Packagekit complaint: "database disk image is malformed"

2010-02-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Packagekit is whining at me, and complaining that there's a "Problem connecting to a software source". "More details" gives a very helpful "database disk image is malformed". Meanwhile "yum update" shows me the pending updates just fine, and is ready to install them. Then, if I run "yum clea

Re: Add/Remove Software error

2010-02-25 Thread A. Racca
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:59 -0800, bruce wrote: > if you're root... > > perhaps it has something to do with your selinux/permissions access?? > > don't quote me on this.. I'm running Add/Remove Software as a normal user, not as root. I've disabled Selinux. Does it happen to anyone else??? Germ

Re: F12: Another Pulseaudio "No Sound" problem [RESOLVED]

2010-02-25 Thread Don Levey
Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-25 12:45:57, Don Levey wrote: > ... >> Would you suggest I file the bug with Fedora, or with PulseAudio? > > Fedora, I think. > Doing the appropriate bug search before submitting a new one, I ran across this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544654

Which "VIDEO-PLAYER" ?

2010-02-25 Thread j . halifax .
Hi video-gurus, Could you please give me an advice of which "video-player" (some SW) to use for the following task on FC12_64 ? (1) I need to create a web-site on my PC with a PLAYER playing video in one of its frames (2) The video-content played should be an "endless" list of small video-shot

Re: F12 can't boot up again

2010-02-25 Thread Barry Yu
- Original Message - From: "Jorge Fábregas" To: Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:39 AM Subject: Re: F12 can't boot up again > On Thursday 25 February 2010 10:56:04 Barry Yu wrote: >> I made an image of F12 32bit a week ago of entire / except /boot, /swap > > I don't know about you

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-25 21:37:58, Ed Greshko wrote: ... > I can't conceive of a situation where usage of http or ftp protocol > would interact to "smack" an imap connection. > > To me, based on your observations, I'm getting the feeling you may > have a strange network problem that may be local to you or wit

Re: F12: Yum - network disconnects spins it's wheels.

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-25 21:37:58, Ed Greshko wrote: > ... > >> I can't conceive of a situation where usage of http or ftp protocol >> would interact to "smack" an imap connection. >> >> To me, based on your observations, I'm getting the feeling you may >> have a strange network problem

Re: OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

2010-02-25 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > I run Linux everywhere it makes sense, and have for more years than most > (I've been running Linux-based ISPs for over 14 years and Linux on my > desktop for longer than that).  It just doesn't make sense in an ISP > environment to run Linux

Cisco to Linux (Was: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays)

2010-02-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Marcel Rieux : > I was under the impression that, at most small ISPs, Linux had > replaced Unix and played a central role in making things work. But > today, I spoke to an ISP employee who told me that Linux was only used > for Web servers and that, for routing and firewalling, nobody escaped >

Many bugs: pdf, Thunderbird, Firefox, goes knows.

2010-02-25 Thread Marcel Rieux
Some people seem to have problems opening pdf documents with Fedora 12, but my problem is slightly different. Until 2 updates ago, everything was fine, but now, if I click a pdf file at Google's, it downloads but doesn't open I click Tools, Downloads the click the pdf file. That's not all. If I c

Re: What has happened to /etc/mail/statistics (thanks)

2010-02-25 Thread reg
> r...@dwf.com wrote: > > Up till last fall I used to receive information about what had gone thru > > sendmail from the program /usr/sbin/mailstats from information being > > kept in the file /etc/mail/statistics. > > > > Since (an update to sendmail?) last fall, the file /etc/mail/statistics > >

Re: rsync, vs Partimage, vs other backup

2010-02-25 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Roberto Ragusa [via Fedora Users] wrote: > Robert Nichols wrote: >> rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you >> aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and >> inode numbers.  The drawback is that a mirror is f

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