Creating an rpm from scratch
by Bill Davidsen
I am happy to say the last rpm I had to create was back during 2.5 development
testing days. Now I would find it convenient to roll another, and I'm hoping
there's by now a better tools to help create an rpm from scratch, something more
intuitive than the man page in one window and vi in the other.
Is there?
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have
taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010
11 years, 2 months
Fedora 17 ipv4 inactive
by Frank Murphy
Have googled, and done all I can think
NIC works fine with F17-boot disc in rescue mode.
cat5 cables have been changed and work on other nodes.
Box normally gets it's reserved-ip from Dovado router.
Jumbo frames disabled on everything
# ifconfig eth0 up
# ifconfig
eth0: flags=-28669<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,DYNAMIC> mtu 1500
ether 00:22:3f:f1:f2:d8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 21 bytes 2853 (2.7 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 6 bytes 468 (468.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 12 bytes 840 (840.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 12 bytes 840 (840.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
# cat ifcfg-eth0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Ethernet
HWADDR=00:22:3f:f1:f2:d8
DHCP_HOSTNAME=mybox
ONBOOT=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
--
Regards,
Frank
http//www.frankly3d.com
11 years, 2 months
Issues in upgrade fc16->fc18
by Bill Davidsen
I initially hoped to upgrade to fc17 using preupgrade, then to fc18 using fedup,
but preupgrade failed after spending hours downloading, the actual install run
for about a hour and went out with an error. Since the package is obsolete, I
decided not to chase the problem, but to just do a full install using the fc16
boot, root, and swap.
Existing partitions:
partition use
1 XP
2 Other bootable software
3 LUKS swap, shared between fc14 and fc16
4 extended
5 fc14 boot
6 fc14 root
7 fc16 boot
8 LUKS fc16 root
9 Linux /home
10 Linux /mnt/appdata
I wanted to install fc18 using 3, 7, and 8, since ability to boot fc14 is still
required.
When I selected manual configuration and clicked the swap[3], it asked for the
password and accepted the selection for fc18 swap.
When I selected the fc16 boot[6] as /boot, it accepted that for fc18.
When I selected the fc16 root[8] it promptly set up an fc16 section and put that
partition in a root. After that nothing I tried would move it to the fc18
configuration. It offered to delete the partition, but the concept of doing what
I selected and reusing it seems not possible, or not documented.
Any way to go back to the old installer, which was simple, intuitive and functional?
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have
taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010
11 years, 2 months
F18: Controlling text when doing 'yum search x'
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
What controls yum text color configurations.
It seems that when I do 'yum search <SomeSearchTerm>' the search term
blends in with the background screen color (this is in gnome-terminal;
background is black, text color is cyan).
This seems to have changed with the release of F18.
Thanks.
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
11 years, 2 months
When did yum get all wordy?
by Tom Horsley
I see this in my cron output from last night:
Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:
1. You have an upgrade for sip which is missing some
dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
solve this by installing an older version of sip of the
different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
--exclude sip.otherarch ... this should give you an error
message showing the root cause of the problem.
2. You have multiple architectures of sip installed, but
yum can only see an upgrade for one of those arcitectures.
If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
can remove the one with the missing update and everything
will work.
3. You have duplicate versions of sip installed already.
You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.
...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
much more problems).
Protected multilib versions: sip-4.14.4-1.fc17.x86_64 != sip-4.13.2-1.fc17.i686
And if it is gonna spew out a big spiel like this, shouldn't it mention
that actual cause of 99.999999% of all multilib problems: The 32 and
64 bit versions are not in sync in the repos and if you wait a bit, they'll
be back in sync again.
11 years, 2 months
latex
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
lyx works fine but not latex, in fact bibtex!
I get the following error:
I couldn't open style file unsrt.bst
as root
kpsewhich unsrt.bst
gives:
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/base/unsrt.bst
but as a user there is not response!
texhash can be run as a user, but:
texhash: /usr/share/texlive/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping...
texhash: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config: directory not writable. Skipping...
texhash: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist: directory not writable. Skipping...
I am missing one point.
Could you tell me which one?
Thank.
--
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Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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11 years, 2 months
OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I've just completed the first exercise for using inkscape, which is to
draw a Swedish flag. I saved it as a PDF and emailed it to a Swedish
friend, but all he got when he viewed the image was an empty rectangle.
It seems the trouble is that somewhere in the mail system, probably in
their Windows mail reader, text lines in the PDF were converted from
Unix style NL termination to DOS style CR/NL termination. Sure enough
when I converted the file on my system using the command:
unix2dos -n -f SwedishFlag.pdf SwedishFlag+cr.pdf
the output file displays as an empty box, using either okular or
acroread.
Does anyone know what's going on here, or how to send such a file to a
Windows machine without it's being trashed?
Many Thanks - jon
11 years, 2 months
how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?
by William Mattison
I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the Live Media) and Windows 7 home. I need to delete the Fedora 18 install. The installation guide (section 20.2.1) discusses how to do this if the windows install is Windows 2000, Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008, but not Windows 7.
I'm needing to delete the Fedora 18 install so I can re-install it, this time using a full installation dvd rather than the minimal installation that the Live Media provides.
Thank-you in advance for your help.
Bill.
11 years, 2 months
External monitor not working in newer Kernels
by Thomas Waldecker
Hi,
my external monitor (HDMI) stopped to work after the update from
kernel 3.7.8-202.fc18.i686
I'm using MATE and with the System > Preferences > Monitor Preferences
tool I'm trying to enable the second screen.
The second screen is just black in kernel 3.8.3 and 3.8.2.
Please let me know if you need some debugging info.
Kind regards,
Thomas Waldecker
11 years, 2 months
Quit simplifying, streamlining and improving
by Bill Case
Hi;
I have been away from the Fedora Users list for quite awhile. I am doing
a virgin install of Fedora 18. I have had the damnedest time getting
"Serious Cow" downloaded. It is done. But one message. Quit
simplifying, streamlining and improving things without telling people.
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 16, Gnome 3.2.1
Evo.3.2.3, Emacs 23.3.1
11 years, 2 months