Re: Gonna be a little irritating again Sorry
by g
On 05/12/2015 05:43 AM, Richard Z wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 01:20:59AM -0500, g wrote:
>> On 05/11/2015 09:12 AM, Glenn Holmer wrote:
>> <<>>
>>> Digital clock. The problem this causes for me is that if I add the
>>> short date display, the clock becomes too small unless I make the
>>> panel much taller than I would like. Without AM/PM, I don't think
>>> this would be a problem...
>>
>> instead of having panel horizontal, consider vertical along right
>> side of desktop.
>
> would love to have that as most monitors are insanely wide but so
> far in every release tested I had to resort to horizontal auto-hiding
> panels. There was always something that did not display/work
> acceptably in vertical panels.
are you talking about application/program icons or active window title?
i am taking this "off-list" because we are getting "off subject".
which might be a good idea before Matthew "drops by".
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8 years, 11 months
F21 user core files
by Michael Eager
I'm unable to obtain a user-readable core file from a user
application under Fedora 21. The core files are being saved
under /var/lib/systemd/coredump, and are owned by root.
None of the configuration changes I've made to
/etc/systemd/coredump.conf appear to make any difference.
Has anyone else seen this problem? Does anyone have
a fix? Is there an open bug report?
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8 years, 11 months
F20: YUM - failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates
by M. Fioretti
Greetings,
I have, on a Fedora 20 x86_64 box, "yum update" failing with
lots of messages like the one in the subject, and others like:
ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates
Trying other mirror.
###################################################
This started happening to me yesterday, when I used bleachbit
(yes, even on the yum stuff in /var/) to make space on a
practically full root partition. However, I just discovered
somebody else reporting the SAME problem TODAY
(give or take a repo or two) here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=304378
but there is no mention of bleachbit there. "yum clean all" doesn't
change anything.
Earlier reports of similar problems turned out to be due to temporary
problems
in the repos themselves:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=291838
Is it the same today, or something else? What now?
TIA for any advice,
Marco
8 years, 11 months
WiFi restoration
by Timothy Murphy
One room in my house is at the boundary of WiFi reception,
and WiFi occasionally fails there.
When this happens it is nearly always restored by re-booting.
Re-starting NetworkManager never does the trick, however.
Is there any other step I could take, short of re-booting?
I'm running Fedora-21/KDE.
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8 years, 11 months
mount local folder boxes
by William Biggs
I would like to know if and how to mount local folders in boxes so the
virtual boxes can read and write to the folders ?
8 years, 11 months
dnf metalink issue: Fedora Updates repo
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello, Everyone
If I run "dnf upgrade" with the "metalink" line uncommented in
"/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo", the result is as follows:
[root@afolkey2 ~]# dnf upgrade
rpm.livna.org for 20 - x86_64 3.8 kB/s
| 3.4 kB 00:00
Fedora 20 - x86_64 - VirtualBox 168 kB/s
| 52 kB 00:00
Open source multiplatform video transcoder 28 kB/s | 7.2 kB
00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Free - Updates 1.6 MB/s | 480
kB 00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 20 - Nonfree - Updates 599 kB/s | 172
kB 00:00
Adobe Systems Incorporated 12 kB/s |
1.8 kB 00:00
rpm.livna.org for 20 - x86_64 - Source 6.5 kB/s | 1.9
kB 00:00
google-chrome - 64-bit 49
kB/s | 3.7 kB 00:00
Then, after a few minutes of no apparent activity, the following happens:
Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates' from
'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f20&arch...':
Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All
mirrors were tried
In that example, "dnf upgrade" fails.
If I run "yum upgrade", the result is as follows:
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks
updates/20/x86_64/metalink | 14 kB 00:00:00
updates | 4.9 kB 00:00:00
http://mirror.symnds.com/distributions/fedora/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/...:
[Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates
Trying other mirror.
After that last message, a similar message is displayed for each mirror.
In that example, "yum update" succeeds.
BUT, it I comment out
"metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released..."
in "/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo" and un-comment
"baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$relea...",
"dnf upgrade" and "yum update" proceed normally.
Is anyone else having this issue? I have checked this list for the past
few days for this issue, and I have not seen it mentioned.
To sum this up, if I use "baseurl" instead of "metalink" in
"/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo" "dnf upgrade" succeeds.
If I use "metalink" instead of "baseurl" in
"/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo" "dnf upgrade" fails.
Thank you,
Steven P. Ulrick
8 years, 11 months
Re: [R] [R-sig-Fedora] Building R-3.2.0 from source.
by Ranjan Maitra
Rolf,
Just curious, but why do you use F17? The disasters that you anticipate may happen will be more and more likely the longer you wait to upgrade to a new F. (And, with no upgrades of any kind, aren't you on line for a greater disaster: for instance, you are not patched for the severe openssl vulnerability that was discovered and all over the news a year or two ago unless you installed it by hand yourself.)
If on the other hand, you do not want to upgrade as frequently as most of the rest of us here, you should either move to a long-term distribution (such as CentOS or ScientificLinux, which appears to have better support) or to a rolling-release distribution such as ArchLinux (whose installation is, IMO, its Achilles heel so you are better off with ManjaroLinux). With the first set, there also appears to be fewer packages available, but they may be enough for you.
Of course, it would be nicer if there was a rolling-release version of Fedora (precisely for people like you). Rawhide, often offered by some as a rolling-release equivalent, is too unstable to be of value to people who are upgrade-phobic. (Frankly, even I would not touch Rawhide.) Even Windoze is getting rid of upgrades.
Best wishes,
Ranjan
On Mon, 11 May 2015 19:42:53 +1200 Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 11/05/15 16:19, Tom Callaway wrote:
> > I just landed in Paris, and haven't read backwards in this thread,
> > but I've done 3.2.0 builds for all current Fedora releases, they're
> > all in updates-testing (I think the Fedora 22 builds are in updates
> > stable now).
> >
> > The thing that changed is that R doesn't bundle a number of libraries
> > like it used to. This doesn't affect the official Fedora R package,
> > since we never used the bundled libraries. This is documented in the
> > 3.2.0 release notes.
> >
> > If you really want to build from source, I think you can run:
> >
> > yum-builddep R
> >
> > That will install all the necessary Build Requires to build R from
> > source. You need to have the yum-utils package installed for that
> > command to exist.
> >
> > Hope that helps.
>
> It certainly did! Success. Thank you hugely!
>
> But if I may ask a supplementary question: You say "If you really want
> to build from source ....". No, I don't *want* to; I have to. At least
> in my understanding. I run the ancient and beyond end-of-life Fedora
> 17. (I haven't the nerve to try to upgrade; my current system may be
> kludgey, but at least it works. And I *know* that if I try to upgrade
> all hell will break loose.) It is my understanding that "current Fedora
> releases" *do not* include Fedora 17. Or do they?
> If so, how would I get my hands on an R binary for Fedora 17?
>
> That's really just an academic question at present, since I have now
> managed, thanks to your help, to build R 3.2.0 from source.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
> >
> > On May 11, 2015 3:10 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/05/15 12:06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >>> 1. R 3.2.0 is packaged for Fedora now; it's in Rawhide and Fedora 22.
> >>> I'm running Fedora 22 (late beta) and haven't had any problems with R.
> >>> RStudio Desktop Preview (0.99.435) from the RStudio Fedora RPM is also
> >>> running fine. You might save yourself some hassles by upgrading to
> >>> Fedora 22.
> >>
> >> I'm sure I would, but I don't dare. Everything I see on the Fedora
> >> mailing list fills me with terror in respect of the disasters that can
> >> occur. I don't have the skills to cope with such disasters and I have
> >> no access to support in respect of Fedora.
> >>
> >>> 2. I have a bash script to build R from source that works on Fedora
> >>> 22. It probably also works on Fedora 21 but it's been a while since I
> >>> tried it. Note that it installs 'calibre' and makes the ebooks of the
> >>> manuals. It also does some packaging things at the end you probably
> >>> don't need.
> >>
> >> Thanks, but I don't think it's any help in my situation.
> >>
> >> I had no problem at all building R 3.1.2 from source. What changed from
> >> 3.1.2 to 3.2.0 that would cause those undefined reference problems?
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >>
> >> Rolf Turner
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I am cross-posting this to r-sig-fedora (I hope that's not an egregious sin)
> >>>> in the hope that doing so might provide some source of insight.
> >>>>
> >>>> I tried
> >>>>
> >>>> sudo yum install zlib
> >>>>
> >>>> and was told
> >>>>
> >>>>> Package zlib-1.2.5-7.fc17.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Likewise for "zlib-devel".
> >>>>
> >>>> I also tried
> >>>>
> >>>> sudo yum install bzlib
> >>>>
> >>>> and was told
> >>>>
> >>>>> No package bzlib available.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Likewise for "bzlib-devel".
> >>>>
> >>>> Finally I sort of got some joy with "lzma" and "lzma-devel" --- both of
> >>>> those yielded an actual installation. But it didn't help.
> >>>>
> >>>> I re-did the configure and then the make and got the same errors/complaints
> >>>> about undefined references to deflate, inflate, crc32, etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can anyone provide any guidance/suggestions about what else I could try?
> >>>> I'm getting very frustrated! :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Rolf Turner
> >>>>
> >>>> On 11/05/15 00:50, peter dalgaard wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 10 May 2015, at 14:15 , Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I am just now getting around to upgrading from 3.1.2 to 3.2.0 and am
> >>>>>> getting hammered by a problem which is beyond my limited capabilities of
> >>>>>> handling.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I executed
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ./configure --with-tcltk --with cairo
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> which seemed to go just fine, and then did:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> make
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In fairly short order I started getting error messages like unto:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> connections.o: In function `gzcon_write':
> >>>>>>> /home/rolf/Desktop/Rinst/R-3.2.0/src/main/connections.c:5469: undefined
> >>>>>>> reference to `deflate'
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> There were also complaints about undefined references to inflate, crc32,
> >>>>>> deflateEnd, inflateEnd, inflateReset, inflateInit2_, deflateInit2_,
> >>>>>> compress, uncompress, and zlibVersion, many of which were issued repeatedly.
> >>>>>> It finally gave up, saying:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> A bit of googling informed me (I think?) that a workaround was to
> >>>>>> configure using --without-system-pcre. This however achieved nothing in my
> >>>>>> case.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Can anyone point me at what I need to do to fix this? Install or update
> >>>>>> something?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I am running an (elderly, no-longer-supported) Fedora 17 Linux.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks for any assistance.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> PCRE (regular expressions) won't help you with compression algorithms...
> >>>>> If anything, it is --without-system-xz, -zlib, -bzlib that would come into
> >>>>> play, but it would be a better idea to ensure that you do have the libraries
> >>>>> and headers installed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm not completely up to speed on Fedora, but the order of the day is that
> >>>>> you need to install some variation of lzma/zlib/bzlib and their -dev/-devel
> >>>>> header files etc. Check appendix A.1 and A.2 of the R Installation and
> >>>>> Administration manual.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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8 years, 11 months
Re: [R] [R-sig-Fedora] Building R-3.2.0 from source.
by Tom Callaway
On 05/11/2015 07:45 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Thanks, Tom, for your efforts in maintaining R for Fedora. I know from personal experience the good work that you do and how responsive you are to requests.
Thank you for your email! It is always great to know that people are
using the packages I maintain (and not just from the bug reports).
~tom
==
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8 years, 11 months
Q about firefox and youtube videos
by JD
FC21.
If this question is off-topic for this list,
please delete and ignore.
I have 2 profiles on Firefox.
They both have identical add-on's via firefox's drop-down menu
Tools -> Add-ons
on both profiles, add-ons have identical setup/configuration.
On one profile, I can play youtube vids, no problem.
On the other profile, youtube plays, but does not 'display'
the video. The video screen remains black.
I checked and rechecked the settings on both profiles
and they are identical.
So, what else should I look at to get to the bottom of this.
8 years, 11 months
