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3 September, 201517 May, 2017Fedora, FOSS

Cross-compiling a PowerPC64 LE kernel and hitting a GCC bug

Being new at OzLabs I’m dipping my toes into various projects and having a play with PowerPC and so I thought I’d cross-compile the Linux kernel on Fedora. Traditionally PowerPC […]

22 February, 201323 February, 2013Korora

Bug: Korora 18 KDE installer sometimes not loading

Update: Try running the installer from the command line with two commands, like so: xhost + liveinst A couple of users have reported that running the installer under the KDE […]

29 November, 2011Korora

FIX: Kororaa 16 GNOME Shell crash

This took me a while to find, but removing the nautilus-pastebin package will stop GNOME Shell from crashing when searching (as seen in Beta 16). No restart required. sudo yum […]

18 July, 201127 September, 2011Korora

Kororaa 15 beta bug – X not starting

Some users have reported that X (graphical interface) doesn’t start when booting the Live DVD. Symptoms: The Live DVD boots to a black screen and the login manager doesn’t display. […]

3 March, 20116 March, 2011FOSS, Korora

Kororaa 14 Beta3 – Remove KDE themed Firefox in GNOME

I accidentally included the KDE Oxygen theme for the GNOME version of Beta3 (it was correct in Beta2). This means that GNOME users of Kororaa will get a KDE themed […]

20 February, 20116 March, 2011FOSS, Korora

Kororaa Beta2 bug fixes

If you’re running Kororaa Beta2, there are a few bugs which require fixing. Yum Firstly, the KDE version incorrectly included Yum from Rawhide (development) tree (GNOME version does not have […]

5 July, 201026 August, 2010FOSS

Eclipse eGit push bug – SOLVED

After upgrading to Helios and therefore eGit 0.8.4, I could no-longer push to git repos using pre-configured remotes. Adding the same remote manually at time of push works, but is […]

16 July, 2009FOSS

Bugging bugs with Firefox #1

I love Firefox, it’s a great web browser. But there are two things which have annoyed me forever and it’s about time I did something about it. Numero Uno: The […]