Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL6.1 is missing various bug fix and fasttrack updates?
Hi Pat Riehecky! On 2011.09.14 at 15:02:53 -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote next: Anyway, the mirrors should pick everything up on their next sync, provided what we've got posted now is actually accurate. Can I have you give ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/archive/debuginfo/ a quick look over for the debuginfo packages you want. If they are posted there, everyone who mirrors SL 6 should pick them up at their next update. If not, then they are hiding out in a directory I haven't found yet and should get posted. Mirrors did pick all the new debuginfo rpms, but it's still ignored; looks like repodata wasn't updated and doesn't list any of new debuginfos. -- Vladimir
Re: buildsys-macros rpm
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Garrett Holmstrom
ho...@physics.umn.edu wrote:
On 2011-09-14 18:20, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
And unfortunately, it can be confusing as all get-out for building
SRPM's for multiple releases. Subversion, for example, has different
dependencies in el5 than in el6, or in f14 or later, and working
out the logic for selecting the right options for your OS is a bit of
an adventure when unpredictable and non-major-release %dist settings
are used.
Thankfully, when you're building with mock or you're building natively on
nearly anything that isn't el 6, you can use other macros that are
designed to solve precisely this problem.
%if 0%{?el5}
# SL 5-specific dependency info
%endif
I use this myself! It's been handy, but some SRPM authors, especially
3rdparty ones, have used some very strange logic based on %dist.. I
try to straighten it out, but it can be hard with low maintenance
projects.
If you want *weird* logic, go look in the Samba SRPM's from
http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/src/rpm/samba3-3.6.0-44.src.rpm.
That scan's /etc/*-release files.
Re: {OT} looking for laptop screen replacement
Thank you Alexandr. I already ran your checks. Backlight is working, but the size of the crack (about 1.5 inch square ), its form - shining star and location - an inch off the lower left corner of the screen makes the work problematic . ill try to contact tosgiba, but I doubt the outcome very much. Andrew -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Alexander Hunt alexander.d.h...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Andrew, Well you hit upon the most common breakage for a laptop, so you are not alone (I used to work for HP service and we got those all the time) If the screen is cracked it's probably had its day. However you could see if you can see anything on the screen using a bright light shined on it. If you can, then the backlight is broken (not the display itself, unless it looks bad around the crackage of course). Also, you might want to check and see if opening it up and checking if the cable is still attached at both ends., Just replacing the backlight would cost less if you can find a supplier for it (although you'd still see the crack in the screen when you're trying to work, which could be annoying). An easier alternative would be to turn it into a desktop computer by attaching an external monitor to it, and have the computer display switched over to the external). Here's a link to the service manual for it, if you decide to go delving into the wonderful world of micro-parts (just a joke to try cheering you up a bit): http://tim.id.au/laptops/toshiba/satellite%20l600d%20l640d%20l650d%20pro%20l600d%20l640d%20l650d.pdf And I attached the pdf just for sending to you, not the list, so you'll get this twice. Hope something there helps, Best regards Alex On 11-09-14 8:40 PM, Andrew Z wrote: [sobbing on] My SL is on apparently long vacation. And was just the wrong time kids are good. Kids and sturdy laptops are compatible. Fancy, non sturdy designed laptop and kids - incompatible. I have 2 laptops one X yo Dell D620 - can replace any part on the cheap - company has tons of them. But it's kids resistant. My favorite toy ( wife's present) Toshiba satellite L645D is semi compatible - the keyboard is definitely kids resistant, but %%% screen is absolutely not. Don't know what they did, but it has a crack and is not working at all. Replacement on ebay and amazon is $80. http://www.amazon.com/TOSHIBA-SATELLITE-L645D-S4037-SUBSTITUTE-REPLACEMENT/dp/B004A8SIOI/ref=sr_1_1?s=pcie=UTF8qid=1316054043sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/TOSHIBA-SATELLITE-L645D-S4037-SUBSTITUTE-REPLACEMENT/dp/B004A8SIOI/ref=sr_1_1?s=pcie=UTF8qid=1316054043sr=1-1; [sobbing off] Q: any better ideas then just suc%% it up and pay $80 ? Andrew
Re: {OT} looking for laptop screen replacement
No problem Andrew, If you are inside the case already I'm sure you can replace the screen yourself, just using the manual I forwarded to you to locate the screen screws and where the wires connect, so your least cost bet would almost certainly to be to get the one from Amazon, but make very sure you get the one for your exact model (make sure those part#'s and specs match what is on the tag on your unit). *ie)*L645D-(_S4037_ must be on the tag on the bottom - or its the wrong one), and the specs must be : 14.0 WXGA HD LED. The exact specs you can find in the tech spec section of the user manual that came with your Toshiba. If you don't have that anymore, the manuals are available on the Toshiba website and you will need the all the numbers on the units tag to make sure you get the one for your exact model (See below, I provided the link). Here's the link to the Toshiba site where you can look up the user manual: http://support.toshiba.ca/support/TechSupport/ln_TechSupport.asp Then just fill in the drop-downs: satellite, L645D for model, and match up the last dropdown with what the tag says on yours (They all start with: PSK16C-00 then 4 numbers to particularly ID your model.) Once you have the exact specs for screen, you'd just need to find one, and if you are lucky it'll be the one you already located. The service manual isn't much help for that info, It does say it has a 14.1 Inch LCD but doesn't make mention of the WXGA HD, but then again there are 4 different types of that model, so either they are all the same or mixed-and-matched and Toshiba is famous for doing that. There is a section on handling the LCD on page 239 of the service manual pdf. The section for re and re the LCD unit is on page 212 of the pdf. The part about what the display spec are is on Pg 17 of the pdf. If you need any other assistance, just holla :-) and feel free to just email me directly since this is way OT at this point. Sorry everybody else... Regards, Alex On 11-09-15 6:26 AM, Andrew Z wrote: Thank you Alexandr. I already ran your checks. Backlight is working, but the size of the crack (about 1.5 inch square ), its form - shining star and location - an inch off the lower left corner of the screen makes the work problematic . ill try to contact tosgiba, but I doubt the outcome very much. Andrew -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Alexander Hunt alexander.d.h...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Andrew, Well you hit upon the most common breakage for a laptop, so you are not alone (I used to work for HP service and we got those all the time) If the screen is cracked it's probably had its day. However you could see if you can see anything on the screen using a bright light shined on it. If you can, then the backlight is broken (not the display itself, unless it looks bad around the crackage of course). Also, you might want to check and see if opening it up and checking if the cable is still attached at both ends., Just replacing the backlight would cost less if you can find a supplier for it (although you'd still see the crack in the screen when you're trying to work, which could be annoying). An easier alternative would be to turn it into a desktop computer by attaching an external monitor to it, and have the computer display switched over to the external). Here's a link to the service manual for it, if you decide to go delving into the wonderful world of micro-parts (just a joke to try cheering you up a bit): http://tim.id.au/laptops/toshiba/satellite%20l600d%20l640d%20l650d%20pro%20l600d%20l640d%20l650d.pdf And I attached the pdf just for sending to you, not the list, so you'll get this twice. Hope something there helps, Best regards Alex On 11-09-14 8:40 PM, Andrew Z wrote: [sobbing on] My SL is on apparently long vacation. And was just the wrong time kids are good. Kids and sturdy laptops are compatible. Fancy, non sturdy designed laptop and kids - incompatible. I have 2 laptops one X yo Dell D620 - can replace any part on the cheap - company has tons of them. But it's kids resistant. My favorite toy ( wife's present) Toshiba satellite L645D is semi compatible - the keyboard is definitely kids resistant, but %%% screen is absolutely not. Don't know what they did, but it has a crack and is not working at all. Replacement on ebay and amazon is $80. http://www.amazon.com/TOSHIBA-SATELLITE-L645D-S4037-SUBSTITUTE-REPLACEMENT/dp/B004A8SIOI/ref=sr_1_1?s=pcie=UTF8qid=1316054043sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/TOSHIBA-SATELLITE-L645D-S4037-SUBSTITUTE-REPLACEMENT/dp/B004A8SIOI/ref=sr_1_1?s=pcie=UTF8qid=1316054043sr=1-1
.xps files on SL5
Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? I've found web postings saying that okular can read them, but I can't find a version of that for SL5. I tried installing kdegraphics, but it wasn't included. It's apparently on the way for evince, but not here yet. Thanks, Stephen Isard
Re: .xps files on SL5
Apologies for the double post, forgot to post to the listserv (maybe other people can get some info out of this too): You might try using kpdf... apparently okular is based upon that. That's located in the kdegraphics package. However, it looks like okular is specifically the one that reads xps. There is also ghostxps which can apparently convert from xps to pdf format. (you'll probably have to compile that, but it's easy!) http://www.ghostscript.com/download/ Christopher Tooley On 2011-09-15, at 8:52 AM, Stephen Isard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? I've found web postings saying that okular can read them, but I can't find a version of that for SL5. I tried installing kdegraphics, but it wasn't included. It's apparently on the way for evince, but not here yet. Thanks, Stephen Isard
SL6 Minimal Desktop problem
I've installed SL6.1 Minimal Desktop in order to use IceWM on an IONITX motherboard (Intel Atom + Nvidia ION). When I try to login via GDM, GDM insists on starting gnome-session even though GNOME is not fully installed. I'm trying to determine the best method to have GDM use IceWM by default. I believe I need to modify /etc/gdm/custom.conf and specify a few parameters to force GDM to use icewm-session instead of gnome-session. I've already tried adding PREFERRED=icewm-session in /etc/sysconfig/desktop to no avail. Any additional information would be greatly appreciated. Also, I've noticed GDM complains about the GNOME Power Manager not being properly installed or configured. Is there a quick fix to disable this warning? Thanks for the cool distro. /Brian/
Re: .xps files on SL5
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Christopher Tooley wrote: Thanks very much, Christopher. Ghostxps did the job for me. You might try using kpdf... apparently okular is based upon that. That's located in the kdegraphics package. However, it looks like okular is specifically the one that reads xps. I had tried kpdf, but without success. There is also ghostxps which can apparently convert from xps to pdf format. (you'll probably have to compile that, but it's easy!) http://www.ghostscript.com/download/ Easy, but not quick :-) The documentation for gxps is a bit thin, so I'll include a couple of things I learned in hopes of saving time for the next person who goes through this. You can speed up compilation of gxps by doing 'make xps' instead of 'make', assuming you don't want to compile the pcl interpreter as well. gxps -h gives you commandline options. Use gxps -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=pdf file xps file to convert xps file to pdf file. If you leave out -dNOPAUSE, you are prompted to press ENTER for each separate page of the document. When I ran just gxps xps file the file was displayed on the screen, but there were no controls for moving back and forth among pages, and the text was in a barely readable font. There was a warning on the command line Some glyphs of the font TimesNewRomanPSMT requires a patented True Type interpreter. There was no such warning when I converted to pdf and the text looked much better. Stephen Isard On 2011-09-15, at 8:52 AM, Stephen Isard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? I've found web postings saying that okular can read them, but I can't find a version of that for SL5. I tried installing kdegraphics, but it wasn't included. It's apparently on the way for evince, but not here yet. Thanks, Stephen Isard
Re: .xps files on SL5
On 09/15/2011 01:33 PM, Stephen Isard wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Christopher Tooley wrote: Thanks very much, Christopher. Ghostxps did the job for me. Sounds like you've found a free solution. I tried evince 3.0.2 compiled with libgxps (latest git) and it would open xps documents but the pages were blank. Tried this commercial app and it seemed to work great: http://www.sana-tech.com/xps.html
SL 6.1 and elilo?
Afternoon all, I googled around a bit for SL 6.1 and elilo? Can SL 6.1 work with elilo and UEFI boards? TIA! Jeff
Re: SL 6.1 and elilo?
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Jeff Layton wrote: Afternoon all, I googled around a bit for SL 6.1 and elilo? Can SL 6.1 work with elilo and UEFI boards? I think it will work with UEFI on x86_64 . -Connie Sieh TIA! Jeff
Does SL6 support yum-plugin-security ?
Greetings, Does SL6 support the yum-plugin-security [1] plugin? This would be very useful in addressing security advisories. The SL6 Deployment Guide mentions this plugin, but I'm not clear if SL6 supports this since the plugin requires a significant amount of work in the yum repositories. I installed this plugin on a brand new SL6.1 installation, but I'm not getting any information out of it: SL61 # yum list-sec cves Loaded plugins: security updateinfo list done SL61 # I've searched around for an answer to this, but I haven't found much information. Thank you! -= Stefan [1] http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/01/16/tips-and-tricks-yum-security/ [2] ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/documents/tuv/6/Deployment.Guide.html#sec-Plugin_Descriptions -- Stefan Lasiewski Email: stef...@nersc.gov Computer System Engineer IIIEmail: slasiew...@lbl.gov Networking, Security, and Servers Group National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
