Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread JB
Aaron Konstam sbcglobal.net> writes: > ... > I am glad you solved you problem but I am amazed that default worked. Hi, Aaron is right about his amazement. info grub ... -- Command: default num Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and the entry numbe

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/23/2010 02:36 PM, David wrote: > On 8/23/2010 2:17 AM, Tim wrote: >> Tim: At least, with us, you generally only have to reboot to use the update. You can stay on the prior one, in the meantime. Unlike Windows, which often has to reboot, you can't keep on using the comput

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread Brian Mury
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 15:40 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I don't use package-kit, but yum-utils contains a clever little Python > script called needs-restarting which you can run after updating: Very useful - thank you very much! Brian -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 14:37 +0930, Tim wrote: > At least, with us, you generally only have to reboot to use the update. > You can stay on the prior one, in the meantime. Unlike Windows, which > often has to reboot, you can't keep on using the computer, or other > things won't install until you reb

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread kalinix
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 00:40 -0700, Brian Mury wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 14:37 +0930, Tim wrote: > > At least, with us, you generally only have to reboot to use the update. > > You can stay on the prior one, in the meantime. Unlike Windows, which > > often has to reboot, you can't keep on usi

Re: evince problem (doesn't remember defaults)

2010-08-23 Thread Marco Guazzone
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Danny Yee wrote: > Upgrading from F12 to F13 was really smooth, but there a couple of > very annoying regressions. > > Every time I open a PDF using evince (document viewer), I get a small > window in the top left of my screen, which I have to resize to be > usabl

evince problem (doesn't remember defaults)

2010-08-23 Thread Danny Yee
Upgrading from F12 to F13 was really smooth, but there a couple of very annoying regressions. Every time I open a PDF using evince (document viewer), I get a small window in the top left of my screen, which I have to resize to be usable. It's also set to "best width" instead of "best fit", so I h

Re: Upgrade with little RAM

2010-08-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick Bartek wrote: >> I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB >> RAM, >> which I seldom use. >> (It is kept in a holiday location.) >> >> It is currently running Fedora-10, >> which probably shows when it was last used. >> I tried installing Fedora-13 from the KDE Live CD, >> and was a bit surprised

XMarks (OT?)

2010-08-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
An "XMarks Settings" window opens every few days on my Fedora-13 laptop, saying "Syncing successfully", but with an option to "Synchronize Now". This seems ambiguous to me; if it is "syncing successfully", why should I "synchronize now"? (I have to respond for the window to close.) -- Timothy Mu

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-23 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 08/22/2010 04:46 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Is there an approved way to increase the speed at which the random pool > for /dev/random fills up? I'm playig with dnssec and getnerating 2k rsa > keys is taking up to 3 hours. I've been googling a bit and Intel x86_64 > machines seem to

Re: XMarks (OT?)

2010-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/23/2010 06:09 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > An "XMarks Settings" window opens every few days on my Fedora-13 laptop, > saying "Syncing successfully", but with an option to "Synchronize Now". > > This seems ambiguous to me; > if it is "syncing successfully", why should I "synchronize now"? > (I

Re: XMarks (OT?)

2010-08-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/23/2010 06:09 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> An "XMarks Settings" window opens every few days on my Fedora-13 laptop, >> saying "Syncing successfully", but with an option to "Synchronize Now". >> >> This seems ambiguous to me; >> if it is "syncing successfully", why should

Re: XMarks (OT?)

2010-08-23 Thread Frank Murphy
On 23/08/10 11:49, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I don't really have a problem; > I just don't understand why I am asked the question (above). > xmarks > settings > sync > Synchronization Options Sync on Shutdown > Ask First ? -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mail

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 02:36 -0400, David wrote: > More FUD. Windows updates will 'complete' before a reboot it > necessary. Bullshit, utter bullshit. I've *had* to go through this on several times, as in HAD NO OPTION TO AVOID IT. And that's with Windows 2000 and Vista. -- [...@localhost ~]$ u

Re: evince problem (doesn't remember defaults)

2010-08-23 Thread A. Racca
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 11:14 +0200, Marco Guazzone wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Danny Yee wrote: > > Upgrading from F12 to F13 was really smooth, but there a couple of > > very annoying regressions. > > > > Every time I open a PDF using evince (document viewer), I get a small > > wind

Re: F13 and sound in Thunderbird

2010-08-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:30 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579877 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561551 > And now I entered a new bz: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589732 -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 07:12 +, JB wrote: > Aaron Konstam sbcglobal.net> writes: > > Which means to me that if you hibernate while in > > Linux it should come back to Linux. I actually find it useful that it does not, and I have been frustrated by the recent change in behavior. I used to be a

[389-users] Inconsistency between GUI and ldapquery regarding replication agreements

2010-08-23 Thread Gerrard Geldenhuis
Hi We ran into a very interesting problem... We can't run 389-console directly from the server on which it is running because it is just to slow to use. It takes almost 5 minutes just to login. We have thus resorted to running the console locally and doing port forwarding with ssh as 389 and 6

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread Craig Lanning
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/23/2010 02:36 PM, David wrote: > > On 8/23/2010 2:17 AM, Tim wrote: > >> Tim: > At least, with us, you generally only have to reboot to use the > update. You can stay on the prior one, in the meantime. Unlike > Windows, wh

Re: evince problem (doesn't remember defaults)

2010-08-23 Thread Danny Yee
This appears to have been fixed upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606090 So it should be possible to get the Fedora maintainer to update with the fix. I've created a bug in the RH bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626410 Danny. On 23 August 2010 12:24, Germán

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 19:05 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > On 08/22/2010 04:38 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > I am glad you solved you problem but I am amazed that default worked. > > Hibernate saves the state of the system at the time you tell it to > > hibernate. When you return you load back the syst

Re: XMarks (OT?)

2010-08-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Frank Murphy wrote: >> I don't really have a problem; >> I just don't understand why I am asked the question (above). > xmarks > settings > sync > > Synchronization Options > Sync on Shutdown > Ask First ? Thanks for the suggestion. I've turned off "Ask First?". But I still don't understand why

Re: F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.

2010-08-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote: > > Why does it go without saying? Nothing in your previous report > indicates > > that you had checked the s-c-s version of reality using ps. Without > that > > information, how can anyone decide where the problem really is? > > > > poc > Please, stop t

Re: XMarks (OT?)

2010-08-23 Thread Frank Murphy
On 23/08/10 14:53, Timothy Murphy wrote: --snip-- > Actually, from my brief excursion into XMarks technology > I'm satisfied we (XMarks and me) are not on the same wavelength, > a conclusion I often reach with Linux software, > eg CUPS and NetworkManager. > xMarks is not Linux, OS agnostic. -- R

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 00:40 -0700, Brian Mury wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 14:37 +0930, Tim wrote: > > At least, with us, you generally only have to reboot to use the > update. > > You can stay on the prior one, in the meantime. Unlike Windows, > which > > often has to reboot, you can't keep on

Where is XGL for F13

2010-08-23 Thread Jim
fc13- x86_64 kde Where is the rpm for XGL , I thought it was in xorg-server-xgl ? -- 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_gui

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread James Mckenzie
David wrote: >Sent: Aug 22, 2010 11:36 PM >To: Greg Leonard >Subject: Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day > >On 8/23/2010 2:17 AM, Tim wrote: >More FUD. Windows updates will 'complete' before a reboot it necessary. >A reboot is the easy, fast way to update the installed programs

Re: F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.

2010-08-23 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:53 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/22/2010 09:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote: > >> There is a problem with system-config-services. > > JD, > > > > I would have to agree. Time to BZ s-c-s. Fortunately chkconfig and ps > > give

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Miles
Ed Greshko wrote: > Or, is it only Windows 7 that now eliminates the need to go through the > process? Windows 7 is far from immune to this process. It goes through the same process of installing a bit then reboot to finish the install only to see more come up the next time around. -- users mai

Re: savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2010-08-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/22/2010 01:49 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > > Hmmm, yes, /etc/procmailrc runs it through spamc If that's the case, then the milter only really needs to reject messages with a suitably high score. You should probably also configure it not to modify the body or headers. -- users mail

Re: F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.

2010-08-23 Thread JD
On 08/23/2010 08:15 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:53 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 08/22/2010 09:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: >>> On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote: There is a problem with system-config-services. >>> JD, >>> >>> I would have to agree

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Hoang Le
Hi Greg, I have exactly the same problem that I can't choose OS after hibernating Linux. But it doesn't really matter to me since Linux is my main OS. I also noticed that Debian 5 (Lenny) didn't have this problem compared with Fedora at that time ( I don't remember the version ). Hoang Le __

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Mikkel
On 08/23/2010 08:48 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 19:05 -0500, Mikkel wrote: >> On 08/22/2010 04:38 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> >>> I am glad you solved you problem but I am amazed that default worked. >>> Hibernate saves the state of the system at the time you tell it to >>> hi

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread JB
Greg Woods ucar.edu> writes: > > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 07:12 +, JB wrote: > > Aaron Konstam sbcglobal.net> writes: > > > > Which means to me that if you hibernate while in > > > Linux it should come back to Linux. > > I actually find it useful that it does not, and I have been frustrated

Re: savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/23/2010 12:17 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/22/2010 01:49 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> >> Hmmm, yes, /etc/procmailrc runs it through spamc > > If that's the case, then the milter only really needs to reject messages > with a suitably high score. You should probably also configu

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 11:36 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > Grub is a general purpose boot loader. It does not know how to check > if there is an OS hibernating. I should also add that if the BIOS > supports it, and Linux know how to use it, it will resume directly > from disk without Grub ever entering th

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 16:59 +, JB wrote: > Now, to try to accommodate your idea, the obvious requirement would be to have > a private hibernation area/file (swap file ?) for each OS/distro/kernel's > machine state. Only the OS's that you care about hibernating. With just a Linux swap partitio

Re: Upgrade with little RAM

2010-08-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > >> I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB > >> RAM, > >> which I seldom use. > >> (It is kept in a holiday location.) > >> > >> It is currently running Fedora-10, > >> which probably shows when it was last used. > >> I tried insta

Should reverse zones be mirrored?

2010-08-23 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
Hello, Should reverse zones be mirrored in slave bind servers? Can a reverse zone be hosted on a different location/IP? My master bind server is outside the network; on the other side of the world. Should I host the reverse zone there? It's hard to be free... but I love to struggle. Love isn't

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread JB
Greg Woods ucar.edu> writes: > > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 16:59 +, JB wrote: > > > Now, to try to accommodate your idea, the obvious requirement would be to > > have a private hibernation area/file (swap file ?) for each > > OS/distro/kernel's machine state. > > Only the OS's that you care ab

Re: Upgrade with little RAM

2010-08-23 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/22/2010 11:03 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun August 22 2010, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Well, Fedora 13 works quite well on my old Pentium III w/ 512MB RAM. >> >> However, I am using GNOME instead of KDE, which might make a difference. >> >> Ralf > > you might want to try xfce.. even light

Re: F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.

2010-08-23 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 09:22 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/23/2010 08:15 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:53 -0700, JD wrote: > >> On 08/22/2010 09:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > >>> On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote: > There is a problem with system-c

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:30 +, JB wrote: > But if you present a menu selection between one Linux (hibernated) and Win, > then > the user, immediatelly or after finishing with Win, may decide to NOT return > to > last hibernated Linux, but instead select another Linux menu item, Sorry for no

Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread Mahmoud Abdul Jawad
Hi all,, before two weeks, a discussion started in ambassadors mailing-list about a work around to deliver the important notifications to the fedora desktop (whatever the desktop is). after some discussion, we started with some guide lines & putted them on the wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 11:36 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > On 08/23/2010 08:48 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 19:05 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > >> On 08/22/2010 04:38 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >>> > >>> I am glad you solved you problem but I am amazed that default worked. > >>> Hibernate sa

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bill Davidsen writes: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Is there an approved way to increase the speed at which the random pool >> for /dev/random fills up? I'm playig with dnssec and getnerating 2k rsa >> keys is taking up to 3 hours. I've been googling a bit and Intel x86_64 >> machines seem

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:30 +, JB wrote: > Greg Woods ucar.edu> writes: > > > > > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 16:59 +, JB wrote: > > > > > Now, to try to accommodate your idea, the obvious requirement would be to > > > have a private hibernation area/file (swap file ?) for each > > > OS/distr

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Until you reboot, some updates are not installed, they're just sitting > there in a disabled state. It's the reboot process that commits the > change. It is almost what happens on Fedora with preupgrade. But for Fedora this is only used to do huge changes to the sys

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Thomas Cameron writes: > What are you doing that is worth waiting a month for? Or would you have > to kill us if you told us? ;-) ;-) No, nothing too exciting. I'm just trying to secure my DNS information and since the key is very public (it is published in DNS itself) I figured I should re

Re: faster /dev/random

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
"Bryn M. Reeves" writes: > If /dev/urandom doesn't provide high enough quality entropy for your > uses you could consider investing in an entropy key: > > http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ Thanks! I didn't know hardware RNG's were available this cheaply. This is a very interesting idea! -wolfgang

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Mahmoud Abdul Jawad wrote: > or, you can grab your own clone from the git repo: > git://fedorapeople.org/megenius/fns.git > Hey Mohmoud, Great idea, but I can't seem to clone the repo (remote hangs up).. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > > Hey Mohmoud, Sorry, "Mahmoud".. too early here. -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.o

Re: Where is XGL for F13

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Jim wrote: >  fc13- x86_64 kde > > Where is the rpm for XGL , I thought it was in xorg-server-xgl  ? I'm not sure that we use it these days - most implementations use AIGLX I think.. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx#How_is_this_different_than

Re: Should reverse zones be mirrored?

2010-08-23 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Renich Bon Ciric writes: > Should reverse zones be mirrored in slave bind servers? Yes. Of course. They are normal DNS zones and should really have a few secondary servers as fallback. I'm surprised the registrar of note (arin?) even allows you to register the reverse zone without at least tw

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:49 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Somewhere the point is missed. The whole point of hibernate is to be > able to return to the same operating system in the same state. So far, so good. > If you want to switch from Linux to Windows, restart does that. Yes, but I want to s

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Greg Woods said: > Yes, but I want to switch to Windows, and *then* return to Linux in the > same state. It is possible to do this, I have done it in the past and it > is quite a time saver, You were lucky. Hibernating one OS, running another, and then waking up the first can l

yum repository synchronization time?

2010-08-23 Thread Christoph A.
Hi, sometimes I'm looking for new package versions within the yum repositories because they should fix security issues. Therefore I go to http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packages and search for e.g. 'kernel' then I see there is already a new kernel build 2.6.34.4: http://koji.fedoraproject.or

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:37:15 +0400 Mahmoud Abdul Jawad wrote: > deliver the important notifications to the fedora desktop It is virtually certain that my idea of "important" and your idea of "important" and every else's idea of "important" will be radically different. The most "important" feature

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Somehow this reminds me of the message boards they have > put in over I-95 in south Florida. They are also supposed > to be for "important" information, but all too often > whoever is in control of them puts completely irrelevant > messages on

Subject: GDM and XDMCP

2010-08-23 Thread KC8LDO
Steve; I don't use XDMCP. In its place I installed Xrdp. This way anybody can connect and get a GUI login screen to their account. This will handle multiple uses all at the same time too. All you need is to use the Windows "Remote Desktop Client" for Windows based machines of course. For Linux

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread DJ Delorie
On 08/23/2010 02:37 PM, Mahmoud Abdul Jawad wrote: > before two weeks, a discussion started in ambassadors mailing-list about > a work around to deliver the important notifications to the fedora > desktop (whatever the desktop is). What a horrible idea. Please PLEASE don't make it the default, an

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-08-23 Thread James McKenzie
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:07 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > >> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: >> >>> James, >>> >>> My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video >>> driver whenever installing Fedora. A couple of weeks ago I finally fou

Re: Should reverse zones be mirrored?

2010-08-23 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht >> Can a reverse zone be hosted on a different location/IP? > > yes. > >> My master bind server is outside the network; on the other side of the >> world. Should I host the reverse zone there? > > yes. Care to post any examples? ;) -- users m

Seahorse problem (is it really Seahorse?)

2010-08-23 Thread Andreas Lauschke
This is my first post on a F discussion group, my apologies if I do something wrong. According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager there is supposed to be a right-click for Passwords:login on the Passwords tab. But when I start that GUI, there is none, only a grayed out Passw

General desktop questions

2010-08-23 Thread Alex
Hi, I have few questions about how to accomplish some things on the desktop, and hoped someone could help. - How can I change the highlighting of text using the mouse in a Terminal to automatically copy without having to right-click then Copy, and paste automatically by clicking the right-mouse

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread g
On 08/23/2010 06:37 PM, Mahmoud Abdul Jawad wrote: > Hi all,, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#No_HTML_Mail.2C_Please -- peace out. tc,hago. g . signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:51 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > You were lucky. Hibernating one OS, running another, and then waking > up the first can leave the hardware in unpredictable states (IIRC the > power management modes don't define support for that). Linux tries to > reset things, but it isn't

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread g
On 08/24/2010 12:47 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: > Besides, we already have a way to do this - it's called e-mail. > Or twitter. Or usenet. Or facebook. Or the web. Or IRC. Let people > choose whether to get notices or not, and how, don't force it down their > throats the way some big companies d

Re: Upgrade with little RAM

2010-08-23 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:13 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > FWIW, usually for a "typical" install from CDs, you only need the > first two (or three), not the whole set. I used to find that was promised (as in, if you picked the minimal install option), but then you'd need one file from one, or more

Re: yum repository synchronization time?

2010-08-23 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 01:47 +0200, Christoph A. wrote: > repoquery -i kernel > > Name: kernel > Version : 2.6.33.8 > Release : 149.fc13 > Architecture: x86_64 > Size: 108243345 > Packager: Fedora Project > Group : System Environment/Kernel > URL : http://

Re: Installing DD-WRT -

2010-08-23 Thread g
On 08/22/2010 06:42 AM, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> All your wireless devices transmit on the same channel. > > g: >> yes and no. depends on manual assignment. > > Well, generally speaking, your access point only works on one channel, live and learn, die and forget, i look forward to dieing to see if

Can't build Gnash 0.8.8

2010-08-23 Thread Robert Arkiletian
Gnash 0.8.8 apparently now works 100% with Youtube. Considering that there is no 64 bit flash from Adobe anymore, I tried building gnash from source http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.8 on F11 64bit but the mozilla plugin does not build. ./configure is not finding /usr/include/gstreamer-0.10/gs

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 21:47 -0400, Alex wrote: > - How can I change the highlighting of text using the mouse in a > Terminal to automatically copy without having to right-click then > Copy, and paste automatically by clicking the right-mouse button, > similar to how putty works? Almost all X appli

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Alex wrote: > > - How can I change the highlighting of text using the mouse in a > Terminal to automatically copy without having to right-click then > Copy, and paste automatically by clicking the right-mouse button, > similar to how putty works? This is automati

Re: General desktop questions

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > > If you want it for other tasks, you need to get the key file name (you > can usually see these under "details" when you're prompted for root's > password for authentication. When you have them, just add them to the > "Action" entry separated

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-08-23 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 18:05 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:07 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > > > >> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > >> > >>> James, > >>> > >>> My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video

Unpatched major kernel

2010-08-23 Thread Marcel Rieux
eldavojohn writes "On June 17th, the X.org team was notified by Invisible Things Lab of a critical security flaw (PDF) that affected both x86_32 and x86_64 platforms. The flaw deals with escalated privileges of a user process that has access to the X server. The founder of ITL said of the flaw, 'T

Re: Unpatched major kernel

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:54:05 -0400 Marcel Rieux wrote: ...snip... > August 13 is 10 days ago. Kernel.org now says the latest stable > version is: > > stable: 2.6.32.20 2010-08-20 > > http://www.all.kernel.org/ > > It was out 3 days ago. > > Any reason Fedora is not updating the k

Re: yum repository synchronization time?

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:32:34 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 01:47 +0200, Christoph A. wrote: > > repoquery -i kernel > > > > Name: kernel > > Version : 2.6.33.8 > > Release : 149.fc13 > > Architecture: x86_64 > > Size: 108243345 > > Packager: Fedora Project

Re: F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:22:34 -0700, JD wrote: > I am wondering whether or not to open the bug in > Fedora bugzilla or the more general Redhat Bugzilla? What do you mean? Both use http://bugzilla.redhat.com You could jump in at http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/system-config-services out of convenien

libX11.so.6 Not found

2010-08-23 Thread Alexander Kuleshov
Hello, i try to make && make install package, but i see error: libX11.so.6 not found. Where can i get this lib? Thank you -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://f

Re: libX11.so.6 Not found

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/24/2010 02:04 AM, Alexander Kuleshov wrote: > Hello, > > i try to make && make install package, but i see error: libX11.so.6 > not found. Where can i get this lib? What does "yum whatprovides libX11.so.6" tell you? > Thank you -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@rcn.com cummi...@kjchome.homeip.

Re: libX11.so.6 Not found

2010-08-23 Thread Alexander Kuleshov
yes, thank you for reply, now i know what i must install -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:42:38 -0500, Aaron wrote: > Either get rid of the hibernate option or arrange for the Boot > process to detect the record of the system state saved by hibernate. > > Currently hibernate is useless. What is useless about it? Have you ever used it before? > Soo ir might as

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread Dj YB
On Tuesday August 24 2010 03:47:47 DJ Delorie wrote: > On 08/23/2010 02:37 PM, Mahmoud Abdul Jawad wrote: > > before two weeks, a discussion started in ambassadors mailing-list about > > a work around to deliver the important notifications to the fedora > > desktop (whatever the desktop is). > > W

Re: Fedora Notifications System.

2010-08-23 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 08/24/2010 07:15 AM, Dj YB wrote: > > now I am not an expert about D-Bus notifications system, but as far as I know > this notifications last for short duration, and there is no way to read the > history (sort of speak) > so E-Mail sounds much better. > or perhaps a desktop widget that you can r

gnome samba mount issue

2010-08-23 Thread Eugene Jansen van Rensburg
Hi all, Sorry if this issue has been covered before, I'm new to this list I have a problem when i try to copy a file to a mounted smb share. If I use Nautilus to mount the share "Connect to server" I get a "invalid argument" error when I copy the file. It seems that some of the file actually copi