Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-29 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Taylor Braun-Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM, hansel wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > If I download the Oracle rpm for 1.8, do the necessary links in >> > /etc/alternatives, remove Open JDK 1

Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-29 Thread Taylor Braun-Jones
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM, hansel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If I download the Oracle rpm for 1.8, do the necessary links in > > /etc/alternatives, remove Open JDK 1.7 and make sure the enviroment > > variables are correct, do I avoid

Re: Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-29 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM, hansel wrote: > Hi, > > If I download the Oracle rpm for 1.8, do the necessary links in > /etc/alternatives, remove Open JDK 1.7 and make sure the enviroment > variables are correct, do I avoid crashes (or silent errors) -- to the best > of more experienced SL user

Safe to install Oracle Java 1.8?

2015-01-29 Thread hansel
Hi, If I download the Oracle rpm for 1.8, do the necessary links in /etc/alternatives, remove Open JDK 1.7 and make sure the enviroment variables are correct, do I avoid crashes (or silent errors) -- to the best of more experienced SL users' knowledge, of course? Some of what I do depends on

Re: NVidia drops off bus

2015-01-29 Thread Joseph Areeda
Thank you all! I will try cleaning the connectors and reseating. It's about time for its routine cleaning. Best, Joe On 01/29/2015 08:34 AM, Rich wrote: In my experience, that means the card is either overheating or failing. Don't know what card it is, but those are your options. - Rich

Re: NVidia drops off bus

2015-01-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 29 January 2015 at 09:41, Phil Wyett wrote: > On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 08:30 -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've been getting random crashes of X on my development workstation with > > messages like: > > > > on console: cpu #X stuck in [X:...] > > .xsession-errors contain things

Re: NVidia drops off bus

2015-01-29 Thread Phil Wyett
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 08:30 -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been getting random crashes of X on my development workstation with > messages like: > > on console: cpu #X stuck in [X:...] > .xsession-errors contain things like: "gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 > (Resource temporari

NVidia drops off bus

2015-01-29 Thread Joseph Areeda
Hi All, I've been getting random crashes of X on my development workstation with messages like: on console: cpu #X stuck in [X:...] .xsession-errors contain things like: "gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0." /var/log/messages has "NVRM: GPU at

Re: clonezilla or equivalent

2015-01-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On 01/29/2015 12:32 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: The target hard drive is supposed to have no file system format (just the low level format from the manufacturer) -- not MS Windows, Mac OS X, or any other file system format. It is supposed to be "brand new raw". The way I've always prepped a disk f

Re: SL7: Missing texlive-* packages

2015-01-29 Thread Jean-Paul Chaput
Hello SL+TeX Users, For the needs of my own network I've developed a Python script called "tl2rpm" which aims to automatically pull a TeXLive package from the CTAN site and build the relevant package for SL. It is based on a C program from Jindrich Novy from 2011. It can build one package or a s