Recently, there has been some gnashing of teeth around the Internet regarding the latest ATrpms build of ffmpeg for RHEL and its clones (including Scientific Linux and CentOS). If you try to install or upgrade it, you get something like the following not-terribly-helpful error once yum finishes its dependency resolution:
Error: Package: libavcodec53-0.10-54.el6.x86_64 (atrpms)
Requires: libvpx.so.1()(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Thankfully, this is very easy to fix! Read on for details!
Continue Reading…Posted by Matt Lewandowsky on Fri, 16 Mar 2012
Easy Translate for the BlackBerry PlayBook was just released to App World! This is Greenviolet's first mobile app, and certainly not our last.
We will be launching a mobile apps microsite soon, and this post will then link to the Easy Translate page there.
Continue Reading…Posted by Matt Lewandowsky on Thu, 1 Mar 2012
HP servers tend to ship with their Smart Array RAID controllers. Since snv_132, OpenSolaris has shipped the driver ("CPQary3", since these are "Third-generation Compaq/HP Smart Array" controllers) which was previously only available from HP's site. Unfortunately, some time after the final public release of OpenSolaris, but before illumos forked, someone managed to break things such that the cpqary3 driver busted. It happens. Unfortunately, Oracle effectively walked away from the mess they left on the floor.
Continue Reading…Posted by Matt Lewandowsky on Wed, 21 Sep 2011
As you've probably noticed, the site's been getting pounded by spambots the past few months. The poor v100 that the site lives on just can't take the load, sometimes.
Over the next few days, there will be additional measures put into place to combat the bots. Surely human ingenuity is stronger than a bot's persistence? Let's all hope so!
Anyhow, if there are problems connecting to the site in the next week or so, try again in 10-15 minutes. If it hasn't resolved itself in that time, please poke lewellyn on freenode or twitter.
There will be a couple more announcements soon, too... Let's just say that there's some things baking... ;)
Continue Reading…Posted by Matt Lewandowsky on Mon, 18 Apr 2011
For those who can't access the webinar for some reason, as listed on the Illumos announcement page, we're going to try to mirror the audio stream.
Until it's time for the webinar to start, you'll hear some nifty, repetitive, music on hold. Then, it'll go silent for a moment when we connect to the webinar, and then you'll be dropped in (hopefully for the duration!).
Note that this is mostly for people who want to listen to the webinar but can't for whatever reason, be it that you're not running a supported operating system, you won't be near a computer (but you have a phone or something that can take streaming audio), you're not in the United States and the cost of the long distance call is prohibitive, or whatever. There are only a limited number of listener slots available, so please think of the people who really need it, if you don't and you see the server's getting full. You also won't see the video and slides which accompany the presentation.
You will find the server status page at http://bruno.greenviolet.net/ and the stream at http://bruno.greenviolet.net/illumos.m3u .
If there are problems with the stream, please tweet @lewellyn on twitter or email matt@greenviolet.net.
Continue Reading…Posted by Matt Lewandowsky on Tue, 3 Aug 2010
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