Fedora 27 - 28 upgrade and freezing machine

I'm not dead.

You might have thought so with the infrequent nature of my posting here, but take that as a positive reflection on the state of Fedora as a Linux distro.

My latest problem related to an upgrade of Fedora 27 to  Fedora 28. After conducting the upgrade via the dnf upgrade plugin process, when I came to reboot my machine would get to the graphical login screen then freeze.

Keyboard, mouse, everything, frozen.

If I edit the grub boot options to start in run level 3 it would boot up and I could login quite happily, which I was doing with a series of reconfiguration and reboot cycles as I tried disabling services, reinstalling drivers and so on.

One positive, I have now learned about

journalctl -b -1

and was using it quite a bit to see output from boot attempts.

My initial thoughts were that this was a problem with my graphics card, a Radeon RX460. I have had issues in the past getting it working.

So I tried changing BIOS settings to use integrated graphics instead of this PCI-e card, no luck there.

Turns out my Gigabyte z170x motherboard has an Intel feature called ThunderBolt.
In my fiddling with BIOS trying to turn off as many features as possible, this was the one that was causing my issues. After disabling Intel ThunderBolt, I can once again use my PC.

I've no idea if it's the specific combination of hardware (Gigabyte Z170X motherboard with Radeon RX460 graphics, connected via DisplayPort to a large monitor) or simply Fedora dooesn't currently like ThunderBoth, but for now at least, ThunderBolt is staying off on my system!

Follow up:
Looks like Fedora are just adding ThunderBolt support with Fedora 28.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ThunderboltEnablement

I guess the problems I'm seeing are just because of that, presumably the chippery had always been on, but only now is my graphical system trying to make use of it.

Got to the bottom of my screen blanking out issue at last

After waiting a for an update to my Linux Kernel from the Fedora repos (I don't fancy building my own just yet) the open source drivers for for my Radeon RX460 were installed successfully.

This seemed to sort out some of the issues I was having, the visual artifacts at higher resolutions particularly,  but didn't sort the issue of the screen going blank for periods of time. Which very quickly became incredibly irritating.

After convincing myself the drivers were ok (discussions of Fedora support forums), I started to wonder about overheating. Given the blackout seemed to happen most when playing video, but that shouldn't cause any real effort from graphics card like the Radeon RX460. Clutching at straws a bit with that idea.

Sure enough, xsensors show there's no clear heat issue:

Back to the drawing board then.

More reading then. Started to wonder if the Benq BL2710 monitor was the issue, so started reading more reviews of the panel to see if any reviewers had a similar problem when testing.

I eventually found comments in a about the power save feature of the BL2710. Apparently it has a sensor on the front that attempts to detect if there is someone in front of it and shuts of the display if there isn't for a period of time.

This is indicated by flashing of red LEDs at the bottom of the monitor, something I noticed happening when I experienced the blackout issue.

Sure enough, after exploring the menus I found the option to turn off (ECO -> ECO Sensor -> Off) and did so. Since then everything has been working without problem.

I'm surprised I didn't find any other articles on this black screen "issue" with this Benq, it must affect other users too.

Anyway, all up and running at full juicy 2560 x 1440 resolution now :)

Screen issues still not sorted :(

I was hoping changing from HDMI to DisplayPort would sort out my screen issues. To a degree, it did.

I can now use my screen at full resolution using the amdgpu driver from Fedora repositories but the intermittent, incredibly irritating, sporadic blank screen issues persists.

Another suggestion that came up from a forum was to try X11 instead of Wayland to draw stuff, that helped with a wonky dialog issue, but still no fix for the sporadic blank screen.

Getting to the point I'm almost tempted to try another monitor in case it's not software. That would be surprising though.

Display issues still being a nuisance

A while back I purchased a nice fat Benq BL2710.

Besides the frustrating front panel buttons, it seems to be a really decent monitor, which I'd be really happy with if I could get Fedora Linux to drive it correctly.

Initially I was using the onboard Intel graphics, which simply refused to offer the resolution(s) I want to run at (2560 x 1440).

So I decided to try a seperate graphics card. After some reading that suggested it may be workable with Linux I went for a 4GB Gigabyte Radeon RX460.

[dafoot@bigfoot ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Baffin [Radeon RX 460] (rev cf)
[dafoot@bigfoot ~]$ 

Now under Fedora 25 there are included open drivers for this GPU and it appears my system has them installed:

[root@bigfoot ~]# lshw -c video
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Baffin [Radeon RX 460]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: cf
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
       resources: irq:131 memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c0000000-c01fffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:de300000-de33ffff memory:c0000-dffff
[root@bigfoot ~]# 

So now my 'select resolution' interface at least recognised the Radeon 460 and the monitor as Benq BL2710.

So that's progress.

Unfortunately, any time I select that resolution, it is unusable....all fuzzy/jaggy.

Curiously, I just took a screenshot to add to this post while the scrren was a mess like that and the image showed all the text perfectly clearly.

I wonder if DisplayPort will behave any better if I try that.

Brother MFCL8650CDW

I've recently been battling with a Brother laser printer to get it to print from my Fedora (23) workstation. It had been working before, so compatability wasn't the issue, unless some library withing my system had changed. Turns out it was SELinux getting in the way (I usually have it off altogether as it causes me more headaches than I can be bothered with!). Running the command below seemed to sort it out:

setsebool -P cups_execmem 1

New machine, new OS, new problems

It's been a while since I posted here. Perhaps because I've lost interest in the idea of blogging about Linux or perhaps because it's because I've not had any interesting issues worth sharing.

Thankfully , it's the latter. Fedora has been mostly good to me recently, now running on 23.

I recently upgraded my hardware to an Intel i5 CPU and a Gigabyte 710X G1 Gaming 7 mainboard. A respectable setup for an home machine that isn't used for gaming. Editing my photos is suddenly so much more relaxing, now the computer has to wait for me and not the other way round!

Back to the topic in hand and the reason for this post.

Video playback. After sorting a bunch of issues with old nVidia drivers polutign the bootup of the machine (meaning I couldn't get to a stable desktop only CLI) I encountered an unexpected issue that seems small but will become incredibly irritating I'm sure.

Anytime I attempt to play a video, whether from a disk or YouTube/Facebook etc the display goes black for a few seconds. When the display comes back the video is playing, but I've missed a few seconds.

This also happens when I try to skip to certain points in videos using the progress bar.

I suspect this is an issue with not having relevant drivers or video codecs or some such, but as I've not been able to find any hints in logs I'm at a bit of a loss at the moment.

Fedora 20 and running ASP scripts

A while back I posted about trying (unsuccessfully) to run some ASP scripts on my Fedora (20) box using XSP.

I knew nothing of ASP tech at the time, so I ended up doing a fair bit learning. Turns out ASP has been largely replaced by a newer version of the tech, ASPX. XSP has a half decent go at trying to run the scripts.

I was still getting plenty of issues, so ended up installing a Microsoft IDE on my Windows laptop and doing the work there. I forget what it was called, but I was very glad to have got the project running correctly under ASPX before the trial ran out! It was a nasty to work with when used to the likes of Eclipse and IntelliJ for Java and PHP development.

In brighter news, I've now migrated that project over to PHP so there is no longer a reliance on running a Windows server. Happy days!

Linux, Android, Banshee and file systems

I recently signed up to a new mobile contract, which came with a shiny new Xperia Z1 Android phone. The phone has been greate so far in the couple of months I've had it, but I've just encounted my first real irritation.

Trying to get Banshee to sync music to the SD card in phone is proving tricky. When I run the sync I get bucket loads of errors in the Banshee log:

"Error setting permissions: Function not implemented"

So I figure this must be a filesystem issue and formatted the card into NTFS, where I have had success in the past. Then when I reboot the phone it sees the card format as NTFS and wont let me use it without formatting it back to exFAT.

It seems the phone REALLY wants the SD card to be formatted in exFAT!

Before I got to this point I had to persuade my Fedora 20 system to mount the xperia z1 phone via a USB cable. At first it wouldn't recognise the card, but installing of two packages (fuse-exfat and exfat-utils) seem to sort that.

The system file explorer could copy files back and forth quite happily, so that works. It's just Banshee that's having issues with this exFAT SD card.

I closed Banshee as a bad job while I did some Googling, when I reopened Banshee I discovered the file count shown for the SD card had increased. It seems Banshee had managed to copy my music over despite lots of misleading errors.

So while I don't know how to stop those errors about not being able to set the permissions, it seems Banshee is actually doing what I want.

In case you are wondering, it turns out exFAT is a Microsoft proprietry filesystem they are hawking as the filesystem of choice for larger capacity memory cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

ASP, XSP, Apache, mod_mono and Fedora 20

It's been a while since I posted here. I've not given up on my project, in fact I'm still very happy with Linux and the Fedora distribution. I've just not been doing anything particularly interesting with it recently.

So why the post? Well I've come into contact with an ASP project I need to make some changes to.

PHP? fine, it runs under Apache.
Java? no problem, I can run that under Tomcat.

So I've landed myself a bit of work on an old website, yay. The site is running on ASP of some sort, boo.

Of course I'm running Fedora with Apache not Windows with IIS.

A bit of reading leads me to all sorts of old pages about XSP and running mod_mono under Apache. I tried getting mod_mono to interpret the asp scripts I've downloaded, but Apache can't find mod_mono plugin.

I really don't care if ASP ends up running under Apache or some other server, in fact in some ways I'd rather use a standalone ASP server. Which is where XSP comes in.

XSP is a small service/server that should enable serving up of ASP scripts as I understand it.

Installed ok with yum. Then when it comes to running it, it seems to be a simple matter of running it in the project directory.

At localhost:8080 I get a 404 page which is clearly being served up by the xsp server, so that appears to be running at least.

When I try to hit one of the scripts (localhost:8080/default.asp), rather than getting anything vaguely like a nice webpage, I get the ASP code as text. So no ASP processing has occurred.

There is no output in the terminal running the server, nor in the /var/log directory.

This one could run for a while I suspect....

Adding fonts in Fedora 17

I had a graphic designer produce a banner for me a while back. Of course the font he used isn't part of the standard Linux font packages (AFAIK), so I had find a way to add it to my machine.

I was expecting a nice easy, drop into font directory style of installation. Well it was pretty much that easy.

Copied the .ttf file to /usr/share/fonts
As root, run fc-cache. Use the -v flag to get a list of what gets noticed then you will see if your new font gets picked up.

I put mine in /usr/share/fonts/local to keep the ones I add separate from those installed by Fedora.

DigiKam and Fedora 17

Since Picasa support for Linux has been withdrawn by Linux (it was only ever partial support tbh as it runs under Wine) I've been on the lookout for new photo management software.

I've tried Shotwell, that seems to do a reasonable job but not comprehensive. It would be ok if I hadn't been pointed towards DigiKam by a blog entry somewere comparing packages.

Both shotwell and digikam can be installed direct from the Fedora repositories using yum.

DigiKam seems to have a much greater range for features. Shotwell worked well enough, what it does it does well. I'm going to try DigiKam for a while now and see how I get on.

One quirk of DigiKam in Fedora 17 is that out of the box there didn't seem to be anyway to export images to another folder ready for burning to disc or uploading to a website.

A bit of reading later and an installation of "kipi-plugins" later I seem to have a plethora of export options.
I now have options to upload images directly to a variety of website (Flickr, Facebook, ImgShack, PicassaWeb, SmugMug the list goes on and on!) as well as local export (eg as HTML presentation, email client, IM client ....) but still not yet found a simple "take these photos and export to this place on disc" option!

It does seem odd to me that such fundamental functionality isn't included in DigiKam straight from the repositories. Even if that was just a matter of saying kipi-plugins is a dependency of DigiKam.


EDIT:
Found it!
Apparently to export files to a local directory I have to go through "export -> Export to remote computer". Hardly intuitive but it works!

Fedora 17, Eclipse and Javascript

I forget why or how I ended up in the situation but I recently ended up switching from a downloaded Eclipse installation to using the Fedora repository version of Eclipse.

So I'm now flying Juno Eclipse. Installed bunch of packages to let me do Java and PHP work in Eclipse:

[root@bigfoot html]# rpm -qa | grep eclipse

eclipse-pde-4.2.0-0.22.I201205031800.fc17.x86_64

eclipse-rcp-4.2.0-0.22.I201205031800.fc17.x86_64

eclipse-phpeclipse-1.2.3-4.fc17.noarch

eclipse-emf-xsd-2.8.0-0.7.e674bb28ad412fc9bc786f2f9b3c157eb2cbdae0.fc17.noarch

eclipse-swt-4.2.0-0.22.I201205031800.fc17.x86_64

eclipse-dtp-1.10-0.1.M6.fc17.noarch

eclipse-gef-3.8.0-0.3.20120402.fc17.noarch

eclipse-platform-4.2.0-0.22.I201205031800.fc17.x86_64

eclipse-emf-core-2.8.0-0.22.I201205031800.fc17.x86_64

eclipse-emf-2.8.0-0.7.e674bb28ad412fc9bc786f2f9b3c157eb2cbdae0.fc17.noarch

icu4j-eclipse-4.4.2.2-11.fc17.noarch

eclipse-jdt-4.2.0-0.22.I201205031800.fc17.x86_64

[root@bigfoot html]# 

So great, I have a shiny Juno installation that lets me do PHP work (not tested Java builds yet...) , woohoo!

So how do I get Javascript editing working?
When I was using Eclipse downloaded directly from the Eclipse project I just needed to install WTP (I think), so I went looking for that and found a few likely candidates:

yum install eclipse-wtp-common eclipse-wtp-servertools eclipse-wtp-sourceediting

Now when I fire up Eclipse Juno, it starts, but I get all sorts of error messages about null pointers and not being able to initialise plugin properly. I guess those packages aren't quite right somehow.

So when I get this PHP contract out of the way I may be switching back to a 'proper' Eclipse installation direct from the Eclipse project.

Unless any Fedora people out there can hold my hand through my Eclipse Juno Javascript editing setup needs? ;)

More Gnome3 / Fedora 17 woe

I used use a handy feature of Gnome 3 (there is something about it I like!) which let me use the power key (aka windows key) to perform a quick search for the file by it's name.

So when I knew the filename pressing that key and typing the filename would open it quickly instead of ploughing through directories in my file explorer. It seems either the Fedora17 upgrade or the Gnome 3.4 upgrade that came with it, has disabled this feature.

Any ideas Linux people?

Fedora 17 upgrade - not the best experience

I have been running Fedora Linux for a reason. It tends to get new + shiny stuff before other distros. New & Shiny = good.

Of course to offset the goodness of new and shiny you will occasionally get issues. The upgrade from FC16 to FC17 seems to create its fair share of issues!

After running the preupgrade process and rebooting:

• Only FC16 kernels listed in grub menu
• Some aspects of system have clearly changed, uname - r returns an FC16 kernel

Oh dear. This is going to be 'fun'!

Following some handy info from a post in FedoraForum.org I  rebooted and edited the grub config at boot time (press e when grub meu is shown - you left that couple of second delay in your grub config right? ;) ). Changed all references from FC16 to FC17 and I now appear to have booted a FC17 kernel.

Now if I query rpm to see what state I'm in regarding packages:

[root@bigfoot /]# rpm -qa | grep fc16

plexus-maven-plugin-1.3.8-5.fc16.noarch

compiz-gnome-0.9.5.92.1-0.2.gite676f1b12eb8db3a76978eed5bfc7c2cf9a0b6ce.fc16.x86_64

alacarte-0.13.2-3.fc16.noarch

yum-3.4.3-24.fc16.noarch

felix-parent-1.2.1-6.fc16.noarch

netbeans-ide-6.9-5.fc16.noarch

plexus-sec-dispatcher-1.4-4.fc16.noarch

compiz-plugins-main-0.9.5.92-1.fc16.x86_64

mdadm-3.2.3-7.fc16.x86_64

compiz-gtk-0.9.5.92.1-0.2.gite676f1b12eb8db3a76978eed5bfc7c2cf9a0b6ce.fc16.x86_64

async-http-client-1.6.1-1.fc16.noarch

pmd-4.2.5-11.fc16.noarch

libcompizconfig-0.9.5.92-1.fc16.x86_64

cscope-15.7a-9.fc16.x86_64

libva-freeworld-1.0.14-1.fc16.x86_64

netbeans-cvsclient-6.9-5.fc16.noarch

plexus-xmlrpc-1.0-0.7.b4.3.fc16.noarch

telepathy-butterfly-0.5.15-4.fc16.noarch

compiz-0.9.5.92.1-0.2.gite676f1b12eb8db3a76978eed5bfc7c2cf9a0b6ce.fc16.x86_64

libgdiplus-2.10-2.fc16.x86_64

Some of those I'm quite happy to remove (eg NetBeans packages), some I'm not so sure on (Compiz - maybe needed by my Gnome installation) and others I am quite concerned about - anyone fancy running 'yum remove yum'? No, me either.

So it's off to the inspect theyum conf files and make sure nothing points at a FC16 repo before updating and trying to clean up these errant packages.

Looking at the man page for yum it seems there is a handy synchronization command that I'm hoping will sort some of these package issues out, and indeed it did. It seems I had more than just FC16 packages that hadn't been updated, yum found a FC13 and even a FC12 package!

I'll have to use this syncho command more often.


[root@bigfoot yum.repos.d]# yum distribution-synchronization
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package cscope.x86_64 0:15.7a-8.fc17 will be a downgrade
---> Package cscope.x86_64 0:15.7a-9.fc16 will be erased
---> Package mdadm.x86_64 0:3.2.3-6.fc17 will be a downgrade
---> Package mdadm.x86_64 0:3.2.3-7.fc16 will be erased
---> Package ndesk-dbus.x86_64 0:0.6.1a-10.fc17 will be a downgrade
---> Package ndesk-dbus.x86_64 0:0.6.1b-1.fc13 will be erased
---> Package vbetool.x86_64 0:1.2.1-2.fc17 will be a downgrade
---> Package vbetool.x86_64 0:1.2.2-1.fc12 will be erased
---> Package yum.noarch 0:3.4.3-23.fc17 will be a downgrade
---> Package yum.noarch 0:3.4.3-24.fc16 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

Banshee 2 way sync

Anyone out there able to help get 2 way sync working properly in Banshee 2.0.1 on Fedora 15?

Here is my situation, 2 PCs and a USB thumbdrive. I want to be able to use the thumbdrive to sync the 2 PCs, the thumbdrive also gets used in the car.

So if I buy some music via the Banshee Amazon plugin on one machine, sync to the thumbdrive I then want that file to automatically find its way into the library on machine two during a sync. Likewise if I tweak some meta data or set a rating on a track on one machine I want those changes to be reflected on the other machine after syncing.

If my thumbdrive contains a subset of my collection (eg a playlist) I don't want the sync to assume that means that all those that aren't on the thumbdrive should be deleted from the PC as happened today (thankfully I do semi regular backups!)!

Perhaps the answer is to maintain a playlist on each machine for the thumbdrive and sync the drive/playlist together rather than the library, would that import new tracks and data into main library while not deleting 'missing' tracks from the PC?

Fedora 15 and Gnome 3

My main machine(s) are now all running Fedora 15, complete with the Gnome 3 desktop interface. After a few niggles to get things running (getting latest nvidia drivers for one machine, issues with NTFS formatted disk on another) I can happily say if feels quicker and more responsive than my Fedora 14 experience and that was pretty good.

Installed on Fedora 15 launch day (yesterday, 25 May 2011) I've not pushed things yet but a few things to note:

Gnome 3 is going to take some getting used to! Everything seems to be hidden away behing the (prettily animated) menu system. Ok, this keeps things tidy, but finding an application I want can be frustrating as it seems to involve more clicks with the mouse than in Gnome 2. I've not yet found a real way to customise menus either except for adding icons to favourites meaning they appear in a single list on the left after clicking on the 'Activities' button of the panel.

Talking of the panel (the bar at the top of the screen that houses the clock and open programs), it seems I no longer have an "add to panel" option. So I can't easily add the system monitor tool to the top of my desktop as I like to do.

Not having an option to minimise windows seems odd too. I don't think I used it much before, I tend to alt-tab between windows, but now I have noticed the minimise button has gone I miss it for some inexplicable reason!

Libre Office is now the default office suite in Fedora from Fedora 15 onwards. Libre Office was forked from Open Office when Oracle (new Java owners) announced they wouldn't be actively developing it further. In the quick half hour of playing with a spreadsheet that I've had with Libre Office so far, I have been impressed with it's speed and feel compared to Open Office it replaces.

However it does seem in the spreadsheet I had opened I am going to have to work out all those date calculations again as a lot of the formulae that worked in Open Office seem to be less than functional in Libre Office. I can only assume that some syntax has changed slightly.

Fedora 15 conclusion after a few hours
Fedora 15 has been on my main machine and in use for only a few hours and so far feelings are mixed. The move to Gnome 3 means a big change in the way you interact with your desktop, the jury is out IMO on whether this is for the better or worse.

Having said that, Microsoft took a bold step when they introduced the 'start' button menu system in Windows 95 and that seems to have worked out ok.

Speed and responsiveness of the machine feels much better than 14 and I didn't have any significant complaints there anyway. Fedora 15 certainly looks a lot better than earlier versions.

Helping other people...

Times they are a changing.

I've considered myself a Linux user for quite a number of years at a basic level, but since moving to a fulltime Linux setup on all my machines I've learnt so much more as a user of course but more still about the Linux world in general and sysadmin side of things.

Even to the point where I have become the goto person for Linux (Fedora) help for a few folks now. Now I am not only using Linux but helping support others coming into the Linux world and growing the community :)

Reinstalling X? :(

Seems the graphics driver thing has caused more than just the odd yum glitch...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg01178.html

In short, because of the way ATI bundled the driver, I will probably have to reinstall the X server and stuff that goes with it. That doesn't sound like it will be a fun job at all. :(

Some of the update issues sorted...

Turns out switching on the rpmfusion-free-update repository sorted out a lot of the issues with doing a yum update.

Now left with ....
[root@yeti yum.repos.d]# yum update
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 for package: iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586
---> Package libnetfilter_conntrack.i586 0:0.0.100-1.fc11 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root@yeti yum.repos.d]#

To sort out.

kmod-fglrx issues

Recently ran through the upgrade process of Fedora 10-11. Preupgrade went smoothly but no upgrade, so had a look at grub.conf and discovered I had to select the upgrade option there during boot. Duly done and complete, kind of.

A $yum update gives me a bunch of dependency issues, here are a couple....

Error: Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libxcb-keysyms.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core-1.0.0-0.11rc3.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686 is needed by package kmod-fglrx-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686-9.3-1.fc10.15.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Straight away I can see a package is from fc10, so not a big suprise that causes issues. Turns out kmod-fglrx-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686-9.3-1.fc10.15.i686 is from the ATI proprietry drivers I installed, so....

[root@yeti yum.repos.d]# yum remove kmod-fglrx
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-fglrx.i686 0:9.3-1.fc10.14 set to be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

...now at least I only have fc11 packages whining at me....

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed)
vlc-core-1.0.0-0.11rc3.fc11.i586 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libxcb-keysyms.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core-1.0.0-0.11rc3.fc11.i586 (installed)
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.11-4.fc11.i586 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libass.so.3 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.11-4.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libass.so.3 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.11-4.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1 is needed by package iptstate-2.2.1-5.fc11.i586 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libxcb-keysyms.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core-1.0.0-0.11rc3.fc11.i586 (installed)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

The gstreamer and VLC packages are packages I want to keep for my video/mp3 collections so I need to work out why these are failing. Clearly (?) they have missing dependacies, but I need to know where to get those from and equally why can I not get them from the repos I have enabled? Dropped from Fedora 11 possibly? In which case I need to find out what replaces them in 11.