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Virtualbox -
by Bob Goodwin 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

Using Virtualbox in an updated F23 I've installed VM's for Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux. Fedora 21 xfce live because I happened to have it handy, the others from the DVD iso's. Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the others boot and run with a text screen but startx reports "command not found" and a ping to other than localhost, reports network unreachable. What am I missing? Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-23/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3

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Fedora 23 and 4K monitors?
by Justin Moore 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

Does anyone have Fedora 23 working with a 4K monitor? Last week I got an Asus PB287Q monitor, but got bit by the "hardware loses signal when monitor goes into sleep" issue. I'm returning that monitor and would like to get another one, but am hoping to find a good success story. I'm running Fedora 23 with a GeForce 750 Ti card using the NVidia drivers. Does anyone have a working 4K setup with this or similar hardware? Thanks, -jdm

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Re: no grub after installing fedora23
by Walter Cazzola 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

hi thanks for the prompt reply On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:32 AM, maderios <maderios(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > Why an extended partitition? I just marked the normal partition flag instead of LVM, is there any practical and related issue with my problem in this? > It should a gpt partitioning with efi. Your 'Dell Precision m6800' uses > uefi but you have not any efi partition > http://www.manualslib.com/manual/563583/Dell-Precision-M6800.html?page=58 > For me, your install is wrong. First, You have to disable uefi secure boot > in your bios, then install F23. Installer has to detect an efi partition > like '/boot/efi' uhm, I' ve checked and in what should be the /boot dir I' ve efi |-->EFI |-->BOOT |-->BOOTX64.EFI |-->fallback.efi |-->fedora |-->BOOT.CSV |-->fonts |-->unicode.pf2 |-->gcdx64.efi |-->grubx64.efi |-->MokManager.efi |-->shim.efi |-->shim-fedora.efi |-->mach_kernel |-->System |-->Library |-->CoreServices |-->SystemVersion.plist as far as I know everything is there or is it not? I've also checked the options related to UEFI in my BIOS and seems that UEFI and Secure boot are both disabled. This are the related options: General Boot Sequence Legacy (this flagged) UEFI (this is not flagged) Advanced Boot Options Enable Legacy Option ROMS (this is selected and the note says "This option is not allowed if secure boot is enabled") System Configuration Integrated NIC Enabled UEFI Network Stack (this is not flagged) Enabled w/PXE (this is flagged) Secure Boot Disabled (flagged) Could be that I missed something? Any other idea? Walter --

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mlocate updatedb not running from cron, mlocate.cron not installed
by Neal Becker 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

I noticed mlocate updatedb is not running. I believe there should be mlocate.cron installed into /etc/cron.daily repoquery reports no such file. How do I get fedora's version of mlocate package to run updatedb daily? Why isn't it installed this way?

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command line ogg123 in Fedora 23 does not exist
by Antonio Olivares 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Dear folks, I installed Fedora 23 and copied some old ogg vorbis files I had around. I wanted to play them(without a gui), amorok plays them, but prefer to use command line. Can't install mplayer as dont have working internet ATM on this machine :( . I did a $ which ogg123 and it returned no ogg123 in .... I tried playing them with amorok and it plays fine, but I would prefer the old way to play the files. Which package do I need to install to have this functionality? Best Regards, Antonio A. Olivares ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth

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Why is mysql running?
by Stephen Davies 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

On my Fedora 22 system, ps -aef shows: someuser 3097 3086 0 18:32 ? 00:00:01 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/home/someuser/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf --datadir=/home/someuser/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ --socket=/tmp/akonadi-someuser.xEIhbs/mysql.socket I have never explicitly installed mysql (I use PostgreSQL for all my real database requirements) so wonder why this is there. Can I safely zap this and, if so, how? Cheers and all the best for the silly season, Stephen

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Users cannot log in using sddm on Fedora 23
by Andrej Podzimek 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Hello! After a Fedora 23 installation, users can't log in with sddm. A "login failed" message is displayed by sddm, sometimes preceded by a short switch to the tty and back. Users can log into a text console just fine. Also starting a Plasma desktop using startx works perfectly fine. Because sddm's logs report helper failures with codes 2 and 15, I tried this: # cp -a /usr/libexec/sddm-helper /usr/libexec/sddm-helper-binary # cat > /usr/libexec/sddm-helper <<-WRAPPER #!/bin/bash strace -f /usr/libexec/sddm-helper-binary "$@" 2>/tmp/sddm WRAPPER Here's the entire strace output obtained from a login attempt using the wrapper above: https://andrej.podzimek.org/dell-strace-0.txt The strace dump shows (among other glitches) something like a file descriptor leak. But the most important thing seems to be the following: [pid 1818] execve("/usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd", ["/usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd", "andrej", "nullok"], [/* 0 vars */]) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) [pid 1820] execve("/usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd", ["/usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd", "andrej", "nullok"], [/* 0 vars */]) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) I tried to make /etc/shadow readable, but that didn't help. Also tried to do setenforce 0 and that didn't help either. :( Last but not least, rebooting with SELinux in permissive mode does away with the EPERM error, but sddm logins hang forever, with no chance to retry. I looked at recent sddm bugs such as this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265813 But I don't think other sddm issues could be directly related, because the failure pattern is different, i.e., I can't see any segfaults here and my user IDs are in the correct range (uid 1001 in the attached log). :( What's wrong here? Why does sddm fail on Fedora 23? The hardware, just if it happens to matter: DMI: Dell Inc. Inspiron 7548/0AM6R0, BIOS A00 11/19/2014 Cheers, Andrej

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Good speech to text conveter
by Aakanksha Singh 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Folks, I have a large bundle of audio files to convert into text. Can anyone recommend a good software for speech to text conversion. Thanks, Aakanksha

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The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason
by Fernando Cassia 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Once upon a time, I believe it was Fedora 17 or Fedora 19, I was a happy camper. I used to download a Fedora LiveCD, and it included everything I needed for functional work on a otherwise Windows netbook. I just booted off the USB Flash Drive, and off I went to do my daily online chores like E-Mail, twitter, and ocassional image editing via my favorite small image editor (Java Image Editor). That was because OpenJDK 7 was included in the LiveCD image. This served multiple purposes: 1. Leaving the Windows partition unchanged 2. Not losing space on the small HDD with a Linux install 3. Not leaving my files behind on the system 4. Making an effort to put my data files on the Cloud or LAN network attached storage, NOT the individual system's HDD. Suddenly (I don't remember which release, but you can check the mailing list archives for my rant on the matter) OpenJDK binaries were removed from the live CD so I could no longer "java -jar JavaImageEditor.jar" nor could I use JNLP to launch desktop Java apps. I came to the list at the time to rant, and if I remember correctly the answer was that OpenJDK was removed from the LiveCD due to space constraints, and that it was a real challenge to keep everything to still fit into a CD image. Well, nowadays the Fedora 23 Mate-Compiz LiveCD I'm using is well above the 700MB CD-R limit, and I'm saving the LiveCD image to a 4GB pen drive anyway, yet not only OpenJDK 7 is not there -it should be OpenJDK 8 by now, by the way-, but also other useful stuff -native Linux binaries, command line utils that are a must-have- are also removed for no apparent reason. Case in point: I booted off the LiveCD the other day needing to do a quick change to a LAN router I have at home, and which provides access to the LAN side via TELNET. Well, guess what? there's no telnet in the LiveCD. But it is in the repos. I did a yum install telnet and found it only uses 76 kbytes. So telnet is not there to save 76 kbytes off the livecd image size. Wow. But the plot tickens. I wanted to download a mirrorr of a subsection of a web site to another usb flash drive using wget, using the wget -m -np -k -c syntax I know and love, and found .... WGET is not there either. Since I have learned that the Fedora community is quite hostile to any kind of complaint ("it's as-is because we-know-better and you-re-surely-doing-things-wrong" or "why-do-you-want-to-do-that-in-the-first-place" or "why-dont-you-just-install-the-full-fedora-instead-of-booting-off-a-LiveCD-from-a-Flash-Drive"), my hopes of this being "fixed" (openJDK being reinstated into the LiveCD image, along with telnet and wget), I think I'll end up taking things into my own hands and "fixing" the LiveCD images. So, is there an up-to-date tutorial out there on how to add stuff from the repos of a Fedora distro repos into the LiveCD image so the packages are available when LiveCD boots? Thanks in advance. FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell

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No Bluetooth mouse in sddm before first login
by Andrej Podzimek 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hello, In Fedora 23, my Bluetooth mouse works fine in KDE. However, it doesn't work in sddm before the first user logs in. It works afterwards and keeps working even after the first (or second or whichever) user logs out. The very first login without a mouse is quite an inconvenience. Any ideas what could be wrong? The same thing works perfectly fine in Arch -- the mouse works from the very beginning, once it's paired by a user in the KDE Bluetooth GUI, there's a bunch of metadata stored somewhere in /var about the pairing and the mouse can easily reestablish its connection, no matter if users are logged in or not. What can be different on Fedora? SELinux? And why does the mouse magically start working as intended once the very first user logs in? Just abou tany debugging tips would be helpful. (Looking at .xsession-errors for sddm/root/user and logs from bluettothd, sddm and X.org didn't yield anything eye-opening thus far.) Cheers, Andrej

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tar exclude cache
by Patrick Dupre 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hello, I am trying to exclude the .cache directories when I tar a home directory by using: tar -cjf /mnt/backup/home.tbz2 --exclude-caches-all /home/pdupre but it does not work. What am I doing wrong ? Thank for your help. =========================================================================== 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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Firefox does not play Rutube videos
by Paul Smith 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Dear All, Does the video below play on your Firefox? http://rutube.ru/video/2729da0c087eb93af0ac476990a441d4/ Mine cannot play that. Is there something one can do in order to fix the problem? Thanks in advance, Paul

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Problem with bash: alias command
by Joachim Backes 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Hi all, Running F23, and my shell is /bin/bash. My problem: suppose you define an alias: alias x='echo PAR=$1' Now call the alias by: x 1 Output: PAR= 1 My question: why do I get the blank before the "1"? All comments are welcome. Kind regards Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 23 (Twenty Three) Kernel-4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes/

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smartd errors
by Paolo Galtieri 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Folks, recently I have started seeing these messages in /var/log/messages Oct 27 10:26:13 jackstraw smartd[1177]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], 16 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Oct 27 10:26:13 jackstraw smartd[1177]: Device: /dev/sde [SAT], 16 Offline uncorrectable sectors which are mounted as follows /dev/sde1 on /media/NSM/NSM-SENSOR-1 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,seclabel,data=ordered) /dev/sde2 on /media/NSM/NSM-SENSOR-2 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,seclabel,data=ordered) I have unmounted the filesystems and run fsck on them and fsck reports no errors. [pgaltieri@jackstraw ~]$ sudo fsck /dev/sde2 fsck from util-linux 2.26.2 e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) NSM-SENSOR-2: clean, 11/45498368 files, 2905980/181964288 blocks [pgaltieri@jackstraw ~]$ sudo fsck /dev/sde1 fsck from util-linux 2.26.2 e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) NSM-SENSOR-1: clean, 32/46080000 files, 2993510/184320000 blocks It only reports errors on this drive. Should I be concerned about what smartd is saying? How do I, if possible, correct this? Paolo

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Installing F22: MUST format root?!?!?!
by Richard Shaw 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

I bought a 32gb class 10 sd card to run Fedora on a laptop where I don't want to touch the hard drive. After a bit of reading it seems it's a good idea to make sure the partition and filesystem are setup to get the most out of it (mainly around block side and erase boundaries) So I booted to Fedora 22 Workstation and before running the installer setup a /boot and "/" partition and formatted them. Now when I'm trying to configure disks it's telling me that "You must create a new file system on the root device." WTF?!? So what if I want to format the partition with specific options? Specifically stride and stripe-width... Thanks, Richard

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In Firefox 41.0.1 / Fedora 23 Mate-Compiz, mouse pointer doesn't change to magnifying glass
by Fernando Cassia 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

Hi there, Can anyone else confirm this bug?. In Fedora 23 Mate-Compiz, when using FF 41.0.1 to view a JPEG file that has been scaled down automatically, when positioning the mouse cursor over the image, on the Windows platform the mouse cursor changes to a magnifying glass to show the user that the image can be zoomed in. In this linux, it doesn't. Can someone else confirm so I can file a bug report if not already reported? Thanks! FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell

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kernel checkout specific version
by Philip Brown 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

Hi, I would appreciate a little help please. I am building the kernel with the following commands: fedpkg clone -a kernel cd kernel git checkout -b f23 --track origin/f23 fedpkg local and this builds a 4.2.8-300 release, however I need to build a 4.2.7-300 release which fedora is currently running on. how would I alter my command to achieve this. thanks for help,

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f21->f23 via dnf system-upgrade?
by Neal Becker 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

I've updated 2 f22->f23 fine using dnf system-upgrade. Can I also use this method for f21->f23?

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problems with kde
by Walter Cazzola 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

Dear Fedora Experts, I'm a proud user of Fedora (currently 20) Linux on a Dell Laptop since 6 years. A couple of days ago without any real reason something broke up (the only thing happened is a write error but after that it worked fine) and I get serious problems in login into my KDE account. It takes half an hour and after that I'm in a crippled system. Each command I type gives as a reply "no more processes." Also menus and windows are quite unresponsive. Today after many desperate attempts I logged as root on KDE (I know this is something to avoid) but with the root account everything is working fine. I got into in few seconds and any command works as expected. So I suspect that something happened to my user, so I removed the .local configuration without any luck. I would also send you some logs but I can't imagine what could be useful. Anyone can help me to solve this issue? Thank you in advance Walter --

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Re: X server dies on startup with kernel-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64
by R. G. Newbury 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

Ed Greshko<ed.greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote > On 12/18/15 20:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >After rebooting I get the login screen but Plasma segfaults and Gnome >> >gives an oops and sad face so I've had to fall back to LxQT until I can >> >figure out what's going on. > FWIW, I can confirm that akmod-nvidia-358.16-1.fc23.x86_64 breaks my system with the > GeForce 8600M GS card (a rather old card in a laptop). > > Falling back to akmod-nvidia-340xx.x86_64 got things working again. You may want to > consider giving that a try after checking and confirming 340xx is supposed to support your > card. The 8600 series cards are classified like the 9600 series and 9300 series cards , as "Legacy" and *require* the 340-xxx series drivers. I am using the 340.96 with a 9300 chipset on my main box, and with a 9600 chipset on the mythbox. Both running well on F22. Using the wrong driver might the problem, not F23. Geoff

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Re: The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason
by R. G. Newbury 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

On 12/18/2015 09:30 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 05:58:55PM -0500, > Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >Will check it out. Wasn't aware of such Scientific spin. Does the "labs" >> >subdomain mean it is somewhat different from other Fedora respins? > We've split it so the "spins" are focused on presenting desktop > environments (KDE, Xfce, etc.), while "labs" are collections of > software for a given purpose. > >> >Since I run this on a netbook with low resources (Intel Atom, 32-bit CPU, >> >only 2 GB RAM), I'd prefer if I could get openJDK retrofitted into the >> >somewhat lightweight Mate-Compiz spin. (I tried Fedora XFCE but hate its >> >browser, Midori). > With these needs, it seems like you're really_way_ into "making your > own custom Fedora Remix". See > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remix A faster and much more useful route is to install isomaster on your main computer and use it to edit the iso image. I have used to to remove unused packages and to add packages. It is extremely easy to use. It's been around since 2007 or Fedora 7 so I would suspect that it's stable and it works! R. Geoffrey Newbury

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one click is not enough anymore
by Maurizio Marini 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

after one of last update, sorry I dunno which one, let's say by 2 days and I update every day, I have to click more than 1 time on windows on kde plasma panel. Often double click is enough. Am I the only one, here, to have this issue? -m

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X server dies on startup with kernel-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64
by Patrick O'Callaghan 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

I have an Nvidia card and use the proprietary driver, so I've blocked updates to X for the time being until RPMfusion gets the new kmod module for Nvidia version 352.63. In any case, my current X server is xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.17.4-1.fc22.x86_64. Rebooting with kernel-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 works. poc

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dnf system-upgrade fails with key verification
by Sam Varshavchik 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

One upgrade to F23 succeeded. The second server fails, repeatedly with "dnf system-upgrade --releasever 23 download" resulting in: … [SKIPPED] zukitwo-gtk3-theme-0.0.2-1.fc23.noarch.rpm: Already downloaded [SKIPPED] zukitwo-gtk2-theme-0.0.2-1.fc23.noarch.rpm: Already downloaded warning: /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/kernel-core-4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 34ec9cba: NOKEY Curl error (37): Couldn't read a file:// file for file:///etc/pki/rpm- gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64 [Couldn't open file /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG- KEY-fedora-x86_64] The downloaded packages were saved in cache till the next successful transaction. You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'. Googling around doesn't find anything useful.

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yum configure to only download one package at a time
by Robin Laing 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

Hello, I am trying to upgrade my system and through our corporate firewall/network filters/etc, the bandwidth is limited. Today while doing an upgrade, yum was downloading five packages at a time. Due to the limits, I was running into a under X bytes for 60 seconds restart. The limit is such that when there are large packages (eclipse) it gets stuck restarting each package over and over until it has run out of mirrors. I read through the yum.conf man and I cannot find a way to tell yum to only download a single package. This is on a f20 system and I am trying to get to F23 but I cannot get fedup on f20 to work through our corporate firewall and dnf won't play. I am working on the problem I asked about earlier as this is the first time I had a few days to work on this. fedora-upgrade is the command that I am using. Robin

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