Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, fred smith said: > I know that on (much) older systems, large directories were inherently > slow to traverse. I guess I shouldn't assume that is still the case. Old systems also much less RAM. I made a directory with a similar number of files, and the space on disk for the dire

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 23:49 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > If that were so, 'ls' would take as long as Nautilus (or Dolphin or > > whatever) to list a large directory. I don't have any huge > directories > > to test, but I'm sceptical. > > Hmm. you do seem to be correct: > > time ls | wc -l

Functioning System Fails to Boot

2012-03-16 Thread Richard Heck
My system, F16, was working fine yesterday, but today refuses to boot. I just get a flashing cursor. I'm guessing the bootloader has somehow failed, so I googled around for this and tried several variations of: grub2-install --boot-directory=/mnt/t /dev/sdb which seems right: the /boot dir

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:39:03PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 19:25 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:01:03PM +1030, Tim wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:01 -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > Nautilus takes forever to list these director

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 19:25 -0400, fred smith wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:01:03PM +1030, Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:01 -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > Nautilus takes forever to list these directories and at times > > > I just want to look for a particular file by string i

Re: Verify Burned CD\DVD?

2012-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Frank Murphy wrote: Thought it was isomd5sum /pathto/mounted/dvd But no such thing as isomd5sum Having not saved the md5sum to the image before burning you now have to limit your check to checking against the image file, or checking all the files for md5sum. For files you can do something l

Re: Power off button acting differently?

2012-03-16 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 16 Mar 2012 at 6:20, Aaron Konstam wrote: Subject:Re: Power off button acting differently? From: Aaron Konstam To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date sent: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:20:22 -0500 Send reply to: Community suppo

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/16/2012 04:25 PM, fred smith wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:01:03PM +1030, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:01 -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Nautilus takes forever to list these directories and at times I just want to look for a particular file by string in the name. Is there a fa

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
> I think it's most likely not that nautilus, etc., are slow in > large directories, it is that large directories take a long time > to search for files, making any action on those directories much > slower than normal. A "problem" of long-standing on pretty much > all Unix(-ish) file systems (and

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.03.2012 00:25, schrieb fred smith: >> I've used the emelFM2 file manager as an alternative, it doesn't show >> thumbnails of files. And it does let you do some wildcarding to >> show/hide files in the lister gadget. > > I think it's most likely not that nautilus, etc., are slow in > larg

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:01:03PM +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:01 -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Nautilus takes forever to list these directories and at times > > I just want to look for a particular file by string in the name. Is > > there a fast graphic tool for this? The

Re: question on Firefox and Thunderbird in F14 (yes, F14)

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 3/16/2012 1:40 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 16/03/12 06:50, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 3/15/2012 11:42 PM, Remi wrote: remi repo I searched and it looks like its all about Centos ... am I missing something? http://remi-mirror.dedipower.com/fedora/14/remi/x86_64/ Thanks, I see what you

Missing option in program appr

2012-03-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
I wrote about a problem if you run add or remove option in apper. I don't know what to say. The option was there when I first ran apper, since I used it and apper was removed. I must apologize but I know I ran such an option and the program apper was removed. I have no explanation of this phenomen

Re: users Digest, Vol 97, Issue 43

2012-03-16 Thread shreyas m
I want a process to be running with root privileges, without providing the root password. Since i have my process in a remote machine. I want it such that, as soon as the system boots up, my process should be running with root privilege. Is there any way in which i can attain it? Is there any possi

Re: ldconfig issue after compiling and installing software

2012-03-16 Thread Steven Oliver
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/15/2012 06:56 PM, Steven Oliver wrote: > >> I'm currently pulling the falcon programming language from git and >> installing it myself instead of pulling it from yum. >> >> After pulling it, compiling it, and installing it (sudo make i

Re: Is there a way to bypass LUKS and get a machine booted?

2012-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 03/11/2012 08:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: is there some way to tell LUKS to skip mounting /home and just come up with boot and root? Yes, I tried the obvious, having someone bring up the machine, unmount /home, and then commenting out the /home in /etc/fstab (tried

Re: Trying my first upgrade using FC16

2012-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: I have a bunch of machines I would like to upgrade, and I was hoping to just run an upgrade on them, booting from the DVD, selecting "upgrade" and going on as usual on upgrade from media. Unfortunately I get another screen or so forward and am told that an active network conn

Re: ldconfig issue after compiling and installing software

2012-03-16 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/15/2012 06:56 PM, Steven Oliver wrote: I'm currently pulling the falcon programming language from git and installing it myself instead of pulling it from yum. After pulling it, compiling it, and installing it (sudo make install) it's failing to run telling me: root@odrade:/usr/local/lib $

F16: too many Print icons

2012-03-16 Thread antonio.montagn...@alice.it
when I print many documents I get many icons (a printer) on the last line of my gnome window.Is it correct or is it a bug? Tnx Antonio Montagnani Fedora 16 Verne (Linux) Delivered by Alice webmail -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: Thunderbird no sound - solved -

2012-03-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 03/16/2012 05:45 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: A new install Fedora-16/64 via the XFCE Live Spin. I have no notification sounds which I rely on ... Google has not helped and I'm pretty sure PAVU and Alsa settings are good. Sounds work from other sources, just T'bird

Re: [389-users] SASL and GSSAPI replication help - Error w/ Realm

2012-03-16 Thread Matt Wells
Sorry, I forgot to mention that. Yes. I used the ds.keytab and moved it to the krb5.keytab for testing. 2012/3/16 Anthony Messina : > On 03/15/2012 12:56 PM, Matt Wells wrote: >> I have a multi-master configuration of 389-directory server.  I'm >> attempting to replicate w/ SASL/GSSAPI but It's no

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread Steven Stern
On 03/16/2012 01:01 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have two very large directories. > > One an rsync of all the RFCs and that is up to 6456 files. But all the > Internet Drafts (including all expired ones) is 72,509 files. Then I > have a number of large directories with IEEE 802 documents, but

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 13:31, Tim wrote: > I've used the emelFM2 file manager as an alternative, it doesn't show > thumbnails of files.  And it does let you do some wildcarding to > show/hide files in the lister gadget. Another suggestion would be use Thunar. Thunar lets you turn off the thumbna

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:01 -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Nautilus takes forever to list these directories and at times > I just want to look for a particular file by string in the name. Is > there a fast graphic tool for this? Then when I find the desired > file, I typically open it in Fire

Re: Power off button acting differently?

2012-03-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 21:23 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/15/2012 04:05 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 10:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Push

Re: Accessibility (slow keys) in Gnome3 login screen - cannot deactivate.

2012-03-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:58:05AM -0600, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote: > For some reason some accessibility features (specifically slow keys > and sticky keys) in my Gnome3 login screen turn on, and I cannot > seems to deactivate / disable / turn-off / reset it. I tried turn > them off from the ac

RE: installing Xen from source on fedora 16

2012-03-16 Thread Arindam Choudhury
Thanks, Now I can boot into Xen Dom0. But I always have to manually start xend. and also I can not connect to virtual machine monitor. #modprobe xen-evtchn # /etc/init.d/xencommons start Starting xenstored... Setting domain 0 name... Starting xenconsoled... # /etc/init.d/xend start # xm list Na

Re: F16 rocks ! (w/XFCE?)

2012-03-16 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:48, NOSpaze wrote: > Dear John/friends, I feel gnome kinda heavy, and want to try xfce. But > every time I started, I've felt frustrated. Keyboard shortcuts. desktops > (+ shotrcuts), menus, alt-f2, devilspie (works with xfce?), autologin, > security & keys, and so on. M

Re: F16 rocks ! (w/XFCE?)

2012-03-16 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:55, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > I use F16 XFCE spin: quite good. > One issue: they put Emacs in the "Accessories" menu... :-( > Better be in "Programming"! (Geany is in) Actually I think Emacs is an editor (and much more) first and a programmers' editor later. ;)

Re: F16 rocks ! (w/XFCE?)

2012-03-16 Thread NOSpaze
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 11:52 +0200, Alchemist wrote: > Fedora 15 XFCE Desktop tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCMcH469ATI > HOWTO Customize XFCE http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=265583 > look at theese ^ Perfect, just what I need. I'll try it. Thanks! -- NOSpaze -- users mail

Re: F16 rocks ! (w/XFCE?)

2012-03-16 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/16/2012 12:52 PM, Alchemist wrote: Fedora 15 XFCE Desktop tourhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCMcH469ATI HOWTO Customize XFCEhttp://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=265583 I use F16 XFCE spin: quite good. One issue: they put Emacs in the "Accessories" menu... :-( Better be in "Pro

Re: F16 rocks ! (w/XFCE?)

2012-03-16 Thread Alchemist
2012/3/16 NOSpaze : > On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 08:19 +, John Maclean wrote: >> +1 > > f16++ > >> (F16+XFCE)^awesome = ^_^ > > Dear John/friends, I feel gnome kinda heavy, and want to try xfce. But > every time I started, I've felt frustrated. Keyboard shortcuts. desktops > (+ shotrcuts), menus, al

Thunderbird no sound -

2012-03-16 Thread Bob Goodwin
A new install Fedora-16/64 via the XFCE Live Spin. I have no notification sounds which I rely on ... Google has not helped and I'm pretty sure PAVU and Alsa settings are good. Sounds work from other sources, just T'bird notifications are dead. Any sugge

Re: ibus question

2012-03-16 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 16/03/2012 02:51, Jens Petersen a écrit : >> If I open a gnome terminal, I can use ibus but not if I open an rxvt >> term... > > I think you need urxvt (rxvt-unicode) for that. I use urxvt... > >> ibus does not work with TeXMaker > > I can input

Re: F16 rocks ! (w/XFCE?)

2012-03-16 Thread NOSpaze
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 08:19 +, John Maclean wrote: > +1 f16++ > (F16+XFCE)^awesome = ^_^ Dear John/friends, I feel gnome kinda heavy, and want to try xfce. But every time I started, I've felt frustrated. Keyboard shortcuts. desktops (+ shotrcuts), menus, alt-f2, devilspie (works with xfce?)

Re: F16 rocks !

2012-03-16 Thread BEN
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:36:42 -0600 linux guy wrote: > I haven't been around the list much lately, but F16 absolutely rocks. > KDE too, I can't wait to get my hands on KDE 4.8 to see what its got. > > The last few kernels 3.2.7 and on have been nice too. > > Keep up the good work, people. I Agr

Re: question on Firefox and Thunderbird in F14 (yes, F14)

2012-03-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/03/12 06:50, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 3/15/2012 11:42 PM, Remi wrote: remi repo I searched and it looks like its all about Centos ... am I missing something? http://remi-mirror.dedipower.com/fedora/14/remi/x86_64/ That being said, upgrading is best and that is what I eventually wan

Re: F16 rocks !

2012-03-16 Thread John Maclean
+1 (F16+XFCE)^awesome = ^_^ Sent from mah BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Roger Sender: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:22:31 To: Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: F16 rocks ! On 16/03/12 09:36, linux guy wrote: > I have

Re: Working with large directories

2012-03-16 Thread Andras Simon
2012/3/16, Robert Moskowitz : > I have two very large directories. > > One an rsync of all the RFCs and that is up to 6456 files. But all the > Internet Drafts (including all expired ones) is 72,509 files. Then I > have a number of large directories with IEEE 802 documents, but rarely > over 3,00

Re: question on Firefox and Thunderbird in F14 (yes, F14)

2012-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/16/2012 03:19 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Sorry for the confusion ... what I was trying to say was that I think I have > learned is that Firefox and Thunderbird are part of the "fedora" package and > Abode > isn't. So, at EOL, I still get updates on Abode but not on > Firefox/Thunderbird

Re: question on Firefox and Thunderbird in F14 (yes, F14)

2012-03-16 Thread Paul Allen Newell
[inline] On 3/16/2012 12:08 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/16/2012 02:39 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Thanks for the confirm about what I thought. Its an interesting bind that Thunderbird and Firefox can be part of a Fedora release and, once that release is EOL, any changes aren't picked up (as i

Re: question on Firefox and Thunderbird in F14 (yes, F14)

2012-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/16/2012 02:39 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Thanks for the confirm about what I thought. Its an interesting bind that > Thunderbird and Firefox can be part of a Fedora release and, once that > release is > EOL, any changes aren't picked up (as in Abode Flash). I don't know what you mean by