Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
f a way to restore the old behavior, I'd love to hear about it. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 11:36 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > Grub is a general purpose boot loader. It does not know how to check > if there is an OS hibernating. I should also add that if the BIOS > supports it, and Linux know how to use it, it will resume directly > from disk without Grub ever entering th

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
g as they each have their own separate swap partition. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
e time and I know better than to leave editor sessions with critical files half-edited when hibernating, and so forth, so if a hibernated image is lost, or if the system fails to resume from suspend properly (which occasionally happens), all I lose is some time in having to log back in, fire up al

Re: grub menu is automatically skipped

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
I want to switch to Windows, and *then* return to Linux in the same state. It is possible to do this, I have done it in the past and it is quite a time saver, --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 06:54 -0500, Brian Millett wrote: > iommu=soft > > will get it going. The newer kernels (2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64) Is this actually a 64-bit machine? So far I have not been able to get the x86+64 DVD to load. I get a blank screen right after the ISOLINUX title

Re: Unable to Verify Sun Microsystems' (Bought over by Oracle) Java 6 Update 21 Plugin in Firefox 4.0 Beta 3 in Fedora 11 x86_64 64-bit Linux Operating System

2010-08-24 Thread Greg Woods
ss of whether it is appropriate for the list you post to. That is spam, period. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-24 Thread Greg Woods
Fedora 13 with X to run properly on one of these things? Right now mine is a paperweight. I'd try Ubuntu but I have no reason to expect it would be any better; this doesn't really look like a Fedora-specific issue, although a workaround might be. --Greg -- users mailing lis

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-25 Thread Greg Woods
hat effect in Xorg.0.log). --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-26 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:51 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > I never have been able to get Fedora 13 to work. I did finally get it installed, and it was a convoluted process :-) My first problem was that I was using what I thought was an install DVD, but turned out to be a live DVD. Also, th

Re: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT

2010-08-26 Thread Greg Woods
ve had with this). So it must be a hardware-specific issue. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

gnome/metacity preferences

2010-08-26 Thread Greg Woods
ebody can point me to the menu I can't find, a config file that I can edit, or a package I am missing. Thanks, --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: htt

Re: gnome/metacity preferences

2010-08-26 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 12:44 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On 08/26/2010 12:24 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > What happened to what used to be under System -> Preferences -> Windows? > > Documented here: > > > > http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/2.27/prefs-

Re: Easier Dual Boot Install For Fedora 14?

2010-08-29 Thread Greg Woods
edora 13 working on my new laptop, I first booted the Ubuntu live CD, used gparted to shrink the Windows partition, then went on to install Fedora in the created free space. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

hibernate, then start Windows [SOLVED]

2010-08-31 Thread Greg Woods
it here any more). Then run: # grub [...] grub> root (hd0,1) grub> setup (hd0,1) This loads grub into the first sector of the Linux root partition, pointing at that partition and presenting the usual choice of kernels. This has worked great for me. I can now hibernate Linux, boot into Window

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-31 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 11:12 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:51 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > I never have been able to get Fedora 13 to work. > > I did finally get it installed, and it was a convoluted process :-) > > I say "mostly works" beca

Re: Hard disk trouble

2010-09-03 Thread Greg Woods
ke it is sdc, not sdb. What does "fdisk -l /dev/sdc" show? --greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

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

2010-09-03 Thread Greg Woods
sn't count against your quota. I would bet there are ways that chown could be exploited to gain access to another user's account too. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: kernel update breaks virtualbox

2010-09-22 Thread Greg Woods
ormal behavior of virtualbox. Did you try running "service vboxdrv setup"? That should cause it to build kernel modules for the running kernel. I have to do this every time I do a kernel update. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

[389-users] nsView problem

2010-09-23 Thread Procunier, Greg
Hello, I have tried creating test directory similar to the example given from Red Hat in this image: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.2/admin/html/images/virv iew3.png The goal was to have a nsViewFilter reach into the global user bucket (ou=People,dc=mgt,dc=ont,dc=srv) and popul

Desktop right-click menu

2010-09-24 Thread Greg Woods
#x27;t a good option. I also want the laptop screen to come up in its maximum resolution by default for the cases where it is NOT plugged in to an external monitor, so programming a low resolution that would be supported by any monitor is also not a good option. --Greg -- user

Re: Desktop right-click menu

2010-09-24 Thread Greg Woods
That works reasonably well, I didn't know about ALT-F2. Thanks for the tip. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: software RAID info

2010-10-02 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 17:44 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > Hi, > > > How do I interrogate the software RAID system, to get info like RAID > type and sizes. # cat /proc/mdstat # man mdadm --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: Fedora 13 install

2010-10-09 Thread Greg Bair
tioning procedure, but had nothing to do with it. HTH, -- Greg Bair -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Fedora 13 install

2010-10-09 Thread Greg Bair
ing the partitioning procedure, but had nothing to do with it. HTH, -- Greg Bair -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Bluetooth headset as mobile microphone

2010-10-10 Thread Greg Bair
m recommended distance between bluetooth nodes is ~30ft. As far as sound quality, yes, from my experience, the more you spend, the better the sound quality. Check reviews online first though. -- Greg Bair -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or chan

Re: Fedora Forum down?

2010-10-10 Thread Greg Bair
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:00 -0500, Dwight Paige wrote: > Since about 5 hours ago when I try to go here: > > http://fedoraforum.org/ or http://forums.fedoraforum.org/ > > I get an empty page in Firefox or Konqueror. > Any idea what's up? > This works > > http://fedoraproject.org/ > > -- > Thank

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

2010-10-12 Thread Greg Woods
alled the nVidia driver from rpmfusion packages. As for why X won't start: have you looked in the logs? /var/log/Xorg.0.log --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: Proprietary or open source NVidia drivers?

2010-10-13 Thread Greg Woods
date, but I don't have to wait for a third-party repository to produce an updated package. My comments are based on my own needs only, YMMV. In particular, since I use MythTV, I have to have VDPAU in order for playback of HD recordings to work. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: Evolution and GPG groups

2011-02-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 22:03 +, g wrote: > On 02/02/2011 06:35 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > I have a group declared in my gpg.conf file. I would like to be able to > > send mail to this group and have it encrypted with each member of the > > group's public key. > &

Re: Evolution and GPG groups

2011-02-03 Thread Greg Woods
ng for a way to do it within Evolution. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Booting to text mode

2011-02-05 Thread Greg Woods
a text login console even when the GUI is running. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: How to be notified if the battery of my notebook is low?

2011-02-09 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 09:06 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > If you don't already have the battery > icon, then run "gnome-power-preferences". You can get to this via System -> Preferences -> Power Management whether or not you have the battery icon already. --Greg -

DBUS, xhost, etc: remote control of amarok

2011-02-16 Thread Greg Woods
work. I am running Gnome and Amarok is a KDE app, so maybe there is some other KDE-related service that needs to be started? Anybody been able to make something like this work? --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

Re: DBUS, xhost, etc: remote control of amarok

2011-02-17 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 16:37 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:02:18 -0700 > Greg Woods wrote: > > > Anybody been able to make > > something like this work? > > I haven't tried it, but there will probably be an environment variable > name

Re: DBUS, xhost, etc: remote control of amarok

2011-02-18 Thread Greg Woods
or any TCP ports for that matter (generic Gnome installation under F14). So obviously, for me, setting DISPLAY is not going to matter. What do I have to do to get Xorg to listen on the display port? --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: xterm font issue

2011-02-27 Thread Greg Woods
And see what is the reply: no reply is: you don't have fonts! ...in which case you may need to install the xorg-x11-fonts-misc package. This is what I need in order to use the non-default font sizes from xterm. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: Virtual Box & Windows -

2011-03-22 Thread Greg Woods
create a new virtual machine and install Windows XP onto it from the CD, using your product key. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproj

Re: F14 yum update conflict

2011-04-08 Thread Greg Woods
ave flash-plugin from and it contains only Adobe packages. Those I can pretty much keep enabled without causing problems. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guideli

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-25 Thread Greg Woods
rogue" access points. Instead, just wait until some user in the vicinity files a ticket because "wireless is broken". This is primarily why rogue access points are forbidden at my workplace; it's not security paranoia, it's interference with the production wireless network th

Re: Anyone using a USB wireless dongle as access point on fedora?

2011-04-25 Thread Greg Woods
at the local coffee shop. It is up to them whether they want to take that risk. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: fc14->fc15 via preupgrade hangs during first boot

2011-05-27 Thread Greg Woods
t the video driver did not start. Try hitting CTRL-ALT-F3. If that produces a text console with a login prompt, then this is your problem. In particular, if you had been using the nvidia proprietary drivers, you will need to install it again for your new kernel. --Greg -- users

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

2011-05-29 Thread Greg Woods
Nvidia proprietary drivers. I have checked "enable 3D acceleration" in the Vbox settings for this VM. But Gnome 3 still starts in fallback mode. What else is needed to make this work? --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscriptio

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

2011-05-29 Thread Greg Woods
g about Vbox running with F15 as the host OS and an Ubuntu 11.04 guest running Gnome Shell. What I am trying to do (basically following those instructions) is to run an F15 guest with Vbox running on an F14 host desktop. That has not worked other than in fallback mode, even with "3D acceleration&

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

2011-05-29 Thread Greg Woods
to make me want to try it in a VM before it becomes my default desktop. If I end up deciding to switch to KDE, then I will probably do that before upgrading my main desktop to F15. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-30 Thread Greg Woods
OS to the text console. Probably some Vbox setting we have different. CTRL-Alt-Backspace can be sent to the guest from the Machine menu in Vbox. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailm

Re: Today's GNOME3 funny

2011-05-30 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 15:14 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > The way to get other VT's in Virtual Box is "right control"+"F" Thanks for the tip, works like a champ! --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

VirtualBox, USB, Droid & F12

2010-10-23 Thread Greg Woods
is still greyed out in VirtualBox. Is there any way to find out what it is that is claiming this device? That is the crucial first step to solving this problem. Thanks, --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fe

Re: VirtualBox, USB, Droid & F12

2010-10-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 21:18 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote: > your user has to be a member of the vboxusers > group or something like that in order for you to access USB correctly. Yep, that was it! Works great now! THANK YOU!! --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: End of life for FC12?

2010-11-25 Thread Greg Woods
on wife 1.0. ;-) > > > > > > > > > -- > > > I stay with things that work for me, I'm still on wife 1.0 > > > > > That's just too funny bro. > I laughed my butt off. http://www.indranet.com/potpourri/humor/girlfriend_upgrade.

how did I brea yum?

2010-12-01 Thread Greg Woods
tput looks normal up to that point). Anybody seen this before? This is an i686 machine (dual core Pentium 4) which I recently upgraded from 12->13->14, but I had done several updates before this started happening. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: how did I brea yum?

2010-12-01 Thread Greg Woods
an all", and this error occurs no matter which package I try to update (rdesktop is just one example). I went ahead and ran "yum clean packages" anyway and tried the update again, but it made no difference. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: how did I brea yum?

2010-12-01 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:52 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:35 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > > > > Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686 > > > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925: > > > cpio:

Re: how did I brea yum? [partially SOLVED]

2010-12-01 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:06 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:52 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:35 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > > > > > > Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686 > > > > error: unpac

Re: how did I brea yum? [SOLVED]

2010-12-01 Thread Greg Woods
that depends on qt (most of KDE), then manually reinstalled the KDE apps that I use (kdegames, amarok, k3b) which pulled in the necessary dependencies, and finally yum appears to be behaving normally. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: gnome-pm execute a command on resume

2010-12-07 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:51 +0100, François Patte wrote: > Where do I have to put this command if I want it executed automacally on > resume? /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject

Re: IPSEC tunnel error (timeout ?)

2010-12-14 Thread Greg Woods
ackets coming from the source computer? --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: IPSEC tunnel error (timeout ?)

2010-12-16 Thread Greg Woods
to the internals of IPSEC tunnels, you need to rule out more obvious things like firewalls and general network reachability. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guid

Re: Nautilus issues F14

2011-01-07 Thread Greg Woods
ide pane is not enabled unless I check the box for it. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Spamassassin behaving strangely

2011-01-14 Thread Greg Woods
and it works quite well on my CentOS 5 boxes. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Spamassassin behaving strangely

2011-01-14 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 23:09 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Greg Woods wrote: > > > Later versions of spamassassin for CentOS 5 can be obtained from the DAG > > repo (http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/) I installed version 3.3 from > > there and it works quite well on my Cen

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread Greg Woods
is why you are getting the permission error. Something like this might work better: $ sudo "echo 7 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI" --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Audacious

2011-01-28 Thread Greg Woods
an update: # yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-free* update audacious-plugins-freeworld-mp3 If you look carefully at the packages you list, you can see that the freeworld package is an older version than what you just updated "audacious" to. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Evolution and GPG groups

2011-02-02 Thread Greg Woods
.conf configurations like this: group 0x=0x group 0x=0x etc. and I want to be able to send to an address, and have it encrypt with both 0x and 0xYY. How do I map an address to GPG group 0x? --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: [Fedora] Re: Multiple Servers tied together

2010-01-14 Thread Greg Woods
ow the whole basketball of setting up Red Hat Cluster Suite (RHCS) as well. RHCS is open source too, but it is fairly complicated to set up and configure, and designed to do much more than just provide shared storage via GFS. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

WAV files in Evolution

2010-01-17 Thread Greg Woods
olution to do this by default when I click the Play button. I have been all through the Preferences menus in Evolution and the various System -> Preferences GNOME menus, but I can't find anywhere that I can change this. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: WAV files in Evolution

2010-01-17 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 09:06 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 14:00 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > > I am looking for a good, fast, clean way to play WAV files in > > Evolution. > > Near the top of the plugins list, on my Evolution, is an item for > playing audio fi

Re: WAV files in Evolution

2010-01-17 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 22:27 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > I found this in Edit -> Plugins, but it's already checked. This appears > to control whether or not the Play, Stop, Pause buttons appear with the > WAV attachment. The problem is that when I click the Play button, >

Re: mahjongg gone missing?

2010-01-31 Thread Greg Woods
simple "yum list *games*" turned it up for me. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

turning off bug-buddy

2010-02-03 Thread Greg Woods
, and since it's a third-party app, bug-buddy is useless anyway. When this happens, I have to go to one of the text consoles and issue a "killall bug-buddy" command to recover. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

Re: turning off bug-buddy

2010-02-04 Thread Greg Woods
o I think it is safe enough for now. It certainly wouldn't be worth upgrading just to address this issue. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fe

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-04 Thread Greg Woods
our #1 security headache. For all the reasons already documented in this thread, we are forced to use Adobe Reader, but it is riddled with actively exploited security holes. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: turning off bug-buddy

2010-02-04 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:50 +, Frank Murphy wrote: > > yum erase bug-buddy? I had considered the sledge hammer approach but I am concerned about what else might break if I do that. Perhaps I'll give it a try tonight. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: turning off bug-buddy

2010-02-04 Thread Greg Woods
nd where the startup apps are in F10 but didn't see anything relating to bug-buddy there. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorapro

Re: Stoopid script failure

2010-02-07 Thread Greg Woods
Now if you can just trick that sysadmin with . in root's search path into inspecting your home directory... # cd ~user # ls Now the user has an executable setuid root shell. Or trick any user with . in the search path into doing it and you can break into their account, find that nice juic

Re: no base sound on my 2.1 speakers

2014-01-06 Thread Greg Woods
sound card to get surround sound out of that box (or any sound at all from the SPDIF port). And the same thing happened with my older machine and it's motherboard, which is why I had that old PCI sound card in the first place. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Password for shutdown -

2014-01-19 Thread Greg Woods
red when other users are logged in. But it's my password rather than root's (presumably this because my account is set up as an admin). --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/l

Re: f20 - Suspend not working

2014-01-20 Thread Greg Woods
e and the display settings messed up. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedor

Re: Naughty question: copy Windows XP under Fedora?

2014-01-20 Thread Greg Woods
least this is what I have observed). This means you can make a backup copy of your XP partition to preserve the files, but it may not actually boot and run. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Gnucash vs. Kmymoney

2014-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
and vice versa, so that's not a show stopper in any case). --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-c

Re: Grub -

2014-02-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:55 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I would like to boot Fedora-20 from the Centos 6 grub. You will most likely have more success doing the opposite. The newer bootloader should be able to boot the older system, but the reverse is not necessarily true. --Greg -- us

Re: CentOS and Fedora as alternative OS's

2014-02-21 Thread Greg Woods
Windows and Fedora both support secure boot, but CentOS may not. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-condu

fedup failure

2014-03-23 Thread Greg Woods
ideas from those more familiar with the inner workings of fedup? Thanks, --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/co

Re: fedup failure [SOLVED]

2014-03-23 Thread Greg Woods
a the DVD is no longer an option, we're supposed to use fedup, then fedup didn't work. I should have thought of searching the bugzilla to see if this had already been reported. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: Good tutorial on setting up a grid/cluster using fedora

2014-04-02 Thread Greg Woods
ries to make this task easier, but it is never as simple as "OK, now execute this unmodified code five times as fast using five machines instead of one". How difficult it is to parallelize the code depends, as has already been said here, on the particular application to be parallelized.

Re: Good tutorial on setting up a grid/cluster using fedora

2014-04-03 Thread Greg Woods
ed with zero work. For our users, the investment of time in parallelizing code usually pays off, because this will help their big simulations run much faster, thus saving them time in the long run. We actually have a User Services section which employs people who specialize in helping users write a

Re: Fedora Scrolling Lag

2014-04-03 Thread Greg Woods
when you get to the graphical login screen, and click on your user, before entering the password you should have an opportunity to choose which desktop environment you want to log in to. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: ht

Re: Fedora Scrolling Lag

2014-04-03 Thread Greg Woods
um groupinstall "MATE Desktop") --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines

Re: Autofs startup

2014-04-18 Thread Greg Woods
tofs package installed, what you need to enable it is, configure your /etc/auto.master and any files it references (should be pretty much the same as before), then run # systemctl enable autofs; systemctl start autofs --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Moving Fedora system to new disk

2014-05-28 Thread Greg Woods
There must be a zillion ways to do this (rsync, cpio, even cp) so I'll throw in my personal favorite: # cd /old # tar --one-file-system -cf - . | (cd /new && tar xpf -) --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

Re: NFS browsing from Nautilus

2015-10-07 Thread Greg Woods
mlink /photos -> /server/photos . Then I can go to /photos in the file browser and that triggers the automount. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct

Re: Bluetooth woes (again)

2015-10-26 Thread Greg Woods
are not Bluetooth devices as far as your system is concerned, they are USB devices, so they would not need or use the system's Bluetooth driver. The Bluetooth driver is only needed if your system has a hardware Bluetooth device in it and you are using that to connect your peripherals. --Greg

Re: Bluetooth woes (again)

2015-10-26 Thread Greg Woods
erent than the devices I have experience with, that used Bluetooth to communicate with the dongle, but didn't require any Bluetooth software on the system, they showed up as USB devices. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscrip

Re: dnf errors on update

2015-12-15 Thread Greg Woods
I was getting the same thing, but it appears to be working now. --Greg On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Frank McCormick > wrote: > >> On 12/15/2015 01:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >>> On 12/15/2015 1

Re: rc-local - How to enable ???

2015-12-17 Thread Greg Woods
t the comments in the rc-local.service file have to say: # This unit gets pulled automatically into multi-user.target by # systemd-rc-local-generator if /etc/rc.d/rc.local is executable. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: rc-local - How to enable ???

2015-12-17 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:00 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > >> >> What executes > /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-rc-local-generator ? > Manually by the user or automagically by the system? > > "man systemd.generator" is enlightening: DESCRIPTION Generators are small binaries that live

Re: dnf system-upgrade fails with key verification

2015-12-18 Thread Greg Woods
arly some bugs in dnf system-upgrade where setting up the GPG keys isn't done correctly. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org

Re: F23 does not renew dhcp leases correctly and corrupts DDNS

2016-01-25 Thread Greg Woods
le in to the place declared in the "file" parameter for this zone in named.conf, then reload the DNS server. (I can't remember how to get a dump of the zone, but I remember doing it in the past. Since we have a very busy DHCP server at work, I always just use nsupdate(8

Re: Screen freezes on Fedora 23, new system

2016-01-25 Thread Greg Woods
t, or reboot. I'd love to know why this happens, but it's infrequent enough that I just do the "r" when it does. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listi

Re: Screen freezes on Fedora 23, new system

2016-01-25 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:55 AM, John Maheu wrote: > ALT-F2 and "r" did not work. Then although the symptoms are the same, you have a different issue than I do. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription o

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