Re: Someone was able to hack my mail account

2009-12-11 Thread Dave Cross
2009/12/10 kevin ke...@kevinslair.com:
 Please if anyone knows how to stop this with postfix and amavisd-new please
 let me know !!!

 I am clueless how someone outside $mynetworks was able to do it.

As others have said, it's just a spammer spoofing your email address.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Job

You might also look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework

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Re: provider for google calendar

2009-12-04 Thread Dave Cross
2009/12/4 oleksandr korneta aten...@gmail.com:
 so I'm  on Fedora 12, 64bit. It was an unpleasant surprise to find out that
 that some extensions for thunderbird from mozilla's website cannot be
 installed because of 64bit architecture (wtf? is this opensource or what?).
 Yes I'm talking about lightning calendar extension. Anyway, turns out some
 good people did package it and put in repository. But it is useless for me
 without the Provider  for google calendar. And this one is not packaged and
 cannot be instaled from mozilla's website. So, does anybody have similar
 problem/has a solution? Maybe someone can point me to some how to recompile
 Provider for google calendar blog article?

Are you sure that your problem is because of your 64-bit architecture?
A number of Thunderbird extensions aren't available for Thunderbird 3
yet (as it's still in beta). The version of Provider on the Mozilla
Add-ons site is 0.5 and that doesn't work with Thunderbird 3.

The version of Provider that I have is 0.6pre. I suspect it's a
nightly build and that I got it from somewhere under:

  ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/nightly/

It seems to be working fine with my Google Calendars.

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F12: Missing Config Dialogue

2009-11-29 Thread Dave Cross
There's a config dialogue box that I can't find in Fedora 12. I've
used it in the last few versions of Fedora. It's the dialogue box
controlling Window appearance. In particular I want the option that
controls the behaviour that's triggered when you double-click on a
title bar. I want to set it to roll-up the window.

What happened to this dialogue box? Is there any way to get it back?

Cheers,

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Re: F12: Missing Config Dialogue

2009-11-29 Thread Dave Cross
2009/11/29 Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net:
 2009/11/29 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com:
 There's a config dialogue box that I can't find in Fedora 12. I've
 used it in the last few versions of Fedora. It's the dialogue box
 controlling Window appearance. In particular I want the option that
 controls the behaviour that's triggered when you double-click on a
 title bar. I want to set it to roll-up the window.

 System - Preferences - Windows?

Yep. That was the one I was looking for.

 What happened to this dialogue box? Is there any way to get it back?

 Now part of the following package:

 # yum install control-center-extra

 That help?

Perfect. All works fine now (well, once I realised that the name of
the package included the word centre spelled incorrectly - damn
colonials!).

Cheers,

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Dell Latitude Suspend/Restore

2009-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
I have a Dell Latitude M1330. Originally it was running F10 and I
upgraded it to F11 some months ago using preupgrade. Everything
continued to work well. Including suspend/resume.

Recently, for reasons too boring to go into, I trashed this
installation and started again. I booted from an F11 Live image on a
USB stick and installed from there to the hard disk.

Most things still work fine, but suspend/restore has stopped working.
Well, suspend seems to work ok, but restore doesn't. I now have to
reboot the laptop each time I want to use it.

My suspicion is that the Live image doesn't include an RPM that I was
getting from my old F10 installation. But this is an area that I know
nothing about and I'd appreciate any advice on how to track down and
fix this issue.

Cheers,

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Re: Dell Latitude Suspend/Restore

2009-11-09 Thread Dave Cross
2009/11/9 Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com:
 On 11/9/09, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote:

 [...]

 Most things still work fine, but suspend/restore has stopped working.
 Well, suspend seems to work ok, but restore doesn't. I now have to
 reboot the laptop each time I want to use it.

 My suspicion is that the Live image doesn't include an RPM that I was
 getting from my old F10 installation. But this is an area that I know
 nothing about and I'd appreciate any advice on how to track down and
 fix this issue.

 I know nothing about suspend/resume either, except that it's
 incredibly frustrating when it doesn't work, and that
 /var/log/pm-suspend.log may give you a clue.

Thanks for the suggestion. In case it's useful to anyone else, here's
the current contents of that file.

Initial commandline parameters:
Sun Nov  8 21:32:06 GMT 2009: Running hooks for suspend.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00auto-quirk suspend suspend: Adding quirks
from HAL: --quirk-vbe-post
success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: Linux
angel.mag-sol.com 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 23:33:04 EST
2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Module  Size  Used by
aes_i5867944  1
aes_generic26956  1 aes_i586
fuse   49272  2
rfcomm 57996  4
sco16176  2
bridge 43864  0
stp 1972  1 bridge
llc 4944  2 bridge,stp
bnep   14908  2
l2cap  32436  16 rfcomm,bnep
sunrpc155656  1
ip6t_REJECT 4540  2
nf_conntrack_ipv6  17724  2
ip6table_filter 3156  1
ip6_tables 10968  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6  235712  28 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
cpufreq_ondemand6348  2
acpi_cpufreq8864  0
dm_multipath   14048  0
uinput  6684  0
snd_hda_codec_idt  51600  1
uvcvideo   50552  0
arc41604  2
snd_hda_intel  24096  2
ecb 2476  2
snd_hda_codec  59388  2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
videodev   29636  1 uvcvideo
sdhci_pci   6964  0
iwlagn124416  0
v4l1_compat12056  2 uvcvideo,videodev
sdhci  17184  1 sdhci_pci
wmi 5868  0
dell_laptop 3328  0
mmc_core   48456  1 sdhci
iwlcore   133964  1 iwlagn
joydev  9244  0
pcspkr  2176  0
firewire_ohci  19436  0
i2c_i801   10204  0
ricoh_mmc   3436  0
dcdbas  8468  1 dell_laptop
firewire_core  37564  1 firewire_ohci
video  18740  0
btusb  13552  2
output  2484  1 video
snd_hwdep   6724  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm63000  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
rfkill  8936  5 dell_laptop,iwlcore
snd_timer  17780  1 snd_pcm
lib802115112  1 iwlcore
snd50292  10
snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
iTCO_wdt   10356  0
tg391804  0
iTCO_vendor_support 2760  1 iTCO_wdt
mac80211  175100  2 iwlagn,iwlcore
soundcore   5484  1 snd
crc_itu_t   1604  1 firewire_core
bluetooth  77104  9 rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
snd_page_alloc  7720  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
cfg80211   51684  3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211
nouveau   436308  0
drm   168580  1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit4844  1 nouveau
i2c_core   25032  4 i2c_i801,nouveau,drm,i2c_algo_bit
 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:   361419613273762286820  0  51240 575704
-/+ buffers/cache: 7004322913764
Swap:  5668856  05668856
success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/56atd suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/56dhclient suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95packagekit suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99hd-apm-restore.hook suspend suspend:
saving level 255 for device sda
success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: kernel.acpi_video_flags = 0
success.
Sun Nov  8 21:32:09

Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

2009-10-30 Thread Dave Cross
2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com:
 At times I find I need to login as root.

You really don't.

 For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that
 terminal session.  Look at all the errors generated.  And at least in FC10,
 I could still change preferences, but in FC11, they all come up grey.  There
 are other things in gnome that don't launch right from an SUed terminal
 session.  So when I want to 'fix' things, I find it better to just log in as
 root.

I think you need to understand the difference between su and su -.

But really you need to get to grips with sudo as a better
replacement for su.

Steps I always take on a new Fedora box to make my life easier.

1/ su - to become root.
2/ visudo to edit the sudoers file.
3/ Uncomment the first line referencing the wheel group.
4/ Save the file.
5/ Edit /etc/groups to add myself to the wheel group.
6/ Exit from su -.

From that stage on, I never need su again. I can do anything I want
(without the errors that you're seeing) using sudo some_command.

hth,

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Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

2009-10-30 Thread Dave Cross
2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com:
 Dave Cross wrote:

 2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com:


 At times I find I need to login as root.


 You really don't.

 For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that
 terminal session.  Look at all the errors generated.  And at least in
 FC10, I could still change preferences, but in FC11, they all come up
 grey. There are other things in gnome that don't launch right from an
 SUed terminal session.  So when I want to 'fix' things, I find it better
 to just log in as root.

 I think you need to understand the difference between su and su -.

 But really you need to get to grips with sudo as a better
 replacement for su.

 Steps I always take on a new Fedora box to make my life easier.

 1/ su - to become root.
 2/ visudo to edit the sudoers file.
 3/ Uncomment the first line referencing the wheel group.
 4/ Save the file.
 5/ Edit /etc/groups to add myself to the wheel group.
 6/ Exit from su -.

 Is this better than just adding your userid to the sudoers file?

There's almost certainly a good reason for doing it this way that I've
forgotten in the mists of time. Some ideas that spring to mind:

* This has been a standard Unix approach for as long as I can
remember. I was doing this on HP-UX systems almost twenty years ago.
* I can use the same method on my own desktop as I use on a larger
system where I want to give rights to multiple people.
* I only need to edit sudoers once. From then on I can control
permissions simply by editing membership of the group (which can be
done with a GUI tool as well as by editing the text file).

 And I will have to learn a bit about the difference between 'su' and 'su -'.

su - gives you a login shell. So it's as though you actually logged
on as root. su just changes the user. It doesn't, for example, give
you root's PATH.

Let us know if you have any more questions.

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Re: FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

2009-10-30 Thread Dave Cross
2009/10/30 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com:

 OK.  So I enable group wheel with visudo.  Then I look into adding me to the
 group.

 I see the following files in /etc that have group wheel: group, group-,
 gshadow, and gshadow-

 You only said to add to group.

Yep. That's what I do. Just /etc/group.

 With just an editor like VI?   I went to SystemAdminister'Users and
 Groups' and went to the Groups tab.  Wheel is NOT listed there.

No, that's right. I had never checked before. I just assumed it would
be there. Sorry about that. I just use vi.

Cheers,

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Perl RPM Requires/Provides

2009-10-16 Thread Dave Cross


As I understand it, the current version of rpmbuild works generates the 
Requires and Provides definitions for an RPM by parsing the Perl code 
and working out which modules are used (for Requires) or defined (for 
Provides).


I don't want to get into a discussion of the rights or wrongs of this 
approach, but for my own RPMs, I'd like to experiment with creating the 
Requires and Provides definitions by parsing the META.yml file.


I've found three files in /usr/lib/rpm - perldeps.pl, perl.prov and 
perl.req - which seem to do the work, so I assume these are the files 
I'll need to replace.


Can someone please confirm that these are the files that I need to work 
on and (even better) point me at some documentation for how these 
programs are called - what inputs and outputs are expected, stuff like that.


Also, is there a way to provide my own replacement for these files 
without just overwriting them. I'd rather not fiddle directly with 
system supplied code.


Any advice appreciated.

Cheers,

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Re: OpenOffice Errors

2009-10-07 Thread Dave Cross
2009/10/1 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com:
 Yesterday I installed OpenOffice on this (new, but completely updated)
 Fedora 11 system. I installed it from the standard Fedora repositories
 using yum. Dozens of RPMs were downloaded and installed. But
 something, somewhere is not right.

 I first realised there was a problem when I double-clicked on
 attachments in email and nothing happened. I then tried starting the
 apps from the menu, but still nothing happened. When trying to run
 ooffice from the command line, I see the following:

 $ ooffice
 /usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program/soffice: line 129: 28286 Bus error
 $sd_prog/$sd_binary $@

 The five digit number varies each time I try it.

 I'm at rather a loss as to where I can start to track down this
 problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?

In case it's useful to anyone else, here's what finally fixed it.

I did a yum update this morning and noticed some errors.

  /sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libicudata.so.40.1 is truncated

That file is part of libicu, so I ran yum reinstall libicu. And now
everything seems to be working fine.

I still have no idea a) what caused this truncation or b) why that
caused my problem. But anyway, it's fixed now. So I'm happy.

Cheers,

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OpenOffice Errors

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Cross
Yesterday I installed OpenOffice on this (new, but completely updated)
Fedora 11 system. I installed it from the standard Fedora repositories
using yum. Dozens of RPMs were downloaded and installed. But
something, somewhere is not right.

I first realised there was a problem when I double-clicked on
attachments in email and nothing happened. I then tried starting the
apps from the menu, but still nothing happened. When trying to run
ooffice from the command line, I see the following:

$ ooffice
/usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program/soffice: line 129: 28286 Bus error
$sd_prog/$sd_binary $@

The five digit number varies each time I try it.

I'm at rather a loss as to where I can start to track down this
problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dave...

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Re: gnome-terminal question

2009-09-28 Thread Dave Cross
2009/9/27 bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net:
 hey...

 trying to solve an issue on changing the title of the current gnome-terminal
 session.

 how does one go about changing the title of the current gnome-terminal via
 the cmdline...

 i'm trying to figure out if you can use escape sequences, or modifying the
 profile for the terminal.

 trying some of the escape sequences from different web sites haven't
 worked...

 thoughts/comments/pointers appreciated...

Follow the instructions at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title.html. You
don't say which shell you're using, but using the default bash shell,
you can do this:

$ echo -ne \033]0;A New Title\007

You'll probably need to unset the PROMPT_COMMAND value first;

$ export PROMPT_COMMAND=

 i'm running fedora 9

You know that's unsupported, right? I strongly recommend upgrading.

hth,

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F11: X Startup Problems

2009-09-12 Thread Dave Cross
This morning I was using my desktop machine without a problem. I ran a
yum update to pick up the most recent updates. This afternoon I
rebooted the machine and now X won't start.

Well X starts to some extent. I get the login screen, but when I type
in my username and password I get a blank screen with a spinning
cursor for a couple of seconds before being dumped back to the login
screen.

I've booted the  machine into single user mode and edited /etc/inittab
so that the machine boots to level 3. I know get a text-based login
which I can use to access the system. I tried to run 'startx' to go
into X. The screen goes blank as if X is starting, but nothing else
happens. I've attached a Xorg.0.log from one of those aborted attempts
to start X.

My suspicion is that this is caused by something in the yum update
that I ran this morning - but I can't see anything that would
obviously affect X.

Any advice much appreciated.

Cheers,

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Re: F11: X Startup Problems

2009-09-12 Thread Dave Cross
2009/9/12 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com:
 This morning I was using my desktop machine without a problem. I ran a
 yum update to pick up the most recent updates. This afternoon I
 rebooted the machine and now X won't start.

 Well X starts to some extent. I get the login screen, but when I type
 in my username and password I get a blank screen with a spinning
 cursor for a couple of seconds before being dumped back to the login
 screen.

 I've booted the  machine into single user mode and edited /etc/inittab
 so that the machine boots to level 3. I know get a text-based login
 which I can use to access the system. I tried to run 'startx' to go
 into X. The screen goes blank as if X is starting, but nothing else
 happens. I've attached a Xorg.0.log from one of those aborted attempts
 to start X.

 My suspicion is that this is caused by something in the yum update
 that I ran this morning - but I can't see anything that would
 obviously affect X.

I've just found another thread discussing this issue. Seems to be a
problem with xorg-x11-server-Xorg. Downgrading that has fixed the
problem.

Sorry for posting without checking the archives first.

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amazonmp3

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Cross
Looks to me like the amazonmp3 downloader isn't going to work under
Fedora 11. The version on their download page[1] is built for Fedora
9. This still worked fine under Fedora 10, but I think the updated
version of boost in F11 has broken it now.

$ package-cleanup --problems
Setting up yum
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit
Reading local RPM database
Processing all local requires
Missing dependencies:
Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_date_time.so.3
Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_filesystem.so.3
Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_iostreams.so.3
Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_regex.so.3
Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_signals.so.3
Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_thread-mt.so.3
Package amazonmp3 requires libcrypto.so.7
Package amazonmp3 requires libssl.so.7

I've sent a mail to customer support about this, but I wondered if
anyone else had spotted it. Perhaps the more mail they get about it,
the quicker they'll rebuild it.

Cheers,

Dave...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html?forceos=LINUX

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Re: amazonmp3

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Cross
2009/6/12 Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at:
 Dave Cross wrote:
 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_date_time.so.3
 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_filesystem.so.3
 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_iostreams.so.3
 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_regex.so.3
 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_signals.so.3
 Package amazonmp3 requires libboost_thread-mt.so.3
 Package amazonmp3 requires libcrypto.so.7
 Package amazonmp3 requires libssl.so.7

 The joys of proprietary software...

 Those are dependencies on the old Boost and OpenSSL. It needs to be rebuilt
 for the new versions of both. And only they can do it because it's
 proprietary.

Yeah. I realise that. The reply I got from then said:

I understand your concern regarding compatibility of Amazon MP3
downloads with Fedora 11.

And:

I've passed your feedback along to the Amazon MP3 Music team.

Of course my mail hasn't gone anywhere near anyone who stands a chance
of understanding it.

I've never understoof why you need this proprietary software in order
to buy complete albums from Amazon. Why can't they just give you a
link to a zip file like play.com do?

I predict it'll be fixed about the time Fedora 13 is released.

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Re: Howto yum update F10-F11?

2009-06-11 Thread Dave Cross
2009/6/11 Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com:
 I failed.  I installed fedora-release-11-xxx and rpmfusion-{free,nonfree}-
 release-11-xx rpms.  This completely broke yum, because the format of
 fedora.repo is not understood with F10 yum.

 Try updating to F11 yum?  No good either, needs python-2.6.

 So how is it done?

I'd recommend doing it using preupgrade.

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Re: how de delete a ligne from a file

2009-06-10 Thread Dave Cross
2009/6/10 Chad Kellerman sunck...@gmail.com:
 pe

 On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Adel ESSAFI adeless...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi list

 Is there a method to delete a line from a file withoout editing it!

 you can use perl

 perl -p -i -e `s/Line in file you want to remove//' filename

That removes the data, but leaves an empty line in its place. To
actually remove the line you need something more like:

perl -n -i~ -e 'print unless /Line in file you want to remove/' filename

I've also given the -i option a value so that you get a backup file.

hth,

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Re: git-svnimport

2009-05-11 Thread Dave Cross
2009/5/10 Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com:
 Dave Cross wrote:
 Is git-svnimport packaged in an RPM for Fedora 10 anywhere? I have
 the git-svn RPM and that includes git-svn (the command that allows
 git to talk to an existing svn repository). What I'm looking for is
 git-svnimport (the command that imports an svn repository into a new
 git repository - so you can then remove the old repository). I can't
 seem to find it anywhere, but I'm sure it must be around.

 You want to use git svn, git-svnimport is not supported anymore:

 http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=8cb070a4

    Documentation: Remove mentions of git-svnimport.

[ snip ]

Ah. Yes, I see. Thanks for that. Sounds like 'git clone svn' now does
what git-svnimport used to do.

Wouldn't it be nice if all pages on the web were automatically updated
to say that the software they describe is deprecated :-)

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git-svnimport

2009-05-10 Thread Dave Cross
Is git-svnimport packaged in an RPM for Fedora 10 anywhere? I have the
git-svn RPM and that includes git-svn (the command that allows git to
talk to an existing svn repository). What I'm looking for is
git-svnimport (the command that imports an svn repository into a new
git repository - so you can then remove the old repository). I can't
seem to find it anywhere, but I'm sure it must be around.

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Re: Task::Kensho from Enlightened Perl

2009-04-11 Thread Dave Cross
Chris Weyl wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
 
 Gabor Szabo wrote:

 So I'd like to ask you to add Task::Kensho to the list of perl
 packages you include in Fedora. Satisfying all of the dependencies
 will bring a nice subset of CPAN to the Fedora users.

 One of the points I made in my post was that I've already build RPMs for
 all of the Kensho modules (or, at least, the ones that aren't already in the
 Fedora repositories). So if you wanted to move them into the Fedora project
 you could grab them from http://rpm.mag-sol.com/.

 
 Another thing I didn't mention...  If you (or anyone, really) wants to
 submit these packages, I'll help review them.

What advantage would that give? The RPMs are are already available for
anyone who wants them. I'm not sure why they need another level of
validation.

Eventually, my plan is to monitor CPAN and to automatically rebuild
modules as they are uploaded. I'm also going to make them available at
http://rpm.pkgs.cpan.org/. I don't really see any need for this to be
part of the Fedora project (particularly as I build RPMs for Centos too).

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Re: Task::Kensho from Enlightened Perl

2009-03-31 Thread Dave Cross

Gabor Szabo wrote:

Hi,

you might know that there is a relatively new organization called
Enlightened Perl
http://www.enlightenedperl.org/
One of their projects is to create a CPAN module called Task::Kensho
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task-Kensho/ with the sole purpose of setting the
dependencies to a list of highly recommended modules.

After seeing the post of Dave Cross http://use.perl.org/~davorg/journal/38730
about building rpms from all the modules I thought it might be a good
target for the Fedora Perl maintainers as well to turn those packages to be
official Fedora and then maybe Red Hat packages.

So I'd like to ask you to add Task::Kensho to the list of perl
packages you include in Fedora. Satisfying all of the dependencies
will bring a nice subset of CPAN to the Fedora users.


One of the points I made in my post was that I've already build RPMs for 
all of the Kensho modules (or, at least, the ones that aren't already in 
the Fedora repositories). So if you wanted to move them into the Fedora 
project you could grab them from http://rpm.mag-sol.com/.


One interesting point that was thrown up by this little project. I built 
the spec file for perl-Task-Kensho using cpanspec. But cpanspec doesn't 
seem to recognise the Module::Install syntax for declaring dependencies 
(see, for example [1]) so I had to add the 'Requires' statements 
manually. With more and more CPAN authors moving to Module::Install, it 
would be good if cpanspec could be enhanced to support this syntax.


Cheers,

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[1] http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PERIGRIN/Task-Kensho-0.0.8/Makefile.PL

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Re: Perl/Tk fedora 10

2009-03-18 Thread Dave Cross
2009/3/17 Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk:
 Hello,

 I am experiencing problem with the following code: I cannot edit the
 Widget. It was working fine in fc 7.
 It does seem to be link to nothing to the graphics card or with.
 (I changed the graphics card). However, it work on another fc10 machine.
 This one has an Intel DQ965GF Mother board.

[  snip ]

Patrick,

I think I've seen a few mails from you on this subject over the last
few days and you don't seem to be getting much of a response. I think
that's because Perl/Tk is a relatively minority interest and people on
this general list can't offer any help.

Can I suggest that you try asking your questions on a couple of more
focussed mailing lists. There's the Perl/Tk mailing list at
https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/ptk. And if you suspect
that it's a packaging error in the perl-Tk package, then you might try
the the Fedora Perl devel mailing list at
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list.

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Re: Perl modules --- Fedora RPMs (Test::More)

2009-03-05 Thread Dave Cross
2009/3/4 Geoffrey Leach ge...@hughes.net:
 On 03/04/2009 11:12:33 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
 2009/3/4 Reber, Simon simon.re...@roche.com:
  I suggest to download the tar.gz package from http://www.cpan.de
 and
 install it using:
         perl Makefile.PL
         make
         make install

 Firstly, if you're going to point someone at CPAN then please use the
 canonical URL (http://www.cpan.org/) rather than a national mirror.

 Secondly, mixing RPM-installed modules and CPAN-installed modules in
 the same Perl installation is a recipe for disaster. I strongly
 recommend avoiding it whenever possible.

 Actually, that's not the case. Here's what I do. YMMV.

 Install _minimal_ Perl as rpms. That's just perl and whatever comes
 with it on yum install. Then get the CPAN rpm, and whatever comes with
 it.

 After this, use cpan to install whatever you need. The cli interface is
 simple and easy to use. The value of this is that if you install
 (rather than upgrade) new Fedora distos, your cpan-installed modules
 are not affected, always assuming that /usr/local is a separate file
 system.

Yeah, I worked like that for years. But my Perl installations always
gradually deteriorated. Once I switched to RPM-only installations (and
learnt how to make RPMs of CPAN modules that weren't in the
repositories) my life became much happier.

See http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-in-rpmland-presentation for
more details. And http://rpm.mag-sol.com/ for my repository of RPMs of
CPAN modules.

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Re: Perl modules --- Fedora RPMs (Test::More)

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Cross
2009/3/4 Stanisław T. Findeisen sf181...@students.mimuw.edu.pl:
 How can I know which RPM in Fedora release contains which Perl modules? In
 particular I want to install Test::More, but don't know where to look for
 that. :-/

I usually go and search for the module at http://search.cpan.org/.
That'll tell you which CPAN distribution contains the module. Then
it's just a case of translating the CPAN distribution name to an RPM
name.

For example, Test::More is included in the Test-Simple distribution.
The RPM name is therefore perl-Test-Simple.

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Re: Perl modules --- Fedora RPMs (Test::More)

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Cross
2009/3/4 Reber, Simon simon.re...@roche.com:
 I suggest to download the tar.gz package from http://www.cpan.de and install 
 it using:
        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make install

Firstly, if you're going to point someone at CPAN then please use the
canonical URL (http://www.cpan.org/) rather than a national mirror.

Secondly, mixing RPM-installed modules and CPAN-installed modules in
the same Perl installation is a recipe for disaster. I strongly
recommend avoiding it whenever possible.

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Something Broke My Grub

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Cross
An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word
GRUB in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the
last hour or so.

Here's what I did.

* Earlier today I ran a yum update which pulled in a new kernel. I
didn't reboot the system at that point.

* Later on I installed mediatomb and started playing with that.

* After a while I got bored and stopped the mediatomb daemon.

* At that point I realised that my network connection had dropped.

* I tried to restart the network, but it claimed that the device
(eth1) was already in use.

* So I decided to reboot. Kill two birds with one stone, try out the
new kernel and hopefully unstick the networking.

* At which point I discovered that something was broken in the GRUB
configuration.

I can boot the system using the rescue disk and everything seems ok
(as far as I can tell). So I think it's just something wrong with GRUB
- perhaps caused by today's kernel upgrade.

Has anyone else seen anything like this? And, more importantly, does
anyone have any suggestions of ways to fix it?

Thanks,

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Re: Something Broke My Grub

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Cross
2009/3/4 Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com:
 On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:20:50 +, Dave wrote:

 An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word
 GRUB in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the
 last hour or so.

 Has happened to many people before:
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/450143

 Here's what I did.

 You installed a kernel update, which runs /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
 which in turn reinstalls GRUB via grubby. The kernel package is
 not the culprit, however. Something at run-time has changed your
 system environment in a way that confused the GRUB installation.
 How exactly remains to be found out.

 Has anyone else seen anything like this? And, more importantly, does
 anyone have any suggestions of ways to fix it?

 You need to reinstall GRUB just once more. Use rescue mode,
 for example. I think above bz ticket gives hints.

Thanks for the help. Running grub-install /dev/sda seems to have
fixed the problem.

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Re: installing perl modules on F10

2009-02-09 Thread Dave Cross
2009/2/6 L yuan...@gmail.com:
 On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote:
 2009/2/6 Norman Gaywood ngayw...@une.edu.au:
 Hi list,

 So whats the recommended way of installing perl modules in Fedora 10?

 rpm and/or yum

 What we have been doing in the past is to install a perl-* rpm via yum
 if one is available for the module we want.

 If the module is not available via rpm, we use perl -MCPAN -e shell to
 install modules.

 I really don't recommend that. Mixing rpm-installed modules and
 cpan-installed modules is very likely to lead to unhappiness.

 You may find my Perl in RPM-Land presentation interesting.

  http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-in-rpmland-presentation


 I use cpan2rpm, you install cpan2rpm by

 yum install capan2rpm


 then for example:

 cpan2rpm -i Statistics::Distribution

 or

 cpan2rpm --no-sign  -i Statistics::Regression

 I changed Pod::Text in  /usr/bin/cpan2rpm to Pod::Parser


 It is very handy

cpanspec is what the Fedora Perl team use to build RPMs from CPAN
modules. you may find it builds nicer RPMs than cpan2rpm.

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Re: installing perl modules on F10

2009-02-09 Thread Dave Cross
2009/2/6 Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com:
 On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Norman Gaywood ngayw...@une.edu.au wrote:
 Hi list,

 So whats the recommended way of installing perl modules in Fedora 10?

 This is not the recommended way, it's just another way.

 If perl is already install in your system and using cpan, then do
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'
 The Bundle::CPAN is just an example. Any module can be installed that way.

 You can use yumex to install CPAN.pm

A few random points that you might find interesting.

* There's no need to install CPAN.pm, as it has been included with the
standard Perl distribution since Perl 5.004.

* If you're using CPAN.pm then you might find it easier to use the
command line tool 'cpan' instead. To install Some::module, just type

  $ cpan Some::Module

* Since Perl 5.10 (i.e. the version included with Fedora 10), the
standard Perl distribution has also included CPANPLUS.pm and its
command line tool 'cpanp'. These are very much like the CPAN.pm tools
that you mention but are more flexible.

* If you are using CPAN.pm (or CPANPLUS.pm) to install modules into a
Perl installation which also includes CPAN modules which have been
installed using rpm (or yum) then you need to be very careful as it's
possible to end up with multiple versions of the same module
installed. For that reason, I strongly recommend _not_ installing
modules using CPAN.pm, but building RPMs using cpanspec and installing
those.

hth,

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Re: Looking for three FC10 RPMs

2009-02-08 Thread Dave Cross
2009/2/8 Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net:
 I'm looking for three FC10 RPMs, I'm trying to install
 gscrot-0.64~ppa12-1.fc10.noarch.rpm it is a frontend for scrot that is in
 the Fedora FC10 repos

 perl-Gnome2-Wnck
 perl-Goo-Canvas   perl-Image-Magick

I can't help with the other two, but perl-Image-Magick is called
ImageMagick-perl.

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Re: installing perl modules on F10

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Cross
2009/2/6 Norman Gaywood ngayw...@une.edu.au:
 Hi list,

 So whats the recommended way of installing perl modules in Fedora 10?

rpm and/or yum

 What we have been doing in the past is to install a perl-* rpm via yum
 if one is available for the module we want.

 If the module is not available via rpm, we use perl -MCPAN -e shell to
 install modules.

I really don't recommend that. Mixing rpm-installed modules and
cpan-installed modules is very likely to lead to unhappiness.

You may find my Perl in RPM-Land presentation interesting.

  http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-in-rpmland-presentation

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Re: yum update errors (Fedora 10)

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Cross
2008/12/8 Kevin Kempter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 I ran yum update and got the below errors.

 Anyone have any thoughts / advice ?

 Thanks in advance

 # yum update

[ snip ]

 Error: Missing Dependency: libpackagekit-glib.so.10()(64bit) is needed by
 package gnome-packagekit-0.3.9-8.fc10.x86_64 (installed)
 Error: Missing Dependency: libpackagekit-qt.so.10()(64bit) is needed by
 package kpackagekit-0.3.1-4.fc10.x86_64 (installed)

I'm seeing the same thing. Looks like an incomplete set of packagekit
updates has been pushed to the repos. There are news version of
PackageKit-glib and PackageKit-qt, but no associated new versions of
gnome-packagekit and kpackagekit.

It's the kind of issue that will probably sort itself out in a day or
two as the correct packages get pushed out.

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Re: Missing Dependency: libpackagekit-glib.so.10

2008-12-09 Thread Dave Cross
2008/12/9 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 I also am having problems with FC10 update and packagekit dependencies  and
 I don't use anything but
 fedora, rpmfusion, and livna repos.

Yes. It has nothing to do with third-party repos. It was an
inconsistent set of updates that were pushed to the Fedora updates
repo.

The problem will clear when the corrected RPMs get pushed to the repos
in the next couple of days.

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Re: root in FC 10

2008-12-05 Thread Dave Cross
2008/12/5 Mike Dwiggins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 I upgraded a throw away test system from FC 8 to FC 10.  When it finished, I
 tried logging in as root user and could not.

 Logging in as a normal user I went to a text session and the su command
 worked with the old root password.

 Did I do something wrong or is this something new to 10?

Disabling root login is a common security practice. Sounds like it's
been disabled by default in F10. That's got to be a good thing.

As someone else has said, you can enable it again by fiddling with the
pam files, but please consider whether you really want to do that. Why
not log as a normal user and then use su (or, better, sudo) on the
rare occasions when you need root access?

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Re: Perl RPM bindings in F10

2008-11-28 Thread Dave Cross
2008/11/27 Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 In F10, I cannot compile neither Perl-RPM nor Perl-RPM2.

 Am I boned?

Looks like the Fedora Perl package maintainers might have reached the
same conclusion. RPM2 was included in Fedora 9, but appears to have
been dropped for Fedora 10.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/perl-RPM2

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Re: Perl RPM bindings in F10

2008-11-28 Thread Dave Cross
2008/11/27 Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 I thought, perhaps, there might be a replacement package for Perl bindings
 for RPM.

It looks like there might be.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/RPM4/

I assume that the '4' in its name means that it's based on RPM 4.x.

But it doesn't seem to be any better maintained than the other two.

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Re: firefox rpm source

2008-11-21 Thread Dave Cross
2008/11/21 Iarly Selbir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Hi, where can i get the firefox rpm source ( last stable version for fedora
 - )?

The most recent SRPMs are in

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/SRPMS.newkey/

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Re: Fedora Hangs on Laptop

2008-11-13 Thread Dave Cross
2008/11/7 Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the
 earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable
 to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried.

 But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the
 machine just freezes completely. The capslock and num-lock buttons
 flash on and off but the only way out of it seems to be to turn the
 system off and restart. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before the
 problems occurs, but more often it's a few minutes. This obviously
 makes the system pretty much unusable. I can use the system for as
 long as Iike when I boot it into Vista.

 Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Or do you have any suggestions on
 how I can help to investigate the problem?

Last night I tried the Fedora 10 preview on this machine and I'm
pleased to report that not only did the wireless problems go away, but
I was able to use the system for three hours without it hanging.

Fedora 10 looks like a lovely release. I'm really looking forward to
the official version. Many thanks to everyone who was involved.

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Fedora Hangs on Laptop

2008-11-07 Thread Dave Cross
I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the
earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable
to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried.

But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the
machine just freezes completely. The capslock and num-lock buttons
flash on and off but the only way out of it seems to be to turn the
system off and restart. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before the
problems occurs, but more often it's a few minutes. This obviously
makes the system pretty much unusable. I can use the system for as
long as Iike when I boot it into Vista.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Or do you have any suggestions on
how I can help to investigate the problem?

Thanks,

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Wireless Issues on Dell XPS 1330m

2008-10-12 Thread Dave Cross
I've got a new Dell XPS 1330m laptop and I've installed Fedora 9 on
it. I have a couple of problems with the wireless connectivity. Any
advice would be appreciated.

According to hwbrowser, the card is Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless
4965 AG or AGN Network Connection. This is detected and configured
correctly by NetworkManager.

It's probably worth pointing out that my machine uses the PAE version
of the kernel.

When I first installed Fedora, it installed
kernel-PAE-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686. When this kernel first boots,
NetworkManager sees many wireless networks around me, but not mine.
However if I select Connect to Other Wireless Network and type in my
network name it connects successfully and I have no problems. Under
previous versions of Fedora (on my old laptop) NetworkManager would
find and connect to my network automatically. It would be nice to get
this behaviour back.

So under 2.6.25 things work, just sub-optimally. Under more recent
kernels, the situation is worse. I've updated the system a couple of
times and I now also have kernel-PAE-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 and
kernel-PAE-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686. Under either of these kernels, my
network is still not detected and even when I try to force a
connection, it still doesn't work.

Here's a dump of /var/log/messages for a failed connection attempt.

Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0)
starting connection 'Auto MAGNUM'
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  (wlan0): device state
change: 3 - 4
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0) Stage
1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0) Stage
1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0) Stage
2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0) Stage
1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0) Stage
2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  (wlan0): device state
change: 4 - 5
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation
(wlan0/wireless): connection 'Auto MAGNUM' requires no security.  No
secrets needed.
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Config: added 'ssid'
value 'MAGNUM'
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Config: added
'scan_ssid' value '1'
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Config: added 'key_mgmt'
value 'NONE'
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0) Stage
2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  (wlan0): supplicant
connection state change: 1 - 2
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  (wlan0): supplicant
connection state change: 2 - 3
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel kernel: wlan0 (WE) : Wireless Event too big (344)
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  (wlan0): supplicant
connection state change: 3 - 4
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  (wlan0): supplicant
connection state change: 4 - 7
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation
(wlan0/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful.
Connected to wireless network 'MAGNUM'.
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0) Stage
3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled.
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0) Stage
3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started...
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  (wlan0): device state
change: 5 - 7
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0)
Beginning DHCP transaction.
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  dhclient started with pid 2992
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  Activation (wlan0) Stage
3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.0.0
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: All rights reserved.
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient:
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel NetworkManager: info  DHCP: device wlan0 state
changed (null) - preinit
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:21:5c:64:ab:e5
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:21:5c:64:ab:e5
Oct 12 18:45:26 angel dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
Oct 12 18:45:29 angel dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Oct 12 18:45:35 angel dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Oct 12 18:45:43 angel dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Oct 12 18:45:54 angel dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
Oct 12 18:46:10 angel dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
Oct 12 18:46:11 angel NetworkManager: info  Device 'wlan0' 

Nidia Drivers for PAE Kernel

2008-10-12 Thread Dave Cross
My new XPS 1330m laptop has an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS video card. I'd
therefore like to use the kmod-nvidia drivers from Livna. However,
this system uses a PAE kernel and it doesn't look like kmod-nvidia is
built for this architecture.

Has anyone else done this? Is my best approach to grab the kmod-nvidia
SRPMS and rebuild them? Or can I get the RPMs from somewhere else?

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers,

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Re: Nidia Drivers for PAE Kernel

2008-10-12 Thread Dave Cross
2008/10/12 Mail Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 On 10/12/2008 02:23 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
 My new XPS 1330m laptop has an nVidia GeForce 8400M GS video card. I'd


  the PAE drivers are on livna .. the latest F8 is

 kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-28.fc8PAE-173.14.12-4.lvn8.i686.rpm

  They add the PAE (or xen etc) on the end. If you have the PAE kernel
 installed and livna repo in yum - it may work just to do yum install
 kmod-nvidia/

It was trying yum install kmod-nvidia and it was trying to pull down
the standard kernel. That's what convinced me that it wasn't there.

But it seems the yum install kmod-nvidia-PAE does the trick.

Thanks for your help.

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Re: Wireless Issues on Dell XPS 1330m

2008-10-12 Thread Dave Cross
2008/10/12 Mail Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 On 10/12/2008 02:17 PM, Dave Cross wrote:

 So under 2.6.25 things work, just sub-optimally. Under more recent
 kernels, the situation is worse. I've updated the system a couple of
 times and I now also have kernel-PAE-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 and
 kernel-PAE-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686. Under either of these kernels, my
 network is still not detected and even when I try to force a
 connection, it still doesn't work.

 Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can help to get this fixed?

  Seems that all 2.6.x kernels dont work with WPA/2 - and may even crash
 on occasion.

  My advice - make sure you keep 2.6.25 and wait till it eventually gets
 fixed. YOu may find it helpful to turn on SSID broadcast if its off -
 there is zero loss of security and things will work better.

Thanks for the advice. I already have SSID broadcast turned on -
that's why I'm puzzled that it doesn't appear on Network Manager's
list.

Is there a report in Bugzilla where I can track the progress of this issue?

Cheers,

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Re: Adding Padre to Fedora

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Cross
Gabor Szabo wrote:
 2008/8/29 Marcela Maslanova [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 I try to find solution for missing shared objects on internet, but I found
 only your question on the same problem ;-) Could be possible that Wx is
 broken? There are some seriously looking bugs at
 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Wx
 I hope that you found out at conference and now I go to test your new
 version of padre.
 
 Hi Marcela,
 
 as a start you can try to download the binary version of Padre
 so at least we'll know if that works in Fedora.
 http://padre.perlide.org/wiki/Download

I've successfully downloaded and run your prebuilt version of Padre on
Fedora 9. I get an error on startup but it seems to work fine. I haven't
actually tried to do much with it.

 BTW 0.06 has been released with a slightly different set of prereqs.
 
 Wx is indeed difficult to install and I don't have much knowledge about it.
 Maybe you could post the errors on the wxperl mailing list
 http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/support.html

The problem doesn't seem to be Wx. There's already a prebuild perl-Wx in
the Fedora repositories.

There are a few of your other pre-reqs missing from the Fedora
repositories, but the only one I'm having any trouble building is
Wx::Perl::ProcessStream. That seems to fail some (most?) of its tests on
my machine.

I'll carry on trying and let you know how it goes.

 Maybe Dave Cross can also help, though he is not a Wx person but he knows
 a few things about Perl and Fedora.

Maybe. We'll see :-)

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Laptop Recommendations

2008-08-26 Thread Dave Cross
I'm about to buy a new laptop. And I'd like to buy one that works well
with Fedora 9. My current thinking is to go with something from Dell,
because they support Ubuntu on some of their laptops - and if
something works with Ubuntu then there's a good chance that it can be
made to work with Fedora. I'm very tempted by their new Studio range,
but they don't (yet) sell them with Ubuntu on so I suspect there might
be dragons there.

But I thought I'd ask if anyone here had any other suggestions. I'm
looking for a light laptop with something like a 12 screen, a 2 Ghz
or more processor, 2 Gb of RAM, 300 Gb hard disk, wireless and
bluetooth. Working well with Fedora is my primary concern.

I'm hoping to spend about £800, but could go to £1,000 for the right machine.

Any suggestions? Or suggestions of better places to go for suggestions?

Cheers,

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Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-13 Thread Dave Cross
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 07:19 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
 On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Phil Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Dave Cross wrote:
 
  As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to
  upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really
  appreciate any help to fix this.
 
  I basically have two problems.
 
  1/ I can't use any of the Fedora boot media.
 
  This is well discussed here.
 
  The new media has GRUB on it (starting with F8).  Some BIOS don't like it
  and the keyboard becomes unusable, or the machine hard hangs.
 
  The workaround is to prevent the GRUB menu from coming up.
 
  There are two methods that have been discussed, one of which I have used
  many times. (I install 30-40 systems a week in testing, sometimes)
 
  As the machine boots to media, after BIOS messages, and before any boot
  messages, press Escape repeatedly.  This will prevent GRUB from loading and
  provide the old style prompts.  The keyboard will work here.
 
  Also, someone suggested recently that holding down the left shift key will
  have the same effect.  I have not tested this yet.
 
  In any case, the workaround is to prevent GRUB from loading.

 Phil,

 Thanks. I've been able to prevent GRUB from loading and get to a
 boot: prompt. And the keyboard is still working at that point.

 My problem now, is that I have no idea what to type at that prompt.

 I would guess either hit return for default X oriented install ot
 upgrade  or type text for text install or upgrade.

Thanks for the suggestion. I finally got time to try it out.

All t hat happened is that the CD drive spun for a while. Nothing else happened.

I really wanted it to be that simple too :-(

Any other suggestions,

Cheers,

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Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-07 Thread Dave Cross
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Phil Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Dave Cross wrote:

 As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to
 upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really
 appreciate any help to fix this.

 I basically have two problems.

 1/ I can't use any of the Fedora boot media.

 This is well discussed here.

 The new media has GRUB on it (starting with F8).  Some BIOS don't like it
 and the keyboard becomes unusable, or the machine hard hangs.

 The workaround is to prevent the GRUB menu from coming up.

 There are two methods that have been discussed, one of which I have used
 many times. (I install 30-40 systems a week in testing, sometimes)

 As the machine boots to media, after BIOS messages, and before any boot
 messages, press Escape repeatedly.  This will prevent GRUB from loading and
 provide the old style prompts.  The keyboard will work here.

 Also, someone suggested recently that holding down the left shift key will
 have the same effect.  I have not tested this yet.

 In any case, the workaround is to prevent GRUB from loading.

Phil,

Thanks. I've been able to prevent GRUB from loading and get to a
boot: prompt. And the keyboard is still working at that point.

My problem now, is that I have no idea what to type at that prompt.

Cheers,

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Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-06 Thread Dave Cross
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Raymond C. Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Dave Cross wrote:

 As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to
 upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really
 appreciate any help to fix this.

 I basically have two problems.

 1/ I can't use any of the Fedora boot media. When I boot with the
 installation DVD I get to the press enter to install or upgrade
 Fedora screen, but the keyboard is disabled so I can't press enter.
 I've also tried with the Live CD and the rescue disk, but neither of
 those work either. I've also created a boot USB key, but the BIOS on
 this system doesn't support booting like that. This is a problem I've
 hard with Fedora installation media right back to F7. For the last few
 upgrades I've used yum upgrade.


 Simple, if obvious question: Have you tried using an external keyboard?
 Naturally, most keyboards should just work regardless of the operating
 system, including on a laptop, but if it isn't, perhaps trying an external
 keyboard may help. Off hand, it sounds like your laptop's keyboard may be
 using USB internally rather than the PS2 standards, and perhaps it the BIOS
 doesn't have any option for legacy USB keyboard support or something along
 those lines. If it has a PS2 port, try connecting a PS2 keyboard to it and
 see if that will allow you to install. If not, perhaps an external USB
 keyboard will work.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I don't know if the keyboard is using a USB connection internally, and
I don't know how to find out. The BIOS has a Legacy USB option which
switches between off and auto. I've tried both options and it
makes no difference.

The laptop has no PS2 port. I've tried an external USB keyboard, but
it made no difference.

Cheers.

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Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-06 Thread Dave Cross
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 22:27 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
 As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to
 upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really
 appreciate any help to fix this.

 I basically have two problems.

 1/ I can't use any of the Fedora boot media. When I boot with the
 installation DVD I get to the press enter to install or upgrade
 Fedora screen, but the keyboard is disabled so I can't press enter.
 I've also tried with the Live CD and the rescue disk, but neither of
 those work either. I've also created a boot USB key, but the BIOS on
 this system doesn't support booting like that. This is a problem I've
 hard with Fedora installation media right back to F7. For the last few
 upgrades I've used yum upgrade.

 2/ I then tried to use preupgrade. It all seemed to go ok until the
 end, when I got an error about a missing kernel. On rebooting, grub
 only shows me Windows and the preupgrade options (no standard Linux).
 The preupgrade option doesn't work (errors about missing files).
 Booting into Windows and using Explore2FS shows that a lot (if not
 all) of the kernel rpm seems to be missing.


 So that's the current situation. Most of F9 seems to be installed, but
 I can't boot it. I think it would work if I could boot the rescue disk
 and force an installation of the kernel rpm. But I can't boot the
 rescue disk.

 I've run out of ideas. I really want Fedora on this laptop, but I
 can't think of a way to do it. Any advice that anyone can give me
 would be much appreciated.

 If anyone can give me information that allows me to get F9 installed
 on this laptop then I've got $100 that I'd like to donate to your
 favourite open source project or charity.
 
 can you boot the F9 DVD with an external USB keyboard?

Using an external USB keyboard makes no difference. The keyboard is still dead.

Thanks for the suggestion tho'.

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Re: F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-06 Thread Dave Cross
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Beartooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:27:00 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
[...]
 So that's the current situation. Most of F9 seems to be installed, but I
 can't boot it. I think it would work if I could boot the rescue disk and
 force an installation of the kernel rpm. But I can't boot the rescue
 disk.

 I've run out of ideas. I really want Fedora on this laptop, but I can't
 think of a way to do it. Any advice that anyone can give me would be
 much appreciated.

In the course of much trouble with installing F9 on one of my
 machines, I found that it helped to use an external USB CD/DVD drive --
 but only if the drive was plugged directly into that machine, with no
 hub, switch, nor anything else in between. Then, and only then (after I
 also got the BIOS set up to see and boot from that drive), could I do it.

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have an external DVD drive. I'll
have to see if I can borrow one from somewhere.

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F9 Installation Challenge

2008-06-04 Thread Dave Cross
As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to
upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really
appreciate any help to fix this.

I basically have two problems.

1/ I can't use any of the Fedora boot media. When I boot with the
installation DVD I get to the press enter to install or upgrade
Fedora screen, but the keyboard is disabled so I can't press enter.
I've also tried with the Live CD and the rescue disk, but neither of
those work either. I've also created a boot USB key, but the BIOS on
this system doesn't support booting like that. This is a problem I've
hard with Fedora installation media right back to F7. For the last few
upgrades I've used yum upgrade.

2/ I then tried to use preupgrade. It all seemed to go ok until the
end, when I got an error about a missing kernel. On rebooting, grub
only shows me Windows and the preupgrade options (no standard Linux).
The preupgrade option doesn't work (errors about missing files).
Booting into Windows and using Explore2FS shows that a lot (if not
all) of the kernel rpm seems to be missing.


So that's the current situation. Most of F9 seems to be installed, but
I can't boot it. I think it would work if I could boot the rescue disk
and force an installation of the kernel rpm. But I can't boot the
rescue disk.

I've run out of ideas. I really want Fedora on this laptop, but I
can't think of a way to do it. Any advice that anyone can give me
would be much appreciated.

If anyone can give me information that allows me to get F9 installed
on this laptop then I've got $100 that I'd like to donate to your
favourite open source project or charity.

Cheers,

Dave...

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Re: Packaging CPAN modules for Fedora, the Oslo QA Hackathon, CPAN::Porters

2008-03-11 Thread Dave Cross

Ralf Corsepius wrote:

On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 07:34 +, Dave Cross wrote:

I also have this problem. Not many days go by without me needing a CPAN 
module that isn't pre-packaged into an RPM.


In those cases I often find that cpanspec works to whip up a quick RPM 
that that I can use. I don't know how many of those automatically 
generated RPMs would reach the standards required for inclusion in 
Fedora, but I'm slowly (manually!) making them available at


   http://rpm.mag-sol.com/


And why don't you contribute them back to fedora instead shipping them
on your own for your private pleasures?


Well, I'm not sure that putting them on a public web site constitutes 
shipping them for my private pleasures :)


I've always had a sneaking suspicion that what I've got are good enough 
for me, but not for Fedora's repositories. I suspect that to do that I'd 
need to put more time into cleaning up the specs than I can spare.


But, yes, I agree that it's something I should do. Once I've sorted out 
what I've got and made sure that a) they're all up to date and b) 
nothing duplicates stuff already available from Fedora, then I'll look 
at submitting them to the Fedora approval process.


Cheers,

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Re: Packaging CPAN modules for Fedora, the Oslo QA Hackathon, CPAN::Porters

2008-03-10 Thread Dave Cross

Steven Pritchard wrote:

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 07:34:27AM +, Dave Cross wrote:


  http://rpm.mag-sol.com/


I just took a quick look at that, and I noticed that a *bunch* of those
modules are already available in Fedora...


Yep. I noticed that over the weekend as well. They were created when 
they weren't available.


It all needs a good clean-out. Remove the ones that are now available 
from Fedora and ensure I have up to date builds of the ones that aren't.


I've started sketching out plans to automate this. The long easter 
weekend looks like a good time to start to implement them.



BTW, since YAPC::NA isn't all that far from me, I just submitted a
proposal for a talk on Fedora perl packaging...

  http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2008/03/yapcna-2008-abstract.html


That all sounds very interesting. I won't be there unfortunately as 
there's an ocean between me and YAPC::NA :) - but I look forward to 
seeing your slides.


Dave...

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Re: Packaging CPAN modules for Fedora, the Oslo QA Hackathon, CPAN::Porters

2008-03-07 Thread Dave Cross

Emmanuel Seyman wrote:


search.cpan.org always calls a module's licence as Unknown no matter
how clearly the licence is in the source code itself.


That's no longer true. See, for example:

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Symbol-Approx-Sub/

Which includes Perl (Artistic and GPL).

I'm pretty sure that's driven by the licence key in META.yml. And 
having your distribution containing both machine-readable and 
human-readable licence information are two of the CPANTS project's 
kwalitee measures - see, for example,


  http://cpants.perl.org/dist/kwalitee/Symbol-Approx-Sub

So, this is an issue that the Perl community is aware of and is working on.

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Re: Packaging CPAN modules for Fedora, the Oslo QA Hackathon, CPAN::Porters

2008-03-07 Thread Dave Cross

Ralf Corsepius wrote:

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:19 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:


IMHO there is very little communication between the distro communities and
the Perl community. Some Debian people have started a dialog on the last
YAPC in Vienna and I wish we can increase that even further.
The QA Workshop in Oslo would be a great opportunity for that but if none of
you can come then the next YAPC::EU in Coppenhagen can be also good for
more personal contact.


sigh/ That's fundamental problem community-driven/maintained
distros like Fedora and Debian: Volunteers don't have travel budgets
;)


If there are meetings like this where it is beneficial to Perl if people 
meet up to face to face, then it's possible that The Perl Foundation[1] 
would be interested in sponsoring at least part of the travel and 
accommodation costs. If you're interested, then it's certainly worth 
speaking to them about it.


Dave...

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Re: Packaging CPAN modules for Fedora, the Oslo QA Hackathon, CPAN::Porters

2008-03-07 Thread Dave Cross

Gabor Szabo wrote:

Lately I have also arrived to the conclusion that if you are not 
interested in bleeding edge Perl development then you should use only

the modules supplied by your OS or Perl vendor. For that having only
1000 modules is way too low.


A couple of years ago I reached the same conclusion. All of my Fedora 
systems now only have CPAN modules that are installed as RPMs.


I am using a wide range of Linux distros as I am a consultant and 
every client uses somethings else. I encounter missing modules on 
daily bases so I have no choice but to use CPAN.pm.


I also have this problem. Not many days go by without me needing a CPAN 
module that isn't pre-packaged into an RPM.


In those cases I often find that cpanspec works to whip up a quick RPM 
that that I can use. I don't know how many of those automatically 
generated RPMs would reach the standards required for inclusion in 
Fedora, but I'm slowly (manually!) making them available at


  http://rpm.mag-sol.com/

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Catalyst / DBIx::Class / SQL::Translator

2007-05-02 Thread Dave Cross


Last September there was some talk on this about getting Catalyst (and 
therefore DBIx::Class and SQL::Translator) into Extras.


Was there any progress on this? And if people are help up through lack 
of resources, is there anything I can do to help?


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Re: Catalyst spec files now online - Sorry

2006-09-04 Thread Dave Cross

Roy-Magne Mo wrote:


It seems to be a monumental job to get all these in, how about starting
with DBIx::Class?

I'll gladly help the effort :)


There seem to be some FC RPMs for DBIx::Class and Catalyst (and also 
Plagger, I'd _love_ to get Plagger in Fedora Extras!) online already at 
http://pub.woremacx.com/fedora/yum/i386/


Are they any use? I haven't used them yet.

Dave...


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Re: CPAN Module RPMs

2006-06-22 Thread Dave Cross

Quoting Paul Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Dave Cross wrote:


I've just started to dabble with packaging RPMs from CPAN modules   
and making them available for download (see   
http://rpm.mag-sol.com/). This had brought up a number of questions  
 that people on this list would probably be best placed to answer.


1/ Currently I've been using cpan2rpm to build the RPMs. Are there   
any better tools out there? What do you use to create RPMs from   
CPAN distributions?


Try cpanspec (it's in Extras). I don't use it myself but I know a lot
of packages in Extras were built starting from a cpanspec package.


Ah. That looks a lot better. Thanks.

2/ Are there any good tools for building web pages from RPMs. I've   
played with rpm2html but I don't want to my web pages to look like   
it's still 1998. Something that interfaces with the Template   
Toolkit would be great, and I'd be happy to write that if it   
doesn't already exist.


How about repoview, which is used by Fedpra Extras, e.g.:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata/


That looks useful. But it only took me 15 minutes to put together  
Template::Plugin::RPM2  
(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Plugin-RPM2/) which is a thin TT  
wrapper around the Perl module RPM2.


3/ I assume there are standards that define how CPAN modules should  
 be packaged for use with Fedora (I'm largely targeting Fedora - if  
 the RPMs work with other distributions then that's a bonus). Are   
they documented somewhere?


Using cpanspec will give you a good starting point as I believe it's
based on the Fedora perl package template. The packages should meet the
general packaging guidelines
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines) and some tips for
perl packages in particular can be found at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl


Lots of interesting reading there.

Thanks for all the help.

Dave...

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