Today's g-p-m update fails
by Josh
Hello all,
While updating FC5T3 on x96-64 desktop with package updater, g-p-m fails with pop-up window "The Application 'gnome-power-manager' has quit unexpectedly" The rest of the updates installed successfully.
Had to click "Restart application" button, Everything seems to be normal.
Anyone else bumped into this?
Josh
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18 years, 3 months
rawhide error 20060223 updating beagle
by Brian Millett
Error running a post script for beagle.
Updating : beagle ##################### [ 42/165]
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.75111: line 8:
cd: /usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.1/extensions: No such file or directory
unzip: cannot find or
open /usr/lib64/beagle/beagle.xpi, /usr/lib64/beagle/beagle.xpi.zip
or /usr/lib64/beagle/beagle.xpi.ZIP.
grep: beagle-extension/install.rdf: No such file or directory
mv: target `' is not a directory: No such file or directory
error: %trigger(beagle-0.2.1-11.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Well I'm running a toshiba celeron laptop (Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R)
CPU 2.00GHz).
I don't even have a /usr/lib64.
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keep us apart. But what happens when the gloves come off?"
18 years, 3 months
FC4 -> FC5t3 notes
by G.Wolfe Woodbury
I found that /etc/sysconfig/network got overwritten and loses the
hostname.
/etc/yum.repos.d/ files did not get updated correctly, wrong repos left
enabled.
some of the stuff in /etc/sysconfig/networking/ gets scrambled
there is a small thread in fedora-list about some of this.
(me and Nat Gross)
--
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RHCT U
The Line Eater is a boojum!
18 years, 3 months
fc5t3 gui installer "off screen"
by Nat Gross
Hi;
On my Samsung 213T lcd screen, the key installer options (<enter>
<back> <cancel>) were nowhere on the screen (or off the screen, even
if I tried moving the image via the screen hardware menu). It was a
good thing it was from a a dvd iso, because the only thing I saw was
the huge logo, sometimes a progress bar, and sometimes some
instruction to hit a key, but that key-icon was not visible, and I had
to guess the default setting or used alt+key hoping that it will
'take' and not cancel the install.
At one point, while I was pondering what to do (and tried to google
some info on another cpu), the installer timed out waiting and...
continued!
Please excuse me for not using bugzilla. I do not have experience with
that creature.
-nat
18 years, 3 months
Bling!
by Ray Strode
Hi,
As some of you may know, Soeren Sandmann, Kristian Hogsberg, Adam
Jackson, and Kevin Martin have been working on getting special effects
into the desktop. While all their work is in CVS, it's a little hard to
set up, so I thought I'd make packages for people who have wanted to try
the stuff but haven't wanted to spend a lot of time recompiling
everything.
Note it's still takes some effort to get a workable setup and for a lot
of people things won't work at all.
Testing has been mostly done on radeon 7500 (r100) cards. Other cards
probably won't work (but you can still try!).
Steps to test:
1) get the packages from http://people.redhat.com/rstrode/bling
If you point yum to it by creating a repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d, you
should be able to do something like:
yum install mesa-libGL xorg-x11-server-Xair spififity
This will install a specially compiled version of Xorg that supports
accelerated indirect rendering which is the key to making the
compositing manager have a reasonable frame rate. Eventually these
changes will go into the main Xorg package.
The above yum install command will also install a version of metacity
with its compositing manager code turned on. I called the package
spififity so that we can parallel install it with the non-compositing
manager version of metacity.
2) Configure gdm to use the accelerated indirect compiled version of
Xorg. You can probably do something like:
sed -i -e 's/Xorg/Xair/g' /usr/share/gdm/config/gdm.conf-custom
to make that happen.
3) Configure your X server to not use offscreen pixmaps. Strictly
speaking this step is optional, but it should dramatically increase
performance. You can do that by adding
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
to the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Some people
have reported that this option actually breaks things for them, so you
may have to try it with and without.
4) Configure your X server to enable the composite extension. You can do
that by adding
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite"
EndSection
to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
5) restart gdm.
6) Log into GNOME, press alt-f2 to get a run dialog to come up and then
type spififity --replace and press enter.
At this point you may see drops shadows, fading menus and wobbly
minimization effects or your system may freeze or one followed by the
other.
If you see drop shadows and a bunch of solid white windows, you probably
aren't running the right X server. Make sure you're running Xair and
not Xorg.
If after using things for a while all your window borders disappear, you
may have better luck by setting the METACITY_SYNC environment variable
to 1 and rerunning spififity. Setting the environment variable incurs a
minor performance hit, but it will also mask a lingering bug in the
compositing manager code.
Things are still quite raw, so expect things to crash, your system to
lock up, effects to be unpolished, etc.
--Ray
18 years, 3 months
Re: xemacs performance unacceptable
by Horst H. von Brand
Neal Becker <ndbecker2(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> With most recent rawhide updates, performance of editing using xemacs is
> unacceptably slow, because with each character insert, X keeps flashing the
> "busy" pointer.
Not seen here...
What kind of files? Very large, perhaps; or a RAM-challenged machine?
Costly mode in use?
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18 years, 3 months
vino causing high processor usage
by David Bentley
Just gave vino a try on fc5test3 and found that using
vino on the machine by
enabling it in remote desktop has rather a detrimental
effect on system
performace as compared with how it was in FC4.
When idle just viewing the remote destop with nothing
else but system-monitor
running the idle usge on my AMD Athalon 1200 machine
goes up quite alarmingly
to about 50% and the system slows to a crawl as a
result, previously in FC4
on the same hardware this was not evident.
Is anyone else seeing high processor usage when vino
is in use.
18 years, 3 months
FC4 to FC5T3 Update
by John Pearson
Initial impression:
Most things came through. Some did not. The /etc/sysconfig/network was
overwritten; the hostname of the system was lost. The /etc/hosts file
diappeared without backup, the new file containing only the localhost line.
I don't know if it has bearing, but I requested vnc monitoring during the
installation. It did not work, but this was my first try with it. It did
bring up the network configuration dialog. i supplied the static ip and
non-standard gateway settings. But the hostname dialog did not run. i
really didn't expect it, since I requested an upgrade. The information was
already booked in the system.
I did not expect the upgrade to handle the surplus repository definitions.
Looking into /etc/yum.repos.d/
[jpearson@localhost yum.repos.d]$ ls
atrpms.repo fedora.repo.rpmsave
dag.repo fedora-updates.repo
dries.repo fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew
Edward.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo
Edward.repo~ fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmnew
fedora-core.repo freevo.repo
fedora-development.repo freshrpms.repo
fedora-extras-development.repo freshrpms.repo~
fedora-extras.repo livna.repo
fedora-extras.repo.rpmnew
It looks like most of the changes are available. Some notification of
rpmnew, and rpmsave, might be useful. Now that I look:
[jpearson@localhost ~]$ locate rpmnew
/etc/ldap.conf.rpmnew
/etc/localtime.rpmnew
/etc/rndc.key.rpmnew
/etc/updatedb.conf.rpmnew
/etc/vimrc.rpmnew
/etc/X11/fs/config.rpmnew
/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf.rpmnew
/etc/openldap/ldap.conf.rpmnew
/etc/sysconfig/vncservers.rpmnew
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo.rpmnew
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmnew
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew
Thank you for not resetting locate, localtime, logwatch and vncservers.
[jpearson@localhost ~]$ locate rpmsave
/etc/named.conf.rpmsave
/etc/updatedb.conf.rpmsave
/etc/X11/X.rpmsave
/etc/alsa/pcm/dmix.conf.rpmsave
/etc/alsa/pcm/dsnoop.conf.rpmsave
/etc/hotplug/usb.usermap.rpmsave
/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.rpmsave
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo.rpmsave
/usr/share/a2ps/afm/fonts.map.rpmsave
I don't routinely scan for these modifications, although I probably should.
The loss of livna supplied nvidia drivers was transparent. I am impressed
with the care that implies.
I am ready to do the first update. I think that I will try pup.
-Jpearson
18 years, 3 months
FC5T3 iso image question
by John Pearson
I would like to try upgrading my Fedora Core 4 test box. I have been trying
to use torrents with little success. I need an i386 version of the media. I
have tried three times to get a set of cd images, but disc5 and rescuecd fail
at sha1sum. I first tried the dvd image, but that died several times without
completing. I will need the disc5 image to complete the update attempt. Is
there some other source that I could try? Or is there some other way to
create the image that I need.
Thanks,
Jpearson
18 years, 3 months