Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/04/2011 07:49 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Users do something like yum remove evolution\* and then get a huge list > of dependencies and wonder why. Common mistake. No, all I did was this: yum remove evolution I was glad I didn't use -y when I saw the huge list of other things it was goin

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/05/2011 12:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/04/2011 07:49 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Users do something like yum remove evolution\* and then get a huge list >> of dependencies and wonder why. Common mistake. > No, all I did was this: > > yum remove evolution > > I was glad I didn't use -y wh

What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread david grant
I know its frowned upon to complain about not getting responses on forums but I am mystified that I didn't get a single response to my post below. I have a degree of visual impairment but I cannot believe that I am the only potential user of Gnome 3 who would like an answer. So I resorted to classi

Re: F15, Gnome 3 and Mouse Pointer Size

2011-06-05 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 2 June 2011 02:56, david grant wrote: > Is there a way of increasing the pointer size, an option that is in > Gnome2? I have googled away but cannot find any reference to such an > option.  Either I have missed something simple or the option has been > removed. Have you investigated gnome-twea

Mounting issues

2011-06-05 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Hey guys, alright, I have the following issue: I was experimenting with mounting SMB shares on my machine lately, and mounted a remote share to a local folder (no special commands passed, just a standard mount). What I did not know was that mount seems to remove all files resident in the mount-fol

Re: F15, Gnome 3 and Mouse Pointer Size

2011-06-05 Thread Joachim Backes
On 06/05/2011 10:38 AM, Sam Sharpe wrote: On 2 June 2011 02:56, david grant wrote: Is there a way of increasing the pointer size, an option that is in Gnome2? I have googled away but cannot find any reference to such an option. Either I have missed something simple or the option has been remov

Re: Mounting issues

2011-06-05 Thread Ed Greshko
Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >Hey guys, > >alright, I have the following issue: I was experimenting with mounting >SMB >shares on my machine lately, and mounted a remote share to a local >folder >(no special commands passed, just a standard mount). What I did not >know was >that mount seems to re

Re: Mounting issues

2011-06-05 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 05/06/11 10:27, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Hey guys, > > alright, I have the following issue: I was experimenting with mounting > SMB shares on my machine lately, and mounted a remote share to a local > folder (no special commands passed, just a standard mount). What I did > not know was th

Re: Mounting issues

2011-06-05 Thread David
On 5 June 2011 19:27, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Hey guys, > alright, I have the following issue: I was experimenting with mounting SMB > shares on my machine lately, and mounted a remote share to a local folder > (no special commands passed, just a standard mount). What I did not know was > t

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 5 June 2011 09:16, david grant wrote: > I know its frowned upon to complain about not getting responses on > forums but I am mystified that I didn't get a single response to my post > below. I have a degree of visual impairment but I cannot believe that I > am the only potential user of Gnome 3

Re: Mounting issues

2011-06-05 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
You are all right, I had to reboot my system due to a crash, but after that I could see everything again. Thanks! On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:56 AM, David wrote: > On 5 June 2011 19:27, Christopher Svanefalk > wrote: > > Hey guys, > > alright, I have the following issue: I was experimenting with

Re: Mounting issues

2011-06-05 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
in other words: it would appear that the files never dissapeared, and that an unmount reverted the visibility of the folder to what was there before. Quite a relief! Thanks again :) On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Christopher Svanefalk < christopher.svanef...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are all righ

What's with systemd?

2011-06-05 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I have just upgraded my F13 machine to F15. This acts as a server, providing mail and web etc. (only 3 users - it's for me and my family). I have tried very hard to understand how systemd works but I'm just not there yet. I was OK with init scripts and chkconfig, but now when I try to

Re: Four Tweaks for Gnome 3

2011-06-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 3 June 2011 14:31, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 02:04:17PM +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> On 3 June 2011 13:19, Olav Vitters wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 07:57:18AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: >> >> On 06/03/2011 05:39 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: >> >> ings. >> >> > >> > Se

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:50:12 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Does this matter? > If so, what can you do about it? > I get it after partitioning with fdisk, > choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. > > Is it really better to give the block count? Traditional boot loader stuff and BIOS depends on c

was :What did I do wrong? -----

2011-06-05 Thread Roger
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 11:13 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > On 5 June 2011 09:16, david grant wrote: > > I know its frowned upon to complain about not getting responses on > > forums but I am mystified that I didn't get a single response to my post > > below. I have a degree of visual impairment but I

LibreOffice and Evolution will not print

2011-06-05 Thread Lawrence E Graves
I am still laboring over the fact that LibreOffice and Evolution and gedit will not allow me to print. If it was just one of them I would not be as concern because I believe it would be fixed eventually. When important places of use are not performing that's a problem. Still patiently waiting for a

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:16:05 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > As an example, try > removing evolution Actually, I have no problem removing evolution, it is evolution-data-server that takes the rest of the system with it :-). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: LibreOffice and Evolution will not print

2011-06-05 Thread Ed Greshko
Lawrence E Graves wrote: >I am still laboring over the fact that LibreOffice and Evolution and >gedit will not allow me to print. If it was just one of them I would >not >be as concern because I believe it would be fixed eventually. When >important places of use are not performing that's a proble

Re: Does gnome3 network config support wpad

2011-06-05 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 11:08 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Always having Firefox start in offline mode is annoying Just on that issue, Firefox has an option not to check with NetworkManager. Just browse about:config and type networkmanager into the filter gadget, to find it. -- [tim@localhost

Re: Vmware Workstation on Fedora 15

2011-06-05 Thread Mark C. Allman
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 18:37 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > On 06/04/2011 12:33 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 09:19 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > >> Has anyone been able to install VM Workstation 6.5 on Fedora 15? > >> > >> -- > >> Michael Eager ea...@eagercon.com

Re: was :What did I do wrong? -----

2011-06-05 Thread Henk Breimer
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:50:55 +1000 Roger wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 11:13 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > > On 5 June 2011 09:16, david grant wrote: > > > I know its frowned upon to complain about not getting responses on > > > forums but I am mystified that I didn't get a single response to > >

Re: LibreOffice and Evolution will not print

2011-06-05 Thread Tim
Ed Greshko wrote to Lawrence E Graves: > You posted this question a few days ago. I and at least one other > asked you questions. You did not answer them. What are you expecting? When I see things like that, two things spring immediately to mind: 1. They're hoping for a different answer (whether

Re :What did I do wrong? -----

2011-06-05 Thread Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
> You did nothing wrong. If no one has an reply then you get none. I second that; I recommend trying on other fora too (fedoraforum springs to mind). I've also asked questions to which I didn't get an answer. The option for F14 doesn't work any more. I came across this: http://www.spinics.ne

Re: What's with systemd?

2011-06-05 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 06/05/2011 06:35 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: > I have tried very hard to understand how systemd works but I'm just not > there yet. Hi, I haven't used it yet. Check out this link (from the main systemd author) which has plenty of information: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-docs.html Re

Re: LibreOffice and Evolution will not print

2011-06-05 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 22:14 +0930, Tim wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote to Lawrence E Graves: > > You posted this question a few days ago. I and at least one other > > asked you questions. You did not answer them. What are you expecting? > > When I see things like that, two things spring immediately to

Re: No Minimize Button

2011-06-05 Thread Mike Flannigan
On 6/5/2011 1:52 AM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: It was a design decision in Gnome 3 (aka Gnome Shell) that involves some controversy. There are many many threads filled with lots of debate about it. If you want to know more, mine the mailing list archives. There are substitute

KVM/qemu USB pass-through not working for Win7 guest

2011-06-05 Thread Patrick Oltmann
Hy there I'm running a KVM/qemu virtual machine with Win7 as a guest and need a USB device (Smartcard reader w/ PIN pad) to be passed through into that virtual machine. Therefore I use the "-device usb-host, hostbus=X, hostaddr=Y, id=hostdev0" command line parameter. However, the device does no

Re: logwatch Mail Not Delivered

2011-06-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:20:23 Garry T. Williams wrote: > I noticed that logwatch mail stopped on my F15 system recently. The > problem was that some update turned off sendmail. The mail was being > generated, but could not be delivered because nothing was listening on > the mail port at lo

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-05 Thread solarflow99
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:50:12 +0100 > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > Does this matter? > > If so, what can you do about it? > > I get it after partitioning with fdisk, > > choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. > > > > Is it really better to give the

Re: What's with systemd?

2011-06-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 06:35:37 Arthur Dent wrote: > The real problem I have is that after a reboot, several key services > fail to start. The crucial ones (for me) are sendmail and dovecot. There > are no messages in any logs (that I can find), but my mailchain just > isn't working. I have enco

Re: What's with systemd?

2011-06-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 10:05:34 -0400 "Garry T. Williams" wrote: > On Sunday, June 05, 2011 06:35:37 Arthur Dent wrote: > > The real problem I have is that after a reboot, several key services > > fail to start. The crucial ones (for me) are sendmail and dovecot. > > There are no messages in any logs

Re: F15, Gnome 3 and Mouse Pointer Size

2011-06-05 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 5 June 2011 10:27, Joachim Backes wrote: > On 06/05/2011 10:38 AM, Sam Sharpe wrote: >> >> On 2 June 2011 02:56, david grant  wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way of increasing the pointer size, an option that is in >>> Gnome2? I have googled away but cannot find any reference to such an >>> option.  

Re: KVM/qemu USB pass-through not working for Win7 guest

2011-06-05 Thread solarflow99
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Patrick Oltmann wrote: > Hy there > > I'm running a KVM/qemu virtual machine with Win7 as a guest and need a USB > device (Smartcard reader w/ PIN pad) to be passed through into that virtual > machine. Therefore I use the "-device usb-host, hostbus=X, hostaddr=Y, >

Re: What's with systemd?

2011-06-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:07:35 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Does: > > sudo systemctl enable sendmail.service > > fix it to start on boot? > > Or: > > sudo chkconfig sendmail on > > ? I did systemctl enable sendmail.service initially tinking that was all I needed. When I noticed that failed at

Re: Timeout for service shutdown in legacy services

2011-06-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 09:52 +0300, Leonid Podolny wrote: > Hi, > When systemd tries to shutdown a service, after a certain timeout, it > just kills all the processes belonging to this service. There is a > configuration option that allows to change that timeout. However, it > is available only for

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri June 3 2011, Tim Evans wrote: > How do you demote one, when both claim to be default? > Open Systemsettings and set your default browser there That's what I did and it worked for me. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 06/05/2011 10:45 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > On Fri June 3 2011, Tim Evans wrote: >> How do you demote one, when both claim to be default? >> > Open Systemsettings and set your default browser there That's what I > did and it worked for me. Thanks. FireFox was already set as default; however

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-05 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/05/2011 09:51 AM, Tim Evans wrote: > On 06/05/2011 10:45 AM, John Aldrich wrote: >> On Fri June 3 2011, Tim Evans wrote: >>> How do you demote one, when both claim to be default? >>> >> Open Systemsettings and set your default browser there That's what I >> did and it worked for me. > > T

F15: LXDE install, OpenBox not running

2011-06-05 Thread Niels Weber
I installed the LXDE spin of Fedora 15 via a live usb stick on my Acer Netbook. The install went through without errors but when starting up LXDE, the Openbox window manager isn't running. Starting it by hand works though I'm not sure how to correctly set it up that it starts up every time. Any hin

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-05 Thread JD
On 06/05/11 03:49, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:50:12 +0100 > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Does this matter? >> If so, what can you do about it? >> I get it after partitioning with fdisk, >> choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. >> >> Is it really better to give the block count? > Tradi

Re: What's with systemd?

2011-06-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:05:34 Garry T. Williams wrote: > On Sunday, June 05, 2011 06:35:37 Arthur Dent wrote: > > The real problem I have is that after a reboot, several key services > > fail to start. The crucial ones (for me) are sendmail and dovecot. There > > are no messages in any logs (th

Re: How to choose network path with two internet connection

2011-06-05 Thread Jeffrey Ross
On 06/02/2011 10:51 AM, Armelius Cameron wrote: > Hello, > Suppose I have a laptop that has both Wired and Wireless connection. > The Wired connection would be connected to LAN only. The Wireless > connection would have full internet access. Obviously the two > connections will have two differen

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 06/05/2011 10:55 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 06/05/2011 09:51 AM, Tim Evans wrote: >> On 06/05/2011 10:45 AM, John Aldrich wrote: >>> On Fri June 3 2011, Tim Evans wrote: How do you demote one, when both claim to be default? >>> Open Systemsettings and set your default browser there??

Fedora SOHO server

2011-06-05 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi, I have thought big, and I would like to find an solution if there is any. Btw I'm not an expert in server services, but I really would like to experiment out this - and I think I have good reason for it. I don't want to sell freely my private stuff on google services, and give the possibility

Re: Unable to microphone

2011-06-05 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi, Possibly you have an IRQ routing problem. As I have with my Azalia HDA Intel card. All you need to do is make an alsa-base.conf file under /etc/modprobe.d as root with the following single line: options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 and save it. After syster restarts, you'll have your mic. I

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/05/2011 12:23 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Post the output. Let's see it How strange. The other time I tried it, it listed a whole bunch of stuff including gnome-color-chooser. This time, nothing was listed that wasn't evolution related. I sit corrected by my own computer. -- users mai

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-05 Thread Alan Cox
> would you say then, that best practise would be to let anaconda create the > /boot, / and other partitions? fdisk wouldn't align properly right? I don't know the fdisk included with Fedora is aware of or not. Probably best to let Anaconda do it in general. -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: Fedora SOHO server

2011-06-05 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 06/04/2011 08:02 PM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Hi, ...SNIP... Slightly OT, but try one of this distro: Amahi (Fedora based): http://www.amahi.org/ ClearOS (CentOS/RHEL based): http://www.clearfoundation.com/ HTH -- Athmane Madjoudj -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-05 Thread Alan Cox
> to the file's or dir's inode as possible. So, even if the a disk cylinder > is now a virtual thing, it still helps in organizing the disk The notion of a cylinder group comes from BSD, and in 4.2 BSD FFS they were indeed physically laid out to match the media. Linux has never done that because b

Re: Fedora SOHO server

2011-06-05 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:02:52PM +0200, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > That's why I have also decided that I never will purchase an android phone, Just a side comment--I, also, refuse to give Google my data. But I run an Android phone with all-local archiving and backup, using my own mail server. You

Re: F15: LXDE install, OpenBox not running

2011-06-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Niels Weber wrote: > I installed the LXDE spin of Fedora 15 via a live usb stick on my Acer > Netbook. > The install went through without errors but when starting up LXDE, the > Openbox window manager isn't running. > Starting it by hand works though I'm not sure h

Re: F15: LXDE install, OpenBox not running

2011-06-05 Thread JB
Niels Weber gmail.com> writes: > ... How do you start LXDE ? I do: $ cat .xinitrc # start LXDE startlxde $ startx $ ps aux |grep -i lxde jb 11541 0.0 0.0 4452 748 pts/2S+ 18:10 0:00 grep -i lxde jb 29913 0.0 0.1 4856 1200 ?SJun03 0:01 /usr/bin/lxs

Re: logwatch Mail Not Delivered

2011-06-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/05/2011 06:49 AM, Garry T. Williams wrote: > This may be a systemd bug. Enabling sendmail.service is ineffective > after a reboot. I still have to manually start this service after > boot. Up through F14 there was a Gnome control panel (under Administration) called Services. It allowed y

Re: logwatch Mail Not Delivered

2011-06-05 Thread Garry T. Williams
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:20:13 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/05/2011 06:49 AM, Garry T. Williams wrote: > > This may be a systemd bug. Enabling sendmail.service is > > ineffective after a reboot. I still have to manually start this > > service after boot. > > Up through F14 there was a Gnome control

Re: Massively parallel (8 to 10 stream) music server/generator ?

2011-06-05 Thread Linuxguy123
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 07:57 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > Check out LinuxMCE. It'll do a lot more than just pump music out to > your various zones. That's what I'm going to deploy. > > I'd offer more details here, but I think you'd be better off reading the > site and trolling the forums.

Re: Unable to microphone

2011-06-05 Thread Temlakos
On 06/04/2011 11:33 PM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: Hi, Possibly you have an IRQ routing problem. As I have with my Azalia HDA Intel card. All you need to do is make an alsa-base.conf file under /etc/modprobe.d as root with the following single line: options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 and save it.

Re: What's with systemd?

2011-06-05 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 11:14 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote: > On Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:05:34 Garry T. Williams wrote: > > On Sunday, June 05, 2011 06:35:37 Arthur Dent wrote: > > > The real problem I have is that after a reboot, several key services > > > fail to start. The crucial ones (for me)

Re: LibreOffice and Evolution will not print

2011-06-05 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 06:16 -0600, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > I am still laboring over the fact that LibreOffice and Evolution and > gedit will not allow me to print. If it was just one of them I would not > be as concern because I believe it would be fixed eventually. When > important places of us

Re: What's with systemd?

2011-06-05 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 09:12 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 06/05/2011 06:35 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: > > I have tried very hard to understand how systemd works but I'm just not > > there yet. > > Hi, > > I haven't used it yet. Check out this link (from the main systemd > author) which has plent

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/5/11, david grant wrote: > F15, Gnome 3 and Mouse Pointer Size > > Is there a way of increasing the pointer size, an option that is in > Gnome2? I have googled away but cannot find any reference to such an > option. Either I have missed something simple or the option has been > removed. Yo

Re: Unable to microphone

2011-06-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/05/2011 09:56 AM, Temlakos wrote: > And just to be sure, I plugged it into another box that had Windows 7 > installed. And there it worked. I used Skype and talked with someone for > an hour and a half. Just to be sure, try booting that box from a LiveCD and see if the mic works. It's not

Re: KDE Laggy in Fresh F15

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Eggers
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:48:29 +, Mark Eggers wrote: -- embarrassed snip -- > > options nvidia AccelerateTrapezoids=0 > > d) ln -s /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf nvidia (so boot doesn't complain) > e) reboot Do not do this with 275.09. This will cause the boot to hang with an unknown parameter

Re: Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

2011-06-05 Thread JD
On 06/05/11 09:07, Alan Cox wrote: >> to the file's or dir's inode as possible. So, even if the a disk cylinder >> is now a virtual thing, it still helps in organizing the disk > The notion of a cylinder group comes from BSD, and in 4.2 BSD FFS they > were indeed physically laid out to match the me

Re: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. (GNOME 3 login issue)

2011-06-05 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 06/05/2011 02:33 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Rahul, > > I had reported this problem in another post on this list. There is > already a bug reported but I have not been able to get any responses. > My view is that this is going to be a major problem, at least it is for > me. If there is anythi

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread JB
James McKenzie gmail.com> writes: > > On 6/5/11, david grant david-grant.com> wrote: > > > F15, Gnome 3 and Mouse Pointer Size > > ... > You realistically should be asking these questions AS WELL AS EVERYONE > ELSE on a Gnome 3 forum. All Fedora does is add this to the product > package as a

Re: Vmware Workstation on Fedora 15

2011-06-05 Thread Michael Eager
On 06/05/2011 05:42 AM, Mark C. Allman wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 09:19 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: Has anyone been able to install VM Workstation 6.5 on Fedora 15? >>> >>> FWIW,I have VMware 7.1.4 build-385536 running. No issues. >> >> Thanks. Guess it's time to buy the upgrade. >>

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/5/11 10:52 AM, JB wrote: > James McKenzie gmail.com> writes: > >> On 6/5/11, david grant david-grant.com> wrote: >> >>> F15, Gnome 3 and Mouse Pointer Size >>> ... >> You realistically should be asking these questions AS WELL AS EVERYONE >> ELSE on a Gnome 3 forum. All Fedora does is add

Why is xfconfd running?

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Horsley
I just switched my system to use fedora 15 by default with my custom X session that runs fvwm and (mostly) saves me from the incessant changes of gnome and kde. Almost as soon as I'd started my first login session I got a popup identifying itself as some xfce program and telling me updates were av

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread JB
James McKenzie gmail.com> writes: > ... > > Well, it looks like you are firmly in the non-GNOME 3 camp > I'm firmly in the 'If you want a GUI, go and get it' camp. If I wanted > Windows, I would buy it. > > Systemd ? It looks like we will have UNIX-like Fedora back again > Good. There's bee

Re: Unable to microphone

2011-06-05 Thread JD
On 06/04/11 20:33, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: Hi, Possibly you have an IRQ routing problem. As I have with my Azalia HDA Intel card. All you need to do is make an alsa-base.conf file under /etc/modprobe.d as root with the following single line: options snd-hda-intel position_fix=

Where is the gtk theme stashed?

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Horsley
I was able to make the selection look like something that was actually selected when the default theme changed in fedora 13 by running gnome-appearance-properties and modifying the selection color to match fedora 12's default color. I'm using my same home directory now in fedora 15, but whatever g

Photos of Facebook

2011-06-05 Thread antonio montagnani
Suddenly I cannot see any photo on facebook account when using Fedora, but they are perfect in Windows. Any idea?? -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F15 (Lovelock) on Acer 5720 http://lugsaronno.altervista.org www.campingmonterosa.com www.studiodacolpaloschi.it -- users mailing lis

Re: Where is the gtk theme stashed?

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 14:48:46 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > I'd like to change the color back, but there is no > gnome-appearance-properties in fedora 15 anymore, > so I have no idea where to look to change it. > > Anyone know? OK, I used the big hammer and changed the definition of the Adwaita theme

Re: Photos of Facebook

2011-06-05 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 06/05/2011 12:53 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: > Suddenly I cannot see any photo on facebook account when using Fedora, > but they are perfect in Windows. > Any idea?? I imagine that under edit>preferences>content you have load images automatically unchecked in Linux. Trever -- "The three Rs

Thunderbird/Firefox in F-15 -

2011-06-05 Thread Bob Goodwin
When I click on a URL in an Thunderbird e-mail it comes up in Firefox as desired but Firefox jumps into my e-mail window, I don't want that. I assign Firefox a window and I want it to stay there where I will view the information when I am ready. It worked as

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 08:16 +0800, H Xu wrote: > Hello, > > I didn't use PackageKit when I was using Fedora 14. Now it seems that I > can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling those packages. Is this > a package bug? Thanks. > > Regards, > H Xu > 06/05/2011 Are you sure you did not use i

Another weird systemd problem (I guess) : stunnel

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Horsley
I run stunnel as a service using an old sysv style service init.d script I cobbled up a while back. I checked to make sure it dynamically creates the /var/run/stunnel directory it needs since /var/run is now tempfs, and it already had code to do that. The service appears to start, and I can even s

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:26:26 -0500 Aaron Konstam wrote: > Are you sure you did not use it? Are you saying you ran yum update > periodically do the updates? How inefficient. No, how incredibly less annoying: There is no way to tell what in the blue blazes PackageKit is doing. The progress bar look

GNOME Audio Profiles missing

2011-06-05 Thread Julian C. Dunn
Hi all, I'm on Fedora 15 and trying to rip a CD using CD Extractor (Sound Juicer). Somewhere along the way, my default audio profiles have gotten hosed (see attached screenshot). How do I restore the out-of-the-box default profiles? - Julian GNOME-Audio-Prefs Description: Binary data -- users

Re: Preupgrade still sucks. Maybe sucks less, maybe sucks more.

2011-06-05 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 12:33 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > > Classically, for those servers (some of which originally started out on > > FC1) have been upgraded using the yum upgrade method. > > As a matter of interest, what exactly is _the_ yum upgrade method? > I

Re: problem with fedora when booting

2011-06-05 Thread Adel ESSAFI
hi what should I add ? Regards 2011/6/4 Neil > Hi, have you install a video card driver not OOS? If it is, pls edit the > grub line with video default settings. > 在 2011-6-4 下午9:19,"Adel ESSAFI" 写道: > > > Dear list > > My fedora system does not boot after selecting fedora from grub. > > I get a

Re: problem with fedora when booting

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/5/11 2:39 PM, Adel ESSAFI wrote: > 2011/6/4 Neil mailto:neil...@gmail.com>> > > > > Dear list > > My fedora system does not boot after selecting fedora from grub. > > I get a black screen with a cursor and after that, nothing > happens (no error > > messages appears...) >

Re: What did I do wrong?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/5/11 11:19 AM, JB wrote: > James McKenzie gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >>> Well, it looks like you are firmly in the non-GNOME 3 camp >> I'm firmly in the 'If you want a GUI, go and get it' camp. If I wanted >> Windows, I would buy it. >>> Systemd ? It looks like we will have UNIX-like Fedor

Re: Preupgrade still sucks. Maybe sucks less, maybe sucks more.

2011-06-05 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 17:31 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 12:33 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > > > > Classically, for those servers (some of which originally started out on > > > FC1) have been upgraded using the yum upgrade method. >

Re: Email problem, evolution asking for unknow password

2011-06-05 Thread Vincent
> From: Pasha R > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Vincent wrote: > > Hello, > > I just switched to F15, I had every thing working OK then the log in on > > boot up stop appearing, then when I try to log in to evolution the > > message appeared: "Enter password to unlock your login keyring the log

Re: Unable to microphone

2011-06-05 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 11:32 -0700, JD wrote: > On 06/04/11 20:33, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Possibly you have an IRQ routing problem. As I have with my Azalia HDA > > Intel card. All you need to do is make an alsa-base.conf file under > > /etc/modprobe.d as root with the following sing

Re: Thunderbird/Firefox in F-15 -

2011-06-05 Thread JD
On 06/05/11 12:36, Bob Goodwin wrote: > When I click on a URL in an Thunderbird e-mail it comes up in > Firefox as desired but Firefox jumps into my e-mail window, I > don't want that. I assign Firefox a window and I want it to stay > there where I will view the

Re: Unable to microphone

2011-06-05 Thread JD
On 06/05/11 15:24, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 11:32 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 06/04/11 20:33, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Possibly you have an IRQ routing problem. As I have with my Azalia HDA >>> Intel card. All you need to do is make an alsa-base.conf file under >>> /et

Re: F15: LXDE install, OpenBox not running

2011-06-05 Thread solarflow99
$ cat .xinitrc > # start LXDE > startlxde > > $ startx > > $ ps aux |grep -i lxde > jb 11541 0.0 0.0 4452 748 pts/2S+ 18:10 0:00 grep -i > lxde > jb 29913 0.0 0.1 4856 1200 ?SJun03 0:01 > /usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE -e LXDE > jb 29924 0.0 0.7 1488

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 11:42 -0400, Tim Evans wrote: > On 06/05/2011 10:55 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > > On 06/05/2011 09:51 AM, Tim Evans wrote: > >> On 06/05/2011 10:45 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > >>> On Fri June 3 2011, Tim Evans wrote: > How do you demote one, when both claim to be default? > >

Re: Unable to microphone

2011-06-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 05 June 2011 19:32:20 JD wrote: > On F14. > Pulseaudio daemion is running. > I can hear media playing. > But I am unable to use microphone. > i,e. no matter what app I use the mic > with, (as in skype, or gnome-sound-recorder > or aurecord), my mic does not pick up my voice. > I have a b

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/06/2011 07:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > You haven't mentioned which desktop you're using. You need to change the > *Gnome* defaults (even if you're using KDE) because Thunderbird and the > two browsers are all Gnome apps. Run gnome-control-center from a Shell > and proceed from there.

Flash update questions for f14

2011-06-05 Thread Alex
Hi, I've installed flash-plugin-10.3.162.29-2.x86_64 on fedora14 from https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/leigh123linux but it's now outdated and no update seems to exist. The repo URL is http://www.linux-ati-drivers.homecall.co.uk/flashplayer.x86_64 I believe. The Adobe page poin

Re: Flash update questions for f14

2011-06-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/06/2011 08:25 AM, Alex wrote: > The Adobe page points to an i386 version, and no Adobe Labs version is > currently available. How can I continue to use the 64-bit version on > fedora as an RPM with the current version? The 64 bit version is available from Adobe Labsjust not in rpm format

Real benefits of RHEL over Fedora?

2011-06-05 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm in the process of building a mail server and considering CentOS, fedora, or RHEL. If I chose the RHEL option, I would probably choose the minimal support level. This server will be performing basic mail functions, including postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, and webmail/squirrelmail. It will

Re: Flash update questions for f14

2011-06-05 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/06/2011 08:25 AM, Alex wrote: >> The Adobe page points to an i386 version, and no Adobe Labs version is >> currently available. How can I continue to use the 64-bit version on >> fedora as an RPM with the current version? > > The 64 bit ver

Re: Chrome, FireFox Both Claim to be Default Browser; Chrome Wins

2011-06-05 Thread Tim Evans
On 06/05/2011 07:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 11:42 -0400, Tim Evans wrote: >> On 06/05/2011 10:55 AM, Steven Stern wrote: >>> On 06/05/2011 09:51 AM, Tim Evans wrote: On 06/05/2011 10:45 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > On Fri June 3 2011, Tim Evans wrote: >> How

Re: Can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling gnome-shell, gdm, etc?

2011-06-05 Thread john wendel
On 06/05/2011 01:26 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 08:16 +0800, H Xu wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I didn't use PackageKit when I was using Fedora 14. Now it seems that I >> can't uninstall PackageKit without uninstalling those packages. Is this >> a package bug? Thanks. >> >> Regards, >

Re: Real benefits of RHEL over Fedora?

2011-06-05 Thread James McKenzie
On 6/5/11 5:42 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of building a mail server and considering CentOS, > fedora, or RHEL. If I chose the RHEL option, I would probably choose > the minimal support level. > Is this for a business or personal use? If it is for business, go with RHEL 6 or the

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