can probably fix the problem by a clean and reset of both the RPM and Yum pac

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 09:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 12:31 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > > I really don't like the new system of fully-automatic or > > manual-only updates. I preferred the pre F15 method of informing you > > by means of an applet when updates are avai

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 13:11 +, Aero Maxx wrote: > Am confused as to what you mean, I'm just replying. The problem is that you're "just replying" using the default Gmail top-posting style. Many lists, especially those of a technical nature such as this one, frown on top-posting. In fact it's ev

Re: How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 12:31 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > I really don't like the new system of fully-automatic or > manual-only updates. I preferred the pre F15 method of informing you > by means of an applet when updates are available. I wasn't aware that this had changed. Before F16 I only ever u

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.03.2012 14:11, schrieb Aero Maxx: > Am confused as to what you mean, I'm just replying. * look at the thread * you got an answer BELOW your post * your answer is on top so who in the world should ever can read this thread? on most mailing lists you should NOT top-post it's ok if the whole t

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
Am confused as to what you mean, I'm just replying. I've put /boot on a raid 1 partition. When installing the boot loader it gives you the option of master boot record or the raid device so naturally tried both, unsure why it gives you the option for raid device if this is wrong. How do you inst

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
why do we witch now to top-posting? this destorys readability i heard from some troubles with Fedora 16 and RAID currently no topic for me > tried installing it on the raid device this can only be wrong the bootloader can not act with any RAID device that is why /boot needs to be RAID1 or a sin

How to clean up Yum mess?

2012-03-03 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Regular readers will know that I have just recovered from a kernel panic on my F16 box. This was caused by an automatic update not completing properly. I really don't like the new system of fully-automatic or manual-only updates. I preferred the pre F15 method of informing you by means

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
I'm having a hard time getting it to install the boot loader have tried installing it on the raid device and also on the master boot record but both fail. On 2 Mar 2012, at 22:41, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 02.03.2012 23:20, schrieb Aero Maxx: >> Hello Reindl, >> >> Thanks very much for reply

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-03 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 07:34 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > The above is exactly what happened to me, which prevented cups > browsing to occur. Not so much that CUPS is upset that you had the setting for UTC set, but that you had time and/or timezone set wrong, then. All services should work proper

Re: Can't access DVD - CORRECTION -

2012-03-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/03/2012 06:49 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >Not here - > >[bobg@box6 ~]$ cat /var/lib/AccountsService/users/bobg > >[User] >Language= >XSession= > > >[bobg@box6 ~]$ cat /var/lib/AccountsService/users/gdm > >[User] >

Re: Can't access DVD - CORRECTION -

2012-03-03 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 03/03/12 05:36, Ed Greshko wrote: (/var/lib/AccountsService/users) Maybe the incorrect place it is stored. But the idea is correct. Too late Not here - [bobg@box6 ~]$ cat /var/lib/AccountsService/users/bobg [User] Language=

Re: Can't access DVD - CORRECTION -

2012-03-03 Thread Ed Greshko
(/var/lib/AccountsService/users) Maybe the incorrect place it is stored. But the idea is correct. Too late -- Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -- Dandemis -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: Can't access DVD - CORRECTION -

2012-03-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/03/2012 06:32 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: My cat hit send before I finished editing... Corrected below > Sure > > Once you've done a startxfce4 your previous XSession choice has > been recorded. Subsequent "startx" commands reference that > (/var/lib/AccountsService/users) and the prev

Re: Can't access DVD - CORRECTION -

2012-03-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/03/2012 05:40 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >And for whatever reason "startxfce4" is rarely needed. In the >past when it has been "startx" simply produced a black screen. >Then after doing "startxfce4" one time "startx" would work on >subsequent "boots." With the xfce

Re: During some CD operations Fedora freezes for some seconds

2012-03-03 Thread James Wilkinson
Joachim Backes wrote: > having a weird effect (in F16, [F17 too]): during some CD operations, > ejecting for example, or clicking on the CD symbol by nautilus if a new > CD is inserted in the drive, my system freezes, so my desktop is > insensitive for some seconds. > > Somebody sees this too, an

Re: Can't access DVD - CORRECTION -

2012-03-03 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 02/03/12 21:00, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/03/2012 09:54 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: Yeah; I used to be like that until I realized that I was spending almost all of my time in X and stopped booting to a CLI. However, if you're using XFCE, you should be using startxfce4 instead of startx. HTH, HAND. FY