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problem with yum
by parta 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

Hi Actually it will be wrong to say that Its a problem with yum. I ran "yum update" . Everthing was going well until I accidently pressed Ctl-c when yum was cleaning up old packages( Last step when yum updates). Now when I view the installed packages by doing "yum -qa | sort" I see multiple versions of the same package. I looked at yum manpage, but no help. Can I do that cleanup process manually. may be I can try manually erasing the old rpm packages. But I am not sure whether the two versions share some binary files or not. If they share binary files, then this option gets ruled out as it will erase usefull files. I dont know what yum does internally. I have tried rebuilding the rpm database and yum clean all. But no help. Can I let the system remain as it is? Are the multiple packages only entries in yum database or I am having two version of the same software (seems unlikely)? Wont it create any problem? I dont care if these packages are taking a little space as long as they dont create any problem to system functionality. Thanks In advance. -- pritam

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Run Program...?
by Tom Horsley 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

I could swear there used to be a menu item somewhere to popup a dialog to let me type in an arbitrary program name to run, but I was just looking for it in a GNOME session of FC6t2, and if its there, it is well hidden. Is this another GNOME helpful "improvement" like no text field for typing (or pasting) a path in the file selection dialog?

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NFS status
by Mike Chambers 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

Is this going to be fixed soon? I hear there is a kernel problem with NFS? I am getting lots of problems/errors/whatever when trying to access anything in my NFS dir. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"

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GTK/Metacity window selection problem with Sylpheed
by Paul Dickson 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

I'm using Sylpheed 2.2.7 (in the latest devel) which I compiled a couple of weeks ago (Extras only recently added it). Whenever I go to a new window (either first compose window in a folder or a new summaryview after changing to a folder), mouse clicking it will bring the window forward but it won't be active (no matter how many times I click the window). The window will only accept input after I click the window edge (I'm currently only sure of the top edge (blue bar) at the moment). Is this a new feature in Metacity or a bug? metacity-2.15.34-1.fc6 gtk2-2.10.2-6.fc6 -Paul

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Yum failure with latest rawhide
by Mike Chambers 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

I think I've already seen this mentioned already, is this still due to fail and is being fixed? I mirror rawhide from a mirror, which I *think* is updated (udpates every 2-4 hours or so I think). [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: rawhide -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not getting any!"

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Re: Fedora(rawhide) and XFCE 4.4 beta 2
by Paul Michael Reilly 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Erik Harrison wrote: > On 9/3/06, Paul Michael Reilly <pmr(a)pajato.com> wrote: >> I bit the bullet and installed Xfce 4.4 beta 2 >> (xfce4-4.3.90.2-installer.bin) on my rawhide system. I installed it >> to /usr/local thinking that putting /usr/local/bin on my PATH variable >> before /usr/bin would cause the beta2 executables to run before any >> yum installed (fedora-extras-development.repo) Xfce 4.2 executables >> (/usr/bin) so my first question is: was/is this wishful thinking (that >> I could have both 4.4 beta 2 and 4.2 installed to the same system and >> not encounter serious issues)? > > Officially I believe having multiple installs is unsupported. Some of > us devs do it (I do not) and in the past, attempts have lead to major > library conflicts No problem. I realize full well that I am pursuing a high risk course. FWIW I faced the choice of using the supported (Fedora) Xfce 4.2 (getting real stale), using a developer repo that a RedHat dude created with Xfce 4.4 beta 1 or biting the bullet and installing Xfce 4.4 beta 2. The latter was most appealing to me even though it is fraught with risk. >> I am running a dual head configuration (individual displays rather >> than xinerama). There are two issues that pop up immediately that I >> need to solve: >> >> 1) there is a bar across the top of both displays that appears to be >> an orphaned panel, i.e. I cannot get rid of it (the original panel >> that was at the top has been moved to the bottom of screen 0 and works >> just fine there. I was able to solve this problem. I killed two taskbar processes, saved and then restarted the session. They were gone. This says to me that Xfce 4.2 cruft was stored in the saved session. >> 2) I cannot seem to use the settings->panel manager dialog to >> accomplish much with the second display. When I click on the box >> representing the second display the dialog disappears along with all >> the applications running in the fist display. I will need to repeat >> this a few more times before I can accurately describe what is really >> going on, so this description represents my first take. >> > > I'm not sure what to tell you here. I don't believe any of the primary > devs use Xinerama so support has always been based on heavy reliance > on user testing. So ordinarily I'd encourage you to file some detailed > bug reports. But since you have two versions of Xfce installed.... which means it will probably be a waste of my time, so I will hold off until Fedora supports xfce 4.4 in rawhide, something I'm not expecting anytime soon. Hopefully by that time I will have pulled out enough arrows to add value to that discussion/process. :-) -pmr

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rawhide report: 20060903 changes
by Build System 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Updated Packages: beagle-0.2.9-1.fc6 ------------------ * Sun Sep 03 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 0.2.9-1 - Update to 0.2.9 - Drop obsolete patches - Require pkgconfig in the -devel package kernel-2.6.17-1.2611.fc6 ------------------------ * Sat Sep 02 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> - Fix up typo in tux.patch - 2.6.18rc5-git6 mc-1:4.6.1a-26.fc6 ------------------ * Sat Sep 02 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 4.6.1a-26.fc6 - correctly highlight Requires(pre,post,preun,postun) in spec tetex-3.0-29.fc6 ---------------- * Sat Sep 02 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 3.0-29.fc6 - switch X toolkit again: libXaw -> Xaw3d - sync pxdvi patch - add xdvi-22.84.10 patch * Fri Sep 01 2006 MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu(a)estyle.ne.jp> 3.0-28.1.fc6 - fix platex2e_inputs macro - fix dupulicated entry of %{_datadir}/texmf/(p)xdvi/XDvi - announce update pxdvi to 22.84.10-j1.33 Broken deps for ia64 ---------------------------------------------------------- virt-manager - 0.2.0-3.ia64 requires libvirt-python >= 0:0.1.4-3 virt-manager - 0.2.0-3.ia64 requires python-xeninst >= 0:0.90.1

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xmms no longer responds to Gnome's Keyboard Shortcuts
by Paul Dickson 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

I'm running the latest devel. I initially noticed a week agao that xmms no longer responds to the keys on the side of my Inspiron 6000. The Gnome Keyboard Shortcuts are still set, and the volume controlled by these keys still work. -Paul

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Install Report 2006-09-01: FTP & HTTP failures
by G.Wolfe Woodbury 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

Thanks to Jess Keating for the information abut NFS failures. Unfortunately, I can't seem to make FTP or HTTP installs work on my machines. (I suspect a marginal memory stick in the server.) The FTP and HTTP downloads fail and there is no time-out detection in anaconda or the get URL process to retry when they do fail. I'll try memory testing again on the server, but memtest86+ doesn't seem to catch the problem. Running SETI@Home or other math processes can lock the machine up quite reliably. I just hate marginally operative hardware! Even if it is a problem with my server, I think anaconda should attempt to detect time-outs and retry. --Wolfe

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Updating: selinux-policy
by Marian Kopala 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

Welcome! Today's yum update: Updating : selinux-policy-mls ####################### [26/90] libsepol.context_from_record: type firstboot_rw_t is not defined libsepol.context_from_record: could not create context structure libsepol.context_from_string: could not create context structure libsepol.sepol_context_to_sid: could not convert system_u:object_r:firstboot_rw_t:s0 to sid /etc/selinux/mls/contexts/files/file_contexts: line 1474 has invalid context system_u:object_r:firstboot_rw_t:s0 libsemanage.semanage_install_active: setfiles returned error code 1. semodule: Failed! Updating : selinux-policy-targeted ####################### [33/90] libsepol.context_from_record: type firstboot_rw_t is not defined libsepol.context_from_record: could not create context structure libsepol.context_from_string: could not create context structure libsepol.sepol_context_to_sid: could not convert system_u:object_r:firstboot_rw_t:s0 to sid /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts: line 1573 has invalid context system_u:object_r:firstboot_rw_t:s0 libsemanage.semanage_install_active: setfiles returned error code 1. /usr/sbin/load_policy: Can't load policy: Invalid argument libsemanage.semanage_reload_policy: load_policy returned error code 2. semodule: Failed! Updating : selinux-policy-strict ####################### [43/90] libsepol.context_from_record: type firstboot_rw_t is not defined libsepol.context_from_record: could not create context structure libsepol.context_from_string: could not create context structure libsepol.sepol_context_to_sid: could not convert system_u:object_r:firstboot_rw_t:s0 to sid /etc/selinux/strict/contexts/files/file_contexts: line 1744 has invalid context system_u:object_r:firstboot_rw_t:s0 libsemanage.semanage_install_active: setfiles returned error code 1. semodule: Failed! rpm -qa selinux-policy-mls selinux-policy-mls-2.3.11-1 rpm -qa selinux-policy-targeted selinux-policy-targeted-2.3.11-1 rpm -qa selinux-policy-strict selinux-policy-strict-2.3.11-1 Marian

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