Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread poma
On 02/24/13 07:31, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Suvayu Ali wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 06:35:52PM -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: >>> Quoting poma : >>> On 02/23/13 22:59, Dave Stevens wrote: […] > stable, a nice pair of attributes. Does anyone have better info on this? > or even b

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread poma
On 02/24/13 03:35, Dave Stevens wrote: > Quoting poma : > >> On 02/23/13 22:59, Dave Stevens wrote: >> […] >>> stable, a nice pair of attributes. Does anyone have better info on this? >>> or even better, some recent experience? >>> >> >> Recoll/Xapian! >> yum info recoll >> >> >> Cheers, >> poma >

Re: [F18] Cannot mount SD card

2013-02-23 Thread Frédéric Bron
> I had a similar problem with fedora 18, and got it fixed by installing the > package kmod-staging to enable the experimental driver for the realtek > rts5139 controller. It seems we don't have the same controller; I installed kmod-staging but it did not help. Thanks for the suggestion, Frédéric

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 06:35:52PM -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: >> Quoting poma : >> >>> On 02/23/13 22:59, Dave Stevens wrote: >>> […] stable, a nice pair of attributes. Does anyone have better info on this? or even better, some recent experience? >>> >>> Recoll/Xa

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 06:35:52PM -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: > Quoting poma : > > >On 02/23/13 22:59, Dave Stevens wrote: > >[…] > >>stable, a nice pair of attributes. Does anyone have better info on this? > >>or even better, some recent experience? > >> > > > >Recoll/Xapian! > >yum info recoll >

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting poma : On 02/23/13 22:59, Dave Stevens wrote: […] stable, a nice pair of attributes. Does anyone have better info on this? or even better, some recent experience? Recoll/Xapian! yum info recoll Cheers, poma Thanks, it does look good. Do you use it? d -- The problem with

Fedora 18 and gphoto2

2013-02-23 Thread Wade Hampton
I am experimenting with gphoto2 and getting nowhere with Fedora 18. Whenever I run it, I get the following: gphoto2 -L *** Error *** An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB device'): Could not claim interface 0 (Device or resource busy). Make sure no other program or kernel

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 24.02.2013 02:07, schrieb Frantisek Hanzlik: >> - these boxes aren't directly on internet > > good so > >> Even if they would be, they will not offers many services >> to internet and there isn't problem secure them > > laughable > > how do you secure a machine

Re: is it possible to download a spec file only using yum?

2013-02-23 Thread poma
On 02/24/13 02:10, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 02:03:32 +0100, poma wrote: > >> Well, as always, defaults matter, not optflags in rpmrc. ;) >> And within config.mk default is CFLAGS = -O1. >> Let Hartlich comments, it's his code. > > Rest assured, we (= deco maintainer at Fedora

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.02.2013 02:07, schrieb Frantisek Hanzlik: > - these boxes aren't directly on internet good so > Even if they would be, they will not offers many services > to internet and there isn't problem secure them laughable how do you secure a machine with so security-updates? YOU patch tke kern

Re: is it possible to download a spec file only using yum?

2013-02-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 02:03:32 +0100, poma wrote: > Well, as always, defaults matter, not optflags in rpmrc. ;) > And within config.mk default is CFLAGS = -O1. > Let Hartlich comments, it's his code. Rest assured, we (= deco maintainer at Fedora and me) have been in contact with him earlier today a

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 24.02.2013 01:09, schrieb Frantisek Hanzlik: >> Reindl Harald wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 23.02.2013 22:59, schrieb Dave Stevens: I've upgraded my Fedora from F9 to F14 with preupgrade and am now planning a new hard drive install and a fresh Fedora install >>> >>

Re: is it possible to download a spec file only using yum?

2013-02-23 Thread poma
On 02/24/13 01:27, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:54:29 +0100, poma wrote: > >> On 02/23/13 14:03, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> […] >>> Nevertheless, building from source isn't a safe fix either, since it only >>> uses different compiler flags. The crash is due to uninitialized poi

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread poma
On 02/23/13 22:59, Dave Stevens wrote: […] > stable, a nice pair of attributes. Does anyone have better info on this? > or even better, some recent experience? > Recoll/Xapian! yum info recoll Cheers, poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.02.2013 01:09, schrieb Frantisek Hanzlik: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 23.02.2013 22:59, schrieb Dave Stevens: >>> I've upgraded my Fedora from F9 to F14 with preupgrade and am now >>> planning a new hard drive install and a fresh Fedora install >> >> and why in the world are you upra

Re: is it possible to download a spec file only using yum?

2013-02-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:54:29 +0100, poma wrote: > On 02/23/13 14:03, Michael Schwendt wrote: > […] > > Nevertheless, building from source isn't a safe fix either, since it only > > uses different compiler flags. The crash is due to uninitialized pointers > > -> bug 914659 > > > > So, don't blame

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 23.02.2013 22:59, schrieb Dave Stevens: >> I've upgraded my Fedora from F9 to F14 with preupgrade and am now >> planning a new hard drive install and a fresh Fedora install > > and why in the world are you upragding only to F14? nobody here cares > about F14 because

Re: is it possible to download a spec file only using yum?

2013-02-23 Thread poma
On 02/23/13 14:03, Michael Schwendt wrote: […] > Nevertheless, building from source isn't a safe fix either, since it only > uses different compiler flags. The crash is due to uninitialized pointers > -> bug 914659 > > So, don't blame the packaging alone. The C source isn't pretty. > So simple

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19 - search terms ?

2013-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.02.2013 00:35, schrieb David Timms: > On 24/02/13 10:14, Reindl Harald wrote: >> it takes time and intelligence to find the broswer-plugin > > Zero results with that search term ;-) perfect :-) as less users have installed useless browser plugins as less zombie-machines out there, and ye

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19 - search terms ?

2013-02-23 Thread David Timms
On 24/02/13 10:14, Reindl Harald wrote: > it takes time and intelligence to find the broswer-plugin Zero results with that search term ;-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guid

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19 - search terms ?

2013-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.02.2013 00:09, schrieb David Timms: > I'm sure it does not matter what the middle development platform is - > activex, java, flash, javascript, ios, android, etc. If it's actually > useful, then the bad boys are going to find a way around it and as more packages and code you have installed

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19 - search terms ?

2013-02-23 Thread David Timms
On 24/02/13 09:24, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> why? >> >> virtually nobody needs the browser-plugin and if you read >> the security news of the last few months it would be a >> dmaned bad idea to install this crap on every computer >> as depend

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19

2013-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.02.2013 23:24, schrieb Fernando Cassia: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> why? >> >> virtually nobody needs the browser-plugin and if you read >> the security news of the last few months it would be a >> dmaned bad idea to install this crap on every computer >> as

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19

2013-02-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > why? > > virtually nobody needs the browser-plugin and if you read > the security news of the last few months it would be a > dmaned bad idea to install this crap on every computer > as dependency because it is a useless security hole are yo

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread David Timms
On 24/02/13 06:24, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... > Yes, that was an attempt to avoid the hang on boot, what I really need > is more complex, and I may have to put it in rc.local to make it work, > although I will test on Fedora using the nofail option. As I look at the > RHEL world, I expect RHEL7 to be

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Reindl Harald : Am 23.02.2013 22:59, schrieb Dave Stevens: I've upgraded my Fedora from F9 to F14 with preupgrade and am now planning a new hard drive install and a fresh Fedora install and why in the world are you upragding only to F14? nobody here cares about F14 because F17 is

Re: desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.02.2013 22:59, schrieb Dave Stevens: > I've upgraded my Fedora from F9 to F14 with preupgrade and am now planning a > new hard drive > install and a fresh Fedora install and why in the world are you upragding only to F14? nobody here cares about F14 because F17 is the latest supported re

desktop search in Fedora - what's best?

2013-02-23 Thread Dave Stevens
Hi, I've upgraded my Fedora from F9 to F14 with preupgrade and am now planning a new hard drive install and a fresh Fedora install to whatever's current when I get to it. I've wanted for a long time to have a non-google desktop search that would index browser history and emails at a minim

Re: [F18] Cannot mount SD card

2013-02-23 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 20:21 +0100, chedi toueiti wrote: > After some googling, I learned that the read access switch detector is > not that reliable and it end up detecting the wrong state. To solve > the issue, you just have to move the lock switch just to the middle > position between read and wr

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:37:29 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: Defining the mount as "noauto" doesn't help, the boot still tries to do the fsck, and still fails. Moreover, I really want the unit mounted if present. The fsck is (I believe) controlled independently from noauto by on

Re: [F18] Cannot mount SD card

2013-02-23 Thread chedi toueiti
I had a similar problem with fedora 18, and got it fixed by installing the package kmod-staging to enable the experimental driver for the realtek rts5139 controller. You can check if you have this controller using the lsusb command. After activating the card reader support I got another problem d

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:37:29 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Defining the mount as "noauto" doesn't help, the boot still tries to do the > fsck, and still fails. Moreover, I really want the unit mounted if present. The fsck is (I believe) controlled independently from noauto by one of the two obscu

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 02/23/2013 12:37 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I thought the 'nofail' option would solve the problem, but that appears > to be a very recent option, and not in RHEL running on this server. > > Any thoughts gratefully accepted, we try to keep vital infrastructure > running on RHEL rather than Fedor

optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
I have a system used for backups, and when it boots it *may* have any or all of a number of small hot-swap RAID storage units connected by eSATA. Ideally I would like the system to fsck and mount these when present, using the UUID= option in fstab. There's a problem. If the units are not connect

Xvnc with MIT-SHM as non-root

2013-02-23 Thread Ian Pilcher
I've just had to disable Xvnc's use of the MIT-SHM extension in order to continue running it as a non-root user: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914958 This used to work. Does anyone know if the current behavior is what is intended or a bug? Thanks! -- ==

Re: LXDE/gnome switch

2013-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Matthew Miller wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:24:49AM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Can I easily switch from LDXE and gnome 3 and back (in fedora 18)? Yes. If both are installed, you will be presented with a choice in the login screen (GDM). (You have to select a user first, and then before y

Tor Browser for Fedora updated to Firefox 17

2013-02-23 Thread Jamie Nguyen
Hello list, The Tor Browser repository for Fedora (found here: https://jamielinux.com/articles/2013/01/tor-and-tor-browser-repository-on-fedora/ ) has been updated to Firefox 17 and there are a few things to be aware about: 1) The Tor Browser for Fedora depends on the system Tor to be running, an

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19

2013-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.02.2013 18:22, schrieb Timothy Murphy: > Reindl Harald wrote: > >>> Is there an openjdk JRE plugin for Firefox 19 under Fedora 18? >>> Or have I misunderstood Firefox setup in some way? >>> >>> All the test programs to see if Java is working >>> (eg http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19

2013-02-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Reindl Harald wrote: >> Is there an openjdk JRE plugin for Firefox 19 under Fedora 18? >> Or have I misunderstood Firefox setup in some way? >> >> All the test programs to see if Java is working >> (eg http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp) >> seem to look for Sun Java > "icedtea-web" is

Xnest restarts after xdmcp login

2013-02-23 Thread Frank Wilson
Hi fedora users, I was just trying to connect via XDMCP and start a nested desktop using Xnest like so: Xnest :2 -query localhost But after I log in Xnest restarts and I get the login screen again. Any ideas what I am doing wrong or how to debug this? Thanks, Frank -- users mailing list user

Re: Unrelieved black popups and message boxes

2013-02-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Temlakos writes: « HTML content follows » On 02/23/2013 07:23 AM, Lailah wrote: El jue, 21-02-2013 a las 19:41 -0500, Temlakos escribió: On 02/21/2013 06:49 AM, Lailah wrote: El mié, 20-02-2013 a las 09:39 -0500, Temlakos escribió: Everyone: I asked this before under a different headi

Re: F17 - font fille error

2013-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.02.2013 15:39, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > In F17 I try toopen firefoc and evolutiom the screen goes black except > for a message in the top right corner of the screen: > Can't open font file True. > Otherwise the ,machine in locked. This does not happen alll the time. > Can someone explain th

F17 - font fille error

2013-02-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
In F17 I try toopen firefoc and evolutiom the screen goes black except for a message in the top right corner of the screen: Can't open font file True. Otherwise the ,machine in locked. This does not happen alll the time. Can someone explain this? --

Re: Unrelieved black popups and message boxes

2013-02-23 Thread Temlakos
On 02/23/2013 07:23 AM, Lailah wrote: El jue, 21-02-2013 a las 19:41 -0500, Temlakos escribió: On 02/21/2013 06:49 AM, Lailah wrote: El mié, 20-02-2013 a las 09:39 -0500, Temlakos escribió: Everyone: I asked this before under a different heading, and no one answered. I get a large volume

Re: openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19

2013-02-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.02.2013 15:03, schrieb Timothy Murphy: > Is there an openjdk JRE plugin for Firefox 19 under Fedora 18? > Or have I misunderstood Firefox setup in some way? > > All the test programs to see if Java is working > (eg http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp) > seem to look for Sun Java

openjdk with fedora 18/firefox 19

2013-02-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Is there an openjdk JRE plugin for Firefox 19 under Fedora 18? Or have I misunderstood Firefox setup in some way? All the test programs to see if Java is working (eg http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp) seem to look for Sun Java. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel

Re: is it possible to download a spec file only using yum?

2013-02-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:03:24 +0100, poma wrote: > On 02/23/13 04:45, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:00 PM, poma wrote: > >> deco grub2-2.00-16.fc19.src.rpm > >> 13020 blocks > > [backtrace cut] > >> Aborted > >> -- > > > > Hmm, the crash does not happen here. How reproducible

Re: Unrelieved black popups and message boxes

2013-02-23 Thread Lailah
El jue, 21-02-2013 a las 19:41 -0500, Temlakos escribió: > On 02/21/2013 06:49 AM, Lailah wrote: > > > > > > > El mié, 20-02-2013 a las 09:39 -0500, Temlakos escribió: > > > > > Everyone: > > > > > > I asked this before under a different heading, and no one answered. > > > > > > I get a lar

Re: LXDE/gnome switch

2013-02-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:24:49AM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Can I easily switch from LDXE and gnome 3 and back (in fedora 18)? Yes. If both are installed, you will be presented with a choice in the login screen (GDM). (You have to select a user first, and then before you hit enter for your pa

LXDE/gnome switch

2013-02-23 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Can I easily switch from LDXE and gnome 3 and back (in fedora 18)? Thank. -- == Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@kegtux.org Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère Université du Littoral-Côte d

Re: is it possible to download a spec file only using yum?

2013-02-23 Thread poma
On 02/23/13 04:45, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:00 PM, poma wrote: >> deco grub2-2.00-16.fc19.src.rpm >> 13020 blocks > [backtrace cut] >> Aborted >> -- > > Hmm, the crash does not happen here. How reproducible is this? Can you debug? > Installed from source - PREFIX = /usr