Re: FC25 libreoffice crashes (Solved)

2017-05-23 Thread Paul Erickson
On 22/05/17 06:05 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 05/22/2017 04:45 PM, Paul Erickson wrote: On 22/05/17 04:15 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 05/22/2017 03:41 PM, Paul Erickson wrote: On 22/05/17 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/23/17 05:21, Paul Erickson wrote: Within the last couple of days an

Re: FC25 libreoffice crashes

2017-05-22 Thread Paul Erickson
On 22/05/17 04:58 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: Resending due to error in *not* sending to the list On 05/23/17 06:41, Paul Erickson wrote: On 22/05/17 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/23/17 05:21, Paul Erickson wrote: Within the last couple of days an update is causing LibreOffice to crash

Re: FC25 libreoffice crashes

2017-05-22 Thread Paul Erickson
On 22/05/17 04:15 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 05/22/2017 03:41 PM, Paul Erickson wrote: On 22/05/17 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/23/17 05:21, Paul Erickson wrote: Within the last couple of days an update is causing LibreOffice to crash. When I click on the icon, recovery mode comes up

Re: FC25 libreoffice crashes

2017-05-22 Thread Paul Erickson
On 22/05/17 02:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/23/17 05:21, Paul Erickson wrote: Within the last couple of days an update is causing LibreOffice to crash. When I click on the icon, recovery mode comes up, but there is no file to recover, and when I click "OK" the Logo comes up briefl

FC25 libreoffice crashes

2017-05-22 Thread Paul Erickson
Within the last couple of days an update is causing LibreOffice to crash. When I click on the icon, recovery mode comes up, but there is no file to recover, and when I click "OK" the Logo comes up briefly and then goes away. When I try to run from the command line, I get "Application error".

FC21 Thunderbird Theme Font & Size changer no longer wroking

2016-02-25 Thread Paul Erickson
For some reason, the Theme Font & Size changer for Thunderbird no longer works. Has anyone else run into this and found a fix? Thanks in advance. cheers, Paul -- cheers, Paul Erickson, MCP, Registered Clinical Counsellor P

Re: F20 "yum update" broken

2014-10-09 Thread Paul Erickson
On 09/10/14 10:39 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:11:27 -0700, Paul Erickson wrote: For some time now. "yum update" has been broken. I get the following message: --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: libdvdcss2-1.2.13-7.fc20.x8

F20 "yum update" broken

2014-10-09 Thread Paul Erickson
is issue with glibc has been around for a while. Any thoughts as to how to fix this, or do I just have to wait? thanks in advance. -- ---- cheers, Paul Erickson, MCP, Registered Clinical Counsellor Phone: 604-719-6695 email: p...@wperic

Re: FC 20 and new skype?

2014-08-09 Thread Paul Erickson
On 09/08/14 02:03 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 12:53:05 -0700 Paul Erickson wrote: Yes that is the version I am referring to, but when I execute it, the heading still reads version 4.2 and when I try to login, the connection is refused. Did you have to remove the previous

Re: FC 20 and new skype?

2014-08-09 Thread Paul Erickson
: What do you mean latest? I have 4.3.0.37 and working perfectly under FC20 L: On 9 August 2014 21:20, Paul Erickson <mailto:va...@telus.net>> wrote: Has anyone succeeded in installing that "latest" version of SKYPE in FC20? It was nice to have it working for a w

FC 20 and new skype?

2014-08-09 Thread Paul Erickson
Has anyone succeeded in installing that "latest" version of SKYPE in FC20? It was nice to have it working for a while, but MicroSoft seems to have done a good job of breaking things. -- ---- cheers, Paul Erickson, MCP,

Re: Fedora 20 K3B broken

2014-06-25 Thread Paul Erickson
On 25/06/14 06:00 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: Paul Erickson wrote: I don't know exactly when this happened, but today when I tried to use K3B, I get the following error: [paul@paul Desktop]$ k3b k3b: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such fi

Re: Fedora 20 K3B broken

2014-06-24 Thread Paul Erickson
On 24/06/14 09:17 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/25/14 12:07, Paul Erickson wrote: On 24/06/14 07:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/25/14 10:35, Paul Erickson wrote: I don't know exactly when this happened, but today when I tried to use K3B, I get the following error: [paul@paul Desktop]$ k3

Re: Fedora 20 K3B broken

2014-06-24 Thread Paul Erickson
On 24/06/14 07:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/25/14 10:35, Paul Erickson wrote: I don't know exactly when this happened, but today when I tried to use K3B, I get the following error: [paul@paul Desktop]$ k3b k3b: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot open shared o

Fedora 20 K3B broken

2014-06-24 Thread Paul Erickson
I don't know exactly when this happened, but today when I tried to use K3B, I get the following error: [paul@paul Desktop]$ k3b k3b: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory A search for libproj.so.0: reveals that it is on

Re: F20 - HP3050 scanning problems - Solved

2014-03-14 Thread Paul Erickson
The scanning problem with FC20 seems to have been solved. https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/244981 -- cheers, Paul - VA7NT - email: va...@telus.net "Those who hear not the music, think the dancers mad." "Tolerance

Re: F20 - HP3050 scanning problems

2014-03-04 Thread Paul Erickson
On 04/03/14 09:30 AM, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mark, Thanks for the reply. I used Simple scan as it worked fine on my previous FC16 build. I am using MATE for a desktop. Thanks again for the response. No problem. Honestly, I've never had Simple Sca

Re: F20 - HP3050 scanning problems

2014-03-04 Thread Paul Erickson
On 04/03/14 09:11 AM, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/14 11:58, Paul Erickson wrote: I am having trouble getting F20 to work with the scanning function of my HP3050. hplip and hp-setup are installed, and the printing function works fine, but the

F20 - HP3050 scanning problems

2014-03-04 Thread Paul Erickson
I am having trouble getting F20 to work with the scanning function of my HP3050. hplip and hp-setup are installed, and the printing function works fine, but the "Simple scan" and Xsane are not able to see the scanner. Running hplip-3.14.1.run returns a F20 not supported error, stating that I ca

Re: FC18 - Libreoffice keeps crashing

2013-09-29 Thread Paul Erickson
On 09/26/2013 10:37 AM, poma wrote: On 26.09.2013 18:49, Paul Erickson wrote: Thanks again, very much. The results of the commands are below. $ libreoffice --version LibreOffice 3.6 $mate-about --version Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". MATE Deskt

Re: FC18 - Libreoffice keeps crashing

2013-09-26 Thread Paul Erickson
On 09/26/2013 09:05 AM, poma wrote: On 26.09.2013 07:05, Paul Erickson wrote: … Thanks for that. Tried that, and a new .config/libreoffice folder was created when I start libreoffice, but again, when I try to configure the default language I get this error message: Xlib: extension "

Re: FC18 - Libreoffice keeps crashing

2013-09-26 Thread Paul Erickson
On 09/25/2013 10:17 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/26/13 04:58, Paul Erickson wrote: For some reason whenever I try to configure Libreoffice, for instance to change the default language setting, or try to change the font in a document, Libreoffice keeps crashing. I get the following error

Re: FC18 - Libreoffice keeps crashing

2013-09-25 Thread Paul Erickson
On 09/25/2013 05:38 PM, poma wrote: On 25.09.2013 22:58, Paul Erickson wrote: For some reason whenever I try to configure Libreoffice, for instance to change the default language setting, or try to change the font in a document, Libreoffice keeps crashing. I get the following error message

FC18 - Libreoffice keeps crashing

2013-09-25 Thread Paul Erickson
For some reason whenever I try to configure Libreoffice, for instance to change the default language setting, or try to change the font in a document, Libreoffice keeps crashing. I get the following error message: Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". Gtk-Message: (for origin info

Re: F18 - yum update broken?

2013-06-14 Thread Paul Erickson
On 06/14/2013 03:54 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:47:36 -0700 Paul Erickson wrote: Has yum update broken? For some reason when I went to update today, if got the following message: ...snip... I have never encountered this before. Any suggestions? Try now? Should be fixed

F18 - yum update broken?

2013-06-14 Thread Paul Erickson
Has yum update broken? For some reason when I went to update today, if got the following message: [root@localhost ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit updates/18/x86_64/metalink | 16 kB 00:00 Traceback (most recent c

F18 - gnome-applet-alarm-clock?

2013-06-08 Thread Paul Erickson
Does anyone know if gnome-applet-alarm-clock will be released for F18? The only thing I can find regarding this says that the status is "deprecated", and I do not know what that means. I realize that this is not a top priority item, but I have often used it in previous FC releases, and the curr

Re: F18 no support for NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev c1) video card?

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Erickson
On 05/15/2013 10:56 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: On 05/15/13 11:21, Paul Erickson wrote: I have been trying to install F18 on an A7V8Z-x with a NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev c1) video card. The same configuration is fine with F17, but with F18 after the install and first reboot, the grub screen

F18 no support for NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev c1) video card?

2013-05-15 Thread Paul Erickson
I have been trying to install F18 on an A7V8Z-x with a NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev c1) video card. The same configuration is fine with F17, but with F18 after the install and first reboot, the grub screen comes up fine, but then the screen goes grey and in the middle of the screen is a rect

Re: F 18 disk management tool

2013-04-15 Thread Paul Erickson
On 04/15/2013 12:49 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Apr 15, 2013 8:35 AM, "Paul Erickson" <mailto:va...@telus.net>> wrote: > > On switching to F 18, whenever I try to use the "disk management" tool under "system tools" I get this message: > >

F 18 disk management tool

2013-04-15 Thread Paul Erickson
On switching to F 18, whenever I try to use the "disk management" tool under "system tools" I get this message: There are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmount. Contact your administrator. In previous versions of Fedora, I could access this tool without difficulty. What do I

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-15 Thread Paul Erickson
On 04/15/2013 03:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.04.2013, Paul Erickson wrote: I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-14 Thread Paul Erickson
On 04/14/2013 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote: I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to

F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-14 Thread Paul Erickson
I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access them, I get an error message stating that the contents cannot be displayed due

Re: F18 problem moving directory data between machines

2013-03-06 Thread Paul Erickson
On 03/04/2013 04:20 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 04 March 2013, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: Don't use Nautilus? There are plenty of ways to copy directories other than with GUI tools, e.g. cp, rsync, tar, cpio, ... Or some other-than-Nautilus GUI tool. Nautilus is semi-okay as a file br

F18 problem moving directory data between machines

2013-03-03 Thread Paul Erickson
Hi Have Samba setup on my F14 and new install F18 machine, and while I can move large individual files between machines, when I try to move directories between machines, the transfer will start but then locks up. A Google search reveals that this has been a known problem for some time, but so far

Re: Moonlight/Silverlight addition for Linux Firefox?

2012-08-05 Thread Paul Erickson
On 08/05/2012 12:10 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 05/08/12 19:57, Edward M wrote: Paul Erickson wrote: http://www.ctvolympics.ca/videos/channel/obs12/watch/waterpolo.html Will be interested in your experience. Hello, I get a blank, grey screen. I suspect the content is encoded with

Re: Moonlight/Silverlight addition for Linux Firefox?

2012-08-05 Thread Paul Erickson
On 08/05/2012 11:57 AM, Edward M wrote: Paul Erickson wrote: http://www.ctvolympics.ca/videos/channel/obs12/watch/waterpolo.html Will be interested in your experience. Hello, I get a blank, grey screen. I suspect the content is encoded with digital rights management (DRM) stuff. I

Re: Moonlight/Silverlight addition for Linux Firefox?

2012-08-05 Thread Paul Erickson
On 08/05/2012 10:56 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 05/08/12 18:56, Paul Erickson wrote: Has anyone been able to get the Moonlight addition for Linux Firefox to work? I've have been trying to watch some of the Olympics online, A link might have been helpful? Not sure how helpful this will be

Moonlight/Silverlight addition for Linux Firefox?

2012-08-05 Thread Paul Erickson
Has anyone been able to get the Moonlight addition for Linux Firefox to work? I've have been trying to watch some of the Olympics online, and after installing the Silverlight/Moonlight extension as instructed cannot see the webcasts. I suspect MS deliberately broke them for non MS users. Anyone h

F17 GNOME 3 dual monitor problem

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Erickson
I have installed F17 on an A7V8X-X with an Athlon 2500 cpu with 2.5Gb of memory with a Quadro NVS 280 64MB AGP8X video card. Installation went fine and I was able to add enough extensions to GNOME 3 to make it usable, but when I add a second monitor, I get a "GNOME 3 failed to start" starting in

F12 and SyncMaster 2443 and 1920x1200 resolution?

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Erickson
Okay, let's see if I can get it right this time??? I have searched the archives, and not found anything that looks applicable. Has anyone been able to successfully configure F12 to support 1920x1200 resolution with the Samsung SyncMaster 2443? I have tried disabling the Nouveau drivers and insta

F12 and SyncMaster 2443 and 1920x1600 resolution?

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Erickson
I have searched the archives, and not found anything that looks applicable. Has anyone been able to successfully configure F12 to support 1920x1600 resolution with the Samsung SyncMaster 2443? I have tried disabling the Nouveau drivers and installing the Nvidia, but it doesn't seem to work. The