Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 01:29 πμ, JB wrote: snip Now with regard to OpenOffice. I would suggest that you reinstall Writer: # yum reinstall openoffice.org-writer If that does not help, reinstall all your OO packages: # yum reinstall openoffice.org-* Tell us how you start your OO Writer when

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread JB
Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr writes: ... Tell us how you start your OO Writer when you get the error ? In any way i try to run it . For example if i download a document through firefox and then ask it to open the file then Writer will crash . Leave this case for

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/29/2011 11:42 PM, JB wrote: Terry Barnabyterry1at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... Give us unedited outputs: $ cat /etc/fstab $ cat /etc/mtab $ cat /proc/mounts JB The above files: /etc/fstab = # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Fri Nov

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread JB
Terry Barnaby terry1 at beam.ltd.uk writes: Hi, About 1 in 4 times Fedora 14 hangs during shutdown on at least 4 of my systems. Looking at the shutdown messages (ESC in the splash screen) and adding some debug statements to /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt, it hangs after the messages:

Re: Is this happening to anyone else in evolution.-SOLVED

2011-01-30 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 23:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 09:02 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 17:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:06 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 10:42 -0600, Aaron Konstam

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread JB
JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: # # debugging snapshot statements # date /halt.debug cat /etc/mtab /halt.debug cat /proc/mounts /halt.debug #

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 12:37 μμ, JB wrote: This is OK. Btw, I am in GNOME desktop, but I see you can find things I asked for in KDE. Well , you pointed the way , beyond that there was only one place to go , so i didn´t actually discovered the New World . Well the fact that you are using Gnome would

Re: Is this happening to anyone else in evolution.-SOLVED

2011-01-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 08:09 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: Sounds like http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Why_do_I_get_an_error_.22Summary_and_folder_mismatch.2C_even_after_a_sync.22.3F It's hard to say as you didn't describe the error in those terms. poc That is the error all

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 12:37 μμ, JB wrote: # yum distro-sync Well i used this command twice , the first time i just exited X Windows and issued the command on runlevel 3 and then i rebooted the computer and run the command for a second time . All that happened was Jan 30 16:28:36 Updated:

yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation manual specified it rather than yum(8). My question is that is there any specific advantage

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread JB
Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr writes: On 30/01/2011 12:37 μμ, JB wrote: # yum distro-sync ... It has done what is supposed to do and the result is a good sign. Let me go back, as promised, to this problem. In any way i try to run it . For example if i download a

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 05:04 μμ, JB wrote: Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr writes: Let me go back, as promised, to this problem. In any way i try to run it . For example if i download a document through firefox and then ask it to open the file then Writer will crash . Can you

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jon Ingason
2011-01-30 16:00, Jerry Feldman skrev: I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation manual specified it rather than yum(8). My

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation manual specified it

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread JB
Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr writes: ... Does it work ? All the way , nice and smoothly as it was designed to do . OK. The sidenote here would be that it asks me whether i want to keep the same format or change it to the odt format but that´s not what u were asking

Skype - No sound from microphone

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
I have an issue with Skype . Although am able to hear sounds ( in a call i can hear the caller ) the caller can´t hear me . System wide i have sounds. The version of Skype am using is : skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586 Now the odd thing is that if i go to PulseAudio Volume Control under Multimedia

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2011 10:24 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: 2011-01-30 16:00, Jerry Feldman skrev: I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:24:04 +0100 Jon Ingason wrote: The main difference is that yum(8) try to solve dependency while rpm(8) does not. That, and the next time you use yum after using rpm, yum will scream at you about modifying the database outside of yum :-). I find it very useful to use

Re: OpenOffice Writer

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 05:32 μμ, JB wrote: Now, make a note somewhere. If you suddenly experience a problem with OO Writer again, do the following to debug it: $ strace openoffice.org -writer or to capture the debugging output to a file $ strace -o strace.oo-writer.debug openoffice.org -writer and

debug info disinstall

2011-01-30 Thread Walter Cazzola
Dear all, to notify a bug I'd to install the debug symbols of kde via debuginfo-install kdepim Since it occupies 2.5Gb on my hard disk I'd like to disinstall them. Looking on the debuginfo-install help I didn't find any option to remove them. The only option I can thing of is to do a yum

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 10:00 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation manual specified it rather than

Re: Skype - No sound from microphone

2011-01-30 Thread antonio montagnani
Kostas Sfakiotakis ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 30/01/2011 16:36: I have an issue with Skype . Although am able to hear sounds ( in a call i can hear the caller ) the caller can´t hear me . System wide i have sounds. The version of Skype am using is :

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 10:46 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:24:04 +0100 . If I disable the adobe repo while installing the manually downloaded acroread rpm, the dependencies get satisfied by the fedora repos, and I automagically get all the 32 bit support libs I need. Great tip ..

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:19:16 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote: Great tip .. thanks. (Course you don't get the updates that way unless you mirror adobe's repo locally and use that .. ) Actually, once I get it installed, it is usually safe to re-enable the repo since I now have the fedora versions

Re: tigervnc

2011-01-30 Thread Edg@r Rodolfo
2011/1/29, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com: I have tigervnc server installed on a fedora 14 box, and when I use the Windows tigervnc client it is terribly slow. Normally, I use the ultravnc windows client which is very fast, however when I use it to connect to the tigervnc server, there is a

RE: tigervnc

2011-01-30 Thread compdoc
yum search vnc, if you can't see it, add rpmfusion, look..., you can see vnc4server and others things more, but i recommended vino and vinagre. I tried searching with yum. And trying to find repos for fedora has been a little difficult. Thanks for pointing to rpmfusion.. Vino is fine for

Re: Skype - No sound from microphone

2011-01-30 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 30 January 2011 15:36:15 Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: Although am able to hear sounds ( in a call i can hear the caller ) the caller can´t hear me . System wide i have sounds. Now the odd thing is that if i go to PulseAudio Volume Control under Multimedia under the Recording devices

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/30/2011 02:11 PM, JB wrote: JBjb.1234abcdat gmail.com writes: # # debugging snapshot statements # date /halt.debug cat /etc/mtab /halt.debug cat

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/30/2011 05:55 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 01/30/2011 02:11 PM, JB wrote: JBjb.1234abcdat gmail.com writes: # # debugging snapshot statements # date

Re: Skype - No sound from microphone

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 07:52 μμ, Marko Vojinovic wrote: What devices are selected, and what are available for the microphone, speakers and ringing options? Well after thinking of it , i think that here is the problem . Skype only gives me the option of PulseAudio server , so i have it for microphone

deltarpm with old RPM packages

2011-01-30 Thread Paul B Schroeder
Hello all.. We have some RPM packages which have been built on a system with RPM version 4.4.2.3 and are being installed on F14 based systems with 4.8.1.. We are creating the delta RPM packages on the F14 system with makedeltarpm 3.6. So package foo version 1 installs on the F14 systems just

Re: Installing Libreoffice from Rawhide

2011-01-30 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote: Why wouldn't they put that libreoffice3.3-redhat-menus in with the rest of the RPM's and install all at once ? Could be because they conflict with

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/30/2011 07:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: The question was just for answering the criticism from my coworker that I should have used rpm(8) and not yum(8). Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Skype - No sound from microphone

2011-01-30 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
On 30/01/2011 07:52 μμ, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Well at first all i managed to do is mess up everything . I couldn´t even hear anything system wide .Then after trying to revert changes didn´t brought the sound back i did a nice reboot which fixed up everything . So now i have playback sound and i

Re: debug info disinstall

2011-01-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 16:52 +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear all, to notify a bug I'd to install the debug symbols of kde via debuginfo-install kdepim Since it occupies 2.5Gb on my hard disk I'd like to disinstall them. Looking on the debuginfo-install help I didn't find any option

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread JB
Terry Barnaby terry1 at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... Firstly, I have to re-correct myself - my original debugging statemets were correct. I checked it on my machine and /proc/mounts is still available, so we should include it as it has more info than /etc/mtab. It could give us a clue about any

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 01/30/2011 12:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. Have you dealt with Oracle support? -- Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com

Re: [Fedora] Re: debug info disinstall

2011-01-30 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 16:52 +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: to notify a bug I'd to install the debug symbols of kde via debuginfo-install kdepim Since it occupies 2.5Gb on my hard disk I'd like to disinstall them. Looking on the

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/30/2011 10:52 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 01/30/2011 12:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. Have you dealt with Oracle support? No, but I used to do tech support for an ISP at senior level. IMAO, most of the phone firewall had no

Re: Skype - No sound from microphone

2011-01-30 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 01/30/11 11:16, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: On 30/01/2011 07:52 μμ, Marko Vojinovic wrote: What devices are selected, and what are available for the microphone, speakers and ringing options? Well after thinking of it , i think that here is the problem . Skype only gives me the option

Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread mike cloaked
I have a question for any wireless expert who can help. At home I have two wireless access points - one upstairs and one downstairs - to give a good signal anywhere in the house. What I would like is to have a seamless wireless access from any laptop whether mine or a visitor with the

Re: [Fedora] Re: debug info disinstall

2011-01-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/31/2011 12:24 AM, Walter Cazzola wrote: ok, I'll do that if debuginfo is not keeping a db of the installed data to let become inconsistent. less /usr/bin/debuginfo-install would show that it is a very simple python script that calls yum to do all its work. Rahul -- users mailing list

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/30/2011 06:51 PM, JB wrote: Terry Barnabyterry1at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... Firstly, I have to re-correct myself - my original debugging statemets were correct. I checked it on my machine and /proc/mounts is still available, so we should include it as it has more info than /etc/mtab.

Re: yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 11:34 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:19:16 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote: Great tip .. thanks. (Course you don't get the updates that way unless you mirror adobe's repo locally and use that .. ) Actually, once I get it installed, it is usually safe to re-enable

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 03:16 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: bug. If behavior is as described then its a bug - that's precisely how ALL access points are set up for any case where there is more than a single AP on same SSID .. i.e. every commercial, office, hotel, campus, airport etc wifi is done exactly

Re: deltarpm with old RPM packages

2011-01-30 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 12:21 -0600, Paul B Schroeder wrote: Hello all.. We have some RPM packages which have been built on a system with RPM version 4.4.2.3 and are being installed on F14 based systems with 4.8.1.. We are creating the delta RPM packages on the F14 system with

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread JB
Terry Barnaby terry1 at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... Your analysis is very plausible. I remember from Slackware (many years ago ...) - it took explicit steps to TERM active processes, reasonably waited for them, and then killed them. I tried to follow the selinux line as well. The support for nfs

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com writes: The point of roaming with multiple AP's is to be able to seamlessly move around without the connections dying ... as far as user is concerned its a single network - just like when you roam with a cell phone - you don't care when the connection is

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem [Wandering OT]

2011-01-30 Thread JB
Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us writes: On 01/30/2011 11:54 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: I am fairly sure the problem is the akonadi/pulseaudio/gconf-helper dcopserver I don't want to hijack the main thread, so I've changed the subject slightly. I've been wondering something and it finally got to

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem [Wandering OT]

2011-01-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/30/2011 12:52 PM, JB wrote: Joe, I do not mean to be touchy, but ... your [Wandering OT] is really strange :-) It is KDE related. That's all as far as what we are doing here in this thread. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akonadi Be serious ... :-) This is why I put it into a new thread

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 03:42 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com writes: My advice to the OP would be to get a better AP with a more powerful radio. Typical consumer junk is 15mW. Without looking too hard one can get a good 100mW - 300mW init for not much more.

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem [Wandering OT]

2011-01-30 Thread JB
Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us writes: On 01/30/2011 12:52 PM, JB wrote: Joe, I do not mean to be touchy, but ... your [Wandering OT] is really strange It is KDE related. That's all as far as what we are doing here in this thread. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akonadi Be serious ...

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 01/30/2011 08:40 PM, JB wrote: Terry Barnabyterry1at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... Your analysis is very plausible. I remember from Slackware (many years ago ...) - it took explicit steps to TERM active processes, reasonably waited for them, and then killed them. I tried to follow the

Re: Is this happening to anyone else in evolution.-SOLVED

2011-01-30 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 10:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 08:09 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: Sounds like http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Why_do_I_get_an_error_.22Summary_and_folder_mismatch.2C_even_after_a_sync.22.3F It's hard to say as you didn't describe

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem

2011-01-30 Thread JB
Terry Barnaby terry1 at beam.ltd.uk writes: ... Thanks for the info. selinux is actually disabled on all of these systems. I'm not sure why /home uses NFS 3 while the others use NFS4. They are from the same server and there is no specific config for 3 or 4, so on Fedora 14 I would have

Re: Fedora 14: Shutdown problem [Wandering OT]

2011-01-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/30/2011 01:16 PM, JB wrote: This is what I found. Akonadi. A Ghanaian oracular goddess who was worshipped by many West Africans. In Accra, she had a celebrated oracular shrine. Akonadi is also a deity associated with justice and the protection of women. Thank you. Now I know where

F14: Dell laptop

2011-01-30 Thread dp
Hi I wonder if anyone is using this laptop, and if they could tell me if everything works? Dell Adamo 13 Core 2 DUO SU9400 4G RAM 128GB SSD Thanks dp Australia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/31/2011 05:15 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 01/30/2011 03:42 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: My advice to the OP would be to get a better AP with a more powerful radio. Typical consumer junk is 15mW. Without looking too hard one can get a good 100mW - 300mW init for not much more.

Re: F14: Dell laptop

2011-01-30 Thread edik landave
Wow it looks a pretty resourceful one. I think everything should work out of the box. Look what wireless adapter it has? Also what video card? If you don't mind living without desktop candy you shouldn't worry about. I've been using Dell laptops issued by my job since 20003 the only issue I had

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 09:51 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: They are on different frequencies - so there is no overlap. 2) recommending a high power AP is not really appropriate (Ubiquiti) I take it back - this could well be a good alternate solution ... -- users mailing list

Re: rescue mode

2011-01-30 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: You can also use the much smaller (220 MB) boot.iso CD image. I guess I could just have gone to the command shell and run the install command, eh? Just get to the grub shell and run root and setup commands. I never thought of that until now. I thought I had to

Re: F14: Dell laptop

2011-01-30 Thread Harish Pillay
       I wonder if anyone is using this laptop, and if they could tell        me if everything works?    Dell Adamo 13 Core 2 DUO SU9400 4G RAM 128GB SSD I believe the Dell Vostro V13 [0] is of the same size and scale as the Adamo. I have the Vostro and it runs Fedora 14 64-bit and all of the