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RE: will there be a tui user config
by Vanco, Don 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Brent Fox wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:11, Will Backman wrote: >> Some of the redhat-config-* tools have a tui version. Any rumors of >> a tui version of the user manager? > > It's the first request I've had for a TUI for > redhat-config-users, so I > have no plans for this at the moment. I had always imagined that the > command line tools were good enough for those who didn't use the GUI. > Maybe you can explain what you'd like to see from a TUI that > the command line tools don't provide? I know that it's probably a pretty dramatic bit of recoding in most cases, but I'd like to see TUI versions for _all_ the redhat-config* stuff (shudder - sudden flashback to linuxconf). The issue is that I get used to the GUI stuff (read: crutch - I'll admit it) and, well, forget bits and pieces of the command line stuff at times. That, coupled with the fact that the GUI tools are doing multiple tasks in many cases (like the network and user tools) make it attractive to me. In a way it's your fault - you guys have made the GUI tools too nice :) But worth the effort? Well, that's up to you guys @ RH or one of the masses now on Fedora to decide..... My $.02 Don

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Problems recompiling 2.4.22-1.2088.nptl
by Fernando Álvarez-Uría 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Hi all! Ive been testing Fedora Test3 in my laptop computer, and in my desktop pc, and i have found it a great distro. However, im having some trubles with acpi in the laptop. Linux 2.4.22-1.2088.nptl ships acpi devices compiled as modules. Whenever i try to modprobe battery.o, for example, i get: ... battery.o: No such device ... It happens the same modprobing ac, button, thermal, ... If i try to recompile the kernel, only changing the acpi devices to "y" (which works great using 2.4.22-8 with acpi patch from acpi.sf.net) i get: ... ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable (CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE). ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable (CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE). ... Ive tried running make oldconfig, and using config from /boot/config-2.4.22-1.2088.nptl Does anyone know why this happens? Thank you. -- Fernando Álvarez-Uría Madrid, Spain fernando.alvarez-uria(a)ya.com

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gnome-panel drawer problem
by Gene C. 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

For those of you aggravated by the problem where the drawer does not work (works initially but then stops ... especially after re-login), I have created a patch. The problem results in the launcher buttons in the drawer not working. Given the current state of FC 1, fixing this problem has a zero chance before general availability. This refers to problems: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104492 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121072 The problem has been fixed upstream (around 16 Sep) and the patch is attached to 104492. This patch was created by a diff comparing button-widget.c in the gnome-panel-2.4.0-3 tarball against that available from the cvs as of today. The patch picks up three additional fixes in the cvs which are pretty much restricted to button-widget.c or just make some simple changes to text. I have built some rpms based on this patch and test it -- it appears to fix the problem. As with other such limited testing of code, your milage may vary. Build your own update from the patch in bugzilla or the prebuilt rpms are available via anonymous ftp at ftp://czarc.net/pub/ and are named: gnome-panel-2.4.0-3.gc2.i386.rpm gnome-panel-2.4.0-3.gc2.src.rpm These packages will not be there forever but should be around for at least a couple of weeks. -- Gene C.

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Graphical boot breaks Wacom USB support (Was Re: Trying to get the Graphire to work)
by James J. Ramsey 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

I had thought that updating to the latest Rawhide fixed the problems I had getting the Graphire to run. Turns out I was wrong. The changes to the initscripts package that made the graphical boot not come up without the "rhgb" kernel option also hid the underlying problem. Quite simply, when I enable the graphical boot, the Graphire doesn't work. When I disable it, the Graphire works fine. Details at Bugzilla <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108037>. Given that the graphical boot actually breaks something, and that it's only a short time until Fedora Core 1 is released, maybe it might be wise to leave the graphical boot turned off by default in the final release--unless it can be fixed in time. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/

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gnomemm support?
by nosp 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Any reason why Fedora doesn't include libgnomemm and related -mm rpms? Only one I can find is gtkmm2. I'd like to file an RFE if there is no particular reason.

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RHN applet not working
by Jaap A. Haitsma 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

I upgraded to the latest up2date but it seems that there is still something missing in de Fedora Core and Updates repository RHN applet doesn't show that there are updates, whilst there are. It returns the following information The applet has been unable to access the following information sources in its last attempts: fedora-core-1 @ http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1, updates-released @ http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1 Jaap

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RE: problem with rhgb
by Vanco, Don 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Douglas Stewart wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Vanco, Don wrote: >> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) >> root (hd0,0) >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro rhgb root=LABEL=/ >> initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img >> >> nor does: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb > > Is your /usr a separate partition? IIRC, not having / and /usr on the > same partition causes problems with rhgb. Nope /boot & / is all I got..... Don

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Re: Up2Date still having problems...
by Josh McKenna 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

so here's my sob story... a bit more detail this time.. if I do an up2date -u --nosig everything works fine... sometimes... the exception seems to be when a new package is available for a package I have installed, but the new package has a new dependency that I have NOT met previously... Also, I have the problem when I use up2date <packagename> to install a package I do NOT already have, and that package has dependencies that I don't already have... If I figure out what rpm's I need to meet the dependencies before I do it (I can use up2date to get them if they don't have dependencies of their own) then all is well... emptying out /var/spool/up2date does me no good either, btw, tho I do it anyway out of habit now... to clarify further, the only problem I've run into is the issue of up2date bonking at the dependency checking phase... other than that, up2date seems to be working fine, at least for me... hope that helps! -jbm sends p.s. - is there gonna be a channel on RHN for Fedora Core when the general release is done? I blew $500 of my employers money a month ago to buy enterprise entitlements for RH9, and it feels like I've wasted the money if I can't keep them up on the latest release... I know they want me to buy RHEL, but I just can justify that for mail gateways and dns servers... maybe they could add a rawhide channel to RHN?

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how to run "generate-modprobe.conf" given a 2.6 kernel?
by Robert P. J. Day 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

i asked about this once upon a time, but don't recall seeing a solution, and there's nothing in bugzilla about it. given FC3 and a 2.6 kernel, how does one run /sbin/generate-modprobe.conf to generate the new modules config file? if you try it, the script fails saying there's no "modprobe.old" command, which is true. this may have worked when folks manually upgraded their "modutils" RPM and had both the new and old versions of those commands around, but it clearly fails now under FC3. so, what to do? rday p.s. yes, i'm bored and don't have enough to do.

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[off topic] How to automatically make file/directory links on webpage?
by Jaap A. Haitsma 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Hi, I know my question is a bit off topic, but after googling for an hour I can't seem to find the answer. As I'm a regular poster on this list I'm pretty sure somebody on this list knows the answer. On my website I'd like to publish some files, which people can download. I'd like to do it in a similar way as the http://people.redhat.com site See for example. http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/ Of course I can just type the HTML in all myself but being a programmer (equals lazy ;-) ) I'd like to have a tool which I can just run at the root of my directories and files I want to publish that generates automatically the HTML which is needed. Thanks Jaap

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