Re: Yum issues..
by dcooke@efn.org
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 08:21:43 +0200
> From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Yum issues..
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> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:26:00 -0700 (PDT), dcooke(a)efn.org wrote:
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>> [root@boatbuyer images]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
>> [fedora]
>> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch failovermethod=priority
>> baseurl=ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releas
>> es/10/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-*noarch.rpm
>> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/rele
>> ases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
>>
>
> In above baseurl you did something that won't work. The baseurl=
> parameter must point to a location, which contains a "repodata"
> directory. Yum expects to find the repository metadata files in
> there and appends repodata/repomd.xml to the baseurl path prior to
> trying to download the repository index file.
Yes, repomd.xml was giving an error.
Do you have a reliable baseurl or the contents of a sample file?
>
> For Yum-based distribution upgrades (e.g. from FC5 to F10) you
> need to adjust all relevant baseurl parameters to point to valid
> locations for the target distribution. Typically one upgrades the
> "fedora-release"
> manually, so one can keep pristine repository definition files and
> rely on the $releasever variable to expand to "10" automatically.
>
>
Thank you for pointing this out. Pristine sounds like a file that
works.
Each piece of information I relish. Get enough pieces, wa-lah, it's
all together...and yum is working again.
David
15 years, 2 months
Re: Resizing with gparted for Fedora installation
by Rami Rosen
Hello,
It seems to me that there is no need for defrag; and there **is** a
change between resizing with ntfsresize and gparted.
According to "man ntfsresize":
"Defragmentation is NOT required prior to resizing because the
program can relocate any data if needed, without risking data integrity."
and also:
"Similarly to other command line filesystem resizers, ntfsresize doesn’t
manipulate the size of the partitions, hence to do that you must use
a disk partitioning tool as well, for example fdisk(8)."
Regards,
Rami Rosen
15 years, 2 months
the new KDE 4.2 (or so)
by "Stanisław T. Findeisen"
I just wanted to share my opinion about the new KDE in Fedora 10 (KDE
4.2 or so).
KDE has been my favourite desktop environment for *years* (8-10 or so).
The old one in Fedora 8 (KDE 3.5 or so) was great.
Unfortunately, the new one (4.2 or so) is *so heavy*, *so buggy* and so
*unusable at all* that I am trying to find an alternative. It looks as
if someone thought that simple, fast and stable things are bad. :-/
What do you think about it?
STF
=======================================================================
http://eisenbits.homelinux.net/~stf/
OpenPGP: 9D25 3D89 75F1 DF1D F434 25D7 E87F A1B9 B80F 8062
=======================================================================
15 years, 2 months
F10 locked up while installing dl'd updates
by Nigel Henry
First I must say that the F10 freezup, was not F10's fault, but a continuing
problem I have with my Asus M2N-X Plus mobo, as it happens with other
distros.
Back to the plot.
While the updates on F10 were installing, the machine decided to freeze. No
keyboard, no mouse, no nothing, except a static image on KDE, like a
screenshot. I had no alternative, but to press the reboot button.
When I've had this happen on Debian installs, I run apt-get dist-upgrade, and
apt-get complains, telling me to run, dpkg-reconfigure -a. This fixes the
problem with packages that were partially installed when the machine froze
up, then running apt-get dist-upgrade again, the remaining packages are
installed.
When F10 rebooted, I ran apt-get dist-upgrade (I use apt on Fedora), but
apt-get complained about dependency problems due to duplicate packages on the
system.
Apt-get gave the following errors.
E: Transaction set check failed
E: Handler silently failed
I tried various suggestions from apt-get, like, apt-get --fix-broken install,
with no success.
After a serious session of rpm -e on the various packages that had duplicates,
some 3hrs later, I had reduced the list of problem packages to zero, and ran
apt-get dist-upgrade again, which now continued with installing the remaining
packages.
The question is, is there some command I could have used on Fedora, similar to
the Debian, dpkg-reconfigure -a, which is able to resolve problems with
partially installed packages, when you get a power out, or in my case, the
machine decides to freeze up, while installing the updates.
I had a good look in the man page for rpm, but couldn't see anything there
that might help, but there may be other commands not in the man page of
course.
As usual, thanks for any suggestions.
Nigel.
15 years, 2 months
ToDo,notes,planning sw
by David Hláčik
Hello guys,
I am looking for an easy interesting program for gnome for making
notes , basic planning. Like ToDo per day with quick reminder (just
optional).
Thanks,
David
15 years, 2 months
Re: Suspend fails using fglrx on F10 (Joonas Saraj?rvi)
by William John Murray
>> Hello all,
>> I have an old Dell D610 (R300) which was doing
>> what I wanted (films, openarena, tv-out, suspend) with Fedora
>> 10 until fglrx 9.2 (or was it 9.1?) arrived. Anyway 9.3 didn't help.
>>
>> Now suspend fails. Black screen if you try. The log file
>> <http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16312#>
>> after reboot, thinks it succeeded. Does anyone have it working?
>> Do I have to unload fglrx manually?
>> Thanks for any clues - its a major hassle for me.
>> Bill
>>
>>
>
> While I can't help with debugging the situtation, I'd recommend
> switching to the free drivers, because
>
> 1) They are free software
> 2) They are really supported in Fedora
> 3) They should work on your hardware out-of-the-box
> 4) The next fgrlx release from AMD is going to drop support for
> R300-based Radeon cards.
>
>
Hi Joonas,
You are correct of course. But they are just too slow on
my relatively old hardware,
I cannot, for example, watch a film comfortably fir the radeon driver. But
I did put in a bug report for the recent bugzilla day...
Bill
15 years, 2 months
jre-6u13-linux-x64-rpm ??
by Jim
FC10-X86_64 / KDE
I have the jre-6u13-linux-x64-rpm installed on my X86_64 box but can't
get JRE plugin to show in Firefox, about:plugins
What am I not doing right ??
# locate libjavaplugin
/etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_13/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_jni.so
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libjavaplugin_jni.so
/var/lib/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64
15 years, 2 months
sound is unstable after last updates
by Kevin Kempter
After the last kernel update my sound now works great for the login, logout,
etc sounds but if I play music with amarok, kaffiene or rhythm box (havent tried
any others) then it plays fine for about a minute then turns to fuzzy
intermittent attempts to play and it appears to be sucking up the cpu since
the mouse becomes less responsive and killing the program at that point is a
slow process.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance
15 years, 2 months
Final Details of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC'
by Rohit Gupta
Date of inauguration Followed by FOSS Events: 18th April, 2009
1. The 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' will be the support and
development group for FOSS (Free and Open Source Software).
2. The membership of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' is open to all,
even from other colleges.
3. A candidate will have to Register for membership and join the
mailing list of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' to be considered as a member.
Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/kgeclug
After completing this process, the candidate will be given the membership
certificate.
4. The members of the 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' can request free
media (CD's and DVD's) of any available Linux Distribution to the
core-committee.
5. The members of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' can post all their
Linux related problems in the Mailing List and can also help with the
solution of others problem. The Mailing List also has experts from the FOSS
community to guide and help with the solution.
6. There will be a core-committee of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC'
whose members will be sound in Technical Skill.
7. The core-committee will help the Linux users (support) and will use
their skills for contribution to FOSS community (Development).
8. The core-committee members will take decisions of 'GNU/Linux User
Group of KGEC' and carry on FOSS Events.
9. The core-committee members will install and maintain few computers
assigned to the 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' in Library and Computer Labs
of KGEC.
10. The core-committee members will do their work after the college hour
(since it is branch and year independent).
11. The membership of core-committee is open to all KGEC Students.
12. A candidate can get the membership of the core-committee after
completing the following process:
a. The candidate will have to be a member of 'GNU/Linux User Group of
KGEC'.
b. The candidate will have to register for membership in core-committee.
c. The candidate will have to actively participate and work under the
guidance of the existing core committee.
d. After a month, the candidate will be considered a member of the
core-committee if the existing core-committee feels that the candidate has
worked for the core-committee and is possessing necessary technical skills
for the post. Skills Required:
i) The candidate should be able to perform installation and configure a
Linux System and use it for all basic needs (music, internet, LAN, CD
writing, etc)
ii) The candidate should have the knowledge of partitioning and Linux
file-systems.
iii) The candidate should be able to solve basic problems of users.
e. The candidate will be given the core-committee membership
certificate.
f. If the candidate is still not well suited for the post, he/she will
have to continue his/her activities with the core-committee for few more
days as a non core-committee member. Eventually the membership will be
approved.
13. The Secretary will be the head of core-committee.
14. The President will be the head of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC'.
15. The Treasurer will be in charge of all the Funds of 'GNU/Linux User
Group of KGEC'.
Secretary: Rohit Gupta (IT-2nd year, KGEC)
President: Mr. Kousik Dasgupta (Lecturer, Dept of CSE)
Treasurer: Prof. Satadal Mal (HOD, Dept. of EE)
No. of Computers expected and Details:
a) 1 (one) in Library (already installed).
b) 5 (Five) from every Department (CSE, EE, IT, ME, ECE, MCA).
c) The maintainance of computers will be done after college hours (5 pm).
d)Each computer will have the label as "Maintained by GNU/LUG of KGEC".
Work already Done:
1) Having Successfully conducting an installfest in KGEC. Details:
http://kgeclug.blog.co.in/
Photo Gallery:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/kgec/
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/kgeclug/KGECInstallfest09
http://www.flickr.com/photos/indradg/sets/72157614247371239/
2) Setting up a computer in the college Library which has public access with
a poster as 'Maintained by GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC'.
3) Starting the Linux For You Magazine in college. Starting this month
(April '09).
4) We have the full fedora repository (25.7 GB) for Intel architecture. So
no internet connection required for installation of additional software.
5) We have loads of many other different distributions (ubuntu, suse,
slackware, etc).
6) The setting up of full fedora repo in RBC and VC.
Membership Fees:
1. For membership of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' : Rs. 60
2. For membership in core-committee of 'GNU/Linux User Group of KGEC' :
Rs. 30
15 years, 2 months
Re: Yum issues..
by dcooke@efn.org
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:07:52 -0700
> From: Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com>
> Subject: Re: Yum issues..
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
> Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
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>>
>> As mentioned above, I can no longer read my DVD drive or USB's,
>> only HD is available.
>>
> ----
> Fedora 10 has live-cd and full DVD, either of which can be used to
> install Fedora 10 or update to Fedora 10.
Craig,
I ordered a DVD from linuxcentral for update to fc10. I think it
should boot okay. I use Xunbuntu as VM and the drive does respond.
>
> If you cannot boot a CD or DVD and if you cannot boot from USB
> port (i.e. like a USB thumb drive or USB hard disk drive), your
> options are very few.
>
Not to mention the hoops to jump through.
> Using yum to upgrade from Fedora 5 to Fedora 9 or Fedora 10 might
> have been possible while you had interim releases available in
> repositories (i.e. Fedora 6, 7, 8) but I think they have all been
> removed.
I have a core5 DVD here I used in the beginning. Doesn't read with
Gui up but might at start.
>
> Just in case you feel you want to try to pull it off (and I
> seriously don't know how you are going to do that), you will
> definitely want to read this information really carefully...
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>
Could 'do that' with more options if Yum was working...or the DVD.
Does 'dbus' messages at start have anything to do with the DVD?
Found this enticing command-
#Yum erase dbus.i386
>
> There is a major gotcha at Fedora 7 where the ata subsystem is
> replaced by scsi so your drives change from /dev/hda to /dev/sda,
> etc. which affects booting (grub) and fstab and it's clearly a fail
> point.
Im sure we could avoid it.
I can get to grub but I know no commands there, and can also get to
'I'nteractive.
You would also have to find some mirror somewhere that
> didn't purge the old versions of Fedora 6/7/8 so you could interim
> step each upgrade.
>
I found..then lost a mirror site but did/have not found a download
depository yet for fc8 or the others. They may well not exist. Will
look again and keep you updated on this.
> Now I'm somewhat unclear what you're asking about getting the
> system and services back in place...do you mean trying to make
> Fedora 5 work again?
System hangs vicariously on boot. I posted the outputs earlier for
named and messagebus but they were under a different subject line.
We fixed NFS when you sent me to LDAP, I turned it off but won't
find out about it till after I shut down today.
Does dbus_messagebus have anything at all to do with the way Yum
works or two separate issues.
> I wouldn't know what's broken other than some tinkering
> with /etc/yum.repos.d files
This is what I would like to do; delete all those in repos.d and
start over fresh. enter the baseurl's for the versioning,
incremental steps, if they exist. Please advise.
>
> Craig
>
If tinkering with repos.d is of no use, I won't ask for the
impossible. Mailman will be by next week...
Appreciate your help,
David
15 years, 2 months