SL6x X86-64? Note that there are several
dependencies in mtpfs and these too need to be satisified.
Thanks for any information.
Yasha Karant
]
Yasha Karant
e is no build/port of this particular application, is there an
alternative?
Yasha Karant
tructions).
Thanks for any information.
Yasha Karant
ing BlueGriffon is version 1.1.1 .
Base environment is SL 6x X86-64 with IA-32 application support enabled.
Yasha Karant
On 07/03/2012 02:52 PM, Ken Teh wrote:
xdvipdfmx is not installed as part of a TeX install on SL6. Has xdvi
has been superseded by another previewer?
http://xdvi.sourceforge.net/
Has anyone done a recent port to an installable RPM for EL 6?
to NM
that I have found. There are POTS modem configuration issues, getting
the FAX application to recognize and use the modem driver, and a host of
other problems -- at least the last time I attempted to use a Linux FAX
interface. Presumably, from this thread, these issues persist.
Yasha Karant
that LibreOffice production version does still
support WordPerfect documents. This may be of use for those who also
have legacy documents.
Yasha Karant
On 06/12/2012 02:44 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:11:23AM +0900, zxq9 wrote:
On 06/12/2012 03:49 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Am I missing something here? I thought under the GPL as well as various
other open source licenses, TUV was required to make available the full
On 06/11/2012 07:49 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
[snip]
If I am missing something, is there a discussion link (URL) of the
issues, preferably not in legalese?
There are dozens of threads, and there's the acutal licensing in the
RPM's and SRPM's. Take a good look in /usr/share/doc/[packag
s, preferably not in legalese?
Yasha Karant
list, I try to keep Firefox, Seamonkey, Chrome,
and Opera current on all IA-32 or X86-64 standard workstations for which
I have root control, all of which are on SL 6x .
Yasha Karant
On 06/04/2012 04:19 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Back to my question: is there such a matrix? Has anyone -- paid
professional or volunteer -- prepared such a matrix?
http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/yum.apt.repo
[ It's pretty
a different numerical GID than my own GID, and manually do the changes
on my laptop -- at least until the next update that may undo such work
if the cgred group bug still is present. Is there an automatic solution
from SL/TUV?
Yasha Karant
Is there a valid fix for SL 6x?
Yasha Karant
On 06/04/2012 10:14 AM, zxq9 wrote:
On 06/05/2012 12:42 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 05/30/2012 04:55 PM, Stefan Lasiewski wrote:
And for continuity, I'll point out that there was a similar, lengthy
discussion on this topic in September 2011.
Here is the thread started by Tanmoy Chatt
save all of the time digging
through a threaded discussion.
Yasha Karant
On 03/16/2012 02:02 AM, g wrote:
On 03/16/2012 05:47 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 03/15/2012 02:57 PM, g wrote:
On 03/15/2012 07:39 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
Dear developers,
I hate being such a PITR, but have to ask: Is there an ETA for those
updates? What's the problem? Yes it&
rned? Have these security updates been backported by
TUV into what are nominally earlier releases of the various Mozilla
applications?
If this is not the case, why are the security concerns not important?
Yasha Karant
On 02/20/2012 04:07 PM, Mark Stodola wrote:
On 2/20/2012 5:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 02/20/2012 02:32 PM, Chris Pemberton wrote:
On 02/20/12 13:29, Yasha Karant wrote:
Before someone states that this is not a Scientific Linux issue, as it
seems to be restricted to this distribution
On 02/20/2012 02:32 PM, Chris Pemberton wrote:
On 02/20/12 13:29, Yasha Karant wrote:
Before someone states that this is not a Scientific Linux issue, as it
seems to be restricted to this distribution (perhaps other EL
distributions as well), this issue would seem to qualify.
Rather than using
seamonkey might have different cookies,
etc., loaded -- but all URLs are either mandated by my university or
from "clean" sites).
I have done a cursory check of the mozilla public lists but have found
nothing of relevance.
Thanks for any insight.
Yasha Karant
ist, but evidently MIME attachments are not
allowed. I am running SL 6x, and thus presumably have the latest
updates. Note that this is not with the stock SL 6x kernel, but with a
later 2.6 version (currently on this workstation: 2.6.38.8-32.el6.x86_64).
Yasha Karant
On 02/03/2012 02:43 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:04 PM, jdow wrote:
On 2012/02/01 15:38, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia
wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Yasha Karantwrote:
Back to my primary point: the bug in accepting the root
tical hardware
platforms with very similar application and systems environments -- and
noted a difference. As openSUSE evidently does not default to upstart,
this may explain at least one difference in behavior -- he took mostly
defaults from openSUSE during the installation phase.
Yasha Karant
On 02/03/2012 08:46 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636628
That bug report is no good as it is filed against Fedora. If you want to see
the same bug fixed in RHEL/SL, you better file a bug
]# /sbin/sulogin
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
[root@jb344 ~]# whoami
root
[root@jb344 ~]# exit
exit
[root@jb344 ykarant]# exit
exit
[ykarant@jb344 ~]$
Yasha Karant
On 02/02/2012 03:04 PM, Yannick Perret wrote:
Yannick Perret a écrit :
Hello,
the only place
stroke that
terminates the vector.
As there are correspondents to this list that evidently feel the above
arguments to be incorrect, references to the relevant Linux source code
sections and design documents (e.g., state machine chart for the
sequence that contains "Give root password for maintenance") greatly
would be appreciated.
Yasha Karant
On 02/01/2012 03:05 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Back to my primary point: the bug in accepting the root password upon a
failed fsck during boot is from TUV and documented (please see a previous
post nominally in this thread). Is there any
On 02/01/2012 12:22 PM, jdow wrote:
On 2012/02/01 09:28, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 02/01/2012 09:03 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 08:47:28AM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636628
[snip]
Anyone with physical access to the machine
On 02/01/2012 09:03 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 08:47:28AM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636628
[snip]
Anyone with physical access to the machine can walk away with your disks,
or boot their own OS from a USB disk or from
chine and sound knowledge to get root
access. Am I correct?
Yasha Karant
On 01/30/2012 11:28 PM, Sergio Ballestrero wrote:
On 30 Jan 2012, at 23:39, Yasha Karant wrote:
Upon boot, automatic fsck failed, and a request was posted for root password.
However, no more than one character of the password would be accepted, causing
an endless loop to this condition and
reported that the partition had not
been cleanly unmounted.
Yasha Karant
Hi Dag,
Please see my responses below.
Thanks,
Yasha
On 01/30/2012 03:35 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Yasha Karant wrote:
We had a massive power failure, beyond what the UPS could handle.
Despite attempts to find a way for the system to shut down gracefully,
it simply powered
ElRepo or
another non-TUV compliant chain that does fix the problem. I am running
SL 6x X86-64 current.
Yasha Karant
. I suspect that " Success - empty transaction " is an
oxymoron.
Yasha Karant
This update will add new features and expand functionality.
This notification was issued on 2011-07-06.
New build for EL-6
For more information about this update please visit this websit
life, it is a relatively simple hardware repair to replace the
(overpriced) fan. A lower temperature motherboard lasts longer, and is
much more expensive and complicated to replace (typically, replace the
laptop).
Yasha Karant
On 01/14/2012 12:10 PM, g wrote:
On 01/14/2012 06:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
<>
I would like to modify this.
in "/boot/grub/grub.conf" remove or insert "# " in front of "rhgb" add
"quiet" lines.
in "kernel" line, add at end "vga=
without recompilation?
I fully understand that this may be set to be identical to TUV and other
EL clones. I do not care. Just as ELRepo or SL additions provide
(some) functionalities beyond those of TUV, I would like to modify this.
Yasha Karant
On 12/25/2011 06:53 PM, MT Julianto wrote:
/usr/share/doc/lm_sensors-3.1.1/README said you can use sensors-detect
This might also help you: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lm_sensors
-Tito.
On 26 December 2011 03:12, Yasha Karant mailto:ykar...@csusb.edu>> wrote:
On 12/25/2
On 12/25/2011 06:04 PM, MT Julianto wrote:
I guess you have lm_sensors intalled.
Have read this: /usr/share/doc/lm_sensors-3.1.1/doc/fancontrol.txt
-Tito.
On 26 December 2011 00:03, Yasha Karant mailto:ykar...@csusb.edu>> wrote:
Is anyone familiar with a HP 8530 laptop?
In g
g the fan to
maximum? How does one "fix" /etc/fancontrol, or is this not
feasible/useful?
Yasha Karant
On 12/15/2011 10:07 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:44:44AM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote:
Just as there is a Grand Unified Boot Loader, we need a Grand
Unified Repository.
Thanks, but no thanks. GRUB qualifies as the worst program ever written.
Although I might
such a safe repository.
Epel and Sl , its almostvtrue but there have been exceptions, e.g Sl
has icewm as an addition but epel just added it in the last week or so.
Yasha Karant
Having looked over the http://iuscommunity.org/Docs/SafeRepoInitiative,
this is very close to what I personally
I have built and tested ufraw 0.18 for the ufraw plugin for gimp 2.6.9
SL 6 current X86-64.
If anyone needs this capability for gimp, please let me know.
Yasha Karant
On 12/14/2011 02:51 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:34:50PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote:
A partial list that I have found includes ElRepo.org, PUIAS, ATrpms,
RPMforge.net,
Extra Packages for Enterprise/EPEL, and of course SL 6 itself ...
Please add "SLC 6"
SL 6x or packages from some of the other repositories.
Yasha Karant
and X86-64.
Are others experiencing this? What is misconfigured?
Yasha Karant
On 12/11/2011 11:27 AM, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Up until I switched the last enduser system to EL 6 (SL 6) from EL 5 a few
months ago, I was installing all of the Mozilla end user suites with no
issue from the Mozilla site: Firefox
est "features" as well as the latest security updates.
I do the same for the OpenOffice suite from Oracle, although that has a
special GUI installer and comes packaged as a set of RPMs. I am not
running any Linux distribution port of either Mozilla or OpenOffice.
Yasha Karant
It seems the default PDF reader for EL 6 is evince. In which file(s) is
this set so that I can select a different default application? If any
of these files are not plain ASCII text, but require a special
application to read/write the file, which such application(s)?
Yasha Karant
production status, presumably 6x will then be 6.2 .
Where will this change be announced? To this list?
Yasha Karant
n might be made semi-automatically depending
upon the keyboard language selection that was made during the
installation of EL.
Yasha Karant
ckage files? If it is getting
these from the Internet, what is the data throughput of your machine's
Internet service?
Yasha Karant
On 12/01/2011 04:52 PM, g wrote:
On 12/02/2011 12:19 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
From the top command :
8587 ykarant 20 0 794m 449m 30m R 81.8 5.6 561:50.12
plugin-containe
with the 81.8 being %CPU composite usage on a modern quad-core X86-64
machine.
ps axw reveals:
8587
/libflashplayer.so -greomni
/usr/lib/firefox/omni.jar 13704 true plugin
Does anyone understand why plugin-container for libflashplayer.so is
such a CPU usage hog?
Yasha Karant
et is not compatible with the
"same" .so for an IA-32 application.
Yasha Karant
On 11/20/2011 06:56 AM, g wrote:
On 11/20/2011 08:14 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
<>
If this is not typical, I suspect that one of the application RPMs that
I loaded from a repository or source other than SL6x may have altered a
system level icon search path.
possible. or it is the sp
/files in which directory(ies)
control the icon search path of gnome in EL 6.1? A cursory search of
the web and the extant documentation does not present an answer.
Yasha Karant
methods safe? Would it be better to simply download
the rpm file, and then use a rpm force to force re-installation of an
already installed rpm file?
Any advice, particularly based upon direct practical experience with EL
6, would be most appreciated.
Yasha Karant
Yum Force Reinstall
Since
/which are the various configuration
files that one needs to modify (I had a fully functional vi and disk
reading/writing capability) so that one can manually force the
environment to use the correct drivers for the hardware platform?
Appropriate document URL(s) will suffice.
Yasha Karant
issue? Does one need to use a later kernel
(e.g., as provided by elrepo)? If so, without using yum but using a
manual rpm, which rpm kernel and/or system firmware files do I need to
install to get a bootable system?
Any suggestions?
Yasha Karant
On 11/15/2011 05:55 AM, Larry Linder wrote:
On Monday 14 November 2011 11:41 pm, Yasha Karant wrote:
My wife did not notice that her laptop was unplugged, and ran the
machine until it quit for lack of power. Running SL 6.1 IA-32, current
production SL kernel (not elrepo, etc.). On the reboot
from the DVD, and used fsck -y under
rescue to fsck the partitions from ls /dev/sd*. The system then
rebooted. What is wrong? What do I need to change?
Yasha Karant
utions, or from some other non-vendor linux repository --
I do not know as I do not have to support any machines with Ralink WNIC
components.
Yasha Karant
this case N = 6 ) implementation of yum conforming to
the material in the above Guides?
[snip]
Regards,
Yasha Karant
On 11/08/2011 10:55 AM, Andreas Petzold wrote:
On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 19:38:46 Yasha Karant wrote:
I attempted to install:
[Downloads]$ rpm -iv bakoma-tex-9.7.5-02.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
[snip] list of 32bit deps
I put x86-64 SL 6 on a "fresh" harddrive
On 11/08/2011 08:50 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Monday, November 07, 2011 07:00:08 PM you wrote:
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Connie Sieh
wrote:
Yes that is our support stance. It is NOT supported by either
TUV or SL .
I remember that thread and Connie's response. I'm sorry that I
suggested
re list of missing .so files, so that ldd will find the necessary
.so files.
If both (1) and (2) will work -- (2) always should work barring special
configuration files, say in /etc, needed by a .so -- which is the
better alternative?
Yasha Karant
supported
as one of the options presented in the SL 6 installation GUI.
Would you kindly supply the exact steps using the SL 6 bootable install DVD?
Thanks,
Yasha Karant
alled automatically in SL5, unless they've taken it
out on versions> SL5.5 (I don't have a trident video card in this particular
machine) Perhaps I've misunderstood the question?
-Chris
On 2011-11-04, at 1:55 PM, YASHA KARANT wrote:
Does anyone have a xorg driver for EL 5.7 fo
On 11/06/2011 03:17 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Rather than hijacking the thread on vlc, I am posing this as a new set of
questions.
My understanding of the EL upgrade process, when moving from EL N to EL N+1
(e.g. EL 5.7 to EL 6.1), there
/home
on, say, /dev/sda10), using cp -pr to save the required permissions.
These days, I make certain that each physical partition that will be
reformatted/overwritten by the EL N+1 installer is large enough to
accommodate the typical growth (bloat?) of the new major release.
Yasha Karant
On 11/06/2011 12:15 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On 11/04/2011 11:02 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
I am attempting to install vlc-1.1.11-72.el5.i386.rpm from
http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el5/vlc/
Hi Yasha,
My solution was to run the Windows version of VLC under Wine.
The latest VLC'
On 11/05/2011 11:57 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
I am attempting to install vlc-1.1.11-72.el5.i386.rpm from
http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el5/vlc/
There is a long list of dependencies missing, appended below. Is there a
way to specify to
ystem (e.g., replacing SL
packages by other packages from ATrpms that then cause problems and
instability with EL 5.7)? Is there another add-on EL 5 RPM repository
that requires fewer additions to stock EL 5.7 but still has a vlc 1.x
version?
I currently am using VLC 0.9.9a Grishenko.
Ya
r "Videocard1"
VideoRam32768
Driver "trident"
VendorName "Villagetronic"
BoardName "VTBook"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
Option "Int10" "off"
Option "SetMClk" "133.039MHz"
Option "Display" "DVI"
EndSection
Thanks,
Yasha Karant
ci command to force the use of the setpci
after each login (starting of a particular X11 session)?
I need to make this procedure fully automated for my enduser colleague.
Yasha Karant
On 11/01/2011 08:42 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 10/30/2011 03:02 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
I should also note that kernel-ml is not for production use but it's
been quite stable and Alan has been doing a good job of keeping it up
to
longterm: 2.6.33.19 2011-08-29
longterm: 2.6.32.46 2011-08-29
longterm: 2.6.27.59 2011-04-30
Based upon the above, 2.6.35 appears to in the longterm (long in the
tooth?) stable branch. Is the "not for production use" in reference to
not having the upstream vendor binary interface for EL 5 or something
else?
Yasha Karant
On 10/31/2011 07:10 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 17:24 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
(why is everyone so loath to use the name Red Hat that
is all over the source code for SL?)
Because Red Hat lawyers badly frightened (bullied probably) Centos and
might have done the same
anch. Is the "not for production use" in reference to
not having the upstream vendor (why is everyone so loath to use the name
Red Hat that is all over the source code for SL?) kernel application
binary interface for EL 5?
Yasha Karant
roprietary hardware with MS only supplied drivers). If not, and you
really want the unit, start hunting on the web and this list to discover
if a Linux driver exists for the hardware, and if the driver has been
ported to SL .
Yasha Karant
Although a number of comments on and off the SL list have opined that
any discussion of UEFI is off-limits to this list, below is a popular
press article concerning a view from Red Hat (the beloved TUV of this
list) that presumably is on-limits. Again -- is there a workaround were
efforts to p
d,
it is likely that Linux on the desktop/laptop in the USA effectively
will cease -- only MS Windows and Mac OS X will continue, provided Apple
does not run into trouble (always an issue for a single for-profit
corporation that is not regarded as too big or vital to fail).
Yasha Karant
of the GPL, etc. Profit-driven business decisions,
not altruism.
Yasha Karant
open systems environments upon hardware
that is UEFI "keyed" to MS Windows (or Apple Mac OS X or ... , but not
necessarily the choice of the user)?
Yasha Karant
On 10/19/2011 08:01 PM, Phong Nguyen wrote:
On 19 Oct 2011, at 2138, Yasha Karant wrote:
Although this discussion is socio-political, and thus outside the
nominal items on this list, the reality of Microsoft is that of an
entrenched monopolist, of which charge Microsoft has been convicted
in
ot install a Microsoft-only boot -- but rather allow the hardware owner
to select the booted / installed system -- then UEFI might be a
nuisance, but not an insurmountable barrier. As it stands, UEFI appears
to be such an insurmountable barrier.
Yasha Karant
On 10/19/2011 06:08 PM, Phong Nguyen wrote:
On 19 Oct 2011, at 1732, Yasha Karant wrote:
Theb Bumblebee project is:
nVidia Optimus support for GNU/Linux aimed at stability.
GNU/Linux (read Debian, Ubuntu, ... ) is not EL . Is EL going to port the
Bumblebee code? Is there nVidia Optimus
/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement
Yasha Karant
sufficient.
Yasha Karant
http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/207277/microsoft-washes-its-hands-uefilinux-mess
Microsoft washes its hands of UEFI/Linux mess
Shifts responsibility to hardware vendors
By Brian Proffitt
September 27, 2011, 7:00 AM —
REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Linux Australia
-October/009368.html
Thanks in advance!
End quote.
Yasha Karant
work for foobar.pdf or will foobar suffice)?
I have done some reading of the documentation, but not the developer
internals documents; any clarification would be appreciated.
Yasha Karant
On 10/17/2011 08:09 PM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
On 2011-10-17 18:48, Yasha Karant wrote:
I am in the process of installing SL 6.1 from the install DVD. Two
suggestions:
1. A workaround that will allow installation without an Internet
connection for those who chose the DVD that contains the
at one can continue the custom process, rather
than moving forward with next -- allowing "back".
Yasha Karant
On 10/17/2011 09:50 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
On Oct 17, 2011, at 18:20 , Yasha Karant wrote:
[...]
Now I have a decision to make: IA-32 SL 6.1 or X86-64 SL 6.1 . The processor
will support X86-64, but the machine only has 4 Mbyte of RAM as delivered
(upgradeable to 8 Mbyte -- but this is
On 10/17/2011 06:38 AM, Mark Stodola wrote:
Matthias Schroeder wrote:
Hi Yasha,
On 10/17/2011 03:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
After much searching, I found for my wife a laptop that we could afford
given that her Department had no funds to replace her stolen laptop, one
that does work under EL
unit (I did hunt on Linux
on Laptops) or with the correct Xwin driver for Intel Integrated HD
Graphics 3000 and/or the 1366x768 screen?
Yasha Karant
-on card
On 10/12/2011 5:21 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
As I mentioned in a previous posting, a colleague of mine -- an
academic journal editor -- running EL 5 on her laptop needs to control
a remote Mac OS X machine via LogMeIn. I have since verified that the
LogMeIn application works. However, it
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