Re: basic issue/question -- renaming in mass a bunch of files

2018-02-24 Thread John Wendel
On 02/24/2018 08:38 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 09:03 -0500, bruce wrote: Hi. Have a bunch of files with the basic naming of: ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_001__parse.dat ztcloud_nfs_parseztaa_1__WGS_7500_002__parse.dat etc.. I'd like to simply remove the 1st part

Re: Bash / Escaping quotes is driving me crazy . .

2016-02-20 Thread John Wendel
On 02/20/2016 04:05 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, This line correctly finds one MP3 but misses two FLACs: ssh localhost "find /home/phil/music/ambient/RobertGass+OnWingsOfSong/OmNamahaShivaya -maxdepth 1 -type f \\( -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.m4a" -o -name "*.flac" \\)" Adding extra e

Re: How can I sabotage all networking functionality in a fedora system?

2014-05-04 Thread John Wendel
On 05/04/2014 07:57 AM, Someone wrote: I'd like to lobotomize a system through soft means such that it has no way to communicate using any network interfaces. Ideally, in order to reverse this, one would need the root password, and be required to dig through obscure configuration files or execute

Re: What new security "feature" is screwing me up now?

2014-01-19 Thread John Wendel
On 01/19/2014 06:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:16:41 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: It is almost like nohup isn't preventing hup and it is dying in the sleep command before it starts RH. Gaaah! Well, this turns out to be just totally obvious. All I need to do is put this line in t

Re: Tool to convert a video DVD for YouTube uploading

2013-12-26 Thread John Wendel
On 12/26/2013 03:11 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 26 December 2013, Paul Smith sent: I have a video DVD with the following structure: $ dir AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS $ I would like to upload the video into YouTube. However, it seems that I

Re: file deletion from usb drive??

2013-12-23 Thread John Wendel
On 12/23/2013 05:52 AM, bruce wrote: I tried adding the delete option to Nautilus, as well as running the rm command from the cmdline find . -name "*Booklist.html*" | xargs rm -f I've tried all of this as root with no results. On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or

Re: usb disk, in reverse?

2013-12-10 Thread John Wendel
On 12/10/2013 11:11 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Dec 10, 2013, at 3:54 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Tim wrote: Chris Murphy: Offhand I'm not thinking why a TV would need mount media as read-write. Patrick O'Callaghan: In principle, it would allow the TV to

Re: Scrabble??

2013-11-11 Thread John Wendel
On 11/11/2013 01:35 PM, Beartooth wrote: Does anyone know a way to run a Scrabble program on Fedora? (I realize the obvious existence of Wine and of virtual machines; but my experience with both has been thoroughly unsatisfactory; my hope is that a linux-native app may exist.)

Re: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong."

2013-10-30 Thread John Wendel
On 10/30/2013 04:40 PM, Roger wrote: On 10/31/2013 10:26 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: Hello, After a failed attempt to install the manufacturer's nvidia driver, my system (Fedora 19, with both Gnome and KDE, on a Lenovo ThinkPad T430) does not reach the graphical login screen any mor

Re: Status of Samsung F2FS support?

2013-10-13 Thread John Wendel
On 10/13/2013 03:46 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Hi there, I wonder what is the current status with regards to Samsung F2FS boot support. When I first heard about F2FS I thought it'd be a nice solution to finally be able to get a full R/W Linux installed on a pen drive, without tricks like ram

Re: External HD and Windows

2013-09-21 Thread John Wendel
On 09/21/2013 08:45 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 09/20/2013 09:14:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/21/13 12:07, Geoffrey Leach wrote: I seem to recall that there is a problem with the formatting of some (all?) external HDs (eSATA and/or USB) that are set up for Windows in such a way as to make t

Re: problems in installing Fedora 19

2013-09-07 Thread John Wendel
On 09/07/2013 03:40 AM, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Fedora experts, I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but it hangs after "starting Live Fedora" message. I have tried both x64 and x32 version without any luck. My computer is an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2

How to remove nouveau driver without using rpmfusion ?

2013-07-12 Thread John Wendel
Can someone please post the incantation necessary to remove the nouveau driver in Fedora 19. I'd really like to install the driver directly from Nvidia, instead of from rpmfusion. Thanks John Wendel -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

stunnel fails to start

2013-07-04 Thread John Wendel
2D06C06E: error:2D06C06E:FIPS routines:FIPS_module_mode_set:fingerprint does not match Line 9: "[nntp]": Failed to initialize SSL str_stats: 4 block(s), 83 data byte(s), 232 control byte(s) Thanks, John Wendel -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

2013-01-27 Thread John Wendel
On 01/27/2013 02:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 02:39 PM, carachi diego wrote: But if I compile the kernel without all unnecessary drivers and packet, Can I obtain more performance than only disable some service? You might find this useful: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/blame-game.h

Re: howto remove modem-manager ?

2012-12-20 Thread John Wendel
On 12/20/2012 10:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: It is possible to disable modem-manager (but not remove it, if you need NM). Delete this file: /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.ModemManager.service

Re: howto remove modem-manager ?

2012-12-20 Thread John Wendel
On 12/20/2012 04:09 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 20:31 -0800, John Wendel wrote: On 12/19/2012 07:23 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 17:32 -0800, John Wendel wrote: Thanks, but in F17, it takes network-manager and anaconda with it. I'm using network-man

Re: howto remove modem-manager ?

2012-12-19 Thread John Wendel
On 12/19/2012 07:23 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 17:32 -0800, John Wendel wrote: Thanks, but in F17, it takes network-manager and anaconda with it. I'm using network-manager. Why would anaconda be installed on a system? Not exactly on topic for my original question. Perhaps you s

Re: howto remove modem-manager ?

2012-12-19 Thread John Wendel
On 12/19/2012 05:12 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/19/2012 04:37 PM, John Wendel wrote: Can someone give me an incantation that will make modem-manager go away? I don't have a modem or wireless network in the box and this thing is triggering my OCD. yum provides modem-manager shows that

howto remove modem-manager ?

2012-12-19 Thread John Wendel
Can someone give me an incantation that will make modem-manager go away? I don't have a modem or wireless network in the box and this thing is triggering my OCD. Thanks. John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedor

Re: Chromebook?

2012-12-10 Thread John Wendel
On 12/10/2012 10:09 AM, Charlie Brune wrote: Has anyone tried to re-load a Chromebook with Fedora? Does this even make sense? A $200 Fedora laptop sounds nice. 8-) The Acer built Chromebook has an Intel processor (celeron I think). Since Fedora isn't ready for the ARM based models, this loo

Re: Multi-Threaded make

2012-11-28 Thread John Wendel
On 11/28/2012 08:16 PM, JD wrote: On 11/28/2012 08:21 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 28Nov2012 15:37, JD wrote: | While building the kernel from source RPM, I run | the command ps -ef | grep make in another terminal, | and I do see that 4 make processes are running, with | each one building obj

Re: mounting one usb interface (from 2 identified)

2012-11-22 Thread John Wendel
On 11/22/2012 06:41 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/myusb The "blkid" command will give you more info about the device sudo blkid -p /dev/sdb will show you the partition type ( like PTTYPE="dos" ), if there is one. sudo blkid -p /dev/sdb1 will show you the filesystem type

Re: mounting one usb interface (from 2 identified)

2012-11-22 Thread John Wendel
On 11/22/2012 02:38 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:57:46 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, Following up on my previous e-mail, I wanted to mention that two usb interfaces are being recognized. Here is the relevant output of % usb-devices T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=02 Cnt=0

Re: How to find the definition of a string in /usr/include ?

2012-11-03 Thread John Wendel
On 11/03/2012 07:38 PM, r...@dwf.com wrote: How do I find the definition of a string in /usr/include? OK, there has got to be a better way to do this than with find and grep (which isnt working). BUT how does one find the definition of a string in /usr/include ??? In particular, I KNOW that mo

Re: a friendly nudge to stay on topic

2012-10-03 Thread John Wendel
On 10/03/2012 07:23 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 10/03/2012 11:12 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: Hey everyone. While issues about the motivations behind free and open source software are very relevant to Fedora, an extended left/right debate isn't. We're not going to solve that here. Let's

F17 - Sound quit working

2012-09-18 Thread John Wendel
Fedora 17 with updates from "updates testing". My sound stopped working with the latest set of updates. The sound device files don't get created, except for the "timer", and the sound drivers don't get loaded. The only error message I can find is in the messages log, "udevd[382]: Error runn

Re: Screen resolution

2012-09-04 Thread John Wendel
On 09/04/2012 05:23 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have what I suspect is a very ignorant question about the display resolution on my Thinkpad T60 (running Fedora-17/KDE), which I find too high for my aging eyesight. When I go to System Settings=>Hardware=>Display and Monitor on my Thinkpad T60 (Fe

Re: Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

2012-09-01 Thread John Wendel
On 09/01/2012 12:20 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/01/2012 11:28 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Now I connect the external usb NTFS-formatted drive to my old xpsp3 running netbook and stumble upon a file (a folder actually under .cache\vlc\art\artistalbum\The Rapture\How Deep is Your Love? that ABSOLUTEL

Re: Help with mke2fs

2012-08-18 Thread John Wendel
On 08/18/2012 05:50 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:51 PM, John Wendel wrote: I'm formatting a filesystem on a new 2TB disk. It will be used to store video, so it will just contain a relatively few large files (200KB to 10GB). So, worst case, i need 1 inodes. Fi

Help with mke2fs

2012-08-18 Thread John Wendel
I'm formatting a filesystem on a new 2TB disk. It will be used to store video, so it will just contain a relatively few large files (200KB to 10GB). So, worst case, i need 1 inodes. First I used the option "-i 10", this resulted in 20 million inodes in the filesystem. Next I used the

Re: Moonlight/Silverlight addition for Linux Firefox?

2012-08-05 Thread John Wendel
On 08/05/2012 07:38 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: .Is there a "Made For Linux" version of flash and java stuff?.wasn't that supposed to be the Moonlight's job? Why do you mix Java with Microsoft´s propietary crap?. Java is GPL o

Re: Linux or GNU/Linux

2012-07-29 Thread John Wendel
On 07/29/2012 10:09 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote: Hello all, Just thought about asking you guys what the actual name is, Linux or GNU/Linux (In our Bangladeshi community, we're really divided on this issue). I personally prefer Linux , what do you think? -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Develop

Re: Missing Something.....

2012-07-15 Thread John Wendel
On 07/14/2012 08:12 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: On 07/13/2012 06:14 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/13/2012 05:18 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: Well in all actuality I "started" off with "Fusion" Linux version 14but after upgrading to the "straight" version of FC15I then went to th

Re: Tuesday morning fun (can't get to gdm login prompt)

2012-07-10 Thread John Wendel
On 07/10/2012 07:05 AM, Brian Johnson wrote: Happy Tuesday all, So, an interesting thing happened to me when I came into work this morningmy computer was sitting at the password prompt to unencrypt my disk so I could continue booting my machine. Apparently we had a power outage at work la

Re: Is it possible to setup read-only root ?

2012-07-01 Thread John Wendel
On 07/01/2012 12:17 PM, jdow wrote: [SNIP] The equivalent is done with live CDs you know. {^_^} I think you just supplied the answer! I didn't think of it, but the equivalent of a live CD is exactly what I need. Now I just need to figure out how to build a live CD like system, minus the c

Re: Is it possible to setup read-only root ?

2012-07-01 Thread John Wendel
On 07/01/2012 10:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 01.07.2012 19:08, schrieb Joe Zeff: On 07/01/2012 10:01 AM, John Wendel wrote: Is it possible to setup Fedora, using Fedora provided tools/software, with a read-only root partition? There's an ancient wiki entry from the FC6 days that indi

Is it possible to setup read-only root ?

2012-07-01 Thread John Wendel
Is it possible to setup Fedora, using Fedora provided tools/software, with a read-only root partition? There's an ancient wiki entry from the FC6 days that indicates that some work was done, but I would assume that this depended on the SysV init system. I've haven't seen any mention of read-on

I need help starting Gnome3 in runlevel 3

2012-06-21 Thread John Wendel
I like starting by box in runlevel 3 and using startx to get the desktop running. I created .xinitrc with the contents being "exec gnome-session"; the desktop starts, but gnome-shell loops consuming 145% of 2 cpus. Needless to say, the system isn't very usable. If I run init 5, and go thru gdm

Re: Fedora 17

2012-06-17 Thread John Wendel
On 06/17/2012 01:43 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 13:20 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: That's a decision you have to make for yourself. You've read about all the "problems" and the "dislikes". In this fairly long thread, I haven't seen a single problem or dis

Re: Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread John Wendel
On 06/13/2012 09:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/14/2012 11:12 AM, John Wendel wrote: Nwtwork manager is also loading a bunch of wireless networking modules, which I also don't have, but I bitch about that in another post. Thanks for the reply. OK I have an answer for you. Edit the

Re: Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread John Wendel
On 06/13/2012 07:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/14/2012 10:16 AM, John Wendel wrote: Anybody know how to tell network manager to not load modem manager? I don't have a modem, but modem manager and all of its plugin drivers get loaded. I'm trying put this pig on a diet, but not havin

Modem manager is bugging me

2012-06-13 Thread John Wendel
Anybody know how to tell network manager to not load modem manager? I don't have a modem, but modem manager and all of its plugin drivers get loaded. I'm trying put this pig on a diet, but not having a lot of luck. Thanks, John Wendel -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: back button in firefox?

2012-06-13 Thread John Wendel
On 06/13/2012 10:02 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the "back" button in firefox on fedora 17 rarely if ever does anything the first time you click it? I seem to always need to click it multiple times before it actually goes back to the previous page. I'm running Aurora (FF

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread John Wendel
On 06/11/2012 03:05 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Reindl Harald writes: the better road would be drop i686 completly over the long the last 4 years not a single i686 package installed and the world still turns - i686 was yesterday I agree fully with the sentiment that no x86_64 capable com

Re: I need help stting up a smart card login

2012-05-08 Thread John Wendel
On 05/08/2012 08:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/09/2012 11:42 AM, John Wendel wrote: F16 with latest updates - Dell smart card reader keyboard Problem: I can't get smart card login working I'm pretty sure I have all the pieces installed. The card can be read by several command line

I need help stting up a smart card login

2012-05-08 Thread John Wendel
F16 with latest updates - Dell smart card reader keyboard Problem: I can't get smart card login working I'm pretty sure I have all the pieces installed. The card can be read by several command line utilities (can't rember their names at the moment). [1] escd, pcscd running [2] Smart card work

Re: off topic: combined output of concurrent processes

2012-04-14 Thread John Wendel
On 04/14/2012 08:20 AM, Amadeus W.M. wrote: If you really would like to get output in sequence, write to a pipe, and have a reader process drain the pipe to a logfile. It's pretty easy; look at "mknod" with the 'p' option, or "mkfifo". I'd still suggest tagging each output line with an identifi

Re: Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

2012-04-05 Thread John Wendel
On 04/05/2012 01:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:36:55 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: well, but how to act that fedora developers realize that their "improvements" are often not more and not less as damage to well working things? Who know? But at least I have an outlet where I wri

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers at runlevel3

2012-03-23 Thread John Wendel
On 03/23/2012 08:31 AM, John Horne wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 08:47 -0600, Lawrence Graves wrote: On 03/23/2012 08:43 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 23.03.2012 15:40, schrieb Lawrence Graves: I don't know what happened but I am now unable to install nvidia drivers downloaded from nvidia.com.

Re: F16 - Crashtastic

2012-02-18 Thread John Wendel
On 02/17/2012 01:34 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:32:18 -0600, RM (Ranjan) wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:24:59 -0800, JW (John) wrote: My F16 - Gnome box has developed an ugly bug today with the latest updates (from updates-testing). Randomly, but very frequently, when I

F16 - Crashtastic

2012-02-16 Thread John Wendel
My F16 - Gnome box has developed an ugly bug today with the latest updates (from updates-testing). Randomly, but very frequently, when I close a window, the windowing system hangs. I can move the mouse, and ctrl-alt-bksp works to kill X and restart GDM. Nothing interesting in the X log file. A

Re: Router help please - Linksys Windows only?

2012-02-04 Thread John Wendel
On 02/04/2012 04:11 PM, don fisher wrote: On 02/04/12 17:07, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 2/4/2012 4:04 PM, don fisher wrote: Paul, It is an E4200. Sorry for not mentioning it. It is described in detail in the link I referenced. Don Don: Hopefully someone will report a success with 'N' ...

Re: converting base64 emails back to text

2012-01-09 Thread John Wendel
On 01/09/2012 03:14 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/10/2012 06:06 AM, g wrote: greetings, now that fedora project has started sending emails as; }} Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" }} Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 is there a way to convert emails back to text so that local searching

Re: F15: named using 90+% cpu

2012-01-07 Thread John Wendel
On 01/07/2012 03:26 PM, sean darcy wrote: On 01/07/2012 06:07 PM, John Wendel wrote: On 01/07/2012 10:28 AM, sean darcy wrote: I've a recursive nameserver under no load taking 90% or more of the cpu. I've restarted, no joy. There's an rsync task in the background, but nothin

Re: F15: named using 90+% cpu

2012-01-07 Thread John Wendel
On 01/07/2012 10:28 AM, sean darcy wrote: I've a recursive nameserver under no load taking 90% or more of the cpu. I've restarted, no joy. There's an rsync task in the background, but nothing else. What's going on? sean PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 127

Can I install a 64-bit kernel on a F16 32-bit system

2012-01-05 Thread John Wendel
I just bought more memory for a box that has F16 32-bit installed. Can I install a 64-bit kernel and leave the userland 32-bit? Thanks, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

[OT] Hybrid 64/32 kernel ???

2012-01-05 Thread John Wendel
Sorry if this is too off topic, but it's bugging me and I can't find it on Google ... I saw a post/web page somewhere (can't find it now) that seemed to say that some kernel gods were working on a kernel with a "new" memory model (which I didn't understand). If someone knows anything about th

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread John Wendel
On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the commands, but -l would probably provide a list of what was there, so I did that. 'm' for listing the options. Menu? Anyway, thanks, o did the trick, I now have a 1Gb EXT4 pa

Re: Tablet Acer Iconia W500, anyone?

2011-11-29 Thread John Wendel
On 11/29/2011 11:36 AM, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote: Hi there, Googling around I found with a little work I can run Fedora on that Tablet. Only wish it didn't came with Windows Pro, I could save a few bucks if it was Windows Home Basic. Anyone on the list tried this? Do you think this machi

Putting Gnome on a diet

2011-11-25 Thread John Wendel
Gnome3 starts a lot of daemon processes that I'd like to get rid of. Currently, I just chmod 644 the executables in /usr/libexec. Could someone please tell me the "correct" way to configure Gnome so it doesn't run daemons that I don't want/need. Thanks, John -- users mailing list users@lists

Re: System hang under F16

2011-11-18 Thread John Wendel
On 11/18/2011 04:18 PM, Deron Meranda wrote: >>> today, twice, the system has hung completely as I opened a >>> new window. The new window was different on the two occasions; > I have no idea if it is related, but twice with F16 I've had Gnome > completely lock up. The mouse pointer would move, but

yum update killed ssh

2011-11-18 Thread John Wendel
Just a heads up. I'm pretty sloppy about keeping track of updates, so I don't have the details at hand, but the latest update of glibc from updates-testing killed ssh and scp. I guess it happened this morning. Symptom was libc reporting ssh freeing bad pointer. Yum downgrade glibc fixed the pr

Network manager won't reconnect

2011-10-18 Thread John Wendel
Fedora 15 - Gnome 3 - on an old Intel based laptop. I'm having a problem with a wireless network connection. For some unknown reason, the connection drops frequently. When this happens, network manager prompts for the password (which it has stored correctly) and then is unable to reconnect to

Re: Yum ate my ICONS

2011-10-14 Thread John Wendel
On 10/14/2011 01:09 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:42:46 -0700, JW (John) wrote: > >> On 10/14/2011 10:16 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >>> On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:58:44 -0700 >>> John Wendel wrote: >>> >>>> I just used &#

Re: Yum ate my ICONS

2011-10-14 Thread John Wendel
On 10/14/2011 10:16 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:58:44 -0700 John Wendel wrote: I just used 'yum remove' to remove Gnome3 from my box, since I'm using xfce. Seemed to work OK. But now "thundar" doesn't have any icons in its file display. What d

Yum ate my ICONS

2011-10-14 Thread John Wendel
I just used 'yum remove' to remove Gnome3 from my box, since I'm using xfce. Seemed to work OK. But now "thundar" doesn't have any icons in its file display. What do I need to install to get the icons back? Thanks, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

/tmp/at-spi2 full of socket files

2011-09-07 Thread John Wendel
/tmp/at-spi2 on my F15, Gnome system is accumulating many socket files. I clean them out, but a new set seems to be created on each login. How do I turn off the Gnome accessibility stuff? Anyone else see this? Thanks, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

modem-manager annoyance

2011-09-07 Thread John Wendel
How do I stop network manager from running modem-manager? I don't have a modem. Thanks, John -- 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/Maili

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

2011-09-01 Thread John Wendel
On 09/01/2011 06:04 PM, Mark W. Jeanmougin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 18:03, Rudolf Kastl wrote: >> 2011/9/1 Alan Cox: >>> If you really want everything to just get out of the way and don't need >>> the user niceness stuff you might also want to look at Enlightement >>> >>> yum search

Re: I think we need a discussion

2011-08-30 Thread John Wendel
On 08/30/2011 09:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:26:59 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> Does a linux user really care for a Trash can? > Not me, especially not one that conforms to the insanely > cryptic freedesktop.org trash standards. > > Personally I use the simple window man

Re: No Gnome 3 for me

2011-08-04 Thread John Wendel
On 08/04/2011 08:33 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/04/2011 11:00 AM, John Wendel wrote: >> On 08/04/2011 04:26 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >>> Have you confirmed this is gnome only not a driver or X problem ? >>> (e.g. do things work with KDE or xfce?) >>&g

Re: No Gnome 3 for me

2011-08-04 Thread John Wendel
On 08/04/2011 10:07 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 04:39:53PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > >> On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 22:32 -0700, John Wendel wrote: >>> Anybody have a solution for the bug (?) that keeps Gnome 3 from working >>> with Nvidia

Re: No Gnome 3 for me

2011-08-04 Thread John Wendel
On 08/04/2011 04:26 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/04/2011 01:32 AM, John Wendel wrote: >> Anybody have a solution for the bug (?) that keeps Gnome 3 from working >> with Nvidia 7300 video cards? Specifically, the keyboard and mouse >> clicks don't work (b

No Gnome 3 for me

2011-08-03 Thread John Wendel
Anybody have a solution for the bug (?) that keeps Gnome 3 from working with Nvidia 7300 video cards? Specifically, the keyboard and mouse clicks don't work (but ctrl-alt-backspace does). It's been a while, I thought this would surely get fixed. I'm running F15 with the latest updates and the l

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

2011-07-27 Thread John Wendel
On 07/26/2011 09:30 PM, yudi v wrote: > As I do not have access to a Fedora system, what other method can I > use to create a liveUSB? > https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ yum install liveusb-creator Ed, I already mentioned that I do not have access to a Fedora

Re: Software update has bugs

2011-07-16 Thread John Wendel
On 07/16/2011 08:25 AM, nomnex wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:05:35 -0700 > John Wendel wrote: > >> Same bad experience here. All these apps are just a layer of crap >> spread over yum. Save yourself some pain and use yum directly. > I like the Yum extender project. I

Re: How can I install F15 without a desktop environment

2011-07-14 Thread John Wendel
#x27;t install from a DVD in a long time, I've just used the live cds that don't let you choose packages. Nothing special require, just a very small install. Regards, John On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:19 PM, John Wendel <mailto:jwende...@comcast.net>> wrote: I need

How can I install F15 without a desktop environment

2011-07-14 Thread John Wendel
I need to install F15 without Gnome, KDE, XFCE, or LXDE. The target has 1 GB of flash for the filesystem. So how can I install F15 with X, but without a DE? Thanks, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

Re: Software update has bugs

2011-07-14 Thread John Wendel
On 07/14/2011 01:27 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Under KDM I asked for software updates and got an option called Get and > Remove Software. I ran it and chose to add the Content group. I was > shown the three documents I could add. One on Python, one on Java and > one on Linux drivers. I chose to ins

F15 Gnome 3 + Nvidia Driver = No Keyboard or Mouse buttons

2011-07-06 Thread John Wendel
I'd really like to run Gnome 3 on an older computer (P4) that has nvidia (7300 GS) graphics. I installed and tried it using the nouveau driver and found it was unusable, with terribly slow graphics. So I installed the Nvidia driver, using akmod-nvidia. Installed OK. But the mouse buttons didn't

Re: Fedora Security and the Uverse 3800HGV-B router

2011-07-01 Thread john wendel
On 07/01/2011 08:45 PM, JD wrote: > I am writing this message with the hope that someone on this > list has this uverse router.' > When I use Firefox to browse to this router (192.168.1.254), > it displays the "Home" machines connected to the network. > For each machine it displays: > a tv icon, i

Re: Anybody else having wireless connection problems with F15 Gnome?

2011-06-22 Thread john wendel
On 06/22/2011 01:07 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:14:02 +0700, > wrote: > >> Unfortunately, using F15 Gnome, and NetworkManager, the wireless network >> won't connect. Or rather, it connects and the immediately disconnects, >> repeatedly. I have updated the box to the l

Re: Removing NetworkManager results in very slow boot [SOLVED]

2011-06-22 Thread john wendel
On 06/22/2011 09:10 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 22/06/11 16:04, john wendel wrote: >> On 06/21/2011 10:13 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >>> On 06/22/2011 03:43 AM, john wendel wrote: >>>> >>>> I removed the NetworkManager stuff from systemd, sinc

Re: Removing NetworkManager results in very slow boot

2011-06-22 Thread john wendel
On 06/21/2011 10:13 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 06/22/2011 03:43 AM, john wendel wrote: >> >> I removed the NetworkManager stuff from systemd, since I don't want to >> run it. Now there's a long boot delay while DBUS tries repeatedly to >> talk to N

Re: Removing NetworkManager results in very slow boot

2011-06-22 Thread john wendel
On 06/22/2011 03:34 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > john wendel wrote: > >> I removed the NetworkManager stuff from systemd, since I don't want to >> run it. Now there's a long boot delay while DBUS tries repeatedly to >> talk to NetworkManager. > > Couldn

Anybody else having wireless connection problems with F15 Gnome?

2011-06-21 Thread john wendel
I've got an old Acer laptop with Intel ipw2200 wireless network. F15 LXDE works fine on the box, but I'd rather run Gnome (so I can complain about how broken it is). Unfortunately, using F15 Gnome, and NetworkManager, the wireless network won't connect. Or rather, it connects and the immediate

Removing NetworkManager results in very slow boot

2011-06-21 Thread john wendel
I removed the NetworkManager stuff from systemd, since I don't want to run it. Now there's a long boot delay while DBUS tries repeatedly to talk to NetworkManager. Obviously, I did something wrong. How should I have stopped NetworkManager? Thanks, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedo

Re: Firefox 5.0

2011-06-21 Thread john wendel
On 06/21/2011 11:52 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > > > Trying to get in the first "What's wrong with Fedora? It's been 15 > minutes since the Mozilla announcement and Firefox 5 isn't in the repos" > comment. > > > Who cares about 5.0 - I'm running 6a2 and getting several updates a day. They haven

Intel wireless broken with F15 Gnome

2011-06-18 Thread john wendel
Sorry, I'm sure this has been answered before, but I can't find the solution. Old laptop with ipw2200 wireless, works perfectly with F15 LXDE, won't connect with F15 Gnome. Anyone know the secret incantation that will fix this P.O.S. Thanks, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-13 Thread john wendel
On 06/13/2011 12:21 PM, Kam Leo wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> The point is, you have to match the distro to the user, not the other >>> way around. If the OP isn't happy with Fedora, I hope he finds a distro >>> he likes better. >> >> The primary end user Linux UI

Re: Default browser problem -

2011-06-12 Thread john wendel
On 06/12/2011 04:16 PM, Tim Evans wrote: > > > Sent from my iPad > > On Jun 12, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Steven Stern > mailto:subscribed-li...@sterndata.com>> > wrote: > >> On 06/12/2011 11:22 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> On 12/06/11 11:11, James McKenzie wrote: On 6/12/11 7:51 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:

F15 - Video problems [SEMI-SOLVED]

2011-06-06 Thread john wendel
I finally found the source of my video problems with F15. My 1680x1050 monitor was hooked to a Belkin KVM. Somehow, this ended up making the system think I had 2 displays, a 1680x1050 and a 1280x1024 (no, these is no 1280x1024 monitor, I assume the KVM is braindead). Of course, KMS used the wr

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-05 Thread john wendel
On 06/05/2011 01:26 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 08:16 +0800, H Xu wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I didn't use PackageKit when I was using Fedora 14. Now it seems that I >> can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling those packages. Is this >> a package bug? Thanks. >> >> Regards, >

Re: T-Bird won't open URL

2011-06-04 Thread john wendel
On 06/04/2011 11:57 AM, JD wrote: > On 06/04/11 11:07, john wendel wrote: >> I'm getting the following error when I click on a URL in Tbird. >> >> This is the 3.1.10 Tbird from F14 using Aurora browser (yeah I know, >> it's broken and I get to keep the pie

T-Bird won't open URL

2011-06-04 Thread john wendel
I'm getting the following error when I click on a URL in Tbird. This is the 3.1.10 Tbird from F14 using Aurora browser (yeah I know, it's broken and I get to keep the pieces). Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIExternal

F15 Firefox crashes after latest update

2011-06-03 Thread john wendel
Looks like the latest update has broken Firefox, I get a crash every few minutes. Previously, I'd never seen a Firefox crash on this system. Since there were so many updates, I don't have a clue which piece broke things. I straced Firefox until it crashed, but the strace output didn't show anyt

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-30 Thread john wendel
On 05/30/2011 07:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/30/2011 05:42 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Tom Horsley wrote: >> >>> If would be real convenient to have a known string to >>> search for that always precedes the rest of the messages >>> in a new boot. >> >> I agree. >> Even a couple of blank lines w

Re: "hald" just won't die

2011-05-30 Thread john wendel
On 05/30/2011 05:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/31/2011 08:05 AM, john wendel wrote: >> I just did an F15 LXDE install on an old laptop (incidently, best >> install I've ever done, bravo LXDE quys). >> >> Now I see 9 processes with "hald" in their name

"hald" just won't die

2011-05-30 Thread john wendel
I just did an F15 LXDE install on an old laptop (incidently, best install I've ever done, bravo LXDE quys). Now I see 9 processes with "hald" in their name, and 3 processes named "udevd" running. I thought hal was supposed to be gone. I also see udisk-daemon and hald-addon-storage both polling

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