Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-08-01 Thread EGO2.1
On 08/01/2012 10:37 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:08:35 -0400, eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: Well I'm ALMOST sure my acct is root Could you show the terminal output of the "id" command? Unfortunately it's too latethe laptop has since "given up the ghost"...I'm in

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-08-01 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:08:35 -0400, eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: > Well I'm ALMOST sure my acct is root Could you show the terminal output of the "id" command? -- Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.4.6-2.fc17.x86_64 loadavg: 0.10 0.19 0.22 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapr

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-08-01 Thread Eddie O'Connor
Cool!Iwill!...you have so much knowledge about this stuff...and you claim to do this for fun!!??? On Aug 1, 2012 7:15 AM, "Ed Greshko" wrote: > "eoconno...@gmail.com" wrote: > > >Well I'm ALMOST sure my acct is rootI don't remember creating a > >different username/acct when I first insta

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-08-01 Thread Ed Greshko
"eoconno...@gmail.com" wrote: >Well I'm ALMOST sure my acct is rootI don't remember creating a >different username/acct when I first installed Fedora. And when I >install software and I get prompted for a passwordthe same one that >logs me in also gets me past authentication.bit there

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-08-01 Thread eoconno...@gmail.com
quot;Ed Greshko" To: "Community support for Fedora users" Subject: Unable To Update. Date: Wed, Aug 1, 2012 6:03 am On 08/01/2012 05:06 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: > I tried Ed, but it's saying I don't have permissions..now I know this is > i

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-08-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/01/2012 05:06 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: > I tried Ed, but it's saying I don't have permissions..now I know this is > ill advised, but when I first installed F16 I did the unthinkable and made my > USER account the ROOT account, so I don't see how that's > possible.hmmm..

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-08-01 Thread Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I
On 07/31/2012 07:29 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/01/2012 06:33 AM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: WellI tried the suggestion Ed, and unfortunately this is the output: bash-4.2# yum distro-sync Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, remove-with-leaves http://repos.fedorapeople.

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-07-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/01/2012 06:33 AM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: > WellI tried the suggestion Ed, and unfortunately this is the output: > > bash-4.2# yum distro-sync > Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, remove-with-leaves > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/luya/gimp/fedora-15/i686/re

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-07-31 Thread Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I
On 07/31/2012 09:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/31/2012 09:02 PM, Eddie O'Connor wrote: And in reference to upgrading from F16 to F17I'm not realy going to do THAT until I know they've worked out all the kinks, I always kind of "trail" the releases so that I'm never so far ahead that I ca

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-07-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/31/2012 09:02 PM, Eddie O'Connor wrote: > And in reference to upgrading from F16 to F17I'm not realy going to do > THAT until I know they've worked out all the kinks, I always kind of "trail" > the releases so that I'm never so far ahead that I can't go "back". I only > recently moved

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-07-31 Thread Eddie O'Connor
And in reference to upgrading from F16 to F17I'm not realy going to do THAT until I know they've worked out all the kinks, I always kind of "trail" the releases so that I'm never so far ahead that I can't go "back". I only recently moved up from F15 when it's Support Life Cycle endedI;l be

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-07-31 Thread eoconno...@gmail.com
Thanks Ed!I'll try that and let you know how it goes... Sent from Eddie's Cell Phone - Reply message - From: "Ed Greshko" To: "Community support for Fedora users" Subject: Unable To Update. Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2012 8:56 pm On 07/31/2012 08:46 A

Re: Unable To Update.....

2012-07-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/31/2012 08:46 AM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: > I'm currently finding it difficult to upgrade my Fedora 16 laptop. I have > tried being selective and choosing just one or two of the updates in the he > updates list, hoping that after they went through I'd be able to do the rest > but to n

Unable To Update.....

2012-07-30 Thread Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I
I'm currently finding it difficult to upgrade my Fedora 16 laptop. I have tried being selective and choosing just one or two of the updates in the he updates list, hoping that after they went through I'd be able to do the rest but to no avail. I would like to submit a photo of the actual update

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kaushik Guha
My problem is gone. *I can update/upgrade packages onto my Fedora 16(x86_64) OS at ease.* I thank all my Friends for their valuable suggestions and advice regarding configuring(choosing) correctly the repositories from the repos list,and to erase or deselect certain packages which were providing d

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 1/28/2012 5:53 PM, Kaushik Guha wrote: To Mr. Paul Allen Newell: Sir,it was a legit request .But I do honour and respect people's privacy.Sir,I am removing your name from my Google+ circle as you suggested on the mail.Also,remember I do not have any malicious intentions as such. From -Kaus

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kaushik Guha
To Mr. Paul Allen Newell: Sir,it was a legit request .But I do honour and respect people's privacy.Sir,I am removing your name from my Google+ circle as you suggested on the mail.Also,remember I do not have any malicious intentions as such. From -Kaushik Guha. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Aar

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 21:41 +0530, Kaushik Guha wrote: > To Aaron Konstan: Well, "apper" is the actual name represented as per > Fedora16,now this user's community gmail space is not for programming > as we all know,I think, typos,lower-upper case letter mixing, doesn't > affect much.Though you ar

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 1/28/2012 9:02 AM, Kaushik Guha wrote: [...] I am getting hit with emails from Google+ about Kaushik Guha adding me to his circles and requesting that I join Google+. Normally I would ignore, but given the tendency of this list to lite up on most anything non-Fedora that comes along, I wan

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 17:02, Kaushik Guha wrote: Thanks,Frank.I followed your advice,and after erasing the*npapi-vlc* package along with the *whole of vlc-core package*,system has come to its stability(regarding updates/upgrades) as it seems. If I want to freshly install vlc package,shouid I use *YUM* or t

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kaushik Guha
Thanks,Frank.I followed your advice,and after erasing the* npapi-vlc*package along with the *whole of vlc-core package*,system has come to its stability(regarding updates/upgrades) as it seems. If I want to freshly install vlc package,shouid I use *YUM* or through * apper?* I want the whole librari

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 16:36, Kaushik Guha wrote: Currently I am at ease with KDE,and I am in it while I write this.Occasionally I use LXDE also,but GNOME-3.x seems to be uneasy with*me *at least. I've stated earlier,that it was my mistake to enable most of the repos. in the repos list. I had already disabl

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kaushik Guha
Currently I am at ease with KDE,and I am in it while I write this.Occasionally I use LXDE also,but GNOME-3.x seems to be uneasy with* me *at least. I've stated earlier,that it was my mistake to enable most of the repos. in the repos list. I had already disabled all "rawhide" repos and also the "ATr

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 16:11, Kaushik Guha wrote: To Frank,Kevin,Reindl,John...Friends: I actually wanted to enable the repos. list(not all),since I want to *UPGRADE *this distro Fedora16(64-bit) to Fedora 17(64-bit)(due to launch in May/June 2012)without losing any files,applications,tools etc. until insta

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.01.2012 17:11, schrieb Kaushik Guha: > To Frank,Kevin,Reindl,John...Friends: I actually wanted to enable the repos. > list(not all),since I want to *UPGRADE* this distro Fedora16(64-bit) to > Fedora 17(64-bit)(due to launch in May/June 2012) without losing any > files,applications,tools e

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kaushik Guha
To Aaron Konstan: Well, "apper" is the actual name represented as per Fedora16,now this user's community gmail space is not for programming as we all know,I think, typos,lower-upper case letter mixing, doesn't affect much.Though you are correct that we should be true about information & facts. To

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 06:19, Kaushik Guha wrote: Thank you again Reindl. Oh! It was a mistake on my part to enable a hell lot of repos. list. Sorry,to bother you Friend. What I'm doing now is,whenever any update/upgrade is available,I uncheck those packages which has ending as "*.fc17" .The rest package

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 10:41 +0530, Kaushik Guha wrote: > I did uncheck/disable the Fedora "Rawhide" repos.,along with all the > "Test Updates" repos. from Fedora using "Apper"(A fantastic Tool). Since everone else shares the things that bug them let me join the crowd. The name of the program from

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 15:06, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 28.01.2012 15:22, schrieb Frank Murphy: On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: nobody knows where the repo "_local" lives locate local.conf the path is listd in there. really? :-) less of the smartarse. please. > /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-loc

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kevin Martin
On 01/28/2012 08:46 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: > > > On 01/28/2012 12:19 AM, Kaushik Guha wrote: >> Thank you again Reindl. >> Oh! It was a mistake on my part to enable a hell lot of repos. list. >> Sorry,to bother you Friend. >> >> What I'm doing now is,whenever any update/upgrade is available,I u

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.01.2012 15:22, schrieb John Pilkington: > On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> maybe after soem hours your machine would be clean, but realize >> it is not an easy job since yu have enabled all sort of braindead >> repos including ATrpms and your whole setup is broked >> > You seem

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.01.2012 15:22, schrieb Frank Murphy: > On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: >> nobody knows where the repo "_local" lives > > locate local.conf > the path is listd in there. really? :-) /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-local.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf anf

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Kevin Martin
On 01/28/2012 12:19 AM, Kaushik Guha wrote: > Thank you again Reindl. > Oh! It was a mistake on my part to enable a hell lot of repos. list. > Sorry,to bother you Friend. > > What I'm doing now is,whenever any update/upgrade is available,I uncheck > those packages which has ending as "*.fc17" .

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread John Pilkington
On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: maybe after soem hours your machine would be clean, but realize it is not an easy job since yu have enabled all sort of braindead repos including ATrpms and your whole setup is broked You seem very free in your dismissal of the ATrpms repo, which I have

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On 28/01/12 14:10, Reindl Harald wrote: nobody knows where the repo "_local" lives locate local.conf the path is listd in there. -- Regards, Frank Murphy, friend of fedoraproject UTF_8 Encoded -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.01.2012 07:19, schrieb Kaushik Guha: > Thank you again Reindl. > Oh! It was a mistake on my part to enable a hell lot of repos. list. > Sorry,to bother you Friend. > > What I'm doing now is,whenever any update/upgrade is available,I uncheck > those packages which has ending as > "*.fc17"

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Kaushik Guha
Thank you again Reindl. Oh! It was a mistake on my part to enable a hell lot of repos. list. Sorry,to bother you Friend. What I'm doing now is,whenever any update/upgrade is available,I uncheck those packages which has ending as "*.fc17" .The rest packages with updates(*.fc16) are fine in updatin

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.01.2012 06:11, schrieb Kaushik Guha: > I did uncheck/disable the Fedora "Rawhide" repos why were they enabled? this is a road to hell! > What about the "ATrpms" repositories? I've disabled it > earlier...should I enable it? only if you want to kill yur system over the long ATrpms is kno

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Kaushik Guha
Agreed Friends,about the comments. I request you people,not to make a war of words amongst each other. I Thank very much to: Reindl Harald; Kevin Martin; Joe Zeff ;for the valuable suggestions given by you. I did uncheck/disable the Fe

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2012 11:12 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: without EXPLICIT warning that it is generally not a good idea and why tjhere may be enough uneducated users who starts thinking "well if something does not run disbale gpgcheck is a solution" I agree that the only time skipping the check is a good i

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.01.2012 20:07, schrieb Joe Zeff: > On 01/27/2012 08:42 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> so tell him "yum --nogpgcheck upgrade" because this is temporary, tell >> people disable it per option will mostly result in permanently disabled > > I don't know about anybody else, but I had the impression

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2012 08:42 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: so tell him "yum --nogpgcheck upgrade" because this is temporary, tell people disable it per option will mostly result in permanently disabled I don't know about anybody else, but I had the impression that this was exactly what he was suggesting. A

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/27/2012 08:21 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: tell someone he should disable gpgcheck is dumb, because you suggest if people have problems they should do this - WTF do you understand why this exists and what damage are hapenning if you get a bad core-package on your system which was only installed

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Kevin Martin
On 01/27/2012 10:42 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 27.01.2012 17:28, schrieb Kevin Martin: >> yum clean all and yum upgrade will solve some problems, but certainly not >> 99% of them. For example, I *am* a >> tester of rawhide and have been fighting a battle with the x11 updates. I >> finall

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.01.2012 17:28, schrieb Kevin Martin: > yum clean all and yum upgrade will solve some problems, but certainly not 99% > of them. For example, I *am* a > tester of rawhide and have been fighting a battle with the x11 updates. I > finally removed about 25 x11 packages > that I determined w

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Kevin Martin
On 01/27/2012 10:21 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 27.01.2012 17:14, schrieb Kevin Martin: >> >> On 01/27/2012 09:56 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> Am 27.01.2012 16:15, schrieb Kevin Martin: On 01/27/2012 08:51 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 27.01.2012 15:34, schrieb Kaushik Guha: >>>

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.01.2012 17:14, schrieb Kevin Martin: > > > On 01/27/2012 09:56 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 27.01.2012 16:15, schrieb Kevin Martin: >>> >>> >>> On 01/27/2012 08:51 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 27.01.2012 15:34, schrieb Kaushik Guha: > Dear Friends, > > > While upg

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Kaushik Guha
Thanks Kevin. On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: > > > On 01/27/2012 09:56 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 27.01.2012 16:15, schrieb Kevin Martin: > > On 01/27/2012 08:51 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 27.01.2012 15:34, schrieb Kaushik Guha: > > Dear Friends, > > > While up

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Kevin Martin
On 01/27/2012 09:56 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 27.01.2012 16:15, schrieb Kevin Martin: >> >> >> On 01/27/2012 08:51 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> Am 27.01.2012 15:34, schrieb Kaushik Guha: Dear Friends, While upgrading through "Yumex" ,everything is running well,except a

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.01.2012 16:15, schrieb Kevin Martin: > > > > On 01/27/2012 08:51 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 27.01.2012 15:34, schrieb Kaushik Guha: >>> Dear Friends, >>> >>> >>> While upgrading through "Yumex" ,everything is running well,except a >>> problem is >>> occurring while upgrading pac

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Kevin Martin
On 01/27/2012 08:51 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 27.01.2012 15:34, schrieb Kaushik Guha: >> Dear Friends, >> >> >> While upgrading through "Yumex" ,everything is running well,except a problem >> is >> occurring while upgrading packages. >> >> 19:46:52 : YUM: warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Head

Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

2012-01-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.01.2012 15:34, schrieb Kaushik Guha: > Dear Friends, > > > While upgrading through "Yumex" ,everything is running well,except a problem > is > occurring while upgrading packages. > > 19:46:52 : YUM: warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, > key ID 8296fa0f: NOKEY >

Re: F13 - Unable to update - package dependency conflicts

2010-06-17 Thread JD
On 06/17/2010 06:52 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:03:07PM -0700, JD wrote: > >> The info below shows my problem. >> 1:libguestfs-1.2.8-1.fc13.i686 >> > Grab the latest package which fixes this issue: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/libgues

Re: F13 - Unable to update - package dependency conflicts

2010-06-17 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:03:07PM -0700, JD wrote: > The info below shows my problem. > 1:libguestfs-1.2.8-1.fc13.i686 Grab the latest package which fixes this issue: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/libguestfs Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.

F13 - Unable to update - package dependency conflicts

2010-06-16 Thread JD
The info below shows my problem. $ sudo yum -y update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00 google-chrome