gdm not starting own pulseaudio - how should it?

2012-06-02 Thread Neil Bird
How should gdm be starting its own pulseaudio process? I've had an issue since upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 in that after a while, and not on any trigger I've yet identified, my /var/log/messages starts filling up with: pulseaudio[pid]: protocol-native.c: Denied access to client

proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Edward M
Hi, Where can i sumit a proposal to Fedora/Redhat to also release a Fedora 18 without secure boot for users who know how to disable it in the BIOS and for users who has systems without secure boot? Not speaking for others but iḿ sure many will not like having the kernel ,moduels locked and co

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On 02/06/12 10:30, Edward M wrote: Hi, Where can i sumit a proposal to Fedora/Redhat to also release a Fedora 18 without secure boot for users who know how to disable it in the BIOS and for users who has systems without secure boot? Not speaking for others but iḿ sure many will not like having

Re: F-17 vlc/rpmfusion install problem -

2012-06-02 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 01/06/12 18:54, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Bob: Take a look here: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f16.html Although this site is for Fedora 16, it worked OK for me on Fedora 17, and I expect that the new version will be available within the next few days. It's a bit like a cafete

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Edward M
On 06/02/2012 02:28 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 02/06/12 10:30, Edward M wrote: Hi, Where can i sumit a proposal to Fedora/Redhat to also release a Fedora 18 without secure boot for users who know how to disable it in the BIOS and for users who has systems without secure boot? Not speaking for

ucview

2012-06-02 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I installed ucview to record images from a webcam. It stops recording after 2,2 GB. Is that the normal behaviour? Thanks for lights! - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Pa

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.06.2012, Edward M wrote: >so i guess i wont have too. just disabled secure boot and fedora 18 will > be like regular fedora.:-) Are there machines which contain a BIOS which doesn't allow disabling this? In this case, you're hosed.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Thibault Nélis
On 06/02/2012 04:28 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Yes, all five of them. Point taken. [0] Yes, I found it, it was there all along, I guess I didn't look hard enough (or didn't listen properly): http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/F/ADF5BEDE-C0FB-4CC0-A3E1-B38093F50BA1/windows8-hardware-ce

Re: Install DVD Suppliers

2012-06-02 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 21:13 -0700, JD wrote: > On 06/01/2012 09:06 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > My downloads are restricted, so I'm pretty much confined to DVD > > installs. Anyone have a favorite DVD supplier? > Purchase installation media for Fedora from > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribu

Re: yum update to F17

2012-06-02 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 11:23 +0800, Zhangsan wrote: > It worked correctly, but I found it was downloading the packages of > the [fedora] repo from the "development" directory actually by the > following > > message: > > > > http://ftp.neowiz.com/fedora/development/17/x86_64/os/repodata/ddcb2f6

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Heinz Diehl said: > On 02.06.2012, Edward M wrote: > >so i guess i wont have too. just disabled secure boot and fedora 18 will > > be like regular fedora.:-) > > Are there machines which contain a BIOS which doesn't allow disabling > this? In this case, you're hosed.. Sinc

setting Network Printer with static IP in DD-WRT

2012-06-02 Thread Jim
Fedora 17, I have my Network printer setup and printing in Fedora. In DD-WRT how do I setup a Network Printer as a Static IP or MAC# ? the printer is setup with Static IP. The problem I'm having eveytime the power goes out the Router changes DHCP IP and I have to go into Fedora and make IP s

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> How do you mean "openly"? It can't get much more open that a mandatory > interface that let's you do it simply. What UEFI could do to make > things better is standardize the UI, but that's it. As I already said UEFI cannot do that. UEFI is deliberately engineered not to have the ability to s

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 14:11:38 +0200 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 02.06.2012, Edward M wrote: > > >so i guess i wont have too. just disabled secure boot and fedora 18 will > > be like regular fedora.:-) > > Are there machines which contain a BIOS which doesn't allow disabling > this? In this case,

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Alan Cox said: > > > Imagine the gall – wanting to be able to boot a custom kernel. > > > > Easy, sign it yourself. We went over it a hundred times now. If you > > can build a kernel you can sign a million of them. > > With what. You can't create a suitable key. You can cre

Re: setting Network Printer with static IP in DD-WRT

2012-06-02 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 11:10:34AM -0400, Jim wrote: > Fedora 17, I have my Network printer setup and printing in Fedora. > > In DD-WRT how do I setup a Network Printer as a Static IP or MAC# ? the > printer is setup with Static IP. > > The problem I'm having eveytime the power goes out the Rou

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Thibault Nélis
On 06/02/2012 04:34 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Well the math doesn't compute here, it's cryptographically impossible. I mean you could sign a shim that won't verify the integrity of the boot There you go. Look I can't really go on on that. You seem to imply that this is a bad thing. I simp

Re: setting Network Printer with static IP in DD-WRT

2012-06-02 Thread Lawrence Houston
Jim: On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Jim wrote: Fedora 17, I have my Network printer setup and printing in Fedora. In DD-WRT how do I setup a Network Printer as a Static IP or MAC# ? the printer is setup with Static IP. The problem I'm having eveytime the power goes out the Router changes DHCP IP and

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Steve Dowe
On 02/06/12 14:25, Chris Adams wrote: Since the Microsoft Windows 8 certification requires that the UEFI firmware (not BIOS) support disabling Secure Boot by the user on x86 systems, I don't think you'll find many (if any) systems that don't support disabling Secure Boot. Does anyone know i

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Thibault Nélis
On 06/02/2012 05:50 PM, Steve Dowe wrote: Does anyone know if the signed bootloader must be executed first before Secure Book can be disabled? Or would one just enter a BIOS-like config screen before any disc activity and disable it? Surely you can access the UEFI firmware interface before the

Re: setting Network Printer with static IP in DD-WRT

2012-06-02 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/02/2012 10:10 AM, Jim wrote: Fedora 17, I have my Network printer setup and printing in Fedora. In DD-WRT how do I setup a Network Printer as a Static IP or MAC# ? the printer is setup with Static IP. The problem I'm having eveytime the power goes out the Router changes DHCP IP and I have

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Yes, but for that, the firmware will either need support from the OS it > secure-boots, to go out on the network, check for revocations, and upload > them into firmware; or the firmware itself must implement a bare-bones > network stack, initialize the onboard NIC, obtain a DHCP address, or

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 16:30:11 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > > How do you mean "openly"? It can't get much more open that a > > mandatory interface that let's you do it simply. What UEFI could > > do to make things better is standardize the UI, but that's it. > > As I already said UEFI cannot do that.

Re: Install DVD Suppliers

2012-06-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/02/2012 05:47 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: Unfortunately only one of these have Fedora 17 for sale in North America at the moment, and that one takes more money than necessary since they will only sell you a 4 Disc set. Just wait a week or two, and the other vendors will catch up. Besides,

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/02/2012 08:35 AM, Thibault Nélis wrote: Anyway, this would only affect OEMs and Windows users who want to install their copy of Windows on machines they assemble themselves (or in any way non-approved by Microsoft). Do we really care about them? I sure do! The only PC's I've ever owned

Re: proposal to Fedora/Redhat for fedora 18

2012-06-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/02/2012 08:51 AM, Thibault Nélis wrote: Surely you can access the UEFI firmware interface before the boot loader, just like the BIOS SETUP yes. Changing it in the UEFI interface before boot sounds much more reasonable, but please don't call me "Shirley." -- users mailing list users@list

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 10:08 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/02/2012 08:35 AM, Thibault Nélis wrote: Anyway, this would only affect OEMs and Windows users who want to install their copy of Windows on machines they assemble themselves (or in any way non-approved by Microsoft). Do we really care about them?

Re: setting Network Printer with static IP in DD-WRT

2012-06-02 Thread Jim
On 06/02/2012 11:29 AM, fred smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 11:10:34AM -0400, Jim wrote: Fedora 17, I have my Network printer setup and printing in Fedora. In DD-WRT how do I setup a Network Printer as a Static IP or MAC# ? the printer is setup with Static IP. The problem I'm having eve

syslogd and rsyslogd enabled?

2012-06-02 Thread Tom Horsley
I've just been going through my new install tweaking checklist, and when I checked what services were enabled I found my new f17 install had both syslog.service and rsyslog.service enabled. Does that make sense? I only see rsyslog.service enabled in fedora 16. -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Yum is going berserk!

2012-06-02 Thread Joe Zeff
This morning, I was doing a system update using yumex while I was cooking breakfast. When I got back, the system was hung so badly that I had to use the reset button. The system came back up fine, so I opened a terminal and tried this: su -c yum-complete-transaction After thinking things ov

Re: syslogd and rsyslogd enabled?

2012-06-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.06.2012 20:55, schrieb Tom Horsley: > I've just been going through my new install tweaking > checklist, and when I checked what services were enabled > I found my new f17 install had both syslog.service and > rsyslog.service enabled. > > Does that make sense? > > I only see rsyslog.servic

Re: Solution to RAID /boot issue in fc17?

2012-06-02 Thread Alex
Hi, >>> Now, if your partition table starts at sector 63, you're still boned. But >> >> Nope. You can do it by hand. > > confirmed > > i moved /boot to 4096 to have peace the next years > on > 20 F15 installs before upgrade to F16 Can you describe how you did this? Is this during the install and

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> 3. Create your own keys and sign your own shim/grub2/kernel and remove > MS'es keys. And how are you going to add your own keys to the firmware ? There is no requirement for EFI to support this in anything I've seen so far. Hopefully everyone will. Also btw I wouldn't bet on removing the Micro

Re: Solution to RAID /boot issue in fc17?

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Can you describe how you did this? Is this during the install and > before reboot? Basically copy it, unmount, shorten it to begin at 4096 > with fdisk, remake filesystem, remount, then copy contents back? > > Afterwards, you would re-run "grub2-install /dev/sda" correct? Don't bother. You don'

Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Alex
Hi, I just did an install of fc17 x86_64 on a box with 4 SATA 250GB disks and set up the partitions manually. I created /boot on sda as one 500MB partition, then two RAID partitions using the rest of the contents of the disks. The first is a RAID1 with four disks for root and the rest is /var. Is

Re: Solution to RAID /boot issue in fc17?

2012-06-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.06.2012 21:36, schrieb Alex: > Hi, > Now, if your partition table starts at sector 63, you're still boned. But >>> >>> Nope. You can do it by hand. >> >> confirmed >> >> i moved /boot to 4096 to have peace the next years >> on > 20 F15 installs before upgrade to F16 > > Can you descr

Re: Solution to RAID /boot issue in fc17?

2012-06-02 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Can you describe how you did this? Is this during the install and >> before reboot? Basically copy it, unmount, shorten it to begin at 4096 >> with fdisk, remake filesystem, remount, then copy contents back? >> >> Afterwards, you would re-run "grub2-install /dev/sda" correct? > > Don't both

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit > the partition table from the command-line? I've not really looked > Why is there a mixture of old fdisk and new GPT disk layout? GPT is the newer disk format for the EFI world and even bigger disks. It fixes most of the insa

Re: Solution to RAID /boot issue in fc17?

2012-06-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.06.2012 21:59, schrieb Alex: > Hi, > >>> Can you describe how you did this? Is this during the install and >>> before reboot? Basically copy it, unmount, shorten it to begin at 4096 >>> with fdisk, remake filesystem, remount, then copy contents back? >>> >>> Afterwards, you would re-run "g

Re: Make F17 automount disks?

2012-06-02 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 31 May 2012 15:36:02 -0700, sergiocmailbox-fedorausers wrote: > --- Em qui, 31/5/12, Beartooth escreveu: >>     Where can I tell F17 under fxce if >> possible) I want it to automount any disk I put into a drive?? (In >> addition to its own internal drive for removable media, each machin

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Thibault Nélis writes: On 06/02/2012 04:34 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Well the math doesn't compute here, it's cryptographically impossible. I mean you could sign a shim that won't verify the integrity of the boot There you go. Look I can't really go on on that. You seem to imply that this

Re: Solution to RAID /boot issue in fc17?

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > grub2-install /dev/sda > > Okay, so you're saying that it's okay to set up the partitions > manually and don't worry about the moving /boot, right? If you've previously set up a RAID1 /boot (eg with older Fedora when it worked fine or by hand) > Is there any support for installing grub on a

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Alan Cox writes: > Yes, but for that, the firmware will either need support from the OS it > secure-boots, to go out on the network, check for revocations, and upload > them into firmware; or the firmware itself must implement a bare-bones > network stack, initialize the onboard NIC, obtain a DH

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/02/2012 01:22 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Should be interesting to see how the great unwashed will accept waiting 2-3 minutes for their PC to boot, while their firmware is trying to grab CRLs over the network. Even more interesting will be seeing how they react to the idea that their lap

Re: Solution to RAID /boot issue in fc17?

2012-06-02 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Okay, so you're saying that it's okay to set up the partitions >> manually and don't worry about the moving /boot, right? > > If you've previously set up a RAID1 /boot (eg with older Fedora when it > worked fine or by hand) Is this because it used to be the case that /boot was created afte

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > The firmware already has this. > > Yes, now my mental cobwebs are getting cleaned out. I do recall reading > about this, a while ago. Much of it is there for network booting (PXE etc) and in fact a fair bit of it is there in the modern old style BIOS too. > > > > Before it boots the OS. >

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 20:49:29 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > > 3. Create your own keys and sign your own shim/grub2/kernel and > > remove MS'es keys. > > And how are you going to add your own keys to the firmware ? There is > no requirement for EFI to support this in anything I've seen so far. > Hopeful

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > Remove the MS key and the firmware won't be signed. I doubt you can > > re-sign any flash firmware. That's probably only a problem for the > > paranoid because any government approved spyware from the FBI etc is > > presumably going to use the Microsoft key by default. > > See above. It's no

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/02/2012 02:29 PM, Alan Cox wrote: It's not that simple. If you remove the Microsoft key and that is the key for your video card then you can add your own keys but when you boot in secure mode you won't have a display omn your plug in video card because the video firmware won't have been sig

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 01:03 PM, Alan Cox wrote: Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit the partition table from the command-line? I've not really looked Well, parted is the command line mode and gparted is the gui mode. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

puldeaudio cpu load

2012-06-02 Thread JD
Every time I go to a web site that has a video to play, pulseaudio racks up 20% of cpu even if I do not play the video. Playing the video, I get plugin-container racks up 24.0% of cpu, and pulseaudio racks up another 15.5% of cpu. I kill the tab of the web page, and pulseaudio cpu load goes way d

[Totally OT] Some web sites very slow recently

2012-06-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
A friend of mine and I have both noticed that access to some -- but not all -- web sites has become much slower recently. Some sites time out, others hang, apparently while waiting for ads to load; a bad guy may be meebo. I have no trouble with Google and most technical sites; NY times is erratic

Re: [Totally OT] Some web sites very slow recently

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 03:08 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: A friend of mine and I have both noticed that access to some -- but not all -- web sites has become much slower recently. Some sites time out, others hang, apparently while waiting for ads to load; a bad guy may be meebo. I have no trouble with Go

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread jdow
On 2012/06/02 13:27, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/02/2012 01:22 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Should be interesting to see how the great unwashed will accept waiting 2-3 minutes for their PC to boot, while their firmware is trying to grab CRLs over the network. Even more interesting will be seeing how

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 04:01 PM, jdow wrote: . . . snip If you can declare the OS is secure by means of the Microsoft certificate, how much money would it take to make Microsoft geek to including a backdoor for the NSA? {o.o} Just sayin' But that would be no different than how things are now!! -- use

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> means of the Microsoft certificate, how much money would it take to make > Microsoft geek to including a backdoor for the NSA? I would assume they have one. One of the problems with this is presumably they need to sign tools for every law enforcement agency with reasonable claim - be that Israel

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit >> the partition table from the command-line? > > I've not really looked It's just parted for the command-line version. Thanks JD. >> Why is there a mixture of old fdisk and new GPT disk layout? > > GPT is the newer disk

running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread JD
I have a source rpm (non-fedora). It has no signature. I tried to run rpm -ivh --nosignature xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm but rpm exits with error message: error: xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed: sigh load: BAD error: xdfe-2.0.1.src.rpm cannot be installed -- users mailing list users@lists.fedo

Minimal desktop install option

2012-06-02 Thread Tommy Pham
Hi, How do I go about requesting another install option "Minimal Desktop"? I'm finding myself removing a lot of packages after Graphical desktop install. TIA, Tommy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: setting Network Printer with static IP in DD-WRT

2012-06-02 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 01:30:43PM -0400, Jim wrote: > On 06/02/2012 11:29 AM, fred smith wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 11:10:34AM -0400, Jim wrote: > >>Fedora 17, I have my Network printer setup and printing in Fedora. > >> > >>In DD-WRT how do I setup a Network Printer as a Static IP or MAC#

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/03/2012 09:09 AM, JD wrote: > I have a source rpm (non-fedora). > It has no signature. > I tried to run rpm -ivh --nosignature xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm > but rpm exits with error message: > error: xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed: sigh load: BAD > error: xdfe-2.0.1.src.rpm cannot be inst

Re: Minimal desktop install option

2012-06-02 Thread john maclean
On 06/03/2012 02:34 AM, Tommy Pham wrote: Hi, How do I go about requesting another install option "Minimal Desktop"? I'm finding myself removing a lot of packages after Graphical desktop install. TIA, Tommy "Base" or something like that -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: any suggestions for these F17 upgrade problems (can not boot)?

2012-06-02 Thread Chris Caudle
On Fri, June 1, 2012 7:21 pm, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > How did you install the kernel? The initrd image that's created > by the stock kernel RPM should include the necessary LVM voodoo By installing from the install DVD, then by yum running from the rescue mode of the install DVD. Eventually I got

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread Edward M
On 06/02/2012 06:09 PM, JD wrote: run rpm -ivh --nosignature xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm but rpm exits with error message: error: xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed: sigh load: BAD error: xdfe-2.0.1.src.rpm cannot be installed I *think* the problem sits with the person/group who produced th

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread William Brown
> > Ah, of course, thanks. I believe the two disks were previously > partitioned using fdisk. This must be the reason why I had a mixture > of GPT and fdisk layouts on the four disks. The reason for this, is that you can have a hybrid GPT partition, which also has MBR signatures for older bioses

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 07:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/03/2012 09:09 AM, JD wrote: I have a source rpm (non-fedora). It has no signature. I tried to run rpm -ivh --nosignature xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm but rpm exits with error message: error: xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed: sigh load: BAD error:

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/03/2012 11:23 AM, JD wrote: > rpm -qp xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm > error: xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed: sigh load: BAD > error: xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest) You have a corrupt rpm. -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be miss

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 08:02 PM, Edward M wrote: On 06/02/2012 06:09 PM, JD wrote: run rpm -ivh --nosignature xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm but rpm exits with error message: error: xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed: sigh load: BAD error: xdfe-2.0.1.src.rpm cannot be installed I *think* the problem s

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 08:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/03/2012 11:23 AM, JD wrote: rpm -qp xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm error: xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed: sigh load: BAD error: xdfr-2.0.1.src.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest) You have a corrupt rpm. Not really. It is not a fedora

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Peter A
On 06/02/2012 11:17 PM, William Brown wrote: Ah, of course, thanks. I believe the two disks were previously partitioned using fdisk. This must be the reason why I had a mixture of GPT and fdisk layouts on the four disks. The reason for this, is that you can have a hybrid GPT partition, which als

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/03/2012 11:29 AM, JD wrote: > Not really. It is not a fedora rpm, as I stated. Noreally Even if it is *not* a fedora rpm an unsigned or non-fedora signed rpm will not return an error. An unsigned rpm will simply return the name of the rpm. A signed rpm will return information ab

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/03/2012 11:37 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/03/2012 11:29 AM, JD wrote: >> Not really. It is not a fedora rpm, as I stated. > Noreally > > Even if it is *not* a fedora rpm an unsigned or non-fedora signed rpm will > not return > an error. > > An unsigned rpm will simply return the n

Re: Minimal desktop install option

2012-06-02 Thread Tommy Pham
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:27 PM, john maclean wrote: > On 06/03/2012 02:34 AM, Tommy Pham wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> How do I go about requesting another install option "Minimal Desktop"? >>  I'm finding myself removing a lot of packages after Graphical desktop >> install. >> >> TIA, >> Tommy > > > "Ba

Broken network hdw/softw

2012-06-02 Thread David Highley
After power cycle on system the line drivers for the network interface seemed to die, no link connection and no light. This is a mother board interface and dmesg still shows hardware discovery. Bought a PCI Express card and installed it. Then modified the mac address in the /etc/sysconfig/networki

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 08:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/03/2012 11:37 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/03/2012 11:29 AM, JD wrote: Not really. It is not a fedora rpm, as I stated. Noreally Even if it is *not* a fedora rpm an unsigned or non-fedora signed rpm will not return an error. An unsigned

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/03/2012 12:39 PM, JD wrote: > But Ed, as I replied to another OP, > I mounted an old fc14 dd image, I copied the src rpm to > the fc14 mount point's /tmp, I chrooted to the mount point > and ran rpm -qlp, and it worked just fine. All the files were > listed. > No error messages at all. You

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 09:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/03/2012 12:39 PM, JD wrote: But Ed, as I replied to another OP, I mounted an old fc14 dd image, I copied the src rpm to the fc14 mount point's /tmp, I chrooted to the mount point and ran rpm -qlp, and it worked just fine. All the files were listed

Re: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

2012-06-02 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 15:20 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > "Mandatory. On non-ARM systems, the platform MUST implement the > ability for a physically present user to select between two Secure > Boot modes in firmware setup: "Custom" and "Standard". I'm curious about other differences that might occur

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/03/2012 01:51 PM, JD wrote: > D: Expected size: 9392994 = lead(96)+sigs(348)+pad(4)+data(9392546) > D: Actual size: 9392994 > warning: xfdr-2.0.1.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 2e1efa87: > NOKEY > xfdr-2.0.1.x86_64 > D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name > D

Re: Yum is going berserk!

2012-06-02 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 12:04 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > I kept an eye on the terminal to see what was going on, and it's a > good thing, because suddenly it began spewing all sorts of packages > that it was going to erase. I used ^C to kill it because I didn't > want my system hosed. And this is why

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 11:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/03/2012 01:51 PM, JD wrote: D: Expected size: 9392994 = lead(96)+sigs(348)+pad(4)+data(9392546) D: Actual size: 9392994 warning: xfdr-2.0.1.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 2e1efa87: NOKEY xfdr-2.0.1.x86_64 D: closed db

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread Edward M
On 06/02/2012 11:15 PM, JD wrote: On 06/02/2012 11:05 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/03/2012 01:51 PM, JD wrote: D: Expected size: 9392994 = lead(96)+sigs(348)+pad(4)+data(9392546) D: Actual size: 9392994 warning: xfdr-2.0.1.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 2e1efa87: NOK

Re: running yum with --nosignature

2012-06-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/03/2012 02:15 PM, JD wrote: > D: Using legacy gpg-pubkey(s) from rpmdb > error:xfdr-2.0.1.src.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed: sigh load: BAD > error:xfdr-2.0.1.src.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest) > D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name > D: closed db index /var/lib/