How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. Both drives are 160 GB in size. I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB and 2 GB to 500 MB and 8 GB respectively. The first resize is because preupgrade now fails to run unless /boot is 500 MB or larger an

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Knoop
At 23:58 on 23 Jun 2010, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 11:50pm on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 (UK time), Marcel Rieux > scrawled: > > > Once again, and this is bound to be the last answer I give. (Michael > > And then 3 minutes later > > Around 11:53pm on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 (UK time), Marcel R

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. > > Both drives are 160 GB in size. > > I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB and 2 GB to > 500 MB and 8 GB respectively. The first resize is becau

Re: Seeking a grep-like script

2010-06-24 Thread Dave Cross
On 10 June 2010 14:26, Bill Davidsen wrote: > 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 s

automatic video processing

2010-06-24 Thread Adel ESSAFI
Hi list I have no experience with video processing on linux. I have tried kdenlive but the experience is not concluent. I want to ask if it is possible to make simple video editing automatically with line command. More precisely, I want to add a test or an image (logo) to a video. Could you help

Re: automatic video processing

2010-06-24 Thread Antonio M
2010/6/24 Adel ESSAFI : > Hi list > I have no experience with video processing on linux. I have tried kdenlive > but the experience is not concluent. > > I want to ask if it is possible to make simple video editing automatically > with line command. More precisely, I want to add a test or an image

[389-users] Install the 389 directory server error

2010-06-24 Thread sync
Hi ,all : When I install the 389 ds today , there is a very strange thing on installing it . Please see the following messages, by the way , I installed the 389 ds version is 1.1.3 via the rpm packages: [r...@foo dirsrv]# setup-ds-admin.pl ==

Re: strange behaviour of sssd

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On 06/23/2010 01:32 PM, Eric Doutreleau wrote: > > > Le 23/06/2010 18:28, Michael Cronenworth a écrit : >> Rick Stevens wrote: >>> passwd: files ldap >>> shadow: files ldap >>> group: files ldap >> >> That would be wrong for sssd. If he used system-config-authentication, >>

Re: strange behaviour of sssd

2010-06-24 Thread Eric Doutreleau
Le 24/06/2010 12:58, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : > On 06/23/2010 01:32 PM, Eric Doutreleau wrote: >> >> >> Le 23/06/2010 18:28, Michael Cronenworth a écrit : >>> Rick Stevens wrote: passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap >>> >>> That would be

SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
I had to re-install windows on my laptop, and also wanted to try Fedora 13, so I came up with the idea of replacing the HDD and doing the installs onto that. This has worked fine, and I now have a clean (but still flakey) WinXP install, and F13 dual booting fine. I have now the old HDD in an e

Re: Howto add raw printer

2010-06-24 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Tim Waugh wrote: > > It's useful if, say, you have an application that produces PCL3 output > > for your specific printer, and you don't want CUPS to try to work out > > what to do with it in case it gets it wrong. > > lpr >-l< -P pri

Re: strange behaviour of sssd

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On 06/24/2010 07:48 AM, Eric Doutreleau wrote: > > > Le 24/06/2010 12:58, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : >> If this works with root but not with a regular user, I'd bet you that >> you're actually experiencing an SELinux denial here. Check your >> /var/log/audit.log >> >> > > hi > i have selinux disab

Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:11 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > [r...@dcomp5 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb > > Unable to read /dev/sdb Should it be sdb? Try "fdisk -l" to list all the drives it finds. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mai

Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display)

2010-06-24 Thread Federico Marziali
>> I'm trying to install Fedora 13 on a Sony Vaio VPCF11C5E (F-series) >> and I'm incurring in the following 2 problems >> >> 1. If I try to customize the partitioning layout, I get a python error >> and the suggestion to file a bug. I just applied for an account to >> bugzilla.redhat.com and I mig

Re: Fedora 13, Spamassassin, and SELinux

2010-06-24 Thread B Wooster
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 06/22/2010 06:58 PM, B Wooster wrote: >> But I'm all set now, for other reasons, am running with selinux=0 > Well ask questions about what caused you to disable SELInux.  Remember > you can always put the machine into permissive mode or i

Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 24 June 2010 13:51:29 Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:11 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > [r...@dcomp5 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb > > > > Unable to read /dev/sdb > > Should it be sdb? Try "fdisk -l" to list all the drives it finds. > > -- > [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56

Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

2010-06-24 Thread Edmon Begoli
I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots, I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a one pixel wide. I tried to log in from the other machine, and I found my user accounts intact but the graphical login is squeezed-unusable. Does anyone hav

Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Mikkel
On 06/24/2010 08:11 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Also found in dmesg: (full file available at > http://www.stainburn.com/dmesg.txt ) > > scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-AccessPQ: 0 ANSI: 2 > CCS > sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 > sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big d

Re: [389-users] how to quickly recover from a corrupt database in multiple master configuration

2010-06-24 Thread mark benschop
Just in case anybody is interested in the reason the corruption occurred. Apparently a rotten browsing index caused it. An error message pointed me in this direction : errors:[17/Jun/2010:12:51:18 +0200] - vlv_build_idl: can't follow db cursor (err -30989) I deleted the browsing index from the par

RE: USB Printer Install help needed

2010-06-24 Thread Smith, Herb
> -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users- > boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Tim Waugh > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6:21 AM > To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: RE: USB Printer Install help needed > > On Tue, 2010-06

Re: strange behaviour of sssd

2010-06-24 Thread Eric Doutreleau
well sorry to have disturb the list i found the problem the /etc/nsswitch.conf was not readable by regular users. Le 24/06/2010 14:18, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : > On 06/24/2010 07:48 AM, Eric Doutreleau wrote: >> >> >> Le 24/06/2010 12:58, Stephen Gallagher a écrit : >>> If this works with ro

Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display)

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Federico Marziali wrote: >>> I'm trying to install Fedora 13 on a Sony Vaio VPCF11C5E (F-series) >>> and I'm incurring in the following 2 problems >>> >>> 1. If I try to customize the partitioning layout, I get a python error >>> and the suggestion to file a bug. I

Mounting LVM partition - was Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 24 June 2010 14:33:04 Mikkel wrote: > > Dumb question - is your external case rated for a drive that large? > From the messages, it sounds like the drive is too big. Depending on > the electronics, there is a drive size limit to external cases. > > Mikkel By a process of elimination, u

Re: Mounting LVM partition - was Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Gary Stainburn wrote: > Can anyone please tell me how to mount the LVM so I can copy the contents > across. If you're using F13, you can run palimpset (a.k.a. "Disk Utility" from your Applications>System Tools menu) to perform any disk maintenance. I could tell you how to activate the LVM via co

Re: Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

2010-06-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/23/2010 05:43 PM, g wrote: > > if Konstantin Svist is running 3.1 without problems, i see no reason that > you should not be able to. > > if you reinstall, install 32 bit so you can get enigmail back. > > as you are aware of, if you start in safe-mode, extensions are disabled. > > you did

RE: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE

2010-06-24 Thread Smith, Herb
> -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users- > boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Haley > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:33 AM > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE > > On 06/18/2010 04:14

Re: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE

2010-06-24 Thread Frank Murphy
On 24/06/10 15:30, Smith, Herb wrote: > Java-1.6.0-openjdk is already installed. The yum command indicated that > there was nothing to do. > Did you install OpenOffice from fedora repo, or OpenOffice.org ? -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users@

Re: differrence between 'yum remove' and 'yum erase'

2010-06-24 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 21:14 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Aaron Konstam > wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:50 +0530, Krishna Chandra Prajapati > wrote: > > remove or erase > > Are used to remove the specified pa

Re: f13-don't boot after monitor k/b and mouse change (solved)

2010-06-24 Thread Joe Feely
Rule No 1 ish. Do the updates, and it'll probably solve itself! Sorry for the noise. Joe -- 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

Re: [389-users] restarting the 389 after a reboot

2010-06-24 Thread Rich Megginson
Steven Jones wrote: > 8>< > > >> start the admin server like this: >> /usr/sbin/start-ds-admin -e debug >> > > 8>< > > Great thanks...nice output. > > > [r...@vuwunicooimm001 admin-serv]# /usr/sbin/start-ds-admin -e debug > [Thu Jun 24 13:44:55 2010] [debu

Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

2010-06-24 Thread Edmon Begoli
I found a "bandaid" fix for my problem, so I want to share. sudo vi /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml Find line: and change "true" value to "false" like in the example below: Edmon On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote: > I see that this has been reported as a b

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/23/2010 09:21 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Jun 23, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Steven I Usdansky wrote: > >> My vote is for one grub to rule them all, > Just want to chime in a bit. I used to multi-boot Linux years ago when I was running SuSE. When a new release came out I would multi-boot the old and

Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

2010-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2010 05:51 AM, Tim was caught red-handed while writing:: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:11 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > >> [r...@dcomp5 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb >> >> Unable to read /dev/sdb >> > Should it be sdb? Try "fdisk -l" to list all the drives it finds. > > Are you sure /d

RE: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE

2010-06-24 Thread Smith, Herb
> -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users- > boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Frank Murphy > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:35 AM > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE > > On 24/06/10 15:30,

Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display)

2010-06-24 Thread Federico Marziali
[CUT: bugzilla account request] 2. More serious: the screen resolution used is wrong and as a result I can see only a portion of the screen content, which creates difficulties both at installation time, when one wants to click on the "forward" button :), and during "normal" usa

Re: strange behaviour of sssd

2010-06-24 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/24/2010 07:05 AM, Eric Doutreleau wrote: > well > > sorry to have disturb the list > i found the problem > the /etc/nsswitch.conf was not readable by regular users. You weren't "disturbing the list". This could be a real issue for others. The big question is...why wasn't it readable for no

Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

2010-06-24 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/24/2010 09:25 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote: > I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots, > I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a > one pixel wide. > > This happened to me after installing the "AccountsDialog" user management facility

Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

2010-06-24 Thread Edmon Begoli
I see that this has been reported as a bug. How do I enable user login list? I get following error when I try to execute: Failed to access configuration source(s): Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have st

RE: USB Printer Install help needed

2010-06-24 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:01 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote: > strace /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb 2>&1 | tail -n +200 > open("/dev/usblp1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > open("/dev/usb/lp1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) O

Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

2010-06-24 Thread Andrew Gray
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:21 -0400, Roger K. Wells wrote: > On 06/24/2010 09:25 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote: > > I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots, > > I get a login screen but the actual login box with user accounts is a > > one pixel wide. > > > > > This happene

Re: F13 - installation problem (Anaconda + Display)

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Federico Marziali wrote: > 2. More serious: the screen resolution used is wrong and as a result I > can see only a portion of the screen content, which creates > difficulties both at installation time, when one wants to click on the > "forward" but

Re: Fedora 13 - single pixel for GUI login screen so unable to login to Gnome/Xfce

2010-06-24 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/24/2010 11:39 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:21 -0400, Roger K. Wells wrote: > >> On 06/24/2010 09:25 AM, Edmon Begoli wrote: >> >>> I upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and now, when my computer boots, >>> I get a login screen but the actual login box with user

Re: automatic video processing

2010-06-24 Thread Adel ESSAFI
2010/6/24 Antonio M > 2010/6/24 Adel ESSAFI : > > Hi list > > I have no experience with video processing on linux. I have tried > kdenlive > > but the experience is not concluent. > > > > I want to ask if it is possible to make simple video editing > automatically > > with line command. More prec

Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Shaw
My wife's laptop has started having interesting networking issues. She's connecting to a WPA2 secured wireless AP. All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all networking communications coming FROM her laptop co

Re: Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

2010-06-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: > All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some > point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all > networking communications coming FROM her laptop continue to work > fine. That sounds a bit like a DHCP

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2010-06-24 Thread jack craig
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Re: Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500 > Richard Shaw wrote: > >> All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some >> point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all >> networking communications coming FROM her l

Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
My main disk has two partitions: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux /dev/sda2 26 20023 160633935 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda1 is /boot. /dev/sda2 contains an LVM Volume Group with 3 logical

Re: Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On 06/24/2010 02:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500 >> Richard Shaw wrote: >> >>> All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some >>> point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-24 Thread g
Jerry Feldman wrote: > One possible solution is to set up your real home directory with > symlinks to different desktop configurations, such as: it is easier to have differently named home directories for each distrib and symlink to a common directory for programs. ie, symlink to mozilla thund

Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said: > My main disk has two partitions: > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 26 20023 160633935 8e Linux LVM > > /dev/sda1 is /

Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

2010-06-24 Thread g
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I want to increase the size of /boot from 190MB to 500MB. If I use > gparted, I'm afraid of screwing up the LVM partition since gparted > doesn't understand LVM. one of reasons i disliked and stopped using lvm in early days. no way to simply change a physical to logi

Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread JD
Is there a way to dynamically alter the identity strings that firefox sends when it connects to a web site? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.

Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

2010-06-24 Thread g
Chris Adams wrote: > The reason you have to do all of this is that /boot is not under LVM (it > can't be today because the boot loader can't load from LVM), so you have > to make space in the partition table. had not thought about that, and friend dave was not working with boot. so like you say

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/24/2010 02:59 PM, JD wrote: > Is there a way to dynamically alter the identity strings that firefox > sends when it connects to a web site? > User Agent Switcher https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/ -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
JD wrote: > Is there a way to dynamically alter the identity strings that firefox > sends when it connects to a web site? > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread g
JD wrote: > Is there a way to dynamically alter the identity strings that firefox > sends when it connects to a web site? yes, it is called 'user agent switcher'; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59/ not in answer to your question, but a question to your posting. why do you p

Re: inkscape fedora 10 not working

2010-06-24 Thread Roberto Ragusa
François Patte wrote: > Le 19/06/2010 12:25, Frank Murphy a écrit : >> On 19/06/10 11:22, François Patte wrote: > >>> Of course! It was my starting point and, as it did not work, I compiled >>> the latest version >>> >> Start it from cli and see what errors may come. > > No errors, nothing ha

Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:44 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said: > > My main disk has two partitions: > > > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux > > /dev/sda2

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2010 01:18 PM, g was caught red-handed while writing:: > JD wrote: > >> Is there a way to dynamically alter the identity strings that firefox >> sends when it connects to a web site? >> > > yes, it is called 'user agent switcher'; > >https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Re: Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On 06/24/2010 02:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley  wrote: >>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500 >>> Richard Shaw wrote: >>> All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at

Re: Resizing LVM-formatted partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said: > So how can I be sure of the effect of lopping a bit > off the end of the VG and moving the whole thing up a bit? With LVM, a physical volume (PV) belongs to a volume group (VG) and is divided up into physical extents (PEs). PEs are then allocated to

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:35 +0100, John Austin wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. > > > > Both drives are 160 GB in size. > > > > > I have tried a couple of methods successfully, here are my "h

Re: SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

2010-06-24 Thread Rich Mahn
On 6/24/2010 9:33 AM, Mikkel wrote: > On 06/24/2010 08:11 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> Also found in dmesg: (full file available at >> http://www.stainburn.com/dmesg.txt ) >> >> scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-AccessPQ: 0 ANSI: 2 >> CCS >> sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi gene

Re: Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

2010-06-24 Thread g
Jerry Feldman wrote: > My plan over the next few days is to run 64-bit 3.1 from Rawhide with no > extensions with ntpd and possibly some other daemons disabled. this will help. there are several daemons that can hog system for brief periods and as long as you make note of what you disable, you

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread g
JD wrote: > Thank you Steven, Michael and G for the clue. most welcome. > It is a good one. only one that i am aware of. it does work well. > re: text vs html: I had not edited the contacts in Thunderbird to set > the preference for this list to be text only. Now it is. thank you. now i can

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2010 02:27 PM, g was caught red-handed while writing:: > JD wrote: > > > >> Thank you Steven, Michael and G for the clue. >> > most welcome. > > >> It is a good one. >> > only one that i am aware of. it does work well. > > >> re: text vs html: I had not edited th

Re: [389-users] restarting the 389 after a reboot

2010-06-24 Thread Rich Megginson
Steven Jones wrote: > > 8><- > > > > This is the real problem I think - looks like you've told the > > console/admin server to use SSL to connect to the directory server, but > > you haven't specified to use port 636 > > > > 8><- > > Im not aware I did > > 8><- > > > > http://

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Kam Leo
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:35 +0100, John Austin wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 02:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. >> > >> > Both drives are 160 GB in size. >> > >> > >> I

Waffle was: Re: hi. ^

2010-06-24 Thread Frank Murphy
On 24/06/10 19:17, jack craig wrote: >> > Boo Hiss... > Remember the "Snippidy Snip" We've now seen it twice. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread g
JD wrote: > Again, I clicked Tools -> Agent -> Edit and the popped windows shows no > list of user agents at all. So I created one of my own. right click 'tool bar', click 'customize'. you should see and icon for 'user agent switcher'. drag and drop it on 'tool bar'. close 'customize'. > I tr

Re: [389-users] restarting the 389 after a reboot

2010-06-24 Thread Steven Jones
Steven Jones wrote: > 8><- > > > see also the configuration directory ldap url - ldapurl in > > /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/adm.conf > 8><- > > Ok, I fixed the latter by editing the adm.conf to point at > 636however I now have a SSL error... > > > > [r...@vuwunicooimm001 a

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2010 02:43 PM, JD was caught red-handed while writing:: > > > On 06/24/2010 02:27 PM, g was caught red-handed while writing:: >> JD wrote: >> >> >>> Thank you Steven, Michael and G for the clue. >> most welcome. >> >>> It is a good one. >> only one that i am aware of. it does work well.

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 6/24/10, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a > conventional hard drive to an SSD. > > Both drives are 160 GB in size. > > I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB > and 2 GB to > 500 MB and 8 GB respectively.   The first > resize is because pre

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread g
JD wrote: > Found a large list of user agents strings. > wget -c -ndH http://qainsight.net/content/binary/AgentStrings20070304.xml > and import it into the userAgent i thank you for link. i have not had need for other than ms ie, but they may come in handy. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **

uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

2010-06-24 Thread Robert Arkiletian
I have 1 drive /dev/sda (which is actually a hardware raid 10 array but Fedora doesn't know that) I want to resize my partitions bigger. Going to use Clonezilla to make an image of each partition and save it on another box. Then re-partition and format new bigger partitions. Then restore images w

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 15:33 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > I found the easiest way to do this was to download a copy of Ubuntu 10.4 > > and use gparted. It has a function to copy a partition from the source > > drive to the destination drive. Th

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:12 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > In Linux, "everything's a file." ;-) Sure. > No, dd won't "resize" a partition, but you can use it to copy the > filesystem from one partition to another of the same size or larger, > then just resize the filesystem using an appropria

Re: uuid -> /dev/sdx partition resize

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 16:19 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > I have 1 drive /dev/sda (which is actually a hardware raid 10 array > but Fedora doesn't know that) > > I want to resize my partitions bigger. > Going to use Clonezilla to make an image of each partition and save it > on another box. >

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 6/22/10, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:45:40 -0700 > (PDT) > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > You don't need multiple swaps: Linux can share one > without problems. > > Unless, of course, you want to hibernate one and boot the > other :-). Doesn't the hibernated system(s)

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2010 04:12 PM, Patrick Bartek was caught red-handed while writing:: > --- On Thu, 6/24/10, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > >> I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a >> conventional hard drive to an SSD. >> >> Both drives are 160 GB in size. >> >> I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions

Re: Firefox identity strings

2010-06-24 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 15:51 -0700, JD wrote: > Found a large list of user agents strings. > wget -c -ndH > http://qainsight.net/content/binary/AgentStrings20070304.xml > and import it into the userAgent What?! There's no Commodore 64 in there. ;-) I used to see one occasionally pop up in my we

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 6/22/10, g wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > You don't need multiple swaps: Linux can share one > without problems. > > and what happens if an active linux is put into > suspend/sleep and system > is rebooted? Wouldn't the sleeping/hibernating system file have a unique des

Re: How do I clone a drive and resize (downsize) a partition ? fdisk verify warning.

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 17:10 -0700, JD wrote: > If you dd partition A on drive 1 to partition B from drive 2, and the > size of partition B is > LARGER that partition A, then the size of the FILESYSTEM on partition B > will be identical to size of partition A. In other words, the filesystem > s

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek wrote: > Doesn't the hibernated system(s) file(s) have a unique name(s) or > designation(s) in the swap, so there'll be no conflicts? Seems the smart > thing to do. It has a unique ID so it can tell if it should resume from hibernate, but

Wireless problem in Fedora13

2010-06-24 Thread Thomas Taylor
Hi all; Recently installed Fedora13 and am working through problems. I've managed to solve most by lots of reading documentation and googling but am being frustated with wireless not working in KDE. It's working fine in Gnome but I prefer KDE. I've tried both using NetworkManager and traditiona

Re: Wireless problem in Fedora13

2010-06-24 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 18:24 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote: > I've tried both using NetworkManager and traditional (ifup) methods > but can't get associated with my wireless router except in Gnome. The > router (Linksys WRT54G) is set to not broadcast ESSID. I can see it > with iwlist wlan0 scan but

Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-06-24 Thread Linuxguy123
Update I cloned the original 160 GB hard drive onto a new 160 GB SSD. The booting problem is even worse now. It used to take 2-6 tries to get my laptop to boot. Now it takes about 10. The SMART tests from the original 160 GB drive all came back fine. So did all the fscks. I've run the bios

Bugzilla 513386 - Removing large file kills JFS

2010-06-24 Thread moodyjunk
This problem seems to have been written against FC11. How can I tell if it exists in FC12? I've moved to FC12 and all my data filesystems are JFS. Mount fails with "unknown filesystem type 'jfs'" even if a new filesystem is created with jfs_mkfs on this system and jfs_fsck reports it as cle

Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-06-24 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Update > > I cloned the original 160 GB hard drive onto a new 160 GB SSD.  The > booting problem is even worse now.   It used to take 2-6 tries to get my > laptop to boot.  Now it takes about 10. > > The SMART tests from the original 160 GB dri

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-24 Thread g
Patrick Bartek wrote: > Wouldn't the sleeping/hibernating system file have a unique designation? i have never looked into what is actually done, but i would imagine that within first few bytes of *swap partition* there would be some form of coding to indicate if partition contained hibernation d

Re: Kernel boot problems or is my hard drive failing ?

2010-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2010 05:53 PM, Linuxguy123 was caught red-handed while writing:: > Update > > I cloned the original 160 GB hard drive onto a new 160 GB SSD. The > booting problem is even worse now. It used to take 2-6 tries to get my > laptop to boot. Now it takes about 10. > > The SMART tests from

Re: multibooting linux

2010-06-24 Thread Jamie Bohr
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Mats wrote: > Hi, > I want to have (at least) two linux-system (no windows) on the same hd. > If I make two partitions for the first (/ and swap) and then the same > with the other one. Is that ok? All detailed explanation I've seen is > about installing windows a

Re: Wireless problem in Fedora13

2010-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2010 06:24 PM, Thomas Taylor was caught red-handed while writing:: > Hi all; > > Recently installed Fedora13 and am working through problems. I've managed to > solve most by lots of reading documentation and googling but am being > frustated > with wireless not working in KDE. It's wo

Re: Bugzilla 513386 - Removing large file kills JFS

2010-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2010 06:51 PM, moodyj...@frontiernet.net was caught red-handed while writing:: > This problem seems to have been written against FC11. How can I tell if it > exists in FC12? > > I've moved to FC12 and all my data filesystems are JFS. Mount fails with > "unknown filesystem type 'jfs'

Mounting .vdi files on the host

2010-06-24 Thread JD
In case some one might benefit from this write-up I found: http://www.raiden.net/articles/howto_accessing_virtualbox_vdi_disks_on_the_host_computer/ Apparently it only works for fixed-size vdi disks, and not the dynamic ones. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

[OT] rather advanced video editing question

2010-06-24 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
I have 2 versions of the same video from you tube. Version 1: in 2 separate segments, great video, bad audio with long silences Version 2: in 1 long file, poor grainy video, great flawless audio Concatenated, if that is possible, both versions would have the same length. Question: How can I join

Re: [OT] rather advanced video editing question

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 06/24/2010 10:35 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > How can I join the 2 files from Version 1, erase the audio and > supplement it with the audio from version 2 (using programs available in > fedora > & rpmfusion repos, of course)? > You can use ffmpeg to take the two clips and output one

Re: [OT] rather advanced video editing question

2010-06-24 Thread JD
On 06/24/2010 08:44 PM, Michael Cronenworth was caught red-handed while writing:: > On 06/24/2010 10:35 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > >> How can I join the 2 files from Version 1, erase the audio and >> supplement it with the audio from version 2 (using programs available in >> fedora >

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