OpenOffice.org Writer hosed after update
by Gerry Tool
I updated all the OpenOffice packages in today's rawhide. Now when I
open a document in Writer, nothing works after displaying the document.
No scrolling, no menus, no repaint, etc. The window can only be closed
by forcing.
Can other confirm this?
Gerry
17 years, 9 months
FC6t2 install Problem
by Janina Sajka
I had no problem with the T2 installation until I suspended to shell at
the Rebot screen (with ctrl-z). The suspend worked, and the message
"Type 'Exit' to return" was printed, but I got no proper shell. The
prompt was Ctrl-@, and no command worked -- other than 'exit.'
I presume this is a bug, but wonder if anyone can confirm as I've tried
only on one machine so far.
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17 years, 9 months
Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 2 (5.91)
by Jesse Keating
In 1888, Theophilus Van Kannel patents his invention, the revolving door.
This invention solves an engineering problem of air transfer by ensuring that
there is no opening to the outside and the inside of a building at the same
time, which could create massive drafts due to air temperature differences.
This invention is still used today.
These days patents are filed for much more frivolous things for a much more
nefarious purposes. Software patents threaten the livelyhood of the
independent software developer and the very nature of the opensource software
movement. You can help us prevent software patents (which are legal in the
United States) from becoming more widespread, particularly in the European
Union. Please visit http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ to learn how you can
do your part in saving our software industry.
Fedora Core 6 Test 2 (5.91) Now Available
==================================
The Fedora Project announces the second release of the Fedora Core 6
development cycle, available for the i386, x86_64, and ppc/ppc64
architectures, including Intel based Macintosh computers. Beware that
Test releases are recommended only for Linux experts/enthusiasts or for
the technology evaluation, as many parts are likely to be broken and the
rate of change is rapid.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule
Test 3 is scheduled for release September 11, marking the continual
freeze point of the Fedora Core 6 release. Only critical bugs fixed after
this point. It is important that we get your help in testing, reporting and
suggesting fixes for bugs, and directing the technological improvements
we attempt with this release of Fedora Core. Please direct bugs to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com, product Fedora Core, Version fc6test2. As
always, be sure that your bug is not already fixed by updates and search
for existing bugs before filing.
Thanks to all in the Fedora Project Community who have contributed to
this release. Your continued efforts are what makes Fedora possible.
Downloads
=========
DVD, CD and network installation are available.
Please read the Important Warnings below in this announcement for more
details.
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site.
http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html
HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors
listed above. Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time.
Notable Features of FC6 Test 2
==============================
* All packages recompiled (minus Thunderbird)
- Introduction of DT_GU_HASH, a far more efficient symbol lookup table for
dynamic linking. Improves dynamic linking performance by up to 50%
- Packages built with new build system based on Mock.
- Packages now have proper BuildRequires
* Ability to install from additional yum repositories during anaconda
installations and kickstarts.
* Functional Java applet plugin for Firefox due to gcjwebplugin
* A new default font, DejaVu, replaces Vera.
* Numerous package updates and upgrades
* 1600+ Extras packages conveniently available via yum
Have fun testing and help prevent software patents!
--
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
17 years, 9 months
Fedora Core 5 Test Update: evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5
by Matthew Barnes
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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-899
2006-08-08
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Product : Fedora Core 5
Name : evolution
Version : 2.6.3
Release : 1.fc5.5
Summary : GNOME's next-generation groupware suite
Description :
Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager and
communications tool. The tools which make up Evolution will
be tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless
personal information-management tool.
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Update Information:
Update to latest evolution 2.6 release.
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* Mon Aug 7 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.3-1.fc5.5
- Rebuild
* Fri Aug 4 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.3-1.fc5.4
- Require evolution-data-server 1.6.3.
* Wed Aug 2 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.3-1.fc5.3
- Remove evo-calendar-print-with-pango-7.patch (fixed upstream).
- Remove patch for RH bug #150458 (fixed upstream).
- Clean up spec file, renumber patches.
* Wed Aug 2 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.3-1.fc5.2
- Remove patch for RH bug #167157, as it fixed it the wrong way.
* Wed Aug 2 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.3-1.fc5.1
- Update to 2.6.3
- No longer packaging unused patches.
* Sat Jul 29 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.2-1.fc5.7
- Add patch for RH bug #167157.
* Wed Jun 7 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.2-1.fc5.6
- Rebuild
* Tue Jun 6 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.2-1.fc5.5
- Bump eds version requires
* Tue Jun 6 2006 Adam Jackson <ajackson(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.2-1.fc5.3
- ExcludeArch on s390{,x} because it's broken, and it's not shipped in FC5
on those arches anyway.
* Tue Jun 6 2006 Adam Jackson <ajackson(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.2-1.fc5.2
- Rebuild to hopefully fix build deps.
* Tue May 30 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.2-1.fc5.1
- Update to 2.6.2
- Remove NSS/NSPR chunk from evolution-2.5.2-no-gnome-common.patch
(fixed upstream) and rename to version 2.6.2.
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/
fb0b40b5c13e90f066da0682d1df7193fe2da1e1 SRPMS/evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.src.rpm
fb0b40b5c13e90f066da0682d1df7193fe2da1e1 noarch/evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.src.rpm
da9885363b27ab0385e93fd7625ca10bae7344ed ppc/evolution-devel-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.ppc.rpm
a35a098f284bb2aceb57692a12fd1778aeb97da7 ppc/debug/evolution-debuginfo-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.ppc.rpm
c52aad50ad091767cc3db1fe9841e288e7db419c ppc/evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.ppc.rpm
3fef22c7bc520c6e64a463a58fb2c8fbcdb17b2c x86_64/debug/evolution-debuginfo-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.x86_64.rpm
085cb77d5686a61ffa91ed53c174b39262b1b6dd x86_64/evolution-devel-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.x86_64.rpm
8d480c877a3d49a1b98bfe8e78bfa8dc26f3fc60 x86_64/evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.x86_64.rpm
263ba32c71e94ba40a176341715e194d8152859c i386/evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.i386.rpm
49901dd13af54f48f8041750eadff2389ff1a45a i386/debug/evolution-debuginfo-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.i386.rpm
ccd9e8e5f695b41912a9437a3c03ffb66c10ea0c i386/evolution-devel-2.6.3-1.fc5.5.i386.rpm
This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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17 years, 9 months
Re: yum update blocked for now
by Horst H. von Brand
Gerry Tool <gstool(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
> yum update – many available.
>
> Can't update due to
>
> Error: Missing Dependency: libebook-1.2.so.5 is needed by package
> control-center
Here I excluded the following (after updating as much as possible yesterday):
bug-buddy
control-center
ekiga
evolution
evolution-data-server
evolution-data-server-devel
evolution-sharp
gaim
gnome-panel
gnome-panel-devel
nautilus-sendto
The evolution-* mess is due to evolution-webcal.
One way forward:
yum check-update | tail -n +4 | cut -d. -f1 | sort -u > /tmp/list
Note that this isn't very kosher, as there are packages with '.' in their
names, but as a first approximation it does work out. The "sort -u" is more
for x86_64, where there are multiple packages with the same name, this gets
rid of duplicates.
Then go over /tmp/list and see what you can install without messing things
up, after the failed "yum upgrade" it is (somewhat) obvious what could work
as a first cut, and upgrade that "by hand", i.e.,
yum -y upgrade kernel* krb5* glibc* ...
Any breakage, delete the offending piece(s) and try again until the group
(plus dependencies) goes in cleanly.
Rinse and repeat as required. When finally at wit's end (or bored to death
by all this), brute-force what is left (creating a new list first):
for p in $(< /tmp/list); do yum -y upgrade $p; done
Note that this last is very inefficient: It starts a new yum(8) for each
package, if some were installed earlier due to dependencies, it won't
notice; it also doesn't notice interdependent groups of packages that can't
be installed and tries each one in turn. That is why a few rounds of
hand-upgrading before going one-by-one is a good idea.
--
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
17 years, 9 months
New kernel from Dave out...and kernel.org!
by Gilbert Sebenste
I noticed the test announcement from Dave on .7, but also noticed that
it's not on the test directory yet. And, just as he announced it,
2.6.17.8 is released. I am guessing he is holding off and doing the
original plan 'A' of rebasing to the latest kernel. Go, Dave, go! :-)
I can definitely wait for your version of .8. (it also fixes a race
condition), and a bug I see with MMCONFIG on my system.
*******************************************************************************
Gilbert Sebenste ********
(My opinions only!) ******
*******************************************************************************
17 years, 9 months
Re: yum update blocked for now => David D. Hagood
by Ronald Warsow
hello
...
my intention ONLY was to give someone (maybe) some help to get a step further, that's all.
especially this is not the first day yum claims about that and i'm not sure if all people -especially newbies- on the
list remember that "workaround" (scripts), leading to that that ALL PEOPLE DOING the SAME investigations like:
rpm -q --whatprovides libebook-1.2.so.5
or ...
this means to me: wasted time
BTW:
I'm unlucky with this yum/update behavior also, -nothing is more frustrating then (waked) unfulfilled expectations !-
but I'm not in the position to fix this, or earn money in multiple broadcastings of
"OLD" info's.
perhaps i should give up doing sooo, but i'm sure it's wasted time for me to scroll down the (maybe) multiple
"RE:RE: update today not working, bla..." on the list, then !
okay ?
ronald
realizing to be on a "special" risk by broadcasting "old" info's the
addressee(s) already has (have)...
17 years, 9 months
