Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-28 Thread jdow
On 2011/12/27 19:09, fred smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 08:02:07PM -0700, linux guy wrote: Is there any way to sniff out the old partition table ?What would I need other than the partition table sizes ?I know I had boot, swap and / partitions... FYI: A year or so ago I had a US

Re: Gnome3 RFE discussion !?

2011-12-28 Thread Joe Wulf
I'd also suggest having the ability to manage/initiate much of what you are talking about from the command-line. Additionally, the ability to have a script initiate windows/sessions/programs/applications on a named workspace, would be invaluable. -Joe > > From:

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-28 Thread jdow
(Look inline) On 2011/12/27 19:26, linux guy wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Yes, I'm sure it's fine now. Please clarify, what do you think is fine now ? The drive ? Or the laptop/drive controller ? Looks to me like some pages went bad, and the drive mapped

Re: Gnome3 RFE discussion !?

2011-12-28 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 12/28/2011 01:21 AM, Joe Wulf wrote: I'd also suggest having the ability to manage/initiate much of what you are talking about from the command-line. Additionally, the ability to have a script initiate windows/sessions/programs/applications on a named workspace, would be invaluable. If that'

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.12.2011 05:57, schrieb linux guy: > How does one set up a "sometimes" RAID? what should this be? you have two cases: * RAID * no RAID dinish, this was it only they idea aving "sometimes" a RAID is very strange to say it polite signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Anacrontab start-range Night hours?

2011-12-28 Thread Frank Murphy
Ho do I set anacron to just run jobs: 10pm to 8am (the night shift) I was thinking 0-24, but am worried the jobs would be rushed on bootup @10 -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscrip

Re: Anacrontab start-range Night hours?

2011-12-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.12.2011 12:45, schrieb Frank Murphy: > Ho do I set anacron to just run jobs: > 10pm to 8am (the night shift) > > I was thinking 0-24, > but am worried the jobs would be rushed on bootup @10 0-24 is the whole day long so after bootup is also between 0-24, everytime signature.asc Descrip

Apache2 death

2011-12-28 Thread Roger
I realise that this is not a ubuntu forum but, the ubuntu home site forums so far seem pretty darn hopeless for finding possible answers to problems and obtaining wise response that I am accustomed to on Fedora list/s. Is there a list, of similar calibre to this to which I can turn for help w

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
linux guy writes: I experienced a complete SSD failure this week on my laptop. I've ordered a new Dell XPS 17 laptop which has an eSATA port. I'm sure that Dell appreciates your business. When I had a hard drive fail in one of my laptops, I simply replaced the hard drive. Question 1. Ho

Re: Apache2 death

2011-12-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.12.2011 12:49, schrieb Roger: > Is there a list, of similar calibre to this to which I can turn for help with > apache2 > which failed to find localhost this afternoon. apache mailing-list? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedora

"Printers" vs. "Printing"...?

2011-12-28 Thread Christopher A. Williams
There's some real confusion I've noticed in F16 (also present in F15) regarding printer setup. In the System Settings applet, there is a section on printers which includes the ability to add printers. ...Except that applet is completely and total incapable of adding any kind of network printer. It

Re: Firefox 9 on F16 can not set Home Page

2011-12-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 22:56 +, g wrote: > On 12/27/2011 09:28 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > In Firefox 9 in F16 I can't set the home page. I make my web page > > www.Google.com. Then I go to preferences and click "Use Current Page". > > This works for a while. But when I reboot the home page be

Re: Problem with email program of lpeng564

2011-12-28 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 07:59 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I ran a test. I sent e-mail to this user. As you can see below it came > back to me as sent without and comments from lpeng564. I conclude > there is a misconfiguration of his mail program that echoes what is > sent to him. Or nefarious pur

Re: SSH on Fedora 16

2011-12-28 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2011 03:47 PM, Daniel Bossert wrote: > Hello > >> echo 0>/selinux/enforce > > doesn't work at me: [root@merkur ssh]# echo 0 >/selinux/enforce > -bash: /selinux/enforce: No such file or directory use setenforce 0 /selinux has been moved to

Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
I have set up a local webserver for testing static html (of which I have some basic knowledge) and dynamic html (which is quite new to me). After I had set proper permissions on /var/www/ and had copied my testfiles to the appropriate locations, httpd worked out of the box (i. e. with the origi

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Alan Cox
> The overall RAID speed will be limited to the slowest drive. There is some No. On a RAID 1 array read speed is armwavingly the sum of the performance of both drive - actual numbers are a bit more complex because you now effectively have two disk heads on non SSD media cases. > buffering, and th

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Alan Cox
> How does one set up a "sometimes" RAID ? Or would something like > rsync be better ? What happens the first time I plug my laptop into > the eSATA cable after being away from my desk ? What happens if there > is both new data and an error in existing data ? How does the RAID > software know

Re: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Dennis Kaptain
> > De: Klaus-Peter Schrage >Para: Fedora >Enviado: Miércoles, 28 de diciembre, 2011 8:28:44 >Asunto: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server > >I have set up a local webserver for testing static html (of which I have some >basic knowledge) and dynamic html (which

Re: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 28.12.2011 15:35, schrieb Dennis Kaptain: *De:* Klaus-Peter Schrage *Para:* Fedora *Enviado:* Miércoles, 28 de diciembre, 2011 8:28:44 *Asunto:* Enable PHP on local Apache2 server I have set up

Re: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.12.2011 15:42, schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage: >> Try moving the file to /var/www/html/test.php >> >> DK >> > Thanks, but than calling /localhost/test.php simply lists the contents of > test.php well, have you installed PHP? what says "rpm -qa | grep php"? signature.asc Descriptio

Re: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 28.12.2011 15:46, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 28.12.2011 15:42, schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage: Try moving the file to /var/www/html/test.php DK Thanks, but than calling /localhost/test.php simply lists the contents of test.php well, have you installed PHP? what says "rpm -qa | gre

Re: How to uninstall nvidia drivers in runlevel3

2011-12-28 Thread Kevin Martin
On 12/27/2011 02:21 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 26 December 2011 22:21, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 12/26/2011 01:56 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: >>> Â If you got the drivers from the nVidia website and you are in runlevel >>> 3 you don't need to do an uninstall to do the update as the nVidia >>> module is

Re: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.12.2011 15:49, schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage: > Am 28.12.2011 15:46, schrieb Reindl Harald: >> >> Am 28.12.2011 15:42, schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage: Try moving the file to /var/www/html/test.php DK >>> Thanks, but than calling /localhost/test.php simply lists the

SOLVED: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 28.12.2011 15:55, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 28.12.2011 15:49, schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage: Am 28.12.2011 15:46, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 28.12.2011 15:42, schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage: Try moving the file to /var/www/html/test.php DK Thanks, but than calling /localhost/test.

Re: SOLVED: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.12.2011 16:10, schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage: >> Have you the following SOMEWHERE in your httpd-conf-files? >> LoadModule php5_module "modules/libphp5.so" >> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > > Yes, adding those two lines did it: Now I can see the PHP Info page. > > But it still seems

Re: SOLVED: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 28.12.2011 16:13, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 28.12.2011 16:10, schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage: Have you the following SOMEWHERE in your httpd-conf-files? LoadModule php5_module "modules/libphp5.so" AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Yes, adding those two lines did it: Now I can see the PHP I

Re: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/28/2011 08:28 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > I have set up a local webserver for testing static html (of which I have > some basic knowledge) and dynamic html (which is quite new to me). After > I had set proper permissions on /var/www/ and had copied my testfiles to > the appropriate locat

Re: SOLVED: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Remi Collet
Le 28/12/2011 16:10, Klaus-Peter Schrage a écrit : >> Have you the following SOMEWHERE in your httpd-conf-files? >> LoadModule php5_module "modules/libphp5.so" >> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php >> > > Yes, adding those two lines did it: Now I can see the PHP Info page. This 2 lines should

Re: SOLVED: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/28/2011 09:10 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Am 28.12.2011 15:55, schrieb Reindl Harald: >> >> Am 28.12.2011 15:49, schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage: >>> Am 28.12.2011 15:46, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 28.12.2011 15:42, schrieb Klaus-Peter Schrage: >> Try moving the file to /var/ww

Re: bridges, NAT, virtual machines, brain hurt :-).

2011-12-28 Thread Ian Pilcher
What does your existing network look like? -- Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com "If you're going to shift my paradigm ... at least buy me dinner first."

Re: SOLVED: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 28.12.2011 16:25, schrieb Remi Collet: Le 28/12/2011 16:10, Klaus-Peter Schrage a écrit : Have you the following SOMEWHERE in your httpd-conf-files? LoadModule php5_module "modules/libphp5.so" AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Yes, adding those two lines did it: Now I can see the PHP I

Re: Firefox 9 on F16 can not set Home Page

2011-12-28 Thread g
On 12/28/2011 01:17 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: <> > No I am not opening pages in a new tab or window. I will try the method > outlined in the web link and see how that works. -=- another suggestion, click "help > restart w/ extensions disabled". -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plai

Re: SOLVED: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Steven Stern
On 12/28/2011 10:04 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Am 28.12.2011 16:25, schrieb Remi Collet: >> Le 28/12/2011 16:10, Klaus-Peter Schrage a écrit : >> Have you the following SOMEWHERE in your httpd-conf-files? LoadModule php5_module "modules/libphp5.so" AddType application/x-httpd

Re: Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

2011-12-28 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:00 AM, linux guy wrote: > TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011 > Christophe GRENIER > http://www.cgsecurity.org > > > Disk /dev/sdd - 160 GB / 149 GiB - INTEL SS DSA2M160G2GC > > Please select the partition table type, press Enter when done. >>[Intel  ] Intel/

Re: Anacrontab start-range Night hours?

2011-12-28 Thread Mike Chambers
On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 11:45 +, Frank Murphy wrote: > Ho do I set anacron to just run jobs: > 10pm to 8am (the night shift) > > I was thinking 0-24, > but am worried the jobs would be rushed on bootup @10 edit /etc/anancrontab Change start hours to 22-3 And maybe also change random time to s

Re: SOLVED: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Mike Chambers
On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 17:04 +0100, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Am 28.12.2011 16:25, schrieb Remi Collet: > > Le 28/12/2011 16:10, Klaus-Peter Schrage a écrit : > > > >>> Have you the following SOMEWHERE in your httpd-conf-files? > >>> LoadModule php5_module "modules/libphp5.so" > >>> AddType appl

Re: SOLVED: Enable PHP on local Apache2 server

2011-12-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 28.12.2011 17:15, schrieb Steven Stern: On 12/28/2011 10:04 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Am 28.12.2011 16:25, schrieb Remi Collet: Le 28/12/2011 16:10, Klaus-Peter Schrage a écrit : Have you the following SOMEWHERE in your httpd-conf-files? LoadModule php5_module "modules/libphp5.so" Ad

Re: bridges, NAT, virtual machines, brain hurt :-).

2011-12-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:03:50 -0600 Ian Pilcher wrote: > What does your existing network look like? Here's some mail I just tried to send the netfilter mailing list (you never know if it is going to get through though): In my setup "br0" is the bridge that the physical interface and all my "norma

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread linux guy
Good discussion. Thanks for the replies. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://a

when does --skip-broken get applied when using yumex?

2011-12-28 Thread Kevin Martin
When running "yumex --skip-broken --nogpgcheck" I see a number of packages in the list of updates that are excluded as having dependency issues if I run "yum --skip-broken --nogpgcheck". Does the skip-broken with yumex get considered *only* if I try to apply the updates? Until I'm sure about t

Re: when does --skip-broken get applied when using yumex?

2011-12-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/12/11 17:45, Kevin Martin wrote: When running "yumex --skip-broken --nogpgcheck" I see a number of packages in the list of updates that are excluded as having dependency issues if I run "yum --skip-broken --nogpgcheck". Does the skip-broken with yumex get considered *only* if I try to a

Re: Implementing a "sometimes" RAID on a laptop. (eSATA, SSD, RAID 1)

2011-12-28 Thread Pete Travis
A 17" laptop cuts an awfully large profile. Are you sure there aren't two SATA bays? On Dec 28, 2011 10:27 AM, "linux guy" wrote: > Good discussion. Thanks for the replies. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://adm

Re: when does --skip-broken get applied when using yumex?

2011-12-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/28/2011 09:45 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: When running "yumex --skip-broken --nogpgcheck" I see a number of packages in the list of updates that are excluded as having dependency issues if I run "yum --skip-broken --nogpgcheck". Does the skip-broken with yumex get considered*only* if I try

Re: GNOME 3 Classic on the way

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:52:04 +0100, OV (Olav) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:50:40PM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > > I switched to Gnome3 just recently, and frankly, I am not sure I would want > > to go back again. Yes, the project has to mature, and I expect we will hit > > F18 befor

starting xfce with vncserver

2011-12-28 Thread Damian Rodriguez Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to start an xfce session on a vncserver connection. A call to startxfce4 on my xstartup file works with other distributions, but on my fc15 it just gives me a black screen after I connect. Any ideas? 0 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: What permisson to change?

2011-12-28 Thread Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
Steven Stern, Thanks for the reply. Em 27-12-2011 16:58, Steven Stern escreveu: > On 12/27/2011 05:14 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: >> Steven Stern, >> >> Thanks again for your reply. >> >> Em 27-12-2011 13:37, Steven Stern escreveu: >>> On 12/27/2011 03:27 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wro

Re: File copy errors on EXT4 SSD but fsck says its clean ????

2011-12-28 Thread linux guy
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:54 AM, linux guy wrote: > # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb > smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-3.1.5-1.fc16.i686] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net > > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART Self-t

Re: No title bar on app windows under XFCE in one user

2011-12-28 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:18:48 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Anyone else getting this kind of problem where app windows under XFCE > in one particular user, but not in another, come up without title > bars (and thus no close box, etc.)? > > The menu bar is there and functions. Check to make sure xfwm

Re: starting xfce with vncserver

2011-12-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/28/2011 11:50 AM, Damian Rodriguez Sanchez wrote: Hello, I'm trying to start an xfce session on a vncserver connection. A call to startxfce4 on my xstartup file works with other distributions, but on my fc15 it just gives me a black screen after I connect. Any ideas? After this fails

Re: starting xfce with vncserver

2011-12-28 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:50:10 -0200 Damian Rodriguez Sanchez wrote: > > > Hello, I'm trying to start an xfce session on a vncserver connection. > > A call to startxfce4 on my xstartup file works with other > distributions, but on my fc15 it just gives me a black screen after I > connect. > > A

Re: Sound not working

2011-12-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/27/2011 01:49 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Will check bugzilla and see if cna find anything. What would the search > be for? pulseaudio? or just do generic search on sound? Good question Probably one reason I didn't go further. :-) -- A common mistake that people make when trying to

Re: How to uninstall nvidia drivers in runlevel3

2011-12-28 Thread Ian Malone
On 26 December 2011 22:21, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/26/2011 01:56 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: >> >>  If you got the drivers from the nVidia website and you are in runlevel >> 3 you don't need to do an uninstall to do the update as the nVidia >> module is not loaded yet.  just run "yum update" and it wi

Re: Sorting Shotwell files..? & "people bugs".. & resizing icons in home-dir..?

2011-12-28 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 13:33, Ed Greshko wrote: > But, after I did we haven't seen any more of his "responses". > So, maybe it is fixed. Or maybe the list admins acted on it after I reported the problem. IMHO, for these sort of cases its probably better to report the issue to the list admins rat

Re: File copy errors on EXT4 SSD but fsck says its clean ????

2011-12-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/27/2011 10:42 PM, linux guy wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:54 AM, linux guy wrote: # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-3.1.5-1.fc16.i686] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SM

nepomukindexer was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)

2011-12-28 Thread Fedora Linux
Hello I have Fedora 16 for x86_64, from time to time it sends the error "nepomukindexer was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)" thru the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool, but now it keeps sending the error every 20 or 30 seconds and there are lots of instances of nepomuxindexer running at the same time one

Re: Firefox 9 on F16 can not set Home Page

2011-12-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 22:56 +, g wrote: > On 12/27/2011 09:28 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > In Firefox 9 in F16 I can't set the home page. I make my web page > > www.Google.com. Then I go to preferences and click "Use Current Page". > > This works for a while. But when I reboot the home page be

Re: when does --skip-broken get applied when using yumex?

2011-12-28 Thread Kevin Martin
On 12/28/2011 12:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/28/2011 09:45 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: >> When running "yumex --skip-broken --nogpgcheck" I see a number of packages >> in the list of updates that are excluded as having >> dependency issues if I run "yum --skip-broken --nogpgcheck". Does the >>

Re: grub2

2011-12-28 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Steve Searle wrote: Around 11:32pm on Monday, December 26, 2011 (UK time), Patrick Dupre scrawled: I understand that I have to a rebuild a grub.cfg file, but how? grub2-mkconfig can do it, but how do I modify the boot options? For example I which to remove the quiet and rh

Thanks Joel.. and "Does the computer "think"..?

2011-12-28 Thread Linda McLeod
Much Thanks Dear Joel.. I am researching your great advice dude.. The data I need to protect, is the new sciences I saw in the Bigfoot collective, after a female adolescent one touched my neck twice, which paralysed me for eight excruciating hours while she scanned my memories.. but I asked "may

Re: Thanks Joel.. and "Does the computer "think"..?

2011-12-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.12.2011 00:00, schrieb Linda McLeod: > Much Thanks Dear Joel.. > > I am researching your great advice dude.. > > The data I need to protect, is the new sciences I saw in the Bigfoot > collective, after a female adolescent one touched my neck twice, which > paralysed me for eight excruciat

Re: Boot disk?

2011-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:12 AM, wrote: >[...] > In this case it turns out it was booting off of sda (which is what I > suspected), I ended up taking a ride down to the datacenter and verifying > the BIOS. > > The original question although no longer important remains, can you tell > which disk

A couple of repeatable ways to freeze-up Fedora..

2011-12-28 Thread Linda McLeod
A couple of repeatable ways to freeze-up Fedora.. which is probably related and linked to other unsolved problems in Fedora.. As F-14 is booting-up, plug-in 8 flash-drives (2 hubs) before the OS is fully booted... With Shotwell slideshow up at full screen, tap "next pix" button about ten times.

Re: grub2

2011-12-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/28/2011 02:53 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: In fact it just finds installations which do not exist, probably traces of fedora14 which was installed before fedora 16. It's possible that there's still an old kernel installed, especially if this was an upgrade. yum --showduplicates list instal

Which Linux software is the very best for slide shows..?

2011-12-28 Thread Linda McLeod
Which Linux software is the very best for slide shows..? one that has "remove", in right click, to enable users to edit the slide show as it's running..? Would be nice if I could send a defective pix from slide show to a pix repair file, &/or straight to Gimp.. Is there a "Gimp slide show"..? I

Why would a particular flash-drive reconfigure itself to be read only, and lock-out admin..?

2011-12-28 Thread Linda McLeod
Anyone know why a particular flash-drive would reconfigure itself to be read only..? This F-drive has done this three times, forcing me to format it, and reload the hd backup.. and another has done it once.. I run with ten flash-drives in maintaining a perpetual backup by the hour.. I reload

Re: Thanks Joel.. and "Does the computer "think"..?

2011-12-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/28/2011 03:00 PM, Linda McLeod wrote: Disclaimer: All those who can't handle new stuff without freaking, fnord should not read this post.. Go to the next post.. Don't read my stuff.. It'll only cause you conditioning headaches, and make you want to hurt fnord the author.. Just don't r

Re: A couple of repeatable ways to freeze-up Fedora..

2011-12-28 Thread Patrick Lists
On 29-12-11 00:06, Linda McLeod wrote: A couple of repeatable ways to freeze-up Fedora.. which is probably related and linked to other unsolved problems in Fedora.. 1) F14 is EOL so why report something for a version of Fedora that is no longer maintained? 2) if you were to see a bug on F15

Re: Thanks Joel.. and "Does the computer "think"..?

2011-12-28 Thread Patrick Lists
On 29-12-11 00:00, Linda McLeod wrote: Why is it possible for tens of thousands of subscribers to this list to follow the mailing list guidelines, respect the goal of this mailing list and show proper conduct when participating, except you? What makes you so special that you think the rules d

Re: grub2

2011-12-28 Thread Mike Chambers
On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 22:53 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > It works fine. However, grub2-mkconfig tries to detect the installations > available on the computer and get some wrong results that I need to > correct by editing grub.cfg. This is bizarre. How can I get a better > control under grub2-mkco

Re: nepomukindexer was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)

2011-12-28 Thread Ed Greshko
> I have Fedora 16 for x86_64, from time to time it sends the error > "nepomukindexer was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)" thru the Automatic > Bug Reporting Tool, but now it keeps sending the error every 20 or 30 > seconds and there are lots of instances of nepomuxindexer running at > the same time

Re: Thanks Joel.. and "Does the computer "think"..?

2011-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
LOL On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 29-12-11 00:00, Linda McLeod wrote: > > Why is it possible for tens of thousands of subscribers to this list to > follow the mailing list guidelines, respect the goal of this mailing list > and show proper conduct when participating,

Re: Why would a particular flash-drive reconfigure itself to be read only, and lock-out admin..?

2011-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Linda McLeod wrote: > Anyone know why a particular flash-drive would reconfigure itself to be > read only..? Flash drives are generally very cheaply built. The OS does what it has to, to deal with them. > This F-drive has done this three times, forcing me to (F-

Re: Thanks Joel.. and "Does the computer "think"..?

2011-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Linda McLeod wrote: > Much Thanks Dear Joel.. Erk. > I am researching your great advice dude.. That's nice to know. > The data I need to protect, is the new sciences I saw in the Bigfoot > collective, [...] No computer technology available to handle that one.

Re: No title bar on app windows under XFCE in one user

2011-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:22 PM, fedora wrote: > On 2011-12-28 07:18, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> Anyone else getting this kind of problem where app windows under XFCE >> in one particular user, but not in another, come up without title >> bars (and thus no close box, etc.)? >> >> The menu bar is ther

Re: No title bar on app windows under XFCE in one user

2011-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:18:48 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> Anyone else getting this kind of problem where app windows under XFCE >> in one particular user,  but not in another, come up without title >> bars (and thus no close box, etc.)? >> >>

Re: Firefox 9 on F16 can not set Home Page

2011-12-28 Thread g
On 12/28/2011 10:17 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: <> > The method outlined in the web page you cited fixed the problem. Thanks! -=- great. glad it did the trick. most welcome. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* in a free world without fenc

Re: No title bar on app windows under XFCE in one user

2011-12-28 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:39:31 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:18:48 +0900 > > Joel Rees wrote: > > > >> Anyone else getting this kind of problem where app windows under > >> XFCE in one particular user,  but not in another,

Re: Why would a particular flash-drive reconfigure itself to be read only, and lock-out admin..?

2011-12-28 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 28, 2011 4:09 PM, "Linda McLeod" wrote: > > Anyone know why a particular flash-drive would reconfigure itself to be > read only..? This F-drive has done this three times, forcing me to > format it, and reload the hd backup.. and another has done it once.. I > run with ten flash-drives in

Re: grub2

2011-12-28 Thread Kevin Martin
On 12/28/2011 05:32 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 22:53 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> It works fine. However, grub2-mkconfig tries to detect the installations >> available on the computer and get some wrong results that I need to >> correct by editing grub.cfg. This is bizar

Re: No title bar on app windows under XFCE in one user

2011-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:39:31 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> > On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:18:48 +0900 >> > Joel Rees wrote: >> > >> >> Anyone else getting this kind of problem where app windo

Re: A couple of repeatable ways to freeze-up Fedora..

2011-12-28 Thread David
On 12/28/2011 6:13 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 29-12-11 00:06, Linda McLeod wrote: >> A couple of repeatable ways to freeze-up Fedora.. which is probably >> related and linked to other unsolved problems in Fedora.. > > 1) F14 is EOL so why report something for a version of Fedora that is >no

Re: No title bar on app windows under XFCE in one user

2011-12-28 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 11:56 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > >> Logged in as a different user, XFCE is running on that user. One > >> difference is that I have flash installed locally in the user that has > >> the problems. (It's about time to see if Adobe has a more recent > >> update, I guess.) > > > >

Re: grub2

2011-12-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/28/2011 06:34 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: find it interesting that when I install a new kernel and grubby runs to make the kernel entry for grub.cfg I*don't* get any safe mode boot up entry for that kernel. No real big deal but I kind of like having those entries. I don't get them on my d

F16 clean install issues.

2011-12-28 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
Have been testing an upgrade with F16 on one of my classroom machines, and ran into some issues. Missing maximize/minimize/close buttons on windows. Cleaned out a number of (.*) directories in a guest account then when I started the vncserver it gave the gnome3 message screen and worked, but h