Re: F34 pipewire no audio after updates

2021-08-13 Thread Ian Chapman
. I must say, we definitely needed yet another audio system. -- Regards, Ian Chapman ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https

Re: pulseaudio -> pipewire

2021-05-30 Thread Ian Chapman
to power saving or sometimes on boot. -- Regards, Ian Chapman ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/

Re: VLC and screen saver

2020-05-18 Thread Ian Chapman
e, or rather 200% in this case on my little 2 core netbook. -- Regards, Ian Chapman ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedora

Re: device names

2020-04-18 Thread Ian Chapman
PITA and doesn't solve much anyway. It really is not that easier now playing guess the NIC than it was when everything was eth*. Besides the supposed slot numbering system often does match reality for the same reasons you say... the BIOS being stupid. -- Regards, I

Re: grub regression in f30

2019-09-23 Thread Ian Chapman
this is because the new version is built on the fly at boot up and is unavailable initially until reboot. -- Regards, Ian Chapman ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject

Re: why the long pause after bash "command not found"?

2019-05-17 Thread Ian Chapman
wo other highly irritating ones I get rid of. +1 to that. The bash-completion is in theory useful but in many cases it doesn't fallback to the default properly which is just annoying. -- Regards, Ian Chapman ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.

Re: Serious F29 Problem - For me!

2018-11-07 Thread Ian Chapman
e the -q and see what those differences are. -- Regards, Ian Chapman ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct

Re: What is this DNF nonsense?

2017-07-26 Thread Ian Chapman
with PackageKit-command-not-found. -- Ian Chapman. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: adobe acroread not working on F26?

2017-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
On 14/07/17 22:09, Neal Becker wrote: Starting acroread, it just silently exits. AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486 It seems to work perfectly for me under F26, although I tend to use evince most of the time. -- Ian Chapman. ___ users mailing list

Re: Linux anti-virus any good?

2017-07-12 Thread Ian Chapman
Linux certainly has malware. However, as Linux is often used to provide services to other systems, (e.g. mail, file serving, web serving and so on) it also makes sense for AV software to be installed which can detect viruses targeted at other operating systems. -- Ian Ch

Re: Video editing disaster

2017-06-19 Thread Ian Chapman
t but it's free. -- Ian Chapman. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Booting from SSD or not

2016-09-01 Thread Ian Chapman
/queue/rotational 1 = Spinning Disk 0 = SSD Unless you're crudely assuming sda is your boot disk, you'll need to figure that out, but that's not too hard. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: Dell Inspiron 17 with Fedora

2016-08-23 Thread Ian Chapman
would go black and the system would hang. Shame, as I'd thought intel chipsets were generally well behaved with Linux. It would run in VESA mode but it was so dog slow, I couldn't use for playing anything I bought it for. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Infiniband - dog slow on newer kernels

2016-05-10 Thread Ian Chapman
On 09/05/16 21:03, Ian Chapman wrote: On 09/05/16 20:36, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 06:45:27PM +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: Is anybody here use Infiniband on Fedora? More specifically IPoIB. I Is this a kernel bug, or has something significantly changed? Let's treat

Re: Infiniband - dog slow on newer kernels

2016-05-09 Thread Ian Chapman
On 09/05/16 20:36, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 06:45:27PM +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: Is anybody here use Infiniband on Fedora? More specifically IPoIB. I Is this a kernel bug, or has something significantly changed? Let's treat it as a bug -- can you file one, p

Infiniband - dog slow on newer kernels

2016-05-09 Thread Ian Chapman
the two machines, however if I use a kernel newer than about v4.0.4 on the F22 machine or a kernel newer than about v4.2.3 on the F23 machine, the maximum transfer rate drops to 760K/sec. Is this a kernel bug, or has something significantly changed? -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users

Re: NFS browsing from Nautilus

2015-10-07 Thread Ian Chapman
photos in the file browser and that triggers the automount. Is ghosting or browseable mode setting in autofs not what you need? -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedo

F21 rpc-gssd and systemd

2014-12-12 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, I use NFS4 with Kerberos. How do you enable the rpc-gssd service so that it starts on boot? If I manually start the service after boot, everything works as expected, but I'm suspecting a bug in the nfs-utils systemd service files. Thanks. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list

Re: NFS over RMDA

2014-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
nally. Looks like I'll have to compile up the module. $ uname -r 3.17.3-200.fc20.x86_64 $ su -c 'yum install kernel-devel' Is this method valid for you? Worked perfectly. Thanks Poma. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: NFS over RMDA

2014-11-26 Thread Ian Chapman
disclosure: Thanks for that. I'll enable it any give it a go anyway. It's not a mission critical system, just a home network so it's worth the risk. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

Re: NFS over RMDA

2014-11-26 Thread Ian Chapman
:# CONFIG_SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA_SERVER is not set OK, so it's probably not been enabled intentionally. Looks like I'll have to compile up the module. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

NFS over RMDA

2014-11-25 Thread Ian Chapman
been replaced by something else? -- Ian Chapman. -- 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://fedoraproject.org

Re: NFS Performance Woes

2014-07-22 Thread Ian Chapman
support amongst many platforms and then there's the differences in implementations. Do you use anything instead of NFS? I toyed with GlusterFS a few months ago and whilst it worked, following various snippets of info on the web, I found the documentation lacking and the admin tools confusing.

Re: NFS Performance Woes

2014-07-22 Thread Ian Chapman
he same way? I hadn't considered that. Good idea. When the client's having a crisis, I can spin up the VM on the client and see if that's affected. I guess it would it least tell me if it's a hardware/driver quirk or a software issue. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing li

Re: NFS Performance Woes

2014-07-22 Thread Ian Chapman
and reverse lookups work and resolve correctly and quickly too. Besides, the exports are specified by IP address on the server and the problem still occurs even why I mount an export from the client machine using the server's IP as opposed to its hostname. -- Ian Chapma

NFS Performance Woes

2014-07-21 Thread Ian Chapman
B RAM, the client 16GB. For all intents and purpose it looks like its working as it should, it's just painfully slow. Any NFS gurus out there, that can tell me what I'm doing wrong? -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscriptio

Re: Is this proof that systemd is completely broken?

2014-07-18 Thread Ian Chapman
y system is still around if you need X and Y. You just can't have X, Y and Z. -- Ian Chapman. -- 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.o

Re: dhcpd and systemd

2014-07-18 Thread Ian Chapman
head around with systemd. Two very similar systems, with services configured similarly but due to timing one works (perhaps due to luck) and the other doesn't and tracking down the reason feels painful. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: dhcpd and systemd

2014-07-18 Thread Ian Chapman
gainst the initscripts network service. No worries. I've applied the fix to named. Dovecot and OpenSSH are working fine for me at the moment but if that changes I'll fix those up too. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: dhcpd and systemd

2014-07-17 Thread Ian Chapman
the display manager depend on NetworkManager-wait-online.service because it was possible to login before autofs even started. It seems that Bind might have issues along similar lines to dhcpd too, except that it does start but refused to serve DNS requests until I restart the service. -- Ian Chapma

Re: dhcpd and systemd

2014-07-17 Thread Ian Chapman
On 17/07/14 18:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 18:32, Ian Chapman wrote: Hi, Dhcpd on my server has suddenly started taking to start before the IP address (statically assigned) has been configured on the network interface and consequently bombs out. The systemd service for dhcpd has

dhcpd and systemd

2014-07-17 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, Dhcpd on my server has suddenly started taking to start before the IP address (statically assigned) has been configured on the network interface and consequently bombs out. The systemd service for dhcpd has After=network.target should this be network-online.target? -- Ian Chapman

Re: How do I select which monitor kdm will display login on?

2014-03-14 Thread Ian Chapman
On 13/03/14 20:22, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 13 March 2014, Ian Chapman sent: I was having similar issues with GDM, where it would set up the order of the monitors incorrectly, despite what was in the X configuration or the desktop settings. Interestingly enough, the order was correct

Re: How do I select which monitor kdm will display login on?

2014-03-12 Thread Ian Chapman
tched to lightdm. It's not as pretty as kdm, if that even matters but it presents the login dialog on whatever monitor the mouse happens to be on. If you move the mouse to another display, the dialog follows. Seemed to me to be an elegant solution. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing

autofs & ipa (was Re: nfs mounts fail at boot if bind is running....)

2014-01-18 Thread Ian Chapman
ty@tty1.service plymouth-quit.service NetworkManager-wait-online.service systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online systemctl enable autofs systemctl enable gdm -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: nfs mounts fail at boot if bind is running....

2014-01-18 Thread Ian Chapman
e actually still work in F19+? I have similar issues with autofs (ie IPA not available when autofs starts) and setting this in F18 and earlier solved the problem. Makes no difference in F19+. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: Invisible cursor?

2014-01-08 Thread Ian Chapman
you've had custom cursors installed in the past any maybe they aren't installed/available anymore? -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Cond

Re: f20 :: nvidia direct rendering :: ok for root, not ok for user

2014-01-06 Thread Ian Chapman
? -- Ian Chapman. -- 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://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: gnome 3 vs kde

2014-01-05 Thread Ian Chapman
On 04/01/14 10:16, William Biggs wrote: I would like to know witch one would you use and why gnome 3 or kde ? If I had to choose only between the two, it would be KDE. I find 'Gnome 3' practically unusable. For me though, I'm a cinnamon desktop convert. -- Ian Chapman. -

Re: Something compatible to MS Office on Fedora?

2013-09-06 Thread Ian Chapman
ar or so back worked flawlessly with the word docs I threw at it. Price is about $80 and there's a 30 day trial version. http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofltm_en.htm -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: encrypting disks

2013-07-15 Thread Ian Chapman
nable processor it's still very usable. I think if you have a processor with AES (or AMD/VIA) equivalent, LUKS will use that too which significantly increase performance. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: Scanner plugin mismatch

2013-07-13 Thread Ian Chapman
On 13/07/13 21:24, Ed Greshko wrote: The HPLIP stuff is at 3.13.6 but I'm not sure what it's telling me is at 3.13.3 but anyway it prevents the scanner from working. I believe you can simply run the hp-plugin utility to clear this up. Great - thanks Ed, that fixed it. -- I

Scanner plugin mismatch

2013-07-13 Thread Ian Chapman
always worked until recently, but now I'm seeing: saned[6988]: common/utils.c 129: validate_plugin_version() Plugin version[3.13.3] mismatch with HPLIP version[3.13.6] The HPLIP stuff is at 3.13.6 but I'm not sure what it's telling me is at 3.13.3 but anyway it prevents the sc

Re: Fedup 17->18 won't boot, all partitions are GPT

2013-07-12 Thread Ian Chapman
umber Start End SizeFile system Name Flags 1 1049kB 2097kB 1049kB bios_grub 2 2097kB 526MB 524MB ext4 ext4 boot 3 526MB 320GB 320GB lvm -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Middle mouse button paste

2013-07-12 Thread Ian Chapman
ut the two boxes that were affected seem to work now and I don't what changed. It was bizarre because it wouldn't paste on a VT or in X so at first I thought it was (maybe even two) faulty mice but xev was showing the middle clicks. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.

Middle mouse button paste

2013-07-11 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, How do I enable pasting with the middle mouse button in Fedora 19? -- Ian Chapman. -- 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

systemd

2013-07-06 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, Can someone explain systemd's behaviour? Why is when I have the following services enabled: nfs-idmap.service nfs-lock.service nfs-mountd.service nfs-secure.service I have to enable nfs.target otherwise they fail to start? This is Fedora 19. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing

Re: annotate pdf files - best options for use with F17?

2012-11-30 Thread Ian Chapman
xournal but was not impressed. Any suggestions? Have you tried Okular? (yum install okular). It supports annotations. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines

Re: Sidegrade from F16.x86_64 to F17.i686

2012-11-17 Thread Ian Chapman
a few commands or a few clicks of the mouse. But it really begs the question, why anyone would want to. Surely a clean install and replacing what you need would be far less trouble. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: Does the nouveau kernel module support 3D video hardware acceleration?

2012-11-11 Thread Ian Chapman
play shoot-em-ups. It's also not an option if the Linux box is used as a high performance visualization workstation either. Unfortunately the proprietary driver is more useful than just for games. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chan

Re: systemd shutdown/reboot problems

2012-10-27 Thread Ian Chapman
vices serialized as half the battle seems to be not knowing what systemd is actually doing at any point in time because of its parallel nature. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail

systemd shutdown/reboot problems

2012-10-27 Thread Ian Chapman
g to diagnose these problems with systemd? Given that the system is left in a state where I can't do anything with it. The usual places such as /var/log/messages doesn't turn up anything useful. Maybe because syslog has already been stopped by then. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list

Re: lvm duplication

2012-10-26 Thread Ian Chapman
ig if you rename it and update /etc/fstab if necessary. -- Ian Chapman. -- 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 H

Re: Is this a packaging bug?

2012-09-24 Thread Ian Chapman
ight thing. It isn't always desirable to create the user locally (unless the user doesn't exist at all) and it seems reasonable to assume that if the user already exists, there's no need to create it. It sounds to me like, if anything it's a bug or a misconfiguration of the

Re: And don't let the door hit you on the way out

2012-07-03 Thread Ian Chapman
like stopping a speeding freight train with your hands. -- Ian Chapman. -- 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: Optical media drive emulation in linux kernel

2012-07-03 Thread Ian Chapman
ars to be a physical optical device. I seem to remember its scsi-target-utils and you'll probably also want iscsi-initiator-utils to use it. Both of which are in Fedora. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: NFSv4

2012-06-16 Thread Ian Chapman
displayed and some are nobody but I never have this issue on RHEL. The /etc/idmapd file is configured with the proper domain on both systems and NFSv3 looks OK. Anybody else have this issue? Is rpc.idmapd running? -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: smb share from an application??

2012-06-08 Thread Ian Chapman
;Show Hidden Files". There should be a folder called .gvfs. Go into this folder and you should see the shares. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: How to know what is the device corresponding to a certain external disk?

2012-06-03 Thread Ian Chapman
/log/messages. You may have to: yum install lsscsi first -- Ian Chapman. -- 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

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Chapman
it to bootstrap an old Amiga with limited connectivity :) -- Ian Chapman. -- 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 H

Re: xfs on nfs, directory listing.

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Chapman
It can be very slow, even though doing an ls in another directory on the same NFS export is quick. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorap

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Chapman
al USB cable or external PSU fixes it but there's a lot of differences between machines. Other than that, I have an external Toshiba USB drive and that works fine - but obviously not the same model as yours. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

2012-03-23 Thread Ian Chapman
e the concept of systemctl but its human interface is just awful. -- Ian Chapman. -- 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_gu

Re: anyway to log ext4 disk access ?

2012-03-12 Thread Ian Chapman
iotop will probably be your best bet. -- Ian Chapman. -- 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

Re: Bizarre kernel messages

2012-02-21 Thread Ian Chapman
re legally permitted to be used for things like WiFi and similar. I guess it's performing some kind of check on what is permitted in your region, although how it determines what your region is, I'm not sure. There's some blurb here http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Regulat

Re: SMART: sectors waiting to be remapped, negative numbers and dual boot

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Chapman
unch of spare, normally unused sectors for that purpose. Does smart report that the drive is in it's known database? If not, it could be a 'quirk' of that drive, but either way I'd make sure you keep a backup and if it's under warranty it maybe just as prudent to get it

Re: systemd and shutdown

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Chapman
On 01/23/2012 06:28 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 23/01/12 10:05, Ian Chapman wrote: Thanks I've checked out the bug report and whilst it looks similar, it seems to be a different issue. I tried the fix in the report anyway just to see but it made no difference. I've since tracked it d

Re: systemd and shutdown

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Chapman
ipa.service. If this is started the system doesn't shutdown. If I stop the service manually then the system shuts down fine, so it looks like it might be a service dependency issue but I'm at a loss as to how I can tell. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: systemd and shutdown

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Chapman
ectly until recently. Obviously something has changed but there seems to no way (at least obvious to me) to figure out the cause. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

systemd and shutdown

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Chapman
ere to produce a list of services that systemd shuts down and their order? I've enable various levels of debugging, but see nothing useful from systemd in the logs, not that it seems to log all that much anyway. Cheers. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Fedora 16 instabilities

2012-01-11 Thread Ian Chapman
t this: systemctl -a | grep -i cheese cheese.serviceerror inactive dead cheese.service Leads you to believe there should be a service called cheese and it's failed for some reason. All this stuff is just weird and confusing IMO. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list

Re: f16 - locked out again

2012-01-06 Thread Ian Chapman
l all power? In case you're not aware there's rarely a need to pull a battery on a laptop, in my experience anyway. Usually holding down the power button for 5 seconds or so is enough to hard power off a machine, but of course it should only be used as a last resort. -- Ian Ch

[SOLVED] Re: F16 autofs + wireless

2012-01-04 Thread Ian Chapman
install http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/blame-game.html systemd-analyze blame and systemd-analyze plot> plot.svg; eog plot.svg They are handy tools. When I was first getting used to systemd and generated those huge graphs, I thought that was a pretty neat feature. -- Ian Chapman. -- us

F16 autofs + wireless

2012-01-04 Thread Ian Chapman
IPv4 address. So my question is, why does autofs get started before an IPv4 address has been made available? Is there a reasonable way to fix this? -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: FreeIPA Fedora 16

2012-01-04 Thread Ian Chapman
ledge about systemd and it's bewildering array of options. -- Ian Chapman. -- 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

FreeIPA Fedora 16

2012-01-02 Thread Ian Chapman
almost complete. Pressing escape reveals nothing but a black screen. -- Ian Chapman. -- 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

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-28 Thread Ian Chapman
duce very polished, well integrated desktops and I think that really appeals, especially to those new to Linux. I think that used to be true of Ubuntu. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
Just know that it's good for you ;-) -- Ian Chapman. -- 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

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
quot;window thing" because it does "weird stuff". She couldn't care less before whether it was in Windows or Linux when she used it. I'll probably get around to sticking XFCE on it for her or put Gnome in fall back mode but these days I'm past evangelising too. :-) -

Re: Adventures with Gnome 3.2 fallback

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
elieve it's deprecated so may disappear in a future version as will my use of Gnome. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedora

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
On 11/27/2011 11:10 PM, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:47 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: >> why I have to press Alt + RMB to pop up a menu on a panel in Gnome? >> Seriously, WTF? > > Gosh, gee, Gnome just don't understand the concept of a menu. It's > suppose

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
good tablet/phone interfaces but that's where they should stay. -- Ian Chapman. -- 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

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
that is going to change so easily over time. I really wonder if > anyone will ever persuade the Gnome3 devs to put back the Shutdown button > where it belongs. ;-) Or why I have to press Alt + RMB to pop up a menu on a panel in Gnome? Seriously, WTF? -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-27 Thread Ian Chapman
ose people have different tolerances but for me KDE 4, when launched was a train-wreck. It just didn't feel finished. Which was a shame as I'd been a long time user of KDE since 2000 or so. I switched to Gnome at that time. Thanks to Gnome 3 I may well be heading back.

Re: Preparing for F16 / uid/gid limit

2011-11-06 Thread Ian Chapman
work share for example using NFS, you may need to update the ownership on those files too. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://

Re: Preparing for F16 / uid/gid limit

2011-11-05 Thread Ian Chapman
you've stored files or the brute force approach and start from / but be careful if you have network mounts etc. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Fedora 16 grub2-mkconfig

2011-11-03 Thread Ian Chapman
On 03/11/11 18:59, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> It made reference to grub-probe when it should have been grub2-probe. > > Which is related to the macosx boot entry creation only, however: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/737203 I wasn't aware of that but I do indeed have two HFS+

Re: Fedora 16 grub2-mkconfig

2011-11-03 Thread Ian Chapman
u don't need it anyway, ie if you're not dual/tripple booting etc) GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true -- Ian Chapman. -- 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

Re: VirtualBox multi cpu

2011-03-24 Thread Ian Chapman
o support "hot add" of vCPUs on Windows and Linux VMs. None, > however, support a "hot remove" of vCPUs at this time. I believe VirtualBox does support hot add and remove of processors. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Disable loading of nouveau driver for installing NVidia driver

2011-03-19 Thread Ian Chapman
t. rdblacklist=nouveau -- Ian Chapman. -- 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

Re: smartctl reports bad sectors, badblocks does not find any

2010-12-25 Thread Ian Chapman
The last value is the LBA which can used with hdparm --write-sector to write to that specific sector triggering a remap and usually decrementing the counter. Be extremely careful when using this command though as a slight mistake can trash data. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.

Re: Fedora14: Strange and intermittent very slow disks on server

2010-12-18 Thread Ian Chapman
a vendor specific setting the firmware so you can't use a standard linux util to change it. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http:

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-29 Thread Ian Chapman
'd want. > > I'll have a play and see what effect this has. No problem, there's also a good page here which explains a bit more how all this works, as well as some explanation on other tunables that might suit you better. http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdfl

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-29 Thread Ian Chapman
wer the size of the buffer, but note this will affect all file systems, not just NFS. However you may find that acceptable. -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: Gnome mnemonic underscores

2010-05-31 Thread Ian Chapman
On 31/05/10 22:43, Marius Feraru wrote: > Ian Chapman wrote: >> Has anybody else noticed that the underscores indicating short cut keys >> in gnome apps appear to be missing? > Not missing, hidden. > See http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/03/24/mnemonics/ Th

Gnome mnemonic underscores

2010-05-31 Thread Ian Chapman
Hi, Has anybody else noticed that the underscores indicating short cut keys in gnome apps appear to be missing? Is this a bug, or another another gnome idea that this makes things 'easier'? -- Ian Chapman. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe