Re: Network Manager power drain

2014-01-11 Thread William Murray
or a small device However, now I realsie bumblebee is not working, so maybe the nvidia card is the real culprit..I'll look there.. Thanks, Bill On 10/01/14 08:57, William Murray wrote: Dear FC20 users, I tried posting a few days ago as 'Help with fc20 NIC power? <https://

Network Manager power drain

2014-01-10 Thread William Murray
Dear FC20 users, I tried posting a few days ago as 'Help with fc20 NIC power? ' but had no luck. My battery life dropped to about 20 mins with FC20. I THINK it is because NetworkManager is doing something bad wit

Help with fc20 NIC power?

2014-01-02 Thread William Murray
Hi all, F20 installed, all seems nice - except the power. I am using 'powertop' which reports 19W on virbr and 13 on wlp3s0. A full battery last 40mins, c/f 4 hrs on FC19. My interfaces look like this: lo: flags=73 mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1

Re: Goa daemon eats all my cpu

2013-09-21 Thread William Murray
On 21/09/13 23:06, William Murray wrote: On 21/09/13 22:59, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.09.2013 22:51, schrieb William Murray: Go daemon keeps grabbing 100% of my cpu. I don't really know what it is, good tells me it is something to do with online accounts (which I never use). Is

Re: Goa daemon eats all my cpu

2013-09-21 Thread William Murray
On 21/09/13 22:59, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.09.2013 22:51, schrieb William Murray: Go daemon keeps grabbing 100% of my cpu. I don't really know what it is, good tells me it is something to do with online accounts (which I never use). Is there some way to tame it? Or any way to swit

Goa daemon eats all my cpu

2013-09-21 Thread William Murray
Hi all, Go daemon keeps grabbing 100% of my cpu. I don't really know what it is, good tells me it is something to do with online accounts (which I never use). Is there some way to tame it? Or any way to switch it off completely? It is drawing a lot of power... Bill -- Bill Murray

FC19 Battery 'remaining time' extension in gnome 3 gone?

2013-07-07 Thread William Murray
Hello all, In FC18 I used a nice gnome 3 extension which showed the remaining batter time on my laptop. This allowed remedial action if I accidentally did something stupid like turn the screen on max. It is marked 'outdated' in FC19, but I don't see a replacement. Does anyone know where

Re: Why does Fedora 18 hate me? (solved!)

2013-02-28 Thread William Murray
On 22/02/13 01:16, poma wrote: On 02/21/13 21:47, William Murray wrote: Sorry for the title...but F18 is REALLY sick. I posted under "Freeze failures with F18" but no-one tried answered. […] "The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light

Why does Fedora 18 hate me?

2013-02-21 Thread William Murray
Sorry for the title...but F18 is REALLY sick. I posted under "Freeze failures with F18" but no-one tried answered. It just happened again. I installed kernel 3.7.9-201.fc18.x86_64. I was able to suspend twice - and it stops again. With the same error as before Freezing user space processes

Re: Freeze failures with F18

2013-02-20 Thread William Murray
On 17/02/13 09:45, William Murray wrote: On 13/02/13 11:43, William Murray wrote: Dear all, F18 has been going well for me, but freezing my laptop stopped working 3 days ago. Looking at my logs, the only rpm change on the 10th of Feb was installing ecj - I guess it is unrelated

Re: Freeze failures with F18

2013-02-17 Thread William Murray
On 13/02/13 11:43, William Murray wrote: Dear all, F18 has been going well for me, but freezing my laptop stopped working 3 days ago. Looking at my logs, the only rpm change on the 10th of Feb was installing ecj - I guess it is unrelated. Anyway, from my first suspend on the 11th I

Freeze failures with F18

2013-02-13 Thread William Murray
Dear all, F18 has been going well for me, but freezing my laptop stopped working 3 days ago. Looking at my logs, the only rpm change on the 10th of Feb was installing ecj - I guess it is unrelated. Anyway, from my first suspend on the 11th I got this: Freezing of tasks failed after 20.

Re: rsync (ssh) authorisation weirdness on F18

2013-01-28 Thread William Murray
On 28/01/13 09:54, William Murray wrote: >In F18 the rsync command fails to connect: > dbus-daemon[938]: Could not create directory '/root/.ssh'. > dbus-daemon[938]: Host key verification failed. >Check /var/log/audit/audit.log. SELinux is probably denying ac

Re: rsync (ssh) authorisation weirdness on F18

2013-01-28 Thread William Murray
>In F18 the rsync command fails to connect: > dbus-daemon[938]: Could not create directory '/root/.ssh'. > dbus-daemon[938]: Host key verification failed. Check /var/log/audit/audit.log. SELinux is probably denying access to the script in networkmanager's context. Dear Gordon,

Re: rsync (ssh) authorisation weirdness on F18

2013-01-24 Thread William Murray
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:53:31 +0100 William Murray wrote: / "Connection closed by XXX.YYY.ZZZ.??? [preauth]" /> That was one of the errors I was seeing which led me to start this thread: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-January/429506

Re: rsync (ssh) authorisation weirdness on F18

2013-01-23 Thread William Murray
Thanks>> On 23/01/13 08:26, William Murray wrote:Allegedly, on or about 23 January 2013, William Murray sent: / in ./NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ and looks at new network />>/ connections. />>/ If it sees one machine some criteria it calls a backup script />>/ i

rsync (ssh) authorisation weirdness on F18

2013-01-22 Thread William Murray
Dear Fedora enthusiasts, I have been doing backup of my system using a custom pair of scripts. One sits in ./NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ and looks at new network connections. If it sees one machine some criteria it calls a backup script in /etc/cron.daily/ which rsyncs various

Battery life improved with F18

2013-01-21 Thread William Murray
Thanks guys, I don't know what you did, but after upgrading my laptop FC17->FC18 I saw a 5 hr battery life being quoted - I never saw that long before. It may be something to do with optimus? My nvidia video card is not working inF18 as there is no bumblebee rpm yet, but maybe

Time/Date shell-thingy in F18

2013-01-21 Thread William Murray
Dear list, (What do we call the shell thingies which replaced applets?) I wanted to have the date at the top of my shiny new FC18 screen, not just the time. I installed dconf-editor, went to org->gome->shell and found 'calendar' and 'clock' each of which have booleans, one for 'show-week

Re: f18 update woes

2013-01-17 Thread William Murray
t... Ideas? Bill On 16/01/13 16:14, William Murray wrote: Dear Fedora-enthusiasts, I have just run fedup on a couple of F17 systems with sad consequences, and I am looking for help. 1) The first was an F17 along machine. I did a network 'fedup' which ran with no errors and le

f18 update woes

2013-01-16 Thread William Murray
Dear Fedora-enthusiasts, I have just run fedup on a couple of F17 systems with sad consequences, and I am looking for help. 1) The first was an F17 along machine. I did a network 'fedup' which ran with no errors and left it for the night. In the morning it was stick in a boot sequence. I

Help with pxe guest VM install

2012-11-07 Thread William Murray
Dear list, I have been trying to setup a PXE guess installation on Fedora 17 with no success. I build a bridge, and connect my VM to it but DHCP times out in the VM install. I don't know how to debug this bridge. I guess I could connect a 'live' machine to it, but what then? I follow:

Twinhead gnome 3 & fallback mode

2012-06-01 Thread William Murray
Dear all, I have a machine with two monitors, using Intel Q35 driver with DRI. Gnome 3 works in fallback mode still in FC17 - I was expecting that would not happen. Did I hope for too much? Bill -- Bill Murray ATLAS STF

Re: wine direct rendering under F16?

2011-11-14 Thread William Murray
On 13/11/11 18:44, William Murray wrote: > Dear users, >Is anyone else experiencing a big slow down with wine in F16 > c/f F15? I am not sure how to > debug, but 'Settlers IV' is a factor 10 slowed down. > > Starting it says: > > wine: cannot find L&q

wine direct rendering under F16?

2011-11-13 Thread William Murray
Dear users, Is anyone else experiencing a big slow down with wine in F16 c/f F15? I am not sure how to debug, but 'Settlers IV' is a factor 10 slowed down. Starting it says: wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe" err:process:start_wineboot failed to start wineboot, e