It sounds like this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1529922
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This sounds like this Bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1529922
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Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/10/17 07:55, Timothy Ward wrote:
>> Do you have to upgrade Alpha to Beta and then to general
release
>> version software as it becomes available or is it upgraded
to the
>> latest available version as Beta or general release becomes
available.
>
>
> No, you don't hav
Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2017 21:36:29 -0600
> Peter Gueckel wrote:
>
>> Now, I wonder about $PATH: what is the correct value "to
find the
>> programs that root needs"?
>
> Well, root tends to have /sbin which "normal" users don'
Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 05/27/2017 10:12 PM, fred roller wrote:
>> you could run "who" to see if the root user is still logged
on as well.
>
> I have a terminal open, logged in as root with su -. When I
ran who, it
> just showed me, logged in once and no root. Checking with
uptime, it
> shows o
OK, thanks, guys. I was just curious.
Yes, I do have my system set up not to require the password for
sudo. It is faster than constantly having to type it, time and
again. System installation is hell without it ;-)
Now, I wonder about $PATH: what is the correct value "to find the
programs that
Peter Gueckel wrote:
> Could it be dnfdragora-updater?
I've always hated those auto-updater apps, too, but dnfdragora is
the first one I actually like (but I still run dnf upgrade on the
command line 99% of the time).
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Tom Horsley wrote:
> Out of the blue, I just got popup messages on my
> screen first telling me a new version of fedora
> is ready to install then a few minutes and lots of
> net access later telling me updates were ready to
> install.
>
> What is doing this crap?! I have all the automatic
> upda
I opened a second tab in konsole and immediately ran sudo su to
obtain a prompt as root. I ran a program and then I forgot to
exit and just closed the tab. Am I still root somewhere? Or did
closing the tab do the same thing as a proper exit?
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Peter Gueckel wrote:
> In ~/.bash_profile, I have umask=002
I meant, I have it set to *022*
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In ~/.bash_profile, I have umask=002, since I want directories
(files) to have the permission 755 (644).
Until Fedora 25, this worked perfectly.
Now, in Fedora 26, directories (files) are created with the
permission 775 (664).
When I run umask, it returns 0002.
For some reason, my setting in
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I have a Brother DCP-7055W all-in-one laser printer and
scanner,
> connected by Wifi to my LAN. The printer works perfectly,
and the
> scanner worked at least up until a couple of weeks ago when
I last used
> it. Now, it seems to have disappeared. Both simple-scan a
That means you are storing the entire contents of all of the lists you read!?
Well, Google does say you never need to delete anything, don't they? ;-)
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While a long-time user, I never liked getting all of the messages in my email
box, considering that only 5% or so are relevant to me. The digest form has the
additional problem of how to reply to a post. Then, I discovered Gmane a few
years back.I was bothered somewhat by using a third party int
Since I upgraded to kernel-3.12.8-300.fc20.x86_64 a couple of days ago (I
have never seen this with any other Fx or kernel), I am getting this message
appearing in the notifications applet in the systray.
It appears every time I resume the computer from suspend. I have never seen
it from a stra
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Follow the steps outlined in the answer at
>
> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/39213/known-issue-scriptlet-errors-while-installingupgrading-packages-using-yumdnfrpm/
Thanks. That solved it ;-)
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I just ran yum update and, when the updater tries to install the
new/uninstall the old nfs-utils, I see this message:
error: %pre(nfs-utils-1:1.2.9-2.1.fc20.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit
status 127
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package 1:nfs-utils-1.2.9-2.1.fc20.x86_64
1:nfs-utils-1.2.8-6.0.f
Bill Case wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Having a problem setting up Fedora to find and installing a
dictionary
> for Canadian English.
>
> I would like to work with an English(US) keyboard. An English(US
or
> Canadian) format, but want to spellcheck for English(Can). I have
> searched and googled with no
Isaac Cortés González wrote:
> is this because of KDE or is
> there a dependency I haven't resolve?
I have not experienced this.
Install libreoffice-kde to see if this helps. I am
using that.
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flash-plugin won't work in fedora 19, not even with
setsebool unconfined_mozilla_plugin_transition 0.
The video plays for about 15 seconds, without
sound, then freezes.
As a result, I installed lightspark: yum install
lightspark.
Firefox shows no such plugin.
Upon investigation, I see that l
Richard Shaw wrote:
> RPM Fusion generally follows the Fedora guidelines, which include
> when and when not to update, so 1.0.X to 1.1.X would generally be
> discouraged within a release.
I asked on their mailing list during roughly fedora 16, about a
year or more ago, and this is what they told
doug wrote:
> Unless you are particularly fond of a touchpad
I wanted to learn gestures, taps &c, since most laptops have them
and most people seem to prefer them.
> wouldn't you be happier with a mouse or a trackball?
That’s what I have finally decided upon.
> Maybe there's a wireless k/b wi
Peter Gueckel wrote:
> There is some suggestion that some have gotten it to work.
I have been reading further, and I think the Linux usability is
limited to scrolling in Firefox and general moving of the cursor on
the screen. Just that for $70! It’s going back tomorrow.
The Logitech K
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Looks to me like this gadget is designed for Windows 8, and, as
such, is
> likely to be using Win-8-specific mojo.
There is some suggestion that some have gotten it to work. I created
the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf, but nothing is
happening. I restarte
I just plugged in my brand new Logitech Wireless T650 touchpad.
The cursor moves, but I am unable to get any other response: no
tapping, etc.
I have the xorg synaptics driver and kcm_touchpad installed, but it
is greyed out and there is no way for me to activate it.
How do I do this?
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Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 12:38 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote:
>> I have been looking at smartphones and tablets (I presently own
>> neither, due to outrageous monthly fees and lengthy contracts),
as
>> I am starting to feel that I no longer want to
Ed Greshko wrote:
> ...so you want to eliminate your desktop and laptop and move
> to a single mobile platform with, ideally, Fedora as the
> underlying OS. ...I don't see mobile platforms... as
> exclusionary devices but complementary.
I entertain the Bauhaus/Ikea/Zen philosophy of minimalism. A
Ed Greshko wrote:
> What is the advantage of running (K)Ubuntu or any other
> Linux distro on a smartphone or tablet?
I really couldn't say. I don't yet own any such mobile computing
device, but I was perusing some flyers yesterday and was getting
rather interested.
I thought, what if I were t
Temlakos wrote:
> Here's another possibility: maybe... Fedora
> will run the servers on private clouds...
Your prediction would exclude the average computer user. That's a
shame.
I have been with Fedora since about 1998 (RH5). I don't care to
switch, just to become digitally mobile. In all lik
Peter Gueckel wrote:
> I have been looking at smartphones and tablets...
>
> How does Fedora fit into this? Is there a way to put
> Fedora onto a tablet or smartphone?
>
> Ubuntu offers an intriguing compromise, for users of an Android
> phone.
>
> How do you go abou
I have been looking at smartphones and tablets (I presently own
neither, due to outrageous monthly fees and lengthy contracts), as
I am starting to feel that I no longer want to do without mobility.
However, how does Fedora fit into this? Is there a way to put
Fedora onto a tablet or smartphone
JPAM69 wrote:
> I just found in another post a trick, which worked for me:
>
> just create the 'trash' folder, quit the kontact application,
start it
> again. kmail will automatically recognize the 'trash' directory,
will
> assign the trash icon to it and all removed messages will be
moved fr
Peter Gueckel wrote:
> sudo ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf
This line is wrong. It should be:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/fonts/ttf /etc/X11/fontpath.d/ttf
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jonetsu wrote:
> I'd like to know...
Do something like this to make the font available to all users on the system:
sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf
sudo cp -i HGRSKP.TTF /usr/share/fonts/ttf/hgrskp.ttf
sudo chown root.root /usr/share/fonts/ttf/hgrskp.ttf
sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/ttf/hgrs
rdirect first. Easy way to see how a board rates.
>
> Peter Gueckel wrote:
>
>>
>>I have had 2 different Asus motherboards over the years, and I always had
>>intermittent and difficult to assess problems.
One other thing I should add to the considerations one ought to
Gary Hodder wrote:
> I am wondering what motherboards users are using on there Linux box?
I have had 2 different Asus motherboards over the years, and I always had
intermittent
and difficult to assess problems. Sometimes, I would boot and my hard drives
would not
be there. A few tries and reb
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I want Kmail to think it is
> a fresh installation and run the installation wizard.
Is there one?
> How can I
> convince Kmail that has been freshly installed?
? All I see is, under the tools option of the menu bar of kmail, an account
wizard.
If that isn't what you wa
JD wrote:
> firefox add-on... conversion after download
I don't like to use add-ons, unless they come directly from Mozilla.
clive seems to meet my needs best.
I don't bother with conversion, since most applications (vlc, smplayer, etc)
play flv
files. The few times I did try to convert (with
JD wrote:
> I just used clive. Nice app.
I had some problems with youtube-dl; then, I discovered clive :-)
> Wondering why setlocale() does not work?
No idea. Is it supposed to permit downloading videos that are blocked in your
region?
That would be very nice, if it worked. If you get that wo
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> What is clive?
yum install clive
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Have a quest
Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> $ ps -ef | grep plugin
> # copy the PID of flash ($PID)
> $ ls -l /proc/$PID/fd
> # find the /tmp/flashXX file symlink ($FD)
> $ cp -p /proc/$PID/fd/$FD /home/foo/flash.flv
Even this doesn't seem to always work anymore. Some videos on youtube seem to
erase
thems
Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/29/2012 09:14 AM, Peter Gueckel wrote:
>> I'm thinking you have to start with an empty file. As was said in a
>> former post, it doesn't work retroactively.
>
> I wouldn't have expected it to work retroactively. Everyone
Andy Blanchard wrote:
> It works, but not retrospectively. If you try running one of the
> duplicated commands, it will strip out all of the duplicate entries then.
> You'll also need to run "history -w" to update the history file, otherwise
> it won't get updated until you exit the shell.
Thank
Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/29/2012 07:44 AM, Peter Gueckel wrote:
>> Andy Blanchard wrote:
>>
>>> What you want is:
>>>
>>>export HISTCONTROL=erasedups
>> It looked promising, but it doesn't work. I logged out and back in twice,
>> the
Andy Blanchard wrote:
> What you want is:
>
>export HISTCONTROL=erasedups
It looked promising, but it doesn't work. I logged out and back in twice, then
even
completely turned off the computer and back on again, but when I examine the
.bash_history file, it is riddled with duplicate comma
Andy Blanchard wrote:
> HISTIGNORE only deals with consecutive duplicates, IIRC.
>
> What you want is:
>
>export HISTCONTROL=erasedups
>
> you might also want to add ":ignorespace" to the end of that. That will
> cause any command prefixed by a space to be ignored as well - very useful
> f
I read about a shell variable called HISTIGNORE that is supposed to prevent
duplicate
commands from occurring in .bash_history.
I put the following line into ~/.bash_profile:
export HISTIGNORE="&"
It's not working. I still have duplicate commands galore. Why isn't is working?
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suvayu ali wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 18:55, Peter Gueckel wrote:
>> I was... referring to the majority of... Fedora users.
>
> What makes you think that is true? I would actually expect it to be
> otherwise. In any case, a distribution like Fedora cannot afford to
>
suvayu ali wrote:
> *cough* Majority of the world is not latin based language speaking *cough*
I realize that, but I was not referring to the majority of the world's
population, but to the majority of Fedora users.
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Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> If you don't know what it is, most probably you don't need
> it.
It's odd that is would say "recommended" when the mojority of users would never
need it, but, no matter, I have disabled it again.
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suvayu ali wrote:
> Its very useful to type scripts which are not based on the latin
> alphabet
OK, thanks. I have disabled it again.
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Guideli
My system has been working fine. I noticed that the input method selector
showed
that no input method was in use. I also noticed that ibus was recommended, so I
decided to enable it. I logged out and back in, as directed.
I haven't got a clue what the advantage is and I don't see any difference
NOSpaze wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I need to know what software f16 includes to aid in the task of writing
> a book (not just spelling and TOC). libreoffice I'm using, but is too
> slow and unappropriate when working with lots of text. Please dont'
> advise to change OS, I'm a sysadmin and need fedora on a
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Work-around is to downgrade the packages.
That worked. I have been able to revert the repo files to using the mirrorlist
and all works again. Thanks.
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Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:03:40 -0700, KF (Kevin) wrote:
>
>> How about:
>>
>> rpm -q nss
>>
>> ?
nss-3.13.1-2.fc16.x86_64
>> Might be this bug:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750376
> That repo error is due to the bad "nss, nss-util, nspr critical p
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> It should out of the box, so something is weird here.
I think it started after yesterday morning's (November 10, 2011 10:52:36)
testing updates. See anything suspect here?
Coin2-2.5.0-11.fc16
NetworkManager-openconnect-0.9.0-3.fc16
OpenImageIO-0.10.3-2.fc16
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> What does:
>
> rpm -q ca-certificates
ca-certificates-2011.78-1.fc16.noarch
> rpm -V ca-certificates
{no output}
> What fedora version is this?
cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 16 (Verne)
I am using these repos:
updates
updates-testing
kde-testing
kde-unstable
rpm
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Hard to say without more info. ;)
I edited the fedora.repo, fedora-updates.repo and fedora-updates-testing.repo
files by uncommenting the baseurl line and commenting out the mirrors line and
now everything works... but why don't the mirrorlists work?
I should add that I am
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Try doing:
>
> URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1 yum update
This is what I get (edited to exclude rpmfusion):
2011-11-11 19:03:36,668 attempt 1/10:
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-
f16&arch=x86_64
INFO:urlgrabber:attempt 1/10:
https://mirrors.fedoraproje
For 36 hours I have been getting this error and am unable to update:
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.
Please verify its path and try again
I have run yum clean all countless times, but the error keeps reappearing. What
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suvayu ali wrote:
> remi repo
Never heard of it. I will check it out, but I am concerned about
incompatibilities with rpmfusion, which operates closely with fedora.
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Leonardo wrote:
> i'm watching right now.
:-)
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Leonardo wrote:
> how do i watch encrypted dvds? what do i need to install? is something
> in rpmfusion for this purpose?
I believe you need libdvdcss from rpm.livna.org. This repo has only that one
package, but it is essential to getting a complete fedora setup.
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Pete Travis wrote:
> I use and appreciate this feature. Its comforting to know that the
> installer won't mess with disks I tell it not to
Same here. I have 2 identical hard drives, so the installer lists them both as
exactly the same thing. How can I possibly know which is which? I select both
Noah Hall wrote:
> yum clean all --enablerepo= --disablerepo="*"
Thanks. That's what I thought, but I hadn't tried it yet, since there were no
pending updates at the moment.
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yum clean all clears all the information for all enabled repos.
How would one clean the information for only one of the enabled repos?
Say, I know that rpmfusion-free and fedora have not changed, but I already know
that updates-testing has changed and I want to force yum to reload the
informati
JD wrote:
> Besides backing up the system first, before attempting this,
> is it possible to fully upgrade to F16 while booted into
> current F14?
If you are going to try it, I would recommend that you familiarize yourself
with
how to change the UID and GID of the users on your computer. Your o
I recommend that you manually change the user and group IDs (UID & GID) prior
to upgrading the system.
On the old system:
usermod -g 1000 username
usermod -u 1000 username
Then run:
chown -R username:username directory
chgrp -R username:username directory
for all of your directories.
Reboot
mickey wrote:
> I want to move places.sqlite to a new install, do I just copy and paste
> the old
> places.sqlite into the new .mozilla/firefox.default directory ??
What has worked best for me is to show all bookmarks from the menu bar, then
backup the json file to a location. Login to the new s
JB wrote:
> Systemd Gets Booted From openSUSE Tumbleweed
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTkyNg
The article says they had too many issues. I guess they were doing something
wrong.
I'm running Fedora and there are no issues here. Great work!
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Martín Marqués wrote:
> My question is, how many people are using selinux?
>
> I, for instance, am about to disable it.
I use it without interruption. I have not disabled it since Fedora Core 2 or 3,
perhaps earlier. Since then, it has worked infallibly and without cause for
gripe.
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linux guy wrote:
> I'm
> not a fan of manually entering iptable entries.
Neither am I, but this was given to me on this list a few weeks ago when I
first posed the same questions:
Open port 22 on both computers for initial setup, either:
in system-config-firewall, unclick and click ssh, apply
linux guy wrote:
> One seems to need to
> repeat the unselect-Apply/ select-Apply procedure to get it working again.
>
> Is it just me or do others have the same problem ?
It has been like that for years and years.
I have fallen for it myself many, many times. It looks like the port is opened
Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> open Konsole, then as superuser, kwrite /etc/hosts & --
I haven't tried all of that, but I use sudo kwrite /etc/somefile all the time
when I want to do some configuration. There are a lot of messages about
connecting to deprecated signal, application may misbehave, but a
Sanjay Arora wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have installed Fedora 15 on Intel DH67BL motherboard & Intel I7-2600
> Processor. Since I need to print to a Dot Matrix printer on LPT: I added a
> PCI Card providing a Parallel & a Serial Port. On the box it says Linux
> supported, but does not provide any drive
Tom Horsley wrote:
> Is there a quick way I can move the 4th primary partition entry
> to the 1st primary partition entry?
I think fdisk can do this. In the advanced menu, there is something about
changing the partition order. This might do it.
I always partition with parted and then fine tune
Vinny Onelli wrote:
> Thank you very much, the direction were perfect and every thing worked.
Happy to help.
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Vinny Onelli wrote:
> I did select the KDE also
> during the installation. at the present time I have gnome running.
You have all of KDE already installed. Simply log out and select KDE on the
kdm selector and log back in. gdm should also give you that option.
If it doesn't work, then try this:
Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> I cannot upgrade to F15 because
> of gnome3. In order to help the community
stay with Fedora
Why can't the "community" use KDE? No need to
answer, just a thought.
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