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Re: dnf install nodeps option
by James Hogarth 28 May '16

28 May '16

On 27 May 2016 20:47, "Samuel Sieb" <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote: > > On 05/27/2016 08:07 AM, François Patte wrote: >> >> I would like to install texmaker, but dnf wants to install a full >> texlive.... I have already installed texlive from CTAN and I don't want >> to have two texlive on may machine. >> >> How can I get rid of dependencies? >> > You can use rpm --nodeps to install it, but then dnf will probably complain at you forever about it. > > Another option is to use "rpmrebuild -ep yourpackage.rpm". (dnf install rpmrebuild) This will give you an editor (probably vi) to edit a recreated spec file. If you remove the problematic Depends lines and save it, it will build you a new rpm file without the dependencies that dnf should let you install. Don't remove all the Depends, just the texlive ones. > Which of course will promptly be reverted the next update leading to eternal dependency hell fights, and would have to be done for every package that has a dependency on a texlive subpackage. Naturally the "correct" answer is not to mix source and package installs on a package based system. Why did you feel a need for CTAN? The best of the bad options are: Grab the texlive srpm and adapt it to your version (do note that the spec for it is hideous). Create an empty meta rpm that has no files contents but provides the texlive stuff so the dependency chain isn't broken and you don't have to custom install edited versions of a bunch of packages. The latter is the best bad option, but there will be no texlive updates and packages that expect a particular version or path may misbehave with your CTAN install.

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New kernel will not boot after upgrade from fedora-21 to fedora-22
by Bill Perkins 26 May '16

26 May '16

I have this system that I have been using that was running Fedora 21. I just updated it today (Monday) to Fedora 22. It is an old Dell Optiplex GX620 with two 2TB disk drives set up with two partitions each in a RAID One configuration. LVM2 runs on top of the second partition with several logical volumes. This system had been running just fine before I did the upgrade. After the upgrade, the system will not boot using one of the new Fedora 22 kernels. It boots just fine using one of the old Fedora 21 kernels that did not get replaced during the upgrade. I can get the system up using one of the new kernels, but I have to wait until it stops at a Dracut prompt. I then manual run "mdadm -- assemble --scan" to get the RAID One partitions assembled, and "lvm vgchange -a y" to get the Volume Group built. After that, I issue an "exit" and the system completes the boot process. I need to figure out why this system will not boot without intervention. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have tried to rebuild the initramfs with dracut, no joy doing that. Here is some of the data: # cat /etc/mdadm.conf MAILADDR root AUTO +imsm +1.x -all ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=0.90 UUID=c45384af:aa8fc7ca:7eebaeb8:f0ca1523 ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=1.2 name=test3.localnet:md1 UUID=524079c6:521ca76f:126164a9:3232e116 # cat /etc/fstab UUID=5a1848ce-cff6-4c1f-a622-dc1fe5f06d55 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 UUID=762b53d0-b5a0-41dc-b804-d339fa58b119 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg0-lv1 / ext4 defaults 1 1 /dev/mapper/vg0-lv2 /usr/local ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg0-lv3 /var ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg0-lv4 /tmp ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg0-lv5 /opt ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg0-lv6 /home ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg0-lv7 /work ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/sr0 /cd0 auto noauto,owner,user,ro 0 0 # uname -a Linux redwood 4.4.9-200.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 6 17:42:20 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Other versions of kernels that work just fine: 3.18.9-200 & 4.1.13-100 both from the Fedora 21 distribution.

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systemd/sendmail problem - seeking help!
by Timothy Murphy 26 May '16

26 May '16

I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing. When I try to send email I get the warning "Failed to transmit message", and journalctl has the entry "sendmail.service: PID file /run/sendmail.pid not readable (yet?) after start: No such file or directory". I've checked, and sendmail.pid is in place: ================== [tim@william ~]$ sudo cat /run/sendmail.pid 2829 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h ================== Googling for the journalctl entry, I see people have been encountering this problem for years. But I haven't seen any solution offered. Several of the comments suggest that it is a systemd problem. If anyone can offer advice, or even elucidation, I should be most grateful. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

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strange behaviour of yumex-dnf
by Antonio M 26 May '16

26 May '16

during last few days when I try to update/install/remove any package by graphical interface I get: g-io-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.AttributeError: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 707, in _message_cb retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/__init__.py", line 83, in newFunc rc = func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/dnfdaemon/dnfdaemon-system", line 537, in RunTransaction result = self.run_transaction() File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/__init__.py", line 564, in run_transaction self._check_gpg_signatures(to_dnl) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/__init__.py", line 713, in _check_gpg_signatures result, errmsg = self.base.sigCheckPkg(po) File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/dnf/util.py", line 79, in __getattr__ % (C.__name__, name)) AttributeError: 'Base' object has no attribute 'sigCheckPkg' (36) what's going on?? Anyway I files a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1339107 Antonio Montagnani Linux Fedora 23 (Workstation) inviato da Gmail

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copr-selinux dependencies Fedora 22
by Jon LaBadie 25 May '16

25 May '16

Trying to update on F22. DNF reports copr-selinux version 1.40 is available to replace v1.35 but it can not due to "broken dependencies". rpm says "policycoreutils-python-utils" is required but not installed. "policycoreutils-python" is installed and dnf says it required package is not available. rpmfind shows the "policycoreutils-python-utils" available for F23, but not for F22. Suggestions for how to resolve the situation? I don't anticipate using copr, perhaps remove it? Do any system functions depend upon copr installation? Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu(a)jgcomp.com

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DNF group install of "KDE Plasma Desktop" fails
by Weiner, Michael 25 May '16

25 May '16

I am trying to install the KDE Plasma Desktop on a fresh installation of Fedora 23 via the Live image and it keeps throwing up dependencies for xorg-x11-drv packages that do not exist. I have a couple F23 installs laying around here and they arent installed on any of them, nor are they up in the public repository (http://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/23/Everyth…). And what is even odder, is that everyting I try to run 'dnf groupinstll "KDE Plasma Desktop" it comes back with another xorg-x11-drv package it says it cant find, and neither can i. Here is what it is doing: [root@lri-106830 temp]# dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" Last metadata expiration check: 2:47:12 ago on Wed May 25 08:17:24 2016. No package xorg-x11-drv-freedreno available. Error: Unable to find a mandatory group package. [root@lri-106830 temp]# dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" Last metadata expiration check: 2:47:30 ago on Wed May 25 08:17:24 2016. No package xorg-x11-drv-geode available. Error: Unable to find a mandatory group package. [root@lri-106830 temp]# dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" Last metadata expiration check: 2:47:32 ago on Wed May 25 08:17:24 2016. No package xorg-x11-drv-omap available. Error: Unable to find a mandatory group package. [root@lri-106830 temp]# dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" Last metadata expiration check: 2:47:37 ago on Wed May 25 08:17:24 2016. No package xorg-x11-drv-armsoc available. Error: Unable to find a mandatory group package. And the following are the only ones installed and also in the repository: [root@lri-106830 temp]# rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-drv xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.12-3.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.30.0-4.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-13.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.2-23.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vmware-13.0.2-10.20150211git8f0cf7c.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-19.20151206.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-libinput-0.16.0-1.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.9.99-2.20150807git66c997886.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.8.3-1.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.4-6.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.3-23.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.1-3.20160215gitd41fccc.fc23.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.4.0-1.fc23.x86_64 Any ideas? Thank you in advance Michael =================================== Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Cleveland Clinic is ranked as one of the top hospitals in America by U.S.News & World Report (2015). Visit us online at http://www.clevelandclinic.org for a complete listing of our services, staff and locations. Confidentiality Note: This message is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. Thank you.

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earphone problems
by George R Goffe 25 May '16

25 May '16

Hi, I'm trying to use an old set of Logitech earphones on my Fedora 23 system. I use mplayer to play videos WITH audio tracks. This used to work with Fedora 22 and earlier but now the earphones don't work. I use /usr/bin/gnome-control-center to adjust settings and to a minimal test from various sources. All devices tested produce sound. I'm missing something here but can't seem to figure out just what that is. Can I get someone to give me some hints/clues/tips/suggestions please? Regards, George...

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Posting to the Fedora message boards
by Peter G. 25 May '16

25 May '16

While a long-time user, I never liked getting all of the messages in my email box, considering that only 5% or so are relevant to me. The digest form has the additional problem of how to reply to a post. Then, I discovered Gmane a few years back.I was bothered somewhat by using a third party interface and, it seemed, that not 100% of the posts ever showed up, depending on who posted where. It has worked well for me, but I had to set up the news program, typically knode, which also took a fair bit of time. Nothing ever seemed satisfactory. This morning I discovered Fedora's own web interface. I never even knew it existed!!! I think it could be the best solution yet... although sometimes it seems slow. What have you found to be he easiest, most convenient, etc. method of accessing the message boards?

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lost sound -
by Bob Goodwin 24 May '16

24 May '16

I lost my sound in this F-23 computer a few days ago which causes some inconvenience. PulseAudio volume control shows signal in Output but Configuration shows "No card available for configuration." Any help appreciated, Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-23/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3

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Can't rename files on KDE desktop.
by Alan Evans 23 May '16

23 May '16

Or rather, I can rename them, but then I can't access them. If I create a new file on my F23 KDE desktop, I have no trouble accessing it. But if I rename it (right-click, Rename) then try clicking on it again after, I get an error dialog: "Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder /home/alan/Desktop///<oldname> does not exist." (<oldname> is the name the file was before I renamed.) This is a real bother in the case of folders, because I rename them often. But then I can't access them. Everything seems to work from within the File Manager, but fails when dealing with Desktop icons. -Alan

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