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VNC shows black screen
by Chris Kottaridis 17 Mar '19

17 Mar '19

I am trying to get Tiger VNC working on a home machine running Fedora 29 with latest patches applied. I can connect and provide user's password but the screen is blank. On initial connection I got the Welcome Window that asked for keyboard style and such, but when I closed that window nothing but a black screen and that's all I get now when I log in. If I remove the user and add her back I get the Welcome Window again, but when that is done again black screen. Essentially there is no way to start an application and nothing setting the background. Seems the window manager isn't getting control or something. I have: Environment=XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 In the /etc/systemd/system/vncserver-karen@.service file, which some sites have indicated may be needed. I have tried a couple of combinations of the .vnc/xstartup I've seen from various places, but am back to the original: #!/bin/sh unset SESSION_MANAGER unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc I have this working fine on a Fedora 29 machine at work. All the files I know of to compare I have and they seem the same, like the ones mentioned above. I attached the output of "systemctl status vncserver-karen@:2.service". It looks like everything is started fine. I haven't found any error messages that seem to apply. I saw some comments that selinux could be an issue. I have selinux disabled both in the /etc/selinux/config file: # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded. SELINUX=disabled Also from command line I can see it isn't enabled: $ getenforce Disabled The gnome-session-binary seems to be running according to systemctl output. I just don't know why it doesn't seem to be taking control of things. Any pointers or suggestions would be helpful. Thanks Chris K

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F29: force evolution mailer to use proxy server
by Ranjan Maitra 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

Hi, I am trying to get evolution to use a http and https proxy server. I have set the http and https as my proxy servers and it ignores it. I wonder what I am doing wrong? I am not quite sure what additional information to post here, so please feel free to ask. Many thanks for any help 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.

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Can't use MATE desktop with F29
by Paolo Galtieri 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

Folks, I upgraded one of my F28 systems to F29. I installed th Gnome Classic and MATE desktops. When the system boots up and I login using the MATE desktop the screen is completely garbled. A message appears saying something like "required virtual size does not fit", however it goes away almost immediately so I can't get all the text. If I login using Gnome or Gnome Classic everything works fine. I also tries gdm and I get the same thing. Anyone know what's going on? Here's my video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1) cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 8098456 kB MemFree: 4787340 kB MemAvailable: 7303280 kB Buffers: 157360 kB Cached: 2512716 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1333388 kB Inactive: 1619888 kB Active(anon): 284176 kB Inactive(anon): 16844 kB Active(file): 1049212 kB Inactive(file): 1603044 kB Unevictable: 32 kB Mlocked: 32 kB SwapTotal: 8142844 kB SwapFree: 8142844 kB Dirty: 32 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 283276 kB Mapped: 256576 kB Shmem: 17828 kB KReclaimable: 167784 kB Slab: 271804 kB SReclaimable: 167784 kB SUnreclaim: 104020 kB KernelStack: 5312 kB PageTables: 10536 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 12192072 kB Committed_AS: 2335964 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 0 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB Percpu: 3072 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB CmaFree: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Hugetlb: 0 kB DirectMap4k: 207400 kB DirectMap2M: 8114176 kB cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz stepping : 4 microcode : 0x6 cpu MHz : 3192.210 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts nopl cpuid pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr pti bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf bogomips : 6384.42 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 128 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz stepping : 4 microcode : 0x6 cpu MHz : 3192.210 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts nopl cpuid pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr pti bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf bogomips : 6384.42 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 128 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: Any help is appreciated. Paolo

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Can't play video dvd
by Paolo Galtieri 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

Folks, I recently purchased the DVD "Free Solo". When I try to play it on my Fedora 28 system it fails. I get the following error "An error occurred The movie could not be read". I did some web searching and I found that someone also encountered this error and that I needed to install libdvdcss for things to work. I installed this library and rebooted and I still get the error. I have verified that the DVD works by playing it on a Windows system. So what am I missing in order to get this to work? When I put the DVD in it does read it, because I get the title page, but when I click on the play movie link I get the error. The "Free Solo" DVD is from National Geographic, so I tried another DVD, also from National Geographic, and that one worked fine. So the problem seems to be with how F28 processes the "Free Solo" DVD. Any help is appreciated. Paolo

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F28 - Thunar crashes regularly
by Robert Moskowitz 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

F28 with Xfce. Thunar 1.6.16 Thunar crashes regularly. Seems to be 'connected' to accessing external devices like 4TB USB drives and Android phone via libmtp and gvfs-mtp (I think :) ). Rather recent. I have always had challenges with my Android (Galaxy S4) with very slow time opening up a directory. Just viewing and dropping files into a high-level folder (like movies) is fast, but opening a folder like Sound to get voice recordings takes a lot of time. Here is a message on the thunar crash last: Feb 25 10:59:27 lx121e abrt-server[32461]: Deleting problem directory ccpp-2019-02-25-23:59:20.598234-32067 (dup of ccpp-2019-02-20-08:15:46.436224-30418) Feb 25 10:59:28 lx121e abrt-notification[32500]: Process 30418 (thunar) crashed in thunar_tree_model_get_value() I am current with updates as of Feb 22.

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Recompilation
by Patrick Dupre 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Hello, I had a discussion with people in charge of a big machine. They suggested me to recompile the libraries that I use (like gsl). What do you think ? =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 ===========================================================================

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Urgent: Can't print
by ToddAndMargo 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Hi All, Help! Fedora 29 cups-1:2.2.8-10.fc29.x86_64 cups-client-1:2.2.8-10.fc29.x86_64 cups-filesystem-1:2.2.8-10.fc29.noarch cups-ipptool-1:2.2.8-10.fc29.x86_64 cups-libs-1:2.2.8-10.fc29.i686 cups-libs-1:2.2.8-10.fc29.x86_64 This morning I can not longer print. I fired up a Live USB, also Fedora 29, and I can print, so it is not my hardware. (It is not program dependent either.) https://127.0.0.1:631/printers/B4350 tells me "Processing since". I can cancel jobs. This is the error message I am getting: Mar 8 14:47:02 rn6 dbus-daemon[1033]: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="method_return", sender=":1.6" (uid=70 pid=1044 comm="avahi-daemon: starting up " label="system_u:system_r:avahi_t:s0") interface="(unset)" member="(unset)" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.356" (uid=500 pid=6153 comm="/usr/bin/leafpad " label="unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023") -T

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Re: Have you used Duplicati 2.0.4.5 to backup Fedora 29 Server?
by Dirk Gottschalk 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

Hello. Am Donnerstag, den 14.03.2019, 13:21 +0000 schrieb Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming: > Good evening from Singapore, > Have you used Duplicati 2.0.4.5 to backup Fedora 29 Server? > Is it good? I did never use Duplicati, but I use duplicity for a long time and with good results. I made a few backup scripts and start them via SystemD to make incremental backups to a backup storage server. The backups come from the main server as well as the clients. I never ran into problem and all backups are encrypted using a OpenPGP (GnuPG) encryption key. That would be my suggestion if you don't rely on Duplicati as software solution. Hth, Dirk -- Dirk Gottschalk Paulusstrasse 6-8 52064 Aachen, Germany GPG: 4AAB BDA8 C34D 3037 DA6B 7DF9 BB6A A254 DF10 8952 Keybase.io: https://keybase.io/dgottschalk GitHub: https://github.com/Dirk1980ac

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Have you used Duplicati 2.0.4.5 to backup Fedora 29 Server?
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

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Two package dependency problems in F30 during updates.
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Not sure F30 is supported yet, but there's apparently a couple of dependency problems with glassfish-jax-rs-api and eclipse-linuxtools-dockeras currently released. I installed F30 from the MATE_Compiz spin. Things went fine for a couple of weeks until this happened a couple of days ago: # yum -y update --skip-broken RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free tainted 66 kB/s | 71 kB 00:01 Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-free-tainted' RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree tainted 76 kB/s | 71 kB 00:00 Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-tainted' Ignoring repositories: rpmfusion-free-tainted, rpmfusion-nonfree-tainted Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:23 ago on Wed 13 Mar 2019 08:15:31 PM CDT. Dependencies resolved. Problem 1: package eclipse-linuxtools-docker-7.1.0-3.fc30.noarch requires osgi(javax.ws.rs-api), but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install both glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.1.5-3.fc30.noarch and glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.0.1-8.fc30.noarch - cannot install both glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.0.1-8.fc30.noarch and glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.1.5-3.fc30.noarch - cannot install the best update candidate for package glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.0.1-8.fc30.noarch - cannot install the best update candidate for package eclipse-linuxtools-docker-7.1.0-3.fc30.noarch Problem 2: problem with installed package eclipse-linuxtools-docker-7.1.0-3.fc30.noarch - package eclipse-linuxtools-docker-7.1.0-3.fc30.noarch requires osgi(javax.ws.rs-api), but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install both glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.1.5-3.fc30.noarch and glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.0.1-8.fc30.noarch - cannot install both glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.0.1-8.fc30.noarch and glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.1.5-3.fc30.noarch - package jersey-2.28-1.fc30.noarch requires mvn(jakarta.ws.rs:jakarta.ws.rs-api), but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best update candidate for package jersey-2.23.2-6.fc30.noarch ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Skipping packages with conflicts: (add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade): glassfish-jax-rs-api noarch 2.1.5-3.fc30 updates-testing 143 k Skipping packages with broken dependencies: jersey noarch 2.28-1.fc30 updates-testing 2.5 M Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Skip 2 Packages Nothing to do. Complete! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By adding the two suggested command line arguments, I get a slightly different output: # yum -y update --skip-broken --best --allowerasing RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free tainted 70 kB/s | 71 kB 00:01 Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-free-tainted' RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree tainted 148 kB/s | 71 kB 00:00 Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-tainted' Ignoring repositories: rpmfusion-free-tainted, rpmfusion-nonfree-tainted Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:12 ago on Wed 13 Mar 2019 08:15:31 PM CDT. Error: Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package eclipse-linuxtools-docker-7.1.0-3.fc30.noarch - problem with installed package eclipse-linuxtools-docker-7.1.0-3.fc30.noarch - package eclipse-linuxtools-docker-7.1.0-3.fc30.noarch requires osgi(javax.ws.rs-api), but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best update candidate for package glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.0.1-8.fc30.noarch - cannot install both glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.1.5-3.fc30.noarch and glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.0.1-8.fc30.noarch - cannot install both glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.0.1-8.fc30.noarch and glassfish-jax-rs-api-2.1.5-3.fc30.noarch Does this look untangleable to anyone? v/r Robert G. (Doc) Savage Fairview Heights IL

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