Re: FC15/16 NetworkManager drops network connection

2012-03-27 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Symersky, Henry wrote: > Can someone please explain to me how to configure the NetworkManager in > order to KEEP ETEHERNET CONNECTTION EVEN AFTER LOGGING OUT ?? > Thanks. Usually in the past (well for me always in the past once NM was fully operational) you can g

Re: importing photos from Galaxy Nexus Android phone?

2012-03-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > On 03/12/2012 01:22 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Has anyone found a successful, reliable recipe for importing photos from >> a Galaxy Nexus Android phone? > > > Never mind. I've figured out that the Galax

Re: display

2012-03-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I can the following: > > cvt 1600 1200 > return > # 1600x1200 59.87 Hz (CVT 1.92M3) hsync: 74.54 kHz; pclk: 161.00 MHz > Modeline "1600x1200_60.00"  161.00  1600 1712 1880 2160  1200 1203 1207 1245 > -hsync +vsync > > How can I make the mode

Re: YouTube, HTML5, and Chromium. Why the sudden malfunction?

2012-03-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >  google-chrome 19.0.1061.1 is out - both html5 and pepper flash work fine. > Of course not yet in the stable branch but available for dev branch. -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: F16 update pushes - it is currently broken?

2012-03-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Alchemist wrote: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F16 Very good - updates starting to flow again from today -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraprojec

Re: F16 update pushes - it is currently broken?

2012-03-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I have installed several updates since March 1. > -- That is rather amazing considering I could not see a single f16 x86_64 update rpm on the server dated after March 1st! Perhaps you were updating something from rpmfusion or a non-Fedora r

F16 update pushes - it is currently broken?

2012-03-06 Thread mike cloaked
Does anyone know if there is a problem being addressed to remedy no updates appearing in the repos since March 1st for F16? Thanks -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Peter Larsen wrote: > Patric, > fdisk (you have to start using -cul instead of -l) reports what-ever the > partition table contains. It's utterly ignorant to what's on the actual > partition. So simply login with fdisk, do a "t" and change the partition > type to wh

Re: Alternative to a Pogoplug

2012-02-29 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 02/28/2012 03:04 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> >> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:52:23 -0500 >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> Any recommendations? >> >> newegg.com has a "bookshelf computers" category I was >> glancing at the other day. Perhaps o

Re: Applications do not close with new kernel

2012-02-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:01 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 02/20/2012 01:00 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> >>> OK I have several machines running f16 xfce some x86 and some x86_64 >>> and none have the issue t

Re: Applications do not close with new kernel

2012-02-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/20/2012 01:00 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> OK I have several machines running f16 xfce some x86 and some x86_64 >> and none have the issue that you are seeing. > > > I think you're a tad confused.  I&#

Re: Applications do not close with new kernel

2012-02-20 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/19/2012 11:27 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> If you got rid of the top panel initially did you install the >> notification area back into the bottom panel? > > > Of course.  I have the notification area, log

Re: Applications do not close with new kernel

2012-02-19 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/19/2012 09:24 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: >> >> I remember when I did the initial install of Xfce, there was a second >> panel on the bottom of the screen with a couple items including a >> magnifying glass. I deleted that panel as quickly

Re: "Proper" F16 Java setup ??? (Firefox Additional Plugins Required)

2012-01-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:51 AM, edik landave wrote: > #replace the java version name for the one you have downloaded > #This have worked for me: > > 1. Download jre-6u27-linux-i586.bin from the SUN site. > 2. su-->pwd-->mv jre-6u27-linux-i586.bin to /usr/local > 3. chmod u+x jre-6u27-linux-i586.b

Re: libreoffice paper size magic.

2012-01-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:35:49 -0500 > fred smith wrote: > >> Hmm that's odd. I didn't have to do either of those things. >> Just looked and both the printer default and document default paper >> are US Letter. I don't recall having to do an

Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2012-01-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 09:23 +1000, Roger wrote: >> I've found over time that formatting with ext3 tends to remove most >> hidden partitions > > I don't see how it can do that.  Formatting creates a file system within > a partition.  If you want to do s

Re: Sound

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Rick Sewill wrote: > >> On Saturday, January 14, 2012 07:47:05 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: >> Hello, >> >> After upgrade from fedora 14 to fedora 16 on a Inspiron 9400, I lost >> the sound! > If you are now using pulse audio

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:57 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > The configs were before I used splix and can look up my old notes on > the issue.  However if you have a previously defined printer before > you installed the splix package the way I would proceed is to delete > I will dig

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Jim wrote: > On 01/14/2012 11:29 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Tim Waugh  wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +, mike cloaked wrote: >>>> >>>> However nowada

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +0000, mike cloaked wrote: >> However nowadays I >> simply install the splix package and the system recognises the printer >> and it works without any fuss or bother. > > Oh, do you use t

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 17:18 -0500, Jim wrote: >> E [12/Jan/2012:17:08:55 -0500] PID 15290 >> (/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc) crashed on signal 11. > > Samsung's CUPS filter crashed.  You need to let them know about it so > they can fi

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Jim wrote: > Fedora 16-i386 > Can't get Samsung printer to print, Error Log Messages below. > Samsung CLX3170. > How did you install the printer? With many Samsung printers now the splix package will provide suitable opensource drivers that work. I notice that

Re: F16 - a good experience - except Zenbook trackpad + couple of other things

2011-12-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > +1 from me too but has anyone got a solution to the Zenbook trackpad > hassles? (I am using XFCE) out and also: > What particular issues are you having with the trackpad - I don't have that particular machine but I have startup commands to

F16 - a good experience

2011-12-30 Thread mike cloaked
I know that recently some folk have posted of bad experiences with f16 - however I am running f16 on 6 machines (4 laptops and 2 desktops) with 4 x86_64 and 2 i686 - and all are now stable, and running with a responsive and crisp xfce desktop. I can do everything that I need to do, and one of the

strange left-handed mouse behaviour with xfce after new kernel

2011-12-23 Thread mike cloaked
I have an odd problem with a particular user setup in f16 - the machine is running x86_64 f16 fully up to date - one user out of several on the machine needs to have the mouse set to left-handed and all users are running xfce as the desktop. Everything works beautifully including for all users i

Re: Clean Installs are Remarkable

2011-12-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Fedora User wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:04:00 +0900 >> Joel Rees wrote: >> >>> I generally don't do install from DVD because there will always be the >>> first yum update after the install, to kill a bit o

Re: Clean Installs are Remarkable

2011-12-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/22/2011 02:31 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> the almost inevitable >> problems that have come from the upgrade of an older system. > > > And I've been doing upgrades for years and this is the first time I

Re: Clean Installs are Remarkable

2011-12-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:28 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/21/2011 07:06 PM, Fedora User wrote: >> >> It has been awhile and I was unaware of the many advances that >> developers have made in installation. It has never been this easy, >> intuitive and fast. > > > That's good to know.  Even if I mana

Re: Problems with java applet

2011-12-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > Hi, > > after upgrading to F16, my online banking does no longer work. With > F15, all was fine. My bank uses a java applet to log in, and that > works. After logging in, I'm no longer able to do a singe > transaction, because I have to confirm

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-14 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:07 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > When not using the retrace server, abrt usually just uploads the text > backtrace, not the coredump.  (I believe you can instruct it to do so, > but it doesn't do so by default and I have never needed to.)  When > using the retrace serv

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:07 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:04 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >>> >>>  I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI >>> crash

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:04 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >>  I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI >> crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including >> thin

Re: abrtd - how to remove

2011-12-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >  I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI > crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including > things it quite obviously (to a human) does not need. > > >  I think abrtd needs help with its

Re: Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

2011-12-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:36 -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote: >> It appears that upgrading abrt in F16 from 2.0.6-1 to 2.0.7-2 is going >> to require installation of PackageKit, which I long ago purged from my >> system. Just wondering, why

Re: VNCViewer not starting anymore

2011-12-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > $ vncviewer > > TigerVNC Viewer for X version 1.1.0 - built Nov 22 2011 14:21:13 > Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) > See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. > ^C > Sun Dec 11 15:07:3

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:40 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> I read this after responding to Mike's response   I think you are >>> probably on

Re: f16 - gthumb

2011-12-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > More **issues** with f16!  Or is it GFnome3?  :) > > gthumb > > They have crippled it.  It seems. > > In full screen it is only showing thumbprints!  It will not go up to > real "full screen" (image filling as much of screen as possible).

Re: Maintaining Users Passwords Through an Upgrade

2011-12-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/10/2011 10:29 AM, johnc0...@verizon.net wrote: >> I maintain a server with a number of users, and just recently upgraded to >> >> Fedora 16 from Fedora 11. I did a clean install so all of the users now >> have >> >> to reset their pas

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> I read this after responding to Mike's response   I think you are >> probably on to something with the X server and/or video driver/HW.  It >> may be he

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > I read this after responding to Mike's response   I think you are > probably on to something with the X server and/or video driver/HW.  It > may be helpful to know if you and Mike have similar HW? I am seeing the same symptoms on different

Re: Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

2011-12-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 12:16 PM, Craig White wrote: >>> But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original >>> > question. >> Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Chinese chars - but I do have a rendering problem th

Re: fedora 15 Alt panel

2011-12-09 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Before (until fedora 15), it was easy to configure the panel: > Just right click, add to panel. > Does this function disappear? > check the net, it looks like that I may have to use Alt and/ot Ctl? > The right click does not seem to

Re: fedora 13 to 14

2011-12-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > I update a fedora 13 to fedora 14 by using the DVD but then I lost the > network!! > > Here are some of the failures: > > lspci > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM Gigabit Network > Connection (rev 02) > > if

Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

2011-12-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:24 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> Change for the sake of being different is not progress, it's marketing. >> Changing >> the way things work to break the old tools so people will ue YOUR tools >> instead >> the 3rd party stuff

Re: The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

2011-12-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> Linus is a kernel developer and not a UI developer.  Thus, his opinion >>> does not matter. >>> Since Linus is not a UI developer, he is only an end user.  Thus, the >>> opinions of end users don't matter. >> >> I think his opinion mat

Re: Partition Management

2011-12-02 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/01/2011 09:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> why dual boot this days? >> >> "windows XP on due to constraints at her work" sounds not >> like playing 3d games and all other things are running fine >> in a virtual machine, most time faste

Re: Suddenly cups does not run on boot

2011-11-27 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:27:03 -0600 > Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> it is: systemctl restart cups .service that I have to run to get cups to >> work. >> >> Where is the init file for cups.service? > > I haven't had problems with cups, but I've cert

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jim wrote: > This is weird Mike , if I open Firefox and type in 192.168.0.5, IP to > printer it shows a Information page > from there I can PRINT  out reports of the printer from that page. > But I can't print out anything like a txt doc or Print Test Page. > I st

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Jim wrote: > On 11/23/2011 04:23 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > /usr/lib/cups/filter/ a > > usr/lib/cups/filter/ has the rastertosamsungsplc and rastertosamsungspl in > it and permissions are the same as other execute files. > > > /usr/s

Re: Occasional panel freeze under Fedora-16

2011-11-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I wonder if anyone else has suffered from this? > I'm running Fedora-16/KDE on my laptop. > Occasionally - two or three times a day - > I cannot get any response from my panel, > eg clicking on the f-icon has no effect. > > If I am current

Re: F16 kde plasma crashes - occasional

2011-11-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > > Have you tried updates-testing?  There is an update that is supposed to help. > I do use updates-testing - but which particular update are you referring to? -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > It is hard to proceed just on the basis of the lines in the log > if you can't remember the steps you took then you could remove the > printer definition - and copy the two files into your system as I > described in a

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Jim wrote: > ov 23 17:05:35 BigOne dbus[915]: [system] Activating service > name='org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism' (using servicehelper) > Nov 23 17:05:35 BigOne dbus-daemon[915]: dbus[915]: [system] Activating > service name='org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechan

F16 kde plasma crashes - occasional

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
I have been running f16 x86_64 with kde 4.7.3 for a week or two on two different machines. Occasionally I have found that the screen saver kicks in but then fails to time out and so the screensaver runs continuously without powersaving the monitor after a period as normally happens. Occasionally

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Jim wrote: > On 11/23/2011 12:23 PM, Jim wrote: >> On 11/23/2011 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jim  wrote: >>> >>>>> I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machi

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Jim wrote: > On 11/23/2011 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jim  wrote: >> >>>> I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine is >>>> x86_64 or not but I

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jim wrote: >> I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine is >> x86_64 or not but I had a very very similar issue with a Samsung >> scx4500w when I installed f16. >> >> It turned out that the copy of the file "rastertosamsungspl" was a 32 >>

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Jim wrote: > Fedora 16 > Printer has been working fine in Fedora 14, 15. > F16 doesn't like it. > I'am not getting any Selinux errors. > > > Printer state: > Idle - /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc failed > I can't tell from the messages output you posted

Re: F16 KDE desktop effects - incomplete

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Are you sure the second machine is fully updated, and running the latest > kernel? Try to do a "yum update" again, and reboot the machine, there were > some recent (couple of days ago?) updates to some xorg packages... > > I had the same i

F16 KDE desktop effects - incomplete

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
I have two machines running f16 x86_64 fully up to date with a KDE desktop. One has the following graphics: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro FX 360M] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 01ff Flags: bus master, fast dev

Re: Characters have become unpleaseant in F16

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > "Unplesant" isn't much of a description :-). If you > mean thin and spindly and hard to read, you might > want to try this: > > cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/ > ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf . Thank you for that lovely hint - it has fixed an ir

Re: bash update killed my shells

2011-11-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 21:27 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:54:54 -0800, JR (Jonathan) wrote: >> >> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15725 >> > > >> > > Read through the comments. >> > >> >

Re: F16 - VSFTPd not allowing users to login

2011-11-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Andy Blanchard wrote: > Update:  This is now fixed.  The problem was that "/bin/bash" was not > included in the file "/etc/shells". > > Bug 754056 has been opened against the setup RPM, which provides > "/etc/shells", to correct this in the next release of the setu

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/13/2011 04:42 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >> >> Unfortunately, chkconfig itself doesn't translate to systemd well. >> However, this thread got me thinking that there is a need for a >> chkconfig-like tool for systemd.  So, I wrote

Re: SystemD - F-16

2011-11-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:13 -0500 >> Fedora User wrote: >> >>> The system does seem to >>> boot faster but this is really arcane compared to sysV which seemed >>> very straightfo

Re: F16 / HTTPD will not start

2011-11-13 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > It was working under F15, before the upgrade.  Now, > > systemctl httpd.service start results in > Shouldn't it be systemctl start httpd.service ? -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: Installing Fedora 16 from USB

2011-11-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Miguel Cardenas wrote: > Hello > > I've download Fedora 16 to install in onto my new notebook that comes with > no dvd drive... so I used liveusb to create a bootable USB with the ISO... > It starts the installation but then it says it does not detect a DVD drive >

Re: Using chrony in f16

2011-11-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > mike cloaked wrote: >> Now that chrony is in place in f16 instead of ntp does anyone know of >> some documentation on configuring chrony? > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ChronyDefaultNTP > man ch

Using chrony in f16

2011-11-11 Thread mike cloaked
Now that chrony is in place in f16 instead of ntp does anyone know of some documentation on configuring chrony? I have started the daemon and the time was correctly set up with default configs.. however for use in a laptop where the network may well not always be present should settings be cha

Re: /etc/init.d files under Fedora 16

2011-11-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello all, > > Last time I used Fedore was awhile ago. I decided to come back to it > now, installed Fedora 16 and discovered the following: there are very > few scripts under /etc/init.d > > And, also, I got my sshd installed but there is n

Re: F16 KDE custom script launcher?

2011-11-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:29 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:15 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> I am configuring a system running a clean install of F16 running the >> KDE desktop - everything works really nicely apart from one feature >> that I have been unab

Re: F16 KDE custom script launcher?

2011-11-10 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:15 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I am configuring a system running a clean install of F16 running the > KDE desktop - everything works really nicely apart from one feature > that I have been unable to use and maybe I am simply too stupid to be > able to find t

F16 KDE custom script launcher?

2011-11-10 Thread mike cloaked
I am configuring a system running a clean install of F16 running the KDE desktop - everything works really nicely apart from one feature that I have been unable to use and maybe I am simply too stupid to be able to find the answer by googling. I have a script that I want to be executed using a

Re: installation on a dell netbook

2011-10-07 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Shiv Manas wrote: > 1. Create a Live USB Stick > https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ > 2. Boot from the above stick > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#How_to_Boot_a_Live_USB_Drive > > > 2011/10/7 Martín Marqués >> >> I have to do

Re: F14, google-chrome won't launch after yum update

2011-10-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:01 PM, jackson byers wrote: > mike cloaked responded: > >>The last update to chrome in f14 gave avc denials and in order to get >>chrome to run after that it was necessary to run the following >>commands (as root) before chrome would run again: >

Re: F14, google-chrome won't launch after yum update

2011-09-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:40 PM, jackson byers wrote: > Daniel J Walsh replied > > >>This is definitely something in SELinux.   The current upstream google >>chrome is a little strange from an SELinux point of view.  Have you >>tried chromium? > >>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium > > > well,

Re: How to get both T520 trackpoint and touchpad working in F15

2011-09-30 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > I am trying to get both trackpoint and touchpad of the Lenovo > T520 UltraNav working, preferably at the same time as under Windows 7. > > cat /proc/bus/input/devices shows: > - SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad > - TPPS/2 IBM Trackpoint > > Af

Re: GGoogle chat vs Skype

2011-09-25 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: >> Can someone explain this? > > If you look at this chart, calls to US and Canada are free. > You are correct if you are connecting from the US/Canada - but if you connect from elsewhere there is a charge even for calls to the US/Canada - eg it

Re: RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-19 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 09/18/2011 06:54 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> Great that it works with the f15 kernel - if it is any help I had >> until recently been running an f15 kernel in another f14 laptop for >> quite a while with no prob

Re: RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-18 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 09/17/2011 02:30 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> OK my dongle arrived in the post today - so this evening I thought I >> would try it out - after plugging it in, and firing up f16 it works >> out of the box - ho

Re: RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-17 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 09/16/2011 05:20 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Kevin J. Cummings >> wrote: >>> The WiFi in my laptop gave up the ghost.  Doesn't matter what card I put >>> in the mi

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/16/2011 06:19 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> If you want to adapt the DE to your needs (as opposed to adapting >> yourself to a new DE), KDE seems to be the best possible choice. > > The first time I used XFCE after installing it, my desktop

Re: RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Kevin J. Cummings > wrote: >> The WiFi in my laptop gave up the ghost.  Doesn't matter what card I put >> in the mini PCIe slot, the system doesn't think anything is there. >

Re: RaLink 5370 USB Wifi Dongle

2011-09-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > The WiFi in my laptop gave up the ghost.  Doesn't matter what card I put > in the mini PCIe slot, the system doesn't think anything is there. > > So, I bought one of those "new" $7 Wifi dongles for the USB port. > Surprisingly small!  802

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-08 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >  Everyone is required to change - if you don't like G-3 there are > several great DE's ... fedora makes it super easy to try them - then > pick the one that suits your needs. > >  Fiddling and diddling and painting the donkey to look like a

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

2011-09-01 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >> > >  Check the documentation for: > >        hdparm --secure-erase > >    and/or  --security-erase-enhanced > I have used these commands for a number of drives - it is the fastest way to really erase all data on a drive, and effectivel

Re: kernel panic

2011-08-31 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:49 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:35 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Hiisi wrote: >>> On 31 August 2011 20:51, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 14:03:39 +0200, >

Re: kernel panic

2011-08-31 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:35 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Hiisi wrote: >> On 31 August 2011 20:51, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 14:03:39 +0200, >>>  "antonio.montagn...@alice.it" wrote: >>>> &g

Re: kernel panic

2011-08-31 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Hiisi wrote: > On 31 August 2011 20:51, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 14:03:39 +0200, >>  "antonio.montagn...@alice.it" wrote: >>> >>> How can I report the full set of >>> messages? (If not copying by hand??) >> >> It is relatively common for

Re: Installing driver for WiFi adapter

2011-08-24 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:28 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:36:06PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >> >>> >> TP-LINK TL-WN821N >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > Can you post output of lsmod and lsusb. Have you installed the firmwa

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote: > > >  You could try this fedora app:  pdftotext > >  (guys please dont double post to old and new fedora list) > The OP needs to confirm that the original pdf is actually text and not an image o

Re: Unable to create a liveUSB from Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso

2011-07-28 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:25 AM, yudi v wrote: >> The live CDs have the hard drive boot loader code and partition at >> the beginning of the image. The DVD images do not. >> >> Mikkel > > Thanks for the info. This method of putting the DVD iso onto a usbkey I have been using for some years and wo

Re: Can't send email

2011-07-18 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >  This is exactly why (half) solutions like this are really bad. A well > designed service should be a back end that works everywhere  - and allow > front ends to be built (or shared) for different DE's. > >  In this regard, the wallet man

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > OK, you finally told us what steps you went through before you had your > network problem. > > Your description is strange since the request to set up a network occurs > on the same screen as the setting of the host name when I do an > insta

Re: Installing F15 without any active network? - Solved

2011-07-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:25 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> It would be nice to get a crack at that DVD. I'm curious how a bad burn >> caused a fixed bug to resurface. > > I don't know but it was certainly no

Re: Installing F15 without any active network? - Solved

2011-07-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > It would be nice to get a crack at that DVD. I'm curious how a bad burn > caused a fixed bug to resurface. I don't know but it was certainly not an alpha or a beta iso - disk is binned though -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: Installing F15 without any active network? - Solved

2011-07-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> I finally found the problem - it was a bad DVD burn - a good DVD did >> not give the problem! > > You mean you didn't run the media check? *Always* run the media check > the first time you use an install DVD. > > poc You are right

Re: Installing F15 without any active network? - Solved

2011-07-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:22 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > By the way, yes I did set a hostname but did not set up networking on > the same screen - little point since the network was not accessible > (in fact not only was DHCP

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-05 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: By the way, yes I did set a hostname but did not set up networking on the same screen - little point since the network was not accessible (in fact not only was DHCP set to not give an address to the machine, but if a static ip was set then the

Re: Installing F15 without any active network?

2011-07-05 Thread mike cloaked
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I am glad to drop it but 2 people said they had done the installation > without having setup networking right after entering the host name. > Since you never got to the adding repo stage their setting up networking > at that point in the inst

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