strange behavior by changing the permissions of a file

2014-10-13 Thread Angelo Moreschini
failing to perform "dconf Editor" I discovered that I have to change the execute permissions to the file user, in my directoy : /home/angelo_dev/.config/dconf./user - -rw-r--r--. 1 angelo_dev angelo_dev 7630 Oct 13 09:53 user - I ran the command [root @ zorro dconf] # chmod a + x user and a

Re: strange behavior by changing the permissions of a file

2014-10-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:17:53 +0300, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > failing to perform "dconf Editor" How does it fail? What did it "say"? > I discovered that I have to change the > execute permissions to the file user, in my directoy : > /home/angelo_dev/.config/dconf./user What makes you think you

Re: Canon MG5520 wireless printer

2014-10-13 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 21:26 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: > I opened the Network Printer expansion, > but the printer I was looking for was not present, so I decided to enter > it manually. While I was trying to figure out how to do that, an entry > for the printer "magically" appeared in the netwo

Re: Canon MG5520 wireless printer

2014-10-13 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 10:54 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > If I understand correctly, cups-bjnp is the backend that discovers the > printer. So there's no way to know in advance that it needs to be > installed; it would have to be installed by default. Since we're stuck with having to use closed-source

Re: strange behavior by changing the permissions of a file

2014-10-13 Thread Angelo Moreschini
I Michael, thank you for answering me ... > How does it fail? What did it "say"? > when I open the dialog of the program all is froze (completely)... > What makes you think you need execute permission on that file? > > It's a database storage file. > I read this post that suggested this try: htt

dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-13 Thread Stefan Huchler
When I update to a new kernel with dnf or yum, it installs it, creates a working initramfs file like it should, but it does not update grub.cfg in /boot/grub2/ . I see following error: grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template when I do then: sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/gr

Re: mount shows mounted partition as /dev/mapper/HGST_HTS721010A9E630_JR10006P0BSEEF3

2014-10-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/10/2014 07:06 PM, jd1008 issued this missive: > > On 10/10/2014 04:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 10/10/2014 12:32 PM, jd1008 issued this missive: >>> On 10/08/2014 03:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/08/14 11:37, jd1008 wrote: > On 10/07/2014 09:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> lvm

solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread bruce
Hi. For a test network, internal 192.168..x subnet, I've got some boxes that are connected to a dhcp server that I have no control of. I'm looking to test/play with some services on the different boxes, but would like to have other boxes be able to reference the boxes running the services. My iss

Re: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-10-13 Thread Gary Artim
I've had similar error messages and hang of the system (unresponsive, but powered on). I would check if there is any firmware upgrade you could apply to the motherboard and also run memtest for 24 hours. I recently did flash my motherboard and haven't had a hang since, but its a server/raid and the

Re: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-10-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi Gary, Thanks! I also have updated my BIOS (as mentioned in a subsequent post) but I have continued to have frequent error messages and lockups even with the mainline vanilla kernel. I have filed bug reports on both kernel.org and fedora -- hopefully it will be fixed soon. Btw, what does run

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 13:26 -0400, bruce wrote: > Hi. > > For a test network, internal 192.168..x subnet, I've got some boxes > that are connected to a dhcp server that I have no control of. > > I'm looking to test/play with some services on the different boxes, > but would like to have other box

Re: Canon MG5520 wireless printer

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/10/2014 08:52 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 19:47 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/09/2014 08:43 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 08:23 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: the device, it just all happened automatically. As a side issue to this, the Canon su

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread bruce
Hey patrick. couldn't really find any good pointers on this. any step by steps you can point me to. ie, boxA with ipA is running mysql and has name boxA the dhcp of boxA might change day to day user on boxB wants to be able to get ip of boxA how can avahi be used in this case? thanks On Mo

Re: Latest updates for mate no longer remember what gui apps were running in previous login.

2014-10-13 Thread jd1008
On 10/12/2014 01:54 PM, I wrote: Hi all, Mate is not restarting the apps that were running in previous login. Apps like thunderbird, firefox, smplayer, skype, etc. Looking to see if someone found a solution for this. Found a solution. In terminal, run: /bin/mate-session-properties in

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/14/14 06:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 13:26 -0400, bruce wrote: >> Hi. >> >> For a test network, internal 192.168..x subnet, I've got some boxes >> that are connected to a dhcp server that I have no control of. >> >> I'm looking to test/play with some services on the

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 13 October 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > Isn't that pretty much what Avahi does? Why reinvent the wheel? Does Avahi even do anything on a system which has already been set up by DCHP? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:3

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 13 October 2014, bruce sent: > any step by steps you can point me to. > > ie, boxA with ipA is running mysql and has name boxA > > the dhcp of boxA might change day to day > > user on boxB wants to be able to get ip of boxA Does your unmanageable DHCP server do name reso

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 14 October 2014, Ed Greshko sent: > It may be easier for him to use a Dynamic DNS service, such as > http://www.dnsdynamic.org/, and ddclient on the Fedora side. Wouldn't that just return the public facing address of the network, rather than the individual client addresses?

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/14/14 11:39, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 14 October 2014, Ed Greshko sent: >> It may be easier for him to use a Dynamic DNS service, such as >> http://www.dnsdynamic.org/, and ddclient on the Fedora side. > Wouldn't that just return the public facing address of the network, > rather

Re: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-10-13 Thread Gary Artim
memtest is a util that was, in the past, included on the boot screen. I think its been dropped but can be yum installed. check for it with yum search memtest it will test your memory out for any faulty locations by move data patters in and out of all mem locations... another possibility, but a p

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread bruce
so essentially, the process would have each system in the sub net, report it's address/name to the external dyndns service, where it would be managed/returned as a subname, which would then populate the local/internal resolv.conf (or whatever is required) to allow the local services/users of the s

Re: solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

2014-10-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/14/14 12:19, bruce wrote: > so essentially, > > the process would have each system in the sub net, report it's > address/name to the external dyndns service, where it would be > managed/returned as a subname, which would then populate the > local/internal resolv.conf (or whatever is required)

problem with Dependency Resolution

2014-10-13 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi I removed a preceding version of dconf-Editor, and now I am not able to istall again dconf-editor-0.15.0-4mgc30.x86_64.rpm. When I try to do it I get this output: [root@zorro Downloads]# su -c 'yum localinstall dconf-editor-0.15.0-4mgc30.x86_64.rpm' Loaded plugins: