Re: Gnome 3 mail notification

2011-05-30 Thread sguazt
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 11:56 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: >>   It is far more appropriate for your mail client to do this - they >> all do as far as I know (thunderbird, evolution and gmail web may even >> have a notifier scheme ?) > > Dunno, I think a

Re: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-30 Thread Misha Shnurapet
VMs don't have a working 3D support. I don't know why you keep trying. -- Best regards, Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contributor https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shnurapet shnurapet AT fedoraproject.org, GPG: 00217306 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode 1,3, or 5. In view of this it appears I will have to reinstall Fedora 14. cpp4ever

Re: No sound since upgrading to F15

2011-05-30 Thread Rick Sewill
On Sunday, May 29, 2011 10:59:42 PM John Aldrich wrote: With the disclaimer, I haven't tried to upgrade to Fedora 15 yet, so I am getting my information from my Fedora 14 system, I have a question on the alsa-info.sh script output. I didn't see any "!!Modprobe options (Sound related)" in your out

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 09:11, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN > TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting > in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode > 1,3, or 5. In view of this it

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/30/2011 04:11 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN > TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting > in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode > 1,3, or 5. In view of this

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 09:28, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/30/2011 04:11 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN >> TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting >> in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 30 May 2011 09:11:26 +0100, NG wrote: > > To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN > TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting > in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode > 1,3, or 5. In view of this

Re: No sound since upgrading to F15

2011-05-30 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 30 May 2011 02:57:41 John Aldrich wrote: > I had working sound in Fedora 14, but now since upgrading to Fedora 15, > there is no sound. What gives??? The ONLY option in systemsettings for > sound is Pulseaudio. XMMS has options for OSS, ArtsD, and Alsa. Are those > deprecated or something

No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Bob Goodwin
New F-15 install. How is the ethernet connection made/assigned, whatever? I made some changes via chkconfig and lost eth0 and eth1. Ethtool simply reports no devices. Is there a routine for setting up eth"x" or does it just have to happen automatically? That seems

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 10:35, Bob Goodwin wrote: > New F-15 install. > yum install system-config-network then create a new connection. That is if like myself, you don't use NM. then systemctl disable NetworkManager.service systemctl enable network.service YMMV -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Fr

Selinux and Nvidia drivers

2011-05-30 Thread Alexander Volovics
Wat is the reaction of selinux to the nvidia driver. Does selinux try to prevent the nvidia driver from being loaded? Alexander -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: ht

Re: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-30 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 30 May 2011 08:20:40 Misha Shnurapet wrote: > VMs don't have a working 3D support. I don't know why you keep trying. VirtualBox offers 3D support for the client system, up to the available capabilities of the host system. This means that if you have good 3D video accelerated drivers on

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 30/05/11 09:34, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 30/05/11 09:28, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/30/2011 04:11 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >>> To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN >>> TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting >>> in being unabl

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 30/05/11 05:45, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 30/05/11 10:35, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> New F-15 install. >> > yum install system-config-network > > then create a new connection. > That is if like myself, you don't use NM. > > then > systemctl disable NetworkManager.service > systemctl enable network.ser

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 30/05/11 09:11, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN > TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting > in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode > 1,3, or 5. In view of this i

Re: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-30 Thread Misha Shnurapet
30.05.2011, 18:54, "Marko Vojinovic" : > On Monday 30 May 2011 08:20:40 Misha Shnurapet wrote: > >>  VMs don't have a working 3D support. I don't know why you keep trying. > > VirtualBox offers 3D support for the client system, up to the available > capabilities of the host system. This means that

gnome 3 wallpaper and screensaver lock

2011-05-30 Thread Gary Waters
No matter how many times I try..via regular user or root or whatever every time I remove the screen saver lock or change my background wallpaper...poof...it's back to defaults once I reboot. Would I be the only one experiencing this? POC, you out there, buddy? What am I doing wrong? G.W. -

Re: Selinux and Nvidia drivers

2011-05-30 Thread Misha Shnurapet
30.05.2011, 18:47, "Alexander Volovics" : > Wat is the reaction of selinux to the nvidia driver. > Does selinux try to prevent the nvidia driver from being loaded? > > Alexander Nope. I've been using them together and experienced no issues. -- Best regards, Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contri

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 11:16, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >> > > Ok, I did "systemctl enable network.service" but ethtool eth0 > still protests "No such device." Have you got: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 content? > It looks like it may be working during the boot process

Re: Selinux and Nvidia drivers

2011-05-30 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 07:25:45PM +0900, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > 30.05.2011, 18:47, "Alexander Volovics" : > > Wat is the reaction of selinux to the nvidia driver. > > Does selinux try to prevent the nvidia driver from being loaded? > Nope. I've been using them together and experienced no issu

When Safely Remove Drive menu is clicked on the external Hard Drive Fedora15 gets stuck!

2011-05-30 Thread Varuna Seneviratna
When Safely Remove Drive menu is clicked on the external Hard Drive FD15 gets stuck I have 350GB external Western Digital USB hard Drive.When I try to remove it from the system by executing Safely Remove Drive menu the fedora 15 system gets stuck.The processor starts giving a hum sound and it goes

Re: When Safely Remove Drive menu is clicked on the external Hard Drive Fedora15 gets stuck!

2011-05-30 Thread Antonio M
2011/5/30 Varuna Seneviratna : > When Safely Remove Drive menu is clicked on the external Hard Drive > FD15 gets stuck > I have 350GB external Western Digital USB hard Drive.When I try to > remove it from the system by executing Safely Remove Drive menu the > fedora 15 system gets stuck.The process

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 30/05/11 06:27, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 30/05/11 11:16, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >>> >> Ok, I did "systemctl enable network.service" but ethtool eth0 >> still protests "No such device." > Have you got: > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 content? > Yes, and it

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 30/05/11 06:49, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 30/05/11 06:27, Frank Murphy wrote: >> On 30/05/11 11:16, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >>> Ok, I did "systemctl enable network.service" but ethtool eth0 >>> still protests "No such device." >> Have you got: >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scrip

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bob Goodwin wrote: > New F-15 install. > > How is the ethernet connection made/assigned, whatever? I made > some changes via chkconfig and lost eth0 and eth1. Ethtool > simply reports no devices. Is there a routine for setting up > eth"x" or does it just have to ha

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 30/05/11 07:06, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Bob Goodwin wrote: > >> New F-15 install. >> >> How is the ethernet connection made/assigned, whatever? I made >> some changes via chkconfig and lost eth0 and eth1. Ethtool >> simply reports no devices. Is there a routine for set

Re: No sound since upgrading to F15

2011-05-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon May 30 2011, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 30 May 2011 02:57:41 John Aldrich wrote: > > I had working sound in Fedora 14, but now since upgrading to Fedora > > 15, there is no sound. What gives??? The ONLY option in > > systemsettings for sound is Pulseaudio. XMMS has options for OSS, >

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 30/05/11 10:35, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >> New F-15 install. > > yum install system-config-network > > then create a new connection. > That is if like myself, you don't use NM. > > then > systemctl disable NetworkManager.service > systemctl e

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 30/05/11 07:06, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >>> New F-15 install. >>> >>>          How is the ethernet connection made/assigned, whatever? I made >>>          some changes via chkconfig and lost eth0 and eth1. Ethtool >>>

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 12:53, Tom H wrote: ce >> systemctl enable network.service > > There's no "network.service" so I've used chkconfig to enable the > standard "network" (on a core install box without NM). You can run network.service, it will be passed to chkconfig. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Enc

Re: No sound since upgrading to F15

2011-05-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon May 30 2011, Rick Sewill wrote: > On Sunday, May 29, 2011 10:59:42 PM John Aldrich wrote: > > With the disclaimer, I haven't tried to upgrade to Fedora 15 yet, > so I am getting my information from my Fedora 14 system, > I have a question on the alsa-info.sh script output. > > I didn't see

Fastest shutdown or what?

2011-05-30 Thread Joe Feely
Hi all, Done fresh install of F15 on 5 year old desktop using i386 DVD (which tested good). Shutdown is too fast (less that 10 seconds). After several restarts I can see the last line displayed for a half second shows:- Cannot finalize remaining file systems and devices, giving

Re: F15: Wireless Adapter Unavailable

2011-05-30 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 01:30 -0400, Steven F. LeBrun wrote: > Also, what is this new "Airplane Mode" that I cannot disable for very > long. Google that exact phrase, and you'll find out. Likewise, for many other terms that you come across and don't know what they mean. There's a wikipedia page t

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 12:59, Tom H wrote: >> >> ifconfig -eth1 "error - Device not found" >> >> ifconfig -a lists data for em1,lo,and p2p1, with some ethernet >> HWaddr's for em1 and p2/p1. > > The em1/p2p1 names are biosdevname's doing: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Consistent

Re: I added you as a friend on Quepasa.com

2011-05-30 Thread Tim
Grr, Anybody have the urge, and ability, to return the favour and subscribe /them/ to a few dozen spammers? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Rick Sewill
On Monday, May 30, 2011 04:35:54 AM Bob Goodwin wrote: > New F-15 install. > > How is the ethernet connection made/assigned, whatever? I made > some changes via chkconfig and lost eth0 and eth1. Ethtool > simply reports no devices. Is there a routine for setting up >

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 30/05/11 11:06, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > On 30/05/11 09:34, Frank Murphy wrote: >> On 30/05/11 09:28, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 05/30/2011 04:11 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN TRY!!! I've just tried and have had num

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 13:19, Rick Sewill wrote: > > I will try to upgrade to Fedora 15, in time. At this moment, I am hesitant. > I have an old system, with limited RAM. I need to have good file backups. > I am concerned my attempt to upgrade to Fedora 15 may fail. > If upgrading F15 should preserve the

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 13:20, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > It also appears the old LVM partition had become corrupted as when > booting the rescue DVD I couldn't see my old home directory. Anyway I'm > going to reinstall Fedora 14, update to latest releases, and then try > again. Hopefully, with this being

Re: F15 Gnome desktop lockups anybody?

2011-05-30 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 05/27/2011 06:04 PM, KC8LDO wrote: > > Anybody else had the Gnome 3 desktop lockup on them under F15? If so is > there a fix? Try adding "noapic noacpi" at the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf, and reboot. That fixed a flaky system for me. - Mike -- users mailing list users@l

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Rick Sewill
On Monday, May 30, 2011 07:22:45 AM Frank Murphy wrote: > On 30/05/11 13:19, Rick Sewill wrote: > > > > I will try to upgrade to Fedora 15, in time. At this moment, I am > > hesitant. I have an old system, with limited RAM. I need to have good > > file backups. I am concerned my attempt to upgr

Re: No sound since upgrading to F15

2011-05-30 Thread Rick Sewill
On Monday, May 30, 2011 07:08:14 AM John Aldrich wrote: > > On Sunday, May 29, 2011 10:59:42 PM John Aldrich wrote: > Ok... I put the info you had in your local.conf file WRT audio, except for > the USB as I don't have any USB audio. I'm tempted to put an old PCI sound > card in to see if that mig

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Frank Murphy writes: On 30/05/11 13:19, Rick Sewill wrote: > > I will try to upgrade to Fedora 15, in time. At this moment, I am hesitant. > I have an old system, with limited RAM. I need to have good file backups. > I am concerned my attempt to upgrade to Fedora 15 may fail. > If upgrad

Biosdevname Ref: was Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
This was pre-branched F15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-November/146400.html -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 30/05/11 08:19, Rick Sewill wrote: > On Monday, May 30, 2011 04:35:54 AM Bob Goodwin wrote: >> New F-15 install. >> >> How is the ethernet connection made/assigned, whatever? I made >> some changes via chkconfig and lost eth0 and eth1. Ethtool >> simply reports no devi

Re: Display geometry in F14

2011-05-30 Thread John M Cavallo
On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 09:45:29 AM you wrote: > I have a system with a LG Flatron W2243T monitor, and a Gigabyte > GA-880GM-UD2H motherboard. > > Under F14, this monitor refuses to come up in anything other than > fairly-low resolution (1024 x 768), although the monitor is >clearly capable o

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 30/05/11 13:23, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 30/05/11 13:20, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> >> It also appears the old LVM partition had become corrupted as when >> booting the rescue DVD I couldn't see my old home directory. Anyway I'm >> going to reinstall Fedora 14, update to latest releases, and

KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread fernando
Hi there, I've been using KVM for quite some time but now I have to work with a couple VirtualBox VMs. I don't want to have to setup a different server for that. Is it possible to have both KVM and VirtualBox installed and active on my Fedora 15 box? If positive, can I run a KVM VM and a VirtualB

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 30/05/11 08:15, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 30/05/11 12:59, Tom H wrote: > >>> ifconfig -eth1 "error - Device not found" >>> >>> ifconfig -a lists data for em1,lo,and p2p1, with some ethernet >>> HWaddr's for em1 and p2/p1. >> The em1/p2p1 names are biosdevname's doing: >> >> htt

Re: VirtualBox problem in F15

2011-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 22:04 -0700, Mike Heitmann wrote: > I had this problem too after updating to fc15 - discarding the saved > machine state (menu option under "Machine") fixed it. It puts the > machine in power-off state. Thanks, I already fixed it by renaming the VirtualBox.xml file, but I gue

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 09:11 +0100, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN > TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting > in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode > 1,3, or 5. In v

Re: No ethernet connection -

2011-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 30/05/11 12:53, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> systemctl enable network.service >> >> There's no "network.service" so I've used chkconfig to enable the >> standard "network" (on a core install box without NM). > > You can run network.service, > it wi

Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:31, wrote: > Should I get VirtualBox rpms from rpmforge.org or should I use packages from > Oracle? Oracle provides repos... http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads FC -- users mailing list

Re: Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

2011-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2011 12:33 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/29/2011 08:26 PM, jdow wrote: >> This may be informative and may help. >> >> "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643457"; >> > > That bug has to do with the hidden Power Off button, but I think I can > extrapolate from it. Thanx. When i

Re: Fastest shutdown or what?

2011-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2011 08:11 AM, Joe Feely wrote: > Hi all, > Done fresh install of F15 on 5 year old desktop using i386 DVD (which > tested good). > > Shutdown is too fast (less that 10 seconds). > > After several restarts I can see the last line displayed for a half second > shows:- > Cann

Re: No sound since upgrading to F15

2011-05-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon May 30 2011, Rick Sewill wrote: > On Monday, May 30, 2011 07:08:14 AM John Aldrich wrote: > > > On Sunday, May 29, 2011 10:59:42 PM John Aldrich wrote: > > Ok... I put the info you had in your local.conf file WRT audio, except > > for the USB as I don't have any USB audio. I'm tempted to put

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 30/05/11 15:00, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 09:11 +0100, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN >> TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting >> in being unable to boot up any kernel v

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2011 06:06 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> > > If only yum worked after booting from a rescue DVD. > > I tried updating using yum in stages, (yumex actually using > networkmanager). Unfortunately this eventually crippled networkmanager, > and inittab 5 boot. The later I got round by c

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/30/2011 01:41 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN > TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting > in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode > 1,3, or 5. In view of this

Re: Turn off screensaver in Gnome3

2011-05-30 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 29 May 2011 16:57:22 +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote: [] > Is there a way to disable screensaver in Gnome 3 in F15 or to set it to > not ask password, if it gets activated after some period of inactivity. [] You can hit it with a really big hammer : "yum remove gn

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 09:34 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > the Subject: yum update > > to recover try: > 1: boot from dvd\bootcd. > > rescue installed system > when ready: > > yum --releasever=15 distro-sync --skip-broken > Frank, Will this work on an old 32-bit Thinkpad that's maxed out with

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 17:14, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 09:34 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: >> the Subject: yum update >> >> to recover try: >> 1: boot from dvd\bootcd. >> >> rescue installed system >> when ready: >> >> yum --releasever=15 distro-sync --skip-broken >> > > Frank, > >

Re: Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread fernando
Hi Fernando, I know Oracle provides repos, but as the well-known community based repo from rpmforge also does I wonder if there's some reson it would be better not to use Oracle repos. But the main question is: will VirtualBox and KVM work in parallel? Or will one conflict with the other? []

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/30/2011 04:00 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 09:11 +0100, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN >> TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting >> in being unable to boot up any ker

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 17:27, Ralf Corsepius wrote: . In view of this it appears I will have to reinstall Fedora 14. >> >> Oh dear, I wish I known this before, then I wouldn't have updated to F15 >> from F14. I guess my working F15 system must be an illusion. > Well, YMMV or you might not have looked into det

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 17:14, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Frank, > > Will this work on an old 32-bit Thinkpad that's maxed out with 512MB of > RAM? Installing from DVD fails. > > --Doc Savage >Fairview Heights, IL > What Desktop are you using? Gnome\KDE? It might work for one of the lighter Desktops

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/30/2011 09:44 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Frank, > > Will this work on an old 32-bit Thinkpad that's maxed out with 512MB of > RAM? Installing from DVD fails. You can try upgrading piecemeal. Some major set of packages, python, then gtk and so on Rahul -- users mailing list u

Re: Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 13:27, wrote: > I wonder if there's some reson it would be better not to use Oracle repos. Well, I think your logic is reversed: Oracle repos will have always the latest builds. Can you say the same about the others?. > But the main question is: will VirtualBox and KVM w

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 22:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/30/2011 09:44 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > Frank, > > > > Will this work on an old 32-bit Thinkpad that's maxed out with 512MB of > > RAM? Installing from DVD fails. > > You can try upgrading piecemeal. Some major set of p

Re: Re: Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread fernando
Hi Fernando, I'm used to not trust proprietary software vendor repos and packages. Usually they do not declare dependecies correctly and require several manual steps so the software installed from them works properly. So if someone had the trouble of creating a new repo for something the vendor

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/30/2011 08:28 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: >I only do fresh installs now (since about FC6) and it has certainly > reduced the issues for me ... if you do insist and upgrade my advice > would be alternate upgrades with fresh installs (i.e. F16 upgrade, F17 > fresh install etc). When it was

Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2011 12:58 PM, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote: > Hi Fernando, > > I'm used to not trust proprietary software vendor repos and packages. Usually > they do not declare dependecies correctly and require several manual steps so > the software installed from them works properly. So if someone

Re: Fastest shutdown or what?

2011-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2011 01:01 PM, Joe Feely wrote: > On 05/30/2011 05:35 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 05/30/2011 11:58 AM, Joe Feely wrote: > > which looks a lot like I have autologin set up. > > I don't recall intending to set this up! > > > Can I simple rename a copy of this file, and delete the 2 Auto

DVD boot sector(s)

2011-05-30 Thread JD
How many 2k sectors of a bootable Live DVD comprise the boot? I used to think it is only the first 2k sector. But wanted to get more info. Thanx, JD -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-30 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 01:49 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: > VirtualBox 4.0.8 does enough 3d emulation (after installing the client > tools) to start Gnome3. > > I am having a problem though when I try to access the "System > Settings"/"System Info" icon. The window appears to open, but it's > co

Battery power alert level

2011-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
In gnome2 there was a setting for me to adjust the level where I'd get alerted that my battery is running down, as a percentage of battery power or minutes left. There was also a similar setting I could adjust for initiating a shutdown. In system settings/power all I see is a single setting

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 30/05/11 09:11, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN > TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting > in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode > 1,3, or 5. In view of this i

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:44:01 +0100 "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" wrote: > On 30/05/11 09:11, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > > > To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN > > TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally > > resulting in being unable to boot up

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 18:44, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > OK, folks I have just reinstalled Fedora 14, (KDE minimal and working), > updated, (working) , then upgraded to Fedora 15 and it still fails > completely. What happens? Based on this experience I'm loathe to recommend Fedora 15, > and I suspect tha

Re: Re: Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 13:58, wrote: > Hi Fernando, > > I'm used to not trust proprietary software vendor repos and packages Virtualbox is Free Software, with a GPL license. "Proprietary software vendors" also applies to lots of other firms that also sponsor open source projects. You need to co

Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 14:05, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >   The community (OSE) version has fewer features such as the  ability > to access USB etc. Since one of the reasons I run windows in a VM is to I thought this distinction was eliminated with V4 and there´s now a single version, that is GP

Re: Fastest shutdown or what? thanks - that did the trick.

2011-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2011 01:51 PM, Joe Feely wrote: > > I removed the 2 offending lines and, guess what, problem solved. > > I'm not sure that you might think you solved this, but I am quite > certain that I wouldn't have done what I did without your questions, so > just to be clear you're to blame for sol

Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/30/2011 02:08 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I thought this distinction was eliminated with V4 and there´s now a > single version, that is GPL, with the propietary code moved to > extensions pack?. > > Am I wrong? Interesting - thank you I was not aware of that ... I just know using the o

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 30/05/11 18:47, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:44:01 +0100 > "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" wrote: > >> On 30/05/11 09:11, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >>> >>> To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN >>> TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, final

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:20:55 +0100 "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" wrote: > Failed completely means I cannot even boot to a console, (inittab 3). ok. What are the messages on the screen when this fails? Screenshot? > Currently I'm trying to boot the last Fedora 14 kernel and it's having > to do some SEL

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/30/2011 10:44 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > Based on this experience I'm loathe to recommend Fedora 15, > and I suspect that even a Fedora 15 DVD install will give the same > result. Going from a specific example to a general rule is called "inductive reasoning," and it's generally a Goo

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15

2011-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 30/05/11 18:50, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 30/05/11 18:44, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > >> OK, folks I have just reinstalled Fedora 14, (KDE minimal and working), >> updated, (working) , then upgraded to Fedora 15 and it still fails >> completely. > > What happens? > > Based on this experience

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 19:26, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:20:55 +0100 > "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" wrote: > > Sure, your choice. There's clearly some bug or issue here and we want > to get to the bottom of it, but just as clearly it doesn't affect > everyone. > > kevin > > I would also recommend

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Murphy
On 30/05/11 19:35, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > Based on my experience, even with a minimal Fedora 14 installation, I > cannot recommend trying to upgrade Fedora 14 -> 15 via yum. > what size boot partition do you have on the laptop? -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora --

BCM4312

2011-05-30 Thread Misha Shnurapet
30.05.2011, 12:47, "JD" ;: >  On 05/29/11 20:01, Misha Shnurapet wrote: >>   30.05.2011, 00:31, "Jim Bennett";;: >>>   IS anyone running Fedora 15 on laptop with BCM4312 wireless adapter. I >>   I have the same model on my Dell laptop. If you look at dmesg it would >> tell you the URL where you ca

Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread fernando
Hi, I was hoping someone with actual experience running a recent VirtualBox on Fedora would step in and either tell "it's ok to use the Oracle repos" or "using the Oracle repos causes X, you have to do Y do workaround or use the repos from Y as they already solve X". []s, Fernando Lozano >--

Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:41, wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping someone with actual experience running a recent VirtualBox on > Fedora would step in and either tell "it's ok to use the Oracle repos" or > "using the Oracle repos causes X, you have to do Y do workaround or use the > repos from Y as

Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 15:41, wrote: > I was hoping someone with actual experience running a recent VirtualBox on > Fedora would step in and either tell "it's ok to use the Oracle repos" or > "using the Oracle repos causes X, you have to do Y do workaround or use the > repos from Y as they al

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 30/05/11 19:31, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/30/2011 10:44 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> Based on this experience I'm loathe to recommend Fedora 15, >> and I suspect that even a Fedora 15 DVD install will give the same >> result. > > Going from a specific example to a general rule is called "ind

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/30/2011 04:11 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN > TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting > in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all, using inittab mode > 1,3, or 5. In view of this

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 05/30/2011 01:20 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > Failed completely means I cannot even boot to a console, (inittab 3). > Currently I'm trying to boot the last Fedora 14 kernel and it's having > to do some SELinux filesystem update. So the next thing to try is to > install from a Fedora 15 in

Re: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:20, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > VMs don't have a working 3D support. I don't know why you keep trying. Virtualbox does. At least when using Windows as the host. http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/475 FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: F15: How to set up an xDSL connection?

2011-05-30 Thread sguazt
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Vikram Goyal wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:15:02PM +0200, sguazt wrote: >> >> So, what is the right tool to use? >> OK! I found it. You have to go to the "Applications" menu and select the "Other" submenu. There, you can find the "Network Connections" applic

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING!

2011-05-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/31/2011 12:20 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/30/2011 04:11 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: >> To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN >> TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally resulting >> in being unable to boot up any kernel version at all,

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