> "Joe" == Joe Zeff writes:
Joe> I've used preupgrade on both my desktop and laptop for the last
Joe> several upgrades and all has gone well. Yes, I did have to
Joe> expand /boot once and once I had to tell grub to start the
Joe> upgrade at boot, but compared to the type of t
> "Guillaume" == Guillaume Chapron writes:
>> This might (or might not) be helpful:
>> http://colina.demon.co.uk/?q=node/879
Guillaume> Thanks very much! It worked :-)
Are you using grub2 as the boot loader? And if so, did you have to you
use the --force option on grub2-mkconfi
>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Murphy writes:
Frank> On 09/11/11 11:57, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
Frank>
>>
>> Everything appeared to go well. At the end I pressed the button
>> to re-boot as instructed, but my F14 system just re-boote
>>>>> "suvayu" == suvayu ali writes:
suvayu> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 15:31, Colin Paul Adams
wrote:
>> The bug says a new preupgrade will be released shortly. I think I
>> should wait for that, although I don't know how to find out when
>>>>> "suvayu" == suvayu ali writes:
suvayu> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:57, Colin Paul Adams
wrote:
>> Everything appeared to go well. At the end I pressed the button
>> to re-boot as instructed, but my F14 system just re-booted as
>>>>> "Lamar" == Lamar Owen writes:
Lamar> On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 06:57:54 AM Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I have F14 installed on my Macbook Air, and I want to upgrade to
>> F16.
>> Everything appeared to go well. At the
> "Guillaume" == Guillaume Chapron writes:
>> This might (or might not) be helpful:
>> http://colina.demon.co.uk/?q=node/879
Guillaume> Thanks very much! It worked :-)
Good to know. I might have to read it again if I can't get preupgrade to work.
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> "Guillaume" == Guillaume Chapron writes:
Guillaume> I'm aware that I'm likely doing things I don't really
Guillaume> understand and this is why I'm seeking help on the
Guillaume> list. Could you please tell me what I should do (or
Guillaume> should not do)? My aim is to have
I have F14 installed on my Macbook Air, and I want to upgrade to F16.
So I read the installation manual, and quickly found chapter 20. I did:
yum install preupgrade
as instructed, and then:
preupgrade
as instructed.
Everything appeared to go well. At the end I pressed the button to
re-boot a
Is it possible to have Firefox continually updated by rpm on a Fedora 14
system, or do I have to choose between staying on Fedora 3 or using
tarball installs?
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>>>>> "Erik" == Erik P Olsen writes:
Erik> On 19/06/11 09:20, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I have the following situation:
>>
>> Shockwave Flash
>>
>> File: nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave F
I have the following situation:
Shockwave Flash
File: nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so
Version:
Shockwave Flash 10.3 r181
MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplashFutu
> "james" == james tate writes:
>> That's too late. Since it's a notebook, I re-boot it nearly every
>> time I want to use it. So when it re-boots, there will be no
>> functioning network in such a situation.
>>
james> I assume you do have the rpmfusion.rpms installed ?
> "james" == james tate writes:
>> Perhaps I could NOW try a yum install (with an option to force
>> install already installed packages), and that would future-proof
>> me until next time I install from scratch.
james> On Drivers that need to be updated with the kernel may not
> "Eric" == Eric Mesa writes:
Colin> It turns out that the dependency name is wrong!.
Colin> Actually, what i needed was kmod-wl 5.100.82.38 and kmod-wl
Colin> 2.6.35.12.88. This is REALLY weird (and plain unworkable,
Colin> almost).
Colin> Anyway, my network
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
Colin> My macbook airport isn't working again after recent kernel
Colin> updates. I found the rpm for
Colin> broadcom-wl.5.100.82.38-1.fc14.noarch.rpm, but when I try to
Colin> install it, it s
My macbook airport isn't working again after recent kernel updates.
I found the rpm for broadcom-wl.5.100.82.38-1.fc14.noarch.rpm, but when
I try to install it, it says it requires the wl-kmod as a dependncy.
Of course, i cannot do a yum install, as i have no network connection on
the laptop! So
> "Lamar" == Lamar Owen writes:
Lamar> On Thursday, April 14, 2011 09:46:24 AM Burkhard Plache wrote:
>> I had the same problem (Fedora 14 up-to-date, using Brasero), and
>> blamed it on my CD/DVD burner. Hmm.
Lamar> I have a client with the same problem; I showed him how to
> "Lamar" == Lamar Owen writes:
Lamar> On Thursday, April 14, 2011 09:46:24 AM Burkhard Plache wrote:
>> I had the same problem (Fedora 14 up-to-date, using Brasero), and
>> blamed it on my CD/DVD burner. Hmm.
Lamar> I have a client with the same problem; I showed him how to
I've just tried archiving some of my photos to DVD. I used Brasero.
I tried this using two different DVD drives (the one built into my
desktop, and a USB device - both have worked fine before). I get the
same results with each.
After burning the drive and ejecting it, I re-mounted it. Now i can s
>>>>> "Timothy" == Timothy Murphy writes:
Timothy> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> There's no such thing as technical correctness when it comes to
>> (human) languages.
Timothy> That may be true of English, but is it true of all
T
> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley writes:
Andrew> On 21/03/11 21:19, Vaclav Mocek wrote:
>>
Andrew> Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary really should warn
Andrew> learners that the first usage, although common, is
Andrew> technically incorrect.
There's no such thing as technica
> "James" == James McKenzie writes:
James> Hopefully, Gnome3 will bring more folks into the light and
James> see Windows for the brokenness it is.
Not something I hope for. Then we will get the full attention of the
virus writers.
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> "James" == James McKenzie writes:
James> All: I am looking at installing Linux on a very old piece of
James> hardware. I've tried FC12/13/14 but the screen is 'messed
James> up' and it only has 384MB of RAM. Also, I now have a brand
James> new, shiny MacBookPro. Any ideas
>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Elsner writes:
Frank> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:25:40 + Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I have a laser printer which was working fine. Unfortunately the
>> computer to which it was attached (which was running Fedora 12)
I have a laser printer which was working fine. Unfortunately the
computer to which it was attached (which was running Fedora 12) proved
to be sick.
So I've tried moving the printer to two other computers in turn (one
32-bit, one 64-bit) running Fedora 14. I cannot get it to work on either
of them.
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim writes:
Tim> On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 17:10 +, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> But then NetworkManager resets the ethernet port, and we go round
>> and round (very slowly).
Tim> Where does NetworkManager usually get your
Rick> On 12/28/2010 09:20 AM, Rick Sewill wrote:
Rick> Hmmm. I did a little more digging.
Rick> Could you instead of doing what I thought previously, replace
>> group {
>> host 192.168.254.254 { hardware ethernet 00:14:7F:F8:83:DD; }
>> }
>
Rick> with something like the following...
Rick
I'm trying to upgrade the software on my broadband router. The closest
instructions I could find to doing it are here:
http://markferry.net/Network.SpeedtouchUpgrade
Those instructions are Debian/Ubuntu specific, but I figured I ought to
be able to adapt them. However I'm not having any luck.
Wh
>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Stern writes:
Steven> On 12/19/2010 06:37 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> This only started happening a couple of days ago:
>>
>> My wife's desktop, and my laptop, connect to our broadband modem
>
> "Michael" == Michael Hennebry writes:
Michael> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
>> I agree with it being easier to migrate from C++, rather than to
>> C++. Unfortunately C++ probably has a longer learning curve than
>> most other programming languages. But th
This only started happening a couple of days ago:
My wife's desktop, and my laptop, connect to our broadband modem via
wifi. We find that now (as opposed to earlier in the week), we cannot
connect until we restart the modem.
My desktop and my webserver connect via an ethernet cable (static IP
add
> "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang S Rupprecht writes:
Wolfgang> Tom Horsley writes:
>> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:07:02 +0100
>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>
>>> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1409936
>>>
>>> Cannot confirm that. Running Emacs as root after lo
> "Michael" == Michael Schwendt writes:
Michael> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:45:21 +, Colin wrote:
>> The error is Glin-GIO:Error:gdbusconnection.c:2270:inittable
>> init:assertion failed etc.
>>
>> Googling showed that this occured in RC1. the tester got round it
>> b
My airport (wifi on Macbook Air) is working fine now fedora 14 is
installed (hooray!). But the default root is not enabled.
I can do so by typing as root:
route add default gw 192.168.254.254 eth0
but I don't understand why this is not done automatically by
NetworkManager.
So where can I config
The error is Glin-GIO:Error:gdbusconnection.c:2270:inittable
init:assertion failed etc.
Googling showed that this occured in RC1. the tester got round it by
unset -ing DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS.
This work-around works for me too. I guess I will have to put it in my
.bash_profile, or whatever one i
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Smart writes:
Chris> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Colin Paul Adams
Chris> wrote:
>&g
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Smart writes:
Chris> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Colin Paul Adams
Chris> wrote:
>>>
> Any suggestions?
Chris> Probably a poor suggestion
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Smart writes:
Chris> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Colin Paul Adams
Chris> wrote:
>>
> Any suggestions?
Chris> Probably a poor suggestion, but have you tried the
Chris> efidisk.img installer? I'm
>>>>> "M" == M A Young writes:
M> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> The initial installation menu comes up ok. I select the default
>> option (install or upgrade). A lot of messages flash by (about
>> two
The initial installation menu comes up ok. I select the default option
(install or upgrade). A lot of messages flash by (about two screens
worth), and then i see something like:
running /sbin/loader
check hardware
waiting for hardware
then it clears the screen, and the DVD drive runs for several
> "James" == James McKenzie writes:
>> After nearly a year, it's stopped working. It was working fine at
>> the beginning of this week. I tried booting off of one of the two
>> previous kernels (I'm still on fc12), but not much difference.
James> The new kernels broke many thi
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Danenberg writes:
Peter> Quoth Colin Paul Adams on Pungenday, the 56th of The
Peter> Aftermath:
>>> Maybe this will work with your second generation air.
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim writes:
Tim> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 08:34 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>> I have created a userContent.css in
>>> ~/.mozilla/firefo
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim writes:
Tim> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 08:34 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I have created a userContent.css in
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/.default/chrome/userContent.css
>>
>> that looks like
I have created a userContent.css in
~/.mozilla/firefox/.default/chrome/userContent.css
that looks like this:
body
{
backgroundColor: yellow;
}
and restarted firefox (3.5.12 - FC12) but it does nothing.
What am i doing wrong?
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For a week now I have been getting:
sudo yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package firefox.x86_64 0:3.5.12-1.fc12 set to be updated
---> Package xulrunner.x86_64 0:1.9.1.12-1.fc12 set to be upda
> "JD" == JD writes:
JD> So, on the face of it, it looks like it might be a gvfs problem.
JD> $ rpm -q gvfs gvfs-1.6.2-1.fc13.i686
JD> This update came in a couple of days ago.
JD> Can anyone shed any light on this?
I used to have such problems. Now I don't have gvfs/gp
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams writes:
Colin> Hello, My MacBook Air, running Fedora 12 (only - no Mac OSX
Colin> or anything else present) was working fine last night. I hit
Colin> the orange star to do an upgrade.
Colin> Today, the
Colin> Hello, My MacBook Air, running Fedora 12 (only - no Mac OSX
Colin> or anything else present) was working fine last night. I hit
Colin> the orange star to do an upgrade.
Colin> Today, the system could not see an eth0 wireless device (the
Colin> Airport).
Colin> I ed
Hello,
My MacBook Air, running Fedora 12 (only - no Mac OSX or anything else
present) was working fine last night. I hit the orange star to do an
upgrade.
Today, the system could not see an eth0 wireless device (the Airport).
I edited grub.conf to say default=1, so as to reboot the previous
kern
> "Tim" == Tim Waugh writes:
Tim> See if you still get the same problem -- if so, please report a
Tim> bug in Bugzilla.
Still the same problem.
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>>>>> "Marco" == M Fioretti writes:
Marco> On Mon, May 24, 2010 13:40:43 PM +0100, Colin Paul Adams
(co...@colina.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>> I don't know if this is a software issue, or if the printer is
>> just broken. (I'm using Fedor
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Waugh writes:
Tim> On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:40 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I have hplib installed (by downloading from the hp site and
>> following the instructions - many weeks ago).
Tim> Step 1: uninstall
I don't know if this is a software issue, or if the printer is just
broken. (I'm using Fedora 12)
Basically, I can print fine using plain paper/normal quality. But If I
try to print photo quailty/photo paper, the image is overscaled (about
twice the size), displaced so that the centre prints aroun
> "Dan" == Dan Irwin writes:
Dan> Clearly it provides a benefit.
Clearly?
it's not clear to me.
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(Still not getting emails from this list, so I'm reading the
archives. Jim, your message didn't really help, as it looks like it must
be HP-specific. Ubuntu users seem to have no problems, but I can't find
any fedora messages).
There doesn't seem to be an appropriate .conf file for the F4180 in
/e
I tried running hp-scan and got:
bash-4.0$ hp-scan
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.8)
Scan Utility ver. 2.2
Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
un
Hello,
I'm trying to use the Gnome scanner tool, but it can't find the device.
Googling shows that at least one person had no problems at all with this
printer/scanner.
Here is some command output:
bash-4.0$ sane-find-scanner
# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If th
Hello,
today I upgraded (actually a fresh install, but I kept my old /home
partition) to Fedora 12.
Now I can't ssh to the machine (I use DSA public key authentication
only). I can't figure out why.
One clue is that if I open a shell, I get landed in /. I have to
specifically type cd to change t
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