Re: Permanently set screen brightness

2012-03-08 Thread Bruno Martins
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/07/2012 12:54 AM, Bruno Martins wrote: > >> This problem is happening since F15's kernel version (in F14 this didn't >> happen). It's a "problem" with the kernel version, because I have the >> same problem on other distros on the same comput

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/2012 03:50 PM, Tim wrote: > I'd never seen a UTC "timezone" setting, nor even heard of anyone > referring to one. If you look at the headers of all messages coming *from* you to this list, you will see Received: from smtp-mm01.fedoraproject.org (smtp-mm01.fedoraproject.org [8

Re: Permanently set screen brightness

2012-03-08 Thread Andras Simon
2012/3/7, Bruno Martins : > Hello list, > > Is there any file that I must edit which sets the default screen > brightness to the maximum, so I don't need to change it every time I > restart my computer? If something like echo 10 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness works for you (as roo

Re: Problems with webDAV and rsync

2012-03-08 Thread Mirco Vitr
> I can confirm that after further testing. Just tested cp with larger >files (around 15 MB) in F16 (not working) and Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, >working). Rsync also works in OS X. So it seems that indeed davfs2 is > the problem. Does anybody know an alternative? Hi everybody, unfortunately I have t

Problem with RTL8178

2012-03-08 Thread Jonathan Allen
Hi All, I have an old laptop that got upgraded this week from WinXP to F14 after a massive virus/trojan hit :-( The laptop has the Realtek RTL8178 wireless chipset and did wireless fine in WinXP. Although it can see the wireless network fine, it won't connect in F14. I downloaded the F16 L

Re: Tech questions on Grub2 and use of gparted on Fedora 16.

2012-03-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:36:36 +1000 "Michael D. Setzer II" wrote: > Possible a little off topic, but issues effect Fedora 16 sytems and > grub2. Haven't been able to find detailed info on exactly what is > going on with the grub2. If someone knows the info, or where I > could find it. Thanks.

Re: Problem with RTL8178

2012-03-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:44:54 + Jonathan Allen wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an old laptop that got upgraded this week from WinXP to F14 after a > massive virus/trojan hit :-( > > The laptop has the Realtek RTL8178 wireless chipset and did wireless fine in > WinXP. Although it can see the w

Re: Problem with RTL8178

2012-03-08 Thread Jonathan Allen
Alan, > > a. F16 without Gnome 3 > > > > b. back-fitting the working RTL8178 stuff into the (otherwise fine) > > F14 installation > > > > Recommendations or instructions? > > F14 is out of support so security holes in thr browser etc are not being > fixed. I'd suggest F16 with a

Re: Problem with RTL8178

2012-03-08 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:23, Jonathan Allen wrote: >> F14 is out of support so security holes in thr browser etc are not being >> fixed. I'd suggest F16 with another desktop. > > So, as a novice, how do I switch the default desktop on F16 to the old Gnome > that was used in F14? Another desktop

Re: Problem with RTL8178

2012-03-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.03.2012, Jonathan Allen wrote: > So, as a novice, how do I switch the default desktop on F16 to the old Gnome > that was used in F14? This is no longer possible, Fedora decided to go on with Gnome 3. So the choice is Gnome 3, or one of the other fine desktop environments as e.g. KDE or XFC

Re: perlTk

2012-03-08 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 03:20:20PM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > How would you fix such an error: > Tk object version 804.028503 does not match $Tk::XS_VERSION 804.029 > at /usr/lib/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 223 This means that the version number in the perl file Tk.pm doesn't match the

Re: perlTk

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Dave Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 03:20:20PM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, How would you fix such an error: Tk object version 804.028503 does not match $Tk::XS_VERSION 804.029 at /usr/lib/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 223 This means that the version number in th

Re: perlTk

2012-03-08 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:13:30PM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > This means that the version number in the perl file Tk.pm doesn't match > > the version number in the compiled binary Tk.so. Why they differ is > > probably down to how Tk was installed or

Re: Problem with RTL8178

2012-03-08 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Jonathan Allen wrote: > I have an old laptop that got upgraded this week from WinXP to F14 after a > massive virus/trojan hit :-( > > The laptop has the Realtek RTL8178 wireless chipset and did wireless fine in > WinXP.  Although it can see the wireless network fine

Re: perlTk

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Dave Mitchell wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:13:30PM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Dave Mitchell wrote: > This means that the version number in the perl file Tk.pm doesn't match > the version number in the compiled binary Tk.so. Why they differ is > proba

Re: perlTk

2012-03-08 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:58:46PM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > No, it does help. > This 2 variables are just set to be able to call my own perl libraries > I have the same issue without setting them. Ok, in that case, could you run the following script, using the perl you're having trouble with:

Re: Problem with RTL8178

2012-03-08 Thread Jonathan Allen
Dear Dale (and others who helped), > I'd recommend F16 with XFCE. > > Install XFCE and then change or create /etc/sysconfig/desktop to: > > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop > PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startxfce4 > > Or just re-install the system from the F16 Live XFCE CD, > which is what I did. > > I've

Re: perlTk

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:58:46PM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: No, it does help. This 2 variables are just set to be able to call my own perl libraries I have the same issue without setting them. Ok, in that case, could you run the following script, using the perl you're having trouble with:

[389-users] Replacing a DS server

2012-03-08 Thread mjames
We are replacing one of our two 389 servers. I want to re-use the IP address of the old server on the new one. What's the correct order of events for replication, shutdown and replacement? Thanks, Mike -- 389 users mailing list 389-us...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

IPTable Rules... again

2012-03-08 Thread nullv
Hi, I have the following  rules on my router/gateway: *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT :INPUT ACCEPT :OUTPUT ACCEPT :POSTROUTING ACCEPT -A POSTROUTING -d 93.186.25.52/32 -m comment --comment "bb" -j SNAT --to-source 41.94.39.49-41.94.39.51 -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/8 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -m com

Re: IPTable Rules... again

2012-03-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.03.2012 16:16, schrieb nu...@gmx.com: > for some reason I can't make a connection to the external mail > server from inside the lan. even from the 10.0.0.3 address which > should be allowed to do anything. everything used to work when i > used MASQUERADing but stopped once i switched to SNA

Re: perlTk

2012-03-08 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 03:07:55PM +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > My understanding is that there is 2 Tk installed: > perl-Tk-804.028-12.fc14.i686 > in /usr/lib/perl5 > and one in > /usr/local/lib/perl5 > which probably due to cpan > Tk-804.029-pvHDks > Some perl packages are not available > from fe

Re: Permanently set screen brightness

2012-03-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
> Hello list, > > Is there any file that I must edit which sets the default screen > brightness to the maximum, so I don't need to change it every time I > restart my computer? On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:06 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > echo 10 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness There is

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 19:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 12:13 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Unfortunately a search of /var/log as root: > > # find -type f | xargs fgrep Administrator > > returns nothing. It looks like the display manager is gdm, since >

Re: Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

2012-03-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. It doesn't work. How do I debug this? Most recently I used tab and backspaced over quiet. Since I didn't have a running system, I had to copy the result by hand: [1.429346] ---cut here--- ke

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
TO NO-REPLY TIM WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR. On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:20 +1030, Tim wrote: > > Cause and effect: Has CUPS stopped working because UTC is set? Is > the > time set wrong, and has CUPS stopped working because the time is set > wrong? Is CUPS faulty? Has CUPS merely indicated that somet

Tracker crashes

2012-03-08 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
What is "Tracker" and why is it crashing all the time? Almost every time I start my system, I get an Abrt warning with this message: Process /usr/libexec/tracker-extract was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) The system is a 4 processor running KDE-4.7.4 under Fedora-16 with all upgra

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-08 Thread jdow
On 2012/03/08 08:47, Aaron Konstam wrote: TO NO-REPLY TIM WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR. On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:20 +1030, Tim wrote: Cause and effect: Has CUPS stopped working because UTC is set? Is the time set wrong, and has CUPS stopped working because the time is set wrong? Is CUPS faulty? H

Re: Problem with RTL8178

2012-03-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/08/2012 02:44 AM, Jonathan Allen wrote: a. F16 without Gnome 3 My pick. You don't have to use Gnome to use Fedora and many of us don't. I use XFCE, many others use KDE and there are lots of other choices out there. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/08/2012 08:47 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: But most of all go away attacking someone else secure behind your email no-reply screen. That just stops you from taking this to private email and makes sure the discussion stays on the list. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: [389-users] Replacing a DS server

2012-03-08 Thread mjames
@Gerhardus - Thanks for your help. I inherited the setup. 2 servers with multi-master replication on RH 5.6 / 5.7. The new replacement server will be CentOS 6.2. Version info follows. The "old" RH servers: [root@x-389-01 src]# ns-slapd -v 389 Project 389-Directory/1.2.2 B2009.237.2042 [root@x-3

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 17:31, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > It is even easier. After you put in your login name there is a window on > the screen where you can chose thew window manager to boot. Actually that is the way to switch desktop environments, not display managers. A display manager is the int

Re: [389-users] Replacing a DS server

2012-03-08 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Not sure I was much help. I am sure Rich will jump into the conversation. I am proper back at work next week and can then dig around and give you a more complete answer with regards to exact steps if you can wait that long. Regards On 8 March 2012 17:37, wrote: > @Gerhardus - Thanks for your he

Re: [389-users] Replacing a DS server

2012-03-08 Thread Rich Megginson
On 03/08/2012 10:45 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: Not sure I was much help. I am sure Rich will jump into the conversation. I am proper back at work next week and can then dig around and give you a more complete answer with regards to exact steps if you can wait that long. Regards On 8 Mar

wmic from Linux, wmi-client or winexe

2012-03-08 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks. Judging by google this is a can of worms that has been opened a number of times but I thought I'd have another go. I am (re-)implementing a backup solution using Bacula, which has got me looking at administering Windows clients from my Linux Bacula server. I have managed to get winex

[389-users] Announcing 389 Directory Server version 1.2.10.3 Testing

2012-03-08 Thread Rich Megginson
The 389 Project team is pleased to announce the release of 389-ds-base-1.2.10.3. No new features were added after alpha 8, just many bug fixes. There are also 389-adminutil, 389-admin, and 389-dsgw packages in Testing. NEW: EL6 support Beginning with RHEL 6.2, the 389-ds-base package is inc

Re: nx

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick Dupre
This email reöains without response. On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Aram J. Agajanian wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:34:32 + (GMT) Patrick Dupre wrote: After: nxserver --keygen I have: /usr/NX/share/keys total 6 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 668 Feb 26 00:01 default.id_dsa.key -rw-r--r--. 1 root root

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-08 Thread jdow
On 2012/03/08 09:37, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/08/2012 08:47 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: But most of all go away attacking someone else secure behind your email no-reply screen. That just stops you from taking this to private email and makes sure the discussion stays on the list. Private email (and

to ibus or not to ibus, that is the question

2012-03-08 Thread Peter Gueckel
My system has been working fine. I noticed that the input method selector showed that no input method was in use. I also noticed that ibus was recommended, so I decided to enable it. I logged out and back in, as directed. I haven't got a clue what the advantage is and I don't see any difference

Re: Tracker crashes

2012-03-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 08.03.2012, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > What is "Tracker" http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/ > and why is it crashing all the time? Almost every > time I start my system, I get an Abrt warning with this message: > > Process /usr/libexec/tracker-extract was killed by signal 11 >

Re: to ibus or not to ibus, that is the question

2012-03-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday, 8. March 2012. 12.23.47 Peter Gueckel wrote: > My system has been working fine. I noticed that the input method selector > showed that no input method was in use. I also noticed that ibus was > recommended, so I decided to enable it. I logged out and back in, as > directed. > > I have

Re: to ibus or not to ibus, that is the question

2012-03-08 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 21:44, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> ibus is recommended, but what am I getting here? I don't see any difference, >> excepting the (useless) applet. > > Ibus is essential for complicated-to-input-multi-keystroke languages, like > Chinese and such. If you don't know what it is, m

Re: Abrt quota in F16?

2012-03-08 Thread Piscium
On 5 March 2012 23:08, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Can someone throw me a (very short) rope on how to adjust the Abrt space > quota for debuginfo files?  Thanks in advance! Try /etc/abrt/abrt.conf -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 19:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 12:13 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > Unfortunately a search of /var/log as root: > > > # find -type f | xargs fgrep Administrator > > > re

Re: nx

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 17:58 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > This email reöains without response. And yet you quote it in its entirety and top-post to boot. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailma

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 19:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 12:13 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > > Unfortunately a search of /var/log as

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 09:37 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/08/2012 08:47 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > But most of all go away attacking someone else secure behind your email > > no-reply screen. > > That just stops you from taking this to private email and makes sure the > discussion stays on th

Re: Problem with RTL8178

2012-03-08 Thread L
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/08/2012 02:44 AM, Jonathan Allen wrote: >> >> >>    a. F16 without Gnome 3 > I use ndiswrapper to make Windows XP RTL(not sure the version??) USB wireless adapter driver work under Linux (on lubuntu). Here the ubuntu version steps, hope off

Re: Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

2012-03-08 Thread Charles Zeitler
-- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. >> It doesn't work. > > >> How do I debug this? > Any ideas? > > > -- memch

[solved] Re: to ibus or not to ibus, that is the question

2012-03-08 Thread Peter Gueckel
suvayu ali wrote: > Its very useful to type scripts which are not based on the latin > alphabet OK, thanks. I have disabled it again. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guideli

[solved] Re: to ibus or not to ibus, that is the question

2012-03-08 Thread Peter Gueckel
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > If you don't know what it is, most probably you don't need > it. It's odd that is would say "recommended" when the mojority of users would never need it, but, no matter, I have disabled it again. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: [solved] Re: to ibus or not to ibus, that is the question

2012-03-08 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 01:06, Peter Gueckel wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> If you don't know what it is, most probably you don't need >> it. > > It's odd that is would say "recommended" when the mojority of users would > never > need it, but, no matter, I have disabled it again. *cough* Ma

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/2012 05:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > You are right but changing the desktop environment is what OP seems to want to do. No - he wants to change the Display Manager, because he is getting a blank background and an error message from the displ

Re: synchronize time

2012-03-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/2012 05:08 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 09:37 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> >> That just stops you from taking this to private email and makes sure the >> discussion stays on the list. > > I understand but sometimes it woul

Re: nx

2012-03-08 Thread Claude Jones
On 03/08/2012 12:58 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: This email reöains without response. On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Aram J. Agajanian wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:34:32 + (GMT) Patrick Dupre wrote: After: nxserver --keygen I have: /usr/NX/share/keys total 6 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 668 Feb 26 00:

Re: IPTable Rules... again

2012-03-08 Thread nullv
>> for some reason I can't make a connection to the external mail >> server from inside the lan. even from the 10.0.0.3 address which >> should be allowed to do anything. everything used to work when i >> used MASQUERADing but stopped once i switched to SNAT. Can anybody >> help me? What am I do

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 17:04 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > No, that's for changing the desktop environment. The window manager > is > > different. > > > > poc > > > > You are right but changing the desktop environment is what OP seems to > want to do. He's already using KDE. He suspects he has

Re: Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

2012-03-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Charles Zeitler wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. It doesn't work. How do I debug this? Any ideas? -- memcheck86? Apparently it did

Re: [solved] Re: to ibus or not to ibus, that is the question

2012-03-08 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 03/09/2012 09:06 AM, Peter Gueckel wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: If you don't know what it is, most probably you don't need it. It's odd that is would say "recommended" when the mojority of users would never need it, but, no matter, I have disabled it again. Most of us in the rest of the

Re: [solved] Re: to ibus or not to ibus, that is the question

2012-03-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday, 8. March 2012. 17.06.15 Peter Gueckel wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > If you don't know what it is, most probably you don't need > > it. > > It's odd that is would say "recommended" when the mojority of users would > never need it, but, no matter, I have disabled it again. I'd sa