[CentOS] Disappearing content in Firefox (CentOS Stream 8)

2024-01-17 Thread Toralf Lund via CentOS
Does anyone else experience issues with the Firefox version supplied with CentOS Stream 8? It mostly works on my system, but I have this recurring problem where I use it for a while (a few hours, maybe), accessing different sites, opening and closing windows and/or tabs perhaps - then all of a

[CentOS] ThinkPad battery calibration on CentOS 8

2023-09-12 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi Does anyone know of a way to recalibrate the battery on a ThinkPad laptop under CentOS Stream 8? I did this on the same machine before, but I can't recall exactly how. And maybe I was on CentOS 7 at the time. I know about the "tlp" command, but I haven't had much luck with it so far, as

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Ping as regular user not allowed (CentOS Stream 8)

2022-01-21 Thread Toralf Lund
: On 1/19/22 08:44, Brian Stinson wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 8:33 AM Toralf Lund wrote: Following some update or the other (I think) on my CentOS Stream 8 system, I'm no longer able to use ping as a regular user; I get $ ping https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Ping as regular user not allowed (CentOS Stream 8)

2022-01-20 Thread Toralf Lund
On 20/01/2022 17:48, Robert Nichols wrote: On 1/20/22 10:32 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: On 19/01/2022 15:32, Toralf Lund wrote: Following some update or the other (I think) on my CentOS Stream 8 system, I'm no longer able to use ping as a regular user; I get $ ping https://eur04

[CentOS] Ping as regular user not allowed (CentOS Stream 8)

2022-01-19 Thread Toralf Lund
Following some update or the other (I think) on my CentOS Stream 8 system, I'm no longer able to use ping as a regular user; I get $ ping www.centos.org ping: socket: Operation not permitted Does anyone else see this? It it a bug, or were the system/default permissions deliberately changed?

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Unexpected /etc/resolv.conf updates on CentOS 7

2021-10-22 Thread Toralf Lund
On 14/10/2021 08:44, Simon Matter wrote: On 13/10/2021 20:06, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: If you just want to tell NM to clear off and leave your resolv.conf alone do the following: I might possibly be able to set up a workaround based on that, but it's not what I really want. Ideally I

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Unexpected /etc/resolv.conf updates on CentOS 7

2021-10-14 Thread Toralf Lund
=“no” instead. Now you are solely responsible for setting the content of /etc/resolv.conf yourself. You may also have to edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and add dns=none to the [main] section. On 13/10/2021 18:24, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi Does here anyone know exactly when

[CentOS] Unexpected /etc/resolv.conf updates on CentOS 7

2021-10-13 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi Does here anyone know exactly when NetworkManager creates or is supposed to create /etc/resolv.conf for a network connection? Is there a way I can control it, or alternatively, is there a good way to debug the functionality? I thought that there would simply be an update whenever a

Re: [CentOS] Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

2021-07-16 Thread Toralf Lund
On 15/07/2021 12:57, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 05:30, Toralf Lund wrote: On 15/07/2021 09:37, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 2:03 PM Toralf Lund wrote: Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7? I've used it for a while now, and it's

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

2021-07-15 Thread Toralf Lund
On 15/07/2021 09:37, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 2:03 PM Toralf Lund wrote: Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7? I've used it for a while now, and it's generally worked reasonably well. However, after upgrading to the latest version from the Microsoft repos

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

2021-07-15 Thread Toralf Lund
On 14/07/2021 22:13, Phil Perry wrote: On 14/07/2021 07:28, Toralf Lund wrote: On 13/07/2021 14:23, Phil Perry wrote: On 13/07/2021 13:02, Toralf Lund wrote: Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7? I've used it for a while now, and it's generally worked reasonably well. However

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

2021-07-14 Thread Toralf Lund
On 14/07/2021 09:04, Simon Matter wrote: On 13/07/2021 15:07, Tru Huynh wrote: hi On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 01:23:58PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote: On 13/07/2021 13:02, Toralf Lund wrote: Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7? <...> The release that doesn't work is 1.4.00

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

2021-07-14 Thread Toralf Lund
On 13/07/2021 15:07, Tru Huynh wrote: hi On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 01:23:58PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote: On 13/07/2021 13:02, Toralf Lund wrote: Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7? <...> The release that doesn't work is 1.4.00.13653. The one that does is 1.4.00.7556. -

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

2021-07-14 Thread Toralf Lund
On 13/07/2021 14:23, Phil Perry wrote: On 13/07/2021 13:02, Toralf Lund wrote: Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7? I've used it for a while now, and it's generally worked reasonably well. However, after upgrading to the latest version from the Microsoft repos, it doesn't start

[CentOS] Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

2021-07-13 Thread Toralf Lund
Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7? I've used it for a while now, and it's generally worked reasonably well. However, after upgrading to the latest version from the Microsoft repos, it doesn't start up properly. Processes start and remain active until I give up and kill them,

[CentOS] Pidgin + pidgin-sipe audo/video calls to Skype for Business

2020-03-23 Thread Toralf Lund
Has anyone got the audio/video call functionality to work with the CentOS 7 Pidgin packages? I primarily interested in Skype for Business/Office Communicator, but if you have anything else set up that supports audio/video, that may also be of interest. I recently tried to join a "scheduled

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Installing a single rpm package from desktop/browser on CentOS 7

2020-02-26 Thread Toralf Lund
On 24/02/2020 15:46, Pete Biggs wrote: In many case, but in the situations I'm talking about here is really a lot more cumbersome to use. To use the command line to install a a package from a website, I have to 1. Right-click 2. Select Save Link As 3. Enter filename/directory 4. Open a

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Installing a single rpm package from desktop/browser on CentOS 7

2020-02-24 Thread Toralf Lund
mand line. - Toralf -- Seth. On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:51 AM Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Toralf Lund wrote: And, yeah, I know about rpm command line and yum and all, but shouldn't there be a "more user-friendly" way? The command line is your friend. Have a look at yumex. I

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Installing a single rpm package from desktop/browser on CentOS 7

2020-02-24 Thread Toralf Lund
On 21/02/2020 15:51, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Toralf Lund wrote: And, yeah, I know about rpm command line and yum and all, but shouldn't there be a "more user-friendly" way? The command line is your friend. In many case, but in the situations I'm talking about here is really a

[CentOS] Installing a single rpm package from desktop/browser on CentOS 7

2020-02-21 Thread Toralf Lund
If I want to install a software package from a simple rpm file "the GUI way" on a CentOS 7 system, what am I supposed to do? If I open the file in the desktop, or alternatively, click on a link to a package in the browser and tell it to use the default app, gnome-software (I think) opens, but

[CentOS] Have "system"/Hunspell dictionaries stopped working in CentOS 7 Firefox?

2019-10-25 Thread Toralf Lund
Until quite recently, multiple spell-checker languages were available in Firefox on my CentOS 7 system. (They could be selected from "Languages" under the right-click menu in text boxes.) After a recent system upgrade, there is only "English (United States)". I don't think I had installed any

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: CentOS 7 package not present in Red Hat EL 7 - qt-assistant

2018-11-28 Thread Toralf Lund
On 28/11/18 01:24, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:47 AM Toralf Lund wrote: I'm using CentOS 7 for development of software that is sometimes used on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. I conjunction with an update of one of the applications, I asked some Red Hat users to install the Qt 4

[CentOS] CentOS 7 package not present in Red Hat EL 7 - qt-assistant

2018-11-27 Thread Toralf Lund
I'm using CentOS 7 for development of software that is sometimes used on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. I conjunction with an update of one of the applications, I asked some Red Hat users to install the Qt 4 Assistant application via the qt-assistant package (which is used by a "help" function in

[CentOS] Copy to smb share fails with "invalid argument" on CentOS 7

2018-10-04 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I've had problems copying files to Windows shares from my CentOS 7 machine lately. I originally got this in the desktop file manager, but find that I can also reproduce using gvfs-copy. "cp" to the directory mounted by gvfs works just fine, on the other hand. Also, the problem does not

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Specifying different options for different " smb" type gvfs mount

2018-06-22 Thread Toralf Lund
On 21/06/18 14:09, John Hodrien wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Toralf Lund wrote: I known that I might use mount.cifs and related "fstab" entries as an alternative, but its password handling seems a lot less convenient. If you're in an AD environment, you can probably do nicely with

[CentOS] Specifying different options for different " smb" type gvfs mount

2018-06-21 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I'm trying to use smb:// URLs with gvfs-mount and/or similar desktop functionality to access SMB shares on different servers that support different protocol versions and features. With some of the servers, mount will fail with a default configuration, but I have been able to make it work

[CentOS] CentOS 7 system unsable after "yum update" (with some errors on the way)

2018-05-25 Thread Toralf Lund
God dag, I've been trying to run a "yum update" (without additional arguments) to install the latest system updates on my CentOS 7 machine. It's no going so well. What happens is this: 1. The process gets stuck a couple of places as a "post" script or similar tries to run "dbus-send"; the

Re: [CentOS] [Marketing Mail] Re: [External] Re: [Marketing Mail] Create CentOS 6 system as "clone" of another - with LVM and different disk sizes

2018-04-16 Thread Toralf Lund
ngs (local or on your dhcp server), {crypt,fs}tab (if no bit-accurate copy of the filesystem was used), /etc/host{s,name} depending on your network setup. best regards,  - MarkusOn Fr, 2018-04-13 at 15:45 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: On 13/04/18 15:32, Lange, Markus wrote: Hi, You can simply b

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: [Marketing Mail] Create CentOS 6 system as "clone" of another - with LVM and different disk sizes

2018-04-13 Thread Toralf Lund
and found that there was special handling of various hardware dependent config files, so that I didn't get set-up  for the "wrong" type. - Toralf Rsync should be much faster for data transfer. Best regards,  - Markus On Fr, 2018-04-13 at 14:46 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, I just found

[CentOS] Create CentOS 6 system as "clone" of another - with LVM and different disk sizes

2018-04-13 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I just found myself having to set up a new CentOS 6 system with a nearly identical configuration to an existing host, so I thought I would just 1. Do a minimal install to set up partitions etc. on the new system. 2. Create an image of the existing system using Clonezilla

[CentOS] Pulse Secure/Juniper Networks Network Connect (CentOS 7)

2018-02-19 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, Is anyone here using the "Network Connect" VPN software from Pulse Secure (which was previously known as Juniper Networks Network Connect)? I've used this successfully in the past to connect to the machines at work from home. That was with CentOS 6, though, on CentOS 7 I can't seem to

[CentOS] Issues with qt-creator from EPEL 7

2018-01-04 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, Is anyone here using the "EPEL" package for qt-creator on CentOS 7? I'm having a few issues with it, and I though I'd run them by the list before I try Qt Forums or whatever (since they could be specific to the above mentioned build.) Most notably, 1. If I click on an error message in

Re: [CentOS] [External] Re: Switch off laptop screen when docked with lid close - CentOS 7

2017-12-07 Thread Toralf Lund
On 05/12/17 14:16, Fabian Arrotin wrote: On 05/12/17 08:53, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, I'm using CentOS on a laptop that part of the time is connected to a docking station with two monitor connected to it. When the laptop lid is docked, its lid is closed, as the system is placed in a position

[CentOS] Run as root w/o terminal/gksu-polkit uses 100 % CPU

2017-12-05 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, On CentOS 7, what's the best way to start a GUI program as root without a terminal? I mean, from a launcher or similar where you can't provide terminal input to "sudo". I'm talking about applications that aren't configured to switch to root out-of-the box, of course. I just tried

[CentOS] Switch off laptop screen when docked with lid close - CentOS 7

2017-12-04 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I'm using CentOS on a laptop that part of the time is connected to a docking station with two monitor connected to it. When the laptop lid is docked, its lid is closed, as the system is placed in a position where it's not convenient to keep it open, let alone look at the screen. Now in

Re: [CentOS] [External] Creating Spec file for RPM

2017-11-25 Thread Toralf Lund
On 23/11/17 18:39, Andrew W wrote: Im trying to learn how to create RPMs but am a little confused by the spec file. OK. I don't see a reply that answer your questions directly, so here I go... Im trying to package up some Python scripts, rather than binary files, and I want them to be

[CentOS] Intel Bluetooth problems - "Invalid request code (56)" - on CentOS 6.9

2017-11-20 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I have Lenovo laptop with an Intel wireless and Bluetooth adapter, running CentOS 6.9. The wireless works just fine, but I can't seem to get Bluetooth to work. When I try to force it up from the command line I get # hciconfig hci0 up Can't init device hci0: Invalid request code (56)

Re: [CentOS] [External] /boot partition too small

2017-10-12 Thread Toralf Lund
On 11/10/17 15:22, Robert Nichols wrote: On 10/11/2017 02:04 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: On 10/10/17 15:55, KM wrote: First off - let me say I am not an administrator.   I need to know if there is an easy way to increase my /boot partition.  When I installed CentOS 6 after running 5, it was my

[CentOS] Location of grub.conf etc. with UEFI boot (CentOS 6)

2017-10-11 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, What's the proper/normal way of setting up GRUB for a CentOS 6 installation that boots using UEFI? I've recently set up such a system, but for technical reasons I mentioned in an earlier post, I booted in "legacy" mode during installation, which meant I didn't get the correct UEFI boot

Re: [CentOS] [External] /boot partition too small

2017-10-11 Thread Toralf Lund
On 10/10/17 15:55, KM wrote: First off - let me say I am not an administrator.   I need to know if there is an easy way to increase my /boot partition.  When I installed CentOS 6 after running 5, it was my oversight not to increase the /boot size.  it's too small and I can't do yum updates.

[CentOS] Small GRUB screen (menu/splash image)

2017-10-10 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, After moving my CentOS 6 installation over to a new PC, the GRUB start-up screen looks a bit strange. On the old machine, the menu area and splash image would cover the entire screen, but now they occupy only a small rectangle in its centre. I think what happens is that the max

[CentOS] Lock-up during boot when Logitech unifying receiver is connected (UEFI problem?)

2017-10-10 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I've got a bit of an issue after I switched to a new laptop for my CentOS 6.9 installation: I'm using a Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse that communicate with the system via a so-called "unifying receiver". If this unit (a small USB thingummy) is connected when I try to boot the

[CentOS] Problem with attachments in thunderbird-45.5.1

2016-12-14 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, Has anyone else had problems opening attachments in Mozilla Thunderbird under CentOS 6 lately? I find that when I open the application and select a message with attachments and double-click on one of them, everything works as expected. But, if I try to open another (and another etc.),

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7/GNOME 3 customise top panel

2016-10-18 Thread Toralf Lund
On 17/10/16 20:40, Phil Wyett wrote: On Fri, 2016-10-14 at 18:20 +0100, Tris Hoar wrote: On 14/10/2016 15:45, Toralf Lund wrote: Ok, I think I understand now. Does this not work? https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4/panel-favorites/ This may well do what I need. Just didn't notice

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7/GNOME 3 customise top panel

2016-10-17 Thread Toralf Lund
On 15/10/16 10:45, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno ven, 14/10/2016 alle 14.39 +0200, Toralf Lund ha scritto: I want to add "application launchers", as it will make start-up faster than the standard alternatives. Gnome 3 don't like comfortable "personal application launcher&qu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7/GNOME 3 customise top panel

2016-10-14 Thread Toralf Lund
On 14/10/16 16:23, Tris Hoar wrote: On 14/10/2016 13:39, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, Is there any way to customise the top panel in CentOS 7 with GNOME 3 (which I recently tried for the first time)? Specifically, I want to add "application launchers", as it will make start-up f

[CentOS] CentOS 7/GNOME 3 customise top panel

2016-10-14 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, Is there any way to customise the top panel in CentOS 7 with GNOME 3 (which I recently tried for the first time)? Specifically, I want to add "application launchers", as it will make start-up faster than the standard alternatives. (Because you can move the mouse directly to the right

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManger wireless issues - "Failed to load root certificates"/"unable to get local issuer certificate"

2016-09-07 Thread Toralf Lund
On 06/09/16 09:06, Toralf Lund wrote: On 05/09/16 11:08, John Hodrien wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, I'm trying to connect my CentOS 6.8 laptop to the wireless net at work, which is secured with WPA2 and AES. I've done this successfully in the past using NetworkManager

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManger wireless issues - "Failed to load root certificates"/"unable to get local issuer certificate"

2016-09-06 Thread Toralf Lund
On 05/09/16 11:08, John Hodrien wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, I'm trying to connect my CentOS 6.8 laptop to the wireless net at work, which is secured with WPA2 and AES. I've done this successfully in the past using NetworkManager, but a new safety feature was recently

[CentOS] NetworkManger wireless issues - "Failed to load root certificates"/"unable to get local issuer certificate"

2016-09-02 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I'm trying to connect my CentOS 6.8 laptop to the wireless net at work, which is secured with WPA2 and AES. I've done this successfully in the past using NetworkManager, but a new safety feature was recently introduced: A CA certificate is required. After this, I've not been able to

Re: [CentOS] "Windows" share issue; access via smb:// fails, "mount -t cifs" works

2016-09-01 Thread Toralf Lund
On 30/08/16 10:00, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, Is anyone here using smb:// URLs to access "Windows" shares? I've been doing this for a while with common file systems at work, and it used to work just fine. Then I while back, I started getting issues; I will now just keep get

[CentOS] "Windows" share issue; access via smb:// fails, "mount -t cifs" works

2016-08-30 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, Is anyone here using smb:// URLs to access "Windows" shares? I've been doing this for a while with common file systems at work, and it used to work just fine. Then I while back, I started getting issues; I will now just keep getting asked for a password when I try to access something

[CentOS] Help viewer issues

2015-08-12 Thread Toralf Lund
man:man', I only get a blank window. Any ideas about what may be wrong? - Toralf [http://www.pgs.com/mediaFiles/Exclaimer%20graphics/PGS_LOGO_RGB_42x53px.jpg]http://www.pgs.com Toralf Lund Senior Software Engineer Imaging Engineering | Geoscience Engineering Telephone: +47 67 52 64 00

Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS file systems via Nautilus on CentOS 6

2015-07-21 Thread Toralf Lund
On 13/07/15 00:58, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: Looks like Nautilus is periodically 'stat'-ing the bookmark location. Yep. I'm wondering if this should be reported as a bug. I really think it ought to leave the bookmarks alone until you actually try to access them. How about making a softlink to

Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS file systems via Nautilus on CentOS 6

2015-07-12 Thread Toralf Lund
On 11/07/15 18:10, John Hodrien wrote: Why not just use autofs and have it mounted on demand? You probably didn't read my post properly. Part of what I'm saying is that autofs is set up out-of-the box to mount the filesystem. However, to access the area, I have to type in the full path all

[CentOS] Mounting NFS file systems via Nautilus on CentOS 6

2015-07-11 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I'm trying to set up my work laptop, which has CentOS 6.6, for easy NFS access to a NAS disk at home. I can't set for a normal permanent mount, since most of the time, the filesystem will not be available. I know several different ways to mount temporarily from the command line, but I

Re: [CentOS] java 1.6 and 1.7 on CentOS

2014-08-21 Thread Toralf Lund
On 20/08/14 16:45, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: I can confirm that. I have both installed. You can configure the default using the 'alternatives' system. is it just me, or does anyone else think that 'alternatives' system

Re: [CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

2014-08-20 Thread Toralf Lund
On 19/08/14 17:19, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Tue, August 19, 2014 9:08 am, Toralf Lund wrote: On 19/08/14 15:15, John R. Dennison wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 09:12:36AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: I agree about the BS part but that does not make it unenforceable BS in some jurisdictions

Re: [CentOS] Logitech unifying receiver (pairing)

2014-08-20 Thread Toralf Lund
On 20/08/14 10:33, Elias Persson wrote: On 2014-08-19 14:25, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, Is anyone here using a Logitech wireless mouse our keyboard or whatever using a unifying receiver. Any luck with pairing new devices with the unit? I've tried various different programs from the net that's

Re: [CentOS] java 1.6 and 1.7 on CentOS

2014-08-20 Thread Toralf Lund
On 19/08/14 20:33, John R Pierce wrote: On 8/19/2014 5:16 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2014-08-19, Carson Chittomcar...@wistly.net wrote: Asma rabeasma.r...@gmail.com writes: If i should install both java 1.6 and 1.7 , how to do that ? I don't know whether you*should* do it, not knowing

Re: [CentOS] java 1.6 and 1.7 on CentOS

2014-08-20 Thread Toralf Lund
On 20/08/14 15:43, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: On 19/08/14 20:33, John R Pierce wrote: If i should install both java 1.6 and 1.7 , how to do that ? I don't know whether you*should* do it, not knowing much about your setup

Re: [CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

2014-08-19 Thread Toralf Lund
On 18/08/14 15:05, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Mon, August 18, 2014 5:50 am, Toralf Lund wrote: This e-mail, including any attachments and response string, may contain proprietary information which is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If you

[CentOS] Logitech unifying receiver (pairing)

2014-08-19 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, Is anyone here using a Logitech wireless mouse our keyboard or whatever using a unifying receiver. Any luck with pairing new devices with the unit? I've tried various different programs from the net that's supposed to be able to do this, but they all fail in one way or the other.

Re: [CentOS] Logitech unifying receiver (pairing)

2014-08-19 Thread Toralf Lund
On 19/08/14 14:41, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: Is anyone here using a Logitech wireless mouse our keyboard or whatever using a unifying receiver. Any luck with pairing new devices with the unit? I've tried various different

Re: [CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

2014-08-19 Thread Toralf Lund
On 19/08/14 14:57, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2014-08-18, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: On 17/08/14 20:04, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: Hi, After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer works in my CentOS 6

Re: [CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

2014-08-19 Thread Toralf Lund
On 19/08/14 15:15, John R. Dennison wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 09:12:36AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: I agree about the BS part but that does not make it unenforceable BS in some jurisdictions. And then there is always the threat of impoverishment through litigation. A big enough

Re: [CentOS] java 1.6 and 1.7 on CentOS

2014-08-19 Thread Toralf Lund
On 19/08/14 14:48, Chris Pemberton wrote: On 08/19/2014 07:00 AM, Carson Chittom wrote: Asma rabe asma.r...@gmail.com writes: If i should install both java 1.6 and 1.7 , how to do that ? I don't know whether you *should* do it, not knowing much about your setup, but assuming CentOS 7, I

Re: [CentOS] Down-grading to an obsoleted package

2014-08-18 Thread Toralf Lund
On 15/08/14 20:21, Thomas Eriksson wrote: On 08/15/2014 07:45 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if there is a clean way to downgrade to the old rpm package when it was previously replaced by another that obsolete it? I mean, say that I have installed some rpm A-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm

Re: [CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

2014-08-18 Thread Toralf Lund
On 17/08/14 20:04, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: Hi, After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't load, and no java plugin is mentioned

[CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

2014-08-17 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't load, and no java plugin is mentioned in about:plugins. The openjdk Java packages as well as icetea-web are installed, though, and everything

[CentOS] Down-grading to an obsoleted package

2014-08-15 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, Does anyone know if there is a clean way to downgrade to the old rpm package when it was previously replaced by another that obsolete it? I mean, say that I have installed some rpm A-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm, and along comes B-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm, whose spec has Obsoletes: A Now, if I do rpm -U

Re: [CentOS] Disk space warning (gdu-notification-daemon type) for remote systems

2014-03-17 Thread Toralf Lund
On 12/03/14 18:41, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:46 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Toralf Lund wrote: snip Obviously. But like I said, I was wondering if there was a more automatic way directly supported by the distro. Like, maybe you could somehow

Re: [CentOS] Disk space warning (gdu-notification-daemon type) for remote systems

2014-03-17 Thread Toralf Lund
On 12/03/14 22:24, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 10:46 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Perhaps a milter to forward a logwatch email (which goes to root) if there's a line that has on it Warning. Disk Filling up? Logwatch is usually once a day, just pass midnight here. Besides

Re: [CentOS] Disk space warning (gdu-notification-daemon type) for remote systems

2014-03-17 Thread Toralf Lund
On 12/03/14 15:55, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: I don't think you provided enough information for anyone to help. What kind of remote gui are you using? I wouldn't actually call it a remote gui - there is just an application

Re: [CentOS] Disk space warning (gdu-notification-daemon type) for remote systems

2014-03-12 Thread Toralf Lund
On 11/03/14 16:16, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: I think you should build a monitoring system (nagios, xymon, opennms, several others or perhaps your own if you're feeling far too adventurous) instead. right now all you care

Re: [CentOS] Disk space warning (gdu-notification-daemon type) for remote systems

2014-03-12 Thread Toralf Lund
On 12/03/14 13:56, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: In general, that might make sense, but please consider the fact that I'm not talking about a general server system. It's a machine dedicated to running a server component on one

[CentOS] Disk space warning (gdu-notification-daemon type) for remote systems

2014-03-11 Thread Toralf Lund
//Hi,/ /I need to implement a system of disk space checks and warnings for a client-server setup running CentOS 6. Simply put, I just want a warning popup rather like the ones given by gdu-notification-daemon when server file system is full or nearly full, but they should appear on the client

Re: [CentOS] Disk space warning (gdu-notification-daemon type) for remote systems

2014-03-11 Thread Toralf Lund
On 11/03/14 14:17, zGreenfelder wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: //Hi,/ /I need to implement a system of disk space checks and warnings for a client-server setup running CentOS 6. Simply put, I just want a warning popup rather like the ones given

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Toralf Lund
On 06/12/13 04:15, Anthony K wrote: On 06/12/13 01:08, Toralf Lund wrote: OK. So it's my system. - Toralf Not necessarily! I wouldn't worry too much about VirtualBox 4.3 - it is terribly hosed; I suggest you downgrade back to 4.2.20 which, Problem is, I also tried a couple of different

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Toralf Lund
On 05/12/13 18:50, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/5/2013 5:35 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: Precisely! An the host being the CentOS 6.5 system. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough about this, although it seemed obvious when I wrote the post. The guest OS really doesn't come into the picture at all

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Toralf Lund
On 05/12/13 19:08, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Toralf Lund toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started exiting with a Segmentation fault just after

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Toralf Lund
On 06/12/13 12:26, Scott Robbins wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:08:05AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/6/2013 12:22 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: KVM? I must admit I haven't even heard of it, except if you are talking about switchboxes;-) Can it be configured to run an actual Windows

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Toralf Lund
On 04/12/13 18:12, Rainer Traut wrote: Am 04.12.2013 13:39, schrieb Lars Hecking: Toralf Lund writes: So, have any of you lot seen this? Is there a way to make things work? http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.5#head-eb6bb9abad0158d054915e0090560f6d1ff8f1ed I guess

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Toralf Lund
On 04/12/13 14:18, Giles Coochey wrote: On 04/12/2013 13:16, Giles Coochey wrote: On 04/12/2013 12:39, Lars Hecking wrote: Toralf Lund writes: Hi Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started exiting

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Toralf Lund
On 05/12/13 15:01, Giles Coochey wrote: Toralf Lund writes: Hi Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started exiting with a Segmentation fault just after startup, before windows are opened

[CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-04 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started exiting with a Segmentation fault just after startup, before windows are opened or anything. I've tried a few different versions, all with the same

[CentOS] Filesystem missing from computer:///

2013-07-18 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi Does anyone know what exactly controls which filesystems are listed when opening Computer (URL computer:///) in the File Browser? I have a system disk with 4 different data partitions, but only 3 of them show up in the list. The missing one can, however, be mounted just fine from the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS source rpm repository setup

2013-05-22 Thread Toralf Lund
On 22/05/13 01:49, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 05/21/2013 10:38 PM, Greg Bailey wrote: I opened bug #6462 ( http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6462 ) to request this... I think this would be a useful feature to have available by default. Thanks, we can perhaps roll that in as is, but with

[CentOS] CentOS source rpm repository setup

2013-05-21 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi. I thought I might set up my CentOS 6 system with a source rpm repository config, so that I'll be able to download srpm files via yumdownloader --source or similar. I'm thinking that in order to this, I have to add something like the following to the yum repos config: [base-source]

[CentOS] Weird mouse behaviour (after upgrade to CentOS 6.4?)

2013-03-13 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi. For a few days now I've had some pretty annoying mouse-related problems on my CentOS setup. I'm not sure if I get false mouse events or what it is, but quite frequently I find that the system has somehow got into a state where mouse clicks are not properly received - although I can move

Re: [CentOS] Google Earth on EL6.x x86_64

2013-03-05 Thread Toralf Lund
On 04/03/13 04:35, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:56:26AM +0800, Earl Ramirez wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 21:49 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: Has anyone gotten 64-bit google earth to run on el6 x86_64? It dies almost immediately, complaining for lack of ld-lsb.so.3. Perusing user

Re: [CentOS] Eclipse (again)...

2013-02-19 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi Just thought I might ask my recent question about Eclipse again, only in a slightly different way: Is anyone here using the Eclipse version supplied with the CentOS 6 distro (as opposed to a build downloaded from www.eclipse.org)? Does it work for you? Are you able to install additional

Re: [CentOS] Eclipse (again)...

2013-02-19 Thread Toralf Lund
On 02/18/2013 06:58 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi Just thought I might ask my recent question about Eclipse again, only in a slightly different way: Is anyone here using the Eclipse version supplied with the CentOS 6 distro (as opposed to a build downloaded from www.eclipse.org)? Does it work

Re: [CentOS] Eclipse (again)...

2013-02-19 Thread Toralf Lund
On 19/02/13 09:41, Toralf Lund wrote: On 02/18/2013 06:58 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi Just thought I might ask my recent question about Eclipse again, only in a slightly different way: Is anyone here using the Eclipse version supplied with the CentOS 6 distro (as opposed to a build

Re: [CentOS] Eclipse (again)...

2013-02-19 Thread Toralf Lund
On 20/02/13 07:59, Rob Townley wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Mark LaPierremarklap...@aol.com wrote: # yum install eclipse-\* # yum remove eclipse-nls htmlparser After this, various C++ components and *a lot* of other pieces, too, were added to the Installed Software list. I very

[CentOS] Eclipse (again)...

2013-02-18 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi Just thought I might ask my recent question about Eclipse again, only in a slightly different way: Is anyone here using the Eclipse version supplied with the CentOS 6 distro (as opposed to a build downloaded from www.eclipse.org)? Does it work for you? Are you able to install additional

Re: [CentOS] Eclipse CDT not working properly

2013-02-14 Thread Toralf Lund
On 07/02/13 18:40, Paul Norton wrote: Hello Toralf Removed the 32bit JRE and set the default to 64bit which java Check here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477766 Or set the vm from the shell as mentioned here

[CentOS] Eclipse CDT not working properly

2013-02-07 Thread Toralf Lund
Hello again, Another problem with my new CentOS 6 installation: The C/C++ support in Eclipse seems to be partial or missing - even though eclipse-cdt is installed. Eclipse starts all right, and I get a C/C++ perspective, but: 1. If I open a C++ file, it's sent to an external editor. 2. C or

Re: [CentOS] Mail notification in panel/system tray on CentOS 6

2013-01-30 Thread Toralf Lund
On 29/01/13 16:22, Toralf Lund wrote: On 28/01/13 14:18, SilverTip257 wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Toralf Lundtoralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: On 27/01/13 07:13, SilverTip257 wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Giles Coocheygi...@coochey.net wrote: On 25/01/2013 15:00

[CentOS] Can't install ... as no transaction from PackageKit (CentOS 6)

2013-01-30 Thread Toralf Lund
Hello again, Does anyone have any idea what the following message in the package installer - gpk-install-local-file - is supposed to mean? Can't install /tmp/mail-notification-4.0-3.el5.x86_64.rpm as no transaction (Under More details in the Local install failed popup.) This is something I

  1   2   >