Gimp text tool crashes

2013-10-02 Thread Martin S
I was trying to do a simple banner for a site using Gimp on Fedora 19. Selecting a font other than the default crashes Gimp. I can reproduce this 100% by either trying to scroll for a font or selecting something else than the default a couple of times. Extremely annoying, anyone else seen this a

initctl dead after update

2013-10-04 Thread Martin S
ideas what's going on? -- Regards, Martin S -- 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://fedoraproje

Re: Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

2013-10-11 Thread Martin S
On Friday, October 11, 2013 07:31:32 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:24:40 +0100 > > Ian Malone wrote: > > Ubuntu is increasingly being customised away from Debian. > > Yep. In fact if I wanted to pick something to point at as > the "dark side" I'd take the Ubuntu unity desktop as

Re: Firefox - gedit is the best!

2013-10-28 Thread Martin S
t it you end up having to save before opening. Ah, that would explain what happens some times at work. Good to know. /Martin S -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of C

Re: Samsung Kies for Fedora

2013-10-28 Thread Martin S
On Monday, October 28, 2013 07:42:59 PM Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: > cyanogenmod Personally I prefer Omega with the Perseus kernel. Why do you want Kies? What are you trying to do? /Martin S -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: Package that will install in Fedora to view files on Android Phones.

2013-11-03 Thread Martin S
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 05:30:02 PM Jim wrote: > On 10/29/2013 04:46 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:09:14PM -0400, Jim wrote: > >> Isn't there a Package on Fedora repo that you can install so as to > >> view files on Android Phones by USB ?? > > > > I know of no sp

f20 - upgrading to

2013-12-20 Thread Martin S
I've been looking for f19-20 upgrade instructions, but I must be blind. Someone can point me to the correct page on the net? /Martin S -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users F

Re: f20 - upgrading to

2013-12-20 Thread Martin S
On Friday, December 20, 2013 04:44:46 PM Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Martin S wrote: > > I've been looking for f19-20 upgrade instructions, but I must be blind. > > Someone can point me to the correct page on the net? > >

Kmail and QP

2013-12-25 Thread Martin S
il to read these abominations? I've been googling but not finding anything. /Martin S -- 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-

Re: Kmail and QP

2013-12-26 Thread Martin S
On Wednesday, December 25, 2013 03:18:45 AM Kenneth Marcy wrote: > On 12/25/2013 12:32 AM, Martin S wrote: > > I have one contact that uses an email client that sends everyting in QP- > > encoded. Unfortunately she is also one of the more important contacts I > > have. Appar

Unable to use molecule

2018-12-12 Thread Sudheer S
├── destroy     ├── syntax     ├── create     ├── prepare     ├── converge     ├── lint     ├── side_effect     ├── verify     └── destroy --> Scenario: 'default' --> Action: 'destroy'     PLAY [Destroy] *

Re: Unable to use molecule

2018-12-13 Thread Sudheer S
I normally would use sudo'ed or root'ed "updatedb" followed by "locate molecule_from_yaml" to find the file on your drive.  This could have some security issues so be aware of that.  The files found by "updatedb" are then findable by those who have gotten some access to your computer.  "updat

Vagrant and terminal

2019-01-13 Thread Sudheer S
Hello, I am using Fedora release 29 (Twenty Nine) and Vagrant 2.1.2. After I bring up the guest via: vagrant up in most cases, the terminal starts acting up. The terminal does not print or recognize the character typed on keyboard. Sometimes, if the character is typed twice, it appears on the

Re: Vagrant and terminal

2019-01-22 Thread Sudheer S
I didn't get a response for this. Does my question make sense? Or do I need to rephrase it? - Sudheer On 13/01/19 5:46 PM, Sudheer S wrote: Hello, I am using Fedora release 29 (Twenty Nine) and Vagrant 2.1.2. After I bring up the guest via: vagrant up in most cases, the terminal s

Email Question - OT

2019-02-20 Thread S. Bob
Hi All; This is probably Off Topic, apologies... I recently kicked googlemail to the curb in favor of a service that does not read my emails (fastmail). We are very happy with fastmail. We are using our own domain which I was also doing with google. All of our clients can now email me at th

Re: Email Question - OT

2019-02-20 Thread S. Bob
On 2/20/19 10:57 AM, William Oliver wrote: On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 10:16 -0700, S. Bob wrote: Hi All; This is probably Off Topic, apologies... I recently kicked googlemail to the curb in favor of a service that does not read my emails (fastmail). We are very happy with fastmail. We are using

Alienware M17 & Fedora - wireless card compatibility?

2019-02-26 Thread S. Bob
Hi all; I'm considering the purchase of an Alienware M17 to run Fedora on. Does anyone know if it's compatible with Fedora? Specifically the wifi card choices: I have 2 options: - Qualcomm QCA6174A 802.11ac 2x2 MU-MIMO WiFi and Bluetooth 4.2 or - Killer Wireless 1550 2x2 AC and Bluetooth

how to get stoken?

2019-04-17 Thread S. Bob
Hi all; I have Fedora 29 running as my laptop, I can run dnf search stoken and it finds it, however if I create a new Fedora 29 VM dnf cannot find stoken. Anyone know what package / repo I need to install to get stoken? One odd thing is that dnf provides shows stoken (on my laptop) as comin

Re: how to get stoken?

2019-04-17 Thread S. Bob
Solved - User Error On 4/17/19 10:10 PM, S. Bob wrote: Hi all; I have Fedora 29 running as my laptop, I can run dnf search stoken and it finds it, however if I create a new Fedora 29 VM dnf cannot find stoken. Anyone know what package / repo I need to install to get stoken? One odd

New LG Gram 17, trying to boot Fedora live CD, won't boot

2019-05-03 Thread S. Bob
Hi All; I have a new LG Gram 17 laptop. Burned a Fedora 29 live CD, when I boot it hangs on these 2 messages: (1 of 2) A start job is running for Journal Service (2 of 2) A start job is running for for er-live\x2drw.device Eventually the Journal service fails then it starts over. Here

install boot hangs, or has no mouse with noacpi

2019-05-03 Thread S. Bob
Installing Fedora 30, LG Gram 17 laptop if I use no boot parameters the install hangs after "Started Journal Service" If I use acpi=off it boots but I have no mouse once I get to the graphical screen,  if I use noacpi I get the same behavior (no mouse). Thoughts?

Boot & Bios Issues

2019-05-05 Thread S. Bob
Hi All; I've managed to install Fedora 30 on a new LG Gram 17 laptop. I had to set acpi=off to get the live cd to boot, then I had to remove the acpi=off and rebuild the EFI grub file so the trackpad would work, subsequent boots without the acpi=off seem to work fine. I am seeing an odd si

Re: Boot & Bios Issues

2019-05-07 Thread S. Bob
On 5/5/19 10:45 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 1:41 PM S. Bob wrote: Hi All; I've managed to install Fedora 30 on a new LG Gram 17 laptop. I had to set acpi=off to get the live cd to boot, then I had to remove the acpi=off and rebuild the EFI grub file so the trackpad

Re: Boot & Bios Issues

2019-05-07 Thread S. Bob
Oddly enough the slow boot / shutdowns have dissappeared, the only remaining issue is the bios setting weirdness, including the fact that Linux will not boot without legacy OS Boot = on Thoughts? On 5/7/19 8:08 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 3:54 PM S. Bob wrote: root

Re: how to install zoom client.

2019-07-01 Thread S. Bob
become root (or use sudo) and run : dnf install [filename] where filename is the zoom_x86_64.rpm file for example, if you downloaded the file to /home/jbob/Downloads: sudo dnf install /home/jbob/Downloads/zoom_x86_64.rpm or su - [enter pw] # dnf install /home/jbob/Downloads/zoom_x86_64.

Unable to bring up Vagrant guest after upgrade to Fedora 30

2019-08-14 Thread Sudheer S
ot there. How can I bring the guest OS up? Where is Vagrant looking up the names? Here's the status of the machine: vagrant status Current machine states: default   not created (libvirt) The Libvirt domain is not created. Run `vagr

Re: Unable to bring up Vagrant guest after upgrade to Fedora 30

2019-08-14 Thread Sudheer S
og/vagrant-libvirt-issue-after-upgrading-to-fedora-30/ - Sudheer S ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US

Re: KDE on Fedora 30/31

2019-09-21 Thread S. Bob
On 9/21/19 1:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/22/19 2:19 AM, William Oliver wrote: So... for the KDE users out there, how is Fedora doing with KDE nowadays? No issues here. You can check the kde mailing list to see that it is rather quite. Been using it for years, they had a problem early on

Authorization supplicant timed out errors

2020-08-18 Thread S Bob
All; I posted to the Fedora KDE list with no reply, anyone here have any ideas: I am having my wifi connection reset throughout the day.  I get a popup message that says : *Wireless interface (wlp82s0)* *Authorization supplicant timed out* This happens every 2 - 4 hours, it's new but I

Re: Authorization supplicant timed out errors

2020-08-19 Thread S Bob
I've not rebooted the AP, I'll give that a shot, thanks On 8/18/20 6:13 PM, Mr Brian Domenick wrote: Are you doing 802.1x ? Have you made sure your authentication server is in order ? If its just a simple AP, have you tried to reboot AP ? On 8/18/20 4:51 PM, S Bob wrote: All;

Re: Authorization supplicant timed out errors

2020-08-19 Thread S Bob
I'm running a thinkpad P73 with this wireless card: Intel AX200 2x2AX+BT vPro WW I'll check the AP hardware later this week when I'm back at the location where I have issues On 8/18/20 6:47 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-08-19 07:51, S Bob wrote: I am having my wifi c

Re: Authorization supplicant timed out errors

2020-08-19 Thread S Bob
On 8/19/20 5:04 AM, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 at 20:52, S Bob <mailto:s...@quadratum-braccas.com>> wrote: All; I posted to the Fedora KDE list with no reply, anyone here have any ideas: I am having my wifi connection reset throughout the day.

VM tool for Fedora 32

2020-09-30 Thread S Bob
All; I'm looking for suggestions for a VM tool for Fedora 32. I am tired of having to constantly patch VMware and have it stop working every time I update to a new kernel. Looking for suggestions. Does KVM run on fedora 32? Can I install a windows VM with KVM? Anyone using other tools? Tha

Firefox slow after recent update

2020-10-30 Thread S Bob
Hi; I've noticed firefox is noticeably slower after the last update. Anyone else seeing this?  Any easy fixes? Thanks in advance ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject

Fedora on a remote mac

2020-11-11 Thread S Bob
Hi all; I have a Fedora 33 laptop. I also have a mac running OSX 10.15 I want to run firefox on the mac but display it on the Fedora laptop. Is there a way to do this with tunneling? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Run Firefox on a remote mac with display on my Linux laptop

2020-11-11 Thread S Bob
Hi all; I have a Fedora laptop, and a mac laptop (OSX 10.15) Is there a method I can use to run firefon on the mac and have it display on my Fedora laptop? Thanks in advance Sorry if this seems to be a dupe,  my previous subject line was unclear _

Fedora & VMware on a mac - using the cisco vpn connection of the host, is it possible?

2020-12-22 Thread S Bob
Hi; I have a contract with a client and they have sent me a mac (ugh). I thought it would be ok since I mostly spend my time at the command line but the mac OS is driving me crazy. I hate this thing more with every passing day, it's like using a preschool toy to do real work. The mac inter

Re: Fedora & VMware on a mac - using the cisco vpn connection of the host, is it possible?

2020-12-22 Thread S Bob
), if I really must run a stupid OS then it would be better in a VM On 12/22/20 11:43 AM, S Bob wrote: Hi; I have a contract with a client and they have sent me a mac (ugh). I thought it would be ok since I mostly spend my time at the command line but the mac OS is driving me crazy. I

Re: Not setting net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter (explicit setting exists)...

2021-02-06 Thread S Page
I just got these messages. From an ArchLinux thread, these aren't files, they are kernel configuration parameters, see sysctl.d(5). "systemd-sysctl.service(8) reads configuration files ... to configure sysctl(8) kernel parameters." These ones are settings under /proc/sys/net/ipv4 The files /et

Fedora 32 / 33 on an LG Gram?

2021-02-14 Thread S Bob
All; Has anyone installed Fedora on an LG Gram? I bought one a few years back and ended up returning it due to issues... Maybe these laptops are better supported now? Thanks in advance for any advice... ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedo

Re: Fedora 32 / 33 on an LG Gram? (SOLVED)

2021-02-15 Thread S Bob
On 2/14/21 10:44 AM, S Bob wrote: All; Has anyone installed Fedora on an LG Gram? I bought one a few years back and ended up returning it due to issues... Maybe these laptops are better supported now? Thanks in advance for any advice... All; Just a heads up. I couldn't wait

cannot ssh between 2 Fedora 33 laptops

2021-02-15 Thread S Bob
All; I have 2 new laptops, with new installs of Fedora 33 On both laptops I have run: # systemctl start sshd # systemctl stop firewalld They are both on the same wifi network a ping from either laptop to the IP of the other one produces "Destination Host Unreachable" Is there somethi

Re: cannot ssh between 2 Fedora 33 laptops

2021-02-15 Thread S Bob
I've been running Fedora laptops in this network for years and never had this issue. Thoughts? On 2/15/21 5:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 16/02/2021 08:09, S Bob wrote: All; I have 2 new laptops, with new installs of Fedora 33 On both laptops I have run: # systemctl start sshd #

Re: cannot ssh between 2 Fedora 33 laptops (SOLVED)

2021-02-15 Thread S Bob
It was SELINUX On 2/15/21 6:05 PM, S Bob wrote: I have a comcast router and an untangle firewall setup, all laptops are behind the firewall. I also have 2 laptops running Fedora 32, I can ssh to/from the Fedora 32 laptops without any issues So, here's my attempts to ssh: F32 = th

Re: cannot ssh between 2 Fedora 33 laptops (SOLVED)

2021-02-15 Thread S Bob
I disabled SELINUX on the new laptops (dont need it here) and everything works On 2/15/21 6:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2/15/21 5:16 PM, S Bob wrote: It was SELINUX Can you provide more details? ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: Fedora 32 / 33 on an LG Gram? (SOLVED)

2021-02-15 Thread S Bob
Everything I read said to disable secure boot so I disabled it from the start On 2/15/21 6:18 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 08:14:10AM -0700, S Bob wrote: I had to go into the bios and change the following: - disable secure boot Did it not boot with secure boot enabled

Re: cannot ssh between 2 Fedora 33 laptops (SOLVED)

2021-02-15 Thread S Bob
I was using the default port (22). I did a standard install and did not change anything in the ssh config On 2/15/21 7:13 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Feb 15, 2021, at 20:59, S Bob wrote: I disabled SELINUX on the new laptops (dont need it here) and everything works Are you running

Re: Fedora 32 / 33 on an LG Gram? (SOLVED)

2021-02-15 Thread S Bob
On 2/15/21 9:05 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:59:15PM -0700, S Bob wrote: Everything I read said to disable secure boot so I disabled it from the start Which things did you read? These are likely: 1. Out of date 2. Superstition 3. People who need the nvidia driver to

Re: cannot ssh between 2 Fedora 33 laptops (SOLVED)

2021-02-15 Thread S Bob
On 2/15/21 7:21 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 2/15/21 5:58 PM, S Bob wrote: I disabled SELINUX on the new laptops (dont need it here) and everything works I don't believe there's any mechanism by which SELinux can result in ping indicating "destination host unreacha

Re: Fedora 32 / 33 on an LG Gram? (SOLVED)

2021-02-16 Thread S Bob
I re-enabled secure boot and the laptop does still boot, good news!  Also I tried a usb-c network connector and it also works for a wired internet connection On 2/15/21 9:26 PM, S Bob wrote: On 2/15/21 9:05 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:59:15PM -0700, S Bob wrote

Bluetooth keeps disconnecting - Fedora 33

2021-02-23 Thread S Bob
All; I have a shiny new Fedora 33 install on my new LG Gram 17 I'm having an issue where every 10 min or so my bluetooth music player disconnects, then reconnects and starts playing again. Any advice on how to debug / fix? Thanks in advance ___ u

vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-09 Thread Wolfgang S Rupprecht
How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days? I have an ancient 32-bit x86 Acer mini laptop running as a server where the X11 greeter just started crashing in a tight loop. I've turned the graphical login off but that leaves me with the first vt's login prompt displaying. Whatev

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-09 Thread Wolfgang S Rupprecht
stan writes: > On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:57:12 -0700 > Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote: > >> How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days? > > I use setterm --blank=60 to prevent the screens from blanking after > whatever the default is (10 minutes?).

Re: vt's enable screen blanking

2018-04-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
stan writes: > On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:56:43 -0700 > Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote: > >> That looks like a fine solution if you are logged in on a terminal and >> you want to change it for your current terminal. I'm not sure how >> that would work from rc.local. H

Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-15 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Tim writes: > And the million dollar question for all these people running anti-virus > software on their Linux box is: Have any of you ever had it catch a > Linux virus? >From reading the Sophos propaganda it sounds like it also helps discover intrusions, which might be useful for companies th

Re: Sophos Anti Virus

2010-05-15 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ownloads etc. And you know what the biggest bit of irony is in this anti-virus thread? The AV vendors want you to run a blackbox mystery binary in order to "protect your system". Um, yea. That gives me a warm secure feeling. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsr

Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

2010-05-17 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
BadMagic writes: > On 05/17/2010 12:16 AM, Tim wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 22:05 +1000, BadMagic wrote: >>> Basically, whichever entry goes first, doesn't get mounted. >> Are the clients connecting to the network using network manager? >> Perhaps the network isn't up at the time the first mou

Re: First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

2010-05-17 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Karl-Olov Serrander writes: > On Mon, 17 May 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> echo "NETWORKWAIT=yes" >> /etc/sysconfig/network > Is this documented somewhere ? > > It is not in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.02.1/sysconfig.txt for Fedora 12 > or /usr/sha

Re: OT: Cell phone connection to server

2010-05-24 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
arag...@dcsnow.com writes: > It has been suggested to me that we should setup a cell phone in a way > that would allow us remote access to our Linux boxes in case of an > emergency where the server was down (using a remote service board (ILO)). There are smartphone clients for ssh. I've got one

mirror, mirror

2010-05-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I just tried downloading the F13 iso. When I went through the "mirrors" redirector I got PNL, which came up with an HTTP error page. Going to kernel.org by hand, I got 300M of the f13 install iso and it hung. Has Fedora become wildly and unexpectedly popular and the mirrors are getting hammered

Re: Linux vs. Vision Tek Radeon HD3650

2010-05-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
>> "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. >> Optimist: The glass is half full. >> Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." > > No no no!! > > Accountant: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be > > Either > > 1. Engineer: The glass is the right size > 2. Engineer: The glass i

F13 via preupdate: NeworkManager fail

2010-05-25 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
F13 NetworkManager sets the hostname to localhost.localdomain instead of the correct hostname. May 25 22:47:05 poblano NetworkManager[1231]: (eth0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 40) May 25 22:47:05 poblano NetworkManager[1231]: Setting system hostname to 'poblano.wsrcc.com' (from syste

f13: yum list extras

2010-05-26 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I noticed that a bunch of f12 rpm's seem to still be hanging around after a preuprade upgrade from f12 to f13. Is this a cause for concern? [r...@capsicum ~]# yum list extras Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: linux.mir

Fedora 13 Installation frustrations

2010-05-26 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
I had to let you know how I passed a night of no sleep to install Fedora13. My Configuration. disk hd0,  XP on 1st half,  Fedora12 on second.  Disk hd1  W7 on 1st half,  storage (fat32) on second half CPU memory 4 gigs, ATI video card, and Intel e7300 dual core cpu. DVD Burner, etc. I decided

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
d...@chatham.org writes: > I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which > sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it > never gets past the error. > > Has anyone seen this one? Yes. Same here on my Asus M3A78T (AMD) motherboard. It hung unti

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Varshavchik writes: > Go into your BIOS setup. See if your BIOS believes that there's a > floppy drive hiding somewhere, and disable it. Ok, I just did that. I suppose it will take till f14 to see if that fixes things. It is curious that all other kernels (and we are talking at least f10 w

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-29 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bruno Wolff III writes: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 21:45:13 -0500, > "Dale J. Chatham" wrote: >> OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way >> to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. >> >> Doh! >> >> I might suggest that timing out the attempt to que

Re: Network Manager, WPA, "available to all users"

2010-06-01 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Steven Stern writes: > I have a desktop with wireless, due to some cabling difficulties. I'm > trying to switch from "Network" to "NetworkManager" because we're moving > our wireless from WEP to WPA-PSK. > > Using Network Manager, I can configure a connection with a static IP > address and things

Re: F13 new install: can't get ssh pubkey to work

2010-06-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Craig White writes: > sounds like you created the file elsewhere (or even on another computer) > and moved it into place thereby creating SELinux issue. That would be my guess too, seeing how it happens to me regularly when I do clean installs and then try to copy the customized files from an NF

Re: F13 new install: can't get ssh pubkey to work

2010-06-13 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
sean darcy writes: > On 06/12/2010 09:34 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> >> Craig White writes: >>> sounds like you created the file elsewhere (or even on another computer) >>> and moved it into place thereby creating SELinux issue. >> >> That wo

top posting flame war (was NFS)

2010-06-14 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
I can't decide if top posting or folks that don't trim the quoted lines to two or three lines of context are more annoying. What is whith this? Have we had the invasion of the lazy people? -wolfgang -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Re: Adobe releases 32-bit Flash update for Linux

2010-06-16 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
"Robert G. (Doc) Savage" writes: > I can't imagine what has prompted Adobe to pack up their proverbial bat > & ball and go home, abandoning 64-bit Flash development for all > platforms. I hope there's another explanation, because this is just > beyond dumb. I was reading an article about llvm, t

Re: wifi access from laptop to starbucks wifi

2010-06-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Tim writes: > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:31 -0700, JD wrote: >> Also, WPA encryotion can be broken by a notebook PC in under 1 minute. >> WPA (and WPA2) encryption that uses TKP can also be broken in under 1 >> minute. So far AES seems to be invulnerable (as far whatever has been >> printed publicl

Re: wifi access from laptop to starbucks wifi

2010-06-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bruno Wolff III writes: > That depends on your threat model. If you don't trust the wireless operator > the wireless encryption isn't that big of a deal since you need to use an > encrypted tunnel in any case. No kidding. You should use some form of end-to-end encryption any time you are on the

compiz click to focus

2010-02-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
to Focus"->unchecked seems to have no effect. Is it being overridden somewhere? Do I need to do something with "Focus Prevention Windows" on the same settings page? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overl

Re: F12 and SyncMaster 2443 and 1920x1200 resolution?

2010-02-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Paul Erickson writes: > Has anyone been able to successfully configure F12 to support 1920x1200 > resolution with the Samsung SyncMaster 2443? You might also want to check that your hardware can do 1920x1200. Some chips will stop at 1600x1200. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht

Re: compiz click to focus

2010-02-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
is supposed to be. I'm tempted to mentally mark compiz as "not ready for prime time" and ignore it. Not having my windows receive focus when I move the cursor into them is unacceptable in the long run. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why

Re: [Fwd: Notice: dnssec-conf updates in Fedora 11 and 12]

2010-02-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
a situation. One can just comment out the offending line in /etc/named.conf and named will startup. The file /var/log/messages will have the pathname of the include that is no longer there and a quick scan of /etc/named.conf file show where it it included from. It is pain in the neck, but not

can I use preupgrade w/out a wired ethernet connection via internet sharing?

2010-02-12 Thread S. Robert Cube
I'm trying to use preupgrade to upgrade my desktop FC10 installation. I only have a wireless network connection available in my apartment. Should I be able to do this via network sharing? IOW, can I connect my desktop to a laptop with a crossover cable, and use the laptop's wireless connection?

preupgrade reboot, won't complete upgrade, same old FC, etc: solution

2010-02-12 Thread S. Robert Cube
his to whatever menu.lst file grub uses, changing *'s to match your partitions (mine are hd1,13): title Fedora Upgrade root (hd*,*) kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img savedefault boot STEP 2. Save, and reboot, selecting Fedora Upgrade. STEP 3. It will then

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

2010-03-04 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
d is that one should make sure the snapshot filesystem eventually gets deleted after a crash. It wasn't until I had a disk-hang and needed to reboot during a backup that I realized this minor bug in my backup scripts. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public

Re: UID mapping for NFS

2010-03-10 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
27;s) and it didn't matter which order one installed things in, the UID's were always the same. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Keboard defaults changing at logon time with Gnome and F12

2010-03-11 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
By default my system has F12 in english, but the only keyboard defined is Canada.  After every boot or logon, I find that the user's keyboard has reverted to USA.  I have to delete the USA entry in order to recover the functionality of the Canada Keyboard..  I write in French and Spanish, and

Fedora12 keyboard choice setting is not respected.

2010-03-19 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
Living in Canada and working bilingually, my keyboard is Canada French ca(fr).  It is not USA. I run Fedora12 in English, but the keyboard is the one I mentioned.  Here is the problem that recently started to occur. When I chose my logon, Gnome shows USA as the keyboard.  If I do not change it,

Re: AppArmor about to be merged into the kernel?

2010-03-22 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
rather have Novell or the NSA on your side. ;-) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://a

Fedora12 keyboard choice setting is not respected.

2010-03-26 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Neil Bird wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:18:42 + > From: Neil Bird > To: Community support for Fedora users > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; >     rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbi

Re: smartcard user authentication

2010-03-27 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
john wendel wrote: > Anyone know how to configure Fedora to use a smartcard for user > login/authentication? > > I know that pam has a smartcard module, but I have no idea how to use > it. Documentation on the web seems to be pretty old, probably obsolete. > > A pointer to a web site with wo

Is there some website to suggest programs to be supported on Fedora?

2010-03-28 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
. Re: Is there some website to suggest programs to be supported       on     Fedora? (Paul Smith) I always install yumex then I proceed to http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f12.html and do everything that is there.  Important is RPMFUSION which will yield many many hundreds of programs

Log in from Root

2010-03-29 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
On 03/28/2010 03:29 AM, Rajanish Kumar wrote: > Hi! >  I have already installed Fedora 12 .I have given root password...and > finally added a user name "rajanish" > .I am log in through "rajanish"but i have not accessing throgh root...I > want to log in through root because i want to learn administ

Re: F12 crash

2010-03-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
-12 selinux setup now works well enough that I see now reason for me to turn it off any more. In previous installations I'd leave it on for as long as I could stand it, which on servers was only around 3 or 4 days. The list of denials was just too long to deal with and they just kept

F12 crash (Nermin Celik)

2010-03-30 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
From: "Patrick Bartek" To: "Community support for Fedora users" --- On Mon, 3/29/10, Nermin Celik wrote: > I installed Fedora 12 x86-64 onto H

Re: chromium install problem

2010-03-31 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wish it had was a "create a temp snapshot of the open pages URL's and restart automatically on next chromium startup". -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@li

video problems on dual-link monitors upon reboot on F12

2010-03-31 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
nk monitor seeing this? Are there any kernel or xorg switches to clear more framebuffer state on startup? -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: cleaning /tmp directory

2010-03-31 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
es etc). Put this in /sbin/halt.local mode 755. #!/bin/sh ### ## ## ## File: halt.local ## ## Author: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht

Stable Fedora Releases

2010-04-01 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
First and foremost, ever since version 8, I have personally had no problems with Fedora releases and the usual daily set of updates.  For my testing and use, Fedora is stable.  In fact, for my use, Fedora 13 as delivered is stable. We are more then one month away from the official release of Fed

Re: Stable Fedora Releases

2010-04-02 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
From: "Ralf Corsepius" To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org On 04/02/2010 06:22 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > While the weekly

RE: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-04-07 Thread Leslie S Satenstein
Monday, April 5, 2010 8:10 AM From: "Tim" To: "Community support for Fedora users" Dave Higton: > You're l

Re: crypt question/server hotel

2010-04-17 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
ost servers under physical control of his trusted > employees.) Or run the computer inside a tamperproof box with only the power line and ethernet cat5 exiting. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channel

Re: power saving, monitor poweroff

2010-04-18 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
y mouse is sometimes between two position reports and is essentially on hair trigger. Bumping the desk, or in some cases just walking into the room causes it to vibrate enough to unblank the monitor. I therefore try to turn off the monitor anytime I'm leaving for a while. -wolfgang -- Wol

Re: power saving, monitor poweroff

2010-04-18 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
. Sorry. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelin

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