Cinnamon won't load panel.
by Frank McCormick
The past week or so I have been having trouble with my Cinnamon desktop
on Fedora 19.
The panel is not loading, and it **seems** like the wallpaper is also
not loading, although because I run 2 gdesklets, the proper background
can be seen on them. The rest of the screen is black except for the
desktop icons. Once in a while if I logon to Cinnamon 3 or 4 times in a
row the desktop will come up properly but other times it refuses to load
properly. I also run Mate and XFCE desktops and I am wondering whether
there is a conflict somewhere.
Is anyone else experiencing this ? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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10 years, 6 months
usb disk, in reverse?
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
I have a TV that accepts MP4 content from usb thumb drives. Instead of
a thumb drive I want to plug it into one of my box's usb ports that
would look to it like a thumb drive.
Is this doable? Solutions?
With all the cable cutters out there this could be awesome...
10 years, 6 months
dhclient: preventing hostname disclosure via DHCP request (option 12)
by fedorauser
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Hi,
I'd like to avoid sending my hostname to the DHCP server via the DHCP
request (Option 12).
On my F19 system dhclient runs with the following parameters:
/sbin/dhclient -d -sf /usr/libexec/nm-dhcp-client.action -pf
/var/run/dhclient-em1.pid -lf
/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-e4e10ab3-a727-4cae-9b6e-40b565ad3e3f-em1.lease
- -cf /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-em1.conf em1
/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-em1.conf
contains the relevant line:
send host-name "foobar"; # added by NetworkManager
but modifying this file has no effect since it will be regenerated by
NetworkManager.
What is the right way to remove the "send host-name" line from
dhclient's config file?
thanks!
fedorauser
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10 years, 6 months
KDE 4.11.3 intermittently forgets plasmoids (2013-12-14)
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello, Everyone
OK, this is getting kind of silly... I USED to have an issue with KDE
intermittently forgetting my plasmoids and other desktop settings.
Now, I can't get KDE to remember them at all! As an experiment, I just
got my desktop to look like I wanted it to, then I did the following:
1. "Leave | Save Session"
2. Change these files to read-only:
~/.kde/share/config/activitymanagerrc
~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
3. Log out, and then back in.
The result? No plasmoids at all!
These are old screenshots of how my desktop SHOULD have looked when I
logged back in, and how it actually DID:
http://www.afolkey2.us/gallery3/index.php/Assorted/KDE4_11_00-Desktop-Scr...
http://www.afolkey2.us/gallery3/index.php/Assorted/KDE4_11_00-Desktop-Scr...
The big difference between KDE's behavior now and how it's been in the
recent past is that I am not ever able to get my desktop to stay
looking the way that I want it to.
Check out these two threads on this subject:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-August/440338.html
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=138106623212753&w=2
If you need any new information, please let me know.
Steven P. Ulrick
PS: Rex, sorry for CC'ing you on this, but I think that you probably
have some good ideas about this issue.
10 years, 6 months
OT: cron help
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
I'm trying to execute a command once a minute. As a test I place this:
0,1 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 w.x.y.z > /dev/null 2>&1
in /etc/cron.d/everyMinute
but nothing is happening. I've done "service crond restart".
Any ideas?
Thx, Mike Wright
10 years, 6 months
Re: Strange Warnings on updating tonight (SOLVED)
by Howard Howell
Hi, guys,
This may not link as a thread because I inadvertently deleted the
thread responses in Evolution, and I couldn't figure out how to find the
thread from the archives information (it might be helpful to put a reply
link in the archive stuff, for dummies like me.)
It took a bit of digging, but once you guys said it was solved, I was
able to find the thread. I used the command: "group_command=compat"
inserted into /etc/yum.conf, which apparently inhibited the messages.
Is there a better way?
A question remains, though, even after reading through lots of stuff
about yum groups, knowing about the groups presented in the add/remove
software utility, and understanding enough to be somewhat dangerous in
software management, but not enough to be good, I do not yet understand
the utility of the group listings on the local machine. I think it is
to automate the install/remove process for the group and utilities
involved, but I did not see that stated anywhere.
I did read the documentation on yum groups I found on Google, but I am
afraid it didn't help me personally very much. If there is a "yum
groups for dummies" somewhere maybe that is what I need.
Regards,
Les H
10 years, 6 months
gnome/fedora frozen
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
If I have an usb plugged in, if the screen move to lock, than I cannot
recover my gnome session.
On the key, there are 1 FAT parttion
1 NTFS partition,
2 ext4 partition (one is encripted luks)
Here is part of the /var/og/messages file:
Dec 13 11:03:33 Homere kernel: [128785.258833] EXT4-fs (dm-13): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Dec 13 11:03:33 Homere udisksd[2670]: Mounted /dev/dm-13 at /run/media/pdupre/Verbatim3_pd2 on behalf of uid 1000
Dec 13 11:08:33 Homere kernel: [129085.227982] EXT4-fs (sdc5): error count: 34
Dec 13 11:08:33 Homere kernel: [129085.228000] EXT4-fs (sdc5): initial error at 1375170459: ext4_mb_generate_buddy:755
Dec 13 11:08:33 Homere kernel: [129085.228005] EXT4-fs (sdc5): last error at 1386621616: ext4_mb_generate_buddy:755
Dec 13 11:12:33 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:12:33 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:12:33 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 13 11:12:33 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 13 11:17:59 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:17:59 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:17:59 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 13 11:17:59 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 13 11:30:11 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:30:11 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:30:11 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 13 11:30:11 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 13 11:43:24 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:43:24 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:43:24 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Dec 13 11:43:24 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Dec 13 11:43:24 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: Launching FprintObject
Dec 13 11:43:24 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
Dec 13 11:43:24 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: ** Message: entering main loop
Dec 13 11:43:30 Homere gdm-simple-slave[16921]: WARNING: GdmSlave: could not fetch type of session '184': No such file or directory
Dec 13 11:43:50 Homere systemd-logind[844]: New session 301 of user pdupre.
Dec 13 11:43:55 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: ** Message: No devices in use, exit
Dec 13 11:44:18 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:44:18 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:44:18 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 13 11:44:18 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 13 11:44:56 Homere systemd[1]: Starting Getty on tty3...
Dec 13 11:44:56 Homere systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty3.
Dec 13 11:44:59 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:44:59 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:44:59 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Dec 13 11:44:59 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Dec 13 11:44:59 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: Launching FprintObject
Dec 13 11:44:59 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
Dec 13 11:44:59 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: ** Message: entering main loop
Dec 13 11:45:07 Homere systemd-logind[844]: New session 302 of user root.
Dec 13 11:45:07 Homere kernel: [131279.187307] polkitd[31712]: segfault at aa8fd8 ip 000000342ef5a17c sp 00007fff402fd5d0 error 4 in libmozjs185.so.1.0.0[342ee00000+317000]
Dec 13 11:45:07 Homere systemd[1]: polkit.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
Dec 13 11:45:07 Homere systemd[1]: Unit polkit.service entered failed state.
Dec 13 11:45:07 Homere NetworkManager[1242]: <warn> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.hostname: (4) GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
from mount:
/dev/mapper/luks-61967fe7-9143-45ea-aaf5-2e2697dbfeed on /run/media/pdupre/Verbatim3_pd2 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)
Then I umount all the usb key partition
and again the /var/log/messages:
Dec 13 11:45:29 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: ** Message: No devices in use, exit
Dec 13 11:50:15 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkit.service'
Dec 13 11:50:15 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkit.service'
Dec 13 11:50:15 Homere systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
Dec 13 11:50:15 Homere polkitd[29136]: Started polkitd version 0.107
Dec 13 11:50:15 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1'
Dec 13 11:50:15 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1'
Dec 13 11:50:15 Homere systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager.
Dec 13 11:53:47 Homere udisksd[2670]: Cleaning up mount point /run/media/pdupre/Verbatim3_pd1 (device 8:37 is not mounted)
Dec 13 11:53:47 Homere udisksd[2670]: Unmounted /dev/sdc5 on behalf of uid 1000
Dec 13 11:54:09 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:54:09 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Dec 13 11:54:09 Homere dbus-daemon[869]: dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 13 11:54:09 Homere dbus[869]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 13 11:54:14 Homere udisksd[2670]: Cleaning up mount point /run/media/pdupre/Verbatim3_pd2 (device 253:13 is not mounted)
Dec 13 11:54:14 Homere udisksd[2670]: Unmounted /dev/dm-13 on behalf of uid 1000
Dec 13 11:54:56 Homere udisksd[2670]: Cleaning up mount point /run/media/pdupre/VERBATIM_FA (device 8:33 is not mounted)
Dec 13 11:54:56 Homere udisksd[2670]: Unmounted /dev/sdc1 on behalf of uid 1000
Even after unmounting all the partitions, I can only kill the session to
start another one.
Thank.
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Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
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10 years, 6 months
What's wrong with yum in F19?
by Cristian Sava
Hi all,
I have a virtual install of F19 x64 and I want to update:
yum update
...
Transaction Summary
=================================================================================================
Upgrade 188 Packages
Total size: 143 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py:761: UnicodeWarning:
Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode -
interpreting them as being unequal
if checksum == sql_checksum:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 355, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 261, in main
return_code = base.doTransaction()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 769, in doTransaction
resultobject = self.runTransaction(cb=cb)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1782, in
runTransaction
self.skipped_packages, rpmdb_problems, cmdline)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 941, in
beg
pid = self.pkg2pid(txmbr.po)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 798, in
pkg2pid
return self._ipkg2pid(po, create)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 792, in
_ipkg2pid
return self._pkgtup2pid(po.pkgtup, csum, create)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 775, in
_pkgtup2pid
checksum))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/sqlutils.py", line 168, in
executeSQLQmark
return cursor.execute(query, params)
sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you
use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like
text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just
switch your application to Unicode strings.
I tried to fix this but "yum clean all", "rpmdb --initdb", "rpmdb
--rebuilddb" does not help.
Trying to update individual packages work for some, fail for others.
I can't update rpm, yum, python and others.
Any advice how to fix this?
Thanks,
C. Sava
10 years, 6 months
Fedora users in the East African region
by Michael L. Wilson
Dear Fedora community,
I am Michael Wilson, I currently serve as a project coordinator for a Tanzania-based non-governmental organization that is active in community development.
I write with an interest in learning of any members of the Fedora community that are based in East Africa, specifically in: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, or Rwanda.
We are looking for individuals who might have an interest in demonstrating the utility and benefits of Fedora and FOSS software during an upcoming conference in the region. The participants of the conference are expected from health-care, business, government and community-based organization.
NOTE: Others from elsewhere in the world who might be in the region and interested would also be welcome.
Those interested can PM me for more information.
--
Michael L. Wilson
PeerCorps Trust Fund - Tanzania
www.peercorpsglobal.org (Blog)
www.peercorpstrust.org (Web)
10 years, 6 months
auto-mounting removable drives
by Paul Allen Newell
Hello:
I am running F19 xfce on a 32bit box (fully updated at the time of this
test)
I have "Applications Menu -> Settings -> Removable Drives and Media" open
Under "Removable Storage":
[checked] Mount removable drives when hot-plugged
[checked] Mount removable drives when inserted
[checked] Browse removable media when inserted
[not checked] Auto-run programs on new drives and media
[not checked] Auto-open files on new drives and media
Nothing else is checked on this or all the other tabs.
Whether I hot-plug a memory stick into the computer or plug it in before
powering on, it never mounts the volume until I manually go to the icon
on the desktop and tell it to "please go mount yourself"
Am I not understanding the options under "Settings -> Removable Storage"?
I first encountered this in F16 under xfce but figured I wasn't
understanding something as I had just switched from F14 gnome where I
could hot-plug
I have three Linux boxes and it doesn't auto mount on any of them, so I
am not thinking it is a hardware problem to a particular machine.
This also happens with cd/dvd when inserted ... have to manually "please
go mount yourself" (and, yes, the phraseology is intentional as I am
rather frustrated by this)
Thanks in advance for any advice
Paul
10 years, 6 months
