Re: Gnome login failure with latest kernel

2010-03-11 Thread William John Murray
Thanks for the suggestions. It turns out it was something in my .gconf/desktop I don't know what, but deleting that folder allowed gnome to restart. This is rather serious, but probably very personal to my settings. Bill On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 09:46 +0100, William John Murray wr

Re: gmpc sound not working

2010-03-11 Thread NoSpaze
Am Mittwoch, den 10.03.2010, 11:16 -0700 schrieb Wendell Nichols: ... > gmpc on my laptop. These things come from rpmfusion. > Every sound application on my machine is able to make noise except > gmpc. Same here. Maybe this entry in /var/log/messages is related: Mar 11 09:15:44 rodolfoap puls

Re: [389-users] How to configure WindowsXP client

2010-03-11 Thread jean-Noël Chardron
Please do not cut the discussion list but post a new thread Shouben Zhou wrote: > What is the best way to configure Window clients to authenticate from > 389 DS? > I'm not sure but I have a small idea of it : if you don't have an Active Directory server, a way is to setup a domain controler

Nvidia problem after kernel 2.6.32.9-70.fc12 update

2010-03-11 Thread Dario Lesca
This morning, after kernel + nvidia driver update I get this error: > Mar 11 08:46:45 lesca kernel: NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version > 195.36.08, but > Mar 11 08:46:45 lesca kernel: NVRM: this kernel module has the version > 190.53. Please > Mar 11 08:46:45 lesca kernel: NVRM: mak

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Tom H
>> What genius decided that? Stupid. Are you sure? >> That little three-key combo has gotten me out of more than a few >> X-server lockups with Fedora due to misconfiguration by the installer. > Upstream X.Org. I'm sure if you search it, you will find lots of > discusions about it. You can always

Re: Problem with apache virtual host in new fedora 12 installation

2010-03-11 Thread NoSpaze
Am Donnerstag, den 11.03.2010, 08:30 +0800 schrieb Richard Cahilig: > Yes. The user apache able to access /home/user. I even tried to > changed the owership to user apache and group apache but I still have > error 403. Nope. I'm sure he is not. You certainly are, but in order to provide access to

Re: Strange things during upgrades

2010-03-11 Thread NoSpaze
Am Mittwoch, den 10.03.2010, 17:20 +0100 schrieb Antonio M: > 2010/3/10 NoSpaze : > > Am Mittwoch, den 10.03.2010, 16:15 +0100 schrieb Antonio M: > >> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > >> '/var/cache/yum/i386/12/fedora/01a9150327554e6d65132266f7b065a5d107b4efb7afa78012fa3ffcc6f517e9-primary.sq

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 01:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: > Upstream, either Xorg or Gnome. One of the reasons, IIRC, was that > some people are using/could use that key combo by mistake. How? How could you accidentally press that awkward key combination? I could buy it if the key sequence was ALT zxc but

Re: Nvidia problem after kernel 2.6.32.9-70.fc12 update

2010-03-11 Thread Serguei Miridonov
On Thursday 11 March 2010, Dario Lesca wrote: > This morning, after kernel + nvidia driver update I get this error: > > Mar 11 08:46:45 lesca kernel: NVRM: API mismatch: the client has > > the version 195.36.08, but Mar 11 08:46:45 lesca kernel: NVRM: > > this kernel module has the version 190.53.

aoe - with freenas, openfiler

2010-03-11 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
Does anybody has a link to a distro, that supports ata over ethernet, and it's like: freenas, openfiler sorry for the "interesting question" :D:S thank you! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: aoe - with freenas, openfiler

2010-03-11 Thread Michal
On 11/03/2010 10:54, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > Does anybody has a link to a distro, that supports ata over ethernet, > and it's like: freenas, openfiler > > sorry for the "interesting question" :D:S > > thank you! > I don't...though I would be interested to hear this also. However, you did specify

Re: aoe - with freenas, openfiler

2010-03-11 Thread Jatin K
On 03/11/2010 04:54 PM, Michal wrote: > On 11/03/2010 10:54, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > >> Does anybody has a link to a distro, that supports ata over ethernet, >> and it's like: freenas, openfiler >> >> sorry for the "interesting question" :D:S >> >> thank you! >> >> > I don't...though I wou

Re: aoe - with freenas, openfiler

2010-03-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Jatin K : >> better luck with picking a distro and setting up RAID etc with >> AOE... > is this[1] what you looking for ... > [1] http://www.lbserver.org/aoe/ Not that hard with a stock distribution: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/553 -- Architecte Informatique chez

dmidecode not working?

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Kloiber
Let me start by saying this may or may not be a Fedora issue. I recently purchased two Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboards and am running F12 on them. The marketing for these boards say they support SMBIOS 2.4 and DMI, yet dmidecode says: [r...@phoenix ~]# dmidecode # dmidecode 2.10 # No SMBIO

Re: Problem with apache virtual host in new fedora 12 installation

2010-03-11 Thread Daniel J Walsh
On 03/10/2010 07:39 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 03/10/2010 06:30 PM, Richard Cahilig wrote: > >> Yes. The user apache able to access /home/user. I even tried to changed >> the owership to user apache and group apache but I still have error 403. >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Steven Ste

Re: Wireless stopped working- F12

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > woodson2 writes: > >> >> I installed F12 around the time it was released and it picked up my >> wireless >> card and worked like a charm.Suddenly last week everything stopped >> working and I receive what appears to be a driver error wh

[389-users] Password policies and account policies with PAM

2010-03-11 Thread Ivan Ferreira
Hi everybody. I'm testing the password policies and account lockout policies on Directory Server 1.2.2. For account lockout policies, it seems that it does not works with pam authentication, for example for services like login or ssh. If I set the account lockout on 3 failures, I can login to

Re: [389-users] slapd didn't close connection and get into CLOSE_WAIT state

2010-03-11 Thread Rich Megginson
Chun Tat David Chu wrote: > Hi Rich, > > Thanks for your explanation. > > I know that #567429 is a low priority bug, but is there a time frame > or which version of 389-DS will have a fix for this bug? Probably 1.2.6 or 1.2.7 final release. Should show up in an alpha release in a few weeks. > >

Keboard defaults changing at logon time with Gnome and F12

2010-03-11 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
By default my system has F12 in english, but the only keyboard defined is Canada.  After every boot or logon, I find that the user's keyboard has reverted to USA.  I have to delete the USA entry in order to recover the functionality of the Canada Keyboard..  I write in French and Spanish, and

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 21:04 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 01:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: > > Upstream, either Xorg or Gnome. One of the reasons, IIRC, was that > > some people are using/could use that key combo by mistake. > > How? How could you accidentally press that awkward key combinat

Re: Nvidia problem after kernel 2.6.32.9-70.fc12 update

2010-03-11 Thread Doron Bar Zeev
I have the same problem ( X won't startup ) with the new kernel. There are these lines in /var/log/messages that seem to indicate what serguei wrote: Mar 11 16:39:17 DoronPc kernel: NVRM: this kernel module has the version 190.53. Please Mar 11 16:39:17 DoronPc kernel: NVRM: make sure that this k

Re: Nvidia problem after kernel 2.6.32.9-70.fc12 update

2010-03-11 Thread Andre Goree
Doron Bar Zeev wrote: > > > I have the same problem ( X won't startup ) with the new kernel. > There are these lines in /var/log/messages that seem to indicate what > serguei wrote: > > Mar 11 16:39:17 DoronPc kernel: NVRM: this kernel module has the version > 190.53. Please > Mar 11 16:39:17

Help needed on wireless

2010-03-11 Thread RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA
1) I have a wireless enabled broadband DSL modem which has four Ethernet ports. 2) I have Wi-Fi enabled laptop running on F!2 and I want to connect the modem through wireless connection to access the internet. 3) The modem has SSID, network authentication is WPA-PSK. I am able to see the available

F13 alpha rt2860 wireless problem

2010-03-11 Thread fred smith
Trying out F13 alpha on my eeepc 901. In previous versions, we had to go to a 3rd-party repo to get drivers for the RTA2860STA wireless chipset. But F13 seems to have at least some support built in, i.e., network manager detects the wireless hotspots nearby and offers them up for connection. howe

Re: Nvidia problem after kernel 2.6.32.9-70.fc12 update

2010-03-11 Thread Dave Martin
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:16:55AM -0600, Andre Goree wrote: > I am also having these issues after the recent kernel update. I even > installed the up-to-date akmod-nvidia package, to no end. > > I was able to boot into the previous kernel and it worked though, so > that is my temporary workaro

Re: [389-users] slapd didn't close connection and get into CLOSE_WAIT state

2010-03-11 Thread Chun Tat David Chu
Thank you Rich, I will definitely help testing the alpha release once it is available. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Rich Megginson wrote: > Chun Tat David Chu wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > > > Thanks for your explanation. > > > > I know that #567429 is a low priority bug, but is there a time frame

F12: Icon position in drawers in a gnome panel changes from top after logout and relogin to buttom

2010-03-11 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, having the following problem: Putting a drawer into a gnome-panel, and then adding a custom application launcher to the drawer (icon position in the drawer: top). After logging out an re-logging in, the icon position is now: bottom of drawer. [Remark: the app is the NX client from nomach

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread David Bartmess
On 3/10/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> What genius decided that? Stupid. Are you sure? That little three-key >> combo has gotten me out of more than a few X-server lockups with Fedora due >> to misconfiguration by the instal

Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Andre Robatino
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Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Mark
David Bartmess wrote: On 3/10/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: What genius decided that? Stupid. Are you sure? That little three-key combo has gotten me out of more than a few X-server lockups with Fedora due to misconfig

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 08:50 -0700, David Bartmess wrote: > On 3/10/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > >> What genius decided that? Stupid. Are you sure? That little three-key > >> combo has gotten me out of more than a few X-s

Re: lzma compression on official isos vs Deltaisos

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 20:35 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> The rpms are xz compressed but the isos are not. That is what I am >> asking, or is it too much compression? When is so much too much? > > Generally speaking, trying to compress something that's already > compressed doesn

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/11/2010 05:59 PM, Mark wrote: David Bartmess wrote: On 3/10/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: What genius decided that? Stupid. Are you sure? That little three-key combo has gotten me out of more than a few X-server

Re: Firewall config and ftp server

2010-03-11 Thread Edward. S. P. Leong
Rick Stevens wrote: >On 03/09/2010 07:47 PM, NoSpaze wrote: > > >>Am Dienstag, den 09.03.2010, 23:09 +0800 schrieb Edward. S. P. Leong: >> >> >>>NoSpaze wrote: >>> >>> # modprobe ip_tables FATAL: Module ip_tables not found. >>Again: this module does not exist!

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On 11/03/10 05:01 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 08:50 -0700, David Bartmess wrote: >> On 3/10/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Bartek >>> wrote: >>> What genius decided that? Stupid. Are you sure? That little three-key

Re: F13 alpha rt2860 wireless problem

2010-03-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 March 2010 15:24, fred smith wrote: > Trying out F13 alpha on my eeepc 901. > > In previous versions, we had to go to a 3rd-party repo to get drivers for > the RTA2860STA wireless chipset. But F13 seems to have at least some > support built in, i.e., network manager detects the wireless hots

Re: F13 alpha rt2860 wireless problem

2010-03-11 Thread jack craig
On 03/11/2010 07:24 AM, fred smith wrote: Trying out F13 alpha on my eeepc 901. In previous versions, we had to go to a 3rd-party repo to get drivers for the RTA2860STA wireless chipset. But F13 seems to have at least some support built in, i.e., network manager detects the wireless hotspots nea

Re: dmidecode not working?

2010-03-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On 11/03/10 01:06 PM, Chris Kloiber wrote: > Let me start by saying this may or may not be a Fedora issue. > > I recently purchased two Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboards and am > running F12 on them. The marketing for these boards say they support > SMBIOS 2.4 and DMI, yet dmidecode says: > > [r..

Re: gmpc sound not working

2010-03-11 Thread Wendell Nichols
On 03/11/2010 01:26 AM, NoSpaze wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 10.03.2010, 11:16 -0700 schrieb Wendell Nichols: > ... > >> gmpc on my laptop. These things come from rpmfusion. >> Every sound application on my machine is able to make noise except >> gmpc. >> > Same here. Maybe this entry in /v

Re: gmpc sound not working

2010-03-11 Thread birger
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:13 -0700, Wendell Nichols wrote: > Auh! I finally understand! The people who wrote the mpd (music > player daemon) and the clients created a fully networked architecture > for playing music where the DAEMON PLAYS THE MUSIC! > This is not streaming media at all. The

Re: [389-users] Password policies and account policies with PAM

2010-03-11 Thread Morris, Patrick
Ivan Ferreira wrote: > > Hi everybody. > > > > I’m testing the password policies and account lockout policies on > Directory Server 1.2.2. > > > > For account lockout policies, it seems that it does not works with pam > authentication, for example for services like login or ssh. > > > > If

Re: gmpc sound not working Runaway; choose mt-daapd and rhythmbox

2010-03-11 Thread Wendell Nichols
On 03/11/2010 10:27 AM, birger wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:13 -0700, Wendell Nichols wrote: > >> Auh! I finally understand! The people who wrote the mpd (music >> player daemon) and the clients created a fully networked architecture >> for playing music where the DAEMON PLAYS THE

Re: F13 alpha rt2860 wireless problem

2010-03-11 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:57:10AM -0800, jack craig wrote: > On 03/11/2010 07:24 AM, fred smith wrote: > >Trying out F13 alpha on my eeepc 901. > > > >In previous versions, we had to go to a 3rd-party repo to get drivers for > >the RTA2860STA wireless chipset. But F13 seems to have at least some >

Re: Firewall config and ftp server

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/11/2010 08:17 AM, Edward. S. P. Leong wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 03/09/2010 07:47 PM, NoSpaze wrote: >> >>> Am Dienstag, den 09.03.2010, 23:09 +0800 schrieb Edward. S. P. Leong: >>> NoSpaze wrote: > # modprobe ip_tables > FATAL: Module ip_tables not found. > >>>

Re: Firewall config and ftp server

2010-03-11 Thread Tom H
>> To clarify, several kernels ago the IPV4 iptables was defaulted to being >> built into the kernel so it doesn't need a modprobe or insmod. Ditto >> with the IPV4 conntrack (snippet of the default kernel config file): >> CONFIG_NF_DEFRAG_IPV4=y <<< Built into kernel >> CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_

readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying

2010-03-11 Thread William Case
Hi; On and off for the last few years I have tried to get readline to bind commands as I want them but they never have. I am sure I am doing something stupid or mis-interpreting the manuals and all the previous advice I have received. I posted this problem over a week ago on the Fedora Forum but g

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 10:28 -0300, Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: > 2010/3/9 Roberto Ragusa : > > Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote: > >> 2010/3/9 Mikkel : > > > >>> slow speed > >>> high speed > >>> full speed > > > >> so: > >> low-speed - uhci > >> full-speed - ohci > >> high-speed - ehci > > > > When th

Re: Mail Server

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 15:40 +0200, William Mungwiro wrote: > Hi All, im running Fedora 10 and i want to configure the sending of > email both internal and external. can anybody email me the > instructions on how to do it at > mungwirowill...@gmail.com as soon as possible. 1) Fedora 10 is no longe

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread psmith
On 11/03/10 16:01, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 08:50 -0700, David Bartmess wrote: > >> On 3/10/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Bartek >>> wrote: >>> >>> What genius decided that? Stupid. Are you sure? That

Re: Fedora 12 installing

2010-03-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 19:07 +, psmith wrote: > On 11/03/10 16:01, Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 08:50 -0700, David Bartmess wrote: > > > >> On 3/10/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Patrick Bartek > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>

Re: KVM and screen savers

2010-03-11 Thread François Cami
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500 (EST) William Henry wrote: > On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue: > > If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave the machine for a > while the Fedora screen saver with lock does not kick in. That is until I > press CTRL-ALT to take

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Elkins
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:37:29PM -0500, William Case wrote: > "\M-\C-b": backward-word > "\M-\C-f": forward-word > As I say, I have tried several different versions e.g "\M-\C-b": and > "\M-\C-f: but nothing works. Even after using C-xC-r or rebooting. (I > am familiar with emacs bindin

Re: KVM and screen savers

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/11/2010 12:47 PM, François Cami wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500 (EST) > William Henry wrote: > >> On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue: >> >> If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave the machine for a >> while the Fedora screen saver with lock does not

Re: KVM and screen savers

2010-03-11 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500, William Henry wrote: > On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue: > > If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave the machine for a > while the Fedora screen saver with lock does not kick in. That is until > I press CTRL-ALT to take focus fr

network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-11 Thread Joe Conway
In the last few days I've noticed network connectivity issues from multiple virtual machines (fedora, centos, winxp) running on a fedora 12 host. What seemed odd was that I could ping by host name, showing that both the basic network functionality as well as DNS was working. What was failing was br

Re: KVM and screen savers

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/11/2010 02:00 PM, BeartoothHOS wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500, William Henry wrote: > >> On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue: >> >> If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave the machine for a >> while the Fedora screen saver with lock does not kick in.

Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Stuart McGraw
I currently backup user only my user files with the understanding that if I lose important system files, I will reinstall the system from distribution media. Yesterday I had a little accident when I accidentally deleted an unknown number of files in /var. But since the rpm database was still i

Re: KVM and screen savers

2010-03-11 Thread François Cami
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:23:17 -0800 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/11/2010 12:47 PM, François Cami wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500 (EST) > > William Henry wrote: > > > >> On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue: > >> > >> If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/11/2010 02:14 PM, Joe Conway wrote: > In the last few days I've noticed network connectivity issues from > multiple virtual machines (fedora, centos, winxp) running on a fedora 12 > host. What seemed odd was that I could ping by host name, showing that > both the basic network functionality a

Re: KVM and screen savers

2010-03-11 Thread William Henry
- "François Cami" wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:23:17 -0800 > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > On 03/11/2010 12:47 PM, François Cami wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500 (EST) > > > William Henry wrote: > > > > > >> On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue: > > >> > > >> If

Installing on a Macbook Pro

2010-03-11 Thread Evan Klitzke
Hi all, I'm running Fedora 12 on an older macbook pro. For a long time I've had a co-installation of Fedora and OS X. Since I never use OS X, I'd like to install over the OS X partition (my plan is to try to install the F13 alpha over the OS X partition, and keep my existing F12 installation in ca

Re: Nvidia problem after kernel 2.6.32.9-70.fc12 update

2010-03-11 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: > The nvidia module is missing. I haven't updated yet because I'm still waiting for kmod-nvidia, the module needed by the kernel for nvidia cards (proprietary driver only, I'm not sure. I suppose so,) Now, when I do "yum update", kmod-nvidia is

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-11 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/11/2010 02:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/11/2010 02:14 PM, Joe Conway wrote: >> In the last few days I've noticed network connectivity issues from >> multiple virtual machines (fedora, centos, winxp) running on a fedora 12 >> host. What seemed odd was that I could ping by host name, show

Re: Installing on a Macbook Pro

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Evan Klitzke wrote: > > The problem that I have is that I've been using refit > (http://refit.sourceforge.net/) as my EFI boot environment. So right > now when I boot my computer, refit loads, and then that loads grub, > and grub boots the kernel normally. It's my

Re: Installing on a Macbook Pro

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Smart
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > However, if you're only going to boot Fedora, then you don't need > rEFIt. Fedora does support booting from an EFI system, maybe you > should install with the F12 efidisk image. Perhaps something on my > blog will help you: > Also, I've found

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying

2010-03-11 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 12:58 -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:37:29PM -0500, William Case wrote: > > "\M-\C-b": backward-word > > "\M-\C-f": forward-word > > > As I say, I have tried several different versions e.g "\M-\C-b": and > > "\M-\C-f: but nothing works. Even

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Stuart McGraw wrote: [...] > since the rpm database was still intact, I was able > to "rpm --verify" all my packages, identify those > with missing /var files and reinstall just those > rpms. Congratulations on your recovery. > Which leads to my question... Are there certain > files and dir

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying

2010-03-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:41:41 -0500 William Case wrote: > ]$ ^V then Alt-Ctrl+b returns "^[" > cat returns nothing. Speaking of what the terminal is sending, I have indeed often been confused by "helpful" terminal apps and distro modified default configs that cause the terminal apps to send totall

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying

2010-03-11 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:41 -0500, William Case wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 12:58 -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:37:29PM -0500, William Case wrote: > > > "\M-\C-b": backward-word > > > "\M-\C-f": forward-word > > > > > As I say, I have tried several differen

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 15:21 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote: > I currently backup user only my user files with the > understanding that if I lose important system files, > I will reinstall the system from distribution media. > > Yesterday I had a little accident when I accidentally > deleted an unkno

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying -- Typo Fix

2010-03-11 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 19:02 -0500, William Case wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:41 -0500, William Case wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 12:58 -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:37:29PM -0500, William Case wrote: > > > > "\M-\C-b": backward-word > > > > "\M-\C-f"

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Elkins
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:02:20PM -0500, William Case wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:41 -0500, William Case wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 12:58 -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > > > You can verify what your own setup does by pressing ^V (or just use cat) > > > and pressing meta-control-b to see

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] > It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows, > whereas the Linux version is using a generic driver. I'd guess the > answer is probably in the Windows driver code, but of course it will be > binary and proprietary so it's of no use to anyone.

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying

2010-03-11 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 16:07 -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:02:20PM -0500, William Case wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:41 -0500, William Case wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 12:58 -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > > > > You can verify what your own setup does by press

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-11 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/11/2010 02:52 PM, Joe Conway wrote: > On 03/11/2010 02:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Check all interfaces under "ifconfig -a" and see if any of the participants >> in the >> bridge have a small MTU. IIRC, the smallest MTU will be propagated >> to the bridge so it doesn't overrun the least-

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I back up all of /etc and /usr/local. Also /opt if it exists. Is /opt really likely to contain some configuration information that a reinstall wouldn't set up? ISTM that, if the system is "modern" enough to use /opt for its install, then its config would also be in

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:04 -0800 Joe Conway wrote: > So I can at least work around the issue this way after starting the VM, > but still don't understand the root cause. The vnet0 may be coming from the "default" network that libvirt provides. If you are using bridging for everything, you can e

Fedora 13 feature list seems kind of thin ?

2010-03-11 Thread Linuxguy123
Is it me or does the Fedora 13 feature list seem kind of thin for regular desktop users ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList SIPWitch looks interesting. We already have KDE4.4, though I am anxiously awaiting 4.4.1... We finally got a 2.6.32 kernel in F12 the other day. Wil

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Elkins
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:18:28PM -0500, William Case wrote: > ]$ bind "\e\C-b": backward-word > > Tried it on a several word command line from History. No motion. Because of the peculiarities of shell quoting, you need to quote the key sequence inside single quotes because the double quotes ar

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > I back up all of /etc and /usr/local. Also /opt if it exists. > > Is /opt really likely to contain some configuration information > that a reinstall wouldn't set up? ISTM that, if the system > is "modern"

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > [...] > > > It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows, > > whereas the Linux version is using a generic driver. I'd guess the > > answer is probably in the Windows driver code, but of co

Audio skips in rhythmbox, fine in other gnome apps

2010-03-11 Thread Dan Irwin
Hello, Is anyone else experiencing an issue where audio in rhythmbox skips way more then it should? For the record I don't think this is a pulseaudio issue. If I open a folder containing mp3s in gnome, and hover my mouse cursor over a file, the file plays flawlessly (I assume through gstreamer an

Re: Nvidia problem after kernel 2.6.32.9-70.fc12 update

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Hannon
Howdy. Just to add my $0.02, we've got a couple of dual-monitor systems around here, both running Fedora 12, 64-bit. We're using akmod-nvidia on both systems, and both systems are fully patched and rebooted with the latest kernel. Our experience is that the video works flawlessly on both syste

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> I back up all of /etc and /usr/local. Also /opt if it exists. >> Is /opt really likely to contain some configuration information >> that a reinstall wouldn't set up? ISTM that, if t

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Clearly it's of _some_ use to _someone_. It just isn't of use to _you_. > > No, it's of no use to anyone using a non-Windows system. Isn't that what > we're talking about on this list? There are those who insta

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying

2010-03-11 Thread William Case
Hi; On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 16:42 -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:18:28PM -0500, William Case wrote: > > ]$ bind "\e\C-b": backward-word > > > > Tried it on a several word command line from History. No motion. > > Because of the peculiarities of shell quoting, you need to

Re: network bridge default MTU -- apparent change

2010-03-11 Thread Joe Conway
On 03/11/2010 04:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:04 -0800 > Joe Conway wrote: > >> So I can at least work around the issue this way after starting the VM, >> but still don't understand the root cause. > > The vnet0 may be coming from the "default" network that libvirt > prov

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows, >>> whereas the Linux version is using a generic driver. I'd guess the >>> answer is probably in the

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Elkins
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:15:43PM -0500, William Case wrote: > Now the question is, how do I set it up in my .inputrc? Just try "\e > \C-b": backward-word ? Or \e^B ? Just put the following line in your ~/.inputrc: "\e\C-b": backward-word The man page says the colon *must not* have a space aft

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > I back up all of /etc and /usr/local. Also /opt if it exists. > > > > Is /opt really likely to contain some configuration information >

Cannot Upgrade To Fedora 12 - CD not detected

2010-03-11 Thread Dennis Mattingly
I am trying to upgrade to Fedora 12, but nothing works. No matter what I do, system always boots to my current Fedora 11. I can try Fedora LiveCD, Fedora 12 ISO 1 CD, OpenSuse LiveCD, Fedora 11 CD Nothing works. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Cannot Upgrade To Fedora 12 - CD not detected

2010-03-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
Dennis Mattingly wrote: > I am trying to upgrade to Fedora 12, but nothing works. > No matter what I do, system always boots to my current Fedora 11. > > I can try Fedora LiveCD, Fedora 12 ISO 1 CD, OpenSuse LiveCD, Fedora 11 CD > Nothing works. Are you saying that you put in a Fedora-12 Live CD

Re: Cannot Upgrade To Fedora 12 - CD not detected

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/11/2010 06:15 PM, Dennis Mattingly wrote: > I am trying to upgrade to Fedora 12, but nothing works. > No matter what I do, system always boots to my current Fedora 11. > > I can try Fedora LiveCD, Fedora 12 ISO 1 CD, OpenSuse LiveCD, Fedora 11 CD > Nothing works. > > Any help is greatly appre

Re: Cannot Upgrade To Fedora 12 - CD not detected

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Dennis Mattingly wrote: > >> I am trying to upgrade to Fedora 12, but nothing works. >> No matter what I do, system always boots to my current Fedora 11. >> >> I can try Fedora LiveCD, Fedora 12 ISO 1 CD, OpenSuse LiveCD, Fedora 11 CD >> Nothing works. > > Are you saying t

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 19:24 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >>> It's likely that the disk came with a special driver for Windows, > >>> whereas the Linux version

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:54 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > > > I back up all of /etc and /usr/local. Also /opt if it exists. > > > > >

Re: Problem with an external usb HD - slow usb

2010-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 19:24 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: [...] >> However, in a broader context, simply because a driver is closed >> source and proprietary does not mean that it is of no use to anyone. >> AIUI, nVidia provides some Linux drivers which are closed, and u

Re: readline + binding; still frustrated after 4 yrs of trying --[SOLVED]

2010-03-11 Thread William Case
Thank you Michael; I have saved the remarks that you sent me for future use. The whole solution was contained in those notes. For those who maybe having similar problems. On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 13:37 -0500, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > On and off for the last few years I have tried to get read

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:54 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > > > >

Re: Backup, what system files are *really* important?

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Sewill
> > > > /opt (and /usr/local) are likely to contain stuff that wasn't installed > > via rpm or yum, thus needs to be preserved. That's all. YMMV. > > > > what about /var ? > > /var/www/html > /var/www/named > /var/lib/dhcpd > /var/lib/imap > /var/cache/samba > Did they move /var/named to

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