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F21: Thunderbird insists on calling Fedora list messages junk!
by William Mattison 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Good afternoon, Most messages received from this fedora list are labelled junk by Thunderbird. This is even though I whitelisted "From" = "users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org". Actually, I have this problem both in my Fedora-21 and my windows-7 systems. Any ideas? Surely messages from this list are not junk! thanks, Bill.

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how to set 24-hour clock (military time) on Fedora 20 in KDE?
by Kenneth Wolcott 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

Hi; I can't seem to find any way to change the Fedora 20 KDE time and date settings so that the time is displayed in the 24-hour format like military time. Is this not possible? Thanks, Ken Wolcott

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installing via VNC over ipv6
by Chris Murphy 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

This suggests installation using vnc over ipv6 is supported: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/Ipv6OnlyInstallation But when I use inst.vnc boot option, I get an text screen that says to connect to an ipv4 address, an ipv6 address isn't listed. When I go to a shell and use 'ip addr' there is a global ipv6 address, but no formatting for tigervnc I've come up with will connect, it won't connect: vncviewer.desktop[12590]: CConn: unable connect to socket: Invalid argument (22) If I boot Fedora 23 Server on this same hardware, the 'ip addr' address can be used successfully to ssh into the server, and also point a browser to https://[ipv6]:9090 to reach the Cockpit interface successfully. root 1744 0.0 0.9 251060 36468 pts/0 Sl+ 03:29 0:00 Xvnc :1 -depth 16 -br IdleTimeout=0 -auth /dev/null -once DisconnectClients=false desktop=Fedora rawhide installation on host 10.0.0.15 SecurityTypes=None rfbauth=0 I can't tell if -InTransports needs to explicitly specify ipv6 for it to work. But at this point I'm stumped and can't tell if it's user error or a bug. And netstat isn't on non-live media apparently so I don't have access to that while xvnc is running to see if it's listening over something other than just an ipv4 address. -- Chris Murphy

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smplayer volume control
by Andre Robatino 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

For a long time now, the smplayer (from RPMFusion) volume control is vertical, instead of horizontal, with a negligible height, so it's essentially useless. This is still true with the latest version smplayer-16.1.0-1.fc23, and even after deleting ~/.config/smplayer. Do all Fedora users see this, and can it be fixed?

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Major owncloud updates incoming
by James Hogarth 02 Apr '16

02 Apr '16

Hi all, We're at the last stages of preparing the first major owncloud update in a while. The current version of owncloud in Fedora is the fairly old stable 8.0 release (presently 8.0.10) which we want to bring back in line with the current owncloud upstream release of 8.2.2. Unfortunately it's not possible to migrate directly from 8.0.x to 8.2.x as upstream only supports jumping in increments with no skipping of major releases. In order for a smooth transition to 8.2.x (and after that 9.0.x when it's released) we'll be releasing 8.1.5 to F23 and F22 within the next couple of weeks. We plan to leave this in updates-testing for a slightly longer period than usual to allow for a wider test base for a major version jump. Please remember your backups prior to the upgrade! Once 8.1.5 is pushed to updates 8.2.2 will be pushed to updates-testing for a similar extended period. It's imperative that the 8.1.5 update is applied before the 8.2.2 update is pushed to updates. If you want to assist in the testing and provide feedback or bug reports please use the usual channels of bodhi and bugzilla - both easily accessible from pkgdb: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/owncloud/ Kind regards, James

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Protecting my network from rogue IoT devices.
by Javier Perez 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Probably Off Topic, but maybe tangentially related to Fedora. I read with interest this forum piece about IoT devices phoning home. https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/IoT+The+Rise+of+the+Machines+Guest+Diary/… What caught my attention is the following phrase: " My home network is hardened and any new (unknown) device connected to it receives an IP address from a specific range which has no connectivity with other hosts or the Internet but its packets are logged" I imagine it is done through the Gateway Router at home. Is there any tutorial somewhere to learn how to do this? Also, what program could one use on FedoraServer or FedoraWorkstation to host the log created by the router ( I imagine some sort of dd-wrt machine). Given that journalctl took over syslog duties, could I still use syslogd to receive the data from an external router or do I have to look somewhere else for that? I wonder. -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |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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Openvpn Configuration/Access Issue
by Stephen Morris 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Hi, I am trying to my vpn service provider using instructions they provide for Ubuntu Mint as the only information they provide for Linux. When I go into Networkmanager and create a new Openvpn connection and try to connect to it, I get a popup saying the connection failed and one of the messages seems to be indicating that I am missing a plugin. As far as I can see I have every Networkmanager vpn plugin installed, so I am at a loss trying to understand the message. Is anybody able to shed any light on what/where I need to look to try to identify what the connection issues are? regards, Steve

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OT: recommended way of timing two pieces of code in C
by Ranjan Maitra 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Hi, Disclaimer: This is clearly marked OT, with the only connection to this group being the fact that I am running F23 on a 20-core Dell T5810 @3.1 GHz each and 64 GiB memory. My OT queries over the past 13 years (almost) here have elicited great wealth of information so I am posing here. So, I am trying to compare two kinds of methods in a C program. Both are written as efficiently as possible (assumed because no point otherwise). I would like to know which of these is more efficient. I have been using get_rusage but I was wondering whether there is a better way? Separately, is there a way to get the number of floating point instructions in C? Both FLOPS and MIPS? 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 ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more!

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dvdstyler problem, segfaults
by Fred Smith 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

Hi all! This is in regard to a Fedora-20 system I use when converting VHS tapes to DVD. I would really rather NOT update to a later fedora--it is used for that one purpose only, and it took some effort to find andlearn the tools I needed to do the job. So, a year or so ago I converted probably a hundred tapes to DVD. Tedious, but doable without real trouble. The system sits idle for some months, then I come back to it to use it again, and I find that when I'm ready to create the ISO image, for which I have used dvdstyler, that dvdstyler segfaults early in its operation. I've not found a way to do what I need that doesn't segfault. This is weird, because it has hardly even been "yum update"-ed during the interval. what would have changed? I dunno... So, after a lot of head-banging I decided it is probably easiest to just recompile dvdstyler to see if that avoids the problem. (I've already tried reinstalling it...). I set up mock on the box and proceed to try a build, using this command: mock --rebuild dvdstyler-2.9.2-1.fc20.src.rpm after installing 156 packages, then ccache, it proceeds to give me this screen output: Getting requirements for 1:dvdstyler-2.9.2-1.fc20.src --> automake-1.13.4-6.fc20.noarch --> autoconf-2.69-15.fc20.noarch --> gettext-0.18.3.2-5.fc20.x86_64 --> byacc-1.9.20130304-2.fc20.x86_64 --> wxGTK-devel-2.8.12-9.fc20.x86_64 --> libgnomeui-devel-2.24.5-7.fc20.x86_64 --> dvdauthor-0.7.1-4.fc20.x86_64 --> systemd-devel-208-31.fc20.x86_64 --> genisoimage-1.1.11-22.fc20.x86_64 --> dvd+rw-tools-7.1-14.fc20.x86_64 --> libjpeg-turbo-devel-1.3.1-3.fc20.x86_64 --> libexif-devel-0.6.21-6.fc20.x86_64 --> Already installed : zip-3.0-10.fc20.x86_64 --> xmlto-0.0.25-7.fc20.x86_64 --> desktop-file-utils-0.22-1.fc20.x86_64 Error: No Package found for ffmpeg Error: No Package found for ffmpeg-devel Error: No Package found for wxsvg-devel >= 1.1.14 ERROR: Exception(dvdstyler-2.9.2-1.fc20.src.rpm) Config(fedora-20-x86_64) 1 minutes 49 seconds INFO: Results and/or logs in: /var/lib/mock/fedora-20-x86_64/result ERROR: Command failed: # /usr/bin/yum-builddep --installroot /var/lib/mock/fedora-20-x86_64/root/ --releasever 20 /var/lib/ mock/fedora-20-x86_64/root//builddir/build/SRPMS/dvdstyler-2.9.2-1.fc20.src.rpm --setopt=tsflags=nocontexts Getting requirements for 1:dvdstyler-2.9.2-1.fc20.src --> automake-1.13.4-6.fc20.noarch --> autoconf-2.69-15.fc20.noarch --> gettext-0.18.3.2-5.fc20.x86_64 --> byacc-1.9.20130304-2.fc20.x86_64 --> wxGTK-devel-2.8.12-9.fc20.x86_64 --> libgnomeui-devel-2.24.5-7.fc20.x86_64 --> dvdauthor-0.7.1-4.fc20.x86_64 --> systemd-devel-208-31.fc20.x86_64 --> genisoimage-1.1.11-22.fc20.x86_64 --> dvd+rw-tools-7.1-14.fc20.x86_64 --> libjpeg-turbo-devel-1.3.1-3.fc20.x86_64 --> libexif-devel-0.6.21-6.fc20.x86_64 --> Already installed : zip-3.0-10.fc20.x86_64 --> xmlto-0.0.25-7.fc20.x86_64 --> desktop-file-utils-0.22-1.fc20.x86_64 Error: No Package found for ffmpeg Error: No Package found for ffmpeg-devel Error: No Package found for wxsvg-devel >= 1.1.14 so I don't know how to solve this last thing. ffmpeg IS installed on the system, but not in the chroot. it looks like ffmpeg on the system came from rpmfusion, so i try adding rpmfusion to the list of repos mock knows about but that only gives me tons of other errors (I probably don't know the right syntax, I tried using modified lines from the /etc/yum.repos.d files for rpmfusion, to match the existing entries.) I'd appreciate some suggestions here, I'm not particularly fluent in mock. thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, And my hope is in you all day long. -------------------------- Psalm 25:4-5 (NIV) --------------------------------

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[Maybe OT] BackupPC Aborts Backup at 8GB on F23
by Tim Evans 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

I have just upgraded, to F23, a CentOS 6.7 system that has been reliably running BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) to back up a Windows 7 system via SMB for several years. After the F23 upgrade, which also included an upgrade of BackupPC to version 3.3.1, backups are now always aborting at about the 8GB mark, with this in the error log: 2016-02-28 14:00:02 Started incr backup on pelican (pid=325, share=C$) 2016-02-28 14:18:37 Backup failed on pelican (tar:712 Total bytes received: 8287158228) Actual byte count varies a bit from one failed backup to the next, but stays at the 8GB mark. Not sure this if this is a BackupPC issue, or something else. Maybe filesystem-related? More (possibly complicating) info; The destination for the backups is NFS mounted on the F23 server from a ReadyNAS fileserver; local filesystems on the ReadyNAS are btrfs format. NFS mount shows: raptor:/data/win on /win type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=192.168.252.6,mountvers=3,mountport=60363,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.252.6) Where to look? Thanks. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864 |Owings Mills, MD 21117

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