Re: a different point of view to "etiquette"

2013-07-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
difference between functional, competent, and exceptional is one of talent. Great code not only works, but is readable and maintainable. "It works" is necessary but not sufficient. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machination

Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
l from DVD normally just works, what's triggering this issue? I realize that fedup isn't going to get fixed, I filed this as a bug against earlier releases, without getting a fix or workaround. Screenshot of the drop dead screen at http://public.tmr.com/~davidsen/NeedNetwork-1.jp

Re: unimpressive btrfs benchmark results

2013-07-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
the number of possible combinations is already large for a small shop. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

Re: Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

2013-07-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
good idea, with /var/log/fedup.log attached. If any of my filesystems were left functional I would have, but that seems not to be the case. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- use

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails totally to work on drives with encrypted partitions, I don't think this is still the case: I did F18->F19 on my laptop (encrypted /home

Re: OpenVPN disapeared

2013-07-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
ng. If you have a hardware issue I assume you would notice. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Junk wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 11:08 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails totally to work on drives with encrypted partitions, I don't think this is

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
changes active until all changes have been entered. It's a user interface issue, for the moment I don't use it for tricky stuff, but it works well for typical cases. I'm not sure it's really easier to use than iptables rules, but choices are good. -- Bill Davidsen "

Re: WARNING: Your hard drive is failing

2013-07-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
mount mine as well, but not using GNOME I can't say what "eject" does, I thought that was for media like CD. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing li

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ewalls based on "everything not explicitly allowed is forbidden." Oh, I drop all protocols except the ones I use like udp, tcp, and icmp. Amazing what my logs show. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machina

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
t in many cases sites run web servers, mail, DNS, DHCP,and other services on a VM. A bridge is not the only way to do that, but it is one approach. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slash

Re: Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ll rules, which defines a bash function to do all the stuff, then a one liner with parameters to do the setup. You can even do some (very) crude load leveling by putting multiple machines on the DNAT rule. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than

Re: Video Transcoder & Screen Recorder

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
haven't looked at it again. Glad you get stuff working. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Junk wrote: On 24 Jul 2013, at 21:31, Bill Davidsen wrote: Junk wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 11:08 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails totally to work on

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

2013-07-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:08:19AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails totally to work on drives with encrypted partitions, I don&#

Re: Fedora crash

2013-07-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
worked for me or friends, hardware and drivers differ enough for me to help any more. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Don't mount luks partition at boot but with gdm login.

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
e level of security you need, you might consider envfs. I thought I did this using "noauto" in fstab and allowing user mount, but at best that was a few releases ago. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the

Re: Do I need avahi?

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
em it really is. Also, you should be aware that the entry for mask in the man page for systemctl explains just how thorough it is, because whoever maintains it might feel that the existing warning is all that's needed. Lewis Carroll said it best, "When I use a word, it means just what

Re: Do I need avahi?

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
hem. In this case it is auto start being disabled, not the service. People who only use GUI expect the interface will prevent them from shooting themselves in the foot. I do like adding noauto and autorun, and prohibit and allow as synonyms and preferred usage. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more

Re: The state of blu-ray burning in linux is terrible

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
ised that growisofs didn't work to burn the data once you put it in an image file, though. You might join the burning mailing list and discuss with the authors and maintainers. On occasion my problems have been user error, the documentation and examples of some features are NOT up

Re: Fedora crash

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: On Monday 29 July 2013 15.47.49 Bill Davidsen wrote: Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: Would you expect a crash in this situation? I brought my laptop to work for some reason and left it running on battery. I also had Banshee running, albeith on low volume. I had to leave

Re: The state of blu-ray burning in linux is terrible

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
image file... HOPEFULLY brasero will at least burn the image... The loop mount stuff is a good way to go, you can keep an image fresh and just burn it when you need a current copy. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: The state of blu-ray burning in linux is terrible

2013-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Richard Shaw wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Bill Davidsen mailto:david...@tmr.com>> wrote: Richard Shaw wrote: ... skip spending time getting cdrtools 3.01 to build ... Don't know what issues you have building, it always built flawlessly for me, and i

Re: howto do test update

2013-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
/var/cache/yum for future use. I put just the update RPMs in a local repository, so I only download any package once. I can put the repository on a DVD and upgrade from it if I want, after installing a new machine with no (or slow) net access. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from t

Re: howto do test update

2013-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
't like what you get you can just delete it. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

2013-09-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
ng, you certainly can do that. In particular, you probably don't want people logging in remotely and just rebooting the machine, students have been known to prank one another. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of t

Re: Copy-pasting without transferring format

2013-09-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
menu. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: how can i make restart not require root password

2013-09-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jehan Procaccia wrote: Le 04/09/2013 17:08, Bill Davidsen a écrit : Jehan PROCACCIA wrote: hello, I've got hundred of fedora19 station installed on computer lab for our students. these are self service multi-user stations, users needs to restart the station whenever they want to unfortu

Re: 4in6 tunnel

2013-09-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
able to put it in rc.local -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

2013-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
edup procedure is worthless on many machines.Posts saying things like "worked for me, be patient, finished in about 30 hours" confirm that. ...Jeff -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." -

Re: Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

2013-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
there are apps which are useful. Bless kvm. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

2013-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
styled release. which has *nothing* to do with "the darker side of the Internet" it's a matter of expierience and qualification There are a lot of people who don't want "experience and qualifications," they want to use the computer. I really find Mint is the idea

Re: Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

2013-10-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
ess anywhere in linux. Gnome 3 is working hard to catch up, but even it has a long way to go before reaching the depth that unity has sunk to. GNOME3 is a badly written video game, hard to play, little benefit to experience, and no treasure anywhere. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear

Re: openssh-6.3p1-5.fc20 fails with "EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name failed"

2013-11-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
at change, reenabling the ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 curves, in fact fixes the problem, since my ECDSA key is actually a 521 bit key. Policy to use those, or are you in the "more secure" camp on curves vs. legacy public keys? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of th

Better way to upgrade fc8->fc19

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
a better way? -- Bill Davidsen "'Nothing to hide' does not imply 'nothing to fear'" - me "AT&T could not seriously contend that a reasonable entity in its position could have believed that the alleged domestic dragnet was legal." -jud

Better way to upgrade fc18->fc19

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
which changes every time the machine gets shuffled a bit. Is there a better way than fedup, and why is it so slow? -- Bill Davidsen "'Nothing to hide' does not imply 'nothing to fear'" - me "AT&T could not seriously contend that a reasonable en

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
ought, -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
cfg file after each time a kernel is updated, to get it to work sensibly. Why in hell is there no "default" line saying what you want, or is there somewhere and I haven't stumbled on it because a kernel update doesn't set that? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from

Re: WTF happened to ssh?

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
e you change or invalidate the key, not using a key for more than one computer? Can I suggest that, please? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: Better way to upgrade fc18->fc19

2013-11-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
David wrote: On 11/22/2013 7:05 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: NOTE: an early draft of this question was sent somehow, ignore it I have has miserable luck with fedup, is there a better way, anything? I really don't want to leave this machine down for days, and the 18->19 on a test machine to

Re: Better way to upgrade fc18->fc19

2013-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Suvayu Ali wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 07:05:17PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Is there a better way than fedup, and why is it so slow? The last few upgrades, I went by the yum method. Despite all the warnings on the wiki, this seems to be the smoothest of all upgrade methods I have tried

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/22/2013 04:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is a VERY good point which I had overlooked, the hardware requirements of GNOME are much higher that XFCE (and I believe MATE) and represent choice which is very likely to frustrate potential converts. That's especially

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
XFCE will install, that's all we need. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-11-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
ounded as if we ere asking for more than warning the user if GNOME won't work. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

2013-12-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
GNOME, or install from command line. And there should be a WARNING at install time if the video hardware is questionable, suggesting installing another DE first. Once you can see the screen you can take it from there, experience is needed otherwise. I still find about 40-60% of my machines us

Post upgrade woes

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
27;t find where to install or configure alternate boot animations. Can someone point me to the info, or even give me a search string which will find it in either google or fedora wiki? Q2: is there a way to make fedora-upgrade use an iso (I did a hack so I could specify). -- Bill Davidsen &qu

Re: yum update

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
b, time usuall fixes the issue. Yes, I know, not in all cases... Stuff you may want to use more often: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ -> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/nx-libs http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/nx-libs -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.

Re: OT: cron help

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
-- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlKqYJkACgkQ404fl/0CV/RyVACgzzsXcWfi3efH9pd7kdj+G/Mq jOsAoLGutetMqZDlP6jH4qLbHkQVVMmX =fSMA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from th

Re: International phonetic alphabet fonts.

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
in your .fonts directory -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorap

Re: install fedora via usb stick

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
nes Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: failed updates

2013-12-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
o you never see the problem.My problem was that I do have IPv6, but got it by getting a cheap (ie. slow) connection from a 2nd ISP. So yum uses IPv6 at 1Mbit instead of IPv4 at 20Mbit. Really slow updates until I shut down IPv6 during upgrades. HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more

Trying my first upgrade using FC16

2012-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
at all, zero, not happening. I assume we're doing something wrong. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Is there a way to bypass LUKS and get a machine booted?

2012-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
me up with boot and root? Yes, I tried the obvious, having someone bring up the machine, unmount /home, and then commenting out the /home in /etc/fstab (tried noauto first). Didn't help. Yes I did it in the boot fstab too. More didn't help. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to

Re: Trying my first upgrade using FC16

2012-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: I have a bunch of machines I would like to upgrade, and I was hoping to just run an upgrade on them, booting from the DVD, selecting "upgrade" and going on as usual on upgrade from media. Unfortunately I get another screen or so forward and am told that an acti

Re: Is there a way to bypass LUKS and get a machine booted?

2012-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 03/11/2012 08:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: is there some way to tell LUKS to skip mounting /home and just come up with boot and root? Yes, I tried the obvious, having someone bring up the machine, unmount /home, and then commenting out the /home in /etc/fstab

Re: Verify Burned CD\DVD?

2012-03-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
like: cd {my_image_base_dir} find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \; | (cd {mounted_cd_you_burned} && md5sum -c - | tee ful_list.md5 | grep -v OK) That will print anything other than OK message. Note: I typed this in, read what you type! -- Bill Davidsen CTO TMR Associates In

Getting FC16 to shut down

2012-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
VM, having issues with lack of time to upgrade the rest of my machines, I see suspend is still broken WRT getting the network back up in some functional way, no surprise, I don't even bother to report it any more, but shutdown really should work. Why is it this way? -- Bill Davidsen "

Re: Getting FC16 to shut down

2012-03-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 16:24 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: In both GNOME (fallback mode) and xfce, if I click the shutdown entry in the user drop down, I get a pop-up asking if I really mean it. WHile I'd like to eliminate that step, if I click SHUTDOWN again I get a l

Re: Tie kvm-host traffic to eth0 F15?

2012-03-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
can force traffics to a given NIC by source IP and stuff like that. However, you can probably control most of the traffic just by setting the routing so that the cheapest (using "metric") route is via the preferred NIC. If that gives satisfactory separation it's simpler to under

Re: Setting default $PATH

2012-03-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
the rest of what was set by default. NOTE: my PATH *never* includes "." to prevent accidental running of something I never intended. The PATH setting is called from .bashrc, macros and aliases are only defined for interactive shells, not scripts. -- Bill Davidsen "We have mo

Re: why is ipv6 fixly compiled in latest F15 and all F16 kernels?

2012-03-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
unneeded... The only reason I can see is to allow the ip6tables firewall stuff to work rather than take unknown protocol processing paths. Download the kernel source and rebuild if it really bugs you on memory. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent

Re: minimal install CD versus Pentium 4

2012-03-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
ring up another system I can't remember if the P4 has PAE or not, do know that about yours before trying the install. Remember, a large part of trouble-shooting is going down one blind alley after another until one of them isn't. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from

Re: Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

2012-03-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
k. The state of video since GNOME3 is so fragile that I take what I can get working. The whole concept of requiring acceleration when the free drivers don't work is "mystery think" to me. Does anyone know if F17 is going to address this problem Greg -- Bill Davidsen &q

Human readable document on NFS server on FC16

2012-03-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
nted, but that creates breakage. Is there something simple to make that happen? All I need is some doc so I can be sure I've done things right, as opposed to hacked until they work. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinati

Re: Fedora and the horrible EDID checksum issue with various video cards

2012-03-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
on dependent, however, as most people have found. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: Firewall disabled; yet "connection refused"

2012-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
3s and imap from external. If you are running sendmail you will have to tell it to accept from external as well. The file is in /etc/mail, edit sendmail.cf to remove the loopback only assignment, then make the new config and restart sendmail. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to

Mouse sensitivity suddenly changed

2012-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
low in all cases. Sensitivity is high on the other three machines. FC13, GNOME2 (hasn't changed in ages, it's a host for five VMs (i7-950+24GB RAM). Really annoying, can anyone suggest a cause? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than fro

Re: Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

2012-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
nt world issues that need worrying about." === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machin

Re: Mouse sensitivity suddenly changed

2012-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
James Wilkinson wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: This is a really odd one, I have a keyboard and PS/2 mouse on a KVM switch, accessing four Linux system. All of a sudden the mouse sensitivity changed to "dead slow" on one machine. I checked the settings in preferences, and tried (a) anoth

Re: External eSATA drive not recognized on 2nd power up

2012-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
ne of _my_ problems, the eSATA box works with some boxen and not other, so I will try all states of power on, off, cable connected, and see what it yields. I thought the cheap ATOM system just had an unsupported chip for the connect. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungl

Where can I get an install DVD for FC16?

2012-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
install from DVD? And as a side question, why would anyone create a DVD for net install, when there is a small ISO image which does that? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users ma

Re: Where can I get an install DVD for FC16?

2012-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: I have downloaded ISO images with both ftp and torrent, and the 3.3GB DVD image I get is always a network install version, which stops at the start of the install process and tells me I need an active network connection to install from that media. Where can I get the real

Re: HWCLOCK,LOCALTIME,UTC how to fix wrong time.

2012-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
ency and in lieu of source code, how about a man page? Have to agree, complexity for no benefit. So what if the boot time is a few seconds faster, is that really important other than to marketing guys? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the

Re: Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

2012-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
ot. From my side, I have a "no longer supported" SW product that licenses itself against the MAC address of ETH0. Yep, ETH0 and not any other name. Put a symlink in? To what? If a program does "ifconfig eth0" where do I put a symlink to make that return p57p3 results?

Re: netbook compatibility

2012-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
7;s rather then the network and I assume a netbook can boot from a USB device. Thanks Chris Kottaridis -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list us

Re: Where can I get a non-netork install DVD for FC16?

2012-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rick Stevens wrote: On 04/05/2012 11:45 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: I have downloaded ISO images with both ftp and torrent, and the 3.3GB DVD image I get is always a network install version, which stops at the start of the install process and tells me I need an active network

Re: Where can I get a non-netork install DVD for FC16?

2012-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: In case it would help, I took a picture of the screen where it hangs. This is at the "Install boor record to disk" screen, where it's supposedly going to initialize the new disk drive. https://plus.google.com/u/0/103772658613998278564/posts/JusLH8M3pey If

Re: Where can I get a non-netork install DVD for FC16?

2012-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Bill Davidsen writes: I don't get to ask to install anything, I get a pop-up on the screen which says the install needs an active network connection, and won't proceed without it. Unless I'm losing my mind completely, I'm fairly certain that I updat

Re: why is ipv6 fixly compiled in latest F15 and all F16 kernels?

2012-04-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
ion but it's not done by vote. So I guess you live with it or fix it on your machines. I fix things, many people do, I don't think any deiscussion here is likely to be more useful to you. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: F16: Webcam by Logitech (Orbicam) is not working

2012-04-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
era would show if it were USB connected, lsusb is good about providing vendor code and such when it doesn't know what the device is. Three thoughts: 1 - are you sure it's USB connected? 2 - does it have a "privacy shutter" you can slide over the lens? That might take it off the b

Re: F16, XFCE/LXDE and hibernate button

2012-04-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
e fstab swap entry with the new UUID and now swapon -a turns the swap on and, yay! there is my hibernate button. I was about to tell you that "mkswap" allows you to set the UUID and warn you to avoid two swaps with the same UUID created thusly, but you have a solution. Two ways to lo

Re: Fedora 16 and the 3.3.1-3 kernel

2012-04-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
ut:' prompt. That prompt is new to me so I've not really messed with it. I can say that the previous kernels boot just fine (3.3.0-8) and I have no trouble with them. Any ideas on what I can look at? Maybe file a bug report? I would try the current kernel first, 3.3.1-5, although I did not

Re: Firewall disabled; yet "connection refused"

2012-04-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
modifications into the .rpmnew file. Hope this helps, It's definitely the better way to go from a maintenance standpoint, thank you. (yes, I hacked the master, too). -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked

Re: f16, vncserver, screen geometry

2012-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
o the VM. I'm not sure this is good for anything, but it's a way to allow VNC access to machines which can't provide their own, so I though I'd mention it. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of th

Re: mount -t nfs4 fails, but mount -t nfs succeeds

2012-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
You have to diddle the firewall to get nfs3 to work IIRC. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Re: general problem -> Re: Fedora 16 and the 3.3.1-3 kernel

2012-04-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 23.04.2012 01:02, schrieb Bill Davidsen: udevd[187]: timeout '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda3' udevd[187]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda3' [332] udevd[187]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda3' [332] ud

Re: systemctl question

2012-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
r that's what this link[1] said :) Thanks for finding that obscure reference. Pity it isn't in the man page where mere mortals could find it. :-( -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked."

Re: red hat?

2012-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
, right? ) Now, how can we tie this back to Linux? Anybody made a Fedora controlled washing machine? Why not? Before the advent of soap/detergent what was used as a cleaning component? How did a Roman keep their toga fresh and clean? :-) Beaten on rocks in the river, by slaves. -- Bill David

What's with ipv6 in fc17?

2012-04-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
route" and I assume that's nonsense, there's just some feature which is disabled to protect the innocent and not clearly documented so people can feel like gurus knowing. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the

Re: ACER N281G

2012-04-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
dried, the BIOS involved is important, the distribution, etc. Good luck. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: Fedora 18 release name

2012-05-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
udes, it's just a name. Please, focus on technical. And how pray are you going to tip a spherical cow ? Ruins all the fun 8) It's only spherical in three dimensions. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machination

Re: Fedora 18 release name

2012-05-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
der it to be trivializing Fedora and making it look like a joke, or at least childish. This is why I suggested, earlier, that the code name for F18 be a celebration of life. L'chiam! Release the beta on Dec 21 and name it "Inca Rebuttal" -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to f

Re: Fedora 18 release name

2012-05-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
other animals want to get in Fedora naming schemes for next versions of Fedora? Fedora is stuck on cows, clearly a Spherical Cow is a subset of Beefy Miracle, I suppose that given that it's Linux, it wouldn't be too much of a jump from cows to something GNU. -- Bill Davidsen &qu

Re: chkrootkit output

2012-05-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
krootkit, which has been reported repeatedly and ignored repeatedly. It treats the linked /sbin/init as suspicious because some rootkits did exactly that. Nothing encourages disregarding warnings like a daily false alarm. It's a shame, but I but lots of people ignore or disable it because of tha

Re: is fvwm orphaned in F17?

2012-05-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
, should I call the rpm/program something else? Such as fvwm-patched? Many thanks again! Ranjan -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Sata device in a USB docking station problems.

2012-05-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
power supply and will do either USB or eSATA if you have it (and come with the cables). HTH -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: F16 failure to completely boot - hangs at 'Started Display Manager'

2012-05-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
simple window manager, so that if your video hardware breaks due to use of a vendor driver or just a bug in a kernel driver you will still be functional. And hint about gnome-shell, everything is better with a touch of cinnamon, YMMV. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bu

NFS mount fails CentOS5 on FC16 host

2012-05-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
dmap process is running on host and client, remounts from other clients work, etc, etc. Anyone have a clue? -- Bill Davidsen We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if we persevere we will reach our

Re: NFS mount fails CentOS5 on FC16 host

2012-05-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/09/2012 10:26 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: I get a message "rpc.idmapd appears not to be running" when it is running, and I'm using the same setup I have on my other clients from FC9 to fc17, including both 32/64 bit RHEL. Checked DNS to be sure the IP revers

Re: F16 failure to completely boot - hangs at 'Started Display Manager'

2012-05-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/08/2012 10:25 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Did you by any chance have a 3rd party (aka working) video driver installed, such as from another repo like rpmfusion? If so, there may have been an updated kernel in your "failed update" and your kmod-whatever is unable

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