Re: SL6 Minimal Desktop problem
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Brian Long wrote: I've installed SL6.1 Minimal Desktop in order to use IceWM on an IONITX motherboard (Intel Atom + Nvidia ION). When I try to login via GDM, GDM insists on starting gnome-session even though GNOME is not fully installed. I'm trying to determine the best method to have GDM use IceWM by default. Have you installed xorg-x11-xinit-session ? I needed that to use twm. I believe I need to modify /etc/gdm/custom.conf and specify a few parameters to force GDM to use icewm-session instead of gnome-session. I've already tried adding PREFERRED=icewm-session in /etc/sysconfig/desktop to no avail. Any additional information would be greatly appreciated. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
Re: .xps files on SL5
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Stephen Isard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? I've found web postings saying that okular can read them, but I can't find a version of that for SL5. I tried installing kdegraphics, but it wasn't included. It's apparently on the way for evince, but not here yet. mupdf http://mupdf.com/ works on SL6 but I haven't tried building it on SL5. Before I found that, I found that the .xps documents I was interested in were in fact .zip files containing PNG and JPG files with the images that I wanted - the XML was just adding titles etc. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
Should yum-autoupdate depend on mailx?
Hello! Line 211 of /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate calls /bin/mail, but yum- autoupdate-2-2.noarch does not depend on anything providing that file (mailx-12.4-6.el6.x86_64). This seems like a bug in dependencies, or is there a reason for this? Kind regards, Dennis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: .xps files on SL5
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:08:21 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Stephen Isard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? ... mupdf http://mupdf.com/ works on SL6 but I haven't tried building it on SL5. Thanks for the pointer. It does build and work on SL5.5 too. Better than gxps for displaying a .xps file on the screen without needing to convert it to pdf first. But if you do want to convert the file to pdf, or print it, it's not immediately obvious whether mupdf can do that. Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough. Stephen Isard
sl6.1 and sl6x
Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? Thanks for any suggetion.
Re: sl6.1 and sl6x
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release. So at the moment sl6x points to sl6.1 since sl6.1 is the current release. When we release sl6.2 then sl6x will point to sl6.2 . So you need to pick 1 . If you pick sl6x you will updated via the yum cron job to the next release when it is released. -Connie Sieh Thanks for any suggetion.
Re: sl6.1 and sl6x
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release. So at the moment sl6x points to sl6.1 since sl6.1 is the current release. When we release sl6.2 then sl6x will point to sl6.2 . So you need to pick 1 . If you pick sl6x you will updated via the yum cron job to the next release when it is released. Thanks for the elaboration - so it is a good idea to enable the SL6x repositories instead of SL6.1. One more thing I want to know is fastbugs updates are safe to install? -Connie Sieh Thanks for any suggetion.
Re: Should yum-autoupdate depend on mailx?
Yum autoupdate sends email to root about updates performed. Perhaps
that is the reason it is looking for mailx. It uses mailx in a scripted
mode to create the messages.
{^_^}
On 2011/09/16 02:33, Dennis Schridde wrote:
Hello!
Line 211 of /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate calls /bin/mail, but yum-
autoupdate-2-2.noarch does not depend on anything providing that file
(mailx-12.4-6.el6.x86_64).
This seems like a bug in dependencies, or is there a reason for this?
Kind regards,
Dennis
Anyone get Google Earth to work on SL6.1?
Hi Guys, Anyone get google-earth-stable-6.0.3.2197-0.x86_64.rpm to work on SL 6.1 x64? All I get is a splash screen and a caught signal 11. Many thanks, -T
gnome-volume-control error
Hi Guys, $ rpm -q -f gnome-volume-control gnome-media-2.29.91-6.el6.x86_64 Everything sound wise works well on my SL6.1 x64 machine except gnome-volume-control. When I fire it up, I get waiting for sound system to respond Any idea how to fix this? Many thanks, -T
Any CentOS 5.6 friendly ink jet printers?
Hi All, I have a sweet old duffer on CentOS 5.6, x32 with an HP DJ 6940 printer on the USB bus. CUPS like to put it offline a lot, which frustrates the two of us. There is also no easy way to clean the heads (other than a dubious command line program). Can anyone recommend a Linux friendly ink jet? One with a front panel control to clean the thing? Must be CUPS friendly too. Many thanks, -T
Re: sl6.1 and sl6x
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee bum@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release. So at the moment sl6x points to sl6.1 since sl6.1 is the current release. When we release sl6.2 then sl6x will point to sl6.2 . So you need to pick 1 . If you pick sl6x you will updated via the yum cron job to the next release when it is released. Thanks for the elaboration - so it is a good idea to enable the SL6x repositories instead of SL6.1. It's a choice, and it's actually a reasonable one to select 6.1. If you follow the model of The Upstream Vendor, the 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 releases are all supposed to upgrade in place, automatically, to get all current packages. 6.0 and 6.1 are timestamps for media releases, and do not represent a different software repository maintained by them. This avoids the amazing pain some of us had to deal with for years, back with the original releases back when their old 7.0 and 7.2 releases were likely to be incompatible. This way works better, by not trying to split support among so many sub releases. Our friendly maintainers at Scientific Linux, understandably, don't quite follow that, but with their common 5x repository, and rolling releases, it's pretty close. I really appreciate using that one or two repositories, instead of having to mix and match from point releases.
Re: Any CentOS 5.6 friendly ink jet printers?
On 09/16/2011 09:21 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, I have a sweet old duffer on CentOS 5.6, x32 with an HP DJ 6940 printer on the USB bus. CUPS like to put it offline a lot, which frustrates the two of us. There is also no easy way to clean the heads (other than a dubious command line program). Can anyone recommend a Linux friendly ink jet? One with a front panel control to clean the thing? Must be CUPS friendly too. Many thanks, -T I've been using HP exclusively for years with SL. USB going offline has been a problem in the past, and there are scripts to help with it (newer cups version handle things more gracefully). Currently I've been using HP Officejet 7000WF printers over ethernet with extremely good luck. They provide a web interface to perform all of the Windows driver functions, as well as a few buttons on the front to print diagnostics and initiate head cleanings. -Mark
