Beta ISOs removed from RHN
by Nicholas Marsh
Anyone know whats up with the beta ISOs being removed from the Red Hat Network?
I've been trying, unsucessfully, to download them for the past 2 days. I went to try again today, and the beta ISOs were gone.
Could updates be pending?
nick marsh
nmarsh1(a)mac.com
20 years, 8 months
RPM broken when 2.6.0 test kernel installed?
by Glen Maeding
Ever since i have installed the latest rpm kernel test version 2.6.0-test from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/ , i have been finding that the rpm doesnt function correctly anymore.
Heres what happen when i try to install any RPM in general:
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
rpmdb: unable to join the environment
error: db4 error(11) from dbenv->open: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
Anybody know how to fix this problem or why it does that?
* ** Glen Maeding
* ** MIS Tech @ Kidspeace Inc.
* ** Webmaster of MIS-comm, Pdangel.org, and others...
* ** E-mail: gmaeding(a)kidspeace.org
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20 years, 8 months
Re: Screenshot tool
by Jef Spaleta
seth vidal:
> Unless I've gone daft can't you hit alt-printscreen to get _just_ the
> window?
> it works under rhl9.
Sure does...sadly though...knowing about that feature and other keyboard
shortcut features actually requires some proactive reading. And we all
know expecting people to read documentation is squandered hope.
I have a problem with keyboard shortcut only features for that very
reason. People have to be told how to do everything, they expect it,
they crave it...through tooltips, status bars, little pop-up helper
agents and even going so far as to write to a mailinglist...anything to
avoid reading documentation. No one actually wants to find their own
solution...they want to be told how to do specific tasks. There is a lot
of room to explore tasked based help systems to see if users would
prefer that to application by application documentation..but i digress.
Keyboard shortcuts, unless they are presented to the user via a tooltip
or menu item..are unfathomly hidden to most casual users. Sure
printscreen seems obvious but alt-printscreen certaintly isn't. But the
original problem on this thread with the screenshot proggie in gnome is
that its inconsistantly placed in the menus. In the specific menupanel
finderbar like panel the Actions menu contains several useful buttons.
Now look at the standard main menu that you would place on a standard
edge panel...all the items in the actions menu is in the main menu
except screenshot(atleast on my rhl9 desktop)....thats seems
inconsistent. Screenshot from the action menu from the menu panel should
perhaps be in the standard fedora/gnomefoot menu button like the other
action items...just so people can easily find it.
But back to keyboard shortcuts...to make people aware of screenshot
keyboard shortcuts i would suggest that the tooltip for that screenshot
action item should give some information as to the accessible keyboard
shortcuts...but this is probably not so easy to do since those are
controllable through the keyboard shortcut preference dialog...to really
work the tooltip couldnt be static text...it have to match the setting.
But since we make it a point to have keyboard shortcuts listed in menu
items inside applications...it seems reasonable for the casual user to
expect keyboard shortcut listings in the panel menu items as well
somehow.
-jef"when is gnome going to implement an emacs-line command interface
applet"spaleta
20 years, 8 months
rsync down?
by Vanco, Donald
Is rsync down? Have paths changed? All my scripts are failing.... have
been since last week.
Don
20 years, 8 months
ATI Radeon M6 LY and Others.
by Jonathan C. Sitte
I have been talking with allot of other linux users including people
runnning the latest redhat beta and it seems that there is not much
support or developement going for these chipsets. Here is the mailing
list that most of these talks have been happening so far:
http://staticnull.org/mailman/listinfo/ati-mobililty-linux_staticnull.org
Feel free to put input too on such hardware. We are all working hard to
get the word out that getting these cards supported are one of our
number one priorities. Anyone at redhat working on this?
--
Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte(a)staticnull.org>
20 years, 8 months
Trouble with severn updates channel
by Steve Bergman
Up2date was working fine. I went to the rhn.redhat.com site and
subscribed to the severn updates subchannel and started up2date.
It installed the new up2date and said it would restart. It didn't. I
started it manually and it started updating packages but complained
about the key that each package was signed with. After saying 'OK' a
few times, I clicked cancel, installed just rawhide-release and imported
RPM-GPG-KEY and RPM-GPG-KEY-beta from /usr/share/doc/rawhide-release.
'rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide' complained "import read failed".
Now when I run 'up2date -u' I get this:
Error Message:
Your account does not have access to any channels matching
(release='9.0.94', arch='athlon-redhat-linux')
If you have a registration number, please register with it first at
http://www.redhat.com/apps/activate/ and then try again.
Error Class Code: 19
Error Class Info: Architecture and OS version combination is not
supported.
I'm running with my 1 'demo' entitlement and it was working fine before.
What am I doing wrong?
-Steve Bergman
20 years, 8 months
RE: Running Dictd server
by Ossama Khayaat
> > IIRC the dictd source includes both client and server, RH just doesn't
> package
> > the server part of it for some reason (ok running dictd server might not
> be the
> > most common thing in the world)
I found the source on ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/ and it's now setup on our server dict.arabeyes.org:2628 :)
> Ah, but its a wonderful service and should get a proper dust off before
> we reinvent it with "web services."
>
> I'm encouraging my friends on the glossary committee in the W3C to
> discover dict, for example.
It's really nice, specially that we don't have any _really_ free dictd server for the Arabic language.
It would also be nice, if the RedHat guyz can provide us with the .rpm packages, even if they would be added to the rawhide instead of being included in the official releases.
Regards,
Ossama Khayat
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