For 6 weeks everything's fine with the new system, but now, beginning exactly on May 1, the login window (for username/password) takes many minutes before it...
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Scott
catbit_1999
May 1, 2012 1:56 pm
... What happens if you boot into runlevel 3 and then do startx. I put nothing past Gnome people or RH in breaking things. ... sestatus is the command to...
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roro
roro@...
May 1, 2012 6:27 pm
why the sound of that email smells faster than a hallelujah on rails!...
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thad_floryan
May 2, 2012 12:45 am
... I haven't explicitly tried that (yet) because X is running fine, it's just the presentation of the login window is delayed many minutes. We already know...
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thad_floryan
May 2, 2012 12:47 am
... Hi Alanna, You didn't attribute and/or cite anything [above] so I take that as meaning you liked the script for creating a new hosts file. Am I correct?...
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Scott
catbit_1999
May 2, 2012 2:01 am
... Whatever they let him do. I came to the conclusion, recently, that while we (not only you and I, but a generic we, ) get on poor Mr. Poettering's case,...
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thad_floryan
May 2, 2012 4:04 am
... I have read a bunch of interviews with him (and I have the URLs of those on file) and it comes down to the simple fact he simply doesn't give a damn who...
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thad_floryan
May 2, 2012 6:44 am
Following are the verbatim contents of /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log.4 written at about the time of the first login failure early this AM which shows clear...
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Scott
catbit_1999
May 2, 2012 12:12 pm
... In that case, who is letting him put these things into Fedora and RedHat. They are the ones to blame. :) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D...
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thad_floryan
May 2, 2012 5:53 pm
... Agreed 100%. Seems Red Hat is destined to continue producing only toyware by their prima donna alleged "developers". The messages I poster earlier today...
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Scott
catbit_1999
May 2, 2012 6:11 pm
... There was one case where Alan Bartlett of CentOS (not officially, but very active with them, helps maintain the Elrepo packages of device drivers), filed a...
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thad_floryan
May 2, 2012 9:51 pm
... I've done a lot of such fixes for a number of things (Perl, Emacs, etc.) but this new mess seems possibly attributed to the kernel [re: pager]. Look at...
60642
thad_floryan
May 3, 2012 12:40 am
This is almost unbelievable -- I "fixed" the CentOS Gnome login FUBAR. I was reading some FreeBSD docs in preparation to blow-away CentOS and replace it with...
60643
thad_floryan
May 4, 2012 1:01 am
A not well known fact is that RPMs and DEBs are simply encapsulated cpio and ar archives (loosely analogous to headers flanking the body of email or XML...
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roro
roro@...
May 4, 2012 2:18 am
... quick point in fact, if you're running x, you can open an rpm or deb with file-roller or equivalent program just like most any other archive.. -- @-}--...
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roro
roro@...
May 4, 2012 2:21 am
(and i might add that the midnight commander (mc) offers similar capabilities in a vfs format in an ncurses/text environment. @-}-- alanna...
60646
J
emtboy9
May 4, 2012 2:34 am
... Meh... I never did like midnight commander... never could get the hang of it... though I do admit that people that DO get it always liked it. I've always...
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thad_floryan
May 4, 2012 11:46 am
For those unaware, LCD = Lowest Common Denominator. When writing scripts only a fool would assume everyone has the latest and greatest bash, Perl, awk,...
60648
J
emtboy9
May 4, 2012 2:01 pm
... Or as the designer, you could require anyone who wants to use your software update their systems to newer versions, rather than 10 year old versions that...
60649
ed
psy80uk
May 4, 2012 5:41 pm
Don't rely on bash always behaving itself. Somethings change underneath you, such as a colleague's experience of LC variables meaning changing what is selected...
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Chris F.A. Johnson
cfaj3
May 4, 2012 6:05 pm
... This is nothing new, and it is mandated by POSIX. $ echo $BASH_VERSION 2.05b.0(1)-release $ touch a B c D e F g H i J k L $ LC_ALL=en_US $ echo * a B c D e...
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thad_floryan
May 4, 2012 9:25 pm
... There's a BIG difference between a casual home user and an enterprise especially when the enterprise's software is typically supported for a decade or...
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thad_floryan
May 5, 2012 12:35 am
Software Protection Initiative (SPI) has announced the release of Lightweight Portable Security 1.3.4, an updated version of the project's security live CD...
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ed
psy80uk
May 5, 2012 7:20 am
... I must have changed my environment then, that'd explain it. ... Sounds sensible, otherwise there could be unexpected (at least for me) behaviour. -- Best...
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thad_floryan
May 5, 2012 7:52 am
... In a similar vein, $PATH is another issue, especially for cron jobs. I always source a file containing my PATH defs and other misc. For awhile years ago I...
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thad_floryan
May 5, 2012 6:40 pm
" Microsoft has drastically overhauled the network running its " Skype voice-over-IP service, replacing peer-to-peer client " machines with thousands of Linux...
60656
Pascal
pascal.hasko
May 5, 2012 8:30 pm
Hey guys, it would be great if someone could help me with the following problems. More than a year ago I set up a Debian Wheezy (Testing) 32bit on my laptopm...
60657
thad_floryan
May 7, 2012 9:16 pm
Saw a reference to this today -- I consider Linux and UNIX as being on a level playing field (having used both since their respective day 1s) so this isn't too...
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ed
psy80uk
May 8, 2012 8:22 pm
... Following on from that, <http://www.usenix.org.uk/code/sun_microsystems/SunMicro.Stereo.Final.8.10.2003.mp3> I don't have any lyrics written down for those...
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thad_floryan
May 8, 2012 10:23 pm
... Here's a catchy tune (this one with lyric subtitles) from PORTAL -- its endgame song: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_%28video_game%29> with info...
