FC13 Virt & Win XP guest

2010-06-10 Thread Ken Smith
Hi all, I've set up FC13 64bit on a machine with an intel i7 and 4G memory I'm trying to get a simple virtualisation to work. I followed the instructions here -> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Installing_Windows_XP_as_a_fully_virtualize

Re: FC13 Virt & Win XP guest

2010-06-10 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thursday 10 June 2010 12:18 AM, Ken Smith wrote: > Hi all, I've set up FC13 64bit on a machine with an intel i7 and 4G memory > > I'm trying to get a simple virtualisation to work. I followed the > instructions here -> > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/s

Re: FC13 Virt & Win XP guest

2010-06-10 Thread Ken Smith
Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2010 12:18 AM, Ken Smith wrote: > >> Hi all, I've set up FC13 64bit on a machine with an intel i7 and 4G memory >> >> I'm trying to get a simple virtualisation to work. I followed the >> instructions here -> >> >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedo

Re: f13: mysql administration gui for gnome

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Flo Williams
Sam Sharpe wrote: > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-intro.html > > You would need to get that software directly from MySQL - it is not in > the Fedora repositories. MySQL provide the RPMs for Fedora 12. Remi also provides RPMs for other versions, if you're interested: http://blog.fa

Re: Extract file from tar home/

2010-06-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 00:39 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 21:55 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: [...] >>> Even after it has extracted everything you >>> asked for, tar will continue to the end of the archive looking for a >>> possible later ver

Re: Extract file from tar home/

2010-06-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/10/2010 04:50 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >> On further reflexion and a close reading of "info tar", we find the >> following: >> >> `--occurrence[=NUMBER]' >> This option can be used in conjunction with one of the subcommands >> `--delete', `--diff',

Re: FC13 Virt & Win XP guest

2010-06-10 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thursday 10 June 2010 12:31 AM, Ken Smith wrote: > > > Suvayu Ali wrote: >> On Thursday 10 June 2010 12:18 AM, Ken Smith wrote: >> >>> Hi all, I've set up FC13 64bit on a machine with an intel i7 and 4G memory >>> >>> I'm trying to get a simple virtualisation to work. I followed the >>> instruct

slow login with sssd and ldap config

2010-06-10 Thread Eric Doutreleau
i m trying to make sssd working with ldap server on my fedora 13 machine. it works but the login is very very slow ( several minutes ) during this interval the process sssd_be is at 100% cpu time here is my sssd.conf [sssd] config_file_version = 2 reconnection_retries = 3 services = nss, pam d

Re: slow login with sssd and ldap config

2010-06-10 Thread Eric Doutreleau
ahhh i took a day to write the mail and i found the solution 5 minutes just after write the mail i add ldap_group_search_base = ou=Groups,dc=int-evry,dc=fr and it s far faster sorry to have disturbed Le 10/06/2010 11:39, Eric Doutreleau a écrit : > i m trying to make sssd working with ldap serv

Re: f13: new mount error after boot (/etc/rc5.d/S25netfs)

2010-06-10 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 20.07 +0200, Michael Schwendt ha scritto: > > How to avoid this error? > > Adding mount option _netdev is my work-around and the reason I haven't > looked into this further. Thanks Michael, now, with this option (_netdev) the "service netfs start" no longer show th

sshd get path to authorized_keys file wrong

2010-06-10 Thread Barry Scott
We are seeing an sshd_config that used to work on f12 failing on f13. When doing ssh r...@host: Jun 10 11:34:32 f12barry sshd[23030]: debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 0/0 (e=0/0) Jun 10 11:34:32 f12barry sshd[23030]: debug1: trying public key file //.ssh/authorized_keys Jun 10 11:34:32 f12barry sshd

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joel Rees writes: Ran for ten or twenty minutes and finished with no output. No news is good news in this case? Or bad? Correct. That's good news. Weed those out. For what's left, run rpm -q again to get the version of both the old and the new package, then rpm -e the old one. Ouch. Abo

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Marvin Kosmal writes: HI I have FC12 and am thinking of going to FC13. Will I have the same options? I was thinking FC13 would overlay FC12 making it FC13... Is that not going to happen.?? With the same partitions.. No, this will be a fairly simple upgrade. pgpqRRaDdaJbR.pgp Descriptio

Re: slow login with sssd and ldap config

2010-06-10 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On 06/10/2010 05:50 AM, Eric Doutreleau wrote: > ahhh i took a day to write the mail and i found the solution 5 minutes > just after write the mail > > i add > ldap_group_search_base = ou=Groups,dc=int-evry,dc=fr > and it s far faster > > sorry to have disturbed > Hmm, this shouldn't have had a di

Re: slow login with sssd and ldap config

2010-06-10 Thread Eric Doutreleau
thanks for your answer well i have the problem when i don't set up ldap_user_search_base and ldap_group_search_base but i discovered that ou=Groups,dc=int-evry,dc=fr contains nothing our posix group are elsewhere and when i put ldap_group_search_base with the good value i have the problem again i

Re: Help required

2010-06-10 Thread Pallav Jain
your welcome for you like the link. as you say if i appended those lines at the end of the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, it would have any other impact except that what is given though the contents are not those which were are written in that link, still it is safe to append that at the end of the fil

Re: Help required

2010-06-10 Thread Pallav Jain
thx for the method you give. but my simple doubt is that: if i append those extra lines at the end of the file /boot/grub/menu.lst , is it okay even if the contents of that file (menu.lst) are not those as written on the website, which says to append only after searching the string: ## password [

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-10 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 07:08 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I've never understood the appeal of preupgrade. I have a bunch of > machines. It's faster for me to torrent a DVD image once. Takes very > little time, then I use it to upgrade each machine, then let it update > itself with the few bits fr

Re: slow login with sssd and ldap config

2010-06-10 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On 06/10/2010 07:39 AM, Eric Doutreleau wrote: > thanks for your answer > well i have the problem when i don't set up > ldap_user_search_base and > ldap_group_search_base > but i discovered that ou=Groups,dc=int-evry,dc=fr contains nothing > our posix group are elsewhere > and when i put ldap_group

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 00:30:40 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Why do you say this ? Because there were some significant rpm related changes along the way and for at least one point an upgrade needed an up to date version of that release to go to the next release. Skipping over that jump would

Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word, and returns the paragraphs in which it appears (rather than the lines), where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines. All suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net

Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide to setup a pxeboot server, and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt . (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seems to be a typo.) In any case, t

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > You aren't going to be able to go directly from Fedora 8 to Fedora 13 > (without a LOT of pain). > > You are probably better off saving your data and your config and then > doing a fresh install. While I agree that it is a complete waste of time to try going from F-8 to

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jamie Bohr wrote: > I have an FC12 device running KVM and would like to install FC13 as a > VM. I am having lot of problems from the installer failing when > packages start to install to nearly all the way through package > installation. I have disabled "ACPI" and added "acpi=off" to the > in

gscan2pdf won't save files

2010-06-10 Thread Steven Stern
I just fired up gscan2pdf and it says "missing libtiff, unable to save". [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep tiff libtiff-3.9.2-3.fc13.i686 [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep gscan gscan2pdf-0.9.30-3.fc13.noarch SAVE is grayed out in the menu, but EMAIL AS PDF is there and it does, in f

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
vijay bhide wrote: > I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my existing > Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start upgrade.I reached > a stage where 4installation options were offered.One was to remove completely > existing installations ,second was r

Re: Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-10 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:36:07PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word, > and returns the paragraphs in which it appears (rather than the lines), > where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines. perl -ne 'BEGIN { $/=

missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
Trying to keep my newly installed (update from F12) system updated and I keep running up against an unresolved dependency in compat-db.x86_64 0:4.7.25-2.fc13. Anyone know when this will be resolved? The specific error I'm getting is as follows: Error: Package: compat-db-4.7.25-2.fc13.x86_64 (fed

Re: gscan2pdf won't save files

2010-06-10 Thread kalinix
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 08:04 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > I just fired up gscan2pdf and it says "missing libtiff, unable to save". > > [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep tiff > libtiff-3.9.2-3.fc13.i686 > [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep gscan > gscan2pdf-0.9.30-3.fc13.noarch > > > S

Re: missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread Frank Murphy
On 10/06/10 14:19, John Aldrich wrote: > Trying to keep my newly installed (update from F12) system updated and I > keep running up against an unresolved dependency in compat-db.x86_64 > 0:4.7.25-2.fc13. Anyone know when this will be resolved? > --snip-- > >>From the looks of things, it appears

Re: Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word, and returns the paragraphs in which it appears (rather than the lines), where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines. All suggestions gratefully received. It would be relatively easy t

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide > to setup a pxeboot server, > and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation > in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt . > (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seem

Re: gscan2pdf won't save files [SOLVED]

2010-06-10 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/10/2010 08:22 AM, kalinix wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 08:04 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> I just fired up gscan2pdf and it says "missing libtiff, unable to save". >> >> [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep tiff >> libtiff-3.9.2-3.fc13.i686 >> [sdst...@sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep gscan

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:08:09 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Joel Rees writes: > > > Ran for ten or twenty minutes and finished with no output. > > > > No news is good news in this case? Or bad? > > Correct. That's good news. > > >> Weed those > >> out. For what's left, run rpm -q again to g

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu June 10 2010, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > HI > > I have FC12 and am thinking of going to FC13. > > Will I have the same options? > > I was thinking FC13 would overlay FC12 making it FC13... Is that not > going to happen.?? With the same partitions.. > > FC 12 is ONLY thing on drive.. > No,

Re: Help required

2010-06-10 Thread stan
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:21:59 +0530 Pallav Jain wrote: > ## password ['--md5'] passwd > # If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all > # interactive editing > # control (menu entry editor and command-line) > # and entries protected by the > # command 'lock' > > which was not there

[OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Marko Vojinovic
Hi folks! :-) This is the story: I have a directory full of files named as: 01 Some file 02 Some other file 03 & yet another file 04 etc... There is also a symbolic link called "target" pointing to one of them. The numbers at the beginning of file names are there so that there is some specific o

Re: missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:19:49 -0400, John wrote: > Trying to keep my newly installed (update from F12) system updated and I > keep running up against an unresolved dependency in compat-db.x86_64 > 0:4.7.25-2.fc13. Anyone know when this will be resolved? > > The specific error I'm getting is as f

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/10/2010 08:32 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Hi folks! :-) > > This is the story: I have a directory full of files named as: > > 01 Some file > 02 Some other file > 03& yet another file > 04 etc... > > There is also a symbolic link called "target" pointing to one of them. > The numbers at the

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:46 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Surely virtually everyone nowadays has enough room on their disks > for a spare partition to be reserved for a new Fedora version? This requires thinking of this in advance. I think most people have existing partitions that fill their ent

F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I susppect recent updates. It appears that Java/nsplugins/Firefox is causing the system to hang in F13. Has anyone else seen this behavior recently? -- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." --Thomas Jefferso

Re: F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:37:25 -0500 "Dale J. Chatham" wrote: > I susppect recent updates. > > It appears that Java/nsplugins/Firefox is causing the system to hang in F13. > > Has anyone else seen this behavior recently? All the time in F12 (FF3.5.9). Do not know about F13 which has FF3.6.?. Ra

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Jamie Bohr
My initial question was geared toward getting generic advice and if someone else was successful getting FC13 installed as a KVM VM. Trying to install FC13 x64 as a VM on a FC12 (AMD) server with a running kernel of 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 and KVM version qemu-kvm-0.11.0-13.fc12.x86_64. The inst

Re: F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
The first time this happened with FC13 was last night. Now it happens every time, shortly after I open T-bird. I am using FC13 with FF 3.6.3. Please expand On 06/10/2010 10:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:37:25 -0500 "Dale J. Chatham" > wrote: > > >> I susppect recent

Re: F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Frank Murphy
On 10/06/10 16:56, Dale J. Chatham wrote: > The first time this happened with FC13 was last night. Now it happens > every time, shortly after I open T-bird. > > I am using FC13 with FF 3.6.3. > Try opening it from a cli, to see what if any info shows up. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encode

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> It seems to me that as an absolute minimum >> any documentation mentioning floppy drives >> should at least explain how CDs can be used to the same end. >> > Should we read this as "I am starting a crusade to research the proper

Re: F13 Firefox Crashing the system

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Will do. However, I started FF with a new session, tossing the old one and the problem has not repeated. When it was crashing, I could run FF for 2 - 3 minutes before it locked the system. The system was totally unresponsive. No mouse cursor movement, Ctl-Alt-F2, etc., did not work. Ctl-Alt

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Hi folks! :-) > > This is the story: I have a directory full of files named as: > > 01 Some file > 02 Some other file > 03 & yet another file > 04 etc... > > There is also a symbolic link called "target" pointing to one of them. > The numbers at the beginning of file nam

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
Just to nail the point home, if you have spaces in the name, you must put quotes around the name of the variable containing the name. Or: FILE="a b c.txt" cat "$FILE" cat "a b c.txt" If it has things like "?", "*", or others, Danger Will Robinson!! On 06/10/2010 11:14 AM, Roberto Ragusa wro

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:56:13 -0600 Jamie Bohr wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed FC13 (or FC12) as a VM on KVM server? If > so, was there something special you did to make it work? I've installed fedora versions as KVMs from f8 through f13 without any problems using the DVD iso images as

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I'm finding KVM VMs desktop painfully jerky. It's bad enough at 800x600, but at 1600 x 1100 (or whatever the res is) as all but unusable. When I ran vmware the performance was quite good. Are there any obvious gotchas, is there a better pick than KVM or should I just go back to vmware server?

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:50:31 -0500 Dale J. Chatham wrote: > I'm finding KVM VMs desktop painfully jerky. It's bad enough at > 800x600, but at 1600 x 1100 (or whatever the res is) as all but > unusable. I never use the emulated video console at all once I have the machine installed. If I need a

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I had not thought of that. However, the purpose of this exercise is that I need to VPN into a client site. I don't want the VPN to wipe out routing and network info on the host, so I thought I'd install a vm and let VPN cripple the network on it. Thus, I don't think VNC is going to work for m

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread James Wellnitz
Something like this will basically do the "increment target link" part (making some big assumptions, doing no error checking, not handling wrap-around, etc.): cur_link=$(readlink target | sed -e "s#./##") cur_number=${cur_link%% *} cur_number=${cur_number#0} let new_number=cur_number+1 new_number=

Re: missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread A. Racca
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 09:19 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > Trying to keep my newly installed (update from F12) system updated and I > keep running up against an unresolved dependency in compat-db.x86_64 > 0:4.7.25-2.fc13. Anyone know when this will be resolved? > > The specific error I'm getting i

Re: missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread A. Racca
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 09:19 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > Trying to keep my newly installed (update from F12) system updated and I > keep running up against an unresolved dependency in compat-db.x86_64 > 0:4.7.25-2.fc13. Anyone know when this will be resolved? > > The specific error I'm getting i

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:37:31 -0500 Dale J. Chatham wrote: > Thus, I don't think VNC is going to work for me unless > I'm happy with the display packets going halfway across the US and back > to get from the virtual machine to the host machine. The native console uses VNC as well, but has a some

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Jamie Bohr
Thank you for letting me know, I will track down any error messages and resubmit to the list. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:56:13 -0600 > Jamie Bohr wrote: > > > Has anyone successfully installed FC13 (or FC12) as a VM on KVM server? > If > > so

Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jarmo
Hi Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 ? That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all ok, but using mic is no way. So any help? Jarmo -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: Re: Help required

2010-06-10 Thread Pallav Jain
thx tim, your method is too good for securing the data. but i have som doubts which are as follows: as you mentioned, i did, but frankly speaking, i am new user, so facing much problem. the issues are as follows: 1. i edited the grub.conf file, by adding in it the line: password --md5 $xxx/ jus

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/10/2010 11:40 AM, jarmo wrote: > Hi > Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 > ? > That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, > and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all ok, but using mic is > no way. > So any help? > > Jarmo > Yo

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/10/2010 02:40 PM, jarmo wrote: > Hi > Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 > ? > That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, > and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all ok, but using mic is > no way. > So any help? > > Jarmo >

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 22:29 +0300, jarmo wrote: > I can install skype, but this newest version of it with my hw and > pulseaudio makes life unconfortable. You might try running it under "padsp" while pulseaudio is installed and running. You will need the pulseaudio-utils package to get padsp. P

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Timothy Murphy wrote: [...] > Do floppy disks still exist? Yes, I've got several hundred. > Are computers with floppy drives still being made? Yes. Recently I bought one which didn't have a floppy drive, and I put one in. > It seems to me that as an absolute minimum > any documentation mentio

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > for SSDs ? There's a few "SSD specific" file systems, but you won't gain much in everyday computing from switching. ext4 will be just fine. > > Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as swit

Re: sshd get path to authorized_keys file wrong

2010-06-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Barry Scott wrote: > We are seeing an sshd_config that used to work on f12 failing on f13. > > When doing ssh r...@host: > Jun 10 11:34:32 f12barry sshd[23030]: Failed publickey for root from > 192.168.7.232 port 39169 ssh2 > > Notice the public key file is //.ssh

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Konstantin Svist wrote: > * align the FS properly (this'll be the biggest PITA to figure out > whether it's done correctly, seek help from google). Latest firmware on > Intel SSDs claims to not need this, but I'd do it just in case. Don't need to do it, period. > * enable noatime,nodiratime in /e

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 06/10/2010 02:56 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:50 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under >>> Linux ? >>> >>> I'm using ext4 for that drive right no

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread jack craig
On 06/10/2010 02:55 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, jack craig wrote: > >> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under >>> Linux ? >>> >>> I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is

firefox bookmarks really slow?

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
I have always run with the bookmarks shown in the sidebar in firefox. I have started noticing an annoying delay when I click on one of them. If I make a web page with the same links and click in the web page, I get instant response. If I click on a bookmark in the sidebar, I get a second or so dela

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > Linux ? > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > for SSDs ? > > Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as switching ? > > Thanks >

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:50 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > > Linux ? > > > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > > for SSDs ? > > > > Is

RE: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Tim Van Dyne
>>On 06/10/2010 02:40 PM, jarmo wrote: >> Hi >> Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 >> ? >> That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, >> and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all ok, but using mic is >> no way. >> So any help? >> >

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread Darlene Wallach
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On 06/10/2010 11:40 AM, jarmo wrote: >> Hi >> Anyone can point me, where to get fedora package of skype-2.1.47 >> ? >> That's the last one, which worked with my cards. I have lost mine, >> and I installed new beta, no worky. I can hear all

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > > Linux ? > > > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > > for SSDs ? > > > > Is there

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jarmo
Jerry Feldman kirjoitti torstai, 10. kesäkuuta 2010 22:00:24: > I have not used skype recently, but the Linux rpm is ancient. You might > try installing easylife (http://www.easylifeproject.org/) and use it as > a tool to help you install skype. The last time I used it was really a > pain to ins

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread stan
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:08:24 +0300 jarmo wrote: > > fc12 either. I have two cards, intel-hda and ens-1370 and with > pulseaudio it is impossiple to set? skype to use one and then use > another card just for listening music. This pulse* has made my > audio use quite limited... You can inst

Re: Re: Help required

2010-06-10 Thread kalinix
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 00:21 +0530, Pallav Jain wrote: > thx tim, your method is too good for securing the data. but i have som > doubts which are as follows: > > as you mentioned, i did, but frankly speaking, i am new user, so > facing much problem. the issues are as follows: > > 1. i edited the

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Timothy Murphy writes: I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide to setup a pxeboot server, and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt . (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seems to b

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/10/2010 03:56 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:50 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under >>> Linux ? >>> >>> I'm using ext4 for that drive right now

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joel Rees writes: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:08:09 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: I've never understood the appeal of preupgrade. It "feels" like it knows more about what's going on than the netinstall CD, for instance. But that's because a lot of the work is being done by a fully functioning sys

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jarmo
Paolo Galtieri kirjoitti torstai, 10. kesäkuuta 2010 21:58:02: > > You can find version skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586 on the skype web site. As > far as I know this is the latest skype for fedora and works fine on > F12. That's the version, what does not work for me... It didn't work in fc12 eithe

Pulseaudio being Muted after each Reboot

2010-06-10 Thread Jim
FC13/KDE After I reboot computer I have no Audio. I have to go to Pulseaudio Control and unmute the Output Devices. Why is it being muted after each reboot ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: Can't change boot order in BIOS

2010-06-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was trying unsuccessfully to install Fedora-13 > on a rather old (maybe 11 years) machine > with an Asus P2B-LS motherboard, using pxeboot > (which worked on several other machines), > and I found after some time that changing the boot ord

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread jack craig
On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under > Linux ? > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > for SSDs ? > > Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as switching ? > > Thanks >

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 June 2010, Mike McCarty wrote: >Timothy Murphy wrote: > >[...] > >> Do floppy disks still exist? > >Yes, I've got several hundred. > And I have at least 2,000 or more, mostly 5.25" formatted for os9 (no not the mac os9, the trs-80 Color Computer version.) >> Are computers with flop

Can't change boot order in BIOS

2010-06-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
I was trying unsuccessfully to install Fedora-13 on a rather old (maybe 11 years) machine with an Asus P2B-LS motherboard, using pxeboot (which worked on several other machines), and I found after some time that changing the boot order in the BIOS had no effect. Whatever order I chose the machine b

Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under Linux ? I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem for SSDs ? Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as switching ? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bill Davidsen wrote: >> I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word, >> and returns the paragraphs in which it appears (rather than the lines), >> where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines. > If by "looking for" you mean finding a script which does y

Re: Skype

2010-06-10 Thread jack craig
On 06/10/2010 12:08 PM, jarmo wrote: > 2. > > That's the version, what does not work for me... It didn't work in > fc12 either. I have two cards, intel-hda and ens-1370 and with > pulseaudio it is impossiple to set? skype to use one and then use > another card just for listening music. This p

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jamie Bohr wrote: > My initial question was geared toward getting generic advice and if > someone else was successful getting FC13 installed as a KVM VM. > > Trying to install FC13 x64 as a VM on a FC12 (AMD) server with a running > kernel of 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 and KVM version > qemu-kvm

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dale J. Chatham wrote: > I had not thought of that. > > However, the purpose of this exercise is that I need to VPN into a > client site. I don't want the VPN to wipe out routing and network info > on the host, so I thought I'd install a vm and let VPN cripple the > network on it. Thus, I don

Re: Bash issues on reinstall

2010-06-10 Thread Bob Kinney
--- On Wed, 6/9/10, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > From: Roberto Ragusa > Subject: Re: Bash issues on reinstall > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 11:44 AM > Bob Kinney wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how to avoid this issue?  I > don't think I'm doing > > a

Re: missing deps on F13

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu June 10 2010, Germán "A. Racca" wrote: > > What happens if you first uninstall the fc10 versions > > compat-db45-4.5.20-5.fc10.x86_64 > compat-db46-4.6.21-5.fc10.x86_64 > > and then install compat-db-4.7.25-2.fc13.x86_64 again? Maybe yum will > push the correct dependencies. > Thanks. Lo

Re: Bash issues on reinstall

2010-06-10 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Bob Kinney wrote: > > > BTW, my /etc/skel is empty. > Bob: Empty or hidden? Try: ls -al /etc/skel/ -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: Bash issues on reinstall

2010-06-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Bob Kinney wrote: >> >> >> BTW, my /etc/skel is empty. >> > > Bob: > > Empty or hidden? Try: > > ls -al /etc/skel/ > On freshly installed f13 systems there are a number of hidden directories that are empty. ls -

Re: Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10Jun2010 13:51, James Wellnitz wrote: | Something like this will basically do the "increment target link" part | (making some big assumptions, doing no error checking, not handling | wrap-around, etc.): | | cur_link=$(readlink target | sed -e "s#./##") | cur_number=${cur_link%% *} | cur_numbe

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 15:08 -0700, jack craig wrote: > On 06/10/2010 02:55 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:20 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > > >> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > >> > >>> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 17:10 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm using ext4 for that drive right now. Is there a better filesystem > > for SSDs ? > > There's a few "SSD specific" file systems, but you won't gain much in > everyday computing from switching. ext4 will be

Re: Can't change boot order in BIOS

2010-06-10 Thread g
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was trying unsuccessfully to install Fedora-13 on a rather old > Has anyone else met this problem? yes. easy solutions was to upgrade bios. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give

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