Strange file appearing in HOME
by Frank McCormick
I have noticed lately on my F18 installation that this file:
C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt
keeps popping up in my HOME.
Anybody know the explanation or how to stop it ?
Thanks
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11 years, 2 months
XFce configuration
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
Two non-fatal/small issues relating to XFce.
1 - How do you configure a shortcut key to bring up the Applications Menu?
I found some online help, but that didn't work.
2 - On boot-up, after the scrolling of service messages, and before the
appearance of the login screen, there was a small, rotating circle, the
equivalent of the spinning hourglass in Windows and other OS's and
applications.
In my F18 installations, it doesn't appear. Is there a way to remedy this?
Thank you.
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
11 years, 2 months
Installing ngspice 25
by Howard Howell
I have been too spoiled by the rpm and yum processes. Thank you fedora
developers...
I need to run the install script to put ngspice-25 on my system. I know
that there is a default installation, but I do not know if that meets
the current directory structure for F17 or later. Has anyone done this,
and how did you go about it?
I know I can pass -prefix to change the binary directory, but from what
I can tell, /usr/local/bin would appear to be ok, and /usr/sbin would be
OK, but I cannot tell if the files that for ngspice-23
in /usr/share/ngspice would be replaced. I cannot find the /usr/share
directory referenced in the config script. I suspect that it is created
from the several variables referring to the directories in the script,
but I cannot tell which one it would be or where the files would end up
from using search on the 17000 line configure script.
Also do I need to uninstall ngspice-23? I have several designs that
work under 23 and I am worried that -25 version may break some of them.
Therefore I would like to have both versions available for a short time
until I can verify my current stuff works under the -25 version.
Thanks for any information.
Regards,
Les H
11 years, 2 months
service files help needed
by Frank Murphy
Trying to create a service file for yum-updateonboot
(called it yumboot.service)
I use network (NO NM)
No plymouth (or rhgb quiet)
How can I get the output from the following
to appear on the Monitor durin bootup screen.
I mean similar to what is seen when
yum update is typed in console,
and then let booup wait for yum update to finish.
(the info I want on screen is in "journalctl")
but how to for Monitor.
~$ cat /etc/systemd/system/yumboot.service
[Unit]
Description=YUM Updateonboot
After=network.service
Before=desktop.service
ConditionPathExists=/etc/sysconfig/yum-updateonboot
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/yum-updateonboot start
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
~$ systemctl status yumboot.service
yumboot.service - YUM Updateonboot
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/yumboot.service;
enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Sun 2013-03-17 17:35:33 GMT;
11min ago Main PID: 1066 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/yumboot.service
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Regards,
Frank
http//www.frankly3d.com
11 years, 2 months
Adwaita GTK3 on F18 no longer honors bgcolor
by Gordon Messmer
Under Fedora 17, I was able to select an alternate background color for
GTK2 and GTK3. Under F18, only the GTK2 applications honor the setting.
Before I file a a bug, does anyone know if this behavior was an
expected change?
$ dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/interface/
[/]
gtk-color-scheme='selected_bg_color:#493f53;'
$ cat .gconf/desktop/gnome/interface/%gconf.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
<entry name="gtk_color_scheme" mtime="1358361695" type="string">
<stringvalue>selected_bg_color:#493f53;</stringvalue>
</entry>
</gconf>
11 years, 2 months
slightly OT
by Roger
<sad_rant>
I am sad and disappointed.
Gimp, for me at least, is now a disaster waiting to happen. It's not
flying Buzz, it's falling with style.
-Save options are more complex than necessary, defaulting to xcf when an
image is png, gif or jpg, is rather pathetic.
-Toolbox has disappeared to infinity and beyond.
-I don't want to go find a new tool box each time, with the useless "You
can drop dockable dialogs here" message, golly it's beyond useless. I
want the bog standard one that always appeared when Gimp opened.
-Saved image quality seems deteriorated in comparison to the more
ancient Gimps of 6 months to a year ago.
Gimp in Ubuntu has not yet suffered the indignities galore of this
Fedora 18 gimp.
</sad_rant>
Same pc, same everything, different Operating system, all Gimp updates.
If anyone out there in Fedora 18 land can help me get the default Gimp
tool box back I would be momentarily joyous. The normally vociferous
Google seems ominously silent.
<sad_rant#2>
Different topic, still sad.
Has anyone found a way to stop Gnome 3 in Fedora 18 from shrinking and
enlarging the desktop dependent on where the mouse may be at any point
in time. It's affecting my vertigo. I don't wanna go to Mint, don't like
Mint.
Has any one found a use for the silly dark grey stripe that infrequently
appears at the bottom of the Gnone 3 desktop. There's gotta be a use for
it. I once had a Selinux error warning light show up in the bottom right
corner but that went away.
</sad_rant#2>
Roger
11 years, 2 months
Upgrading to Fedora 17 with a seperate /usr/lib [was: perl-PDL]
by T.C. Hollingsworth
On 3/17/13, Patrick Dupre <Patrick.Dupre(a)univ-littoral.fr> wrote:
> the problem is that the update to fedora 17 failed (probably) because the
> /usr /usr/lib and /
> partitions need to be on the same partition!
Fedora 17+ supports a separate /usr just fine. It's the separate
/usr/lib that's screwing it up. (I suspect the upgrade process isn't
mounting /usr/lib.) Since this is not a common configuration, you'll
need to do a little extra work to accomplish an upgrade.
You need to instruct dracut to mount the necessary partitions during
early boot. To do so, create a file /etc/fstab.sys and copy the lines
for /, /usr, and /usr/lib from /etc/fstab to it. Then, create a file
/etc/dracut.conf.d/02-fstab-sys.conf with this line:
add_dracutmodules += " fstab-sys "
(Note that spaces inside the quotation marks; they are necessary.)
You can then follow the yum upgrade instructions here to update to Fedora 17:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_...
-T.C.
11 years, 2 months
perl-PDL
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Using perl (on fedora 16 x86_64), I got the following error message:
PDL::Graphics::PLplot needs to be recompiled against the newly
installed PDL at /usr/lib64/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 213.
I checked that the 2 packages perl-PDL and perl-PDL-Graphics-PLplot
were properly
updated.
Then, I decided to recomplie both (rpmbuild --rebuild) and I got the error:
Extracting Core.xs (WITH bad value support)
/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/share/perl5/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap
/usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap Core.xs > Core.xsc
&& mv Core.xsc Core.c
Could not find a typemap for C type 'PDL_Long *'.
The following C types are mapped by the current typemap:
'AV *', 'Boolean', 'CV *', 'FILE *', 'FileHandle', 'HV *', 'I16',
'I32', 'I8', 'IV', 'InOutStream', 'InputStream', 'Logical', 'NV',
'OutputStream', 'PerlIO *', 'Result', 'STRLEN', 'SV *', 'SVREF',
'SysRet', 'SysRetLong', 'Time_t *', 'U16', 'U32', 'U8', 'UV', 'bool',
'bool_t', 'caddr_t', 'char', 'char *', 'char **', 'const char *',
'double', 'float', 'int', 'long', 'pdl *', 'pdl_trans *', 'short',
'size_t', 'ssize_t', 'time_t', 'unsigned', 'unsigned char', 'unsigned
char *', 'unsigned int', 'unsigned long', 'unsigned long *', 'unsigned
short', 'void *', 'wchar_t', 'wchar_t *'
in Core.xs, line 1144
make[2]: *** [Core.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/PDL-2.4.9/Basic/Core'
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/PDL-2.4.9/Basic'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.bkKnYR (%build)
Checking cpan, it looks like that I need another version of perl-PDL
(http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/pipermail/perldl/2011-October/005439.html):
PDL-2.4.9_008.tar.gz
But the question is how the availblae perl-PDL package has been compiled?
Any idea how I could fix this issue?
Thank.
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org
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
yumdb
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
In Fedora 16, what are in /var/lib/yum/yumdb/p/
It looks like that is trace of old installed packages.
Can I clean the database?
yum clean packages did not really clean it.
Thank
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org
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