Re: Problems with DNS name server in Fedora 16

>> Greetings.  I just installed Fedora 16 (x86_64) on my home computer today. >> Not an altogether pleasant experience so far, I must say. >> >> I've got one issue in particular that's really puzzling me. [...] >> I.e., the "host" utility CAN resolve the name, as can the "dig" >> utility (not sho

Preugrade Stalled?

I'm trying to upgrade my Dell desktop to F16 using preupgrade. I ran the download overnight and started the actual upgrade this morning. I started it running and wandered off for an hour and a half. When I came back it was at the "examining storage devices" stage. But the progress bar isn't moving

Virt-manager and qemu-kvm Bugs

Hi I'm running Fedora 16 I686 on an IBM X60s Laptop. If I try to add spice to a guest changing from vnc to spice server, and the video card from cirrus to qxl adding the channels, the guest doesn't boot complaining that he qemu binary has no spicevmc support. If I remove the channels it complains t

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:13 -0500 > Fedora User wrote: > >> The system does seem to >> boot faster but this is really arcane compared to sysV which seemed >> very straightforward. > > Arcane is the word. One big problem is the complete > lack

chksystemd Re: SystemD - F-16

On 13/11/11 11:12, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > -T.C. 404 on the rpm -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Gui

Re: chksystemd Re: SystemD - F-16

On 11/13/2011 07:22 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 13/11/11 11:12, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >> -T.C. > 404 on the rpm > > Fine from here... -- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: chksystemd Re: SystemD - F-16

On 11/13/2011 07:29 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/13/2011 07:22 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> On 13/11/11 11:12, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> >>> -T.C. >> 404 on the rpm >> >> > Fine from here... > Oooopss wrong link NOT fine from here... -- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom

Re: chksystemd Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > 404 on the rpm Fixed. Sorry about that! -T.C. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wi

Can't get mouse keys to work

I don't seem to be able to enable mouse keys on my FC 15. I have enabled under System Settings->Pointing and Clicking->Mouse Keys, but the numpad doesn't control the mouse. Can anyone point me to what I might be doing wrong? Thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: F16 / HTTPD will not start

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > It was working under F15, before the upgrade.  Now, > > systemctl httpd.service start results in > Shouldn't it be systemctl start httpd.service ? -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:13 -0500 >> Fedora User wrote: >> >>> The system does seem to >>> boot faster but this is really arcane compared to sysV which seemed >>> very straightfo

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

Thomas Cameron camerontech.com> writes: > > > On 11/13/2011 01:15 AM, JB wrote: > > Hi, > > > > every Fedora release is going downhill ... > > Erm, no. Each Fedora release has brought in numerous technical > improvements. Virtualization, clustering, directory services, more and > more feature

Re: chksystemd Re: SystemD - F-16

Hi, On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:34, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> 404 on the rpm > > Fixed.  Sorry about that! > I can't seem to pipe the output or redirect it to a file. Try either of those gives me this backtrace: graphical.target Tracebac

Re: Preugrade Stalled?

On 13 November 2011 10:50, Dave Cross wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade my Dell desktop to F16 using preupgrade. I ran > the download overnight and started the actual upgrade this morning. I > started it running and wandered off for an hour and a half. > > When I came back it was at the "examining st

dconf-editor & icon-manager

If I understand it correctly after installing 'gnome-shell-extension-icon-manager' and 'dconf-editor' it is possible to add/remove icons from the top-bar (Fed 16 + Gnome 3.2). However I can find no documentation to explain how to do this except /usr/share/doc/gnome-shell-extension-icon-manager-0

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

>> Red Hat as a company is poised to be a billion dollar company this year >> (FY12). The FY 2006 earnings were $278.3 million.[1] That's a 4X >> increase in just 6 years. That's *amazing* growth. > > Yes, it is. But it is also a reflection of economic decline, financial crash, > IT crash that mak

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:15:00 -0700 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > systemctl list-unit-files > > give you any of what you are looking for? That tells me what units are available, not what units are enabled to be started at boot. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: dconf-editor & icon-manager [solved]

On 11/13/2011 02:53 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > If I understand it correctly after installing > 'gnome-shell-extension-icon-manager' and 'dconf-editor' it is possible > to add/remove icons from the top-bar (Fed 16 + Gnome 3.2). > > However I can find no documentation to explain how to do this e

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:41:14 + mike cloaked wrote: > Whilst we are on the subject can someone tell me what the systemd > equivalent is for the command "service iptables save" ? I always just run the iptables-save program directly and redirect output to /etc/sysconfig/iptables if you really wa

Re: chksystemd Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:46 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > I can't seem to pipe the output or redirect it to a file. Try either > of those gives me this backtrace: > > graphical.target > Traceback (most recent call last): >  File "/usr/bin/chksystemd", line 241, in >    main() >  File "/usr/bin/chksyst

Re: Problems with DNS name server in Fedora 16

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:26:12 -0800 (PST) Michael Hannon wrote: > I don't understand why the resolver didn't fall through to the second > nameserver, but it evidently did not.  After I put the nameservers in the > order you suggest, everything seems to be working fine! Because the multiple servers

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

> Erm, no. Each Fedora release has brought in numerous technical > improvements. Virtualization, clustering, directory services, more and > more features and performance per release. That's a politicians answer. It's completely ignoring the point raised. It doesn't matter how many features a new

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 08:00 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> Look at things like http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics, which >> indicate that downloads and torrents are going up with each release, not >> down. > > Be careful that downloads are a lagging indicator of success. They go up > after you get it right

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 07:15:20 +, JB wrote: > > every Fedora release is going downhill ... If you are referring to quality, I disagree that they are going downhill. If you are referring to mindshare amoung people that use linux, that seems likely to be true. Ubuntu and Mint seem to be p

Re: SystemD - F-16

On 11/13/2011 04:42 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > Unfortunately, chkconfig itself doesn't translate to systemd well. > However, this thread got me thinking that there is a need for a > chkconfig-like tool for systemd. So, I wrote one: > > http://tchol.org/chksystemd/ Perhaps patches to sys

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/13/2011 04:42 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >> >> Unfortunately, chkconfig itself doesn't translate to systemd well. >> However, this thread got me thinking that there is a need for a >> chkconfig-like tool for systemd.  So, I wrote

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:22, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:41:14 + > mike cloaked wrote: > > > Whilst we are on the subject can someone tell me what the systemd > > equivalent is for the command "service iptables save" ? > > I always just run the iptables-save program directly

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:45:34 +, JB wrote: > Some from an independent Fedora devs, others from other distros by adoption of > those that are useful and not conflicting with its goals. That is unlikely to happen. More likely the fork would just die. > Fedora is unstable, release by rele

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 09:30 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > That's a politicians answer. It's completely ignoring the point raised. > > With all due respect, the original poster appeared not to have much of a point. Statements like "every Fedora release is going downhill ... Time for Fedora to decouple from RH

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:17:41 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:15:00 -0700 > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > systemctl list-unit-files > > > > give you any of what you are looking for? > > That tells me what units are available, not > what units are enabled to be started at boot. How

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > On 11/13/2011 01:15 AM, JB wrote: >> Hi, >> >> every Fedora release is going downhill ... > > Erm, no. Each Fedora release has brought in numerous technical > improvements. Virtualization, clustering, directory services, more and > more feat

Re: Problems with DNS name server in Fedora 16

On 11/13/2011 12:26 AM, Michael Hannon wrote: > Another good suggestion. I had forgotten about the immutable > attribute. I've > set it now. (It's a safe bet that in six months or so I'll be sending a > note > to the list, whining about how I can't edit resolv.conf ;-) Suggestion: take off the

Re: chksystemd Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 15:22, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2502' in >> position 0: ordinal not in range(128) > > Yay for unicode bugs!  Fixed in chksystemd-2 (along with a brown paper > bag bug that made the "reset" action not work), wh

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 03:45 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 07:15:20 +, >JB wrote: >> >> every Fedora release is going downhill ... > If you are referring to quality, I disagree that they are going downhill. Well, having spent most of this weekend with installing F16, I don'

[F15] no windows borders in Xfce

Hello every one in XFCe, I get no window borders , I have no way to minimize or maximize or close a window. thanks . -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fed

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:34:59 -0700 stan wrote: > How about > systemctl -a -t service | less > and if you want only active services > systemctl -a -t service | grep -e " active " | less > or inactive similarly > systemctl -a -t service | grep -e " inactive " | less Still not the same, a service m

Re: [F15] no windows borders in Xfce

Look at this: http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5455 try to run on a console xfwm4 --replace hope it helps Em Dom, 2011-11-13 às 16:26 +, mike lan escreveu: > Hello every one > > in XFCe, I get no window borders , I have no way to minimize or > maximize or close a window. > > >

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:17:41 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:15:00 -0700 > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > systemctl list-unit-files > > > > give you any of what you are looking for? > > That tells me what units are available, not > what units are enabled to be started at boot. sor

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

Ralf Corsepius writes: On 11/13/2011 03:45 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 07:15:20 +, >JB wrote: >> >> every Fedora release is going downhill ... > If you are referring to quality, I disagree that they are going downhill. Well, having spent most of this weekend w

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:34:59 -0700 stan wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:17:41 -0500 > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:15:00 -0700 > > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > > systemctl list-unit-files > > > > > > give you any of what you are looking for? > > > > That tells me what units

Re: [F15] no windows borders in Xfce

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:26:13 + mike lan wrote: > Hello every one > > in XFCe, I get no window borders , I have no way to minimize or > maximize or close a window. > > > thanks . Mike: Give this a try: 1. Open up a terminal with ALT Fn2. (or Fn3 or Fn4 ...) 2. Enter "xfwm4 &". Note that

Re: [F15] no windows borders in Xfce

Thanks :) it works On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:26:13 + > mike lan wrote: > > > Hello every one > > > > in XFCe, I get no window borders , I have no way to minimize or > > maximize or close a window. > > > > > > thanks . > > Mike: > Giv

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:35:01 -0700 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > sorry, I meant: > > systemctl list-unit-files | grep enabled > > kevin That almost does it, but there is still something slightly different: [root@zooty ~]# ls /etc/systemd/system/*.wants/*.service | wc -l 31 [root@zooty ~]# systemctl li

Feroda for server

Hi, I want to deploy high squid proxy in our production environment in which we have online 12000 users and 800 mbps bandwith. So for that we planning for high end h/w with linux os. Does fedora is good for our requirement or do we need to go for centos / rhel ? Please guide me resolve my q

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 08:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Finally, yes, I have to agree, in comparison to F15 (which I consider > the worst Fedora ever) I sense some "quality" improvements. Which is why I skipped it. My impression is that the teething troubles with Gnome 3/Gnome Shell and the new systemd

Re: Little Yellow Boxes

On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 18:40:20 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Ever since my upgrade to Fedora-16, whenever I center click on the > background of KDE running the activity "Search and Launch" I get a small > yellow box at the bottom of the screen, just above the panel. Does > anyone know what these box

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 08:35 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > It depends on where you're standing. If you follow the well-trodden > path, of always doing a fresh install, not upgrading, and always taking > the default filesystem layout, and only importing /home from the > previous version, you'll be fine. I've

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

> Those are *not* just statistics on downloads. I appreciate that - but popularity is a lagging indicator in general. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedor

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

夜神　岩男 yahoo.co.jp> writes: > ... > The IT market is massively overweight, > overvalued and engages in enormously wasteful development practices > right now. Open source development for the most common of software > system elements + a revenue stream based on hardware sales and computing > se

Re: Feroda for server

> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Benjamin wrote: > Hi, > > I want to deploy high squid proxy in our production environment in which > we have online 12000 users and 800 mbps bandwith. > > So for that we planning for high end h/w with linux os. > > Does fedora is good for our requirement or d

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 05:35 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Ralf Corsepius writes: > >> On 11/13/2011 03:45 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 07:15:20 +, >> > JB wrote: >> >> >> >> every Fedora release is going downhill ... >> >> > If you are referring to quality, I disagree that the

Re: Feroda for server

On 11/13/2011 10:49 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Benjamin > wrote: Hi, I want to deploy high squid proxy in our production environment in which we have online 12000 users and 800 mbps bandwith. So for that we plann

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

Hello Rick, On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/11/2011 10:27 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>      Hello, >> >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>> Â I now found that apparently, I have a MultiTouch touchpad. Dell even >>> offers a driver

wine direct rendering under F16?

Dear users, Is anyone else experiencing a big slow down with wine in F16 c/f F15? I am not sure how to debug, but 'Settlers IV' is a factor 10 slowed down. Starting it says: wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe" err:process:start_wineboot failed to start wineboot, e

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 09:14 PM, inode0 wrote: > You are both correct but you are looking at the result from different > perspectives. Many technical improvements do happen and they are > admired by those who *later* use them in an enterprise distribution. > At the same time many of those same improvements

Re: Feroda for server

On 11/13/2011 11:09 PM, Benjamin wrote: > Hi, > > do i go with RHEL 6 64 bit ? Hard to give blanket answers without knowing more about the considerations for your deployment but yes, 64-bit would generally be preferable. Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: SystemD - F-16

On 11/13/2011 10:07 PM, Fedora User wrote: > SystemD fixes what weren't broke ;-) Seriously. It's easier to > eliminate it all and just script everything in rc.local. Not for any serious distribution developer or system administrator and btw, it is spelled "systemd" Rahul -- users mailing list

Re: Little Yellow Boxes

On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 17:05 +, Martin Airs wrote: > On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 18:40:20 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Ever since my upgrade to Fedora-16, whenever I center click on the > > background of KDE running the activity "Search and Launch" I get a small > > yellow box at the bottom of the sc

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 10:41 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > >> Those are *not* just statistics on downloads. > > I appreciate that - but popularity is a lagging indicator in general. Whether popularity should even be a consideration depends on the goals of the project however I should also note the statistics pag

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

> "Joe" == Joe Zeff writes: Joe> I've used preupgrade on both my desktop and laptop for the last Joe> several upgrades and all has gone well. Yes, I did have to Joe> expand /boot once and once I had to tell grub to start the Joe> upgrade at boot, but compared to the type of t

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/13/2011 09:14 PM, inode0 wrote: > >> You are both correct but you are looking at the result from different >> perspectives. Many technical improvements do happen and they are >> admired by those who *later* use them in an enterprise d

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

Alan Cox lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > ... > But clustering and directory services, like forcing LVM on hapless end > users are really irrelevant to most. LVM wasn't a big deal for those who > knew better - disable it on install and your disk I/O improves, ... Be blessed :-) You reminded me of

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 11:34 PM, inode0 wrote: >>> value to the Fedora desktop user are two very different things. >> >> False dichotomy. > > It is only false if you assume I meant the groups to be mutually > exclusive, which I did not mean since I am an example of a user in > both groups. We do however ha

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/13/2011 11:34 PM, inode0 wrote: value to the Fedora desktop user are two very different things. >>> >>> False dichotomy. >> >> It is only false if you assume I meant the groups to be mutually >> exclusive, which I did not mean si

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 01:17 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/13/2011 11:34 PM, inode0 wrote: value to the Fedora desktop user are two very different things. >>> >>> False dichotomy. >> >> It is only false if you assume I meant the groups to be mutually >> exclusive, which I did not mean since I am an

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/13/2011 11:57 PM, inode0 wrote: > > They are affected by many of the changes. That is why. How is a desktop user affected by new clustering technology? You aren't making any sense to me now > I live in a larger ecosystem so of course I do care. But in this > context saying other communi

Re: Little Yellow Boxes

On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 09:56:32 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Deleting a note isn't so easy; there's been a fair amount of discussion > on the web about how to remove widgets, none of it informative. I would > have thought that if a note is right clicked, a menu would appear with > an option to delete

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/13/2011 11:57 PM, inode0 wrote: >> They are affected by many of the changes. That is why. > > How is a desktop user affected by new clustering technology?  You aren't > making any sense to me now You really can't think of any changes

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:55:55 +, MC (mike) wrote: > I would like to see something in systemctl to achieve what used to be > done with "service iptables save" - as another poster already said one > can manually do: > iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables > > Most daemon controls were done wit

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/14/2011 12:16 AM, inode0 wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 11/13/2011 11:57 PM, inode0 wrote: >>> They are affected by many of the changes. That is why. >> >> How is a desktop user affected by new clustering technology? You aren't >> making any sense to

Re: SystemD - F-16

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:05:47 -0200, AC (Andre) wrote: > Maybe if there > was a similar documentation explaining to "old dogs" (myself included) how > to do SysV tasks the systemd way, transition would be easier. I know the > information is probably already on all the manpages somehow, but I'm > ta

Re: Feroda for server

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Benjamin wrote: > do i go with RHEL 6 64 bit ? Or one of the clones such as CentOS or Scientific Linux, if you don't need the support and don't want to pay the license fee. Michael Young -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change s

Free Space fluctuations - Home directory Weirdness

I am using Fedora 15. This Am when I opened up firefox and went to my online banking I noticed my saved user profile was gone. When I went to the weather channel's site my firefox security kept asking me for my main password, which was weird since that never happened before. I also noticed the

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2011 11:16 AM, JB wrote: > ? yahoo.co.jp> writes: > >> ... >> The IT market is massively overweight, >> overvalued and engages in enormously wasteful development practices >> right now. Open source development for the most common of s

Re: Free Space fluctuations - Home directory Weirdness

On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 14:24:12 Gary Waters wrote: > I am using Fedora 15. This Am when I opened up firefox and went to my > online banking I noticed my saved user profile was gone. When I went to > the weather channel's site my firefox security kept asking me for my > main password, which was weird

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

Bruno Wolff III wolff.to> writes: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:45:34 +, > JB gmail.com> wrote: > > Some from an independent Fedora devs, others from other distros by > > adoption of > > those that are useful and not conflicting with its goals. > > That is unlikely to happen. More likel

Re: Free Space fluctuations - Home directory Weirdness

On 11/13/2011 02:33 PM, Martin Airs wrote: > On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 14:24:12 Gary Waters wrote: >> I am using Fedora 15. This Am when I opened up firefox and went to my >> online banking I noticed my saved user profile was gone. When I went to >> the weather channel's site my firefox security kept a

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/14/2011 01:04 AM, JB wrote: > > Perhaps no fork would be required. Even if it is "required", it is a lot of work and I am not sure anyone with just a opinion would be willing to sign up for it. RH could release tight control of Fedora > for its own interest. Be more specific. Describe

chrome package differences

$ uname -r 2.6.35.14-103.fc14.i686.PAE [root@f14 ~]# yum list installed |grep chrom google-chrome-beta.i386 xorg-x11-drv-openchrome.i686 [root@f14 ~]# how are these two related? Are they two distinct complete packages of chrome? Do I need both? Is one a dependency of the other? At the moment

Re: Free Space fluctuations - Home directory Weirdness

On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 14:37:06 Gary Waters wrote: > > It's 12.4 KB (12739 bytes)... > > Any other suggestions? Hmm, the only other thing i can think of is to use the file size view in konqueror to view your home folder, it should be easy to spot the culprit Martin signature.asc Description: T

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2011 08:30 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> Erm, no. Each Fedora release has brought in numerous technical >> improvements. Virtualization, clustering, directory services, more and >> more features and performance per release. > > That's a politicians

Re: chrome package differences

On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 11:47:02 jackson byers wrote: > $ uname -r > 2.6.35.14-103.fc14.i686.PAE > > [root@f14 ~]# yum list installed |grep chrom > google-chrome-beta.i386 > xorg-x11-drv-openchrome.i686 > [root@f14 ~]# > > how are these two related? > > Are they two distinct complete packages of c

Re: Free Space fluctuations - Home directory Weirdness

On 11/13/2011 02:37 PM, Gary Waters wrote: > On 11/13/2011 02:33 PM, Martin Airs wrote: >> On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 14:24:12 Gary Waters wrote: >>> I am using Fedora 15. This Am when I opened up firefox and went to my >>> online banking I noticed my saved user profile was gone. When I went to >>> the

fedora as wifi access point; usb recommendation

Hi all, I want to configure an f-box as a wi-fi access point. Anybody out there doing that? Looked at hostapd but am confused about nl80211 requirement. I built from src and it seems to include that driver intrinscally as well as atheros and broadcom support. Does the fedora build of hostap

Re: fedora as wifi access point; usb recommendation

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:13:44 -0800 Mike Wright wrote: > I hope all I need is a supported adapter. Recommendations? I've tried this with some (but limited) success. Here is my saga: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.html The new ralink dongle it says I got working

Re: Free Space fluctuations - Home directory Weirdness

On 11/13/2011 02:47 PM, Martin Airs wrote: > On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 14:37:06 Gary Waters wrote: >> >> It's 12.4 KB (12739 bytes)... >> >> Any other suggestions? > > Hmm, the only other thing i can think of is to use the file size view in > konqueror to view your home folder, it should be easy to spo

What determines mdraid minor device numbers

I have existing mdraid arrays. They get mounted as /dev/md0 through /dev/md2. After some sweat and tears, I reduces the size of one of them, and used the free disk space to assemble a new array (all arrays we're talking here are raid 1, with two disks). I formatted the new md device as ext3.

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

Thomas Cameron camerontech.com> writes: > > > On 11/13/2011 11:16 AM, JB wrote: > > ? yahoo.co.jp> writes: > > > >> ... > >> The IT market is massively overweight, > >> overvalued and engages in enormously wasteful development practices > >> right now. Open source development for the m

Re: Free Space fluctuations - Home directory Weirdness

On 11/13/2011 03:27 PM, Gary Waters wrote: > On 11/13/2011 02:47 PM, Martin Airs wrote: >> On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 14:37:06 Gary Waters wrote: >>> >>> It's 12.4 KB (12739 bytes)... >>> >>> Any other suggestions? >> >> Hmm, the only other thing i can think of is to use the file size view in >> konquer

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/13/2011 11:57 PM, inode0 wrote: >> They are affected by many of the changes. That is why. > > How is a desktop user affected by new clustering technology?  You aren't > making any sense to me now Let's start over. User #1 says "Fedo

Re: Free Space fluctuations - Home directory Weirdness

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:38:43 -0500 Gary Waters wrote: > The offending file appears to be /home/admin/.cache/tracker/meta.db-wal > > What in the name of the sweet lawd jaysus is that? How do I rectify > this? I'm kinda from planet noobie at this level.. running ".cache/tracker/meta.db-wal" throu

Re: Re: Free Space fluctuations - Home directory Weirdness

On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 15:38:43 Gary Waters wrote: > The offending file appears to be /home/admin/.cache/tracker/meta.db-wal > > What in the name of the sweet lawd jaysus is that? How do I rectify > this? I'm kinda from planet noobie at this level.. > > G aaah, that tracker thing is like strigi f

Re: Little Yellow Boxes

On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 18:38 +, Martin Airs wrote: > On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 09:56:32 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Deleting a note isn't so easy; there's been a fair amount of discussion > > on the web about how to remove widgets, none of it informative. I would > > have thought that if a note is

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On 11/14/2011 02:12 AM, inode0 wrote: > User #1 is from the user base professed by the project to be its > target audience. User #2 is more from the enterprise consumer side of > Fedora's community. My suggestion was to be more open about the > importance of both of these user bases to help resolv

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/2011 02:42 PM, inode0 wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 11/13/2011 11:57 PM, inode0 wrote: >>> They are affected by many of the changes. That is why. >> >> How is a desktop user affected by new clustering

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/14/2011 02:12 AM, inode0 wrote: >> User #1 is from the user base professed by the project to be its >> target audience. User #2 is more from the enterprise consumer side of >> Fedora's community. My suggestion was to be more open about

Re: Problems with DNS name server in Fedora 16

>> Another good suggestion.  I had forgotten about the immutable attribute. >> I've set it now.  (It's a safe bet that in six months or so I'll be sending >> a note to the list, whining about how I can't edit resolv.conf ;-) > Suggestion: take off the immutable bit, now, add a comment saying that

Re: Problems with DNS name server in Fedora 16

>> I don't understand why the resolver didn't fall through to the second >> nameserver, but it evidently did not.  After I put the nameservers in the >> order you suggest, everything seems to be working fine! > Because the multiple servers are only good for the first server failing. > Once the fir

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

> like maybe there's some round hole/square peg going on here. Fedora, > almost by definition, will be bleeding edge and therefore, somewhat > buggy. But, really, our version of "buggy" is *so* much better than I > deal with as regards most closed source commercial code, it's not even > funny. Thi

USB printer discovery

I have an USB laser printer (Samsung ML-1610): should it be discovered by Fedora? how long does it take the discovery process?? Manual set-up work flawlessly. Tnx -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F15 (Lovelock) on Acer 5720 http://lugsaronno.altervista.org http://www.campingmontero

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