Re: Help! I can no longer boot F12

2012-11-02 Thread Dan Thurman
make any sense? Never mind, II decided to drop F12 and install the latest. Sorry for the noise! -- 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/Mai

Re: Help! I can no longer boot F12

2012-11-02 Thread Digimer
On 11/02/2012 10:24 PM, Dan Thurman wrote: > > Apparently, my disk started failing and dropped > some critical files. > > I tried to use LiveCD but I cannot do a linux rescue > > What I planned to do was to yum reinstall and try to > recover what is missing. > > Does this make any sense? Not r

Help! I can no longer boot F12

2012-11-02 Thread Dan Thurman
Apparently, my disk started failing and dropped some critical files. I tried to use LiveCD but I cannot do a linux rescue What I planned to do was to yum reinstall and try to recover what is missing. Does this make any sense? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-16 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:52 AM, tom wrote: > thx everyone. > this is a old 1.4ghz cpu, and i assumed that f12 would be faster on that as > the latest fedora. any ideas? i tried lxde spin, but the system didnt boot > up ;-( How much memory do you have? That's likely the lim

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread tom
thx everyone. this is a old 1.4ghz cpu, and i assumed that f12 would be faster on that as the latest fedora. any ideas? i tried lxde spin, but the system didnt boot up ;-( thx On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:43 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth < tchollingswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 201

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:03 AM, tom wrote: > well, i didnt specify any size limitations during installation. > so how do i change that now? First, you need to shrink your root (/) volume. This will shrink it to 10GB, but you can change that if you'd like, just change the "10G": lvresize -rL 10G

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread Emilio Lopez
> well, i didnt specify any size limitations during installation. > so how do i change that now? > thx Well, if it is a new system, it could be easy to copy all your home data to a usb pendrive or hard drive, and reinstall, also think about installing a new version F15 or F16. If you have too muc

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 15 December 2011 11:03, tom wrote: > well, i didnt specify any size limitations during installation. > so how do i change that now? > thx > > Don't use LVM myself, but see the LVM HOWTO for some info: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ You'll want to review section 11.10 to shrink the systemro

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread Reindl Harald
gt; > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Reindl Harald <mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net> > <mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net <mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net>>> wrote: > > > > > > > > Am 15.12.2011 11:17, schrieb tom:

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread tom
30M 7% /boot > > /dev/mapper/vg_acertm-lv_home > > ext44,5G 2,5G 1,8G 60% /home > > > > needed something 'light', and i didnt like the lubuntu wiki. > > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Reindl Harald > > h.rei...@thelounge.net

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread Reindl Harald
2011 at 11:25 AM, Reindl Harald <mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net>> wrote: > > > > Am 15.12.2011 11:17, schrieb tom: > > just installed F12 on a pc with 60GB hdd. but when i click on the users > home directory, it says only 1.7 gb > > available. i don

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread tom
ext44,5G 2,5G 1,8G 60% /home needed something 'light', and i didnt like the lubuntu wiki. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 15.12.2011 11:17, schrieb tom: > > just installed F12 on a pc with 60GB hdd. but when i click on t

Re: f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.12.2011 11:17, schrieb tom: > just installed F12 on a pc with 60GB hdd. but when i click on the users home > directory, it says only 1.7 gb > available. i dont see anythign about a quota nor do i recall having selected > antyhing like that during install > what is my m

f12 user home dir size limited!?

2011-12-15 Thread tom
hi just installed F12 on a pc with 60GB hdd. but when i click on the users home directory, it says only 1.7 gb available. i dont see anythign about a quota nor do i recall having selected antyhing like that during install what is my mistake? thx -- users mailing list users

Re: upgrade F12 with small raid1 boot partition

2011-11-15 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:49:21 -0800, >>  Robert Arkiletian wrote: >>> Going from F12 to F14 >>> 200MB /boot partition (software raid1) &g

Re: upgrade F12 with small raid1 boot partition

2011-11-15 Thread jackson byers
Robert Arkiletian: >Here is a question. >Currently got /boot as a separate raided partition. What if I boot >into linux rescue mode with install cd and copy /boot dir to the / > partition. Essentially removing the separate /boot partition. Then > edit >/etc/fstab (remove /boot partition m

Re: upgrade F12 with small raid1 boot partition

2011-11-14 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:49:21 -0800, >  Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> Going from F12 to F14 >> 200MB /boot partition (software raid1) >> I know Preupgrade won't work as /boot is too small. >> Can I use

Re: upgrade F12 with small raid1 boot partition

2011-11-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:49:21 -0800, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Going from F12 to F14 > 200MB /boot partition (software raid1) > I know Preupgrade won't work as /boot is too small. > Can I use an F14 netinstall cd with Anaconda to upgrade or does that > also require a la

upgrade F12 with small raid1 boot partition

2011-11-14 Thread Robert Arkiletian
Going from F12 to F14 200MB /boot partition (software raid1) I know Preupgrade won't work as /boot is too small. Can I use an F14 netinstall cd with Anaconda to upgrade or does that also require a larger /boot partition? -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada --

Re: upgrade F12->F14 small /boot

2011-11-13 Thread Danishka Navin
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Danishka Navin > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Robert Arkiletian > > wrote: > >> > >> I've got a F12 32bit box with raid1

Re: upgrade F12->F14 small /boot

2011-11-13 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Danishka Navin wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Robert Arkiletian > wrote: >> >> I've got a F12 32bit box with raid1 (software mdadm) 200MB /boot. I >> know I can't use preupgrade (/boot too small) but what

Re: upgrade F12->F14 small /boot

2011-11-13 Thread Danishka Navin
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > I've got a F12 32bit box with raid1 (software mdadm) 200MB /boot. I > know I can't use preupgrade (/boot too small) but what about using an > F14 install DVD? Will that upgrade work? > AFAIK, F12 > F1

upgrade F12->F14 small /boot

2011-11-13 Thread Robert Arkiletian
I've got a F12 32bit box with raid1 (software mdadm) 200MB /boot. I know I can't use preupgrade (/boot too small) but what about using an F14 install DVD? Will that upgrade work? -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: F12 --> F14 upgrade unsuccessful

2011-06-13 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 06/11/2011 02:43 PM, Andrew Jamison wrote: > I have heard if you plan to upgrade in this manner it is best to upgrade from > f12 to f13 then from 13 - 14 due to the rapid change in technologies from f12 > to f14 but again this just what I have heard not sure if this is actually th

RE: F12 --> F14 upgrade unsuccessful

2011-06-11 Thread Andrew Jamison
I have heard if you plan to upgrade in this manner it is best to upgrade from f12 to f13 then from 13 - 14 due to the rapid change in technologies from f12 to f14 but again this just what I have heard not sure if this is actually the case -Original Message- From: users-boun

emacs GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection after preupgrade F12->F14

2011-06-11 Thread jackson byers
My first ever attempt preupgrade; F12 to F14 I muddled through it and eventually able to boot F14: $ uname -r 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE In general looks ok; I had to change hostname manually after booting F14. But, now, occasionally when starting emacs as root getting error:[root@f12 grub

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-11 Thread Alan Cox
> Is it possible to recover the memory and resume the program where it had to > terminate unexpectedly. It's gone when the power goes. > The program was running for 2-3 weeks, hence don't want to start the program > from fresh. I would check the documentation and see whether the software checkpo

F12 --> F14 upgrade unsuccessful

2011-06-11 Thread Joe
All, I’m working on upgrading my Amahi 5/F12 install to Amahi 6.1/F14 and I’m running into an issue. First off, during the system check, the installer comes back and says it can’t save the install.img file in /boot (/dev/sda1) because the partition is too small. Then after I’ve had preupgrade

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Nermin Celik
It depends on the design of the program but generally speaking, it's not > possible. Some programs save datafiles and the like as they run so in > those > cases it might be possible to recover and carry on from a mid-point in the > program run but unless the program is specifically designed to do

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Nermin Celik
> If it was written to "read, compute, write, cycle back", you could > probably start it up again at will. > > Yes it was mainly "read, compute,write" cycle. It was a perl program, running HMMer (hidden markov model program) on a set of genome data. I'm not familiar with UPS...??? -- users mail

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:49:19 +1000 Nermin Celik wrote: > Is it possible to recover the memory and resume the program where it had to > terminate unexpectedly. It depends on the design of the program but generally speaking, it's not possible. Some programs save datafiles and the like as they run

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:49 +1000, Nermin Celik wrote: > Hello, > > I've F12 installed on my PC. > An electricity cut happened while running a program on the terminal > line. A general electricity cut nothing to do with PC hardware > failure. Hence PC restarted itself aft

recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Nermin Celik
Hello, I've F12 installed on my PC. An electricity cut happened while running a program on the terminal line. A general electricity cut nothing to do with PC hardware failure. Hence PC restarted itself after electricity was back however the program that was runing terminated before compl

Re: f12

2011-03-10 Thread madu...@gmail.com
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Re: f12

2011-03-09 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, JB wrote: > madunix gmail.com > gmail.com> writes: > > > > > I will try to add more RAM to it. I have done the yum > check ...  all went OK > > ... but it didn't change the behaviour.  Thanks for > your help. > > ... > > OK. > Now you can look at your system components. >

Re: f12

2011-03-09 Thread JB
madunix gmail.com gmail.com> writes: > > I will try to add more RAM to it. I have done the yum check ...  all went OK > ... but it didn't change the behaviour.  Thanks for your help. > ... OK. Now you can look at your system components. > Mem:500128k total, 484136k used,15992k free,

Re: f12

2011-03-08 Thread madu...@gmail.com
I will try to add more RAM to it. I have done the yum check ... all went OK ... but it didn't change the behaviour. Thanks for your help. # dmidecode 2.10 SMBIOS 2.3 present. 74 structures occupying 2320 bytes. Table at 0x000F0450. Handle 0xDA00, DMI type 218, 35 bytes OEM-specific Type

Re: f12

2011-03-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 3/7/11, madu...@gmail.com wrote: > Recently upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 12 (upgrade > procedure not > fresh install) and Xorg appears to behave strange, cpu > jumps to high > utilization and Xorg getting 50% or more  and swap > keep increasing. > Any suggestions. Yes. First, di

Re: f12

2011-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
stions. Not really, but note that F12 is no longer supported. If you want to use Fedora it's important to keep up to date. You should try F13 or F14. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: f12

2011-03-07 Thread JB
madunix gmail.com gmail.com> writes: > > Dears, > > Recently upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 12 (upgrade procedure not > fresh install) and Xorg appears to behave strange, cpu jumps to high > utilization and Xorg getting 50% or more and swap keep increasing. > Any suggestions. This may help

f12

2011-03-07 Thread madu...@gmail.com
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Re: Upgrade F8 to F12

2010-12-05 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Adil Adil wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if there is a way to upgrade directly from F8 to F12 instead of > upgrading to 9, then 10, 11 nd finally 12 as explained in this page: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_from_EOL_Fedora_using_y

Re: Upgrade F8 to F12

2010-12-05 Thread charles zeitler
-- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/05/2010 01:01 PM, Adil Adil wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering if there is a way to upgrade directly from >> F8 to F12 >> instead of... &g

Re: Upgrade F8 to F12

2010-12-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/05/2010 01:01 PM, Adil Adil wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if there is a way to upgrade directly from F8 to F12 instead of > upgrading to 9, then 10, 11 nd finally 12 as explained in this page: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_from_EOL_Fedora_using_yum > Yo

Upgrade F8 to F12

2010-12-05 Thread Adil Adil
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to upgrade directly from F8 to F12 instead of upgrading to 9, then 10, 11 nd finally 12 as explained in this page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_from_EOL_Fedora_using_yum Thank you -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-12-04 Thread John Pilkington
or making an >>> iso image. atop often shows disk activity above 90%. I do most of this >>> using ionice -c3, (ie 'idle' scheduling) which is supposed to reduce >>> impact on other tasks. The man page says "The impact of idle io >>> processes on nor

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-12-04 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 12/04/2010 03:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/04/2010 11:56 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> 1) It doesn't seem to matter what image I choose to use as my desktop >> background. It doesn't stick. > > Try installing and using Wallpapoz. I originally tried it so I could > have a different backgr

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-12-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/04/2010 11:56 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > 1) It doesn't seem to matter what image I choose to use as my desktop > background. It doesn't stick. Try installing and using Wallpapoz. I originally tried it so I could have a different background on each desktop, but found it much more inte

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-12-04 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 12/04/2010 12:55 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 12:46:32 -0500, > "Kevin J. Cummings" wrote: >> me. Anyone have any ideas on what might be wrong, or how I can change >> my desktop appearance in a more *permanent* manner? > > This doesn't solve the desktop oddity, but y

Re: F12 installation problem (wasRe: iso dvd)

2010-12-04 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Adil Adil writes: > > Hi, >> >> I burned the dvd as image with nero. >> > >> He re is the error message: >> >> /sbin/load_policy: error while loading shared libraries: >> /lib/libselinux.so.1: cannot read file data: Input/output error. >>

Re: F12 installation problem (wasRe: iso dvd)

2010-12-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Adil Adil writes: Hi, I burned the dvd as image with nero. Now the boot from dvd is possibile but I have an error message at the beginning of the installation. I am wondering if this has something to do with the end of life of F12 that you are mentionning You are confusing Fedora, and

F12 installation problem (wasRe: iso dvd)

2010-12-04 Thread Adil Adil
Hi, I burned the dvd as image with nero. Now the boot from dvd is possibile but I have an error message at the beginning of the installation. I am wondering if this has something to do with the end of life of F12 that you are mentionning or it is just the support that won't be possible.

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-12-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 12:46:32 -0500, "Kevin J. Cummings" wrote: > me. Anyone have any ideas on what might be wrong, or how I can change > my desktop appearance in a more *permanent* manner? This doesn't solve the desktop oddity, but you could make a new image at the correct resolution using

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-12-04 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
w (which is labeled "Appearance Properties" and I can select "stretch" for the Style, and the 2 white bars disappear as the picture streches to fill my display. This is the way it was on both FC6 and F9. I have changed nothing here. Since F12 and now on F14 I can "

Re: Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-11-26 Thread John Pilkington
ivity above 90%. I do most of this >> using ionice -c3, (ie 'idle' scheduling) which is supposed to reduce >> impact on other tasks. The man page says "The impact of idle io >> processes on normal system activity should be zero" and certainly >> under f12 t

Re: Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-11-26 Thread Harald Hoyer
3, (ie 'idle' scheduling) which is supposed to reduce > impact on other tasks. The man page says "The impact of idle io > processes on normal system activity should be zero" and certainly > under f12 that seemed at least approximately true; but under f13 > termina

Using ionice -c3 in f13: system seems less responsive than under f12

2010-11-25 Thread John Pilkington
impact on other tasks. The man page says "The impact of idle io processes on normal system activity should be zero" and certainly under f12 that seemed at least approximately true; but under f13 terminal response is often very sluggish when these tasks are running. Using kde 4.5.3,

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
stan wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:56:04 -0500 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> stan wrote: > >>> #Fix console loglevel >>> if [ -n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then >>> /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL >>> else >>> /bin/dmesg -n 3 >>> fi >> >> /bin/dmesg -n ${LOGLEVEL:-3} > > That's slick. I presume you m

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-17 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 11/17/2010 04:22 PM, stan wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:56:04 -0500 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> stan wrote: > >>> #Fix console loglevel >>> if [ -n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then >>>/bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL >>> else >>>/bin/dmesg -n 3 >>> fi >> >> /bin/dmesg -n ${LOGLEVEL:-3} > > That

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-17 Thread stan
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:56:04 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: > stan wrote: > > #Fix console loglevel > > if [ -n "$LOGLEVEL" ]; then > >/bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL > > else > >/bin/dmesg -n 3 > > fi > > /bin/dmesg -n ${LOGLEVEL:-3} That's slick. I presume you meant /bin/dmesg -n ${LO

Re: thunderbird-lightning fails on F12

2010-11-17 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 11/17/10 12:48, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Paolo Galtieri wrote: >> I tried sending this last week, but never saw it on the list. >> >> Recently F12 updated thunderbird to 3.0.10; however, there was no update >> to thunderbird-lightning so I no longer have access to m

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
stan wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:25:08 -0600 > "Ryan O'Hara" wrote: > >> Those messages on the console (with the timestamp) are from >> dmesg. These are visible on the console in F14 because rc.sysinit no >> longer sets the dmesg logging level, thus all messages from dmesg end >> up being writ

Re: thunderbird-lightning fails on F12

2010-11-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I tried sending this last week, but never saw it on the list. > > Recently F12 updated thunderbird to 3.0.10; however, there was no update > to thunderbird-lightning so I no longer have access to my calendar. > When I start thunderbird I get a message s

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-16 Thread James Mckenzie
"Kevin J. Cummings" wrote: > >> 2a) VESA has lots of problems returning to a proper video mode. If I >> run dosbox in full-screen mode, when it returns to X11, the resolution >> is less than stellar. Its the same size, but it seems like every other >> pixel is missing. Heck, All I have to do is

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-16 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
I just wanted to send out an update after (almost) 2 weeks. On 11/03/2010 02:52 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Last night, after I successfully upgraded my F13 test desktop from > F13->F14 w/preupgrade, I started the same operation on my F12 laptop. > > The results were not so go

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-15 Thread Ryan O'Hara
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:29:27AM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/15/2010 09:42 AM, stan wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:25:08 -0600 > > "Ryan O'Hara" wrote: > > > >> Those messages on the console (with the timestamp) are from > >> dmesg. These are visible on the console in F14 because rc.sy

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-15 Thread Ryan O'Hara
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:42:17AM -0700, stan wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:25:08 -0600 > "Ryan O'Hara" wrote: > > > Those messages on the console (with the timestamp) are from > > dmesg. These are visible on the console in F14 because rc.sysinit no > > longer sets the dmesg logging level, thu

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-15 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/15/2010 09:42 AM, stan wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:25:08 -0600 > "Ryan O'Hara" wrote: > >> Those messages on the console (with the timestamp) are from >> dmesg. These are visible on the console in F14 because rc.sysinit no >> longer sets the dmesg logging level, thus all messages from dm

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-15 Thread stan
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:25:08 -0600 "Ryan O'Hara" wrote: > Those messages on the console (with the timestamp) are from > dmesg. These are visible on the console in F14 because rc.sysinit no > longer sets the dmesg logging level, thus all messages from dmesg end > up being written to the console. S

thunderbird-lightning fails on F12

2010-11-14 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I tried sending this last week, but never saw it on the list. Recently F12 updated thunderbird to 3.0.10; however, there was no update to thunderbird-lightning so I no longer have access to my calendar. When I start thunderbird I get a message saying lightning 1.0b2pre is not compatible with

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-14 Thread Ryan O'Hara
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 04:39:43PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:52:05 -0400 > "Kevin J. Cummings" wrote: > > > Last night, after I successfully upgraded my F13 test desktop from > > F13->F14 w/preupgrade, I started the same operation on m

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-12 Thread JB
Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > ... > Exactly the same results as every other attempt, I'm afraid. But, > happily, I had no problem at all rebooting back into my old F12 > system. > > I've downloaded a DVD ISO and burned it onto a disk. I'm thinking I >

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-12 Thread Dave Cross
   "Configured Monitor" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" >        Identifier      "Default Screen" >        Monitor         "Configured Monitor" >        Device          "Configured Video Device" > EndSection > > - make

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-12 Thread JB
eeds (it will come handy in emergency) # cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa - reboot Note: - if the system becomes unbootable/graphics unstable, restore to your old config file with nvidia driver # cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-fedora12 /etc/X11/xorg.conf - reboot to your F12 kernel JB -- 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: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-12 Thread Dave Cross
On 10 November 2010 11:01, JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > >> ... > > Once you do the above, please do the following: > > # cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-fedora12 > > then > > # vi /etc/grub.conf > > In the Preupgarde kernel line: > - remove this option >   rdblacklist=nouveau > -

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-11 Thread JB
Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > ... OK. I will respond to this post when you try my second post from yesterday ? It will try to set you up with a vesa graphics driver (presumably a sure bet). If it succeeds, you should be in F14. Then let me know and I will guide with a follow-up steps, even be

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-11 Thread Dave Cross
On 10 November 2010 08:15, JB wrote: > Give me output of: > $ cat /etc/modprobe.conf It's an empty file. > $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/anaconda.conf # cat /etc/modprobe.d/anaconda.conf # Module options and blacklists written by anaconda (i.e. basically another empty file) > $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/b

thunderbird-lightning fails on F12

2010-11-10 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I'm running F12 on a system. There was an update to thunderbird yesterday; however, there was no update for thunderbird-lightning. When I start thunderbird it tells me that lightning 1.0b2pre is not compatible with thunderbird 3.0.10. Is there going to be an update for lightning?

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-10 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > ... Once you do the above, please do the following: # cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-fedora12 then # vi /etc/grub.conf In the Preupgarde kernel line: - remove this option rdblacklist=nouveau - append these options xdriver=vesa nomodeset Save the file,

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-10 Thread JB
Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > ... > # ls -al /etc/modprobe* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 2010-02-16 06:15 /etc/modprobe.conf > > /etc/modprobe.d: > total 56 > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2010-07-18 10:44 . > drwxr-xr-x. 126 root root 12288 2010-11-10 03:23 .. > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 9 November 2010 21:33, JB wrote: > Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > >> ... > > Hi, > I thought you were done and forgot about us :-) Yeah, sorry. I don't often have the free time to explore this. I won't, for example, be able to try out any more suggestions until Thursday evening at the earlie

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > Please give me the output of: > ... > $ ls -al /etc/ > ... Sorry, I do not need this one ! JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: htt

Re: F12 -&amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread JB
Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > ... Hi, I thought you were done and forgot about us :-) We have to learn some more about your system (we could try and shoot it blindly but that makes no sense). I assume it is a problem with your display driver. Please give me the output of: $ lspci -v $ ls -a

Re: F12 -&amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 9 November 2010 19:44, Dave Cross wrote: > On 7 November 2010 18:49, JB wrote: >> Give it a shot and reboot to start Preupgrade. > > About to restart. I'll report on the results as soon as I can. And we're back. But unfortunately the situation is exactly the same as before. It's still prompt

Re: F12 -&amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
On 7 November 2010 18:49, JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: >> >> > ... >> > #boot=/dev/sda >> > default=1 >> > timeout=5 >> > splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> > hiddenmenu >> >> Please modify /etc/grub.conf as below: >> default=0 >> # hiddenme

Re: F12 -&amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-07 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > > Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > > > ... > > #boot=/dev/sda > > default=1 > > timeout=5 > > splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > hiddenmenu > > Please modify /etc/grub.conf as below: > default=0 > # hiddenmenu > > Reboot. > JB > Hi, I got your response

Re: F12 -&gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-07 Thread JB
Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > ... > #boot=/dev/sda > default=1 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu Please modify /etc/grub.conf as below: default=0 # hiddenmenu Reboot. JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: F12 -> F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-07 Thread Dave Cross
On 6 November 2010 14:35, JB wrote: > Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >> If it helps, my disk layout is as follows: >> >> $ df >> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda5            100790004   8666260  87003832  10% / >> tmpfs                  412564

Re: F12 -> F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-06 Thread JB
Dave Cross gmail.com> writes: > ... > If it helps, my disk layout is as follows: > > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda5100790004 8666260 87003832 10% / > tmpfs 4125644 3072 4122572 1% /dev/shm > /dev/sda

F12 -> F14 Preupgrade Issue

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Cross
I had a similar problem to this back in July when I tried to used Preupgrade to move from F12 to F13. At the time I ran out of spare time so I just stayed on F12. Now I'm trying to use Preupgrade to go from F12 to F14 and I'm getting the same issue. Preupgrade downloads all of the req

Re: Why is Fedora continuing to propagate FF 3.5 on F12?

2010-11-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/02/2010 04:37 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:42 AM, dexter wrote: >> /me I'm using Firefox-4.0-b8pre this last 2 months in F12 and its very >> very fast :-) >> Security comes straight from mozilla & before any repo esp, now the >&

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:52:05 -0400 "Kevin J. Cummings" wrote: > Last night, after I successfully upgraded my F13 test desktop from > F13->F14 w/preupgrade, I started the same operation on my F12 laptop. > > The results were not so good. > > X86_64, Asus S96J lapt

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/03/2010 01:26 PM, Roger K. Wells wrote: On 11/03/2010 03:38 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: On 11/03/2010 03:11 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: I think the main problem is that you skipped F13 and jumped to F14 directly. Usually the most well-tested upgrades are to $release+ *from: http://fedor

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/03/2010 12:11 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Don't forget to go through all the .rpmnew and .rpmsave files and > replace/merge them as necessary Apparently there are also .rpmorig files... Someone should really create a package to help users manage these after upgrade. -- users mailing l

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Roger K. Wells
de to current release directly* Preupgrade provides an upgrade directly to the latest version of Fedora. It is not necessary to upgrade to intermediate versions. For example, it is possible to go from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 directly." fyi, roger wells I surely hope that if F12->F14 is *not

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Frank Elsner
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:11:45 -0700 Konstantin Svist wrote: [ ... ] > I think the main problem is that you skipped F13 and jumped to F14 > directly. Usually the most well-tested upgrades are to $release+ BTW, citing http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade | Upgrade to current release directl

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 11/03/2010 03:11 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > I think the main problem is that you skipped F13 and jumped to F14 > directly. Usually the most well-tested upgrades are to $release+ I surely hope that if F12->F14 is *not* a supported upgrade path, then preupgrade should *NOT* allow

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 11/03/2010 02:51 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 14:52:05 -0400, > "Kevin J. Cummings" wrote: >> >> 2) X11 no longer starts up. I'm using the radeon driver for my ATI >> Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]. It was working just fine >> (as fine can be with the

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/03/2010 11:52 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Last night, after I successfully upgraded my F13 test desktop from > F13->F14 w/preupgrade, I started the same operation on my F12 laptop. > > The results were not so good. > > X86_64, Asus S96J laptop, w/ATI Mobility Ra

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 14:52:05 -0400, "Kevin J. Cummings" wrote: > > 2) X11 no longer starts up. I'm using the radeon driver for my ATI > Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]. It was working just fine > (as fine can be with the radeon driver), but now it dies with a seg > fault wit

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