Out of action for a while & mono heads up

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

Due to a drive falling over dead (it held my /home directory) and then the
computer's RAID software deciding it knew how to fix the problem by
duplicating the /dev/sda drive (where my boot loader and lvm partitions sit)
instead of it asking, I've just about managed to get my computer up and
running again and it's now kind of stable.

I should be back to full steam by the weekend, but please be patient. I've
lost everything on my old drive (including my rpmbuild stuff) and need to
get back up to speed. I do have a partial back up from the laptop which
should help, but it won't have everything plus I need to figure out how to
access a ghost image to get the stuff out (should be able to do it via wine)

Onto something else, mono 2.8 is due out in September so Novell are going to
be releasing a 2.7 release candidate/test candidate series at some point
either late this week or early next. Please remember that the 2.8 branch
will not have any support at all for .NET 1.1. If you are maintaining
anything which relies on the 1.1 framework, please contact either the
upstream people for fixes or be prepared for breakages galore.

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Problems with the current rawhide

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

Following the disaster with my hard drive, the only way to fix was a
complete re-install. I did a clean F13 install, did the updates and then
moved to rawhide - something I normally do.

I've hit several problems though

1. I can't mount anything via the desktop. The DVD/RW is not showing when I
double click the Computer icon, though it is showing if I do ls /dev/sg* -
k3b thinks haldaemon isn't running which would make sense. If I restart
haldaemon though, still nothing. This mounting problem is also there for USB
pens
2. I can't scan. My scanner is on the SCSI port and is not being seen.
Worked fine before the reinstall. Possibly related to the above
3. If I boot with rhgb enabled, gdm doesn't start - I get a light blue
screen with no other displays (I can't just do ctrl f2-f6 for another
display - nothing happens)

I've got selinux set to permissive, but still nada.

Any clues or ideas on how to fix these?

TTFN

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F14TC2 x86_64 problem

2010-08-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

Is there a way around this problem?

I'm trying to install from DVD the TC2 image on the laptop (HP DV6 2113SA).
When I click to trash the HD, the installer dies on me saying there is an
error and asking me if I want to debug. I get the same problem if I try to
do a custom set up. Trying the other options - shrink thinks everything is
0Mb in size and everything else is just not happy.

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haldaemon seems dead...

2010-08-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

I've installed F13 on my home box, updated and then moved it to rawhide.
Everything seems more or less happy now, but it looks like haldaemon is
dead. I can't burn to DVD, USB pens won't mount, the printer is unrecognised
and the SCSI scanner has gone. All worked fine under F13.

Any clues on how to get things running? Last updated the machine this
morning (it will have caught yesterdays updates)

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Re: haldaemon seems dead...

2010-08-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

> I've installed F13 on my home box, updated and then moved it to
> > rawhide. Everything seems more or less happy now, but it looks like
> > haldaemon is dead. I can't burn to DVD, USB pens won't mount, the
> > printer is unrecognised and the SCSI scanner has gone. All worked fine
> > under F13.
>
> None of this uses HAL...
>

k3b is moaning that haldaemon is dead and so can't work. If it's not hal,
any ideas what it is? Wonder if dbus is being silly...

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dbus not responding to a large number of things

2010-08-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

It looks like dbus is failing to respond on my box correctly. For example,
if I try to run system-config-services as a normal user, I get the following

[p...@pb3 ~]$ system-config-services

** (system-config-services:11277): WARNING **: AT-SPI: Accessibility bus not
found - Using session bus.


(system-config-services:11277): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be
initialized before use
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/system-config-services", line 1040, in 
GUI(use_dbus=use_dbus).run()
  File "/usr/bin/system-config-services", line 957, in __init__
bus = slip.dbus.SystemBus()
  File "", line 2, in SystemBus
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 202, in
__new__
private=private)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 108, in
__new__
bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 125, in __new__
bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound:
Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or
directory

This dbus exception is showing up in a large number of places (including
when I attempt to mount a CD or USB pen or use the scanner). I thought it
was haldaemon being silly to start with, but I'm seeing the exception a lot.

Using dbus-1.3.2-0.1.885483.fc15.i686

Any help or advice appreciated.

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Re: haldaemon seems dead...

2010-08-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

> k3b is
> moaning that haldaemon is dead and so can't work. If it's not hal,
> > any
> ideas what it is? Wonder if dbus is being silly...
>
> rpm -q k3b kdelibs
>

[p...@pb3 ~]$ rpm -q k3b kdelibs
k3b-2.0.0-2.fc14.i686
kdelibs-4.4.95-1.fc14.i686


> kdebase-runtime hal-storage-addon
>

kdebase-runtime doesn't exist. I've done a clean reinstall of it, but I
suspect dbus is more the problem than anything...

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s-c-samba not a happy monkey (rawhide, f15)

2010-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

When I try to fire up s-c-samba, I'm getting the following reported back

Authorization error

The authorization needed for 'org.fedoraproject.config.samba.configure'
could not be obtained. The application will exit now.

Is anyone else seeing this? I need to set up the samba share for my main
box.

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Evolution - bits missing?

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

Post the disaster on my hard drive, I've restarted evolution, but have found
that the menu bar (File, Edit, etc) at the top has vanished. Is this a known
problem and if it isn't, is there a way to get it back there?

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Re: Evolution - bits missing?

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi Julian,

May it be that you recently installed gnome-applet-globalmenu?
> Uninstalling it should help.
> This was the issue everytime I heard about such behaviour...
>

Thanks - I'll look at that.


> If that doesn't fix it for you, I'd rather suggest to take this to the
> users list :)
>
> I would if I wasn't using rawhide...

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Rawhide evolution gone funny

2011-11-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

For some reason, Evolution is not finding any of the plugins or anything.
It'll start but has on the title bar

(null) Evolution.

>From the command line, I'm getting this

[paul@PB3 ~]$ evolution

e-utils-WARNING **: /usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined
symbol: gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run
Failed to load module:
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/modules/libevolution-module-addressbook.so

e-utils-WARNING **: /usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined
symbol: gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run
Failed to load module:
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/modules/libevolution-module-bogofilter.so

e-utils-WARNING **: /usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined
symbol: gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run
Failed to load module:
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/modules/libevolution-module-spamassassin.so

e-utils-WARNING **: /usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined
symbol: gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run
Failed to load module:
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/modules/libevolution-module-composer-autosave.so

e-utils-WARNING **: /usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined
symbol: gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run
Failed to load module:
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/modules/libevolution-module-startup-wizard.so

e-utils-WARNING **: /usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined
symbol: gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run
Failed to load module:
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/modules/libevolution-module-mail.so

e-utils-WARNING **: /usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined
symbol: gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run
Failed to load module:
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/modules/libevolution-module-calendar.so

evolution-plugin-lib-WARNING **: can't load plugin
'/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/plugins/liborg-gnome-evolution-google.so':
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined symbol:
gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run

evolution-plugin-lib-WARNING **: can't load plugin
'/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/plugins/liborg-gnome-evolution-google.so':
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined symbol:
gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run

evolution-plugin-lib-WARNING **: can't load plugin
'/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/plugins/liborg-gnome-exchange-operations':
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined symbol:
gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run

evolution-plugin-lib-WARNING **: can't load plugin
'/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/plugins/liborg-gnome-exchange-operations':
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined symbol:
gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run

evolution-plugin-lib-WARNING **: can't load plugin
'/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/plugins/liborg-gnome-sa-rspam.so':
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/plugins/liborg-gnome-sa-rspam.so: undefined
symbol: em_folder_tree_set_selected

evolution-plugin-lib-WARNING **: Cannot resolve symbol
'org_gnome_sa_rspam_startup' in plugin
'/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/plugins/liborg-gnome-sa-rspam.so' (not exported?)

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: Unknown shell view name: mail

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: e_shell_window_set_active_view: assertion
`shell_view != NULL' failed

evolution-plugin-lib-WARNING **: can't load plugin
'/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/plugins/liborg-gnome-templates.so':
/usr/lib64/evolution/3.2/libcomposer.so.0: undefined symbol:
gtkhtml_editor_file_chooser_dialog_run

e-utils-CRITICAL **: Plugin "Templates" is missing a function named
init_shell_actions()

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: Unknown shell view name: mail

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: e_shell_view_get_page_num: assertion
`E_IS_SHELL_VIEW (shell_view)' failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: shell_window_set_notebook_page: assertion
`page_num >= 0' failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: Unknown shell view name: mail

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: e_shell_view_get_page_num: assertion
`E_IS_SHELL_VIEW (shell_view)' failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: shell_window_set_notebook_page: assertion
`page_num >= 0' failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: Unknown shell view name: mail

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: e_shell_view_get_page_num: assertion
`E_IS_SHELL_VIEW (shell_view)' failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: shell_window_set_notebook_page: assertion
`page_num >= 0' failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: Unknown shell view name: mail

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: e_shell_view_get_action: assertion
`E_IS_SHELL_VIEW (shell_view)' failed

GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)'
failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: Unknown shell view name: mail

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: e_shell_view_get_title: assertion
`E_IS_SHELL_VIEW (shell_view)' failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: Unknown shell view name: mail

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: e_shell_window_update_view_menu: assertion
`shell_view != NULL' failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: Unknown shell view name: mail

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: e_shell_window_update_search_menu: assertion
`shell_view != NULL' failed

Any ideas on what's happened?

[paul@PB3 ~]$ rpm -qa evolution*
ev

xorg-x11 gone squiffy in rawhide?

2011-04-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

Just done quite a big update to my rawhide box, performed a reboot and have
been left without an x server. I thought it was the xserver, so downgraded
to 1.10.99.1-2.20110418.fc16, but still the same problem.

I'm getting a segfault at adress 0xb2b4c using the neuveau driver

Help! I'm reduced to using a win7 box

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Re: xorg-x11 gone squiffy in rawhide?

2011-04-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

On 21 April 2011 16:45, darrell pfeifer  wrote:

> I had the same problem. I'm using the intel driver.
>
> Backed out xorg to a previous version.
>
> I did that too, but no go :(

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OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
I decided to try to help the cause of Bayesian statistics and the open
source effort of the OpenBUGS group (http://www.openbugs.info/w/)  by
making some packages. In case you are not a statistically-inclined
person, it is worth knowing that Bayesian Updating with Gibbs Sampling
(BUGS) has caused something of a methodological landslide since the
early 1990s, helping scholars to model processes that were thought to
be too difficult.

In Linux, we do not have access to the OpenBUGS GUI, which

I've built deb and rpm packages for RedHat, Fedora and Ubuntu.  They
are available in my webspace and in the project.

I wish these could be in the official linux repositories, but I've not
tried to put these into an official repository because there are 2
problems that seem prohibitive.

First, the (now open) code for OpenBugs is written in Object Pascal
and it requires a compiler framework called "Black Box" which is, as
far as I can understand, available only for MS Windows.  The OpenBUGS
team compiles that library, and then for linux we use some accessor
scripts to send jobs to it.

This, of course, goes against the packaging policy that pre-compiled
libraries are prohibited.

I was wondering if there could be an exception here, since the code is
actually available and open.  This is more reasonable than
re-packaging the closed Nvidia drivers, for example.

Second, there is a little packaging problem for 64 bit systems.  The
library that is provided is only 32 bit, and to build it for a 64 bit
system, there is a somewhat confusing situation. The library itself
gets put into /usr/lib, which is supposed to be for 64 bit libraries.
And to make the whole thing package up in a workable way, the arch
ends up saying the packge is x86_64, even though it is only 32 bit.
To run OpenBUGS on a 64 bit system, one h as to install the 32bit libc
packages.

I've built the RPM on a 32bit system, it comes out with the proper x86
target in the file name,but that package will not instlal  on the 64
bit systems. Should it?  (As I said, I can build the package on the 64
bit system, and it comes out with a 64 bit file name, but it is really
32 bits.). Oh, bother, this is confusing to me, I can't imagine your
situation.

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Fedora/14/i386/kups/packages/

On the other hand, the ones I build on a 64 bit system:

Show up with 64bit names even though they are 32 bit programs:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Fedora/14/x86_64/openbugs-3.2.1-1.x86_64.rpm

In the current Fedora framework, I can't understand if that is
supposed to happen.

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Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Kofler  wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> In this case, the most obvious candidates would probably be
>> FreePascal/Lazarus and GPC, but porting to a completely different, more
>> commonly used language (I'd suggest C++) might also be worth considering
>> for upstream (depending on how hard it is to port to a Free Pascal
>> compiler).
>
> Actually, maybe this can help: http://cp-dev.sourceforge.net/ (but it's 32-
> bit-x86-only and it might not be complete enough to build OpenBUGS yet, plus
> I still wonder why the .obc source files contain that binary metadata in
> addition to the Pascal-like code).
>
>        Kevin Kofler
>

Thanks for the link. I did not know about that project yet, but it
does point over to the OpenBUGS site.

I agree with you it is a bit weird that the BUGS source code is
wrapped into those binary odc files.  The most favorable
interpretation I can give this is that it is a form of literate
programming, where the code is wrapped into documentation and so
forth.

To the ODC haters: I agree, but...

This *is* an open source project, if you have the right editor.  I ran
the free BlackBox program inside Wine just now. Putting code into ODC
files is not conceptually different from wrapping a CPP program into
LaTeX source code, or wrapping R code into an Rnw file. The fact that
the code is not just a flat ascii file you can read with Emacs does
not make it less open.

I will try to find out the historical reasons for relying on BlackBox.
 That decision was made in 1996 or so, and if you remember the state
of the world then, the g++ did not work very well and there were
competing/incomplete versions of the standard template library.  Java
did not exist, and Pascal was just about as widely used as C (moreso
in the classroom).  A lot of the bigger scientific programming
projects of that era avoided C++. The other project with which I was
intimately familiar is Swarm, which adopted Objective-C as its
language, mostly for the same reasons.

pj



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Gnome borked?

2011-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

After doing a rather large update to my rawhide box, it seems that it
no longer wants to play fair with Gnome giving a very unfriendly
"Something has gone wrong which I can't recover from. You should
logout and try again" message. Other than some desklet errors, nothing
seems to be wrong (obviously it is though).

Any ideas what the problem is or how to fix it?

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Re: Gnome borked?

2011-06-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi

>> Its both a black screen of death and a black box process. Very frustrating.
>>
>> In gnome 2 when the session crashed one could still run apps (add the term
>> shortut to nautilus, right click on the desktop and you have a term to launch
>> a wm and a browser to look for solutions). In gnome 3 you're finished.
>
> Well it is just a window, you can alt-f4 out of it.

tried that - you get windows up with no minimise bar etc. Close them
and you get the logout warning again... Something is borked - looks
like gnome-shell here.

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Evolution 3.3.1 in rawhide

2011-11-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

Just managed to upgrade tonight, but there seems to be a hitch with
evolution - none of my folders appear!

When I run from the command line, I'm getting the following

[paul@PB3 ~]$ evolution

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: shell_settings_pspec_for_key: assertion
`schema_name != NULL' failed

GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_entry_get_schema_name: assertion `entry != NULL'
failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: shell_settings_pspec_for_key: assertion
`schema_name != NULL' failed

GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_entry_get_schema_name: assertion `entry != NULL'
failed

evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: shell_settings_pspec_for_key: assertion
`schema_name != NULL' failed

GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_get_property: object class
`EShellSettings' has no property named `mail-enable-local-folders'

Is this mail-enable-local-folders the problem and is there a way around it?

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Re: Evolution 3.3.1 in rawhide

2011-11-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

On 7 November 2011 20:38, Mike Chambers  wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 19:10 +0000, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > Just managed to upgrade tonight, but there seems to be a hitch with
> > evolution - none of my folders appear!
> >
>
> None of your "local" folders appear, such as with pop, or imap folders
> or something else?
>

Correct. No folders what-so-ever appear.

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Unable to boot the 3.1.0 spins of the kernel

2011-11-12 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

Not sure what I've missed here, but I'm unable to load my machine
using any of the 3.1.0 flavours of the kernel. I can get (I think)
3.0.0-9 to boot no problems.

When I try the 3.1.0 spins, I get a kernel panic soon after booting

kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Pid1:,comm: swapper Not tainted 3,1,0-0.fc10.git0.1.fc17.x86_64

Any way to fix this?

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A small request

2011-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

Is it possible to configure koji to do a package rebuild when key
components are submitted?

For example, xorg-x11 is currently messed up for a number of
subpackages (as is libreoffice - poppler seems broken again). What
would be great would be if when xorg-x11 is rebuild, all of the
xorg-x11 subpackages are automagically rebuilt and if one of those
fails, then the main package fails and so some of the rawhide issues
get avoided and nice things like the x server stays up.

Okay, this might not be possible, but it would make life less painful!

I'd suggest xorg, gcc and possibly glibc as prime candidates for this.

Paul
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Re: A small request

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

>> For example, xorg-x11 is currently messed up for a number of
>> subpackages (as is libreoffice - poppler seems broken again). What
>> would be great would be if when xorg-x11 is rebuild, all of the
>> xorg-x11 subpackages are automagically rebuilt and if one of those
>> fails, then the main package fails and so some of the rawhide issues
>> get avoided and nice things like the x server stays up.
>
> Did --skip-broken not do what you'd wanted?

Unfortunately not. While it has prevented libreoffice from installing,
something else is saying that there is an ABI problem with vesa,
openchrome and neuveau now which the --skip-broken didn't stop getting
through.

What I'm thinking is that if (say) xorg-x11 is built, the drivers also
get built to ensure the likes of the ABI problem I've hit doesn't
happen

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Bugzilla is not being nice to me

2010-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

It's been quite a while since I've used the big red lizard and
unfortunately, I've lost my password. No problems. Hit the reset button.

As expected, it comes up with that it's sent a token to my email address,
but nothing appears.

Anyone know what the problem may be?

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Safest way to go from x86 to x86_64

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

My main box decided to snuff it last week (motherboard and processor decided
to fry). My erstwhile friend in the computer shop I use has said that he has
a nice 64 bit processor and motherboard going for a small amount of money.

The problem I have is that if I go the 64 bit route then I'll need to
install the 64 bit OS (I can stay 32 bit, but what's the point with 8Gb of
memory).

Is there a safe way to install the x86_64 system over the 32 bit version and
then clean off the 32 bit stuff that is no longer needed? If I was using
f14, I'd just trash the drive and then install, but I've got things how I
want them under rawhide.

I've not done this before, so advice before I do it would be appreciated.

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Re: Safest way to go from x86 to x86_64

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

On 14 December 2010 14:27, Richard W.M. Jones  wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:07:37PM +0000, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > Is there a safe way to install the x86_64 system over the 32 bit version
> and
> > then clean off the 32 bit stuff that is no longer needed? If I was using
> > f14, I'd just trash the drive and then install, but I've got things how I
> > want them under rawhide.
>
> Not really.  I would definitely suggest that you reinstall.
>
> I thought that would be the case - just wanted to check to ensure it's not
something I can do another way.

Okay, let's try another. Is there a way to grab a list of the packages
installed and use a network installer to do the job based on the list?

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GLib problem

2011-03-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

The latest and greatest glib2 seems to be causing me a pile of problems in
rawhide.

Evolution dies with
GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:202: failed to allocate 18446744073709551590 bytes
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)

There are horrid sized delays in logging in after the screensaver has been
active, nautilus dies or hangs, gnome-terminal dies and transmission loves
falling over or plain just not working, there is a delay > 3 mins and then
springs back to life.

Using glib2-2.28.1-1.fc15.x86_64 and evolution-2.91.90-1.fc16.x86_64.
Doesn't matter if I'm using the f15 or f16 kernel

Any ideas?

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Re: GLib problem

2011-03-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

> Using glib2-2.28.1-1.fc15.x86_64 and evolution-2.91.90-1.fc16.x86_64.
> > Doesn't matter if I'm using the f15 or f16 kernel
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Possibly glibc causing glib2 problems with dlloading?
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.13.90-5
>

Nope - just tried that, evolution still dies :(

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Mono-2.10.1 - coming soon

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

I'm just in the process of a final package for mono-2.10.1 and would like to
garner some opinions before the final spin.

Currently, there is a mono-4-preview sub-package which is an optional extra.
The .NET 4 stuff is pretty stable now and I'm thinking of retiring the
sub-package and adding the bits and bobs into the main package.

Does anyone have a problem with me doing this or would it be better just
renaming it mono-dotnet4 (or something like that)?

I'd like to push it for building tomorrow, so opinions are requested now.

This only affects rawhide.

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Re: Mono-2.10.1 - coming soon

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

On 7 March 2011 22:18, Chris Smart  wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Paul Johnson
>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm just in the process of a final package for mono-2.10.1 and would like
> to
> > garner some opinions before the final spin.
> >
>
> Was Mono ever split into the ECMA and non-ECMA components, as Miguel
> promised?
>

Not AFAIK - but then other things like shifting things to %{_datadir} never
happened either...

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glib2/glibc problem on x86 building mono-2.10.1

2011-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

I've just submitted mono-2.10.1 for building and it's failed giving me

make[8]: Entering directory
`/builddir/build/BUILD/mono-2.10.1/mcs/tools/gacutil'
MCS [basic] gacutil.exe
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-deps.c: 623: _dl_map_object_deps:
Assertion `nlist > 1' failed!

I had this a short while back with x86_64 but the problem seems to
have been fixed on x86_64 at least.

Anyone knows what gives on this?

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2898569&name=build.log

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gtkhtml-sharp (gnome-desktop-sharp)

2011-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi,

Currently, this is disabled in rawhide as it is linking to the gtkhtml3 API.

Does anyone know if this ban has been lifted yet or is the mono stack going
to be hobbled because of it for a while longer? (no gnome-desktop-sharp ==
no mono-tools == no monodevelop and so on...)

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