Fedora 11: X11: Athena Widgets. is there an RPM ???

2010-05-14 Thread reg
I have an OLD piece of code that uses the Athena Widgets. The current X11 (in Fedora 11) does not support them (no include files, probably no library). Is there ANY rpm that provides these files (the include files and the necessary libraries)??? It would seem that some other distributions prov

Re: Fedora 11: X11: Athena Widgets. is there an RPM ???

2010-05-14 Thread reg
> r...@dwf.com kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 14. > toukokuuta 2010): > > I have an OLD piece of code that uses the Athena Widgets. > > The current X11 (in Fedora 11) does not support them (no > > include files, probably no library). > > > > Is there ANY rpm that provides these fil

how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

2010-05-15 Thread reg
I want to look at the individual files in a src rpm. How do I 'rip it apart' ?? Doing an install doesnt seem to be the answer, It does something, but I have no idea where the bits and pieces are going. They are NOT in /usr/src/redhat nor in /root/rpmbuild. --

k3b users, I need help.

2010-05-19 Thread reg
I have used k3b before to burn iso's, but never to build a CD/DVD of my own files. (I used to use xcdroast for this...) In any case, Im trying to build a CD with about 130k of data files. They were initially under 3 directory heads, but to simplify things Ive moved the directories under one direc

Re: k3b users, I need help.

2010-05-19 Thread reg
> On 05/19/2010 07:21 PM, r...@dwf.com wrote: > > I have used k3b before to burn iso's, but never to build a CD/DVD of my own > > files. (I used to use xcdroast for this...) > > > > In any case, Im trying to build a CD with about 130k of data files. > > They were initially under 3 directory heads,

Error messages from BIND.

2010-07-09 Thread reg
I have recently started getting the following pair of error messages from bind: bg DNSKEY: please check the 'trusted-keys' for 'bg' in named.conf.: 6 Time(s) bg DNSKEY: unable to find a DNSKEY which verifies the DNSKEY RRset and also matches one of specified trusted-keys for 'bg'

Problems with X11 in FC12.

2010-02-08 Thread reg
I dont know if these are known problems (with work arounds) but I see at least two major problems with X11 (and the nouveau driver for Nvidia cards). (1) The driver no longer understands <+> and <-> to move among the definitions on the MODE line. (2) On two separate systems here, on start

F11 ok, Only 800x600 video with F12.

2010-02-09 Thread reg
...@deneb reg]# xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024 default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1280x1024 60.0* 1024x768 60.0 800x60060.0 640x48060.0 1280x960 60.0 700x52560.0 640x51260.0

Re: F11 ok, Only 800x600 video with F12.

2010-02-09 Thread reg
> > > > > Do a lsmod and see what driver module is loading , nv or Nvidia ? > And the you will have to do a edit on your /boot/grub/menu.lst and after: > > example; > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 ro > root=UUID=db7da871-8b5c-4ad9-8e9b-d7801cb4b492 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SYSF

stopping named just hangs.

2010-02-12 Thread reg
This is not a serious problem, but it is a pain in the neck. Up until today I ran named in a chroot jail, and when I did a /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop Or when I tried to reboot the system, things hung when we got to the point of stopping named. I always assumed this had s

error messages from named.

2010-02-12 Thread reg
I have just setup the nameserver (named) in FC11. During the startup of the nameserver (from init.d), there is the error message: the working directory is not writable (I assume this is an error). What is it complaining about (what directory) and should I change some permissions somewhe

mcelog error messages.

2010-02-12 Thread reg
On 64bit Fedora 11, I see the error message /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron: mcelog: warning: record length longer than expected. Consider update. hourly. Is there an update for the program /usr/sbin/mcelog somewhere??? I see on google that the record length is 88 rather than the

Help: trying to load Acrobat on F11/64

2010-02-17 Thread reg
Im trying to load Acrobat on Fedora11/64, and I get the error message that it cant find libBIB.so Ive tried yum provides with no luck. Any idea where this library lives? -- Reg.Clemens r...@dwf.com -- users mailing

What has happened to /etc/mail/statistics ???

2010-02-25 Thread reg
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 has been of zero length, but I see no other 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 > >

How to see kernel pr_err error messages.

2010-02-26 Thread reg
Im looking at some kernel code, and there are 'pr_err' error messages in it that would help me discover my problem. However I dont see them printing anywhere. What do I have to do to see these error messages? A search with GOOGLE and a grep of the code wasnt too useful, but it seems possible tha

is there an ieee handler in Linux?

2010-04-23 Thread reg
There must be a handler for ieee arithmetic errors under Linux for C and for Fortran, but my search with man and google don't turn up anything. Can someone point me at the correct subroutine names. -- Reg.Clemens r...

whre is X11/Wc ???

2010-05-02 Thread reg
I have an old program that I am trying to resurrect, and it appears to use the athena widgets. It is looking for include files X11/Wc/* Im looking at the list of rpms available thru yum, and I dont see any obvious rpm that includes these,- where should I be looking??? --

Where to put local Latex *.sty files under Fedora11

2010-05-03 Thread reg
There used to be a place to put local *.sty files for Latex so that they would be found. Under the current latex under Fedora11 I cant figure out where that directory might be and am having to copy them into the directory with the *.tex file to get them recognized. Not nice. Any Latex users out

Re: whre is X11/Wc ???

2010-05-03 Thread reg
> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 00:02 -0600, r...@dwf.com wrote: > > I have an old program that I am trying to resurrect, and it appears to > > use the athena widgets. > > > > It is looking for include files > > > > X11/Wc/* > > > > Im looking at the list of rpms available thru yum, and > > I dont

Re: Where to put local Latex *.sty files under Fedora11

2010-05-03 Thread reg
> Am 03.05.2010 17:30, schrieb r...@dwf.com: > > > There used to be a place to put local *.sty files for Latex so that they > > would > > be found. Under the current latex under Fedora11 I cant figure out where > > that directory might be and am having to copy them into the directory > > with t

f1 / firefox 3.5.9 / cnn news / markets.

2010-07-27 Thread reg
Starting yesterday (26July), I am having problems with Firefox 3.5.9 and CNN.news. At the right of the display there are a number of options for subdisplays, including the line 'Markets'. In the past, this line has been expanded, and I see the market reports. If not expanded I can click on it to

Re: f1 / firefox 3.5.9 / cnn news / markets.

2010-07-27 Thread reg
That should read f11 -- Reg.Clemens r...@dwf.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Can't get networking working in Fedora14

2011-03-29 Thread reg
I am just now bringing up Fedora14 (Ive been running Fedora11). Something has changed, since the way I have always done things to bring up networking just doen't work. I can setup /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 either by hand or using the system-config-

Cant get networking working in Fedora14

2011-03-31 Thread reg
I sent this several days ago, and it didnt make it to the list, Im trying again. I am just now bringing up Fedora14 (Ive been running Fedora11). Something has changed, since the way I have always done things to bring up networking just doen't work. I can setup /etc/sys

Re: Cant get networking working in Fedora14

2011-03-31 Thread reg
> > So, what's changed between Fedora11 and Fedora14, > >other than setting up the above files (or using > >system-config-network) what do I need to do??? > > Maybe selinux is blocking? Maybe the driver is changed? > Boy, that sounded like a great idea, since I had forgotten all about selinux (Im

Re: Cant get networking working in Fedora14

2011-03-31 Thread reg
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 09:32 -0600, r...@dwf.com wrote: > > So, what's changed between Fedora11 and Fedora14, other than setting > > up the above files (or using system-config-network) what do I need to > > do??? > > Have you configured Networkmanager? > Actually, my first attempt or two was wit

Re: Cant get networking working in Fedora14

2011-03-31 Thread reg
> system-config-firewall? You might have the firewall enabled (I think it's on > by default) which may be dropping all ICMP packets. Can you get out to the > internet? Do you know for sure that the network is NOT working or do you > just assume that it's not working since you can't ping the mach

Re: Cant get networking working in Fedora14

2011-03-31 Thread reg
> system-config-firewall? You might have the firewall enabled (I think it's on > by default) which may be dropping all ICMP packets. > -- That was one of the first things I noticed. I turned it off in /etc/rc.d/init.d iptables and ip6tables and rebooted. No luck. > Can ou get out to the > inte

Re: Cant get networking working in Fedora14

2011-03-31 Thread reg
figured devices: lo eth0 Currently active devices: lo eth0 cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=mythtv-fe NTPSERVERARGS=iburst NETWORKING_IPV6=no cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=mythtv-fe NTPSERVERARGS=iburst NETWORKING_IPV6=no [root@mythtv-f

Re: Cant get networking working in Fedora14

2011-03-31 Thread reg
> > Really? Your DNS server is also your default gateway? That's not > common. > Well, the gateway runs the firewall and the nameserver, thats all. > > Can you ping your gateway? > > # ping 192.168.64.10 > Nope, nor as I have stated, anything else on the 192.168.64.0 subnet. Seems net

Re: Cant get networking working in Fedora14

2011-04-01 Thread reg
> > Well, you can not ping the gateway, and so you can not reach the DNS server > there. > The gateway is protected by its own firewall, so you have to verify its status > and rules there: > # iptables -n -L -v > > Now back to your machine in question. > > I have to ask you to give us an actual

How to execute 32bit executables on 64bit system?

2010-01-14 Thread reg
I had a system failure here (which we dont need to go into), and have reinstalled Fedora-11/64. Now I cant execute 32bit executables. I know I had to set something when I installed Fedora-11/64 previously to get this to work, but cant remember what it was. Can someone remind me of what I need to

Re: How to execute 32bit executables on 64bit system? (Solved)

2010-01-14 Thread reg
> I had a system failure here (which we dont need to go into), and have > reinstalled Fedora-11/64. > > Now I cant execute 32bit executables. > > I know I had to set something when I installed Fedora-11/64 previously > to get this to work, but cant remember what it was. > > Can someone remind me

What are the 3 progress bars during a Fedora Boot Telling me?

2010-01-14 Thread reg
What are the 3 progress bars during a Fedora Boot Telling me? There is a dark blue that runs ahead, A lite blue that follows it, and a White bar that overwrites the other two. Along the same lines, the word 'Fedora 11' is initially blue, but turns white near the end of the boot. Is this just pret

What are the 3 progress bars during a Fedora Boot Telling me?

2010-01-15 Thread reg
I sent this several days ago, but I dont think it made it to the list with its new name... What are the 3 progress bars during a Fedora Boot Telling me? There is a dark blue that runs ahead, A lite blue that follows it, and a White bar that overwrites the other two. Along the same lines, the word

Booting issues with F11

2010-01-15 Thread reg
I am having real problems. I have had one machine with F11 on it, and decided to bring all of my 'older' machines up to F11. In each case ( 32bit or 64bit machine ) the install goes without problems, but when I finish the install and it tells me to reboot, the system is incapable of rebooting. I

Re: Booting issues with F11

2010-01-16 Thread reg
> Reg Clemens wrote: > >> > >> Reg Clemens wrote: > >> > >>> I am having real problems. > >>> I have had one machine with F11 on it, and decided to bring all of my > >>> 'older' > >>> machines up to F1

Mail Problem.

2010-01-26 Thread reg
Im at a loss here. I have 5 machines, 4 of them (should be) forwarding any mail generated by scripts to the 5th. Its not happening. When I go to the mail machine, my main machine, I can do telnet localhost 25 and it connects. When I do the same command on the other 4 machines, it can

F11 consistent failure to boot after install.

2010-01-26 Thread reg
I have not seen this mentioned on this list, but I have just finished installing F11 on 5 machines, and these range from an old Pentium 2, up thru a Core2 duo. In every case, after doing a clean install, the installed image failed to boot This failure is before any of the grub messages, so it see

Between F11 and F12, which would you choose?

2010-01-29 Thread reg
I have a half dozen machines updated to F11, and one to F12. Im wondering if I should update the F11s to F12 or leave well enough alone. I realize that the F11 distribution has reached a 'stable' status, and the F12 distribution will probably take a couple more months to reach that status, but wou

Fedora12 Release Notes.

2010-01-30 Thread reg
What has happened to the concept of release notes that a person could actually print down and read? Previous releases have had Release Notes that were mabe 20 pages long, with a sentence or two about each change. I looked at the Release Notes for Fedora12, and its a 500page PDF document. Now that

32bit support on 64bit Linux

2010-01-31 Thread reg
OK, my bad. I asked this question before, and someone gave me the answer, but I forgot to write it down someplace that I could find. There is a single yum target, that will bring in all (or most) of the 32bit libraries and things that are needed to run 32bit applications on 64bit Fedora. If memo

Re: 32bit support on 64bit Linux

2010-01-31 Thread reg
> r...@dwf.com wrote: > > OK, my bad. > > I asked this question before, and someone gave me the answer, > > but I forgot to write it down someplace that I could find. > > > > There is a single yum target, that will bring in all (or most) of the 32bit > > libraries > > and things that are needed to

F12 and Nvidia video card.

2010-02-04 Thread reg
I see a lot of comments about F12 and Nvidia video card, but no solution to the problem (if there is one, PLEASE point me at it, Ive just upgraded to F12) I have a hard time believing that the folks that produce Fedora Releases would actually release a version that does not support his very common

Re: F12 and Nvidia video card.

2010-02-04 Thread reg
> r...@dwf.com writes: > > > I see a lot of comments about F12 and Nvidia video card, but no solution to > > the problem (if there is one, PLEASE point me at it, Ive just upgraded to > > F12) > > > > I have a hard time believing that the folks that produce Fedora Releases > > would actually rele

How to find the definition of a string in /usr/include ?

2012-11-03 Thread reg
How do I find the definition of a string in /usr/include? OK, there has got to be a better way to do this than with find and grep (which isnt working). BUT how does one find the definition of a string in /usr/include ??? In particular, I KNOW that month is defined SOMEWHERE, but Im not finding

Re: How to find the definition of a string in /usr/include ?

2012-11-03 Thread reg
Re my previous question about finding a string, the string in fact is 'months'. -- Reg.Clemens r...@dwf.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:

How does Fedora handle xntpd?

2012-11-06 Thread reg
I cant see how Fedora handles xntpd, and would like some insight. I see GATEWAY being set in either /etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx depending on wether you want the same value for all (ether)nets. But where is this used in a call to xntpd? Using 'ps -laxw | gr

Question should read dhcpd not xntpd

2012-11-06 Thread reg
Too many things on the mind at one time, my question was about dhcpd NOT xntpd. -- Reg.Clemens r...@dwf.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)

2012-03-03 Thread reg
OK, Im sure this has been covered a dozen times, but my scans of the listdon't come up with anything. I just recently brought up F14 on one machine. Netscape is there, but when I go to watch a video from Netscape it tells me This CNN feature is optimized for Adobe Flash Player v

Re: Getting Video to work with Netscape (F14)

2012-03-03 Thread reg
> Why do you wat to use an obsolete program like Netscape? That certainly > was not installed with your F14. Firefox is what is there to use. OK, I didn 't notice that. YES, FIREFOX is what I'm using, somehow when I typed it it came out Netscape (sorry for the confusion). But YES I do want to

xorg (screen resolution) in F14

2012-04-25 Thread reg
For reasons that I don't need to go into here, I keep copies of Fedora F6, F11, and F14 on different partitions of a disk. I will be adding F16 to this collection in the next few weeks. But, in looking at my F14 installation, I note an X11 problem. Im not sure who is maintaining the Feodra X11 t

Re: xorg (screen resolution) in F14

2012-04-25 Thread reg
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:25 PM, wrote: > > > > > For reasons that I don't need to go into here, I keep copies of > > Fedora F6, F11, and F14 on different partitions of a disk. I will > > be adding F16 to this collection in the next few weeks. > > > > But, in looking at my F14 installation, I

Re: xorg (screen resolution) in F14

2012-04-26 Thread reg
> > Have you tried just setting: Modes "1280x1024"? > That was one of my first experiments, it just ignores it. > >Have you checked the output of xrandr for all versions of Fedora? > This is interesting. On F11 where things work fine, I see [reg@deneb ~/Notes]$ xr

Who Maintains X11 for Fedora? what is mailing list?

2012-04-30 Thread reg
The subject line says it all. Who maintains the version of X11 used in Fedora (at least in previous times there was more than one X11) What (where?) is the mailing list? -- Reg.Clemens r...@dwf.com -- users mail

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2014-09-16 Thread reg
I am trying to build gphoto2 for an old system (Fedora 11) where I store photos. (gphoto2 exists as part of the download in Fedora19) In any case, I do the configure/make/make install for both libgphto2 and gphoto2 with no problems, so it would seem that the loader at this point is seeing the li

Load problem...cant find shared library.

2014-09-16 Thread reg
[[ Sorry for sending this twice, but it got out without a subject line ]] I am trying to build gphoto2 for an old system (Fedora 11) where I store photos. (gphoto2 exists as part of the download in Fedora19) In any case, I do the configure/make/make install for both libgphto2 and gphoto2 with

Where to post a question about Fedora X11 ??

2012-05-11 Thread reg
What list should I post a question about the X11 used in Fedora to ? This generic list doesnt seem to be the right place. -- Reg.Clemens r...@dwf.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Screen Size Problem in X11 / F14.

2012-05-12 Thread reg
I keep several old versions of Fedora around for testing of some software, so PLEASE dont tell me to just move to the most recent release. OK, I set my screen size to 1280x1024 in my xorg.conf This worked fine up thru Fedora 11 (I dont currently have running copies of F12 or F13 to test it there

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2012-05-13 Thread reg
I set my screen size to 1280x1024 in my xorg.conf This worked fine up thru Fedora 11 (I dont currently have running copies of F12 or F13 to test it there) but it DOES NOT WORK in Fedora14. In Fedora14 I get 1024x768 with or without the xorg.conf. Now my actual screen is behind a KVM so that is

Re: Cant get networking working in Fedora14

2011-03-31 Thread Reg Clemens
> Your request did come through a day or so and you were asked whether you were > running > networkmanager at the same time as network. What is your answer? Sorry about that. I scanned the queue here and I never received the bounce of the original message, or any answer. Strange. --

Re: How to execute 32bit executables on 64bit system? (Solved)

2010-01-14 Thread Reg Clemens
> On 01/14/2010 01:44 PM, r...@dwf.com wrote: > >> I had a system failure here (which we dont need to go into), and have > >> reinstalled Fedora-11/64. > >> > >> Now I cant execute 32bit executables. > >> > >> I know I had to set something when I installed Fedora-11/64 previously > >> to get this t

Re: Booting issues with F11

2010-01-16 Thread Reg Clemens
> > > > Reg Clemens wrote: > > > > I am having real problems. > > I have had one machine with F11 on it, and decided to bring all of my > > 'older' > > machines up to F11. > > > > In each case ( 32bit or 64bit machine ) the inst

Re: Cannot boot into new kernel after first post-install Fedora 12 update

2010-01-20 Thread Reg Clemens
> This is on a Fedora 12 i386 system (new install from DVD). On doing online > update (though PackageKit module) and selecting all updates (about 850 MB) , > on rebooting, I find that I cannot boot into the new kernel. Though the new > kernel with images are there in /etc/boot it still boots into

Re: Fedora 12 Installation problem

2010-01-31 Thread Reg Clemens
> On 10-01-31 18:51:00, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Tony Nelson > > wrote: > ... > > > All disks always fail the built-in test here, due to the > > > permanent kernel bug.  A more robust test is: > > > > > >     # cmp /dev/dvd /path/to/iso > > > > You can also verify the bur

Re: How to find the definition of a string in /usr/include ?

2012-11-03 Thread Reg Clemens
> > cd /usr/include > grep -ri month * > > Regards, > > John Even without using 'find' to go into subdirectories, that gives 1100 garbage lines. Thats why I was looking for a better way. -- Reg.Clemens r...@dwf.