Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-02-24 Thread Don Levey
On 2/24/2014 13:22, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Don Levey <mailto:fedora-l...@the-leveys.us>> wrote: >> I can appreciate that. If this were a mission-critical machine I might >> be able to justify the setup for a regular, hourly, backup. At

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-02-24 Thread Don Levey
On 2/24/2014 13:14, Chris Murphy wrote: > > .. > > Obviously one of the drives is no longer updated since the raid1 is > not in effect so it's possible any utility will find the state > ambiguous and won't know how to sync the disks, does a overwrite c or > does c overwrite a? Consider that this

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-02-24 Thread Don Levey
On 2/22/2014 21:37, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 22, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Don Levey > wrote: > >> On 2/21/2014 11:38, Chris Murphy wrote: ... >> >>> What do you get for: >>> >>> mdadm -E /dev/sda mdadm -E /dev/sdc >>> >>>

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-02-22 Thread Don Levey
On 2/21/2014 11:38, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 5:29 AM, Don Levey > wrote: >>> No. Hardware raid will show up as a single /dev/sdX device. What >>> results do you get for lsblk? > > It's a nitpick, but for what it's worth it

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-02-21 Thread Don Levey
On 2/20/2014 20:42, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 20, 2014, at 4:27 PM, Don Levey > wrote: >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sda1 63 10276051151380224+ 7 >> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > > This starting

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-02-20 Thread Don Levey
On 2/20/2014 17:03, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Don Levey wrote: > >> ... >> After several weeks of schedule hell, I was finally able to work on >> this. The upshot is that the previously installed kernels weren't >> avail

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-02-20 Thread Don Levey
On 2/18/2014 17:46, Don Levey wrote: > On 1/29/2014 13:59, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> ... >> Anyway, if you're for sure convinced it's corrupt then reformat the >> partition. >> Use blkid to get the new volume UUID to insert into /etc/fstab so it gets

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-02-18 Thread Don Levey
On 1/29/2014 13:59, Chris Murphy wrote: > > ... > Anyway, if you're for sure convinced it's corrupt then reformat the > partition. > Use blkid to get the new volume UUID to insert into /etc/fstab so it gets > mounted > when you next boot. And then mount root, boot, (boot/efi if this is a UEFI

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-01-29 Thread Don Levey
On 1/29/2014 14:37, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Don Levey > wrote: > ... >> >> I was wondering something similar; perhaps there is physical >> damage? > > This should give a quick idea: smartctl -x /dev/sdX > > This will take

Re: Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-01-29 Thread Don Levey
On 1/29/2014 13:59, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Don Levey > wrote: > >> A short while ago, during a power cut, my desktop machine failed. >> A power-up displayed symptoms consistent with a missing /boot >> partition; attempting to boot

Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

2014-01-29 Thread Don Levey
A short while ago, during a power cut, my desktop machine failed. A power-up displayed symptoms consistent with a missing /boot partition; attempting to boot under the rescue CD seemed to confirm this when it did not mount the /boot partition. Booting under the F20 LiveUSB key allowed me to manua

Re: en.mo.gz not found/invalid magic number - UPDATE

2014-01-03 Thread Don Levey
On 1/3/2014 17:12, Don Levey wrote: > In my research I've not yet seen anything for Fedora about this, and > certainly not the combination of two errors. I'll try to be as complete > as possible... I have managed to create a LiveUSB stick for F20. I can see the /boot par

en.mo.gz not found/invalid magic number

2014-01-03 Thread Don Levey
In my research I've not yet seen anything for Fedora about this, and certainly not the combination of two errors. I'll try to be as complete as possible: After a power loss, I was unable to reboot my desktop machine (Dell Dimension E521 running F19). Upon first hitting grub, I received large num

Re: Kernel update causes wireless to disable [UPDATE - SOLVED]

2013-11-26 Thread Don Levey
On 11/13/2013 17:09, Steven Stern wrote: > On 11/13/2013 02:32 PM, Don Levey wrote: >> My wife's laptop was running fine on kernel 3.10.11-200: >> >> uname -a: >> Linux croweflies.the-leveys.us 3.10.11-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 9 >> 13:03:01 UTC 2013 x86_

Re: Kernel update causes wireless to disable

2013-11-14 Thread Don Levey
On 11/14/2013 09:23, John W. Linville wrote: > > As you intuit, cutting oneself off from future kernel updates is an > overreaction. > > If your device has stopped working, then open a bug. > John, I posted a bug in the kernel Bugzilla, but as they mentioned I should open in Fedora I will do tha

Re: Kernel update causes wireless to disable

2013-11-14 Thread Don Levey
On 11/13/2013 21:15, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/13/2013 01:55 PM, Don Levey wrote: >> As a (perhaps) related question: >> It is my understanding that if I were to use akmod (as opposed to kmod) >> it would dynamically download necessary modules at startup time if an >>

Re: Kernel update causes wireless to disable

2013-11-13 Thread Don Levey
On 11/13/2013 16:20, Jim wrote: > On 11/13/2013 03:32 PM, Don Levey wrote: >> My wife's laptop was running fine on kernel 3.10.11-200: >> Linux croweflies.the-leveys.us 3.10.11-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 9 >> >> ... > > In doing this yum will never upda

Kernel update causes wireless to disable

2013-11-13 Thread Don Levey
My wife's laptop was running fine on kernel 3.10.11-200: uname -a: Linux croweflies.the-leveys.us 3.10.11-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 9 13:03:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux lspci -s 03:00.0: 03:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe rfkill list wl

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

2012-08-30 Thread Don Levey
On 8/30/2012 19:55, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:41:26PM -0700, jdow wrote: >> painful stuff (making sure addons still work.) As a user this is rapidly >> becoming VERY annoying. I may revisit Evilution (sic) as a substitute. > > If I may suggest an extremely versatile alternativ

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

2012-08-30 Thread Don Levey
On 8/30/2012 15:48, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/30/2012 12:34 PM, Don Levey wrote: >> As for the Linux version, I honestly don't know. Perhaps a >> separate utility to scan the XPIs installed and check the Mozilla >> database against the new version? I don't know if

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

2012-08-30 Thread Don Levey
On 8/30/2012 15:21, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/30/2012 11:56 AM, Don Levey wrote: >> Knowing that an update would invalidate an extension would in no way >> prevent you from installing the update if you chose to do so. But not >> knowing that one's extension will

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

2012-08-30 Thread Don Levey
On 8/30/2012 15:25, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/30/2012 12:01 PM, Don Levey wrote: >> Because they do it*after* installation. Why not do it before >> installation instead? I'm not talking about random extensions that are >> created off in some backwater corner of the in

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

2012-08-30 Thread Don Levey
On 8/30/2012 14:58, David wrote: > On 8/30/2012 2:29 PM, Don Levey wrote: >> On 8/30/2012 11:10, Nate Pearlstein wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> So thunderbird 15 breaks the Exchange 2007/2010 Calendar and Tasks >>> Provider 1.8.5 add on. There isn&

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

2012-08-30 Thread Don Levey
On 8/30/2012 14:45, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/30/2012 11:29 AM, Don Levey wrote: >> On 8/30/2012 11:10, Nate Pearlstein wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> So thunderbird 15 breaks the Exchange 2007/2010 Calendar and Tasks >>> Provider 1.8.5 add on. There isn&

Re: How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

2012-08-30 Thread Don Levey
On 8/30/2012 11:10, Nate Pearlstein wrote: > Hi, > > So thunderbird 15 breaks the Exchange 2007/2010 Calendar and Tasks > Provider 1.8.5 add on. There isn't a newer version of the add-on available. > Wouldn't it be nice if the installation routine checked for add-on incompatibilities *before* it

Re: Unable to connect to scanner

2012-08-22 Thread Don Levey
On 8/22/2012 22:22, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > A question When I use gimp and go to "create" I see one of my selections > to be... > > Xsane:hpaio:'net'Officejet6500E709n?ip=192.168.0.195 > > is that what you are seeing or do you see hpaio:/net/ ? > > Everything is working fine for me. Ma

Unable to connect to scanner

2012-08-22 Thread Don Levey
I have an HP OfficeJet Pro L7590 all-in-one unit. Until yesterday I was able to use it to scan via xsane (and using that, in GIMP). As of yesterday, however, I get the following error: Failed to open device `hpaio:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7500?ip=192.168.1.128': End of file reached That is indeed th

Re: Proxy/network configuration prevents yum and firefox but not konqueror (FC17)

2012-08-10 Thread Don Levey
On 8/9/2012 15:08, James Wilkinson wrote: > Don Levey wrote: >> I have one machine on my home network that I protect via a squid proxy - >> my kids' machine. Somehow, something I (or they) did created a >> situation where I cannot connect externally via Firefox, an

Re: Proxy/network configuration prevents yum and firefox but not konqueror (FC17)

2012-08-09 Thread Don Levey
On 8/9/2012 10:23, Don Levey wrote: > > I have one machine on my home network that I protect via a squid proxy - > my kids' machine. Somehow, something I (or they) did created a > situation where I cannot connect externally via Firefox, and cannot > connect to any reposito

Proxy/network configuration prevents yum and firefox but not konqueror (FC17)

2012-08-09 Thread Don Levey
So I can't wrap my head around what I might have done to create this situation, or to back out of it. I have one machine on my home network that I protect via a squid proxy - my kids' machine. Somehow, something I (or they) did created a situation where I cannot connect externally via Firefox, an

Re: F-17 SSH -

2012-08-08 Thread Don Levey
On 8/8/2012 10:05, Martin Briza wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:01:01 +0200 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > wrote: > >> >> Replaced F-16/64 with F-17/64 on "box7" and see a problem I seem to >> have every time I do this. >> >> Presently box7 will ssh into box9 but box9 can not get

Re: Strange application lockups

2012-07-20 Thread Don Levey
On 7/20/2012 12:14, Emmett Culley wrote: > Mine is a 64bit system and virtually all KDE packages are installed. > It has been happening since soon after installing (fresh) Fedora 17. > > Like Don noted, when this is happening I have no problem switching > between desktops, so plasma isn't the cul

Re: Strange application lockups

2012-07-20 Thread Don Levey
On 7/20/2012 01:12, Emmett Culley wrote: ... > > My system is running KDE and is fully updated (30 minutes ago) via the > default repositories. > > Is any body else seeing this? > I have a similar, but perhaps more drastic, problem. When I run KDE, *everything* will lock up after some undetermi

Re: Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

2012-07-19 Thread Don Levey
On 7/19/2012 15:06, Joe Zeff wrote: > > You mean like "Beefy Miracle?" Seriously, I always thought that Fedora > 18's code name should be a celebration of Life. Two brownie points to > the first person to figure out why. You mean apart from the "18 = Chai (Hebrew) = Life (English)" thing? -Don

Re: pulseaudio: no sound, Fedora 12, what debugging/diagnostic info is needed to solve this problem?

2010-03-01 Thread Don Levey
Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > pulseaudio: no sound, Fedora 12, what debugging/diagnostic info is > needed to solve this problem? > > Thanks, > Ken Wolcott Here's what I used to find my problem, in addition to making sure I found the correct hardware and software versions: lsmod | grep snd l

Re: F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem [RESOLVED]

2010-02-25 Thread Don Levey
Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-25 12:45:57, Don Levey wrote: > ... >> Would you suggest I file the bug with Fedora, or with PulseAudio? > > Fedora, I think. > Doing the appropriate bug search before submitting a new one, I ran across this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/s

Re: F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem

2010-02-25 Thread Don Levey
On 02/25/2010 01:41 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-24 23:07:41, Don Levey wrote: > >> I've been reading with interest the problems with PulseAudio since >> F12 >> >> came out, and I find myself in a similar situation (none of the >> previou

Re: F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem (more info)

2010-02-24 Thread Don Levey
On 02/24/2010 11:07 PM, Don Levey wrote: > I've been reading with interest the problems with PulseAudio since F12 > came out, and I find myself in a similar situation (none of the > previously offered solutions seem to have helped). > Two more things: * The "30

F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem

2010-02-24 Thread Don Levey
ion I can post that might help to diagnose this? I'm at a loss. Thanks in advance, -Don Levey -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraprojec