Re: Preupgrade doesn't work

2010-09-11 Thread JB
Marcel Rieux gmail.com> writes: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, JB gmail.com> wrote: > > Marcel Rieux gmail.com> writes: > > > >> ... > > Hi, > > if you just care about upgrading to next Fedora, try this method: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq > > Thanks for the suggesti

Re: upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

2010-09-11 Thread Andrew Haley
On 09/10/2010 07:55 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:10:56 -0700 > JD wrote: > >> If you build it from gnu tarball, then you will not get the >> fixes that go into it from the community before it is used >> in a distro. But then, it might give the op what s/he wants. > > Of course

Re: Broken updates for F12

2010-09-11 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Updates are broken on F12.  This seems to be a recurring theme. > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > Error: Package: xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.1.12-1.fc12.x86_64 (updates) >            Requires: pkgconfig(nspr) >= 4.8.6 If you do yum

ltsp-5.2.4-5.rpm's ready for testing (i686 & x86_64)

2010-09-11 Thread Gavin Spurgeon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi LTSP/Fedora Community. I now have a fully working copy of LTSP for both i686 & x86_64 The New .rpm's are still located on my www server, and to make things a little easier I have also made a Yum Repo for both archs as well. The .repo file is @

debuginfo-install firefox?

2010-09-11 Thread Tom Horsley
Anyone have any clue why running: debuginfo-install firefox-3.6.7-1.fc13.x86_64 insists on installing gcc-debuginfo? (That's gcc as in the compiler, not glibc as in the library, which it also wants but that is easy to understand). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: grub not showing ubuntu partition

2010-09-11 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:44 PM, g wrote: > > On 09/09/2010 01:20 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: > > > > PROBLEM: > > 1) After installing Fedora, rebooting the system does not come up with > usual > > grub list of OS's and I can't log into ubuntu. I can only log into fedora > > though I can find th

Re: grub not showing ubuntu partition

2010-09-11 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:53 PM, JD wrote: > > > On 09/09/2010 06:20 AM, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: > > Hello Everybody, > > Recently I have installed Fedora 13 in my desktop, along side > > previously installed Ubuntu 9.04. > > PROBLEM: > > 1) After installing Fedora, rebooting the system does not

Re: grub not showing ubuntu partition

2010-09-11 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
Check this link- http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=251148 On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:53 PM, JD wrote: > >> >> >> On 09/09/2010 06:20 AM, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: >> > Hello Everybody, >> > Recently I have installed Fedor

FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

2010-09-11 Thread Tod Thomas
I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed by an LVM volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV. How can I 'safely' decrease the size of the volume group and increase the size of

FC12 forcing hard reboot

2010-09-11 Thread Tod Thomas
I yum upgraded to FC12 recently and now my machine is locking up hard a couple of times a day. I've upgrade two other boxes similarly and they haven't had this problem. Is there any way to debug this? I can provide more information as requested. Thanks - Tod -- users mailing list users@lis

Re: upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

2010-09-11 Thread john wendel
On 09/11/2010 01:33 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 09/10/2010 07:55 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:10:56 -0700 >> JD wrote: >> >>> If you build it from gnu tarball, then you will not get the >>> fixes that go into it from the community before it is used >>> in a distro. But then, it

Re: FC12 forcing hard reboot

2010-09-11 Thread Michael Miles
Tod Thomas wrote: > I yum upgraded to FC12 recently and now my machine is locking up hard a > couple of times a day. I've upgrade two other boxes similarly and they > haven't had this problem. Is there any way to debug this? I can > provide more information as requested. > > > Thanks - Tod >

Re: FC12 forcing hard reboot

2010-09-11 Thread Frank Elsner
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:23:36 -0700 Michael Miles wrote: > Tod Thomas wrote: > > I yum upgraded to FC12 recently and now my machine is locking up hard a > > couple of times a day. I've upgrade two other boxes similarly and they > > haven't had this problem. Is there any way to debug this? I can >

Re: SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

2010-09-11 Thread JB
Joel Rees gmail.com> writes: > ... > I, myself, am partial to a concept I call virtual sub-users, but I > have no code for that, don't even have a complete description of the > concept. It doesn't run on any available OS, including those that do > "sandboxing". > ... Could you elaborate somewhat

Re: debuginfo-install firefox?

2010-09-11 Thread JD
On 09/11/2010 06:46 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Anyone have any clue why running: > > debuginfo-install firefox-3.6.7-1.fc13.x86_64 > > insists on installing gcc-debuginfo? > > (That's gcc as in the compiler, not glibc as in the > library, which it also wants but that is easy to > understand). I thi

Re: grub not showing ubuntu partition

2010-09-11 Thread g
On 09/11/2010 02:16 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: please excuse my delay in replying. i filter 'text/html' to a separate folder and do not check it very often. > Thank you g. Thank you very much. You have solved my problem. If you > permit I will mention your name to the forums and mailing list

Re: grub not showing ubuntu partition

2010-09-11 Thread JD
On 09/11/2010 07:22 AM, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: > Check this link- > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=251148 > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:53 PM, JD > wr

Fedora-13 live CD will not boot

2010-09-11 Thread John Crowley
Hello all, I am a college student taking a Linux+ class. Downloaded the Fedora-13 Live ISO image and burned it to a CD. It boots to the 10 second screen but no further. Had planned to do a dual boot with my Windows XP to further enhance my class. Any solutions? -- I am using the free version

Re: debuginfo-install firefox?

2010-09-11 Thread Mamoru Tasaka
Tom Horsley wrote, at 09/11/2010 10:46 PM +9:00: > Anyone have any clue why running: > > debuginfo-install firefox-3.6.7-1.fc13.x86_64 > > insists on installing gcc-debuginfo? > > (That's gcc as in the compiler, not glibc as in the > library, which it also wants but that is easy to > understand).

Re: Fedora-13 live CD will not boot

2010-09-11 Thread JD
On 09/11/2010 10:44 AM, John Crowley wrote: > Hello all, I am a college student taking a Linux+ class. Downloaded the > Fedora-13 Live ISO image and burned it to a CD. It boots to the 10 second > screen but no further. Had planned to do a dual boot with my Windows XP to > further enhance my class

Re: ltsp-5.2.4-5.rpm's ready for testing (i686 & x86_64)

2010-09-11 Thread JD
On 09/11/2010 02:58 AM, Gavin Spurgeon wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi LTSP/Fedora Community. > > I now have a fully working copy of LTSP for both i686& x86_64 > > The New .rpm's are still located on my www server, and to make things a > little easier I have als

Re: upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

2010-09-11 Thread Andrew Haley
On 09/11/2010 05:24 PM, john wendel wrote: > On 09/11/2010 01:33 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 09/10/2010 07:55 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:10:56 -0700 >>> JD wrote: >>> If you build it from gnu tarball, then you will not get the fixes that go into it from the commun

Re: Fedora-13 live CD will not boot

2010-09-11 Thread John Crowley
That worked thank you. - Original Message - From: "JD" To: "Community support for Fedora users" Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Fedora-13 live CD will not boot > > > On 09/11/2010 10:44 AM, John Crowley wrote: >> Hello all, I am a college student taking a Linux+

MySQL not working with PHP

2010-09-11 Thread Aaron Gray
I have an F11 system. I have several PHP apps that use MySQL including MediaWiki but they are failing to work giving error 500 phpinfo() is working and showing MySQL. When I try to connect to it I get the following error :- Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/

Re: Preupgrade doesn't work

2010-09-11 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:09 AM, JB wrote: > Hi, > it is a state of flux. > I always managed to move to next Fedora with either preupgrade or 'yum > upgrade' > methods, but other people are not always so lucky and hit an air pocket. In my case hitting "air pockets" could mean catastrophe. I'm b

Re: Broken updates for F12

2010-09-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/10/2010 10:15 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > I don't seem to be able to post an intelligible post these days. > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: >> On 09/10/10 17:02, Joel Rees wrote: >>> An odd thing, this breakage has not (yet?) occurred on my iBook G4 > > PPC F12 > >>> (

Re: FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

2010-09-11 Thread M A Young
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Tod Thomas wrote: > I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 MB) > and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed by an LVM > volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV. How can I > 'safely' decrease the siz

Re: FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

2010-09-11 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:31 PM, M A Young wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Tod Thomas wrote: > >> I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 MB) >> and it needs to be at least 500 MB.  The boot partition is followed by an LVM >> volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV an

Re: MySQL not working with PHP

2010-09-11 Thread David A. Paredes Rios
Please can you provide more info? IT was working before? php and mysql versions, packages installed? when mysql stops working with php? after any update? Thanks On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: > I have an F11 system. > > I have several PHP apps that use MySQL including MediaWi

Re: Broken updates for F12

2010-09-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/11/2010 04:51 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: >> Updates are broken on F12. This seems to be a recurring theme. >> >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution >> Error: Package: xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.1.12-1.fc12.x86_64 (updates) >>

Re: MySQL not working with PHP

2010-09-11 Thread Aaron Gray
On 11 September 2010 22:04, David A. Paredes Rios wrote: > Please can you provide more info? IT was working before? php and mysql > versions, packages installed? when mysql stops working with php? after any > update? > > It was a fresh installed machine that has been a dormant rsync'ed mirrored ma

Re: Spot's Firefox4

2010-09-11 Thread Frank Murphy
On 11/09/10 02:01, Trever L. Adams wrote: > I am not sure where else to post this. > > FF4 from Spot's repository is broken. Sync doesn't work (line 137 or 173 > or something) is trying to load one of the nss libraries. It fails to do so. Spot knows about this. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_

Re: hell freezes over!

2010-09-11 Thread jdow
From: "Alan Cox" Sent: Friday, 2010/September/10 01:25 >> > I wonder what changed to cause Broadcom to change tune. Broadcom >> > seemed >> > to think that their secret sauce was oh so important to keep secret. >> > >> > -wolfgang >> >> I think the reason was that the driver would expose infor

Re: hell freezes over!

2010-09-11 Thread Alan Cox
> Which is particularly annoying to me because I hold a license that allows > me to use this sort of capabilities in one specific band that is within > the capabilities of the typical wireless chips. I can also use serious > power if I wish. Ditto - although there are other rules on how it can be

Re: FC12 Boot partition too small to Upgrade to FC13

2010-09-11 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 12:09 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: > I need to upgrade to Fedora 13 but my boot partition is too small (200 > MB) and it needs to be at least 500 MB. The boot partition is followed > by an LVM volume goup composed of a 145 GB root LV and a 5GB swap LV. > How can I 'safely' de

Re: hell freezes over!

2010-09-11 Thread jdow
From: "Alan Cox" Sent: Saturday, 2010/September/11 15:32 >> Which is particularly annoying to me because I hold a license that allows >> me to use this sort of capabilities in one specific band that is within >> the capabilities of the typical wireless chips. I can also use serious >> power if I