Re: F17 wants to auto-update LibreOffice URE-runtime when I've got Apache OpenOffice 3.4 installed

2012-04-30 Thread Horst H. von Brand
eOffice) and > proceeds to > install such update. Strange... here it is called libreoffice-ure, and should not get updated by any OOo stuff. Perhaps there is something eles that uses it? > If this breaks Apache OpenOffice 3.4 who's to blame?. Whoever installed alien packages, methinks...

Re: How to install some software that requires Python 2.6 and rejects 2.7?

2012-04-13 Thread Horst H. von Brand
tall the el6 package which must ship with Python > 2.6. Easiest solution is to download the source RPM instead and > rebuild it on your system: I find it strange that there is a EPEL package that isn't also available for Fedora proper. Isn't that a requirement for EPEL? -- Dr.

Re: Proposal: stop holding composes for preupgrade bugs at Alpha and Beta phases

2012-04-10 Thread Horst H. von Brand
> should work. In any case, as the preupgrade has to be installed on the _old_ system, it doesn't help much having it on the (pre-final) installation media. Perhaps a separate small repo for rolling update of preupgrade while testing? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counte

Re: Proposal: stop holding composes for preupgrade bugs at Alpha and Beta phases

2012-04-10 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ll this is purely a yum problem, fixing that would go a long way to making regular updates smoother. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 3

Re: Still singing the fallback mode blues

2011-10-05 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ng to give me a choice of sessions the first time > around. If I pick the wrong one, I have to reboot for my sins... I get said message the first time aropund I try to log into a LiveCD, but then it works. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org De

Re: systemd update and reboot failed

2011-10-03 Thread Horst H. von Brand
with the small fedora logo. How long should > I have waited there? I pressed the hardware reset button. > > Expected? Unexpected? Side-effect of anything else? Happened to me too, but just before I went for the power button it did shut off (perhaps I'm a little more patient, and

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Beta is GOLD!

2011-09-30 Thread Horst H. von Brand
this done without everyone's hard work and > assistance. Congratulations all! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239

Re: F16: gnome-screensaver very often becomes inoperable after some time

2011-09-12 Thread Horst H. von Brand
gnome-screensaver... Same here on a netbook. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 234

Re: cannot boot beyond runlevel 1

2011-01-02 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ice Loaded: error Active: inactive (dead) Even so, a bunch of getty's show up here. On another (newer) machine there are no gettys at all, and fixing things by ctrl-alt-F2 doesn't lead anywhere. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org

Re: What do consumers wishing to use systemd in F14 need to do?

2010-09-15 Thread Horst H. von Brand
d at this > point? I understood that systemd would be available as an alternative in F14? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56

Re: USB not authorized

2010-08-16 Thread Horst H. von Brand
pted USB auth problems, I have the same > problem with my floppy drive in F14/Alpha. Just happened to me with an SD card. Then tried CD and pendrive, same results. Reported as <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624532>. Feel free to add yourself there and/or report similar mi

Re: systemd failure to boot

2010-07-28 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 22:02 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > > > After you boot with upstart, run > > > > > > ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target > > > /etc/systemd/system/default.target > > > > Done (

Re: systemd failure to boot

2010-07-28 Thread Horst H. von Brand
ks!) Shouldn't there be some hardwired default target for this kind of situations? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de InformaticaFono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239