Re: SL 7.2 issues

2016-07-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 07/28/2016 01:44 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I was updating an application on my SL7.1 laptop workstation, not using a terminal screen yum but the GUI interface that automagically appears after "clicking" on the downloaded RPM in the web browser download window. Unfortunately, the ISP network

Re: SL 7.2 issues

2016-07-28 Thread John Pilkington
On 28/07/16 20:20, Yasha Karant wrote: On 07/28/2016 11:33 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 28/07/16 18:44, Yasha Karant wrote: Several observations, questions -- all pertaining to SL 7.2 / mate (if a KDE, etc., application/interface works under mate, such qualify as "mate"). Q1 I previously

Re: SL 7.2 issues

2016-07-28 Thread Yasha Karant
On 07/28/2016 11:33 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 28/07/16 18:44, Yasha Karant wrote: Several observations, questions -- all pertaining to SL 7.2 / mate (if a KDE, etc., application/interface works under mate, such qualify as "mate"). Q1 I previously had gpk-application as the primary

Re: SL 7.2 issues

2016-07-28 Thread John Pilkington
On 28/07/16 18:44, Yasha Karant wrote: Several observations, questions -- all pertaining to SL 7.2 / mate (if a KDE, etc., application/interface works under mate, such qualify as "mate"). Q1 I previously had gpk-application as the primary software GUI installer. This has been replaced by

SL 7.2 issues

2016-07-28 Thread Yasha Karant
I was updating an application on my SL7.1 laptop workstation, not using a terminal screen yum but the GUI interface that automagically appears after "clicking" on the downloaded RPM in the web browser download window. Unfortunately, the ISP network failed during the update (that evidently

Re: Transparent Screen Lock for Enterprise Linux

2016-07-28 Thread Devin A. Bougie
Hi Andrew, > On Jul 27, 2016, at 10:25 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > And why do I want this? Maybe you don't =). Just incase it helps, I'll try to elaborate on the two main features we mentioned. 1. We needed to lock desktops without hiding the graphical applications / displays

Re: radeon no UMS

2016-07-28 Thread Michael Alaimo
Hello Prof. Niels R. Walet Did you check the grub settings? /etc/default/grub check the line - GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=scientific/root rd.lvm.lv=scientific/swap rhgb quiet" make sure that nomodeset is not in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable. See this explaination:

RE: sl6.8 libcgroup -- bug

2016-07-28 Thread SCHAER Frederic
Probably... So. I took the SL SRPM (http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.8/SRPMS/vendor/libcgroup-0.40.rc1-18.el6_8.src.rpm) , rebuilt it and ... [root@dev7247 libcgroup]# cp rebuilt/lib64/libcgroup.so.1.0.40 /lib64/ cp: overwrite `/lib64/libcgroup.so.1.0.40'? y [root@dev7247

RE: sl6.8 libcgroup -- bug

2016-07-28 Thread SCHAER Frederic
Hi Stijn, In some (old) forums it's stated that such things should be reported here, and on the SL FAQ that we might send our findings/patches to the SL-DEV mailing list... (I'm not subscribed on that one) For now, I've just found that it's the shared library that's in cause : [root@dev7247

Re: sl6.8 libcgroup -- bug

2016-07-28 Thread Steven Haigh
That could probably be Connie atm. CC'ed into this thread. On 2016-07-28 16:08, Stijn De Weirdt wrote: hi fredric, i confirm, things seem ok with the centos rpm quick inspection of the rpms also does not show something obviously wrong (both rpms ship same files with same sizes). i took the