Re: F26 and blurry fonts

2017-07-18 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Heinz Diehl wrote: > for those who love razorsharp fonts just like me but got the new v40 > interpreter > coming with freetype-2.7 enforced on them when installing F26: the good old > v35 > interpreter is still there (and I hope it will be forever). You can > use it by setting the environment v

Re: can not install fedora 25

2016-11-30 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
William Biggs wrote: > I burn the iso or 25 to usb and I also did it to a dvd same error . When I > click the install I get the the part to select English . Then I click > continue . Then the install locks up it will not get past the point at all > it just set there . I also have try to re down

Re: Get iso 23

2015-11-18 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Now, I am really confuse! Sorry. > What is the combined Workstation & Live ISO? > I can get: Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-23.iso > and > Fedora-Live-Workstation-i686-23-10.iso > Not a "combined" one. As you may guess from the name, "Fedora-Live-Workstation-i686-23-10.iso" i

Re: Get iso 23

2015-11-16 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Thank you very much for the clarifications. > Then, for an install without network, the only option is > the DVD/USB Server iso ? Both ISO images (the combined Workstation & Live ISO, and also the Server ISO) work without network connection. So if you download the combined

Re: Get iso 23

2015-11-15 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Patrick Dupre wrote: >> > How can I get an iso image for fedora 23 (workstation) ? >> >> https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ > There is only the Live version not the DVD iso. The Fedora Workstation Live image is a combined ISO image for both, either running Fedora Live (directly from

Re: More dnf annoyance

2015-08-16 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Michael Schwendt wrote: >> "dnf --refresh" is more like "dnf clean expire-cache", which sometimes >> gives additional updates to plain "dnf upgrade", but there still seems >> some caching involved that keeps it from providing all updates available. > > Doubtful. > > "dnf update --refresh" here (R

Re: More dnf annoyance

2015-08-15 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Heinz Diehl wrote: > F22, in short: first running "dnf --refresh upgrade" shows some new > packets. Then "dnf clean all" followed by "dnf --refresh upgrade" > shows the same packets to be updated, and *some more*. Yes, you are correct. Several people have verified this behavior, they reported th

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-08-13 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Suvayu Ali wrote: >> In practice, there's not much of a difference between "clean all" >> or just "clean metadata". Because both require the update/upgrade >> command to download all stuff from the network and build to whole >> meta database from scratch, even if that wouldn't be necessary. > > S

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-08-13 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> However, if somebody runs "dnf upgrade" on the command shell then >> he clearly wants the latest updates. Right now! No caching or other >> magic involved. That's the whole point of running "dnf upgrade" >> manually, otherwise the user would have left the whole updating >

Re: dnf update vs Software Udpates

2015-08-07 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Suvayu Ali wrote: >> I hope this will be done *fast*, because I have to "clean all" >> *everytime* checking for updates. Otherwise, no updates are shown, even >> though they exist. This is a major bug. > > I'm sorry but "clean all" is not necessary at all! "clean metadata" or > "clean expire-cac

Re: Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5 on Alienware laptop

2015-01-30 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
don fisher wrote: > I have an Alienware 17-1 laptop that I would like to run Fedora linux > on. The laptop has 2TB of disk, 32GB of ram and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M > [...] > so I assumed it was doing something, but after about 5 minutes the > system appeared to be still in the same state

Re: Dell Inspiron 1545 touchpad suddenly s-l-o-w

2014-06-28 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Temlakos wrote: > The latest updates--pushed yesterday--cause the touchpad on my Dell > Inspiron 1545 to run v-e-r-y s-l-o-w. > > It was so bad, I tried to reinstall Fedora. > At first the reinstall restored the swift movement of the touchpad pointer. > But as soon as it took the updates,

Re: F20 Where's my system mail?

2014-04-15 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Arthur Dent wrote: > I have read this page: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSendmail Yes, Fedora's great plan of no default sendmail basically means that they simply do no longer install sendmail (default MTA). That's all. All software (crond, raid-check, logwatch etc.) sti

Re: F16 occasionally breaks RAID1 (md) on boot

2012-02-21 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Yup. But I did find a final solution, eventually. > > Take a survey of all your mdraid UUIDs. Reconcile it against your > /etc/default/grub. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX should include rd.md.uuid={UUID} for > all mdraid UUIDs. Add the missing ones there. Rerun /sbin/grub2-

Re: F16 occasionally breaks RAID1 (md) on boot

2012-02-15 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > It's probably worth checking that /etc/mdadm.conf looks good. If it doesn't, > fix it and then rebuild your initramfs. Good point, but "unfortunately" /etc/mdadm.conf looks perfectly fine. Also /etc/fstab and all the harddisk-related entries in /dev. I guess, if its ju

F16 occasionally breaks RAID1 (md) on boot

2012-02-15 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Hello users of Linux software RAID! I have two identical harddisks, and on a freshly installed Fedora 16 all my filesystems (/boot, /, /home, /usr/local, /opt, swap) are set up as software RAID1 (md). Occasionally (about every second boot), Fedora 16 silently removes one of the mirrors fr

[F16] Why PAE kernel with 1 GB RAM?

2012-02-02 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Hello Fedora fans! Freshly installed Fedora 16 for 32 bit (i686) from DVD on a Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM. Why does Fedora 16 installs a PAE kernel by default? Previous versions of Fedora (on that machine) did not install the PAE kernel but the regular one. I've seen people on the web asking

Re: selinux is a pain

2011-09-23 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Martín Marqués wrote: > I reinstalled (better hardware) a server and had selinux enabled (was > disabled before), and I starting to see why so many people don't use > selinux. > > My question is, how many people are using selinux? SELinux is a mighty thing, but it's way too complex. It's mi

Re: SELinux

2011-01-18 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Ok, there has been a lot of these lately (execstack). I had those with > AviDemux and solved it by removing execstack from the particular library > causing it. I had "execstack" messages with a self-compiled Exim and OpenSSH. Couldn't find any libraries with the exec

[F13] KeyboardSignal not working (Upstart/init)

2010-07-11 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Hello Fedora Users! Similar to Control-Alt-Delete triggering a "reboot", I would like to configure Control-Alt-Insert to run "poweroff" when I'm on a regular Linux console (no GDM or other graphics stuff running). Up to Fedora 8, that was easy. Just put this to /etc/inittab: ci::

Re: F12 nouveau problem?

2010-02-02 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Joachim Backes wrote: > having a *little* problem with nouveau and NVIDIA FX5200 (princeton > display, 1280x1024): Under F12, it works OK - but when rebooting to > WinXP, the screen is not centered, but shifted a little bit to the left > (a small black vertical bar remains rightside). Afte