Re: Can't get amarok to play mp3's via GStreamer backend

2016-03-14 Thread Greg Woods
se-0.10.36-13.fc23.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-28.fc23.x86_64 Looks like I have a few more gstreamer1-plugins than you do, but I don't know if that's it. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://

Re: init 5 from single user mode fails

2016-03-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:37 AM, jd1008 wrote: > think I will soon have to change the OS'es on my machines. Good luck with that. Even Debian has gone to systemd. It will be increasingly hard to run any kind of modern Linux distro while avoiding systemd. --Greg -- users mailing li

network printing broken

2016-03-20 Thread Greg Woods
ave no idea what to look for). One odd thing is that the printer name is "EPSON" (upper case). I don't know if that's important or not. Thanks, --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.o

Re: OT: Suspend/restore and USB devices

2016-04-01 Thread Greg Woods
B device, you might be able to disable that in BIOS/UEFI. --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: ht

Re: OT: Suspend/restore and USB devices

2016-04-01 Thread Greg Woods
h, but nothing really worked. So I will be interested to hear if you find an answer for this. --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://fedor

Re: Windows 10 virt-manager access Samba server

2016-04-13 Thread Greg Woods
the same IP, which may confuse things. If the VM has its own independent IP and MAC addresses, then ignore this. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fed

Re: gmail thought it was spam

2016-04-16 Thread Greg Woods
ure out who's right and who's wrong here, but the bottom line is that it is hard to receive mail from Yahoo users on Gmail. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedorap

Re: Minimizing downloads for multiple dnf system-upgrades

2016-06-24 Thread Greg Woods
A related question: is there any way to tell "dnf system-upgrade" to download packages from a local repo (either http or file) rather than going out to the net? I already have the big local repo and I'd rather not download everything again. --Greg On Wed, Jun 22, 2016

Re: [OT] Tim, Gil, et. al. (e-mail address settings)

2016-07-01 Thread Greg Woods
letely avoid the need to look in your spam folder for false positives. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraprojec

Re: [OT] Tim, Gil, et. al. (e-mail address settings)

2016-07-01 Thread Greg Woods
ever send to spam" means you are relying on the server for the mailing list to do the spam filtering. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of C

2 of 4 systems messed up after dnf system-upgrade

2016-07-03 Thread Greg Woods
-1.6.0-1.fc23.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-6.fc23.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# Here, dnf fails to even list packages that "rpm -q" shows are already on the system that should match the pattern. Anybody seen this or have a clue what I can do other than a full reinstall? Thanks,

Re: 2 of 4 systems messed up after dnf system-upgrade

2016-07-05 Thread Greg Woods
27;: No such file or directory [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf install cups-filters Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:48 ago on Tue Jul 5 16:45:38 2016. No package cups-filters available. Error: Unable to find a match. [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# --Greg On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Samuel S

Re: 2 of 4 systems messed up after dnf system-upgrade

2016-07-05 Thread Greg Woods
dates-testing-debuginfo Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Test > Updates De disabled > updates-testing-source Fedora 24 - Test Updates > Source disabled > > The other system that is messed up looks the same except that it doesn't have Steam on i

Re: 2 of 4 systems messed up after dnf system-upgrade

2016-07-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 07/04/16 07:23, Greg Woods wrote: > > I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different > hardware) from > > F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be > badly m

Re: 2 of 4 systems messed up after dnf system-upgrade

2016-07-07 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > On 07/04/16 07:23, Greg Woods wrote: > > I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different > hardware) from > > F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be > badly messed

Re: 2 of 4 systems messed up after dnf system-upgrade

2016-07-07 Thread Greg Woods
dnf.conf file to begin with. Thanks to everyone who helped with this issue. Note to self: remove excludes from dnf.conf before doing a system-upgrade --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users

gnucash check printing in F24

2016-07-22 Thread Greg Woods
yal pain and I'd like to solve this. If anyone has any ideas, I would be grateful. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: ht

Re: gnucash check printing in F24 [WORKAROUND]

2016-07-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > The check format I am using is "wallet checks". There are three checks to > a page and a blank area at the bottom, like this: > > check 1 > check 2 > check 3 > blank > > In F24, they come out wit

Re: WiFi conflicting with Bluetooth

2016-07-26 Thread Greg Woods
akes about 5 times longer to back up my laptop over WiFi than over a gigabit wired link. In *theory* WiFi links can be very fast, but in practice they almost never are anywhere close to gigabit speeds. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscript

Re: something messing up USB recently?

2016-08-13 Thread Greg Woods
a reboot seems to fix this (if anybody knows what daemon could be restarted to avoid a reboot, I'd love to hear). --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org F

Re: lirc on fedora?

2016-08-25 Thread Greg Woods
due to other configuration mistakes by me. All I know is the problem went away when I "downgraded" lirc. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: F24: waking up from hibernate no longer wakes nm-applet (however existing connection works fine)

2016-08-31 Thread Greg Woods
ve one to kill all my ssh sessions; I am a server administrator by trade, so I usually have several ssh sessions to different hosts open, and if I don't kill the ssh before hibernate, I wind up with a bunch of hung windows on resume that I then have to close manually. --Greg -- users mail

Re: Google calendar API limit

2016-09-16 Thread Greg Woods
to use an IMAP client, since there are Gmail-specific apps that generally work quite well). --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Google calendar API limit

2016-09-17 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 08:59 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > > Google is actively trying to discourage IMAP use. I have heard reports > that > > they deliberately have it fail randomly to aid in this. > &g

Re: Boot normally, but give me a root shell

2016-10-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Tim wrote: > The old run level one (whatever they call it, these days), was a basic, > isolated from the network, text-only, login. > It still is, except that it requires "Give root password" before you can get a shell, at least in a vani

Re: Boot normally, but give me a root shell

2016-10-08 Thread Greg Woods
most likely boot from a rescue CD and get full access anyway. Even locked-down BIOS configurations can be bypassed by replacing the BIOS chip or just making off with the hard drive (of course those require a much more determined attacker and the latt

Re: Botched fedup F23 -> F24 with nvidia

2016-11-03 Thread Greg Woods
stall clean. I just finished doing that yesterday. --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Botched fedup F23 -> F24 with nvidia

2016-11-07 Thread Greg Woods
n't work. The way I have fixed it is just "dnf remove *nvidia*" and then reinstall the nvidia packages I need from scratch. --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Epson XP-332

2016-11-24 Thread Greg Woods
keep dnf from replacing the Epson-downloaded driver with the Fedora-packaged one on each update. --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Install Woes with F25

2016-12-04 Thread Greg Woods
quot; and run it that way. That's how I shrank the Dell-provided Windoze partition on my new work laptop to make room for Linux without trashing Windoze. --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Recovering lost root password by editing shadow

2016-12-16 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > vi shadow > (delete all the characters between the first and second :) > You might need to do the same with /etc/passwd too. --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproje

graphical startup hangs on plymouth

2017-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
related, other than the messages from the plymouth-quit-wait service. When the runlevel is 3, the service does exit successfully: -- The start-up result is done. Needless to say, when booting straight to graphics mode, this message doesn't appear in the journal. Thanks, --Greg __

Re: graphical startup hangs on plymouth

2017-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
th the counter that never stops. This thread does make me think about checking out what the plymouth-quit service is actually supposed to be doing. I have a pretty busy weekend coming up, so it probably won't be until sometime next week that I have time to look at this. Thanks for the sug

Re: graphical startup hangs on plymouth

2017-01-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > This thread does make me think about checking out what the plymouth-quit > service is actually supposed to be doing. All it really does is "plymouth --wait", which doesn't help unless the details of how Plymouth works

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Greg Woods
s 7) under KVM on Fedora, the VMs perform like crap, so I always end up installing VirtualBox. --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: VMware Workstation vs KVM

2017-01-17 Thread Greg Woods
h to try making Windows-under-KVM work better at some point (and I haven't missed the obvious point that Windows isn't free software either, I just have reasons why I have to use it). --Greg --Greg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorap

Re: In FC 15 only root can run the X server need HELP

2017-02-03 Thread Greg Woods
H and it hibernates just fine, but trying to set up this mapping while in Wayland just doesn't work. When I go into the custom keymap setup and press ALT-H, it thinks I pressed something like ALT-SUPER-META-H (and my keyboard does not have SUPER or META keys).

Re: SUB# connectors -

2017-02-06 Thread Greg Woods
p;isNodeId=1 Newegg and other sites like it will usually show you pictures so that you can match the connectors you have (there are several different types) to the cables they have. --Greg On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have an MSI motherboard with USB3 connector

Re: F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-27 Thread Greg Woods
e connected. > > Any help??? You can use "calibre" to move books and documents on and off the tablet, and to keep all your books/docs in a library on the Linux machine. That's what I do with mine. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-28 Thread Greg Woods
esn't see it as a mass storage device, so you can't use tools like "cp" to move files back and forth. I confess I hadn't thought about moving pictures and movies, because I just don't use my Kindle for those. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Brother HL5250 vs. Cups (Again)

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
-5250DN They are recommending a Brother-specific driver that you need to download and install. --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

Re: building from kernel source rpm

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
e to configure the unused modules out than it does to just wait for them to compile. But whatever floats your boat... --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: irq 19: nobody cared

2012-11-28 Thread Greg Woods
e a soft reset of a mini-pci wifi card? Sometimes unloading and reloading the module can work: # modprobe -r ath5k # modprobe ath5k Of course the real question is why the card is getting hosed in the first place. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Bash - an odd problem using sed or awk or for

2012-11-30 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 23:33 +, John Horne wrote: > (the '=' are not part of the variable) > abc def > > hijk > xyz > > > So in this case what is wanted is: > > > hijk > xyz > > > to be shown. echo "$XX" | sed -e '1,/^$/d' -- users mail

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
correct, but I do know that some of my games will not load when running in a VM, so I have to have a native Windows boot. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
ibernation image present, so I no longer need to install grub in a 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_gu

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:02 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > The game CD has some stuff written > > beyond the "end" of the disc. > I would have thought that correct emulation would allow those same > l

Re: The changing Fedora

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 18:24 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 09:45 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 15:29 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:02 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > > > The game CD

Re: Terminal tabs, how to remove -

2013-02-12 Thread Greg Woods
gt; combination by accident. That depends on your keyboard. On my keyboards, where CTRL is directly below SHIFT, it would in fact be fairly easy to accidentally also hit CTRL when I meant to type SHIFT-T (capital T). --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

What does "mapping=identity" mean in /etc/exports?

2013-02-16 Thread Greg Scott
is an obsolete option and no longer supported - but what did it do in case my new server needs to behave the same way the old server behaved? Thanks - Greg Scott -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail

RE: copy full system from old disk to a new one

2013-02-17 Thread Greg Scott
The rsync approach Heinz suggests also has the advantage that you can change the size of your new partitions in the target system. The other block copying approaches would need either identically sized partitions or physical disks. - Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

RE: What does "mapping=identity" mean in /etc/exports?

2013-02-17 Thread Greg Scott
Any takers on this? thanks - Greg -Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Greg Scott Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 3:10 PM To: 'users@lists.fedoraproject.org' Subject: What does "m

Re: yum expected to work in rescue mode on install DVD?

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Woods
modules it needs. Something like: # export PYTHONPATH=/mnt/sysimage/usr/share/yum-cli # yum --installroot=/mnt/sysimage . --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedor

Re: yum expected to work in rescue mode on install DVD?

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Woods
nd try again. I did get it to work, and I was able to patch up a botched fedup upgrade that would have been a royal pain to re-create from scratch (lots of extra packages and local customizations). --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscrip

Re: VirtualBox wont run -

2013-08-01 Thread Greg Woods
27;setup'. Virtual Box apparently doesn't provide systemd unit files. Either that or systemd only knows a small number of fixed commands, and "setup" isn't one of them. Try instead: # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup That worked for me. --Greg -- users mailing list users@

Re: copying video dvds

2013-08-06 Thread Greg Woodbury
On 08/06/2013 08:31 PM, g wrote: > > iirc, sometime back something being mentioned that if you 'dd' > /dev/dvd to a file and name it *.iso, you can then mount the iso > file in 'loop0' and see the contents of the dvd. > > i can not say if this is true, as i have not tried such with either > an i

Re: F19 not able to boot by UUID

2013-08-29 Thread Greg Woods
ed with UUID: # tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 or # tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/ROOT-ROOT (change device names as appropriate for your system) --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedo

Re: F19 not able to boot by UUID

2013-08-29 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:16 -0500, g wrote: > > On 08/29/2013 09:26 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > <> > > > If the file system is ext2, ext3, or ext4, then the UUID for a file > > system on a physical or LVM device can be printed with UUID: > > > > # tune2fs -l

Re: Fwd: Converting Fedora 19 machine to dual-boot with pre-installed Windows 7

2013-10-21 Thread Greg Woods
see it differently. > > That being said, in the past Windows assumed it owned the whole machine > and would take over the entire hard disk. I think it is much better now, at least it is in Windows 7. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

hibernate/suspend immediately resumes

2013-10-29 Thread Greg Woods
d, then I could no longer access anything on the disk, and I had to push the reset button to recover; maybe that is the hard disk driver. So I can't just try unbinding everything. Anything that can point me in the right direction here is greatly appreciated. --Greg -- users mailing list us

Re: hibernate/suspend immediately resumes [SOLVED]

2013-11-01 Thread Greg Woods
e was weirder because hibernate worked but suspend didn't. --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: Creating a Locked user that has access to one dir

2013-11-07 Thread Greg Woods
nts to be sure that they were not trying to log in interactively (scp only), and not trying to copy anywhere outside their home tree (done by checking for names beginning with "/" or ".."). I don't know if that would be good enough to block out a high-level adversary

Re: Creating a Locked user that has access to one dir

2013-11-08 Thread Greg Woods
ailable when I did it (back in my Solaris days, mid-90's or so). --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: F19 did not install boot loader

2013-11-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 11:20 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote: > 2. grub2-install /dev/hda I think it's been quite a while since Fedora used /dev/hd* for hard disk names. You probably need /dev/sda instead. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: Why some say "rpm hell"

2013-11-21 Thread Greg Woods
issing, etc. A few cycles of this and you know what "dependency hell" means. Nowadays, with yum, all the dependencies are pulled in automatically, so "rpm hell" is largely a thing of the past. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-08 Thread Greg Woods
motion > selecting this. And while we're at it: I have yet to find a way to disable the sidebar by default. I don't see anything in the Preferences for that (did I miss it?) I always have to hit F9 explicitly to turn it off. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

systemd restart service on resume

2013-12-08 Thread Greg Woods
key -FP PIDFile=/var/run/racoon.pid [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Alias=racoon.service --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.o

Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-09 Thread Greg Woods
turning off the sidebar. The only way to do that which I have found is to click the down arrow button in the upper right of the window, then uncheck "Show Sidebar". Or hit F9. Either way, this has to be done every time I open a new window, and it's a PITA. --Greg -- users mailing

Re: systemd restart service on resume

2013-12-09 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 18:22 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 08.12.2013, Greg Woods wrote: > > > I am trying to find a way to get a service to restart when the system is > > resumed from suspend or hibernation. > > You can place a script in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep

Re: F19 Nautilus seems to have silly flaws

2013-12-09 Thread Greg Woods
mmand line. I had to use the command line to get named workspaces too. --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

Re: OT: majordomo and ezmlm are so uncool

2013-12-11 Thread Greg Woods
ailable. Just to point out what it looks like from the list management side, from my perspective as one who runs mail servers for a living. Personally, I looked briefly at qmail way back when, and decided it was a no-go because of the "my way or the highway" license it carries. --Greg

Re: What to try instead of gnome - Re: f20 - gedit

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
st screen. I can then move it over manually, but this isn't really a good option when the two "monitors" are really two different inputs to the same output device, and the application is windowless full-screen. MATE has the same issue. I ended up having to use Xfce on those m

F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
the screen goes black and nothing ever happens. Has anyone installed F20 into a VirtualBox VM? 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://fe

Re: hacked - looking for doc/suggestions on hardening/securing systems from the start

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
ds of password-protected web sites, you want to use a different password for every one of them. --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://fedoraprojec

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
a black screen after selecting "install Fedora 20" from the Anaconda/syslinux boot menu. --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://f

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 18:26 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 08:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > Yes. Been installing and testing F20 on a VM for a while now. > > > > But make sure you're running VirtualBox 4.3.6 > > Thanks for the tip, I wa

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 09:53 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/20/13 09:26, Greg Woods wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 08:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > >> Yes. Been installing and testing F20 on a VM for a while now. > >> > >> But make sure you'

Re: hacked - looking for doc/suggestions on hardening/securing systems from the start

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 18:35 +1030, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 19 December 2013, Greg Woods sent: > > it is very risky to use the same password at multiple locations, even > > if it is an easy-to-remember but hard-to-guess password. > > It definitely is, and I'

Re: f20 - suspend and hibernate buttons

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
Extensions, then turn on "Alternate Status Menu". --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: htt

Re: f20 - suspend and hibernate buttons

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
n' option there, but if I click it, it looks for file to > install. > > Do I go to 'Get More Extensions'? You can install the ones that come with Fedora first; that includes the alternate status menu extension. Something like # yum install gnome-shell-extension* --Greg --

Re: hacked - looking for doc/suggestions on hardening/securing systems from the start

2013-12-21 Thread Greg Woods
7;t everything? I manually download the database from Dropbox (only necessary if anything has changed), then Keepassdroid works just fine. Pasting the password after you've copied it to the clipboard is a long press. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-21 Thread Greg Woods
gs for the VM, I can't find anywhere that tells me if it's 32 bit or 64 bit. I did check, and the VirtualBox RPM does say it's x86_64. I did get an F20 VM installed in KVM, but it's so slow that it's worthless. The host machine is a quad core Haswell (i7) so I believe it

Re: openssl and NSA backdoor

2013-12-22 Thread Greg Woods
attackers to play man-in-the-middle (snooping on encrypted connections) or put up fake certs to lure users to bogus web sites which will check out as legit in the browsers. This of course does not apply to certs you generate yourself with openssl, but CA-signed certs are more common on the net.

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-22 Thread Greg Woods
dora18-1.x86_64 (they don't seem to have one for Fedora 19). --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 G

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-23 Thread Greg Woods
thread has now degenerated into something that is no longer related to the actual topic. --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: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 12:37 -0500, David wrote: > On 12/23/2013 9:11 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > > I started this thread because I was trying to install an F20 VM under > > VirtualBox on an F19 system. I do know how to use VB to connect the DVD > > ISO to the VM and install

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-23 Thread Greg Woods
nning on your F19 system that fails to > detect your hardware/OS is 64 bit? > That's certainly what it looks like. I may also try an older version of VB, or update my kernel to the most recent version. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: F20 in VirtualBox VM

2013-12-24 Thread Greg Woods
processor | grep width width: 64 bits [root@mongoliad mythtv]# lscpu | grep "CPU op-mode" CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-29 Thread Greg Woods
w suspected spam) orders the messages by spam score, so I really only need look at the first few, as that is where all the false positives will be, and dozens more can be just deleted. Certainly a lot better than sifting through dozens of spams in my inbox every day. YMMV. --Greg -- users ma

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-30 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 13:30 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor wrote: > I swear if EVER I find the person who invented spam?...I'm gonna hit > him with a whiffle-ball bat! LOL! > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: Very frustrated with F16

2012-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 14:27 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > configure windows so that they become active as soon as the mouse > enters them. For this, install gnome-tweak-tool. This will create an "Advanced Settings" application. When you start that, the Windows item will b

Re: Another Fedora 16 + Gnome 3.2 question!?

2012-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
LT-CTRL-F2 with ALT-F2. Not the same. ALT-F2 brings up a "run command" window, while ALT-CTRL-F2 switches to a TTY console. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guid

Re: Very frustrated with F16

2012-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
-tool is Advanced Settings, not System Settings. It's a separate app. > This package is not installed by default which seems wrong to me. This gets back to the same old flame war about the Gnome 3 philosophy. I'm not going there :-) --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Greg Woods
ub2/grub.cfg and this has no effect, so I suspect that I am not really running grub2 or that there is a fixed embedded configuration that I can't change. Running grub2-install produces the error about the small embedding area. What does your disk partitioning look like? --Gr

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Greg Woods
or grub2-mkconfig to have any effect) before I go through all the work of dumping, repartitioning, and restoring. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: htt

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-13 Thread Greg Woods
ould be a lot easier than the dump/restore I had been planning, similar to what Lester described. Although I would still have to do the dump part anyway since I would never undertake something like this without a backup, and the /boot partition is small enough that a restore won't take that

Re: Grub2 fails to install to the MBR of /dev/sdb

2012-01-14 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 00:47 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/13/2012 06:32 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > I had read somewhere that you can only shrink partitions from the top > > end. Was I wrong? That would be a lot easier than the dump/restore I had > > been planning, similar to

Re: preupgrade grub2 failed: now can't boot

2012-02-06 Thread Greg Woods
he first partition, change it to start at 2048 (shrinking it a bit), making a new file system on the new partition, and restoring it. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guid

Re: preupgrade grub2 failed: now can't boot

2012-02-08 Thread Greg Woods
out not being able to find the RPM database. In every case, I had to put the /var files back onto the root partition to get the upgrade to work. All in all, the upgrade to F16 was by far the most difficult Fedora upgrade I have ever done. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: preupgrade grub2 failed: now can't boot

2012-02-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 18:57 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > This last part seems not to be true. Someone else pointed out that there > is a way to force grub2 to install on a disk with only 63 free blocks at > the beginning Which brings up another related question. Is it possible to inst

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