Installing Fedora-9 from Live CD - silent update
by Timothy Murphy
I just installed F-9 on a ThinkPad T43 from the KDE Live CD.
All went well, but after the installation
I was told that there were some important updates to install.
I agreed to the installation, but thereafter as far as I could see
I was given no information about its progress.
I saw from "top" that system-update was running,
and I could see that there was some disk activity -
but it was strange (to me) that I did not get
the usual report on yum activity.
If this normally occurs, it seems to me that it could cause problems,
since someone might easily re-boot while the installation
was only half-say through, leaving something of a mess.
15 years, 11 months
Huh? ~/.xsession no longer honored?
by Tom Horsley
Finally got enough stuff working on F9 that I thought
I could finish customizing it the way I have F8, but
when I create a ~/.xsession script, it don't run it.
What the heck do I have to do to get gdm to start
my own custom session script in F9???
15 years, 11 months
testing hardware - use what software ?
by Development discussions related to Fedora
I have a PC that is failing intermittently. What are the best choice for
attempting to pinpoint a hardware fault - in terms of either fedora
packaged or other open sourcesoftware ?
Perhaps there is something that can both perform one of and 'to death'
tests of various PC components, and components in combination, and also
provide peak workload for all subsystems at once, in an attempt to
generate a slow to occur failure.
I know about memtest, and read-only disk tests from fsck. Any others ?
DaveT.
15 years, 11 months
PGP signatures.
by Mikkel
I wish people sign their messages using PGP would make sure to
upload their public key to one of the key servers. While it does not
prove you are who you say you are, it would indicate that all the
signed messages are from the same person. Without your public key,
we have no way to check.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
15 years, 11 months
openoffice command line printing...
by Kevin Martin
What I'm trying to do is convert a bunch of Excel files to PDF. I can open the Excel files in oocalc and export to PDF but I've
been reading that you can do this same thing by using Cups-PDF and "soffice -pt "Cups-PDF" file.xls' and it will fire up oocalc and,
essentially, use the Cups-PDF "printer" to save the file out as a .pdf file. Well, that's not working for me. I never get an
output file when I run the command from the command line and I can't figure out why. I'm running on Fedora 8 with the latest
openoffice, cups, cups-pdf rpms for that platform. Can somebody else try on their end and see if it works for them? FWIW, "soffice
-p file.xls" doesn't print my file to the default printer either.
Thanks.
Kevin
15 years, 11 months
xorg-x11-drv-mga problems
by Frederick William New
Does anyone else have problems with the xorg-x11-drv-mga driver on Fedora 9? (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442533)
Two of my three Fedora systems have Matrox G550 AGP video cards, and one is about to reach Fedora 7's end of life.
Is there something I can do to help debug this? Is it valid to file a bug upstream against a Fedora driver?
Fred New
15 years, 11 months
surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?
by Tim
Hi,
While looking through the updates mail, I saw something that sounded
intriguing, "hamster-applet." Did a yum info query on it, then thought
I'd install it to have a look. But it wanted to drag in a ridiculous
number of dependencies, most of them devel packages.
Surely a precompiled non-devel RPM shouldn't be dragging in development
packages? That's got to be a major design screw up. Doesn't
incorporating a package into a repo involve some sort of checking
procedure to reject packages trying to do that sort of nonsense?
(Non-devel packages depending on devel packages.)
yum install hamster-applet
...[snip]...
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
hamster-applet i386 0.4-1.fc9 updates 133 k
Installing for dependencies:
GConf2-devel i386 2.22.0-1.fc9 fedora 103 k
ORBit2-devel i386 2.14.12-3.fc9 fedora 187 k
alsa-lib-devel i386 1.0.16-3.fc9 fedora 963 k
audiofile-devel i386 1:0.2.6-8.fc9 fedora 16 k
autoconf noarch 2.61-10.fc9 fedora 800 k
automake noarch 1.10.1-2 fedora 532 k
dbus-devel i386 1.2.1-1.fc9 fedora 41 k
dbus-glib-devel i386 0.74-6.fc9 fedora 40 k
docbook-dtds noarch 1.0-35.fc9 fedora 815 k
docbook-style-dsssl noarch 1.79-5.fc9 fedora 317 k
docbook-style-xsl noarch 1.73.2-9.fc9 fedora 2.9 M
docbook-utils noarch 0.6.14-13.fc9 fedora 67 k
esound-devel i386 1:0.2.38-7.fc9 fedora 18 k
evolution-data-server-devel i386 2.22.1-2.fc9 fedora 276 k
evolution-data-server-doc i386 2.22.1-2.fc9 fedora 515 k
glib2-devel i386 2.16.3-5.fc9 fedora 1.2 M
gnome-python2-evolution i386 2.22.0-2.fc9 fedora 36 k
gnome-vfs2-devel i386 2.22.0-1.fc9 fedora 260 k
gnutls-devel i386 2.0.4-3.fc9 updates 1.3 M
gtk-doc noarch 1.9-4.fc9 fedora 132 k
hal-devel i386 0.5.11-1.fc9 updates 32 k
imake i386 1.0.2-6.fc9 fedora 313 k
indent i386 2.2.10-1.fc9 fedora 116 k
libIDL-devel i386 0.8.10-2.fc9 fedora 19 k
libbonobo-devel i386 2.22.0-2.fc9 fedora 509 k
libgcrypt-devel i386 1.4.0-3 fedora 87 k
libgnome-devel i386 2.22.0-3.fc9 fedora 84 k
libgpg-error-devel i386 1.6-2 fedora 12 k
libsoup-devel i386 2.4.1-1.fc9 fedora 158 k
libxml2-devel i386 2.6.32-2.fc9 updates 2.2 M
libxslt-devel i386 1.1.24-1.fc9 updates 329 k
openjade i386 1.3.2-31.fc9 fedora 986 k
opensp i386 1.5.2-7.fc9 fedora 1.1 M
perl-SGMLSpm noarch 1.03ii-18.fc9 fedora 25 k
popt-devel i386 1.13-3.fc9 fedora 395 k
python-sqlite2 i386 1:2.3.3-3.fc9 fedora 82 k
sgml-common noarch 0.6.3-23.fc9 fedora 43 k
zlib-devel i386 1.2.3-18.fc9 fedora 42 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 39 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 17 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686
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15 years, 11 months
Boot Options for Fedora 9 LiveCD
by Rick Bilonick
I'm confused as to what to include for boot options when booting the
Fedora 9 LiveCD. I'm trying to get this to work for my HP 2133 so I can
test out F9. It boots from the external DVD/CD drive but ends up with a
sort of blank screen. I can't get to a console. I did try to remove the
"rhgb" and "quiet" from the boot command. This showed a lot more info
and for a time I was able to ctrl alt f1 to a console but it locks up
and the blank screen returns.
Could someone suggest what options might be useful? (To get the boot
command I hit tab.)
Rick B.
15 years, 11 months
VIM Q again
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I'm in the process is adding comments so I can figure out what some disassembled
code that is about 25 years old is doing. We've found a couple of buglets we
would like to fix in the last few years & we're tired of working around them
with a disk editor.
However adding the missing comments is severely hampered by vim's apparent
inability to do a global search and replace with the example shown in
the ":help change" portion of the online help. That BTW isn't working either
by the usual put the cursor on the help item and hitting ctrl- as the help says
it should. The "ctrl-" is ignored.
So what am I doing wrong when in the command mode, I type
/s/L1BAE/isspace/&g, or :s/L1BAE/isspace/&g
either syntax reports a spurious string error or similar squawk. And of course
does nothing. I even tried the :promptrepl trick but it just puts the curser
on the next line.
Is my vim busted or suffering from bit rot? F8 install, uptodate yesterday.
Thanks.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
-- R. A. Heinlein
15 years, 11 months
F-9 asking the same question twice
by Timothy Murphy
When I go to f=>Leave I am asked
if I want to Shutdown or Restart.
If I choose Shutdown I am then asked again
if I want to Shutdown or Restart.
There is the same double question
when I am told there are some new packages available,
and I am asked if I want to update.
When I say I do, I am told what the packages are
and then asked again if I want to update.
If I didn't want to update I would not opt to do so.
I find this kind of double questioning slightly annoying ...
15 years, 11 months