Re: problem playing video DVD

2015-03-01 Thread Robin Laing
On 2015-02-26 22:29, jd1008 wrote: Rented a DVD movie (the 3rd in the series Atlas Shrugged). It would not play with any media player (such as smplayer, vlc, Dragon Player, xine, totem, ... etc) No errors in /var/log/messages. I told the vendor, and they stuck it into a machine the "tests" it f

Re: computer boot (some times) in emergency mode.

2015-03-01 Thread Robin Laing
On 2015-02-26 05:22, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi Chris, I would be more inclined to to think about a electrical problem, since the only rep-plugging of the connectors of the HD solves the problem .. In any case I think the control of the HD is appropriate, so I would ask you in detail how to do

Re: computer boot (some times) in emergency mode.

2015-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2015 3:37 AM, "Angelo Moreschini" > wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I tried with e2fsck -f /dev/sdc1 >> but I got the message: > > Buried in my long first reply: > "booting with parameter rd.break=cmdline" > > Chances are it's not sdc1 dam

Re: Fedora 20: After running yum update the Mate Terminal doesn't start anymore (SOLVED)

2015-03-01 Thread Jim Lewis
> >> On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 15:03 -1000, Jim Lewis wrote: >> >>> Can you point me to where one of these other terminals is? The only >>> reason I can still use one or make more is because there were some >>> already opened before I ran the update. >> >> Often, one can type "term" in a command line,

Re: a yum install failure

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 15:01:56 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > Tried to install all xmms packages. All? Why would you not use wildcards then? Your selection of packages is an incomplete and wild mix of XMMS (ancient and unmaintained and suffering from several outdated plugins) and XMMS2. It is doubtful tha

F21 systemd log flood - how to stop

2015-03-01 Thread Andy Hairston
I have a near-stock installation of Fedora 21, and am experiencing the systemd log flood mentioned previously (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fedora-server-list/2014-May/001126.html). How do I get systemd to stop putting massive amounts of information into /var/log/messages for routi