Package groups: yum vs. rpm
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
When you run the command "rpm -qi <somepackagename>"
there is a "Group: <somegroupname>" line.
That group name doesn't coincide with the groups that are listed when
running "yum groups list"
Are these two bits of metadata related?
Much thanks,
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
11 years, 3 months
Fedora 18 and Bug 529153
by Gordan Bobic
Hi,
I'm trying to install F18 and I am falling foul of bug 529153. The
problem is to bad on my EVGA SR2 that the installer pretty much locks
up. If I boot with "noapic noacpi nosmp" I can get the installer to
complete most of the time, and with the same options I can get the
machine to boot, but the console is unusable, and the frame buffer based
Xorg flickers badly enough that it would be a serious health hazard for
anyone suffering from epilepsy.
I have tried to find a way to disable pciehp, but there appears to be no
kernel option for it. It is built into the kernel so it cannot be rmmod-ed.
I don't particularly care about hotplug (nor do I imaging most Fedora
users do, yet this has been built into the kernels since at leat F11 for
some unfathomable reason, and that is how far back the mentioned bug
report goes).
I got the latest kernel kernel-3.7.5-201.fc18.src.rpm and doctored it to
remove CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI, more or less achieved by:
cat config-generic.orig | \
sed -e 's/^\(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_.*\)=.*/# \1 is not set/'
Built it on RHEL6 (because I cannot get a F18 box up and running)
without debuginfo, tools, and signing, installed that, and F18's systemd
then just gets stuck at boot time when it's supposed to get Xorg up and
running. Keyboard seems to be responding (numlock works) but no response
from any keys, looks like it gets stuck somewhere before it starts up
the VTs.
Has anybody come up with a viable workaround for this that results in a
usable system?
Gordan
11 years, 3 months
conky and accuweather not showing images
by Rafnews
Hi,
i installed conky and accuweather according to documentation available on
internet, however images are not displayed.
Is there someone who use accuweather in conky who could help me ?
thx
--
Alain
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Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 18 x64
MySQL 5.6.x
Apache 2.4.3 / OpenSSL 1.0.1c
Tomcat 7.17
PHP 5.4.8
11 years, 3 months
Setting desktop images in F18
by thomas cameron
Howdy -
I have a triple-headed system using an AMD (ATI) FirePro v4900.
Everything works great, the desktop spreads across all the monitors just
fine.
I can only seem to set the desktop image to be repeated once on each of
the three monitors. Is there a way to take an image designed as a
triple-head image to actually stretch across all three monitors?
Thomas
11 years, 3 months
F18 - prelink fails
by Heinz Diehl
Hi,
installing a vanilla kernel and doing a "make install" after a
successful kernel build, prelink fails with
chroot: failed to run command '/usr/sbin/prelink': Permission denied
I'm installing as root (of course) and SELinux is disabled. I'm
somewhat clueless where to look/how to solve the problem.
Does this ring a bell for someone?
Btw: I've never ever had such problems installing a kernel on whatever
machine and distribution...
Regards,
Heinz.
11 years, 3 months
OT: what's with the 'i'?
by Patrick O'Callaghan
Way way OT:
Just out of interest, why do some people use the non-existent word "i",
not to mention other violations of capitalization rules when 1) their
Shift key is clearly not broken, and 2) they aren't the poet e.e.
cummings? I've seen a number of people do this (admittedly a tiny
minority) and never understood it. Do they think it's cool? Are they
expressing their inner rebel? Were they punished by their English
teacher at school? Is hitting Shift too much effort? Enquiring minds
want to know.
Sorry, this has been bugging me for ages and I had just had to get this
off my chest. Feel free to ignore.
poc
11 years, 3 months
Advice needed on setting up a second DHCP network on separate Ethernet controller with access to internet
by Aaron Gray
Hi,
with the new firewalld and possible changes to Fedora. I need advice on
setting up a second DHCP network on 192.168.01.x on a separate Ethernet
controller with access to internet for http and https and DNS for the
second network from the existing 192.168.0.1 DHCP network and controller.
This is for PXEBOOT'ing new servers. I managed to do this before once on
F14 with the old Fedoras configuration and Shorewall, but could not get it
to work on F16 when I tried again. I am now wanting to do this again on
F18. And would like to ideally do it without Shorewall. And would like to
do a HOWTO to accompany the PXEBOOT HOWTO.
Hope you can help.
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
11 years, 3 months
"Install Updates & Restart" on a laptop
by Sam Varshavchik
On a lark, I decided to try this option to grab a week's worth of updates.
The laptop rebooted immediately. Churned for a while, I could see on the
console that it's trying to do updates. The laptop rebooted again, and the
end result was that nothing was updated, so I just did yum update, as I
always do.
Now, one thing I don't recall seeing was the wireless getting turned on
during the update cycle. Which, I would think, would be a fairly important
prerequisite, in order to download the updates.
Or, perhaps, I'm missing something. This laptop was updated from F17 to F18,
and perhaps I need to install a package that automatically downloads updates
in advance, so on update everything gets installed locally, but poking
around with yum didn't find anything that seems to do that.
11 years, 3 months
Configuring KDM instead of LightDM
by Sylvia Sánchez
Hello all!
I've installed the LXDE spin. But now I want to use KDM
instead LightDM, because I find it more configurable. The thing is that
I've installed KDM but I can't find with what tool I will set it
properly. In previous versions, it was with System Settings, but now I
can't find it to install it and can't figure out what to do.
Somebody would help me? How I configure KDM? How can I use it instead
of LightDM?
Thanks to all very much,
Lailah
11 years, 3 months
