Re: firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-05-03 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2016-04-29 +0200 à (at) 15:51:11 Franchisseur Robert écrivit (wrote): -- > -- Le (On) 2016-04-28 -0500 à (at) 13:25:00 Graham Allan écrivit (wrote): -- > > > After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're > > getting a handful of reports of

Re: firefox 45.1 crashes

2016-04-29 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2016-04-28 -0500 à (at) 13:25:00 Graham Allan écrivit (wrote): -- > After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're > getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing. > > I've had people try the obvious things (disable plugins esp. flash, > create a new

Re: SL6, firefox, flash, and upgrade failures

2016-03-22 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2016-03-22 -0700 à (at) 10:03:03 Keith Lofstrom écrivit (wrote): -- > Is there a way to TURN OFF Firefox "flash is insecure" nagging, > or FORCE "Always Activate" when it is grayed out in about:addons? > > > > The only way I've found to fix that is to: > > 1) Stop all running

Re: Adobe flash plugin replacement for Firefox

2014-12-22 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2014-12-22 -0800 à (at) 11:53:25 ToddAndMargo écrivit (wrote): -- snip Hi Chris, Firefox flags the out-of-date Flash plugin as a security hazard. On my yum.log (SL5.11) I saw : Nov 26 04:10:27 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.424-release.x86_64 ...

Re: mount -o question

2014-05-05 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2014-05-04 -0700 à (at) 23:09:32 ToddAndMargo écrivit (wrote): -- Hi All, # is roots user prompt $ is my user's prompt # mount -t ext3 -o users,exec /dev/sdc1 /mnt/LIVE # chmod -R 2777 /mnt/LIVE $ cp -R /home/CDs/Keepers/Linux/Usb.CreateLiveUSB /mnt/LIVE $ umount /mnt/LIVE

Re: libotf not installed by SL6.5 installer?

2014-03-27 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2014-03-26 -0700 à (at) 14:09:57 Konstantin Olchanski écrivit (wrote): -- On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 09:16:25PM -0700, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: snip Now if only I could figure out how to prevent the SL6 installer from writing the GRUB boot loader into the source

Re: rpmfusion failure due to conflict

2013-07-16 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2013-07-16 -0700 à (at) 13:24:01 Yasha Karant écrivit (wrote): -- Hi, snip Is there a mechanism to (1) identify ATrpm rpms that are present on a system I use to do : rpm -qia | awk BEGIN { ORS = \###\nName\ ;RS = \Name\ } ; /ATrpm/ {

SL 5.9 yum-conf questions.

2013-02-11 Thread Franchisseur Robert
Hello, I am a bit confused with yum-conf versus yum-conf-5x which I used to use, by doing : yum -y shell yum-5x with yum-5x containing : erase yum-conf install yum-conf-5x run exit So I have a few questions about that. It seems I cannot remove any more yum-conf as it contains other

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] diskboot.img 5.7 problem.

2012-05-08 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2012-05-07 -0500 à (at) 13:14:14 Pat Riehecky écrivit (wrote): -- On 05/03/2012 10:00 PM, FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: -- Le (On) 2011-10-10 +0200 à (at) 05:55:52 Franchisseur Robert écrivit (wrote): -- Hello, the image file diskboot.img for SL5.7 x86_64 is corrupted

Re: diskboot.img 5.7 problem.

2012-05-04 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2012-05-03 -0400 à (at) 23:15:59 Nico Kadel-Garcia écrivit (wrote): -- On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:00 PM, FRANCHISSEUR Robert rob...@franchisseur.fr wrote: -- Le (On) 2011-10-10 +0200 à (at) 05:55:52 Franchisseur Robert écrivit (wrote): -- Hello, the image file

Re: diskboot.img 5.7 problem.

2012-05-03 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-10-10 +0200 à (at) 05:55:52 Franchisseur Robert écrivit (wrote): -- Hello, the image file diskboot.img for SL5.7 x86_64 is corrupted and doesn't work. It seems the file is too small as syslinux.cfg is empty. The i386 version is OK. Hello, same problem

diskboot.img 5.7 problem.

2011-10-10 Thread Franchisseur Robert
Hello, the image file diskboot.img for SL5.7 x86_64 is corrupted and doesn't work. It seems the file is too small as syslinux.cfg is empty. The i386 version is OK. -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR Apollo_gist

Re: Standard Mpeg-1 Video player

2011-09-07 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-09-06 -0500 à (at) 16:45:18 Chris Pemberton écrivit (wrote): -- On 09/06/2011 03:14 PM, Jordan Dean wrote: Has anyone found a player / codec that is in the standard SL repositories that will playback mpeg 1 encoded video. (Totem does not have the codec in the two sets of

Re: any alternative pdf plugin for 64 bit FF?

2011-09-07 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-09-06 -0700 à (at) 19:44:13 Todd And Margo Chester écrivit (wrote): -- Hi Guys, Does anyone know of a PDF plugin, other than AcroRead's plugins, for 64 bit Firefox? On SL5.6 I use xpdf (from dag repo). It is very fast. -- Cordialement,

Re: Standard Mpeg-1 Video player

2011-09-07 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-09-07 -0700 à (at) 16:32:42 Christopher Tooley écrivit (wrote): -- On 2011-09-07, at 1:29 PM, FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: -- Le (On) 2011-09-06 -0500 à (at) 16:45:18 Chris Pemberton écrivit (wrote): -- On 09/06/2011 03:14 PM, Jordan Dean wrote: Has anyone found

Re: {OT} Saga with certificates continues : Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad

2011-09-05 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-09-06 +0200 à (at) 00:53:39 Andreas Petzold écrivit (wrote): -- On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 00:26:22 Valerii D. wrote: snip Yes. And the distribution is still the browser 3. 6. 2 without security updates. And with a certificate from DigiNotar. TUV released the

kernel error on SL5.6

2011-09-02 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, I noticed the following messages in /var/log/message on many machines under SL5.6: Aug 24 22:05:27 hart kernel: kobject_add failed for usbdev1.2_ep81 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. Aug 24 22:05:27 hart kernel: Aug 24 22:05:27 hart

Re: Farewell from Troy

2011-08-24 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-08-24 -0500 à (at) 13:40:01 Troy Dawson écrivit (wrote): -- Hi, I have loved all the years that I have been a developer and architect for Scientific Linux, but it is time for me to move on. I have accepted a job offer from Red Hat to work on their new openshift project. (

Re: SL5 Live System on USB flash drive problem

2011-04-26 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-04-22 -0400 à (at) 19:22:39 Phil Schaffner écrivit (wrote): -- FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote on 04/20/2011 04:03 PM: ... So I think the problem is with the USB key (brand new (: and I will try an other one. If you have a Windows system available you might want to try

SL5 Live System on USB flash drive problem

2011-04-20 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, I made a 'livedvd64_SL55_2010-06-17' on an USB flash drive as explained in http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/usbdisk_sl4_sl5.html but when I boot the USB I got a kernel panic : Failled to execute linuxrc. Attempting defaults... Kernel panic-not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to

Re: SL5 Live System on USB flash drive problem

2011-04-20 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-04-20 +0200 à (at) 21:07:57 Urs Beyerle écrivit (wrote): -- Hi Robert Hi Urs, thanks for answering so fast :) Can you please post your syslinux.cfg, which should be located in the root of your USB flash drive. demeo:{root}:/mnt/cle1 cat syslinux.cfg

Re: SL5 Live System on USB flash drive problem

2011-04-20 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-04-20 +0200 à (at) 21:47:41 FRANCHISSEUR Robert écrivit (wrote): -- snip Do you see the splash screen with the boot: prompt when you boot your usb stick? Yes and I can skip thru the menus F1 F2 ... and the boot process start. Hello again

Re: replacing yum-conf-55 with yum-conf-5x

2011-02-22 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-02-22 +0100 à (at) 17:27:23 Jan Kundrát écrivit (wrote): -- Hi there, I've got a fresh install of SL5.5, and would like to set it up to use the 5x repositories, whatever they are (or, to be more precise, I want this machine to receive updates from new releases as they come,

Re: TESTING - kernel update for SL5

2011-02-01 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-01-21 +0100 à (at) 22:10:34 FRANCHISSEUR Robert écrivit (wrote): -- -- Le (On) 2011-01-20 -0600 à (at) 11:30:44 Troy Dawson écrivit (wrote): -- snip SL5 --- yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update kernel\* snip I'll try on a laptop

Re: TESTING - kernel update for SL5

2011-01-21 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-01-21 +0100 à (at) 03:52:01 Franchisseur Robert écrivit (wrote): -- -- Le (On) 2011-01-20 -0600 à (at) 11:30:44 Troy Dawson écrivit (wrote): -- Hello, We have had our first kernel security update following the release of SL 5.6. We have tested it on a SL5.0 machine

Re: TESTING - kernel update for SL5

2011-01-20 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-01-20 -0600 à (at) 11:30:44 Troy Dawson écrivit (wrote): -- Hello, We have had our first kernel security update following the release of SL 5.6. We have tested it on a SL5.0 machine. It installs, runs and openafs works on it. I would feel much better if others ran it to

Re: RPM installation Question - bind not installing /etc/named.conf

2011-01-05 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-01-05 -0600 à (at) 12:00:56 Paul Jochum écrivit (wrote): -- Hi All: Strange problem I am seeing on a number of servers, anyone have suggestions on why this is happening and how to fix it? Problem statement: Installing the bind and bind-utils rpms do not install all

firstboot problem on laptop Dell E6510

2010-12-02 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, is there a way to bypass the probing of the video card during install ? There is an nvidia card probed on new Dell E6510 laptop which does not work with the nv driver . I tried vga=nnn that first work but anaconda then find the nvidia and X failed. If not, my second question is:

Re: firstboot problem on laptop Dell E6510

2010-12-02 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-12-02 -0600 à (at) 13:55:01 Mark Stodola écrivit (wrote): -- Try adding 'noprobe' to your boot options during install. Thanks for your answer, but I tried this option and also 'skipddc' but it seems anaconda still try to load the NV driver.

Re: missing glibc-devel

2010-10-07 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-10-07 +0200 à (at) 21:49:29 Matthias Schroeder écrivit (wrote): -- snip I have 2.5-49 installed so I wonder why it wants 2.5-42 Just an idea: there is no 2.5-49.i386 in the x86_64 repo? I check that first, here it is :

Re: missing glibc-devel (solved)

2010-10-07 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-10-07 -0500 à (at) 14:59:30 Troy Dawson écrivit (wrote): -- Franchisseur Robert wrote: -- Le (On) 2010-10-07 -0500 à (at) 14:27:17 Troy Dawson écrivit (wrote): -- Franchisseur Robert wrote: Hello, I cannot install glibc-devel.i386 under SL5.5 on x86_64 machines

Re: X problems with 2.6.18-194 kernels

2010-08-26 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-08-26 -0500 à (at) 15:15:39 Stephen Isard écrivit (wrote): -- Hello, After upgrading my kernel from 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 to 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5, I found that my machine would go through periods of running very slowly wit h the mouse moving jerkily. Top showed 98%+ wait

Re: some questions

2010-08-15 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-08-15 +0800 à (at) 21:22:14 Fengchu Zhou écrivit (wrote): -- Hi all, Hello, I am a new user of scientific linux, encounter some questions. (1). how to install the plugin for the movie player to play the video with formate of .flv , .rmvb , .avi , .mpeg and so

Re: SL release number

2010-08-10 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-08-07 +0200 à (at) 13:41:11 grigory rybkin écrivit (wrote): -- Hello, As for the origianl question, lsb_release takes the version from /etc/redhat-release, which is provided by package sl-release (version 5.5 for SL 5.5). To see its info rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release -i

SL5.5 CD1 is too big

2010-08-06 Thread Franchisseur Robert
Hello, Sl5.5 x86_64 CD1 is too big to fit on a 700Mb (80mn) CD SL.55.051810.CD.x86_64.disc1.iso18-May-2010 13:30 822M The i386 one is OK. -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR Apollo_gist

Re: SL release number

2010-08-02 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-08-02 -0700 à (at) 12:15:26 Akemi Yagi écrivit (wrote): -- On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Michèle Perucic michele.peru...@mcgill.ca wrote: Hi, I have installed SL 5.2 a couple of years ago and since then my system is always up to date. I also have the latest kernel

Re: problem with acroread SLC on SL4.8

2010-07-28 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-07-28 +0200 à (at) 10:18:39 Matthias Schroeder écrivit (wrote): -- Hello, Franchisseur Robert wrote: Hello, we have recently noticed that acroread-9.3.3-1.slc4 from the repo http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/$basearch/yum/updates/ takes almost 100% of the CPU

Re: Problem with SL headers

2010-07-28 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-07-28 +0200 à (at) 23:12:09 Przemys??aw Pawe??czyk écrivit (wrote): -- BTW I have received this a-mail with the following address header: From: Franchisseur Robert robert.franchiss...@lmd.jussieu.fr To: Matthias Schroeder matthias.schro...@cern.ch, Dr Andrew C Aitchison

problem with acroread SLC on SL4.8

2010-07-27 Thread Franchisseur Robert
Hello, we have recently noticed that acroread-9.3.3-1.slc4 from the repo http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/$basearch/yum/updates/ takes almost 100% of the CPU. Scientific Linux SL release 4.8 (Beryllium) Linux reynolds.lmd.jussieu.fr 2.6.9-89.0.26.EL #1 Wed Jun 16 04:44:53 CDT 2010 i686

Slow boot with Kernel 2.6.18-194.x.y on SL5.4

2010-07-27 Thread Franchisseur Robert
Hello, On our Dell laptops E6400 or E6500 the boot process is very long. It takes ~ 40 seconds between: Redhat NASH and INIT: if we suppress 'quiet' we see that the problem is after the line : device-mapper : dm-raid45 : initialized V0.25941 Waiting for driver initialization and it

Re: problem with kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5

2010-06-07 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-06-02 -0700 à (at) 13:53:15 Akemi Yagi écrivit (wrote): -- On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Franchisseur Robert robert.franchiss...@lmd.jussieu.fr wrote: -- Le (On) 2010-05-27 +0200 à (at) 20:25:21 FRANCHISSEUR Robert écrivit (wrote): -- options snd-hda-intel index=0

Re: problem with kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5

2010-06-02 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-06-02 -0700 à (at) 13:53:15 Akemi Yagi écrivit (wrote): -- On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Franchisseur Robert robert.franchiss...@lmd.jussieu.fr wrote: -- Le (On) 2010-05-27 +0200 à (at) 20:25:21 FRANCHISSEUR Robert écrivit (wrote): -- options snd-hda-intel index=0

Re: problem with kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5

2010-06-01 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-05-27 +0200 à (at) 20:25:21 FRANCHISSEUR Robert écrivit (wrote): -- -- Le (On) 2010-05-27 -0700 à (at) 04:58:50 Akemi Yagi écrivit (wrote): -- On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Franchisseur Robert robert.franchiss...@lmd.jussieu.fr wrote: -- Le (On) 2010-05-27 -0700 à

Re: problem with kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5

2010-05-27 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-05-27 -0700 à (at) 00:00:50 Akemi Yagi écrivit (wrote): -- On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Franchisseur Robert robert.franchiss...@lmd.jussieu.fr wrote: Hello, I  have troubles after upgrading to kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 on  all our Dell Optiplex 740 with Nvidia

Re: problem with kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5

2010-05-27 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-05-27 -0700 à (at) 04:58:50 Akemi Yagi écrivit (wrote): -- On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Franchisseur Robert robert.franchiss...@lmd.jussieu.fr wrote: -- Le (On) 2010-05-27 -0700 à (at) 00:00:50 Akemi Yagi écrivit (wrote): -- /sbin/lspci       00:10.0 PCI bridge

problem with kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5

2010-05-26 Thread Franchisseur Robert
Hello, I have troubles after upgrading to kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 on all our Dell Optiplex 740 with Nvidia graphic card. The system is very slow, mouse is hard to move and there is the ata/1 process which takes around 10% of the CPU. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM

Re: CD audio sound

2010-05-24 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-05-22 -0700 à (at) 12:31:16 Tom Rosmond écrivit (wrote): -- I am not getting any CD audio sound from KsCD on my SL 5.3 configuration. The system is dual-boot with Windows XP, and the sound works OK with Windows Media Player, so I am sure the hardware is properly connected.

Re: ACPI Error

2010-04-14 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-04-13 +0200 à (at) 20:03:45 madhus...@gmail.com écrivit (wrote): -- Dear Users, Am trying to install scientific linux 5.4 (i386) in my new laptop ( intel i5 processor) but am getting the following error ACPI Error (ps args - 0355) : [\_PR_CPU0_PPC] Namespace lookup

Re: grub consistently missing from root partition boot sector?

2010-03-17 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-03-18 +1100 à (at) 10:13:14 Michael Mansour écrivit (wrote): -- Hi, Years of Debian esperience, new to SL, 3rd attempt at installing 5.4. I specify that grub should be installed in the root partition, in my case /dev/hda4. I use GAG as pure boot selector, each

Re: Very stange DHCP problem with SL5.4

2010-02-17 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-02-11 + à (at) 08:18:27 Dr Andrew C Aitchison écrivit (wrote): -- On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: Hello, After installing 9 new desktops with DHCP I changed the network config to static IP and restart the network. But they are still

Very stange DHCP problem with SL5.4

2010-02-10 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, After installing 9 new desktops with DHCP I changed the network config to static IP and restart the network. But they are still requesting DHCP adresse. The dhcp server gives them a dynamic IP and then there are no free lease (we have only 5 for guests). It is

Re: Very stange DHCP problem with SL5.4

2010-02-10 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-02-10 + à (at) 23:08:52 Ewan Mac Mahon écrivit (wrote): -- On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:55:04PM +0100, FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: I removed dhclient but I still see the request on the logs of the dhcpd server. Theses machines (Dell optiplex 760) were installed

Re: Very stange DHCP problem with SL5.4

2010-02-10 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-02-11 +1100 à (at) 12:32:21 Katherine Lim écrivit (wrote): -- Using BOOTPROTO=static should fix the problem? I already tried without success :-( snip -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR Apollo_gist

Re: Yum off after upgrade to 4.8

2010-01-27 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2010-01-27 -0600 à (at) 10:48:57 P. Larry Nelson écrivit (wrote): -- Hi Troy, Troy Dawson wrote: Here is the script that yum-conf (not yum) runs on install to turn itself on. /sbin/chkconfig --add yum /sbin/chkconfig yum on /sbin/service yum restart /dev/null If you had

Re: problem upgrading from 5.1 to 5.4 on _64 machines

2009-11-25 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2009-11-25 -0500 à (at) 17:14:34 Andrew Smith écrivit (wrote): -- Hello, I've been upgrading from v51 to v54. I've followed the procedure on http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x which simply states: ? yum clean all ? rpm -Uvh

Re: Resolution and (default) packages?

2009-11-09 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2009-11-09 -0800 à (at) 11:22:16 Chris Tooley écrivit (wrote): -- Urs Beyerle wrote: Hi Al, Al Neumann wrote: [...] Just not really sure what SL has been doing... i.e: Where are those real scientific apps!!? Somewhat dismayed at the use of scientific in current SL. Al I

Re: Selinux update problems.

2009-10-19 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Thank you Alec and Troy, but on the machines with selinux enforcing I have done : setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1 long ago and I have no problem with those machines. The problem was with machines with selinux *disabled*. -- Le (On) 2009-10-15 -0500 à (at) 10:39:21 Alec T. Habig écrivit

Selinux update problems.

2009-10-15 Thread Franchisseur Robert
Hello, after the selinux update I have the following messages for all the users homedir which are NFS mounted. selinux is disabled or permissive. What is to be done ? Thanks for your help. - Forwarded message from root r...@brooks.lmd.jussieu.fr - From: root

Problem with yum.

2009-07-21 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, Back from vacation, I notice that somme of our 5.2 machines were not updated and I don't understand why. yum is OK every where : Updating: yum noarch 3.2.19-25.sl sl-security 925 k but some machines have been updated with : sl-release-5.2-2.x86_64 and

Re: Problem with yum.

2009-07-21 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2009-07-21 -0500 à (at) 16:28:35 Connie Sieh écrivit (wrote): -- On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: Hello, Back from vacation, I notice that somme of our 5.2 machines were not = updated and I don't understand why. yum is OK every where : Updating: yum

Re: Problem with yum.

2009-07-21 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2009-07-22 +0200 à (at) 00:58:22 Franchisseur Robert écrivit (wrote): -- -- Le (On) 2009-07-21 -0500 à (at) 16:28:35 Connie Sieh écrivit (wrote): -- On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: snip Can you try to upgrade these manually via yum and send back the error

Re: Yum problem after kernel update

2009-03-18 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2009-03-18 +0100 à (at) 09:34:25 Urs Beyerle écrivit (wrote): -- Hi, Hi Urs, and thanks for your kind answer. As far as I remember kernel-module-firewire was never included in official SL. Maybe I put it once on a LiveCD. I did not use it from a LiveCD

Yum problem after kernel update

2009-03-17 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, after updating an SL4.5 laptop with the new kernel 2.6.9-78.0.17.EL I could not install the kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL-1286-5.sl4.psi.i686.rpm I just rebuild. The messages are: [r...@rabeson i686]# yum localinstall

Re: the invisible mouse

2008-12-01 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2008-12-02 -0500 à (at) 01:49:45 Tom Goldring écrivit (wrote): -- I just installed SL 5.2. If I bring it up with the graphical login screen (i.e. if runlevel 5 is set in /etc/inittab) then I can't see the mouse pointer. The mouse still works because I can select things from

Re: ftp.scientificlinux.org was rebooted

2008-11-13 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2008-11-11 +0900 à (at) 23:14:05 John Summerfield écrivit (wrote): -- Miles O'Neal wrote: John Summerfield said... | |10:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date |Mon Nov 10 09:46:13 WST 2008 |09:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ John (and everyone else), just plug time zone calculator into

Re: SL52: firefox 3 not reading user lpoptions file

2008-11-05 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2008-11-05 -0600 à (at) 15:22:06 Troy Dawson écrivit (wrote): -- Things changed alot with Firefox 3. You'll probably also notice that it doesn't use the bookmarks.html file anymore, and a wide variety of things. I personally don't know where it puts personal printing options.

Re: Update Problem with SL 4.5

2008-09-26 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- On 2008-09-26 -0500 at 09:18:45 Troy Dawson wrote -- The nss and nspr packages should be there. I initially pushed out the errata without them, but I re-pushed it out. Can you double check and see if wherever you are pointing has them now. I'll check on the evolution28 for 44.

Re: Please use mirrors if possible

2008-09-19 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- On 2008-09-18 +0100 at 19:31:45 Mark Whidby wrote -- FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: Hi Troy, is there a way to log which mirror we use when yum update ? I have a mirror 2 floors upstair which comme first in my repos : baseurl=ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/scientific

Re: Please use mirrors if possible

2008-09-18 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hi Troy, is there a way to log which mirror we use when yum update ? I have a mirror 2 floors upstair which comme first in my repos : baseurl=ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/scientific-linux/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/

yum and openssh question.

2008-08-19 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, I have the following problem with yum and openssh. If I remove openssh and re-install it I got: openssh-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.24 from sl-errata but after 5 days it is automaticaly updated by yum nightly updater to: openssh-3.9p1-8.SL.4.22 from sl-base I don't understand from where

[Fwd: perl still not updated on 4.5]

2008-07-04 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Sorry for sending back, but perl-5.8.5-36.2.i386.rpm has been removed from 4.6 errata but not in 4.4 and 4.5. - Forwarded message from Franchisseur Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Franchisseur Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:47:52 +0200

perl still not updated on 4.5

2008-06-24 Thread Franchisseur Robert
Hello, there is still perl-5.8.5-36.2.i386.rpm 05-Nov-2007 13:49 12M perl-5.8.5-36.2.x86_64.rpm 05-Nov-2007 13:49 13M which are seen as newer than : perl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.i386.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:17 12M perl-5.8.5-36.el4_6.3.x86_64.rpm12-Jun-2008 09:19 13M

Re: spreadsheet

2008-05-30 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- On 2008-05-30 +0800 at 18:34:13 John Summerfield wrote -- Miles O'Neal wrote: Sara Vanini said... |is there a good spreadsheet software in scientific linux, like Windows |Excel? OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org) It's part of sl5: I have these packages installed: 18:32 [EMAIL

Re: SL 4.4 systems upgraded to SL 4.6

2008-03-14 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- On 2008-03-14 -0500 at 13:41:56 P. Larry Nelson wrote -- Thanks Troy! Yes, yum-conf on the systems that went to SL 4.6 is yum-conf-4x-1-7.SL, whereas the systems that stayed at SL 4.4 have yum-conf-44-1.SL. snip And then the next question: what's the best way to make them all the

Re: openoffice 2.0 SL 4.5

2008-03-12 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- On 2008-03-12 +1100 at 15:31:07 Aldo Saavedra wrote -- Hi, I have the following problem with the the openoffice that is part of the SL4.5 distribution If it I use it twice, the computer completely locks when starting to display the document. The work around I found was to delete the

Re: firefox and thunderbird 'stability' updates

2008-03-12 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- On 2008-02-21 +0100 at 07:56:47 Urs Beyerle wrote -- Jon Peatfield wrote: snip We have also a lot of complains since a few weeks here. I observed many crashes of firefox and thunderbird recently on my system. It would be nice, if somebody could compare firefox/thunderbird rebuild from

Re: [solved] SL5.1 xorg problem.

2008-02-06 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- On 2008-02-06 +0100 at 09:05:14 Beyerle Urs wrote -- Hi, If you are not afraid of proprietary drivers you can try the NVIDIA driver from SL contrib: ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/51/i386/contrib/video/ Install nvidia-x11-drv and dkms. dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module

Re: Updating java on SL4.5

2008-01-16 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- On 2008-01-15 -0600 at 20:44:15 Troy Dawson wrote -- FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: snip rabeson:/home/bob rpm -ql java-1.4.2-sun-compat (contains no files) rabeson:/home/bob rpm -qi java-1.4.2-sun-compat Name: java-1.4.2-sun-compatRelocations

Re: Updating java on SL4.5

2008-01-15 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- On 2008-01-16 +1000 at 07:27:44 Michael Mansour wrote -- Hi, I've just performed the update to the latest packages released on a SL4.5 x86_64 machine and got the following near the end of the yum update: Finished Transaction Test snip Removing : j2sdk

Re: Security ERRATA for firefox on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3,x i386/x86_64

2007-11-29 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- On 2007-11-30 +0100 at 01:18:56 Franchisseur Robert wrote -- -- On 2007-11-29 +0100 at 13:41:55 Beyerle Urs wrote -- snip Hi, Can you check and see if the latest firefox errata fixed this problem. Hi, no, same problem. For example with the URL

Re: Security ERRATA for firefox on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3,x i386/x86_64

2007-11-28 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- On 2007-11-28 -0600 at 09:02:00 Troy Dawson wrote -- Franchisseur Robert wrote: -- On 2007-10-23 +0100 at 11:08:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote -- On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: SL 4.x x86_64: firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.i386.rpm firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.x86_64.rpm Hi

Re: Security ERRATA for firefox on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3,x i386/x86_64

2007-11-15 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- On 2007-10-23 +0100 at 11:08:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote -- On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: SL 4.x x86_64: firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.i386.rpm firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.x86_64.rpm Hi, The above update to firefox.i386 on the x86_64 architecture has broken the acrobat and

Re: IceWM SL4.5

2007-11-09 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- On 2007-11-09 -0500 at 11:57:40 JONATHAN C RUTH wrote -- Hello, This follow-up is a bit late, but I wanted to confirm Troy Dawson's recommendation. The problem I found was that the file /usr/share/xsessions/icewm.desktop was missing, not just on my laptop, but on a desktop box also

Re: gpg-pubkeys [was] gdm for sl5

2007-08-31 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
- Original message from Jon Peatfield on 2007-08-31 +0100 at 14:00:52- On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Alex Kruchkoff wrote: Yes, I've found a lots of signatures in sl-release-5.0-4.x86_64. And thinking about all these keys I wonder why all of them are not installed as a part of the SL

Re: gpg-pubkeys [was] gdm for sl5

2007-08-31 Thread Franchisseur Robert
- Original message from Michael Mansour on 2007-09-01 +1000 at 13:47:16- Hi, - Original message from Jon Peatfield on 2007-08-31 +0100 at 14:00:52- On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Alex Kruchkoff wrote: Yes, I've found a lots of signatures in sl-release-5.0-4.x86_64.

Re: Problem Compiling the Kernel (solved)

2007-08-09 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
- Original message from Luis Torres on 2007-08-09 +0100 at 15:34:46- Hi Troy, Thanks for the hint. It is now working. However it involved a few more steps, which might be evident for someone more experienced, but here it is as it might be helpful for someone else: I had kernel

Sound problem

2007-06-28 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, on my new home Dell Precision 390 SL4.4 Linux goubert.localdomain 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 27 12:38:15 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) I have no sound with the

Problems with util-linux-2.12a-16.EL4.25

2007-05-23 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, I have a little more information about the bug with the new mount command in util-linux-2.12a-16.EL4.25. the bug is described in : https://www.scientificlinux.org/bug.feature/bugs/12/pcng_issue_view https://www.scientificlinux.org/bug.feature/bugs/13/pcng_issue_view But there is also an

Re: Loading pcspkr kernel module at boot time?

2007-04-27 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
- Original message from Eva Myers on Fri Apr 27 17:55:59 2007 - I've been having a little trouble with sound not working on my SL44 machines. I remembered having similar trouble when first experimenting with the 2.6 kernel on a Debian system, and discovered that the command modprobe

Re: the jed/edt editor and XKeyBoard

2007-03-29 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
- Original message from Alex Finch on Thu Mar 29 11:24:15 2007 - I have not investigated the reason but I have also noticed the effect. I use the tpu-edt mappings in emacs. (It meant I had one less thing to learn when moving from VMS to Linux). I have to issue xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap by

Re: the jed/edt editor and XKeyBoard

2007-03-28 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
- Original message from Ken Teh on Wed Mar 28 20:48:36 2007 - Many years ago, I put together a configuration which allowed many of my users to use the Jed editor in EDT emulation mode. The configuration consisted of a VT100 translation table for the xterm application that made