Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely stuck

2014-02-20 Thread Bob Kinney
No one wants to take a swing at this one? I'm totally in limbo--I cannot fix Tbird because yum is hosed.  I can't reinstall F19 because my media is or became hosed, and the iso is hosed.  I'm pretty consistent about checking downloads and media before burning and installing, and I'm pretty sur

Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream"

2014-02-16 Thread Bob Kinney
I am having problems with Firefox and Thunderbird (Tbird crashed hard the other day), and I thought I'd run yum update (auto-notification is pretty flaky in Mate) before reinstalling both of them.  It seems that yum is broken also.  I keep getting the following message: [root@otis yumsql]# yu

Re: Where is Brctl in fedora13?

2011-01-16 Thread Bob Kinney
--- On Sun, 1/16/11, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > From: Rahul Sundaram > Subject: Re: Where is Brctl in fedora13? > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 4:50 AM > On 01/16/2011 03:47 PM, Clemens > Eisserer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anybody know in which package "brc

Re: memtest86+ doesn't work [SOLVED]

2010-07-15 Thread Bob Kinney
--- On Thu, 7/15/10, JD wrote: > From: JD > Subject: Re: memtest86+ doesn't work [SOLVED] > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 11:24 AM >   On 07/15/2010 05:35 AM, > n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: > > title Memtest86+ (4.10) > >     root (hd0,0) > >     kern

Re: trembling laptop screen with f13

2010-06-29 Thread Bob Kinney
--- On Mon, 6/28/10, Alexander Volovics wrote: > From: Alexander Volovics > Subject: trembling laptop screen with f13 > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Monday, June 28, 2010, 6:51 AM > Hello, > > I installed Fed 13 on a laptop with Intel Core I5-430M CPU > and integrated > Intel HD

Re: Impossible to find folder which contains kernel headers

2010-06-29 Thread Bob Kinney
--- On Fri, 6/25/10, Brett wrote: > From: Brett > Subject: Impossible to find folder which contains kernel headers > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Date: Friday, June 25, 2010, 11:23 PM > Hi, > I am trying to get vmware player running on Fedora 13, and > during the setup vmware player is

Re: Bash issues on reinstall

2010-06-12 Thread Bob Kinney
--- On Thu, 6/10/10, Ted Roche wrote: > From: Ted Roche > Subject: Re: Bash issues on reinstall > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 8:18 PM > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Bob > Kinney > wrote: > > > > &

Re: Bash issues on reinstall

2010-06-10 Thread Bob Kinney
--- On Wed, 6/9/10, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > From: Roberto Ragusa > Subject: Re: Bash issues on reinstall > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 11:44 AM > Bob Kinney wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how to avoid this

Bash issues on reinstall

2010-06-09 Thread Bob Kinney
Hello Folks-- I just installed F13 and for some reason the default bash aliases (like "ll" for "ls -l") weren't included, and the prompt is "bash-4.1$" rather than "[u...@host dir]$". I keep /home on a separate partition to make these reinstalls easier, but I always back up and erase the hidden