Re: Virtualization for dummies

2010-08-07 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:47:10 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'm planning on taking a plunge into virtualization. I need to retire > an ancient server, and I'm about to order a new kit to replace it. > Given that it's new hardware, I expect to get something that supports > hardware virtualization

Re: Compile Problem

2010-08-07 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:26:50 -0400 binary...@comcast.net wrote: > FC13-i686 > > doing "make" and I get this Error message, The PATH is okay > /lib/modules/2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686/build and "/build" is link to > src . > > The kernel-devel and kernel-headers are installed. What versions of th

Re: Programs dropped from F13?

2010-08-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:18:22 -0700 "Daniel B. Thurman" wrote: > [Man... I finally got Fedora emails, something screwy is going on!] > > On 08/10/2010 02:10 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > > On 08/10/2010 03:51 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> What programs are dropped from F13? Seems > >> that the

Re: Why do /usr/lib/.libssl.so.1*.hmac file exist on my system ?

2010-08-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:16:10 +0530 steve wrote: ...snip... > Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... > /usr/lib/.libssl.so.1.0.0a.hmac /usr/lib/.libssl.so.10.hmac > /usr/lib/.libcrypto.so.10.hmac /usr/lib/.libcrypto.so.1.0.0a.hmac > /lib/.libgcrypt.so.11.hmac Those are

Re: Kernel bug in F11

2010-08-18 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:16:07 -0700 Robert Arkiletian wrote: > Any chance this > http://news.softpedia.com/news/Critical-Vulnerability-Silently-Patched-in-Linux-Kernel-152678.shtml > > will be fixed for F11? I know F11 is EOL but sometimes this has been > overlooked if it's a really big bug, like

Re: Urgent: how do I setup/run gnome in F13 ?

2010-08-18 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:48:23 -0600 Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm a long time KDE user. I'm having printer problems in KDE tonight > and I desperately need to get something printed. > > I would like to log into a Gnome session and try printing from there. > (different infrastructure ?) However, wh

Re: F13: Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.

2010-08-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:45:59 -0700 "Daniel B. Thurman" wrote: > I get this message when I either install or remove > a package. What is it? It's just a warning... when you install/remove/upgrade something with rpm directly, then use yum again, it's letting you know that something was modified

Re: Unpatched major kernel

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:54:05 -0400 Marcel Rieux wrote: ...snip... > August 13 is 10 days ago. Kernel.org now says the latest stable > version is: > > stable: 2.6.32.20 2010-08-20 > > http://www.all.kernel.org/ > > It was out 3 days ago. > > Any reason Fedora is not updating the k

Re: F13 kernel update mystery

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:40:12 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > If it comes to that, "yum clean metadata" is quicker since it doesn't > touch the packages. AFAIK the only reason to use "clean all" is to > recover disk space. For this case also: yum clean expire-cache should work even better.

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:35:14 + (UTC) JB wrote: ...snip... > This is my idea of the new security concept: > - it should be real-time (operating in a background) > - it should be modular in the sense of traditional small, single > function, and stand-alone UNIX utilities > - it has to be simple

Re: Fedora lists?

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:55:49 -0400 David wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > What is required to petition for a new Fedora list? Who to ask and > how? > > I ask because I would like to see a list for general FUD, false > statements, and Bull$hit so that when those types

Re: rkhunter warning

2010-09-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:19:50 -0400 Steve Blackwell wrote: > Hmmm... Well this is strange. Even though I've added > ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/etc/.java to my /etc/rkhunter.conf file, I'm still > getting warnings. Is there a way to tell what rkhunter is reading from > the conf file? Well, it should read /et

Re: rkhunter warning

2010-09-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:29:07 -0400 Steve Blackwell wrote: > /etc/.java is definitely a directory > $ ls -ld /etc/.java > drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 2010-08-27 21:01 /etc/.java > > I don't have a /etc/rkhunter.conf/local file > $ ls -al /etc/rkhunter* > -rw-r-. 1 root root 31048 2010-09-03

Re: F13: Automatic Updates not Working

2010-10-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:51:20 -0400 Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > I have F13 on one machine where it never prompts for software > updates. I think it used to prompt in the past (with the same F13). I > even switched automatic updates checking from daily to hourly, but no > differen

Re: F13: Automatic Updates not Working

2010-10-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:32:46 -0400 Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Possibly: > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#Not_receiving_update_notifications > > I did "yum update

Re: How to change console font in grub2?

2010-10-13 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:41:39 -0400 Tom H wrote: ...snip... > Fedora's generally at the cutting edge of just about every package so > I don't understand its attitude towards grub2. It's been Ubuntu's > default for a year and it'll be Debian's default for its next stable > release (early next year

Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:20:41 -0800 kellyremo wrote: > > https://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/hpn-v-ssh-tput.jpg ...snip... This isn't the place to talk about ssh development. ;) I would suggest asking the upstream openssh devel list, and/or filing a bug with their bugtracker to get

Re: Update tex-live package?

2011-02-07 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:54:32 +0800 H Xu wrote: > Hello, > > Tex-live package is still 2007. It's a little outdated, and the new > version has a better support of CJK. Please update the package. Folks are working on it, but there's a lot of legal checking still to do. :( You could join in and

Re: perl on fedora?

2011-02-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:55:52 -0800 Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Very confused here. > > I'm trying to install a perl module without any luck. Isn't this > stuff supposed to work out of the gate? Is there some sort of > fedora / yum way to to this? Basic instructions for perl either > ret

Re: What do these rpms do?

2011-02-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:29:02 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > Hello, > > Please explain the role played by the material in each of > the following three rpms found on rpmfusion: You describe the role under each one? How can we expand on it? :) The common subpackage has the docs a

Re: Wayland and F15 ?

2011-02-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:43:02 +1100 Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > Is Wayland going to be available in Fedora 15 ? Yep. Not that it really does much of anything currently. The demos are not currently able to be built (needs an experimental feature in cairo thats not stable enough to enabl

Re: What do these rpms do?

2011-02-27 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:30:20 -0800 "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > > Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:29:02 -0800 > >> "Suresh Govindachar" wrote: > >> > >> Please explain the role played by the material

Re: FEDORA and RHEL

2011-02-27 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:04:50 -0800 JD wrote: > Can anyone point me to any docs or info on the > process (and frequency) of updating RHEL with > the bugfixes and new features added to the Fedora > repos? When there is a new major RHEL release mostly. So, RHEL6 just came out not too long ago, a

Re: fix logrotate buffer overflow

2011-03-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:51:29 -0700 Colin McCabe wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > I was unable to create a ticket on the bug report system I found on > https://fedorahosted.org/logrotate/ > It allows me to view tickets by clicking on "View Tickets," but I > can't create one. > > Perhaps I need to create

Re: Yum crashed

2011-03-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:28:09 + Krosh Ivanov wrote: > Hi folks, > I think my yum installation crashed, but I tried following some hints > given by some sites, nothing works. Error message is here: > http://paste.ideaslabs.com/show/n5Wfu6wqja Can you provide some more information? rpm -q yum

Re: How to use rpm to install adobe-flash?

2011-04-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 09:51:53 +0530 Varuna Seneviratna wrote: > When executed the command > > rpm -i adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm > The feedback is, Eerror: can't create transaction lock on > /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied) > > > What is the Solution and what is meant by? > can

Re: How to use rpm to install adobe-flash?

2011-04-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:03:42 +0530 Varuna Seneviratna wrote: > Hello Kevin > When I execute as root I am not in the Downloads directory > and the command "cd Downloads" produces the output "-bash: cd: > Downloads: No such file or directory" > > How can I use the file in the Downloads di

Re: BFO source?

2011-04-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:54:36 +1000 Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > Where is the source for BFO? I thought I would try to hack it to > allow a F15 Live CD install . . BFO uses gpxe, so you could look there. ;) There was some experemental live media support added... look in the 'Experiment

Re: SELinux for mock

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 1 May 2011 19:29:50 +0100 Piscium wrote: > I like to rebuild a number of Fedora source packages for performance > and some tweaking. > > In the past I have used rpmbuild for that purpose, but this weekend I > started using mock. > > So far I built about a dozen source packages successfu

Re: Where did gdm-{restart,stop} go?

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 2 May 2011 09:24:59 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: > Ok, on my MythTV box I would occasionally get freezes where > Ctl-Alt-Backspace would not work, or I'd get a call from the wife and > need to restart X remotely from work. > > On Fedora 10 I found a handy command, gdm-restart which worked q

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 12 May 2011 13:16:47 +0200 Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Well guys, > > After we prefer freedom, and much easier to you and make meetings in > voice, and skype has been bought by MS We have an opportunity to > all fedora users keep contacted with each other. > I really would like to see an

Re: Best FOSS alternative for skype?

2011-05-13 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 13 May 2011 07:58:58 +0200 Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > HI Kevin, > > Well, yes - if we have this already in system - I won't lose it again > this opportunity. We all of the ambassadors have the SIP number on our > business card, and if I give it away - then I (we) would like to use > it. Ye

Re: preupgrading to fedora 15

2011-05-20 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 20 May 2011 14:00:18 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/20/2011 01:46 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Unlike Fedora? I have thousands of posts in the Fedora Forum, > > although it is a third party website and I am a active Fedora > > contributor. > > And I have almost 1,500. However, I wasn't

Re: AVC from sendmail & rkhunter

2011-05-23 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:27:18 -0500 Steven Stern wrote: > rkhunter is unhappy with my system (due to tomboy and /dev/shrm) but > that's another story. > > When sendmail tries to notify me that rkhunter is unhappy, it > generates and AVC: Just edit /etc/rkhunter.conf and comment out: MAIL-ON-WA

Re: [Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock)]

2011-05-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 24 May 2011 08:16:07 -0700 JD wrote: ...snip... (please do trim what you quote in replies. Thanks) > What an incredibly rapid release cycle. > We just installed F14 official release last November! Yep. Just like clockwork, every 6 months. ;) > I will have to wait until all the packag

Re: F15 Boxy looking of Gnome programs on XFCE

2011-05-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 24 May 2011 23:00:31 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I am using XFCE on F15, but the Gnome programs look horribly "boxy". > How can one get the Gnome programs looking better? Gnome uses gtk3, Xfce uses gtk2. Currently adwaita is the only theme I know that has both a gtk2 and g

Re: F15 Boxy looking of Gnome programs on XFCE

2011-05-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 25 May 2011 00:02:16 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Kevin. I have adwaita-gtk*-theme installed, but how can I > change Gnome theme to adwaita? That I am not sure of... I would have said 'gnome-control-center' but looking at that here, it doesn't seem to have that ability. kevin

Re: XFCE session starts with opening a Gnome terminal window

2011-05-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 25 May 2011 02:20:24 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > When I start a XFCE session on F15, I get a Gnome terminal window and > I hear a voice from the computer. Can I avoid this? Odd. Kill them off and logout and save your session? I don't know of any reason there would be a g

Re: XFCE session starts with opening a Gnome terminal window

2011-05-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 25 May 2011 17:34:15 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> When I start a XFCE session on F15, I get a Gnome terminal window > >> and I hear a voice from the computer. Can I avoid this? > > > > Odd. > >

Re: Fedora-15-i686-Live-XFCE.iso /dev/fb0 problem

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 27 May 2011 23:46:43 +1000 Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > On my Gateway LT30 netbook, I am still getting similar problems to > the ones I got after the Beta and RCs XFCE Live CD version installs > to HD. > > Booting on the installed system hangs so I: > > - boot to single user - O

Re: Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 29 May 2011 16:35:04 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Hi, > > I've enabled the rpmfusion repos and have just tried to do "yum > install kmod-nvidia". ...snip... > So, I think it should have failed with a dependency error, yes? > > Would this be considered a bug in yum? It's hard to say with

Re: Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 28 May 2011 17:27:36 -0400 Bill Davidsen wrote: ...snip... > I am not too surprised about GNOME3, but I thought the Fedora > decision making group were better people than that and would offer > GNOME2 for some length of time rather than offer no option at all but > retrain. That might ma

Re: Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 29 May 2011 21:16:13 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: ...snip... > So, you are saying that a condition could exist when a package would > get installed even if the requirement for a specific kernel is not > met? No. Please attach the full command and all output from yum so we can see what exac

Re: Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 29 May 2011 21:34:23 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2011 09:23 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > Please attach the full command and all output from yum so we can see > > what exactly it's doing please? > > > > kevin > > OK > &g

Re: Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 29 May 2011 21:52:52 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2011 09:47 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > What does: > > > > rpm -q kernel > > > > return? > > That would be > > 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 (as mentioned in the first post... :-

Re: Failure to detect dependency...whose responsible?

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:59:41 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/29/2011 10:52 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Then thats why. rpmfusion doesn't have one for your current kernel, > > but it does for the release kernel. Since that kernel is installed > > (even though it's no

Re: Why no icons? Was, Re: How to switch back to metacity

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 29 May 2011 12:01:51 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/29/2011 11:51 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > > Because that was hashed out a long time ago in the F15 alpha days > > and on the Gnome mailing lists. Now, it is what it it is. > > Please understand that my interest is only academic; I don't u

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:44:01 +0100 "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" wrote: > On 30/05/11 09:11, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > > > To anyone trying to upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, DON'T EVEN > > TRY!!! I've just tried and have had numerous problems, finally > > resulting in being unable to boot up

Re: Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

2011-05-30 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:20:55 +0100 "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" wrote: > Failed completely means I cannot even boot to a console, (inittab 3). ok. What are the messages on the screen when this fails? Screenshot? > Currently I'm trying to boot the last Fedora 14 kernel and it's having > to do some SEL

Re: F15- IMPORTANT Network Manager

2011-05-31 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Please test: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/NetworkManager-0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15 purports to fix this issue. kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: Not enough info, so no point

2011-05-31 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 31 May 2011 18:24:40 +0100 "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" wrote: > For my PC > > Fedora 15 update fails > > Fedora 15 install CD fails to boot > > Fedora 15 Live KDE fails to boot > > All fail to finish initialising hardware. > > smolt page : > http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4917245b-

Re: F14 fails to insert a module with a strange error message

2010-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 06:09:00 + (UTC) "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > I've successfully (%99.99) upgraded from F12 to F14 using PreUpgrade. > > There is a little (missing %0.01) but rather weird problem. I use > gkremllm with a Dell I8K plugin installed. Two errors are reported > after the boot:

Re: nVidia on F14: Did I miss it?

2010-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:44:06 -0600 "Christopher A. Williams" wrote: > Did I just miss the howto for installing nVidia drivers (from > RPMFusion) on F14 64-bit? > > Seems to be a problem with the install and a script failing to launch > (selinux?) to load the module. > > Nothing here or on the (

Re: Here's my weird f14 firefox scrolling bug.

2010-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:03:25 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649475 > > Text scrolling out from under a window that overlaps firefox > is shredded and firefox doesn't redraw the shreds till > I change focus away from firefox. Sounds like it could be a video

Re: FC13 -> FC14, does not boot

2010-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:18:40 -0400 Yogesh wrote: > Hello, > > I recently upgraded from Fedora 13 -> Fedora 14. I did it as follows. > > rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/97A1071F.txt > > yum update yum > yum --releasever=14 update --skip-broken > > The install went smooth > But now

Re: VirtualBox-OSE from RPM Fusion cannot be installed on F14

2010-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 21:40:59 + Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Has someone found a workaround for this problem: > > # yum install VirtualBox-OSE > Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit > Setting up Install Process > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package

Re: F12 -> F14 (via preupgrade), not so smooth

2010-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:52:05 -0400 "Kevin J. Cummings" wrote: > Last night, after I successfully upgraded my F13 test desktop from > F13->F14 w/preupgrade, I started the same operation on my F12 laptop. > > The results were not so good. > > X86_64, Asus S96J laptop, w/ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

Re: FC13 -> FC14, does not boot

2010-11-03 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:39:29 -0400 Yogesh wrote: ...snip... > No splash screes, no BIOS, I just get a Blinking cursor. You may need to re-install grub: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-rescuemode-boot.html?searchterm=grub kevin signature.asc Descripti

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:26:48 -0400 "Jason E. High" wrote: > I agree that both should be available. I don't see any reason not to > have OpenOffice available in the repos, even if FC wants to make > LibreOffice the default. There's a number of reasons not to do that: * We have limited number o

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 15:01:57 -0300 Fernando Cassia wrote: > > So, I don't see any compelling reason to keep both around. It's a > > great deal more maint for not much work. > > Right now, they´re "about the same". Going forward, I see Oracle > continuing with OpenOffice.org and making it MORE int

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:21:33 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/04/2010 10:45 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand why people don't want to move to > > LibreOffice. Could folks expand on why they don't want to more? > > Right now, the only things

Re: I want OO.o support, not Go-OO from Novell - Any statement from Fedora or RedHat?

2010-11-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:22:40 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/04/2010 01:05 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > As a user, you can either trust their judgment and go along with > > LO, or oppose their judgment if you think you know better. And the > > latter means, if you think you can criticize their ch

Re: Proper way to contact a package maintainer?

2010-11-09 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:44:41 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: > Two questions: > > 1. I've googled[1] for an authoritative place to find out who > maintains what package but I can't seem to find a consistent source. > What's the proper way to find out who maintains a package? https://admin.fedoraprojec

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-09 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:23:30 -0600 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Per: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002830.html > > "Fedora 12 will continue to receive updates until approximately one > month after the release of Fedora 14. The maintenance schedule of" > Fedora rel

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-09 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:56:33 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Yes, I'm getting WONTFIX on the problem I reported in old versions > and updated to 12, I will report it again against 14 so it can be > ignored for another year. The recent activity on f12 bugs would not (yet) close them. It asks "Hey,

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-09 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 20:00:00 -0600 Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Kevin Fenzi said: > > If you describe the specific hardware and steps you have taken, we > > can see if there's a way to work around or fix it for your > > hardware. > > I know suspend/r

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-09 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:35:33 -0800 (PST) Patrick Bartek wrote: > Just because it's EOL doesn't mean it stops working on that date, > too. ;-) Sure. > Since FC6 (I've been using Fedora since Core 3), I've only upgraded > with every third release--6-9-12. I think it wasteful of time and > energy

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-13 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:26:09 -0800 (PST) Patrick Bartek wrote: ...snip... > Fedora's release cycles when it was Fedora Core used to be longer and > not on a strict schedule as it is now. A new version was released > when it was ready. Fedora now has become a rapid release test bed, > an eterna

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-13 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:41:31 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: > It is a general Fedora problem, not hardware related. If you have a > laptop connected with WiFi and mount an NFS volume, on resume it > tries to use NFS before the network is up. Then the mount goes away. > I see it on every laptop and ha

Re: i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:38:36 + (UTC) "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > I used i8krllm plugin on F11 and F12 to manage cooling fans on my > laptop. However, after upgrade to F14 I found the plugin not > functioning correctly in Auto mode. It does not respect any > temperature settings anymore. Inste

Re: Please, do not automatic install applications witch have MONO dependencies

2010-11-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:03:02 +0100 Dario Lesca wrote: > I have install f14 and I discovered that because of some application > (like gnome-do,gnome-desktop-sharp,ecc) you install mono. ...snip... > SO, please, do not automatic install applications witch have MONO > dependencies. ...snip... Th

Re: ntpdate

2010-11-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:18:53 + (GMT) Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > With the last versions of fedora, if I am correct, it is recommanded > to run NetworkManager and not anymore network. > So during the boot I used to make a ntpdate on a server which > is not anymore available because there i

Re: ntpdate

2010-11-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:37:37 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 11/19/2010 11:18 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> Hello, > >> With the last versions of fedora, if I am correct, it is > >> recommanded to run NetworkManager and not anymore network. > >

Re: Wine install on Fedora 14 x86_64?

2010-11-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:40:44 -0600 Kevin Martin wrote: > Why, when I try to install Wine on Fedora 14 x86_64, do I get the > following i686 dependencies?: > > Dependencies Resolved ...snip... > Why are there i686 dependencies for x86_64 Wine? Please attach the entire command and all output?

Re: Wine install on Fedora 14 x86_64?

2010-11-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:14:26 -0600 Kevin Martin wrote: > > > Please attach the entire command and all output? > > The part where it resolves the dep is needed to figure out whats > > going on. > > > > kevin > > As requested: > > $ sudo yum install wine > Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmir

Re: Wine install on Fedora 14 x86_64?

2010-11-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Yeah, so it appears the 64bit wine does indeed pull in the 32bit version. :( I suppose there aren't many 64bit native windows apps and most people want to be able to run either? kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: yum update package dep conflict

2010-11-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:40:55 -0800 JD wrote: > Seems that there is a conflicting dependency on > openssl. > Currenly installed packages that need it, are using > openssl-1.0.0b-1.fc13.i686 which is installed, > whereas package libguestfs (available > from updates) triggers a requirement for the o

Re: What is going on with Fedora mirrors today?

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:52:26 -0500 "Marcus D. Leech" wrote: > Most of the mirror sites appear to be missing their Fedora mirrors > this afternoon--what's going on? > > Trying to do an update of an F14 system, and most mirrors are > returning 505/404 when YUM tries to fetch updates. > > If I go

Re: How to install the LibreOffice beta 3 rpm package

2010-11-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:15:59 +0800 David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > There is a download of LibreOffice 3.3 beta 3 at: > > http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/3.3.0-beta3/rpm/x86/LibO_3.3.0_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz > > There are no instructions about how to ins

Re: How to install the LibreOffice beta 3 rpm package

2010-11-27 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:46:25 +0100 suvayu ali wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > su -c 'yum install *.rpm' > > maybe this should be, su -c 'yum localinstall *.rpm' ? Yum is smart enough to figure this out these days. ;) You

Re: How to install src of kernel with yum

2010-12-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 00:10:40 +0800 Yunchi Wang wrote: > Hello friends, I want to compile the kernel on my FC14 in > virtualbox.But there is nothing in /usr/src/kernel,so how can I > install src of kernel with yum ?Thx~ You may want to look at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel ke

Re: VPN/IPSEC tunnel

2010-12-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 13:32:04 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 18:57 +0100, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > > Is openVPN can make IPSec tunnels or just SSL ? > > I believe it's fully IPSec compliant. Nope. Openvpn uses it's own ssl based protocol. It cannot directly interoperate wi

Re: yum install glibc.i686 conflict

2010-12-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
...snip... what does: rpm -qa | grep glibc | sort and yum check output? was this an upgraded machine? How did you do the upgrade? kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://adm

Re: yum install glibc.i686 conflict

2010-12-05 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 20:14:26 +0100 Jason Viloria wrote: ..snip... > This is a fresh install , during the first time I ran yum update > immediately after install, the machine froze, i rebooted, and then > did yum update, some error came up and adviced me to run > yum-complete-transaction Yeah, th

Re: VPN/IPSEC tunnel

2010-12-06 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 05:38:14 +0100 wrote: > Does not agree, > > "People" claim that openvpn is supposedly easier to configure, > compared with *swan. Indeed. At least part of it is going to be a personal preference. If you know and have used ipsec for a long time thats likely to be easier for y

Re: IPSEC tunnel

2010-12-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:09:10 +0100 Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi, > > one more time... > > I have to setup a VPN IPSEC tunnel between a linux machine and a > physical router. The security mode of the router is 'IKE using > pre-shared key' > > I cannot use openVPN because the router isn't compliant

Re: what do livesys and livesys_late services do?

2010-12-11 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:55:13 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I am making sure that the services that are running on fedora are > needed. So, I was wondering what the following services did: > > livesys > livesys_late > > They are both enabled. Are these follow-ups of the installation from

Re: what do livesys and livesys_late services do?

2010-12-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:38:18 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Thanks, btw, there are a number of rpms etc that are involved in the > installation. It would be nice if the LiveCD installation would > automatically get rid of things that are never going to be of any use. Can you provide some examples?

Re: Border protection for Fedora

2010-12-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:30:23 -0800 (PST) S Mathias wrote: > I have a small, simple firewall "script": > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=NChRyqVu > > Can I ask the mailing list, that look at it for a few moments, and > sort out the: > >  - unnecessary things in it [if it contains any, like are th

Re: Border protection for Fedora

2010-12-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:10:50 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/12/2010 03:01 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > > You only need a proxy if there is something you would like to do > > with http or the like, for example caching for better speed, or > > filtering o

Re: Bugs in yum for fedora 14 ?

2010-12-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:22:12 +0100 "Sjoerd" wrote: > Bugs in Yum for Fedora 14 > > > Dear list, > > I'm trying to use my own repository for yum and encountered some > strange things in yum. > > First of all yum doesn't understands an aliased domain name. > When I put an alias like ftp.example

Re: Bugs in yum for fedora 14 ?

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:36:25 +0100 "Sjoerd" wrote: ...snip... > Error Downloading Packages: > sipcalc-1.1.4-6.cgi.f14.lingeek.x86_64: failed to retrieve > RPMS/x86_64/sipcalc-1.1.4-6.cgi.f14.lingeek.x86_64.rpm from lingeek > error was [Errno 12] Timeout on > ftp://lingeek.nl/pub/linux/14//RPMS

Re: bz 613886 on fedora 14

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:04:28 +0100 AJ Hettema wrote: > hi all, > > it seems that I have the problem described in bugzilla 613886 on > fed14. I have fed14-x86_64 installed on my laptop in a very basic way > and I have some virtual machines configured as well. But, once I fire > up virt-manager th

Re: Installing Adobe Flash Player in F14

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:56:46 -0500 Temlakos wrote: > I've tried several times to install the Adobe-provided .rpm on a new > F14 installation, without result. > > What must I do--take the tarball? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mai

Re: Fedora 10 Boot Problem

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:56:45 +0530 Roubhya Shankar Aluni wrote: > Hi, >I have downloaded a fedora 10 dvd iso of size approx 1.58GB > and after burning it is bootable! But surprisingly it also has no EFI > folder! How it boots at all ? And if it is bootable then other DVD > ISOs having no

Re: both nics down after F14 kernel update

2010-12-23 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:20:13 -0800 Dave Stevens wrote: > Hi, > > This afternoon I downloaded a kernel update for F14 and rebooted. I > found I had no network access and could not manually bring up the > interfaces using ifconfig. After considerable thrashing I booted off > a nearby Ubuntu 10

Re: Aria2 in our update/install process?

2010-12-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:16:39 +0100 Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Hi, > > I have red an very interesting article at Matt Parnell > (http://www.mattparnell.com) about how can be have faster downloads - > not just the updates for the package manager, and I really like it. > I'm sure that this artifact cou

Re: noarch and repo's

2010-12-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:10:38 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote: > > I noticed today that the root-doc-xx-noarch.rpm is 650 Mb > > And I have a copy in each arch directory of my internal mirror. > > (1) Would it make sense to introduce a noarch directory ? > >updates >14 >

Re: Support

2010-12-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:22:38 +1100 chris rawling wrote: > Hey, > > > I was wondering why Fedora 14 does not have an automatic detection and > setup for a BCM4321 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless network adapter? Sadly, the free drivers don't support that chip I don't think, and broadcom is very uncoope

Re: Yum file storage?

2010-12-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:09:05 +0200 Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > Using >> Fedora 14 x86_64 > > I am trying to locate the rpms that was downloaded when updating. > > These paths seems a blanks .. > > /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/fedora/packages > > /var/cache/yum/x86_64/14/updates/delt

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