[Mageia-dev] Making the switch . . .

2011-09-04 Thread Robert Fox
Hello to all - and to all a Hello! After careful consideration, I have chosen to move away from Mandriva (now that I have seen what has happened to 2011) and moving all of my machines over to Mageia!! It just feels right! I have been doing a clean install and updating to Cauldron (was

Re: [Mageia-dev] Making the switch . . .

2011-09-04 Thread Robert Fox
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 20:16 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Evolution is my main mail client and I can't love without it - but when I start it under KDE, the message list pane is always blank. I think it may be a GTK problem but not sure . . . 1. Does it happen under other desktops aside from

Re: [Mageia-dev] Making the switch . . .

2011-09-04 Thread Robert Fox
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 20:29 +0200, Oliver Burger wrote: 2011/9/4 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net: On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 20:16 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Evolution is my main mail client and I can't love without it - but when I start it under KDE, the message list pane is always blank. I

Re: [Mageia-dev] Making the switch . . .

2011-09-04 Thread Robert Fox
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 11:37 -0700, Thomas Spuhler wrote: You shouldn't use cauldron for production. When you start up Evolution you are being told not to use this version for real work. Evolution 3.1.90 worked here and so does 31.91 under KDE I know this - and have been a LONG time Cooker

Re: [Mageia-dev] Making the switch . . .

2011-09-05 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 00:15 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 06:49:34PM +0200, Robert Fox wrote: Evolution is my main mail client and I can't love without it - but when I start it under KDE, the message list pane is always blank. I think it may be a GTK problem

Re: [Mageia-dev] Making the switch . . .

2011-09-06 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 18:34 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: And YES - it appears that it is pretending to be blank (when I click on the blank area, the message preview changes content - so something with fonts or colors maybe . . . I think KDE has something like a GTK-QT-Engine. It tries to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Evolution broken - won't start anymore

2011-09-07 Thread Robert Fox
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 13:47 +0300, Jani Välimaa wrote: 2011/9/7 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org: On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:33:31 +0200 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: Since latest Cauldron updates - Evolution will not start (no matter what DM): [rfox@linux ~]$ evolution

Re: [Mageia-dev] Evolution broken - won't start anymore

2011-09-08 Thread Robert Fox
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 13:47 +0300, Jani Välimaa wrote: 2011/9/7 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org: On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:33:31 +0200 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: Since latest Cauldron updates - Evolution will not start (no matter what DM): [rfox@linux ~]$ evolution

[Mageia-dev] lost sound after systemd update

2011-09-14 Thread Robert Fox
After recent Cauldon update which included systemd - I have now lost sound. After going back to sysvinit - sound is back. [rfox@minifox ~]$ lspcidrake -v | fgrep -i AUDIO snd_hda_intel : nVidia Corporation|High Definition Audio Controller (vendor:10de device:0be4 subv:174b subd:2150) (rev: a1)

Re: [Mageia-dev] lost sound after systemd update

2011-09-14 Thread Robert Fox
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 11:50 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Balcaen John at 14/09/11 11:24 did gyre and gimble: Le Mercredi 14 Septembre 2011 12:19:38 Robert Fox a écrit : After recent Cauldon update which included systemd - I have now lost sound. After going back

[Mageia-dev] Evolution Google Calendar / Contacts problem

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Fox
Since I have updated to Mageia (fresh install) - but used an existing Evolution setup on my /home area previously used under Mandriva Cooker - I have been experiencing problems with the Google syncing of calendar and contacts - Is there a way to reset this? The calendar error is: Error calling

[Mageia-dev] Coherence Test Content??

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Fox
I am now getting strange notifications under the Device Notifier - two entries which say: Coherence Test Content - Open with File Manager and they have an eject button but nothing happens when I click on them. Any clues? Thx, R.Fox

[Mageia-dev] [Fwd: [Bug 659231] Evolution: Error loading Calendar: ...]

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Fox
This bug I filed with Gnome regarding Evolution Calendar appears to have been fixed upstream, but our package doesn't have the fix . . . Thx, R.Fox Forwarded Message From: Evolution bugzi...@gnome.org To: r...@foxconsult.com Subject: [Bug 659231] Evolution: Error loading

[Mageia-dev] Evolution partially fixed - Google Calendar still brokem

2011-09-19 Thread Robert Fox
After recent Cauldron updates, I see that Evolution now works with local and Google addressbooks - and local Calendar works - but Google calendar is still broken: (evolution:8054): libecal-WARNING **: e_cal_client_new: Cannot get calendar from factory: No backend factory for 'google' of 'VEVENT'

[Mageia-dev] Segfault with Evolution in Cauldron -

2011-09-29 Thread Robert Fox
Using evolution-3.2.0-1.mga2 When I try and perform a search on an account level - Evolution simply crashes: (evolution:18740): evolution-mail-CRITICAL **: em_utils_connect_service_sync: assertion `CAMEL_IS_SERVICE (service)' failed (evolution:18740): camel-CRITICAL **: camel_vee_folder_new:

[Mageia-dev] Strange warnings during urpmi --auto-update -v

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Fox
Note sure why I am getting this long list of errors during an update: perl: include /lib/module-init-tools/modprobe.compat is deprecated, please use /etc/modprobe.d : No such file or directory perl: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/. : Not a

[Mageia-dev] Latest Evolution update on Cauldron - error with Google Calendar

2011-10-17 Thread Robert Fox
Trying to confirm an appointment invite, which should update my Ggle calendar - I get this error: Unable to send item to calendar 'Robert Fox'. No such interface `org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Calendar' on object at path /org/gnome/evolution/dataserv Any hints? Thx, R.Fox

[Mageia-dev] Mageia-dev] mageia 2 and systemd

2011-10-30 Thread Robert Fox
Oddly enough, I have four machines running Mageia - starting with a fresh Mageia 1 install and updating to Cauldron (keeping old /home from Mandriva) Every time I have tried systemd - something breaks - mostly sound and/or networking (eth0) - When I disable allow interface to be controlled by

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia-dev] mageia 2 and systemd

2011-10-30 Thread Robert Fox
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 11:29 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 30/10/11 09:38 did gyre and gimble: Unfortunately, I don't have the time to troubleshoot the sound issues, Honestly I've mentioned this so many times now it's getting ridiculous. It's been covered about

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia-dev] mageia 2 and systemd

2011-10-30 Thread Robert Fox
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 12:16 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 30/10/11 11:52 did gyre and gimble: Sorry Colin - wasn't trying to irk you. Yeah I know, sorry for being grumpy. I do appreciate we need to handle pam.d stuff better but I've tried raising

[Mageia-dev] Cauldron - real late networking start (eth0)

2011-11-15 Thread Robert Fox
Since recently, I have noticed on that the eth0 network (setup with static IP) start real late - like after login to desktop and almost takes 3 minutes to initially start. What could be causing this? Thx, R.Fox

[Mageia-dev] Fail during boot process - depricated config file . .

2011-11-21 Thread Robert Fox
Using latest Cauldron - I get a boot error on three different machines: boot.log:Mounting local filesystems: WARNING: include /lib/module-init-tools/modprobe.compat is deprecated, please use /etc/modprobe.d boot.log:WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files

[Mageia-dev] Down to one missing libclutter for update

2011-11-24 Thread Robert Fox
The following package has to be removed for others to be upgraded: lib64cheese-gtk20-3.3.1-1.mga2.x86_64 (due to missing libclutter-glx-1.0.so.0()(64bit)) There appears to be only one files missing in action (MIA) - libclutter-glx Is this intended or should I wait a bit more?? Cheers, R.Fox

[Mageia-dev] Filing a hardware related bug??

2011-11-27 Thread Robert Fox
On the bugzilla website when filing a new bug, the choices are: Installer New RPM Package Request RPM Packages Release (media or process) Security How do I file a hardware related bug? I have a Sennheiser DW Pro 1 dect headset which supports USB to PC:

[Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-28 Thread Robert Fox
Is there a way to get Teamviewer working under Cauldron x86_64?? [root@foxbase Download]# urpmi teamviewer_linux.rpm A requested package cannot be installed: teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386 (due to unsatisfied libXdamage(x86-32)) Continue installation anyway? (Y/n) Thx, R.Fox

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-28 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 11:03 +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 28/11/2011 10:52, Robert Fox a écrit : Is there a way to get Teamviewer working under Cauldron x86_64?? [root@foxbase Download]# urpmi teamviewer_linux.rpm A requested package cannot be installed: teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-28 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 11:03 +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 28/11/2011 10:52, Robert Fox a écrit : Is there a way to get Teamviewer working under Cauldron x86_64?? [root@foxbase Download]# urpmi teamviewer_linux.rpm A requested package cannot be installed: teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-28 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 12:19 +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote: Robert Fox skrev 28.11.2011 12:17: On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 11:03 +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 28/11/2011 10:52, Robert Fox a écrit : Is there a way to get Teamviewer working under Cauldron x86_64?? [root@foxbase Download

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-28 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 11:28 +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: On 28.11.2011 10:52, Robert Fox wrote: Is there a way to get Teamviewer working under Cauldron x86_64?? [root@foxbase Download]# urpmi teamviewer_linux.rpm A requested package cannot be installed: teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-28 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 12:27 +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote: Robert Fox skrev 28.11.2011 12:22: [root@foxbase Download]# urpmi --allow-nodeps teamviewer_linux\(1\).rpm warning: teamviewer_linux(1).rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 72db573c: NOKEY The following package has bad

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-28 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 14:55 +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 28/11/2011 11:45, Robert Fox a écrit : There a few key proprietary softwares which make the Linux work a bit easier to integrate and play nice with the others . . . Like Skype, Picasa Teamviewer (to name a few). Other distros

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-28 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 15:25 +0100, Oliver Burger wrote: Am Montag, 28. November 2011, 15:10:01 schrieb Florian Hubold: Am 28.11.2011 14:55, schrieb Guillaume Rousse: I'm more and more concerned about this whole attitude: you guys should make my own life easier, because other already do

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 21:10 +0100, Maarten Vanraes wrote: Op maandag 28 november 2011 14:40:34 schreef Michael Scherer: [...] There is several pragmatic reasons for that and, there is also some long term harm by shipping more and more proprietary software like : [...] Personally, I aim

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Fox
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 10:14 +0100, Oliver Burger wrote: Am Dienstag, 29. November 2011, 10:07:16 schrieb Robert Fox: We are not proposing that such packages be included in the ISOs - just available in a repository which we can trust and know that it works . . And that's the problem. As misc

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Fox
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:20 +0100, nicolas vigier wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Robert Fox wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 11:05 +0100, nicolas vigier wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Robert Fox wrote: If you watch what the other major distros are doing related to this topic

Re: [Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Fox
Ah... and there it is... This is how most threads like this ends up... Many users seems to forget this is a community driven distribution, so if you want something no-one of the current maintainers care about, you need to do the work, and stop expecting others to do it for you (unless

[Mageia-dev] Major issues after latest updates

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Fox
Since the recent Cauldron updates - I am having serious issues under KDE and Gnome 3.2 - I think it has something to do with the latest Compiz - Now the mouse is no accurate (can't click directly on anything - it is slightly over and to the left) - and compiz appears to be broken. Drak3d does not

Re: [Mageia-dev] Major issues after latest updates

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Fox
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 08:39 +0100, Robert Fox wrote: Since the recent Cauldron updates - I am having serious issues under KDE and Gnome 3.2 - I think it has something to do with the latest Compiz - Now the mouse is no accurate (can't click directly on anything - it is slightly over

Re: [Mageia-dev] Major issues after latest updates

2011-11-30 Thread Robert Fox
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 09:53 -0300, Balcaen John wrote: Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011 04:39:35, Robert Fox a écrit : Since the recent Cauldron updates - I am having serious issues under KDE and Gnome 3.2 - I think it has something to do with the latest Compiz - Now the mouse is no accurate

[Mageia-dev] Starting DM service - fails during boot

2011-12-01 Thread Robert Fox
I have a Cauldron box which doesn't start DM when booted - and when I check in Drakxservices, and check start on boot - it doesn't work (resets back to not starting. Once the machine has started, I can manually start the DM service. BTW, I am NOT using systemd (although it is installed:

[Mageia-dev] New errors during boot (since latest Cauldron updates)

2011-12-06 Thread Robert Fox
The first error has been around for some time udevd (directory not writable) - but the OSINFO errors are new: Starting udev: udevd[133]: error: runtime directory '/run/udev' not writable, for now falling back to '/dev/.udev' ^[[85G[^[[1;32m OK ^[[0;39m] udevd[134]: unknown key

Re: [Mageia-dev] New errors during boot (since latest Cauldron updates)

2011-12-06 Thread Robert Fox
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:04 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 06/12/11 09:18 did gyre and gimble: The first error has been around for some time udevd (directory not writable) - but the OSINFO errors are new: Starting udev: udevd[133]: error: runtime directory

[Mageia-dev] Problem with latest Evolution and attachements

2011-12-28 Thread Robert Fox
Since updating to Evolution 3.3.3 in Cauldron, I have notice the program crashes (segfaults) when trying to add multiple attachments (using the CTRL key to select more than one attachment in the file dialog) When Evolution is started again, then I can recover the new message which crashed during

[Mageia-dev] Problem with latest Evolution and attachements

2011-12-28 Thread Robert Fox
Since updating to Evolution 3.3.3 in Cauldron, I have notice the program crashes (segfaults) when trying to add multiple attachments (using the CTRL key to select more than one attachment in the file dialog) When Evolution is started again, then I can recover the new message which crashed during

[Mageia-dev] Problem with latest Evolution and attachements

2011-12-28 Thread Robert Fox
Since updating to Evolution 3.3.3 in Cauldron, I have notice the program crashes (segfaults) when trying to add multiple attachments (using the CTRL key to select more than one attachment in the file dialog) When Evolution is started again, then I can recover the new message which crashed during

[Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . .

2012-01-06 Thread Robert Fox
After latest Cauldron updates, I got a real long list of suggested orphans - but I believe some of these packages are needed (like hal or basesystem-minimal) - How do I clear out the orphans - like reset the logic behind it so the correct packages will be orphaned? Or is a fresh install in

Re: [Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . .

2012-01-06 Thread Robert Fox
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 12:32 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:16:52 +0100 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: After latest Cauldron updates, I got a real long list of suggested orphans - but I believe some of these packages are needed (like hal or basesystem-minimal

Re: [Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . .

2012-01-06 Thread Robert Fox
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 12:27 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/1/6 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net: After latest Cauldron updates, I got a real long list of suggested orphans - but I believe some of these packages are needed (like hal or basesystem-minimal) - How do I clear out

[Mageia-dev] Drak3d Compiz - Alpha 3

2012-01-18 Thread Robert Fox
Just installed Alpha 3 fresh on a machine - wanted to install and enable compiz, but Drak3d didn't seem to do the trick. Is the Drak3d too not yet updated for the new X and Compiz?? Thx, R.Fox

Re: [Mageia-dev] Drak3d Compiz - Alpha 3

2012-01-18 Thread Robert Fox
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 18:50 +0100, Julien wrote: Le Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:02:17 +0100, Manuel Hiebel man...@hiebel.eu a écrit : Le mercredi 18 janvier 2012 à 15:32 +0100, Robert Fox a écrit : Just installed Alpha 3 fresh on a machine - wanted to install and enable compiz, but Drak3d

[Mageia-dev] KDE 4.8 updates and panel issues

2012-01-25 Thread Robert Fox
I just updated two systems to the latest Cauldron with KDE 4.8 packages - looking good, except that the panel is now in Classic Menu mode and there is no longer the option to switch to Application Launcher Menu Am I missing something? Thx, R.Fox

Re: [Mageia-dev] Media mounting broken

2012-01-31 Thread Robert Fox
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:28 +0100, JA Magallón wrote: Hi all... Since some time ago, automounting of media (USB, CD) seems gone nuts. How can I debug this ? First of all, I have udisks2 installed, not udisks, even if the later is also in the repos. I suppose newer version supersedes it, as

Re: [Mageia-dev] Media mounting broken

2012-01-31 Thread Robert Fox
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 09:39 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 31/01/12 09:37 did gyre and gimble: Should not this also work on a system running just in text mode Nope. Longer term, it would be possible as systemd tracks user logins and can launch an agent to do

[Mageia-dev] USB Flash drive broken since latest Cauldron updates

2012-02-07 Thread Robert Fox
When I plug in an 8G USB (fat32) thumbdrive - I get the following errors: Feb 7 11:58:34 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: new low-speed USB device number 7 using uhci_hcd Feb 7 11:58:34 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 7 11:58:34 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: device

[Mageia-dev] Mounting a CDROM problem

2012-02-16 Thread Robert Fox
Using latest Cauldron - I get this error when trying to mount a normal CDROM under KDE Konqueror An error occurred while accessing 'CISSP 5th Editio', the system responded: The requested operation has failed.: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: mount point

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mounting a CDROM problem

2012-02-16 Thread Robert Fox
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 09:39 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 16/02/12 09:20 did gyre and gimble: Using latest Cauldron - I get this error when trying to mount a normal CDROM under KDE Konqueror An error occurred while accessing 'CISSP 5th Editio', the system

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mounting a CDROM problem

2012-02-16 Thread Robert Fox
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 09:53 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 16/02/12 09:49 did gyre and gimble: Thanks for the fast response Col - I do still have hal installed, and I stopped hald, but didn't seem to help. BTW, it's safe to use drakxservices to start and stop

[Mageia-dev] Unetbooting and extlinx - strange issue

2012-02-19 Thread Robert Fox
After installing unetbootin on my updated Cauldron box: [root@foxbase rfox]# urpmi unetbootin To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed: PackageVersion Release Arch (medium Core Release) extlinux 4.04

[Mageia-dev] Unetbooting and extlinx - strange issue

2012-02-19 Thread Robert Fox
After installing unetbootin on my updated Cauldron box: [root@foxbase rfox]# urpmi unetbootin To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed: PackageVersion Release Arch (medium Core Release) extlinux 4.04

[Mageia-dev] NVidia fallback to Nouveau after latest Kernel updates

2012-03-02 Thread Robert Fox
Since last Cauldron kernel update, I have two nvidia based system which now fallback to nouveau when starting X - stating nvidia cannot be loaded. checking in dmesg - I see that the nouveau driver grabs the card before the nvidia driver can - but trying to remove the nouveau driver wants to

Re: [Mageia-dev] NVidia fallback to Nouveau after latest Kernel updates

2012-03-02 Thread Robert Fox
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 16:44 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/3/2 EatDirt dirt...@gmail.com: On 02/03/12 09:38, Robert Fox wrote: Since last Cauldron kernel update, I have two nvidia based system which now fallback to nouveau when starting X - stating nvidia cannot be loaded. +1

[Mageia-dev] NVidia fallback to Nouveau after latest Kernel updates

2012-03-06 Thread Robert Fox
This was fixed once, but since the latest kernel updates (3.3.0) - the problem has returned: Since last Cauldron kernel update, I have two nvidia based system which now fallback to nouveau when starting X - stating nvidia cannot be loaded. checking in dmesg - I see that the nouveau driver

[Mageia-dev] Bluetooth USB dongle - not showing up

2012-03-11 Thread Robert Fox
I have 3 different bluetooth usb devices and can't get anyone to work on my cauldron based box. When I insert the dongle - nothing happens, but when I pull is out I get: Mar 11 19:16:14 foxbase systemd[1]: Service bluetooth.target is not needed anymore. Stopping. lsusb shows: Bus 004 Device 005:

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bluetooth USB dongle - not showing up

2012-03-11 Thread Robert Fox
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 19:27 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 11/03/12 18:20 did gyre and gimble: I have 3 different bluetooth usb devices and can't get anyone to work on my cauldron based box. When I insert the dongle - nothing happens, but when I pull is out I

Re: [Mageia-dev] Bluetooth USB dongle - not showing up

2012-03-11 Thread Robert Fox
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 19:43 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 11/03/12 19:34 did gyre and gimble: On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 19:27 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 11/03/12 18:20 did gyre and gimble: I have 3 different bluetooth usb devices

[Mageia-dev] March 13th, 2012 VirtualBox 4.1.10 released!

2012-03-14 Thread Robert Fox
Is it too late to get this into the distro? Cheers, R.Fox

[Mageia-dev] Fatal errors with rpm

2012-03-14 Thread Robert Fox
Since the last few updates, I am experiencing erratic RPM db errors (on more than one machine): error: rpmdb: Thread/process 3912/139787959727872 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv-failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error:

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fatal errors with rpm

2012-03-14 Thread Robert Fox
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 18:19 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/3/14 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2012/3/14 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2012/3/14 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2012/3/14 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2012/3/14 Robert Fox l

[Mageia-dev] Firefox 11?

2012-03-17 Thread Robert Fox
Just wondering whether Firefox 11 is going to make it into Mageia 2 . . . Thx, R.Fox

Re: [Mageia-dev] cgroup on the desktop

2012-03-21 Thread Robert Fox
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 16:24 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 20/03/12 08:13 did gyre and gimble: Tried to research it, but it look more like it is for servers than desktop. Could someone explain what the value-add is of using this on the desktop? As used

[Mageia-dev] KWin Segfault - sporatic

2012-03-22 Thread Robert Fox
I have been experiencing a sporadic KWin segfault crash - it can not be forced and happens very rarely. When it does happen, I can not access the KDE panel anymore, but the desktop continues to work. The only resolve it to logout and restart KDE - Here is the backtrace: KDE Application: KWin

[Mageia-dev] Missing in Action - 3G F5521gw

2012-03-27 Thread Robert Fox
Since recent Cauldron updates, I can't get my 3G card (Ericsson F5521gw) to work - looks like the modules are loading: [root@ThinkFox rfox]# lsmod | grep cdc cdc_ncm18343 0 usbnet 32360 1 cdc_ncm cdc_acm28712 0 cdc_wdm18241 0

Re: [Mageia-dev] Missing in Action - 3G F5521gw

2012-03-28 Thread Robert Fox
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 09:15 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 27/03/12 20:11 did gyre and gimble: Since recent Cauldron updates, I can't get my 3G card (Ericsson F5521gw) to work - looks like the modules are loading: [root@ThinkFox rfox]# lsmod | grep cdc

[Mageia-dev] Creating PDFs from a scanned document

2012-03-31 Thread Robert Fox
Just a quick question to the experts out there . . . I have an HP J5780 All-in-One device - and use the HP Device Manager software under Mageia - When I scan a document into a PDF, the converted document is rather large (5MB) in comparison to the same document scanned under Windows 7 and the HP

Re: [Mageia-dev] Creating PDFs from a scanned document

2012-03-31 Thread Robert Fox
On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 11:05 +0100, Pascal Terjan wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:59, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: Just a quick question to the experts out there . . . This would probably be better on -discuss than -dev I have an HP J5780 All-in-One device

Re: [Mageia-dev] Creating PDFs from a scanned document

2012-03-31 Thread Robert Fox
On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 11:36 +0100, Donald Stewart wrote: On 31 March 2012 11:31, Pascal Terjan pter...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:22, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: On a similar note, what ever happened to a standard PDF printer setup in the mcc (printerdrake

[Mageia-dev] Sleep once, never again . .

2012-04-03 Thread Robert Fox
I have a Thinkpad x220 notebook running latest Cauldron in KDE. When I close the lid, the system goes to sleep mode - and it awakes fine. If I close the lid again, the system will not sleep. When I choose logout, turn off computer and then sleep to ram it also doesn't do anything. So the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sleep once, never again . .

2012-04-03 Thread Robert Fox
On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 13:40 +0100, Pascal Terjan wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 13:10, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: I have a Thinkpad x220 notebook running latest Cauldron in KDE. When I close the lid, the system goes to sleep mode - and it awakes

Re: [Mageia-dev] Release blocker bugs

2012-04-23 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 11:51 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Nicolas at 23/04/12 10:33 did gyre and gimble: #3375crirelLinut...@iki.fiNEW---after hibernation system starts booting from scratch Oh and I think I fixed this one last week but

[Mageia-dev] freeze push: request Gimp 2.8 regarding single window interface!

2012-05-06 Thread Robert Fox
Gimp 2.8 stable has been released http://www.gimp.org/ It is a MAJOR improvement! Would be nice to squeeze it in to Mageia 2 release . . Thx, R.Fox

[Mageia-dev] What's with all the fedora named services in Drakxservice??

2012-05-06 Thread Robert Fox
I wanted to check something using drakxservices and noticed here are 8 separate sevices starting with the name fedora in them (fedora-autorelabel, fedora-readonly, fedora-configure) Not all services are running and I am not sure what each of these does. More disturbing is why they are called

Re: [Mageia-dev] What's with all the fedora named services in Drakxservice??

2012-05-06 Thread Robert Fox
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 15:09 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: Jeeze, first people complain draxservices doesn't show all systemd service and now that I fixed that people complain they show them... I can't win :p Thanks for your prompt response Colin - just was inquiring! Maybe disturbing was a

[Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Robert Fox
Hello All - I am experiencing a strange problem with a specific machine running Cauldron. I am beginning to believe it is NOT a Mageia problem because when I boot into Ubuntu 12.04 the problem exists as well. I think it may be hardware related but I can not find what is causing this issue. The

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-21 Thread Robert Fox
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 19:50 +0200, David Sjölin wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:33 PM, AL13N al...@rmail.be wrote: perhaps check the logs (/var/log/messages) for information regarding those downtimes. see if the ping also delays perhaps try to monitor something via ssh or in tty, to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Strange system stalls - neep a tip

2012-05-22 Thread Robert Fox
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 12:11 +0200, AL13N wrote: On 21/05/12 18:11, Robert Fox wrote: Any hints what I could check? At first I though this was Firefox related (like flash problem or something) because it was most noticeable when I surfed - firefox freezes off

[Mageia-dev] Bad signatures with latest updates

2012-05-31 Thread Robert Fox
The following packages have bad signatures: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakxtools-14.21-1.mga3.x86_64.rpm: Missing signature (OK ((none))) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakxtools-backend-14.21-1.mga3.x86_64.rpm: Missing signature (OK ((none))) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/drakxtools-curses-14.21-1.mga3.x86_64.rpm:

[Mageia-dev] Don't get it -

2012-06-09 Thread Robert Fox
I have a newly installed Mageia 2 box which I then updated to Cauldron - When I try to install the Newshosting client (which worked before) - I get the following: [rfox@foxbase Downloads]$ ./newshosting-1.2.1-linux-installer.run

Re: [Mageia-dev] Don't get it -

2012-06-09 Thread Robert Fox
On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 15:32 +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Le 09/06/2012 15:24, Robert Fox a écrit : Error: There has been an error. Error running /home/rfox/newshosting-1.2.1/newshosting.sh : /home/rfox/newshosting-1.2.1/newshosting: error while loading shared libraries: libgthread

[Mageia-dev] Skype 4.0 for Linux - Package request

2012-06-15 Thread Robert Fox
I don't know about you guys, but I've been waiting for this release for some time - unfortunately, they only offer it for the other distributions: Select your Linux distribution Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit Debian 6.0 32-bit Debian 6.0 64-bit Fedora 16 32bit OpenSUSE 12.1 32bit I run

Re: [Mageia-dev] Skype 4.0 for Linux - Package request

2012-06-15 Thread Robert Fox
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 10:40 +0200, D.Morgan wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: I don't know about you guys, but I've been waiting for this release for some time - unfortunately, they only offer it for the other distributions: Select your Linux

[Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting

2012-06-19 Thread Robert Fox
I use a UMTS card on my laptop - and use net_applet to reactivate the card (with PIN) when I awake the machine from sleep. From KDE - frequently when I click on net_applet to further click on Manage Wireless Networks - sometimes it disappears - After running it from the cli - I get: Cannot

Re: [Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting

2012-06-19 Thread Robert Fox
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 19:46 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 19 June 2012 16:01, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: So for some unexplained reason it segfaults and I have to start it again. Please: 1) install perl-debug glibc-debug perl-Glib-debug perl-Gtk2-debug gtk2.0-debug gdb 2

[Mageia-dev] Streamtuner Streamripper - MIA

2012-06-24 Thread Robert Fox
I just discovered to my dismay that Streamtuner and Streamripper are no longer available as packages in Mageia - These programs, although no longer supported, worked quite well - and I can't seem to find a good alternative yet (for recording Internet radio) under Linux - Is it possible to have

Re: [Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting

2012-07-01 Thread Robert Fox
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 19:46 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 19 June 2012 16:01, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: So for some unexplained reason it segfaults and I have to start it again. Please: 1) install perl-debug glibc-debug perl-Glib-debug perl-Gtk2-debug gtk2.0-debug gdb 2

Re: [Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting

2012-07-02 Thread Robert Fox
On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 18:15 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:55:25 +0200 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 19:46 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 19 June 2012 16:01, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: So for some unexplained reason

[Mageia-dev] Evolution strange menus

2012-07-02 Thread Robert Fox
I use KDE under Cauldrun and Evolution - and Oxygen-gtk style - tried others but it got worse . . . how can I reset to default style for Evolution?? Thx, R.Fox attachment: evolution.png

Re: [Mageia-dev] Missing in Action - 3G F5521gw

2012-08-07 Thread Robert Fox
/proc/bus/ doesn't have usb anymore: [root@ThinkFox rfox]# ls /proc/bus/ input/ pci/ Should I raise a bug? Thx, R.Fox On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 09:15 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 27/03/12 20:11 did gyre and gimble: Since recent Cauldron updates, I can't get my 3G card

[Mageia-dev] Issue with latest Evolution (evolution-3.5.5-1.mga3)

2012-08-08 Thread Robert Fox
Lately, Evolution as been acting a bit odd - I have always had it set up under Mail Preferences - HTML Messages - Loading Images - set to Never Load Images from the Internet When I want to load the messages, I just click Ctrl-i and it would normally load the images. Now, if I click on Ctrl-i - a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Missing in Action - 3G F5521gw

2012-08-10 Thread Robert Fox
/proc/bus/ doesn't have usb anymore: [root@ThinkFox rfox]# ls /proc/bus/ input/ pci/ Should I raise a bug? Thx, R.Fox On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 09:15 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 27/03/12 20:11 did gyre and gimble: Since recent Cauldron updates, I can't get my 3G card

[Mageia-dev] Strange message in Firefox

2012-09-06 Thread Robert Fox
When I open a site with video, a strange pop-up comes up and says: Couldn't load the '/usr/share/totem/mozilla-viewer.ui' interface. Invalid object type `TotemGlowButton' Make sure that Totem is properly installed. [rfox@ThinkFox ~]$ locate mozilla-viewer /usr/share/totem/mozilla-viewer.css

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