Upgrading F(x)
by Frank Murphy
Had an idea, don't know if it's doable.
Maybe someone could foward it to the correct list.
The preferred method of Upgrading is wipe & re-install.
Could a little script copy current install setup,
ie rpms etc.. to a flash stick.
So when re-install occurs the option is given to:
"Customise later, Customise Now, Insert Config USB stick"
Then it would save some time, and give a fairly accurate
upgraded clone.
Frank
16 years, 1 month
DDNS and fedora
by Da Rock
I have a networking question for you guys, which would be easy for me to
fix anywhere but on Fedora. And I'd also like to avoid a debate... NM
just doesn't cut atm unless this backend scripting gets worked out.
I have a ddns network, which does work but it needs to have the hostname
sent to it. Ie; dhclient -H works, but unless it is run manually the
forward and reverse mapping is not done by dhcpd.
I checked that dhclient.conf has send hostname in it, but I doubt very
much that it is being read as I have made changes there to no effect. I
believe somewhere in the scripting there is an issue- the hostname
settings getting overridden or something.
I've checked the man pages, and they say to only adjust dhclient.conf,
or add hooks. I've adjusted the hostname settings everywhere (not
simultaneously) to see if it'll work- ng.
Anyone else got ddns to work here and know what's missing? BTW I'm
testing on a wifi connection, but I doubt thats the problem.
Cheers
16 years, 1 month
Re: Punch Cards
by ed
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 06:12 -0400, fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote:
> > The card reader jams were common and so was the old drum/chain printers
> > --- jamming paper during a printout was common.
>
> And did you ever have someone dead loop their program sending form-feeds
> to a printer in another room, the wrong printer, that nobody saw
> churning its way through an entire box of paper? The really big A3
> blue-stripe fan-fold. Even worse when the paper-output spills out of
> the hopper... ;-)
>
Or some pre-printed form's wording is incorrect, and you the programmer
were supposed to notice it after printing 50 boxes of paper!!!!
--
Ed Gurski
Linux User
# 458454 http://counter.li.org
16 years, 1 month
Fedora Repositories
by Osama Mahdi
Hi Guys,
which repositories should I enable please ? because I enabled many of
them and I am facing some problems with that, so now I need to know the
default ones.
Thanks
16 years, 1 month
yum could not parse file?
by Tom Horsley
I've been seeing this for a while now, anyone have any idea what
it is about? (Seems to be harmless):
Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/kde/AdobeReader.desktop': No such file or directory
Every time yum updates firefox or gimp I seem to get this during update
or cleanup or both.
16 years, 1 month
Error: Missing Dependency: libxcb = 1.0-4.fc8
by Paul Smith
Dear All
On F8, when running
yum install R-devel
I get the following dependencies problem:
"Error: Missing Dependency: libxcb = 1.0-4.fc8 is needed by package
libxcb-devel"
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
16 years, 1 month
(no subject)
by Robert Rabinoff
Dick S. wrote:
Yeah we had a few of those ASCII art and sound programs for the
1403. Funniest program I recall played songs using the 7094 tape
shakers. If the drives couldn't read a tape they'd shake it back and
forth rapidly about 20 times and then try again before skipping a block.
We had 16 drives and you could hear them hum the songs all over the
building.
--
Presumably they didn't know the words...
Bob
16 years, 1 month
yum: Lock table is out of available locker entries
by Dan Koehler
I have this happen to me occasionally too. To fix it, you have to
delete the rpm databases, and then re-create them. Go to
/var/lib/rpm and find the __db.00x files, and delete them. Then
re-create them with rpm --rebuilddb.
--
SCANNED for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner.
Believed to be clean.
16 years, 1 month
yum: Lock table is out of available locker entries
by Michael D. Berger
On FC7:
[root@mbrc32 ~]# yum list
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: 912
...
Goog informs me that it is a database problem. I
get it only from yum. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mike.
16 years, 1 month
Desktop zoom not working for Fedora-8
by William Perkins
There is a feature on X windows when used in Fedora-7 that allowed
you to zoom the desktop in and out using ctrl-alt-plus and ctrl-alt-minus.
This feature does not work with the Fedora-8 version of X windows. This
feture does not even work with the same xorg.conf file that was used with
Fedora-7.
This is show stopper for us. Our vision impaired users are screaming bloody
murder about not being able to use this feature with Fedora-8. We have
had to install Fedora-7 in place of Fedora-8 on those systems, and we will
have to do this Fedora-7 install on all of our servers in order to have
all systems using the same distribution version of Linux.
We understand a change to the Xorg software was made to the Fedora-8
version to accommodate users of multiple displays. This change apparently
broke the Zoom feature and on the Fedora-8 distribution the Zoom feature
was disabled. Apparently there is a patch to the X windows server that
can be used to re-enable the Zoom feature, but there appears to be no
information available that documents how you get this patch and implement
the feature.
We will be testing Fedora-9 when it is released to see if the Zoom feature
has been fixed. Otherwise, we will continue to use Fedora-7 as long as we
can until an alternative software distribution can be found, Our having
to use Fedora-7 over Fedora-8 puts a real crimp in our development effort.
Bill
----
William M. Perkins E-mail - wmp(a)grnwood.net
The Greenwood UNIX Systems Administration
Reston, Virginia (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX)
16 years, 1 month
