how to fix rpm database

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

Re: 9. Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15 (Julius Smith)

If you are referring to my general comments re. GNOME 3, then yes, that's on Fedora 15. - jos 2011/8/30 Jorge Rivera > I like to know , that its the function of the gnome with fedora 15 > > ** ** > > *Jorge J.Rivera* > > Tech Support Analyst > > T. + 52 55 21229114 > M. +52 5514526200 >

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: > I have FC15 on three machines with different hardware - different CPUs, > different graphics hardware. As installed, all three were kinda OK. > After recent updates all three now take about 5 seconds to change > windows. A warning box poppi

Re: I think we need a discussion

On 08/30/2011 09:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:26:59 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> Does a linux user really care for a Trash can? > Not me, especially not one that conforms to the insanely > cryptic freedesktop.org trash standards. > > Personally I use the simple window man

Re: Continued kernel updates for F14?

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:51:34 +0200 Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > for those of us who are a little reluctant about moving to Gnome3 > just yet, does anyone know if there are plans to release rpms of > kernel versions later than 2.6.35 for F14? I can't answer your question about updates, but I ca

Re: Continued kernel updates for F14?

On 08/25/2011 07:21 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Hey all, > > for those of us who are a little reluctant about moving to Gnome3 just > yet, does anyone know if there are plans to release rpms of kernel > versions later than 2.6.35 for F14? You can find the status at https://fedoraproject.or

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/31/2011 02:36 AM, Julius Smith wrote: > I disliked the decision to simplify things in GNOME 3, but on the > whole I find it more productive than GNOME 2. Things got better once I have FC15 on three machines with different hardware - different CPUs, different graphics hardware. As installed,

slim (Simple Login Manager)

On 08/30/2011 01:58 PM, cromworshipper-fedorastuff at yahoo.com wrote: >In-Reply-To: <4E5A413B.9090201 at robertoragusa.it> >>>On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at >03:23:07PM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >>On 08/28/2011 03:21 AM, >cromworshipper-fedorastuff at yahoo.com >>wrote: >>>slim started up fine when

Re: slim (simple login manager)

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:52:54AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/28/2011 09:23 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > On 08/28/2011 03:21 AM, cromworshipper-fedorast...@yahoo.com > > wrote: > >> slim started up fine when this machine was running Fe

Re: 9. Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15 (Julius Smith)

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:45:26 -0500 "Jorge Rivera" wrote: > I like to know , that its the function of the gnome with fedora 15 > Your question renders as without meaning, not clear, in English. So you probably won't get any responses. I think there is a Spanish list for Fedora. https://fedorap

Re: Upgrading via DVD iso on a USB storage device.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/28/2011 11:08 PM, Kam Leo wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 12:01 -0600, linux guy wrote: >>> How do I put the DVD iso image on a USB flash storage device so it >>> will boot ? >>> >>> Thanks

Re: I think we need a discussion

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:47:19 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:26:59 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Does a linux user really care for a Trash can? > > Not me, especially not one that conforms to the insanely > cryptic freedesktop.org trash standards. > > Personally I use th

Re: F-15 Scanner Tool -

On 30/08/11 15:48, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >I believe Scanner Tool translates to xsane? I know I had an >application that permitted editing those names in the menu but >can't recall its name? > >I'm trying to copy a page of clear text with an HP-5370C flat >bed

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 01:33 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2011 12:59 PM, stan wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:38:16 +0100 >> Dave Cross wrote: >> >>> 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 pe

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 12:59 PM, stan wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:38:16 +0100 > Dave Cross wrote: > >> 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 GNO

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 12:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/30/2011 12:30 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> XFCE: >> 1) Does XFCE allow creation of new panels, left/right/top(or bottom) >> with features such as hiding panels which appears only when the >> mouse is moved into the screen edges? > Yes, it

Alternate I/O (braille) during Installation of Fedora

I have a student who is blind and hearing impaired. I know that braille output devices, etc., can be configured once a system is up, but the course I'm teaching involves system installation. What support is available for that type of hardware during system installation? -Chris -- users mailing l

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 12:36 -0600, Julius Smith wrote: > I disliked the decision to simplify things in GNOME 3, but on the > whole I find it more productive than GNOME 2. Things got better once > I found alacarte, gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu, > etc., to recover lost functionali

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:38:16 +0100 Dave Cross wrote: > 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? An someone else m

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 12:48 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Good idea, a Gnome-2 to Gnome-3 migration tool? This might work if > done as an upgrade, but can this tool be smart enough to ask if one > wishes to "import" after a fresh install, be it a partition or virtual > space? I don't see why not. All it

Re: Programs that should load on boot should be easier to do...

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:54:35 -0700 "Linda McLeod" wrote: > When I photo edit, I would like the two files to come up, along with > Gimp.. I don't run Gnome 3 shell, just the fallback. The fallback doesn't have this, though it used to work just the way you describe under Gnome 2 in F14. I thin

Re: I think we need a discussion

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:47:19 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > Personally I use the simple window manager FVWM, and I use > it with my own, built from scratch, .fvwmrc file that doesn't > get changed out from under me in every release. Would you be willing to post that configuration file? Or at least

F-15 Scanner Tool -

I believe Scanner Tool translates to xsane? I know I had an application that permitted editing those names in the menu but can't recall its name? I'm trying to copy a page of clear text with an HP-5370C flat bed scanner that I have been using for some time.

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 12:05 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/30/2011 11:36 AM, Julius Smith wrote: >> I found alacarte, gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu, >> etc., to recover lost functionality. > Right now, I'm running XFCE 4.6 on my desktop, but I've used a > third-party repo to upgrade my lapto

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 12:30 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > XFCE: > 1) Does XFCE allow creation of new panels, left/right/top(or bottom) > with features such as hiding panels which appears only when the > mouse is moved into the screen edges? Yes, it does. From the Main Menu, go to Preference, P

Re: gnome-photo-printer prints only black pages

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:35:15 +0200 Peter Lesterhuis wrote: > Hi, > For years I have been very happy with gpp. Easy to use, fine results. > But now I can't print pictures with it anymore. The print preview on > the screen looks promising, but only black pages are coming out of > the printer wasti

9. Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15 (Julius Smith)

I like to know , that its the function of the gnome with fedora 15 Jorge J.Rivera Tech Support Analyst T. + 52 55 21229114 M. +52 5514526200 Mexico D.F., Mexico e-mail: jriv...@tpmex.com cid:image007.png@01CBEE17.5B058CE0 te

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 05:30 AM, gpe wrote: > On 08/29/2011 05:23 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >>> I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. > I still remember the times when KDE4 was born. It was terrible comparing > to 3.5. After a while it was started to evolved, it became more

Re: how to make USB microphone the default

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:58:27 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Does anyone know how to make a USB microphone the default? I have been > trying out recordmydesktop with a USB microphone in, but the sound > does not seem to be recording. Without the microphone, the recording > happens, but understandabl

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/29/2011 09:23 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 29.08.2011, Dave Cross wrote: > >> I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. > Seems nobody likes it (me included). Frankly, Gnome3 is broken by design and > a f*cking piece of cr*p :-) > All the students at my college

Re: How to debug X lockup (advice from gurus wanted)

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:06:29 +0200 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > 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

Re: slim (simple login manager)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2011 01:58 PM, cromworshipper-fedorast...@yahoo.com wrote: > In-Reply-To: <4e5a413b.9090...@robertoragusa.it> > > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 03:23:07PM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> On 08/28/2011 03:21 AM, cromworshipper-fedorast...@yahoo.c

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 11:36 AM, Julius Smith wrote: > I found alacarte, gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu, > etc., to recover lost functionality. Right now, I'm running XFCE 4.6 on my desktop, but I've used a third-party repo to upgrade my laptop to 4.8. (I'm always a tad more careful with

Re: Gnome3: don't have anymore the language selection box and the keyboard selection box in gdm

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:47:57 +0200 Eric Doutreleau wrote: > I have just installed fedora15 and therefore move to gnome3. > > we have several hundreds of pc in lab environnement where 4000+ users > can log in. > There s a lot of different nationalities among these users and i have > dozens of l

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

I disliked the decision to simplify things in GNOME 3, but on the whole I find it more productive than GNOME 2. Things got better once I found alacarte, gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu, etc., to recover lost functionality. In my opinion, Fedora should be aimed at "power users" not

Re: bluetooth question [SOLVED]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 27/08/2011 10:34, François Patte a écrit : > Bonjour, > > I have a bluetooth mouse. When I log-in, I can see a red cross on the > bluetooth icon in the gnome-panel, which seeems to indicate that > bluetooth is not enabled. > > Nevertheless, If I c

Re: slim (simple login manager)

In-Reply-To: <4e5ba7c6.7000...@redhat.com> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:52:54AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/28/2011 09:23 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > On 08/28/2011 03:21 AM, cromworshipper-fedorast...@yahoo.com > > wrote: > >> slim star

Re: slim (simple login manager)

In-Reply-To: <4e5a413b.9090...@robertoragusa.it> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 03:23:07PM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 08/28/2011 03:21 AM, cromworshipper-fedorast...@yahoo.com wrote: > > slim started up fine when this machine was running Fedora 14.  I installed > > it from for Fedora 15: > > >

Re: zip /gzip in bash

Hi, gzip is a compressor, not an archiver as tar. zip is an archiver and compressor. So maybe you could use tar with the z option to compress? Best regards, --janeiros. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:57 PM, xinyou yan wrote: > Hi every one , > > I was confuse to use gzip in shell. > You see be

Re: I think we need a discussion

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:26:59 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Does a linux user really care for a Trash can? Not me, especially not one that conforms to the insanely cryptic freedesktop.org trash standards. Personally I use the simple window manager FVWM, and I use it with my own, built from scratch

[389-users] PAM Pass Through- PAM succeeds but 389 fails?

Hello, I'm trying to configure a 389 instance to pass authentication to our Kerberos server using the PAM Pass Through plugin. As far as I can tell, the authentication is happening correctly in PAM, but it's getting refused by the 389 server. I've included the relevant configurations and some

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

> forced to use gestures whether I wanted to or not was enough to make me > jump ship. (Among other things, I always hated the way moving the mouse > to the top right corner would show the desktop, and I disabled that > obnoxious mis-feature as fast as I could. Whoever thought that > everybod

how to make USB microphone the default

Does anyone know how to make a USB microphone the default? I have been trying out recordmydesktop with a USB microphone in, but the sound does not seem to be recording. Without the microphone, the recording happens, but understandably feebly and with lots of noise. I am using F15 with the LXDE spi

zip /gzip in bash

Hi every one , I was confuse to use gzip in shell. You see below. I can use zip -gj make test.tar include the testfile and the test1file However , use gzip make the test_gzip.tar.gz NULL. I see man and use gzip -c file >> tarname. to add a file to a tar file . Can anyone tell

Re: I think we need a discussion

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:13:01 -0500 Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 20:34, Peter G. wrote: > > the most evolved being xfde and lxde. > > XFDE is a nice lightweight desktop environment. LXDE on the contrary > is user-hostile when you attempt to customize it. I've recently tried >

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 06:05 AM, Steve Underwood wrote: > You could certainly interpret the look as being inspired by a tablet, > but the total inability to use it without a very steady hand makes > totally unsuitable for portable devices. Its clearly inspired by the > Marquis de Sade. Not having actually

Re: Gnome 3 -- liking it more each day !?

On 08/30/2011 04:49 PM, William Case wrote: > After using Gnome 3 for about 3 weeks I really, really, want a toolbox > or several of them. A toolbox is combination of the current Desktop > file, a file, a favourites bar and a docker. Here is how I see a toolbox > working. You think about somethi

Gnome 3 -- liking it more each day !?

Hi; Would like to have a conversation about somethings I would like to see added to Gnome 3. If I can get some agreement or advice, I will submit it as a Request for Enhancement to Gnome. After using Gnome 3 for about 3 weeks I really, really, want a toolbox or several of them. A toolbox is co

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 06:05 AM, Steve Underwood wrote: > On 08/30/2011 08:24 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/29/2011 05:08 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: >>> What makes you say its designed for tablets? Its design seems far less >>> suitable for a tablet than a desktop. >> The basic layout, the loss of the second

Re: Putting Fedora in a SPARC machine

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 08:26 -0400, j.e.aneiros wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm gonna try to put Fedora in a SPARC machine (sun4v) and I wonder if > > someone in this list has already done that and desire to share > > experiences. > > > > T

gnome-photo-printer prints only black pages

Hi, For years I have been very happy with gpp. Easy to use, fine results. But now I can't print pictures with it anymore. The print preview on the screen looks promising, but only black pages are coming out of the printer wasting ink and photopaper. I have fedora 15 running and gnome 3 desktop.

Re: Good distributed compilation system?

On 08/30/2011 03:42 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 08/29/2011 04:52 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: Hey all, could anyone recommend a distributed compilation system that runs both on *nix and Windows machines? I mostly do the actual coding under Linux, but have network access to a very powerful

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 11:10 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:05:11 -0500 > Chris Adams wrote: > > > Once upon a time, Alan Cox said: > > > If you want to erase your drive, issue a secure erase command. It's as > > > simple as that. > > > > Is there a simple way to do that on Lin

Re: Good distributed compilation system?

On 08/29/2011 04:52 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Hey all, > > could anyone recommend a distributed compilation system that runs both > on *nix and Windows machines? I mostly do the actual coding under Linux, > but have network access to a very powerful box running Windows 7 (I am > not allow

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/30/2011 08:24 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/29/2011 05:08 PM, Steve Underwood wrote: >> What makes you say its designed for tablets? Its design seems far less >> suitable for a tablet than a desktop. > The basic layout, the loss of the second panel and the dependence on > gestures all sounds li

Re: Putting Fedora in a SPARC machine

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 08:26 -0400, j.e.aneiros wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm gonna try to put Fedora in a SPARC machine (sun4v) and I wonder if > someone in this list has already done that and desire to share > experiences. > The Fedora SPARC project main page is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ar

Re: GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

On 08/29/2011 05:23 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> I've tried GNOME 3 for a couple of months and I really don't like it[1]. I still remember the times when KDE4 was born. It was terrible comparing to 3.5. After a while it was started to evolved, it became more stable and more user friendly. > > See

Re: mount ntfs, then nfs export it - empty folder shown on client [solved]

On 30/08/11 00:14, Sam Sharpe wrote: > crossmnt final nfs server export file: /etc/exports: /home 192.168.16.104:(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt) That is, added [,crossmnt] service restart nfs then mount on client: mount -t nfs4 192.168.16.111:/ /home/dtnotebook/ and ls -l /home/dtnotebook/c-drive i

Re: lectures recording software (like Panopto)

On Monday 29 August 2011 11:42 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I am asked to record my lectures using a tool called Panopto which > works on Windoze and has really been a frustrating experience. I would > like to know whether I have any options that would work on Linux. > > I run the Fedora 15 d

Re: I think we need a discussion

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:08 PM, David L. Gehrt wrote: > What this seems to imply is that in the future the mainline Linux UI will be > characterized features  imposed, and by  lack of flexibility.  This  lack of > flexibility means that users are presented with a computing environment with > fe

Re: Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:05:11 -0500 Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Alan Cox said: > > If you want to erase your drive, issue a secure erase command. It's as > > simple as that. > > Is there a simple way to do that on Linux? hdparm supports it. hdparm --security-erase NULL (or the passw

Re: RHEL6 Wallpapers

> protected work? What if I purchase a paper book - can I rip out the pages > referencing the publisher and author's rights, then claim it as my own? Get > real. In some cases yes. Your analogy is perhaps problematic however. Firstly if you are removing trademarks you are not dealing directly wit