Re: sylpheed plugins for F16

2012-01-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:24:38 -0600, RM (Ranjan) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question with regard to the sylpheed installation in F16. I > was wondering where the plugins are? (Specifically, the According to > the source file, the plugins are to be installed by make install-plugin, > however the cr

Re: Fed 16 + Broadcom wlan 4312 + kernel-3.2.1-3

2012-01-28 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:23:50AM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Alexander Volovics > >> > The wireless.kernel.org site also advices using b43-fwcutter version 0.15 >> > but this version does not s

Blinking wlan led after upgrading to 3.2.2-1 x64 fc16 kernel

2012-01-28 Thread Stevo Slavić
Hello Fedora community, I've just upgraded fedora 16 x64 from 3.2.1-3 to 3.2.2-1 kernel, and wlan led (on hp 8710p laptop) started blinking. It wasn't blinking for quite some kernel updates. It's configured not to blink via line "options iwl_legacy led_mode=1" in "/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf". I

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.01.2012 07:19, schrieb Kaushik Guha: > Thank you again Reindl. > Oh! It was a mistake on my part to enable a hell lot of repos. list. > Sorry,to bother you Friend. > > What I'm doing now is,whenever any update/upgrade is available,I uncheck > those packages which has ending as > "*.fc17"

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: nobody knows where the repo "_local" lives locate local.conf the path is listd in there. -- Regards, Frank Murphy, friend of fedoraproject UTF_8 Encoded -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread John Pilkington
On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: maybe after soem hours your machine would be clean, but realize it is not an easy job since yu have enabled all sort of braindead repos including ATrpms and your whole setup is broked You seem very free in your dismissal of the ATrpms repo, which I have

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kevin Martin
On 01/28/2012 12:19 AM, Kaushik Guha wrote: > Thank you again Reindl. > Oh! It was a mistake on my part to enable a hell lot of repos. list. > Sorry,to bother you Friend. > > What I'm doing now is,whenever any update/upgrade is available,I uncheck > those packages which has ending as "*.fc17" .

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.01.2012 15:22, schrieb Frank Murphy: > On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: >> nobody knows where the repo "_local" lives > > locate local.conf > the path is listd in there. really? :-) /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-local.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf anf

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.01.2012 15:22, schrieb John Pilkington: > On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> maybe after soem hours your machine would be clean, but realize >> it is not an easy job since yu have enabled all sort of braindead >> repos including ATrpms and your whole setup is broked >> > You seem

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kevin Martin
On 01/28/2012 08:46 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > > > On 01/28/2012 12:19 AM, Kaushik Guha wrote: >> Thank you again Reindl. >> Oh! It was a mistake on my part to enable a hell lot of repos. list. >> Sorry,to bother you Friend. >> >> What I'm doing now is,whenever any update/upgrade is available,I u

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 15:06, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 28.01.2012 15:22, schrieb Frank Murphy: On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: nobody knows where the repo "_local" lives locate local.conf the path is listd in there. really? :-) less of the smartarse. please. > /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-loc

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 10:41 +0530, Kaushik Guha wrote: > I did uncheck/disable the Fedora "Rawhide" repos.,along with all the > "Test Updates" repos. from Fedora using "Apper"(A fantastic Tool). Since everone else shares the things that bug them let me join the crowd. The name of the program from

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 06:19, Kaushik Guha wrote: Thank you again Reindl. Oh! It was a mistake on my part to enable a hell lot of repos. list. Sorry,to bother you Friend. What I'm doing now is,whenever any update/upgrade is available,I uncheck those packages which has ending as "*.fc17" .The rest package

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kaushik Guha
To Aaron Konstan: Well, "apper" is the actual name represented as per Fedora16,now this user's community gmail space is not for programming as we all know,I think, typos,lower-upper case letter mixing, doesn't affect much.Though you are correct that we should be true about information & facts. To

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.01.2012 17:11, schrieb Kaushik Guha: > To Frank,Kevin,Reindl,John...Friends: I actually wanted to enable the repos. > list(not all),since I want to *UPGRADE* this distro Fedora16(64-bit) to > Fedora 17(64-bit)(due to launch in May/June 2012) without losing any > files,applications,tools e

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 16:11, Kaushik Guha wrote: To Frank,Kevin,Reindl,John...Friends: I actually wanted to enable the repos. list(not all),since I want to *UPGRADE *this distro Fedora16(64-bit) to Fedora 17(64-bit)(due to launch in May/June 2012)without losing any files,applications,tools etc. until insta

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kaushik Guha
Currently I am at ease with KDE,and I am in it while I write this.Occasionally I use LXDE also,but GNOME-3.x seems to be uneasy with* me *at least. I've stated earlier,that it was my mistake to enable most of the repos. in the repos list. I had already disabled all "rawhide" repos and also the "ATr

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 16:36, Kaushik Guha wrote: Currently I am at ease with KDE,and I am in it while I write this.Occasionally I use LXDE also,but GNOME-3.x seems to be uneasy with*me *at least. I've stated earlier,that it was my mistake to enable most of the repos. in the repos list. I had already disabl

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kaushik Guha
Thanks,Frank.I followed your advice,and after erasing the* npapi-vlc*package along with the *whole of vlc-core package*,system has come to its stability(regarding updates/upgrades) as it seems. If I want to freshly install vlc package,shouid I use *YUM* or through * apper?* I want the whole librari

Opening ssh window on prescribed desktop

2012-01-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running Fedora-16/KDE . I'm not sure if this is a Fedora question, or a KDE question. But I can create a script to open an ssh window on a remote machine, by right-clicking on the f-icon, and choosing Edit Applications ... There I create a New Item, with instructions to run "ssh -Y alfred-vpn"

Chrome not shutting down

2012-01-28 Thread Steven Stern
When I exit from Chrome, it's not going away. I'm using Chrome from Google's repo: google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.77-118311.i386 Here's a process list after closing Chrome -- is this happening to anyone else? ps -ef |grep chrome sdstern 3266 1 34 11:12 ?00:00:16 /opt/google/chrome/

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 17:02, Kaushik Guha wrote: Thanks,Frank.I followed your advice,and after erasing the*npapi-vlc* package along with the *whole of vlc-core package*,system has come to its stability(regarding updates/upgrades) as it seems. If I want to freshly install vlc package,shouid I use *YUM* or t

Re: Chrome not shutting down

2012-01-28 Thread Soham Chakraborty
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Steven Stern < subscribed-li...@sterndata.com> wrote: > When I exit from Chrome, it's not going away. > > I'm using Chrome from Google's repo: > google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.77-118311.i386 > > Here's a process list after closing Chrome -- is this happening to > a

Re: Chrome not shutting down

2012-01-28 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/28/2012 11:25 AM, Soham Chakraborty wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Steven Stern > mailto:subscribed-li...@sterndata.com>> > wrote: > > When I exit from Chrome, it's not going away. > > I'm using Chrome from Google's repo: > google-chrome-stable-16.0.912.77-1183

[F16] update kernel, problem virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Paolo De Michele
hi list, I have problems after upgrading a kernel on fedora 16 the current kernel: Linux homelinux 3.2.2-1.fc16.i686 #1 SMP Thu Jan 26 03:38:31 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux virtualbox current version: VirtualBox-OSE.i6864.1.8-2.fc16 When starting a virt

Re: [F16] update kernel, problem virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/28/2012 11:51 AM, Paolo De Michele wrote: > hi list, > > I have problems after upgrading a kernel on fedora 16 > > > the current kernel: > Linux homelinux 3.2.2-1.fc16.i686 #1 SMP Thu Jan 26 03:38:31 UTC 2012 > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > virtualbox current version: > VirtualBox-OSE.i686

Re: [F16] update kernel, problem virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Dave Ulrick
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Paolo De Michele wrote: the other time I solved with the following command: /sbin/service vboxdrv setup the output is: Redirecting to /bin/systemctl setup vboxdrv.service Unknown operation setup This is most likely happening due to the new 'systemd' feature that's been

Re: [F16] update kernel, problem virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/28/2012 12:54 PM, Dave Ulrick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Paolo De Michele wrote: > >> the other time I solved with the following command: >> >> /sbin/service vboxdrv setup >> >> >> the output is: >> >> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl setup vboxdrv.service >> Unknown operation setup > > Thi

Re: [F16] update kernel, problem virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Paolo De Michele
On 01/28/2012 07:54 PM, Dave Ulrick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Paolo De Michele wrote: > >> the other time I solved with the following command: >> >> /sbin/service vboxdrv setup >> >> >> the output is: >> >> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl setup vboxdrv.service >> Unknown operation setup > > Thi

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 1/28/2012 9:02 AM, Kaushik Guha wrote: [...] I am getting hit with emails from Google+ about Kaushik Guha adding me to his circles and requesting that I join Google+. Normally I would ignore, but given the tendency of this list to lite up on most anything non-Fedora that comes along, I wan

Re: [F16] update kernel, problem virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/28/2012 01:07 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: > > > On 01/28/2012 07:54 PM, Dave Ulrick wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Paolo De Michele wrote: >> >>> the other time I solved with the following command: >>> >>> /sbin/service vboxdrv setup >>> >>> >>> the output is: >>> >>> Redirecting to /bin/sy

Why do e.g. ssh sessions hang when I try to log out?

2012-01-28 Thread Thomas Cameron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed this a lot recently. I want to run an X app off another machine, say thunderbird. So I do "ssh -X user@host" to log in and run thunderbird from the command line. When I get done, I exit thunderbird and get a command prompt back. Then when

Re: Why do e.g. ssh sessions hang when I try to log out?

2012-01-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:16:33 -0600 Thomas Cameron wrote: > Anyone else notice this? Yep. If anything at all is started during your ssh session that tries to hang around, the ssh daemon will figure you didn't really want to exit till the thing you started goes away. Since every app in the univers

Re: [F16] update kernel, problem virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Paolo De Michele
On 01/28/2012 08:18 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 01/28/2012 01:07 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: >> >> On 01/28/2012 07:54 PM, Dave Ulrick wrote: >>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Paolo De Michele wrote: >>> the other time I solved with the following command: /sbin/service vboxdrv setup >

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 21:41 +0530, Kaushik Guha wrote: > To Aaron Konstan: Well, "apper" is the actual name represented as per > Fedora16,now this user's community gmail space is not for programming > as we all know,I think, typos,lower-upper case letter mixing, doesn't > affect much.Though you ar

The missing option in the program apper

2012-01-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
I know I ran apper and I used an option called get and remove software and it removed apper. Now I can't find that option again so I am going to have to apologize for the facts I reported. I can't explain what happened so I will just deny it happened ;-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedora

Re: [F16] update kernel, problem virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
Hi Paolo, Em 28-01-2012 16:49, Paolo De Michele escreveu: > > > On 01/28/2012 08:18 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 01/28/2012 01:07 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: >>> On 01/28/2012 07:54 PM, Dave Ulrick wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Paolo De Michele wrote: > the other time I solved with th

Samsung RF711-S02 anyone?

2012-01-28 Thread Geoffrey Leach
I'm shopping for a desktop-replacement-grade laptop. The Samsung RF711- S02 (Intel i7/4G DDR3 /750 GB / 17") looks like it might be a good fit. BUT, can't find any info on Linux-compatibility. Anyone have data on that? Thanks. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Samsung RF711-S02 anyone?

2012-01-28 Thread Terry Polzin
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 16:10 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I'm shopping for a desktop-replacement-grade laptop. The Samsung RF711- > S02 (Intel i7/4G DDR3 /750 GB / 17") looks like it might be a good fit. > BUT, can't find any info on Linux-compatibility. Anyone have data on > that? > > Thanks.

Troubleshooting upnp and dlna

2012-01-28 Thread Khairil Yusof
Hi, Just installed F16 and there is an issue I don't know how to troubleshoot and couldn't find answers easily on Google. My media applications can't seem to see upnp devices on my local network. There are two providers, my phone (dlna provider), home server (dlna provider). TV which is a dlna me

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kaushik Guha
To Mr. Paul Allen Newell: Sir,it was a legit request .But I do honour and respect people's privacy.Sir,I am removing your name from my Google+ circle as you suggested on the mail.Also,remember I do not have any malicious intentions as such. From -Kaushik Guha. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Aar

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 1/28/2012 5:53 PM, Kaushik Guha wrote: To Mr. Paul Allen Newell: Sir,it was a legit request .But I do honour and respect people's privacy.Sir,I am removing your name from my Google+ circle as you suggested on the mail.Also,remember I do not have any malicious intentions as such. From -Kaus

Virtual machine => Physical machine - fix screen resolution?

2012-01-28 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I sent this note to the Fedora virtual list so I thought I might try here . . I installed a Fedora 16 x86_64 virtual machine on a Fedora 14 x86_64 server but used a physical disk (/dev/sdb = /dev/vda) so I could get the new server going almost completely in virtual mode and then when

Re: Samsung RF711-S02 anyone?

2012-01-28 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 01/28/2012 05:03:18 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 16:10 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > I'm shopping for a desktop-replacement-grade laptop. The Samsung > RF711- > > S02 (Intel i7/4G DDR3 /750 GB / 17") looks like it might be a good > fit. > > BUT, can't find any info on Linu

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kaushik Guha
My problem is gone. *I can update/upgrade packages onto my Fedora 16(x86_64) OS at ease.* I thank all my Friends for their valuable suggestions and advice regarding configuring(choosing) correctly the repositories from the repos list,and to erase or deselect certain packages which were providing d

Re: Samsung RF711-S02 anyone?

2012-01-28 Thread Roger
My daughter just purchased a Toshiba Satellite 750 laptop which she installed Ubuntu on with no problem. While the nvidia graphics card is a bit slow for some apps she is quite happy with it. It runs Blender well Roger On 01/28/2012 05:03:18 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 16:10

Re: Virtual machine => Physical machine - fix screen resolution?

2012-01-28 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 01/29/2012 12:01 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I sent this note to the Fedora virtual list so I thought I might try here . . I installed a Fedora 16 x86_64 virtual machine on a Fedora 14 x86_64 server but used a physical disk (/dev/sdb = /dev/vda) so I could get the new server going almo

Re: [CentOS] Virtual machine => Physical machine - fix screen resolution?

2012-01-28 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 01/28/2012 09:01 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I sent this note to the Fedora virtual list so I thought I might try here . . I installed a Fedora 16 x86_64 virtual machine on a Fedora 14 x86_64 server but used a physical disk (/dev/sdb = /dev/vda) so I could get the new server going almo