Re: google-chrome

2021-10-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/10/2021 01:20, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:52 AM Stephen Isard wrote: For the past couple of days, I've been getting -- /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron: Failed to check for updates with the following error message: Failed to build transaction:

Re: New Keys I have never heard of

2019-10-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/10/2019 21:48, Jeffrey Anderson wrote: Historically, "Super" first appeared on a keyboard in 1980. Today, in the context of linux, Super is usually an alternate name for the Windows key. You should be able to define alternate key combinations if you don't have a physical windows key. 

SL 7.7 update

2019-08-27 Thread John Pilkington
I have 7.7 running. Part of the update went ahead with --skip-broken, but qt5-webkit (epel) and libreport-rhel-anaconda-bugzilla still caused problems. qt5-webkit from epel-testing pulled in others of the family, and I don't see the libreport-rhel-anaconda-bugzilla package in the repos I

Re: Installing Chrome

2019-03-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/03/2019 16:22, Boris Goldowsky wrote: Trying to get Google Chrome installed on Scientific Linux 7.3, in order to be able to run Selenium/WebDriver tests. Attempting to install via RPM or Yum, it is unable to find the dependency "liberation-fonts" Error: Package:

Re: latest VLC GU failure

2019-02-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/02/2019 07:06, Yasha Karant wrote: I have installed the latest VLC from yum install

Re: issues with migrating to SL 7.6

2019-01-29 Thread John Pilkington
On 29/01/2019 15:43, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, S. Vergani wrote: Dear Andrew, uname -r reports "3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64". Hmm.

Re: issues with migrating to SL 7.6

2019-01-29 Thread John Pilkington
18:40, John Pilkington wrote: On 28/01/2019 14:10, S. Vergani wrote: Dear all, I am running scientific linux on a ThinkPad t440p. During the past 1.5 years, I have been experiencing the same apparently unsolvable problem with SL 7.5. Every time I closed the pc without locking it or I tried

Re: issues with migrating to SL 7.6

2019-01-28 Thread John Pilkington
On 28/01/2019 14:10, S. Vergani wrote: Dear all, I am running scientific linux on a ThinkPad t440p. During the past 1.5 years, I have been experiencing the same apparently unsolvable problem with SL 7.5. Every time I closed the pc without locking it or I tried to restart it, the pc froze and

Re: Your removal from the SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS list ** EXTERNAL **

2018-11-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/11/18 15:26, Howard, Chris wrote: I think you have it backwards: Your Office 365 account has been rejecting emails from the scientific linux listserv software. Eventually the listserv gives up and  dumps you off of the list. So blame whoever moved you to Office365. I received an

Re: Nightly firefox crashes

2018-11-08 Thread John Pilkington
On 08/11/18 10:20, Niels Walet wrote: My firefox seems to crash overnight on my work computer, without fail! version firefox-60.3.0-1.el7_5.x86_64 The error message in a terminal window re: IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code! ###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error:

Re: boot hang

2018-10-28 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/10/18 17:42, Yasha Karant wrote: Using yumex, rather than doing a full update to SL 7.5 production, I attempted to update over the network the kernel, firmware, and libgcc, allowing yumex (essentially yum) to establish the needed dependencies (other applications, etc., that also needed to

Config file for SL7.5 in mock

2018-10-26 Thread John Pilkington
I have successfully used mock in Fedora 27 and Fedora 28 to build rpms to run under Scientific Linux (as well as ones to run natively.) At first I used a locally written config file, but more recently /etc/mock/epel-7-x86_64-rpmfusion-free.cfg has worked. It is based on /etc/mock/epel-7.cfg,

Re: Why are not all RPMs displayed

2018-07-30 Thread John Pilkington
On 30/07/18 13:22, Dirk Hoffmann wrote: Hello John, man yum,conf has a long list of options. I have 'installonly_limit=3' which might be doing this. Thank you for your answers, but that is to install more than 3 kernels, which is not what I want. (Actually I am happy with the 3 kernels and

Re: Why are not all RPMs displayed?

2018-07-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 26/07/18 23:46, Dirk Hoffmann wrote: Hello, Sorry, if this is a stupid question, but I am puzzled. I see  

Re: Why are not all RPMs displayed?

2018-07-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 26/07/18 23:46, Dirk Hoffmann wrote: Hello, Sorry, if this is a stupid question, but I am puzzled. I see  

Re: qt-creator

2018-05-24 Thread John Pilkington
On 24/05/18 08:35, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2018, etienne.baeu...@vetsuisse.unibe.ch wrote: Hi all, since the last updates I get the following message while trying to install qt-creator: Error: Package: qt-creator-4.1.0-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)   Requires:

Re: Unknown tag: Recommends: yelp ???

2017-11-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/11/17 22:17, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 11/07/2017 01:40 PM, John Pilkington wrote: On 07/11/17 20:45, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 11/07/2017 04:07 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 07/11/17 11:11, ToddAndMargo wrote: Dear List, SL 7.4 What am I doing wrong? $ rpmbuild --rebuild simple-scan

Re: Unknown tag: Recommends: yelp ???

2017-11-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/11/17 20:45, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 11/07/2017 04:07 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 07/11/17 11:11, ToddAndMargo wrote: Dear List, SL 7.4 What am I doing wrong? $ rpmbuild --rebuild simple-scan-3.26.1-1.fc27.src.rpm Installing simple-scan-3.26.1-1.fc27.src.rpm ... error: line 25

Re: Unknown tag: Recommends: yelp ???

2017-11-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/11/17 11:11, ToddAndMargo wrote: Dear List, SL 7.4 What am I doing wrong? $ rpmbuild --rebuild simple-scan-3.26.1-1.fc27.src.rpm Installing simple-scan-3.26.1-1.fc27.src.rpm ... error: line 25: Unknown tag: Recommends: yelp $ rpm -qa yelp\* yelp-3.22.0-1.el7.x86_64

Re: Error message during yum update

2017-10-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/10/17 06:56, Klaus Steinberger wrote: Hi, Hi:  I just ran yumex.  It 'altered' 73 packages, almost all from sl-fastbugs, apparently successfully and with no error messages. Perhaps you got in too early. no, the message didn't go away with latest updates:

Re: Error message during yum update

2017-10-25 Thread John Pilkington
On 25/10/17 07:57, Klaus Steinberger wrote: Hi, today we got the following messages during yum updates: /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron: Update notice SLBA-2017:1418-1 (from sl-fastbugs) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping. You should report this problem to the owner of the sl-fastbugs

Re: Repositories question

2017-07-10 Thread John Pilkington
On 10/07/17 20:19, Stan Orlov wrote: Greetings, I run SL 6.9. After initial setup, I ended up having 5 Yum repositories: atrpms-repo-7.7.el6_90 (x86_64) atrpms-repo-7.7.el7 (x86_64) I used to use atrpms, but the last update that I see at dl.atrpms.net was in September 2014. I haven't seen

Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life

2017-03-31 Thread John Pilkington
On 31/03/17 20:06, Larry Linder wrote: We are still using SL 5.10 on a number of workstations. The users are used to using KDE with a lot of desktops - 12 or more. We switched a number of boxes to SL 6.8 and we get a lot of grumbles about desktop. We run VMWare and load applications that

7.3 update problems

2017-01-27 Thread John Pilkington
As I noted, my system seems to have updated happily. I started it from yumex by enabling the rolling repos. But I've just been examining my grandson's, which yesterday 'welcomed' him to emergency mode. I'm afraid he doesn't fit the SL target user profile and his access time is limited. yum

Re: successful 7.3 update through yumex

2017-01-26 Thread John Pilkington
d already have the packages he wants. I didn't/don't. On 2017-01-26 21:32, John Pilkington wrote: On 26/01/17 20:02, Yasha Karant wrote: Yesterday afternoon, I did a successful update from production 7.2 to production 7.3 through yumex. In addition to the SL production repositories, I us

Re: successful 7.3 update through yumex

2017-01-26 Thread John Pilkington
On 26/01/17 20:02, Yasha Karant wrote: Yesterday afternoon, I did a successful update from production 7.2 to production 7.3 through yumex. In addition to the SL production repositories, I use the epel, elrepo, and google-chrome repositories for specific add-ons, including nvidia support. I

emails from yum

2017-01-07 Thread John Pilkington
I used to get emails about SL7 auto-updates, but the last one is dated 11 Nov 2016. There have been many auto-updates since then. /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf hasn't changed, and points to the address from which I'm sending this. I had tried to use another address earlier but that never worked.

laptop display problem in SL6.8 i686

2016-09-30 Thread John Pilkington
I have an old Compaq V5000 laptop, updated to SL6.8 and with KDE, which has normally done what I have asked of it. Over the past few weeks its internal display has been unusable although an external VGA monitor works fine with System Settings at 'Unify outputs'. The problem exists from

Re: a question when yum update with scientific linux 6.8‏

2016-08-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/08/16 03:53, afeng wrote: Dear all: there is a question when I yum update my scientific linux 6.8, this message is below Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 from install of alsa-lib-1.1.0-4.el6.i686

Re: libav-tools

2016-07-29 Thread John Pilkington
On 29/07/16 17:23, Yasha Karant wrote: I need for SL7 the equivalents to: |sudo apt-get install -y libav-tools ubuntu-restricted-extras| |sudo apt-get install -y libavcodec-extra-54 libavformat-extra-54| |to provide libav4 for a Mozilla Firefox extension (|Video DownloadHelper) Thus far,

Re: SL 7.2 issues

2016-07-29 Thread John Pilkington
On 29/07/16 09:11, Yasha Karant wrote: On 07/28/2016 02:57 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: 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

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

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

Re: Moving from SL 6.7 to SL 6.8

2016-07-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/07/16 20:47, Connie Sieh wrote: Now that SL 6.8 has been released, many packages in the sl6x-related repos are shown as upgradeable, but the release announcement still includes the warning that: There should be no expectation that a "yum" upgrade to SL 6.8 will work. A new install is

Moving from SL 6.7 to SL 6.8

2016-07-16 Thread John Pilkington
move from "sl6rolling" and the released SL 6.8. Does this still apply? When I first saw it I assumed that it referred specifically to the RCs, but it's still there, post-release. I'm pretty sure I didn't do a fresh install for 6.6 > 6.7 Thanks, John Pilkington

SL 7.2 and MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE messages

2016-06-22 Thread John Pilkington
I just rebooted, and as usual a message flashed up and vanished a few seconds after login; so I tried Xorg.0.log. The new log, and the .old one, has a continuing sequence of Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 141 [ 1619.936] AUDIT: Wed Jun 22 19:11:50 2016: 1662: client 37 disconnected [

Re: Failure to update flash-plugin in SL7.2

2016-05-21 Thread John Pilkington
On 21/05/16 11:51, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Sat, 21 May 2016, John Pilkington wrote: For the past 3 days I've had 'Yum: Failed to install updates' emails about this: ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.202.616-release will be updated ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.2

Failure to update flash-plugin in SL7.2

2016-05-21 Thread John Pilkington
For the past 3 days I've had 'Yum: Failed to install updates' emails about this: ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.202.616-release will be updated ---> Package flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.202.621-release will be an update

Re: VLC on SL 7.1

2015-07-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/07/15 17:19, Bobb Shires wrote: Could someone help me install VLC on SL 7.1? “Out of the box” the system seems incapable of playing any videos, did I miss something? Thanks Which box? vlc-core-2.2.1-6.el7.nux.x86_64.rpm works for me. http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/

Re: Are There Working CheckSums For SL LiveDVD?

2015-06-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/06/15 14:56, Tini wrote: I wanted to try, http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/66/i386/SL-66-i386-2014-11-09-LiveDVD.iso but the two checksums are invalid. 9cc64db53fbb5b1bb7cc838eb59563921bd9f7b7 SL-66-i386-2014-11-09-LiveDVD.md5sum

Repo error after 7.0 to 7.1 upgrade

2015-04-15 Thread John Pilkington
I'm seeing this in yumex. I've reinstalled yum-conf-sl7x failure: repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2 from sl-security: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] curl#36 - Offset (7638280) was

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-29 Thread John Pilkington
On 29/03/15 14:44, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:04 AM, John Pilkington j.p...@tesco.net wrote: On 27/03/15 08:53, Tom H wrote: Point releases are just a snapshot of the packages at a certain point in time, like Debian 6.x/7.x and Ubuntu 12.04.x/14.04.x. RHEL offers its customers

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/03/15 08:53, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: The ultimate cause of this issue was an

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread John Pilkington
On 27/03/15 18:01, Steve Gaarder wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Akemi Yagi wrote: One thing that is different from EPEL is that ELRepo's el7.1 packages that are _not_ backward compatible will not install on systems 7.1. yum will complain. My understanding is that EPEL packages do not have such

Re: update transaction errors

2015-03-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 07/03/15 05:21, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: On 03/06/2015 06:57 PM, Phil Wyett wrote: On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 15:46 -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: I attempted to update a SL 7 system using the Add/Remove Software GUI update feature. The

Re: Connecting to a wireless network

2015-01-05 Thread John Pilkington
On 05/01/15 19:31, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:47 PM, John Pilkington j.p...@tesco.net wrote: I'll compare with lsusb, and stick with kernel-ml meanwhile. John John, ELRepo can provide a kmod package for your device. Could you please file a request either through ELRepo's

Connecting to a wireless network

2015-01-04 Thread John Pilkington
I just installed an SL7 box for my grandson. Internet connection was easy with a direct cable to the BT-supplied hub. On trying with a Netgear usb wireless dongle, dmesg showed that it was recognised but there was no further action. Booting the elrepo 3.18 kernel gave an immediate

Re: Connecting to a wireless network

2015-01-04 Thread John Pilkington
On 04/01/15 19:10, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:05 AM, John Pilkington j.p...@tesco.net wrote: I just installed an SL7 box for my grandson. Internet connection was easy with a direct cable to the BT-supplied hub. On trying with a Netgear usb wireless dongle, dmesg showed

Re: Connecting to a wireless network

2015-01-04 Thread John Pilkington
On 04/01/15 20:35, Brandon Vincent wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:05 PM, John Pilkington j.p...@tesco.net wrote: Suggestions appreciated. Thanks. The Atheros AR5523 driver is not configured to be built in the stock SL 7 kernel. The ELRepo kernel-ml package has the kernel being built

Re: Connecting to a wireless network

2015-01-04 Thread John Pilkington
On 04/01/15 21:50, Brandon Vincent wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 1:54 PM, John Pilkington j.p...@tesco.net wrote: OK. Perhaps I should see if this works: elrepo/el7/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-ath5k-0.0-3.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm That module will certainly not work as it is for a different Atheros

Re: video and media supp in SL7?

2014-10-26 Thread John Pilkington
On 26/10/14 20:00, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 26 October 2014 19:52, Jason Bronner jason.bron...@gmail.com wrote: You can get away with most playback using the FFMPEG package and VLC Media Player, FFMPEG is generally available on ATRPMS, ELREPO, and RPMFORGE. VLC Media player has a native .RPM for

Re: gstreamer1-plugins-base

2014-03-06 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/03/14 09:18, Ian A Taylor wrote: Sir/Madam Does anyone know how I can install the package gstreamer1-plugins-base on SL 6.5 So I can playback video mp4 files Thanking you. Yours sincerely Ian Taylor University of St.Andrews, School of Physics Astronomy, North Haugh, St.Andrews,

Re: gstreamer1-plugins-base

2014-03-06 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/03/14 20:09, John Pilkington wrote: On 06/03/14 09:18, Ian A Taylor wrote: Sir/Madam Does anyone know how I can install the package gstreamer1-plugins-base on SL 6.5 So I can playback video mp4 files Have you considered vlc? It plays most video formats. http://download1

Re: Stuck with compilations

2013-10-29 Thread John Pilkington
audacity from the upstream EPEL repository, and resolve the other dependencies as well from EPEL and the other available repositories. OK. I installed the EPEL repo. On 10/27/2013 11:02 PM, John Pilkington wrote: I just installed the 32-bit version. The 32-bit versions of all the above

Re: vlc repo

2013-04-22 Thread John Pilkington
On 22/04/13 06:47, W K Daniel PUN wrote: Hi John, other, Thank you very much for your reply. I did try to use atrpms. After installing vlc, the system keep asking me to update a few libs and when I did it and got following errors. The vlc is working fine with my system at the moment. I

Re: vlc repo

2013-04-22 Thread John Pilkington
On 22/04/13 13:40, W K Daniel PUN wrote: On 22 April 2013 17:45, John Pilkington j.p...@tesco.net mailto:j.p...@tesco.net wrote: On 22/04/13 06:47, W K Daniel PUN wrote: Hi John, other, Thank you very much for your reply. I did try to use atrpms. After

Re: vlc repo

2013-04-20 Thread John Pilkington
On 20/04/13 19:30, W K Daniel PUN wrote: Hi all, vlc can be installed from rpmforge and atrpms. I am wondering which one is better to use or get better support. Thanks, -Daniel. I have used both, and both work well. I've used ATrpms for more than 8 years, but at present there is little

Re: yumex

2013-04-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/04/13 08:28, g wrote: greetings. with yumex not in sl6.3, is there another gui available to look for a package content, other than yum provides? my fingers get tired with a lot of typing, which i am not very good at. :-) tia. yumex is available from EPEL. smart-gui, at ATrpms, gives

Re: yumex

2013-04-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 18/04/13 11:49, g wrote: On 04/18/2013 03:31 AM, John Pilkington wrote: yumex is available from EPEL. smart-gui, at ATrpms, gives similar information and I've used it a lot, recently in the 1.4.1 version which I had to build myself. I'm now running 6.4 with kde-unstable and haven't yet

Re: KDM/KDE login panel disappears

2013-04-11 Thread John Pilkington
On 11/04/13 04:11, Charles Patterson wrote: Originally posted on the Scientific Linux forum: http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?act=STf=11t=2281 With this last update to 6.4, and perhaps an update before, the KDM login panel does not appear after boot. I see the background but nothing

Re: KDM/KDE login panel disappears

2013-04-11 Thread John Pilkington
On 11/04/13 10:26, John Pilkington wrote: On 11/04/13 04:11, Charles Patterson wrote: Originally posted on the Scientific Linux forum: http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?act=STf=11t=2281 With this last update to 6.4, and perhaps an update before, the KDM login panel does not appear