Re: Fwd: Re: vlc-2.0.7

On 13/07/13 08:15, Yasha Karant wrote: On 07/12/2013 05:38 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 07/12/2013 01:05 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: The issue is that the application would not pass configure without disabling these options. I have tried the various pre-built RPMs for vlc that have been

Re: Fwd: Re: vlc-2.0.7

On 14/07/13 16:48, Yasha Karant wrote: snip John, Although vlc 2.0.7 is the current stable production release from vlc, it is not the same from the rpmfusion respository, for which 2.0.6 is stable. I avoid (if at all possible) any testing, pre-production, or beta releases on any production

Re: rpmfusion failure due to conflict

On 16/07/13 19:07, Yasha Karant wrote: We need to support a variety of applications on our 3D scientific visualisation client workstations, running SL6x x86-64 using the proprietary Nvidia 3D Xwindows drivers (and Nvidia CUDA5 along with OpenCL). When I installed rpmfusion for vlc production

Re: rpmfusion failure due to conflict

On 16/07/13 21:24, Yasha Karant wrote: A query: it's my understanding that you ought to be careful about mixing packages from ATrpms and rpmfusion. They tend to cover similar areas of application. and individually do it well, but mixing does cause problems. I agree with this, and, as

Re: blue griffon

On 11/10/13 09:36, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Yasha Karant wrote: I have found: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/centos/5.9/x86_64/CentOS/autoconf213-2.13-12.1.noarch.html and installed the rpm from the above URL. This provided autoconf123. The present complaint is:

Re: Stuck with compilations

On 27/10/13 16:31, Elio Fabri wrote: On 10/26/2013 07:23 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: yum uses rpm, but is more powerful |~ sudo yum install audacity-1.3.12-0.6.beta.el6.x86_64.rpm Here is what yum replies: Error: Package: audacity-1.3.12-0.6.beta.el6.x86_64

Re: TV tuner fails with 3.10.22-1.el6.elrepoNONPAE.i686; was OK with earlier builds

On 09/12/13 21:58, Alan Bartlett wrote: I shall interleave my responses, below. On 9 December 2013 21:33, John Pilkington j.p...@tesco.net wrote: Hi: I've just lost a fight with the elrepo bugtracker's verification procedures, There is a direct contact address that you could have used

Re: TV tuner fails with 3.10.22-1.el6.elrepoNONPAE.i686; was OK with earlier builds

On 09/12/13 23:14, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 9 December 2013 22:48, John Pilkington j.p...@tesco.net wrote: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2013:024f PCTV Systems nanoStick T2 290e Performing the usual double grep technique, I see that the em28xx driver is correct for your USB tuner. [Duo2 ~]$ rpm

Re: TV tuner fails with 3.10.22-1.el6.elrepoNONPAE.i686; was OK with earlier builds

On 09/12/13 23:44, John Pilkington wrote: On 09/12/13 23:14, Alan Bartlett wrote: snip Please re-try with the current kernel-lt-3.10.23-1.el6.elrepo (released earlier today) and if still unsuccessful, take it to the appropriate ELRepo Project support channel where it can then be investigated

Re: TV tuner fails with 3.10.22-1.el6.elrepoNONPAE.i686; was OK with earlier builds

On 10/12/13 12:02, John Pilkington wrote: I'll try the bugtracker again. http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=438 John

Re: TV tuner fails with 3.10.22-1.el6.elrepoNONPAE.i686 (SOLVED)

On 10/12/13 13:59, John Pilkington wrote: On 10/12/13 12:02, John Pilkington wrote: I'll try the bugtracker again. http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=438 Fixed for me with 3.10.25-1.el6.elrepoNONPAE.i686

yum not finding kde-repo in 6.5

I just changed repos from 6 to 6x and the yumex upgrade (one laptop) was smooth; but I have the kde repos enabled, mainly for kde-unstable, and yum is looking for mirrors of 6.5 which aren't yet defined. I'd like guidance, if it's available, please.

Re: yum not finding kde-repo in 6.5 (SOLVED)

On 02/02/14 07:45, Andreas Petzold wrote: Hi, On 02/01/2014 07:03 PM, John Pilkington wrote: I just changed repos from 6 to 6x and the yumex upgrade (one laptop) was smooth; but I have the kde repos enabled, mainly for kde-unstable, and yum is looking for mirrors of 6.5 which aren't yet

Re: missing (???) right alsa alsa-kmdl module in repositories

On 30/07/14 15:04, Charles Elsaesser wrote: Hello to all, I do not find right alsa kernel module alsa-kmdl for system 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64 . As the rest of your post showed, the kmdls would be from the ATrpms repo. There isn't a lot of new activity there now. Perhaps the first

Re: missing (???) right alsa alsa-kmdl module in repositories

On 30/07/14 15:40, John Pilkington wrote: On 30/07/14 15:04, Charles Elsaesser wrote: Hello to all, I do not find right alsa kernel module alsa-kmdl for system 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64 . As the rest of your post showed, the kmdls would be from the ATrpms repo. There isn't a lot of new

Error messages from Thunderbird in SL6.5

Hi: I get a few posts, from mailing lists, that trigger a Thunderbird warning pop-up with this 'explanation' Bad key or directory name: /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/GMT+02/command: `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names It appears to be

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Error messages from Thunderbird in SL6.5

On 29/08/14 19:32, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 08/29/2014 12:33 PM, John Pilkington wrote: Hi: I get a few posts, from mailing lists, that trigger a Thunderbird warning pop-up with this 'explanation' Bad key or directory name: /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/GMT+02/command: `+' is an invalid character

el7 kernel problem with PCTV nanoStick T2 290e: DVB-T/T2 usb

I just posted about this in mythtv-users but it fits here too... I've been successfully using this device in Myth/SL6 for many months, but had to use kernel-lt from elrepo to get support. This broke briefly last December on going from 3.10.21-1 to 3.10.22-1

New kernel 3.10.0-123.13.1.el7.x86_64 loses my tv tuners

I've posted about this on the mythtv-users list but it also belongs here and probably on linux-media too. [john@HP_Box ~]$ dmesg | grep adapter [1.845944] DVB: registering new adapter (Kworld UB499-2T T09(IT9137)) [john@HP_Box ~]$ dmesg | grep DVB [1.556887] saa7133[0]: subsystem:

SL7 failing to load modules and firmware

with none, but that was before I came across this 'legacy config' aspect, which seems more systemd related. John Pilkington

Re: SL7 failing to load modules and firmware -partially solved

On 11/01/15 21:50, John Pilkington wrote: Hi: This is a followup of my post of a month ago, http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scientific.user/7532 in which I reported that after an SL7 kernel upgrade my tv-reception hardware was no longer working. At that time it would still work under

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL 7.1 schedule? (was Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo)

On 30/03/15 14:10, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 03/27/2015 02:03 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote: My main concern would be how to go back to 7x after the release. For this one, I will refer you to this section of our 7 release notes:

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Repo error after 7.0 to 7.1 upgrade

On 15/04/15 14:37, Pat Riehecky wrote: can I have you run: yum clean expire-cache and see if the errors persist? Pat I've been through the sequence twice. Still exactly the same. Thanks. John

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Repo error after 7.0 to 7.1 upgrade

On 15/04/15 17:37, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/15/2015 11:24 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 15/04/15 17:08, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/15/2015 11:07 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 04/15/2015 10:49 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 15/04/15 15:38, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/15/2015 09:13 AM, John

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Repo error after 7.0 to 7.1 upgrade

On 15/04/15 17:08, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/15/2015 11:07 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 04/15/2015 10:49 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 15/04/15 15:38, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 04/15/2015 09:13 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 15/04/15 14:37, Pat Riehecky wrote: can I have you run: yum clean

Re: kstars

On 03/09/15 13:42, Efraim Yawitz wrote: Why is kstars no longer part of Scientific Linux? I'm still using 5.4 which has this wonderful and small planetarium program. Why was it removed from later versions? Thank you, Ephraim Yawitz It isn't clear what your requirements are, and I have

Re: vlc no audio

On 20/02/16 10:35, John Pilkington wrote: Good. After being reminded of my problem with the DVD .iso playback I just reverted to vlc-2.1.6-2.el7.nux.x86_64 (I uninstalled first) That fixed it, although the opening aspect ratios are wrong. ... and I've been bitten by this before: don't

Re: vlc no audio

On 19/02/16 10:50, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, SL 7.2 Since the last "yum upgrade", VLC (from nux) is completely quiet. No sound at all. Everything else has sound but not VLC. I tried both nux's 2.2 and 2.1. VLC is set to "defaults" and is not muted. I have uninstalled and reinstall

Re: vlc no audio

On 19/02/16 11:23, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 02/19/2016 03:11 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 19/02/16 10:50, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, SL 7.2 Since the last "yum upgrade", VLC (from nux) is completely quiet. No sound at all. Everything else has sound but not VLC. I tried both

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"

On 09/03/16 23:59, David Sommerseth wrote: On 09/03/16 22:20, Thomas Leavitt wrote: Hmm... looks like chronyd was installed by default under SL7 (learn something new every day) rather than ntpd; systems seemed to still be synced and accurate to the second. I swapped that out for ntpd. We'll see

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] *RESOLVED* "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"

On 11/03/16 19:25, Thomas Leavitt wrote: I'm suspecting that the repomd.xml problem was a product of chronyd using a different algorithm than ntpd, and the result of that being a minor divergence in timestamps between server and client (seven seconds, as documented, on my case). Flipping the

Re: "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"

On 09/03/16 05:35, Antonio Querubin wrote: A 7 second variance shouldn't be that much of an issue. A time offset greater than a fraction of second suggests ntpd really isn't time-synced. Not sure if this is related but I've found that ntpd on SL7 systems dies during bootup and require a

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

re-sending to list On 03/04/16 06:36, David G.Miller wrote: Yasha Karant writes: An alternative approach -- if it will work. Suppose I purchase a 1 Tbyte external USB drive (typically with a NTFS partition//format, but this can be changed). Suppose I install such a drive in

Re: Is there a problem with SL7 security updates repo??

On 22/04/16 10:16, Mark Whidby wrote: Hi, Is there a problem? I'm getting this: # yum clean all Loaded plugins: langpacks Cleaning repos: epel sl sl-security Cleaning up everything # cat sl7-security.repo [sl-security] name=Scientific Linux $slreleasever - $basearch - security updates

Re: Strange messages from yum daily updates

On 06/05/16 11:25, Mark Whidby wrote: Hi, I've been getting these for a few days now on 7.1 SL systems: /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron: Update notice SLBA-2015:0563-1 (from sl-security) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping. You should report this problem to the owner of the sl-security