Re: Upgrading to F16 Beta

2011-10-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 13:29, JD wrote: > Right. Newbs and non-techies need scripts. User-friendly, they´ve heard of it. And I don´t mean the comic user-friendly.org Even IBM learned a thing or two in the transition from the business-centric OS/2 2.x to OS/2 Warp... hence scripts for common taks

Re: Upgrading to F16 Beta

2011-10-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 19:49, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > No. it doesn't need to be a script.   There is no technical reason it > should be. > > Rahul Keep reasoning like this. Microsoft needs more people like you, FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: Changing UID/GID. Was Upgrading to F16 Beta

2011-10-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 7 October 2011 19:31, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/07/2011 02:17 AM, JD wrote: >> Thanx. >> A good point. >> I wish the upgrade process would >> actually prompt the user for performing >> such steps. > > I'm replying to this twice, and changing the subject here because I > didn't want to (completely

Re: Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

2011-10-09 Thread Per Anton Rønning
Deepak Bhole wrote: > * Per Anton Rønning [2011-10-06 05:12]: >> Hi suomi, >> No, I have not. Do you have any experience with that one? > > Hi Per, > > Can you please try with the IcedTea-Web plug-in and let us know if it > works? Installation is simple. First remove libnpjp2.so out of the way >

Re: Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

2011-10-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/10/11 14:04, Per Anton Rønning wrote: > Deepak Bhole wrote: >> * Per Anton Rønning [2011-10-06 05:12]: >>> Hi suomi, >>> No, I have not. Do you have any experience with that one? >> >> Hi Per, >> >> Can you please try with the IcedTea-Web plug-in and let us know if it >> works? Installation

Re: Corrupted evolution databases

2011-10-09 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 13:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 15:31 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:39 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:34 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:50 -0400, Matthew Saltzman

Re: Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

2011-10-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/10/11 14:33, John Pilkington wrote: > On 09/10/11 14:04, Per Anton Rønning wrote: >> Deepak Bhole wrote: >>> * Per Anton Rønning [2011-10-06 05:12]: Hi suomi, No, I have not. Do you have any experience with that one? >>> >>> Hi Per, >>> >>> Can you please try with the IcedTea-Web

Re: What spins are most minimal?

2011-10-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:59:43 -0500, charles zeitler wrote: [] > all the official desktop spins fit > on a cd; otoh, have you tried a 'customized' install from the 'official' > DVD, that is, ruthlessly > deselecting all the packages you > won't need? I do that on every fresh in

fc15 gnome suggestion

2011-10-09 Thread Elliott Chapin
IMO, the top bar should be able to show more than the single foreground activity. E.g., it only shows Thunderbird although I also have Firefox open. If there is a way to configure this, please advise. Thx, E. -- http://clients.teksavvy.com/~echapin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: FC14 problem "no root device found"

2011-10-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 20:25:50 +0200, Gijs wrote: > > I created a raid-1 device for the /boot partition. I copied my existing > boot to /boot and my existing root to the LVM-volume that is ontop of a > raid-5 device. I tried booting from it, but I just can't get it to mount > the root righ

Re: What spins are most minimal?

2011-10-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:54:25 +0200, suvayu ali wrote: [] > Have you tried cleaning the yum cache? > > # yum clean cache I hadn't, and just did, thanks! But yum update still tells me no space left on device. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have prec

locking root to a machine

2011-10-09 Thread Beartooth
A regular on a private list I follow has written :  [...] therein lies the beauty of the newer flavors of *nix.  You can lock root (and SU) access to physical machines ONLY, and even lock it down to specific logins ONLY on specific machines. How would Fedora do that?

rkhunter daily cron

2011-10-09 Thread Frank Murphy
rkhunter is run with cronjob daily. Have checked: /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter but it's run with a script not the usual crontab * ** .setup. Looked at http://rkhunter.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rkhunter/rkhunter/files/FAQ Should I just replace the script with my own cronjob times? as per some of th

Re: What spins are most minimal?

2011-10-09 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Beartooth wrote: > On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:54:25 +0200, suvayu ali wrote: >        [] >> Have you tried cleaning the yum cache? >> >> # yum clean cache > >        I hadn't, and just did, thanks! But yum update still tells me no > space left on device. > Have you

Module: Option VS usbserial

2011-10-09 Thread Pedro Francisco
Any idea why on Ubuntu my ZTE k3805-z 3G pen gets managed by the module "option" and on F15 it's managed by cdc_ether ? I've installed usb_modeswitch 1.1.9 on F15 so the only difference should be the kernel. Ubuntu's kernel is 3.0.0 and F15's is 2.6.40 which, to my understanding, corresponds to t

Re: yum .rpm

2011-10-09 Thread Todd Zullinger
Andre Robatino wrote: > Kevin Fenzi scrye.com> writes: > >> yum localinstall == yum install >> >> Same thing anymore. Yum figures out if the package is local or not. > > If using Tab completion on the file name, yum install will waste > time going through remote repos, while yum localinstall will

Re: rkhunter daily cron

2011-10-09 Thread John Horne
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 17:20 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > rkhunter is run with cronjob daily. > > Have checked: > /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter > > but it's run with a script > not the usual crontab * ** .setup. > > Looked at > http://rkhunter.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rkhunter/rkhunter/files/FAQ >

Re: rkhunter daily cron

2011-10-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On 09/10/11 21:11, John Horne wrote: >> Should I just replace the script with my own cronjob times? >> as per some of the examples. >> > Hi, > > If you installed the rkhunter RPM package (either via yum or by > downloading it) then I would just use what is supplied with the package. > The supplie

Re: Corrupted evolution databases

2011-10-09 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 10:00 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > When my POP account syncs, new messages are loaded into my local > inbox. > Mail sent through that server are stored in my local sent-mail folder, > deleted messages are in my local trash, etc. RSS feeds have folders > in > my local

Re: rkhunter daily cron

2011-10-09 Thread Tim Evans
On 10/09/2011 05:07 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 09/10/11 21:11, John Horne wrote: > If I knew what time in x.00 ir ran, > I would leave it alone. > But I havn't figured what time cron.daily runs. [root@harrier etc]# cat /etc/anacrontab # /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron # See an

Re: rkhunter daily cron

2011-10-09 Thread John Horne
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 22:07 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 09/10/11 21:11, John Horne wrote: > > > >> Should I just replace the script with my own cronjob times? > >> as per some of the examples. > >> > > Hi, > > > > If you installed the rkhunter RPM package (either via yum or by > > downloading

Re: Corrupted evolution databases

2011-10-09 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 16:18 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 10:00 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > > > When my POP account syncs, new messages are loaded into my local > > inbox. > > Mail sent through that server are stored in my local sent-mail folder, > > deleted messag

Re: Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

2011-10-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 8 October 2011 09:05, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 08.10.2011, Per Anton Rønning wrote: > >> Error occurred during initialization of VM >> java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object > >> Ring a bell? > > Unfortunately not. Does this one help? > > http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/06/nocla

Re: can I get rid of these annoying log messages?

2011-10-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 20:40:30 -0700 T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > "rm /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager*.conf" will disable bus > activation for NetworkManager and make the messages go away. So, is there something I need to rebuild after removing these files? I did the remove, but I'm still seeing

Re: can I get rid of these annoying log messages?

2011-10-09 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 20:40:30 -0700 > T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >> "rm /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager*.conf" will disable bus >> activation for NetworkManager and make the messages go away. > > So, is there something I need to rebuild after

Re: can I get rid of these annoying log messages?

2011-10-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 17:03:29 -0700 T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > Send DBus SIGHUP to have it reload its configuration: > > # killall -HUP dbus-daemon > > I double-checked and there are some NetworkManager dbus config files > starting with "nm-" that you might have to get rid of too. Actually, I've

Re: Upgrading to F16 Beta

2011-10-09 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 06:35 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 19:49, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > No. it doesn't need to be a script. There is no technical reason it > > should be. > > > > Rahul > > Keep reasoning like this. > Microsoft needs more people like you, that yo

Last flash plugin update has SELinux problems

2011-10-09 Thread Steve Blackwell
I'm still using F12 but and of course that are no more Fedora updates but the Adobe repo still does updates. So I updated: From my /var/log/yum.log Oct 04 19:17:50 Updated: flash-plugin-11.0.1.152-release.i386 and then flash no longer worked. I found that I get these SELinux security alerts: SEL

Re: Last flash plugin update has SELinux problems

2011-10-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steve Blackwell writes: If so how should this be reported to Adobe. I didn't see a way to do this on their site. bugs.adobe.com Try your luck there. pgpwqYCmJnMDE.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: Upgrading to F16 Beta

2011-10-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 22:48, Craig White wrote: > > Considering that Rahul is a tireless ambassador for Fedora and puts up > with stupid comments like the above I apologize. Let me rephrase it in a more civilized manner, then: "I strongly think that people in charge of a FOSS project saying tha

Re: Last flash plugin update has SELinux problems

2011-10-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/09/2011 09:01 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote: > I'm still using F12 but and of course that are no more Fedora updates > but the Adobe repo still does updates. So I updated: > > From my /var/log/yum.log > Oct 04 19:17:50 Updated: flash-plugin-11.0.1.152-release.i386 > > and then flash no longer wo

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2011-10-09 Thread Enrico Montich
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2011-10-09 Thread Larry Brower
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fc 14 usb_storage not working on x86_64/hotplug

2011-10-09 Thread jack craig
Hi Folks, A recent install of FC 14 on ASUS P8H x86_64 platform fails to activate usb hotplug support. Anyone solve this problem? Thx, jackc... -- Google is my cloud, I want a Raptor SuperCrew ... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Re: Upgrading to F16 Beta

2011-10-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 10 October 2011 04:07, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 22:48, Craig White wrote: >> >> Considering that Rahul is a tireless ambassador for Fedora and puts up >> with stupid comments like the above > > I apologize. Let me rephrase it in a more civilized manner, then: > > "I stro