Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-24 Thread g
On 08/24/2013 11:53 AM, Frank wrote: <> I thought so :) you would. :=P tho i just now noticed you are bing with s. <<>> icewm btw, are you using 'icewm' because of it's simplicity or low memory usage? i have some maintenance disk with it. it seems ok, just never tried it. <<

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-24 Thread Frank
On 08/24/2013 12:37 PM, g wrote: On 08/24/2013 09:26 AM, Frank wrote: On 08/23/2013 09:33 PM, g wrote: On 08/23/2013 08:19 PM, Frank wrote: <<>> There is no section header in my yumex.conf file. The first line is "yumex" then comes various keywords. do you have "yumex" or "[yume

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-24 Thread g
On 08/24/2013 09:26 AM, Frank wrote: On 08/23/2013 09:33 PM, g wrote: On 08/23/2013 08:19 PM, Frank wrote: <<>> There is no section header in my yumex.conf file. The first line is "yumex" then comes various keywords. do you have "yumex" or "[yumex]"? [yumex] that is a _sectio

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-24 Thread Frank
On 08/23/2013 09:33 PM, g wrote: On 08/23/2013 08:19 PM, Frank wrote: <> There is no section header in my yumex.conf file. The first line is "yumex" then comes various keywords. do you have "yumex" or "[yumex]"? [yumex] is it preceded with spaces? no what fedora release

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread g
On 08/23/2013 08:57 PM, poma wrote: <> /etc/yumex.conf [yumex] autorefresh = 1 recentdays = 14 proxy = exclude = debug = 0 color_install = darkgreen color_update = red color_normal = black color_obsolete = blue plugins = 1 yumdebuglevel = 2 /etc/yumex.profiles.conf [main] lastprofile = yum-en

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread g
*OOPS* On 08/23/2013 08:17 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/23/13 06:23, Jim wrote: fedora 18 / KDE I have problems starting Yumex, something about backend not running. Yum runs normal doing installs or updates 15:20:54 : DEBUG - Initialize yum backend - BEGIN 15:20:54 : DEBUG - Setup START

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread poma
On 23.08.2013 20:07, Frank wrote: > On 23/08/13 12:47 PM, Jim wrote: >> On 08/23/2013 02:09 AM, g wrote: >>> >>> hello jim, >>> >>> "this tape will self destruct if yum quits" ;=) >>> >>> >>> On 08/22/2013 05:23 PM, Jim wrote: fedora 18 / KDE I have problems starting Yumex, somethin

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread g
On 08/23/2013 08:17 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/23/13 06:23, Jim wrote: fedora 18 / KDE I have problems starting Yumex, something about backend not running. Yum runs normal doing installs or updates 15:20:54 : DEBUG - Initialize yum backend - BEGIN 15:20:54 : DEBUG - Setup START A

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread g
On 08/23/2013 08:19 PM, Frank wrote: <> There is no section header in my yumex.conf file. The first line is "yumex" then comes various keywords. do you have "yumex" or "[yumex]"? is it preceded with spaces? what fedora release? what desktop? what release/version? do you normally run

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread Frank
On 08/23/2013 09:14 PM, g wrote: On 08/23/2013 06:57 PM, Jim wrote: On 08/23/2013 06:18 PM, g wrote: On 08/23/2013 03:32 PM, Jim wrote: <<>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iniparse/ini.py", line 565, in _readfp raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fname, linecount, line) /

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/23/13 06:23, Jim wrote: > fedora 18 / KDE > > I have problems starting Yumex, something about backend not running. > > Yum runs normal doing installs or updates > > 15:20:54 : DEBUG - Initialize yum backend - BEGIN > 15:20:54 : DEBUG - Setup START At this point you should be getting a

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread g
On 08/23/2013 06:57 PM, Jim wrote: On 08/23/2013 06:18 PM, g wrote: On 08/23/2013 03:32 PM, Jim wrote: <<>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iniparse/ini.py", line 565, in _readfp raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fname, linecount, line) /*NOTE* MissingSectionHeaderError:

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread Jim
On 08/23/2013 06:18 PM, g wrote: On 08/23/2013 03:32 PM, Jim wrote: On 08/23/2013 02:07 PM, Frank wrote: <<>> Yumex runs yum as a backend...so the yumex.conf file must have use_sudo=1 in it. Its located on my 19 system as $HOME/.config/yumex On my system sudo is configured to give roo

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread g
On 08/23/2013 03:32 PM, Jim wrote: On 08/23/2013 02:07 PM, Frank wrote: <<>> Yumex runs yum as a backend...so the yumex.conf file must have use_sudo=1 in it. Its located on my 19 system as $HOME/.config/yumex On my system sudo is configured to give root access without a password. YMMV.

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread Frank
On 08/23/2013 04:32 PM, Jim wrote: On 08/23/2013 02:07 PM, Frank wrote: On 23/08/13 12:47 PM, Jim wrote: On 08/23/2013 02:09 AM, g wrote: hello jim, "this tape will self destruct if yum quits" ;=) On 08/22/2013 05:23 PM, Jim wrote: fedora 18 / KDE I have problems starting Yumex, somethi

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2013 01:32 PM, Jim wrote: I put the use_sudo=1 in the first line of ~/.config/yumex... My version doesn't have that. Checking with alacarte, the command used is simply /usr/bin/yumex and when I run it, the first thing that happens after the window opens is that beesu pops up askin

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread g
hi frank, jim, On 08/23/2013 01:07 PM, Frank wrote: <> Yumex runs yum as a backend...so the yumex.conf file must have use_sudo=1 in it. Its located on my 19 system as $HOME/.config/yumex interesting. what release/virgin are you running? what desktop? i am holding off from fedora un

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread Jim
On 08/23/2013 02:07 PM, Frank wrote: On 23/08/13 12:47 PM, Jim wrote: On 08/23/2013 02:09 AM, g wrote: hello jim, "this tape will self destruct if yum quits" ;=) On 08/22/2013 05:23 PM, Jim wrote: fedora 18 / KDE I have problems starting Yumex, something about backend not running. Yum r

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread Frank
On 23/08/13 12:47 PM, Jim wrote: On 08/23/2013 02:09 AM, g wrote: hello jim, "this tape will self destruct if yum quits" ;=) On 08/22/2013 05:23 PM, Jim wrote: fedora 18 / KDE I have problems starting Yumex, something about backend not running. Yum runs normal doing installs or updates

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread g
On 08/23/2013 11:47 AM, Jim wrote: <> When running Yumex, and it Fails, nothing shows up in /var/log/yum.log. Nothing shows up about Yumex Failed in /var/log/messages. then i guess the tape self destructed. :=D iirc, and with my chemo memory not messing with my recall too badly, there is a

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-23 Thread Jim
On 08/23/2013 02:09 AM, g wrote: hello jim, "this tape will self destruct if yum quits" ;=) On 08/22/2013 05:23 PM, Jim wrote: fedora 18 / KDE I have problems starting Yumex, something about backend not running. Yum runs normal doing installs or updates i am not up on yum or yumex other

Re: Yumex problem

2013-08-22 Thread g
hello jim, "this tape will self destruct if yum quits" ;=) On 08/22/2013 05:23 PM, Jim wrote: fedora 18 / KDE I have problems starting Yumex, something about backend not running. Yum runs normal doing installs or updates i am not up on yum or yumex other than to say that _yumex_ is t

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-14 Thread g
Thomas Taylor wrote: > Thanks for your reply, G. JB tipped me off to that too, I'll check it out > tomorrow. Time for bed, the old eyes are getting bleary. welcome. yes, jb replied while i was writing up what i found at yumex site. so, if you are using 2.9.6 or higher, you should be 'good t

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:32:53 + g wrote: > Thomas Taylor wrote: > > > > Hi G; > >> *yumex* is seeing the network connection as disabled because it is > >> checking for connection thru 'gui'. > > > > I'm not using a gui network connection but ifup method if that is what > > you're saying. >

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:16:46 + (UTC) JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Thomas Taylor comcast.net> writes: > > > > > > > > For some reason Yumex returns an error message saying "Not connected to an > > > network. Do you want to continue". However Yum works as expected running

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-14 Thread g
Thomas Taylor wrote: > Hi G; >> *yumex* is seeing the network connection as disabled because it is >> checking for connection thru 'gui'. > > I'm not using a gui network connection but ifup method if that is what > you're saying. ok. then i understand that you are using 'ifup' via a terminal.

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:27:26 -0400 "Darr" wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 July, 2010 @01:56 zulu Thomas Taylor scribed: > > > Where else should I look? > > Did you try > # yum update yumex > ? > > FWIW, I do not recall ever seeing that message from yumex, > even when I didn't have a connection to t

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-13 Thread g
Thomas Taylor wrote: > For some reason Yumex returns an error message saying "Not connected to an > network. Do you want to continue". However Yum works as expected running > updates. i had same problems. *yumex* is seeing the network connection as disabled because it is checking for connection

Re: Yumex problem - no network connection

2010-07-13 Thread Darr
On Wednesday, 14 July, 2010 @01:56 zulu Thomas Taylor scribed: > Where else should I look? Did you try # yum update yumex ? FWIW, I do not recall ever seeing that message from yumex, even when I didn't have a connection to the network. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un