On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 08/13/2010 09:05 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> Given that RPMfusion still offers it, I would say that the developers have
>>> the
>>> latest hardware and the budget that implies, and regard two years old as not
>>
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Michael Hennebry
wrote:
> Somehow I managed to install Fecora 13 without openoffice.
>
> yum provides openoffice
> reveals nothing.
> yum provides "*openoffice*"
> buries me in output.
> I usually get the same effect whenever I want
> to install a package whose na
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> Yes, that was how I discovered this anomaly - it was not expanding
> for some reason. I was trying to figure it out... what broke sort of
> thing... and it seemed to happen after an update, but maybe it is not
> related...
I'm not ab
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:34 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> The link is:
>> http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/76822/the-look-time
>
> That actually looks reasonably good, on screen, here. Though grey
> writing on white background can be a pr
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
>
> Perhaps you'd like to propose this reasoned and conciliatory position to
> the list administrators and propose that the Guidelines be changed.
Conciliatory? No. Well reasoned? Yes. You just posted 5267
characters (5.14 k) to a few
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:41 PM, James McKenzie
wrote:
>>
> That is true, but HTML mail is a bandwidth waster. I routinely get
> messages with so much garbage in them that just delete them. This is
> what this filter does, dumps HTML mail before it even gets read. We
> need to remember that the
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:50 PM, James McKenzie
wrote:
>
> Jonathan Beatty wrote:
> > Why are you trying to install antivirus on Fedora anyway?
> >
> Because Viruses do exist for Linux and if you are using Wine, Windows
> viruses do run, some very well.
>
> ClamAV for Linux does exist for a reason
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:12 PM, JD wrote:
> If you want even better performance, reiserfs4 was benchmarked to
> exceed ALL other
> Linux filesystems, including xfs, ext2/3/4
> See http://kerneltrap.org/node/6776
How do you get that from your link? The article has nothing to do
with Reiser 4 a
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Parshwa Murdia [2010-08-03 05:29]:
>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
>>
>> > Out of curiosity -- if you don't mind me asking, why do you need the Sun
>> > JDK? Does the OpenJDK jre not work for what you are trying to do
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 08/02/2010 08:12 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> But I'm puzzled as to what is controlling the terminal settings.
>
> Well, earlier you said: "This works, except that I get a white-on-black
> screen with nothing at the top of the screen to chang
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Seth Cohen wrote:
> I have installed Fedora-13-x86_64 on a MacPro without problems. However,
> there seems to be no way to boot it! The MacOS (10.6.4 with all updates) does
> not see the Linux disk, It does see a 31GB HFS+ partition on the same
> physical disk, I
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Jussi Lehtola
wrote:
>
> Also, if you're running SELinux run
> # touch /mnt/newroot/.autorelabel
> before rebooting, since rsync doesn't preserve security contexts..
Just use "rsync -aAHX" instead of "rsync -au" and you don't have to
worry about an autorelabel (r
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday, July 31, 2010 06:13:21 pm D. VITELLIUS REGULUS did opine:
>
>> Is there any programs i can use to install .exe files to Fedora 13?
>>
>> Investigator, Embassy Investigations.
>
> I get the impression this one came from a hacker, l
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:22 PM, suvayu ali
wrote:
> On 29 July 2010 09:39, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> It is a commentary that computers which ran using Fedora drivers in FC6 thru
>> FC9
>> now must use vendor drivers or run in VESA mode. Was that not clear in the
>> above
>> quoted 1st paragraph
When I start the SE Linux Troubleshooter, it does not display any
alerts and the following error appears at the bottom of the window;
Error checking policy version.
I don't see a bug on this in bugzilla, at least that I can find, and
the tool seems to be working for a friend of mine. I've ensure
When cron.daily runs, I get the following error related to sendmail
and logwatch:
/etc/cron.daily/0logwatch:
Can't exec "sendmail": Permission denied at /usr/sbin/logwatch line
1032, line 2.
Can't execute sendmail -t: Permission denied
The SE Linux error is:
type=SELINUX_ERR msg=audit(12803049
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> That's not really a BSOD, it's the Fedora boot splash screen. You can
>> hit ESC and have the system print the text boot messages (uncovering
>> them by clearing the blue screen).
>
> Nope, it was completely unresponsive. No network, keyboar
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:43:49 -0500, Christofer wrote:
>
>>
>> This text needs to be removed.
>
> Why? It's true that enough Fedora users also use RPM Fusion and are
> available in the discussion places listed above. Nowhere does the page
>
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Alex wrote:
>
> There's nothing in the logs to indicate what may be causing this. I
> didn't see it happen the last time, since the monitor was turned off,
> but the previously it presented a blue screen with the F in the
> center, and no mouse cursor.
That's not
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Christofer C. Bell
wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Miles wrote:
>>>
>> Then RPM Fusion should not be telling people to go to this mailing list
>> for help as that is exactly what they are doing.
>
> You're r
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Miles wrote:
>>
> Then RPM Fusion should not be telling people to go to this mailing list
> for help as that is exactly what they are doing.
You're right, they should not direct people here. However, this is
what I see on their page:
Bug Report
If you s
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
> And if you run Radeon chipsets which worked with FC6 and FC9, should you
> expect
> that the developers would spend time on gamer features like 3D and compiz
> while
> long time users run in text mode or VESA mode at best? Not everyone ca
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 07/26/2010 12:32 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>
>> Be aware there was (is?) a bug (F13) where if you disable this you
>> wont be able to login at all - as the login window turns into 1x1 pixel.
>>
>> I dont have the bugzilla handy to
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:25 PM, g wrote:
>
> only reason i have ever seen/or applied, to firewall all systems behind
> a router is for business security.
>
> after all, if you can not trust your family, it is time to start thinking
> about getting a new family.
It's called "defense in depth" an
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
>
> Should there be any discrepancy? Or would it mean really to reinstall
> this fedora 11, never preffered!
It's too bad you can't file a bug against the issue you're
experiencing since Fedora 11 isn't supported anymore. Oh wait, you
knew t
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Hiisi wrote:
> 2010/7/26 Bill Davidsen :
>> Before I put in a CZ entry, in GNOME is the screen shot program
>> broken? When I select "select the current window" it picks the whole
>> root window instead of the current window.
>>
>> Running an Intel i9125 chipset i
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Jeevani W. wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to create a number of internal Linux users for admin purposes.
>
> I do not want these users to appear on the initial console login page after
> Fedora boots up, as users who can attempt to log in, and I do not want to
> allow
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:04 AM, g wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>
>
>> The aptly named WIMP interface predates both of them. Hint: Lisa.
>
> 'apple lisa' is the system i was referencing to.
The concept of having a "desktop" with "windows" was invented by Xerox
PARC in 1973 and implemented on the Alto c
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>
> Really, in order to provide equivalent functionality of a typical Windows
> desktop, Fedora requires more than one hoop to jump through. A novice user is
> maybe better off installing Omega instead, if he doesn't want to bother with
> th
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Friday, July 23, 2010 16:44:56 Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>> In all honesty, for normal desktop use, the only "hoop" Parshwa should
>> need to jump through is to setup RPM Fusion on the system[1].
>
> And
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:29 PM, g wrote:
>
>> as for friends and *their* families, complaints do occur mainly with
>> children because they can not play their games, get emails and use
>> twitter and facebook.
>
>
> correct.
I can certain
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:13 AM, g wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>
>
>> Regardless, yes, you can go directly from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13 using
>> preupgrade[1].
>
> not exactly true.
>
> was there not a post in past week or two where a user tried such and
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
>
> Correct but for the new users (like me and the beginners) if they have
> somehow installed the fedora 11 would it be a good idea to suddenly
> upgrade to fedora 13 and that also from the terminal without knowing
> the complete method that
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Les wrote:
>
> Fedora is unique only because it rotates software frequently, about
> every 18 months for the release cycle with about 36 months support. So
> if you go to Fedora 13 today, it will be fully supported for another
> year roughly before Fedora 14 comes
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote:
>>
>> XChat>Network List>Add
> No such option. At least not in v0.26.1 (F12)
In xchat-gnome, it's under Edit > Preferences > Networks > Add
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 17:26 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>
>> If your MUA requires you to tell others to not quote, to not top-post,
>> to do anything other than post whatever they like, in order to read
&g
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 11:26pm on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 (UK time), Christofer C. Bell
> scrawled:
>
>> regardless of one's taste in MUA, one should not be using an MUA that
>> makes it difficult to read one's email with
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Christofer C. Bell
wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>>
>> Christofer:
>> Here in the 21st century we have considerable choice as to how we use
>> our computers. Gmail is just one of many possible solution
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>
> Christofer:
> Here in the 21st century we have considerable choice as to how we use
> our computers. Gmail is just one of many possible solutions..
I see that the joke was lost on more than one person. My reference to
the 20th century w
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>
>> Suvayu is correct. Mixing use of yum and rpm is discouraged for a reason.
>> If you want to use all the features of yum (at all) then you should be
>> using
>> yum for everythi
2010/7/21 Phil Savoie :
> Makes a good argument for top posting, doesn't it?
>
> Just teasing...
Personally, I wish people wouldn't quote much of anything at all
unless absolutely necessary to illustrate a point. I've moved into
the 20th century and read email in Gmail where threaded conversation
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Marco Guazzone
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On 07/21/2010 05:31 PM, Marco Guazzone wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> After having successfully completed 'yum update', empathy stop working
> >> well.
> >>
> >> Specifically, once
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:32 PM, suvayu ali
> wrote:
> On 20 July 2010 15:21, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > So Adalbert's "rpm -e preload" advice is good advice.
>
It's not wrong advice, but it's not "good" advice, either.
> > The package state is kept entirely in the rpm database - it is safe,
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Alex wrote:
>
> > From an xterm Edit > Preferences will get you a menu. At l;east it
> >does with my XFCE desktop.
>
> No such capability with the default GNOME xterm, apparently.
>
There's no such thing as GNOME xterm. The GNOME Terminal application is
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Michael Miles wrote:
> I am finding it hard to deal with as RPMFusion and Fedora are two
> seperate thing but when it blocks a update then yes I do think it is a
> Fedora issue.
>
That's just it, Michael. While I understand your frustration, this isn't a
Fed
On 7/19/10, JD wrote:
>
> I had noscript installed but it broke several websites, including youtube.
> Several links in youtube would cease to work. I could no longer play
> youtube vids.
> Perhaps I misconfigured it???
It's likely you just neglected to trust the relevant websites. For YouTube
On 7/19/10, Suvayu Ali
>
wrote:
> On Monday 19 July 2010 12:17 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> > So yes, the software "works well" in much the same way that "an unpatched
> > Windows XP works well" but leaves you open to compromise. Note the key
> >
On 7/19/10, Suvayu Ali
>
wrote:
I have a copy of the "buggy" 64 bit flash(10.0.45), and it works with
> the fedora version of FF 3.6 very well. I am having a problem with _all_
> my plugins when I use the tarball. I guess I'll have to give up my wish
> to test the beta release of FF. :-\
>
It's n
On 7/18/10, JD wrote:
As root:
>
> mount /dev/sda8 /mydisk
>
> would have mounted your fedora disk partition.
This ignores the default use of LVM under Fedora.
> How many extended partitions do you have?
> Legacy partitions are a total of 4, and can be extended
> by having an extended partiti
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>>
>> I think the best way for me to improve this list is to provide help
>> where it's needed and try to avoid tedious arguments. I don't think
>> that anyone made me the hall monitor.
I noticed that I actually made a mistake in the below, here's the
correction:
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Christofer C. Bell In looking at your list here, it's likely that sda8 is your /boot
> filesystem and that sd9 contains your root filesystem and swap partition
> (as
On 7/18/10, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> one things is that when you say sdXN, X is the drive letter means what
> drive letter is give to the linux partition? in windows if i see, its H so
> it should be like sdH9?? in the line:
>
> mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk
>
> but the error i get is:
> *
> mount: you
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
> Whether you like it or not, and whether, even more important, you
> understand it or not, the architecture of a computer has a big impact on the
> kinds of models you can implement with any degree of efficiency on the
> computer. Hanging lot
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>
>> You have a problem. Several people offered you solutions but you are
>> reluctant to try it out.
>>
>
> What is the solution to a non-existing tab? One person said 3.2.1 would
> s
Marcel, did you really write all this shit because you can't make
autocorrect work in OpenOffice?
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:14:07 -0400
>> Marcel Rieux wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 a
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
>
> This is a technical forum, not a debating society. Science is awash
> already in useless flops.
>
You're showing your ignorance, Robert. FLOPS is a very useful measure and
more is always good, but I don't think you know what it means.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 07/16/2010 04:43 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> >
> > Meanwhile, if Red Hat wants to continue shipping its product with such
> > an obvious bug, so be it. That's unless Red Hat is well aware of the
> > bug and ships it with Fedora to entice u
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> But that's just me and, of course, I'm a troll. I mean, is there any logic
> in what I'm saying? Of course, everybody knows if you don't pay, you
> shouldn't complain about flawed software whose bugs any idiot could identify
> at first sigh
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> Since I'm in rant mode, I might as well continue. There's a lot to be said
> about how Fedora doesn't work!
>
Not again. Please don't. No, there isn't.
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:38 PM, dexter wrote:
> 2010/7/15 Máirín Duffy :
> > I just wanted to re-emphasize that we're really hoping to hear from you
> > - what do you think of our designs so far? It's important to us to make
> > sure Fedora 14's theme is something that you'll enjoy.
> >
> Its go
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>
> How does Red Hat manages to ask thousand of dollars from companies when
> Linux's main word processing software doesn't offer such basic
> functionalities?
>
> Excuse me for trolling with facts -- because anything that's not hip, hip,
> hur
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>
> No. as the tile and the line above say, I mean in OOo 3.3.1
>
> Still no answer to this question. Isn't it amazing that that no Fedora
user,
> including me, knows how to make autocorrections in OOo 3.1.1? No doubt I
> should register to OOo
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Thursday, July 15, 2010 06:51:31 Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>>
>> That's not how it works and not what --skip-broken does. That option
>> skips trying to update packages for which there are broken
>> de
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 07/14/2010 11:37 PM, Frank Chiulli wrote:
>>
>> Summary:
>>
>> SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/exim "getattr" access on
>> /home/frank/.procmailrc.
>>
>> Detailed Description:
> Open a bugzilla.
Daniel,
Would the sebool exim_read_user_
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 20:58 +, BeartoothHOS wrote:
>> Several machines have been showing lines like these :
>>
>> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
>> Starting udev: udevd[405]: BUS= will be removed
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 11:38 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> I can see two possible solutions. One would take the form of yum
>> checking to see if kmods are needed for a new kernel on the system and
>> not downloading the kernel if the kmods aren't ava
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 11:33 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 16:01 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> >> Recompiled them to use --dwis instead.
>> >
>> > Or you could use a script.
>> >
>
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote:
>
> Hi Folks;
>
> Every time I try to run KPackageKit to download a program it fails during the
> download operation.
>
> I am able to download files (large ISOs) from other programs but even relative
> small downloads in KPK fail. I have no n
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> On 07/08/2010 11:56 AM, Robert Myers wrote:
>> > You don't know me any more than you know if there is extraterrestrial
>> > life.
>> I can, based on observations and other factors, specu
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
> I suppose eol includes the PPC distro?
>
> which means I'm going to have to either start learning how to roll my
> own Fedora now, or start getting ready to switch back to openBSD on
> my PPC machines.
>
Instead of abandoning Linux, have you c
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:50 +0530, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote:
> > remove or erase
> > Are used to remove the specified packages from the system
> as well as removing any
> > packages which depend on the pac
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 06:24:57PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
> > On 06/23/2010 06:22 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> > > 'info yum' does not supply any more details with respect to
> > > remove/erase then 'man yum'.
>
> > Erase is j
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:27 AM, JD wrote:
>
>
> On 06/22/2010 04:56 AM, Tim Waugh was caught red-handed while writing::
> > I'm flattered that you think I am able to diagnose this problem given
> > the slight information you have provided, fix it, and provide an update
> > all within a week. :-
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