Re: dnf is "broken"

2018-12-31 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/31/18 11:13 AM, stan wrote: > I just ran an update on fc28.x86_64 and there were no problems. Well, > other than package conflicts like snmp and clamav that are keeping them > from updating, and have been for a while. When I tried looking at snmp > there were a lot of conflicts, and it

Re: dnf is "broken" [not anymore]

2018-12-31 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/31/18 7:41 AM, Jeandet Alexis wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > did you try a 'dnf clean all'? No, I didn't. Hmmm, it seems to have done the job. Thank-you. -- Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us kjch...@icloud.com Registered Linux User #1232

dnf is "broken"

2018-12-30 Thread Kevin Cummings
I last updated my laptop on 12/26. It is running fc28.x86_64 Today I tried to run dnf update: > # dnf update > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/dnf", line 58, in > main.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) > File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py",

Re: e-mail security.

2018-12-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/1/18 3:51 PM, home user via users wrote: > I'm using Thunderbird on Fedora-28; there is no "anti-virus" available. > Is this safe? If you're using Thunderbird, then a simple control-U works wonders. It shows the email "source code" unmasking any HTML hiding the link. This is only useful

Re: Lost touchpad vertical scrolling after upgrading this laptop from F25->F26

2018-04-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 04/06/18 13:02, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 04/06/2018 09:37 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: >> On 04/05/2018 10:54 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote: >>> I just recently upgraded the F25 on this laptop (Dell Inspiron >>> 1520) to >>> F26.  It mostly went well, except

Lost touchpad vertical scrolling after upgrading this laptop from F25->F26

2018-04-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
Hi Folks, I just recently upgraded the F25 on this laptop (Dell Inspiron 1520) to F26. It mostly went well, except that I seem to have lost the ability to use the vertical scrolling part of my touchpad. I'm running the MATE desktop, so the first thing I did was to check the mouse

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 02/14/18 15:52, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/15/18 04:24, Kevin Cummings wrote: >> On 02/13/18 16:59, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 02/14/18 05:23, Stephen Morris wrote: >>>> I use Negativo17 because in the past I have found that rpmfusion were very >>>>

Re: Problems with vlc

2018-02-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 02/13/18 16:59, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/14/18 05:23, Stephen Morris wrote: >> I use Negativo17 because in the past I have found that rpmfusion were very >> tardy >> with their Nvidia binary files in keeping pace with kernel version changes. >> I have >> all the negativo17 repositories

Re: f26 chroot PATH doesn't include /bin

2017-08-31 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/30/17 15:16, Tony Nelson wrote: > I have an old CentOS5 that I chroot into. On my old f20 box, PATH > included /bin, but now on f26 it does not. I don't understand how For a while now, /bin should be a link to /usr/bin. is /usr/bin in the PATH? > this could happen; I would think that

Re: DNF suggestion

2017-08-22 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/22/17 01:28, Daniel Ståhl wrote: > Hi, > > > > Would it be possible to make [dnf update] output something immediately > after being run? And what would be the right course of action to get > this feature implemented? I know it’s probably a miniscule thing, but > it’s one of those small

Re: dnf aborting

2017-03-30 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/30/17 10:24, InvalidPath wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:11 AM, stan <stanl-fedorau...@vfemail.net > <mailto:stanl-fedorau...@vfemail.net>> wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:01:29 -0400 > Kevin Cummings <cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net >

Re: dnf aborting

2017-03-29 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/27/17 18:26, stan wrote: > On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:54:42 -0400 > Kevin Cummings <cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net> wrote: > >> I last updated: >> >> Mar 27 01:01:34 INFO Upgraded: icoutils-0.31.3-1.fc24.x86_64 >> Mar 27 01:01:35 INFO Cleanup: icoutils-0.31.

dnf aborting

2017-03-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
I last updated: Mar 27 01:01:34 INFO Upgraded: icoutils-0.31.3-1.fc24.x86_64 Mar 27 01:01:35 INFO Cleanup: icoutils-0.31.2-1.fc24.x86_64 Since then, dnf update aborts with: > *** Error in `/usr/bin/python3': realloc(): invalid next size: > 0x5597a7b29670 *** > === Backtrace: =

Re: f25 and ATI graphic cards

2017-03-26 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/26/17 04:42, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > Does anyone know how to get rid of this: > > [drm:atom_op_jump [radeon]] *ERROR* atombios stuck .. > [drm:atom_execute_table_locked [radeon]] *ERROR* atombios stuck Are you sure that your atom processor has a Radeon video? ISTR

Re: DVD

2016-12-31 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/31/16 15:38, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I cannot rad DVD on my laptop;* > Here are the sort of mesages that get: > > Gnome MPlayer Error: couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd (No suchfile or > directory) > DVD subpicture decoder, DVD subpicture decoder are required to play the file,

Re: multi-hop scp questions

2016-12-08 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/08/16 14:04, ProPAAS DBA wrote: > All; > > > I want to copy files from server C to my laptop, I have access to server > C via: > > laptop --> ssh to server B (the jumpbox) > > then > > server B --> ssh to server C Can you login to your jumpbox, and copy the files from there? something

Re: Today's F23 Qt5 update

2016-12-07 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/07/16 19:13, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 12/08/16 06:08, Kevin Cummings wrote: >> What is wrong with the dependencies? What can I do to fix it? > > Not really running F23 since it will go EOL soon. But I had a VM and tested > and verified > the issue you're s

Today's F23 Qt5 update

2016-12-07 Thread Kevin Cummings
Am I the only person seeing the following: > v = 18.487/19.290/20.489/0.863 ms > [root@kjclap4 ~]# dnf update > Last metadata expiration check: 1:27:15 ago on Wed Dec 7 15:39:19 2016. > Dependencies resolved. >

Re: Recommendations on quality text-to-speech software?

2016-12-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/05/16 11:11, Max Pyziur wrote: > > Greetings, > > Per the subject line, could someone please recommend text-to-speech > software. festival? > espeak is functional, but it's quality isn't particularly strong. > > Much thanks, > > Max Pyziur > p...@brama.com >

Re: writing iso image to blank dvd

2016-12-04 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/03/16 20:12, jd1008 wrote: > Any ideas? > > As root: > > # time dd if=/tmp/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24-1.2.iso of=/dev/sr0 > bs=128K > dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sr0’: Read-only file system > > real0m0.04s > user0m0.00s > sys 0m0.00s > # ls -l /dev/sr0 > brw-rw+ 1 root

Can't suspend F23 due to mate-settings-daemon and mate-multiload-applet

2016-11-01 Thread Kevin Cummings
Have anyone else noticed this? If I boot any of the recent 4.7 kernels, I can immediately suspend my laptop without incident. If I leave the system up for some reasonable amount of time, then everytime I try to suspend, it fails. journalctl shows that 2 Mate daemons refuse to Freeze: Here is

Re: md-raid1 + lvm

2016-10-29 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 10/29/16 07:58, Saša Janiška wrote: > Hello, > > I’m new Fedora (f25-beta) user considering to fully (after having Fedora > on my netbook) migrate to Fedora. Questions specific to the test release (F25 has not been released yet), should be directed to the fedora-test list. > At the moment I

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 09/25/16 22:15, fred roller wrote: > > [root@Jehovah Downloads]# dd > if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25_Alpha-2.iso of=/dev/sda1 bs=16M > dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device > 32+0 records in > 31+0 records out > 524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 1.26722 s, 414

Re: dnf update package from specific repo

2016-09-13 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 09/13/16 16:37, joev.8450 wrote: > I still use priorities as I did with yum. it was an extension under yum. > then any packages that are in that lower priority repo will not > over-upgrade the same package in another repo. Which might fail if the lower priority repo updates before the higher

Re: dnf update package from specific repo

2016-09-13 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 09/13/16 11:48, Roman Vyacheslavovich wrote: > Hi All! > > I have two repos with the same named package. How can i set to ignore > it from one of them? > > repo1:package > repo2:package > > i want completely ignore package from repo2. is it possible with dnf? With YUM, you used to be able

Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
I had the same thing happen on an F22->F23 upgrade. Essentially you have to figure out which F24 packages got installed, and remove them by hand.  Then you can resume the upgrade. Make sure the fedora-release-24 package is already installed before you continue! -- Kevin J. Cummings

Re: unable to start rc-local.service

2016-09-03 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 09/03/16 16:59, François Patte wrote: > Bonsoir, > > I try to enable rc-local service: > > 1- I created /etc/rc.d/rc.local file: > > #!/bin/bash > > iptables -I INPUT -p udp --sport 1900 -j ACCEPT > > 2- I chmoded /etc/rc.d/rc.local > > chmod u+x /etc/rc.d/rc.local Is the file owned by

Re: using a web camera

2016-08-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/27/16 12:05, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi, > > > I am trying to set my computer to use a web camera (this function > doesn't work actually with cheese, for example). > > With this program (cheese) I can see images by the camera, but when I > shot an image, then the image that appears in

Re: something messing up USB recently?

2016-08-13 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/13/16 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > AFAIK Kindles don't run on Android. Yes they do, its just a severely limited version of the OS heavily modified by Amazon to directly support Amazon apps. Amazon has replaced the default app store with their own, uses the Silk browser, etc. > poc

Re: Edge Scrolling Gone After Update...

2016-08-07 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/07/16 13:05, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > Richard, for the scroll reversed... Put "Natural scrolling" to off and > it comes back to normalcy. > I don't know why they consider this as "natural"... I guess it depends on whether you expect the screen to scroll in the direction of your finger, or

Re: rpmbuild

2016-06-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 06/05/16 06:06, John Pilkington wrote: > You don't say why you need to compile; I have an MG4250 scanner/printer > which works for me in SL7 with cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-rpm > > There appear to be two similar sets of *.rpm.tar.gz packages (v2.20 and > v4.00) for the mg5500 series here:

Re: [OT] Building packages with apache-maven

2016-05-03 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/02/16 19:44, Earl Ramirez wrote: > Good day All, > > I inherited a packed that was created for an earlier version of of > Fedora, now I am trying to package it for Fedora 23; however, under the > %build section of the spec file. Apache-maven is used: > > %build > export

Re: seamonkey

2016-03-19 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/18/16 12:18, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a plan to distribute the last version of seamonkey (2.40) > with fedora ? Looks to me like its already in updates-testing (at least for F22). > Thank. > > === >

Re: Structural drawing CAD pkg, with 3D view of external appearance?

2016-03-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/12/16 05:43, Ron Leach wrote: > List, good morning, > > Looking for a CAD program to draw out floorplans etc for a new > building. I've access to several 2D packages but does anyone know of a > package that could also display a kind-of 3D image of what the structure > would finally look

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-03 Thread Kevin Cummings
Just reading this now (sorry). I'm adding the following: http://kjchome.homeip.net/Fedora-Live-Desktop-i686-20 http://kjchome.homeip.net/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20 should be links to the images. I got my images via BitTorrent so each directory should contain both an ISO file and a CHECKSUM

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-02 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 02/02/16 17:51, R Mercado wrote: > I may download FC21 later. It takes a while to get 1.4 Gb on my link. > Too bad I can't find the Fedora 20 image I had. I have copies of both the Fedora-Live-Desktop for F20 if you need it, they're each just shy of 1GB. I can make them available at the drop

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-02 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 02/01/16 18:21, R Mercado wrote: > I have now been able to validate the Live Fedora CD by booting it on an > older machine. The Lenovo C540 does not boot with it though. > Thanks to Chris Murphy's suggestions I also got a bootable USB stick. > > The Lenovo picks up some of the boot code and

Re: OT: Upgradeing Windows 7 to 10 on a Dual Boot System?

2016-01-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/14/16 22:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenovo I7 computers that came with > Windows 7 about 2 years ago. I changed them to dual boot with Fedora, and > just recently upgraded them to Fedora 23. Never had any issues with the > installation of the

Re: installation instructions for NUT on Fedora 19 - that works

2016-01-07 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/07/16 12:14, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to get NUT installed on an existing F19 server which sits beside > my > shiney new APC SmartUPS. It's connected using a serial cable on ttyS0. If its an APC UPS, shouldn't you be using apcupsd instead of nut? Its a standard

Re: Firefox does not play Rutube videos

2015-12-20 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/19/15 18:08, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 19.12.2015, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> And indeed, they ship 11.2.202.554: >> # rpm -q adobe-release-x86_64 flash-plugin >> adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch >> flash-plugin-11.2.202.554-release.x86_64 > > Remove all flash rpms from your distribution.

Re: USB curosity

2015-12-15 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/14/15 03:22, Ger van Dijck wrote: > Op Mon, 14 Dec 2015 04:23:47 +0100 schreef Geoffrey Leach > : > >> I have a LaserJet 1300 printer that connects via a Belkin parallel >> port-to-USB connector. When I send a document to the printer, half the >> time it prints without

Re: Disabling CPU throttling on fedora22

2015-11-30 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 11/27/15 15:05, Alex wrote: > Hi, > I have a fedora22 SuperMicro system operating as a mail server that > has no need to have the CPU throttled. I'm having trouble figuring out > how to disable the throttling. There also doesn't appear to be any > recent threads discussing this previously. > >

Re: akmod-nvidia for f23 when?

2015-11-03 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 11/03/15 18:18, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:13:21 -0600 > SternData wrote: > >> rpmfusion isn't there yet. No 23 under >> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/ But, the 23 release rpm is ready for download: >

Re: DNF: Only one kernel-devel package allowed?

2015-10-04 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 10/04/15 17:45, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/05/2015 05:21 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 08:06:42AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: >>> I'm assuming this is DNF and not some other change... >>> >>> Yum allowed multiple kernel-devel packages to be installed, dnf does not, >>> which

Re: Text Console (vty ??)

2015-09-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
Works for me on F21 On 09/24/15 15:05, jd1008 wrote: > Fresh install of F22. > After login, and desktop (mate) comes up, > Cntrl-Alt-F[234567] do not work. > What is with Mate DT that I need to tweak? > -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net

Re: dnf and dependencies

2015-09-21 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 09/21/15 07:08, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install a package: > dnf install > /home/pdupre/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/perl-Math-GSL-0.35-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm > > but I get: > > Error: nothing provides perl(Chart::Clicker::Drawing) needed by > perl-Math-GSL-0.35-1.fc22.x86_64

Re: dnf and dependencies

2015-09-21 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 09/21/15 12:51, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> >> On 09/21/15 07:08, Patrick Dupre wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am trying to install a package: >>> dnf install >>> /home/pdupre/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/perl-Math-GSL-0.35-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm >>> >>> but I get: >>> >>> Error: nothing provides

Re: Search Engines of TB

2015-08-11 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 08/11/15 15:10, jd1008 wrote: TB 38.1.0: The list of available search engines is limited, and provides no way for the user to add other search engines. I wasn't aware that Thunderbird had *any* search engines -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net

Re: Fedora 21 on mackbook air - no tilde key

2015-07-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 07/13/15 18:26, CS DBA wrote: Hi All; I've installed Fedora 21 KDE spin on a 2015 Macbook air. I installed the rpmfusion repos and enabled kmod-wl and kernel-devel packages to enable wireless support. At this point most everything works, the screen brightness keys, keyboard backlight

Firefox and flash-plugin on F20

2015-07-07 Thread Kevin Cummings
I have a strange happening. On my F19.x86_64 home server, I have both firefox-34.0-1.fc19.x86_64 and the latest Adobe flash-plugin-11.2.202.468-release.x86_64 installed. About:plugins shows that it is the correct plugin, and all seems to work as expected. On my F20.x86_64 laptop, again, I have

Re: Firefox and flash-plugin on F20

2015-07-07 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 07/07/15 10:53, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 7 July 2015 at 16:42, Kevin Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: I have a strange happening. On my F19.x86_64 home server, I have both firefox-34.0-1.fc19.x86_64 and the latest Adobe flash-plugin-11.2.202.468-release.x86_64 installed

Re: F22: Touchpad and Middle click

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 06/05/2015 03:49 AM, Marco Guazzone wrote: Hi Bob, Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. 1. I've created that file and put the content you suggested 2. I've reboot the system 3. After logging in, I've tried to select paste with touchpad from the terminal: -

Re: F22: Touchpad and Middle click

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 06/05/2015 03:10 PM, Marco Guazzone wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Kevin Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: [cut] What about adding the: Option ChordMiddle True to the mouse configuration file? Thank you, Kevin. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Also

Re: Libssl and libcrypto

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 06/05/2015 09:19 PM, Les Howell wrote: Hi, guys, I just attempted to update Eagle CAD and it requires these libraries. Good old yum what provides libssl and again for libcrypto return nothing. Since SSL seems to have lots of uses, and libcrypto surely has good uses, where are the

Re: nvidia driver

2015-06-04 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 06/04/2015 11:30 AM, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I tried to install akmod-nvidia-304xx in order to have the nvidia driver compiled, but, nothing happens! driver is not compiled neither at the install of akmod-nvidia-304xx nor when I reboot the system... Yes, gcc etc. are

Re: distcc only builds locally when using rpmbuild

2015-05-31 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/31/2015 08:12 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I've got distcc working correctly, when I run a build myself. I see the build jobs getting distributed just fine. However, when I use rpmbuild, all builds appear to be running locally. As I recall, distcc involves running distcc instead of gcc.

Re: Mate DT - Workspace Switcher Died

2015-05-30 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/30/2015 01:39 PM, jd1008 wrote: So, I got a banner sating that workspace switcher died. I clicked on Restart in the banner. It did not restart. I rebooted the machine and logged back in. Still the switcher did not come back on. How can I restart it manually? Right click on your

Re: How to figure out which package provides the Fixed 16 font

2015-05-30 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/30/2015 02:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: find /usr -iame '*font8' | grep 16 find /usr -name '*font*' | grep 16 works even better! B^) -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232

Re: 2 part question

2015-05-28 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/28/2015 01:25 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:39:09AM -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: Seems like silly reasoning to me. Why not just install it, so that it gets updated during the normal lifetime of that release, so that when it comes time to upgrade to the next

Re: 2 part question

2015-05-28 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/28/2015 10:52 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 02:20:25PM +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:06 AM, bitlord bitlord0...@gmail.com wrote: fedup [1] which is officially supported, Why isn't fedup shipped by default in all Fedora installs? When it's

Re: Default Google-Chrome

2015-05-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/27/2015 05:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: xdg-settings get default-web-browser For me it returns: xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment B^) I run MATE desktops. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User

Re: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-26 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/27/2015 01:04 AM, Derek Tattersall wrote: On 05/26/2015 09:52 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/26/2015 09:20 PM, Derek Tattersall wrote: Is there a way to rescue my system? Or should I scrub it and start over? Probably. Check /var/log/fedup.log to see what went wrong, first. How

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-22 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/22/2015 06:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 00:13 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: print is a function in python. Its arguments must appear inside ()'s, just like the error messages tell you. ie not: print input['name'] but instead: print(input

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-22 Thread Kevin Cummings
Never mind, I read your comment backwards. Indeed, this looks like a python2 vs python3 problem. On 05/22/2015 04:53 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote: On 05/22/2015 06:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 00:13 -0400, Kevin Cummings wrote: print is a function in python. Its

Re: Biting the bullet?

2015-05-21 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/21/2015 05:44 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, I have been working on this again, but am unable to compile: Here is the file: [snip] byte-compiling /home/maitra/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/pdf-stapler-0.3.0-1.fc22.x86_64/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/staplelib/commands.py to

Re: checksumm information

2015-05-07 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 05/07/2015 05:15 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, With fedora 21, I get No checksum information available, unable to verify media. (from checkisomd5 /iso-image/tails-i386-1.3.2.iso) From the tails download site: Tails transitioned to a new signing key in Tails 1.3.1. If you're not

Re: Tainted kernels

2015-04-29 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 04/28/2015 04:27 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/28/2015 01:19 PM, foxec...@gmail.com wrote: On my laptop the file exists but it is zero bytes in length I just checked again and got a response of 0, so I probably typoed the first time. My Dell Laptop gives a 0, it has an Intel video chipset.

Re: Tainted kernels

2015-04-28 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 04/28/2015 03:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Earlier, I'd asked about what was causing abrt to claim that my laptop's kernel was tainted, even though I don't know of anything that would cause this. Somebody asked me to check a certain location in /proc, which turned out not to exist on the laptop.

Re: kernel-3.19.3-200.fc21.x86_64 fails to boot

2015-04-03 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 04/03/2015 06:18 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/03/2015 03:07 PM, jd1008 wrote: Of course. If you proceed on the assumption that akmod-nvidia was indeed compiled for the kernel at hand. It's been my experience that akmod-nvidia doesn't need to be updated for every new kernel; I've only

Re: Handling and resolving 'dependency' which has been custom compiled

2015-03-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/27/2015 06:00 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Hi all, What is the best way in Fedora to handle the following situation? - Package X depends on package Y - Package Y is actually installed through custom compiling it (in $HOME/bin) - Doing: yum install X will want to install Y

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/25/2015 12:18 AM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 17:33 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: quite frequently I can update packages without restarting anything, so forcing a restart would be overkill. Thus far, I can only remember finding Firefox to foul up if you try to keep using it

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/25/2015 04:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 13:34 +, Richard Hughes wrote: On 25 March 2015 at 13:01, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: Even for updates to running programs, or the DE itself, rebooting is often not necessary. If you find a

Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

2015-03-25 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/25/2015 06:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/25/2015 02:38 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote: needs-restarting? Yes. It's part of yum-utils and will give you a list of every program (except the kernel) that needs to be restarted because of an update. starting will throw a large number

Re: The last eclipse-cdt update has broken my c++ perspective

2015-03-24 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/24/2015 04:38 AM, luca paganotti wrote: Hi all, I'm searching help about the last eclipse-cdt update carried out on my fedora 20 box. It seems I'm not able anymore to load my existing c++ projects, nor create new ones. I've tried to uninstall and then reinstall all my eclipse

Re: Strane UUID problem

2015-03-21 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/21/2015 02:25 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: I found it in kernel-modules-extra (not extras as I wrote earlier) for both 3.19.2 and 4.0.0; I have no idea what the history is, whether that module has been in some other package before the kernel packaging changes for F21. My F19 system has it

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-12 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/12/2015 03:40 PM, stan wrote: Are you sure you don't want to know what I had for breakfast today? :-D No! That's what Facebook is for! B^) -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232

Re: How to increase maximum user cpu usage allowed on a multi core system?

2015-03-11 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 03/11/2015 11:49 AM, stan wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:34:25 +0100 Heinz Diehl htd...@fritha.org wrote: It's the limiting to one process which causes what you observe. 1 process can not get more resources that 100%. The CPU scheduler handles how they are distributed. I think this is

Re: Remove center information Bar in Thunderbird

2015-03-09 Thread Kevin Cummings
Do you mean the message header display which contains the reply, reply list, forward, archive, junk, and delete buttons? Those buttons are important to the user when they wish to deal with the message. Why would you want to remove them? You can resize this area in order to help minimize it

Re: You would like this one on Amazon

2015-02-24 Thread Kevin Cummings
Seems Amazon is still selling the book: Red Hat Fedora 2 Unleashed On 02/24/2015 01:17 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:52:15PM -0500, Mickey wrote: I know this is off topic, But it is to good to pass up.

Re: FC20 + kernel 3.18.5 + nvidia does not work

2015-02-12 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 02/12/2015 04:47 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: the main difference is that I am using 340 driver and you are using 304... Interesting point. My (x86_64) home server is still on F19 and using the 340 driver. My (i686) test system is on F21 and running the 304 driver without incident. Frédéric

Re: CurrentPendingSector

2015-01-28 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/28/2015 04:06 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I get: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How can I manage this issue? Buy a new disk drive? Seriously, pending sectors are disk write errors and the disk has run out of extra blocks to write/re-map them

Re: Latest Java-openjdk upgrade [SOLVED?]

2015-01-28 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/27/2015 12:55 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote: On 01/27/2015 10:49 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 12:09 -0200, Fernando Lozano wrote: I do heavy Java development and never had issues with OpenJDK on Fedora. And I have OpenJDK on RHEL at many production sites. So don't

Re: What is Ghost i.e security hole in the Linux?

2015-01-28 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/28/2015 01:19 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 02:21:41PM +, Norah Jones wrote: Can someone describe in detail about the Ghost security hole. And is there any patch or a solution to fix it? This was a problem fixed in glibc 2.18, so that version, as shipped in

Re: Latest Java-openjdk upgrade

2015-01-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/27/2015 01:02 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote: Hi, Check which java, javac and etc are configured using alternatives and check you env vars. Make sure you are using commands, jars and libraries from the same installation. Interesting suggestion. I did note that I have been having

Re: Latest Java-openjdk upgrade

2015-01-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/27/2015 03:36 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Here a link that explains the */java.lang.ClassFormatError/*: http://craftingjava.blogspot.co.il/2012/07/reason-for-javalangclassformaterror.html */this error would be thrown when the java virtual machine attempts to

Re: Latest Java-openjdk upgrade

2015-01-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/27/2015 09:09 AM, Fernando Lozano wrote: Hi, I do heavy Java development and never had issues with OpenJDK on Fedora. And I have OpenJDK on RHEL at many production sites. So don't bother switching to Oracle Java. Instead try unistall and reinstall OpenJDK Packages because it looks you

Re: Latest Java-openjdk upgrade

2015-01-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/27/2015 10:49 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 12:09 -0200, Fernando Lozano wrote: I do heavy Java development and never had issues with OpenJDK on Fedora. And I have OpenJDK on RHEL at many production sites. So don't bother switching to Oracle Java. Instead try

Re: Linux and Skype Video

2015-01-27 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/27/2015 05:53 AM, Mickey wrote: Fedora 20/KDE Can Fedora use a webcam on Skype ? Define webcam. My old Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop uses its builtin webcam with Skype just fine. Can't remember at this point if I had to download a particular driver or not. My only problem is a conflict

Latest Java-openjdk upgrade

2015-01-26 Thread Kevin Cummings
I updated to java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 1:1.7.0.75-2.5.4.2.fc20 today (along with the java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless and java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel packages). After the upgrade, nothing java related would run. (not the compiler, not the jar command, and I couldn't run any pre-built .jars.) The error

Re: despirate help needed - Samba and security = share

2015-01-23 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/23/2015 11:37 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: On Friday 23 January 2015 15:59:48 Gary Stainburn wrote: I'm now installing Fedora 16 on my server and am going to re-do the last 4 days work Of course, my next problem is that yum no longer works, presumably because there are no repositories

Re: What the H is Chrome and Firefox doing ??

2015-01-23 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/23/2015 02:50 PM, Mickey wrote: FC20/KDE Run Google Chrome or Firefox and it locks my Box up, can't execute or shut anything down, It just freezes the desktop. Hard Drive runs constantly, If I let it run for 5 to10 minutes it will straighten it self out, but sometimes I just

Re: special chars in gedit?

2015-01-20 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/20/2015 07:40 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: I need to use my notebook keyboard to insert a divide symbol, the kind with two dots and a horizontal line, it's ascii character 43 decimal. I According to *my* ASCII table, character 43 (decimal number 43) is a '+' sign Are you asking about the

Re: what is the process number of a running application ?

2015-01-12 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 01/12/2015 12:25 PM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi, I would like to know the process number of an application that actually is running (Netbeans in my case), with the purpose to kill it (when is froze). ps auxw | grep -i netbeans or use top (top has a Kill command) But am am not able

Re: Need an tftp server for switch config files

2014-12-28 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/28/2014 09:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I need to run a tftp server. I have installed it on a F21 notebook. I see basic starting instructions at: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/ch13s05s03.html How do I control what directory it is using?

Re: No video in News or Youtube ?

2014-12-04 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 12/04/2014 05:56 PM, Mickey wrote: F20 Firefox-firefox-34.0-1 Flash-plugin-11.2.202.424 In Addons/plugins Flasplayer is Always Activated. No videos in News or Youtube. What ain't installed. Works for me on my laptop: F20 x86_64 firefox-34.0-1.fc20.x86_64

Re: Suggestions for Poor ext4 performance questions

2014-11-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
Please don't reply personally. Please reply to the list. You posted your original question to the list, and for the sake of a possible few others who are following this thread, it is good to keep all replies on the list. On 11/14/2014 11:48 PM, George R Goffe wrote: Kevin, Thank you for

Re: Suggestions for Poor ext4 performance questions

2014-11-12 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 11/12/2014 05:24 PM, George R Goffe wrote: Hi, I got one suggestion that was mixed up with the response to another question regarding printers. The response suggested man tune2fs. I had looked at this and looked again but saw NOTHING that seemed to relate to my question. Are there any

Re: Configuring a printer on a server without a GUI

2014-11-10 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 11/10/2014 10:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a server here that has no GUI installed. No gnome, xfce, or any other. And I want to install a printer. It is an HP8610 and I have the url for it. I strangely thought that system-config-printer would work, but that also requires more

Re: udev rules for webcam

2014-11-07 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 11/06/2014 06:53 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:47:23 -0500 Fred Smith wrote: not finding anything on that, I hit on writing a udev rule for the USB device to make sure it appeared as a predictable /dev/videox. Did you try looking in /dev/v4l? My laptop builtin webcam

Re: Driver for RTL8192su chipset

2014-10-26 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 10/26/2014 09:24 PM, jd1008 wrote: must I manually install kernel 17? It is not yet in the updates repo: Nor does it appear to be in updates-testing. Poma must be getting stuff directly from koji? (Sorry, I don't know how to check that assertion.) I think the point here is that support

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