Re: Keyboard locking up in FC17

2013-09-26 Thread Tod Thomas
On 09/26/2013 10:42 AM, poma wrote: On 26.09.2013 13:45, Tod Thomas wrote: … Ultimately, holding down the shift key for 20 secs worked. So I think there is a solution but I'd be interested to know what avenue I could take to actually see it happen and get to the bottom of it? I'm no

Re: Keyboard locking up in FC17

2013-09-26 Thread Tod Thomas
On 09/25/2013 11:45 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 09/25/2013 12:40:47 PM, Tod Thomas wrote: On 09/25/2013 08:06 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 25 September 2013 13:01, Ian Malone wrote: On 24 September 2013 19:33, Tod Thomas wrote: I've read that fc17 is end of life but maybe someone has run

Re: Keyboard locking up in FC17

2013-09-25 Thread Tod Thomas
On 09/25/2013 08:06 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 25 September 2013 13:01, Ian Malone wrote: On 24 September 2013 19:33, Tod Thomas wrote: I've read that fc17 is end of life but maybe someone has run into this. I'm running fc17, latest upgrades, using XFCE, and periodically the key

Keyboard locking up in FC17

2013-09-24 Thread Tod Thomas
I've read that fc17 is end of life but maybe someone has run into this. I'm running fc17, latest upgrades, using XFCE, and periodically the keyboard just stops working, mouse is fine. I end up having to mouse over ALL of my open windows saving and closing. Once I logoff and logon everything

Re: rsyslogd and services in general

2013-03-02 Thread Tod Thomas
On 03/02/2013 05:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/02/2013 02:34 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: systemd provides a new command for some startup logging: journalctl Just out of curiosity, I checked to see if that's active: [root@khorlia joe]# systemctl status journalctl.service journalctl.service

rsyslogd and services in general

2013-03-02 Thread Tod Thomas
Ok, old school here, Saturday morning hacking. What is the new method for managing system services? Could someone point me to some good documentation? The reason I ask is nothing is being written to /var/log/messages and /etc/init.d/ doesn't seem to be a viable option anymore. I tried: /sbin

Re: Preupgrade fc15->fc16

2013-03-02 Thread Tod Thomas
On 02/20/2013 12:40 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.02.2013 18:35, schrieb Tod Thomas: I just completed upgrading a FC14 virtual machine running under virtual box and it went pretty well. Now I am trying to do the same upgrade only on a FC15 standalone machine to FC16. It looks like it

Preupgrade fc15->fc16

2013-02-20 Thread Tod Thomas
I just completed upgrading a FC14 virtual machine running under virtual box and it went pretty well. Now I am trying to do the same upgrade only on a FC15 standalone machine to FC16. It looks like it can't find any of the FC15 repos which is odd since FC14 went so well. Should I expect this

FC15 Upgrade Gnome Issue Dell Inspiron

2011-10-03 Thread Tod Thomas
I burned the DVD version of the distro so I could update an old dell Inspiron 600M laptop from FC13. It seemed to go well until I rebooted then a message flashed by saying something about Gnome3 and comparability with older displays. I get a Gnome desktop but its not working quite right. I'm

Re: FC14, sleeping forever

2011-07-18 Thread Tod Thomas
On 07/14/2011 04:15 PM, Hugh Caley wrote: Subject: FC14, sleeping forever From: Tod Thomas <mailto:fr33z...@gmail.com> Date: 06:07 AM To: Community support for Fedora users <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> I've got a virtual FC14 image running under virtual box

USB to Parallel Cable

2011-07-17 Thread Tod Thomas
Does anyone have any experience with this type of cable under linux that could share some suggestions? I have a USB only PC and an old parallel printer that I am near and dear to that I would like to continue using. Thanks - Tod -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

FC14, sleeping forever

2011-07-14 Thread Tod Thomas
I've got a virtual FC14 image running under virtual box on a win7 laptop. Something hung it up yesterday and I had to hard boot the image. Now when I try and restart it progresses to a point of almost completing and stops with the message "No root device found. Boot has failed, sleeping forever.

Re: DNS Problem Maintaining Domain on Fedora VM

2011-06-23 Thread Tod Thomas
On 06/23/2011 07:56 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:06:55 -0400 > Tod Thomas wrote: > >> I cannot get >> Network Manager to keep the domain name so I'm constantly having to add >> it at the end of my host names which is a little annoying. > In

DNS Problem Maintaining Domain on Fedora VM

2011-06-23 Thread Tod Thomas
I have a FC14 VM running on a Win7 box using Virtual Box. I cannot get Network Manager to keep the domain name so I'm constantly having to add it at the end of my host names which is a little annoying. I've googled around and there are a number of suggestions but none of them are definitive.

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-03 Thread Tod Thomas
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tod Thomas wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > >> On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: >> > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> > wrote: >>

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Tod Thomas
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote: >

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Tod Thomas
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote: > > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a > > running > > FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade a

Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Tod Thomas
I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a running FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and then I discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to perform the upgrade. I've already gone into the VirtualBox interface and increa

Getting data off of a Palm Pilot IIIe

2011-02-28 Thread Tod Thomas
I have a old palm pilot that I really don't use but still use its windows client GUI. I can still sync it to the original palm pilot but I'd like to get the data off of that platform onto something a little more contemporary like Mozilla Sunbird etc. Is there some sort of utility that I can us

Re: VirtualBox VBoxVMM.so: cannot open shared object file

2010-10-31 Thread Tod Thomas
On 10/29/2010 06:54 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 10/29/2010 01:36 PM, Tod Thomas wrote: >>The full messages is: >> >> VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: >> dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: VBoxVMM.so: cannot >> open sh

VirtualBox VBoxVMM.so: cannot open shared object file

2010-10-29 Thread Tod Thomas
The full messages is: VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: VBoxVMM.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The VBoxVMM.so file is in the same directory as the VirtualBox.so file. Also: ldd /usr/lib/virtualb

VHS->DVD

2010-10-14 Thread Tod Thomas
I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other media. I'm pretty sure I heard within the last couple of years that the VHS standard was retired, or its patent ran out, or something. I expected someo

Re: FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

2010-09-27 Thread Tod Thomas
On 09/11/2010 12:09 PM, Tod Thomas wrote: > I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 > MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is > followed by an LVM volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB > swap LV. How can I 'saf

Re: FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

2010-09-12 Thread Tod Thomas
On 09/11/2010 08:52 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 12:09 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: > >> I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 >> MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed >> by an

FC12 forcing hard reboot

2010-09-11 Thread Tod Thomas
I yum upgraded to FC12 recently and now my machine is locking up hard a couple of times a day. I've upgrade two other boxes similarly and they haven't had this problem. Is there any way to debug this? I can provide more information as requested. Thanks - Tod -- users mailing list users@lis

FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

2010-09-11 Thread Tod Thomas
I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed by an LVM volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV. How can I 'safely' decrease the size of the volume group and increase the size of

Re: Yum Upgrade 11-12 dependency problem with ksysguardd?

2010-09-03 Thread Tod Thomas
On 09/01/2010 08:10 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: Tod Thomas wrote: I've upgraded two other machines without a problem. On the third one I get to the end of the dependency check and this appears: Mind giving the full output ? may also be worth trying $ yum update yum PackageKit first to

Yum Upgrade 11-12 dependency problem with ksysguardd?

2010-09-01 Thread Tod Thomas
I've upgraded two other machines without a problem. On the third one I get to the end of the dependency check and this appears: ... ---> Package kdebase-workspace.i686 0:4.3.2-1.fc12 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: ksysguardd = 4.3.2-1.fc12 for package: kdebase-workspace-4.3.2-1.fc

Re: Creative Labs Live! Cam Notebook Ultra Model vf0310 and FC11

2010-03-14 Thread Tod Thomas
On 03/13/2010 10:22 PM, iarly selbir | ski0s wrote: > did you try cheese? > > lsusb shows something related ( assuming its usb ) > > Regards, > > - - > iarlyy selbir | ski0s > > :wq! > > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Tod Thomas wrote: >

Creative Labs Live! Cam Notebook Ultra Model vf0310 and FC11

2010-03-13 Thread Tod Thomas
Should this work? If so is there documentation or a tutorial I can follow? Thanks - Tod -- 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_lis

Re: FC11 Install Requires Network Connectivity?

2010-02-05 Thread Tod Thomas
Mikkel wrote: > On 01/30/2010 09:39 AM, Tod Thomas wrote: > >> I'm in the middle of rebuilding two new machines, neither of them are >> attached to the network. After following the prompts (3-4 screens) I >> get "Some of your software repositories requi

FC11 Install Requires Network Connectivity?

2010-01-30 Thread Tod Thomas
I'm in the middle of rebuilding two new machines, neither of them are attached to the network. After following the prompts (3-4 screens) I get "Some of your software repositories require networking but there was an error enabling the network on your system." and no other option but to exit the

fc11 - blank screen at boot after mobo upgrade

2010-01-17 Thread Tod Thomas
I had an old Epox mobo running with an old Athlon XP chip so I decided to upgrade. Before I made this decision I decided to upgrade from fc10 to fc11 using yum. Upgrade went well, rebooted, everything fine. After upgrading my Mobo and CPU to an Asus m4a78-em and a sempron 2.7GHz AM3 chip I boote