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Sending a desktop to a big screen
by Amit Prahesh 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hi there, imagine a medium sized office room, where four engineers hack away (all of them currently have Fedora 22 workstations, to stay on topic.) On that room there's a fifth PC, hooked to a big TV on the wall (also running F22) that has Firefox running full screen with some visualization of sorts (dashboard thingy). Those five computers are all on the company wired network... nothing you haven't seen a thousand times before. Now, Sally, one of the engineers wants to share her desktop with the others and uses application XYZ to project/cast/extend/send it to the big TV (via its PC, of course). All of them discuss whatever was on her mind, and five minutes later, she closes application XYZ and the office goes back as it was before. Fred wants to do the same, and he does. Actually all of them can. They asked me what is XYZ. I was thinking on a member of the VNC family, but what they want to do is the reverse of what one normally do with VNC. To make things more... interesting? XYZ must never go out of the corporate LAN and if it were Open Source, the better. Any ideas on XYZ? Best regards, Amit. PS. Erm... one last thing. If there's a solution, could it include sending the audio as well?

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dnf update vs Software Udpates
by Javier Perez 15 Aug '15

15 Aug '15

This is weird. Software Updates on the Control Panel says that there are 39 updates available But when I run dnf update it says "Nothing to do". What gives? JP -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| pepebuho(a)gmail.com ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.

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Network Manage your network connections
by Ger van Dijck 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Hello , I have a question : My Network applet in the upper command bar does not fuctionate anymore. Is there a way to repair it ? Greetings , Ger van Dijck. -- Gemaakt met Opera's e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Kernel panic in 4.1.2-200.fc22.x86_64
by Patrick O'Callaghan 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

This is happening every few minutes since I updated today: Jul 30 18:26:21 Bree kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000288 Jul 30 18:26:21 Bree kernel: IP: [<ffffffff8120f034>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1c4/0x320 Going to try booting the previous kernel. poc

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/boot and encrypted partitions?
by Dave Johansen 01 Aug '15

01 Aug '15

I was luck enough to be bitten by this issue ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212907 ) when attempting to do a clean install of F22. I copied all of my data off and then tried manually setting things up as separate partitions (instead of in an LVM) but it kept telling me that /boot couldn't be on a LUKS partition. The config I had was /home was encrypted and / was encrypted but then the biosboot partition was not encrypted, and all 3 were standard partitions. Is this something that's just not supported? Or was I doing something wrong? Thanks, Dave

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grub2 in fedora 22
by Patrick Dupre 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

Hello, I had a bad surprise. After the last update grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg the grub.cfg is not correct I have: menuentry 'Fedora (4.1.2-200.fc22.i686+PAE) 22 (Twenty Two)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --unrestricted $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.1.2-200.fc22.i686+PAE-advanced-78c1373b-43b8-4706-8771-4bc5a2ea0fa4' { set gfxpayload=text insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='hd0,msdos6' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos6 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos6 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos6 --hint='hd0,msdos6' fff6282e-eb24-405f-b43b-06ba5cc92c70 else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root fff6282e-eb24-405f-b43b-06ba5cc92c70 fi linux16 /vmlinuz-4.1.2-200.fc22.i686+PAE root=/dev/mapper/VolGrpSys0-root ro vconsole.keymap=fr rd.dm=0 rd.md=0 rd.luks=0 vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.lvm.lv=VolGrpSys3/root initrd16 /initramfs-4.1.2-200.fc22.i686+PAE.img } while it should be: inux16 /vmlinuz-4.1.2-200.fc22.i686+PAE root=/dev/mapper/VolGrpSys0-root ro vconsole.keymap=fr rd.dm=0 rd.md=0 rd.luks=0 vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.lvm.lv=VolGrpSys0/root VolGrpSys0/root is a fedora 20. where did grub2-mkconfig find this wrong information? How can I fix it (i.e. not manually in gbub.cfg Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France ===========================================================================

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UEFI system: reboot does not work but shutdown -r now does
by Ranjan Maitra 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

Hi, On a new UEFI-boot desktop running Fedora 22, the command (on a terminal prompt) "reboot" does not actually bring up the system. Actually, it is not clear that the system even goes down. What happens is that the monitor light goes off but the desktop light stays on -- and nothing happens. I don't even see the Fedora f/infinity bubble. However, running "shutdown -r now" brings the Fedora f/infinity bubble, the lights switch and the system boots again. What is the issue here? Any suggestions? I have never had this happen previously, but then this my first try at a UEFI system. Is it possible to disable "reboot" -- i am concerned about "reboot"ing remotely by habit and accident and the system not coming up until being powered on. I considered renaming the file /usr/sbin/reboot to something else, but then an update to systemd would likely break my "fix". Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium

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Mounting exfat usb stick
by JD 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

$ grep sdc1 /etc/fstab UUID=BE5F-383B /sdc1 exfat noauto,rw,user,uid=508,gid=508 1 1 # cat /etc/fuse.conf # mount_max = 1000 user_allow_other $ mount /sdc1 FUSE exfat 1.0.1 fusermount: option blkdev is privileged So I tried as root, and it mounted OK: mount | grep sdc1 /dev/sdc1 on /sdc1 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=508,group_id=508,allow_other,blksize=4096) then as root I tried to copy a file to /sdc1: # cp rpms.list /sdc1/ cp: cannot create regular file ‘/sdc1/rpms.list’: No such file or directory So, what else need I do so that regular users can mount and write to usb sticks that are formatted as exfat FS? These are the relevant rpms installed: fuse-exfat-1.0.1-1.fc20.x86_64 exfat-utils-1.0.1-1.fc20.x86_64

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Fwd: Help a friend skip Windows 10 and try GNU/Linux
by JD 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

FYI -------- Forwarded Message -------- Free Software Foundation Dear , We can't stop all the millions of people who are installing Windows 10 right now, but we can influence our friends and family to skip Windows and join us in the free world. As you know, Windows 10 puts those that use it under the thumb of Microsoft, while free software treats users as equals and gives them control over their digital lives. *Pledge to help a friend switch to GNU/Linux today. <https://www.fsf.org/windows/pledge>* We've also created a new area on our site for people interested in switching from Windows <https://www.fsf.org/windows>. Check it out, and share it with your friends to get them excited about joining you in the free world. The FSF maintains a list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions <http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html>, and there are myriad resources online for getting started. If your friend wants to try free software but can't be persuaded to leave Windows quite yet, show them these free programs that work on Windows <http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html>. If they're thinking about buying a new computer, show them the laptops we certify through our Respects Your Freedom program <https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom>. If they're the type that builds their own computer, they can use h-node <https://h-node.org/>, the community-maintained database of computer components that work well with free software. We can't hope to match Microsoft's huge advertising budget, but if you're on social media (see our recommendations <https://www.fsf.org/share> for user-respecting social media systems) you can help raise awareness of Windows' abuses and encourage people to switch, in your own words. Help us jam Microsoft's ridiculous #UpgradeYourWorld hashtag by including it in your posts encouraging people to steer clear of Windows. Zak Rogoff Campaigns Manager /Read online: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/help-a-friend-skip-windows-10-and-try-g… Follow us on GNU social <https://status.fsf.org/fsf> | Subscribe to our blogs via RSS <https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS> | Join us as an associate member <https://www.fsf.org/jf> Sent from the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335 United States Unsubscribe <https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=134016&qid=14039…> from this mailing list. Stop all email <https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=134016&qid=14039168&h…> from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by Design, and the Free Software Supporter newsletter.

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keyboard
by Patrick Dupre 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

Hello, In fedora 22, where can I say to start the first graphics screen (login) to load the right keyboard? It is set properly in Setting > Region & Language > Input Screen Every time that I logout out, it return to the wrong keyboard. Is it something to set in grub? In Fedora 20, this was OK. Thank. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France ===========================================================================

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