F17: some cd/DVD operations lock the desktop

2012-06-27 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi all, having running F17-x86_64 fully updated. I run gnome-shell and additionally nautilus. Sometimes, if loading a CD or DVD, the desktop is locked until nautilus has checked the media (no mouse movements, a.s.o). Anybody sees this too? How to get rid of this effects? I had this effect

F17: Printing not working with Firefox, working all else

2012-06-27 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, Mysteriously, my Firefox has stopped printing to the printer. All other applications print as expected. I can print to a PDF file and print from evince, but not directly to the [USB HP LJ P2035] printer. No output indicating queuing appears from lpq. Cups logs indicate no activit

Re: F17: Printing not working with Firefox, working all else

2012-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/27/2012 03:19 PM, Nick Urbanik wrote: > Mysteriously, my Firefox has stopped printing to the printer. All > other applications print as expected. I can print to a PDF file and > print from evince, but not directly to the [USB HP LJ P2035] printer. > > No output indicating queuing appears f

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06/27/2012 08:57 AM, Jatin K wrote: > Dear All > > I'm on FC 15 which is acting as a router for Cable Internet connection > for 145 PC on the LAN, which works fine... But there is one question in > my mind, How do I limit the maximum numbers of concurrent connections to > router. i.e. if I want

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Jatin K
On 06/27/2012 02:14 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 06/27/2012 08:57 AM, Jatin K wrote: Your requirement is not clearly described. The PCs do not do "connections" to the router, they do connections to the outside world, the router is just moving packets for them. "Number of concurrent connections" a

Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Dear all, I will have to install Windows on my desktop, which is currently running Fedora 17. The problem with this is that Windows overwrites the MBR (there is no way of opting out of this afaik), and hence my grub as well. How can I reinstall grub after I install windows, so that I again can get

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread Joachim Backes
On 06/27/2012 12:00 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: Dear all, I will have to install Windows on my desktop, which is currently running Fedora 17. The problem with this is that Windows overwrites the MBR (there is no way of opting out of this afaik), and hence my grub as well. How can I reinstal

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Raymond Pittigher
You can make it a proxy using squid or add another ethernet adapter and separate the networks into allow and deny On 06/27/2012 05:34 AM, Jatin K wrote: On 06/27/2012 02:14 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 06/27/2012 08:57 AM, Jatin K wrote: Your requirement is not clearly described. The PCs do no

Re: Not receiving my own posts

2012-06-27 Thread Tim
Hi n2xssvv.g02gfr12930, How do you pronounce that? ;-) > I changed m account settings to receive them, and it is not working There are, at least, two places that may cause that issue, and you haven't said where you changed your "account" settings. List servers can be set to not send your own p

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Hi Joachim, and thanks for the reply. Is this a scripted process, or something that will have to be done manually? Asking since I am not 100% savvy when it comes to more complicated CLI work. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Joachim Backes < joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote: > On 06/27/2012

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Nevermind, found good instructions here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-rescuemode-boot.html Thanks anyway! On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Christopher Svanefalk < christopher.svanef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Joachim, and thanks for the reply. Is this

Re: Not receiving my own posts

2012-06-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:25:44 +0930 Tim wrote: > Your own mail service may have an option to not show mail from your own > address. Yea, gmail for one has that as the only possible behavior. I had to setup two gmail address subscriptions to most of my mailing lists - one I use to send, but don't

Re: Not receiving my own posts

2012-06-27 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 06/27/2012 01:01 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:25:44 +0930 > Tim wrote: > >> Your own mail service may have an option to not show mail from your own >> address. > Yea, gmail for one has that as the only possible behavior. > > I had to setup two gmail address subscriptions to mo

Re: Installing Fedora on a USB connected Harddrive.

2012-06-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.06.2012, Jim wrote: > this booting off CDrom is a Major problem for this Dell 2400, it's all over > the internet, but no has came up with a fix on the problem. You could try using an USB-stick. Download the F17 DVD .iso, do an "isohybrid xxx.iso" on it, and copy it to your stick: cat xxx.

Re: Not receiving my own posts

2012-06-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 08:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:25:44 +0930 > Tim wrote: > > > Your own mail service may have an option to not show mail from your own > > address. > > Yea, gmail for one has that as the only possible behavior. > > I had to setup two gmail address s

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.06.2012 11:34, schrieb Jatin K: > On 06/27/2012 02:14 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> On 06/27/2012 08:57 AM, Jatin K wrote: >> Your requirement is not clearly described. >> The PCs do not do "connections" to the router, they do connections >> to the outside world, the router is just moving pa

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 15:39:47 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: ouch - you are missing network basics at all I think it is also an issue of what he is really trying to do. Other than an experiment it really doesn't make sense to only allow connections from only 90 of 145 PCs to outside of th

Re: F 17 (64). After update, no network!

2012-06-27 Thread Natalie Gross
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Natalie Gross wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Greg Woods wrote: >> On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 13:09 -0400, Natalie Gross wrote: >>>  Now it works if I bring it up manually via systemctl restart >>> network.service. >>> But it (network) does not start automati

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-27 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:24:05PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/26/2012 02:22 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > > Does anyone know how to allow root and users other than me to use the > > sound system? > > > > Ever since pulseaudio w

F16 rocks. Thanks.

2012-06-27 Thread linux guy
I've been using F16 since before Christmas and I must say that it has become a very polished and powerful release. Kudos to those who have worked so hard on it. We don't thank you people enough. Your work is greatly appreciated. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: Pulseaudio strikes again!

2012-06-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/27/2012 10:57 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:24:05PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> You may want to look into running PA as a system daemon instead of a >> user daemon. > > I have done so, and it didn't work. Spe

Re: Not receiving my own posts

2012-06-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/27/2012 03:55 AM, Tim wrote: List servers can be set to not send your own posts to you. You'd log into it, and change settings, there. (I'm not sure if/this/ list server has that option.) It does. I know because I see no reason to receive my own posts. -- users mailing list users@list

Re: F16 rocks. Thanks.

2012-06-27 Thread Hiisi
On 27 June 2012 20:05, linux guy wrote: > I've been using F16 since before Christmas and I must say that it has > become a very polished and powerful release. > > Kudos to those who have worked so hard on it.   We don't thank you > people enough.  Your work is greatly appreciated. > F16 is from t

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread James Wilkinson
Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > I will have to install Windows on my desktop, which is currently running > Fedora 17. The problem with this is that Windows overwrites the MBR (there > is no way of opting out of this afaik), and hence my grub as well. How can > I reinstall grub after I install window

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 07:42:24AM -0600, Lawrence Graves wrote: > > On 06/26/2012 07:39 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > >nslookup [hostname] > Password: > [root@Jehovah ~]# nslookup [hostname] > Server:192.168.1.1 > Address:192.168.1.1#53 > > ** server can't find [hostname]: NXDOMAIN >

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Lawrence Graves
On 06/27/2012 02:20 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 07:42:24AM -0600, Lawrence Graves wrote: On 06/26/2012 07:39 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: nslookup [hostname] Password: [root@Jehovah ~]# nslookup [hostname] Server:192.168.1.1 Address:192.168.1.1#53 ** server

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/27/2012 01:44 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: Thanks for the help. I don't care what I put in the brackets it still comes back to what you see in this post. Well, then, stop putting it in brackets. [joe@khorlia Desktop]$ nslookup khorlia.zeff.us Server: 207.217.77.82 Address:2

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread Frank Murphy
On 27/06/12 21:12, James Wilkinson wrote: Have you considered installing Windows in a virtual machine, where it can’t do any damage? James. Widows even in a cd sleeve can still do damage. Paper cut, hurts like a bizatch. -- Regards, Frank "Jack of all, fubars" -- users mailing list users@

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Lawrence Graves
On 06/27/2012 03:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/27/2012 01:44 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: Thanks for the help. I don't care what I put in the brackets it still comes back to what you see in this post. Well, then, stop putting it in brackets. [joe@khorlia Desktop]$ nslookup khorlia.zeff.us Serve

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
The license does not permit usage in a virtual machine, unfortunately. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 27/06/12 21:12, James Wilkinson wrote: > >> >> Have you considered installing Windows in a virtual machine, where it >> can’t do any damage? >> >> James. >> >> > Wid

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/27/2012 02:07 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: On 06/27/2012 03:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/27/2012 01:44 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: Thanks for the help. I don't care what I put in the brackets it still comes back to what you see in this post. Well, then, stop putting it in brackets. [joe@

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Lawrence Graves
On 06/27/2012 03:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/27/2012 02:07 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: On 06/27/2012 03:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/27/2012 01:44 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: Thanks for the help. I don't care what I put in the brackets it still comes back to what you see in this post. Well,

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Lawrence Graves
On 06/27/2012 03:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/27/2012 02:07 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: On 06/27/2012 03:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/27/2012 01:44 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: Thanks for the help. I don't care what I put in the brackets it still comes back to what you see in this post. Well,

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/27/2012 02:31 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: server can't find risingstar: NXDOMAIN This the results of nslookup. Yes it is fully qualified. This problem only came when I went from Fedora 16 to 17. Are you using just risingstar, or are you using risingstar.x.y? The first, of course, won't w

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Lawrence Graves
On 06/27/2012 03:39 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/27/2012 02:31 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: server can't find risingstar: NXDOMAIN This the results of nslookup. Yes it is fully qualified. This problem only came when I went from Fedora 16 to 17. Are you using just risingstar, or are you using risin

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/27/2012 02:34 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: 192.168.1.84 israel.risingstar.local That's on a non-routable subnet. Considering that nslookup is a program to query Internet domain name servers, there's no way in the world that they'd know its address. (And a good thing, too! Do you have a

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:45pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 (UK time), Joe Zeff scrawled: > On 06/27/2012 02:34 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: > >192.168.1.84 israel.risingstar.local > > That's on a non-routable subnet. Considering that nslookup is a program > to query Internet domain name servers, there's no way i

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/27/2012 02:54 PM, Steve Searle wrote: I didn't see the start of this thread but couldn't he be running his own DNS? I do, and nsloolup will find my own machines. That, of course, would be different. However, if he were doing that, he'd probably know enough not to put the arguments for n

Fedora crashed at Grub Rescue

2012-06-27 Thread Jim
grub rescue> in fedora 17 . What CD do I use to get into chroot /mnt/sysimage ,F17 Live CD ?? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wik

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:16:28PM +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > The license does not permit usage in a virtual machine, unfortunately. What license? AFAIK, none of the Windows licenses forbid running in a VM. Most versions of Windows don't make any provision for it. There was a thing wh

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.06.2012 01:30, schrieb Dave Ihnat: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:16:28PM +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> The license does not permit usage in a virtual machine, unfortunately. > > What license? AFAIK, none of the Windows licenses forbid running in a VM. > Most versions of Windows do

Re: Fedora crashed at Grub Rescue

2012-06-27 Thread Jim
On 06/27/2012 06:44 PM, Jim wrote: grub rescue> in fedora 17 . What CD do I use to get into chroot /mnt/sysimage ,F17 Live CD ?? / I ran a Gparted on a freshly installed Fedora 17 after two days of Computer running it WIPE OUT THE / and /HOME PARTITIONS, THE ONLY PARTITIONS lef

Re: Restoring grub after Windows install

2012-06-27 Thread Roger
Deceptively simple and elegant solution, apply the DWPGA rule. Delete Windows, problem goes away. Solved problems on our computers. R Am 28.06.2012 01:30, schrieb Dave Ihnat: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:16:28PM +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: The license does not permit usage in a virtual m

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/28/2012 05:34 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote: > 192.168.1.84 israel.risingstar.local Ahhh That is in your /etc/hosts file And you said you were doing nslookup risingstar ?? If that is so, you have 2 problems. 1. nslookup doesn't reference data in the hosts file. It only does

Re: Fedora crashed at Grub Rescue

2012-06-27 Thread Mark C. Allman
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 18:44 -0400, Jim wrote: > grub rescue> in fedora 17 . > > What CD do I use to get into chroot /mnt/sysimage ,F17 Live CD ?? I used the "Fedora 17 Desktop Edition" install disk for a recovery disk. I downloaded it from here: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-o

Re: Catalyst 12.6 drivers

2012-06-27 Thread Renich Bon Ciric
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:11 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > These are now available on RPMFusion non free testing repository. It > installed with no problems for me. > > This should remove the watermark, (I've not tested it) > > #!/bin/sh > DRIVER=/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so >

Re: Fedora crashed at Grub Rescue

2012-06-27 Thread Jim
On 06/27/2012 08:37 PM, Mark C. Allman wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 18:44 -0400, Jim wrote: grub rescue> in fedora 17 . What CD do I use to get into chroot /mnt/sysimage ,F17 Live CD ?? I used the "Fedora 17 Desktop Edition" install disk for a recovery disk. I downloaded it from here

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Kevin Martin
On 06/27/2012 07:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/28/2012 05:34 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote: >> 192.168.1.84 israel.risingstar.local > > Ahhh That is in your /etc/hosts file And you said you were doing > > nslookup risingstar ?? > > If that is so, you have 2 problems. > > 1. nslo

Re: Gnome-rdp

2012-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/28/2012 09:50 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > nslookup (or some versions of it) used to honor the /etc/nsswitch.conf file > so if hosts was defined > > hosts: dns file > > in /etc/nsswitch.conf, "nslookup risingstar" would return the address (*if* > /etc/hosts had "192.168.0.18 I could find no

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Jatin K
On 06/27/2012 07:43 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 15:39:47 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: ouch - you are missing network basics at all I think it is also an issue of what he is really trying to do. Other than an experiment it really doesn't make sense to only allow conn

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/28/2012 01:27 PM, Jatin K wrote: > well. suppose I've 5 clients in my office ( say A,B, C, D, E ) and a > linux box > which is working as a router ( gateway ), I want to allow only 4 concurrent > pcs to > access the Internet, say if A,B,C,D is using internet then fifth client E can >

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/28/2012 02:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/28/2012 01:27 PM, Jatin K wrote: >> well. suppose I've 5 clients in my office ( say A,B, C, D, E ) and a >> linux box >> which is working as a router ( gateway ), I want to allow only 4 concurrent >> pcs to >> access the Internet, say if A,B,

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Jatin K
On 06/28/2012 11:32 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/28/2012 01:27 PM, Jatin K wrote: well. suppose I've 5 clients in my office ( say A,B, C, D, E ) and a linux box which is working as a router ( gateway ), I want to allow only 4 concurrent pcs to access the Internet, say if A,B,C,D is using i

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/28/2012 02:27 PM, Jatin K wrote: > yes, its my client's requirement .. I can understand its not the way to > go > but he pays me for this ... I'm a service provider .. I have to do what > they > said and want to do > >> I think you need to state the problem you are trying to solve

Re: How to limit maximum number of TCP connections

2012-06-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/27/2012 11:27 PM, Jatin K wrote: how can you prove its wrong ... they need this kind of configurations, and my duty is to provide the solutions what they need if its possible I don't know the solution/configuration requirement to fulfill their desire, thats why I'm asking the so