Re: Natural Selection.....

2012-08-25 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
You intend to use them all at once? Why? For a server box, you might want to consider CentOS. On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > Ok so after scouring this site called "DistroWatch".which has a > MILLION different versions of Linux I've decided to go with: > > Pe

Re: Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop

2012-08-25 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Or maybe read this > > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/unity-desktop-available-for-fedora > > I any event, if you go down this rabbit hole, I hope you don't post your > problems here. :-) Thanks for the heads-up Ed... I sighed when

Openvpn: how to start at login?

2012-08-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
I have a script - #! /bin/sh sudo systemctl restart openvpn@client.service - which I run (under Fedora-17) if vpn is not connected when I logon (normally after hibernating). I'm wondering if there is a "systemctl enable" or similar co

Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

2012-08-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/25/2012 07:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have a script > - > #! /bin/sh > sudo systemctl restart openvpn@client.service > - > which I run (under Fedora-17) if vpn is not connected when I logon > (normally after hibernating). >

Re: No suspend on lid close

2012-08-25 Thread Lailah
What desktop are you using? I use Fedora 17 with Gnome 3 and I don't have problems. Closing lid is working as I need. Hope this helps -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users G

Re: f16 -> F17 : jboss-as kills upgrade

2012-08-25 Thread sean darcy
On 08/22/2012 07:13 PM, sean darcy wrote: I'm trying to upgrade from F16 to F17. First tried preupgrade. That gave an error that anaconda couldn't install jboss-as, probably a corrupted file. Then tried the net.iso. Same problem. Then tried the F17 dvd. Ditto. I don't even use jboss. Is there

Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

2012-08-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ed Greshko wrote: >> I have a script >> - >> #! /bin/sh >> sudo systemctl restart openvpn@client.service >> - >> which I run (under Fedora-17) if vpn is not connected when I logon >> (normally after hibernating). >> >> I'm wondering i

hdmi and sound to a tv on F16

2012-08-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have an HP Pavilion g7-1117cl Notebook PC with F16-x64 as the os. I have finally had the time to debug the TV interface with an hdmi connection. I had F15 on this same unit, and was able to have both sound and video via the hdmi interface. The F16 install was not an upgrade, but ra

Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

2012-08-25 Thread Jack Craig
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have a script > - > #! /bin/sh > sudo systemctl restart openvpn@client.service > - > which I run (under Fedora-17) if vpn is not connected when I logon > (normally after hibe

Re: hdmi and sound to a tv on F16

2012-08-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:26:26 -0500 Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I am still unable to get the sound activated through the hdmi > interface. Try running the sound control, they change the name every release, but currently you can get to it via the command: gnome-control-center sound You can go to

Re: hdmi and sound to a tv on F16

2012-08-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:26:26 -0500 Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I am still unable to get the sound activated through the hdmi > interface. Try running the sound control, they change the name every release, but currently you can get to it via the command: gnome-control-center sound You can go to

F17: what replaces xorg.conf??

2012-08-25 Thread Beartooth
One of my F17 machines hardly ever manages to boot. It's an old Dell PowerEdge SC1420, and it did fine with all the previous Fedora releases, and fine until recently with F17. Now it hits the monitor's error message "input signal out of range." But sometimes, if I leave it lon

Re: F17: what replaces xorg.conf??

2012-08-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 16:59:35 +, Beartooth wrote: One of my F17 machines hardly ever manages to boot. It's an old Dell PowerEdge SC1420, and it did fine with all the previous Fedora releases, and fine until recently with F17. Now it hits the monitor's error message "input signa

error banner popped up: Oh oh ... Something went wrong ...

2012-08-25 Thread JD
FC16, just run a full update. Rebooted (with latest kernel). I got the error banner for the first time during boot, but just before the gdm greeting banner: Oh, oh. Something went wrong etc. Found that someone has opened a bug about this with redhat bugzilla: 819340 back in May of this ye

Re: F17: what replaces xorg.conf??

2012-08-25 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 08/25/2012 09:59 AM, Beartooth wrote: One of my F17 machines hardly ever manages to boot. It's an old Dell PowerEdge SC1420, and it did fine with all the previous Fedora releases, and fine until recently with F17. Now it hits the monitor's error message "input signal out of range."

Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

2012-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday, 25. August 2012. 17.55.26 Timothy Murphy wrote: > But surely there should be a way of enabling this service, > as there used to be? > Wouldn't it be much simpler just to default to client, > which I imagine is what 99% of users want? > Why can't openvpn run like every other service? I

Why is dbus failing for so many services?

2012-08-25 Thread JD
fc16, kernel-3.4.9-1.fc16.i686, dbus-1.4.10-3.fc16.i686 Failure messages from /var/log/messages: Aug 25 11:23:46 localhost kernel: [ 39.155005] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: excluding nothing: probe failed. Aug 25 11:23:46 localhost kernel: [ 39.156411] pcmci

Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

2012-08-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/25/2012 11:55 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Thanks for your response. > But that's essentially what I do. > I can see if vpn is active. > If it isn't I run the script. > (I do run KDE, incidentally.) I don't get from what you said if your process is a manual or automatic process. Which? > >

mic stopped working

2012-08-25 Thread JD
I use the mic mostly for skype. My audio device is 00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] C-Media AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0) Skype can only use PulseAudioServer for Mix, speakers

Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

2012-08-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> But surely there should be a way of enabling this service, >> as there used to be? >> Wouldn't it be much simpler just to default to client, >> which I imagine is what 99% of users want? >> Why can't openvpn run like every other service? > > In what sense openvpn *doesn'

Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

2012-08-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Jack Craig wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Timothy Murphy > wrote: > >> I have a script >> - >> #! /bin/sh >> sudo systemctl restart openvpn@client.service >> - >> which I run (under Fedora-17) if vpn is not connected when

F16>F17: F17 can't find root by uuid - which exists!

2012-08-25 Thread sean darcy
Upgrading from F16 to F17. F17 boot fails because dracut can't find the root partition, which is listed by uuid. This is the same uuid used in F16, and when I run blkid at the dracut prompt : there it is! And yes, I've checked character by character. I changed fstab to use /dev/sda2, but that

Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

2012-08-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > In what sense openvpn *doesn't* run like every other service? Before systemd/systemctl came along I just used to say "chkconfig openvpn on". I'm just asking why I can't do the equivalent today? As far as I know, one can "systemctl enable" every other service. -- Timo

Re: error banner popped up: Oh oh ... Something went wrong ...

2012-08-25 Thread M A Young
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, JD wrote: FC16, just run a full update. Rebooted (with latest kernel). I got the error banner for the first time during boot, but just before the gdm greeting banner: Oh, oh. Something went wrong etc. Found that someone has opened a bug about this with redhat bugzil

Re: error banner popped up: Oh oh ... Something went wrong ...

2012-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/25/2012 03:00 PM, M A Young wrote: That is a rather useless generic error message (from gnome-shell I think) which doesn't give you a clue as to what actually went wrong, so the bug report you found could be a for completely different problem. And, AIUI, there's no clear way to get any f

Re: error banner popped up: Oh oh ... Something went wrong ...

2012-08-25 Thread JD
On 08/25/2012 04:00 PM, M A Young wrote: On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, JD wrote: FC16, just run a full update. Rebooted (with latest kernel). I got the error banner for the first time during boot, but just before the gdm greeting banner: Oh, oh. Something went wrong etc. Found that someone has

Re: error banner popped up: Oh oh ... Something went wrong ...

2012-08-25 Thread JD
On 08/25/2012 04:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/25/2012 03:00 PM, M A Young wrote: That is a rather useless generic error message (from gnome-shell I think) which doesn't give you a clue as to what actually went wrong, so the bug report you found could be a for completely different problem. An

Re: Openvpn: how to start at login?

2012-08-25 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday, 26. August 2012. 0.00.16 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > In what sense openvpn *doesn't* run like every other service? > > Before systemd/systemctl came along > I just used to say "chkconfig openvpn on". > I'm just asking why I can't do the equivalent today? > > As f

Re: error banner popped up: Oh oh ... Something went wrong ...

2012-08-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/25/2012 04:28 PM, JD wrote: The way the apps are stacked so deeply upon lib after lib, by the time the failure is returned to the calling app, the app has no ide what happened. The high library stack is very likely to blame. So? Each lib that detects an error should log it instead of jus

Re: error banner popped up: Oh oh ... Something went wrong ...

2012-08-25 Thread JD
On 08/25/2012 06:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/25/2012 04:28 PM, JD wrote: The way the apps are stacked so deeply upon lib after lib, by the time the failure is returned to the calling app, the app has no ide what happened. The high library stack is very likely to blame. So? Each lib that det

Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

2012-08-25 Thread JD
using driveropts=forcespeed speed=2 .etc does not work using ... speed=2 . does not work wodim always writes at the medium's encoded speed, which ranges from 10X to 24x. However, using speed=2 on DVD media DOES work. Here is the content of /etc/wodim.conf which I gleaned from the web

Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

2012-08-25 Thread Tom Horsley
wodim is an utter pile of rubbish. Only the true cdrecord actually works well. Download the one true cdrecord from: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html and build it from source. Try to ignore the fact that the author is a supreme ass who rubs everyone the wrong way. Focus on the fa

Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

2012-08-25 Thread JD
On 08/25/2012 08:58 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: wodim is an utter pile of rubbish. Only the true cdrecord actually works well. Download the one true cdrecord from: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html and build it from source. Try to ignore the fact that the author is a supreme ass wh

Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

2012-08-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:06:02 -0600 JD wrote: > Here is the output of make and gmake I see that same junk, but the gmake keeps going anyway and builds everything. (At least on my system - I just tried it with a new copy of the cdrtools-beta.tar.gz I downloaded from the "Download Latest" link which

Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

2012-08-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/26/2012 12:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:06:02 -0600 > JD wrote: > >> Here is the output of make and gmake > I see that same junk, but the gmake keeps going anyway > and builds everything. (At least on my system - I just > tried it with a new copy of the cdrtools-beta.tar

Re: Unable to force wodim to write a CD at 2X speed

2012-08-25 Thread JD
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/26/2012 12:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:06:02 -0600 > > JD wrote: > > > >> Here is the output of make and gmake > > I see that same junk, but the gmake keeps going anyway > > and builds everything. (At least on my