Re: unstable libreoffice

On Monday 22 July 2013 13.51.04 lee wrote: > Martin Skjöldebrand writes: > > Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19? > > I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple > things like mailmerge didn't work, and trying to program something would > hav

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

On 07/22/2013 02:18 PM, Augustin Wolf wrote: Okay, it isn't safe to store root password in a file. By all my administrator heart I agree. But I don't see why you have to store it in a plain text file. Could you please expand on that? Because that's how LDAP works. In order to change a password

Re: gnome-shell issue when ThinkPad T60 connected to dock with extra monitor

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Dave Johansen wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Dave Johansen wrote: > > > > I posted about this issue on the devel list and it was recommended > > that I try here. That conversation can be found at: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/20

Re: unstable libreoffice

Robert Holtzman writes: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:51:04PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Martin Skjöldebrand writes: >> >> > Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19? >> >> I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple >> things like mailmerge didn't wo

Re: cpu usage display conky vs. top

Suvayu Ali writes: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:33:53PM +0200, lee wrote: >> >> I've done that yesterday. It's working already, showing an >> automatically scaling graph of the used network bandwidth over 360 >> samples, with the update interval given on the command line. Let it >> update ever

Re: unstable libreoffice

Heinz Diehl writes: > On 22.07.2013, lee wrote: > >> I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple >> things like mailmerge didn't work... > > I have been using it extensively during my mastergrade studies, > and it has been working for me, without any major annoyances or bu

Re: /usr/local/lib*

Michael Schwendt writes: > On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:31:11 +0200, lee wrote: > >> >> /usr/lib/ should be empty now. Why is it not? >> > >> > says who? >> >> Since libraries are supposed to be in /usr/lib64 on 64bit systems and >> the packages that provide 32bit software are removed, there aren't a

Re: OpenVPN disapeared

Hi Bill, I've just fixed. I've installed this package: NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome.x86_64 Now it works. Thanks for your help anyway. Diego On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Bill Oliver wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Diego Vargas wrote: > > Hello All, >> Today I wanted to connect to a VPN w

Re: OpenVPN disapeared

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Diego Vargas wrote: Hello All, Today I wanted to connect to a VPN with OpenVPN but the openvpn option has disappeared. I have a ovpn file, and if I do the import from file it says that doesn't recognize the VPN connection information. The exact message: The file 'vpn-conn

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:57:21 -0400 "Darryl L. Pierce" wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails > > totally to work on drives with encrypted partitions, > > I don't think this is still the case: I did F18-

OpenVPN disapeared

Hello All, Today I wanted to connect to a VPN with OpenVPN but the openvpn option has disappeared. I have a ovpn file, and if I do the import from file it says that doesn't recognize the VPN connection information. The exact message: The file 'vpn-connection.ovpn' could not be read or does not con

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22/07/13 17:09, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/22/2013 01:48 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: That's true and I thought the same but out of courtesy to the person offering the susuggestion I tried it. Is there something wrong with that? No, of course not. I probably would have asked th

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

On 22 July 2013 18:38, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Thanks for participating. > This is intentional behavior. SSSD is designed not to allow root on > the local system to change the passwords of the centrally-managed > users. The reason for this is that we would have to store credentials > for an LDAP

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 07/22/2013 01:48 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: That's true and I thought the same but out of courtesy to the person offering the susuggestion I tried it. Is there something wrong with that? No, of course not. I probably would have asked the same questions of whoever suggeste

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22/07/13 16:59, Deepak Bhole wrote: Excellent, now it is getting somewhere. So the XFCE launcher may be launching it with a different plugin directory, or it may be launching a different copy of ff altogether. Can you post the output of: 1. ps auxww | grep firefox 2. ps eww is the pid of t

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

* Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA [2013-07-22 16:43]: > On 22/07/13 16:26, Deepak Bhole wrote: > >* Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA [2013-07-22 > >16:10]: > >>On 22/07/13 16:00, Deepak Bhole wrote: > >>>* Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA [2013-07-22 > >>>15:51]: > On 22/07/13 15:44,

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22/07/13 16:13, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/22/2013 01:07 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: [root@box10 bobg]# setenforce 0 [root@box10 bobg]# getenforce Permissive I restarted Firefox. Still the error! Still "No plugins found." I did not try reboot ... Well, what did you expect? Did

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22/07/13 16:26, Deepak Bhole wrote: * Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA [2013-07-22 16:10]: On 22/07/13 16:00, Deepak Bhole wrote: * Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA [2013-07-22 15:51]: On 22/07/13 15:44, Deepak Bhole wrote: This is what I have: [root@box10 bobg]# ll /etc/alternative

Re: Fedora 19 did not install boot record

On 22.07.2013 22:08, Fernando Lozano wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know if those are related, but I had one system where fedup did > not updated grub... It ended up booting and running F19 ok, but grub > menu dsiplaying the old F17 entries. And it boots to the F1 kernel, > although I could not find a t

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

* Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA [2013-07-22 16:10]: > On 22/07/13 16:00, Deepak Bhole wrote: > >* Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA [2013-07-22 > >15:51]: > >>On 22/07/13 15:44, Deepak Bhole wrote: > >>>This is what I have: > >>> > >>>[root@box10 bobg]# ll /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 07/22/2013 01:07 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: [root@box10 bobg]# setenforce 0 [root@box10 bobg]# getenforce Permissive I restarted Firefox. Still the error! Still "No plugins found." I did not try reboot ... Well, what did you expect? Did you really think that SELinux was

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22/07/13 15:57, lists-redhat wrote: Do you have selinux enabled? My understanding is that if it's enabled the java plugin won't show for firefox. [I haven't messed with this myself so don't know specifics.] - Richard [root@box10 bobg]# setenforce 0 [root@box10 bobg]# getenforce Permiss

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22/07/13 16:00, Deepak Bhole wrote: * Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA [2013-07-22 15:51]: On 22/07/13 15:44, Deepak Bhole wrote: This is what I have: [root@box10 bobg]# ll /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 27 Jul 22 12:55 /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.s

Re: Fedora 19 did not install boot record

Hi, I don't know if those are related, but I had one system where fedup did not updated grub... It ended up booting and running F19 ok, but grub menu dsiplaying the old F17 entries. And it boots to the F1 kernel, although I could not find a thing that didn't work so far. Maybe anaconda "forgot" t

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

* Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA [2013-07-22 15:51]: > On 22/07/13 15:44, Deepak Bhole wrote: > >This is what I have: > > > >[root@box10 bobg]# ll /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 > >lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 27 Jul 22 12:55 > >/etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 -> > >/usr/lib64/

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22.07.2013 21:28, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 22/07/13 14:56, poma wrote: >> € alternatives --list | grep plugin >> € alternatives --config libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 >> >> € ll /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so >> … /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so -> >> /etc

Re: Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:01:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails > totally to work on drives with encrypted partitions, I don't think this is still the case: I did F18->F19 on my laptop (encrypted /home and swap) using fedup and it worked ju

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22/07/13 15:44, Deepak Bhole wrote: This is what I have: [root@box10 bobg]# ll /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 27 Jul 22 12:55 /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 -> /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so Firefox doesn't seem to recognize it. Should it show up in

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

* Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA [2013-07-22 15:28]: > On 22/07/13 14:56, poma wrote: > >€ alternatives --list | grep plugin > >€ alternatives --config libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 > > > >€ ll /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so > >… /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so -> > >/etc/al

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22/07/13 14:56, poma wrote: € alternatives --list | grep plugin € alternatives --config libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 € ll /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so … /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 € ll /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > I have two F-19/64 computers with Firefox 22 that want "Java Runtime > Environment" in order to access http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/crossword/ > and several others. It appears that java openjdk is installed? The JRE

Re: Better clock on panel in KDE?

Hello, Thanks for the tip. Can't seem to put time and date in one line, but maybe it's acceptable the way it is. Take care Oliver On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Colin J Thomson wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon 22 July 2013 13:50:19 Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > > > Just started using

Re: How doo you turn off large letter application

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 14:28 +0930, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 21 July 2013, Aaron Konstam sent: > > I have managed to turn on a largr letter application that displays a > > keyboard on the screen. How do I turn is off and when is is name of > > the application? > > Gnome on-screen keybo

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22.07.2013 19:11, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 22/07/13 12:44, Jiri Vanek wrote: >> plugin and javaws are in icedtea-web package, so please install it, >> the page will then work for you :) >> Also please remove java-1.8.0-openjdk unless you know what you are >> doing. It is exp

Re: Better clock on panel in KDE?

Hi, On Mon 22 July 2013 13:50:19 Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Just started using KDE and now I would like to have a clock on the panel > that simply shows something like "1:48pm, Mon Jul 22". I can't seem to do > this with the default clock. The clock in the panel can easily do this as it is ve

Status of Postgis-related rpms

Greetings, With the release of Fedora 18 there were interoperability issues with PostGIS and Postgresql. Fedora 18 was released with PostgreSQL 9.2.x and PostGIS 1.5.x. Given the mutual release schedule, only releases of PostGIS 2.0.x and higher can work with PostgreSQL 9.2.x. I see that F

Re: unstable libreoffice

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:51:04PM +0200, lee wrote: > Martin Skjöldebrand writes: > > > Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19? > > I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple > things like mailmerge didn't work, and trying to program somethin

Re: Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

lee wrote: Rahul Sundaram writes: Hi My guess at this point is that fedup assumed that because my local repository was "local" (over nfs) that it didn't need to add these packages to /var/lib/fedora-upgrade. If this is indeed the case that is a VERY bad assumption. It's nuts to not include A

Re: unimpressive btrfs benchmark results

Rex Dieter wrote: Neal Becker wrote: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_311_filesystems&num=1 I installed using btrfs on my SSD. Maybe I should be feeling some buyer's remorse? While being fast is nice, after reading, http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/ http://en.wikipedi

Re: Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

Bug submitted: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987106 Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Ha

Install fc18 from DVD demands network connection

This is back, again. Having found out that fedup fails totally to work on drives with encrypted partitions, I tried to install from DVD. The DVD is good, the system is good, I booted in recovery but the partitions were not recognized as anything at all, so I rebooted to do full install from DVD

Better clock on panel in KDE?

Hello, Just started using KDE and now I would like to have a clock on the panel that simply shows something like "1:48pm, Mon Jul 22". I can't seem to do this with the default clock. Any one knows a nice simple clock that can do this? Thanks! Take care Oliver -- Head of S

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 22/07/13 12:44, Jiri Vanek wrote: plugin and javaws are in icedtea-web package, so please install it, the page will then work for you :) Also please remove java-1.8.0-openjdk unless you know what you are doing. It is experimental beta package :) I did: root@box10 bobg]# yum install icedtea-

Re: Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

Hi On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Have you filed a bug report? >>> >> > Not yet, but I will after things are discussed here... I was hoping > someone who knows about fedup would chime in. Am I right in assuming

Re: Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

On 07/22/2013 05:32 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I have two F-19/64 computers with Firefox 22 that want "Java Runtime Environment" in order to access http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/crossword/ and several others. It appears that java openjdk is installed? [root@box10 bobg]# y

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/2013 08:43 AM, Augustin Wolf wrote: > On 20 July 2013 10:52, William Brown > wrote: >>> For now, LDAP ACL was "turned off" - every user has manage >>> permission, >> Each user will have permission on their own ldap object they bind >> to, to

Firefox and java-1.7.0-openjdk -

I have two F-19/64 computers with Firefox 22 that want "Java Runtime Environment" in order to access http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/crossword/ and several others. It appears that java openjdk is installed? [root@box10 bobg]# yum install java-1.*-openjdk Loaded plugins: langpacks Package 1:

Re: Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:04 AM, John Pilkington wrote: > On 22/07/13 13:44, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram > > wrote: >> >> Have you filed a bug report? >> >> >> Not yet, but I will after things are discussed here...

Re: Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

On 22/07/13 13:44, Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram mailto:methe...@gmail.com>> wrote: Have you filed a bug report? Not yet, but I will after things are discussed here... I was hoping someone who knows about fedup would chime in. Am I right in assumi

Re: unimpressive btrfs benchmark results

Neal Becker wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_311_filesystems&num=1 > > I installed using btrfs on my SSD. Maybe I should be feeling some buyer's > remorse? While being fast is nice, after reading, http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

unimpressive btrfs benchmark results

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_311_filesystems&num=1 I installed using btrfs on my SSD. Maybe I should be feeling some buyer's remorse? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: unstable libreoffice

On 22.07.2013, lee wrote: > I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple > things like mailmerge didn't work... I have been using it extensively during my mastergrade studies, and it has been working for me, without any major annoyances or bugs. > LaTeX works great for wha

Re: Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Have you filed a bug report? >> > Not yet, but I will after things are discussed here... I was hoping someone who knows about fedup would chime in. Am I right in assuming that repository packages that are considered "local" are not copied

Re: /usr/local/lib*

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:31:11 +0200, lee wrote: > >> /usr/lib/ should be empty now. Why is it not? > > > > says who? > > Since libraries are supposed to be in /usr/lib64 on 64bit systems and > the packages that provide 32bit software are removed, there aren't any > libraries left to go into /usr/

Re: /usr/local/lib*

Reindl Harald writes: > Am 22.07.2013 13:41, schrieb lee: >> Reindl Harald writes: >>> no, but "yum remove \*i686\*" should kill them :-) >> >> So I have removed the i686 packages: >> >> | [root@yun:~]$ yum list installed |grep 686 >> | texlive-url.noarch 3:svn16864.3.2-0.1.fc19

Re: cpu usage display conky vs. top

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:33:53PM +0200, lee wrote: > > I've done that yesterday. It's working already, showing an > automatically scaling graph of the used network bandwidth over 360 > samples, with the update interval given on the command line. Let it > update every 10 seconds, and you see th

Re: VisIt

"Patrick Dupre" writes: > Hello > > The compiling of visIt 2.6.3 fails with the following message. > How would you fix? > > ThanK. > > [ 97%] Building C object tools/qtssh/CMakeFiles/qtssh.dir/unix/uxsignal.c.o > [ 97%] Building C object tools/qtssh/CMakeFiles/qtssh.dir/unix/uxstore.c.o > Linking

Re: unstable libreoffice

Martin Skjöldebrand writes: > Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19? I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple things like mailmerge didn't work, and trying to program something would have required unreasonable learning efforts and appeared

Re: Fedup from 18 to 19, fingers crossed

Rahul Sundaram writes: > Hi > > My guess at this point is that fedup assumed that because my local >> repository was "local" (over nfs) that it didn't need to add these packages >> to /var/lib/fedora-upgrade. If this is indeed the case that is a VERY bad >> assumption. It's nuts to not include AL

Re: cpu usage display conky vs. top

Mateusz Marzantowicz writes: > On 21.07.2013 09:55, lee wrote: >> Did you find an explanation for why it displays different numbers than >> top does or why it ignores the update interval for checking mail? I >> thought it probably uses the same data sources for this information and >> didn't rea

Re: /usr/local/lib*

Reindl Harald writes: > Am 21.07.2013 10:46, schrieb lee: >> Reindl Harald writes: >>> Am 20.07.2013 20:02, schrieb lee: what is supposed to go into /usr/local/lib/ and what into /usr/local/lib64 on amd64? I'm trying to get libsx installed and am wondering into which of these

Re: /usr/local/lib*

Ed Greshko writes: > On 07/21/13 22:51, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> On 07/21/2013 02:02 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >>> That is wrong advice. You don't need --nodeps to remove the 32-bit >>> packages. You could do things similar to >>> >>> rpm -qa|grep \.i\*86$|xargs rpm -e >>> >>> to remove all o

RE: F19 raid 1 stuck read only after reboot

Alan Gagne https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users>> writes: >>/ >>/ />/ Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead..com kernel: device-mapper: table: />>/ />>/ />/ 253:4: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed />>/ />>/ />/ Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead..com kernel: device-mappe

Re: Tk-PlotDataset

Hello, Dave, Yes, I have been able to fix this error, like you said by repackaging the tar file. Now, I still have a main issue with glob It seems just an issue with the way to pack the final files. The dependence problem may be solved by forcing the dependence (--nodeps)! rpmbuild PDL-LinearAlge

Re: Tk-PlotDataset

On 20 July 2013 19:33, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to compile a rpm file from > Tk-PlotDataset-2.04.tar.gz > > cpanspec Tk-PlotDataset-2.04.tar.gz > gives me: > BOGUS PATH DETECTED: ./ > BOGUS PATH DETECTED: ./Tk-PlotDataset/ > > how can I get this package? > This is almost cer