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Today's g-p-m update fails
by Josh 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hello all, While updating FC5T3 on x96-64 desktop with package updater, g-p-m fails with pop-up window "The Application 'gnome-power-manager' has quit unexpectedly" The rest of the updates installed successfully. Had to click "Restart application" button, Everything seems to be normal. Anyone else bumped into this? Josh --------------------------------- Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing, reviews, & more on new and used cars.

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rawhide error 20060223 updating beagle
by Brian Millett 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Error running a post script for beagle. Updating : beagle ##################### [ 42/165] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.75111: line 8: cd: /usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.1/extensions: No such file or directory unzip: cannot find or open /usr/lib64/beagle/beagle.xpi, /usr/lib64/beagle/beagle.xpi.zip or /usr/lib64/beagle/beagle.xpi.ZIP. grep: beagle-extension/install.rdf: No such file or directory mv: target `' is not a directory: No such file or directory error: %trigger(beagle-0.2.1-11.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Well I'm running a toshiba celeron laptop (Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz). I don't even have a /usr/lib64. -- Brian Millett - [ Talia Winters (to Bester), "A Race Through Dark Places"] "You want to keep us frightened and isolated. Not just from normals, but from each other. That's the real reason we wear gloves, isn't it? To keep us apart. But what happens when the gloves come off?"

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FC4 -> FC5t3 notes
by G.Wolfe Woodbury 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

I found that /etc/sysconfig/network got overwritten and loses the hostname. /etc/yum.repos.d/ files did not get updated correctly, wrong repos left enabled. some of the stuff in /etc/sysconfig/networking/ gets scrambled there is a small thread in fedora-list about some of this. (me and Nat Gross) -- G.Wolfe Woodbury `- -' RHCT U The Line Eater is a boojum!

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fc5t3 gui installer "off screen"
by Nat Gross 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi; On my Samsung 213T lcd screen, the key installer options (<enter> <back> <cancel>) were nowhere on the screen (or off the screen, even if I tried moving the image via the screen hardware menu). It was a good thing it was from a a dvd iso, because the only thing I saw was the huge logo, sometimes a progress bar, and sometimes some instruction to hit a key, but that key-icon was not visible, and I had to guess the default setting or used alt+key hoping that it will 'take' and not cancel the install. At one point, while I was pondering what to do (and tried to google some info on another cpu), the installer timed out waiting and... continued! Please excuse me for not using bugzilla. I do not have experience with that creature. -nat

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Bling!
by Ray Strode 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, As some of you may know, Soeren Sandmann, Kristian Hogsberg, Adam Jackson, and Kevin Martin have been working on getting special effects into the desktop. While all their work is in CVS, it's a little hard to set up, so I thought I'd make packages for people who have wanted to try the stuff but haven't wanted to spend a lot of time recompiling everything. Note it's still takes some effort to get a workable setup and for a lot of people things won't work at all. Testing has been mostly done on radeon 7500 (r100) cards. Other cards probably won't work (but you can still try!). Steps to test: 1) get the packages from http://people.redhat.com/rstrode/bling If you point yum to it by creating a repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d, you should be able to do something like: yum install mesa-libGL xorg-x11-server-Xair spififity This will install a specially compiled version of Xorg that supports accelerated indirect rendering which is the key to making the compositing manager have a reasonable frame rate. Eventually these changes will go into the main Xorg package. The above yum install command will also install a version of metacity with its compositing manager code turned on. I called the package spififity so that we can parallel install it with the non-compositing manager version of metacity. 2) Configure gdm to use the accelerated indirect compiled version of Xorg. You can probably do something like: sed -i -e 's/Xorg/Xair/g' /usr/share/gdm/config/gdm.conf-custom to make that happen. 3) Configure your X server to not use offscreen pixmaps. Strictly speaking this step is optional, but it should dramatically increase performance. You can do that by adding Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" to the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Some people have reported that this option actually breaks things for them, so you may have to try it with and without. 4) Configure your X server to enable the composite extension. You can do that by adding Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" EndSection to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf 5) restart gdm. 6) Log into GNOME, press alt-f2 to get a run dialog to come up and then type spififity --replace and press enter. At this point you may see drops shadows, fading menus and wobbly minimization effects or your system may freeze or one followed by the other. If you see drop shadows and a bunch of solid white windows, you probably aren't running the right X server. Make sure you're running Xair and not Xorg. If after using things for a while all your window borders disappear, you may have better luck by setting the METACITY_SYNC environment variable to 1 and rerunning spififity. Setting the environment variable incurs a minor performance hit, but it will also mask a lingering bug in the compositing manager code. Things are still quite raw, so expect things to crash, your system to lock up, effects to be unpolished, etc. --Ray

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Re: xemacs performance unacceptable
by Horst H. von Brand 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Neal Becker <ndbecker2(a)gmail.com> wrote: > With most recent rawhide updates, performance of editing using xemacs is > unacceptably slow, because with each character insert, X keeps flashing the > "busy" pointer. Not seen here... What kind of files? Very large, perhaps; or a RAM-challenged machine? Costly mode in use? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513

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vino causing high processor usage
by David Bentley 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Just gave vino a try on fc5test3 and found that using vino on the machine by enabling it in remote desktop has rather a detrimental effect on system performace as compared with how it was in FC4. When idle just viewing the remote destop with nothing else but system-monitor running the idle usge on my AMD Athalon 1200 machine goes up quite alarmingly to about 50% and the system slows to a crawl as a result, previously in FC4 on the same hardware this was not evident. Is anyone else seeing high processor usage when vino is in use.

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FC4 to FC5T3 Update
by John Pearson 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Initial impression: Most things came through. Some did not. The /etc/sysconfig/network was overwritten; the hostname of the system was lost. The /etc/hosts file diappeared without backup, the new file containing only the localhost line. I don't know if it has bearing, but I requested vnc monitoring during the installation. It did not work, but this was my first try with it. It did bring up the network configuration dialog. i supplied the static ip and non-standard gateway settings. But the hostname dialog did not run. i really didn't expect it, since I requested an upgrade. The information was already booked in the system. I did not expect the upgrade to handle the surplus repository definitions. Looking into /etc/yum.repos.d/ [jpearson@localhost yum.repos.d]$ ls atrpms.repo fedora.repo.rpmsave dag.repo fedora-updates.repo dries.repo fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew Edward.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo Edward.repo~ fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmnew fedora-core.repo freevo.repo fedora-development.repo freshrpms.repo fedora-extras-development.repo freshrpms.repo~ fedora-extras.repo livna.repo fedora-extras.repo.rpmnew It looks like most of the changes are available. Some notification of rpmnew, and rpmsave, might be useful. Now that I look: [jpearson@localhost ~]$ locate rpmnew /etc/ldap.conf.rpmnew /etc/localtime.rpmnew /etc/rndc.key.rpmnew /etc/updatedb.conf.rpmnew /etc/vimrc.rpmnew /etc/X11/fs/config.rpmnew /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf.rpmnew /etc/openldap/ldap.conf.rpmnew /etc/sysconfig/vncservers.rpmnew /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo.rpmnew /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmnew /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew Thank you for not resetting locate, localtime, logwatch and vncservers. [jpearson@localhost ~]$ locate rpmsave /etc/named.conf.rpmsave /etc/updatedb.conf.rpmsave /etc/X11/X.rpmsave /etc/alsa/pcm/dmix.conf.rpmsave /etc/alsa/pcm/dsnoop.conf.rpmsave /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap.rpmsave /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.rpmsave /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo.rpmsave /usr/share/a2ps/afm/fonts.map.rpmsave I don't routinely scan for these modifications, although I probably should. The loss of livna supplied nvidia drivers was transparent. I am impressed with the care that implies. I am ready to do the first update. I think that I will try pup. -Jpearson

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FC5T3 upgrade attempt fails on mac mini
by Orion Poplawski 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Booted from the CD. After clicking on the "Install anyway" button the installer crashes and the system shuts down. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182457

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FC5T3 iso image question
by John Pearson 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

I would like to try upgrading my Fedora Core 4 test box. I have been trying to use torrents with little success. I need an i386 version of the media. I have tried three times to get a set of cd images, but disc5 and rescuecd fail at sha1sum. I first tried the dvd image, but that died several times without completing. I will need the disc5 image to complete the update attempt. Is there some other source that I could try? Or is there some other way to create the image that I need. Thanks, Jpearson

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