GNOME2 support revisited
by Bill Davidsen
Now that MINT has both a GNOME2 port and ax extension (plugin, whatever) for
GNOME3 to make it usable without user retraining, will these features be
available in Fedora17, or has the move to kill GNOME2 become a holy war.
We support RHEL6 installations, and in addition to training time and application
(re)development costs, people complain that switching between GUI hurts
productivity, creates typos, etc, etc. People spend time whining about it, that
definitely hurts productivity.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
12 years, 4 months
KVM virtual machine transfer query
by Sanjay Arora
Hello all
I have a question. Can a kvm virtual machine, a linux or windows guest,
generated of fedora, be transfered to a rhel machine and started? or vice
versa?
Please note, I am not talking of live migration. Just transferring files
generated on one OS & running on the another? And what if hardware of the
machines is different?
With best regards.
Sanjay.
12 years, 4 months
Midnight commander: ALT+ENTER does no longer work
by Heinz Diehl
Hei,
upgraded to F16 (from F15) today. Now, mc lost its ALT+ENTER and
CTRL+ENTER functionality to paste text into the command line (like
ESC+ENTER does).
I recompiled with "--with-x" (which is not standard in Fedora) and got
back the CTRL+ENTER combination, but not ALT+ENTER.
Does anybody know what's happened here?
12 years, 4 months
Re: users Digest, Vol 94, Issue 12
by Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 08:40 +0000, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
wrote:
> >
> > - that regardless of you feelings of Gnome 3, there are
> people who
> > actually like it,
>
> Yes, you and some other clueless twitters.
>
Uncalled for, even in a flame war. If you must waste electrons with
this crap, please stick to attacking the object of your animus and leave
the rest of us out of it.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
12 years, 4 months
question on gdb
by Paul Allen Newell
Community:
I am trying to run gdb on a program that is crashing and I am getting
messages of:
+++
Missing separate debuginfos, use debug-install glibc-2.13.2.x86_64
libgcc-4.5.1.fc14.x86_64 libg++-4.5.1.fc14.x86_64
libstdc++-4.5.1.fc14.x86_64
---
Googling is not giving me anything that I either understand or trust.
Querying yum with -list isn't giving me any insight.
Is this message asking me to add something to the compile line or
something to gdb? And, in either case, what is it asking for.
I'm hoping someone on this list has run into this debugging C++ and can
clue me into where I need to look.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
12 years, 4 months
Numlock warning on password entry boxes
by Chris Bredesen
Why does GNOME warn me that numlock is on? I get warning for capslock;
you can unknowingly botch a password. But numlock? Are there keyboards
for which the non-numeric keys on the d-pad can type valid characters?
Seems odd but I don't want to file a bug until I understand why it is
the way it is; I'm probably missing something.
-CB
12 years, 4 months
FC16 update problems - more info
by Elliott Chapin
I hope this helps break up my logjam. Following is amended output from
yum update and yum update --skip-broken:
Skipped (dependency problems):
firefox x86_64
8.0-3.fc16 updates
18 M
xulrunner x86_64
8.0-1.fc16 updates
10 M
xulrunner-devel x86_64
8.0-1.fc16 updates
3.8 M
--------------------------------------------
ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64 is needed by (installed)
kmod-wl-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.7.x86_64
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 is needed by (installed)
kmod-wl-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.8.x86_64
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 is needed by (installed)
kmod-wl-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.9.x86_64
Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report
** Found 9 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
kmod-wl-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.7.x86_64 has missing
requires of kernel-uname-r = ('0', '2.6.40.3', '0.fc15.x86_64')
kmod-wl-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.8.x86_64 has missing
requires of kernel-uname-r = ('0', '2.6.40.4', '5.fc15.x86_64')
kmod-wl-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.9.x86_64 has missing
requires of kernel-uname-r = ('0', '2.6.40.6', '0.fc15.x86_64')
perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.09-1.fc15.5.x86_64 has missing requires of
perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.12.4)
qyoto-4.6.5-1.fc15.x86_64 has missing requires of
libqscintilla2.so.5()(64bit)
xdtv-2.4.1-0.6cvs15.fc12.x86_64 has missing requires of
libavcodec.so.52()(64bit)
xdtv-2.4.1-0.6cvs15.fc12.x86_64 has missing requires of
libavformat.so.52()(64bit)
xdtv-2.4.1-0.6cvs15.fc12.x86_64 has missing requires of
libavutil.so.50()(64bit)
xdtv-2.4.1-0.6cvs15.fc12.x86_64 has missing requires of
libswscale.so.0()(64bit)
--
clients.teksavvy.com/~echapin
12 years, 4 months
Partition Management
by mike
My wife's machine is a full up FC14 x86_64 and I now have the joy of
trying to put windows XP on due to constraints at her work.
I figured no problem, Install windows from scratch and constrain the
partition size and reinstall Fedora. Windows setup craps out with an
error message saying the drive is corrupted. The best I can figure is
that it can't for some reason overwrite Fedora.
Any clues on how to clear enough space for Windows or erase the disk so
I can make it a dual boot in the normal fashion?
Thanks
Mike D.
12 years, 4 months
F16 unusable with intel 945GME video
by Konstantin Svist
Samsung n130 netbook with Intel 945GME chipset.
Fedora 14 worked well enough, but I decided to upgrade. Upgrade got
messed up, so I reinstalled from F16 Live CD.
With modeset (default), plymouth graphical works but the login screen
never appears. With nomodeset, native resolution can't be used.
12 years, 4 months