Cannot connect to koji

2010-05-10 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Trying to follow a link to "koji - Fedora Package Build System" in the Fedora Wiki: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/index Even after telling Firefox to accept the locally-generated certificate, the connection repeatedly fails with: Secure Connection Failed An error o

Re: Cannot connect to koji

2010-05-10 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 19:41 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Monday 10 May 2010 07:03:23 pm Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > Trying to follow a link to "koji - Fedora Package Build System" in the > > Fedora Wiki: > > > > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/k

Re: Cannot connect to koji

2010-05-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:05 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 03:44:00 +, g wrote: > > > Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > > > > > > you can only connect to koji via ssl if you have a fedora user certificate > > > imported into firefox. its a side effect of the ssl cert authenti

Re: Cannot connect to koji

2010-05-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 09:01 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 19:41 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > On Monday 10 May 2010 07:03:23 pm Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > > Trying to follow a link to "koji - Fedora Package Build System&qu

Re: unsubscribe

2010-05-19 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:49 -0500, Milena Abreu wrote: > Saludos, > > > > Milena Please unsubscribe yourself. If your e-mail client removes the trailer instructions, they are: -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admi

Re: Bios

2010-05-22 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 15:23 -0400, Henry Wyatt wrote: > I have hp dv6000 series laptop running fc12 86_64. According to setup > I have phoenix bios version f.42 > > Just want to know bios date and how to flash bios with more recent > version. > > Also running fedora only no windows Henry, Goo

Re: Fedora Hard Disk Encryption and FIPS 140-2 Compliance

2010-05-24 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 10:42 -0400, Edmon Begoli wrote: > Does anyone know if Fedora's HD encryption is, or could it be, compliant with > US NIST requirement for hard disk encryption included in NIST FIPS 140-2? > > http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/#05 > > Thanks. FIPS compliance testing is a

Re: mirror, mirror

2010-05-25 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:03 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > I just tried downloading the F13 iso. When I went through the "mirrors" > redirector I got PNL, which came up with an HTTP error page. Going to > kernel.org by hand, I got 300M of the f13 install iso and it hung. Has > Fedora be

Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there a multi-DVD spanning archiver capability in F13? Ideally I'd like to use an application that writes and reads directly to/f

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-05 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 19:45 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > I want to off-load the entire /pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/ > > directory (46,864 items, totalling 59.7 GB) to a modest stack of single- > > or dual-layer DVD-Rs. Is there

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 13:53 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 21:24 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > I want to be able to copy that directory with all its subordinate > > directories, files, ownerships, permissions, etc. onto a minimum > > number of DVDs. Id

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 11:31 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> Ok, a python guru I am not, but I did manage to replace the 'popen2' > >> call to the current 'subprocess' call which fixed D

Re: Looking for multi-DVD spanning archiver

2010-06-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 22:15 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage > wrote: > > I wrote to the maintainer (James) and received the following reply: > > Great minds think alike. I did the same and got pretty much the same > res

How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I think I need help from anyone having special exertise with growisofs/mkisofs, I'm trying to troubleshoot a discrepancy between the number of 2k sectors detected by discspan.py (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/discspan/) and the capacity specs reported on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Re: How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 07:35 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/12/2010 06:28 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > Is there a simple command line I can use to interrogate a blank > > optical disc that will return the number of sectors/blocks on it? > > dvd+rw-mediainfo ? Ed

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 23:45 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I need to back up 20 GB of Windows data from a hard drive onto DVDs so > that a Windows user can access it. I can read the Windows hard drive > just fine. > > What software might I use to automagically split the data into DVD sized > chunks

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 10:37 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > None of my code ended up in the rewrite but the --test and --disk-start > options were my ideas. > > I'm not sure if I did something wrong but when I tried to use it to > backup my pic

Re: Which software for backing data up to DVDs ?

2010-06-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 15:38 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > Should have mentioned, discspan.py already has the changes, I just > included the patch file if you want to see what changed. Richard, I just finished writing out the "0" disc. Before that I confirmed that your "--test" fix works. Did you

Re: How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-15 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 12:48 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 07:35 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 06/12/2010 06:28 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > >> > Is t

Re: How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-15 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 17:07 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:37:14 -0500 > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > > I believe it's either an > > error in the file size sorting algorithm, or some extra data being added > > to the ISO image.

Re: How to interrogate optical discs

2010-06-15 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 18:47 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:07:13 -0500 > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > > If there really is overhead and other data being added, we'd like to > > know as accurately as possible the size of that added amount. >

Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
This security update has just been released: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/thankyou/?installer=Flash_Player_10.1_for_Linux_(.rpm) This will download flash-plugin-10.1.53.64-release.i386.rpm. I don't yet know how stable this will be with 64-bit Fedora or other Linux distributions. --Doc Savage

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 12:17 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Steve Underwood wrote: > >This is what they released last week, and its by far their buggiest > >effort to date. > > > >Steve > > > I believe this may be a newer build. Not extensively checked, but it played > a c

autofs and nfs4 no longer connect

2010-06-20 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I set up autofs and nfs4 between F12/F13 and RHEL5.5 so all my laptops could access a 1TB general purpose storage array mounted to /pub on a server named lion. That's where I maintain all my repo mirrors and other archives. The exported array was accessible from any local node: # cat /etc/

Re: autofs and nfs4 no longer connect

2010-06-20 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 17:58 -0700, JD wrote: > Perhaps check the firewall on server and clients??? JD, Nope. That was the second thing I checked. No changes. --Doc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: autofs and nfs4 no longer connect - SOLVED

2010-06-20 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 09:15 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/21/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 17:58 -0700, JD wrote: > > > >> Perhaps check the firewall on server and clients??? > >> > > JD, > >

Syntax for hard drive installs

2010-06-22 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
This used to work, so I'm either very close or there's a bug... - Boot an old laptop (w/o USB boot capability) using disc1 CD. - Hold down Shift during boot to produce the ISOLINUX boot: prompt - Enter "linux askmethod" at boot: prompt - Choose "Hard drive" NOTE: The second hard drive (/dev/sdb1)

Re: Syntax for hard drive installs

2010-06-22 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:56 -0700, JD wrote: > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463392 > for the solution. JD, Well, that's brain damaged. If there's already a fully expanded os/ directory available, why does anaconda still insist on mounting an ISO image? I did the following to

32-bit upgrade fails on Thinkpad

2010-06-25 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I'm hoping this is a known problem with an easy work-around. It looks like an RPM versioning problem of some sort, but I'm not 100% sure. I have a rusty trusty old IBM Thinkpad A22p with a 32-bit PIII/M processor and 512MB. I've tried F12->F13 upgrades from ISO images on local hard drive (/dev/sdb

Re: Impossible to find folder which contains kernel headers

2010-06-25 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 12:23 +0800, Brett wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to get vmware player running on Fedora 13, and during the setup > vmware player is unable to locate the kernel headers (PAE). I have used the > "search for files" function to find the location of the kernel headers > (including

Re: Impossible to find folder which contains kernel headers

2010-06-25 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 23:39 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 12:23 +0800, Brett wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to get vmware player running on Fedora 13, and during the setup > > vmware player is unable to locate the kernel headers (PAE). I have

Q about swap size

2010-07-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) since FC4 or before, upgrading from one version to the next using the same partition sizes. For F13 I increased the size of /boot, but kept swap at 1GB: # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 12003412

Re: Q about swap size

2010-07-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 09:01 -0700, JD wrote: > On 07/11/2010 09:10 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB) > With only half a gig of ram, you will end up thrashing like crazy. > Of course you will have a hig

Re: boot messages : say it ain't so

2010-07-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 20:58 +, BeartoothHOS wrote: > Several machines have been showing lines like these : > > Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. > Starting udev: udevd[405]: BUS= will be removed in a future udev version, > please use SUBSYSTEM= to match the event

Re: boot messages : say it ain't so

2010-07-17 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 00:55 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage > wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 20:58 +, BeartoothHOS wrote: > >> Several machines have been showing lines like these : > >&g

Re: system-config-display issue Fedora13 RC3

2010-07-19 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 23:53 -0500, David A. Paredes Rios wrote: > Hey im having problems when i try to execute system-config-display in > my fedora13 RC3 > The message im gettin is: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 378, in > >

Re: system-config-display issue Fedora13 RC3

2010-07-19 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 20:37 -0500, David A. Paredes Rios wrote: > Yes, unfortunately im having the same issue, now using the final > version of fedora 13... the error is: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 378, in > > dialog = xCo

Re: Installing Linux on sdb ??

2010-04-19 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 17:57 -0400, Jim wrote: > I have a computer with Two Sata drivers and I need to install Windows 7 > and Fedora 12 . > > Can Windows 7 be installed on sdb1 or does it need to be on sda1 I'm not > familiar with Windows 7. > I'm setting up this box for a Newbie that needs to

Re: Adobe Flash Player

2010-04-25 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 17:22 +1000, Roger wrote: > On 04/25/2010 11:14 AM, Henry Wyatt wrote: > > Is there a flash player plugin for firefox x86_64 running on fc12 > > > > > Yes but I cant get it to work > Roger Have you exited and restarted firefox? If not, do so and then check about:plugins

Re: Bugzilla not reachable?

2010-04-28 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 07:30 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > Anybody has seen this when contacting bugzilla?: > -- > Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access / on this server. > > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was e

Re: Where is everything?

2010-05-02 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 14:16 -0400, terry wrote: > notice there is look in /etc/etc/etc/. or usr/root/where is it or > some such file. Is there a list that describes where all of this > knowledge is located to alleviate problems. Unless all distributions are > identical, 'get a good boo

looking for rpm/yum database utility

2011-06-03 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Is there a utility for either rpm or yum that can read its corresponding database and report which repo an installed package came from? --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: looking for rpm/yum database utility

2011-06-03 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 18:37 -0700, JD wrote: > On 06/03/11 18:25, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > Is there a utility for either rpm or yum that can read its corresponding > > database and report which repo an installed package came from? > > > > --Doc Savage

Re: recovering data after electricity failure (F12).

2011-06-10 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:49 +1000, Nermin Celik wrote: > Hello, > > I've F12 installed on my PC. > An electricity cut happened while running a program on the terminal > line. A general electricity cut nothing to do with PC hardware > failure. Hence PC restarted itself after electricity was back

Re: hostname issues

2011-09-03 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 19:28 -0300, Leonardo wrote: > hello everyone, > > i had to add the chosen name for my machine on /etc/hosts manually. > That name was chosen during installation. Such problem caused strange > bugs on jboss and glassfish, maybe others servers which relies to the > name machin

Re: system-config-display issue Fedora13 RC3

2010-07-25 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 23:40 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 20:37 -0500, David A. Paredes Rios wrote: > > Yes, unfortunately im having the same issue, now using the final > > version of fedora 13... the error is: > > Traceback (most recent c

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-27 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage > Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not > correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third > 1/3 of screen followed b

Re: Changing Forgotten Root Password

2010-07-30 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:18 -0400, binary...@comcast.net wrote: > Fedora 11, 12 > > Changing Forgotten Root Password. > > Starting computer and going into Single User Mode and deleting the "x" > in /etc/passwd and restarting computer and login as "root" and add new > root password, does that s

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-07-31 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 20:03 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > For now, I'm going to attempt an install of FC8. I know it is EOL, but > I need to have Linux installed on the system for another project. Maybe > I can update to FC13 this way? James, That may be a bridge too far. If you partition

Re: printer emits postscript

2010-08-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 11:27 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Since upgrading to Fedora 13, I've been unable to use my printer. > It keeps emitting postscript. > It's an HP Photosmart C3180 All in One (printer, scanner, copier). > I installed the printer using the GUI available through > localhost:

Re: printer emits postscript

2010-08-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 13:13 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > The printer is putting postscript-shaped ink onto the paper, > Usually, it blackens one line before going on to the next page. > The few legible lines are postscript. > I suppose that means the driver is emitting the wrong PS code. >

Re: printer emits postscript

2010-08-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 14:46 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Thanks. > The only actual option I remember was whether or not to specify a ppd file. > On my second attempt, I did so. > To be sure, I'll check when I get home. > We are discussing the GUI available through localhost:ipp_port, correct?

Re: Somewhat OT - can underpowered power supplies damage a system?

2010-08-18 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 00:27 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > Say, hypothetically, I have 8 identical Intel DG45ID motherboard-based > system with 8GB memory and a single drive with a cheap-o generic 300w > power supply. All running Linux, so sorta on-topic. > > Say those systems have been runni

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 19:27 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Mikkel wrote: > > > Can you post the output of "fdisk -l" with the drive plugged in? > > > The output of "fdisk -l" is (pen drive plugged in): > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 head

Re: Error reading pen drive

2010-08-18 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 09:18 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Parsha, > > Does running 'fdisk -l /dev/sdb' as root allow you to create and save > new partitions? Parsha, Very sorry. Leave out the '-l'. Should not hit the Send button just after the telephone

Re: VMWare and Fedora 13

2010-08-19 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Krosh, Chris is correct. One of the important library packages (I don't recall which) changed in F13 and VMware hasn't caught up. You'll be much better off choosing an alternative like VirtualBox. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 21:50 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: > Use t

Re: Recent Mirror Drain Bamage?

2010-08-19 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 21:53 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: > Is it just me, or are the Fedora 13 repos experiencing real problems > lately? I have to run yum upgrade as many as 10 times in a row to pull > down all the updates as I keep getting what amounts to transient 404 > errors (may/may not wor

Re: F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.

2010-08-22 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 14:06 -0700, JD wrote: > After bootup, (Run Level 5), I ran > System->Administration->Services > > I checked each service that was marked red (disabled). > For a few of these disabled services, status was shown to be running. > These services were: > > > akmods > capi > h

Re: F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.

2010-08-22 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote: > There is a problem with system-config-services. JD, I would have to agree. Time to BZ s-c-s. Fortunately chkconfig and ps give you independent confirmations that the unwanted services are not actually running, no matter what s-c-s may say. Good luc

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-08-22 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:07 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > James, > > > > My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video > > driver whenever installing Fedora. A couple of weeks ago I finally found > > the

Re: F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.

2010-08-23 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:53 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/22/2010 09:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote: > >> There is a problem with system-config-services. > > JD, > > > > I would have to agree. Time to BZ s-c-s. F

Re: F13: services marked as disabled, are shown to be running.

2010-08-23 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 09:22 -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/23/2010 08:15 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:53 -0700, JD wrote: > >> On 08/22/2010 09:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > >>> On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:52 -0700, JD wrote: > &g

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-08-23 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 18:05 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:07 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > > > >> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > >> > >>> James, > >>> > >>> M

Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install

2010-08-24 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 07:05 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > This particular system is not on the Internet. It was right were you said it > would be. Unfortunately, more is needed to get 1600x1200 working on this old > system. Vesa drivers work 'just' fine for what I'm going to be doing anyway

Re: error message during boot

2010-09-01 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 09:26 +1000, L wrote: > hi, > > my system is F13 2.6.34.6-47.fc13.i686. During boot, it generates many > lines of errors > they are all related to /etc/udev/rules.d/51-hso-udev.rules. I have > this file attached too. It doesn't hurt but annoy. > Is it safe to delete this rule

Re: FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

2010-09-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 12:09 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: > I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 > MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed > by an LVM volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV. > How can I 'safely' de

Re: FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

2010-09-13 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 15:27 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: > On 09/11/2010 08:52 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > Tod, > > > > Michael Chronenworth posted a simple solution to preupgrade's /boot > > space problem. He moved install.img (148MB) from /boot to

Adding a second IP address with NM

2010-09-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
How does one add a second, non-routable IP address to a laptop's Ethernet port with NetworkManager and F13? At one time I knew how to do this without NM, but a few key brain cells seem to have failed. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Adding a second IP address with NM

2010-09-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 12:41 -0700, JD wrote: > > On 09/14/2010 12:38 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > JD wrote: > >> > >> On 09/14/2010 10:51 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > >>> How does one add a second, non-routable IP address to a laptop's

Re: Unable to blank DVD+R R/W

2010-09-24 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 16:31 -0700, JD wrote: > Have HP DVD/RW (DVD+R) 16X. It is an orange colored back, and the -^--- > > recording surface is blue. > It was recorded using a windows software. > My DVD-R/W drive is an 8X drive for DVD write, 4x DVD Rewrite, and 24X > fo

Re: Unable to blank DVD+R R/W

2010-09-25 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 10:14 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi JD, > > On my box: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=/dev/zero > WARNING: /dev/sr0 already carries isofs! > About to execute 'builtin_dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0' > /dev/sr0: restarting DVD+RW format... > /dev/sr0:

Re: Cant format 1TB USB drive ?

2010-10-03 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 09:59 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 11:29 -0400, Peter A wrote: > > > What model drive is it? > > Western Digital Scorpion Blue WD10TPVT "Advanced Format Drive" This is one of those new drives with a native 4K block size. It uses firmware to emulate

Re: Is the download.fedora.redhat.com down?

2010-10-08 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 03:57 -0400, William Perkins wrote: > Is there a problem with the download.fedora.redhat.com system or is > it my problem? I have been using this FTP and HTTP server for Fedora > updates for quite awhile with no problems, but several days ago it > stopped accepting connectio

apmd rpm missing

2010-10-17 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
While comparing installed F13 rpms on a 32-bit laptop with a 64-bit laptop I found that apmd is not installed on the 64-bit machine. After trying to install it with yum I found that there are apmd rpms in Everything/i386 and Everything/source but not in Everything/x86_64. It's not just missing in m

Re: apmd rpm missing

2010-10-18 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 21:45 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > While comparing installed F13 rpms on a 32-bit laptop with a 64-bit > > laptop I found that apmd is not installed on the 64-bit machine. After > > trying to install it with yum I

Re: OpenOffice vs. LibreOffice

2010-10-18 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 23:34 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > 2010/10/18 Frank Cox : > > > > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:57 +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> Any suggestions which one to use? > > > > Did you read the LibreOffice download page, particularly the part where > > it says "T

Re: Trouble Installing Fedora 14 on VMware 7.1.3

2011-02-15 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 06:12 -0700, Chris Kottaridis wrote: > I have VMWorkstation 7.1.3 installed on my Windows 7 box and a Fedora > Core 14 box. When I try to create a VM machine and install Fedora 14 > X86_64 I get the following error: > > >The following problem occurred on line 65 of kickstart

Do I have libbigloo* drivers linked incorrectly?

2011-02-27 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Lately every time I update my system I see umpteen cycles of messages complaining about a group of files that are "not a symbolic link": /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libbigloosrfi27_es-3.4a.so is not a symbolic link /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libbigloocrypto_es-3.4a.so is not a symbolic link /sbin/ldcon

Re: Do I have libbigloo* drivers linked incorrectly?

2011-02-27 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 19:56 -0700, stan wrote: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:04:59 -0600 > "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" wrote: > > Each of these loops takes a noticeable amount of time -- especially on > > this old 32-bit system. Thirty-two iterations of this loop add > >

Re: How to change screen resolution

2011-03-05 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 18:37 +, Triadi Krisnawan wrote: > Dear Experts, > > My machine is using Fedora. The current resolution display is > 1024x768_60Hz and it shows flickerring every now and then. > I know that the max screen resolution can handle is 1280x1024_60Hz but > I cant change it by

RE: How to change screen resolution

2011-03-05 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 21:35 +, Triadi Krisnawan wrote: > Hi Doc, > > Thanks for the info. > I think I could take off the first posibility because it was working > fine before with higher resolution 4 weeks ago. But after I rebooted > the machine went to lower resolution (1024x768) and started

RE: How to change screen resolution

2011-03-08 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 15:44 +, Triadi Krisnawan wrote: > Hi gents, > > I've tried using gtf utility and copy the two lines to xorg.conf file > and tried restart the machine, no changes happened. > I've also tried to change the "_" with just a space and still not > working. > > I did notice th

Re: Adding new software on F15 beta

2011-04-22 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 17:00 -0400, fred smith wrote: > I don't seem to be able to find an "add new software" app on F15 beta,... > is it missing, or just hidden, or given a funny name? > > Thanks! Fred, Since F15 Beta is still under development, you should pose this question to the "other" list:

Re: Fedora server use on AMD64 platform (processor is AMD Phenom II X4 B55)

2011-05-09 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 13:10 -0700, Braja Kishore Chattaraj wrote: > I had a general question about the use of Fedora as a server on a > AMD64 platform (chip spec is on subject line). Could you please let me > know how to install Fedora as a server as there are no links on the > Fedora page for a se

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

2011-05-30 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 09:34 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > the Subject: yum update > > to recover try: > 1: boot from dvd\bootcd. > > rescue installed system > when ready: > > yum --releasever=15 distro-sync --skip-broken > Frank, Will this work on an old 32-bit Thinkpad that's maxed out with

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

2011-05-30 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 22:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 05/30/2011 09:44 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > Frank, > > > > Will this work on an old 32-bit Thinkpad that's maxed out with 512MB of > > RAM? Installing from DVD fails. > > You can try u

Ksplice doesn't quite eliminate rebooting

2010-10-24 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I installed Ksplice and its Uptrack Manager on my 32-bit and 64-bit F13 laptops about a month ago during the last big kernel vulnerability flap. My objective was to become more familiar with Ksplice before investing in it for several RHEL servers. Yesterday the Ksplice icon in the upper toolbar in

Re: hostname automatically changed to "localhost"

2010-11-02 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 00:08 +0700, Hoang Le wrote: > I'm using fedora 13, 64bit version > > > My host name automatically changed from "elitebook" which was my > desired name, to "localhost" > > > So now it shows, for example, "r...@localhost" instead of > "r...@elitebook". Please help me chang

Re: Re[4]: corrupted x32 Fedora 14 DVD

2010-11-09 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:58 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Yes, FTP would be the better choice to ensure file integrity. A decade > ago I was a fundamentalist and used to write every time I saw a large > program file linked on web servers over HTTP telling them to "create a > FTP server" and that

F14 disc labels

2010-11-10 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Someone went to a LOT of trouble creating CD and DVD label images for Fedora 14 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MediaArt/F14). Unfortunately the CD/DVD label blanks I use are Avery 5697. These appear to have the same dimensions as the WL-OL5075 template for OpenOffice.org (see http://www.wor

Re: F14 disc labels

2010-11-10 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Kam, I'll put together an e-mail. Thanks. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 20:02 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage > wrote: > Someone went to a LOT of trouble creating CD and DVD label >

Re: F14 disc labels

2010-11-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Fairview Heights, IL On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 22:33 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > Kam, > > I'll put together an e-mail. Thanks. > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL > > On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 20:02 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010

Re: RE:Fedora-14-i386-dvd.iso, file corrupted

2010-11-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 14:13 -0500, Vincent wrote: > Here is the result of the test. > > [vi...@vinny ~]$ cd Downloads > [vi...@vinny Downloads]$ cd Fedora-14-i386-DVD > [vi...@vinny Fedora-14-i386-DVD]$ sha256sum -c *CHECKSUM > Fedora-14-i386-DVD.iso: FAILED << > [snip] > sha256su

Re: Weather applet in the F14 gnome shell

2010-11-17 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 19:18 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'm checking out the Gnome shell, after switching from the regular Gnome > desktop. I can't seem to find the equivalent of the weather applet that I > have in my standard gnome desktop's panel. The Gnome shell, apparently, does > not us

Re: Which file and directory contains the host name?

2010-11-20 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 19:39 +0800, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > Which file and directory contains the host name (on an FC12 VPS)? > > Is it enough just to edit the domain name in that file or do I need to > do something else? > > TIA for any answer. :-) David, I think you are looking for

Menubar missing from F14 gnome-terminals

2010-11-21 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Something appears to be suppressing the [File Edit view Terminal Tabs Help] menubar in gnome-terminal on my Thinkpad laptop. The "show menubar" option is enabled/checked in both config-editor and in the popup menu that appears when you right click on the gnome-terminal's background. Is there some o

Re: Menubar missing from F14 gnome-terminals

2010-11-21 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 17:30 +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > 2010-11-21 16:39, Robert G. (Doc) Savage skrev: > > Something appears to be suppressing the [File Edit view Terminal Tabs > > Help] menubar in gnome-terminal on my Thinkpad laptop. The "show > > menubar" op

Re: Wine install on Fedora 14 x86_64?

2010-11-21 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 12:51 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > The Wine project is working diligently on implementing WOW64 and the > Windows64/32 thunking that is needed. I don't know what version of Wine > Fedora includes, but the current development version is 1.3.7. This > includes much of th

Re: Menubar missing from F14 gnome-terminals

2010-11-21 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 21:46 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 21/11/10 17:30, Jon Ingason wrote: > > 2010-11-21 16:39, Robert G. (Doc) Savage skrev: > >> Something appears to be suppressing the [File Edit view Terminal Tabs > >> Help] menubar in gnome-terminal on my

Re: Menubar missing from F14 gnome-terminals

2010-11-21 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 00:49 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 21/11/10 23:23, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > > > > Erik, > > > > Not quite. The "Show Menubar" checkbox is at the bottom of the right > > click popup menu, and as I indicated in my original

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