Two HDs

Dear Helpers: I have installed two 1 TB Hard Drives in my new system. Only one of the two is recognized by Fedora. They are WD1002FAEX drives. When I asked Western Digital for assistance, their "help" wasn't much help. They reported this difficulty was the result of a "Signature Collision". Th

Re: F18 update left one update uninstalled

On 05/01/2013 09:00 AM, g wrote: steps 1 -> 3 = read man pages. step 4 = run command; ie, ]$ yum-complete-transaction D'oh! I completely failed to notice that all except the last were RTFM. However, I think that if you haven't yet run yum-complete-transaction, it should be all that'

Re: fedora 18 gnome-shell core dumps before live system starts

On 05/01/2013 03:03 AM, Bram Mertens wrote: Now I do get a graphical login screen but after I log on I still get the "oh no something has gone wrong". It is still trying to start Gnome 3, and gnome-shell is still getting killed by signal 4. If all were working properly, when you select your acc

Re: Monitor turns off on normal boot

On 05/01/2013 09:59 AM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 04:22 -0500, Anthony Papillion wrote: I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a normal boot. When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing mor

Re: Monitor turns off on normal boot

On 05/01/2013 09:57 AM, David G. Miller wrote: Anthony Papillion papillion.me> writes: Hello Everyone, I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a normal boot. When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a certain point then the monitor turns off an

Re: "hackers"

On 05/01/2013 11:55 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:14:51PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 01.05.2013 06:43, schrieb Richard Vickery: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Timmailto:ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au>> wrote: Allegedly, on or about 30 April 2013, Ri

Re: "hackers"

On 04/30/2013 03:23 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/30/2013 12:11 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: The line "I've been hacked" sounds like the author either doesn't know how to speak or ought to get out of computers because said person doesn't know how to code. Language changes. Either keep up, or find y

Re: "hackers"

On 04/30/2013 03:11 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com>> wrote: n all honesty Mr. Dineen: Absolutely Nothing! But it was fun while it lasted, as I'm sure they'll now "shut down" the topic and move on to b

Re: F18 update left one update uninstalled

hello joe z. On 04/30/2013 09:09 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/30/2013 07:03 PM, g wrote: ]$ man yum ]$ man yum-complete-transaction ]$ man package-cleanup ]$ yum-complete-transaction Yes. However, you probably won't need the last two steps unless yum-complete-transact

Re: F18+ /var/log/messages safely clean/rotate

On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:22:18 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: > Normally you simply type "> /var/log/messages" which finally > mean "redirect nothing to the file" and since append would > be >> it is cleared > Thank you Harald, I'm still learning though middle aged. -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d

Re: "hackers"

On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:14:51PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 01.05.2013 06:43, schrieb Richard Vickery: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Tim > > wrote: > > > > Allegedly, on or about 30 April 2013, Richard Vickery sent: > > > I have no clue

Re: Monitor turns off on normal boot

On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 04:22 -0500, Anthony Papillion wrote: > I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a > normal boot. > > When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a > certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens. I > finall

Re: Monitor turns off on normal boot

Anthony Papillion papillion.me> writes: > > Hello Everyone, > > I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a > normal boot. > > When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a > certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens. Try t

RE: "hackers"

> I have good reasons to express myself in the manner that I do; reasons that > you probably don't want anything to do > with, much less hear about. In this context, much of it has to do with that > you all want to shit on me rather than > work with me. Maybe we'd be more willing to work with y

RE: Problem with external VGA

FYI... I've filed this as "Bug 958415" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958415 From: Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA) Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 14:39 To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: RE: Problem with external VGA ___

Re: F18+ /var/log/messages safely clean/rotate

Am 01.05.2013 09:52, schrieb Frank Murphy: > How to safely clean /var/log/messages for specific testing. > or set it to hourly rotate. > Couldn't see specific config in /etc/logrotate.d logotate does not work this way /etc/logrotate.d/syslog /var/lib/logrotate.status > Have tried "logrotate --

Re: "hackers"

Am 01.05.2013 07:39, schrieb Richard Vickery: > > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Joe Zeff > wrote: > > On 04/30/2013 09:43 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: > > I'm just going to guess, Tim, that you are a little more intelligent > than your reply le

Re: "hackers"

Am 01.05.2013 06:43, schrieb Richard Vickery: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Tim > wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 30 April 2013, Richard Vickery sent: > > I have no clue what the term "I've been hacked" means. > > Then you'd have to be ab

Re: fedora 18 gnome-shell core dumps before live system starts

Hi, I reinstalled using the i386 DVD as suggested, I was able to go through the entire installer and even the first boot screen. Fedora boots but the end result is the same, after the boot screen the screen goes black for a little while, then a blue background is displayed and then the "oh no some

Re: F18+ /var/log/messages safely clean/rotate

On Wed, 01 May 2013 11:20:15 +0200 Jon Ingason wrote: > Have you looked in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog? > > On my F18 it contains: > > $ more /etc/logrotate.d/syslog > /var/log/messages Missed it, Will separate message from it, put it in it own conf and hope it keeps. -- Regards, Frank www.fr

Re: F18+ /var/log/messages safely clean/rotate

2013-05-01 09:52, Frank Murphy skrev: How to safely clean /var/log/messages for specific testing. or set it to hourly rotate. Couldn't see specific config in /etc/logrotate.d Have tried "logrotate --force /var/log/messages" lots of "error: /var/log/messages:7137 unknown option 'May' -- ignoring

Monitor turns off on normal boot

Hello Everyone, I'm having trouble getting Fedora (or Ubuntu or Windows) to do a normal boot. When I try to boot Windows or Ubuntu in normal mode, it gets to a certain point then the monitor turns off and nothing more happens. I finally got Fedora 14 to work by selecting basic video. But

Re: F18+ /var/log/messages safely clean/rotate

On 05/01/2013 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: How to safely clean /var/log/messages for specific testing. or set it to hourly rotate. Couldn't see specific config in /etc/logrotate.d Have tried "logrotate --force /var/log/messages" lots of "error: /var/log/messages:7137 unknown option 'May' -- ign

F18+ /var/log/messages safely clean/rotate

How to safely clean /var/log/messages for specific testing. or set it to hourly rotate. Couldn't see specific config in /etc/logrotate.d Have tried "logrotate --force /var/log/messages" lots of "error: /var/log/messages:7137 unknown option 'May' -- ignoring line" I done want to nano "wipe the file