Re: f17 no internet after power failure, power restored

2013-05-26 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 17:36 -0700, jackson byers wrote: > > I am concerned re > notes section from 'man hwclock' > > > > "It is important that the System Time not have any dis‐ >continuities such as would happen if you used the >date(1L) program to set it while the sys

Re[2]: Error installing a package ??

2013-05-26 Thread Len Philpot
On 05/26/2013 at 07:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >On 05/27/13 08:19, Jim wrote: >> Fedora 18, Trying to install a package, nitroshare-0.2-2.i386.rpm and I get the following error message, What Gives ?? > >You have downloaded a poorly packaged application. It is potentially making changes to permissio

Re: Error installing a package ??

2013-05-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/27/13 08:19, Jim wrote: > Fedora 18, Trying to install a package, nitroshare-0.2-2.i386.rpm and I get > the following error message, What Gives ?? You have downloaded a poorly packaged application. It is potentially making changes to permissions and/or selinux contexts on /, /usr, /opt an

Re: f17 no internet after power failure, power restored

2013-05-26 Thread jackson byers
>If it keeps resetting to the same wrong date, chances are the power >failure caused your machine's hardware clock to be set to the wrong >time. Try first getting your OS system clock set properly (as you have >done already), and then use "hwclock" to sync the hardware clock to the >system clock. I

Error installing a package ??

2013-05-26 Thread Jim
Fedora 18, Trying to install a package, nitroshare-0.2-2.i386.rpm and I get the following error message, What Gives ?? # yum -y localinstall nitroshare-0.2-2.i386.rpm Loaded plugins: keys, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, versionlock Examining nitroshare-0.2-2.i386.rpm: nitroshare-0.2-2.

Re: Dual screen video display problem

2013-05-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/26/2013 04:20 PM, Robin Laing wrote: During today's searches, I realized that I have not done a full look through the boot sequence to see when the screen changes from single to mirrored(cloned) from single screen. I will check dmesg closer tomorrow at work. Grep is your friend, here, al

Re: Dual screen video display problem

2013-05-26 Thread Robin Laing
On 2013-05-26 17:08, David wrote: > On 5/26/2013 7:06 PM, David wrote: >> On 5/26/2013 5:54 PM, Robin Laing wrote: >>> On 2013-05-25 10:25, ergodic wrote: I have a similar problem. In previous Fedoras it was possible to select the monitor to be used during booting or display the booting

Re: Dual screen video display problem

2013-05-26 Thread David
On 5/26/2013 5:54 PM, Robin Laing wrote: > On 2013-05-25 10:25, ergodic wrote: >> I have a similar problem. In previous Fedoras it was possible to select >> the monitor to be used during booting or display the booting screen in >> both monitors. >> >> It looks that the distro is becoming less fle

Re: Dual screen video display problem

2013-05-26 Thread David
On 5/26/2013 7:06 PM, David wrote: > On 5/26/2013 5:54 PM, Robin Laing wrote: >> On 2013-05-25 10:25, ergodic wrote: >>> I have a similar problem. In previous Fedoras it was possible to select >>> the monitor to be used during booting or display the booting screen in >>> both monitors. >>> >>> It

Re: Dual screen video display problem

2013-05-26 Thread Robin Laing
On 2013-05-25 10:25, ergodic wrote: > I have a similar problem. In previous Fedoras it was possible to select > the monitor to be used during booting or display the booting screen in > both monitors. > > It looks that the distro is becoming less flexible or much harder to > configure. > It is

Re: f17 no internet after power failure, power restored

2013-05-26 Thread Greg Woods
If it keeps resetting to the same wrong date, chances are the power failure caused your machine's hardware clock to be set to the wrong time. Try first getting your OS system clock set properly (as you have done already), and then use "hwclock" to sync the hardware clock to the system clock. I have

Re: f17 no internet after power failure, power restored

2013-05-26 Thread jackson byers
>Most likely. Either the power failed in a bad way, upsetting the >hardware in your computer along the way, or your CMOS battery may be >running low, and this failure happened coincidentally. >If you often leave your computer switched off for many hours and your >clock is fine, then the battery i

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/26/2013 05:11 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: The same address assigned is in the 192.168.1.xxx range & is, obviously, internal. The dynamic IP is external & this is the one that changes & I have no control over it (& I can't get a static IP unfortunately). Sorry, I'd been under the impression tha

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 02:00 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning > always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. > > A couple of days ago the IP changed & since then, one of the machines > running Fedora 17 always fails first time to conne

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 02:54 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [...] > Dumb question - have you checked the network connection? See if > changing the cable or the port on the switch helps. It seams strange > that the external IP address changing would cause this, but for some > strange reason hardware probl

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 02:54 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 05/26/2013 07:18 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> On 05/26/2013 11:54 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> On 05/25/2013 08:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning alwa

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 05/26/2013 07:18 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 05/26/2013 11:54 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> On 05/25/2013 08:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >>> Hi, all. >>> >>> I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning >>> always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. >>> >>> A couple of

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 11:54 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 05/25/2013 08:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning >> always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. >> >> A couple of days ago the IP changed & since then, one of the ma

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 05/26/2013 02:21 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/25/2013 06:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning >> always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. >> >> A couple of days ago the IP changed & since then, one of the machines >> running Fedora

Re: Weird network problem

2013-05-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 05/25/2013 08:00 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi, all. > > I've got several machines on a LAN behind a NAT with DHCP assigning > always the same addresses from a dynamic IP. > > A couple of days ago the IP changed & since then, one of the machines > running Fedora 17 always fails first time to conne