Re: can't boot F19 system

2014-03-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 16, 2014, at 11:19 PM, pgaltieri . wrote: > Well I tried to re-install grub per the link in a previous email. I booted > from DVD, went into rescue mode and did the chroot. I ran > > /sbin/grub2-install /dev/sda > > and on rebooting I get: > > Secure Boot > Image failed to verify wi

Re: can't boot F19 system

2014-03-16 Thread pgaltieri .
Well I tried to re-install grub per the link in a previous email. I booted from DVD, went into rescue mode and did the chroot. I ran /sbin/grub2-install /dev/sda and on rebooting I get: Secure Boot Image failed to verify with Press any key to continue So now what? Anyway to recover from thi

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/17/14 12:52, CS_DBA wrote: > > On 03/16/2014 10:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/17/14 12:02, CS DBA wrote: >>> On 3/16/14, 7:50 PM, CS DBA wrote: On 3/16/14, 4:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/16/2014 03:41 PM, CS DBA wrote: >> However, the Fedora laptop connected to my local acc

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-16 Thread CS_DBA
On 03/16/2014 10:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/17/14 12:02, CS DBA wrote: On 3/16/14, 7:50 PM, CS DBA wrote: On 3/16/14, 4:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2014 03:41 PM, CS DBA wrote: However, the Fedora laptop connected to my local access point shows a download speed of 1.63Mbps, while the

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/17/14 12:02, CS DBA wrote: > On 3/16/14, 7:50 PM, CS DBA wrote: >> On 3/16/14, 4:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 03/16/2014 03:41 PM, CS DBA wrote: However, the Fedora laptop connected to my local access point shows a download speed of 1.63Mbps, while the mac, running the same te

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-16 Thread CS DBA
On 3/16/14, 7:50 PM, CS DBA wrote: On 3/16/14, 4:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2014 03:41 PM, CS DBA wrote: However, the Fedora laptop connected to my local access point shows a download speed of 1.63Mbps, while the mac, running the same test from the same site (http://speedtest.comcast.net)

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-16 Thread CS DBA
On 3/16/14, 4:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2014 03:41 PM, CS DBA wrote: However, the Fedora laptop connected to my local access point shows a download speed of 1.63Mbps, while the mac, running the same test from the same site (http://speedtest.comcast.net) shows a download speed of 26.89Mbps

Re: Backup question

2014-03-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 03:56:18PM -0600, CS DBA wrote: > where would I find a complete list of the completely dynamic top > level directories? These days, there are quite a few special filesystems mounted on a running Linux system, but /proc and /sys are likely to be the only *top level* ones, pl

Re: can't boot F19 system

2014-03-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 16, 2014, at 12:05 PM, pgaltieri . wrote: > Today I needed to power off one of my F19 systems. So I logged out and > selected shutdown from the top right button. Instead of powering off as I > expected, and was told it was going to do from the message that appeared on > the screen, m

Re: Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/16/2014 03:41 PM, CS DBA wrote: However, the Fedora laptop connected to my local access point shows a download speed of 1.63Mbps, while the mac, running the same test from the same site (http://speedtest.comcast.net) shows a download speed of 26.89Mbps Before worrying about things like t

Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

2014-03-16 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; I'm switching from Mac back to Fedora, my new Fedora laptop is a Lenovo W540 with this card: Intel Dual Band Wireless 7260AC I posted about issues earlier, which I've been able to resolve via a clean install. The wireless and wired connections connect immediately and behave as they

Re: need root permission to poweroff

2014-03-16 Thread g
On 03/17/14 01:29, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/16/2014 11:34 AM, g wrote: which is 14 total terminals what might be causing the difference? You're also logged in at the GUI. i thought that was covered by the tty1 - Xorg. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc.hago.

Re: rkhunter sshd warning

2014-03-16 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
John Horne writes: > On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 12:59 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> -- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan >> -- >> Warning: The file '/usr/sbin/sshd' exists on the system, but it is >> not present in the 'rkhunter.dat' file. >> Warnin

Re: Backup question

2014-03-16 Thread CS DBA
On 3/16/14, 12:33 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:29:16PM -0600, CS DBA wrote: I have an rsync script to backup my entire system each time before I run updates, as versions come & go I try and keep up with which top level directories to backup knowing that some like /proc ar

Re: Restoring from Duplicity -- frustration.

2014-03-16 Thread Bill Case
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 15:05 -0400, Bill Case wrote: > On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 14:55 -0400, Bill Case wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I have been at this for four or five hours over two or three days. I > > have googled and manual studied. My goal should be simple but it is not > > turning out that way. > >

Re: Backup question

2014-03-16 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 16.03.2014, CS DBA wrote: > Here's my question: If I simply backup all directories (including ones like > /proc & /media, etc) will the following work, or do I need to care about > specifically excluding the virtual directories? I would run any backup/restore of the root filesystem only when

Re: Restoring from Duplicity -- frustration.

2014-03-16 Thread poma
On 16.03.2014 20:05, Bill Case wrote: > On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 14:55 -0400, Bill Case wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I have been at this for four or five hours over two or three days. I >> have googled and manual studied. My goal should be simple but it is not >> turning out that way. >> >> I backed up regul

Re: rkhunter sshd warning

2014-03-16 Thread John Horne
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 12:59 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > -- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan > -- > Warning: The file '/usr/sbin/sshd' exists on the system, but it is > not present in the 'rkhunter.dat' file. > Warning: The file '/usr/bin/ssh'

Re: rkhunter sshd warning

2014-03-16 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Kevin Fenzi writes: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 12:59:29 -0700 > "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote: >> Are other people seeing this? I'm not looking forward to a full scrub >> and clean installation. > > Did you recently install or update openssh-server, openssh or > telnet-server ? When you update packa

poor font rendering in ffox on f18

2014-03-16 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, Running firefox v26.0 on f18 with xfce and trying to enjoy the new Ted Talks, e.g.: http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_wants_to_grow_energy. Their new site pulls in its own fonts: helvetica-neue. On Chrome it displays perfectly (or falls back to sans-serif???) but on firefox it

Re: rkhunter sshd warning

2014-03-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 12:59:29 -0700 "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote: ...snip... > Are other people seeing this? I'm not looking forward to a full scrub > and clean installation. Did you recently install or update openssh-server, openssh or telnet-server ? When you update packages you need to re-r

rkhunter sshd warning

2014-03-16 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Things that make you go 'hmmm' (see sshd, ssh, telnet mention): From: root (root) To: root Subject: rkhunter Daily Run on [redacted] Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 07:51:04 -0700 - Start Rootkit Hunter Update - [ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! after recent update of Fedora 20

2014-03-16 Thread The Walters
On 3/15/2014 3:36 PM, poma wrote: On 15.03.2014 14:45, The Walters wrote: ... I have googled it and have tried the suggestions but none of them have worked. I also searched the list back quite a few months and nothing showed up. Search 'linux-kernel': http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel h

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 00:44 +0600, g wrote: > > I wouldn't be all that surprised. While I don't know how much the > > finest champagne would cost, I dare say that the good stuff doesn't > cost > > $50 for 20mL, as some inkjet cartridges do. > > next in line in these parts is bottled water costing

Re: need root permission to poweroff

2014-03-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/16/2014 11:34 AM, g wrote: which is 14 total terminals what might be causing the difference? You're also logged in at the GUI. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora

Re: need root permission to poweroff

2014-03-16 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
I don' t know hwat caused it, perhaps by shh from another machine. What can I do to get rid of this problem. When you say you need root permission to power off. Are you doing this from the command line, or GUI? Are you using Gnome, KDE, or another desktop? I am doing this from the GUI. I am

Re: Restoring from Duplicity -- frustration.

2014-03-16 Thread Bill Case
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 14:55 -0400, Bill Case wrote: > Hi: > > I have been at this for four or five hours over two or three days. I > have googled and manual studied. My goal should be simple but it is not > turning out that way. > > I backed up regularly to a second disk sdb on a back up partit

Restoring from Duplicity -- frustration.

2014-03-16 Thread Bill Case
Hi: I have been at this for four or five hours over two or three days. I have googled and manual studied. My goal should be simple but it is not turning out that way. I backed up regularly to a second disk sdb on a back up partition labeled LinuxBUb. The backup file is label bill-19BU. I back

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread g
On 03/16/14 20:32, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 March 2014, Fred Erickson sent: The paper tray only holds about a 1/2in or so of paper and it prints rather slowly. That's something that really annoys me. Even many of the big office printers only let you put in an inch worth of paper

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread g
On 03/16/14 20:26, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 March 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: Urban legend is that inkjet cartridges cost more per litre than the finest champagne. I wouldn't be all that surprised. While I don't know how much the finest champagne would cost, I dare say that

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread g
On 03/15/14 22:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 22:32 +0600, g wrote: <<>> But take up at least twice the space and need another power socket. If I was scanning every day I would consider it, but it's only for very occasional use. granted, you will pay more for individu

Re: need root permission to poweroff

2014-03-16 Thread g
hello ed, On 03/16/14 18:23, Ed Greshko wrote: <<>> That is quite normal. It simply means you have logged in from > the GUI login screen, and you've got a terminal session open. > If you start another terminal session, you'll see a 3rd mention > of "peter". [egreshko@meimei ~]$ who egresh

Re: Backup question

2014-03-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:29:16PM -0600, CS DBA wrote: > I have an rsync script to backup my entire system each time before I > run updates, as versions come & go I try and keep up with which top > level directories to backup knowing that some like /proc are > virtual... > Here's my question: If

Backup question

2014-03-16 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; I have an rsync script to backup my entire system each time before I run updates, as versions come & go I try and keep up with which top level directories to backup knowing that some like /proc are virtual... Here's my question: If I simply backup all directories (including ones lik

Re: can't boot F19 system

2014-03-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/16/2014 02:05 PM, pgaltieri . wrote: > Today I needed to power off one of my F19 systems. So I logged out > and selected shutdown from the top right button. Instead of powering > off as I expected, and was told it was going to do from the message > that appeared on the screen, much to my am

can't boot F19 system

2014-03-16 Thread pgaltieri .
Today I needed to power off one of my F19 systems. So I logged out and selected shutdown from the top right button. Instead of powering off as I expected, and was told it was going to do from the message that appeared on the screen, much to my amazement it didn't. Instead it restarted and went b

Re: black-grey screen and how to add kernel nomodeset in F20?

2014-03-16 Thread poma
On 03/16/2014 03:41 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi Samir, > > Thanks! > >> Searching online, it looks like this laptop has two graphics chips an >> nvidia and an intel, right? > > I had not been aware that there was a choice. So I looked up the > invoice and found: > > Monitor: > > MOD,LCD,13.

Re: anyone set up open DITA toolkit on fedora?

2014-03-16 Thread poma
On 03/16/2014 03:40 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: ... >> Sorry but what exactly is DITA? > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/ > > rday > http://dita-ot.github.io/ "..., is a set of Java-based, ..." :) poma -- users mailing list users@lists.

Re: Fedora 20 network issues

2014-03-16 Thread poma
On 03/16/2014 04:57 PM, CS DBA wrote: > Hi all; > > I'm setting up Fedora 20 on a Lenovo W540, > > I'm seeing network issues : > > - The wireless connections seem unusually slow and I get disconnects often > - The wired connection often will not connect at all > > The wireless card is : > > In

Fedora 20 network issues

2014-03-16 Thread CS DBA
Hi all; I'm setting up Fedora 20 on a Lenovo W540, I'm seeing network issues : - The wireless connections seem unusually slow and I get disconnects often - The wired connection often will not connect at all The wireless card is : Intel Dual Band Wireless 7260AC However I'm not sure why this

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Steven Stern
On 03/16/2014 09:25 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 15 March 2014, Steven Stern sent: >> The first thing to do with an inkjet printer is to find every place a >> default is set in the drivers and specific programs you use to print >> and set them to use fast draft mode. > > And then you g

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 16 March 2014, D. Hugh Redelmeier sent: > 4. With a network printer, you want all your computers to have > drivers. In our household, that's a lot of installation compared with > "let the distro do the work". And it gets repeated with every update > of the drivers and ever

Re: black-grey screen and how to add kernel nomodeset in F20?

2014-03-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi Samir, Thanks! > Searching online, it looks like this laptop has two graphics chips an > nvidia and an intel, right? I had not been aware that there was a choice. So I looked up the invoice and found: Monitor: MOD,LCD,13.3FHD,FML,LED,L322X (320-9392) Video Card: Intel HD 4000 (320-3810)

Re: anyone set up open DITA toolkit on fedora?

2014-03-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:08:02 -0400 "Robert P. J. Day" > wrote: > > > > > i'm going to take a shot at this later today, just curious if > > anyone's been through this and has any advice or warnings about > > pitfalls? thanks. > > > > Sorry but what exa

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 March 2014, Fred Erickson sent: > The paper tray only holds about a 1/2in or so of paper and it prints > rather slowly. That's something that really annoys me. Even many of the big office printers only let you put in an inch worth of paper. What do offices buy A4 paper

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 March 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > Urban legend is that inkjet cartridges cost more per litre than the > finest champagne. I wouldn't be all that surprised. While I don't know how much the finest champagne would cost, I dare say that the good stuff doesn't cost $50

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 15 March 2014, Steven Stern sent: > The first thing to do with an inkjet printer is to find every place a > default is set in the drivers and specific programs you use to print > and set them to use fast draft mode. And then you get incredibly crap printouts. Worse than my

Re: anyone set up open DITA toolkit on fedora?

2014-03-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:08:02 -0400 "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > i'm going to take a shot at this later today, just curious if > anyone's been through this and has any advice or warnings about > pitfalls? thanks. > Sorry but what exactly is DITA? Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is

Re: all in laser printer

2014-03-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 13:59 +0100, Ger van Dijck wrote: > Hi , > > I did find a simple solution : The HP 4620 all in office printer . > > This low cost thing functionates perfect in a network and I run all > utilities under Windowd 8.1 Professional and Fedora 20 (in dual boot !) > without any

all in laser printer

2014-03-16 Thread Ger van Dijck
Hi , I did find a simple solution : The HP 4620 all in office printer . This low cost thing functionates perfect in a network and I run all utilities under Windowd 8.1 Professional and Fedora 20 (in dual boot !) without any problems on Dell Inspiron Lap Tops and as you asked in A4 . Greet

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
Paul Cartwright wrote: > I only have a Samsung CLP-315W color laser printer, but the Samsung > Smartpanel, and the Samsung Unified driver both installed & worked > perfectly with fedora 20.. I just moved from Debian, so I wasn't even > sure it would work. I am so happy!! > I would totally recomme

Re: need root permission to poweroff

2014-03-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/16/14 18:46, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: > Hi, > Since a couple of days I need root permission to poweroff. > It seems that there is a second user logged into the machine. > > $ who > peter:0 2014-03-10 19:04 (:0) > peterpts/02014-03-16 11:36 (:0) > > $ users > peter pet

anyone set up open DITA toolkit on fedora?

2014-03-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm going to take a shot at this later today, just curious if anyone's been through this and has any advice or warnings about pitfalls? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, C

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:18:02 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Not so easy in fact. Most manufacturers make you select 2 out of {laser, > all-in-one, wireless} at least in a reasonable price range. Looks like a > marketing opportunity to me. Yea, an opportunity to market stand alone monochrome l

need root permission to poweroff

2014-03-16 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
Hi, Since a couple of days I need root permission to poweroff. It seems that there is a second user logged into the machine. $ who peter:0 2014-03-10 19:04 (:0) peterpts/02014-03-16 11:36 (:0) $ users peter peter I don' t know hwat caused it, perhaps by shh from anothe

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 05:03 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:45:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > I'm on the lookout for a reliable all-in-one mono laser printer to use > > under Fedora. Must be networked, preferably wireless, and both print and > > scan functions m

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 11:55 -0800, Fred Erickson wrote: > I have the HP Laser Jet Pro CM1415fnw Color MFP. This machine works > fine for me for home/small office use but would not be suitable for an > office where several people would use it. The paper tray only holds > about a 1/2in or so of paper

Re: black-grey screen and how to add kernel nomodeset in F20?

2014-03-16 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 16 March 2014 04:09, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:58:27 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 03/15/2014 06:55 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > I will try this out, but I have no screensavers installed on this XPS > > > 14. (Btw, even Alt-F1-F2-F7, etc has no effect.) > > > > What you

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 15:33 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 03/15/2014 09:45 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I'm on the lookout for a reliable all-in-one mono laser printer to use > > under Fedora. Must be networked, preferably wireless, and both print > > and scan functions must be supported

Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation

2014-03-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/15/2014 11:57 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: 4. With a network printer, you want all your computers to have drivers. In our household, that's a lot of installation compared with "let the distro do the work". And it gets repeated with every update of the drivers and every version of the di