Thursday, December 17, 2009

Rahide Warning: Group KDE (K Desktop Environment) does not exist.

[root@lost ~]# yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* rawhide: chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net
* rpmfusion-free-rawhide: lordmorgul.net
* rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide: lordmorgul.net
Setting up Group Process
Checking for new repos for mirrors
Warning: Group KDE (K Desktop Environment) does not exist.
No packages in any requested group available to install or update
[root@lost ~]#
Huh?
[root@lost ~]# yum grouplist | grep KDE
KDE Software Compilation
KDE Software Development
[root@lost ~]#
Oooook! Apparently now it's called "KDE Software Compilation".

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

bash: !someActualEvent: event not found

Don't you hate errors like this?
$ strace -etrace=!futex -p 3181
bash: !futex: event not found
If this happens to you do not worry. Just escape the bang (!) like this:
$ strace -etrace=\!futex -p 3181
Process 3181 attached - interrupt to quit
The strace man page is wrong for bash. Imagine that.

Hope that helps.