Fedora 16 to 17
by Jeffrey Ross
I'm about to take the plunge and upgrade, I've upgraded systems in the
past with varying degrees of initial success and eventually everything
works out ok.
My problem this time is I have 2 systems running F16 x86_64 the Systems
are almost identical and I know they will cause me some grief so I'm
looking for some suggestions.
System 1 -
/boot - md1 - sd[ab]1
/ - md127 - sd[ab]2
swap - md3 - sd[ab]3
/usr - md5 - sd[ab]5
/var - md6 - sd[ab]6
/home - md7 - sd[ab]7
System 2 -
/boot - md127 - sd[ab]1
/ - md2 - sd[ab]2
/var - md3 - sd[ab]3
swap - md5 - sd[ab]5
/home - md6 - sd[ab]6
System 1 is obviously going to give me issues due to the separate / and
/usr partitions, looking at the space available on root there maybe barely
enough to move /usr to the / partition, however there is room to move / to
the /usr partition. How much sense does it make to move the partitions
(in single user mode) and if I move / to the existing /usr partition how
to I tell the kernel where the new / partition is during startup?
Next issue and it affects both systems is that /var is a separate
partition, I found on the release notes for upgrading via YUM that there
are some extra steps due to the separate partition.
Lastly is the raid1 setup also going to cause me grief? if so any
suggestions on how to deal with it?
System 1 is all superblock 0.90 and System 2 is all superblock 1.2 except
boot which is 0.90
Thanks, Jeff
11 years, 8 months
no zoom in korganizer?
by George Avrunin
On a fully-updated F17 x86_64, I decided to try korganizer again after not
using it for a couple of years. I would like to zoom vertically in the
calendar section to increase the vertical space per hour (mostly in the work
week view, but also in the day view). From the documentation I can find, I
should be able to go to Views -> Zoom -> In Vertically, but all the options
in Views -> Zoom are grayed out (in/out x horizontal/vertical).
I tried with a scratch user account and got the same result, so it's at
least not obviously an issue with my configuration. Is the zoom disabled on
F17 or do I have a more subtle problem?
George
11 years, 8 months
RE: ftp with TLS auth
by Patrick Kobly
try doing:
set ftp:ssl-auth TLS
set ftp:ssl-force true
set ftp:ssl-allow yes
set ftp:ssl-protect-list yes
set ftp:ssl-protect-data yes
set ftp:ssl-protect-fxp yes
in lftp (if you're connecting to an ftp server that uses TLS in explicit mode (i.e. connect on port 21)
PK
-----Original message-----
From: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+fedora-lists(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Mon 17-09-2012 04:22
Subject: ftp with TLS auth
To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>;
> Hi there,
>
> I'ven been struggling to find an ftp client in Fedora which supports TLS
> auth. Tried ftp, lftp, ncftp, even dolphin (KDE file manager); all fail
> with "must use TLS auth".
>
> Is this due to our use of GNU TLS rather than OpenSSL for many packages?
>
> Firefox with FireFTP works...
>
> Michael
>
> (everything F16 with updates)
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11 years, 8 months
Booting Grub2 on F17
by Mickey
Fedora 17
This is a dual boot computer Fedora and Windows 7
How would I edit /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to get the the boot process to
stop at the Menu to be able to select Fedora or Windows7.
I do not want to have to hit "Return" or "Tab" to get it to stop at the
Selection Menu.
A new User to Linux will be operating this computer and I do not want to
put him in a position to have to hit extra keys, to make his selection.
11 years, 8 months
Firefox tabs position -
by Bob Goodwin
I have two F-17/64/XFCE computers with Firefox 15.0 installed.
On one View > Toolbars > Tabs on Top allows me to put the tabs where
I want them, not on top! On this computer that selection is missing.
Perhaps the result of a day's difference in updates, if so I wont
update Firefox on the other one since I prefer to control that.
Anyone have an explanation, am I the only one to even care?
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box9
11 years, 8 months
Byobu
by Phil Dobbin
Hi, all.
After the last kernel upgrade (=> 3.5.3-1) notifications in Byobu ceased
to work (amongst other things: an existing kvm machine no longer works
as Nautilus keeps crashing when it's launched so I had to re-install that).
I've tried reverting back to 5.17 with no luck (both via Yum & compiling
it myself), newt-python which is what Byobu uses for notifications, is
all present & correct & I can't find anyone in the same position as
myself on Google.
Has anybody on the list seen this anomaly?
Cheers,
Phil...
--
currently (ab)using
CentOS 6.3, Debian Squeeze, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Precise
11 years, 8 months
No NetworkManager, no IN
by Joe Feely
I'm using f16, kernel-3.4.9-2.fc16.i686.PAE
All was well until I starting a yum update (2 days ago), which advised
that I do a complete-transactions, and some checking for dupes, and a
couple of other things which I don't recall (sorry I'm not good at
recalling some details). I think that was what led me to inadvertently
deleted the NetworkManager stuff.
Underr f16 my PC doesn't now communicate with the router. They are
physically connected with an ethernet cable.
(I can access the IN using a live CD {I did so with Xubuntu 10.04.2 live CD}.)
In a terminal as root I get:-
[root@OfficeDT boot]# man NetworkManager
No manual entry for NetworkManager
[root@OfficeDT boot]# NetworkManager
bash: NetworkManager: command not found...
yum list installed, included:-
ModemManager.i686 0.5.3.96-1.fc16 @updates
NetworkManager-glib.i686 1:0.9.4-6.git20120521.fc16 @updates
NetworkManager-gtk.i686 1:0.9.4-6.git20120521.fc16 @updates
ORBit2.i686 2.14.19-2.fc15
@anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686/15
with no other NetworkManager packages
Attempts to ping the router give:-
[root@OfficeDT Desktop]# ping 192.168.1.1
connect: Network is unreachable
This pings successfully from a lap top.
I was thinking of getting the appropriate NetworkManager rpm file and
simply install it. I had a look around online but not quite getting
it. Maybe I'm being too simplistic!
Any help?
TIA,
Joe
11 years, 8 months
Symbolic computation on Fedora
by Suvayu Ali
Hi,
I need to do symbolic computation from time to time on my Fedora
machine. So far I have tried maxima, which seems quite good for simple
things but often fails to give me any usable results for more
complicated cases. Acquiring Mathematica licenses is not feasible at
the moment; so my question is what other alternatives have people used
and liked?
So far I have come across these:
1. SymPy - this seems a bit lacking in features (what I could gather
from the Wikipedia page as the project page is rather sparse).
2. Sage - this seems to be quite well mature but non-trivial to maintain
an installation.
Anyone has any opinions?
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
11 years, 8 months