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WiFi permanently disappeared after booting test kernel
by Mike Fleetwood 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Hi, On my netbook I booted a test kernel 3.8.0-rc4+ I compiled. Now after booting back into my regular Fedora kernel 3.6.11-5.fc17.i686.PAE my wifi network device remains permanently disappeared. No wifi networks displayed in Network Manager gui. Also the Network Manager syslog messages make it look like the device has completely disappeared. Suggestions for restoring wifi welcome. Thanks Mike Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when working before --8<-- Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'. Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill2: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:01:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2) (driver ath9k) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill4: found WWAN radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill4) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiMAX enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Networking is enabled by state file ... Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): using nl80211 for WiFi device control Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <warn> (wlan0): driver supports Access Point (AP) mode Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ath9k' ifindex: 3) Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): now managed Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2] Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device. ... Jan 18 23:01:59 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Activation (wlan0) successful, device activated. Jan 18 23:01:59 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) complete. Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when broken after --8<-- Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> monitoring kernel firmware directory '/lib/firmware'. Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> rfkill2: found WWAN radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill2) (platform driver eeepc) Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiFi disabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiMAX enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> Networking is enabled by state file No (wlan0) related NetworkManager syslog messages afterwards at all.

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What happened to floppy drive support?
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required? JB

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f18+gnome3: howto recording desktop with audio
by Dario Lesca 11 May '13

11 May '13

How to record via ctrl+alt+shift+r, video and audio together ? I have fount this trick: http://askubuntu.com/questions/112473/audio-not-working-for-gnome-screencas… But the command for set the "org.gnome.shell.recorder pipeline" key: > gsettings set org.gnome.shell.recorder pipeline "queue ! \ > videorate ! vp8enc quality=10 speed=2 ! mux. pulsesrc ! \ > audio/x-raw-int ! queue ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! \ > mux. webmmux name=mux" ... do not work, and break the recording, likely this setting is for gstreamer-0.10, bud f18 use gstreamer1-1.x, true?. This is home page of shell recorder, but there is nothing for enable audio recording. http://developer.gnome.org/shell/stable/shell-shell-recorder.html Someone have suggest? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca - sip:dario@solinos.it (Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora18+Gnome3)

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Runlevel 3 after fedup
by ellis＠spinics.net 01 May '13

01 May '13

After upgrade from 17 to 18 with fedup and installing all the updates I was unable to login as any user other than root. When I tried I was greeted with the message: "System is booting up". After beating my head against the wall I finally tried booting to runlevel 5 instead of 3. That fixed the issue. But booting to runlevel 3 and switching to 5 doesn't work. Possibly a problem with systemd? -- http://yosemitenews.info/

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Unrelieved black popups and message boxes
by Temlakos 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Everyone: I asked this before under a different heading, and no one answered. I get a large volume of e-mail, and very often I interact with a site that brings up a lot of message boxes, "suggestion boxes" (for auto-filling from a few keystroke clues), and bringing up apps after they were minimized to the system tray or the task bar. Now why is it that, after maybe two hours of operation, those popups come up and are totally black? The only way to solve the problem, that I have found, is to shut down. And even then, I can't even see what I'm doing, but have to guess where the icons are for executing a controlled shutdown. (I can always bring up a command-line login screen, log in as root, and then shut down. But that doesn't seem to solve the problem for the next session.) And when I log back on, everything's fine--until it starts happening again, after several more window draws. What could be causing this? Where do I even look for error logs and the like? I never had this problem in any other version of Fedora. I'm having it now, and it's driving me nuts. For the record, I used the "upgrading from F17 to F18 using yum" method. I even used the elaborate script that walks you through rpmnew and rpmsave reconciliation. And I've kept up with every system update since then. Actually, the problem began about three kernel updates back. Temlakos

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Samba 4
by Gabriel VLASIU 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi! Maybe someone can help me with samba 4 (F18). In previous version (samba 3/F17) I had this definition for a share: [xxx] path = /xxx browseable = yes writable = yes ; writable = no printable = no public = yes guest only = yes guest ok = yes create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 force group = xxx The important thing here is "create mask". I do not want all files created by users to be executable in linux. The same definition work in samba 4 with the exception of running windoze .exe files from the share. In windoze, there is no read & exec permissions associated with the file. Only read for everyone and read/write for unix user/group. I can manually set the exec flag (from linux or windoze) but this has to be made every time someone copy an executable file. Any chance to revert to the behavior from samba 3? Thank you. Sincerely, Gabriel - -- // Gabriel VLASIU // // OpenGPG-KeyID : 44952F15 // OpenGPG-Fingerprint: 4AC5 7C26 2FE9 02DA 4906 24B2 D32B 7ED7 4495 2F15 // OpenGPG-URL : http://www.vlasiu.net/public.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJRCntGAAoJENMrftdElS8VccwP/1Bn7zfctWYW86LES/0kE0J/ nig6I927ekX2d+UwUBffUmFgL/G9Pfh4drX7Lrh/HakT/MBerUxZa79URF3v7mLS OmX00areoAHBc1wBo39xHLujNKwwifr4fdgLLFt3hsA0iL6R71l6eDz9tzk7SUPA zpdo6bx9mqX95TdmDHR/q+2Z5ab39hP5AkIRWZwa8jQiSHKn5RN4MyWsTtpFnCkR fM88zmDq72NGXJD9oApd9LLvZbw08rILI7na6IXIcFg+HTowM0IhozPUdqfPtYf9 FgmQP7vg1J38U8Lw7P4n+5/eei/+h0YdMHs1N864aYumNz+Ts+2KU1RLyzr9ZIUg YkcQ6V60WA5Esy2c7p87/TgL+5bRa4pqMhghLXcoBAxRbaqFOY7i2fbb8/+JfU1y lJq5z08M0RXDV0dSwKix1iuGd5cfSfoFroC8J9SXttMZcPwoDVIz5L/arWFFGByo f9m5XD5fPMxOY8vIkGbO62oYhH66gIIelvQXT8g7TiTWgIeTXdOigYEeZQye43Fk Sst9nS/JUpZcXSq8qIErh/WD4nvAOzUg3p0IgwHpmqxIndDNrVD1aol3mooKuv94 gzZWQEU1Z0Tfm5NnS5qrsiU3RnwgkI8qya5xHVFIhzMTUP7ickWNA1myRdBWXDt0 gc7W1TxMJY3xZ2u1Bngx =uDBh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Read AIFF metadata
by Ranbir 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Hi Everyone, I bought some AIFF tracks from Beatport the other day. I prefer them over WAV because the AIFF have embedded album art, song name, etc. I loaded them up in Audacious (F17+GNOME) which played them happily. But, it's not reading any of the metadata. All of the fields are displayed as empty. I tried VLC and mplayer, too. Still nothing. I downloaded the same tracks on to a Windows 7 PC and listened to them with VLC. VLC read the metadata without any problems. Hmmm.... I then installed Kid3 to see if it could read the metadata. Sure enough, it was all there. So, the tracks are clearly not broken. I tried converting the AIFFs to FLAC with ffmpeg and flac, but the metadata was still missing. I'd appreciate a recommendation for an audio player that can read AIFF metadata in GNOME or better yet, how I can convert these AIFFs to FLAC and keep the metadata intact. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 09:55:17 up 6 days, 20:36, 9 users, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.05

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Fedora hangs driving me nuts, in Windows it works without problems!
by Valent Turkovic 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

My work Fedora 17 64bit box gangs without reason, and I can't track down issue causing it! When I reboot into Windows 7 32bit it works for days without any hangs. This is a company PC so IT installed Windows 7, but I don't use it, that is why I installed Fedora and use it as my primary desktop. I'm not some guru sysadmin, but I'm not a newbie, as I have been using Linux over 10 years as my primary desktop and have few private servers that I maintain, I have troubleshooted and fixed numerous issues with mine and friends machines. My desktop works perfectly for hours, sometime for days, but after some time (usually 1-2 days) it just freezes. It doesn't matter how many free memory I have, which apps I'm runnig or which desktop I'm using. I tried leaving just desktop running with no apps, still freezes, changed desktops, kde - hangs, gnome 3 - hangs, mate - gangs, tried leaving multiple apps doing something, still hangs. I ran memory test utils, memory is working ok. These gangs are driving me nuts! Is anybody having unexplained hangs with Fedora 16 and 17 64bit? Could it be some 64bit issue because Windows is 32bit and it works? How can I troubleshoot what is causing hangs of my machine? Thanks. -- follow me - www.twitter.com/valentt & http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com linux, anime, spirituality, wireless, scuba, linuxmce smart home, zwave ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turkovic(a)hotmail.com

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con I use fedup with 3.6 kernel?
by Maurizio Marini 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Hello I have at the moment runing kernel evrsion Linux tikal 3.6.7-4.fc17.x86_64 I can't use 3.7 as it does not work w/ my radeon card, sadly. I am reading instruction about fedup: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.… 1. Do a full system update and reboot to ensure that any kernel changes are running Can I have some issue w/ 3.6 kernel? many thnx -m

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Adwaita GTK3 on F18 no longer honors bgcolor
by Gordon Messmer 17 Mar '13

17 Mar '13

Under Fedora 17, I was able to select an alternate background color for GTK2 and GTK3. Under F18, only the GTK2 applications honor the setting. Before I file a a bug, does anyone know if this behavior was an expected change? $ dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/interface/ [/] gtk-color-scheme='selected_bg_color:#493f53;' $ cat .gconf/desktop/gnome/interface/%gconf.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <gconf> <entry name="gtk_color_scheme" mtime="1358361695" type="string"> <stringvalue>selected_bg_color:#493f53;</stringvalue> </entry> </gconf>

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