Re: dracut fails to gen initramfs
by Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
Sorry for the hijack:
Ed Greshko wrote:
> I meant to say "How did you do that?". AFAIK, there is no "Everything"
> install.
Have you never tried yum -y install everything ? :D
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11 years, 10 months
E-mail image problem -
by Bob Goodwin
This is an f6/64 computer with Thunderbird 12.0.1 which I believe is
up to date. I don't get e-mail messages with photos in them
everyday, sometimes not for weeks, but recently when I do they not
only fail but all I see is a listing in the messages with perhaps a
meg for the size and nothing else, just a blank message devoid of
text and the usual items that allow me to write a response.
When I go into the Thunderbird Mail file and look at the raw message
it appears the message cuts off after a few lines of the image file.
An example, I've trimmed the beginning but left everything else to
the end.:
To: <bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net>
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=_Mixed742414633Boundary_
--_Mixed742414633Boundary_
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Here Bob,
I'm sending this right from my phone. See if this works.
Rusty
--_Mixed742414633Boundary_
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="IMG_20120620_142926.jpg"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="IMG_20120620_142926.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
/9j/4SBqRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgACAEPAAIAAAAMAAAAbgEQAAIAAAAQAAAAegESAAMAAAABAAEA
AAEaAAUAAAABAAAAigEbAAUAAAABAAAAkgEoAAMAAAABAAIAAAITAAMAAAABAAEAAIdpAAQAAAAB
AAAAmgAAAZBDQS1DZWxsdWxhcgBHJ3pPbmUgQ29tbWFuZG8AAAAASAAAAAEAAABIAAAAAQAMkAAA
BwAAAAQwMjIwkAMAAgAAABQAAAEwkAQAAgAAABQAAAFEkQEABwAAAAQBAgMAkgoABQAAAAEAAAFY
knwABwAAABIAAAFgoAAABwAAAAQwMTAwoAEAAwAAAAEAAQAAoAIABAAAAAEAAAogoAMABAAAAAEA
AAeYoAUABAAAAAEAAAFypAMAAwAAAAEAAAAAAAAAADIwMTI6MDY6MjAgMTQ6Mjk6MjUAMjAxMjow
He says he sent that from his phone but he tried from his computer
earlier and just over the last few days I've had several episodes
like that from several correspondents, all running some version of
Windows.
Any thoughts on what is wrong?
Bob
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11 years, 10 months
Backup for server
by Alan Holt
Hello all, I am looking for backup program that will work on Fedora 16
server.
The task is simple:
- Snapshots every night
- Full backup one time in the week
I am keeping to look in Google, but may be somebody already use something
tool for similar purpose.
Thanks.
P.S> rsync is good but I think not enough for server where I have important
data.
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11 years, 10 months
Fwd: Request to mailing list devel rejected
by Reindl Harald
interesting point of view on the devel side.......
> has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the
> following reason for rejecting your request:
> "You are not adding anything to the discussion."
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: Fwd: Request to mailing list devel rejected
Datum: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:08:30 +0200
Von: Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net>
An: Mailing-List fedora-devel <devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
interesting: i quoted Linus Torvalds
why should i rewrite a quote from Linus himself?
remove the GNOME context, it is a general one
it is a general problem insisting making work harder
for professional users by trying to implement idiot
proof automatisms for everything
you will never be able to satisfy users who are not interested
to learn anything about their OS, but you are running in danger
making the life of users who does hader each time you try and
change well understood behavior
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> I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
>
> This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome
> is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
> I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached
> the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
Am 20.06.2012 16:32, schrieb devel-owner(a)lists.fedoraproject.org:
> Your request to the devel mailing list
>
> Posting of your message titled "Re: Schedule for Monday's FESCo
> Meeting (2012-06-18)"
>
> has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the
> following reason for rejecting your request:
>
> "Can you simply say you don't agree with the gnome folks design
> decisions, and avoid the hyperbole?"
>
> Any questions or comments should be directed to the list administrator
> at:
>
> devel-owner(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
11 years, 10 months
Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Gnome 3
by Daniel
On 06/19/2012 10:14 PM, someone wrote:
> Wow......all that "hatred"?. LoL! I'm glad I don't have the rigidity
> of THIS guy! I'm assuming he either:
> A. Created his own modified version of whatever desktop he finds
> appealing.
> B. Modified what he needed to in Gnome to get it more to his liking....or
> C. Just moved on to another OS with a desktop he could appreciate,
> thereby lessening the stress to the developers of THIS OS, and the
> people who use it, like it and support it. .......I wonder which
> option he took?....LoL!
Well, first, it would be better if there weren't a general escalation
of insults here.
Second, you left-out the ready option of using one of the other GUIs
already packaged for Fedora, and you left-out the option of building
from source (not that hard, really) one of the further GUIs that are
quite compatible with Fedora.
Gnome is not intrinsic to Fedora. Various of us here are using
different GUIs. If we have a remaining problem with Fedora (as such),
it is simply in its presentation of Gnome as the default GUI.
11 years, 10 months
Re: Curious About Updating.....
by Roelof 'Ben' Kusters
To Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I:
I'm having far fewer problems with F17 than I had with F15. I've done a
fresh install, of which I am a great fan in general anyway. I tinker quite
a lot with my machine, but am not very skilled, so I am sure I f**k up
quite a few things in every version. When I do a clean install all that
s**t is gone. :)
I don't know about your laptop; I don't have one like that. :) I do know
that many people have problems with fresh installs once a new version
comes out - the same is gonna happen with F18. I used to wait about a
month before upgrading (with a fresh DVD install). The drawback of this is
that the first yum update takes forever; the advantage is that most of the
initial bugs and problems have been found and fixed.
Here's the consideration you need to make, and you will be able to reach
your own conclusion:
Fedora 15 is no longer supported; and no longer updated (I assume Fedora
sticks with it's N+2 expiration date). If everything runs fine on your
machine, there's no real reason to upgrade; it will continue to run fine.
There are people who still happily run Win2000, and I've even seen a Win98
machine recently. As long as it keeps doing what you want it to do, why
change? However, development does go on, and imho the user experience of
F17 is once again better, smoother, easier, than of F16 - and 15. What do
you want from your machine? Something that does what it's always done? Or
something that looks a tad better, works a tad smoother, can do a tad
more... To upgrade or not to upgrade, that's your question.
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11 years, 10 months
Grub Error - Boot failure
by Arthur Dent
Hello All,
My F16 box which has given me years of faithful service has unexpectedly
failed to boot. I made no configuration changes or updates yesterday and
the system worked fine. Today the system fails to boot with the error:
error: no such device: 53d08854-7c6d-49dc-aeec-6a5d3e462682.
Entering rescue mode...
Grub>
The little Googling I have been able to do on my phone brings up examples
of that error when people have upgraded or attempted to upgrade over an
existing system. Mine has come out of the blue to a working system.
I am very nervous of the risk of causing more damage by incautious
tinkering (my usual method of trying to fix problems) so I thought I would
ask here before I tried anything.
Can anyone guide me through troubleshooting and hopfully fixing this
without hosing my system?
Thanks in advance
Mark
11 years, 10 months
F16: kernel 3.4.2 and virtualization problems
by Marco Guazzone
Hello,
I've just upgraded the kernel with last yum updates and now I have
problems in properly running Xen/libvirt.
The first strange thing it happened is a file system corruption of one
of my VMs.
The second strange thing is that now I am unable to successfully
create a new VM.
If I run:
sudo virt-install -v -l
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/x86...
--ram 1024 --disk path=./images/myvm-f17_64-xen.img,size=10 --name
myvm-f17_64 --graphics
vnc,password=qweasdzxc,port=5904,listen=0.0.0.0 --debug
once QEMU starts, it tells that it is unable to find a bootable disk:
"Boot from Hard Disk failed: not a bootable disk"
If I reboot with the previous kernel (3.3.8) all runs fine.
Any idea?
Thank you very much for the help.
Best,
-- Marco
11 years, 10 months
OT: Routers, DD-WRT -
by Bob Goodwin
This is probably off topic but then most of us need routers. I've
run three different routers in as many months, all running some
version of DD-WRT, none without problems. My experience has been
that the manufacturers software works but doesn't have some of the
functions I want that DD-WRT has. However some of those functions
don't work in DD-WRT either.
Two items I can't get to work are logging and saving the log
information, and filtering access restrictions. Denial of access
appears to work but not the filter function.
I've had this trouble with two Cisco E3000 "wireless" routers which
in addition to that problem fail periodically and have to have the
ac power switched on and off. That causes complaints from other
family members. I just bought a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH Which has a
different version of DD-WRT installed "out of the box." It seems to
be running reliably, for the last 48 hours anyway, but I still can
not get the logging or access restrictions filtered to work.
My question is has anyone else had success with these things or is
it just me?
I'm asking on this list since I know the quality of responses, if
any, is better than the alternatives.
Thanks,
Bob
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11 years, 10 months