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"liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?
by Robert P. J. Day 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

background: i'm teaching a linux admin class next week and i will be supplied with laptops for the students that i've been asked *not* to overwrite, so my plan is to create bootable *and writable* USB drives for everyone. (the course will actually run on RHEL/centos 6.5 but i'm assuming my question is still relevant.) as i read it (and i could be totally misunderstanding what i'm reading), "liveusb-creator" does *not* give me a writable system, while "livecd-iso-to-disk" can, using the "--overlay-size-mb" option. i'm going to be getting the laptops on very short notice so i want to create a number of bootable, writable USB drives. has anyone else done this? am i right in concluding that "livecd-iso-to-disk" is the way to go? (and would this also work similarly for centos 6.5?) thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================

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Changed behavior when middle clicking URL in mutt
by Steve Searle 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

I used to middle click a URL in a mutt email, and it would open in my web browser (Firefox). Now when I do so it prints it, including all headers. If I change my mutt config to include print="ask-yes", it displays a "key is not bound message". Right clicking on the link displays a (GUI) menu with various options, including "Open Link". I run GNOME, and mutt is run in a GNOME terminal. I think this change happened when I moved to Fedora 20, but I am not certain. Can anyone advise how I can get back to the original behaviour? Thanks Steve -- Website: www.stevesearle.com 17:41:32 up 27 days, 1:10, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.09, 0.03

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Root Frustrations
by mike 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

In conjunction with a major hardware upgrade I started looking into upgrading the software from the Fedora 14 my web servers are on now to either Fedora 19 or 20. I started loading them up on an in-house test server. I have come to the conclusion that the powers that be have finally totally prevented root from logging into a graphic environment. Before the deluge of why root should not log in, I have some reasons that deal with the way I remote in from on the road (which is a lot). I have searched everywhere I can think of and cannot find a way to allow root to login as the easy to fix block in gdm seems to be gone. Any ideas? Mike D.

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Fedora 20 on i686 machine
by Kevin Wilson 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hi, I installed today Fedora 20 on i686 machine. When I ran uname -r I so that the kernel I have is: 3.11.10-301.fc20.i686 + PAE Is the PAE kernel for i686 the default one ? or maybe I missed something in the installation ? regards, Kevin

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No Catalyst in RPM Fusion for F20, no updates for F19 -- any ideas going forward
by Steven Rosenberg 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

As many of you may know, the maintainer of the AMD Catalyst driver in RPM Fusion has decided to stop work on the package, and as a result there is no packaged version of the Catalyst/fglrx driver for Fedora 20 -- and no updates of the driver for Fedora 19. Yes, the Radeon driver has made great strides in recent months, but for my hardware -- a newish AMD APU -- the Catalyst driver is still far and away better in terms of speed, CPU load and functionality. I recommend NEVER installing AMD Catalyst directly from upstream, but I've tried over the past few days -- against my own advice -- to do just that. I have been unsuccessful in installing Catalyst (and still don't recommend doing it). I'd love to know enough about Fedora, video drivers and the like to do the packaging of Catalyst myself, but I am not anywhere near being able to do that (especially since I can't even get the upstream code to install successfully). Using the open Radeon driver is great if that's what you want to do, and in the past I've been among those who would rather run the free driver because of all the advantages it provides by not being closed-source. But now I find myself wanting and needing Catalyst, and in Fedora 20 I'm unable to get it. If there were any advance warning, I would have NEVER upgraded from F19 to F20 and would have avoided new kernels until the situation was somehow resolved. I like freedom, but part of that is freedom of choice, and right now freedom of choice and the best technical solution are really lacking for AMD video in Fedora. I've seen some talk here and there about the lack of AMD Catalyst packaged for Fedora, but overall I hear a collective "meh" from the community. There's a lot to like about Fedora, and I'd love to stay with it, but the lack of this driver in the short term is really driving me away. Maybe the Linux kernel, Mesa, Xorg, or something else will improve performance on my hardware, but the promise of greatly improved performance right now in just about any other distribution makes it hard for me to stick with Fedora. If nobody cares, and nothing's going to change in terms of a packaged Catalyst, I'd sure like to know now. But as a formerly happy Fedora user, this is pretty much a deal-breaker for me. -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs.dailynews.com/click

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Hi Res Screen help
by CS DBA 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hi All; I've installed Fedora 20 on a Dell XPS 15 with a 3200x1800 screen It works well but I need a magnifying glass to see the text. I tried going into system settings for KDE and setting the default dpi which sort of works for appps but I still have a teeny tiny start menu and taskbar (and login screen) If I set the screen resolution to something less than the 3200x1800 I get black lines on the sides... The laptop has an Nvidia graphics card, any thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks in advance

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Menu item icons
by Marco Maccaferri 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hi, I have installed Fedora 20 and found that the menu items are no longer displaying the icons. I recalled that this was a setting in Gnome but the fixes I found are no longer working. How can I restore the menu icons ? Regards, Marco.

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SSHD ??
by Mickey 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Fedora 118 What is wrong with these settings ? I set the firewall-cmd ssh port 7777, but it's listening on port 35881. How do I fix this ?? # systemctl status sshd.service sshd.service - OpenSSH server daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2014-01-11 23:31:54 EST; 24s ago Process: 1908 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/sshd-keygen (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1918 (sshd) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/sshd.service └─1918 /usr/sbin/sshd -D Jan 11 23:31:54 BigOne sshd-keygen[1908]: Generating SSH2 ECDSA host key: [ OK ] Jan 11 23:31:54 BigOne systemd[1]: Started OpenSSH server daemon. Jan 11 23:31:54 BigOne sshd[1918]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 35881. Jan 11 23:31:54 BigOne sshd[1918]: Server listening on :: port 35881.

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Doing sudo fedup --network 19 --debuglog fedupdebug.log screwed up my system
by Paolo Galtieri 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

I decided to upgrade my F18 system to F19. After updating the F18 system to the latest updates and installing fedup I ran: sudo fedup --network 19 --debuglog fedupdebug.log This completed without errors. I then rebooted and selected the option to upgrade the system. After several hours there was no progress so I rebooted expecting I could try again. No such luck, after rebooting all I got was a blinking cursor. So I booted off an F18 DVD, selected troubleshooting and again all I got was a blinking cursor, and after a few seconds the system rebooted. How do I recover my system? Any help is appreciated. Paolo

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unable to add online accounts in Gnome
by SternData 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

I had Google connected for a while, but dropped that. Today, I decided I'd try setting up some other online account stuff. When I click PREFERENCES -> ONLINE accounts, the dialog opens, but the big "add an online account" button does nothing and the "+" button at the bottom of the empty list of accounts is grayed out. -- -- Steve

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