Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Gabriel Ramirez
On 04/12/2011 04:50 AM, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gabriel Ramirez wrote: >> So the inconvenients of separate /usr will be apply to separate /var >> /var/log and /var/tmp ??? > > I suppose it depends upon what kinds of rules get written by the > distros and end users for udev. It seems unlikely that act

Re: How to install Apache web server in Fedora 14? Can yum be used for installing?

2011-04-13 Thread Varuna Seneviratna
On 13 April 2011 12:01, Tim wrote: > Varuna Seneviratna wrote: > >> I started the service But I had to log on as root. > > Um, not really.  Well, that rather depends on what *you* mean by > "logging on." > > You only need to do "su -" (in the command line of your normal login) to > be allowed to s

Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-13 Thread DB
Hi all, Yet again a problem! I've been running F14 64 bit now for about a month, mainly without problem... until yesterday afternoon. I did a yumex update, installed a few apps, then poof... stuck! Firstly, trying to reboot, it shows the F14 blue screen with the acorn thingy in the middl

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:19 PM, DB wrote: > Hi all, > > Yet again a problem! Are you running NVIDIA driver? Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? -c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

Problem Booting from USB HD

2011-04-13 Thread Stephen P Molnar
I have a HP Pavillion 9000 Laptop with PheonixBIOS v. F.09. Yesterday I successfully installed Fedora v14 on a 1GB USB External Hard Drive. Before the installation I reset the Boot Order to: 1. USB Hard Drive (Fedora 14) 2.CD/DVD ROM Drive 3.Netbook Hard Drive (MS Win

Re: How to install Apache web server in Fedora 14? Can yum be used for installing?

2011-04-13 Thread Tim
Tim: >> If you start it up from one of the configuration GUIs, it'll ask you to >> enter the root password, just to use that GUI. Again, you only need to >> be logged in as yourself. Varuna Seneviratna: > What is the or are the configuration GUis that are included with > fedora 14 or can be insta

Re: vm with fc 14 won't boot after last kernel update

2011-04-13 Thread Barry
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:01 -0400, "Tom H" wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Barry wrote: > > > > I had an instance of FC 14 running in a kvm vm on a centos 5.6 box. > > After updating the kernel today, that vm refused to boot. I'm bumped > > into a grub menu. Grub doesn't seem to be able t

Re: How to use rpm to install adobe-flash?

2011-04-13 Thread Joel Rees
(I was hoping someone else would take the time to explain this.) On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:42 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> This is not to be mean to the other users. It's to protect the other >> users from the vulnerabilities in flash. If flash is

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-13 Thread DB
On 04/13/2011 02:01 PM, Chris Smart wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:58 PM, DB wrote: >> Answer to both: NO! >> >> (MB has an ATI chip onboard) >> > > Hmm... if you boot normally, what does the X log say? > /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > -c > Hi Chris The nearest I can do to a "normal boot" is to

Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a feature to download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-13 Thread Steven Stern
On 04/12/2011 03:46 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/12/2011 01:25 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> But the Firefox plugin is so easy... >> >> http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105 >> > > Thank you; I'd installed a program that downloaded flash files and > converted them to mp3 format, but it's been fai

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 16:15 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 17:04 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Separating these file system trees is not more efficient unless the > > partitions are on separate hard drives. > > Well, that rather depends... For some people, *efficiency* can mean not

Re: rpmbuild question

2011-04-13 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:10 PM, JD wrote: > I ran > # yum reinstall rpm-build > and it got reinstalled. > It did not fix the problem. > Someone (some time ago) had said the problem > is in the file /usr/lib/rpm/macros > which is installed by the rpm package itself. > So, I re-installed rpm also.

Re: Re: Is there a Media Player Like Real Player which includes a featureto download youtube videos in Fedora?

2011-04-13 Thread fernando
Hi there, I use Download Helper to save you tube files to disk. It's been kept up-to-date regarding to Youtube changes: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ And to convert them to mp3 I use VLC from RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org/ []s, Fernando Lozano > Ori

Re: rpmbuild question

2011-04-13 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 04/13/2011 04:55 AM, JD wrote: > On F14, - with latest updates as of an hour ago. > > Whenever I try to build a package from source rpm, > using rpmbuild, I get scrolling output like: > > error: Recursion depth(17) greater than max(16) >15<(empty) >14<

Re: [389-users] Replica and Windows Sync

2011-04-13 Thread jean-Noël Chardron
ok, thank you It works ! Le 13/04/2011 15:13, Rich Megginson a écrit : On 04/13/2011 05:27 AM, jean-Noël Chardron wrote: Le 12/04/2011 20:45, Rich Megginson a écrit : On 04/12/2011 12:21 PM, Diego Woitasen wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:52 AM, jean-Noël Chardron

Re: rpmbuild question

2011-04-13 Thread JD
On 04/13/2011 08:00 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 04/13/2011 04:55 AM, JD wrote: >> On F14, - with latest updates as of an hour ago. >> >> Whenever I try to build a package from source rpm, >> using rpmbuild, I get scrolling output like: >> >> error: Recursion depth(17) greater than max(16) >>

Re: Simple Question

2011-04-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Stephen P Molnar wrote: > Two more questions: > > 1. How is the MBR affected/changed? I ask because I want to do this first > on the laptop that I use for consulting and I wouldn't want to mess it up. > 2. Is the Fedora HD portable, that is can I run Eudora on another computer? > You get a choic

Re: What filesystem for ssd? (f15)

2011-04-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Neal Becker wrote: > I'm planning a fresh install of f15 onto > Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW120G310 > > What filesystem should I use? Go for btrfs? > I wouldn't ATM. But I will share a thought on this, the whole reason for a journaling f/s is to keep it sane in case of a crash, and avoid the time a

virtual keyboards with vmware and fc14

2011-04-13 Thread Robert Myers
fc14 using vmware player under windows 7. No virtual keyboard works completely: gok--nothing but an incomprehensible menu, nothing in the system menus. Never got a keyboard to appear. florence--keys press but aren't passed along to the application matchbox-keyboard--worked until I had to enter

Re: What filesystem for ssd? (f15)

2011-04-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/13/2011 09:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: >> I'm planning a fresh install of f15 onto >> Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW120G310 >> >> What filesystem should I use? Go for btrfs? >> > I wouldn't ATM. But I will share a thought on this, the whole reason for a > journaling f/s is t

upgrade to fc15 rc with yum?

2011-04-13 Thread Joshua Andrews
I was wondering if I can upgrade to the FC 15 RC1 with yum. I don't know where to find the fedora-release and yum repo packages or if upgrading that way is possible. I was going to clone a vbox fc14 virtual machine and test upgrading on it. -J -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: Problem Booting from USB HD

2011-04-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/13/2011 05:12 AM, Stephen P Molnar wrote: > I have a HP Pavillion 9000 Laptop with PheonixBIOS v. F.09. > > Yesterday I successfully installed Fedora v14 on a 1GB USB External Hard > Drive. Before the installation I reset the Boot Order to: > > 1.USB Hard Drive (Fedora 14) > > 2.CD/DVD ROM Dr

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/13/2011 06:35 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I don't know what snippage means "Snippage" refers to trimming out (or snipping) those parts of the message that aren't relevant to your reply. As an example, instead of quoting your entire post, including all of the quoted text, I only quoted the

RE: Problem Booting from USB HD

2011-04-13 Thread Stephen P Molnar
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:37 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Problem Booting from USB HD On 04/13/2011 05:12 AM, Stephen

How to set SELinux to allow apache-httpd only to access a particular user's content?

2011-04-13 Thread Varuna Seneviratna
I tried to set the ServerRoot to a Directory in my home Dirctory.But when tried to start httpd after setting ServerRoot and saving the httpd.conf file SELinux repoted the following SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/httpd from search access on the directory /home/. * Plugin catc

How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread Mike Fleetwood
Hi, I am trying to access my BlackBerry Bold 9780 from my Fedora 14 default GNOME desktop so I can copy some music and ring tones to it. But when I plug it in nothing happens. However, my normal USB Key and external hard drive work perfectly; when connected they are mounted and Nautilus displays

Re: How to set SELinux to allow apache-httpd only to access a particular user's content?

2011-04-13 Thread JD
On 04/13/2011 10:00 AM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: I tried to set the ServerRoot to a Directory in my home Dirctory.But when tried to start httpd after setting ServerRoot and saving the httpd.conf file SELinux repoted the following SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/httpd

Re: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread JD
On 04/13/2011 10:07 AM, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to access my BlackBerry Bold 9780 from my Fedora 14 > default GNOME desktop so I can copy some music and ring tones to it. > But when I plug it in nothing happens. However, my normal USB Key and > external hard drive work perfectl

Re: How to use rpm to install adobe-flash?

2011-04-13 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Joel, On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > And we always su (if we do use su to do administrative tasks) from > users that we never surf the web from, right? You understand why? > I presume you are alluding to the possibility of the system being affected by keyloggers (as you m

Re: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/13/2011 10:07 AM, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to access my BlackBerry Bold 9780 from my Fedora 14 > default GNOME desktop so I can copy some music and ring tones to it. > But when I plug it in nothing happens. However, my normal USB Key and > external hard drive work perfectl

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Ramirez wrote: [...] > > Well, the article points the problems are daemon's fault, but maybe the > clean design of systemd is too clean That's not my understanding. The systemd is reporting a fact, that's all. The cause of any boot problems is the way udev works, I think. I'm no udev e

Re: How to set SELinux to allow apache-httpd only to access a particular user's content?

2011-04-13 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2011 01:00 PM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: > I tried to set the ServerRoot to a Directory in my home Dirctory.But > when tried to start httpd after setting ServerRoot and saving the > httpd.conf file SELinux repoted the following > >SEL

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/12/2011 01:35 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Of course, the typical response is argue that, this shouldn't be the > case but that is at this point just wishful thinking. > > Not on my machine. > > $ egrep 'usb-db|pci-db|FROM_DATABASE|/usr' /*/udev/rules.d/* > egrep:

Re: f14 and xfce 4.8

2011-04-13 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 09:18:41AM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 22:41 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 03/21/2011 10:21 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > Following Alan's suggestion to consider xfce as an alternative to gnome > > > shell - I see the f14 version is 4.6.2 and

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > None of the issues mentioned in the wiki page I referred to is specific to > one distro or the other. This is all just upstream configuration. I am Yes. > pretty sure upstream will take patches if anyone is actually willing to do > the leg work instead of just talking ab

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Aaron Konstam wrote: >> Some snippage when you reply, PLEASE! > I don't know what snippage means but efficiency to me means faster It means "please trim your quotes". > access to information on the drives. Only one of the things on your list > of "efficiencies" speaks to that kind of efficiency.

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/13/2011 11:36 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: > > It's true that my /machine/ is not relevant here. However, my /attitude/ > is. I don't accept changes uncritically. Your attitude is irrelevant as well. This discussion is not about you. It is about whether /usr as a separate partition has problem

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/13/2011 11:14 AM, Mike McCarty wrote: > I'm certain it isn't a comprehensive list. However, my question > remains: Isn't anyone at Red Hat "anyone"? Especially since > RHEL is a "for pay" product? I haven't looked into this, but I'd be willing to bet that the only way to get RedHat interest

Re: Can't resume from hibernate with FC14

2011-04-13 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Eric B. wrote: > I have no idea what > those error messages mean. I am extremely frustrated, and it is > becoming increasingly difficult to work with a laptop that I cannot > hibernate as I take it back and forth to the office every day. I had a similar problem and have not tried to hibernate fo

Re: Can't resume from hibernate with FC14

2011-04-13 Thread Eric B.
On 04/13/2011 02:41 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Eric B. wrote: > >> I have no idea what >> those error messages mean. I am extremely frustrated, and it is >> becoming increasingly difficult to work with a laptop that I cannot >> hibernate as I take it back and forth to the office every day.

Re: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread Mike Fleetwood
On 13 April 2011 18:40, Rick Stevens wrote: > Judging from that, it's /dev/sdb.  Do an "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" and you > should find the partition (IIRC, it'll be /dev/sdb1).  By default, > Fedora doesn't automount those devices unless you put in a udev rule > for it.  So must "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" a

Guidelines for a noob

2011-04-13 Thread Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus
Hi everybody: Yesterday I installed Fedora14 on an old Dell PC (an Optiplex G260) enhanced with 2 GB in RAM. All is working OK, but I have few doubts yet. Before continue with this I want to specify two things: First, I have a little experience inside the gnu/linux distributions, actually I come

Re: f14 and xfce 4.8

2011-04-13 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:10 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > I note that a script, /usr/local/bin/touchpadfix: >    /usr/bin/synclient TapButton1=1 >    /usr/bin/synclient HorizEdgeScroll=1 > can work around this problem, but > a)  it's a kluge > b)  I can't find a way to automatically run it.  Ex

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread charles zeitler
-- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/13/2011 11:36 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >> It's true that my /machine/ is not relevant here. However, my /attitude/ >> is. I don't accept changes uncritically. > > Your attitude

Script to extract data -

2011-04-13 Thread Bob Goodwin
I would like to write a script to extract two numbers from the following xml file: The two values I need are in this case the 1988 and the 12667. I need to create a script I can run daily to check and record our usage i

Video DownloadHelper will not download

2011-04-13 Thread JD
Currently running firefox-3.6.16-1.fc14.i686 On URL https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ Clicking on 'Add to Firefox' download icon has stopped working for me. Is this anyone else's experience?

Re: Script to extract data -

2011-04-13 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:34:41PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I would like to write a script to extract two numbers from the following > xml file: There are *so* many ways to do this; one brute-force approach: Put the following two commands in a file; let's call it "foo": grep "Actual Usage

Re: Script to extract data -

2011-04-13 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 13/04/11 15:47, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:34:41PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> I would like to write a script to extract two numbers from the following >> xml file: > There are *so* many ways to do this; one brute-force approach: > > Put the following two commands in a file;

Re: Script to extract data -

2011-04-13 Thread Jake Peavy
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I would like to write a script to extract two numbers from the following > xml file: > >xaxisname="Figures Shown Reflect Data Usage in the Last 30 Days" >yAxisName="Data Usage" bgColor="E3ECF6" showGridBg="1" >sh

RE: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread Alan J. Gagne
I believe all I did for my Curve was install barry. Installed Packages Name: barry Arch: i686 Version : 0.17.1 Release : 1.fc14 Size: 2.1 M Repo: installed From repo : updates Summary : BlackBerry Desktop for Linux URL : http://www.netdirect.c

Re: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:17 +0100, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > On 13 April 2011 18:40, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Judging from that, it's /dev/sdb. Do an "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" and you > > should find the partition (IIRC, it'll be /dev/sdb1). By default, > > Fedora doesn't automount those devices unless y

How to change dm_crypt aes/256 LVM password after install?

2011-04-13 Thread johhny_at_poland77
I installed a Fedora 14 & an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my PC. I used dm_crypt/LVM/with aes256 in both install. (2 VolumeGroups, each encrypted, so there is 2 separated & encrypted linux distro on this machine) The Question: How can i change the passwords for the encrypted VG's? Thank you in anticipati

Re: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/13/2011 01:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > /dev/sdb is the device, /dev/sdb1 is the first partition. You need to > mount the partition, not the device. Right now, I have an mp3 player mounted in /media. The device is /dev/sdd and fdisk -l shows that it has four partitions, but none of

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Gene Poole
If possible, I'd like to jump in on this conversation about a separate /usr partition. I work for a large corporation and we run multiple platforms (AIX, HP-UX, RHEL, Solaris) and most, if not all, of our servers not only have separate partitions, but separate file systems. If you are using LV

Re: How to change dm_crypt aes/256 LVM password after install?

2011-04-13 Thread Michael Cronenworth
johhny_at_poland77 wrote: > The Question: How can i change the passwords for the encrypted VG's? Run "palimpset" from a terminal or "Disk Utility" from your Applications menu and click on your LVM partition. There will be a button to "Change Passphrase". Or you can read up on the luks command-l

Ace Aspire One And New Broadcom Drivers

2011-04-13 Thread Eric Mesa
I just got an Acer Aspire One and threw Fedora 15 Alpha on it. This is a good thing as, according to linuxwireless.org/en/users/drivers/brcm80211 says that my wifi chip is in the 2.6.38 kernel. That page tells me to d/l some firmware files to a specific directory. I went there and those files ar

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread JD
On 04/13/2011 02:00 PM, Gene Poole wrote: > If possible, I'd like to jump in on this conversation about a separate > /usr partition. I work for a large corporation and we run multiple > platforms (AIX, HP-UX, RHEL, Solaris) and most, if not all, of our > servers not only have separate partition

Re: Ace Aspire One And New Broadcom Drivers

2011-04-13 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi, There is possibly an small problem - what relates to the kmod - akmod naming difference. I could help you, but tell me the results of 'ifconfig', 'rfkill' (you have install that, and need an list param), and 'lsmod', 'rpm -qa | grep wl' . Pack that into an txt, and send it over me. If I have r

Re: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 13:41 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/13/2011 01:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > /dev/sdb is the device, /dev/sdb1 is the first partition. You need to > > mount the partition, not the device. > > Right now, I have an mp3 player mounted in /media. The device is > /dev/s

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 13:18 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Different file systems are optimized for different things. Some of > them, > for example, do better at holding large sparse files. So, "efficiency" > has several possible interpretations. > > That may be true but that has nothing to do with

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 17:00 -0400, Gene Poole wrote: > If possible, I'd like to jump in on this conversation about a > separate /usr partition. I work for a large corporation and we run > multiple platforms (AIX, HP-UX, RHEL, Solaris) and most, if not all, > of our servers not only have separate p

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread JD
On 04/13/2011 02:47 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 17:00 -0400, Gene Poole wrote: >> If possible, I'd like to jump in on this conversation about a >> separate /usr partition. I work for a large corporation and we run >> multiple platforms (AIX, HP-UX, RHEL, Solaris) and most, if

Re: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread Mike Fleetwood
On 13 April 2011 21:26, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:17 +0100, Mike Fleetwood wrote: >> Sdb is where my BlackBerry is attached, but it doesn't seem to work. >> >> [root@edge ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb >> [root@edge ~]# mount /dev/sdb /mnt/0 >> mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb

How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?

2011-04-13 Thread johhny_at_poland77
I installed a Fedora 14 first, then an Ubuntu 10.04. I installed them using dm_crypt/aes256/lvm, so i used encrypted VolumeGroups. ok. At the end of the ubuntu install it said it cannot install GRUB...ok So i had to use SuperGRUBdisk to start Fedora&give out the command: "grub-install /dev/sda

How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?

2011-04-13 Thread johhny_at_poland77
I installed a Fedora 14 first, then an Ubuntu 10.04. I installed them using dm_crypt/aes256/lvm, so i used encrypted VolumeGroups. ok. At the end of the ubuntu install it said it cannot install GRUB...ok So i had to use SuperGRUBdisk to start Fedora&give out the command: "grub-install /dev/sda

Re: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread Don Krause
On Apr 13, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > On 13 April 2011 21:26, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:17 +0100, Mike Fleetwood wrote: >>> Sdb is where my BlackBerry is attached, but it doesn't seem to work. >>> >>> [root@edge ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb >>> [root@edge ~]

Re: Guidelines for a noob

2011-04-13 Thread Mark Eggers
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:22:20 -0500, Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus wrote: > Hi everybody: > And this take us at my following doubt: There is a mirror or repository > from where I can download upgrades, packages and all that stuff? Again > with Ubuntu, inside my country I can choose two different

Re: Cannot do KDE Graphic login

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:23 PM, DB wrote: > > The nearest I can do to a "normal boot" is to start in init 3 to the cli, > which gives in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: > > Everything is normal down to the last 3 or 4 lines > 481.125] (EE) No devices detected >         Fatal service error >         No scre

Re: How to access my BlackBerry

2011-04-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 23:19 +0100, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > On 13 April 2011 21:26, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:17 +0100, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > >> Sdb is where my BlackBerry is attached, but it doesn't seem to work. > >> > >> [root@edge ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb > >> [root

Re: Guidelines for a noob

2011-04-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 22:55 +, Mark Eggers wrote: > One yum plugin that might help with this is the following: > > yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch > > Just install that, and yum should go through and find the fastest > repositories for you. The fastest repositories may change from time to >

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 13:18 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Different file systems are optimized for different things. Some of >> them, >> for example, do better at holding large sparse files. So, "efficiency" >> has several possible interpretations. >> >> > That may be true bu

How to tell yum to exclude updating a package

2011-04-13 Thread JD
I ran yum update as follows: # yum -y -x=libmad -x=libmad-devel -x=vcdimager -x=vcdimager-libs update but it still tried to update vcdimager, vcdimager-libs libmad and libmad-devel Can I exclude these packages in the rpmfusion repo file? What's the syntax for exclusion there? As you can see b

Re: How to tell yum to exclude updating a package

2011-04-13 Thread Richard Shaw
Have you tried --skip-broken? Richard -- 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: How to tell yum to exclude updating a package

2011-04-13 Thread JD
On 04/13/2011 08:15 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > Have you tried --skip-broken? > > Richard > Yes I have, but I was hoping for a cleaner way, since -x is documented in the yum man page. skipping broken is too much of a sledgehammer and hides problems that should be seen.. In my case I want to avoid p

Re: Can't resume from hibernate with FC14

2011-04-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 15:02:36 -0400, "Eric B." wrote: > > I'm sorry - F15 meaning Fedora 15? I thought Fedora was up to rev 14; I > can't find the F15 release anywhere. F15 is currently in development. There will be a beta release on the 19th. Note this is not the same as rawhide, which i

Re: Script to extract data -

2011-04-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 16:24:36 -0400, Jake Peavy wrote: > > Great timing! I have been struggling to get the xpath command line tool to > do something similar with some xml I have. Can anyone solve Bob's question > with xpath? I cannot for the life of me get the xpath syntax right. I parse

Re: Script to extract data -

2011-04-13 Thread Norman Gaywood
On 14 April 2011 06:24, Jake Peavy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Bob Goodwin > wrote: >> >> I would like to write a script to extract two numbers from the following >> xml file: >> >>        >        xaxisname="Figures Shown Reflect Data Usage in the Last 30 Days" >>        yAxisName=

Re: How to tell yum to exclude updating a package

2011-04-13 Thread JD
On 04/13/2011 08:15 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > Have you tried --skip-broken? > > Richard > Found out the syntax to insert into the .repo file is exclude=pkg1 pkg2 pkg3... etc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: How to install Apache web server in Fedora 14? Can yum be used for installing?

2011-04-13 Thread Roger
Hi Varuna To start apache: In your web browser type http://localhost or type 127.0.0.1 if you see the apache web page then it's working. if not then in a terminal type sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart it will ask for your password then will run the apache restart. If successful you will see: Stoppin

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/14/2011 01:02 AM, charles zeitler wrote: "please define 'general case'" Already defined in the wiki page I refererred to. Do read the thread completely before asking questions. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

Thunderbird, web links in email, and Firefox

2011-04-13 Thread JD
Ever since upgrading to F14, double clicking on a web link in an email message (in Thunderbird) does not open that link in Firefox. My home dir was not altered during upgrade, as it is on a different drive. Thunderbird: Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General shows that "Always check to see if T

Re: Thunderbird, web links in email, and Firefox

2011-04-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/14/2011 01:26 PM, JD wrote: > Ever since upgrading to F14, > double clicking on a web link in an > email message (in Thunderbird) does > not open that link in Firefox. > My home dir was not altered during > upgrade, as it is on a different drive. > Thunderbird: Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced

Re: Thunderbird, web links in email, and Firefox

2011-04-13 Thread JD
On 04/13/2011 10:29 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/14/2011 01:26 PM, JD wrote: >> Ever since upgrading to F14, >> double clicking on a web link in an >> email message (in Thunderbird) does >> not open that link in Firefox. >> My home dir was not altered during >> upgrade, as it is on a different dri

Re: Thunderbird, web links in email, and Firefox

2011-04-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/14/2011 01:41 PM, JD wrote: > > Because I do not see in the TB, or FF settings where to > set Firefox as the default browser. > Firefox is the only browser installed on the system. > Furthermore, this problem started after upgrade to F14. The settings for Firefox being the default browser is

Re: Thunderbird, web links in email, and Firefox

2011-04-13 Thread JD
On 04/13/2011 10:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/14/2011 01:41 PM, JD wrote: >> Because I do not see in the TB, or FF settings where to >> set Firefox as the default browser. >> Firefox is the only browser installed on the system. >> Furthermore, this problem started after upgrade to F14. > The se

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread charles zeitler
-- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/14/2011 01:02 AM, charles zeitler wrote: > > "please define 'general case'" > > Already defined in the wiki page I refererred to.   Do read the thread > completely before aski

Re: Separate /usr partition

2011-04-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/14/2011 12:02 PM, charles zeitler wrote: "i'm not trying to argue, i'm trying to understand. i _had_ read the whole thread, _and_ the wiki article. i re-read the wiki article, and couldn't find the definition there." It is not a formal definition but the wiki page does describe the details