Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.12.2013, Rolf Turner wrote: > Yes It worked. Thank you hugely. You're welcome! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.

Re: Hardware may be failing - how to check it out

2013-12-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/25/2013 11:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 25, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Lenovo x120e https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X120e Why thank you. Some interesting things here. Will have to work on some of the later, but the audio is talked about and

Re: Hardware may be failing - how to check it out

2013-12-25 Thread Edward M
On 12/25/2013 8:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: install the i386; lots of failures and bug reports on the x86_64 install attempts. Happy Holidays While back somebody brought me their system to take a look why they were having problems turned out their ram went bad, it would

Re: Hardware may be failing - how to check it out

2013-12-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 25, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Lenovo x120e https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X120e Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/use

Hardware may be failing - how to check it out

2013-12-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
There have been a few things going weird on this Lenovo x120e and I thought it may have been f17. But now with f20 kind of installed, and with the problems i had getting anything installed, I think I may really have flaky hardware. Here are the problems. Probably the worst is I can't write r

Re: Change locale globally (f20)?

2013-12-25 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Michael Hannon wrote: > > Greetings. I evidently did not pay enough attention when I recently > installed Fedora 20 on my desktop system, as my system appears to be set for > the GB locale. E.g., > > $ env | grep LANG > LANG=en_GB.utf8 > GDM_LANG=en_GB.utf8 > >

Re: relabel

2013-12-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 25, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to clone my distribution fedora 19, I used to do it with > previous release but I failed with fedora 19. > > I copy (-a) the partition / (lvm2) and /boot (ext4) You probably need to remake the initramfs. The easiest way t

Re: relabel

2013-12-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I wanted to clone my distribution fedora 19, I used to do it with previous release but I failed with fedora 19. I copy (-a) the partition / (lvm2) and /boot (ext4) I ran: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg fixfiles relabel (the new partitions) the file grub.cfg seems OK. To try to ha

Change locale globally (f20)?

2013-12-25 Thread Michael Hannon
Greetings. I evidently did not pay enough attention when I recently installed Fedora 20 on my desktop system, as my system appears to be set for the GB locale. E.g., $ env | grep LANG LANG=en_GB.utf8 GDM_LANG=en_GB.utf8 Likewise, the following: $ cd /etc $ find . -type f -exec grep "GB" {} /de

Re: Why did SELinux relable my filesystem?

2013-12-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 25, 2013, at 4:25 AM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > Hello, Everyone > During my most recent re-boot, SELinux relabled my entire filesystem. > Which would be fine, except for the fact that I have SELinux disabled > on my system: > >> # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. >>

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/12/13 11:16, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 24.12.2013, Rolf Turner wrote: WTF do I have to do? 1. Download the latest Flash plugin 2. Copy "libflashplayer.so" to ~/.mozilla/plugins 3. Restart Firefox You're done. And later added: 1. Download the latest Flash plugin http://get.adobe.com/de/fl

Re: relabel

2013-12-25 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 18:46:35 +0100 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > Hello, > > I dupliqued a distribution. > I propably need to relabel the partitions. > and/or run restorecon > How I do it in fedora19 ? > > Thank. > sudo fixfiles onboot # then reboot -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- user

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.12.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: > 1. Download the latest Flash plugin http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/ You choose the .tar.gz archive. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/user

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.12.2013, Rolf Turner wrote: > WTF do I have to do? 1. Download the latest Flash plugin 2. Copy "libflashplayer.so" to ~/.mozilla/plugins 3. Restart Firefox You're done. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread David
On 12/25/2013 4:56 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 26/12/13 07:24, Peter Reed wrote: > > >> >> I had to do this: >> sudo ln >> -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins >> when i ran into this problem. > > Thanks but that's not the problem. I had a look and that sy

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/12/13 10:58, davidscha...@mobilicity.blackberry.com wrote: Sorry for top posting but this phone doesn't allow bottom posting. I too use F17. What I did was download the rpm from adobe and used rpm to install. Flash works just fine except on cp24.com of the sites I visit that requires fla

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread davidschaak1
Sorry for top posting but this phone doesn't allow bottom posting. I too use F17. What I did was download the rpm from adobe and used rpm to install. Flash works just fine except on cp24.com of the sites I visit that requires flash. Yum complains but still works and hasn't caused problems. Dav

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/12/13 07:24, Peter Reed wrote: I had to do this: sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins when i ran into this problem. Thanks but that's not the problem. I had a look and that symbolic link is already in place. cheers, Rolf Turne

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/12/13 10:40, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... i've started keeping my own fedora 20 HOWTO page, and here's my snippet on getting flash to work: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/F20#Flash i followed the instructions on the linked-to page and it just worked. don't forget tha

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
... snip ... i've started keeping my own fedora 20 HOWTO page, and here's my snippet on getting flash to work: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/F20#Flash i followed the instructions on the linked-to page and it just worked. don't forget that you have to completely close firefox and re

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Rolf Turner
On 24/12/13 22:14, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 21:56 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: [Looking for Flash Player] Grateful for any suggestions and/or advice. Googling didn't turn this up? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash Well, not as such. Googling turns up (as always) several m

bumblebee fun

2013-12-25 Thread Robert Dady
Hi everyone! Merry Christmas! I have successfully installed bumblebee on my F20 laptop according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee. I use my laptop mostly as xen server with F20 dom0, and in this setup optirun fails with error accessing seconary GPU and secondary X server, but it works f

creating new RHEL6.5 vm using VMM doesn't create a network

2013-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(note: i was tempted to post this to the "virt" list but i suspect it's something fairly trivial so i'll stick with the basic fedora list, at least for now.) on my new fedora 20 system, i installed all the crucial virt packages with: # yum groupinstall Virtualization then fired up VMM and

Re: Script to install/reinstall OS

2013-12-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 12/25/2013 09:34 PM, bruce wrote: Hi. Anyone have pointers to a script that I can use/modify to allow me to restore/replicate an install once I have a system working. If the "working system" is a VM, it would be "easy". :-) What about some P2V then V2V tool? -- users mailing list users@li

Script to install/reinstall OS

2013-12-25 Thread bruce
Hi. Anyone have pointers to a script that I can use/modify to allow me to restore/replicate an install once I have a system working. I'm looking into chef/puppet/etc.. but wondered if others might have thoughts on this. Actually, something that would not only install the OS, but also copy files

Re: Possibly OT --- Adobe flash player; how to get it to run?

2013-12-25 Thread Peter Reed
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:00:27 +1300 Rolf Turner wrote: > On 24/12/13 21:58, Frank Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:56:22 +1300 > > Rolf Turner wrote: > > > >> People keep sending me links to videos and then when I click on > >> them Firefox says that the video won't play since I don't hav

hacked/recovery steps

2013-12-25 Thread bruce
Reason: -Discovered linux/old fedora system was hacked. -Quick run of rkhunter/chkrootkit revealed hacks, plus the root passwd changed, as well as other issues. Resolution/Steps to recover: -remove the machine -given machine was laptop, with 2.5" drive, make a couple of copies of the complete d

relabel

2013-12-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I dupliqued a distribution. I propably need to relabel the partitions. and/or run restorecon How I do it in fedora19 ? Thank. === Patrick DUPRÉ                                 | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire d

Re: how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 25 Dec 2013, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:32:17 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > I run fetchmail with option mda "/usr/bin/procmail -t -f -" > > > to deliver (and filter) via procmail. > > > >hmmm ... i may try that. i assume that, with this approach, i > >

Re: how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.12.2013, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > I run fetchmail with option mda "/usr/bin/procmail -t -f -" > > > to deliver (and filter) via procmail. > > > >hmmm ... i may try that. i assume that, with this approach, i > > won't need to install sendmail, correct? > Correct. Using MUAs li

Re: how to set up my "fetchmail" on f20 without sendmail?

2013-12-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:32:17 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > I run fetchmail with option mda "/usr/bin/procmail -t -f -" > > to deliver (and filter) via procmail. > >hmmm ... i may try that. i assume that, with this approach, i > won't need to install sendmail, correct? Correct. > and

OT: OVM as nested hypervisor under KVM

2013-12-25 Thread Jamie Bohr
Sorry this is off topic. I am trying to setup OVM (Oracle VM hypervisor) as a nested hypervisor under KVM. OVM installed once I change the network card to e1000 but gives udev trace errors when booting. I have tried several HW combinations, none work. Nesting KVM works without any issues. Any

Re: System mail (Fedora 20)

2013-12-25 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 05:56:58AM +, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 06:30:22 +0100 > lee wrote: > > > A system cannot correctly function without a way for such processes > > to send email. > > Yes, they can. Cron can work whether you know about it or not > eg. "journalctl | grep

Re: Trying to install to new drive, but drive caddy torked

2013-12-25 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 24 December 2013, Robert Moskowitz sent: > The super glue got one out, but still ruined the screwdriver. Next time try mildly tapping the back of the screwdriver handle with another screwdriver handle, a few times, while you try to unscrew. You may just crack the seal/cold-

Re: Strange behavior after "Ctrl | Alt | F2 - Alt | F1" key sequence...

2013-12-25 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 25 December 2013, Steven P. Ulrick sent: > I hit "Ctrl | Alt | F2" to get to a non-graphical console. For a long > time now, pressing "Alt | F1" would bring me back to the graphical > environment. Since I fedup'd to Fedora 20, lots of times (maybe not > always) when I press

Re: System is booting up. See "pam_nologin(8)"

2013-12-25 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 05:28:10 -0600 "Steven P. Ulrick" wrote: > Hello, Everyone > I don't know if this happens every time I log out and then back in, > but it has happened a few times. When I type in my password and hit > enter, a little box pops up that says "pam_nologin(8)" This is kind of > an

Strange behavior after "Ctrl | Alt | F2 - Alt | F1" key sequence...

2013-12-25 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone, I hit "Ctrl | Alt | F2" to get to a non-graphical console. For a long time now, pressing "Alt | F1" would bring me back to the graphical environment. Since I fedup'd to Fedora 20, lots of times (maybe not always) when I press "Alt | F1" instead of being taken back to graphical mod

System is booting up. See "pam_nologin(8)"

2013-12-25 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
Hello, Everyone I don't know if this happens every time I log out and then back in, but it has happened a few times. When I type in my password and hit enter, a little box pops up that says "pam_nologin(8)" This is kind of annoying, because the only workaround that I have found thus far is rebooti

Why did SELinux relable my filesystem?

2013-12-25 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
Hello, Everyone During my most recent re-boot, SELinux relabled my entire filesystem. Which would be fine, except for the fact that I have SELinux disabled on my system: > # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. > # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: > # enforcing -

Re: Kmail and QP

2013-12-25 Thread Kenneth Marcy
On 12/25/2013 12:32 AM, Martin S wrote: I have one contact that uses an email client that sends everyting in QP- encoded. Unfortunately she is also one of the more important contacts I have. Apparently KMail chokes on these messages and displays nothing (apart from a boilerplate message which is

Re: Use firewall-cmd to filter by MAC address?

2013-12-25 Thread Michael Hannon
Thanks, Anthony. Nice idea. I did find a bug report about this (can't find the number at the moment) that indicates somebody has been assigned to enable this feature in firewall-cmd. -- Mike On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Anthony Messina wrote: > On Saturday, December 21, 2013 01:31:30 AM M

Kmail and QP

2013-12-25 Thread Martin S
I have one contact that uses an email client that sends everyting in QP- encoded. Unfortunately she is also one of the more important contacts I have. Apparently KMail chokes on these messages and displays nothing (apart from a boilerplate message which isn't QP encoded). How do I get KMail to re