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Cannot unlock screen after prolonged period of time
by Where Where 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Greetings everybody! I'm a new convert to Fedora. I finally got it installed (hurray!) but ran into this issue: If I lock the screen using mod-L and immediately enter my password to unlock, the screen unlocks. But if I leave my computer be for an hour and unlock, Fedora doesn't accept my password. Some peculiarities of my setup: * I am using full disk encrypting using an LVM volume. Fedora setup set up my partitions for me. * I'm using a recent Macbook. I have all the latest updates installed for Fedora 20. My architecture is AMD64, and I'm using the standard (GNOME) spin. How may I move forward? Thanks for your attention!

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Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps
by Philip Rhoades 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Tod, > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:36:41 -0700 > From: Tod Merley <todbot88(a)gmail.com> > To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps > Message-ID: > <CAPLzRZ9KVHCvCLSpP2PArwCvBJnihPmwewQWJJ=kjBGRf+0vSQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > distrowatch.com search "old computers" > > I like Puppy linux as a place to start. Probably Wary. Yes, I have used Puppy in the past - it is worth a shot since I am getting desperate . . The other thing (which might just have been coincidence) is that when I booted on the USB for the LiveCD, it did seem to stay up without any problems - but the PC was not in that state for long periods of time so I might just have been lucky at those times . . Thanks, Phil. > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> > wrote: > >> >> On Aug 30, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil(a)pricom.com.au> >> wrote: >> >> > It sort of looks like a RAM problem to me but ALL the SIMMS can't be >> faulty . . >> >> They could be. memtest86+ to find out. Another possibility is they're >> the >> wrong SIMMs for the hardware, i.e. wrong timing or voltage. There >> might be >> BIOS settings for adjusting this. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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OT: Recognizing USB audio device
by Jonathan Ryshpan 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

I have a USB audio device which is recognized correctly on my Fedora system (Fedora-20 with all updates running KDE) but is not recognized by another Linux system (a Samsung Chromebook). Can anyone tell me how Fedora recognizes the device, so I can figure out whether it would be practical to tweak the Chromebook to get it to recognize the device. The device shows up this way: $ lsusb ... Bus 005 Device 003: ID 08bb:2702 Texas Instruments Speakers ... and appears in my alsa configuration as: $ aplay -l ... card 1: PCM2702 [Burr-Brown Japan PCM2702], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ... Any info/hints/links/etc would be much appreciated.

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Unexpected upgrade
by Aaron Konstam 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

I have been away from Fedora for awhile so forgive me if the answer to my question is well known. I installed FC18 onto my laptop when it forst cam out some time ago. Since then all I did was yum upgrades and selected yum installs. So I was surprised to find that the version running on my laptop was FC20. How did this happen?

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Secure Transactions
by Tod Merley 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Hi all! I have been using Windows monitored by Norton used almost exclusively to do on line transactions and banking. The strategy is simply that I do not use it otherwise. Transactions only. But then the W8 laptop Norton would not update or scan!! First attempts at fix failed and refresh and reload – well – simply have not worked out so far (long long story). Then the crazy windows update problems this month have made me a bit shy to use the W7 installs I have. So I made up some Fedora 20 flash drives to more or less imitate the basic “used exclusively for transactions” function I was using Windows/Norton for. So far so good! Indeed I find banking using FireFox on Fedora simply easier to use (better fonts, colors, I think). I am simply seeking thoughts on the basic approach, alternatives, other things to do to make a secure transaction environment. Thanks all!! Tod

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su - Authentication failure - reinstall fedora ?
by Angelo Moreschini 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Hi, after that I installed fedora 20, I am not able to get the login as su. When I try to sign me as super user, I always get the answer "Authentication failure". I don't think that I really type wrong the password that I set at install time:* I typed it twice*. Rather I think that they are some funny characters inside it. So I lost the hope to try to guess the password and I think to re install Fedora.., but I have a problem. My computer is dual boot with Windows XP and I am not sure how uninstall Grub (how to manage the MBR when to the computer start) before to uninstall Fedora... Some time ago I tried to fix this problem using Windows in recovery mode (command fixboot) and, at last, I had to reinstall also Windows XP (further that Fedora).. Can I have an advice how to arrange the dual boot on my computer, before to uninstall Fedora?? Thank you regards Angelo

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Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps
by Philip Rhoades 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Chris, > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 14:00:08 -0600 > From: Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> > To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: F20 + Old but unused hardware continually core dumps > Message-ID: <A581661F-4930-4984-88DD-58A18D23EE42(a)colorremedies.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > On Aug 30, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil(a)pricom.com.au> > wrote: > >> It sort of looks like a RAM problem to me but ALL the SIMMS can't be >> faulty . . > > They could be. memtest86+ to find out. Another possibility is they're > the wrong SIMMs for the hardware, i.e. wrong timing or voltage. There > might be BIOS settings for adjusting this. I will check them out but all the hardware was bought originally (years ago) to be compatible . . Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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