Re: dnf and "RPMDB altered outside of yum"

2015-04-07 Thread Jan Zelený
On 7. 4. 2015 at 17:40:06, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 09:30:21 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > You can remove yum and install dnf-yum package which provides an alias but > > I wouldn't really recommend that for Fedora 21 yet > > Even with Fedora 22 there are explicit dependencie

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 23:13 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Firefox has never asked me to update it on Fedora. Likewise. And one the major benefits *we* have over other OSs is that all updates come from the same place, managed by the same system (yum, or dnf, now). You don't have to individua

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:00:26 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 04/07/2015 05:44 PM, Jim Lewis wrote: > > I will add that Firefox is now almost unusable on this system. I have > > disabled the three plugins I have, didn't help. It works fine for about > > 5 minutes or so then crashes. Fortunate

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/07/2015 05:44 PM, Jim Lewis wrote: > I will add that Firefox is now almost unusable on this system. I have > disabled the three plugins I have, didn't help. It works fine for about > 5 minutes or so then crashes. Fortunately I have other machines. I > wonder if it will stay up long enough t

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/07/2015 12:50 PM, jdow wrote: On 2015-04-07 09:50, Pete Travis wrote: On Apr 7, 2015 2:37 AM, "Joe Zeff" mailto:j...@zeff.us>> wrote: > > On 04/07/2015 12:56 AM, Tim wrote: >> >> There's a difference between saying it's "a" support forum, versus >> saying it's "the" support forum. T

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 11:44 -1000, Jim Lewis wrote: > > I updated Firefox using the dialog that it throws up in my face > from > > time to time. I usually wait since every time I update something it > > breaks but this time I decided to just do it. Have to say the result > is > > not at all unexp

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Jim Lewis
> >> On 04/07/2015 06:21 AM, Jim Lewis wrote: >>> I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox >>> upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong >>> at >>> first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out >>> the >>> dialog thi

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread Ian Malone
On 7 April 2015 at 20:50, jdow wrote: > > Forums don't work after a remarkably short time unless there is a strong > moderator presence and participation. For over a decade I moderated one of > the most active Amiga developer related forums on any online service. I have > grown to prefer mailing

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Jim Lewis
> On 04/07/2015 06:21 AM, Jim Lewis wrote: >> I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox >> upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong >> at >> first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the >> dialog thing, restarte

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/07/2015 12:50 PM, jdow wrote: Forums don't work after a remarkably short time unless there is a strong moderator presence and participation. For over a decade I moderated one of the most active Amiga developer related forums on any online service. They also don't work very well unless th

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread jdow
On 2015-04-07 09:50, Pete Travis wrote: On Apr 7, 2015 2:37 AM, "Joe Zeff" mailto:j...@zeff.us>> wrote: > > On 04/07/2015 12:56 AM, Tim wrote: >> >> There's a difference between saying it's "a" support forum, versus >> saying it's "the" support forum. The first means it's a place you can

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/07/2015 09:50 AM, Pete Travis wrote: Also, I didn't want to ruin the joke, but shouldn't it be /var/credits ? :P Yes, and it would have been if I'd thought of it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraprojec

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread Pete Travis
On Apr 7, 2015 2:37 AM, "Joe Zeff" wrote: > > On 04/07/2015 12:56 AM, Tim wrote: >> >> There's a difference between saying it's "a" support forum, versus >> saying it's "the" support forum. The first means it's a place you can >> go, the second means you should go there instead of everywhere else

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.04.2015, Tim wrote: > Personally, I hate webforums, they're so chaotic and cumbersome to use. > I participate in around a dozen mailing lists, and I can do that because > messages come to me. I couldn't do anything like that if I had to visit > a dozen different websites. I'd like to seco

Re: dnf and "RPMDB altered outside of yum"

2015-04-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 09:30:21 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > You can remove yum and install dnf-yum package which provides an alias but > I wouldn't really recommend that for Fedora 21 yet Even with Fedora 22 there are explicit dependencies on "yum": # rpm --test -e yum error: Failed dependencies:

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/07/2015 06:21 AM, Jim Lewis wrote: > I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox > upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong at > first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the > dialog thing, restarted Firefox,

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Ted Roche
Jim: I've just upgraded the fedora-supplied FireFox 37.0 on Fedora 20 and "works fine for me" Linux myhost.mydomain 3.19.3-100.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 16:53:47 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Jim Lewis wrote: > > I hope this is not off topic for t

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Alchemist
2015-04-07 15:26 GMT+03:00 g : > > > On 04/07/2015 05:53 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Jim Lewis writes: > >> I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox > >> upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong > at > >> first, but when I tried to go

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread g
On 04/07/2015 05:53 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jim Lewis writes: >> I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox >> upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong at >> first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the >>

Re: Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jim Lewis writes: I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong at first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the dialog thing, restarted Firefox, and went there again. Cras

Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

2015-04-07 Thread Jim Lewis
I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong at first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the dialog thing, restarted Firefox, and went there again. Crashed again. Has anyone

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/07/2015 12:56 AM, Tim wrote: There's a difference between saying it's "a" support forum, versus saying it's "the" support forum. The first means it's a place you can go, the second means you should go there instead of everywhere else. All forms of Fedora support are community based, even

Re: [OT] For your amusement

2015-04-07 Thread Tim
poma: >> Where "ask.fedora is the distro's official support forum"? is stated >> officially? Suvayu Ali: > Maybe this counts? https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/about/ > > Ask Fedora is community edited knowledge base and support forum for > the Fedora community. [...] There's a difference b