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how to fix rpm database
by Michael Hennebry 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

yum and rpm have different ideas about wether three packages are installed: [root@localhost log]# rpm -V 1:tk-8.5.9-2.fc14.i686 1:tix-8.4.3-5.fc13.i686 1:numpy-1.4.1-6.fc14.i686 package 1:tk-8.5.9-2.fc14.i686 is not installed package 1:tix-8.4.3-5.fc13.i686 is not installed package 1:numpy-1.4.1-6.fc14.i686 is not installed [root@localhost log]# yum install 1:tk-8.5.9-2.fc14.i686 1:tix-8.4.3-5.fc13.i686 1:numpy-1.4.1-6.fc14.i686 Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Adding en_US to language list Setting up Install Process Package 1:tk-8.5.9-2.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version Package 1:tix-8.4.3-5.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version Package 1:numpy-1.4.1-6.fc14.i686 already installed and latest version Nothing to do [root@localhost log]# yum reinstall runs, but doesn't help. What will. This seems to have happened after I tried to play a Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 10 aka Shockwave Flash file (application/x-shockwave-flash) . The former came from the file command, the latter from right-clicking. The first time, right-clicking produced an offer to search for a package. I clicked on yes . During the install, I got a "warning" about something aborting. Now right clicking produces an offer to open with vnc2swf Screen Recordings Player. It doesn't work. A window comes up and disappears without even achieving opacity. How do I play the file? -- Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

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preupgrade or netinstall from i686 to x86_64
by Robert Arkiletian 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I don't see an option in preupgrade to go from F13 i686 to F14 x86_64. Is it possible? Or is it possible with an F14 x86_64 netinstall iso disk? -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada

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help with missing font (Fedora 15)
by Ranjan Maitra 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Hi all, I am missing a font (for a while) but I can not figure out what it is. Basically, I get something like this on my help pages when using R.: 1 lm package:stats R Documentatio 1 n 2 3 Fitting Linear Models 4 5 Description: 6 7 <80><98>lm<80><99> is used to fit linear models. It can be us 7 ed to carry out 8 regression, single stratum analysis of variance and analysis of 9 covariance (although <80><98>aov<80><99> may provide a more co 9 nvenient interface 10 for these). 11 ..... While the wrapping around of the line is problematic, I don't know how to deal with this (it also happens with man pages, as in man gcc). 1 GCC(1) GNU 1 GCC(1) 2 3 4 5 NAME 6 gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler 7 8 SYNOPSIS 9 gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard] 10 [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel] 11 [-Wwarn...] [-pedantic] 12 [-Idir...] [-Ldir...] 13 [-Dmacro[=defn]...] [-Umacro] 14 [-foption...] [-mmachine-option...] 15 [-o outfile] [@file] infile... 16 17 Only the most useful options are listed here; see below for th 17 e 18 remainder. g++ accepts mostly the same options as gcc. ....... Can I get rid of those line numbers? This did not happen for me before, from what I recall. I am using Fedora 15 with the LXDE spin. I don't recall having this problem before Fedora 13. So, I think somewhere down the line, I lost a font. I have the following fonts installed? What am I missing? OR do I have too much? $ rpm -qa \*font\* lohit-gujarati-fonts-2.4.5-1.fc15.noarch lohit-oriya-fonts-2.4.3-9.fc15.noarch vlgothic-fonts-common-20110722-1.fc15.noarch libXfont-1.4.3-2.fc15.i686 lohit-bengali-fonts-2.4.3-7.fc15.noarch thai-scalable-waree-fonts-0.4.15-2.fc15.noarch lohit-devanagari-fonts-2.4.5-3.fc15.noarch un-core-fonts-common-1.0.2-0.16.080608.fc15.noarch ucs-miscfixed-fonts-0.3-6.fc15.noarch paktype-naqsh-fonts-3.0-5.fc15.noarch liberation-fonts-common-1.07.0-1.fc15.noarch urw-fonts-2.4-10.fc15.noarch thai-scalable-fonts-common-0.4.15-2.fc15.noarch dejavu-sans-fonts-2.33-1.fc15.noarch bitmap-console-fonts-0.3-17.fc15.noarch khmeros-base-fonts-5.0-11.fc15.noarch iso8859-2-75dpi-fonts-1.0-25.fc15.noarch paktype-tehreer-fonts-2.0-11.fc15.noarch liberation-mono-fonts-1.07.0-1.fc15.noarch bitmap-fixed-fonts-0.3-17.fc15.noarch lklug-fonts-0.6-5.20090803cvs.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.5-4.fc15.noarch liberation-serif-fonts-1.07.0-1.fc15.noarch smc-fonts-common-4.4-5.fc15.noarch dejavu-serif-fonts-2.33-1.fc15.noarch abattis-cantarell-fonts-0.0.6-1.fc15.noarch lohit-telugu-fonts-2.4.5-9.fc15.noarch lohit-assamese-fonts-2.4.3-8.fc15.noarch khmeros-fonts-common-5.0-11.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-6.fc15.i686 ghostscript-fonts-5.50-24.fc15.noarch smc-meera-fonts-4.4-5.fc15.noarch lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-9.fc15.noarch sil-abyssinica-fonts-1.0-10.fc15.noarch vlgothic-fonts-20110722-1.fc15.noarch dejavu-fonts-common-2.33-1.fc15.noarch iso8859-2-100dpi-fonts-1.0-25.fc15.noarch bitmap-fangsongti-fonts-0.3-17.fc15.noarch jomolhari-fonts-0.003-10.fc15.noarch paratype-pt-sans-fonts-20100408-2.fc15.noarch lohit-kannada-fonts-2.4.6-1.fc15.noarch fontpackages-filesystem-1.44-2.fc15.noarch libfontenc-1.0.5-4.fc15.i686 gnu-free-fonts-common-20100919-4.fc15.noarch fontconfig-2.8.0-3.fc15.i686 gnu-free-mono-fonts-20100919-4.fc15.noarch wqy-zenhei-fonts-0.9.46-2.fc15.noarch bitmap-lucida-typewriter-fonts-0.3-17.fc15.noarch iso8859-2-misc-fonts-1.0-25.fc15.noarch sil-padauk-fonts-2.4-7.fc15.noarch liberation-sans-fonts-1.07.0-1.fc15.noarch dejavu-sans-mono-fonts-2.33-1.fc15.noarch stix-fonts-1.0.0-2.fc15.noarch lohit-punjabi-fonts-2.4.4-4.fc15.noarch lyx-fonts-2.0.0-4.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch iso8859-2-fonts-common-1.0-25.fc15.noarch bitmap-fonts-compat-0.3-17.fc15.noarch un-core-dotum-fonts-1.0.2-0.16.080608.fc15.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.5-4.fc15.noarch fontconfig-devel-2.8.0-3.fc15.i686 texlive-texmf-fonts-2007-37.fc15.noarch Many thanks again, and best wishes, Ranjan

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How to debug X lockup (advice from gurus wanted)
by Roberto Ragusa 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Hi, it sometimes happens to me that X completely locks up, while the machine is still alive on the network. This is on F14, untainted kernel, nouveau driver, no 3D used, KDE desktop on a 32-bit machine with 8GiB RAM and PAE kernel. It typically happens when something is going to be drawn on the screen (a window pops up or virtual desktop change). I would like to open a bug, but I'm not able to attach any kind of usable log; dmesg says nothing, all I can say is that the screen remains frozen (including the pointer), the X server and the kernel keep doing some "SIG ALRM" stuff and any attempt to access the X server stalls the command (xrandr or xset, for example), in a Ctrl-C responsive way. This is happening on different kernel revisions. This laptop is perfectly stable and it sometimes takes a few weeks to show the problem (using suspend during the night). If I do a fresh reboot there is a high probability of a lockup in a mater of minutes/hours. Just as if there were lucky and unlucky reboots (important stuff being placed in memory areas which is easily corrupted?). Another data point: this laptop sometimes fails to suspend properly (remains frozen). In any case the last frozen-X event happened today before any attempt to suspend, so I can not blame the BIOS and ACPI parts. Any idea? -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it

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Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?
by Fernando Cassia 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Surely I'm missing something, but shouldn't there be an uption on the right-click menu over a pen drive, to format the drive?. Can't find it. I go to Computer, select the KINGSTON device, right click, properties, and I see the following tabs: Basic, Emblems, Permissions, Open with, Notes Nowhere is there any option to "format drive". I know I can probaly just format it from Bash, but I'm curious of what is the expected way to initiate a drive format from the Gnome GUI.... I'm using an ancient system with Fedora 10 here... uname -a 2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Thu Dec 10 11:00:29 EST 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux FC PS: The options available on the pop-up menu for the drive object are: Open Open with other application Copy Rename Unmount volume Properties

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gpp on F15
by Aaron Konstam 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

A few days ago there was comment about problems with gpp (gnome-photo-printer) on F15. It works on my F15 as it did on my F14. -- ======================================================================= *** ******* ********* ****** Confucious say: "Is stuffy inside fortune cookie." ******* *** ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

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RANT DETECTED!!!! Re: Fedora 15 is a lot like Windows OS's.. irritating, offensive, difficult to use with ease, nauseating to try...
by Hiisi 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

On 1 September 2011 20:15, Linda McLeod <lindavaldeen(a)fastmail.fm> wrote: > <rant snipped!> > And there's nothing in right click.. And you can't run two home files > simultaneous.. I need that for script and photo editing... You can't <rant snipped!> Yes, you can. Just open another tab or window from file menu in nautilus. -- Hiisi. Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ -- Spandex is a privilege, not a right.

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Drivers for Brother MFC-J6710DW
by Chris Kottaridis 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Just got a new Multifunction FAX,Scanner.Copier,Printer that has network access. I have Fedora Core 14 and when I use the tools to add a printerit finds it on the netwrok, but it can't seem to find a driver for this device. It's a Brother MFC-J6710DW Do you know where I can get the drivers for this for Fedora Core 14 ? Thanks Chris Kottaridis

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Sound from KVM guest
by Michael Eager 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Hi -- I installed Windows 7 in a KVM virtual machine running on Fedora 15. The guest is configured with an es1370 sound card. Windows detected the sound device and installed drivers, but I don't get any sound. The same thing happens when configured with an ac97 sound device. Any suggestions? -- Michael Eager eager(a)eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077

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GNOME 2 on Fedora 15
by Dave Cross 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. Is there any way to go back to GNOME 2 on Fedora 15? Can I reuse the F14 rpms? Or can I rebuild the F14 srpms on my F15 system? Or perhaps someone else has already done this work and made GNOME 2 available for F15? Cheers, Dave... [1] http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/08/hating-gnome-3.html -- Dave Cross :: dave(a)dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg

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