Re: F31 upgrade non-starter

2019-11-08 Thread Simon
Hi, Run this command: journalctl -r Then search 'Failed to start System Upgrade using DNF' or 'system-upgrade'. Can you find any matching line? If so, you may also see some errors related to this issue. Fix that error should let you upgrade to F31. On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 8:41 AM Temlakos wrot

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

2018-02-23 Thread Andras Simon
2018-02-23 13:48 GMT+01:00, Temlakos : > Everyone: > > Firefox crippled most of its extensions beginning with Version 57. (Why > they borrowed technology from Google, I'll never know.) The developers > of the Video Download Helper responded by creating a Companion Application. > > I have tried inst

Re: How to install the new Video Download Helper Companion App and have Firefox recognize it

2018-03-05 Thread Andras Simon
2018-03-05 16:00 GMT+01:00, Temlakos : > On 03/05/2018 09:50 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/05/18 22:45, Temlakos wrote: >>> I've tried three times to download videos, and each time I'm getting a >>> fatal error: >>> "Name or service not known." How do I get past that? >> >> Do you think it is poss

Re: include unicode chars in TeX/LaTeX documents

2018-03-19 Thread Andras Simon
2018-03-19 17:01 GMT+01:00, Antonio Olivares : >On Monday, March 19, 2018, 10:04:26 AM CDT, François Patte > wrote: > > Le 19/03/2018 à 15:12, Antonio Olivares a écrit : >> Dear fellow fedora users, >> >> In including a soccer ball character in Unicode, I have found >> >> https://www.fileform

Re: include unicode chars in TeX/LaTeX documents

2018-03-19 Thread Andras Simon
2018-03-19 19:07 GMT+01:00, François Patte : > > Here is MWE: > > \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} > > \usepackage{fontspec} > \newfontfamily{\uni}{Unifont} > > \begin{document} > > {\uni% > \symbol{"26BD} > } > > \end{document} > > This suppose that you have the unifont.ttf installed on your

Re: include unicode chars in TeX/LaTeX documents

2018-03-19 Thread Andras Simon
2018-03-19 20:08 GMT+01:00, Antonio Olivares : > Thanks for helping me. I am close but I get error: [...] dnf install unifont-font (as root) will solve this problem. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: html to man page

2018-04-04 Thread Andras Simon
2018-04-04 13:53 GMT+02:00, Tim via users : > Allegedly, on or about 2 April 2018, Cameron Simpson sent: >> I have to say I've very -1 on anything that uses XML as a source >> format for human written content. It is massively hostile to >> authoring by hand. > > As I recall, it's meant to be human

Re: html to man page

2018-04-05 Thread Andras Simon
2018-04-05 0:29 GMT+02:00, Sam Varshavchik : > Andras Simon writes: [...] >> I can't resist recommending the late Erik Naggum's xml rant (one of >> many): >> >> https://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html >> >> To whet your appetite,

Re: Dependency failed for Suspend

2018-04-18 Thread Andras Simon
2018-04-18 8:58 GMT+02:00, Neal Becker : > Recently my system has been refusing to suspend. How can I debug? > (I've recently installed expressvpn, could this be the issue?) > Here's what the log says: > > Apr 18 02:30:01 nbecker2 systemd[1]: Started Suspend. > Apr 18 02:30:01 nbecker2 systemd[1]:

Re: Markdown viewer

2018-09-27 Thread Andras Simon
2018-09-27 19:34 GMT+02:00, stan : > On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:38:12 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> I'm not familiar with vim plugins, but I copied >> /usr/share/vim/vim81/syntax/markdown.vim to ~/.vim/plugin and fired up >> vim with a .md file. It didn't seem to do anything (i.e. I just see

Re: fc29 beta

2018-09-29 Thread Andras Simon
2018-09-29 10:18 GMT+02:00, John Pilkington : > On 29/09/18 08:55, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 15:46 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> On 9/28/18 3:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 11:48 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > I just upg

Re: Fedora 40 is available

2024-04-25 Thread Andras Simon
Le jeu. 25 avr. 2024 à 20:35, home user a écrit : > xv is maintained by a github group named "jasper-software". > The current release is v5.0.0, less than 3 months ago. > There was a significant enhancement almost a year ago to support "webp" > images. > > The web site for this xv is here: > "ht

Re: how to print via a usb to parallel cable

2010-05-11 Thread Simon Tierney
15. what release are you using? I am using F12 are you using cups for print manager? Yes what printer are you using? Samsung SCX-4216F (multifunction) is it listed in printer configs? No, I tried to configure it manually on LPD after it wasn't detected on the probe, but there is no machine spe

Re: quite unusable wifi

2010-02-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/19/10, Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano wrote: > Hi list, > i have an acer laptop running fedora 12 updated frequently and since > fedora 9 i can't really use my wifi as i want. Hi Pietro, The reason I'm responding is not because I know what causes your problems, but because I seem to have the sam

Re: Emacs has very large characters

2010-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/10, Vincent Onelli wrote: > Hello, > I installed emacs from software that comes with Fedora 12, the > characters are so large that makes unusable. Any body know how to > correct it to a standard font? First of all, you can Shift-LeftClick in emacs and chose another font. I don't how you c

Re: info about how much memory ramfs is using

2010-03-01 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/1/10, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Hello, > If I set a ramfs file system like this on a Fedora 12 system (but I think it > is the same in general): > > mkdir /ramfs > mount -t ramfs -o size=10m ramfs /ramfs > > I can see it via mount but not via df command. > [r...@tekkaman ~]# mount > ramfs on /

Re: Mail clients - which way forward?

2010-03-14 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/14/10, Tim wrote: > I recall Claws, or Sylpheed-Claws, being a GUI client name that was > bandied about a bit. But it's a long time since I went around trying > out different clients. I've persevered with Evolution being the *least* > *worst*, all things considered. Isn't mutt supposed to

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-17 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/17/10, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > There is one benefit (to me) to do an upgrade. That is because I often > add rpms to check things out and these bring in all dependencies. Even > if I remove these other rpms, I can not often keep track of all the > dependencies that have come in (and are not

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-17 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/17/10, Konstantin Svist wrote: > On 03/16/2010 01:41 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: >> How times have changed. It used to be that *NIX supporters put >> the output from uptime in their e-mails, some of which were >> years. It was a symbol of how stable the releases were, and >> how stable the machin

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-17 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/17/10, Hiisi wrote: > > --remove-with-leaves is dangerous option. It can erase a half of your > system. Be careful when using it! I hope it asks for confirmation. Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-17 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/17/10, Hiisi wrote: > 2010/3/17 Andras Simon : >> On 3/17/10, Hiisi wrote: >> >>> >>> --remove-with-leaves is dangerous option. It can erase a half of your >>> system. Be careful when using it! >> >> I hope it asks for confirmation. &g

Re: Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

2010-03-17 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/17/10, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Wednesday 17 March 2010 09:00:55 am Andras Simon wrote: >> [si...@localhost tmp]$ uptime >> 09:55:55 up 87 days, 22:58, 6 users, load average: 0.41, 0.39, 0.30 >> >> This is on an eee pc that is pm-suspended when not in use.

Re: Hibernate and OpenVPN

2010-03-21 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/22/10, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > With all the kernels that I've tried under both F10 and and F11, I > have been unable to get the network to function after coming out of > hibernation. No amount of monkeying with ifconfig or restarting > /etc/init.d/network will fix it. I finally g

Re: miro 3.0 rpm

2010-03-29 Thread Simon Wesp
Am Montag, den 29.03.2010, 00:02 -0400 schrieb oleksandr korneta: > when can we expect the update in fedora? when the maintainer(s) decided to provide an update! > I'm running F12 x86_64, should this matter. Nobody cares! -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus dem schönen Hainzell Simon

printing from usb to parallel converter

2010-05-08 Thread Simon Tierney
I am trying to print to the parallel port on a printer via one of these devices and the printer is not recognized when I probe for it using system-config-printer. Can anyone advise me how to configure this please? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

how to print via a usb to parallel cable

2010-05-10 Thread Simon Tierney
I am trying to print to the parallel port on a printer via one of these cables, which plugs to the usb port on the computer and and the parallell port on the printer. The printer is not recognized when I probe for it using system-config-printer. Does anyone know a way how to configure this ple

Re: Why F15 has up to 50% worse disk performance than Ubuntu ?

2011-06-07 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/7/11, JB wrote: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora15_v_ubuntu1104&num=1 I find the following remark in this article much more worrisome: "Running LAME would lock-up Fedora 15 each time on Fedora 15 for the Sandy Bridge notebook" Andras -- users mailing list user

Re: Adieu, Fedora

2011-06-12 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/13/11, Patrick Bartek wrote: [...] > Considered XFCE and LXDE instead, but > decided the best option was to abandon the Desktop GUI environment > all-together in favor of a well-featured window manager, simple launch bar > for most used apps, floating menus for the others, and a terminal or

Re: Saving Youtube Videos in Fedora

2011-06-14 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/15/11, james tate wrote: > At one time Youtube videos were being temp. downloaded while playing to > the /tmp directory where you could save from, but now it seems that is > no longer the case. > > Where are they being temp. downloaded to in Fedora now ? No idea, but if you want to save them

Re: F15 fails to suspend/hibernate on Thinkpad W510+

2011-06-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/24/11, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > Whenever I try to put my laptop into either suspend or hibernate mode > (i.e., close the lid when not plugged in) the laptop _seems_ to be > trying to go to sleep but never quite gets there. The battery light > stays on, the sleep light (crescent moon) light b

Re: F15 fails to suspend/hibernate on Thinkpad W510+

2011-06-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/24/11, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > Here's what I get: > > (mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:~)$ pm-is-supported --suspend > (mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:~)$ echo $? > 0 > (mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:~)$ pm-is-supported --hibernate > (mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:~)$ echo $? > 0 > (mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:~)$

Re: F15 fails to suspend/hibernate on Thinkpad W510+

2011-06-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/24/11, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > sudo pm-suspend :: > resulted in the laptop getting hosed and required a hard restart. > > sudo pm-hibernate :: > the laptop seemed to hibernate, but when I started it it bypassed grub > but I was no longer logged in; i.e., it acted as if it had just shut

Re: How to enable CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE

2011-07-06 Thread Andras Simon
On 7/5/11, Reindl Harald wrote: > in the newest release the shortcut for restart X11 is disabled > and i hate it because if X11 drives crazy it is really useful > and where i work nobody kills my X11 if he won't killed self > > i guess the following config-file does this disable but > the comment

Re: Flash Video clips -

2011-07-22 Thread Andras Simon
2011/7/22, Fernando Cassia : > > Flv (FLash Video) was meant to be played with a Flash based player, inside a > browser. So it´s not a common codec to be played stand-alone. True, but mplayer has no problem playing it. Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Flash for F-15 -

2011-07-31 Thread Andras Simon
2011/7/31, Bob Goodwin : > > > I have a new installation of F-15 and have been messing around here > for an hour but can't seem to install Flash. I need it to download > some crossword puzzles I work every day. > > Can someone point me to installation instructions that will work? h

Re: html on Fedora -- looking for "where to go"

2011-08-08 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/8, Paul Allen Newell : > Community: > > I have @330 htm pages that display wonderfully on Win XP under 4.01 > Strict. No errors per w3C validator. > > They won't even come close to proper display on Fedora 14. I can get > them validated successfully on F14 through w3c Validator, but I am > s

Re: binary file not running

2011-08-10 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/11, shailesh : [...] > [tommy@tommy cprog]$ gcc hello.c > [tommy@tommy cprog]$ ./a.out > bash:  ./a.out : Permission denied chmod u+x a.out before trying to run it. Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fe

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/12, Bob Goodwin : > I have a .pdf file I need to convert to text in order to use > Google translate on it. I tried copy/paste but it won't copy > from a .pdf. > > I don't care about format just need to translate with fair > accuracy from the French. >

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/13, Cameron Simpson : [...] > Personally I use pdftohtml to convert PDFs (then an HTML-to-text > pipeline on the end of that). Possibly pdftotext does exactly that > anyway. Of course it achieves nothing for me if the PDF is a scan. Unless it has an OCR layer. Andras -- users mailing li

what triggers wakeup from suspend?

2011-08-17 Thread Andras Simon
And, more importantly, how to change it. I have two types of netbooks (an Asus Eee 701, and an Acer Aspire One), both running F14. The Acer can be woken up by pressing any key on the keyboard; on the Eee, I have to push the Power button. Since that button seems to be dying, I'd like to be able to

Re: what triggers wakeup from suspend?

2011-08-17 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/17, Chris Adams : > Once upon a time, Andras Simon said: >> I have two types of netbooks (an Asus Eee 701, and an Acer Aspire >> One), both running F14. The Acer can be woken up by pressing any key >> on the keyboard; on the Eee, I have to push the Power button. Since

Re: Mistakes & Lies F15

2011-08-20 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/20, Lars Eighner : [...] > > (Previously: > > yes, yum will install wvdial, which is not installed with the GUI install, It is, if you want it to be. > but as I have mentioned, yum will not run unless the fedora and update repos > are disabled because (says yum) their .xml files do not hav

Re: Progress and advice so far

2011-08-20 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/20, Lars Eighner : [...] > I've done 4 or 5 various installs today, and at least one of them did not > include 'which' - perhaps it was the minimal one. Apropos seemed to work in > all of them but was not very helpful. locate has been the most helpful so > far. If you know part of the na

Re: emacs won't start unless I speciffy font

2011-08-21 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/22, Martín Marqués : > I'm trying to start emacs on a fresh F15 install and I get this: > > > $ emacs > Font `8x13' is not defined > > The only posible thing I found is to use --font to specify another font. > > Any ideas on why this happens? Perhaps ~/.Xdefaults tries to set the font to a

Re: emacs won't start unless I speciffy font

2011-08-22 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/22, Martín Marqués : > One thought: Why isn't xorg-x11-fonts-misc a requirement for emacs, as > it doesn't start without it? Else, emacs default configuration should > change to some font which is installed by default. I for one is happy that xorg-x11-fonts-misc is not a requirement (after

Re: Can keys off the numpad be configured for different functions based on NumLock?

2011-08-26 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/26, Dotan Cohen : > I would like to configure some keys to have dual functions, such as > hjkl for the arrows and sdf for cut/copy/paste. Can the alphanumeric > keys be configured for different functions based on NumLock on/off? If you mean the numeric keypad, then probably yes, but I have

Re: umount external devices

2011-08-27 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/27, François Patte : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bonjour, > > If I plug an usb HD with multiple partitions on it, I can see onmy desk > as many icons as the number of partitions. > > If I ask to unmount one of them (right click on the icon and using the > menu "ejec

Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...

2011-09-02 Thread Andras Simon
2011/9/2, Alan Cox : > No easy answers but there is a free market, and weaker solutions go away > (amazingly fast some times - fvwm went from hero to zero in a few years > for example) I assume you meant "fvwm became stable" :-) Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: how to install glabel

2011-09-03 Thread Andras Simon
2011/9/3, Vinny Onelli : > Hello, > I downloaded glabel but I was not able to install. > ./configure went through OK > make: returned "no targets specified end no makefile found > there is makefile.am and makefile.in. what am I doing wrong? If it's really glabel that you want, then at the very le

Re: Verbose systemctl start network.serivce

2011-09-07 Thread Andras Simon
2011/9/7, Tom Horsley : > P.S. I kind of like systemd, despite all the problems, > it has one really good reason to use it: It boots (my > machine, anyway) a lot faster. I have parts on order > for an upgrade I should be able to build this weekend, > and I can't wait to see how fast it boots with

Re: Fedora 15 nm-applet missing on XFCE toolbar

2011-09-08 Thread Andras Simon
2011/9/8, Terry Polzin : > I just fresh installed F15 with XFCE as the window manager. > > I can't seem to find a way to add nm-applet to my toolbar, ps -ef shows > the nm-applet is running any ideas why it doesn't show? Here it's shown in the 'Notification Area'. If you don't have that, right cli

Re: BookMarks.html

2011-09-28 Thread Andras Simon
2011/9/28, mickey : > On 09/28/2011 02:12 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:51:04 -0400 >> mickey wrote: >> >>> Where is the Bookmarks.html in Firefox-6 ? >>> >>> They are no longer in Firefox default directory . >> They are also no longer in Bookmarks.html. The places.sqlite >> file

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Andras Simon
On 8/18/10, 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 does not need to h

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Andras Simon
On 8/18/10, James Mckenzie wrote: > Andras Simon wrote: >>I'm not sure what you mean by "need", but Fedora will run without a >>swap partition. >> > It will, that is true, but from my UNIX training, it is always a good idea > to have a swap partition

Re: adobe flash 0-day

2010-09-15 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/15/10, JD wrote: > > > On 09/15/2010 10:30 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> I do recall using mplayer to play youtube *.flv videos at one point but >> it was a real pain in the neck to dig the obfusciated video url out of >> the javascript in order to download the *.flv file. > > You can

Re: selective command history

2010-09-17 Thread Simon Andrews
nteractive command history, > but without it my shell history file gets cluttered with all these day > to day commands. Set HISTIGNORE to 'ignorespace' and prefix any commands you want to ignore with a space. Simon. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: FC12 forcing hard reboot

2010-09-18 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/11/10, Frank Elsner wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:23:36 -0700 Michael Miles wrote: >> Tod Thomas wrote: >> > I yum upgraded to FC12 recently and now my machine is locking up hard a >> > couple of times a day. I've upgrade two other boxes similarly and they >> > haven't had this problem. I

Re: FC12 forcing hard reboot

2010-09-18 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/19/10, Robert Myers wrote: >> I've had this happening since I installed F13. Of course it might be >> the consequence of a different problem. >> > > Is it the box or the display interface that locks up? I had a recent > fc13 freeze (on which I tentatively blame firefox) that wouldn't allow

Re: FC12 forcing hard reboot

2010-09-19 Thread Andras Simon
On 9/19/10, Michael Miles wrote: > I had the exact same problem , it would lockup about 3 times a day but > it cleared after the last update for F12 > Not one lockup since > > Make sure you are completely up to date Usually I'm a little behind in some respects (e.g. kernel-wise) because I only e

NFS Buffering

2010-09-28 Thread Simon Andrews
sh the buffer (there is a process called nfsiod which is active during this time and df shows data is still being written). Does anyone know how to either make this buffer smaller, or get rid of it all together so the scp can accruately report on its progress? Thanks Simon. -- user

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-29 Thread Simon Andrews
On 29/09/2010 03:19, JD wrote: > > >> mailto:simon.andr...@bbsrc.ac.uk>> wrote: >> The problem is that after scp reports that it's 100% complete the >> program will hang for ~20 mins before it will move on to another file. >> At this point it can't be

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-29 Thread Simon Andrews
On 29/09/2010 09:55, JB wrote: > Simon Andrews bbsrc.ac.uk> writes: > Hi Simon, > > you know, we are Linux users from Missouri USA here ... > Can you tell us what system your nfs server is installed on, how its exported > nfs shares are configured ? > Then we can

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-29 Thread Simon Andrews
On 29/09/2010 12:19, JB wrote: > Simon Andrews bbsrc.ac.uk> writes: > >> ... > > Hi, > thanks. > >> It looks like the nfs daemon is caching write data (around 2GB of it) >> which lets scp think its finished when actually there's loads of data &

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-29 Thread Simon Andrews
On 29/09/2010 14:12, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 28/09/10 22:07, Simon Andrews wrote: > >> Does anyone know how to either make this buffer smaller, or get rid of >> it all together so the scp can accruately report on its progress? > > You could try adjusting /proc/sys/vm/dirty_

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-30 Thread Simon Andrews
On 29/09/2010 16:27, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 29/09/10 22:51, Simon Andrews wrote: > >> That sounds like it might be an answer. It's a shame there's no way to >> specify this per-process, but this machine does have quite a bit of RAM >> in it, so having this spec

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-30 Thread Simon Andrews
On 29/09/2010 20:09, JB wrote: >> Thanks. >> Could you please give us (on Fedora 13) an unedited output of: > # cat /etc/mtab > # cat /proc/mounts remote.server.name:/vol/ftp/ftp-1 /mnt/remote nfs rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mou

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-09-30 Thread Simon Andrews
On 30/09/2010 01:21, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Simon Andrews writes: >> Does anyone know how to either make this buffer smaller, or get rid of >> it all together so the scp can accruately report on its progress? > > Why not cut to the chase and run scp to the rem

Re: yum erase the best way to do reverse dependency checking?

2011-02-23 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/23/11, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 02/20/2011 08:04 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> I was googling for a way to figure out a dependency chain for a >> package I'm trying to flush out a spec file for and build. There >> doesn't seem to be a non-destructive equivalent to "yum erase >> " to see if I

random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. Now I upgraded to Fedora 14, and this has only got worse: before, uptimes could be anything between 3 minutes and a month, now it's a few hours at most. I never found anything interesting in the

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:21 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >> My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when >> I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. > (snip) > > A bit more information would help us make some useful sugge

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, agraham wrote: > On 02/26/2011 05:33 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:21 +0100, Andras Simon wrote: >>> My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when >>> I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it. >> (snip) >>

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Heinz Diehl wrote: > Most likely, this is some kind of hardware failure. I have fixed many > machines which passed memtest over a period of more than 3 days by > changing the memory modules. A BIOS bug, an overheated chipset and/or > CPU, faulty memory or simply a chip on your mainboa

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 20:02:26 +0100, > Andras Simon wrote: >> >> The crashes seem to happen more frequently when I'm doing something >> interactively (even if it's just browsing, running yum). This morning >> i

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I have a similar problem and a FC13 and on a FC14 machines. > It seems to be due to the screensaver. I see nothing here that would point in that direction. Of course, you never know... Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, JB wrote: > Get familiar with this: > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-server-predicting-hardware-failure.html Thanks, but as I said earlier, mcelog reported nothing. Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Joe Zeff wrote: > If the OP has an nVidia card and is using their drivers (either directly > or through kmod-nvidia) and has the screensaver set to random, it's a I'm using the nouveau driver and no screensaver. > possibility. Several years ago I had the same issue and found, by >

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, Gabriel Ramirez wrote: > On 02/26/2011 01:35 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >> Well, yes, it can be a hardware failure, but then it's a rather >> strange coincidence that the crashes started happening immediately >> after upgrading to F13 (from F10). Beside

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/26/11, JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > >> ... > > # yum install mcelog > > # cat /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron > so, of interest is /var/log/mcelog . > > # cat /usr/share/doc/mcelog-.../README > so, make sure /dev/mcelog is created . > > # man mcelog > DESCRIPTION > > > NOTE: > ... >

Re: random crashes

2011-02-26 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/27/11, Tom Horsley wrote: >> Well, yes, it can be a hardware failure, but then it's a >>rather strange coincidence that the crashes started >>happening immediately > > Don't you know that hardware always waits till new software > is installed before it breaks? :-). No, I thought it always wa

Re: random crashes

2011-02-27 Thread Andras Simon
On 2/27/11, Patrick Bartek wrote: > TO: OP > > If you think it's specifically a Fedora problem (I don't), I would install Me neither. It's just that I still think it's possible that it's not a HW problem. > (a real dual boot install--not a LiveCD) distro other than Fedora that has > the same ve

Re: when leaving startx

2011-03-25 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/25/11, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > When I leave the X session, how can I execute a shell command ? If you start it with startx, as the subject seems to suggest, then you could do startx ; your_shell_command or startx && your_shell_command and then your shell command will not be exe

Re: Virtual Box & Windows -

2011-03-28 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/28/11, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I managed to create a grub.conf that works [a minor miracle]. > However I am interested in this. > > I don't see the "map" option in man grub? > > Info grub is hard to deal with, copied it to info.txt which > produces 73 p

Re: Ubuntu Was Re: Linux on ARM tablets?

2011-03-28 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/28/11, Fernando Cassia wrote: > In which way can porting Fedora/RH to run on tables contributes to > MAKING A LOSS or NOT generating a profit?. By having to pay people, infrastructure, whatever. > In fact, having people talk about your brand/name creates mindshare, > and thus indirectly bo

Re: Ubuntu Was Re: Linux on ARM tablets?

2011-03-29 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/29/11, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Andras Simon wrote: >> Or not. People who make decisions in IT departments on which OS to run >> on their servers are hopefully not basing those decisions on who's >> supplying the OS for their gadge

Re: Ubuntu Was Re: Linux on ARM tablets?

2011-03-29 Thread Andras Simon
On 3/29/11, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Andras Simon wrote: >> Have you checked the financial health of Novell and Red Hat recently? >> I'm not sure Red Hat would like to be anywhere near where Novell is... > > Andras, you must have read

Re: OpenOffice and PDF

2011-04-16 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/16/11, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 18:33 -0700, JD wrote: >> Any other pdf editors available that are quick and work? > > Well there is good news and bad news. The program xournal can edit pdf > files. But the bad news is that xournal is needed to read the file. You can exp

Re: When an Application is installed using "yum install", How to find out the Directory structure into which it was installed?

2011-04-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/24/11, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: > In Windows the set-up displays the the directory into which an > application was installed and most of the installation instructions > display the Directory structure into which the Application ultimately > gets installed.But How to Find the Linux or Fedora

Re: When an Application is installed using "yum install", How to find out the Directory structure into which it was installed?

2011-04-24 Thread Andras Simon
On 4/24/11, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Varuna Seneviratna writes: > >> In Windows the set-up displays the the directory into which an >> application was installed and most of the installation instructions >> display the Directory structure into which the Application ultimately >> gets installed.But

Re: How to save .swf video -

2011-05-23 Thread Andras Simon
On 5/23/11, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Well maybe I'm doing this wrong. Here's the original link. It's > quite an interesting video [to me] something I have wondered about > but leaves more questions of course. > > http://www.northernoil.com/drilling.php wget http://www.northernoil

Re: How to save .swf video -

2011-05-23 Thread Andras Simon
On 5/23/11, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Yes, that's the answer. I guess I need that plug-in unless there's a > logical way I can find it from the command line? I don't think there is. But what do I know... > I saved that clip, but of course they come along at times and I > would like t

creating cgroup hierarchy

2010-10-27 Thread Simon Brandner
l tutorials mention a hierarchy or subgroups would be possible, but in none it was descibed how to manage this. Could this feature be disabled in the kernel or somewhere else? My active Kernel version is: 26.34.7-61.fc13.i686 Regards, Simon -- Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wi

Re: creating cgroup hierarchy

2010-11-02 Thread Simon Brandner
feature have been intentionally disabled in the more recent Kernel version or fedora? Regards, Simon -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 €/mtl.! Jetzt auch mit gratis Notebook-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: creating cgroup hierarchy

2010-11-09 Thread Simon Brandner
. In Ubuntu everything worked fine, because the blocking module was not yet integrated into the kernel.. Mounting with options like cpu,memory,cpuset subdirectories work like a charm. Regards, Simon -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 €/mtl.! Jetzt auch mit gratis Notebook-Flat! http://por

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-10 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/10/10, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I'm not running a server with the need for up-to-date security, but a > personal desktop that has more that sufficient security. After 10 years of > using various versions of Linux, I've yet to be infected or hacked. So, I > must be doing something right. I

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-10 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/10/10, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon wrote: > > >> On 11/10/10, Patrick Bartek >> wrote: >> >> > I'm not running a server with the need for up-to-date >> security, but a >> > personal desktop that

Re: Background task to download FC14 isos

2010-11-10 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/10/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > In the past I have always gotten on the terminal of a server and > executed a script that did a bunch of wgets to get the CD isos for a > release. > > Well I want to grab the FC14 isos, and I am not home for a few days. I > can't do it in a SSH session to a

Re: Background task to download FC14 isos

2010-11-10 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/10/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > # man screen > No manual entry for screen. > > What do I have to install > screen (# yum install screen) Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Never Hacked or Infected--Yet (Was: Re: End of life for FC12?)

2010-11-11 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/11/10, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon wrote: > >> >> [snip] >> >> How do you know you haven't been infected or >> hacked? >> >> (I don't doubt that you do, just curious about >> how.) >&g

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-11 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/11/10, Richard Shaw wrote: > I don't know that the older 700 series are upgradeable. They are. I have one 701 with 4G SSD with F11 on it, and another with F12. Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Background task to download FC14 isos

2010-11-12 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/12/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So I tried: > > wget -b -nv -r -l1 --no-parent -nH --cut-dirs=6 -A "disc?.iso" > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/ > > and this only got the index.txt file > > So I am trying to figure out the right format for the -A option... In

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