Re: Would like to replace BIOS on Lenovo X131e running Fedora - should this work?

2025-02-28 Thread Andrew Pearce
Is secure boot turned on? That could cause it not to boot. Regards Andrew On 28 February 2025 16:03:36 "Andre Robatino" wrote: I burned g8uj35us.iso to a thumb drive using mediawriter and tried booting from it by selecting the thumb drive after "Press ESC for boot menu&qu

Re: nmcli -d ??

2024-05-17 Thread Andrew Pearce
How about nmcli device status Regards Andrew On 17 May 2024 11:55:23 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, In CentOS 8, I have the following command: # nmcli -d example output: DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION ens3ethernet disconnected ens3

Re: 6.6.x kernels do not boot successfully

2023-12-14 Thread Andrew Baker via users
I did see 6.6.7 on Bodhi earlier. Couldn’t install via dnf so couldn’t test. Is a new kernel release out now? Thanks, Andrew > On 14 Dec 2023, at 19:21, olivares33561 via users > wrote: > >  > > > > Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland. &g

Re: Anyone using 5G as their internet access method?

2023-10-05 Thread Andrew Pearce
Hi I know a few people that are using 5G mobile equipment for their internet access, all of them have a 5G SIM in their router. Most find it just works but they sometimes complain of slowdown after the children finish school up about 9 .. 10pm. Regards Andrew On 5 October 2023 16:15:58

Fedora 35 crashes with all updates applied. How do I submit a bug report re. crashing in Gnome but probably Kernel bug.

2022-07-31 Thread Andrew Wood
processes but I really don't know. It's a guess. Anyhow, what do I need to do, to file a bug and what memory or process dumps/logs/stack traces  are needed to help the developers. ie what do I type where! Thank-you. Andrew, Oxford(UK) ___ use

F32: Failed to update (Andrew Wood) Re: users Digest, Vol 200, Issue 71

2020-10-20 Thread Andrew Wood
Thanks to user 'ITwrx' for the reply but it didn't answer my question which was specially about the update dialogue. May I ask someone else to reply who might have some suggestions? Here's the question below. Thanks, Andrew Hello, I have the following error - below -

F32: Failed to update

2020-10-20 Thread Andrew Wood
be active. I have repeatedly had this dialogue and so waiting for another update doesn't seem like the right choice. Any suggestions? Thank-you, Andrew - o - After start-up - the Gnome desktop appears - there's lots of disc activity and this window appears: *Failed to Upda

How to tell that I have the most up to date Kernel for F32

2020-10-18 Thread Andrew Wood
Hello, How can I tell that I have the most up to date Kernel for F32, Gnome, etc. Thanks Andrew On 18/10/2020 15:18, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Send users mailing list submissions to users@lists.fedoraproject.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a

F32 Update problems?

2020-10-18 Thread Andrew Wood
ficult to believe that these apps met the QA requirements before being shipped ... notwithstanding the usual rider for no liability for fitness of use, etc ... Thanks for your help and assistance, Andrew ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fe

Re: Any better gnome-system-monitor?

2020-10-14 Thread Andrew J. Caines
op_mem mem 9} ${color grey} ${top_mem name 5} ${top_mem pid 5} ${top_mem cpu 5} ${top_mem mem 10} ]] 8< As for the accuracy of any representation of CPU usage, that's a complicated subject. [1] https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky -- -Andrew J. Caines- Un

Grub stops before booting F31

2020-05-07 Thread andrew
; device /dev/sd1 ; type Linux bootable Partition 2: size 499 GB ; device /dev/sda2 ; Linux LVM ; contents unknown Any suggestions ... I might have set partition 1 as the wrong file type or similar is that possible and how do I fix it ... ?? Thanks for your continued help and assistance. Andrew

re. Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity)

2020-05-07 Thread Andrew Wood
ctory too - anywhere in my hard disk in the home/user directory will do - on a standard Fedora setup. Thanks for all your help and advice. Best wishes, Andrew Forwarded Message Subject:re. Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 21:

re. Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity)

2020-05-06 Thread Andrew Wood
? But what's the parameters for a restore on this USB with this name? Thanks for your help and assistance. Andrew Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 12:15:32 -0700 From: Samuel Sieb Subject: Re: Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: Co

Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora

2020-05-06 Thread Andrew Wood
ora 31) for Back-ups doesn't have the options to change the names of the volumes on restore - it has to have the same name on back-up as restore. I checked the online manual for Duplicity but there's very few examples and so it's not particularly he

Failure to boot after update to Fedora 32

2020-05-04 Thread Andrew Wood
iled for Initrd Root File System. Any suggestions of how I might fix this? One thing which I don't understand is the device here. Is it systemd[1]?? Thanks for your help and assistance, Andrew. Oxford UK ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.

Re: Fedora upgrade to 30 sluggish X startup then upgrade to 31 grey screen after login

2020-01-23 Thread Andrew J. Caines
nents which would be unsuitable today. -- -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Architect a.j.cai...@halplant.com "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency" - Alan Turing ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

ansbile-freeipa client install

2019-10-23 Thread Andrew Meyer via users
Hello I have setup ansible to use install freeipa client on my CentOS 7/8 machines. I am able to get the packages installed however when it goes through the configuration I am getting the following: TASK [ipaclient : Install - Ensure that IPA client packages are installed] ***

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-05 Thread Andrew J. Caines
roach I take to ripping my hundreds of CDs is to do a session of multiple discs by the same artist or some other grouping while listening to some of the ripped tracks. This gives a direct reward for some boring work. Documentation on ripping media from disc found on the web is frequently out-of-date.

Re: multi-head config question

2017-12-07 Thread Andrew J. Caines
re managed for each device. Look in "Color" in your Settings and you should see each device capable of supporting a profile. You will probably see that a profile has been automatically loaded. -- -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Architect a.j.cai...@halplant.com "Machines take m

Re: Possible to "dnf upgrade" in a Fedora Gnome without the need to reboot?

2017-09-07 Thread Andrew Toskin
> Den 2017-09-07 kl. 14:16, skrev Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > You only need to reboot if the kernel is updated. Supposedly there are ways to get around this even this, but I can't find a way to make it work. kSplice smoothly switches the running system to the new kernel, but Oracle acquired the projec

Re: X display

2017-07-24 Thread Andrew Haley
what they want. (Thus is, by the way, Freedom 1 of the Free Software Definition.) Surely it must be possible to change Fedora+Wayland to enable the use of graphical root applications for those users who want to do that. We don't need anyone's permission. -- Andrew Haley __

Re: How to add words to system spell-checking dictionary

2017-03-08 Thread Andrew Toskin
> According to the man page for hunspell (specifically the bit describing > the "-p" option), the default user dictionary should be called > "$HOME/.hunspell_default" unless you are using hunspell from the > command line and specifying "-p", "-d" or setting the DICTIONARY > environment variable. I

How to add words to system spell-checking dictionary

2017-03-08 Thread Andrew Toskin
Repost of my question on Ask Fedora -- https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/101943/how-to-add-words-to-system-spell-check-dictionary/ I'm trying to figure out how to add words to a spelling dictionary so that I get the most impact for the effort --- some way to have it apply to all applica

Re: F24 starts in command line only

2016-06-25 Thread Andrew Strozyk
Sorry, had a typo: sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target From: Andrew Strozyk Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2016 3:35:06 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: F24 starts in command line only Not trying to be picky, but if that is the real

Re: F24 starts in command line only

2016-06-25 Thread Andrew Strozyk
Not trying to be picky, but if that is the real problem it probably will just be easier to run the following command to change the default target: sudo systemctl set-default default.target From: Rami Rosen Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2016 3:30:13 PM To: Communit

Re: Goodbye apt and yum? Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere

2016-06-16 Thread Andrew Haley
ldn't this system use MD5sums to de-dupe shared files? Then you'd solve the dependency problems and not waste space on duplicated files. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/us

Re: Laptop Printer Problem

2016-03-10 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Thursday 10 Mar 2016 13:31:36 stan wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:08:00 + > > Jonathan Allen wrote: > > I agree - the print job never seems to leave the laptop. There is > > nothing that I can see in the server logs that shows an access or > > attempt to access the printers apart from th

Re: patch listed as missing

2016-02-21 Thread Andrew Haley
ns on this list - top-posting is > becoming the norm! Well, yes. As the proportion of civilians using email goes up, the overall cluefulness level goes down. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: how to tell where it booted from

2016-02-18 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 19 Feb 2016 06:41:04 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2016, g sent: > > gone are the 'good old days' of boxes 4 and 5 5" drive bays where one > > could install install 3" drives in removable drive carriers and swap > > drives. > > Yet computer cases are still ridiculously

Re: selinux??

2016-01-26 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 25 Jan 2016 19:06:11 Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: > LOL!!! > > I feel you bruce :) > > I think a LOT of people are struggling (and frustrated, rightfully so) with > SELinux and simply place it in permissive mode. There is nothing wrong with > doing this. Don't buy into the fear mongering hype.

Re: selinux??

2016-01-26 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 25 Jan 2016 19:06:11 Shawn Bakhtiar wrote: > LOL!!! > > I feel you bruce :) > > I think a LOT of people are struggling (and frustrated, rightfully so) with > SELinux and simply place it in permissive mode. There is nothing wrong with > doing this. Don't buy into the fear mongering hype.

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-16 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 02:19:59 Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:34 +, Christopher Ross wrote: > > # rpm -qi fedora-release > > Occasionally, even *that* package gets updated, so it's not an indicator > of install time. Unless someone else knows of something intended to show > you the i

Re: Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

2016-01-15 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 02:19:59 Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:34 +, Christopher Ross wrote: > > # rpm -qi fedora-release > > Occasionally, even *that* package gets updated, so it's not an indicator > of install time. Unless someone else knows of something intended to show > you the i

Re: Why was YUM removed

2015-12-09 Thread Andrew Haley
f. Now >> the >> question is why was this done ? And who names their package manager >> as "DNF" >> ? The name seems pretty weird to be honest. > > No wierder than YUM (Yellow-dog Updater Modified) It's a terrible name for anyone who knows mo

Re: An interesting sort problem

2015-11-27 Thread Andrew Haley
print substr(line, j+1) > } Close, but no cigar. #!/bin/awk -f { lines[NR]=$NF " " $0 } END { PROCINFO["sorted_in"]="@val_type_asc" for (i in lines) { line = lines[i] j=index(line, " ") print substr(line,

Re: rsyslog problem

2015-11-25 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Wednesday 25 November 2015 13:57:49 Timothy Murphy wrote: > imjournal: fscanf on state file `/var/lib/rsyslog/imjournal.state' failed A quick google gives something that may be relevent https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095784 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [Fedora 23] Installing KDE Plasma as a second Desktop Environment! [bug]

2015-11-24 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 24 November 2015 00:07:00 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 19:23 +, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > I must be missing the point here, but I have always found that after > > installing multiple desktops and leaving gdm as the login manager, > &

Re: [Fedora 23] Installing KDE Plasma as a second Desktop Environment! [bug]

2015-11-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 24 November 2015 02:27:58 Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> If I install two or more different desktops, which display manager > >> should it enable by default, then? Does it ask you that question? > > Allegedly, on or about 23 November 2015, Paul Cartwright sent: > > I switched from GDM to light

F22 Install with inst.nodnf boot option

2015-11-02 Thread Andrew Bickley
Hello, After ending up with the f22 debug kernel unexpectedly and then painfully learning it's 10 times slower than the non-debug kernel and searching how that happened and finding bug # 1192189; I tried a reinstall of f22 using the inst.nodnf boot option at the anaconda boot menu yet once th

Re: Audacity Won't Start

2015-08-16 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Sunday 16 August 2015 21:14:38 Martin Cigorraga wrote: > Hello Craig, > > Could you please copy the output it produces when you launch the > application from the command line? > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 17:17 Craig Lanning wrote: > > Something has happened in the last couple of months that cau

Re: backup snapshot

2015-08-11 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi, this stupid argument rears its head again - snapshots vs "backups". At least now someone advocating time-consuming "backups" has come up with a logical argument - You "usually" put the system into a static state before performing a "backup". Trouble is - the "backup" usually means you

Re: FC21 system-config-services

2015-05-22 Thread Andrew R Paterson
12:25 PM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for that - I know of yumex (and agree - its very nice). > > yum check-update however demonstrates why I get the feeling there is a > > dbus > > related problem. > > Good! If nothing else, you'

Re: FC21 system-config-services

2015-05-22 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 22 May 2015 12:04:52 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/22/2015 11:48 AM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > Is this a dbus problem? > > have I got some other problem with my system config? > > Am I just being stupid? > > Any clues? > > I don't use package-kit, so

FC21 system-config-services

2015-05-22 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi, I have recently upgraded from FC20 to FC21 using fedup - it was a pleasantly smooth upgrade.. However. I do not appear to be being notified of any pending package updates (maybe there arent any? - doubtfull!).. And so (using KDE) I am trying to run system-config-services to c

Re: Raid vs rsync -

2015-03-10 Thread Andrew R Paterson
One assumes that if you are migrating a filesystem to RAID, you are installing a new disk (for e.g. RAID 1) (you need multiple disks - as in the acoronym RAID). So, if you install your new disk alongside your existing disk, create a RAID mirror with only one partition (from the new disk) create

Re: Problem booting Fedora 21

2015-03-06 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 06 March 2015 06:20:48 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 03/06/2015 05:28 AM, Daniel Jonsson wrote: > > The problem is that when I boot either of the computers, it gets stuck > > during the Plymouth splash screen, when the Fedora logo is being filled > > up. It can be stuck there for tens of mi

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 23 February 2015 15:45:26 Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Andrew R Paterson > > wrote: > > But maybe the problem is that not many people install/reinstall/fedup > > often > > enough to get familiar with it. > > Nor should they. T

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 23 February 2015 14:03:17 Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Andrew R Paterson > > wrote: > > I have to say I find this disucssion interesting > > I have spent what amounts to a small fortune (for me!) making sure that > > when I

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 23 February 2015 09:10:24 Andrew R Paterson wrote: > I have to say I find this disucssion interesting > I have spent what amounts to a small fortune (for me!) making sure that when > I upgrade from one version of LINUX to another (initially slackware but so > far fedora

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
This poroblem occurs on other unices as well, try using the bg option in your nfs fstab entry. Andy On Sunday 22 February 2015 21:39:13 Pete Travis wrote: > On Feb 22, 2015 1:01 AM, "Jens Neu" wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > maybe since 2 weeks (close to upgrade to Twenty_One), my nfs shares are >

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
I have to say I find this disucssion interesting I have spent what amounts to a small fortune (for me!) making sure that when I upgrade from one version of LINUX to another (initially slackware but so far fedora 9 - 20) that I can minimise the risk of (anaconda or whatever the current insta

Re: Samba share without username and password

2015-02-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 20 February 2015 12:35:30 gol...@aon.at wrote: > Hi, > > I try to share one directory to watch movies and listen to music on tv. I > habe a mediabox, which is connected and have an own ip in the same ip > range. The problem is, i could not access without username and password. > In the m

Re: what is the process number of a "running application" ?

2015-02-05 Thread Andrew Haley
- In the window of gnome-system-monitor the name "netbeans" isn't. > - The command line : "ps aux | grep netbeans", give me a full page of > references.. > > Could I know a simple way to have this information ? It's a Java progra, so use "jps":

Re: DHCP Reservations

2015-02-03 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 00:55:29 Tim wrote: > Jim Lewis wrote: > >> Quick question about DHCP reservations: I have laptops with both > >> wired and wireless NICs, is it okay to have the router assign the > >> same IP to both interface? > > I wrote: > > I seem to recall being able to do that,

Re: Mediacast to TV

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Is this any use? http://realmike.org/blog/2011/02/09/live-desktop-streaming-via-dlna-on-gnulinux/comment-page-1/ andy On Sunday 01 February 2015 23:57:31 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 00:12 +0100, poma wrote: > > On 01.02.2015 23:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Sun, 201

Re: Radeon driver with FC20 latest kernel update

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 16:20:26 poma wrote: > On 20.01.2015 15:46, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:31:09 Andrew R Paterson wrote: > >> On Tuesday 20 January 2015 15:10:15 poma wrote: > >>> On 20.01.2015 14:44, Andrew R Paterson wrote

Re: Radeon driver with FC20 latest kernel update

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:31:09 Andrew R Paterson wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 15:10:15 poma wrote: > > On 20.01.2015 14:44, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:31:32 poma wrote: > > >> On 20.01.2015 12:52, Andrew R Paterson w

Re: Radeon driver with FC20 latest kernel update

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 15:10:15 poma wrote: > On 20.01.2015 14:44, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:31:32 poma wrote: > >> On 20.01.2015 12:52, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> I am running fedora 20 X86_64 > >&g

Re: Radeon driver with FC20 latest kernel update

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:31:32 poma wrote: > On 20.01.2015 12:52, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running fedora 20 X86_64 > > > > I have an Intel Processor: > > Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz. > > > > I have an AMD radeo

Radeon driver with FC20 latest kernel update

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Hi, I am running fedora 20 X86_64 I have an Intel Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz. I have an AMD radeon based GPU card : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV535 [Radeon X1650 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 9e) I have two monitors : ACER Technolgies – on DVI-0 (1920x1080) Views

Re: swapping

2015-01-17 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Friday 16 January 2015 16:31:03 Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/15/2015 11:28 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > Selinux requires at least basic knowledge and administration. Most of > > the people I installed Linux for didn't even know it was there or what > > it's good for. > > If you do not use file s

Re: what is the process number of a "running application" ?

2015-01-12 Thread Andrew R Paterson
On Monday 12 January 2015 19:25:45 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know the process number of an application that actually is > running (Netbeans in my case), with the purpose to kill it (when is froze). > > But am am not able to know this process number.. > > - In the window

Re: man sections

2014-12-23 Thread Andrew R Paterson
Try man 1 intro man 2 intro man 3 intro man 7 intro man 8 intro Regards Andy On Tuesday 23 December 2014 08:52:42 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 12/23/2014 08:29 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > FWIW, "man man" does tell one the purpose of each of the sections. > >1 Executable programs or s

Re: Adobereader won't install

2014-06-30 Thread Andrew Price
On 30/06/14 00:06, Mickey wrote: Do you know where the pdf-to-text,RPM went to , for fedora 20 ? $ rpm -qf `which pdftotext` poppler-utils-0.24.3-3.fc20.x86_64 Cheers, Andy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Also my Asus Eee900 - Re: Dell Inspiron 1545 touchpad suddenly s-l-o-w

2014-06-29 Thread Andrew Price
On 29/06/14 05:25, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 06/27/2014 08:03 PM, Andrew Price wrote: On 27/06/14 22:32, 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. Perhaps this update created earlier today will fix the problem

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

2014-06-27 Thread Andrew Price
On 27/06/14 22:32, 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 update

Re: Trouble starting webex in F20

2014-05-01 Thread Andrew Azores
ing problems after the 1.5 update, I wouldn't recommend you update to it yet - not until we figure out what's going on here! With 1.5 on both Fedora 19 (native) and 20 (VM), Webex works fine, but I haven't tried this 'share desktop' functionality. [0] http

Re: F20 Where's my system mail? SOLVED (I Hope)

2014-04-25 Thread Andrew Haley
deliver them. It must have been distressing to receive an old message from an estranged partner or someone who had died. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Co

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-24 Thread Andrew Haley
when. Years. tmpwatch clears files every few minutes? Really? And this has not broken scripts? My tmp.conf says 10 days, but the OP said every few *minutes*. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-20 Thread Andrew Haley
t want this thing that's doing Bad Things to my transient files >> in /*/tmp/* directories to stop. >> > > Maybe the right answer is to file a bug report rather than workaround it? Surely, yes. This behaviour will break all manner of things in hard-to- debug ways. Andrew.

BOINCMGR fails

2014-04-19 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi All Ever since I have been on Fedora 20 bonicmgr fails to add any projects !! I normally run boincmgr ar root !! Therefore I am unable to run Seti or any other projects with bonic-client !! Does anyone else have this problem! -- Andrew Gray Linnet Solutions Ltd -- users mailing

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-26 Thread Andrew Haley
e set of defaults. We don't want to be in a Windows 8 situation where you can't do anything with a machine before you've spent 20 minutes installing add-ons and changing defaults. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: Writing English.

2013-11-26 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/24/2013 04:53 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Nov 24, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> On 11/23/2013 03:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> On Nov 23, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> >>>> On 11/22/2013 09:44 PM, Chr

Re: Writing English.

2013-11-24 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/23/2013 03:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> On 11/22/2013 09:44 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >>> Nope, you're wrong. Find a copy of New Oxford American Dictionary >>> and look up the wo

Re: Writing English.

2013-11-23 Thread Andrew Haley
o good reason for meaning different > things. I doubt it. Fowler is pretty definite: "Alternative (offering a choice) had formerly also the sense now belonging only to alternate (by turns); now that the differentiation is complete, confusion is even less excusable than between definite

Re: GCC issue

2013-10-08 Thread Andrew Haley
11 is still experimental. Changing the default language is risky because it breaks build scripts. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Andrew Haley
And that's what is insanely slow? Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http:

Re: Something compatible to MS Office on Fedora?

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew Haley
in one case simply vanish. Can you tell me which version this is? Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guid

Re: Turning off SELINUX

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew Haley
afe using it, privacy wise. > > It's a pity because SELINUX is a good idea. That's what they want you to do. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code

Re: grep by paragraph

2013-08-30 Thread Andrew
-p for just this purpose, I wish GNU grep did too. I share your pain. Regards, Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code

Re: How can I install 32-bit packages in 64-bit system?

2013-08-12 Thread Andrew Haley
On 08/12/2013 03:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/12/13 22:37, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 08/12/2013 03:17 PM, Georgios Petasis wrote: >>> Is there a reason my java 1.7 is not updated to java 1.8 with "yum -y >>> update"? >> java 1.8 doesn't exis

Re: How can I install 32-bit packages in 64-bit system?

2013-08-12 Thread Andrew Haley
On 08/12/2013 03:17 PM, Georgios Petasis wrote: > Is there a reason my java 1.7 is not updated to java 1.8 with "yum -y > update"? java 1.8 doesn't exist. We've not even finished the spec yet. There is a preview that people can play with, but it's certainly not

Re: "Enable JavaScript" preference checkbox has been removed in Firefox

2013-08-10 Thread Andrew Haley
rsions of Firefox. But how much do we care about that? Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-

Re: 3.2Gb over 4Gb

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 08/08/2013 01:50 PM, John Pilkington wrote: > On 08/08/13 13:19, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 08/08/2013 10:04 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> do you use 32 or 64 bits ? >>> >>> My understanding is that it is a 32 bit CPU (T2300)

Re: 3.2Gb over 4Gb

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Haley
On 08/08/2013 01:29 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > However, do you think that it will extend the accessible memory since it seems > that it is a chipset issue? I doubt it. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: 3.2Gb over 4Gb

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Haley
r-T3200-1M-Cache-2_00-GHz-667-MHz-FSB-Socket-P Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines:

Re: a different point of view to "etiquette"

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/31/2013 12:59 AM, jdow wrote: > Andrew, one thing a woman needs to develop to survive in the technical > fields is an incredibly thick skin. I know, and that's what needs to change or many of the best brains will continue to move to jobs where a noisy minority can't get

Re: a different point of view to "etiquette"

2013-07-30 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/16/2013 06:10 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Reindl Harald wrote: > >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/58049/focus%3D1525074 >> >> From: Linus Torvalds linux-foundation.org> > > Linus is in a very special category, and I don't think his justifications > can be applied to virtua

Re: F18 ti F19: can't create a Java virtual machine

2013-07-18 Thread Andrew Haley
lled? Does it work? Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

Re: Schrödinger▊s & Schr?dinger?s

2013-07-15 Thread Andrew Haley
ames **apparently** adapted from the Ubuntu way of > naming things? It's a democracy. We decided to vote. If you want to vote for cities, put that proposal to our electorate. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: "Hacker" vs "Cracker" et al.

2013-03-25 Thread Andrew Haley
ens when a word with a meaning in technical circles gains popular usage. I'm sure we can think of many similar examples. users@fedoraproject is halfway between and an "insider" and an "outsider" group, so the different groups have to try to communicate despite not having a commo

Re: suspect apache/php problem in Fedora 18

2013-02-14 Thread Andrew Gray
none Require all denied I just comment out the above and squirrelmail worked ! --Andrew -Original Message- From: Roger Reply-to: Community support for Fedora users To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: suspect apache/php problem in Fedora 18 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:56:03

Re: [OT?] question about external hd

2013-02-06 Thread Andrew Haley
there. Is this ok? Yes. > Should I be root to be > able to create/remove files/folder in my external hd?? No. Create a scratch dir on the hd (as root) and do chmod 1777 This will create a directory that any user can write to. > 2) What is this 14.84 GB used in the hd? Is this used by the

Re: Time/Date shell-thingy in F18

2013-01-25 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi all In Fedora 18 X86_64 I adjusted the Clock by adding date and seconds to the screen clock by installing :- Install “gnome-tweak-tool” It has the clock setting plus other gnome settings --Andrew Gray -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

[389-users] Migrating from ApacheDS

2013-01-24 Thread Andrew Carr
sfully. I am hard pressed to find notes and suggestions on migrating from ApacheDS to 389, any help will be appreciated. The server I am migrating to is running 389-base yum package on CentOS 6.3. If you require information to assist me I will be happy to provide. Thanks! -- With Regards, Andr

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew Haley
ce doing just that and how well it worked for them. > thanks. SSDs are now so big that you can fit the whole OS on one with room to spare, and just use the hard drive for scratch data. I use a 47G partition on a 128G SSD for my root filesystem. It's getting full now, but 13G of that i

Re: what broke chrome flash?

2012-11-04 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/04/12 10:13, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/04/2012 05:41 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 11/03/12 13:30, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> >>> You could try reverting to google-chrome-stable. It is running just fine >>> for me >>> >> It didn't

Re: what broke chrome flash?

2012-11-04 Thread Andrew Haley
gt; me > It didn't help me. Every time it tries to run anything flash, it immediately crashes. google-chrome-stable.i386 0:22.0.1229.94-161065 xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-37.20120306gitf5d1cd2.fc17.x86_64 Andrew. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

DVB TV playback not working

2012-10-08 Thread Andrew Gray
re field 'name', but string is not valid UTF-8. Please file a bug." This appear continually thus stopping normal TV reception Any ideas how to fix this -- Andrew Gray Linnet Solutions Ltd -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: Second Monitor Configuration Confusion

2012-08-23 Thread Andrew Parker
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Fedora User wrote: > > What on earth is the difference between "absolute" and "clone of?" > > Furthermore, and I am reasonably sure that this is a dumb question but I > have a brain freeze; Suppose I configure the second monitor above, how > would I get, say, mplay

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