Re: Markdown viewer
On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 12:33, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I'm looking for a simple terminal-based viewer for Markdown files. I > *don't* want an editor. Think 'less', not 'emacs'. I don't mind if it > wants to pop up a window to show rich text, but it's not critical. How simple do you want it? I use this: $ pandoc -t plain some_file.md | less -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Where is Perl 5's "say" module?
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 19:10, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am not find Perl 5's "say" in > > https://ewr.edge.kernel.org/fedora-buffet/fedora/linux/releases/28/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/p/ > > # dnf list perl-say* > Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:13 ago on Fri 17 Aug 2018 09:58:26 > AM PDT. > Error: No matching Packages to list > > > # perl -Msay -e 'say "Hi";' > Can't locate say.pm in @INC (you may need to install the say module) > (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 > /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl > /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5). > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. > > And I tried downloading it from cpan and it won't install. > > What am I missing? I know you have a solution, but I thought it was worth explaining exactly what is going on here. The 'say' function is not in an external module. It is a part of the core Perl language. When 'say' was added to Perl (in version 5.10) it was decided that too many people might already have a subroutine called 'say()' in their code, so it wasn't turned on by default. There are a few ways to turn on support for 'say' in your Perl program. 1/ Explicitly with the 'feature' pragma (see "perldoc feature" for more details). use feature 'say'; say 'Hello'; 2/ By requiring a version 5.10 or greater of Perl (which turns on all of the features for the version of Perl you have asked for). use 5.010; say 'hello'; 3/ You can use the -M command line argument to simulate the 'use feature' approach. perl -Mfeature=say -e'say "hello"' 4/ But using -E instead of -e will turn on all features for your current version of Perl. perl -E'say "hello"' -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3KZWXUK3NWJVEFU4KOV6UADSQIZ443I2/
Re: html to man page
On 2 April 2018 at 06:29, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com> wrote: > Can POD generate an entire web site, with an automatically-generated table > of contents? Well, Pod is a mark-up format. So no. But with tools like Pod::Html (https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Html) and Pod::POM (https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::POM) it's not particularly hard to achieve that. That is, after all, the basis of site like https://metacpan.org/. I once wrote a whole book in Pod - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596004767.do Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: html to man page
On 1 April 2018 at 18:56, JD <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I have an app that has no manpage, but has about 170 html files, > all of which index into a subset of the 168 files. > > I would like to use an app that will produce a single manpage like > text file. > > Is there an app that can do this? > > I saw a few apps on google search, but none of them are producing what I > want. Have you looked at Pandoc (http://pandoc.org/)? It will definitely read HTML and write groff (the format that man pages use). I'd recommend using Pandoc to convert your HTML to Markdown and using that as your source - generating other formats from that. You might need to do quite a lot of manual clean-up of the Markdown files though. But you'd only need to do it once. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: perl updates
On 28 February 2018 at 22:17, Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jeffrey Ross <j...@bubble.org> said:
>> Since this is simply a warning and not a failure I can do one of a
>> few things
>>
>> 1) ignore the warning which generates an email from cron
>> 2) remove the "use warnings" from the exiqsumm script
>> 3) send standard error for the this cron job to /dev/null
>
> 4) if there's no other CLI argument processing in the script, call it
>like "exiqsumm ignored"
5) Change line 48 so it says:
if (@ARGV and $ARGV[0] eq '--version') {
For bonus points, submit that fix back to the project.
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DNF: Retainining old Kernels
Currently I have problem with newer kernel RPMs on my Dell Dimension. There's a bug in Bugzilla about this. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231508 I have three kernel RPMs installed. kernel-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64 kernel-4.2.6-300.fc23.x86_64 kernel-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 Over the weekend I discovered that the problem goes away if I use the oldest of my kernel installations (4.2.5-300). I'm worried that the next time I get a kernel update, my working RPM will be removed and (potentially) replaced with another non-working one. Can I configure dnf so that it won't remove the working kernel RPM and new updates will replace the second oldest one? I'd obviously still like to install new RPMs so that I can test them to find when my problem is fixed. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels
[ email re-ordered to make more sense ] On 30 November 2015 at 09:28, Antonio M <antonio.montagn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-11-30 10:18 GMT+01:00 Dave Cross <dav...@gmail.com>: >> >> Currently I have problem with newer kernel RPMs on my Dell Dimension. >> There's a bug in Bugzilla about this. >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231508 >> >> I have three kernel RPMs installed. >> >> kernel-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64 >> kernel-4.2.6-300.fc23.x86_64 >> kernel-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 >> >> Over the weekend I discovered that the problem goes away if I use the >> oldest of my kernel installations (4.2.5-300). >> >> I'm worried that the next time I get a kernel update, my working RPM >> will be removed and (potentially) replaced with another non-working >> one. >> >> Can I configure dnf so that it won't remove the working kernel RPM and >> new updates will replace the second oldest one? I'd obviously still >> like to install new RPMs so that I can test them to find when my >> problem is fixed. > > sure that you refer to dnf and not to dnf-yumex?? Yes. I'm definitely referring to dnf. I've never heard of dnf-yumex. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels
On 30 November 2015 at 09:26, Frank Murphy <frankl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:18:03 +0000 > Dave Cross <dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can I configure dnf so that it won't remove the working kernel RPM and >> new updates will replace the second oldest one? I'd obviously still >> like to install new RPMs so that I can test them to find when my >> problem is fixed. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dave... >> > > # this will prevent new kernel being added, > # until such time as you fell your bz if fixed. > > dnf.conf > exclude=kernel > > > man dnf.conf The last answer here https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/72775/will-dnf-remove-kernel-underneath-it-self/ Seems to imply that exclude will accept a full version name. So exclude=kernel-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64 might well do the trick. I'll have a play with that tonight. Also, a friend on irc has suggested that I look at the versionlock plugin. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels
On 30 November 2015 at 11:24, Michael D. Setzer II <mi...@kuentos.guam.net> wrote: > On 30 Nov 2015 at 11:17, Dave Cross wrote: > > Date sent: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:17:41 + > Subject:Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels > From: Dave Cross <dav...@gmail.com> > To: Community support for Fedora users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > >> [ email re-ordered to make more sense ] >> >> On 30 November 2015 at 09:28, Antonio M <antonio.montagn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > 2015-11-30 10:18 GMT+01:00 Dave Cross <dav...@gmail.com>: >> >> >> >> Currently I have problem with newer kernel RPMs on my Dell Dimension. >> >> There's a bug in Bugzilla about this. >> >> >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231508 >> >> >> >> I have three kernel RPMs installed. >> >> >> >> kernel-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64 >> >> kernel-4.2.6-300.fc23.x86_64 >> >> kernel-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 >> >> >> >> Over the weekend I discovered that the problem goes away if I use the >> >> oldest of my kernel installations (4.2.5-300). >> >> >> >> I'm worried that the next time I get a kernel update, my working RPM >> >> will be removed and (potentially) replaced with another non-working >> >> one. >> >> >> >> Can I configure dnf so that it won't remove the working kernel RPM and >> >> new updates will replace the second oldest one? I'd obviously still >> >> like to install new RPMs so that I can test them to find when my >> >> problem is fixed. >> > >> > sure that you refer to dnf and not to dnf-yumex?? >> >> Yes. I'm definitely referring to dnf. I've never heard of dnf-yumex. >> > > Think you mean yumex-dnf at least with fc22. No this is definitely dnf. I don't have any yumex packages installed. Oh, and I'm using Fedora 23. How can I convince you that I know my set-up better than you do? :-) Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels
On 30 November 2015 at 09:26, Frank Murphy <frankl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:18:03 +0000 > Dave Cross <dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can I configure dnf so that it won't remove the working kernel RPM and >> new updates will replace the second oldest one? I'd obviously still >> like to install new RPMs so that I can test them to find when my >> problem is fixed. > > # this will prevent new kernel being added, > # until such time as you fell your bz if fixed. > > dnf.conf > exclude=kernel > > > man dnf.conf Thanks for the suggestion. I was really looking for a solution where the most recent two kernels could carry on updating as often as they like, but the oldest one is somehow pinned to my system as a safety net. Currently I'm thinking I can manually remove the middle version. Then when a new kernel is released, it won't hit my installed versions limit and therefore won't delete the oldest one. Rinse and repeat... Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: DNF: Retainining old Kernels
On 30 November 2015 at 13:00, Kseniya Blashchuk <ksybl...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can also increase the installonly_limit in dnf.conf That an interesting idea. Thanks. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: updated f22->f23 using dnf system-upgrade, no significant issues
On 3 November 2015 at 14:42, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > A boring update Yep. Completely uneventful here too. Which is good :-) -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: perl executable
On 22 September 2015 at 16:19, Patrick Dupre <pdu...@gmx.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a perlcc, or a way to create an executable from perl > in fedora? Fedora won't be different to any other Linux distribution. The general points made in the Perl FAQ will still apply. How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C? http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq3.html#How-can-I-compile-my-Perl-program-into-byte-code-or-C%3f But I often find that when people ask this question, they actually want the answer to a rather different question. How can I hide the source for my Perl program? http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq3.html#How-can-I-hide-the-source-for-my-Perl-program%3f Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: where do dnf plugins go?
On 19 July 2015 at 22:34, stan stanl-fedorau...@vfemail.net wrote: On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:07:40 -0400 Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: The DNF documentation desperately attempts to avoid actually saying anything :-(. For pluginpath it says: List of directories that are searched for plugins to load. Plugins found in any of the directories in this configuration option are used. The default contains a Python version-specific path. The installed /etc/dnf/dnf.conf file doesn't explicitly say anything about pluginpath, so it must be hard coded somewhere. So what the heck is the actual contents of this pluginpath config setting on fedora 22? Where do I install a .py module if I'm trying to write my own plugin? Maybe install a dnf plugin package. Then run rpm -q --files [plugin pkg name] to see where it put its files? Not an answer to your question, but might get you closer. Or use repoquery so you don't have to install the package. $ repoquery -q -l python-dnf-plugins-extras-local [ ... snip yum deprecation warning ...] /etc/dnf/plugins/local.conf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf-plugins/local.py /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf-plugins/local.pyc /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf-plugins/local.pyo /usr/share/man/man8/dnf.plugin.local.8.gz Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Frequent X Freezes
Last weekend I raised a bug about frequent X freezes that I'm seeing on my desktop since the upgrade to F22. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231508 I've had no updates to that bug. I'm not complaining about that at all. I realise that developers are busy people. But I wondered if anyone here had any suggestions of other investigations I could carry our or other useful information that I could add to the bug. I'm happy to do all that I can to try and get this problem fixed. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Problems with journalctl
It appears that journalctl isn't set up correctly on my system. It doesn't seem to be registering each boot correctly. $ journalctl --list-boots 0 67279b3d530040d997694f7fc89ec7de Thu 2015-03-19 07:04:29 GMT—Sat 2015-03-21 1 And I've rebooted the system many, many times since March. Also: $ journalctl -b -1 Failed to look up boot -1: Cannot assign requested address I have a /var/log/journal directory $ ls -l /var/log/journal total 28 drwxr-sr-x+ 2 root systemd-journal 20480 Jun 18 09:34 cbed8c34efb340afbf91f264e57b8278 And (somewhere) log data has been kept back to December 2012. $ journalctl -- Logs begin at Fri 2014-12-12 07:55:40 GMT, end at Thu 2015-06-18 09:44:18 BST. -- ... I'd like to be able to see all of the system boots and easily access logs from a particular boot. Any suggestions as to how I can fix this problem? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Google Account in GNOME
Soon after I installed Fedora 20 I used the online accounts config panel to set up my Google account. This worked well for several months. A few weeks ago, I changed my Google account password. Ever since then, GNOME keeps prompting me for my Google account password - but it won't accept either the new password or the old one. I just have to cancel the dialog box. I've tried removing the account and adding it back, but it still won't accept the password. Every time I wake the system from sleep, I get a dialog box asking for my Google account password which I have to cancel. Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how I can fix this? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: perl
On 30 April 2014 19:01, Patrick Dupre pdu...@gmx.com wrote:
Hello,
I do not understand,
I have 2 machines fedora 20 x86_64.
On one my application run fine, on the other one I get an error:
Perl API version v5.16.0 of PDL::Core does not match v5.18.0 at
/usr/lib64/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 213.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 42) line 6.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 42) line 6.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/home/pdupre/Spectroscopy/Stepram/Input_windows.pm line 12.
At line 12 there is
use PDL ;
Both perl-PDL are the same.
How can I debug?
The error says that one of your machines has a version of PDL
installed that was built against the wrong version of Perl. You have
Perl 5.18 installed, but the PDL library was build for Perl 5.16. PDL
is an XS-based library. That means that a lot of it is made up of C
code. Perl doesn't guarantee binary compatibility between major
versions so XS-based libraries need to be rebuilt for a new version.
The question then becomes, how did your system get into that state. I
can suggest two possibilities.
1/ Your system was upgraded from a previous version of Fedora which
was running Perl 5.16 and for some reason the upgrade didn't pull in
the new version of the RPM. You say that both systems have the same
perl-PDL installed, but how similar are they? They might be the same
version number but built for different Perl versions (or, rather,
different versions of Fedora). What do you get if you run 'rpm -q
perl-PDL' on each of the systems?
If this is the problem, then you can probably fix it by running yum
reinstall perl-PDL.
2/ Your system was upgraded from previous version of Fedora which was
running Perl 5.16 and that older installation had a version of PDL
which was installed through cpan, not rpm/yum. It's possible that the
cpan-installed version is in an different directory to the
yum-installed version and that the cpan-installed version's directory
appears earlier on the @INC path. This would mean the Perl completely
ignores the yum-installed version. Try running these three command and
report back what you get.
perl -MPDL -le'print $INC{PDL.pm}'
rpm -ql perl-PDL | grep PDL.pm
perl -le'print $_ for @INC'
Hope this helps,
Dave...
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Dual Boot Problems
A few months ago I installed Fedora 20 as dual boot on a new Dell desktop - one with UEFI. But I got confused while installing it and set the BIOS to legacy boot mode before the installation. As a result, I have a PC which boots to Grub and Fedora works fine. However I can't get to the Windows 8 installation and if I switch back to UEFI boot mode, then the system won't boot at all. This works fine for me most of the time, but occasionally I want to run Windows on the system. So I'd like to fix my errors and end up with a real dual-boot system. As I see it, my plan should be something like this: 1/ Back up everything important from the Linux partitions. 2/ Use the Windows restore CD to repair the Windows UEFI boot. 3/ Reinstall Fedora using UEFI boot instead of legacy. I'm hoping that if I note the partitions and directories before I start, then I'll be able to re-use the same partitions for the same directories as I currently have. Only my system partition will have changed and I'll need to reinstall some RPMs. Does this sound like a reasonable plan? Is there anything I might be able to do which will make it easier? Oh, and the system has an SSD which it uses for booting Windows. Is there any chance that I install Fedora so that it uses this (but without disturbing the Windows boot files)? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: F20/Windows 7 Dual Boot Problem
On 5 January 2014 15:06, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I've had my laptop set up for dual boot between Fedora and Windows 7 for a couple of years. Everything has worked fine. I updated from Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 using fedup recently. After that, I was still able to boot into Windows when I wanted to. But in the last couple of days, I've noticed that Windows is missing from the boot menu. So some recent update seems to have removed it. Does that sound likely? How can I debug what has happened? So, it turns out that this was me being an idiot. I have too many old kernels installed and the Grub menu is too long and has gained a scrollbar. If I scroll to the bottom, I can see the Windows entry. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
F20/Windows 7 Dual Boot Problem
I've had my laptop set up for dual boot between Fedora and Windows 7 for a couple of years. Everything has worked fine. I updated from Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 using fedup recently. After that, I was still able to boot into Windows when I wanted to. But in the last couple of days, I've noticed that Windows is missing from the boot menu. So some recent update seems to have removed it. Does that sound likely? How can I debug what has happened? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Fedora 20 - ssh keys
I've installed Fedora 20 on a new desktop PC. I installed it from the Live DVD and have been installing other packages as and when I notice they are missing. But one thing has been really bugging me. Gnome isn't prompting me for my ssh key passphrase when I ssh to another machine. Instead I get a text mode prompt every time and the passphrase isn't being cached anywhere, so I get prompted every time. This is particularly boring when I'm using something like github. I thought it was the Gnome keyring that did this, and I seem to have that package installed: [dave@giles ~]$ rpm -qa | grep keyring gnome-keyring-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64 gnome-keyring-pam-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64 libgnome-keyring-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64 Is there something else I need to do in order to get this working correctly? Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Fedora 20 Problems on Dell XPS 41z
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a really happy email about how well the upgrade from F19 to F20 had gone on my laptop. Now, I'm not so happy. There are two problems that are close to being deal-breakers for me. 1/ The laptop doesn't wake from suspension I close my laptop and it goes to sleep. When I open it, I expect it to wake up again. This has worked well on every laptop I've owned on every version of Fedora, until now. Now when I open the laptop, I'm just presented with a small Fedora logo in the middle of the screen. And all I can do is restart the laptop. 2/ Wifi is really flaky Wifi has become a bit of a lottery. It's just not solid enough to rely on. Every so often it just stops working. The icon in the notification bar doesn't change, I just lose all connectivity. The only solution I've found is to turn the wireless off and back on again. But it can take five or six attempts for the wifi to reconnect. And when it does reconnect, half of the time it will drop again within minutes. The rest of the time I'll get a pretty solid connection that will work for a few hours before it drops and I have to go though the same cycle again. This was starting to be a problem before I upgraded. But Fedora 20 has made it far worse. Booting the laptop into Windows gives me a rock-solid connection. And my desktop (also connecting wirelessly and running Fedora 20) seems far more reliable. It's just the wifi driver in the laptop that's a problem. I realise that I haven't given you enough to go on here, but these kinds of problems are well outside my Linux experience. Tell me what diagnostics will we helpful and I'll provide them. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fedora 20 Problems on Dell XPS 41z
On 2 January 2014 09:51, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I realise that I haven't given you enough to go on here, but these kinds of problems are well outside my Linux experience. Tell me what diagnostics will we helpful and I'll provide them. It would be worth reporting this kind of problem to Bugzilla (two reports, one for each problem). Feel free to post the BZ links here. Good suggestion. Thanks. Suspend: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047828 Wifi: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047831 It's slightly annoying that Bugzilla insists on you giving a component. I have no idea what is causing these problems so in both cases I've guessed at kernel (because they seem pretty fundamental problems to me). Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fedora 20 Problems on Dell XPS 41z
On 2 January 2014 10:44, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:36:43AM +, Dave Cross wrote: On 2 January 2014 09:51, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I realise that I haven't given you enough to go on here, but these kinds of problems are well outside my Linux experience. Tell me what diagnostics will we helpful and I'll provide them. It would be worth reporting this kind of problem to Bugzilla (two reports, one for each problem). Feel free to post the BZ links here. Good suggestion. Thanks. Suspend: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047828 Wifi: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047831 It's slightly annoying that Bugzilla insists on you giving a component. I have no idea what is causing these problems so in both cases I've guessed at kernel (because they seem pretty fundamental problems to me). Without a component, it might go to the wrong developer. I think the idea is to choose your best guess. If there is a mistake, the dev can change it to the appropriate component later on. In this case kernel sounds about right to me. That's a fair point, but I worry that an experienced bug reporter (like me) would be more likely to assign it to the wrong component than an experienced bug triager who volunteered to assign the unassigned bugs. But then I'm probably just inventing work for experienced Fedora contributors who have far better ways to spend their time :-) Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Smooth Upgrade
Upgraded my Dell XPS 14z laptop from F19 to F20 last night using fedup. Everything went smoothly and within an hour I was happily using F20. Probably the smoothest upgrade I've seen between two versions of Fedora (and I've been using Fedora for ten years). Thanks to everyone who put time and effort into making the upgrade process work so well. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Fedora 20 with UEFI/Secure Boot
Hi, I'll be buying a new desktop PC in the next week or so. It'll probably be a DELL XPS 8700. I expect it'll arrive at about the same time as Fedora 20. My usual approach would be to use PartitionMagic to shrink the Windows installation and install Fedora alongside it so I can dual-boot. But it's just occurred to me that this new machine will be running Windows 8 and therefore will come with all the UEFI/Secure Boot nonsense. So before I place the order I just wanted to confirm that I'll be able to do something like that in a UEFI environment. If anyone could point me to details about how I can do this, then that would be great. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Speech to text on Fedora?
On 5 September 2013 18:08, Jack Craig jack.craig.ap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Anyone doing this on Fedora? Have you looked at Festival? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/festival I don't know how actively maintained it is, but it works. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Speech to text on Fedora?
On 6 September 2013 09:53, Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2013 09:15, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 September 2013 18:08, Jack Craig jack.craig.ap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Anyone doing this on Fedora? Have you looked at Festival? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/festival Festival is text to speech, not speech to text (more commonly, 'voice recognition'). Oops. Yes, you're right of course. Shouldn't reply to email before my first coffee :-/ Ignore me, -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fedora to Android
On 6 August 2013 09:03, Timothy Murphy gayle...@alice.it wrote: I'd like to transfer a directory of personal information (not just contacts) from my Fedora-19/KDE laptop to my Samsung Galaxy S2 android phone. What is the best way currently to do this? Is MTP functional now? I'd prefer if possible to use rsync. simple-mtpfs seems to work pretty well for me. See http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=286547 -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Tk-PlotDataset
On 20 July 2013 19:33, Patrick Dupre pdu...@gmx.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile a rpm file from Tk-PlotDataset-2.04.tar.gz cpanspec Tk-PlotDataset-2.04.tar.gz gives me: BOGUS PATH DETECTED: ./ BOGUS PATH DETECTED: ./Tk-PlotDataset/ how can I get this package? This is almost certainly an error in the way that the module is packaged. Looks like the tarball contains all of the code in the directory Tk-PlotDataset. CPAN standards say that should be Tk-PlotDataset-2.04. The easiest fix is probably to extract the files, rename the directory and recreate the tarball. You might consider raising a bug against the module too - https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Tk-PlotDataset Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: perl-Math-GSL
On 16 July 2013 22:12, Patrick Dupre pdu...@gmx.com wrote: Hello, The Package perl-Math-GSL does not seem to be available on a rpm packaging. What do you recommand? make an rpm or install it through the cpan installer? I'd use cpanspec to make an rpm. I'm slightly nervous about mixing cpan-installed modules and rpm-installed modules in the same Perl installation. This presentation might be useful (but beware, it's five years old) http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-in-rpmland-presentation Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Fedora 18 - 19 Upgrade
I've been running Fedora on both laptops and desktops since Fedora Core 1. Before that I used Red Hat Linux. I've been used to my six-monthly upgrades entailing a variable (but non-zero) amount of hassle. Over the weekend I upgraded both my laptop and my desktop from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19. For the first time ever the transition was completely seamless. Both PCs are now running Fedora 19 with no problems whatsoever. I've been quick to complain about problems in the past, so I wanted to take the time to thank the Fedora team for making this upgrade so painless. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fedora 18 - 19 Upgrade
On 8 July 2013 11:05, Maurizio Marini mau...@datalogica.com wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:54:47 +0100 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I've been running Fedora on both laptops and desktops since Fedora Core 1. Before that I used Red Hat Linux. I've been used to my six-monthly upgrades entailing a variable (but non-zero) amount of hassle. Over the weekend I upgraded both my laptop and my desktop from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19. For the first time ever the transition was completely seamless. Both PCs are now running Fedora 19 with no problems whatsoever. I've been quick to complain about problems in the past, so I wanted to take the time to thank the Fedora team for making this upgrade so painless. glad to hear that! how did u upgraded? fedup? or what else? many many thnx :) Oh yes, I meant to mention that. # fedup --network 19 [ ... time passes while you do other stuff ... ] # reboot [ ... select upgrade option from grub ... ] [ ... more time passes ... ] [ ... job done ... ] Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: GNOME battery display doesn't agree with /sys data
On 1 April 2013 22:07, Dave Mitchell da...@iabyn.com wrote: My laptop, which is running F18 and GNOME, has been plugged in all day. I've just noticed that the battery level indicator on the top bar is indicating that the battery is being charged, and is only at 39%. However: # cd /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 # cat energy_full_design 5720 # cat energy_full 54956000 # cat energy_now 52657000 (wait a few minutes, then...) # cat energy_now 52657000 Which leads me to suspect that my battery is in fact fully charged, and that there's a bug in GNOME. So, 1) is my conclusion correct, 2) and if so, what component would I need to report a bug against? I noticed something very similar yesterday - but in my case it was stuck at 42%. I unplugged the power lead and when I plugged it back in again, everything seemed to correct itself. But, yes, reporting a bug sounds like a good idea. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Missing Functionality in New Anaconda
I think that the new Anaconda is missing some functionality that was previously available. If it's not missing, then it's really well hidden and I'd appreciate some help tracking it down. As I mentioned in a previous email, FedUp hasn't worked on my laptop for reasons that I don't really understand. So I decided to go to Plan B which is an approach that I've used for many previous Fedora upgrades. I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse the existing /home partition. In the old Anaconda that was simple. I'd just use set up a customised partition layout, telling it to reuse the /home partition and to do what it wanted with the rest of the disk. But I can't work out how to do that on the new version of Anaconda. The new partitioning sets up this artificial distinction between the old Fedora 17 installation and the new Fedora 18 one and I can't see how to tell the new installation to use a partition from the old one. I accept that this probably isn't a really common use case, but it seems a shame to lose functionality that some of your users are using. If I'm being stupid and missing an obvious way to this, then can someone please put me out of my misery and tell me what to do. Thanks, Dave... p.s. It seems I'm not the only person trying (and failing) to use this approach - http://mocktech.com/blog/2013/01/fedora-18-update-beginning-to-damage-my-calm/ -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Missing Functionality in New Anaconda
On 23 January 2013 14:10, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:59:37PM +, Dave Cross wrote: I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse the existing /home partition. In the old Anaconda that was simple. I'd just use set up a customised partition layout, telling it to reuse the /home partition and to do what it wanted with the rest of the disk. But I can't work out how to do that on the new version of Anaconda. The new partitioning sets up this artificial distinction between the old Fedora 17 installation and the new Fedora 18 one and I can't see how to tell the new installation to use a partition from the old one. I accept that this probably isn't a really common use case, but it seems a shame to lose functionality that some of your users are using. Actually, I think this is a *very* important use case, and one you've explained well. In fact, I wouldn't mind a checkbox that tells the installer to just do exactly what you've said. I don't see anything in Bugzilla about this -- can you file an RFE bug? The developers will not see your message on this list. RFE? I'm very happy to raise a bug. But I'll leave it until this evening - so people have a chance to tell me what I'm doing wrong :-/ Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade
On 21 January 2013 11:04, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:48:25 +, Dave Cross wrote: Installing the missing gstreamer1 packages didn't solve the problem. But from some googling I found the advice to reinstall gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good. And that seems to have done the trick. Dubious. I wish people would stop suggesting that reinstalling packages fixes something. Seldomly it does. For example, when the installed files have been damaged or deleted, which is something RPM can check. Then reinstalling the packages restores the files. Or when the packages contain install-time scripts, which process something (that is not the case here, however). More often than not, reinstalling packages does not change anything at all. Reinstalling gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good (both packages from Fedora) is very unlikely to fix decoding of MPEG and MP3. I was dubious too. But it worked. I think it was something to do with forcing the plugins to be registered. Dave.. -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: F17 - F18 Laptop Problems
On 20 January 2013 21:39, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.01.2013 22:37, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: Dave Cross writes: $ rpm -qa | grep fc18 nss-tools-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64 java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.4.fc18.x86_64 nss-sysinit-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64 nss-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64 grubby-8.22-1.fc18.x86_64 So it looks like the aborted FedUp upgrade managed to install six RPMs before bombing out. If that's all, I'm wondering why is your 'yum update' looking to F18's repo? fedora-release isn't one of these six. because even if you start yum calean all; yum --releasever=18 whatever your yum setup points to the F18 repos unless rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* it has cached the f18-urls and metadata and has no reasons to drop them until manually intervention Aha. Yes, they're all in the _local repository. A quick 'sudo rm /var/lib/yum/plugins/local/*fc18*' has, at least, returned the system to Fedora 17. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Totem problems following FedUp upgrade
Yesterday my desktop PC was running Fedora 17 and I was able to watch all kinds of video files using totem. This morning I used FedUp to upgrade the PC to Fedora 18 and since then I haven't found a video file that totem can play successfully. I always get an error message that says: Videos requires[sic] additional plugins for this operation The following plugins are required: * MPEG Video decoder * MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder Do you want to search for these now? [Cancel] [Search] I've tried pressing the search button but it just says that it can't find the required plugins. It looks to me like I have fc18 versions of all of the relevant RPMs $ rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-2.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.8-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-python-0.10.22-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64 All of which leads me to two questions. 1/ How can I get back the ability to play videos? 2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this? Please let me know if you need any more information or if there's a more useful place for me to report this issue. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
F17 - F18 Laptop Problems
I've been trying to upgrade my laptop from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 and it hasn't been going well. First I tried to use FedUp. FedUp downloaded all of the files it required. I rebooted and selected the upgrade option. I got the progress meter, but after only about thirty seconds the system rebooted and I was left with the same grub options as before the upgrade. No option to boot into Fedora 18 and no option to retry the upgrade. I booted into Fedora 17 and tried again with very similar results. However I've since noticed that something has changed as when I now run a yum update it tries to update over 2,000 RPMs to the Fedora 18 versions. This seems to go into an infinite loop of dependency resolution - so I killed it. I then decided that I'd download an installation DVD and try to upgrade from that. I burnt a DVD and the media test completed successfully, but I'm only offered the option to install Fedora, not to upgrade my existing installation. That's not such a problem. I have my /home directory on a separate partition, so what I've done before is to reinstall from scratch and reuse the /home partition (so I keep all of my data). But the new Anaconda partitioning UI is confusing me and I can't work out how to tell it to reuse the /home partition but reformat all the other Linux partitions and use them for the new installation. So currently I'm booted back into my Fedora 17 installation (that thinks it might be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash the existing installation. But I'd be disappointed if I can't work out a way to reuse the /home partition. Can anyone suggest a way forward for me? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: F17 - F18 Laptop Problems
On 20 January 2013 20:12, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote:
On 01/20/2013 11:33 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
So currently I'm booted back into my Fedora 17 installation (that
thinks it might be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I
suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash the existing
installation. But I'd be disappointed if I can't work out a way to
reuse the /home partition.
Have you tried using package-cleanup? When I migrated my desktop from F14
to F16 it hung and for about a week I was only able to get into text mode.
There were a large number of dupes, and I ended up cleaning them up
manually, a few at a time because package-cleanup seemed to choke on such a
large number of issues. (Of course, it might just have taken longer than I
realized to work.) Depending on how much time you have, it might be worth
trying.
package-cleanup doesn't show many obvious issues. Although this
worried me a bit:
$ package-cleanup --problems
Loaded plugins: local, presto, refresh-packagekit
Package xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64 has missing requires
of libudev.so.1()(64bit)
Package xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64 has missing requires
of libudev.so.1(LIBUDEV_183)(64bit)
Package xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64 has missing requires
of xserver-abi(videodrv-13) = ('0', '0', None)
Which led me to this:
$ rpm -qa | grep fc18
nss-tools-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.4.fc18.x86_64
nss-sysinit-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
nss-3.14.1-3.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.17-1.fc18.x86_64
grubby-8.22-1.fc18.x86_64
So it looks like the aborted FedUp upgrade managed to install six RPMs
before bombing out.
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Re: F17 - F18 Laptop Problems
On 20 January 2013 20:55, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com wrote: [ snip ] This sounds like a case of not having enough space on your /boot partition. I had a similar set of issues going from (?) F15 to F16 (or F16 to F17) on my laptop. At the time I had only a 100-200MB /boot partition (if anyting something smaller than what the upgrade could handle). Even with wiping out all of the backup kernels and leaving the most current one, there was still not enough space for the upgrade. I don't think I have a problem with the /boot partition size. $ df -h /boot/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 485M 109M 352M 24% /boot But in my description made you think that was the problem? Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Totem problems following FedUp upgrade
On 20 January 2013 18:19, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:03:06 +, Dave Cross wrote: Yesterday my desktop PC was running Fedora 17 and I was able to watch all kinds of video files using totem. This morning I used FedUp to upgrade the PC to Fedora 18 and since then I haven't found a video file that totem can play successfully. I always get an error message that says: Videos requires[sic] additional plugins for this operation The following plugins are required: * MPEG Video decoder * MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder Do you want to search for these now? [Cancel] [Search] I've tried pressing the search button but it just says that it can't find the required plugins. It looks to me like I have fc18 versions of all of the relevant RPMs $ rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-2.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.8-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-python-0.10.22-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64 All of which leads me to two questions. 1/ How can I get back the ability to play videos? Have you tried adding missing gstreamer1 plug-in packages? see: yum list gstreamer1\* Thanks for the advice. I hadn't noticed that there were gstreamer and gstreamer1 packages on my system. Installing the missing gstreamer1 packages didn't solve the problem. But from some googling I found the advice to reinstall gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good. And that seems to have done the trick. 2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this? Totem in F18 is based on GStreamer v1.0.x, while you've listed also packages for GStreamer v0.10.x. Fedup cannot know if Totem needs additional plugins from repos like RPMFusion. Ah. Yes, I see that now. I assume there's a good reason for the version number to be in the name of the packages rather than in the version number :-/ Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Fitbit on Fedora via Wine?
On 17 December 2012 17:32, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Has anyone tried the Fitbit application on Fedora via Wine? I've been happily using my Fitbit Ultra with libfitbit for months. https://github.com/openyou/libfitbit But I hear it doesn't work with the Fitbit Ultra. There's a community for Linux users on the Fitbit web site. http://www.fitbit.com/group/228R6L Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Bumblebee on Fedora?
Bumblebee is a project to enable NVidia's Optimus technology on Linux. I have found a number of web pages explaining how to use Bumblebee on Fedora, but they all seem to involve downloading and compiling the project's source code. Whilst I'm happy to do that if it's necessary, I wondered if anyone knew of plans to make pre-built RPMs available in the Fedora repositories. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Bumblebee on Fedora?
On 6 December 2012 17:48, John Aldrich jmaldr...@yahoo.com wrote: Quoting Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com: Bumblebee is a project to enable NVidia's Optimus technology on Linux. I have found a number of web pages explaining how to use Bumblebee on Fedora, but they all seem to involve downloading and compiling the project's source code. Whilst I'm happy to do that if it's necessary, I wondered if anyone knew of plans to make pre-built RPMs available in the Fedora repositories. I think maybe you just volunteered. :D I was afraid of that :-/ I'm fine when it comes to bundling up Perl modules (http://rpm.mag-sol.com/), but I've never tried a C library before. Perhaps I'll find time to take a look at it... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Connecting a Android Galaxy SII
On 9 November 2012 23:02, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Jim writes: The fedora app to connect to Android , is it something like MFB or MTB ? The android phone should show up as an ordinary USB storage device. Your android phone may offer several USB connection options, like mass storage device, or a modem. You will need to select the USB connection option, on the phone, first. No longer the case, sadly. The standard installation of Android 4.0 upwards (i.e. since Ice Cream Sandwich) no longer supports USB mass storage. You're meant to use MTP instead. Which is a bit of a shame given the appalling quality of MTP tools on Linux :-( Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: MTP Support in Fedora
On 22 September 2012 15:04, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 14:45 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: I can't be the only person with this problem. I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of Android (like Jellybean) have removed support for USB mass storage and the Nexus now connect to my Fedora 17 desktop using MTP. This seems to be a problem as MTP support in Fedora (perhaps in Linux in general) appears to be appalling. I have libmtp installed and up to date. When I plug in the Nexus, both RhythmBox sees it and claim to display the music found on it. But it doesn't find the MP3s I've downloaded using the Amazon MP3 application. Banshee doesn't detect the Nexus at all. I've seen talk of something called mtpfs, but that doesn't seem to be available from the Fedora repos. Another app called gMTP sounds like it might be useful, but is also not available for Fedora. Has anyone else found a way round this problem? Is anyone packaging mtpfs or gMTP for Fedora? This has been asked a couple of times here. I haven't had much luck with mtpfs either (I just compiled it from source). Clearly a properly working libmtp is what is needed and unfortunately I don't see any mention of such a thing in the F18 Proposed Features list. Yeah. I tried that and had no success either. However a workaround for many use cases is to install an FTP or sftp server on the device - there are several in the Play store - and either use a basic FTP client from Linux or just mount the server from Nautilus and use drag-and-drop. Be careful though. Doing this with a large group of files at once seems to give random dropouts. Very recently I started using Airdroid on my GNexus phone under Jelly Bean. It's basically a specialized website running on the phone and talking over Wifi, with file transfers plus some other features. We'll see how it works out. Approaches like this sound good, but they're hampered by a recent router firmware upgrade which renders the devices on my home network completely unable to see each other. I guess there's always Bluetooth :-/ Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
MTP Support in Fedora
I can't be the only person with this problem. I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of Android (like Jellybean) have removed support for USB mass storage and the Nexus now connect to my Fedora 17 desktop using MTP. This seems to be a problem as MTP support in Fedora (perhaps in Linux in general) appears to be appalling. I have libmtp installed and up to date. When I plug in the Nexus, both RhythmBox sees it and claim to display the music found on it. But it doesn't find the MP3s I've downloaded using the Amazon MP3 application. Banshee doesn't detect the Nexus at all. I've seen talk of something called mtpfs, but that doesn't seem to be available from the Fedora repos. Another app called gMTP sounds like it might be useful, but is also not available for Fedora. Has anyone else found a way round this problem? Is anyone packaging mtpfs or gMTP for Fedora? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Perl programming related question.
On 16 August 2012 16:28, Lázaro Morales laz...@frioclima.com.cu wrote:
Hello folks,
This question is a bit off-topic but the Fedora Community is awesome. This
is the question, How can I from this string:
my $url = http://somesite.org/somefile.zip;;# Example URL
obtain only this sub-string:
my $file = somefile.zip;
Why bother wrestiling with complex regular expressions when someone
else has already done the work? Perl has a URI module (yum install
perl-URI) which understands how URIs (and URLs) work. I'd recommend
using that.
use URI;
my $url = URI-new('http://somesite.org/somefile.zip');
say $url-path; # prints /somefile.zip
Then there's the File::Basename module (included with the Perl
distribution) for dealing with file paths.
use File::Basename;
say basename($url-path); # prints somefile.zip
Perl programming gets a lot easier if you use the tools that are already there.
Cheers.
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Re: Fedora 17 - Only one kernel
On 10 July 2012 10:15, Mateusz Marzantowicz mmarzantow...@osdf.com.pl wrote: Is it possible that broken kernel which won't boot or cause any other serious problems is released in Fedora 16 or 17? I know that in Rawhide something might go wrong, but in 16, 17? It's happened to me more often than I'd like. Probably once per release (and I've been using Fedora right from the start). Often it's just drivers that haven't been updated, so it's just a case of waiting a couple of days until another yum update fixes it. But I'd be screwed if I didn't always keep the last known working kernel around. Dave.. -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Degraded Network Performance Under Fedora 17
I have a Dell XPS laptop which worked fine under Fedora 16. I recently upgraded to Fedora 17 and the wireless network performance has degraded significantly. It seems to work well when first started up, but once I've transferred a reasonable amount of data, the throughput drops to a trickle until it finally dies out completely. I can usually start another good patch by turning the wireless off and on again. I know little about networking drivers under Linux so I'm not sure what information will be helpful to track down the issue. But I'm happy to run whatever commands you think will be useful and report the results. As a start, here's my Smolt profile. http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_6a3d4007-5d06-4a17-af48-0fb9dc1225d9 Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Making sound from Perl - How?
On 29 May 2012 22:12, agraham agra...@g-b.net wrote: Hi Guys, Are there any perl bindings in Fedora to play sound samples from perl? e.g. The ability to use PortAudio or Libao or something else from perl? I haven't used it, but there's Audio::PortAudio - https://metacpan.org/release/Audio-PortAudio Looks like it hasn't been touched for five years though... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Random Frequent Session Crashed
On 13 May 2012 17:02, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 05/13/2012 04:55 PM, Dave Cross wrote: For about the last month I've been getting random frequent session crashes. They take one of three forms: * The PC reboots * The GNOME session freezes * The GNOME session dies and I'm presented with the GNOME login screen All of these results are, of course, really annoying. I can usually run for two or three hours without this happening, but sometimes it can happen every fifteen minutes or so. Whenever it happens, /var/log/messages contains this: May 13 16:45:24 xander gnome-session[3681]: Gdk-WARNING: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.#012 May 13 16:45:24 xander systemd-logind[958]: Removed session 6. I'm running Fedora 16, 32 bit PAE, with the NVidia drivers from RPM Fusion. I'm sure that this isn't enough information to help me, but if you could tell me what other information would be useful, I'm happy to provide it. Thanks, Dave... I was having a similar problem that turned out to be a memory stability problem that was fixed by changing a BIOS setting. Hopefully your motherboard manual will explain which memory settings can provide better memory stability. Thanks for the suggestion. I had a look as the system rebooted last night and it appears that my BIOS doesn't have any setting for memory stability. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Random Frequent Session Crashed
For about the last month I've been getting random frequent session crashes. They take one of three forms: * The PC reboots * The GNOME session freezes * The GNOME session dies and I'm presented with the GNOME login screen All of these results are, of course, really annoying. I can usually run for two or three hours without this happening, but sometimes it can happen every fifteen minutes or so. Whenever it happens, /var/log/messages contains this: May 13 16:45:24 xander gnome-session[3681]: Gdk-WARNING: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.#012 May 13 16:45:24 xander systemd-logind[958]: Removed session 6. I'm running Fedora 16, 32 bit PAE, with the NVidia drivers from RPM Fusion. I'm sure that this isn't enough information to help me, but if you could tell me what other information would be useful, I'm happy to provide it. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Dell p513w with Fedora 16
On 16 April 2012 11:23, Dale Dellutri daledellu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: My new Dell laptop came with a free Dell p513w printer. I've been trying to set it up for use with Fedora 16. It's a wireless printer, so I've set it up, connected it to my network and got it working using a Windows PC. My Fedora desktop can see it on the next work, but it appears that foomatic doesn't have a PPD for this model of printer, so I've been scouring the internet. This README file (http://downloads.dell.com/printer/R247660_Readme.txt) talks about a file called dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.rpm.sh.tar.gz which installs a bunch of PPDs for Dell printers in /usr/dellinkjet/dell09/etc/. The list includes dlP513w.ppd, which is the PPD for my printer. However, the only file that I can find is http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails?DriverId=R247660FileId=2731129294DriverName=Dell%20Photo%20P513W%20AIO%20Inkjet%20Printer%2C%20A00 which only includes the .deb version of the package, not the .rpm one. I've asked Dell support for help, but I thought I'd ask here too. Has anyone had this problem or (even better) solved it? Is it possible to extract the PPD from the .deb version of the file? Any advice would be much appreciated. Google search for .deb extractor gives: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/ Yeah. If I could get to the .deb I'd be fine. But the download is a shell script that generates and installs a .deb - and, obviously, it won't run successfully on my Fedora box. However, I've just discovered that the shell script has a --keep option that doesn't delete the extracted contents once the script has finished. And that has given me access to the .deb. So we seem to be good now - although I won't be able to confirm until I get back to my desktop tonight. Thanks for the suggestion. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Dell p513w with Fedora 16
My new Dell laptop came with a free Dell p513w printer. I've been trying to set it up for use with Fedora 16. It's a wireless printer, so I've set it up, connected it to my network and got it working using a Windows PC. My Fedora desktop can see it on the next work, but it appears that foomatic doesn't have a PPD for this model of printer, so I've been scouring the internet. This README file (http://downloads.dell.com/printer/R247660_Readme.txt) talks about a file called dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.rpm.sh.tar.gz which installs a bunch of PPDs for Dell printers in /usr/dellinkjet/dell09/etc/. The list includes dlP513w.ppd, which is the PPD for my printer. However, the only file that I can find is http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails?DriverId=R247660FileId=2731129294DriverName=Dell%20Photo%20P513W%20AIO%20Inkjet%20Printer%2C%20A00 which only includes the .deb version of the package, not the .rpm one. I've asked Dell support for help, but I thought I'd ask here too. Has anyone had this problem or (even better) solved it? Is it possible to extract the PPD from the .deb version of the file? Any advice would be much appreciated. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Dell 14z Mini DisplayPort
I have a Dell 14z laptop. That has Nvidia Optimus technology. $ lspci | grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 1050 (rev a1) Currently the system loads the nouveau and i915 drivers. I haven't installed the nvidia driver. I want to use the laptop for running training courses, so I'll be using the Mini DisplayPort to plug it into random projectors. The first time I tried that, the new monitor wasn't detected so I couldn't get the projector working. I know there's the Bumblebee project for dealing with Optimus, but at this stage I'm not really interested in switching between the two video cards, I just want to get the Mini DisplayPort working. There's also an HDMI output - I haven't tried that yet, but most projectors that I come across don't have HDMI inputs (perhaps I need a better class of client!) If anyone has any suggestions how I can get the DisplayPort working under Fedora 16, I'd love to hear them. Happy, of course, to supply any further information that might help. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Preugrade Stalled?
I'm trying to upgrade my Dell desktop to F16 using preupgrade. I ran the download overnight and started the actual upgrade this morning. I started it running and wandered off for an hour and a half. When I came back it was at the examining storage devices stage. But the progress bar isn't moving. I've now watched it for an hour and it hasn't changed at all. So I have two questions. 1/ Is it possible that the process can take this long? Or has it stalled? 2/ If it has stalled, what should I do? How easy will it be to recover the system? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Preugrade Stalled?
On 13 November 2011 10:50, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my Dell desktop to F16 using preupgrade. I ran the download overnight and started the actual upgrade this morning. I started it running and wandered off for an hour and a half. When I came back it was at the examining storage devices stage. But the progress bar isn't moving. I've now watched it for an hour and it hasn't changed at all. It seems I spoke too soon. When I returned to the system a couple of hours later, it had moved on and was installing the packages. Sorry for bothering you. Dave... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Turning Off GNOME Warnings
GNOME seems to think that my laptop has a dodgy hard disk. It's been telling me that for over a year. I'm not sure that it's correct, but I'm keeping a close eye on the situation anyway. Under GNOME 2 I would get a notification of this problem each time I restarted the computer. A pop-up would tell me there was a problem and I'd close the pop-up and forget about it. Under GNOME 3 this notification is rather more persistent. GNOME insists on repeating the pop-up every twenty minutes or so. This isn't realyl very helpful. Is there any way to get GNOME to revert to the previous behaviour where I'm only told about a problem once? Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15
On 29 August 2011 14:39, Tim Evans tkev...@tkevans.com wrote: On 08/29/2011 09:36 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:46:35AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 29/08/11 11:38, Dave Cross wrote: I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has already done this work and made GNOME 2 available for F15? You have two ways to go, either learn to love gnome or quit gnome :-( Not quite the open source way: someone can always fork Gnome 2 and start a new project around it. Third way would be to go with CentOS. Surely, that's just delaying the inevitable? Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
GNOME 2 on Fedora 15
I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has already done this work and made GNOME 2 available for F15? Cheers, Dave... [1] http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/08/hating-gnome-3.html -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Obsolete RPMs
On 7 July 2011 14:30, Germán A. Racca german.ra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:06:31 +0100 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I've upgraded a couple of systems from F14 to F15 using preupgrade. Everything seems to have gone fine. I'm slowly getting used to GNOME 3 and I'm sure that it will make sense to me one day. But it strikes me that there will now be a number of obsolete RPMs hanging around on my system. These will be the RPMs relating to features used in GNOME 2 but not in GNOME 3. I'm thinking of things like compiz and all of the applets. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just remove all of these RPMs? Are there any more that I can remove safely? Cheers, Dave But compiz runs under Gnome 3 also, so why do you thing you don't need it any more? :) I think that may be the source of my confusion. I somehow got hold of the idea that Compiz didn't work in GNOME Shell. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Obsolete RPMs
On 28 June 2011 17:40, Kam Leo kam@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I've upgraded a couple of systems from F14 to F15 using preupgrade. Everything seems to have gone fine. I'm slowly getting used to GNOME 3 and I'm sure that it will make sense to me one day. But it strikes me that there will now be a number of obsolete RPMs hanging around on my system. These will be the RPMs relating to features used in GNOME 2 but not in GNOME 3. I'm thinking of things like compiz and all of the applets. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just remove all of these RPMs? Are there any more that I can remove safely? You can use package-cleanup; however, read the man page before using it. Beware that --orphans flags locally installed packages as well as those no longer found in your enabled repositories. Thanks. I know about package-cleanup but that doesn't really address what I was talking about. I think i was either unclear r confused (possibly both). I think there are potentially RPMs that are still available from the repos which are no longer required under GNOME 3. I see that the GNOME applet RPMs were all removed by the upgrade, but I still have a number compiz RPMs which (if I understand correctly) are no longer used under GNOME 3. They've been updated to F15 versions, but I don't think I need them any more. Or am I completely wrong? Cheers, Dave.. -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Obsolete RPMs
I've upgraded a couple of systems from F14 to F15 using preupgrade. Everything seems to have gone fine. I'm slowly getting used to GNOME 3 and I'm sure that it will make sense to me one day. But it strikes me that there will now be a number of obsolete RPMs hanging around on my system. These will be the RPMs relating to features used in GNOME 2 but not in GNOME 3. I'm thinking of things like compiz and all of the applets. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just remove all of these RPMs? Are there any more that I can remove safely? Cheers, Dave -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Preupgrade F14 - F15 Fails
On 21 June 2011 23:06, Dj YB syehi...@t2.technion.ac.il wrote: On Tuesday June 21 2011 23:36:51 Dave Cross wrote: I have two Dell PCs - a Dimension desktop and an XPS laptop. They are both running Fedora 14 and I have tried to upgrade them both to Fedora 15 using preupgrade. In both cases, when I reboot and select the upgrade to Fedora 15 option, I'm just presented with a blinking cursor in the top left-hand corner of the screen. Can anyone suggest where I should start to debug this issue? Hi, Dave had the same problem the solution as was suggested to me and worked, was to wait. I had to wait for my flash drive installation for few hours, for the desktop installation had to wait several minutes. Oh, bloody hell. You're absolutely right. I was just being impatient. Both systems now upgraded. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Preupgrade F14 - F15 Fails
I have two Dell PCs - a Dimension desktop and an XPS laptop. They are both running Fedora 14 and I have tried to upgrade them both to Fedora 15 using preupgrade. In both cases, when I reboot and select the upgrade to Fedora 15 option, I'm just presented with a blinking cursor in the top left-hand corner of the screen. Can anyone suggest where I should start to debug this issue? Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Install Fedora on an android tablet or an iPad?
On 25 April 2011 20:00, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought a Dell Inspiron Duo. [ snip ] If you (or others) want to run Linux on a Tablet, I'd say its a very good place to start. I'll let everyone know when I get around to installing it. I'm very much looking forward to hearing more about this. -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!
On 26 April 2011 05:59, Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolc...@gmail.com wrote: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you! I would like to learn how to do this so that I could contribute. I know a little bit about cpan2rpm, I know a little bit about rpm; I'd like to learn more and contribute. Actually, it seems that Centos and Fedora use cpanspec rather than cpan2rpm. Could someone who knows, point me in the right direction? There's more Perl packages that I'd like to be available on the Fedora yum mirrors... You might find some of the missing ones in my RPM repo - http://rpm.mag-sol.com/ Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!
On 26 April 2011 11:30, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/26/2011 03:59 PM, Dave Cross wrote: You might find some of the missing ones in my RPM repo - http://rpm.mag-sol.com/ I've discussed this possibility before. For reasons that I can't remember now it always seemed to be far more trouble than I wanted to put in it. All the SRPMs are on my site. Feel free to do what you want with them. I'm happy with them where they are. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: To those who supply Fedora yum install/update sites with Perl rpm pkgs: thank you!
On 26 April 2011 12:36, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/26/2011 04:57 PM, Dave Cross wrote: I've discussed this possibility before. For reasons that I can't remember now it always seemed to be far more trouble than I wanted to put in it. The process is fairly simple especially for Perl modules. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers If you have an interest in it and it is something that helps with the job, then its a better personal incentive to continue maintaining it. If I pick it up and submit it, I don't have as much of a interest in it to continue maintaining it going forward. That's the only real difference I'll have another look. But I seem to recall that there were some philosophical differences that meant that many of my RPMs wouldn't accepted by the Fedora project. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)
On 15 April 2011 21:38, Dante Conti dante.co...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Joe, Thank you for the quick answer. I know that Fedora 6 is very old (and no longer supported), but -- amazingly -- this is what the hosting provider just installed on the server. What kind of hosting company installs an operating system that has been unsupported for three years? I suggest you go back to them and insist they install a useful OS. It would also be helpful if you could name the company so that we could ensure that we avoid them in the future :-) Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox
On 29 March 2011 18:29, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Are there any other tests I can carry out to work out what the differences are? Warnocked :-( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_Dilemma I was unfamiliar with Warnock's Dilemma. Thanks for sharing. I suspect the reason you find yourself on this dilemma's horns might be: 1. No one else has run into this. 2. People are waiting to see what else you do to troubleshoot, like: re-download the original files, or check them against a checksum if one is available Thanks for the suggestions. I have redownloaded the files with the same results. And there isn't a checksum available. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox
On 29 March 2011 18:31, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: I was unfamiliar with Warnock's Dilemma. Thanks for sharing. I suspect the reason you find yourself on this dilemma's horns might be: 1. No one else has run into this. 2. People are waiting to see what else you do to troubleshoot, like: re-download the original files, or check them against a checksum if one is available Whoops! Send too soon. 3. Also, the codecs you're using aren't part of Fedora, since Fedora has intellectual property issues with ugly codecs, so you might get better support from the original source. That's a very good point. I'll speak to the people at RPMFusion. I use Fluendo's codecs, and hadn't seen this problem, sorry. That's also worth trying. Thanks. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox
On 29 March 2011 18:48, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 03/29/2011 10:31 AM, Ted Roche wrote: 3. Also, the codecs you're using aren't part of Fedora, since Fedora has intellectual property issues with ugly codecs, so you might get better support from the original source. 4. Or, you can go here, http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten/ and get the fedoraplus, the program formerly known as autoten. Dangermouse, btw, is one of the admins for fedoraforum.org; you can trust his programs to be safe. Ooh. That looks interesting. I hadn't heard of that. Thanks. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox
On 29 March 2011 18:49, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: 3. Also, the codecs you're using aren't part of Fedora, since Fedora has intellectual property issues with ugly codecs, so you might get better support from the original source. I use Fluendo's codecs, and hadn't seen this problem, sorry. The OP may have more luck re-posting to the RPMFusion or ATRPMS mailing list depending on where he got the Gstreamer plugin package. Yeah. I'll definitely speak to the people at RPMFusion. Also, is it possible that the MP3 file has DRM? Your android phone probably has a closed source decoder that can handle it. Can MP3s contain DRM? I didn't think that was possible. But I'm quite prepared to be corrected on that. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox
On 23 March 2011 16:35, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using Fedora 14 and I think I have the correct RPMs installed in order for Rhythmbox to play MP3s. $ rpm -q rhythmbox rhythmbox-0.13.3-1.fc14.i686 $ rpm -q gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.16-2.fc14.i686 This set up works fine for the vast majority of MP3s that I have. But I've recently bought some MP3s from a download site which Rhythmbox doesn't recognise. There seems to be a difference in format which the 'file' command recognises. Here's an example of a file that works. $ file Loose\ Change/01\ -\ The\ A\ Team.mp3 Loose Change/01 - The A Team.mp3: Audio file with ID3 version 2.3.0, contains: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 128 kbps, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo And here's an example of one that doesn't. $ file Songs\ I\ Wrote\ With\ Amy/Songs-I-wrote-with-Amy-2010_Cold-Coffee.mp3 Songs I Wrote With Amy/Songs-I-wrote-with-Amy-2010_Cold-Coffee.mp3: Audio file with ID3 version 2.4.0, contains: Annoyingly the MP3s work fine on my Android phone and on a Mac. It only seems to be the GStreamer plugin that doesn't play them. And that means that it's unlikely that the download site will listen to any complaints. I should also point out that some MP3s from this site work just fine. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Are there any other tests I can carry out to work out what the differences are? Warnocked :-( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_Dilemma -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Problems with Some MP3s in Rhythmbox
I'm using Fedora 14 and I think I have the correct RPMs installed in order for Rhythmbox to play MP3s. $ rpm -q rhythmbox rhythmbox-0.13.3-1.fc14.i686 $ rpm -q gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.16-2.fc14.i686 This set up works fine for the vast majority of MP3s that I have. But I've recently bought some MP3s from a download site which Rhythmbox doesn't recognise. There seems to be a difference in format which the 'file' command recognises. Here's an example of a file that works. $ file Loose\ Change/01\ -\ The\ A\ Team.mp3 Loose Change/01 - The A Team.mp3: Audio file with ID3 version 2.3.0, contains: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 128 kbps, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo And here's an example of one that doesn't. $ file Songs\ I\ Wrote\ With\ Amy/Songs-I-wrote-with-Amy-2010_Cold-Coffee.mp3 Songs I Wrote With Amy/Songs-I-wrote-with-Amy-2010_Cold-Coffee.mp3: Audio file with ID3 version 2.4.0, contains: Annoyingly the MP3s work fine on my Android phone and on a Mac. It only seems to be the GStreamer plugin that doesn't play them. And that means that it's unlikely that the download site will listen to any complaints. I should also point out that some MP3s from this site work just fine. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Are there any other tests I can carry out to work out what the differences are? Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: a perl question
On 4 January 2011 10:27, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote:
cat asdf.txt
bla-bla
bla-bla
bla[XYZ]
importantthing
another important thing
[/XYZ]
bla-bla
bla-bla
[XYZ]
yet another thing
hello!
[/XYZ]
bla-bla
etc.
$ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt output.txt
$ cat output.txt
importantthing
another important thing
yet another thing
hello!
how can i sovle this question? what is SOMEPERLMAGIC? are there any perl
gurus, that have a little spare time?
It looks like you need something a bit like this.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
while () {
if (m|\[XYZ]| .. m|\[/XYZ]|) {
next if m|\[/?XYZ]|;
print;
}
}
But I can't be sure as you haven't actually explained what you question is.
For Perl questions, you might be better advised to try Stack Overflow
or your local Perl Mongers group.
Dave...
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Re: F12 -amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue
On 10 November 2010 11:01, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... Once you do the above, please do the following: # cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-fedora12 then # vi /etc/grub.conf In the Preupgarde kernel line: - remove this option rdblacklist=nouveau - append these options xdriver=vesa nomodeset Save the file, and reboot. If that does not work, I still have one more card in my sleeve ... Exactly the same results as before. Well, other than the fact that everything is in a far larger fornt due to the VESA driver. Thanks, as always, for your help. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F12 -amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue
On 12 November 2010 19:28, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com writes: On 10 November 2010 11:01, JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com wrote: JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... Once you do the above, please do the following: # cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-fedora12 then # vi /etc/grub.conf In the Preupgarde kernel line: - remove this option rdblacklist=nouveau - append these options xdriver=vesa nomodeset Save the file, and reboot. If that does not work, I still have one more card in my sleeve ... Exactly the same results as before. Well, other than the fact that everything is in a far larger fornt due to the VESA driver. Thanks, as always, for your help. Dave... Well, that was an official fix by Fedora to Nvidia-type preupgrade ... Attention: Have a live cd or an installation cd around in case you need it to fix something because the system becomes unbootable. Write/remember how to start it in a rescue mode or single user mode; how to get to root prompt, mount any partition, chroot, modify a file, execute something, rebuild your primary (MBR) bootloader, etc. The latest Fedora live-cd is good for it. Knoppix as well. OK. Let's do the following: - leave the kernel line options as before (that is xdriver=vesa nomodeset) # mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-old add new one with this content (just copy/paste, verify once more, write/quit) # vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section Device Identifier Configured Video Device Driver vesa EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Configured Monitor EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Monitor Configured Monitor Device Configured Video Device EndSection - make a backup for future needs (it will come handy in emergency) # cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa - reboot Note: - if the system becomes unbootable/graphics unstable, restore to your old config file with nvidia driver # cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-fedora12 /etc/X11/xorg.conf - reboot to your F12 kernel Exactly the same results as every other attempt, I'm afraid. But, happily, I had no problem at all rebooting back into my old F12 system. I've downloaded a DVD ISO and burned it onto a disk. I'm thinking I should give up on this approach and try it with the DVD tomorrow. Does that sound sensible? Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F12 -amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue
4863 1 snd snd_page_alloc 6061 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm dcdbas 6640 0 usb_storage34394 0 firewire_ohci 17607 0 firewire_core 36185 1 firewire_ohci crc_itu_t 1223 2 rt61pci,firewire_core # find /etc -iname *.rpm* # find /etc -iname *.rpm* /etc/login.defs.rpmnew /etc/sudoers.rpmnew /etc/ldap.conf.rpmnew /etc/bashrc.rpmnew These Nvidia graphics drivers are little crazy, but we will overcome :-) Hope so :-) Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F12 -amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue
On 7 November 2010 18:49, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com writes: ... #boot=/dev/sda default=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu Please modify /etc/grub.conf as below: default=0 # hiddenmenu Reboot. JB Hi, I got your response by e-mail. It took half an hour for me to see my post in the gmane reader (on the fedora list it was seen immediatelly). Oh well, sleepy Sunday at gmane today :-) Make one more change to to /etc/grub.conf again, so you can manage it easily between the Preupgrade and your kernels (increase timeout to 20): default=0 timeout=20 # hiddenmenu Done. Now back to the problem. Give me outpt of: # ls -al /boot/upgrade/ $ ls -al /boot/upgrade/ total 187604 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-11-06 08:55 . dr-xr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 2010-11-06 08:25 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31252083 2010-10-21 19:16 initrd.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157143040 2010-11-06 09:12 install.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 293 2010-11-06 08:31 ks.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3696448 2010-10-21 19:16 vmlinuz # ls -al /var/cache/yum/ $ ls -al /var/cache/yum/ total 308 drwxr-xr-x. 16 root root 4096 2010-11-06 08:24 . drwxr-xr-x. 17 root root 4096 2010-02-10 20:19 .. drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 2010-02-10 19:19 i386 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 249856 2010-11-06 10:28 preupgrade drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-06 09:12 preupgrade-adobe-linux-i386 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-06 09:15 preupgrade-fedora drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-06 09:15 preupgrade-google drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-06 09:15 preupgrade-google-chrome drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-07-11 10:26 preupgrade-livna drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-07-11 10:26 preupgrade-magnum drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-06 08:23 preupgrade-main drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-06 09:15 preupgrade-rpmfusion-free drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-06 09:15 preupgrade-rpmfusion-free-updates drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-06 09:15 preupgrade-rpmfusion-nonfree drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-06 09:15 preupgrade-rpmfusion-nonfree-updates drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-06 09:15 preupgrade-updates # findfs UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482 $ findfs UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482 /dev/sda5 # cat /boot/upgrade/ks.cfg $ cat /boot/upgrade/ks.cfg # ks.cfg generated by preupgrade lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard uk bootloader --upgrade --location=none clearpart --none upgrade --root-device=UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482 reboot %post grubby --remove-kernel=/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz rm -rf /boot/upgrade /var/cache/yum/preupgrade* %end Make a backup of # cp /etc/grub.conf /etc/grub.conf-backup and then reduce number of Linux kernel boot items in the original to the first two (2): ... title Upgrade to Fedora 14 (Laughlin) kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks=hd:UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482:/boot/upgrade/ks.cfg stage2=hd:UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482:/boot/upgrade/install.img initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img title Fedora (2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686.PAE.img ... I see you appended to your working regular kernel lines rdblacklist=nouveau How about appending it to your Preupgrade kernel line: ... rdblacklist=nouveau initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img ... All done. Give it a shot and reboot to start Preupgrade. About to restart. I'll report on the results as soon as I can. In the meantime I will take a look at your response data. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F12 -amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue
On 9 November 2010 19:44, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 November 2010 18:49, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Give it a shot and reboot to start Preupgrade. About to restart. I'll report on the results as soon as I can. And we're back. But unfortunately the situation is exactly the same as before. It's still prompting me for a driver. Thanks for your suggestions. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F12 -amp;amp;amp;gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue
On 9 November 2010 21:33, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com writes: ... Hi, I thought you were done and forgot about us :-) Yeah, sorry. I don't often have the free time to explore this. I won't, for example, be able to try out any more suggestions until Thursday evening at the earliest. We have to learn some more about your system (we could try and shoot it blindly but that makes no sense). I assume it is a problem with your display driver. Please give me the output of: $ lspci -v # lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield DMI (rev 11) Subsystem: Dell Device 0300 Flags: fast devsel Capabilities: [40] #00 [] 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: d000-dfff Memory behind bridge: f800-fbcf Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d000-dfff Capabilities: [40] Subsystem: Dell Device 0300 Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/2 Maskable+ 64bit- Capabilities: [90] Express Root Port (Slot-), MSI 00 Capabilities: [e0] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [150] Access Control Services Capabilities: [160] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0002 Rev=0 Len=00c ? Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield System Management Registers (rev 11) Subsystem: Device 0028: Flags: fast devsel Capabilities: [40] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID= Rev=0 Len=000 ? 00:08.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers (rev 11) Subsystem: Device 0028: Flags: fast devsel Capabilities: [40] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID= Rev=0 Len=000 ? 00:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield System Control and Status Registers (rev 11) Subsystem: Device 0028: Flags: fast devsel Capabilities: [40] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID= Rev=0 Len=000 ? 00:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield Miscellaneous Registers (rev 11) Subsystem: Device 0028: Flags: fast devsel 00:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation QPI Link (rev 11) Subsystem: Device 0028: Flags: fast devsel 00:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation QPI Routing and Protocol Registers (rev 11) Subsystem: Device 0028: Flags: fast devsel 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: Dell Device 0300 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at f7ffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0 Capabilities: [98] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio (rev 05) Subsystem: Dell Device 0300 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22 Memory at f7ff8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 1000-1fff Memory behind bridge: c000-c01f Prefetchable memory behind bridge: c020-c03f Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00 Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell Device 0300 Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: pcieport 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate
Re: F12 -gt; F14 Preupgrade Issue
On 6 November 2010 14:35, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com writes: ... If it helps, my disk layout is as follows: $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 100790004 8666260 87003832 10% / tmpfs 4125644 3072 4122572 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda7 806346856 348886504 416500232 46% /data /dev/sda6 251977516 153278152 85899140 65% /home We need to understand how your system is partitioned and booted. Give us output (unedited): # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xb800 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 9 72261 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 101264100782087 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda312647638512013237 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda47639 182401 1403783797+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 *7639 20386 102398278+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 20387 52257 256003776 83 Linux /dev/sda7 52258 154243 819202513+ 83 Linux # uname -r 2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686.PAE # cat /etc/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,4) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda5 # initrd /boot/initrd-[generic-]version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Upgrade to Fedora 14 (Laughlin) kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks=hd:UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482:/boot/upgrade/ks.cfg stage2=hd:UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482:/boot/upgrade/install.img initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img title Fedora (2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686.PAE.img title Fedora (2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686.PAE.img title Fedora (2.6.32.21-166.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.21-166.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=UUID=f8a71551-f7b7-45ef-b1d8-057f4cf69482 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.21-166.fc12.i686.PAE.img title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 # cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 /sys /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0 udev /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=4119436k,nr_inodes=191556,mode=755 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0 /dev/sda5 / ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,relatime 0 0 /dev/sda7 /data ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/sda6 /home ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0 none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,relatime 0 0 sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0 gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/dave/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=500,group_id=500 0 0 Now, to save some time, what is your understanding of: - your primary boot loader (MBR) boots what (refer to distro/OS name and partition as in 'fdisk -l' output (/dev/sda?) ? Grub's default is to boot /dev/sda5 - which is the system's main Linux partition. - the boot loader for your distro in question (/dev/sda5) - are you the primary (MBR) boot loader destination as above or are you a subordinate boot loader destination (that is, your boot loader was placed on your root partition) ? As far as I know, Grub is the only bootloader on this system. My knowledge of bootloader technology is shaky - so if my answers to those last two questions aren't detailed enough then please ask for more detail. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
F12 - F14 Preupgrade Issue
I had a similar problem to this back in July when I tried to used Preupgrade to move from F12 to F13. At the time I ran out of spare time so I just stayed on F12. Now I'm trying to use Preupgrade to go from F12 to F14 and I'm getting the same issue. Preupgrade downloads all of the required data (so it's not a free space issue). When I reboot and choose the Upgrade to Laughlin option I get the message: Unable to find any device of the type needed for this installation type. Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver disk. There's an option to choose from a list of drivers. The list contains all kinds of drivers - network cards, storage devices, probably others - I don't know what I should be choosing. If it helps, my disk layout is as follows: $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5100790004 8666260 87003832 10% / tmpfs 4125644 3072 4122572 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda7806346856 348886504 416500232 46% /data /dev/sda6251977516 153278152 85899140 65% /home The PC is a Dell Studio XPS. Any suggestions for fixing this would be appreciated. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Can I know which fedora is stable?
On 30 September 2010 16:33, adrian kok adriankok2...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: Hi Can I know which fedora is stable? For future reference, the front page of http://fedoraproject.org/ is usually a good clue :-) Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: missing command
On 30 September 2010 17:02, theonly.obsid...@gmail.com wrote: If this comes across as a newbie question...I apologize. i simply don't know the answer. I recently installed Fedora 13. I'm used to using wget and GET. When trying to run a few of my old scripts I found that wget and GET were not installed. I was able to install wget by using yum install wget. This does not work with GET. Can someone point me to the correct package that may include GET? Thanks in advance for any assistance. $ rpm -q --whatprovides `which GET` perl-libwww-perl-5.834-1.fc13.noarch So something like yum install perl-libwww-perl should work. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Warning in update
On 6 September 2010 14:31, sandeep Patel leosandee...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, When i installed update at the time of update it gives this warning... Warning in file /usr/share/applications/gnome-nautilus-folder-handler.desktop: usage of MIME type x-directory/gnome-default-handler is discouraged (x-directory is an old media type that should be replaced with a modern equivalent) Warning in file /usr/share/applications/gnome-nautilus-folder-handler.desktop: usage of MIME type x-directory/normal is discouraged (x-directory is an old media type that should be replaced with a modern equivalent) Could any one tell me what this mean? It means what it says. The desktop file is using old media types which should be replaced. A bug has already been raised - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580944 Dave... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Warning in update
On 6 September 2010 15:05, sandeep Patel leosandee...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2010 14:31, sandeep Patel leosandee...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, When i installed update at the time of update it gives this warning... Warning in file /usr/share/applications/gnome-nautilus-folder-handler.desktop: usage of MIME type x-directory/gnome-default-handler is discouraged (x-directory is an old media type that should be replaced with a modern equivalent) Warning in file /usr/share/applications/gnome-nautilus-folder-handler.desktop: usage of MIME type x-directory/normal is discouraged (x-directory is an old media type that should be replaced with a modern equivalent) Could any one tell me what this mean? It means what it says. The desktop file is using old media types which should be replaced. A bug has already been raised - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580944 How shall i solve this warning? Is there any solution for this? It's a warning. You don't need to do anything. The old options are deprecated, not removed. Your app will continue to work and at some unspecified point in the future a new version will be released which uses the new options. Dave... -- Dave Cross :: d...@dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
F12 - F13. Preupgrade Error
I'm trying to use preupgrade to upgrade my Dell Studio XPS from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13. It got through the bit where it downloads all of the required data from the internet and prompts me to reboot the PC. I reboot the PC and select upgrade to Goddard from the grub menu. After a while, I then get the message: Unable to find any device of the type needed for this installation type. Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver disk. There's an option to choose a driver from a list. But the list as huge and seems to contain entries for all sorts of drivers - network cards, storage devices, probably others - I don't know what I should be choosing. Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong here? And what I can do to fix it. Thanks, Dave... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: F12 - F13. Preupgrade Error
On 11 July 2010 16:50, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/11/2010 09:03 AM, Dave Cross wrote: I'm trying to use preupgrade to upgrade my Dell Studio XPS from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13. It got through the bit where it downloads all of the required data from the internet and prompts me to reboot the PC. I reboot the PC and select upgrade to Goddard from the grub menu. After a while, I then get the message: Unable to find any device of the type needed for this installation type. Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver disk. There's an option to choose a driver from a list. But the list as huge and seems to contain entries for all sorts of drivers - network cards, storage devices, probably others - I don't know what I should be choosing. Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong here? And what I can do to fix it. At the time you got this problem, were you fully connected to the network? Probably not - right? I doubt it. I guess it had rebooted into anaconda's minimal Linux version which probably doesn't have networking support. If so, I suspect it is looking for the driver to use for the network instead of probing for the device by itself and selecting the right driver. But I don't understand why it would need a network connection. It's already downloaded all of the data that it needs. Dave... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: Seeking a grep-like script
On 10 June 2010 14:26, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm looking for a grep-like script that searches for a given word,
and returns the paragraphs in which it appears (rather than the lines),
where a paragraph is defined as the material between 2 blank lines.
All suggestions gratefully received.
It would be relatively easy to do in perl, suggested logic is to read in a
paragraph, check for the word, print if found. Only takes a few lines of
code.
If by looking for you mean finding a script which does you what you want,
I don't know where you find it, it's a bit trivial to bother to save.
Sample attached.
The code becomes even easier if you put Perl into paragraph mode.
#!/use/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
$/ = ''; # paragraph mode - see perldoc perlvar
# Assume first argument is word to find
my $word = shift;
while () {
print if /\b\Q$word\b/; # \Q is a safety measure - escape metacharacters
}
Cheers,
Dave...
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Re: [OT] Help with Perl Script
On 21 April 2010 09:21, Dan Track dan.tr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I appreciate that this is off-topic and wholly understand if I don't
get an answer, although one would really appreciate it if I do get an
answer :)
Basically to improve my perl scripting, I've given myself a challenge
where I would like to order the users in the passwd file by uid,
You've already got plenty of good advice in this thread, but I thought
you might be interested in seeing just how short the program can be if
you use a lot of Perl's features.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
@ARGV = '/etc/passwd';
print sort { (split /:/, $a)[2] = (split /:/, $b)[2] } ;
I probably wouldn't use something _quite_ this cryptic in production code.
Cheers,
Dave...
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Re: perl or bash question [convert strings in a txt to html links]
On 27 February 2010 17:12, Vadkan Jozsef jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote:
How can I do that in bash or perl, that I have a txt file, e.g.:
$cat file.txt
Hi, this is the content of the txt file, that contains links like this:
http://www.somewhere.it/, and it could contain: http://somewhere.com,
etc..
This is the second line, that doesn't contains links..
..
This is the XYZ line, that contains a link: http://www.somewhere.net
$
...ok.. so how could I make a regexp for this?
Turning:
http://website.org
http://www.website.org
to this:
a href=http://website.orghttp://website.org/a
a href=http://www.website.orghttp://www.website.org/a
The solution would be:
sed 'SOMEMAGIC' file.txt file.html
or
perl 'SOMEBIGMAGIC' file.txt file.html
Parsing URIs using regular expressions (as others have suggested) is
harder than it looks. I recommend using a Perl module like URI::Find
(which is available as an RPM for Fedora - yum install perl-URI-Find).
The code looks like this (lightly adapted from the module's documentation):
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use URI::Find;
sub replace {
my ($uri, $orig_uri) = @_;
return qq(a href=$uri$orig_uri/a);
}
my $finder = URI::Find-new(\replace);
while () {
$finder-find(\$_);
print $_;
}
Put that in a file (called, perhaps, urifind) and make that file
executable. You can then run it like this:
./urifind file.txt file.html
Hope that helps.
Dave...
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