Multilib issue with wine on rawhide

2011-08-07 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I've found a multilib issue when installing wine on my rawhide box. Any ideas on this or should I put into BZ? I'm trying to install via yumex Protected multilib versions: 1:dbus-libs-1.4.10-2.fc17.i686 != 1:dbus-libs-1.4.10-1.fc16.x86_64 Protected multilib versions:

Re: Multilib issue with wine on rawhide

2011-08-07 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, do a yum install wine in a terminal and paste the errors. No probs 8-- [root@PB3 cheese]# yum -y install wine* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not get metalink

Samba on rawhide

2011-10-16 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, For some unknown reason, all of my Samba share drives are no longer visible. I've done the updates from rawhide and am running the 3.1.0-0.rc8.git0.0.fc17.x86_64 kernel. I've not altered anything on the firewall or with selinux, so I'm at a loss as to what is going on. One minute they were

Re: Samba on rawhide

2011-10-16 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Any ideas on what might be going amiss? You can check logs. I've got a problem with samba 3.6 on F16 - F16 /usr/sbin/smbd: undefined symbol: wbcSidsToUnixIds tread. Says it is unable to connect to a port. Not come across that one before now :( Paul -- Vertraue mir, ich weiss, was

Unable to get other machines to connect to samba in rawhide

2011-11-19 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Not sure why Samba is playing up anymore, but it's dead. I've not changed the setup (set as share with various users who should be able to access the main box), but nothing. The samba logs aren't that useful... [2011/11/19 20:56:49, 0] smbd/server.c:1045(main) smbd version 3.6.1-75.fc17

Nautilus misbehaving

2010-08-29 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, After the recent rawhide to nautilus 2.90.1-1.fc15.i686, it's stopped working claiming that I don't have Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.lockdown' installed. What is this and how do I fix the problem? TTFN Paul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Problem while building mono-2.8

2010-09-15 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I've not come across this (mainly as I've not been that active due to a mix of work problems and hardware problems which meant a big re-install). Most of mono is built, but I've just hit this error *** ERROR: No build ID note found in

Re: Problem while building mono-2.8

2010-09-15 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi Dennis, Mono has had alot of issues building on x86_64 recently. it would be great if you worked with upstream to track down and resolve the 64 bit issues. From what I've seen, 2.8 fixes quite a lot of the issues with 64 bit systems. Are there any specifics I should look at? TTFN Paul

Re: Problem while building mono-2.8

2010-09-15 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, googling suggests that there has been a change and that I need to add LDFLAGS += --build-id in the build and install parts. I've not had to do this before, so am I missing something and if I include it, will it then fail to build on koji? That is not usually the ideal solution.

Re: rawhide report: 20100920 changes

2010-09-20 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, gnome-panel-2.31.90-1.fc15.i686 requires libedataserverui-1.2.so.10 Can this not just be rebuilt against the new libedataserverui as it's blocking the update to evolution? TTFN Paul -- Vertraue mir, ich weiss, was ich mache... -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Passing arguments into LDFLAGS

2010-09-22 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I know I can do the likes of export CFLAGS=$CFLAGS -blah and it will pass whatever CFLAGS is plus the argument -blah to the compiler. How do I do this with LDFLAGS. I'm trying to pass --build-id using export LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS --build-id It's about the only way I can get mono to build

Nautilus still no go in rawhide

2010-09-25 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, What is going on with Nautilus? It's not been usable for quite a while now. Most recently, I've had it working by starting it from a terminal window but now even that has stopped working and is giving me the following Gtk-Message: Failed to load module pk-gtk-module: libpk-gtk-module.so:

LibreOffice

2010-10-02 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Given the fun which looks to be happening over OOo due to Oracle, are there any plans to drop OOo and move over to LibreOffice (which looks to be at version 3.2.999 - pretty much the same as OOo currently is at). The full release version is penned in for Christmas (or there abouts). I have

Re: Arithmetic coding in Fedora libjpeg (bug #639531)

2010-10-02 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, You shall not create images with arithmetic coding is like saying You shall not create images of the flying sphagetti monster. It's not up to Fedora to make this choice for me. It is though - you have chosen to use Fedora therefore have to live with the decisions the Fedora legal people

Re: Arithmetic coding in Fedora libjpeg (bug #639531)

2010-10-02 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Remember, Fedora is not just for use in your country - there are piles of countries it's used in, each with their own insane patent regulations. The fedora stance is that if it offends, it's out. Just for the record, AFAIK there are only two countries which allows software patents -

Mono 2.8 now built... but...

2010-10-03 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I've finally managed to get mono-2.8 to build and it wasn't easy. A tonne of things have changed, the biggest is that .NET 1.1 has gone. Completely gone. 'tis no more! If you have anything reliant on .NET 1.1, you will need to rebuild. I've uploaded the source rpms to

Any comments about the latest version of mono on my site?

2010-10-06 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, A couple of days back I uploaded preview 8 of mono-2.8 for comments but have heard nothing back. The move to 2.8 will require a good number of rebuilds as 2.8 has had all the .NET 1.1 stuff removed. If you have a mono reliant package, can you please rebuild and let me know if there are any

It's been a while, but I could do with a hand...

2010-10-12 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, It's been a while since I've done any sort of uploading and in that time my box died, has been rebuilt and is running happily on rawhide. Problem is my scripts for uploading have gone! I've followed the information on the wiki but when I try to upload, I'm getting [p...@pb3 common]$

Building mono-2.8 for 64 bit - possible solution to the problem

2010-10-13 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, In the wee small hours (UK time), I submitted mono-2.8 to koji. Unfortunately, it failed to build for 64 bit systems and gave the following error In file included from sgen-gc.c:784:0: sgen-los.c: In function 'los_scan_card_table': sgen-los.c:482:21: warning: initialization from incompatible

Re: Building mono-2.8 for 64 bit - possible solution to the problem

2010-10-13 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, After Googling around, I think I've hit the cause - it's down to the cross compiler used on koji (or could be). I found this... koji doesn't cross compile at all. In that case, it looks like TLS support is not in the 64 bit version of glibc... TTFN Paul -- Vertraue mir, ich weiss,

Re: Building mono-2.8 for 64 bit - possible solution to the problem

2010-10-13 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:24487: Error: @TLSLDM reloc is not supported with 64-bit output format {standard input}:24487: Error: junk `...@tlsld' after expression make[3]: *** [libmonoruntimesgen_la-sgen-gc.lo] Error 1 This is certainly a case of

Re: Building mono-2.8 for 64 bit - possible solution to the problem

2010-10-13 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, It seems nearly certain that the Mono code broke to do something dumb. Quite possibly... Have you built it by hand on any x86-64 system? I would if I had a 64 bit box... TTFN Paul -- Vertraue mir, ich weiss, was ich mache... -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Building mono-2.8 for 64 bit - possible solution to the problem

2010-10-14 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, It looks like glibc is missing TLS support. Do I submit a BZ against glibc? That is simply not the case and it's hard to see how you came to such a conclusion. Based on what I'm seeing from the error and getting from searching... I've looked a bit deeper and there is nothing

Re: Building mono-2.8 for 64 bit - possible solution to the problem

2010-10-14 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Just an update... I've looked and the x86 as well as x86_64 builds are failing on koji. Something looks wrong in the rawhide koji buildsys... TTFN Paul -- Vertraue mir, ich weiss, was ich mache... -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Viewing a scratch-build

2010-10-20 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I've followed the instructions on the fedoraproject website to try and view a scratch-build result (go to tasks and select the scratch build), but it's not showing anything for rawhide scratch builds. Is there some sort of magic I need to invoke to get it to show? TTFN Paul -- Vertraue

More mono/koji problems

2010-10-20 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I'm still trying to get to the bottom as to why mono is failing to build on koji as either a scratch build or as a live build and I've come across this on the x86 build - can anyone shed any light on it as it's about as useful an error throw back as 4/10 was back on the ZX81! make[3]: ***

mono-ndoc

2010-10-26 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, With the dropping of .NET 1.1 support in mono-2.8, mono-ndoc will now no longer compile (there is very little support for .NET 2.0 in it anyway). It's dead in the water. The original author has said he no longer wishes to maintain the package. I'm not sure what actually depends on mono-ndoc,

Building boo against mono-2.8 problem

2010-10-27 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, In order to build the latest version of boo (the current one in the repos won't build against mono-2.8), the old version of boo has to be removed as there is a conflict with Boo.Lang.Extensions in gac (it is a known bug which is being worked on upstream). Is it possible to build boo on koji

Re: Building boo against mono-2.8 problem

2010-10-28 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Is it possible to build boo on koji without removing the old version or is there a way to just remove Boo.Lang.Extensions from the gac? Not sure how this is a problem. Boo.Lang.Extensions.dll is only shipped by the boo package, right? And rebuilding boo does *not* pull in the old

Re: rawhide report: 20101108 changes

2010-11-08 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, db4o-7.4-2.fc13.x86_64 requires mono(Mono.GetOptions) = 0:2.0.0.0 Problem here is that db4o now uses a newer version of mono-cecil and mono-cecil-flowanalysis. The current fedora version flowanalysis is something like 0.6 whereas head it 0.9. However, it's not as simple as building

Unable to start X

2010-01-25 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I'm using the nvidia 7600 video card with the neuveau driver (not using the commerical driver, just the fedora shipped one). I did a rawhide update on Saturday and it looks like something there has borked my system. I had a power outage last night and had to reboot. It doesn't matter which

The sale of Novell

2010-11-23 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, As you may be aware, Novell recently sold itself/merged/whatever to another company with the transfer of 882 patents to MS. No idea what this will mean with the SCO legal case, but hey. My question regards Mono now. With the sale of Novell and MS gaining a pile of patents, will this affect

Mono.Cecil

2010-12-08 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Mono.Cecil has been a pain in the backside for many moons with the advice being to ditch the version which ships with package and try and use the version bundled with mono itself (which is version 0.6-ish). Unfortunately, this is leading to a number of problems (db4o 7.4 up won't work like

Mono.Cecil

2010-12-08 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Mono.Cecil has been a pain in the backside for many moons with the advice being to ditch the version which ships with package and try and use the version bundled with mono itself (which is version 0.6-ish). Unfortunately, this is leading to a number of problems (db4o 7.4 up won't work like

64 bit mono packages missing

2010-12-22 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Other than log4net, sharpcvslib and ndoc (log4net and ndoc are reliant on .NET 1.1 libs so are dead in the water), I'm going to see if I can get nant to build for 64 bit architectures over the next day or so Here's hoping! TTFN Paul -- Vertraue mir, ich weiss, was ich mache... --

64 bit mono packages missing

2010-12-22 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Other than log4net, sharpcvslib and ndoc (log4net and ndoc are reliant on .NET 1.1 libs so are dead in the water), I'm going to see if I can get nant to build for 64 bit architectures over the next day or so Here's hoping! TTFN Paul -- Vertraue mir, ich weiss, was ich mache... --

httpd and svn problems (rawhide)

2011-01-03 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I have two problems which I can't seem to get to the bottom of, both of them are very annoying and I don't know if it's me or the software so would rather check things before putting stuff into the big red lizard. First is httpd (apache). I can do /etc/init.d/httpd stop and the server

libvirtd problem under x86_64

2011-01-09 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Is there some form of magic that I need to use to get virt-manager to work as non-root on x86_64? When I run it, I'm getting Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon. Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system Verify that: - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started More details

Problem building mono-2.10 under rawhide

2011-02-03 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I'm currently packaging Mono-2.10 RC2 for rawhide but have hit a snag and I'm not sure if it's Fedora or mono, so I'm seeking advice. The error I'm getting is make[8]: Entering directory `/home/paul/rpmbuild/BUILD/mono-2.10/mcs/tools/gacutil' MCS [basic] gacutil.exe Inconsistency

Preferred Startup applications gone?

2011-02-03 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Using the current spin on rawhide but seem to have lost where I set the startup applications and preferred apps up from. The used to be under Preferences but seem to have vanished. Any idea what I need to re-install to get it back. There is nothing under System Settings which lets me do

Rawhide is annoying me!

2011-02-05 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I'm having two problems on two different boxes, both running rawhide. Problem 1 (my main box) - whoever decided to remove the default applications thing from the menu, please put it back. I can understand the rational, but it currently means that on firing up my desktop, I don't have

Going off-line for a while

2011-03-26 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I'm going off for quite a bit as my new job dictates very little time and having to endure the evils that is Win7. The Linux box will still be on, just no time for much else on it. For some reason, I can't sign the vacation page, but that's currently not much of an issue... Catch you all in

Importing PS to LibreOffice

2011-04-17 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I have a pile of postscript files (mix of graphics and text) that I really need to get into LibreOffice, but I've hit two snags. If I do a direct import, I get lots of text which looks like raw postscript. If I open in eVince (or something similar) and do a copy and paste to LibreOffice, I

Re: cups service gone walkabouts?

2011-07-06 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, It seems that after yesterdays (5th July) mammoth rawhide update, that the cups daemon has vanished from /etc/init.d - any idea if this is just an oversight? I would guess (given that Lennart used it as his example in his recent article) that it has been converted to be a native

Lack of space on /

2011-07-08 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Something strange has happened on my system. At the start of last week, / was reporting that I had about 8Gb free. It now reports that / is completely full. chkrootkit is reporting nothing untoward. I have noticed that putting things in the wastebasket and then saying empty hasn't been

Starting mysql

2011-12-11 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, No idea why I can't get mysql running on my rawhide box. When I try to start it up, I get the infamous ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) This looks like the daemon isn't running or the service isn't running. service mysql

Re: Starting mysql

2011-12-11 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi Tom, Ummm ... do you have mysql-server RPM installed? Yep. But in any case, Fedora's mysql package was converted to systemd some time ago, so you might have better luck using the native systemd service management commands: systemctl enable mysqld.service systemctl

Re: Starting mysql

2011-12-11 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, Did you initialize databases as suggested (mysql_install_db) ? Yep - gave me this [root@PB3 paul]# mysql_install_db Installing MySQL system tables... 111211 21:00:37 [ERROR] Incorrect definition of table mysql.proc: expected column 'comment' at position 15 to have type text, found type

Re: Starting mysql

2011-12-12 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, 111211 20:48:32 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/proxies_priv.frm' (errno: 13) 111211 20:48:32 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Can't find file: './mysql/proxies_priv.frm' (errno: 13) I think the nearby suggestions to run

MySQL working, myPhpAdmin isn't!

2011-12-12 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, I've not got mysql working fine, but phpMyAdmin is moaning about mysqli being missing. I've installed php-devel and php-mysql, but still it moans. I can't see anything wrong in /etc/php.ini either. Any clues? Paul -- Vertraue mir, ich weiss, was ich mache... -- devel mailing list

Re: MySQL working, myPhpAdmin isn't!

2011-12-12 Thread Paul F. Johnson
Hi, you're using httpd prefork right? rpm -qa httpd httpd-2.2.21-4.fc17.x86_64 Assuming that is prefork - it's what's in rawhide PFJ -- Vertraue mir, ich weiss, was ich mache... -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel