Best Wishes 2014
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bash saved my day
I was creating an ugly quick-and-dirty script to setup the squid cache_dir automatically with puppet based on the diskspace and memory available.
When you are developing you sometimes forget to create backups and push it to git, and mistakes are around the corner.
Lucky bash saved my day!
$ ./create_cache_entries.sh > create_cache_entries.sh
-bash: ./create_cache_entries.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Text file busy
$ vi create_cache_entries.sh
yum update on fedora 19 and zfs on linux
I use zfs on linux on fedora now.
The installation was pretty straightforward but after the installation of zfs yum update failed.
[root@vicky etc]# yum update -y
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Repository google-chrome is listed more than once in the configuration
fedora/19/x86_64/metalink | 33 kB 00:00:00
fedora | 4.2 kB 00:00:00
fedora-chromium-stable | 3.4 kB 00:00:00
google-chrome | 951 B 00:00:00
rpmfusion-free | 3.3 kB 00:00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates | 3.3 kB 00:00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree | 3.3 kB 00:00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 3.3 kB 00:00:00
updates/19/x86_64/metalink | 30 kB 00:00:00
updates | 4.4 kB 00:00:00
zfs | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
(1/6): fedora-chromium-stable/19/x86_64/primary_db | 20 kB 00:00:00
(2/6): zfs/19/x86_64/primary_db | 6.7 kB 00:00:00
(3/6): updates/19/x86_64/group_gz | 385 kB 00:00:02
(4/6): fedora/19/x86_64/group_gz | 384 kB 00:00:06
(5/6): updates/19/x86_64/primary_db | 8.8 MB 00:01:53
(6/6): fedora/19/x86_64/primary_db | 17 MB 00:03:34
(1/10): google-chrome/primary | 1.9 kB 00:00:00
(2/10): rpmfusion-free-updates/19/x86_64/primary_db | 217 kB 00:00:01
(3/10): rpmfusion-nonfree/19/x86_64/primary_db | 149 kB 00:00:00
(4/10): rpmfusion-free/19/x86_64/primary_db | 440 kB 00:00:03
(5/10): rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/19/x86_64/primary_db b | 97 kB 00:00:00
(6/10): rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/19/x86_64/group_gz | 990 B 00:00:05
(7/10): rpmfusion-nonfree/19/x86_64/group_gz | 993 B 00:00:07
(8/10): rpmfusion-free/19/x86_64/group_gz | 1.6 kB 00:00:07
(9/10): rpmfusion-free-updates/19/x86_64/group_gz | 1.6 kB 00:00:07
(10/10): updates/19/x86_64/updateinfo | 861 kB 00:00:09
google-chrome 3/3
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package dkms.noarch 0:2.2.0.3-14.zfs1.fc19 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: dkms = 2.2.0.3-14.zfs1.fc19 for package: zfs-dkms-0.6.2-1.fc19.noarch
---> Package dkms.noarch 0:2.2.0.3-17.fc19 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: zfs-dkms-0.6.2-1.fc19.noarch (@zfs)
Requires: dkms = 2.2.0.3-14.zfs1.fc19
Removing: dkms-2.2.0.3-14.zfs1.fc19.noarch (@zfs)
dkms = 2.2.0.3-14.zfs1.fc19
Updated By: dkms-2.2.0.3-17.fc19.noarch (updates)
dkms = 2.2.0.3-17.fc19
Available: dkms-2.2.0.3-5.fc19.noarch (fedora)
dkms = 2.2.0.3-5.fc19
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root@vicky etc]#
On another fedora system yum update worked fine, after reviewing the differences in the yum configuration it seems that yum-plugin-priorities wasn’t installed on my box. After installing yum-plugin-priorities
[root@vicky etc]# yum install yum-plugin-priorities
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Repository google-chrome is listed more than once in the configuration
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package yum-plugin-priorities.noarch 0:1.1.31-18.fc19 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
yum-plugin-priorities noarch 1.1.31-18.fc19 updates 22 k
Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package
Total download size: 22 k
Installed size: 28 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
yum-plugin-priorities-1.1.31-18.fc19.noarch.rpm | 22 kB 00:00:01
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Installing : yum-plugin-priorities-1.1.31-18.fc19.noarch 1/1
Verifying : yum-plugin-priorities-1.1.31-18.fc19.noarch 1/1
Installed:
yum-plugin-priorities.noarch 0:1.1.31-18.fc19
Complete!
[root@vicky etc]#
And make sure that the zfs has the priority
[root@localhost etc]# cat yum.repos.d/zfs.repo
[zfs]
name=ZFS of Linux for Fedora $releasever
baseurl=http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
priority=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-zfsonlinux
Requires: yum-plugin-priorities
[zfs-source]
name=ZFS of Linux for Fedora $releasever - Source
baseurl=http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-zfsonlinux
[root@vicky etc]#
yum update works again.
[root@vicky etc]# yum update -y
Loaded plugins: langpacks, priorities, refresh-packagekit
Repository google-chrome is listed more than once in the configuration
2 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
No packages marked for update
[root@vicky etc]#
CGIpaf 1.3.4pre1 released
This is the first pre-release of CGIpaf 1.3.4.
Read more...Running kindle on GNU/Linux with wine
I enjoy reading ebooks during my train trip to work on my nexus 7.
At home I prefer to read on my monitor since this is bigger.
Most of the time I use epub or pdf for reading, I bought a kindle version of a book from amazon assuming that I could read with amazon cloud reader at home.
Unfortunately this books is not compatible with cloud reader.
Proprietary_formats should be avoid, lesson learned (again).
To read my book at home I decided to give the windows version of kindle on wine a try
The installation was pretty straightforward on Fedora 19.
- Install wine
[root@vicky ~]# yum install wine
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
- Download Kindle for Window xp
Download it from: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_ln_ar?docId=1000426311
- Run the installer
[swagemakers@vicky ~]$ wine ~/Downloads/KindleForPC-installer.exe
- Create kindle startup script
wine $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Amazon/Kindle/Kindle.exe &
Happy reading
but
It’s better to only read ebooks in an open format
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