Kernel gcc mismatch?

2020-08-03 Thread Neil Bird
Am I misunderstanding something? I'm trying to update my local NVidia binary driver for the latest couple of kernels (5.7.10-201.fc32.x86_64 and later), but it's failing to build because: *** Failed CC version check. Bailing out! *** Recent kernels are still all being built with gcc 10.1.

Re: no such file or directory using "-" character

2014-08-03 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 03/08/14 08:01, Angelo Moreschini scribbled ... I need to go inside a directory named ; but I am not able to do it. An addendum to Joachim's suggestion: possibly try ls -d notebook* | od -tx1 .. to look for funny alternate characters. Maybe the hyphen is some funky Unicode

Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell

2012-09-18 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 17/09/12 15:35, Reindl Harald typed ... why in the world are you not doing the upgrade with yum? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17 That very link leads straight to: There is a general warning about upgrading via. yum being unsuppo

Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell

2012-09-17 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 17/09/12 15:30, bha...@bhanks.net typed ... I've searched all over and not found any reference to this exact problem. Any ideas? I had grub issues after an upgrade (DVD-based, though), and mine was down (among *many* other things) to a stuffed /boot/grub2/device.map, which I t

Re: Systemctl hates mysqld: refuses to start Fedora 16 (LONG)

2012-07-25 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 02/07/12 14:55, R. G. Newbury typed ... Systemctl on fedora 16 will NOT start mysqld. Bit behind, dunno if you've come to a conclusion yourself ... I've not had to do this myself, so I don't know how well, if at all, it'll work. I would try: strace -f -p PidOfSystemd -e

gdm not starting own pulseaudio - how should it?

2012-06-02 Thread Neil Bird
How should gdm be starting its own pulseaudio process? I've had an issue since upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 in that after a while, and not on any trigger I've yet identified, my /var/log/messages starts filling up with: pulseaudio[pid]: protocol-native.c: Denied access to client

Fedora 16 rhythmbox keeps freezing

2012-05-22 Thread Neil Bird
Since upgrading to F16 from F14, both my wife and I have found rhythmbox freezing after 3 or so songs, and it needs to be force-killed. Any thoughts? What may be relevant is that I have seen (at least for me, not necessarily my wife) a spew of the following sort of error logged in m

empathy auth. error with facebook and google talk

2012-05-21 Thread Neil Bird
I thought I'd try to get the gnome-shell IM stuff working (on my upgraded-to F16 box), and I believe I need to configure empathy for this. However, whenever I put my credentials in for either Google Talk or Facebook I get an “authentication error”. I know the passwords are correct; a g

A confession

2012-05-08 Thread Neil Bird
My name is Neil, and I have found that I actually quite like GNOME Shell. I had to update my box from Fedora 14 a fortnight ago, and was dreading having to move from a GNOME (+ compiz) environment, including persuading the family. I'd updated my laptop a while ago, and was just about get

Fedora 16 installer kernel crash

2012-03-24 Thread Neil Bird
I finally set aside time to try to upgrade my Fedora 14 box to F16, but I'me failing at the first hurdle. Anaconda is crashing out with a kernel bug shortly after selecting the OS to update: kernel bug security/selinux/ss/services.c:655 invalid opcode [#1] SMP Pid: 855, comm: anaco

Re: GNOME Shell - colour me deeply unimpressed

2011-06-21 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 21/06/11 13:17, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters typed ... > .. I first had to > go through the steps of the Fedora Forum on how to install the NVidia > drivers. Once they were installed though, the video card does everything I > expected it to do... I use the nVidia drivers on both my main wo

GNOME Shell - colour me deeply unimpressed

2011-06-21 Thread Neil Bird
I'm already deeply suspicious of GNOME Shell, and while I'm willing to give it a go, I'm certainly not upgrading my Fedora 14 boxes until I know I can get on with it. However, we must have tried 4 boxes or more now (not including VMs, and all with different graphics cards, inc. a high-en

Re: Fedora 14: iPod not mounting

2011-06-06 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 03/06/11 20:01, Patrick O'Callaghan typed ... > A simple iPod mounts as a storage device, but a Touch or iPhone is a > more complex beast with its own protocol. I'm at my work machine but > when I get a chance I'll check my home machine which already has this > set up. I think, in

Fedora 14: iPod not mounting

2011-06-03 Thread Neil Bird
I just got an iPod Touch 4G for my son, and tried it in my Fedora 14 PC (he has a school Windows laptop I can put iTunes on but I'd rather get it working “properly” :) ) When I plug it in I get am error popup: unable to mount ipod touch dbus error org.freedesktop.dbus.error.noreply: me

Re: F14: after kernel update, can't boot (from software RAID) [SOLVED]

2011-05-18 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 11/05/11 10:25, Neil Bird typed ... > I did a belated update of my Fedora 14 box last night, which included a > new kernel (2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE, previous was > 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE). However, upon trying to boot, it slept for a > little bit, then said so

Re: F14: after kernel update, can't boot (from software RAID)

2011-05-12 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 11/05/11 23:29, Adrian Sevcenco typed ... > did you, by any chance, patched your mkinitrd to support md_dX? > (partitionable raid1)? Nope, it all “just worked” before. [edit: no it didn't see below] I will own up to having done something slightly non-standard recently: I ha

Re: F14: after kernel update, can't boot (from software RAID)

2011-05-12 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 11/05/11 22:18, Alain Spineux typed ... > # mkinitrd -f /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.img > 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686 > some version of mkinitrd in the past where not handling raid very well. > Good luck OK, thanks, I'll give that a try over the weekend. -- [neil@fnx ~]#

F14: after kernel update, can't boot (from software RAID)

2011-05-11 Thread Neil Bird
I did a belated update of my Fedora 14 box last night, which included a new kernel (2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE, previous was 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE). However, upon trying to boot, it slept for a little bit, then said something like: Fatal: no boot partition found, sleeping forever

Mouse-wheel nudge left-right now generates key-presses, not buttons 6+7

2011-03-31 Thread Neil Bird
Since upgrading to Fedora 14 from 12, I'm seeing my wheel-mouse generating the *key* presses and instead of the expected button clicks and . This means that while it still works in, say, Firefox (where and scroll the current view), and I can move my caret left and right (!), it won

Can't use setkeycodes any more in Fedora 14

2011-03-23 Thread Neil Bird
I have a not-that-old Logitech multimedia keyboard for which I have to manually add some scancode-keycode mappings. Up till F12, I could happily do that with a call to setkeycodes at boot-up. Now I've updated to F14, however, setkeycodes is always erring with: KDSETKEYCODE: Invalid argu

Re: Fedora 14 - can't change pointer theme

2011-03-01 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 28/02/11 16:03, mike cloaked typed ... > Well I have done this on 7 machines and no problems changing it in the > settings menu under gnome - if you are using KDE that may behave > differently of course. I think it may be something to do with my running openbox. If I kill openbox

Re: Fedora 14 - can't change pointer theme

2011-02-28 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 28/02/11 14:46, mike cloaked typed ... > What I do is yum install bluecurve-cursor-theme gnome-themes-extras > oxygen-cursor-themes oxygen-icon-theme I have bluecurve, but it won't let me change to that either. -- [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls:

Fedora 14 - can't change pointer theme

2011-02-28 Thread Neil Bird
I updated from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 over the weekend, and now I can't change my pointer theme. I'm stuck using dmz-aa. The pointer preferences still show my custom pointer choice, it's just not being used. Well, mostly. Within Firefox and Thunderbird windows, my custom pointer is sh

Re: sort wierdness

2010-11-05 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 05/11/10 12:54, Jakub Jelinek typed ... > Just look into your vocabulary, it is sorted similarly. In most locales > various characters are considered only in second or even later passes > through strings, when strings without those characters are otherwise > equal. OK, I can see w

sort wierdness

2010-11-05 Thread Neil Bird
I am seeing sort treat '@' specially; in particular, it wanders around the sort order depending upon the rest of the input line. Anyone have an explanation? I guess it's something to do with locale, but the input strings affecting it as well make no sense to me. $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

Re: How to override /media as a mount point?

2010-09-02 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 02/09/10 11:10, Tim typed ... > If autofs is still used, I think you can play with /etc/auto.master > and /etc/auto.misc. I think that restricts my mounts to be under the autofs controlled dir. (in my case, /mnt/autofs). -- [n...@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [n...@fnx ~]# ls -l .sig

How to override /media as a mount point?

2010-09-02 Thread Neil Bird
I have a new USB drive I've set up to replace some old internal drives, and I'd like to have it automount it's partitions to where the internal drives were mounted, instead of /media/fslabel. I have to presume it's be some sort of udev config., but I can't for the life of me even see any

Re: Fedora12 keyboard choice setting is not respected.

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 22/03/10 13:32, Gabriel VLASIU typed ... > Edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi: > uk OK, thanks, I'll try that. Can I remove the other stuff in the XML? Will it still apply the /usr/share settings before the /etc ones? I'd rather only override the actual value I wa

Re: Fedora12 keyboard choice setting is not respected.

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Bird
After a bit more googling, I can see: $ lshal|grep input.xkb|sort -u input.xkb.layout = 'us' (string) input.xkb.model = 'evdev' (string) input.xkb.options = 'terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp' (string) input.xkb.rules = 'base' (string) input.xkb.variant = '' (string) Which may p

Re: Fedora12 keyboard choice setting is not respected.

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 20/03/10 00:49, David Timms typed ... >> When I chose my logon, Gnome shows USA as the keyboard. I've been seeing this since upgrading to F12 as well. I've seen hints when googling that it's an issue with gdm, but I've not pinned it down. I've been having to remember to chang

Re: gnome stickynotes applet replacement

2010-03-18 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 17/03/10 10:29, Neil Bird typed ... > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594797 This bugfix, applied to the current Fedora SRPM (along with re-enabling stickynotes) fixes the crash and all other bugs I've seen mentioned. The only issue I now have with it is

Re: Fedora 12 missing docbook.cat / docbook-xsl.cat

2010-03-17 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 17/03/10 13:35, Neil Bird typed ... > I think the problem is xml-common's /etc/xml/catalog: in the CentOs 5 > and Fedora 12 systems I have access to ... Oops, I meant Fedora 11 there. CentOS and F11 seem to be OK, but my F12 not. -- [n...@fnx ~]# rm -f .s

Fedora 12 missing docbook.cat / docbook-xsl.cat

2010-03-17 Thread Neil Bird
I'm seeing builds using xsltproc (gnome-applets in this case) take an age. Investigation shows that xmlReadFile is actualyl going off to the oasis-open website to get DTDs for verification, where I believe it should be using local copies from docbook-dtds. I think the problem is xml-c

Re: gnome stickynotes applet replacement

2010-03-17 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 16/03/10 15:16, Michael Cronenworth typed ... > gnome-applets-2.28.0-2.1.fc12 with the stickynotes code from > gnome-applets-2.26.3-1.fc11 > > If you erase the contents of a note, then click on delete, it will > delete. Another crazy bug. OK, thanks for that. The following may

Re: gnome stickynotes applet replacement

2010-03-16 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 16/03/10 14:45, Michael Cronenworth typed ... > I copied in the previous version code with a custom RPM and I am happily > using sticky notes. What version are you using? My approach till now had been to grab an older SRPM (may even have been from F10 which is what I had befor

gnome stickynotes applet replacement

2010-03-16 Thread Neil Bird
Can anyone explain the deal with the GNOME sticky notes applet and its disappearance in Fedora 12? There's a blanket comment in the release notes of its being replaced by gnote, but IMHO they're different beasts. This is not helped by the fact that the so-called sticky-notes-importer pl

Re: Fedora 12: no sound after switch users

2010-03-09 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 08/03/10 17:24, Mikkel typed ... > Before you do a lot of debugging, your system is working properly > with the default setup. I don't fully understand this; with F10, I never had any problems with PAS and multiple users, to the degree that if my wife was playing music I could

Fedora 12: no sound after switch users

2010-03-08 Thread Neil Bird
Following on from another thread (in which gdm seemed to be stealing sound-ability from users), I've updated to the latest pulseuadio RPMs from updates-testing, and by situation seems to have gotten worse. (NB: this is fedora 12; it was all working swimmingly in fedora 10, from which I

Re: Why does this ALSA config no longer work in Fedora 12

2010-03-05 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 05/03/10 09:34, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 typed ... > The following ALSA config enabled the recording of played sound > It is no longer working, any ideas as to why? None at all, but I'd put money on pulse-audio. I found the following on the net a while ago (still using F10 then), an

Re: Sound lockup if gdm pulseaudio enabled

2010-03-02 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 02/03/10 12:02, Sam Varshavchik typed ... > The current pulseaudio package has a bug. There's a pending update. > The bug may or may not be your bug, so you'll have to wait until an update > is out, before checking again. OK, thanks; I'll watch out for it being updated, and then h

Sound lockup if gdm pulseaudio enabled

2010-03-02 Thread Neil Bird
I've been having various issues with pulseaudio since upgrading my F10 box to F12 recently (it was previously working fine). The core issue seems to have been worked around my my disabling gdm puleeaudio (via root's gconf-editor, as mentioned on a blog somewhere). I'm concerned, thoug