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30 Apr '13

Yippie ki-yay! journalctl | grep systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer | wc -l 2750 :) systemd 197 +PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ poma

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Re: announcing paste.fedoraproject.org
by Ed Greshko 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

On 04/30/13 06:57, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm happy to announce that our sticky-notes pastebin service is fully > live and in service for any of your Fedora Project related pastebin > needs. > Nice to know..... I hardly ever use fpaste, but decided to try it today since the change was made. So, I simply used the first example in the man page.... [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ifconfig | fpaste -d "Test" Uploading (1.1KiB)... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fpaste", line 447, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/fpaste", line 414, in main [url, short_url] = paste(text, options) File "/usr/bin/fpaste", line 127, in paste response = json.loads(f.read()) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 326, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded") ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded This seems to be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888433 reported in December of last year with no action taken. :-( -- The only thing worse than a poorly asked question is a cryptic answer.

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Where is my Vbetool?
by Jean Francois Martinez 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Is there in F18 a successor to Vbetool? Its usefulness went far beyond setting the video at boot time. In sevaerl occassions I hacve had to kill X but this leaves the video card in a bad state and I can no longer have a text display until I reboot. In F17 vbetool could be used for resetting the video card to a sane state. Now I am forced to reboot. Unless there is a better successor vbetool should be reintroduced in Fedora. -- Jean François Martinez <jfm512(a)free.fr>

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Minor printing issue
by Joe Zeff 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Currently, I'm using F 17 and I have a reasonably new Canon MX410 printer. This works just fine except for one thing: it won't print pdf files, no matter what I do. (I've had this printer since before I had to re-install Fedora, and this has always been true; I just haven't taken the time to work out what's wrong before.) Both times that I've installed it, CUPS picked the printer right up and selected what appeared to be the right driver. (It picked the one with the correct make/model in the name.) I've checked with Canon, and they don't support Linux; all they could do was point me at Adobe, which didn't help at all. I've tried to run evince from the command line to see if there were any error messages and there weren't. Checking, I learned that both lp and lpr should be able to print pdf files from the command line, but both of them complain that the destination isn't listed. (TFM tells me that they both check $PRINTER and $LPDEST environment variables, but neither of them is set. I've used the CUPS interface to make sure that this is set as the default printer, closed and re-opened the terminal, but they're still not set. At least, echo $PRINTER and echo $LPDEST return a blank line. Replacing the printer is not an option because my income is very limited and, except for this it does everything I need. Does anybody have any suggestions, including further troubleshooting?

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Unrelieved black popups and message boxes
by Temlakos 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Everyone: I asked this before under a different heading, and no one answered. I get a large volume of e-mail, and very often I interact with a site that brings up a lot of message boxes, "suggestion boxes" (for auto-filling from a few keystroke clues), and bringing up apps after they were minimized to the system tray or the task bar. Now why is it that, after maybe two hours of operation, those popups come up and are totally black? The only way to solve the problem, that I have found, is to shut down. And even then, I can't even see what I'm doing, but have to guess where the icons are for executing a controlled shutdown. (I can always bring up a command-line login screen, log in as root, and then shut down. But that doesn't seem to solve the problem for the next session.) And when I log back on, everything's fine--until it starts happening again, after several more window draws. What could be causing this? Where do I even look for error logs and the like? I never had this problem in any other version of Fedora. I'm having it now, and it's driving me nuts. For the record, I used the "upgrading from F17 to F18 using yum" method. I even used the elaborate script that walks you through rpmnew and rpmsave reconciliation. And I've kept up with every system update since then. Actually, the problem began about three kernel updates back. Temlakos

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learning systemd: disable a "service" + create one to replace it
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi all, Configuration: F17 LXDE spin. I would like to 1°) disable LXDM launch 2°) launch a custom script i the place of it The custom script is just a one-liner: /usr/bin/X :1 -query my.session.server # chkconfig --list: livesys 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off livesys-late 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off netconsole 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off spice-vdagentd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off => I see no mention of "lxdm". I also tried: # find / -type f -name '*.service' => No mention of "lxdm". 1°) Where to find it, in order to disable it? 2°) Would you know a ressource if I want to make my custom script to be integrated to the systemd stuff, where to find how? https://www.google.com/search?q=custom+systemd+script is a bit messy... -- RMA.

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F17 LXDE spin: replace *DM systemd script for XDMCP
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi all, I have installed several F17 desktop with LXDE spin. It's OK. Now I have a F18 "server" (on a 1U racked server), where I enabled XDMCP. I want the F17 desktops to be the X clients of the server, in a simple way (users are not geeks). To achieve this, - I want the LXDM not to start (well "chkconfig lxdm off") - I want the F17 desktops to replace LXDM starting by the connection to the X server -- Custom init file? (tutorial?) How would you advice to do? I dont want to use FreeNX nor XNest nor VNC, but full XDMCP. Thank you in advance. -- RMA.

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F18 xfce 'parole' media player cant even play back MPEG1 vids... (fixed)
by Fernando Cassia 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

The Parole media player in F18/XFCE is utterly broken. First I downloaded a .mpg file (mpeg1). Tried to open it with Parole 0.3.0 as delivered on the F18 livecd. it failed. The message was a generic "Missing plugins to play this file" message. Then I updated it with yum, it installed Parole 0.5.0-1. On the new version, it changed the dialog to a much more helpful: "Parole needs MPEG-1 Video decoder to play this file. It can be installed automatically." It provides two buttons, one of which is "install". I click on it. Nothing happens. I repeat the operation, same results. Q: Does anybody even test this stuff? Another half hour going in circles. I read about gstreamer1 replacing gstreamer, I install gstreamer1-plugins-good-* gstreamer1-plugins-bad* same results, nothing happens, MPEG1 continues unplayable by Parole. I think "maybe Parole uses gstreamer not gstreamer1..." I yum install gstreamer-plugins-good and gstreamer-plugins-bad... still unplayable. In the end, you want to know what fixed it? I googled around for "fc18 rpm gstreamer-ffmpeg" and found this file ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/3/mirror/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-8.fc18.i686.rpm I did yum install ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/3/mirror/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-8.fc18.i686.rpm Bingo, Parole can play back mpeg1 files. It should be like this, if 'Parole' can't play back mpeg1 files natively with the codecs installed on the LiveCD, let's retire it from F18 XFCE, please... as usual just my $0.02 FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell

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virtio-net broken for Linux guest?
by Tommy Pham 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Hi, Is anyone having problem using virtio NICs for the Linux guest VMs (Ubuntu 12.10, CentOS 6.4, and Fedora 18)? My guests can ping any domain ( www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, etc) fine without any issues. However, when I do system updates (ie yum repolist, yum update, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade), it doesn't get out to the internet. But when I changed the NIC to e1000, everything works fine. I think the problem is with Linux implementation of virtio-net as guest because the same environment setup works fine for FreeBSD 8.x. TIA, Tommy

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How would a bad UPS affect only the network port
by Sam Varshavchik 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

I had a curious episode unfold over a course of a week involving a server running F18. I'm just trying to solve a little puzzle in the aftermath, as a mental excersize. I went through three bad UPSes. The manufacturer had a bad batch of UPSes. >From all appearances they worked when plugged into mains power. The server was up and running normally plugged into the UPS, which had mains power, but the bad UPSes wre draining their internal battery, even though they had main power. Each UPS lasted about a day before its battery went completely dead, it started beeping at me, with the server continuing to run on mains power. Here's the mystery. While I was dealing with that headache, the server started to drop off the network, maybe about every 5-6 hours, and stop responding to pings. The server itself, from all appearances, was running fine. I could log in on the console, everything seems to be working, except that it wasn't on the network. ifdown/ifup didn't help, ifup was getting stuck getting its IP address from DHCP. The switch had the server port lit, and blinking, as it was trying to contact the DHCP server, but the server wasn't getting its IP address. About 20% of the time, unplugging the cable and plugging it back in worked. A reboot always worked. The server would reboot, come up on the network, have no problem talking to the DHCP server, and run fine for a few hours before it stops responding to pings again. Anyway, while I was dealing with the UPSes, I also thought that I had this server's onboard NIC was going bad, and started getting quotes for a replacement server. But, after finally putting the server on a good, working UPS, it stopped having any kind of problems whatsoever with the network. It's perfectly fine. So, that leaves me wondering how a bad UPS would affect a server's network port, and only its network port. As I understand it, with main power, the UPS is pretty much out of the loop, and it kicks in only if mains power is lost.

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