Yum Update Issue
by Frank Tanner III
I have performed a FedUp upgrade from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19 and am now
running into the following issue:
Test Transaction Errors: file /usr/bin/clpi_dump conflicts between
attempted installs of libbluray-0.4.0-1.fc19.i686 and
libbluray-0.4.0-1.fc19.x86_64
The current package versions that are installed are
libbluray-0.2.3-2.fc19.i686 and libbluray-0.2.3-2.fc19.x86_64. It will
not let me uninstall these versions.
Is there a way to resolve this issue that doesn't involve some major
chopping around?
Thank you.
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Frank B. Tanner III
10 years, 5 months
Re: Why some say "rpm hell"
by AP
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Mihamina RKTMB <mihamina(a)rktmb.org> wrote:
> Technically,
> - making rpms are easier than making debs.
Oh, okay.
> - apt is NOT the equivalent of rpm, but the equivalent of yum
Okay, I must have used that.
> - You forgot the package management of Gentoo, Arch and so on on your troll
Troll...? Asking a question makes you troll?
10 years, 5 months
mouse track-pad
by Richard Vickery
Hi Gang:
The mouse doesn't work work on new Acer; any ideas on how I can find it?
Apparently Fedora knows that the pad exists, but it is rendered useless
right now.
Thanks,
Richard
10 years, 5 months
OT- Getting Firefox GMail Old Compose (for a while) - Re: Why some say "rpm hell"
by Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you post some instructions ? (for getting GMail usable again after
> "New Compose")
>
Get UAControl from here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uacontrol/
Once installed, Go to Tools->UAControl Options
Click "add new site", type as site mail.google.com
and as user-agent:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)
That will give you Old Compose
Explanation:
The Mail.google.com coders couldn't get the "New Compose" to work on IE8,
so if Google detects you're using IE8 on GMail, it gives you the "Old
Compose".
UAControl fakes the user agent ONLY for the domains you specify (in this
case, mail.google.com).
It will, of course, only work for as long as google keeps supporting IE8
for GMail, which likely won't be for very long, as they tend to follow
Microsoft in their planned obsolescence cycles. :-(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
...but in the meantime it's a good stopgap solution.
The real solution will be for Google to permanently enable old compose as
an option for those of us who prefer it.
There's a petition here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/128/981/668/google-gmail-please-go-back-to...
Sadly only 700 signatures so far...
If History is any indication, Google engineers in their Ivory Towers don't
give a rat's *ss about what we think... they think they know better...
Oh, and you asked about the other part of the solution, it's the Firefox
Stylish extension, grab it from here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/
It lets you use any of the user developed styles on userstyles.org,
including these for GMail:
http://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=gmail
My personal preference (which some surely might find odd but it suits my
work style and my eyes are pleased with it) is the black background, green
text "terminal" theme (that used to be great as developed by Google, until
they turned it fugly with white-on-black text, and white background on
compose),
http://userstyles.org/styles/71798/gmail-terminal-all-black-background
It looks like this: :)
pic.twitter.com/PXMbZ8hU9A <http://t.co/PXMbZ8hU9A>
Hope this helps you, and some other Fedora users...
FC
--
During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act
Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto
Revolucionario
- George Orwell
10 years, 5 months
Re: Why some say "rpm hell"
by AP
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> Say you want Opera on an old machine that you haven't used for
> some time. You go to a browser it does have, but for some reason the
> default opera.com offers isn't what you want. You find what you do want,
> and opera.com asks whether you want the x86 or the 64-wide version.
> You don't happen to remember which one this machine is, nor an
> easy way to check (like uname -a). So you just download one.
> Rpm -ivh produces a bramble patch.
> Being by now an old hand, you notice that all the missing
> dependencies it announces are 64s. So you abort the install, go back to
> opera.com, and get the .rpm for a 32-bit machine. That works, slick as a
> whistle.
> In this example you have not solved the dependency hell. You have
> dodged it, partly by dumb luck (spotting those 64s), and partly by having
> enough general experience to recognize what they mean.
> A beginner who had gotten into it might easily've worked
> herself through the brambles into an electronic lake of burning brimstone
> before she hollered for help.
Well, the issues gets generated when an external rpm is installed. But
I guess the most common apps, e.g., Opera and the common apps must be
there in the repos. Only some particular rpms which are not so common
(or required for specific purpose(s)), can possibly create that
problem. But in my view, end users won't use those typical apps which
are not bundled in the DVD!
10 years, 5 months
Display setting problem -
by Bob Goodwin
I have a ViewSonic VX2035wm LCD Display monitor on this computer that is
not recognized by Fedora-18. in order to get a reasonable display I have
to run /usr/bin/xrandr -s 1680x1050 after I am logged in and the display
[XFCE] is running. That works for me but it seems a bit clunky and after
doing so for more than a year I would like to find some more elegant way
to deal with it.
I could use a different monitor but I prefer the aspect ratio of this
one, it's wide but higher than the others available.
Anyone know a better way to deal with this? As it stands it is just one
of the things I do every morning after booting the computer ...
Bob
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http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
Box 10 Fedora-19/64 XFCE Linux
10 years, 5 months
Applications looking up the own computer name are blocked for several seconds
by Clemens Eisserer
Hi,
After a system update 2-3 weeks ago, applications like java and
firefox began to take a quite long time to start up (an extra ~10s).
However this only occurs when I am connected to a network, when my
laptop is running unconnected everything is fine (however it doesn't
matter wether I am connected at home or in the office, so the cause is
not a malfunction of my DNS server).
Today I tried to find out what is going on and it seems the
applications are stalled while looking up the hostname of my own
machine ("user-pc").
Shouldn't in this case the lookup return immediantly?
As I haven't changed my configuration at all, any idea which update
introduced this issue?
Thank you in advance, Clemens
Stacktrace of firefox starting up:
#0 0x0000003fd7aeb7fd in poll () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:81
#1 0x0000003fd9e0ad0d in send_dg (resplen2=0x0, anssizp2=0x0,
ansp2=0x0, anscp=0x7fffeeec0970, gotsomewhere=<synthetic pointer>,
v_circuit=<synthetic pointer>, ns=0, terrno=0x7fffeeebf8f0,
anssizp=0x7fffeeebfa30, ansp=0x7fffeeebf8e8, buflen2=0, buf2=0x0,
buflen=32, buf=0x7fffeeebfa60 ";\327\001", statp=0x3fd7dbeaa0
<_res(a)GLIBC_2.2.5>) at res_send.c:1059
#2 __libc_res_nsend (statp=statp@entry=0x3fd7dbeaa0
<_res(a)GLIBC_2.2.5>, buf=buf@entry=0x7fffeeebfa60 ";\327\001",
buflen=<optimized out>, buf2=buf2@entry=0x0, buflen2=buflen2@entry=0,
ans=ans@entry=0x7fffeeec0540 "", anssiz=anssiz@entry=1024,
ansp=ansp@entry=0x7fffeeec0970, ansp2=ansp2@entry=0x0,
nansp2=nansp2@entry=0x0, resplen2=resplen2@entry=0x0) at
res_send.c:556
#3 0x0000003fd9e08c47 in __GI___libc_res_nquery
(statp=statp@entry=0x3fd7dbeaa0 <_res(a)GLIBC_2.2.5>,
name=name@entry=0x7fffeeec00c0 "user-pc.3.home", class=class@entry=1,
type=type@entry=1, answer=answer@entry=0x7fffeeec0540 "",
anslen=anslen@entry=1024, answerp=answerp@entry=0x7fffeeec0970,
answerp2=answerp2@entry=0x0, nanswerp2=nanswerp2@entry=0x0,
resplen2=resplen2@entry=0x0) at res_query.c:226
#4 0x0000003fd9e096ab in __libc_res_nquerydomain (resplen2=0x0,
nanswerp2=0x0, answerp2=0x0, answerp=0x7fffeeec0970, anslen=1024,
answer=0x7fffeeec0540 "", type=1, class=1, domain=<optimized out>,
name=0x7fffeeec1538 "user-pc", statp=0x3fd7dbeaa0 <_res(a)GLIBC_2.2.5>)
at res_query.c:582
#5 __GI___libc_res_nsearch (statp=0x3fd7dbeaa0 <_res(a)GLIBC_2.2.5>,
name=name@entry=0x7fffeeec1538 "user-pc", class=class@entry=1,
type=type@entry=1, answer=answer@entry=0x7fffeeec0540 "",
anslen=anslen@entry=1024, answerp=0x7fffeeec0970,
answerp2=answerp2@entry=0x0, nanswerp2=nanswerp2@entry=0x0,
resplen2=resplen2@entry=0x0) at res_query.c:416
#6 0x00007fd0409e17e4 in __GI__nss_dns_gethostbyname3_r
(name=name@entry=0x7fffeeec1538 "user-pc", af=af@entry=2,
result=result@entry=0x7fffeeec0f00, buffer=buffer@entry=0x7fffeeec0f20
"\177", buflen=buflen@entry=1024, errnop=errnop@entry=0x7fd04e259690,
h_errnop=h_errnop@entry=0x7fffeeec0ef4, ttlp=ttlp@entry=0x0,
canonp=canonp@entry=0x0) at nss_dns/dns-host.c:192
#7 0x00007fd0409e1af0 in _nss_dns_gethostbyname_r
(name=0x7fffeeec1538 "user-pc", result=0x7fffeeec0f00,
buffer=0x7fffeeec0f20 "\177", buflen=1024, errnop=0x7fd04e259690,
h_errnop=0x7fffeeec0ef4) at nss_dns/dns-host.c:273
#8 0x0000003fd7b0ebd3 in __gethostbyname_r (name=0x7fffeeec1538
"user-pc", resbuf=0x7fffeeec0f00, buffer=0x7fffeeec0f20 "\177",
buflen=1024, result=0x7fffeeec0ef8, h_errnop=0x7fffeeec0ef4) at
../nss/getXXbyYY_r.c:263
#9 0x0000003fe921b467 in PR_GetHostByName () from /lib64/libnspr4.so
#10 0x00007fd04b25f8fa in nsProfileLock::LockWithSymlink(nsIFile*,
bool) () from /usr/lib64/firefox/xulrunner/libxul.so
#11 0x00007fd04b25fe92 in nsProfileLock::Lock(nsIFile*,
nsIProfileUnlocker**) () from /usr/lib64/firefox/xulrunner/libxul.so
#12 0x00007fd04b26073b in nsToolkitProfileLock::Init(nsIFile*,
nsIFile*, nsIProfileUnlocker**) () from
/usr/lib64/firefox/xulrunner/libxul.so
#13 0x00007fd04b260784 in
nsToolkitProfileLock::Init(nsToolkitProfile*, nsIProfileUnlocker**) ()
from /usr/lib64/firefox/xulrunner/libxul.so
#14 0x00007fd04b260837 in nsToolkitProfile::Lock(nsIProfileUnlocker**,
nsIProfileLock**) () from /usr/lib64/firefox/xulrunner/libxul.so
#15 0x00007fd04b25a4ca in XREMain::XRE_mainStartup(bool*) () from
/usr/lib64/firefox/xulrunner/libxul.so
#16 0x00007fd04b25b338 in XREMain::XRE_main(int, char**, nsXREAppData
const*) () from /usr/lib64/firefox/xulrunner/libxul.so
#17 0x00007fd04b25b5d3 in XRE_main () from
/usr/lib64/firefox/xulrunner/libxul.so
#18 0x0000000000403d2f in do_main(int, char**, nsIFile*) ()
#19 0x00000000004034fc in main ()
10 years, 5 months
UEFI: After upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, F19 grub menu does not appear
by Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks,
I installed Fedora 19 on my son's laptop, and it worked beautifully
with the already installed Windows 8. Then foolishly, I upgraded the
Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Now it boots straight to Windows 8.1 and
grub does not appear.
I disabled secure boot in the firmware.
I do not even know which version of grub was booting the UEFI system
before; it just worked.
Now I need to know.
Can anyone suggest:
1. What grub would the Fedora 19 installer have provided to boot it
and Windows 8? (grub2, grub-efi,...)
2. Can anyone point to any documentation on how to fix this?
I am a little nervous on this, as I once attempted to upgrade an F18
UEFI stand alone system from grub-efi to grub2 with the result that I
could not boot the machine, and wound up re-installing Fedora.
I have a live disk, can boot the machine with that, and have some
experience with grub and non-EFI systems.
--
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I disclaim, therefore I am.
10 years, 5 months
Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8
by Andre Costa
Hi,
I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk:
- 1M BIOS boot partition
- 500M Linux boot partition
- 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19)
- 200G unused space
I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows if
this will mess up with my current boot manager? Can Windows 8 coexist with
GRUB?
Regards,
Andre
10 years, 5 months
