Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joe Zeff said: > Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time > to translate everything yourself. Putting in comments to make it > easy to understand would be nice, but at this time, I'll refer you > to what Rhett Butler said at the end of Gone With The W

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 21:43:37 -0500 g wrote: > On 08/02/2013 06:33 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > If it doesn't popup when you hover the mouse pointer over the > > widget, it is probably because widgets are "locked". Locking the > > widgets is useful when you set them up as you like them and don't

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread g
On 08/02/2013 02:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: <> Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time to translate everything yourself. Putting in comments to make it easy to understand would be nice, but at this time, I'll refer you to what Rhett Butler said at the end of Gone With

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread g
On 08/02/2013 06:33 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: <> If it doesn't popup when you hover the mouse pointer over the widget, it is probably because widgets are "locked". Locking the widgets is useful when you set them up as you like them and don't want to move or close them accidentally (you lock t

Re: More VirtualBox problems -

2013-08-02 Thread Steven Stern
On 08/02/2013 05:56 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 02/08/13 18:26, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> > I was able to install Fedora-19 to the point where it says to >>> reboot. That looked like a normal install such as I have done before >>> but after that clicking on start simply begins ano

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 8:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 05:00 PM, David wrote: >> Well good then. You changed your system from the distroution defaults to >> what you, personally, want. What works for you. >> >> Windows users do that. they set the default installed system to what >> they want. MacOS u

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 05:00 PM, David wrote: Well good then. You changed your system from the distroution defaults to what you, personally, want. What works for you. Windows users do that. they set the default installed system to what they want. MacOS users do that too. So all is good then? I'd probab

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 7:38 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 04:20 PM, David wrote: >> Then change youe user's config. That is not touched by system changes >> and will override the system configurations. You should, so I do not >> repeat, read my comment to Joe Zeff about this in this thread. > > And tha

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 04:20 PM, David wrote: Then change youe user's config. That is not touched by system changes and will override the system configurations. You should, so I do not repeat, read my comment to Joe Zeff about this in this thread. And that's why I ended up doing exactly that. It gets m

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:11:13 -0500 g wrote: > On 08/02/2013 02:23 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > can help you learn what's what, and express yourself a bit better. > > what i am referring to is #9 - folder view widget. but they do not > show the 'pop out' sidebar. Right, ok. That "sidebar" you r

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 5:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:08:26 -0400 > David wrote: > >> You do know that you can change the system default? > > Not very easily. Every time the package that owns the file > gets an update, the original is put back. > > In fact, I have thwarted that on my

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 4:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 01:08 PM, David wrote: >> You do know that you can change the system default? As well as changing >> it in your users .bashrc file? The best of two worlds you and Joe get it >> your way and the rest of the Fedora world gets it their way. > > Yes

Re: More VirtualBox problems -

2013-08-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/03/13 06:56, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > That was what I needed, those icons don't show up very well and just say that > they "indicate" various functions. I was able to "eject" the disk and then > Fedora started as expected. The Gnome 3 desk top is strange to say the least.

Re: More VirtualBox problems -

2013-08-02 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 02/08/13 18:26, Ed Greshko wrote: > I was able to install Fedora-19 to the point where it says to reboot. That looked like a normal install such as I have done before but after that clicking on start simply begins another install process. > > What am I doing wrong? > > The DVD didn't eject.

Re: More VirtualBox problems -

2013-08-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/03/13 05:43, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > I am almost ashamed to present another VirtualBox question but it's use is > not intuitive [for me anyway]. > > I yum removed VB and re-installed from VirtualBox.org. That solved the > problem of it not running with the kernel from t

Re: More VirtualBox problems -

2013-08-02 Thread Steven Stern
On 08/02/2013 04:43 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > I am almost ashamed to present another VirtualBox question but it's use > is not intuitive [for me anyway]. > > I yum removed VB and re-installed from VirtualBox.org. That solved the > problem of it not running with the kernel f

Re: No Bluetooth device is detected

2013-08-02 Thread antonio
Joe Zeff ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 02/08/2013 23:13: On 08/02/2013 02:04 PM, antonio wrote: upgraded by fedup. What are the missing packages?? I don't know, not using bluetooth. Try running yumex and have it search for bluetooth. Then, look at the ones that aren't insta

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 02:31 PM, inode0 wrote: Not every bug will be fixed. If that isn't your expectation then you really should adjust your expectations. If some number of cases of what you perceive to be wasted effort outweighs those cases where bugs are fixed and millions of people benefit because of

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 02:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: In fact, I have thwarted that on my system by running a yum "hook" function that re-applies all my hacks every time there is an update, but it is silly that I have to resort to that. This is why I referred to my method as elegant: I don't need to know

Re: More VirtualBox problems -

2013-08-02 Thread Andre Robatino
Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wildblue.net> writes: > I was able to install Fedora-19 to the point where it says to reboot. > That looked like a normal install such as I have done before but after > that clicking on start simply begins another install process. > > What am I doing wrong? O

More VirtualBox problems -

2013-08-02 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
I am almost ashamed to present another VirtualBox question but it's use is not intuitive [for me anyway]. I yum removed VB and re-installed from VirtualBox.org. That solved the problem of it not running with the kernel from this morning's update. I also downloaded Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso [4

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread inode0
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 2 August 2013 19:09, inode0 wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >>> On 02.08.2013, inode0 wrote: >>> Failure to have your expectations met leads to demotivation and the easiest way to fix that is to change

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:08:26 -0400 David wrote: > You do know that you can change the system default? Not very easily. Every time the package that owns the file gets an update, the original is put back. In fact, I have thwarted that on my system by running a yum "hook" function that re-applies a

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:30:57 -0400 David wrote: Many others like them since you are the only user to complain. No, he's not. It is especially fun when your default terminal colors are light foreground and dark background. Most ls output goes almost inv

Re: No Bluetooth device is detected

2013-08-02 Thread antonio
Joe Zeff ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 02/08/2013 23:02: On 08/02/2013 01:37 PM, antonio wrote: furthermore, same device was working fine in F18...what happened??? Did you upgrade with fedup, or do a fresh install? I ask because I used fedup on both my desktop and laptop[1

Re: No Bluetooth device is detected

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 02:04 PM, antonio wrote: upgraded by fedup. What are the missing packages?? I don't know, not using bluetooth. Try running yumex and have it search for bluetooth. Then, look at the ones that aren't installed (color coded) and see if any of them look like what you need. -- use

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread g
On 08/02/2013 02:28 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: <> OK, what I *think* you are talking about, then is the KDE plasma widget for the desktop folder, called a "folder view." What you are calling a "sidebar" is, I think, called a "handle" among KDE folk (and I'm not one). What it sounds like is that

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread g
On 08/02/2013 02:23 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: <> can help you learn what's what, and express yourself a bit better. thank you marko. nice bit of info. what i am referring to is #9 - folder view widget. but they do not show the 'pop out' sidebar. HTH, :-) it did. -- peace out. in a

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread g
On 08/02/2013 01:48 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: <> I don't see anything on this url, it requires me to register and log in. Please provide a better url, that one can access without restrictions. my bad. i had trouble with that site also, and i am registered. so, here is a new url, no registr

Re: No Bluetooth device is detected

2013-08-02 Thread antonio
Joe Zeff ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 02/08/2013 23:02: On 08/02/2013 01:37 PM, antonio wrote: furthermore, same device was working fine in F18...what happened??? Did you upgrade with fedup, or do a fresh install? I ask because I used fedup on both my desktop and laptop[1

Re: Grub2 problems

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 01:52 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Hey, Joe, "even a blind pig finds the occasional truffle!" I'd hope so. Pigs find truffles by scent. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: No Bluetooth device is detected

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 01:37 PM, antonio wrote: furthermore, same device was working fine in F18...what happened??? Did you upgrade with fedup, or do a fresh install? I ask because I used fedup on both my desktop and laptop[1]. In both cases, sound had to be reconfigured, and part of pulseaudio ha

Re: Grub2 problems

2013-08-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/02/2013 01:32 PM, Joe Zeff issued this missive: On 08/02/2013 01:19 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: 1. Use the arrow keys to highlight the kernel you want to modify 2. Press "E" to begin editing that entry 3. Use the arrow keys to scroll down to the line beginning with "linux" 4. Press the "END" k

Re: No Bluetooth device is detected

2013-08-02 Thread antonio
Fred Smith ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 02/08/2013 19:55: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 07:25:38PM +0200, antonio wrote: when I check in Bluetooth, O get that no device is detected, but: lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam Bus 006 Device 002:

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 August 2013 19:09, inode0 wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> On 02.08.2013, inode0 wrote: >> >>> Failure to have your expectations met leads to demotivation and the >>> easiest way to fix that is to change your expectations. >> >> It's free software, and therefor

Re: No Bluetooth device is detected

2013-08-02 Thread antonio
Fred Smith ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 02/08/2013 19:55: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 07:25:38PM +0200, antonio wrote: when I check in Bluetooth, O get that no device is detected, but: lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam Bus 006 Device 002:

Re: No Bluetooth device is detected

2013-08-02 Thread antonio
Fred Smith ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 02/08/2013 19:55: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 07:25:38PM +0200, antonio wrote: when I check in Bluetooth, O get that no device is detected, but: lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam Bus 006 Device 002:

Re: Grub2 problems

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 01:19 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: 1. Use the arrow keys to highlight the kernel you want to modify 2. Press "E" to begin editing that entry 3. Use the arrow keys to scroll down to the line beginning with "linux" 4. Press the "END" key to go to the end of the line 5. Tack on a space and

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 01:08 PM, David wrote: You do know that you can change the system default? As well as changing it in your users .bashrc file? The best of two worlds you and Joe get it your way and the rest of the Fedora world gets it their way. Yes, and that's why instead of wasting time with a p

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 12:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:30:57 -0400 David wrote: Many others like them since you are the only user to complain. No, he's not. It is especially fun when your default terminal colors are light foreground and dark background. Most ls output goes almost

Re: Grub2 problems

2013-08-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/02/2013 11:36 AM, Frank issued this missive: I have been having some minor problems with grub2 lately - grub is installed in /dev/sda the only HD on this machine. When the grub menu comes up after a boot/reboot I cannot select certain items as the selection bar just skips by them. Usually

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 8/2/2013 1:08 PM, David wrote: On 8/2/2013 3:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: [...] So there is *two* of you? :-) Seriously I can see your problem here. I seriously doubt there are plans to change this or make a GUI to change it. And I seriously doubt that comments here will make any difference.

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Joe, On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 12:11:58PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 12:03 PM, David wrote: > >Unless something changed when I was not looking the codes you refer to > >are ANSI color and ANSI control codes. > > Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time to

Re: Yum + Java

2013-08-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
Frédéric Bron wrote: >> So what exactly does the comment/warning mean? >> And what should one do about it? > > see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=991340 Thanks for the response. As far as I can see, java and its bits have been set up correctly, despite the warning by yum. I checked

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 12:30 PM, David wrote: As for the colors? Linux is about choice. You don't like them? Remove them and go on your merry way. Many others like them since you are the only user to complain. Or, and this is a distinct possibility, I'm the only one who doesn't like them and is aware

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 3:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:30:57 -0400 > David wrote: > >> Many others like them since you are the >> only user to complain. > > No, he's not. > > It is especially fun when your default terminal colors are > light foreground and dark background. Most ls outp

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:30:57 -0400 David wrote: > Many others like them since you are the > only user to complain. No, he's not. It is especially fun when your default terminal colors are light foreground and dark background. Most ls output goes almost invisible. -- users mailing list users@lis

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 3:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 12:03 PM, David wrote: >> Unless something changed when I was not looking the codes you refer to >> are ANSI color and ANSI control codes. > > Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time to > translate everything yoursel

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, g wrote: On 08/02/2013 10:36 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: <<>> I think you may be using some words differently than I do, so let me ask you a couple of quick questions: i agree, there is a lot of differences between fedora and scientific linux. this release, 6.3, is compara

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 19:48:16 +0100 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:44:26 -0500 > g wrote: > > if you will have a look at this url; > > > > > > http://imageshack.us/content_round.php?page=done&id=4tHclZ6il56ql6TZ0e2YmunS3A From the thumbnail of your desktop on that page, I can

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 12:03 PM, David wrote: Unless something changed when I was not looking the codes you refer to are ANSI color and ANSI control codes. Which helps if and only if you have a list of them and take the time to translate everything yourself. Putting in comments to make it easy to und

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread David
On 8/2/2013 2:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/02/2013 05:27 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: >> The colors are defined in /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh: > > Reading that, the alias is set up, but there's no listing of which color > means what. And, if you do track that down, it's all in hex codes, so > tha

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:44:26 -0500 g wrote: > as mentioned in 1st post, i did not receive any reply from sl list. a > little surprising, but, then again, what to expect from a bunch of > "nuke heads". ;=) > > i should have made it easier all around to prevent confusion and make > my question more

Grub2 problems

2013-08-02 Thread Frank
I have been having some minor problems with grub2 lately - grub is installed in /dev/sda the only HD on this machine. When the grub menu comes up after a boot/reboot I cannot select certain items as the selection bar just skips by them. Usually I can select them if I start at the bottom and then

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/02/2013 05:27 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: The colors are defined in /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh: Reading that, the alias is set up, but there's no listing of which color means what. And, if you do track that down, it's all in hex codes, so that there's no easy way to find out what those

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread inode0
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 02.08.2013, inode0 wrote: > >> Failure to have your expectations met leads to demotivation and the >> easiest way to fix that is to change your expectations. > > It's free software, and therefore I'm not expecting that people find the > time

Re: No Bluetooth device is detected

2013-08-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 07:25:38PM +0200, antonio wrote: > when I check in Bluetooth, O get that no device is detected, but: > lsusb > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam > Bus 006 Device 002: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver > v1.0 for Bluetooth > > w

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread g
On 08/02/2013 10:36 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: <<>> I think you may be using some words differently than I do, so let me ask you a couple of quick questions: i agree, there is a lot of differences between fedora and scientific linux. this release, 6.3, is comparable to rhel 6.3, well behind fedo

No Bluetooth device is detected

2013-08-02 Thread antonio
when I check in Bluetooth, O get that no device is detected, but: lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam Bus 006 Device 002: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth what is wrong??? -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F19(Sch

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.08.2013, inode0 wrote: > Failure to have your expectations met leads to demotivation and the > easiest way to fix that is to change your expectations. It's free software, and therefore I'm not expecting that people find the time to fix my bug. In 99% of all cases, the bug is reported elsew

Re: Yum + Java

2013-08-02 Thread Frédéric Bron
> So what exactly does the comment/warning mean? > And what should one do about it? see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=991340 Frédéric -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/02/2013 05:27 AM, Darryl L. Pierce issued this missive: On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/01/2013 06:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:07:07 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest way

Re: desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread Bill Oliver
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, g wrote: greetings, first off, i am running scientific linux 6.3 with kde 4.3.4 and i asked this question on the sl list, but, received no answer. my problem is that for some reason or other, i have now killed off the desktop by accidentally clicking the "x" that appears

Re: I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

2013-08-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.08.2013 16:49, schrieb Jatin K: > On Friday 02 August 2013 12:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 02.08.2013 08:59, schrieb Darlene Wallach: >>> I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room >>> One time I saw the login options - when I logged in I only saw a black >

desktop file location

2013-08-02 Thread g
greetings, first off, i am running scientific linux 6.3 with kde 4.3.4 and i asked this question on the sl list, but, received no answer. my problem is that for some reason or other, i have now killed off the desktop by accidentally clicking the "x" that appears in the 'sidebar' [which may not

Re: I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

2013-08-02 Thread Jatin K
On Friday 02 August 2013 12:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.08.2013 08:59, schrieb Darlene Wallach: I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room One time I saw the login options - when I logged in I only saw a black screen. Other than doing an install, is there a way

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Tim
Tim: >> But it's kind of hard to believe that all the bugs a person might have >> reported can't be fixed within the same release. As the original >> responder suggested, why bother making reports... Tom Horsley: > Because sometimes they become a source of great amusement like > this one: > > ht

Re: GUI unusable after upgrade from F 17 to F 19

2013-08-02 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 21:58 -0400, Doug wrote: > This may be too late, but NEVER remove any file unless you know what > it's supposed to do, or you have replaced it with one that you know > works. Instead, make a copy--file.bak or file.old or something that > you can return to if you need to. Be c

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 August 2013 14:55, inode0 wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> On 02.08.2013, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> >>> While one could consider not answering a bugreport to be a display of >>> bad manners >> >> It first and foremost is demotivating, which in turn results in fe

Re: I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

2013-08-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.08.2013 08:59, schrieb Darlene Wallach: > I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room > One time I saw the login options - when I logged in I only saw a black screen. > Other than doing an install, is there a way to recover the files in /tmp? > argh! It pays to be

Re: VirtualBox and the USB flash drive -

2013-08-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.08.2013 22:58, schrieb Bill Oliver: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 01.08.2013 21:35, schrieb Bill Oliver: >>> I don't understand your complaint -- that there's a config directory *and* >>> a disk directory? I don't find that an >>> overwhelming burden. >>> The command "c

Re: Is there a way to force an update/upgrade in yum?

2013-08-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.08.2013 22:51, schrieb Joe Zeff: > There's one package that I can't get upgraded, and it's driving me up the > wall because every time I run an update > via yum or yumex, I have to remember to exclude it: firefox. Here's the > results of my latest try: > > Transaction check error: > fil

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.08.2013 22:31, schrieb Tethys: > So here I am, sat with an inbox full of bugs that I reported when F17 > came out and now they're being closed as F17 is EOL. Once again, > several of them don't appear to have even been looked over *at all* by > the package maintainer. I wonder why I bother

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread inode0
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 02.08.2013, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> While one could consider not answering a bugreport to be a display of >> bad manners > > It first and foremost is demotivating, which in turn results in fewer > bug reports, which in turn results in wor

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 15:00:16 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 02.08.2013, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > While one could consider not answering a bugreport to be a display of > > bad manners > > It first and foremost is demotivating, which in turn results in fewer > bug reports, which in turn result

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.08.2013, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > While one could consider not answering a bugreport to be a display of > bad manners It first and foremost is demotivating, which in turn results in fewer bug reports, which in turn results in worse software.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: turn off bash colored prompts for all users

2013-08-02 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/01/2013 06:20 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > >On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:07:07 -0400 > >Neal Becker wrote: > > > >>I suspect colored prompts are confusing emacs tramp. What's the easiest > >>way to > >>turn it off for all users (especially r

Yum + Java

2013-08-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
I noticed today when updating my Fedora-19/KDE laptop: Cleanup: 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.25-2.3.10.10.fc19.i686 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.25-2.3.10.10.fc19.i386/jre/bin/jav

Re: It's that time again

2013-08-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:16:21 +0930 Tim wrote: > But it's kind of hard to believe that all the bugs a person might have > reported can't be fixed within the same release. As the original > responder suggested, why bother making reports... Because sometimes they become a source of great amusement

Re: I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

2013-08-02 Thread Darlene Wallach
Konstantin, On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 08/01/2013 11:59 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote: >> I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room >> >> Now I get errors when I boot and try to login >> >> - There is a problem with the configuration se

Re: I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

2013-08-02 Thread Darlene Wallach
Suvayu, On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:59:43PM -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote: >> I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room >> >> Now I get errors when I boot and try to login > > AFAIK, /tmp is a tmpfs filesystem in new

Re: I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

2013-08-02 Thread Darlene Wallach
Reindl, On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 02.08.2013 08:59, schrieb Darlene Wallach: >> I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room >> One time I saw the login options - when I logged in I only saw a black >> screen. >> Other than doing an i

Re: I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

2013-08-02 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 08/01/2013 11:59 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote: > I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room > > Now I get errors when I boot and try to login > > - There is a problem with the configuration server. > (/usr/libexec/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256) > > When I

Re: I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

2013-08-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:59:43PM -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote: > I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room > > Now I get errors when I boot and try to login AFAIK, /tmp is a tmpfs filesystem in newer Fedoras. That means, you can just reboot, and things will be bac

I somehow managed to delete /tmp now I get errors when I try to boot and login

2013-08-02 Thread Darlene Wallach
I somehow deleted /tmp when I was deleting files from /tmp to make room Now I get errors when I boot and try to login - There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/libexec/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256) When I close that, I get: Install problem! The configuration defau