Re: OpenOffice.org alongside LibreOffice

2012-10-10 Thread Pasha R
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Temlakos wrote: > On 10/09/2012 07:33 AM, Pasha R wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic >> wrote: On 03/10/12 19:54, Pasha R wrote: > > Is it possible to install OOo alongside LO on F17? >>> >>> As a matter of

Re: FF 15.0.1 crashing!

2012-10-10 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > Hi Folks, > > is anyone else seeing their FF 15.0.1 crash? today, both my hime and work FF > sessions had crashed > since yesterday. > > Is it finally time to move to chrome? > > tia, jackc... > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproje

Re: FF 15.0.1 crashing!

2012-10-10 Thread Roger
I've not had a crash but it stops working for up to 3 minutes, at the same time it uses 100% of cpu and 90% memory, then stops using all that and works well for a short time. Roger On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Jack Craig wrote: Hi Folks, is anyone else seeing their FF 15.0.1 crash? today,

Re: Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-10 Thread Jim
On 10/09/2012 10:32 PM, JD wrote: On 10/09/2012 07:10 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Friends, After years of providing services to students for free in installing Fedora, I hit a wall this afternoon and don't quite know how to get out of it. The offending laptop is a HP Pavilion DV6 with Windows 7

Re: installing Microsoft fonts: chkfontpath not found

2012-10-10 Thread manifestoe
Thanks, I'll look in to it. xset q will tell you your fontpath for X core. /etc/X11/fontpath.d is the catalog directory. It has symlinks for a subset of /usr/share/fonts. adding fontpath Files to the X11 xorg.conf should be equivalent. the xset +fp commands are supposed to do the same thing fo

Re: FF 15.0.1 crashing!

2012-10-10 Thread Temlakos
On 10/10/2012 06:43 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Jack Craig wrote: Hi Folks, is anyone else seeing their FF 15.0.1 crash? today, both my hime and work FF sessions had crashed since yesterday. Is it finally time to move to chrome? tia, jackc... -- users ma

Chrome [Was FF 15.0.1 crashing!]

2012-10-10 Thread Steven Stern
On 10/10/2012 07:01 AM, Temlakos wrote: // snip > > I'm looking forward to an official Google Chrome package for Fedora. All > I knew is that the Chrome pack I got was the worst-behaved application I > ever tried to work with. But that was when I was still slogging with F14 > long past its EOL >

Re: Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:52:20 -0400 Jim wrote: > On 10/09/2012 10:32 PM, JD wrote: > > > > On 10/09/2012 07:10 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> Friends, > >> > >> After years of providing services to students for free in installing > >> Fedora, I hit a wall this afternoon and don't quite know how to

Re: Can't print txt file

2012-10-10 Thread Hiisi
On 8 October 2012 17:08, Jim wrote: > > I do have a printer setup. > > i do have a Screen Snapshot installed but you can't put screen shots on > Fedora-user-list. > > With out being able to see a screen shot when asking a question on this > list, tends to make the replier to just guess at what he

Re: Chrome [Was FF 15.0.1 crashing!]

2012-10-10 Thread Jack Craig
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Steven Stern < subscribed-li...@sterndata.com> wrote: > On 10/10/2012 07:01 AM, Temlakos wrote: > // snip > > > > I'm looking forward to an official Google Chrome package for Fedora. All > > I knew is that the Chrome pack I got was the worst-behaved application I

Re: Smolt Retirement

2012-10-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:03:03PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > A replacement for much of the functionality of smolt is under > development, see the census project mailing list for more information: > http://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/census "No messages have been posted to this list y

Re: Smolt Retirement

2012-10-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:41:17 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:03:03PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > A replacement for much of the functionality of smolt is under > > development, see the census project mailing list for more > > information: http://lists.fedorahosted.org/ma

nfs4, idmapd.conf, and F14->F17

2012-10-10 Thread Paul B Schroeder
On my old F14 machine, I updated /etc/idmapd.conf and updated the "[Mapping]" section of the config file: Nobody-User = paulbsch Nobody-Group = paulbsch No other changes were made and this works as expected. File ownership under the nfs4 mount is correctly mapped to "paulbsch" instead of "nobody"

Re: nfs4, idmapd.conf, and F14->F17

2012-10-10 Thread Paul B Schroeder
The mapping also does not work on a CentOS 6.3 box I just installed either. On 10/10/2012 03:38 PM, Paul B Schroeder wrote: > On my old F14 machine, I updated /etc/idmapd.conf and updated the > "[Mapping]" section of the config file: > Nobody-User = paulbsch > Nobody-Group = paulbsch > > No other

keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Hello: I am doing my first F17 install on i686 Xfce and, for the most part, everything is coming up nicely. However, I am noticing that sometimes the keyboard becomes unresponsive. I can't seem to find a reason, it just happens. My first sense was that it was a hardware problem. However, one

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/10/2012 05:43 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Any ideas about where to start? Everything I spotted online didn't seem to relate ... and I am having a hard time figuring out what a good set of search terms for this problem is. Try opening a terminal and running top in it. Then, when this hap

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/11/2012 08:43 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Hello: > > I am doing my first F17 install on i686 Xfce and, for the most part, > everything is coming up nicely. However, I am noticing that sometimes the > keyboard becomes unresponsive. I can't seem to find a reason, it just > happens. My fir

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/10/2012 05:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/10/2012 05:43 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Any ideas about where to start? Everything I spotted online didn't seem to relate ... and I am having a hard time figuring out what a good set of search terms for this problem is. Try opening a terminal an

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/10/2012 05:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: You fail to mention what type of keyboard you have. PS2, USB, Wireless USB, Bluetooth? I have a Wireless USB that becomes non-responsive from time to time. Unplug/plug receiver clears the problem. Ed: Thanks for response PS2, wired. Given the

Re: nfs4, idmapd.conf, and F14->F17

2012-10-10 Thread Paul B Schroeder
On 10/10/2012 04:00 PM, Paul B Schroeder wrote: > The mapping also does not work on a CentOS 6.3 box I just installed either. > > On 10/10/2012 03:38 PM, Paul B Schroeder wrote: >> On my old F14 machine, I updated /etc/idmapd.conf and updated the >> "[Mapping]" section of the config file: >> Nobo

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/10/2012 05:58 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I ran that test earlier but saw pretty much no cpu activity so I didn't get the sense I was pegging out at 100%. Forgot to mention in my original email, sorry That's OK. If nothing else, we've eliminated a possibility. -- users mailing list use

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/10/2012 05:58 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: I just realized that I haven't tried using the logout dialog to kill that user and then seeing if I can come back in fresh ... next test when the failure happens Paul Just died again and I was able to try this Using logout dialog to end the

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:05:07 -0700 Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Given the fact that I was able to type once I selected New login on > the "locked screen" dialog and, at the splash for which user to log > in as, the keyboard works, I figured the keyboard was not the problem. When this happens, can

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/11/2012 09:05 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > PS2, wired. > > Given the fact that I was able to type once I selected New login on the > "locked screen" dialog and, at the splash for which user to log in as, the > keyboard works, I figured the keyboard was not the problem. I see. It h

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/10/2012 06:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I see. It has been a long time since I've used a wired PS2 keyboard. However, when I had a RHELv4 system with a wired PS2 keyboard I noticed that the keyboard would become non-responsive if it were unplugged/plugged. The X server would lose co

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 10/10/2012 06:35:58 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:05:07 -0700 > Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > > Given the fact that I was able to type once I selected New login on > > the "locked screen" dialog and, at the splash for which user to log > > in as, the keyboard works, I figured

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/10/2012 06:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I see. It has been a long time since I've used a wired PS2 >> keyboard. However, when I had a RHELv4 system with a wired PS2 >> keyboard I noticed that the keyboard would become non-responsive if it >> were unplugged/plugged. T

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:30:28 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 10/10/2012 06:35:58 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:05:07 -0700 > > Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > > > > Given the fact that I was able to type once I selected New login > > > on the "locked screen" dialog and, at the

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/10/2012 6:35 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: When this happens, can you try holding down the shift key for say 15-20seconds? Do you see a notice then about 'slow keys' being disabled and it starts working again? kevin Kevin: Of course, it decided to work for a long time so I was unable to try i

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/10/2012 6:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: I see. It has been a long time since I've used a wired PS2 keyboard. However, when I had a RHELv4 system with a wired PS2 keyboard I noticed that the keyboard would become non-responsive if it were unplugged/plugged. The X server would lose con

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/10/2012 7:30 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: This would appear to be an instance of a fairly well documented problem. Bugzilla # 816764. If holding down the shift key does not work, try toggling Slow Keys in Settings->Accessibility. I've found that toggle followed by the shift key usually works.

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/11/2012 01:32 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 10/10/2012 6:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I see. It has been a long time since I've used a wired PS2 keyboard. >> However, when I had a RHELv4 system with a wired PS2 keyboard I noticed that >> the keyboard would become non-responsive i

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/10/2012 8:20 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: It was discused here somtimes about 27.-28.8., You can search 'dead keyboard' in list archive. It is probably some X server problem. Frantisek: Thanks for info. I've found the post and will check it out once I have coffee in the morning (my brai

Re: keyboard failure that doesn't seem to be hardware

2012-10-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 10/10/2012 10:36 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: OK I should have pointed out that I am speculating you *may* have a wonky wire or connection which results in a momentary disconnect. I've had several of these over they years. All caused by cats either gnawing on cables or ripping them out whil

Re: Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

2012-10-10 Thread Daniel Landau
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:52:20 -0400 Jim wrote: >> On 10/09/2012 10:32 PM, JD wrote: >> > You need to contact HP and they will provide you >> > with the recovery windows DVD. I have run into a similar problem. >> > After fixing your windows, y