Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-03 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 3 February 2014 19:40, Stephen Berg (Contractor) < stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote: > I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my system using > gnome. GDM starts, I put in user name and password and the login starts > but I never get a desktop loaded and usable. > > What

Re: BTRFS/Rollback & Yum Snapshot Plugin

2014-02-03 Thread James Hogarth
On 3 Feb 2014 18:26, "Chris Murphy" wrote: > Note also that opensuse has a different layout for all of this than Fedora. They make the default subvolume ID 5 (the top level of the Btrfs file system, the first subvolume, the one that can't be deleted or named) the parent and mount it at /. And then

Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20 [SOLVED]

2014-02-03 Thread g
On 02/03/2014 08:13 PM, Roger wrote: <> If it's bad then make it good. "bad" can be _good_. like, "bad ass software". like, "bad to the bone". "bad" as _good_ just depends on which side of the "big pond" you are from. I don't propose changing the world but promoting Linux is front and c

Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20 [SOLVED]

2014-02-03 Thread Roger
Totem in F19+ use gstreamer 1.0 as opposed to gstreamer 0.10. Be sure you have "gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld" installed. When naming such things, has anyone considered how it looks to a novice to be installing a plugin or app that contains the words bad, freeworld and such like or even

Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20 [SOLVED]

2014-02-03 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 08:17 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > I have libdvdcss from Livna and gstreamer-plugins-bad (who's idea was > > naming the gstreamer-plugins-* series, anyway?) from RPM Fusion Free > > (which contains /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstdvdspu.so).

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-03 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 02/03/2014 01:17 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/02/14 21:59, Tim wrote: >> Or a cordless mouse... The usual wireless ones are a pain, you have to >> keep on replacing or recharging batteries, and resyncing hardware (the >> transmitter and receiver pair). > > Not sure what you mean by the "usual

Re: 2 TB Seagate Drive ??

2014-02-03 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Jim wrote: Fedora 18. Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST2000DM001 Has anyone had any experiernce with this hard drive on Linux. I have one on a CentOS 5 box (yes, I'd like to upgr

Re: 2 TB Seagate Drive ??

2014-02-03 Thread g
On 02/03/2014 12:23 PM, Digimer wrote: On 03/02/14 01:15 PM, Jim wrote: Fedora 18. Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST2000DM001 Has anyone had any experiernce with this hard drive on Linux. It should be just fine. Also, please don't

Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-03 Thread g
On 02/03/2014 11:40 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my system using gnome. GDM starts, I put in user name and password and the login starts but I never get a desktop loaded and usable. being a kde user, i can not suggest to look for.

Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20

2014-02-03 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:02:54 + Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 18:10 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 10:59:16PM +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > > Have you tried using VLC instead? > > I hadn't, but I did at your suggestion. After a couple of false

Re: UEFI issue for dual boot.

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Murphy
FYI good article on UEFI by Fedora's AdamW. https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/ Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: BTRFS/Rollback & Yum Snapshot Plugin

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:44 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 01/30/2014 09:02 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: >> Now, here's the thing. I wanted to permanently run off these snapshots >> so I wanted to delete the parent "subvolumes" for these snapshots (e.g. >> "commit" the snapshot) by doing: >> >> # mou

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/03/14 23:01, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> Or a cordless mouse... The usual wireless ones are a pain, you have >>> to keep on replacing or recharging batteries, and resyncing hardware >>> (the transmitter and receiver pair). > Ed Greshko: >> Not sure what you mean by the "usual wireless ones". > Us

Re: rkhunter warnings, maybe yum issues?

2014-02-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:27:43 -0500, William wrote: > Michael asks: > > > Could you give an example showing the queries you've performed? > > > > "whereis" looks for files available on the file-system in various paths. > > "rpm" only covers files included in installed RPM packages as tracked b

Re: BTRFS/Rollback & Yum Snapshot Plugin

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 31, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > Ok, I might check that. All these years I've been using Clonezilla to > do a "partition image" of my root filesystem before applying major > updates. I have the ISO stored on my disk and GRUB2 is configured to > boot ("loopback") this ima

Re: 2 TB Seagate Drive ??

2014-02-03 Thread Digimer
On 03/02/14 01:15 PM, Jim wrote: Fedora 18. Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST2000DM001 Has anyone had any experiernce with this hard drive on Linux. It should be just fine. Also, please don't use massive fonts. -- Digimer Papers and P

2 TB Seagate Drive ??

2014-02-03 Thread Jim
Fedora 18. Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST2000DM001 Has anyone had any experiernce with this hard drive on Linux. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-03 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my system using gnome. GDM starts, I put in user name and password and the login starts but I never get a desktop loaded and usable. Fedora 20 gnome-shell-3.10.3-2 Nvidia GT330 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.38.run compiled locally from geforce.co

Re: UEFI issue for dual boot.

2014-02-03 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > I have EFI but at startup before BIOS, I can select how to boot up a CD > or whatever, and couple of the choices are EFI or legacy (old way). I > choose legacy, then do the install and therefore use normal grub2 and > dual boot with no issues

Re: UEFI issue for dual boot.

2014-02-03 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 21:18 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > Hello, > > Successfully installed F19 (a few months ago) with UEFI and it boots > into Fedora with no issues. Trying to boot into Windows gives an error > about finding the EFI files. > > On investigation, I find that there are two EFI bo

Re: BTRFS/Rollback & Yum Snapshot Plugin

2014-02-03 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 01/30/2014 09:02 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Now, here's the thing. I wanted to permanently run off these snapshots > so I wanted to delete the parent "subvolumes" for these snapshots (e.g. > "commit" the snapshot) by doing: > > # mount -o subvolid=5 /dev/vda3 /mnt > # btrfs subvolume delete /

Re: sound works randomly?

2014-02-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:20:02 +1030 Tim wrote: > aplay is the old alsa play utility, it may not be using pulse-audio, > perhaps that's why it jams. Likewise with some other applications, they > might not use pulse-audio, or might need configuring to do so. Nope, they all claim to be using pulse,

Re: Text selection and mouse button sensitivity

2014-02-03 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Or a cordless mouse... The usual wireless ones are a pain, you have >> to keep on replacing or recharging batteries, and resyncing hardware >> (the transmitter and receiver pair). Ed Greshko: > Not sure what you mean by the "usual wireless ones". Usual, in the type of design. A receive

Re: sound works randomly?

2014-02-03 Thread Tim
Tom Horsley: >> I'm very confused. If I run the gnome sound control, >> test speakers works fine. If I run "play", the sound >> plays normally. If I run "aplay", I got no sound till >> I rebooted, then aplay started to work, but if I run >> mplayer or youtube in google-chrome, I still get no sound.

Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20

2014-02-03 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Matthew Saltzman wrote: I have libdvdcss from Livna and gstreamer-plugins-bad (who's idea was naming the gstreamer-plugins-* series, anyway?) from RPM Fusion Free (which contains /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstdvdspu.so). But when I play a commercial DVD, Totem reports that it can't find the Su

Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20

2014-02-03 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 18:10 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 10:59:16PM +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > I have libdvdcss from Livna and gstreamer-plugins-bad (who's idea was > > naming the gstreamer-plugins-* series, anyway?) from RPM Fusion Free > > (which contains /usr/lib64

Re: Libreoffice problem related to PDF forms

2014-02-03 Thread Joachim Backes
On 02/02/2014 10:58 PM, Robin Laing wrote: > On 2014-02-02 14:34, Joachim Backes wrote: >> On 02/02/2014 09:51 PM, Robin Laing wrote: >>> On 2014-01-28 03:57, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi all, > > snip > Anybody can explain this? Kind regards Joachim Backes >