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is there an actual fedora systemd "run-postinsts" package?
by Robert P. J. Day 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

not sure if i'm looking in the right place, but when i'm using openembedded to build for embedded systems, i can include a systemd-related package named "run-postinsts" with which i can effectively simulate firstboot; systemd service that runs on firstboot, then deletes itself. i figured i could examine its structure with the corresponding fedora package, but i see nothing that looks like that. what would be the analog in fedora if not a separate systemd package? or is that something fedora folks would just create manually? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================

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USB drive name change -
by Bob Goodwin 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

I have an external drive I set up yesterday that has the name "a3cd7e7f-254d-410a-b120-e02524f75a29." How can I change that to something like "/run/media/bobg/externaldrive?" Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-24/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3

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alsa.card versus index
by Tom Horsley 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

If I run "pacmd list-cards" I get very confusing output where the card with index: 0 has the property alsa.card = "1", and the card with index: 1 has the property alsa.card = "0" Since none of the command line utilities that deal with cards ever document which card number they mean in the help info, I'd really like the numbers to match in order to keep my head from exploding. Anyone know how to influence either of these numbers?

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WiFi conflicting with Bluetooth
by Chris Murphy 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

Hi, About a dozen times per day, my Bluetooth mouse stops working. I can't connect manually in Settings > Bluetooth. If I merely turn off the WiFi radio (Settings > Network > Wi-Fi change from On to Off) and then click the mouse button, it reconnects and works normally. With kernels 4.6 and older this ridiculousness was ridiculously tolerated (in that I continue to use Fedora slightly annoyed rather than use macOS where this problem does not ever occur with the same hardware). But with kernel 4.7rc7 this power cycling of WiFi doesn't work anymore, now I have to reboot. So the question is, does anyone have any idea how to get more details debugging information on what appears to be a conflict between WiFi and Bluetooth? Upstream GNOME bluetooth maintainer says it's a kernel bug. But there's no meaningful kernel messages at all while this is happening. Here's the bug I've filed against the kernel, if anyone has suggestions on improving the report that'd be great. Or heck, maybe a solution to the problem, that'd be even better. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136221 In ancient times, I remember even Apple had problems negotiating WiFi and Bluetooth since I guess both are on 2.4GHz and would conflict with each other. Maybe the work around is to use the proprietary WiFi driver instead of b43. -- Chris Murphy

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Converting html file to PDF
by JD 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

I have an html file with it's associated directory containing the images. the file is called: abc.pdf.html and the dir is abc.pdf.html_files The extensions of the files in abc.pdf.html_files directory are: .css, .js , .png The directory also contains the directory called viewer-vflqGVZhT_data I tried to use pdfdoc to convert it to pure pdf and failed (sigabort). I tried to use wkhtmltopdf and it only produced a blank page. Any info to help me accomlish converting this to 1 pdf file would be greatly appreciated.

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Fwd: Your message to users@lists.fedoraproject.org awaits moderator approval
by Jonathan Ryshpan 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

I received the following message about 10 days ago, but still haven't seen it posted or received the moderators rejection notice. Since there seems to be no way to reach the moderator directly, I'm reduced to posting this to the list. The original posting had Subject: Dragon/Kplayer trouble playing MP4 V1 Sorry for taking list bandwidth - jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: users-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To: jonrysh(a)pacbell.net Subject: Your message to users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org awaits moderator approval Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 18:00:13 +0000 Your mail to 'users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org' with the subject Dragon/Kplayer trouble playing MP4 V1 Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The message is being held because: N/A Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision.

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F24 gedit and large text files, background becomes black
by Chris Murphy 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

I'm having myriad problems with gedit and large text files. OK 81MB isn't really that large, it should be able to handle that without this much difficulty. First, it takes a long time to open, more than a minute, and this is on an SSD. Next, it's doing some processing for a really long time after it loads the document, about 5-6 minutes, while the process consumes 100% CPU and the fans start running on high like I'm blowing my hair dry rather than reading a document. But the actual problem is, at some point I click out of gedit, then back into gedit, and somehow the white background becomes black. So it's a sea of black text on a black background and thus totally useless. Can anyone else reproduce this? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1359476 I don't think there's anything magical about it being 81M. I don't have this problem though with smaller files in the 1MB or less range. I just don't know at what threshold it becomes a problem. -- Chris Murphy

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Issues with doing a fedup upgrade from 23 to 24
by Michael D. Setzer II 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

Not sure what the issue is. Am currently 7 timezones away from my classroom machines, but wanted to update a few before I get back. Had to run the process 3 times on first machine before it finally did the upgrade. fedup --network 24 --allowerasing Process seems to go thru just fine, and then do dnf system-upgrade reboot And it reboots, but then comes back to the 23 version. Did that twice with VNC connection to machine, and then did it a 3rd time, in which I sshed in via another local machine. Thought that might be the issue, but then did a ssh connection upgrade process on two other machines twice, and they did not upgrade. Can't see the systems during the reboot process, and didn't see anything in the /var/log files to show any errors. Trying on those machines again, but after the failed system-upgrade, it has to download all the files again?? Thanks. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@kuentos.guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 106722411.95569546454407.390976 ROSETTA 46454407.390976 | SETI 87587441.062934

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Timeline of a Fedora-24/KDE reboot
by Timothy Murphy 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

As you will see, there is a long delay (90 seconds or so) while shutting down. If anyone can throw light on this I should be very grateful. This is the re-boot timeline on my Thinkpad T510: f=>Leave=>Restart command given and confirmed 19s just cursor on screen f icon appears and remains on screen 114s Thinkpad icon appears 14s automatic choice of kernel bulb appears and slowly fills 25s login screen - after logging in 5s K icon appears and horizontal bar fills 30s panel appears It will be seen that there is a long delay (almost 2 minutes) while shutting down. I see from "journalctl -b-1" that the delay occurs here ------------------------------ Jul 23 14:11:38 william.gayleard.com NetworkManager[908]: <info> [1469275898.3807] device (wlp3s0): supplicant interface state: completed -> disconnected Jul 23 14:11:41 william.gayleard.com wpa_supplicant[1061]: wlp3s0: Reject scan trigger since one is already pending Jul 23 14:13:02 william.gayleard.com NetworkManager[908]: <info> [1469275982.5130] connectivity: check for uri 'http://fedoraproject.org/static/hotspot.txt' failed wit Jul 23 14:13:05 william.gayleard.com systemd[1]: session-1.scope: Stopping timed out. Killing. Jul 23 14:13:05 william.gayleard.com systemd[1]: Stopped Session 1 of user tim. ------------------------------ Is the delay due to the timeout mentioned? I am not good at interpreting the output of journalctl. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

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allow wifi to run while laptop lid is closed?
by bruce 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

How can this be accomplished? Can't find much via SO or the net. Found plenty on the suspend/etc. Curious as to how to do this. Thanks.

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