Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

Hello Michael, Ian and everyone else, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: >> I see that usermod can do this[1], but I'm not sure if there will be >> conflicts with existing files after the change. > > If you are using plain authentication and not somethi

Re: Downgrade to KDE 4.6?

On 4 October 2011 03:39, Manuel Escudero wrote: > Some time ago, I "upgraded" my KDE to 4.7 but it is very buggy (I'm on F15) > so I want to return to KDE 4.6 is it possible? How can it be done? > Thanks! > Investigate /var/log/yum.log to find out what packages related to kde were updated recentl

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

Running VMM as normal user still not connecting to libvirtdnot showing messagebox for password to enable correct permissionstested login from root cli...works fine...so its a permissions issue...due to gui not getting pass from user... libvirtd output: [root@acct] Wed, 05 October, 2011. 0

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

Hi Sanjay, On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Running VMM as normal user still not connecting to libvirtdnot showing > messagebox for password to enable correct permissionstested login from > root cli...works fine...so its a permissions issue...due to gui not getting >

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/2011 07:54 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Sanjay, > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Sanjay Arora > wrote: >> Running VMM as normal user still not connecting to >> libvirtdnot showing messagebox for password to enable correct >> permissions

Re: unneeded dependencies on NetworkManager-gtk/glib?

Ranjan Maitra wrote: > This morning, I have been trying out wicd/wicd-gtk in place of > NetworkManager. This works pretty well so far. So, I was trying to > erase NetworkManager-gtk and this is what I get: It's a runtime library, required by certain applications to... detect network status (obvi

Re: Downgrade to KDE 4.6?

Hiisi wrote: > On 4 October 2011 03:39, Manuel Escudero wrote: >> Some time ago, I "upgraded" my KDE to 4.7 but it is very buggy (I'm on >> F15) so I want to return to KDE 4.6 is it possible? How can it be done? >> Thanks! >> > > Investigate /var/log/yum.log to find out what packages related to

Re: unneeded dependencies on NetworkManager-gtk/glib?

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:44:44 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > This morning, I have been trying out wicd/wicd-gtk in place of > > NetworkManager. This works pretty well so far. So, I was trying to > > erase NetworkManager-gtk and this is what I get: > > It's a runtime library,

Re: Downgrade to KDE 4.6?

On 5 October 2011 17:46, Rex Dieter wrote: > Hiisi wrote: >> Investigate /var/log/yum.log to find out what packages related to kde >> were updated recently. Then yum downgrade >> HTH > > That likely won't work in this case, one reason we didn't do any official > kde-4.7 updates was that the packa

Re: Downgrade to KDE 4.6?

On 5 October 2011 17:59, Hiisi wrote: > On 5 October 2011 17:46, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Hiisi wrote: >>> Investigate /var/log/yum.log to find out what packages related to kde >>> were updated recently. Then yum downgrade >>> HTH >> >> That likely won't work in this case, one reason we didn't do an

heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support, including a 64-bit repo. Just go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ , select "YUM for Linux (YUM)", download and install adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm, and install flash-plugin from the repo. Someone needs to edit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fla

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

Results same on freshly started systemnormal user not being asked authentication by vmm & vmm connection failing... libvirtd is running as daemon on system start...vmm fails here [root@acct] Wed, 05 October, 2011. 07:39:44 PM, IST. [~] ps aux |grep -e "libvirtd" root 1696 0.0 0.1

[389-users] setting up ACLs

Hi there, i ran into a problem with the ACLs. I set up an account, what needed to acquire only certain attributes, i set the following ACL: (targetattr = "uid || mail || mailHost || accountType || accountStatus || mailAlternateAddress || mailForwardingAddress || mailUserPassword") (target = "

Re: heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:19:05 + (UTC) Andre Robatino wrote: > Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support, including a 64-bit repo. Just go to > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ , select "YUM for Linux (YUM)", download and > install adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm, and install flash-plugin fr

heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

Tom Horsley gmail.com> writes: > But I wonder: Do you still need to fix the calls to memcpy to call memmove instead? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477 > > (Hopefully it is fixed in the one in the new repo). I'm pretty sure they fixed that already in an earlier version, but

Re: heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:52:03 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477 > > (Hopefully it is fixed in the one in the new repo). Hey! It seems to be working. I just installed from the repo and tried the link in that bug, and the sound no longer has the horrible g

heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

Andre Robatino fedoraproject.org> writes: > In particular, I don't know if there's any reason for anyone to > use the 32-bit wrapped plugin anymore. I suppose it should be kept there as a backup, so people can switch to it in case a bug appears that only affects the 64-bit plugin. -- users mai

upgrading fedora 11 to the latest version of fedora

Hi guys, I have been given a workstation with Fedora 11 (Leonidas) installed by our IT team. I'm running web-based tool on it, purely Perl based. I have also data there that I would like to keep while upgrading to Fedora 15 (or maybe wait a ~month longer and upgrade it directly to Fedora 16). I w

Re: upgrading fedora 11 to the latest version of fedora

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 18:15 +0300, Marek Piatek wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have been given a workstation with Fedora 11 (Leonidas) installed by > our IT team. I'm running web-based tool on it, purely Perl based. I > have also data there that I would like to keep while upgrading to > Fedora 15 (or may

Re: upgrading fedora 11 to the latest version of fedora

Thanks for the quick response. Will back up the data and install from scratch. On Oct 5, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 18:15 +0300, Marek Piatek wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I have been given a workstation with Fedora 11 (Leonidas) installed by >> our IT team. I

Re: upgrading fedora 11 to the latest version of fedora

Hi guys, I have been given a workstation with Fedora 11 (Leonidas) installed by our IT team. I'm running web-based tool on it, purely Perl based. I have also data there that I would like to keep while upgrading to Fedora 15 (or maybe wait a ~month longer and upgrade it directly to Fedora 16). I

dynamic symlinks/variant symlinks in fuse?

Hi, Does anyone know of a tool which provides variant or dynamic banks of symlinks? I'm thinking of being able to do something like the following: You have some directory src containing: src/1/a src/1/b src/1/c src/2/a src/2/b src/2/c src/3/a src/3/b src/3/c And want to be able to create (for exa

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

On 10/05/2011 06:18 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: [snip] > You are also running in permissive mode, which should not block any > thing via SELinux. That's not necessarily true. Even in permissive mode, SELinux has some stuff it does in the kernel. I've seen things STILL not work with SELinux in per

Re: upgrading fedora 11 to the latest version of fedora

Merak: "What other things should I consider before upgrading from Fedora 11 to Fedora 15 or 16?" Consider using Fedora 14 instead!! I just completed building a Fedora 14 machine that all in all am pretty happy with!!! This avoids the litany of Fedora 15 issues, as dis

Re: Error running Virtual Machine Manager

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/2011 12:13 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/05/2011 06:18 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > [snip] >> You are also running in permissive mode, which should not block >> any thing via SELinux. > > That's not necessarily true. Even in permissive m

Rhythmbox under KDE -- Preferences assertion

When I run Rhythmbox under KDE4 (on F15) and click on Edit>Preferences, I get an assertion failure: GLib:ERROR:gvarianttypeinfo.c:186:g_variant_type_info_check: assertion failed: (0 <= index && index < 24) Does anyone know how to correct this? -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park

Re: upgrading fedora 11 to the latest version of fedora

On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:01:05 -0700 Thomas Dineen wrote: > Merak: > > "What other things should I consider before upgrading from Fedora 11 > to Fedora 15 or 16?" > > Consider using Fedora 14 instead!! > > I just completed building a Fedora 14 machine that all in all > am pr

no way to connect to new wi-fi nets

after latest updates I suddenly realized that I cannot connetc to any new net that is found in the nearby. This night I went for the first time to a friend's home,I got a list of more tha 30 nets, but I didn't succed to connect to any of them: old nets (that were already connected in the past)

Re: no way to connect to new wi-fi nets

Experienced it too On Oct 5, 2011 3:40 PM, "antonio.montagn...@alice.it" < antonio.montagn...@alice.it> wrote: > after latest updates I suddenly realized that I cannot connetc to any new net > that is found in the nearby. > > This night I went for the first time to a > friend's home,I got a list of

Re: upgrading fedora 11 to the latest version of fedora

On 10/05/2011 08:33 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > Fedora only supports upgrades from Fedora N-1 to Fedora N. So you'd need > to upgrade through 12, 13 and 14 to get to Fedora 15. I did go safely from F9 to F11 and skipping F10, but more than that is probably risky. -- users mailing list users@l

Re: unneeded dependencies on NetworkManager-gtk/glib?

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:44:44 -0500 Rex Dieter > wrote: > >> Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> >> > This morning, I have been trying out wicd/wicd-gtk in place of >> > NetworkManager. This works pretty well so far. So, I was trying to >> > erase NetworkM

Re: upgrading fedora 11 to the latest version of fedora

Marek Piatek kaust.edu.sa> writes: > ... > What other things should I consider before upgrading from Fedora 11 to Fedora > 15 or 16? Thanks! It is said that where there are two Fedora users there are (at least) three favorite Fedora choices :-) Good Luck ! JB -- users mailing list users@

Re: no way to connect to new wi-fi nets

Leonardo ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 05/10/2011 20:45: > Experienced it too > > On Oct 5, 2011 3:40 PM, "antonio.montagn...@alice.it > " > wrote: > > after latest updates I suddenly realized that I cannot

Long startup of fedora-storage-init.service

I found the following thread but I don't think mine is the same problem: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-June/100861.html I am, however, running BTRFS on main main partitions on top of LVM (since anaconda as of F15 still creates an LVM setup regardless of filesystem?) This is

Re: Pavilion dv6-3225dx under F14 -- mouse problems

I've tried various drivers and distros -- had a driver working under gentoo (xf86-input-synaptics-1.3.0). I thinks the clickpad is a complicated device that has not been fully reverse engineered. SuSe has it working to an extent. I had an envy which i sold because of it. On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:

Re: heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

Andre Robatino writes: > Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support, including a 64-bit repo. Just go to > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ , select "YUM for Linux (YUM)", download and > install adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm, and install flash-plugin from > the > repo. Someone needs to edi

Re: no way to connect to new wi-fi nets

antonio.montagn...@alice.it writes: after latest updates I suddenly realized that I cannot connetc to any new net that is found in the nearby. This night I went for the first time to a friend's home,I got a list of more tha 30 nets, but I didn't succed to connect to any of them: old nets (

Re: heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

Once upon a time, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht said: > Too bad they botched the yum repo file and wired it for 64-bit only. > Folks with a mixture of 32-bit and 64-bit systems now have to be careful > to not rsync that file across all their machines. Much better would be > to use "$basearch" instead of

Re: Cannot boot properly: dbus problems?

Dear Mike, On 28/09/11 11:42 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: >On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 16:47 +1000, Nick Urbanik wrote: >> Dear Folks, >> >> After a power surge and a spontaneous reboot, my 4-core F15 x86_64 machine >> has been unhappy. I have forced a selinux relabel, and a >> forcefsck. (The fsck was

Setting resolution

F15 How can i modify this setting to worknouveau.modeset=0 vga=31B, with a Intel mobile4 series graphic chipset, using a i915 driver. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guid

Re: heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

Chris Adams writes: > Once upon a time, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht said: >> Too bad they botched the yum repo file and wired it for 64-bit only. >> Folks with a mixture of 32-bit and 64-bit systems now have to be careful >> to not rsync that file across all their machines. Much better would be >> to

Re: Pavilion dv6-3225dx under F14 -- mouse problems

On 10/5/2011 2:43 PM, gary artim wrote: > I've tried various drivers and distros -- had a driver working under > gentoo (xf86-input-synaptics-1.3.0). I thinks the clickpad is a > complicated device that has not been fully reverse engineered. SuSe > has it working to an extent. I had an envy which i

Re: I need to make an install iso of the OS the way it is after I've laboured for several hours to customized it...

On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 10:32 AM, "Joe Zeff" wrote: > On 10/04/2011 10:06 AM, Linda McLeod wrote: Why do it the hard way when the default is easier and faster? __ My OS gets hit too much, and corrupted.. I'm forever reinstalling Fedora, and the softs I like, and the 6-

OT: Changing MSDOS attributes from Linux?

In the past days, we have a virus going around that readonly and hidden attributes on files on students flashes in other labs. They send the students to me for help, and I can kill the virus from linux and remove the lnk files it puts on the flash, but linux sees all the files fine, but in Wind

Re: I need to make an install iso of the OS the way it is after I'velaboured for several hours to customized it...

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:23 AM, da...@mich.com wrote: > Also, if your install is small enough, you can use > the 'dd' command to backup/restore a disk image of > the whole partition to a flash drive. This is what I > typically do these days. A better way to image a disk with Free Software is to

anaconda: --rootPath obsolete. Any workaround?

For a long time I use diskless installations of Fedora/RHEL/CentOS with readonly root. Recently, with changes in anaconda, --rootPath is no longer supported. I have to many different types of installations and initial configuration. Until now i was using kickstart files for every type of installati

Re: OT: Changing MSDOS attributes from Linux?

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > Is there a Linux command that can change the DOS attributes on > flash devices with FAT and NTFS filesystems? mattrib does not > seem to work? mattrib only works on FAT filesystems. You can change NTFS file attributes using the same t

Re: no way to connect to new wi-fi nets

Sam Varshavchik ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 06/10/2011 00:56: > antonio.montagn...@alice.it writes: > >> after latest updates I suddenly realized that I cannot connetc to any >> new net >> that is found in the nearby. >> >> This night I went for the first time to a >> friend's

Re: I need to make an install iso of the OS the way it is after I've laboured for several hours to customized it...

On 10/05/2011 07:12 PM, Linda McLeod wrote: > I know it sounds > stupid, but what else is there?.. You might consider finding out why you have to keep reinstalling. Unless you're experimenting with alpha-test programs or running as root without being careful enough you shouldn't have to reinstal