Joe == Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us writes:
Joe I've used preupgrade on both my desktop and laptop for the last
Joe several upgrades and all has gone well. Yes, I did have to
Joe expand /boot once and once I had to tell grub to start the
Joe upgrade at boot, but compared to the type of
Guillaume == Guillaume Chapron carnivorescie...@gmail.com writes:
Guillaume I'm aware that I'm likely doing things I don't really
Guillaume understand and this is why I'm seeking help on the
Guillaume list. Could you please tell me what I should do (or
Guillaume should not do)?
Guillaume == Guillaume Chapron carnivorescie...@gmail.com writes:
This might (or might not) be helpful:
http://colina.demon.co.uk/?q=node/879
Guillaume Thanks very much! It worked :-)
Good to know. I might have to read it again if I can't get preupgrade to work.
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Lamar == Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu writes:
Lamar On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 06:57:54 AM Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I have F14 installed on my Macbook Air, and I want to upgrade to
F16.
Everything appeared to go well. At the end I pressed the button
to re-boot
suvayu == suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com writes:
suvayu On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:57, Colin Paul Adams
co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote:
Everything appeared to go well. At the end I pressed the button
to re-boot as instructed, but my F14 system just re-booted as
normal
suvayu == suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com writes:
suvayu On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 15:31, Colin Paul Adams
co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote:
The bug says a new preupgrade will be released shortly. I think I
should wait for that, although I don't know how to find out when
Frank == Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com writes:
Frank On 09/11/11 11:57, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
Frank snipped
Everything appeared to go well. At the end I pressed the button
to re-boot as instructed, but my F14 system just re-booted as
normal. How do I actually
Is it possible to have Firefox continually updated by rpm on a Fedora 14
system, or do I have to choose between staying on Fedora 3 or using
tarball installs?
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I have the following situation:
Shockwave Flash
File: nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so
Version:
Shockwave Flash 10.3 r181
MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash
Erik == Erik P Olsen epod...@gmail.com writes:
Erik On 19/06/11 09:20, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I have the following situation:
Shockwave Flash
File: nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash
10.3 r181
MIME Type Description Suffixes
My macbook airport isn't working again after recent kernel updates.
I found the rpm for broadcom-wl.5.100.82.38-1.fc14.noarch.rpm, but when
I try to install it, it says it requires the wl-kmod as a dependncy.
Of course, i cannot do a yum install, as i have no network connection on
the laptop! So
Colin == Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk writes:
Colin My macbook airport isn't working again after recent kernel
Colin updates. I found the rpm for
Colin broadcom-wl.5.100.82.38-1.fc14.noarch.rpm, but when I try to
Colin install it, it says it requires the wl-kmod
Eric == Eric Mesa ericsbinarywo...@gmail.com writes:
Colin It turns out that the dependency name is wrong!.
Colin Actually, what i needed was kmod-wl 5.100.82.38 and kmod-wl
Colin 2.6.35.12.88. This is REALLY weird (and plain unworkable,
Colin almost).
Colin
james == james tate binary...@comcast.net writes:
Perhaps I could NOW try a yum install (with an option to force
install already installed packages), and that would future-proof
me until next time I install from scratch.
james On Drivers that need to be updated with the kernel
james == james tate binary...@comcast.net writes:
That's too late. Since it's a notebook, I re-boot it nearly every
time I want to use it. So when it re-boots, there will be no
functioning network in such a situation.
james I assume you do have the rpmfusion.rpms
I've just tried archiving some of my photos to DVD. I used Brasero.
I tried this using two different DVD drives (the one built into my
desktop, and a USB device - both have worked fine before). I get the
same results with each.
After burning the drive and ejecting it, I re-mounted it. Now i can
Lamar == Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu writes:
Lamar On Thursday, April 14, 2011 09:46:24 AM Burkhard Plache wrote:
I had the same problem (Fedora 14 up-to-date, using Brasero), and
blamed it on my CD/DVD burner. Hmm.
Lamar I have a client with the same problem; I showed him how
Lamar == Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu writes:
Lamar On Thursday, April 14, 2011 09:46:24 AM Burkhard Plache wrote:
I had the same problem (Fedora 14 up-to-date, using Brasero), and
blamed it on my CD/DVD burner. Hmm.
Lamar I have a client with the same problem; I showed him how
Andrew == Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com writes:
Andrew On 21/03/11 21:19, Vaclav Mocek wrote:
Andrew Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary really should warn
Andrew learners that the first usage, although common, is
Andrew technically incorrect.
There's no such thing as
Timothy == Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net writes:
Timothy Colin Paul Adams wrote:
There's no such thing as technical correctness when it comes to
(human) languages.
Timothy That may be true of English, but is it true of all
Timothy languages? The Academie Francaise
James == James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@gmail.com writes:
James Hopefully, Gnome3 will bring more folks into the light and
James see Windows for the brokenness it is.
Not something I hope for. Then we will get the full attention of the
virus writers.
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James == James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net writes:
James All: I am looking at installing Linux on a very old piece of
James hardware. I've tried FC12/13/14 but the screen is 'messed
James up' and it only has 384MB of RAM. Also, I now have a brand
James new, shiny
I have a laser printer which was working fine. Unfortunately the
computer to which it was attached (which was running Fedora 12) proved
to be sick.
So I've tried moving the printer to two other computers in turn (one
32-bit, one 64-bit) running Fedora 14. I cannot get it to work on either
of
Frank == Frank Elsner fr...@moltke28.b.shuttle.de writes:
Frank On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:25:40 + Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I have a laser printer which was working fine. Unfortunately the
computer to which it was attached (which was running Fedora 12)
proved to be sick
Tim == Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au writes:
Tim On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 17:10 +, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
But then NetworkManager resets the ethernet port, and we go round
and round (very slowly).
Tim Where does NetworkManager usually get your address from?
Tim
I'm trying to upgrade the software on my broadband router. The closest
instructions I could find to doing it are here:
http://markferry.net/Network.SpeedtouchUpgrade
Those instructions are Debian/Ubuntu specific, but I figured I ought to
be able to adapt them. However I'm not having any luck.
Rick On 12/28/2010 09:20 AM, Rick Sewill wrote:
Rick Hmmm. I did a little more digging.
Rick Could you instead of doing what I thought previously, replace
group {
host 192.168.254.254 { hardware ethernet 00:14:7F:F8:83:DD; }
}
Rick with something like the following...
Rick host
Steven == Steven Stern subscribed-li...@sterndata.com writes:
Steven On 12/19/2010 06:37 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
This only started happening a couple of days ago:
My wife's desktop, and my laptop, connect to our broadband modem
via wifi. We find that now (as opposed
Michael == Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu writes:
Michael On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
I agree with it being easier to migrate from C++, rather than to
C++. Unfortunately C++ probably has a longer learning curve than
most other programming
This only started happening a couple of days ago:
My wife's desktop, and my laptop, connect to our broadband modem via
wifi. We find that now (as opposed to earlier in the week), we cannot
connect until we restart the modem.
My desktop and my webserver connect via an ethernet cable (static IP
Wolfgang == Wolfgang S Rupprecht wolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com writes:
Wolfgang Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:07:02 +0100
Michael Schwendt wrote:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1409936
Cannot confirm that.
M == M A Young m.a.yo...@durham.ac.uk writes:
M On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
The initial installation menu comes up ok. I select the default
option (install or upgrade). A lot of messages flash by (about
two screens worth), and then i see something like
Chris == Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com writes:
Chris On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Colin Paul Adams
Chris co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote:
Any suggestions?
Chris Probably a poor suggestion, but have you tried the
Chris efidisk.img installer? I'm not sure
Colin == Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk writes:
Chris == Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com writes:
Chris On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Colin Paul Adams
Chris co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote:
Any suggestions?
Chris Probably a poor suggestion, but have you
Colin == Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk writes:
Colin == Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk writes:
Chris == Chris Smart m...@christophersmart.com writes:
Chris On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Colin Paul Adams
Chris co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote:
Any
The error is Glin-GIO:Error:gdbusconnection.c:2270:inittable
init:assertion failed etc.
Googling showed that this occured in RC1. the tester got round it by
unset -ing DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS.
This work-around works for me too. I guess I will have to put it in my
.bash_profile, or whatever one
My airport (wifi on Macbook Air) is working fine now fedora 14 is
installed (hooray!). But the default root is not enabled.
I can do so by typing as root:
route add default gw 192.168.254.254 eth0
but I don't understand why this is not done automatically by
NetworkManager.
So where can I
Michael == Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com writes:
Michael On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:45:21 +, Colin wrote:
The error is Glin-GIO:Error:gdbusconnection.c:2270:inittable
init:assertion failed etc.
Googling showed that this occured in RC1. the tester got round it
The initial installation menu comes up ok. I select the default option
(install or upgrade). A lot of messages flash by (about two screens
worth), and then i see something like:
running /sbin/loader
check hardware
waiting for hardware
then it clears the screen, and the DVD drive runs for several
James == James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net writes:
After nearly a year, it's stopped working. It was working fine at
the beginning of this week. I tried booting off of one of the two
previous kernels (I'm still on fc12), but not much difference.
James The new kernels
Colin == Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk writes:
Peter == Peter Danenberg p...@roxygen.org writes:
Peter Quoth Colin Paul Adams on Pungenday, the 56th of The
Peter Aftermath:
Maybe this will work with your second generation air.
Peter Colin, you're a genius
I have created a userContent.css in
~/.mozilla/firefox/garbage.default/chrome/userContent.css
that looks like this:
body
{
backgroundColor: yellow;
}
and restarted firefox (3.5.12 - FC12) but it does nothing.
What am i doing wrong?
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Tim == Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au writes:
Tim On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 08:34 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I have created a userContent.css in
~/.mozilla/firefox/garbage.default/chrome/userContent.css
that looks like this:
body { backgroundColor: yellow
Colin == Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk writes:
Tim == Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au writes:
Tim On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 08:34 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I have created a userContent.css in
~/.mozilla/firefox/garbage.default/chrome/userContent.css
For a week now I have been getting:
sudo yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
-- Running transaction check
--- Package firefox.x86_64 0:3.5.12-1.fc12 set to be updated
--- Package xulrunner.x86_64 0:1.9.1.12-1.fc12 set to be
JD == JD jd1...@gmail.com writes:
JD So, on the face of it, it looks like it might be a gvfs problem.
JD $ rpm -q gvfs gvfs-1.6.2-1.fc13.i686
JD This update came in a couple of days ago.
JD Can anyone shed any light on this?
I used to have such problems. Now I don't have
Hello,
My MacBook Air, running Fedora 12 (only - no Mac OSX or anything else
present) was working fine last night. I hit the orange star to do an
upgrade.
Today, the system could not see an eth0 wireless device (the Airport).
I edited grub.conf to say default=1, so as to reboot the previous
Colin Hello, My MacBook Air, running Fedora 12 (only - no Mac OSX
Colin or anything else present) was working fine last night. I hit
Colin the orange star to do an upgrade.
Colin Today, the system could not see an eth0 wireless device (the
Colin Airport).
Colin I edited
Colin == Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk writes:
Colin Hello, My MacBook Air, running Fedora 12 (only - no Mac OSX
Colin or anything else present) was working fine last night. I hit
Colin the orange star to do an upgrade.
Colin Today, the system could not see an eth0
I don't know if this is a software issue, or if the printer is just
broken. (I'm using Fedora 12)
Basically, I can print fine using plain paper/normal quality. But If I
try to print photo quailty/photo paper, the image is overscaled (about
twice the size), displaced so that the centre prints
Tim == Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com writes:
Tim On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:40 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
I have hplib installed (by downloading from the hp site and
following the instructions - many weeks ago).
Tim Step 1: uninstall this.
Tim If you want HPLIP installed
Tim == Tim Waugh twa...@redhat.com writes:
Tim See if you still get the same problem -- if so, please report a
Tim bug in Bugzilla.
Still the same problem.
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Dan == Dan Irwin rummymob...@gmail.com writes:
Dan Clearly it provides a benefit.
Clearly?
it's not clear to me.
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Hello,
I'm trying to use the Gnome scanner tool, but it can't find the device.
Googling shows that at least one person had no problems at all with this
printer/scanner.
Here is some command output:
bash-4.0$ sane-find-scanner
# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If
I tried running hp-scan and got:
bash-4.0$ hp-scan
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.8)
Scan Utility ver. 2.2
Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
(Still not getting emails from this list, so I'm reading the
archives. Jim, your message didn't really help, as it looks like it must
be HP-specific. Ubuntu users seem to have no problems, but I can't find
any fedora messages).
There doesn't seem to be an appropriate .conf file for the F4180 in
Hello,
today I upgraded (actually a fresh install, but I kept my old /home
partition) to Fedora 12.
Now I can't ssh to the machine (I use DSA public key authentication
only). I can't figure out why.
One clue is that if I open a shell, I get landed in /. I have to
specifically type cd to change
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