Re: how to get nm-applet switched on when making a LiveCD

2012-03-14 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Ranjan, On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 18:41, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to put together a LiveCD. I have sort of put together one, > however, I am unable to get the nm-applet switched on. So, this is what > I do: start stalonetray which pops up. Then I type nm-applet which > comes up

Re: F16: "setterm -blank 0" in rc.local ignored

2012-03-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.03.2012 19:02, schrieb Andrew McNabb: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:09:16PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> is there any magical setting to tell the system that i NEVER >> want blank the screen since i am able to switch off my >> monitor by myself and if it is turned on there is a reason >

updates failing due to mirrors down

2012-03-14 Thread John Aldrich
So, I decided to run "yum update" this morning and it failed due to several RPMFusion and Livna repo mirrors being down. Are RPMFusion and Livna going away / gone? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: updates failing due to mirrors down

2012-03-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/14/2012 06:11 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > So, I decided to run "yum update" this morning and it failed due to several > RPMFusion and Livna repo mirrors being down. Are RPMFusion and Livna going > away / gone? No problems at all with RPMFusion. How do you jump from mirrors being down to "go

Re: How to change menu names ? -

2012-03-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 00:31 +, Piscium wrote: > On 13 March 2012 19:40, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I would like to change some menu names such as "Scanner tool" to > > xsane, etc. > > > > I don't even know what application some of the menu names refer > > to. It seems to m

PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? Is it essential? It is used by yum in some way? I'm asking because I get an error message --- Fetch Job Error - Plasma Desktop Shell Unknown error. (Unable to fetch item from backend) --- whenever I

Re: [389-users] Req PPA link for Ubuntu

2012-03-14 Thread mjames
Is this what you're looking for? http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-389-directory-server/ppa/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/ From: 389-users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:389-users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of s.varadha rajan Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:34 AM To: General

Re: anyway to log ext4 disk access ?

2012-03-14 Thread Aaron Gray
On 13 March 2012 01:47, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 03/12/2012 10:28 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: > > >> I seem to be experiencing constant disk accesses on a new install on F16 >> and am wondering why and what they are basically. >> >> Aaron >> > > It might be tracker which is part of gnome. It likes to ha

Re: redirect postgresql logs

2012-03-14 Thread Martín Marqués
2012/3/13 James Wilkinson : > Martín Marqués wrote: >> That's the question. How can I redirect potgresql logs using systemd? >> In the old System V times, I just edited /etc/init.d/postgresql and >> looked for the line that had the execution of the server and jus >> redirected the output to the fil

Change F16 Log-in screen? -

2012-03-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
Can the log-in screen background be changed to be blank, plain blue perhaps and how to do so? Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:10:36 + Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? I could but a sarcastic comment here, but I'd better not. I find it to be the most annoying interface yet in a long history of annoying interfaces to software package management systems. > Is it

Re: anyway to log ext4 disk access ?

2012-03-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 12:18 +, Aaron Gray wrote: > The kernel versions of the two F14 pairs are the same. F14? You might have mentioned that before. F14 is EOLed, i.e. has *no* support even for serious bugs. You should consider updating to F15 or F16 before spending a lot of time debugging som

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 12:10 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > Is it essential? No. > It is used by yum in some way? Other way round. It uses yum. It's an attempt at a "universal" interface that's independent of the underlying package management system. O

Re: anyway to log ext4 disk access ?

2012-03-14 Thread Aaron Gray
On 14 March 2012 12:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 12:18 +, Aaron Gray wrote: > > The kernel versions of the two F14 pairs are the same. > > F14? You might have mentioned that before. F14 is EOLed, i.e. has *no* > support even for serious bugs. You should consider upda

Re: [389-users] Announcing 389 Directory Server version 1.2.10.4 Testing

2012-03-14 Thread Diego Woitasen
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: > The 389 Project team is pleased to announce the release of > 389-ds-base-1.2.10.4.  This release contains a fix for a bug that causes the > directory server to hang when using compare operations with virtual > attributes. No new features wer

Re: [389-users] Announcing 389 Directory Server version 1.2.10.4 Testing

2012-03-14 Thread Carsten Grzemba
Hi, this link should work: http://www.port389.org/wiki/Source#389_Directory_Server_1.2.10 Am 14.03.12, schrieb Diego Woitasen : > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: > > The 389 Project team is pleased to announce the release of > > 389-ds-base-1.2.10.4.  This release contai

Re: [389-users] Announcing 389 Directory Server version 1.2.10.4 Testing

2012-03-14 Thread Diego Woitasen
2012/3/14 Carsten Grzemba : > Hi, > > this link should work: > http://www.port389.org/wiki/Source#389_Directory_Server_1.2.10 > > > Am 14.03.12, schrieb Diego Woitasen : > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: >> The 389 Project team is pleased to announce the release of >> 389-

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:40:12 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:10:36 + > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > > I could but a sarcastic comment here, but I'd better not. > I find it to be the most annoying interface yet in a > long history

Re: how to get nm-applet switched on when making a LiveCD

2012-03-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:26:40 +0100 suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Ranjan, > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 18:41, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to put together a LiveCD. I have sort of put together one, > > however, I am unable to get the nm-applet switched on. So, this is what > > I do:

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Ian Malone
On 14 March 2012 12:40, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:10:36 + > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > > I could but a sarcastic comment here, but I'd better not. > I find it to be the most annoying interface yet in a > long history of annoying in

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:56:40 + Ian Malone wrote: > On 14 March 2012 12:40, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:10:36 + > > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > >> What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > > > > I could but a sarcastic comment here, but I'd better not. > > I find it t

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/2012 12:10 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? It's an abstraction over various package management and dependency solving backends. The website has lots of information: http://www.packagekit.org/ > Is it e

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Kevin Martin
On 03/14/2012 11:06 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 03/14/2012 12:10 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > > It's an abstraction over various package management and dependency > solving backends. The website has lots of information: > > http://www.packagekit.or

Re: how to get nm-applet switched on when making a LiveCD

2012-03-14 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 15:03, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > cat >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys << EOF > # disable screensaver locking and make sure gamin gets started > cat > /etc/xdg/autostart << FOE > /usr/libexec/gam_server > @stalonetray > @nm-applet > @pcmanfm -d > /usr/libexec/notification-daemon > F

Re: how to get nm-applet switched on when making a LiveCD

2012-03-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:19:58 +0100 suvayu ali wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 15:03, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > cat >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys << EOF > > # disable screensaver locking and make sure gamin gets started > > cat > /etc/xdg/autostart << FOE > > /usr/libexec/gam_server > > @stalonetra

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Andy Blanchard
PackageKit isn't one of my favourite parts of Fedora, but a lot of the problems people are having and citing here are not actually to do with PackageKit but are in fact the fault of Apper. If you don't mind doing manual updates with yum, then uninstalling Apper might make your life a lot easier.

Re: how to get nm-applet switched on when making a LiveCD

2012-03-14 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 17:27, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I thought this is not very different from that in lxde's ks. What happens if you do "su -" or "su" in the terminal? It should switch to root without asking for your passwd. If that works, then you can just start NetworkManager from the termina

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:33:31 + Andy Blanchard wrote: > PackageKit isn't one of my favourite parts of Fedora, but a lot of the > problems people are having and citing here are not actually to do with > PackageKit but are in fact the fault of Apper. If you don't mind doing > manual updates wit

in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-14 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, This is an FYI, there is a new lightweight simple TeX/LaTeX distrubution called KerTeX. http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html It is lightweight, requires few things like bison, flex, ed, lftp, all of which are available in Fedora. It does not have pdflatex, pdftex, dvipdfm, xdvi

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-14 Thread Andras Simon
2012/3/14, Antonio Olivares : > NOTES: > User texifies, latexifies file, tex filename.tex, latex filename.tex, then > runs > $ dvips -o filename.dvi filename.ps You probably meant dvips -o filename.ps filename.dvi > or > $ dvips -t letter filename.dvi > filename.ps > then can convert to pdf usi

Re: [389-users] About LDAP filters

2012-03-14 Thread Jim Finn
I do not believe there is any noticeable performance difference one way or the other. (&(a=1)(b=2)) is the same as (&(b=2)(a=1)) On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Juan Asensio Sánchez wrote: > Hi > > Is it important the order of the filter in a search? So, what's the > most optomized filter? > >

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-14 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Wed, 3/14/12, Andras Simon wrote: > From: Andras Simon > Subject: Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 11:42 AM > 2012/3/14, Antonio Olivares : > > > NOTES: > > User texifies, latexifies fi

Re: Can't browse Windows Network in Thunar

2012-03-14 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 03/13/2012 02:08 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Konstantin Svist wrote: Really? I thought the client simply makes a broadcast and all servers reply with what they have available... "myserver" is a linux box running samba, but connecting to a windows box works too, I believe. The way SMB net

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-14 Thread Andras Simon
2012/3/14, Antonio Olivares : >> > $ ps2pdf filename.ps >> >> ps2pdf filename.ps filename.pdf > > In this case, > $ psd2pdf filename.ps > will work by itself unless you want to give (output pdf) a new name > $ ps2pdf filename.ps other-name.pdf I didn't know that! (Well, yes, obviously. Otherwise

systemd and StandardOutput not going to a file

2012-03-14 Thread Martín Marqués
Can someone tell me why one can't configure StandardOutput in systemd to go to a file? -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

Re: Can't browse Windows Network in Thunar

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Konstantin Svist wrote: Yes, I think all the right ports are open (/etc/sysconfig/iptables): Those are the right ports, but you also need a conntrack helper loaded. $ lsmod | grep netbios nf_conntrack_netbios_ns12665 0 ... etc This is done in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config, or by the sy

Re: Can't browse Windows Network in Thunar

2012-03-14 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 03/14/2012 12:25 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Konstantin Svist wrote: Yes, I think all the right ports are open (/etc/sysconfig/iptables): Those are the right ports, but you also need a conntrack helper loaded. $ lsmod | grep netbios nf_conntrack_netbios_ns12665 0 ... etc This is d

Re: systemd and StandardOutput not going to a file

2012-03-14 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 20:13, Martín Marqués wrote: > Can someone tell me why one can't configure StandardOutput in systemd > to go to a file? > I could. $ systemctl status sshd.service > /tmp/bla $ cat /tmp/bla sshd.service - OpenSSH server daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/

Re: How to change menu names ? -

2012-03-14 Thread Piscium
On 14 March 2012 11:04, Aaron Konstam wrote: > When I ran: yum install alacarte > an F16 version of alacarte was installed. Ah, OK, looks like I was wrong when I said it was not available. But does it work well? I am still on F14 so did not test myself the solution as reported in Fedora Forums

Re: systemd and StandardOutput not going to a file

2012-03-14 Thread Martín Marqués
2012/3/14 suvayu ali : > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 20:13, Martín Marqués > wrote: >> Can someone tell me why one can't configure StandardOutput in systemd >> to go to a file? >> > > I could. > > $ systemctl status sshd.service > /tmp/bla > $ cat /tmp/bla > sshd.service - OpenSSH server daemon >    

Re: Change F16 Log-in screen? -

2012-03-14 Thread James Wilkinson
Bob Goodwin wrote: >Can the log-in screen background be changed to be blank, plain >blue perhaps and how to do so? Usual question – are you using Gnome or something else? Are you using GDM to login? If so, I’ve got a file called /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/01-local-settings containing the

Re: systemd and StandardOutput not going to a file

2012-03-14 Thread James Wilkinson
Martín Marqués wrote: > Can someone tell me why one can't configure StandardOutput in systemd > to go to a file? suvayu ali wrote: > I could. > > $ systemctl status sshd.service > /tmp/bla That’s standard output of systemctl, not StandardOutput the directive in systemd unit files. I suspect the

F16 alacarte found but it does not work.

2012-03-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
I was suggested in an earlier post that F16 did not have an alacarte, well I installed it but it does not run. When it is run you get an error message that the gmenu python module is missing, Does tho program work for other people? If it does not does a Bugzilla need to be issued? -- ==

Re: F16 alacarte found but it does not work.

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Aaron Konstam wrote: Does tho program work for other people? If it does not does a Bugzilla need to be issued? You mean this bug? :) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752238 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://adm

Re: F16 alacarte found but it does not work.

2012-03-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 16:51 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Does tho program work for other people? If it does not does a Bugzilla > > need to be issued? > > You mean this bug? :) > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752238 That's the bug. After a lot of

Re: How to change menu names ? -

2012-03-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 20:06 +, Piscium wrote: > On 14 March 2012 11:04, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > When I ran: yum install alacarte > > an F16 version of alacarte was installed. > > Ah, OK, looks like I was wrong when I said it was not available. But > does it work well? > > I am still on

Re: systemd and StandardOutput not going to a file

2012-03-14 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 22:36, James Wilkinson wrote: > Martín Marqués wrote: >> Can someone tell me why one can't configure StandardOutput in systemd >> to go to a file? > > suvayu ali wrote: >> I could. >> >> $ systemctl status sshd.service > /tmp/bla > > That’s standard output of systemctl, not

Re: F16 alacarte found but it does not work.

2012-03-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/14/2012 03:10 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: That's the bug. After a lot of verbiage the conclusion is it does not run. And it is not clear if it will be fixed. There's a workaround, but I haven't tried it. Frankly, I'm beginning to wonder if the maintainer thinks that as long as there's a wa

Re: How to change menu names ? -

2012-03-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 03/14/2012 07:04 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 00:31 +, Piscium wrote: On 13 March 2012 19:40, Bob Goodwin wrote: I would like to change some menu names such as "Scanner tool" to xsane, etc. One tool I use is alacarte. Unfortunately it is not available in

issue with CVS and time skew

2012-03-14 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. This may be a bit off topic, but I'm at a loss. I have a user complaining that when he submits code to the cvs repository the time stamps for the commit are out by 13 hours. I have checked all the servers and they all have the correct date, time and time zone. Where else could an issue like t

Re: issue with CVS and time skew

2012-03-14 Thread John Mellor
On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 11:44 +1300, Gregory Machin wrote: > I have a user complaining that when he submits code to the cvs > repository the time stamps for the commit are out by 13 hours. I have > checked all the servers and they all have the correct date, time and > time zone. Where else could an i

Re: systemd and StandardOutput not going to a file

2012-03-14 Thread Martín Marqués
2012/3/14 James Wilkinson : > Martín Marqués wrote: >> Can someone tell me why one can't configure StandardOutput in systemd >> to go to a file? > > suvayu ali wrote: >> I could. >> >> $ systemctl status sshd.service > /tmp/bla > > That’s standard output of systemctl, not StandardOutput the directi

Re: Can't browse Windows Network in Thunar

2012-03-14 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:58 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 03/13/2012 02:08 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> Really? I thought the client simply makes a broadcast and all servers > >> reply with what they have available... > >> "myserver" is a linux box running s

Re: PackageKit purpose?

2012-03-14 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:24:08AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 12:10 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > It is used by yum in some way? > > Other way round. It uses yum. It's an attempt at a "universal" interface > that's independent of the underlying package management

Re: Battery problems

2012-03-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/12/2012 10:47 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: It is not for conditioning the battery. It is to update the battery calibration. Most do this at boot so if Robert did a full power reset he should be fine. There is no need to run a utility or manually run the ba

Re: Can't download EPEL RPMs using /bin/rpm after the move from download.fedora.redhat.com to download.fedoraproject.org

2012-03-14 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:45:58 -0800 > Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > > >>  I can no longer download EPEL RPMs using /bin/rpm after the move from >> download.fedora.redhat.com to download.fedoraproject.org. >> >> # rpm -ihv >> http://download.fedo

Re: Can't download EPEL RPMs using /bin/rpm after the move from download.fedora.redhat.com to download.fedoraproject.org

2012-03-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:10:43 -0700 Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > > OK. Thank you. > > I was following the procedure documented on the EPEL FAQ. I'd like to > update this documentation on > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3

Re: Can't browse Windows Network in Thunar

2012-03-14 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 03/14/2012 07:06 PM, Craig White wrote: --- # nmbd running? systemctl status nmb.service # start it? systemctl start nmb.service # start it at startup systemctl enable nmb.service # CLI method to check connections... smbclient -L IP_ADDRESS_OF_SERVER -U $SOME_VALID_USER ie... # smbclient

Re: how to get nm-applet switched on when making a LiveCD

2012-03-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
It does switch to root without asking for password. However, starting nm-applet (as root) on the Live CD yields the following error (verbatim): (nm-applet:1385): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote applicatio