Re: f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds

On 31.08.2014, bitlord wrote: > There is a new feature introduced in Gnome and NetworkManager which > allows 'Captive Portal'[1] services to work. This may be useful feature > for some users (that is why it is implemented), but most users won't use > it, and it pings fedora servers every '300seco

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I'm curious - why? The reason is quite simple: I am a kernel developer and sometimes ssh into my machine in several ssh sessions, many times during work sessions I monitor the kernel log by tail -f /var/log/messages, and any clutter of text simply di

Re: Problems with screen to serial usb on F17

On 09/01/2014 07:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 19:08 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: # cu -s speed -l /dev/ttyUSB0 $ man 1 cu # cu -s 11520 -l /dev/ttyUSB0 cu: Unsupported baud rate 11520 Never heard of 11520 baud. Presumably you meant to type 115200. ARGH typo

Re: bootstrapping from a USB stick

| From: Chris Murphy | On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:00 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | | > I have an oldish PC that only understands booting from 512-byte | > sectors and then only with MBR disks. | > | > I want to install large new disks on it, and no old disks. These | > don't even pretend to do 5

Re: Problems with screen to serial usb on F17

On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 19:08 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > # cu -s speed -l /dev/ttyUSB0 > > $ man 1 cu > > # cu -s 11520 -l /dev/ttyUSB0 > cu: Unsupported baud rate 11520 Never heard of 11520 baud. Presumably you meant to type 115200. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Problems with screen to serial usb on F17

On 08/29/2014 09:41 PM, poma wrote: On 29.08.2014 23:15, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have an old F17 Asus Eee700 and trying to hook it to a USB TTL UART as a serial console to some armv7 systems using screen: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 I am getting garbage characters. Not all the time, but par

Re: Problems with screen to serial usb on F17

On 08/29/2014 09:41 PM, poma wrote: On 29.08.2014 23:15, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have an old F17 Asus Eee700 and trying to hook it to a USB TTL UART as a serial console to some armv7 systems using screen: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 I am getting garbage characters. Not all the time, but par

Starting programs at the beginning of an xmonad session

Greetings, Fedora seems to be ignoring my ~/.Xsession file with regards to programs to start at the beginning of an xmonad session. Is there another magical configuration file into which I can put programs to run at the beginning of each session? Daniel -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: Cannot unlock screen after prolonged period of time

Just did; that did the trick! Thanks! On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Where Where: > > > As a separate issue, it looks like ctrl+alt+f1 (or any of the F keys) > does > > not switch to a virtual console, so I can't try the above. Are there > common > > issues that preve

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On 09/01/14 22:04, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > I haven't had time to look into it myself but more I read about ext4 > your tryst explaining me earlier becomes more clear that permissions > persist with the filesystem. Now that I think more about it one > possibility is that I use same username across s

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/01/2014 03:28 AM, Tim wrote: > >I was thinking in the other direction: That when mains power is > >available, the main supply powers the CMOS instead of the battery, to > >prolong its life. > > Not only does the regular power suppl

Re: Cannot unlock screen after prolonged period of time

* Where Where: > As a separate issue, it looks like ctrl+alt+f1 (or any of the F keys) does > not switch to a virtual console, so I can't try the above. Are there common > issues that prevent either virtual consoles from spawning or users > switching to them? I think you have to press the “fn” mo

OT: Recognizing USB audio device

I have a USB audio device which is recognized correctly on my Fedora system (Fedora-20 with all updates running KDE) but is not recognized by another Linux system (a Samsung Chromebook). Can anyone tell me how Fedora recognizes the device, so I can figure out whether it would be practical to tweak

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On 09/01/2014 07:04 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: I haven't had time to look into it myself but more I read about ext4 your tryst explaining me earlier becomes more clear that permissions persist with the filesystem. Now that I think more about it one possibility is that I use same username across sy

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

On 09/01/2014 03:28 AM, Tim wrote: I was thinking in the other direction: That when mains power is available, the main supply powers the CMOS instead of the battery, to prolong its life. Not only does the regular power supply run the CMOS, it recharges the battery, which is why they last so l

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 20:53:56 +0300 Kevin Wilson wrote: > I am working in an isolated > LAN in a LAB, there is no outside access and no risk of penetration. Also the fact that you get the same useless message for cron scripts as for an outside login makes the message utterly useless. There are so m

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/2014 11:53 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi, >> I'm curious - why? > The reason is quite simple: > I am a kernel developer and sometimes ssh into my machine in > several ssh sessions, many times during work sessions I monitor the > kernel log by

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

Hi, > I'm curious - why? The reason is quite simple: I am a kernel developer and sometimes ssh into my machine in several ssh sessions, many times during work sessions I monitor the kernel log by tail -f /var/log/messages, and any clutter of text simply distracts me and is not needed as I am workin

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2014 08:58 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi, > Thanks. I checked all three options Rick suggested and none of them > worked. > Does anybody know about a solution which works ? > > regards, > Kevin > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Rick Stev

Re: Unexpected upgrade

On 09/01/2014 10:41 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I have been away from Fedora for awhile so forgive me if the answer to > my question is well known. > I installed FC18 onto my laptop when it forst cam out some time ago. > Since then all I did was yum upgrades and selected yum installs. So I > was su

Re: Cannot unlock screen after prolonged period of time

As a separate issue, it looks like ctrl+alt+f1 (or any of the F keys) does not switch to a virtual console, so I can't try the above. Are there common issues that prevent either virtual consoles from spawning or users switching to them? On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > O

Unexpected upgrade

I have been away from Fedora for awhile so forgive me if the answer to my question is well known. I installed FC18 onto my laptop when it forst cam out some time ago. Since then all I did was yum upgrades and selected yum installs. So I was surprised to find that the version running on my laptop w

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

Allegedly, on or about 01 September 2014, Sudhir Khanger sent: > one possibility is that I use same username across systems which might > have made it possible to mount with RW without superuser privileges. Yes, but... It's not so much the user name that's important, but the *numerical* user and

Re: Update conflict libplist

On 1 September 2014 15:57, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > How do I resolve these package upgrade conflicts? Build in progress: http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rhughes/f20-gnome-3-12/build/30422/ Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Update conflict libplist

How do I resolve these package upgrade conflicts? Error: Package: upower-0.99.0-3.fc20.x86_64 (@rhughes-f20-gnome-3-12-x86_64) Requires: libplist.so.1()(64bit) Removing: libplist-1.10-2.fc20.x86_64 (@koji-override-0/$releasever) libplist.so.1()(64bit)

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/01/14 16:25, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >> The only way to tell if this is a mountain or a molehill is to try >> some other distribution. > > I guess you'll find no joy in Ubuntu. Installed a test system and > plugged in my drive and allo

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On 09/01/14 16:25, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > The only way to tell if this is a mountain or a molehill is to try > some other distribution. I guess you'll find no joy in Ubuntu. Installed a test system and plugged in my drive and allowed it to be automounted egreshko@ubuntu:~$ mount | gre

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

Tim: >> I've come across computers that foul up when powered up with a dead >> CMOS battery. I get the impression that some BIOSs have parts of >> themselves powered only by the battery, and don't get anything from >> the main power supply. Joe Zeff: > Well, of course. What do you think powers t

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On 09/01/14 16:25, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Once you chown on the file system you never have to do it again. I think >> you're making a mountain out of a molehill. > The only way to tell if this is a mountain or a molehill is to try > some othe

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Once you chown on the file system you never have to do it again. I think > you're making a mountain out of a molehill. The only way to tell if this is a mountain or a molehill is to try some other distribution. Thank you for keep trying to he

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On 09/01/14 16:13, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Sudhir Khanger > wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> Yes... UNTIL I "fix" it with using the chown command as I've now said >>> multiple times. >> >> I will have to try other distribution. I d

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > If you want to not worry about user and group names then simply change to use > a different filesystem type > > mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdg1 or whatever partition is to be hold the file system. If you regularly move files across devices to and from

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Yes... UNTIL I "fix" it with using the chown command as I've now said >> multiple times. > > > I will have to try other distribution. I don't remember doing anything > like that when mou

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On 09/01/14 16:07, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Yes... UNTIL I "fix" it with using the chown command as I've now said >> multiple times. > > I will have to try other distribution. I don't remember doing anything > like that when mounting through gr

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Yes... UNTIL I "fix" it with using the chown command as I've now said > multiple times. I will have to try other distribution. I don't remember doing anything like that when mounting through graphical means. I was talking to some folks at #ar

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On 09/01/14 15:30, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On your system when mounting ext4 usb-storage through a graphical file > manager like Dolphin or Nautilus is it mounted under root:root user? Yes... UNTIL I "fix" it with using the chown command as I've now said multiple times. -- If you can't laugh a

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On 09/01/14 15:30, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > Yes, the disk is being mounted as RW but not as a regular user. > > On your system when mounting ext4 usb-storage through a graphical file > manager like Dolphin or Nautilus is it mounted under root:root user? The disk gets mounted with permissions and ow

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/01/14 15:08, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> What do you mean? >>> >>> If you do >>> >>> sudo touch /run/media/donnie/storejet/x >>> >>> what do you get? >> That works fine that will write f

Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps

On 08/31/2014 11:13 PM, Tim wrote: I've come across computers that foul up when powered up with a dead CMOS battery. I get the impression that some BIOSs have parts of themselves powered only by the battery, and don't get anything from the main power supply. Well, of course. What do you think

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On 09/01/14 15:08, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> What do you mean? >> >> If you do >> >> sudo touch /run/media/donnie/storejet/x >> >> what do you get? > That works fine that will write file x with root:root Yes Which *PROVES* it is mounted RW.

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > What do you mean? > > If you do > > sudo touch /run/media/donnie/storejet/x > > what do you get? That works fine that will write file x with root:root I was checking dmesg. There are some interesting errors and remounting filesystem read-only

Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

On 09/01/14 14:55, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > I ran > > sudo scrub -fp dod /dev/sdb > > It show it is mounted as RW but it is actually RO. > > [donnie@fedora ~]$ mount | grep /dev/sdc > /dev/sdc1 on /run/media/donnie/storejet type ext4 > (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)