xterm-179-4 broken
by Andre Robatino
Got a fatal error installing the newest xterm package from 8/28, the
error upon attempting manual install is:
[root@localhost up2date]# rpm -Uvh xterm-179-4.1.i386.rpm
warning: xterm-179-4.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e418e3aa
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:xterm ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
20 years, 8 months
Re: no ... *really* ... any ETA for updated beta?
by Pat Gunn
> and second, i don't think the idea of "when it's ready" is as
>critical for betas as for official releases, for obvious reasons.
>no one expects perfection if it's a beta. it's just that, for
>those of us who have been running the beta since we could get
>our greedy little mitts on it, it would be nice to get a newer
>version and start testing all over again. after all, that's
>why we volunteer to be beta testers.
Well, those of us who arn't, like me, using it mostly because we
have a laptop thst does ACPI, meaning that it's basically
Severn or Windows
I've lived bleeding edge before, often for fairly long periods
of time, but I certainly won't claim there's any great
benevolence behind my using the thing.. :)
One thing that would be nice is if people would stop worrying so
much about when the next beta will come out. As has been pointed
out numerous times before:
1) We already get most of the updates through up2date. Beta2 probably
won't be radically different from our current systems if we're
subscribed to the updates package
2) Software releases take awhile, betas especially so. If you've beta
tested anything else before, you'll know that all release dates,
even if not specified as such, are speculative.
3) There happens to be a lot of important software that's near its next
major release right now, and it makes sense for RedHat to do some
delays in order to make sure that 9.1 will have the current stuff.
4) All this other stuff aside, complaining on this list isn't going to make
it come out any fasterxi --, and all it does is irritate the rest
of us.
I personally expect, when beta2 comes out, that the only thing that'll
be different when I install it is I'll perhaps have a 2.6 kernel, and
sound/acpi will both be more sane on my system. That's it.
---
Pat Gunn
mod: csna, bmcm, bmco, cooa, cona, clpd comod: coom
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"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."
--Italian Proverb
20 years, 8 months
Screenshot tool
by Hans Deragon
Greetings.
I was looking for a screenshot tool under RH9 graphics menu and could not
find one directly. I had to google to find out that the Gimp provides such a
feature.
Would it be possible for the next release of RHL to have a dedicated
screenshot tool available (with a name in the menu that suggest it takes
screenshots; if the name does not give this, then add a quick desc in
parenthesis near the name (yeah, I know that the comment popup exist, but they
do not show up on all the menu items at once and thus, the user has to scan each
of the entries to find out))?
...or at least, have a document named (screenshots.txt) in the menu which
would provide instructions on how to use the existing tools to perform a screenshot.
The idea is to have an easy way for newbies to find the tool to perform a
screenshot, without having to google or ask around.
Best regards,
Hans Deragon
--
Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant
Deragon Informatique inc. Open source:
http://www.deragon.biz http://swtmvcwrapper.sourceforge.net
mailto://hans@deragon.biz http://autopoweroff.sourceforge.net
20 years, 8 months
up2date and gone-panel
by Adam H. Pendleton
So I installed the beta yesterday, subscribed to the RHN channels (both
the beta and the rawhide channels), and ran up2date. It downloaded a
bunch of packages, installed them, and then I restarted my system. When
it came back up, the gnome panel was much different than it had been
before. The RedHat logo (Main Menu) had been replaced with a folder
icon, and the menu was different. Following a suggestion from the
archives, I deleted that menu then added the Main Menu to the panel.
Okay, but the icon size on the new menu is far different from what it
was before. Also, the notification area and the clock were gone. As
well, the window list (the taskbar portion of the panel) was also
missing. I added all those things back by hand, though I can't for the
life of me find the clock that was there before. I had heard a rumbling
in the archives about an updated gnome-panel RPM, but I haven't seen it
yet. Will this fix these problems?
On a semi-related note, there seems to be a cyclic upgrade path for
redhat-release and rawhide-release on my system. Right now, if I run
up2date, it lists rawhide-release (9.0.93-2) as a available update. If
install that package, then run up2date, redhat-release is listed as an
update. If I install that, then rawhide-release is listed again, etc. etc.
ahp
20 years, 8 months
fontilus/control-center conflict
by Kyle Maxwell
I'm updating my Severn system with the new severn-updates channel
(thanks RH!) and everything seems to be updating OK (still going), but I
ran into a file conflict between fontilus (fontilus-0.3-5) and
control-center (control-center-2.2.2-1 going to control-center-2.3.5-1),
requiring me to deselect control-center to proceed. The messages are
below.
Is anyone else seeing this? Is it something I've got wrong on my end? Or
should I file in Bugzilla, as a search didn't show anything?
Test install failed because of package conflicts:
file /etc/gconf/schemas/fontilus.schemas from install of
control-center-2.3.5-1 conflicts with file from
package fontilus-0.3-5
file /usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer from install of control-center-2.3.5-1
conflicts with file from package
fontilus-0.3-5
file /usr/bin/gnome-thumbnail-font from install of
control-center-2.3.5-1 conflicts with file from package
fontilus-0.3-5
file /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfont-method.so from install of
control-center-2.3.5-1 conflicts
with file from package fontilus-0.3-5
--
Kyle Maxwell <kylem(a)xwell.org>
20 years, 8 months
rpm is confused
by Shawn Houston
I have been using the severn updates through up2date, and have recently
started having an unusual problem. Up2date is pulling i686 rpms, but rpm
will not install them, it says that the package is intended for a i686
architecture and aborts. This is a Pentium II system. Up2date can see
that, but rpm can't. Rpm version 4.2.1-0.30.
Has anyone else seen this behaviour?
I am working around it by manually installing with the ignorearch
switch.
--
Shawn Houston <mhouston(a)gci.net>
20 years, 8 months
Re: no ... *really* ... any ETA for updated beta?
by Jef Spaleta
> Hey, I'm just trying to be constructive, here.
> That's been there for
> over a month and also makes reference to their announcement on Monday
> (Which Monday? What month?)
> Any sort of addendum, no matter what
> says, would indicate that RedHat has not simply abandoned the consumer
> version
Oh please....just stop. This beta is being handled very much like every
previous beta..this isn't a community project yet. What we breifly saw
at rhl.redhat.com were the very first public moves towards rhl-"the
project." In the past...from beta to beta...you had no more information
about what was going on than you do now. It's much better to look at how
redhat has said so far, simple as intent for the future. How development
in this beta is being done is very not unlike previous betas.
Yeesh...simply abandoning the consumer version..yeah thats right...there
is a huge fear of that happening...even with all the rawhide activity
and the new beta update channel on rhn....yeppers everyone should really
be afraid this time around. Is yer manager also afraid of a large
asteroid hitting the earth...the odds of that happening are probably
higher....i'm sure there is an insurance company out there that will
offer you a reasonable policy as a risk management strategy against
world ending asteroid impact.
When Red hat 7.3 came out....where was the promise of a next version?
When Red Hat 8 came out.....where was the promise of a next version?
When Red Hat 9 came out................
If a boss or manager really wants to get down and dirty with the day to
day...week to week....month to month happenings of the beta phase. They
can get their arse over to an ftp mirror of rawhide and watch the daily
additions...they can get their arse over to bugzilla and watch the bugs
being worked on....they can get their arse on here and lurk. If simply
knowing that a beta phase is on going, isn't enough to assuage a
manager's fear that rhl isn't about to disappear...how could that person
ever find the courage to use any software. No vendor of consumer
software goes out of their way to say, "yessir...we plan to definitely
continue to make new versions of a certain product 4 years from
now...one every 6 months or so....garunteed"
-jef"clearly rhl.redhat.com should be corrected with a php generated
page that adds 'its <today's date> and Red Hat remains excited'...just
to give the rather shallow and unimportant updated appearance to phb's
of the world who need false comfort over a drastically misplaced
fear..while the actually important information is still be compiled and
put together."spaleta
20 years, 8 months
options for running "switchdesk"?
by Robert P. J. Day
for the first time in a while, i wanted to test switching
from GNOME to KDE as part of a demo, so i selected:
Preferences
More Preferences
Desktop Switching Tool
then selected "KDE", and also selected "Change only applies to
current display" (wincing only slightly at the ugly syntax of that
last choice).
assuming that that last choice meant that it would affect only this
current session, what does it mean to immediately be prompted that
my desktop configuration requires X to be restarted for the changes
to take effect?
is this a temporary, one-time-only change or not? sure is confusing.
rday
20 years, 8 months
Re: GNOME Panel has incorrect icon
by 肇 鑫
I has encounter that problem too. And Gnome has said that it is due to
Change of default setting of Gnome itself(Now it is 2.3.6). And I think the
best way is to drag the icon of the application you want to the
Gnome-panel. :) That was what I have done.
By the way, I have put up a new question yesterday, and I found none seems
like to answer that. So I think there must be something wrong with my
question or even myself. Now I think the reason is that I use hotmail. Is
that the answer? :( After all, I am a new comer here, even a new comer to
Linux. So if there is any quiet rules here, please tell me. Thanks All!
>On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 15:17, Kyle Maxwell wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:36, Matt Whiteley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:05, Kyle Maxwell wrote:
> > > Unless I'm mistaken, the Red Hat icon for the main menu in the panel
has
> > > changed to a typewriter (?!) after doing the latest updates from RHN
> > > severn-updates channel. There's a shot available at
> > > http://xwell.org/archives/Screenshot-Gnome-panel.png. I'm using
> > > redhat-artwork-0.80-1 (not sure if it's another package).
> > > Simultaneously, many of the icons in the main menu have disappeared
> > > (Games, Graphics, Internet, Programming, Sound & Video, and System
> > > Tools).
> > >
> > I had the same problem and deleted the menu from the panel and then
> > selected add to panel -> main menu. This fixed everything for me
> > although the red hat icon has turned into the gnome foot. You will
> > however have back your log out and lock selections.
>
> Thanks, that did restore the logout/lock selections, and I see the GNOME
> foot now. But the missing icons within the menu are still gone.
Can you all try gnome-panel-2.3.7-1 when it reaches rawhide?
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20 years, 8 months
Simple LDAP server setup?
by Neal D. Becker
Is there any software available on Linux that makes it reasonably simple to
setup an LDAP server to serve accounts? (passwd, grp).
I've read a few articles on setting up an LDAP server the old-fashioned way,
but it looks WAY too complicated.
20 years, 8 months
