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The changing Fedora
by Robert Arkiletian 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I know the changes that Fedora is going through are supposed to be for the better and I can't argue against that as I'm not an OS dev. I'm sure some of this stuff does make Fedora better. Listed below are some of the changes. I may have forgotten some stuff and I may have gotten some stuff wrong. In no particular order: sysv init -> systemd rsyslogd -> journal +systemd (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemdMessageCatalog) udev -> systemd+udev display manager selection -> systemd iptables -> firewalld cron -> systemd Calander (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemdCalendarTimers) anaconda -> fedup + new anaconda eth0, eth1 -> something else unifying many separate dirs into /usr changing first uid/gid 500 -> 1000 grub -> grub2 /tmp mounted tmpfs intro of new /run dir I know some of the old methods still work, but the idea is the new way is to eventually replace the old. As a sys admin I have *many* hours invested in learning the OS. I'm not against learning new stuff, provided there is a benefit, but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada

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/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf
by Tom Horsley 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

So all sorts of apps I run from the command line spew this message: Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. If it is gonna spew to the terminal anyway, wouldn't it have been nice if the message said something about where it now wants to read the config from? After much googling, the algorithm is apparently: mkdir .config/fontconfig mv .fonts.conf .config/fontconfig/fonts.conf The spewage went away after I did that.

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Fonts missing
by Sylvia Sánchez 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hello everybody! Happy new year! I've just installed the Spherical Cow and I can use my older fonts. I used to copy&paste from one /usr/share/fonts folder to the other but this time it isn't working. My fonts are in Ubuntu, as root I copy & paste from there to my new Fedora. But I can't use them anyway. Somebody know why it happens and how can I fix it? Thank you all very much! Lailah

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Text rendering wacko in f18?
by Tom Horsley 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I know google-chrome isn't a fedora product, but it is probably using fedora libraries, so I thought I'd ask about this weirdness: On fedora 18 the folder names in the bookmarks bar are randomly truncated (it can spell out "Computer" in full, but truncates "Food" to just "Fo..." as an example of the wackyness :-). Does this ring any bells for anyone? I've submitted an issue (with screenshot) to chrome: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=171117&thanks=171117&ts=…

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Nautilus sidepane tree view
by ergodic 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Any possibility to have the some of the previous schema restored to nautilus-3.6.3-4.fc18.x86_64? For instance the missing sidebar tree view hinders Nautilus functionality.

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How to use a sound theme?
by Sam Varshavchik 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

How do I go about switching to a different sound theme? Gnome's control center only lets me choose one of four lame sounds from /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts. I have a whole bunch of complete sound themes in /usr/share/sounds, but I can't figure out how to use them in F18.

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Cinnamon desktop icons
by SternData 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I'm trying out Cinnamon on f18. Under Cinnamon settings, I've checked all the options for "icon visible on desktop", but none appear. What's the trick? -- -- Steve

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Totem problems following FedUp upgrade
by Dave Cross 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Yesterday my desktop PC was running Fedora 17 and I was able to watch all kinds of video files using totem. This morning I used FedUp to upgrade the PC to Fedora 18 and since then I haven't found a video file that totem can play successfully. I always get an error message that says: Videos requires[sic] additional plugins for this operation The following plugins are required: * MPEG Video decoder * MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder Do you want to search for these now? [Cancel] [Search] I've tried pressing the search button but it just says that it can't find the required plugins. It looks to me like I have fc18 versions of all of the relevant RPMs $ rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-2.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.8-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-5.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.0.4-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-python-0.10.22-3.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.36-2.fc18.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-13.fc18.x86_64 All of which leads me to two questions. 1/ How can I get back the ability to play videos? 2/ How did the FedUp upgrade manage to break this? Please let me know if you need any more information or if there's a more useful place for me to report this issue. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: dave(a)dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg

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Kernel panic during boot - what now?
by Markus Lindholm 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hi I've run into a nasty problem with kernel panic during boot. I did a fresh installation of F18 last Wednesday and it was a smooth experience, but then yesterday I did a 'yum update' that ended up causing a kernel panic (there wasn't much more happening on the machine at that time) and after that the boot process always terminates in a kernel panic almost immediately after the password for disc encryption has been given. It gives exit code 0x00007F00. I've got two kernel versions to choose from, 3.6.10-4 and 3.7.2.-201, same result with both. What now, how can I repair the system? /Markus

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Blinking wireless LED in Elitebook 8440p
by Bruno Martins 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hey list, I have recently acquired an HP Elitebook 8440p machine and I am facing a very strange problem that is: sometimes (randomly) my wireless LED starts blinking. Red and blue (as an on/off switch) but network connectivity is not affected, it's just the LED blinking... My system: [skorzen@8440p ~]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 05) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 05) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05) 43:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35) 44:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 06) 44:06.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 25) 44:06.2 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev bb) ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02) ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02) ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02) ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02) ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02) ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02) Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this issue? Best regards, Bruno Martins

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