why does yelp depend on mozilla?
by Jason Dravet
Why does yelp depend on moziila? It is the only application that does.
There has been a bug opened since May 2005 to have the dependency updated.
Thanks,
Jason
18 years, 4 months
Mono app packaging
by Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi,
I noticed that at least in the packages for f-spot and beagle the
executable binaries are located in "/usr/lib/<app>/*.exe" and that
"/usr/bin" merely contains stub scripts that call these executables. This
looks quite ugly to me as it defeats the standard filesystem hierarchy so
is this something temporary or is this so kind of "best practice" for mono
applications?
Regards,
Dennis
18 years, 4 months
Slow refresh: nautilus
by Ivan Gyurdiev
Hi, you might remember I wrote about patterned slowdown over the GNOME
desktop last week. Since then my superblock was corrupted, the entire
root partition was lost, and I had to reinstall (twice). On the bright
side, the new Fedora system is much faster than before, and does not
suffer from the slowdown issue. I am using the latest kernel now, with
the oss nv driver.
But... I do see a strange issue, that I don't think is normal. When
switching from a maximized app to an empty workspace, redraw of the
background is particularly slow - it takes about 1 sec on Athlon 1600+.
During that time the icons disappear. This might not seem slow, but it
gets really annoying. The CPU spikes to 100% every time. I see the same
thing when opening new folders in nautilus. I don't use nautilus for
file management, but I imagine this would be really annoying for those
that do. (as an aside, I am trying to test this w/ fullscreen folders,
but the spatial feature that remembers where each folder was opened and
how large it is doesn't seem to work currently)
Is anyone else seeing the same issue.....
I was not seeing this before, but I was using the accelerated nvidia driver.
18 years, 4 months
Re: rawhide report: 20060110 changes [extras packages moved to core]
by Gianluca Cecchi
On 1/11/06, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com> wrote:
>I can hold up my wife as an example of your analysis of how a "normal
>user" wants to interact with photos. She goes through the trouble of
>booting back into windows to use picasa because of its photo
>management capabilities. It will be interesting to see if f-spot means
>the functionality bar to make booting into windows no longer worth the
>effort.
Are there "official" statements about directives for core/extra inclusion?
Are kde based packages automatically in extra?
If this is not the case, why not include digikam and
digikamimageplugins packages for photo management?
digiKam employs the gPhoto2 program to communicate with digital still
cameras; whith older ones that are not directly supported by gPhoto2,
there is support for the Mass Storage protocol (USB and FireWire).
I'm using without any problem on my fc5 devel updated at yesterday changes
digikam-0.8.0-11.fc5.i386.rpm,
digikam-devel-0.8.0-11.fc5.i386.rpm
and digikamimageplugins 0.8 (based on digikamimageplugins-0.7.4-9.fc5 spec file
after downlaoding source and updating spec file; already contacted mantainer)
I think is the best for centralized photo management.
See project page at:
http://www.digikam.org/
Screenshots at:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=image
Gianluca
18 years, 4 months
Extra CDs packages installation gone in firstboot?
by Matthias Saou
Hi,
I just installed the development tree for the first time in a while
yesterday, and was a bit surprised and disappointed to see that the
firstboot step to install packages from "Extra" CDs was gone (which AFAIK
has only ever been used in RHEL).
Is it just temporary because of the changes to all the package related
tools to use yum as a backend, or is this final? In FC4 it apparently
didn't work anyway, so as long as system-cdinstall-helper is still there
for installing the same stuff after firstboot, from nautilus using the
"autorun" script, it's no big deal anyway.
For those curious about why I'm concerned, it's because I've created
(finally, I had that in mind for a looong while) a CD for FC4 i386 which
includes all freshrpms.net packages, so that users with no or slow
Internet connections can nevertheless easily install full-featured
multimedia players etc.
A bit more information here :
http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2006-January/013758.html
The current goal was to demonstrate the possibility of creating such a
compilation of package, which is now done. But I really think that some
specialized CDs (Games, Office, Desktops...) or a big fat DVD of snapshots
of Fedora Extras packages would be really nice too...
Matthias
--
Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/
Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) - Linux kernel 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
Load : 0.14 0.19 0.19
18 years, 4 months
In search of a PyGtk and Glade tutorial
by Arthur Pemberton
Hey guys,
I want to attempt my first GUI program. I would like to use PyGtk and Glade.
RIgth now I am having serious issues understanding the basics of layout with
Gtk (the last time I did a GUI app was in Delphi) I am just not gettign the
widgets to go into any type of proportion. When I use the box widgets for
layout, they seem to immediately take up all the space.
So I am looking for recommendation on a Glade tutorial. I have done sone
googling, but most of the results i see aren't to actual tutorials.
Please advise. I would like to begin contributting but need to develop these
skills.
Thank you.
--
As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
18 years, 4 months
rawhide report: 20060111 changes
by Build System
Removed package perseus-dependency
Removed package perseus-distribution
Removed package jonas
Removed package fractal
Removed package jonathan-core
Removed package p6spy
Removed package jakarta-commons-cli
Removed package dtdparser
Removed package nanoxml
Removed package howl-logger
Removed package perseus-fos
Removed package jorm
Removed package asm
Removed package perseus-persistence
Removed package medor-expression
Removed package jotm
Removed package oldkilim
Removed package objectweb-anttask
Removed package perseus-concurrency
Removed package gif89encoder
Removed package jonathan-jeremie
Removed package monolog
Removed package perseus-pool
Removed package medor
Removed package joram
Removed package perseus-cache
Removed package carol
Removed package objectweb-deploysched
Removed package jorm-rdb-adapter
Removed package gnu.regexp
Removed package jonas
Updated Packages:
GFS-kernel-2.6.14.1-20051219.162641.FC5.8
-----------------------------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
anaconda-10.91.2-1
------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 10.91.2-1
- fix hard drive installs (pjones)
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 10.91.1-1
- more ppc rescue image (jkeating)
- actually commit the dmraid fix (pjones)
cman-kernel-2.6.14.1-20051219.162641.FC5.9
------------------------------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt again
dlm-kernel-2.6.14.1-20051219.162641.FC5.7
-----------------------------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
fontconfig-2.3.93-3
-------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.3.93-3
- prereq coreutils for mkdir/touch in %post
gimp-2:2.2.10-2
---------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com>
- rebuild with lcms
* Thu Dec 29 2005 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 2.2.10
- version 2.2.10
gstreamer08-0.8.11-3
--------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 0.8.11-3
- requires(pre) coreutils, since we call env
gtk2-engines-2.7.2-2
--------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.7.2-2
- fix handle drawing bugs from F-Spot and gnome-panel
- change %makeinstall to make install DESTDIR=...
kudzu-1.2.18-1
--------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.18-1
- add missing fchdir in pcmcia code
- fix segfault if pcmcia network devices are found before their drivers
are loaded (#174341)
selinux-policy-2.1.8-3
----------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.1.8-3
- More Fixes for hal and readahead
vte-0.11.16-2.fc5.1
-------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 0.11.16-2
- prereq initscripts as it creates the utmp group
xen-3.0-0.20060110.fc5.2
------------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 <sct(a)redhat.com> - 3.0-0.20060110.fc5.1
- Update to xen-unstable from 20060110 (cset 8526)
xorg-x11-xfs-1:1.0.0-2
----------------------
* Tue Jan 10 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1:1.0.0-2
- fix %post script (#176009, <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi>)
Broken deps for i386
----------------------------------------------------------
gnbd-kernel - 2.6.14.0-20051108.134753.FC5.12.30.i686 requires kernel = 0:2.6.14-1.1805_FC5
gnbd-kernel - 2.6.14.0-20051108.134753.FC5.12.30.i686 requires /lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1805_FC5
gnbd-kernel-smp - 2.6.14.0-20051108.134753.FC5.12.30.i686 requires kernel-smp = 0:2.6.14-1.1805_FC5
gnbd-kernel-smp - 2.6.14.0-20051108.134753.FC5.12.30.i686 requires /lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1805_FC5smp
jacorb - 2.2-3jpp_3fc.i386 requires libgcj.so.6
Broken deps for ia64
----------------------------------------------------------
jacorb - 2.2-3jpp_3fc.ia64 requires libgcj.so.6()(64bit)
rgmanager - 1.9.31-3.ia64 requires ccs
Broken deps for ppc
----------------------------------------------------------
cman - 1.0.3-5.FC5.ppc requires cman-kernel-modules >= 0:2.6.11
dlm - 1.0.0-7.FC5.ppc requires dlm-kernel-modules >= 0:2.6.11
gnbd - 1.0.1-2.ppc requires gnbd-kernel-modules >= 0:2.6.11
jacorb - 2.2-3jpp_3fc.ppc requires libgcj.so.6
Broken deps for ppc64
----------------------------------------------------------
cman - 1.0.3-5.FC5.ppc64 requires cman-kernel-modules >= 0:2.6.11
dlm - 1.0.0-7.FC5.ppc64 requires dlm-kernel-modules >= 0:2.6.11
emacs - 21.4-5.ppc64 requires fonts-xorg-75dpi
gnbd - 1.0.1-2.ppc64 requires gnbd-kernel-modules >= 0:2.6.11
jacorb - 2.2-3jpp_3fc.ppc64 requires libgcj.so.6()(64bit)
Broken deps for s390
----------------------------------------------------------
jacorb - 2.2-3jpp_3fc.s390 requires libgcj.so.6
Broken deps for s390x
----------------------------------------------------------
jacorb - 2.2-3jpp_3fc.s390x requires libgcj.so.6()(64bit)
libvte-java - 0.11.11-7.s390x requires libgtkjava-2.8.so()(64bit)
libvte-java - 0.11.11-7.s390x requires libgtkjni-2.8.so()(64bit)
Broken deps for x86_64
----------------------------------------------------------
gnbd-kernel - 2.6.14.0-20051108.134753.FC5.12.30.x86_64 requires kernel = 0:2.6.14-1.1805_FC5
gnbd-kernel - 2.6.14.0-20051108.134753.FC5.12.30.x86_64 requires /lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1805_FC5
jacorb - 2.2-3jpp_3fc.x86_64 requires libgcj.so.6()(64bit)
18 years, 4 months
xorg crashing on x86_64
by Sadda Teh
After latest rawhide update, xorg no longer starts up. From the log:
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Jan 10 20:42:01 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) | |-->Device "Videocard0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100"
(==) RgbPath set to "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/lib/X11/rgb'
(II) Module ABI versions:
X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
X.Org Video Driver: 0.8
X.Org XInput driver : 0.5
X.Org Server Extension : 0.2
X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap
(II) UnloadModule: "bitmap"
(EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libpcidata.so
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.99.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
Fatal server error:
Unable to load required base modules, Exiting...
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
Also, yum emitted an error (something about -e compilation error or
something along these lines) when it updated xorg-x11-xfs.
My system is an Athlon 64 3200+, motherboard is an Asus A8N-VM (NForce 410
with integrated GeForce 6100).
Also, here's a snip from /var/log/messages:
Jan 10 20:38:12 codebeast gdm[2255]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
error - Restarting :0
Jan 10 20:38:16 codebeast gdm[2270]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
error - Restarting :0
Jan 10 20:38:20 codebeast gdm[2282]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
error - Restarting :0
Jan 10 20:38:20 codebeast gdm[2223]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the
XKeepsCrashing script
Jan 10 20:38:28 codebeast gdm[2223]: Failed to start X server several times
in a short time period; disabling display :0
18 years, 4 months
SATA Suspend Kernel Patch
by D Canfield
Is there any chance we're going to see the SATA Suspend kernel patch
included in FC5 (BZ 169201)? I don't understand what the holdup is from
it getting into Linus's tree (he's asked someone to submit it to him),
but every other major distro seems to be using it successfully and it
seems like one of the test releases would be a good time to try it if
there's concern about it's stability. Just wondering if anyone knew the
status.
Thanks
DC
18 years, 4 months