Re: static ip in f11, f12 using networkmanager

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/10/2010 12:04 PM, jackson byers wrote: > Phil Meyer wrote: > >> NM_CONTROLLED= >> > >> Depending upon what you want to do. >> > >> Will you ever use a Cell card on this system? >> Will you ever change IPs temporarily,

Re: ssh into kvm-clients

2010-05-31 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/30/2010 11:02 AM, brizly vaan van Ulciputz wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > ich wonder why i am not able to ssh-in in this case: > > i have an kvm-'server' running 4 'guests'. > > the guests are behind nat (default in kvm?). > > running fresh fedora on all machine (host and guest), installed from

Re: ssh into kvm-clients

2010-05-31 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/31/2010 11:02 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Phil Meyer wrote: > >> On 05/30/2010 11:02 AM, brizly vaan van Ulciputz wrote: >> >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> ich wonder why i am not able to ssh-in in this case: >>> >>> i

Re: FC13 and kqemu again

2010-06-01 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/01/2010 02:54 AM, William John Murray wrote: >Hello all, >I have found part of my kqemu problem: > > open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory > Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support > > For a new release/install, you must once either: Run a VM from libvirt or # mod

Re: Ntpd problems FC13

2010-06-01 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/01/2010 12:09 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 13:51 -0400, Jim wrote: > >> FC13/KDE4 >> >> Ntpd daemon is started in Services and the box is checked in Settings , >> but it won't update Time. >> > > If it is way off, it will be a problem for ntpd so you should ma

Re: Relabeling all audio files on a server

2010-06-02 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/30/2010 04:21 PM, Leonard Adjei wrote: > I have a server which houses thousands of audio tracks and materials. > Recently I started using a web application which seems to have a ew > problems with the naming convention used by default. > For example it has a problem with apostrophe signs ('),

Re: Moving a virtual machine

2010-06-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/03/2010 01:59 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > I set up a virtual machine in virt-manager on one machine, and now I'd > like to port it to another machine. I copied /var/lib/libvirt to the > other machine, but the VM doesn't show up in the list of VMs in > virt-manager. > > I must be missing so

Re: F13: kvm guest screen resolution

2010-06-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/03/2010 10:51 AM, Christoph A. wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a kvm guest (F13) on a F13 host but didn't managed to get a > reasonable screen resolution in the guest OS. I used cirrus and vga but > was not able to get a resolution higher then 800x600. > I tried also to manually add some resolut

Re: FC13, Installing 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box

2010-06-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/03/2010 10:33 AM, Jim wrote: > FC13/KDE > > How do I install 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box ? > > I have SDL installed. > > This would be a good addition to Yum. > It would be much easier to discover why you might need some 32 bit libraries. For instance, you mentioned SDL. Is there an a

Re: FC13, Installing 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box

2010-06-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/03/2010 03:51 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: > >> On 06/03/2010 10:33 AM, Jim wrote: >> >>> FC13/KDE >>> >>> How do I install 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box ? >>> >>> I h

Re: NFS Issue

2010-06-04 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/04/2010 10:46 AM, Pittigher, Raymond - ES wrote: > Started to see these messages in the log files. The slab cache uses all the > memory then OOM. Memory leak? > > May 27 19:48:06 suoserv4 kernel: INFO: task nfsd:4562 blocked for more than > 120 seconds. > May 27 19:48:06 suoserv4 kernel: "e

Re: fgrep,grep and egrep

2010-06-08 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/08/2010 10:54 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 06/08/2010 12:40 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> can someone explain me about the usage of grep , fgrep and egrep >> with examples. >> In what contexts i should use which. >> > The grep man page explains it well enough: >

Re: [OT] Need some bash scripting assistance

2010-06-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/10/2010 08:32 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Hi folks! :-) > > This is the story: I have a directory full of files named as: > > 01 Some file > 02 Some other file > 03& yet another file > 04 etc... > > There is also a symbolic link called "target" pointing to one of them. > The numbers at the

Re: Status of SSDs under Fedora ?

2010-06-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/10/2010 03:56 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:50 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> On 06/10/2010 01:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under >>> Linux ? >>> >>> I'm using ext4 for that drive right now

Re: NFS problem in FC13

2010-06-15 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/15/2010 03:07 PM, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > I am trying to upgrade the boxes on a small LAN from FC11 to FC13. The > server is now running FC13 and NFS. One of the boxes that is still > running FC11 can read& write to the shared directories on the server > without problems. But I'm having prob

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/14/2010 05:13 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: > Here's the last update suggestion I received today: > > == > PackageArch > Version

Re: qemu-kvm Trying to "Write" to a cdrom/sr0 ?? , Why?

2010-06-28 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/28/2010 11:59 AM, Jim wrote: > FC13 > > > Selinux is in "permissive" mode > > Why would qemu-kvm try to "Write" to a cdrom, instead of "Read" ? > > We use virt-manager here a lot now. You do not need to ask for a local connection, that is assumed. Here is an example: virt-install -

Re: HD Home move editor

2010-06-28 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/28/2010 08:24 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > My new camera takes 720p clips (AVCHD) and I wanted to do a little > editing, but after installing Kino which I've used in the past, I > found it downgraded it to 480p DV video. Are that any full video > editors that handle HD movies correctly? > > Than

Re: Trying to find startup script that loads appliecations in the gnome-sessons app ?!?

2010-07-08 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/08/2010 03:32 PM, William Case wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 14:06 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:53:54 -0400 >> William Case wrote: >> >> > >>> xev | grep -m 1 ReparentNotify; firefox& xchat-gnome& >>> >> Lets step back a bit. What is your high

Re: Compile HTTPD so it's SELinux Aware

2010-07-12 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/11/2010 07:21 PM, Jafaruddin Lie wrote: > Hi guys > We're thinking of compiling our own version of jailed Apache's httpd > on CENTOS 5. > Currently we don't have SELinux turned on, but we are building a new > server and would like to implement it. > I am familiar enough with setting the polic

Re: SSH / permissions problem

2010-07-13 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/13/2010 09:49 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks, > > This seems like de ja vu, but I can't find anything in the archives. > > I've got F13 on my laptop, and also on a new virtual server. > > I've copied my home directory from my old server to my new one and then tried > to ssh to the new s

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-16 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/14/2010 03:51 AM, siavash ghiasvand wrote: > Dear All, > > For some reasons I want to know what are "Minimum Required RPM > Packages" for installing fedora on a PC. > At installation time, we can remove all optional packages and after > removing them Fedora will install with nearly 200 packag

Re: Gotta love embedded developers...

2010-07-19 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/18/2010 04:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Out of curiosity I downloaded the GPLed source code for the > firmware in my new Netgear WNR3500L router. The first thing > I see is the build instructions which start with: > >1. This package has been built successfully on Fedora Core 2. >

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-20 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/20/2010 03:38 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 20 July 2010 18:21, Michael Semcheski wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> >>> Specifically, assuming that I have my own hardware to set the whole thing >>> up, >>> what is the difference between having a

Re: lib folder in new fedora

2010-02-18 Thread Phil Meyer
On 02/18/2010 12:00 PM, adrian kok wrote: > Hi > > Why I can't find any library files under /lib folder in new fedora 12 > > lib]# ls -al > total 40 > dr-xr-xr-x. 10 root root 4096 2010-01-20 09:39 . > dr-xr-xr-x. 22 root root 4096 2010-01-30 03:25 .. > drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 2009-11-23 15:2

Re: Risks of backing up live mounted filesystems using dump(8)

2010-03-01 Thread Phil Meyer
On 03/01/2010 11:29 AM, Jeffrey Metcalf wrote: > Hi, > > I'm hoping I can start a brief thread discussing the potential risks involved > with backing up live mounted (RW) ext2/3/4 filesystems using dump(8). Here > are the reasons I ask this: > > 1. My understanding is that it is safest to dump

Re: secure log stopped working

2010-03-04 Thread Phil Meyer
On 03/04/2010 01:14 PM, j.halifax . wrote: >> ...what could be a reason that records of >> /var/log/secure stopped coming? >> > kill -1 > helped but I would like to understand possible causes anyway. > > Thank you. > > 1. out of space 2. permission change (should be root:root 600) 3. r

Re: Strange issue with ceasing IO operations

2010-04-27 Thread Phil Meyer
On 04/26/2010 10:09 PM, Ziemowit Pierzycki wrote: > I'm having an issue with my server. After successful installation of > F12 the system works normally for a while and then seems like all IO > operations cease. I am not able to access anything from the disk so > only the cached commands work.

Re: Bridge br0 on FC12, No Network

2010-05-05 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/04/2010 01:51 PM, Jim wrote: > The Virtual Guest has not been installed until getting Network working > on FC12. > > I have a Bridge br0 setup to eth0, but when I reboot box I have no > Network present for Fedora 12. > > Network Manager is disabled > > Network Configuration shows br0 as Acti

Re: FC 12 NOT BOOTING

2010-05-05 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/05/2010 08:46 AM, anees a a wrote: > FC 12 is not booting.It shows error as follows: > "FAILED > An error occured during the file system check. > Dropping you to a shell ;the system will reboot when you leave the shell. > Give root password for maintenance(or type con

Re: 3ware 9690SA ?

2010-05-06 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/06/2010 01:29 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Anyone using the 3ware 9690SA SATA controller? Interested in your > experience/opinions. > > Yes. Not much difference from older controllers with exception of some RAID 6 optimization. Would I recommend it? Sure. We use them almost exclusively

Re: static ip in f11, f12 using networkmanager

2010-05-07 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/07/2010 03:59 PM, jackson byers wrote: > by...@f12 ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE > > recent traffic on this list has had one or more reports > of using static ip with networkmanager. > > I also still have a working f10, that used static ip , > but with network, not networkmanager.

Re: Real benefits of RHEL over Fedora?

2011-06-06 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/06/2011 12:51 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> What is a "socket" as >> referred to in the RHEL subscription information? Does this just mean >> an available processor on the server for that virtual machine? > I have no idea on this one. ;-) A 'socket' on the motherboard is where you drop in

Re: Need Little IT advice here...

2011-08-15 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/11/2011 09:57 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote: > Hi, I was Wondering if there was a tool for Linux in general > that let me undo the system changes at reboot or something > like that, For example: > > I want to set a standard configuration in a machine and then > let that machine to be used by many

kadischi post failed -- Reposted here -- iptables always started no matter what

2011-08-26 Thread Phil Meyer
Please tolerate this post intended for the livecd-creator list. They are bouncing me now days. Maybe its time I changed deodorant? I dunno ... I am desperate! --- livecd-tools-15.7-1.fc15.x86_64 Kickstarts all contain: firewall --disabled selinux --disabled I even went as far as this: %p

livecd and pxe boot memory footprint

2011-09-28 Thread Phil Meyer
The livd images currently appear to have 4GB filesystems, which would correspond to single layer DVDs. This is ok. My question: Is the entire free space reported bf tools like 'df' writable? My simple tests indicate that it is not. ie: # df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/

Re: How to rebuild the kernel for the network install

2011-09-28 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/28/2011 02:57 AM, Joshua C. wrote: > As the title says, I'd like to reinstall fedora 15 with the netinstall > image because it's about 100mb (kernel and initrd) instead of the > install dvds. My problem is that those files located in > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releas

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

2010-07-23 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/23/2010 12:59 AM, JD wrote: > > Can you describe the hardware of the private cloud > and the hardware of the non-cloud machine in the > location where you were involved in the installation > or configuration? > I would like to know what is being compared to what > when claims of doubling the

Re: F-13 qnw wireless routers -

2010-08-09 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/07/2010 12:07 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > This is a current updated f-13 computer connected to our home LAN. I > have been using a Buffalo Airstation WLI-TX4-AG300N, ... > snip > ... > Does anyone have experience with a similar system? I would be > interested to know if

Re: F-13 new wireless routers -

2010-08-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/10/2010 10:19 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >On 09/08/10 16:43, Phil Meyer wrote: >> I am now convinced that ethernet over power has reached an adequate >> cost/service ratio, and are the best way to go. >> >> Powerline networks are up to 200Mb commonly, and you ca

Re: Programs dropped from F13?

2010-08-11 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/10/2010 03:33 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > [Somehow, I was not getting Fedora User emails sent to me anymore > so this reply was taken from the Archives so that I can respond to the > sender. Wonder what's going on with my or Fedora's email system... > ] > > *From: Steven Stern*

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/18/2010 05:00 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. > > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap > partition set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for > hibernation, but this server doe

Re: OT ? I'm about this close to buying an iPad...

2010-09-02 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/02/2010 09:06 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Hi people. > > I need to vent... I'm getting frustrated with Linux. Well, not Linux > per se, and not Fedora, but the whole experience part of things. > > I desperately need to do something about the audio system in my car. > Its got a head unit that

Re: bonded nic not starting at boot

2010-09-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/01/2010 04:39 PM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: > Hello all, > > I am running fedora 12 and have two bonded interfaces. Everything > works fine if I manually start my bonded interface (bond0). It also > works fine if I put (ifup bond0) in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. However, it > refuses to start

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/03/2010 08:57 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > hi, > > I've plugged in my harddisk via a SATA/IDE to USB converter to my > laptop. The device is created as /dev/sdb, but fdisk -l or parted, > gparted do not show it as a drive. > > Here's the dmesg output: > >> scsi8 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0 >> scsi 8:

Re: size discrepancy after tarring a dir

2010-09-06 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/03/2010 03:21 PM, JD wrote: >I have two mounted disks, both ext3 mounted > as > /sdb1 > /sdc1 > > On /sdb1 I have a directory, let's call it dirx. > > 1. rm -rf /sdc1/dirx > > 2. cd /sdb1 > 3. tar cf - dirx | tar -C /sdc1 -xpf - > > Neither dir (/sdb1 and /sdc1) are not accessed by any

Re: Cannot rebuild from src.rpm

2010-09-08 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/08/2010 03:19 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I am trying to rebuild a rpm from its src.rpm, but getting the following > error: > > $ rpmbuild --clean --rebuild myp-devel-0.14-0.src.rpm > Installing myp-devel-0.14-0.src.rpm > warning: user stewart does not exist - using root > warnin

Re: F13 <-> Samsung Galaxy S via USB

2010-09-22 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/22/2010 10:23 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks, > > If I connect a USB memory stick to my laptop it access it fine, with it > appearing in the 'Devices recently plugged in' and I can access the stick > fine. > > ... You may have to wait until the Android 2.2 (Froyo) update for this to

Re: X won't start on F14 - I've run out of ideas!

2010-10-14 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/12/2010 07:04 AM, Claude Jones wrote: > This is an F14 box with all the latest patches > It has an nVidia GeForce 8400 GS video card > It had been running the proprietary nVidia driver from rpmfusion > About two weeks ago, after some updates which unfortunately I didn't > take note of, X wo

Re: Update tex-live package?

2011-02-07 Thread Phil Meyer
On 02/07/2011 10:16 AM, H Xu wrote: > On 2011/2/8 0:59, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> 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 ar

Re: No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

2011-02-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 02/10/2011 03:06 PM, jdow wrote: > Apparently it is active in the wild now. If a machine is not patched to > the hilt, which Fedora discourages with updates that make the machine > unusable once and awhile and upgrades needed several times a year it > seems, you have problems. > > It is an explo

Re: CPU utilization

2011-03-15 Thread Phil Meyer
On 03/15/2011 03:02 AM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi, > > I want to see and/or monitor cpu utilization. I have a server that have > 24 processors (6 processor x 4 core). > > top only gives me global information for cpu, not per cpu (and core) > > Is there a tool or a way to have these informations ? > >

Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

2011-03-21 Thread Phil Meyer
On 03/21/2011 02:19 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/21/2011 12:54 PM, suvayu ali wrote: >> If I may ask, what is wrong with sudo? Specially when configured with PASSWD? > If you have the root password, it's the wrong tool for the job. It's > designed, AIUI, for people who *don't have* the root passwor

Re: What filesystem for ssd? (f15)

2011-04-11 Thread Phil Meyer
On 04/11/2011 08:26 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm planning a fresh install of f15 onto > Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW120G310 > > What filesystem should I use? Go for btrfs? > You could also try the discard option for mounting ext4 file systems. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: When are we going to see some newer kernels ?

2011-04-15 Thread Phil Meyer
On 04/15/2011 10:24 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > $ uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Feb 7 > 06:57:55 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > Am I missing something or is this the latest F14 kernel available ? > When are we going to see some newer kernels ? > >

Re: a project idea... help needed!

2011-05-24 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/23/2011 03:08 PM, Matthew Byrd wrote: > Hey guys... I've got a project idea I proposed to Red Hat directly and > Brendan Conoboy told me that they don't deal with this sort of thing.. > what I need is a nice little program I'm willing to pay for or give to > open source or both. > > The basic

Re: ugly on fonts on upgrade from F13 to F15

2011-05-25 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/25/2011 09:55 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I "preupgraded" my desktop to F15 from F13 today. Everything went very > smoothly except this issue with the ugly fonts. For some reason for the > same font settings I get these ugly fonts after the upgrade to F15. I > compared with my F1

Re: What on earth is mounted?

2011-05-25 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/25/2011 12:17 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I was checking to see if I had everything mounted that I wanted > in a newly genned f15 system, and I see this insanity in > the output from running "mount": > > /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 > (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=order

Re: /var/log/messages question

2011-05-31 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/31/2011 08:25 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 18:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: Just for curiosity, why has no one ever arranged to log something like "Hey! I'm booting the system again!" as the very first line in that goes to /var/log/messages when

Re: Java allows root access without permission?

2010-10-27 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/27/2010 02:00 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Fedora 13 x86_64 with OpenJDK (not Sun) installed. > > I was required to login to a web site today to configure a VPN and the > site installed a Cisco VPN Java applet. When it was finished installing > and was running I noticed the processes wh

Re: F14: what replaces s-c-d?

2010-11-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/10/2010 09:57 AM, Beartooth wrote: > By "s-c-d" I mean to abbreviate "system-config-display." > ... > What can I use? This constantly clicking on the wrong place is > beginning to resemble the classic water torture The concept now days is to let X figure out most things, ie:

Re: F14: what replaces s-c-d?

2010-11-10 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/10/2010 12:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 19:49:21 +, >Beartooth wrote: >> That thing?! Surely you jest. I can't get it to realize anything >> over 1024x768 exists. Even the oldest of my PCs used to do fine with >> 1280x1024 -- and this monitor can stret

Re: bypassing login pam.d

2010-11-15 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/15/2010 03:48 PM, msacks wrote: > I have a FC13 system that has no GUI. > I'd like to bypass the login screen altogether but I'm not sure where to > start. > I'm looking in /etc/pam.d but I'm not sure if this is doable this way? > > I am trying to avoid booting into single user mode by defau

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-17 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/17/2010 12:40 PM, Alan J. Gagne wrote: >> Jerry Feldman wrote: >>> On 11/17/2010 11:36 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Just a "in my experience" note, running an upgrade from a DVD/USB has been far more successful than preupgrade for me. Older installs had a small /boot and >>>

Re: One satisfied customer with f14!

2010-11-18 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/17/2010 04:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:13:15 -0700 > Phil Meyer wrote: > >> We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE >> preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a network based >> preupgrade which works well

Re: Fedora 14, wireless keyboards and encryption

2010-11-30 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/30/2010 04:32 PM, Chris Northwood wrote: > Hi there, > > So, I'm having a problem with my Fedora 14 setup. I've recently > installed the distro on the machine, and set up full disk encryption > using the standard method in Anaconda. However, on the passphrase > screen (the one which appears a

Re: Fedora 14, wireless keyboards and encryption

2010-12-01 Thread Phil Meyer
On 12/01/2010 04:15 PM, Chris Northwood wrote: > On 1 December 2010 00:32, Phil Meyer wrote: >> On 11/30/2010 04:32 PM, Chris Northwood wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> So, I'm having a problem with my Fedora 14 setup. I've recently >>> in

Re: Turn off GDM

2010-12-06 Thread Phil Meyer
On 12/06/2010 04:03 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to turn off GDM and auto-login the user, instead? > > Note: I can probably go through the startup scripts and figure out how > to hack it together, the question is more along the lines of "is there a > commonly used place wher

Re: Helping with Hardware

2010-12-07 Thread Phil Meyer
On 12/07/2010 01:45 PM, Jonathan Gardner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> My question is, how can I contribute to Fedora and thus the larger >>> Linux community through getting my hardware better supported? Or is it >>> just not suitable for a lay-person who knows how

Re: how to consolidate gnome panels

2010-12-13 Thread Phil Meyer
On 12/13/2010 07:11 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Hello, > by default with Fedora you get Gnome configured with: > - the top panel with "Applications, ..." notifications, ecc > - the bottom panel where there is trash icon, workspace switcher and > open windows information (to minimize,restore, ecc)

Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files

2010-12-30 Thread Phil Meyer
On 12/30/2010 11:34 AM, S Mathias wrote: > mkdir one > mkdir two > mkdir three > > echo "word1 word2 word3"> one/asf.txt > echo "word2 word4, word5"> one/asfcxv saf.txt > echo "word1. word2"> one/dsgsdg.txt > > echo "word6, word3!"> two/sdgsd dsf.txt > echo "word6"> two/ergd.txt > > echo "asdf

Re: gnote vs Tomboy

2011-01-12 Thread Phil Meyer
On 01/11/2011 04:21 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Several versions of Fedora ago the default note taking software was > switched from tomboy to gnote supposedly because gnote was a more > efficient binary program. > > Now it turns out that the latest version of tomboy which can be yum > installed incl

Re: kvm

2011-01-21 Thread Phil Meyer
On 01/21/2011 09:02 AM, mattias wrote: > Yes I meen the older command > I'm come from debian > Debian have the command kvm > E.g to load win xp > kvm -m 512 win.qcow qemu-kvm ... $ which qemu-kvm /usr/bin/qemu-kvm $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/qemu-kvm qemu-system-x86-0.13.0-1.fc14.x86_64 -- users mail

Re: Anyone understand dhcpd and dynamic dns?

2010-01-20 Thread Phil Meyer
On 01/20/2010 10:26 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Is this wacko time keeping in the virtual guest making dhcpclient expire the > lease sooner than the dhcp server can renew it? > I can speak somewhat to the time issues in VMs. In both Xen and KVM based VMs which I have personally installed MANY o

Re: NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

2010-01-25 Thread Phil Meyer
On 01/25/2010 03:14 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Marcel Rieux wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >>> Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> >>> Marcel Rieux wrote: > Since the NVIDIA forums are just a lost of time, I'll first ask t

Re: difference between /proc/cpuinfo and AMD product specs

2010-02-04 Thread Phil Meyer
On 02/04/2010 01:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Steve Berg wrote: > > >> >>>undoubtedly going to regret asking this, but i installed f12 on a >>> gateway laptop, whose /proc/cpuinfo reads (in part): >>> >>> model name : AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology

Re: Help with pxe guest VM install

2012-11-09 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/07/2012 11:35 AM, William Murray wrote: Dear list, I have been trying to setup a PXE guess installation on Fedora 17 with no success. I build a bridge, and connect my VM to it but DHCP times out in the VM install. I don't know how to debug this bridge. I guess I could connect a '

Re: NOT A Technical Question.....Just An Observation....

2012-12-19 Thread Phil Meyer
On 12/18/2012 05:29 AM, Alan Cox wrote: ... There are several studies all of which suggest the Android user base will exceed Windows next year, and some good evidence that overall Linux passed Windows a while back when you count all the DVRs, TV sets, etc with it in. The Android one however is

Re: Steam on Fedora -- Requires 99 i686 packages

2012-12-21 Thread Phil Meyer
On 12/20/2012 04:08 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: In case you missed it (I did), Steam linux beta client is now available for everyone, and there's a way to get it running on Fedora: # cd /etc/yum.repos.d # wget http://spot.fedorapeople.org/steam/steam.repo # yum install steam When are major W

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

2013-01-17 Thread Phil Meyer
On 01/17/2013 02:06 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: One of the laptops I'm trying to upgrade to f18/x86_64 from f17/x86_64 is printing row after row of asterisks after it rebooted into the fedup boot environment. Has anyone seen this before? Is there a fix or do I have to do a wipe/reinstall f

Re: recommendations for SSD drive as first disk for fedora 18?

2013-01-22 Thread Phil Meyer
On 01/22/2013 06:08 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: after a while living with ubuntu, i'm moving back to fedora as of F18, and would like some advice. i have an ASUS G74S with twin 750G drives, but i want to replace the boot drive with an SSD, and install F18 in such a way as to maximize the bene

Re: Error trying to install via BFO

2013-01-28 Thread Phil Meyer
On 01/28/2013 03:02 PM, John Picard wrote: Attempting to install via BFO (boot.fedoraproject.org), I get the following output ... dracut-initqueue[310]: Warning: Could not boot. dracut-initqueue[310]: Warning: /dev/root does not exist Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue. Type "j

Re: Samsung RF711-S02 anyone?

2012-02-06 Thread Phil Meyer
On 01/28/2012 05:10 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: I'm shopping for a desktop-replacement-grade laptop. The Samsung RF711- S02 (Intel i7/4G DDR3 /750 GB / 17") looks like it might be a good fit. BUT, can't find any info on Linux-compatibility. Anyone have data on that? Thanks. Just bought a MSI GT7

Re: interactive kickstart ?

2012-03-30 Thread Phil Meyer
On 03/29/2012 03:46 PM, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote: Is there any way to keep environment variables across different sections of a kickstart file ? E.g., if during %pre I solicit some input: %pre echo "enter bootloader password now:"> /dev/tty read -s GRUBPW< /dev/tty echo "you entered: ${GRUBPW}">

Re: KVM virtual machine transfer query

2011-10-04 Thread Phil Meyer
On 10/04/2011 02:20 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Hello all > > I have a question. Can a kvm virtual machine, a linux or windows > guest, generated of fedora, be transfered to a rhel machine and > started? or vice versa? > > Please note, I am not talking of live migration. Just transferring > files

Re: Problem serving DHCP to Virtual Guests

2011-11-29 Thread Phil Meyer
On 11/28/2011 12:07 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > Hi, > > I have a workstation with Fedora 16 using NetworkManager getting a > static IP address via DHCP from a central DHCP server. I have a couple > of VMs on that workstation that use a routed network device in libvirt > that I would also like to acq

parted gpt on Fedora 16 breaks kickstarts and partition resizing

2011-12-07 Thread Phil Meyer
Confession: I am old; had been working as a UNIX/Solaris admin for many years when Linus first posted on Usenet in 1991. I remember smirking ... And now its been all Linux work for over 8 years. Times change. Part of my specialty has always been automated installs, automated software distr

Re: parted gpt on Fedora 16 breaks kickstarts and partition resizing

2011-12-08 Thread Phil Meyer
Old way with fdisk: On 12/07/2011 05:12 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > > set -x > > account_id=$1 > if [ -z "$account_id" ] > then > exit -1 > fi > virsh shutdown a${account_id} > sleep 60 > virsh destroy a${account_id} > is

Re: confusion on /sbin/ifconfig on F16

2012-05-23 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/22/2012 09:12 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Hello: As I continue dealing with iptables, another issue has come up that I can't tell is a mis-understanding on my part or a potential problem I have three F16 machines, one x86_64 and two i383/686. If I run /sbin/ifconfig on them, I get (sh

Re: Built in SD card reader problem

2012-05-29 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/29/2012 12:50 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: ... On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 17:15 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: Moreover the Gnome notifier popped up asking me if I wanted to open the files in shotwell or in the file browser. All excited, I disentangled the SD card from the Pi and plugged that in inste

Re: ssh-agent no longer started with 3.3 kernels (F16/17)?

2012-05-29 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/29/2012 03:00 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: ... $ ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. ... Just a note to say that as far as I can tell, it works fine on a fresh F17, kernel 3.3.7-1.fc17.x86_64. Good Luck! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: ssh-agent no longer started with 3.3 kernels (F16/17)?

2012-05-30 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/29/2012 04:27 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:04:06 -0600 Phil Meyer wrote: On 05/29/2012 03:00 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: ... $ ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. ... Just a note to say that as far as I can tell, it works fine on a fresh

Re: How do I get back eth0 instead of em16 ?

2012-05-31 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/31/2012 03:40 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: I just discovered this http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-279659.html So how do I get eth0 back without having to hit the problems those users encountered?. The ethernet ports on my mobo show up at em16 and em17 "Consistent" netw

Re: livecd-creator does not create EFI-enabled iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Phil Meyer
On 06/09/2012 07:02 AM, Steven Shiau wrote: I'd like to use livecd-creator to create an EFI-enabled iso on my Fedora 17 x86-64 machine. I used this command to create the live iso file: livecd-creator -v --config=./livecd.ks --cache=/var/cache/live Looking at: /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-

Re: is this still true in F16?

2012-07-13 Thread Phil Meyer
On 07/13/2012 02:21 PM, Jack Craig wrote: Hi Folks, I am setting up KVM on F16 with an XP guest. reading, http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking i find, ... Disabling NetworkManager As of the time of writing (Fedora 12), NetworkManage

Re: UEFI Notebook

2013-05-09 Thread Phil Meyer
On 05/06/2013 05:10 PM, Len Philpot wrote: On 05/06/2013 at 12:54 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: You're making this even more confusing to anyone reading this thread. You specifically stated: ... You boot the DVD image and it automatically launches anaconda that resides on it. Not in my ca