APOLOGY Re: Software request

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 06 May 2009 00:28:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On 05/04/2009 11:00 PM, Beartooth Comcast wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> 
>>> On 05/04/2009 08:56 PM, Beartooth Comcast wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 04/29/2009 07:39 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>>>>>>     Could some kind soul make an rpm and put it into a repository
>>>>>>     for
>>>>>> gnome-format? It's at
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://live.gnome.org/gnome-format -- and there are .debs there,
>>>>>> but no .rpms.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here, you go
>>>>>
>>>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1335062
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to put this up for review but you can pick it up meanwhile.
>>>>> Let me know if you find any issues.
>>>>
>>>>     Many thanks -- and, alas!, I do have one. It's probably my
>>>> incompetence (I never touch source code), but it looks a lot like the
>>>> failures I've been getting with the packagekit updater :
>>>>
>>>> [root at Hbsk2 btth]# rpm -ivh gnome-format-0.1.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm rpmdb:
>>>> Thread/process 22733/3086984896 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB
>>>> library
>>>
>>> Run these commands:
>>>
>>> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
>>> rpm --rebuilddb
>>>
>>> and try again.
>> 
>> [root at Hbsk2 btth]# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* [root at Hbsk2 btth]# rpm
>> --rebuilddb
>> [root at Hbsk2 btth]# rpm -ivh gnome-format-0.1.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm
> 
> # yum localinstall <filename> --nogpgcheck

	I normally read this list with Pan via Gmane, with my 
subscription set to nomail. For some reason, however, in this thread I 
was getting posts from Rahul in my email; since the list was copied, I 
went ahead and replied in email. 	

	Now I see what looks like Rahul replying to Rahul, with my posts 
not on Gmane.  I don't know how or why that happened.

	Rather than dig them all up (unless requested), I'll just 
describe result so far. 

	I have gnome-format installed. It launches, and seems to try; but 
I then get an error message saying "Error opening /dev/sdc: Permission 
denied" -- even if the disk is one whose Properties tell me its 
permissions "could not be determined."

	I did 

[root at Hbsk2 dev]# chown -R btth:btth /dev/sdc
[root at Hbsk2 dev]#

and that seems to've gotten rid of the permission problem -- or 
maybe just hidden it ...

	Eventually, after various warnings, it does show both the stick 
and the file system to put on it, as well as a live "Format" button. 

	Then nothing more happens. No matter how long I leave it (up to 
half a day), gnome-format shows no sign of doing anything; and the stuff 
on the stick is still there. 

	<sigh>


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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.