Re: input devices

2014-05-29 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 3:58 AM, lee wrote: > I don`t /have/ to use PS/2, but I /want/ to use PS/2. USB devices must > be polled, which makes them slow. Using USB for this has only > disadvantages, with the only exception that the devices can be > hotplugged. You can adjust the USB mouse pollin

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

2014-05-29 Thread lee
Chris Murphy writes: > On May 29, 2014, at 12:29 PM, lee wrote: >> I`m not saying that I have no idea what LVM is, only that I don`t have >> use for it. > > But whatever, if you know what it is, and you know that you don't need > it, you don't really have much reason to just advertise that you

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

2014-05-29 Thread lee
Stephen Morris writes: > Hi Lee, > Just my 2 cents worth, the dot you are seeing on the top left of > the screen is displayed just before the grub boot menu is displayed, > which as the menu is not displayed means that the system can't find > grub.cfg which is in /boot/grub2. I haven't tried

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

2014-05-29 Thread lee
Chris Murphy writes: > On May 29, 2014, at 6:19 AM, lee wrote: >> >> More importantly, the system doesn`t boot. Any ideas how to install >> Fedora with the setup I described so that it boots, or how to get it to >> boot? > > There are more than 10,000 reasons why a system won't boot. So you're

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

2014-05-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 29, 2014, at 12:29 PM, lee wrote: > I`m not saying that I have no idea what LVM is, only that I don`t have > use for it. I still think it shouldn't be default for workstation or cloud, only for server. It's got very cool features, but it causes way more problems and complications than

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

2014-05-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 29, 2014, at 6:19 AM, lee wrote: > > More importantly, the system doesn`t boot. Any ideas how to install > Fedora with the setup I described so that it boots, or how to get it to > boot? There are more than 10,000 reasons why a system won't boot. So you're going to have to tell us what

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 29, 2014, at 5:31 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Heinz Diehl wrote: > >>> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop >>> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB). > >> I've done that quite often, and it's no problem. >> >> 1. Boot from an external medium, e.g. www.sysrescc

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

2014-05-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 05/30/2014 04:29 AM, lee wrote: Sudhir Khanger writes: On Thursday, May 29, 2014 02:19:55 PM lee wrote: Sudhir Khanger writes: On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 08:24:09 PM lee wrote: The built-in dedicated graphics card is not used but not switched off, either. The resulting power drain woul

Re: CUPS service does not running F18

2014-05-29 Thread David Carpio
On Thu 29 May 2014 01:02:59 PM PET, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/29/2014 08:12 AM, David Carpio wrote: I have reinstalled again and again but it is the same result. If reinstalling once didn't work, why did you waste time trying again? II just tried it 3 times checking another solutions, but now I

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

2014-05-29 Thread lee
Sudhir Khanger writes: > On Thursday, May 29, 2014 02:19:55 PM lee wrote: >> Sudhir Khanger writes: >> > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 08:24:09 PM lee wrote: >> >> The built-in dedicated graphics card is not used but not switched off, >> >> either. The resulting power drain would make it impossibl

perl6 problem

2014-05-29 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi there, Running perl6 gives: Missing or wrong version of dependency 'gen/parrot/stage2/QRegex.nqp' current instr.: '' pc 16529 (src/gen/perl6-pod.pir:6594) (src/Perl6/Pod.nqp:499) called from Sub '' pc 1819 (gen/parrot/stage2/module_loader.pir:848) (src/vm/parrot/ModuleLoader.nqp:47) called from

Re: CUPS service does not running F18

2014-05-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/29/2014 08:12 AM, David Carpio wrote: I have reinstalled again and again but it is the same result. If reinstalling once didn't work, why did you waste time trying again? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedo

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

2014-05-29 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Thursday, May 29, 2014 02:19:55 PM lee wrote: > Sudhir Khanger writes: > > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 08:24:09 PM lee wrote: > >> The built-in dedicated graphics card is not used but not switched off, > >> either. The resulting power drain would make it impossible to complete > >> the installa

Installing fedora in a new (trash can) mac pro

2014-05-29 Thread Rafael EspĂ­ndola
I recently managed to install fedora in a trash can mac pro. I am not sure what the best place to document the steps, so I am just sending an email. Hopefully search engines can find it. Let me know if you think something should be reported as a bug. First, a list of the problems: * The kernel t

Re: CUPS service does not running F18

2014-05-29 Thread Antonio M
Fedora 18 is EOL so I suppose that you will get no answer 2014-05-29 17:12 GMT+02:00 David Carpio : > Hello everybody: > > A month ago when I start Fedora I have the same problem the system shows > me this message: > > Process /usr/cupsd was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) > > And I cannot enter t

CUPS service does not running F18

2014-05-29 Thread David Carpio
Hello everybody: A month ago when I start Fedora I have the same problem the system shows me this message: Process /usr/cupsd was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) And I cannot enter to CUPS interface http://127.0.0.1:631 I have reinstalled again and again but it is the same result. Any sugges

Re: can't find skype for Fedora 20

2014-05-29 Thread Cristian Sava
On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 14:31 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 05/28/2014 01:08 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On 05/28/2014 09:58 AM, Robert Moskowitz issued this missive: > >> I have rpmfusion-free and rpmfusion-nonfree repos set up. When I do a > >> > >> yum whatprovides skype > >> > >> I get No

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.05.2014, Temlakos wrote: > All I want to do is move the contents of /home. What are the > best commands for doing this? If you want to move the whole /home directory as is: rsync -avxHSAX /home/ /new/home -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 29.05.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Don't you have to correct UUIDs in /etc/fstab on the new disk? Yes. Either that, or adjust the new UUIDs to the old ones. It's done quickly, should have mentioned that. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscript

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, g said: > i do not know what version of 'cp' you have, but i can tell you that > "cp (GNU coreutils) 8.4" does not copy directories or files that have > a space in their name. That is not true. cp handles files with any characters just fine (just tested on an old RHEL 4 system

Re: Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)

2014-05-29 Thread lee
Sudhir Khanger writes: > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 08:24:09 PM lee wrote: >> The built-in dedicated graphics card is not used but not switched off, >> either. The resulting power drain would make it impossible to complete >> the installation on battery power. >> > > Because the dual graphic c

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread g
On 05/29/14 07:31, Joachim Backes wrote: <<<>>> hello Joachim, Hi G, you are sure? backes@eule [~]: rm -rf 'aa aa' 'bb bb' backes@eule [~]: mkdir 'aa aa' backes@eule [~]: cp -xaP 'aa aa' 'bb bb'/ backes@eule [~]: ls -l aa* bb* aa aa: total 0 bb bb: total 0 My /bin/cp belongs to coreutils-8

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Heinz Diehl wrote: >> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop >> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB). > I've done that quite often, and it's no problem. > > 1. Boot from an external medium, e.g. www.sysresccd.org > 2. Mount both disks > 3. Use "rsync -avxHSAX /source/ /ta

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Joachim Backes
On 05/29/2014 01:20 PM, g wrote: > > > On 05/28/14 09:36, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop >> to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB). >> I've partitioned the new disk. >> When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one >> with "cp -a" (

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread g
On 05/28/14 09:36, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB). I've partitioned the new disk. When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD) I get a lot of messa

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-29 Thread Temlakos
On 05/29/2014 02:19 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 28.05.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB). I've partitioned the new disk. When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one with "cp -a" (running under