Many thanks for the quick reply.
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F15 installed without any problems. I'm running yum update right now.
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Have a
On 11/01/12 03:06, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> Make sure it's not set to work in Offline Mode. My copy keeps resetting
>> that every time it restarts and so far I haven't gotten it to stop.
>
> Browse to "about:config" and set "network.manage-o
Greetings,
I have just installed F16 on a friend's box. Now I want to enable sshd in
order to log in from home and do system administration, updates, etc...
for him.
Before F16, the same box was running Ubuntu and I could log in via ssh
without problems. Now every attempt from my home times out.
At first you have to know that ssh port is up and running(netstat -nat
| egrep "0:0:0:0:22|*:22") and reachable from outside- check it with
http://www.nmap-online.com f.e. Flush all iptables rules(save with
iptables-save, before flushing) if needed
2012/1/11 M. Fioretti :
> Greetings,
>
> I have
>Before F16, the same box was running Ubuntu and I could log in via ssh
>without problems. Now every attempt from my home times out.
1. Try in your friend computer ssh localhost to see if the ssh server
is running properly
2.Try telnet x.x.x.x 22 where x.x.x.x is your's friend ip, from your
compu
On 01/10/2012 02:59 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 01/09/2012 05:58 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
>
>
> > On 01/09/2012 09:26 AM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
> >> hi list,
> >>
> >> I have a problem with Fedora 16 in view of twitter site with
> >> browsers google chrome and chromium. with firefox there
ssh -v dest.address
suomi
On 2012-01-11 11:02, Emilio Lopez wrote:
Before F16, the same box was running Ubuntu and I could log in via ssh
without problems. Now every attempt from my home times out.
1. Try in your friend computer ssh localhost to see if the ssh server
is running properly
2.Tr
T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> This section of the installation guide explains how to install from an
> ISO image on your hard drive in detail:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/s1-
installationmethod-x86.html
>
> Note that you don't even need a minimal installa
Quoting "M. Fioretti" :
Greetings,
I have just installed F16 on a friend's box. Now I want to enable sshd in
order to log in from home and do system administration, updates, etc...
for him.
Before F16, the same box was running Ubuntu and I could log in via ssh
without problems. Now every attem
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> As my current installation is EOL,
> there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
> For me, installation has always been a struggle.
> I approach new requirements with increased fear and trepidation.
> I don't do upgrades.
> It seems to me that an u
On 11/01/12 02:32, Michael Hennebry wrote:
As my current installation is EOL,
there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
If you are uncertain.
Dowload and run a LiveCD of whatever flavour DE you like.
This may let you know in advance of and hardware issues.
Backup your
T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>> Make sure it's not set to work in Offline Mode. My copy keeps resetting
>> that every time it restarts and so far I haven't gotten it to stop.
>
> Browse to "about:config" and set "network.manage-offline-status" to
> "false".
>
> IIRC this happens when you use the n
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 07:16:12 AM -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
> How is this box connected to the outside world? Have there been ANY
> networking changes wrt the internet connection?
none whatsoever. The only hardware thing that is changed (sorry for
forgetting this in the first message, but I'm alm
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 20:32 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> As my current installation is EOL,
> there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16.
> For me, installation has always been a struggle.
> I approach new requirements with increased fear and trepidation.
> I don't do u
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:36:56PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>
> >> Make sure it's not set to work in Offline Mode. My copy keeps resetting
> >> that every time it restarts and so far I haven't gotten it to stop.
> >
> > Browse to "about:config" and set "network.ma
Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> > Browse to "about:config" and set "network.manage-offline-status" to
>> > "false".
>> >
>> > IIRC this happens when you use the network service instead of
>> > NetworkManager. Firefox queries NetworkManager for the offline
>> > status, and thinks you're offline when it
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 01:48:47PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
> >> > Browse to "about:config" and set "network.manage-offline-status" to
> >> > "false".
> >> >
> >> > IIRC this happens when you use the network service instead of
> >> > NetworkManager. Firefox queries
On 11/01/12 2:32 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 07:06 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>> Browse to"about:config" and set "network.manage-offline-status" to
>> "false".
>>
>> IIRC this happens when you use the network service instead of
>> NetworkManager. Firefox queries NetworkManager for the
> telnet his.ip.address 22 times out
Also check router NAT. 99% times this is the problem.
Emilio.
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 15:44:49 PM +0100, Emilio Lopez wrote:
> > telnet his.ip.address 22 times out
>
> Also check router NAT. 99% times this is the problem.
but noting changed in the router, see previous message.
Basically, it's like we had unplugged the ethernet cable going to the
router/ADSL m
Well, the old pc can have a dhcp static assigned ip based on his mac.
I should try also, ssh-ing from another LAN pc, as the old ubuntu box
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I didn't test installing grub2 because in addition to the boot problem
there was also a kernel problem with the F16 install.
I got my XPS17 running Linux by doing an install from the F15-KDE-64-Live iso.
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I have a new Dell XPS17.
It came with a 500 GB hard drive loaded with Windows.
I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install
Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks.
If I install F15 alone on the SSD, can I install Windows later or must
it be present in the first place
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:19:38 -0700
linux guy wrote:
> I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install
> Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks.
I have had great success running gparted to shrink windows
partitions and make space for linux from a live CD. Haven't
done it w
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 10:42 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:19:38 -0700
> linux guy wrote:
>
> > I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install
> > Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks.
>
> I have had great success running gparted to shrink windows
>
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 08:19:38 linux guy wrote:
> I have a new Dell XPS17.
> It came with a 500 GB hard drive loaded with Windows.
>
> I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install
> Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks.
I guess the simplest option would be to
> I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install
> Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks.
Probably, you could create a rescue cd kit from your old hard drive,
you should have a menu item in start menu labeled "Rescue CDs" or
something like that.
After creating them, you
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 13:32 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 07:16:12 AM -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > How is this box connected to the outside world? Have there been ANY
> > networking changes wrt the internet connection?
> But internet connectivity was and remains the same: A
On 01/11/2012 12:20 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 13:32 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 07:16:12 AM -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
How is this box connected to the outside world? Have there been ANY
networking changes wrt the internet connection?
But internet con
On 01/11/2012 05:34 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
The
Firefox maintainers have chosen to assume that most users are not
going to mess with the innards of networking scripts, and that letting
NM manage connections is the most prudent move if you have to make one
choice for everyone.
There are ways
On 01/11/2012 06:26 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Firefox doesn't know whether
it's on purpose or accident
...and doesn't need to. Dropped is dropped. And, if the user's trying
to browse, he/she probably isn't aware of what's happened and should be
told.
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On 01/11/2012 06:43 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
This has been discussed before on the list. Note that you also need to
configure NM to manage your interface, otherwise NM will report it as
offline even when it's online.
My desktop doesn't use NM, and for a very good reason: it nuked my DNS
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 15:43 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 15:44:49 PM +0100, Emilio Lopez wrote:
> >
> Basically, it's like we had unplugged the ethernet cable going to the
> router/ADSL modem from the old pc running Ubuntu (which accepted and
> handled incoming ssh connection w
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 08:19:38 AM linux guy wrote:
> I have a new Dell XPS17.
>
> It came with a 500 GB hard drive loaded with Windows.
>
> I want to install a 160 GB SSD in my XPS17. I also want to install
> Fedora 15. I don't have any Windows disks.
>
> If I install F15 alone on th
Here's why Fedora 16 isn't ready for prime time.
Many of these have been BZ'd, without effect.
- I won't even discuss the gnome3 controversy. I've used xfce for
many years and am very happy with it.
- The worst aspect of Fedora 16 is it has made computing a stochastic
process. Instead of t
Thanks for the replies.
My head hurts from thinking about this stuff.
FYI, my XPS17 has 2 hard drive bays. I want 1 bay for the SSD, on
which I will load Windows and Linux. The other bay is for a 750 GB
data drive.
I hate Windows.
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On 01/11/2012 11:58 AM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
4b. Shrink Windows partition in 500GB HD to whatever you want it to be on SDD
Unless things have changed considerably, gparted doesn't copy partitions
from one drive to another. Clonezilla does, but won't shrink it. (It
comes on its own Live C
Folks,
I have a fresh intallation of Fedora 16 x64 on my Toshiba A305-S6864 Laptop.
I have a problem with my wifi conectivity, it is really, really slow,
comparing with the speed using Fedora 10 or Windows 7 on the same machine.
I tryed to install compat-wireless-next driver, but my kernel version
It turns out the gparted can copy partitions.
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/03/copy-partitions-with-gparted/
I'm not 100% sure that I am going to need Windows. I won't know until
I buy a piece of software and attempt to run it under wine in a couple
months.
Does anyone see a problem with install
There is always Microsoft(R) Windows(R)
I ran Linux for about two years natively on my main desktop.
(first was Linux Mint, then Ubuntu, then Xubuntu after the switch to
Unity Desktop)
Been running Windows(R) 7 Home Premium 64Bit for almost a year with zero
problems.
Its really not that bad
On 01/11/2012 12:00 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
- The systemd system has replaced the simple and easily understood
sysv init system with a jumbled mess.
Right now, I don't understand why the decision was made to make this
change. From where I sit, it's beginning to look like change for it
On 01/11/2012 03:26 PM, Jesse Palser wrote:
There is always Microsoft(R) Windows(R)
I ran Linux for about two years natively on my main desktop.
(first was Linux Mint, then Ubuntu, then Xubuntu after the switch to
Unity Desktop)
Been running Windows(R) 7 Home Premium 64Bit for almost a year w
Firefox is intermittently freezing from time to time in my KDE
sessions, hanging my whole machine for 20 seconds to a minute every 20
minutes or so.
Anyone else having this problem ?
$ yum list firefox
firefox.i686 9.0.1-1.fc16
$ uname -a
Linux server.localdo
- Changing UID's to start at 1000 instead of 500 is just annoying.
Yes it is, but that's easily fixed with a one-time script. I can send
you a sample perl script if you need one.
- With earlier kernels, skype was merely unreliable, sometimes with no
microphone, sometimes no sound, someti
On 01/11/2012 12:26 PM, Jesse Palser wrote:
Been running Windows(R) 7 Home Premium 64Bit for almost a year with zero
problems.
Its really not that bad anymore...
Damning with faint praise, indeed.
Seriously, from what I gather, Win7 is far, far better than Vista.
Joanne Dow and I have a frien
I'm wondering if it was pushed into Fedora too soon. Of course, Fedora's
a test-bed for new things, but I'm not sure systemd was ready for such a
wide-spread beta test. If anybody happens to have a link to an
explanation of what's so much better about systemd I'd be glad to follow
it and learn, bu
On 01/11/2012 12:39 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
Yes it is, but that's easily fixed with a one-time script. I can send
you a sample perl script if you need one.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, when I upgrade my machine I'll move to a 64
bit system and deal with the UID issue. I have three
On 11/01/12 2:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 06:43 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> This has been discussed before on the list. Note that you also need to
>> configure NM to manage your interface, otherwise NM will report it as
>> offline even when it's online.
>
> My desktop doesn't use
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 13:12:39 PM -0500, Timothy Davis wrote:
> You do realize that Ubuntu has the firewall turned off by default
> and Fedora it is enabled?
I had thought to that, but as I said I have ran system-config-firewall
to allow incoming ssh connections. Answering to the other poster, IIR
On 01/11/2012 03:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 01/11/2012 12:39 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
Yes it is, but that's easily fixed with a one-time script. I can send
you a sample perl script if you need one.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, when I upgrade my machine I'll move to a 64
bit system an
On 01/11/2012 12:44 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html summarizes it pretty well.
The post includes a huge list of things that systemd does that
systemvinit and Upstart don't do. However, as all of those things got
done during boot anyway, that ju
On 01/11/2012 12:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
And I've never had an issue with NM since I started using it, though to
judge from the list traffic, other people have. Go figure.
My laptop uses NM because network doesn't handle WiFi gracefully. The
only problem I've ever had with it is hav
On 01/11/2012 12:57 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
The perl script for for fixing uid/gid numbering is below.
Thanx. I've saved it, and your instructions for future use. I presume
that this has to be done as root, although you didn't mention it.
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A friend of mine (she doesn't speak English) installed Clementine but
when she started it nothing happened:
starting from a terminal she gets the following message:
clementine
db error: QSqlError(21, "Unable to execute multiple statements at a
time", "not an error")
faulty query: "CREATE TAB
On 01/11/2012 04:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 01/11/2012 12:57 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
The perl script for for fixing uid/gid numbering is below.
Thanx. I've saved it, and your instructions for future use. I presume
that this has to be done as root, although you didn't mention it.
Y
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 15:44 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> > I'm wondering if it was pushed into Fedora too soon. Of course, Fedora's
> > a test-bed for new things, but I'm not sure systemd was ready for such a
> > wide-spread beta test. If anybody happens to have a link to an
> > explan
On 01/11/2012 07:45 PM, antonio wrote:
A friend of mine (she doesn't speak English) installed Clementine but
when she started it nothing happened:
starting from a terminal she gets the following message:
clementine
db error: QSqlError(21, "Unable to execute multiple statements at a
time", "not a
On 01/12/2012 04:33 AM, linux guy wrote:
> Firefox is intermittently freezing from time to time in my KDE
> sessions, hanging my whole machine for 20 seconds to a minute every 20
> minutes or so.
>
> Anyone else having this problem ?
>
> $ yum list firefox
> firefox.i686
On 01/12/2012 04:00 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> Here's why Fedora 16 isn't ready for prime time.
> Many of these have been BZ'd, without effect.
Would you kindly supply the bugzilla # for each one that has been
reported?
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On 01/12/2012 04:39 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
>> - Libreoffice insists on making files inaccessible via nfs.
>>A workaround is to edit /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice to
>>comment out these two lines:
>> ## SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 ## export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
>>
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:33 PM, linux guy wrote:
> Firefox is intermittently freezing from time to time in my KDE
> sessions, hanging my whole machine for 20 seconds to a minute every 20
> minutes or so.
>
> Anyone else having this problem ?
>
> $ yum list firefox
> firefox.i686
The only real problems I've had with f16 is the one recently
discussed in another thread about the kernel problem with
heavy disk I/O from one process bogging down everything
else on the system. I was using mencoder the other day to
convert a .wmv file to a big .avi file for simpler editing,
and wh
Hi,
Any documentation to set up sudoers file apart from man sudoers ?
Regards,
Kaushal
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Hi fellows,
Ref: 3.1.7-1.fc16.x86_64
Trying to set extended attributes(samba_share_t ) to shared files on
SAMBA for selinux to work, I decided to use
policycoreutils-gui-2.1.4-3.fc16.x86_64 but:
=
I just did a yum update on my F16 box, and the transaction reported (among the
usual things):
Updating : setup-2.8.36-3.fc16.noarch 111/236
warning: /etc/shadow created as /etc/shadow.rpmnew
Additionally, after the update was completed, I looked up /etc/shadow.rpmnew,
and it's not there
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Kaushal Shriyan
wrote:
> Any documentation to set up sudoers file apart from man sudoers ?
Maybe you can refer to the /etc/sudoers itself, there are some examples in
it.
cat /etc/sudoers, which needs root priviledge.
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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> And I've never had an issue with NM since I started using it, though to
> judge from the list traffic, other people have. Go figure.
In my experience NM works about 95%, or even 99%, of the time;
but when there is a problem it is extremely difficult
(or perhaps I shou
On 1/11/12, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any documentation to set up sudoers file apart from man sudoers ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Kaushal
>
Try the following website..
http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/sudoers.man.html
HTH
Marvin
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On 01/12/2012 09:28 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> I just did a yum update on my F16 box, and the transaction reported (among
> the
> usual things):
>
> Updating : setup-2.8.36-3.fc16.noarch 111/236
> warning: /etc/shadow created as /etc/shadow.rpmnew
>
> Additionally, after the update was c
I have the computer wired to a hub which is wired to the router. Three
other computers (wireless & wired) are going through the same router and
having no difficulties. When I run the "ifconfig" command in terminal it
says it is up and connected. When I ran the "ethtool em1" command I got
the "ca
On Jan 11, 2012 8:17 PM, "John De Graw" wrote:
>
> I have the computer wired to a hub which is wired to the router. Three
other computers (wireless & wired) are going through the same router and
having no difficulties. When I run the "ifconfig" command in terminal it
says it is up and connected.
Firefox just says "server not found". It is running in online mode. I
will try re-installing the browser and see what happens.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2012 8:17 PM, "John De Graw" wrote:
> >
> > I have the computer wired to a hub which is wired to th
On 01/10/2012 06:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 02:07 PM, g wrote:
>> so, consider this post as warning of future post. 8-D
>
> I'm pretty sure I know what you want
>
> You want a pre-processor to take incoming emails that are in encoded in
> base64 and un-encode it before storage in
On 01/10/2012 01:13 PM, Tim wrote:
<>
> You could pipe your mail through a local mailserver, one that transcodes
> on the way through. Various mail/list servers do that, and you can do
> just the same thing, but picking the output encoding that you want used.
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would you happen to know of a s
Hi all,
adding a new user with "useradd ..." will create two additional files
never removed:
/etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow-
Question: are these files only created for backup purposes, or is there
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On 12/01/12 02:40, Ed Greshko wrote:
I saw the same message just now But no /etc/shadow.rpmnew was
created and the /etc/shadow file was not touched.
diff /etc/shadow /etc/shadow-
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On 01/12/2012 01:28 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
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> What is this all about?
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if you compare "/etc/shadow" to "/etc/shadow.rpmnew" when it is there,
you will see that yum/rpm has added a program's name to "/etc/shadow"
when yum/rpm adds a new program that needs to be assigned an id.
this also
On 01/12/2012 02:40 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
<>
> I saw the same message just now But no /etc/shadow.rpmnew was
> created and the /etc/shadow file was not touched.
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where you updating same package?
could be you two have found a bug with yum/rpm.
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On 01/12/2012 04:44 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
explanation of what's so much better about systemd I'd be glad to follow
it and learn, but it's not urgent enough for me to go hunting and
weeding out all of the blind leads.
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html summarizes it pretty
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