I tried installing Mageia 3 Beta 4 on an ASUS 64-bit PC,
a network install.
A couple of problems I noticed:
(1) insmoding xen_blkfront failed
/lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 96
(I was not using a virtual machine, this was an install onto
a physical PC)
(2) During installation
On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 06:38 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
On 10 April 2013 03:44, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote:
I tried installing Mageia 3 Beta 4 on an ASUS 64-bit PC,
a network install.
A couple of problems I noticed:
(1) insmoding xen_blkfront failed
/lib/libDrakX
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 21:15 +0100, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
If perl must require perl-doc, the split is just useless.
Yes, you should be able to install perl without the doc.
Having said that, a possible reason for the split is that they are
updated in differing cycles.
Liam
--
Liam Quin -
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 06:37 +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
Hi
Please let in freeze push: libroffice-4.0.0.2
This is RC2, we have RC1.
When to stop?
It's not a difference here between a release candidate and a release...
--
Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 12:42 +0100, André Salaün wrote:
[...]
But perhaps I am a stupid linux user since 13 or 14 years and I should
have to buy Apple product or W8 ;-)
I've been using Unix since V7 days and have been told on this list I
shouldn't be using Cauldron because it's for more
On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 02:39 +0100, Davy Defaud wrote:
You're right, I forgot that some people don't even know what is SSH...
Doesn't matter in any case, as an ssh server won't be reachable by
default unless you punch a hole in the firewall, which _is_ set up by a
default install...
--
Liam
On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 16:24 +, Colin Guthrie wrote:
Personally I've been bind mounting /dev, /proc and /sys for years
whenever doing any rescuecd etc. stuff. Partly because I have several
LVM volumes where a static /dev/ wouldn't help anyway...
But bind mounting /dev has just been part
On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 20:48 +0100, AL13N wrote:
Op woensdag 16 januari 2013 11:30:27 schreef Liam R E Quin:
Why not add a command to the rescue disk,
bind-mount dir - mount /dev, /proc and /sys as /dir/dev etc for chroot
because in fact, it's not really the correct solution (and there's
On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 13:41 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi Liam,
let me reply to your E-mail - not necessarily disagreeing.
Thanks!
On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:46:39 -0500
Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote:
Tried installing 3.0 beta over a Mandriva Cooker system today.
Mageia-3-beta1
On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 17:41 +, Claire Robinson wrote:
It's actually Cauldron you're running Maurice. This issue is known, see
the ML thread 'Boot borked cause procfs :((' from earlier today.
It's also in the 3.0 beta DVD, as I reported yesterday.
Liam
--
Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead,
On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 17:01 +0100, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
I found the key of the issue: grub has not install because block number
is to big (my /boot is at 1,6TB from the start of the disk).
With my HP Elitebook I found that all the partitions were allocated, so
I booted in Windows 7 (this was
On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 12:54 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-01-07 15:15 (GMT+0200) Anssi Hannula composed:
$ df /disks/esata
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 969063752 942471244 26592508 98% /disks/esata
Do total space in df du output exclude
Tried installing 3.0 beta over a Mandriva Cooker system today.
Mageia-3-beta1-x86_64-DVD.iso
Some notes. Mostly about problems because I never got to see a working
system, so the tone is probably more negative than I'd like.
On boot, there was a long delay followed by Loading program and a
On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 18:26 -0500, Charles A Edwards wrote:
Beginning Tuesday 15 January 2013 radio streaming within the desktop
client will only be available to Last.fm subscribers (monthly fee).
Due to this should not lastfm-player either be dropped or moved to
nonfree now before Mga3 goes
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 22:56 +0100, zezinho wrote:
Em 27-11-2012 17:10, Thierry Vignaud escreveu:
[...]
- having urpmi select the right package
o either deltarpm if there's one for installed_version -
update_version path
o or regular update package else
Well, we should not
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 22:49 +0800, Joseph Wang wrote:
Let me tell you about my day.
[...]
Most of us have jobs. Almost everyone here is a volunteer. But you are
volunteering to be part of a team, and that involves fitting in with the
team's larger goals.
A set of astronomy-related packages
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 16:06 +, Colin Guthrie wrote:
Hi,
Couchdb seems to be split into couchdb and couchdb-bin.
This split seems daft to me. couchdb requires couchdb-bin and the only
stuff in the couchdb package is config files...
Why is there this complicated split?
Is it so that
On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:01 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
Since there's no identification in the message, all I could suggest
is a brute-force search of all files on the root or /usr partitons
for the string ConsoleKit, which appears in the error message.
Then, identify the package which owns
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 09:15 +, Donald Stewart wrote:
On 8 November 2012 00:45, Johnny A. Solbu coo...@solbu.net wrote:
On Tuesday 06 November 2012 23:39, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Dear sirs or madams,
To me, this sounds a little to generic, a little to unformal [...]
No, this is wrong,
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 09:15 +, Donald Stewart wrote:
On 8 November 2012 00:45, Johnny A. Solbu coo...@solbu.net wrote:
On Tuesday 06 November 2012 23:39, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Dear sirs or madams,
To me, this sounds a little to generic, a little to unformal [...]
No, this is wrong,
On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 21:21 +0100, Donald Stewart wrote:
Hello everyone,
I saw this article today and I think that it would be great to add
this to the default fonts that we have available as it would allow
greater ease of access to people with dyslexia.
On Sun, 2012-09-30 at 20:13 +0200, Angelo Naselli wrote:
Well to be honest that has been already discussed via irc,
and it seems to be as you said a good thing, the real
question is how to call it :)
The usual choices are
1. an acronym few people will remember
e.g. miascm (multi-interface
On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 03:23 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
[resending from the right address; I wish evolution would fix that bug!]
3) Fix the issue. Fedora actually has DejaVu fonts as default with
higher priority and Liberation fonts with a lower priority.
Makes sense.
[...]
It'd be really
On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 03:23 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
3) Fix the issue. Fedora actually has DejaVu fonts as default with
higher priority and Liberation fonts with a lower priority.
Makes sense.
[...]
It'd be really nice if someone looked over our font packages and fonts
config stuff and
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 15:57 +0200, EatDirt wrote:
I think we should pay attention to the default fonts we will choose for
mga3, indeed. That's the very first reflex of any user, either you like,
or you don't, that would even deserve a contest may be.
Reaction to typefaces depends on several
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 18:34 +0100, brian.sm...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
I assume any default font should have the complete UTF8 Character set?
This isn't really meaningful, because of unification - fonts implement
glyphs, not characters, and there are a great many Unicode characters
that
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 14:56 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
Well according to folklore (which is about all I've got to go on here),
before there were proper infrastructures in place to allow users to
reboot machines, sysadmins might give trusted workstation users the
passwords to these accounts
On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 07:54 +0200, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
I don't know if this is a safe way but it should be interesting to have a
look
on it.
Speaking as gnome user, sounds awful.
MCC is one of the strengths of the distribution, and the fact you can
run it outside of kde or gnome is
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 15:44 +0200, Jerome Quelin wrote:
- perl-Graphics-Magick, from package graphicsmagick (maintainer: stormi)
fails with Could not find a typemap for C type 'Graphics::Magick'.
related to perl, but don't know exactly what the problem is.
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 18:11 +0200, Robert Fox wrote:
The problem occurs under both KDE and Gnome
Basically, the system seems to freeze up (mouse moves) but nothing else
- gkrellem freezes and no errors occur - it just seems to hang - but
magically wake up again after some time (many
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 17:27 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
[...]
Web hosting companies sometimes provide access to a serial console.
Then I guess they can also take the step of installing agetty or mgetty
and configure it, since they have to configure it anyway.
This is not a good argument.
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 04:11 +0100, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
If we deprecate and remove the abillity to use a text installer, we
are effectlively blocking blind users from beeing able to install the
system.
The reason that I first started using Mandrake Linux years ago was that
it was the first
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 19:38 -0500, David W. Hodgins wrote:
[...]
I've since been thinking, it might be better if either
systemd, or dracut could parse /etc/fstab, and automatically
recreate any mountpoints under /media.
+1
Or at worst comment them out, but not remove them - most users will
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 11:59 +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
No. Configuring a user computer should be left to end-user, not to
packagers providing 'just click here' blackbox solutions.
One of the reaons I switched, years ago, away from Debian to Mandrake
Linux, was exactly this: debian packages
On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 16:31 -0800, Dan Fandrich wrote:
I raised a bug ticket on drakxtools (#3731) because the RPM in Cauldron
installs without complaints in Mageia 1 but won't work there because
it requires a newer version of perl. The perl dependency in the
RPM is listed as perl-base when it
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 17:34 +0200, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
If people are using a system with gnome
installed to develop gnome, it's not strange they run into problems.
This is nonsense, sorry. It's no stranger than a KDE-user wanting to
recompile kwrite or krita.
And I
wonder why
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 01:56 +0100, Zé wrote:
Seams your confused, plf freetype it simply put fonts worst,, thats
why i also never used plf freetype, maybe you should read some
mandriva discussions in ML.
I normally use the plf freetype because it's so much better.
And it's generally the
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 04:57 +0100, Zé wrote:
In mandriva sincepatent expiration in freetype, fonts display wasnt
smoth anymore and appeared ugly fonts, this used to exist just in
plf..
Note that whether fonts are ugly is very subjective, and also varies
depending on one's eyes.
For example,
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 23:11 -0400, Marc Paré wrote:
[...]
I think what this all boils down to is, does the Mageia project want to
actively seek out bugs and encourage its users to report bugs? If Mageia
is interested in seriously quashing bugs, then the reporting process has
to be
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 17:53 -0400, Robert Xu wrote:
[...]
would it be possible to move drakxtools slowly away from perl gtk?
Or at least make perl gtk better (and provide a perlQt implementation?)
In principle there could be a GDK port to use Qt, so the same *drak code
would work with both
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