Re: F18: unpredictable 'Predictable Network Interface Names'?

2013-02-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.02.2013 03:10, schrieb Marko Vojinovic: > The actual difference between the two methods is about system > maintenance --- when your network card burns out (these things happen, > unfortunately), biosdevname allows you to plug a new card into the same > pci slot and just turn the machine bac

Re: F18: unpredictable 'Predictable Network Interface Names'?

2013-02-26 Thread poma
On 02/26/13 03:10, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:51:15 +0100 > poma wrote: >> On 02/25/13 21:01, Reindl Harald wrote: >> […] >>> so switch to anything else as ethX in your naming in >>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules >>> like "lan0", "lan1", "wan0", "wan1" in ifcfg-lan

Re: F18: unpredictable 'Predictable Network Interface Names'?

2013-02-26 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:43:09 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Marko Vojinovic writes: > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:33:04 -0500 > > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > Marko Vojinovic writes: > > Also, have you ever built a cluster? Typically, you install and > > configure everything on one system, and then

Re: Splash screen for fc1[78] boot

2013-02-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 03:10:52PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Can someone point me to the proper documentation to use alternate splash > screen during boot? I want to use the solar theme from fc10, rather than the > boring default. My search seems to lead me to tidbits but not a "this is how > i

Re: F18: why isn't /etc/sysconfig/i18n (and why '/etc/locale.conf')?

2013-02-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:27:44 -0500 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > This is something we can all agree with. The problem is that finding the > balance in practice turns out to be quite hard to do. Not really, it is quite easy to do: if it is an entirely gratuitous and cosmetic change, then don't do it. T

Re: F18: rescue EFI boot from rescue disk: cannot "modprobe efivars"

2013-02-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Nick Urbanik wrote: > From a rescue disk, I cannot run efibootmgr. The response is always, > "Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing > EFI variables. > Try "modprobe efivars" as root" This means your system is not EFI. You should run grub2-install to reset your MB

running a namecaching server on my notebook?

2013-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am upgrading my DNS server and observing all the traffic on it. My notebook's queries resulting from web access is a frequent occurance. Does it make sense to run a namecaching service on a notebook? Many websites I hit multiple times per day, let alone system boot. Any downsides? Particu

Re: running a namecaching server on my notebook?

2013-02-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.02.2013 16:04, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: > I am upgrading my DNS server and observing all the traffic on it. My > notebook's queries resulting from web access > is a frequent occurance. > > Does it make sense to run a namecaching service on a notebook? NO > Many websites I hit multipl

Re: running a namecaching server on my notebook?

2013-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:04:20 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am upgrading my DNS server and observing all the traffic on it. My notebook's queries resulting from web access is a frequent occurance. Does it make sense to run a namecaching service on a notebook? Many websites I hit mult

Re: F18: why isn't /etc/sysconfig/i18n (and why '/etc/locale.conf')?

2013-02-26 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 09:16:02AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > Redhat can sell more support if they constantly change things > for no apparent reason? No. That is definitely not it. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: F18: why isn't /etc/sysconfig/i18n (and why '/etc/locale.conf')?

2013-02-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:27:44 -0500 > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > This is something we can all agree with. The problem is that finding the > > balance in practice turns out to be quite hard to do. > > Not really, it is quite easy to do: if

Re: F18: why isn't /etc/sysconfig/i18n (and why '/etc/locale.conf')?

2013-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/13 19:16, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:27:44 -0500 > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> This is something we can all agree with. The problem is that finding the >> balance in practice turns out to be quite hard to do. I've been avoiding this thread. But I do have to ask. > Not r

F18 freeze

2013-02-26 Thread Michael Eager
I'm having periodic freezes of F18. The freezes happen when I click on a link. Usually this is in a Thunderbird window, but I've seen one freeze when clicking on a desktop icon. The system will work for a day or several days between freezes. When it freezes, the screen is frozen, mouse is unre

Re: F18 freeze

2013-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/27/13 00:39, Michael Eager wrote: > I'm having periodic freezes of F18. The freezes happen when > I click on a link. Usually this is in a Thunderbird window, > but I've seen one freeze when clicking on a desktop icon. The > system will work for a day or several days between freezes. > > Wh

Re: F18 grub hang with blinking cursor after kernel update

2013-02-26 Thread Germán A. Racca
On 02/25/2013 03:03 PM, Mike Zingale wrote: I just did a yum update and got the 3.7.9 kernel for F18. Upon reboot, the grub screen never appears, no prompt or anything, just a blinking cursor in the upper left. The system just hangs there. I booted the install disk, rescued, did a chroot to th

Re: System Error After Upgrade to latest Kernel.....3.7.9-201.fc18.i686

2013-02-26 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 21:37 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > After trying to repeatedly get the update to go from clicking on the > entry in the Gnome Menu, I decided to just run "yum update > --skip-broken"...and immediately the entry disappeared, and I was > "allowed" do download and install

Re: System Error After Upgrade to latest Kernel.....3.7.9-201.fc18.i686

2013-02-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/27/2013 06:31 AM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 21:37 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: After trying to repeatedly get the update to go from clicking on the entry in the Gnome Menu, I decided to just run "yum update --skip-broken"...and immediately the entry disappeared, and I was "a

Re: System Error After Upgrade to latest Kernel.....3.7.9-201.fc18.i686

2013-02-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.02.2013 21:11, schrieb Stephen Morris: >> The GUIs are rarely interactive, enough. If it's going to tell me that >> there's updates available, I want to see a list, not just a total >> number. I want to click on items in that list, and find out what they >> are. And I want to be able to

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/25/2013 12:01 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: The time to recover typical issues in a journaled filesystem is minimal, if the f/s is really borked there will be an admin present during the boot anyway. What are the boxes set to do when power is restored after a failure? Stay o

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/26/2013 03:19 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Since these machines hold backup copies of data, hopefully they don't need to be up immediately. If needed there will be someone present to supervise, although if the RAID boxes are connected they could be powered on remotely, manually fsck'd, and mo

Re: NFS on Fedora 17

2013-02-26 Thread Amit Karpe
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/26/13 14:18, Amit Karpe wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Amit Karpe amitka...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > 1. I have install Fedora 17 (64 Bit). Now I mount any nfs partition. > > # uname -a > > Linux localho

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me [SOLVED]

2013-02-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 16:05 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 00:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 02/14/2013 09:03 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 > > > system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly

Re: optional mounts in fstab?

2013-02-26 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Bill Davidsen wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:37:29 -0500 >> Bill Davidsen wrote: >> >>> Defining the mount as "noauto" doesn't help, the boot still tries to do the >>> fsck, and still fails. Moreover, I really want the unit mounted if present. >> >> The fsck is (I believe) co