Re: 16 -> 17 = No HDMI [RESOLVED]

2012-06-11 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >> rpm -qa | grep fc16 >> >> to see what, if any, F16 packages may be lingering around. > > > Be careful, Mort. > 'Tis my understanding that some packages are supposed to linger. > Don't remove them until you know you can replace them. T

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-11 Thread Reinhard Sy
Am Mittwoch, den 06.06.2012, 10:32 -0500 schrieb Jeff Gipson: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:24:23PM +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: > >hi all, > > > >asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly) > >reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the >

Re: fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-11 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote: The only thing that seems to have gone right is the install. I managed to do an install without media, even though at the time I didn't have grub2 and the instructions assumed that one did. I went by the F14 instructions. The first thing I noticed is

Re: rpm question

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:00:34 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/09/2012 08:57 AM, JD wrote: > > Is rpm broken? > > > > # rpm -qv --whatrequires libmapi libzeitgeist > > No. From 'man rpm': >--whatrequires CAPABILITY > Query all packages that require CAPABILITY for proper functioning.

Re: fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Dowe
On 11/06/12 05:11, Michael Hennebry wrote: > 40.0GB Seagate Ultra ATA 5400 rmp (snip) > There is also a 400GB internal disk drive added post-purchase. > It is now the boot disk. How much RAM? <1GB? Please see: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Quick_Start_Guide/Re

Howto disable "advanced" form of autocompletition introduced with F15/16 (completion-help)?

2012-06-11 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, With F15 or F16 a new kind of autocompletition was introduced, which somehow magically seems to consult the application which filetypes are suitable. E.g. if I would like to install some local package with yum, and I enter "yum install abc" and press TAB, the input blocks for several seconds a

thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Neal Becker
Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue. I don't expect to need 3D performance,

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Dowe
On 11/06/12 12:03, Neal Becker wrote: I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue. I don't expect to need 3D performance, but want decent 2D. Any suggestions? I've been very happy with my Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The T430 replaces it now, I think. 100% hardware compatibility with Fedora,

Re: Howto disable "advanced" form of autocompletition introduced with F15/16 (completion-help)?

2012-06-11 Thread Joachim Backes
On 06/11/2012 12:22 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, With F15 or F16 a new kind of autocompletition was introduced, which somehow magically seems to consult the application which filetypes are suitable. E.g. if I would like to install some local package with yum, and I enter "yum install abc" and

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Neal Becker wrote: > Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm > thinking about buying something new (not hp this time). Should I > worry about linux compatibility, or are those issues pretty much > resolved now? > > I guess graphics chipset is the bigges

Re: Howto disable "advanced" form of autocompletition introduced with F15/16 (completion-help)?

2012-06-11 Thread Joachim Backes
On 06/11/2012 01:15 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 06/11/2012 12:22 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, With F15 or F16 a new kind of autocompletition was introduced, which somehow magically seems to consult the application which filetypes are suitable. E.g. if I would like to install some local pack

Re: Howto disable "advanced" form of autocompletition introduced with F15/16 (completion-help)?

2012-06-11 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi joachim, Thanks a lot for your reply =) > I forgot: after having erased PackageKit-command-not-found you have to > logout and re-login. Will this only affect the case with yum mentioned above, or the new auto-completition feature in general? Thanks, Clemens -- users mailing list users@lists

Re: Howto disable "advanced" form of autocompletition introduced with F15/16 (completion-help)?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:21:14 +0200 Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Will this only affect the case with yum mentioned above, or the new > auto-completition feature in general? To take care of the rest of the lunatic autocompletion, this is the big hammer: yum -C erase bash-completion (I think that's the

RE: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Neal Becker Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:03 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: thinking about new laptop Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop repl

NFS kernel panic?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Horsley
I typed "reboot" on my f17 desktop today to temporarily switch to a different boot partition, and I wound up with the system totally frozen and the tail end of a kernel panic on my screen with various nfs_* routine names included in the walkback. Unfortunately no information was recorded in any lo

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:03:15 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: > Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about > buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux > compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? > > I guess graphics chips

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: > Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about > buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux > compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? > > I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue. I don't expe

Re: NFS kernel panic?

2012-06-11 Thread Nicolae Ghimbovschi
I have regular system hangs after some time with the latest kernel 3.4.0. No logs. I have and nvidia proprietary drivers. So not sure what piece is causing this. On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I typed "reboot" on my f17 desktop today to temporarily > switch to a different

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steve Dowe writes: On 11/06/12 12:03, Neal Becker wrote: I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue. I don't expect to need 3D performance, but want decent 2D. Any suggestions? I've been very happy with my Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The T430 replaces it now, I think. Lenovo W520 works to

Re: bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

2012-06-11 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 00:06 +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote: > bingo, i think you are right > > when i started my computer with 1 monitor only, things work well. > > when i started my computer with both monitors, the following things > happen: > 1. at 1 screen, i can see the fireworks background image

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Dowe
On 11/06/12 13:11, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Lenovo W520 works too, except for the built-in microphone. Except for the microphone, the hardware compatibility in F17 is perfect. F16 needs current F16 updates to get nouveau working. That's peculiar - you'd expect something like that to work (i.e. b

Re: NFS kernel panic?

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Dowe
On 11/06/12 12:56, Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote: I have regular system hangs after some time with the latest kernel 3.4.0. No logs. I have and nvidia proprietary drivers. So not sure what piece is causing this. Since "preupgrading" to F17, I can't even boot 3.4. Still running on F16's 3.3 atm.

Re: 16 -> 17 = No HDMI [RESOLVED]

2012-06-11 Thread William Hooper
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Caution is always advisable, of course.  But could you name one package that > is known > to linger or needs to be left untouched? $rsync -r rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Everything/i386/os/Packages/ | grep fc16 | wc -l 123

Re: 16 -> 17 = No HDMI [RESOLVED]

2012-06-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/11/2012 10:23 PM, William Hooper wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Caution is always advisable, of course. But could you name one package that >> is known >> to linger or needs to be left untouched? > $rsync -r > rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/

Re: 16 -> 17 = No HDMI [RESOLVED]

2012-06-11 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 06/10/2012 11:02 PM, Fedora User wrote: > I used preupgrade. It left xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.19.0-3.fc16.x86_64 on > the system because it appeared to be newer. The correct driver is: > xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.19.0-1.fc17.x86_64. It's probably a good idea to run 'yum list extras' after any in-place

Re: NFS kernel panic?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Horsley
I'm no longer as certain this has anything to do with NFS. Even if I umount all NFS filesystems, I still panic at reboot when running 3.4.0. I did go ahead and add a bug even without any info available from the walkback: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830862 -- users mailing list use

Re: NFS kernel panic?

2012-06-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/11/2012 11:03 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I'm no longer as certain this has anything to do with NFS. > Even if I umount all NFS filesystems, I still panic at > reboot when running 3.4.0. I did go ahead and add a bug > even without any info available from the walkback: > > https://bugzilla.redhat

Re: Howto disable "advanced" form of autocompletition introduced with F15/16 (completion-help)?

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:33:47 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:21:14 +0200 > Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > > Will this only affect the case with yum mentioned above, or the new > > auto-completition feature in general? > > To take care of the rest of the lunatic autocompletion, th

Re: Dependency Graph

2012-06-11 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06/09/2012 08:05 AM, JD wrote: > Would be nice to have a tool to output the full > dependency graph for all installed packages. I think the graph would be very complex. All the lib* packages would have dozens and dozens of things depending on them. "rpm -qa|wc -l" is more than 4000 for me. T

Re: Howto disable "advanced" form of autocompletition introduced with F15/16 (completion-help)?

2012-06-11 Thread Richard Hughes
On 11 June 2012 12:15, Joachim Backes wrote: > try "sudo yum erase PackageKit-command-not-found" PK-c-n-f doesn't handle the /usr/bin/yum auto-completion at all. Richard. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 06/11/2012 12:03 PM, Neal Becker wrote: Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue

Re: NFS kernel panic?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:25:40 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Does you camera support taking movies? If so, you can always step through > it :-) Not at a high enough resolution to read anything :-). If only I could squash the annoying behavior of the reboot process insisting on clearing the scre

Question on tricking F17 to install

2012-06-11 Thread Aaron Konstam
I bought the F17 DVD from OSDISC.com whose disks have always worked before. But the one they sent me did not boot into the installer. So while waiting for a replacement I came up with the following scheme to install F17. I booted the F16 DVD up to the point where is starts the check the medium. Th

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/11/2012 04:03 AM, Neal Becker wrote: Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Dokuro
I would not consider AMD, I have really bad experiences with them on linux, I own a full AMD/Ati PC and wish I didn't... my poor fedora box has too many glitches on free drivers and no support for closed ones... On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 06/11/2012 04:03 AM, Neal

Re: thinking about new laptop - comments on mini-netbooks/notebooks?

2012-06-11 Thread Max Pyziur
> On 06/11/2012 04:03 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking >> about >> buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux >> compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? >> >> I guess graphics chipset is

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/11/2012 09:21 AM, Dokuro wrote: I would not consider AMD, I have really bad experiences with them on linux, I own a full AMD/Ati PC and wish I didn't... my poor fedora box has too many glitches on free drivers and no support for closed ones... I have two AMD-based desktops that work fine.

Re: 16 -> 17 = No HDMI [RESOLVED]

2012-06-11 Thread Fedora User
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:15:31 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry wrote: > > You may also want to run > > > > yum distro-sync > > > > and even > > > > rpm -qa | grep fc16 > > > > to see what, if any, F16 packages may be lingering around. > > Be careful, Mort. > 'Tis my understanding that some packag

Re: Question on tricking F17 to install

2012-06-11 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 06/11/2012 05:12 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: I bought the F17 DVD from OSDISC.com whose disks have always worked before. But the one they sent me did not boot into the installer. So while waiting for a replacement I came up with the following scheme to install F17. I booted the F16 DVD up to the

Re: SELinux ntfs-mount context

2012-06-11 Thread chritallic
Does nobody have a suggestion? I still cannot get the ntfs files to have a proper context. On 10.06.2012 15:27, chritallic wrote: > Hey there, > > I have a problem with an ntfs partition and it’s selinux context. > > First of all I use the ntfs partition to store all my data. This > includes ope

Re: 16 -> 17 = No HDMI [RESOLVED]

2012-06-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:58:19 -0400, Fedora User wrote: How many people have mdadm-3.2.5-1.fc16.x86_64 on their system after a 16 to 17 preupgrade (which is no longer a PRE anything)? The correct package, btw, is 3.2.3-6.fc17 which looks like a new package because versions trump release num

kill a dead process

2012-06-11 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, I bought a Memorex external CD/DVD + SDHC but the CD/DVD part works once and becomes unresponsive. I've tried opening and reinserting the media but nothing seems to happen, but iIt appears that each time I did that it spawned another process. Even the "eject" command hangs. On insp

Re: kill a dead process

2012-06-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.06.2012 19:39, schrieb Mike Wright: > Hi all, > > I bought a Memorex external CD/DVD + SDHC but the CD/DVD part works once and > becomes unresponsive. I've tried > opening and reinserting the media but nothing seems to happen, but iIt > appears that each time I did that it spawned > ano

Re: kill a dead process

2012-06-11 Thread John Maclean
pkill -f name-of-process That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first place Regards, John On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:39, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I bought a Memorex external CD/DVD + SDHC but the CD/DVD part works once and > becomes unresponsive. I've tried openi

Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Geoffrey Leach
I'm currently running a 32-bit Fedora 16 on a 64-bit capable system. I intend to upgrade to a 64-bin install for Fedora 17. My way of moving between releases is to install (from DVD), reformatting / and /boot, leaving /home and /usr/local (which have their own partitions) untouched. My questio

Re: Install 17 to a dinosaur

2012-06-11 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:15:54 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I don't know how old your machine is, but I had no trouble installing > F17 onto a nine-year-old Dell Precision 650. I started with a live LXDE > CD spin (booted from the only USB port that allows for booting) and was > running fine within

digikam does not show fotos any more after update

2012-06-11 Thread Jens Neu
Dear all, I just updated my FC16, and digikam does not show my fotos any more. Albums are all there, rescan collection does not do any difference. Digikam did not update itself today, still 2.5.0-3.fc16. When I click on an Album, it gives me a: digikam(29267)/digikam (core) Digikam::ImageAlbu

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.06.2012 20:10, schrieb Geoffrey Leach: > I'm currently running a 32-bit Fedora 16 on a 64-bit capable system. I > intend to upgrade to a 64-bin install for Fedora 17. > > My way of moving between releases is to install (from DVD), > reformatting / and /boot, leaving /home and /usr/local

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06/11/2012 08:10 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I'm currently running a 32-bit Fedora 16 on a 64-bit capable system. I > intend to upgrade to a 64-bin install for Fedora 17. > > My way of moving between releases is to install (from DVD), > reformatting / and /boot, leaving /home and /usr/local (

Re: Copying USB stick fails with device errors

2012-06-11 Thread Alex
Bryn, > Use an offset, e.g. > > # mount -o loop,offset=4 Thanks, I should have thought of that. Alas, it didn't work. # mount -o loop,offset=4 -t vfat myusb_sdb.dd /media/desktop/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing

Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?

2012-06-11 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it). I just wondered if Fedora can accomodate the new hardware directly, or if ther

Re: SELinux ntfs-mount context

2012-06-11 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/2012 01:06 PM, chritallic wrote: > Does nobody have a suggestion? I still cannot get the ntfs files to have a > proper context. > Open a bugzilla on this issue. I think this might be a bug in either the mount command or in the kernel. > On 1

Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?

2012-06-11 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Christopher Svanefalk : I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it). I just wondered if Fedora can accomodate th

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:36 -0400, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 11.06.2012 20:10, schrieb Geoffrey Leach: > > I'm currently running a 32-bit Fedora 16 on a 64-bit capable system. I > > intend to upgrade to a 64-bin install for Fedora 17. > > > > My way of moving between releases is to install (f

Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?

2012-06-11 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06/11/2012 08:57 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course > means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system > components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it). > > I just wonder

Re: thinking about new laptop - comments on mini-netbooks/notebooks?

2012-06-11 Thread fedoraproject
Are there any comments on user experience on mini-notebooks/netbooks? For example, the NB505 series? I'm running 64-bit Core 17 on a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 (Atom: N450). I don't recall any software problems whatsoever, and I have been using the netbook for hours every day for more than a

Re: thinking about new laptop - comments on mini-netbooks/notebooks?

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Dowe
On 11/06/12 17:51, Max Pyziur wrote: Are there any comments on user experience on mini-notebooks/netbooks? For example, the NB505 series? I've had a Samsung N130 for the past couple of years. All great apart from the Realtek 8192e wireless chip, which always seems to be hassle on Fedora. Th

Re: livecd-creator does not create EFI-enabled iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/09/2012 07:02 AM, Steven Shiau wrote: I'd like to use livecd-creator to create an EFI-enabled iso on my Fedora 17 x86-64 machine. I used this command to create the live iso file: livecd-creator -v --config=./livecd.ks --cache=/var/cache/live Looking at: /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-

Re: kill a dead process

2012-06-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 19:02 +0100, John Maclean wrote: > pkill -f name-of-process > > That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first > place > [Please don't top-post; read the list Guidelines] A process in 'D' state *cannot* be killed. There was a recent discussion of this o

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > recompile everything! > these days there is no need for 32bit > > [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | grep i686 | wc -l > 0 > [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | wc -l > 1128 Is that why intel put a lot effort into creating the x32 ABI? Actually, if you have less than 4GB RAM there is

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.06.2012 23:43, schrieb Clemens Eisserer: > Hi, > >> recompile everything! >> these days there is no need for 32bit >> >> [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | grep i686 | wc -l >> 0 >> [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | wc -l >> 1128 > > Is that why intel put a lot effort into creati

Re: SELinux ntfs-mount context

2012-06-11 Thread chritallic
On 11.06.2012 20:58, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 06/11/2012 01:06 PM, chritallic wrote: >> Does nobody have a suggestion? I still cannot get the ntfs files >> to have a proper context. > > Open a bugzilla on this issue. I think this might be a bug in > either the mount command or in the kernel. Do

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Reindl Harald writes: > the better road would be drop i686 completly over the long > > the last 4 years not a single i686 package installed > and the world still turns - i686 was yesterday I agree fully with the sentiment that no x86_64 capable computer should be running 32-bit code. Everybody

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:05pm on Monday, June 11, 2012 (UK time), Wolfgang S. Rupprecht scrawled: > Sadly, before Fedora Smolt went down, it still showed more 32-bit than > 64-bit installs. Fedora doesn't do enough to encourage everyone that I don't think its down: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/static/stats/

Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:55:57 +0200 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > All the rest will probably just work or be trivial to fix. Yea. I was shocked when I moved my system disk from an AMD system with a Radeon video card to an Intel i7 system with the native Intel HD graphics and it booted right up. I was ce

Re: kill a dead process

2012-06-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:06:39 -0430 "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 19:02 +0100, John Maclean wrote: > > pkill -f name-of-process > > > > That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first > > place > > > [Please don't top-post; read the list Guidelines] >

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Alan Cox
> > Is that why intel put a lot effort into creating the x32 ABI? > > no becasue it needs also rebuilding because it is a NEW ABI > it is only interesting for embedded devices Far from it. x32 is designed for performance. There are many applications where the additional space occupied by 64bit po

Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?

2012-06-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Christopher Svanefalk writes: I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it). I just wondered if Fedora can accomodate

Re: kill a dead process

2012-06-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:06:39 -0430 > "Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 19:02 +0100, John Maclean wrote: > > > pkill -f name-of-process > > > > > > That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first > > > pl

Re: kill a dead process

2012-06-11 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:39:49AM -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Is there any way to kill these short of a reboot? (Feels s M$). Not really. A process that get into that state is usually due to improper handling of interrupt-driven events; the interrupt was either missed or improperly handled,

git and selinux

2012-06-11 Thread Pete Stieber
I'm trying to setup a git server on a Fedora 17 box. I created user name git and setup bare Git repos under /home/git/repos. When I clone these repos from another machine using $ git clone git@server_name/repos/RepoName.git RepoName selinux wants the type of /home/git to be user_home_t. Wh

Smolt (was Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora)

2012-06-11 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Steve Searle writes: > Around 11:05pm on Monday, June 11, 2012 (UK time), Wolfgang > S. Rupprecht scrawled: > >> Sadly, before Fedora Smolt went down, it still showed more 32-bit than >> 64-bit installs. Fedora doesn't do enough to encourage everyone that > > I don't think its down: > http://smo

Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?

2012-06-11 Thread David G . Miller
Christopher Svanefalk gmail.com> writes: > > > I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it).I just wondered if Fedora can

Re: fedora 17 hates me

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Steve Dowe wrote: On 11/06/12 05:11, Michael Hennebry wrote: > 40.0GB Seagate Ultra ATA 5400 rmp (snip) > There is also a 400GB internal disk drive added post-purchase. > It is now the boot disk. How much RAM? <1GB? Please see: 4GB It kinda sounds like a lack of memory,

xfce desktop - no thumbnails of jpg files

2012-06-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I switched to an XFCE desktop. I have jpg files on my desktop. Gnome displayed a small thumbnail of each image, as its icon. XFCE shows the same, generic icon for a jpg file. Can XFCE's desktop also display thumbnails as image files' icon? Googling around did not enlight me. If I manually o

Re: No device (wireless router) at mac address.

2012-06-11 Thread Quicksort
No, the Dell card is detected but no router at mac address. Upon "lspci -v" (Ed Greshko suggestion). 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03) Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-card Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latenc

Re: xfce desktop - no thumbnails of jpg files

2012-06-11 Thread Jayson Rowe
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I switched to an XFCE desktop. I have jpg files on my desktop. Gnome > displayed a small thumbnail of each image, as its icon. XFCE shows the same, > generic icon for a jpg file. > > Can XFCE's desktop also display thumbnails as image files

Re: xfce desktop - no thumbnails of jpg files

2012-06-11 Thread nomnex
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:28:12 -0400 > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I switched to an XFCE desktop. I have jpg files on my desktop. Gnome > displayed a small thumbnail of each image, as its icon. XFCE shows > the same, generic icon for a jpg file. > > Can XFCE's desktop also display thumbnails as

Re: No device (wireless router) at mac address.

2012-06-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/12/2012 08:31 AM, Quicksort wrote: > > No, the Dell card is detected but no router at mac address. > > Upon "lspci -v" (Ed Greshko suggestion). > > > 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n > (rev 03) > Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini

Re: xfce desktop - no thumbnails of jpg files

2012-06-11 Thread nomnex
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:44:55 -0400 > Jayson Rowe wrote: > > I have jpg files on my desktop.[...] sorry about that, I misread. -- nomnex Freenode: nomnex Registered Linux user #505281. Be counted at: http://linuxcounter.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: No device (wireless router) at mac address.

2012-06-11 Thread Ed Greshko
As I mentioned I don't have experience with broadcom hardware. But, a little more googling shows that it probably would be a good idea to configure the rpmfusion repos and install the broadcom-wl package. Name: broadcom-wl Arch: noarch Version : 5.100.82.112 Release

Re: livecd-creator does not create EFI-enabled iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Steven Shiau
On 06/12/2012 05:33 AM, Phil Meyer wrote: > On 06/09/2012 07:02 AM, Steven Shiau wrote: >> I'd like to use livecd-creator to create an EFI-enabled iso on my Fedora >> 17 x86-64 machine. >> I used this command to create the live iso file: >> livecd-creator -v --config=./livecd.ks --cache=/var/cach

Re: git and selinux

2012-06-11 Thread Jeff Gipson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:08:47PM -0700, Pete Stieber wrote: I'm trying to setup a git server on a Fedora 17 box. I created user name git and setup bare Git repos under /home/git/repos. When I clone these repos from another machine using $ git clone git@server_name/repos/RepoName.git RepoN

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread John Wendel
On 06/11/2012 03:05 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Reindl Harald writes: the better road would be drop i686 completly over the long the last 4 years not a single i686 package installed and the world still turns - i686 was yesterday I agree fully with the sentiment that no x86_64 capable com

Re: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Fedora

2012-06-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/11/2012 08:51 PM, John Wendel wrote: No, everybody doesn't have more than 1G memory. Sad, me :( Yes, my mobo's maxed out at 1G, although my CPU could handle twice that. Alas, I'm not in the position to upgrade right now because of limited funds and more urgent things to spend it on,

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Tim
Sam Varshavchik: >> Lenovo W520 works too, except for the built-in microphone. Except for >> the microphone, the hardware compatibility in F17 is perfect. F16 needs >> current F16 updates to get nouveau working. Steve Dowe: > That's peculiar - you'd expect something like that to work (i.e. be the