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reading adobe comments on pdf using OSS on F20
by Ranjan Maitra 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Hello, I have been given a pdf file with comments written in Adobe. All I get are tiny yellow balloons with (physical) lines indicating that there are comments in them. The comments themselves are unreadable. Is there some OSS that can read them? I am using an up-to-date F20 (as of last night). Many thanks, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth

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advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches
by M. Fioretti 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Greetings, a while ago, I noticed that on my Fedora box digiKam would not load and display picture galleries anymore, and when launched from the prompt would produce this message: digikam(14981)/digikam (core): Reached inotify limit which IIUC means this is a general problem on that computer, not digikam specific. An online search returned always the same "fix" described e.g. at http://monodevelop.com/Inotify_watches_limit, that is: ################################################################## To change the limit, run: # echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches To make the change permanent, edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and add this line to the end of the file: fs.inotify.max_user_watches=16384 ################################################################## (the current value now is 8192) I could not, however, find any clear (to me at least) explanation of possible unwanted side-effects of this. Should I check/do something else (but what?) or can I safely apply those suggestions and reboot? Is there risk that doing that stuff "as is" messes things up and forces me to spend a day or so recovering the system? Thanks, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you

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Need advice
by Rachmayanto Surjadi 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi all: We are developing internal software using MySql dB and are planning to use Fedora for the server. The question is how do we know that this hardware (motherboard, CPU) really support Fedora version 18 or 19? We are looking at mobo from Asus or Intel or Gigabyte, but did not find firm answer. We did not find the info from mobo websites either. The mobo that got our interest are the ones with H77 or Z77 or H87 chipsets. Is there any URL for me to get the information we need? Thanks in advance. Regards, Rachma

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Fresh Install of F20 failed to install bootloader
by Arthur Dent 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

I have finally found the time to upgrade my desktop machine from (ahem) F16 to F20. It is my habit to have 2xOS partitions, 1 partition for /home and 1 for swap. Each time I upgrade I actually do a clean install in the last-but-one OS partition (i.e. in this case where the F15 had previously been) leaving the current (i.e. in this case F16) untouched. This way I can simply mount the previous install and copy across any configs etc. I used a (tested) F20 64bit full install DVD (not the live disk). I could make neither head nor tail of the new anaconda partitioning system (and I still don't know if I will have successfully pointed the F20 install to the existing /home partition - I know it seemed to insist on creating it's own /swap even though there is a partition dedicated to that and formatted as such for the existing F16 install). Anyway the first attempt failed completely - locking at the screen where you have to create a root password and user. The second attempt seemed to go through OK, installing all the packages etc. but I had to take a phone call at the point where it said it was doing "post-installation configuration". By the time I came back, the screen was informing me that Fedora 20 had been successfully installed - reboot to start using it. The reboot put me back into my old F16 install (at least I know that hasn't been screwed up!) with the grub menu offering me only varying kernels from F16. It seems F20 has not installed the bootloader properly. What are the steps for getting F20 to boot (while, if possible still giving me the option to boot into F16)? Thanks Mark

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Tiering FS
by Will Yonker 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi, Has anyone tried a tiering filesystem like one of these? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113529 http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?p=776 I've read that btrfs can do it also but is that stable enough for production yet? If you have used any of the above, did it perform well? As always, thanks ahead of time. --- Will Y. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Graphical tool that sets hostname
by Chris Kottaridis 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

I installed Fedora 19 and the machine gets IP address from DHCP and comes up with a hostname of: $ hostname unknownF46D04B04638 I'd like to set the hostname to match the DNS name that goes with the Address it's getting assigned. I believe I could use: $ hostnamectl --static myhost will set the hostname to myhost. However, is there a graphical admin tool that will do it ? In older releases network manager had an option to set the hostname, but doesn't seem to now. Thanks Chris Kottaridis

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dnf-0.5.0
by Ales Kozumplik 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi, the 0.5.0 is out today, Rawhide only for the moment. See also: dnf.baseurl.org/2014/04/23/dnf-0-5-0-released/ http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/release_notes.html#id31 Cheers, Ales

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Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-04-22)
by Matthew Miller 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Reposted from http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-04-22/ Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each. Here are the five things for April 22nd, 2014: Making it easier to join Fedora ------------------------------- The Fedora Join SIG is our special interest group dedicated to improving the experience for new contributors. It’s been dormant for a while, but it’s back with a bang thanks to Ankur Sinha, Amita Sharma, Sarup Banskota, and others. A recent IRC meeting came up with a couple of immediate ideas, including a Fedora site inspired by What can I do for Mozilla? If making Fedora more welcoming is interesting to you, join the mailing list and help keep up the momentum. * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-04-16/fedora_join_irc_… * http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-join Fedora Docs “Beats” ------------------- Speaking of things you can do for Fedora… how about contributing expertise in your area for the Fedora 21 release notes? I know F21′s October release target seems a long way off, but there’s a lot to do and the summer is going to fly by. Docs team leader Pete Travis recently announced that F21 Beats are Open, noting: > If you’re new to Docs, Beat writing is a good way to get > started. Simply choose a package, service, or functionality > that interests you and do a little research to see how will > change in F21. You can check rawhide package changelogs, read > the software changelogs in /usr/share/doc/$pkgname, scrape > upstream mailing lists and commit logs, and /reach out to > package maintainers or developers. As always, Pete also provides great, non-intimidating guidance for new docs contributors. * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2014-April/015583.html Fedora Workstation, and an alternate view — both part of Fedora! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Workstation developer Christian Schaller wrote a long blog post explaining some of the mindset and background behind the upcoming Fedora Workstation. If you care about Linux on the desktop, this is an interesting read, whether you’re a GNOME fan or not (and whether or not you agree). And if you *do* disagree, remember that that’s absolutely okay too. Longtime Fedora contributor Stephen Smoogen (a self-described “411 year old Linux administrator”) has a great blog post responding to one particular Fedora Workstation decision and why he’s not worried. Our “Fedora.next” efforts are additive rather than restrictive, and are centered around our Friends Foundation; we may disagree on details, but we can all work together to advance free software as a project. * http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2014/04/16/preparing-the-ground-for-the-fedor… * http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2014/04/why-i-am-not-worried-about-lack-of.… * http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-upda… * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations Fedora Atomic? -------------- At last week’s Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced a new initiative called Project Atomic. This isn’t really new software, or a new operating system or distribution — it’s best described as a pattern for putting together some pieces we already have. Not surprisingly, a lot of these pieces were (and are) worked on by Fedora contributors, including rpm-ostree, Docker, systemd, and a new orchestration building-block called GearD (you can read more about GearD on the OpenShift blog and of course you can `yum install geard` to check it out). So… (you may be thinking…) how does this fit into Fedora? Well, most of these are parts that we have already been talking about in the Fedora Cloud Working Group, and it may be that GearD provides one of the key missing pieces. We’ve filed a Fedora 21 change proposal for a specially-tailored Docker Host Image, and although we haven’t made any decisions yet, it - looks like the Atomic patterns are very well aligned with what we want to do (and overlap with what we are already doing anyway), so that may end up being our “Fedora Atomic” cloud spin. One of the pieces of Project Atomic that the Cloud WG *hadn’t* looked at is Cockpit, a web-based server management GUI. The interesting thing is that this is one of the key features proposed for Fedora Server, and if we decide to include that part in our Docker cloud image, that will be a point of coherence across the products. (See the Project Atomic docs on what that might provide.) * http://www.redhat.com/summit/2014/updates/ * http://www.projectatomic.io/ * https://www.openshift.com/blogs/geard-the-intersection-of-paas-docker-and-p… * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Docker_Cloud_Image * http://cockpit-project.org/ "Cockpit Project" * http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/cockpit/ Automatic Weekly Data! ---------------------- If I had been paying attention and knew about <http://thisweekinfedora.org/> before I started doing these posts, I might have named *this* something a bit less similar. Oh well! Names aside, though, these articles and that site are actually complementary. I pick out things to feature as they strike my attention, while This Week in Fedora presents automatically-collected statistics every Monday. You won’t really learn any *news*there, but you will find data on all sorts of contributor activities, from package builds to user creation to meetings logged. If you’re data-oriented, it’s an interesting way to get a feel for the technical pulse of the community. * http://thisweekinfedora.org/ -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> "Tepid change for the somewhat better!"

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Problem with sound and Firefox
by don fisher 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

When I boot my system I can play music etc. using Rhythmnbox. I also can use the volume control. After running Firefox, the pulse application is gone (pulseaudio --check returns a 1) and I am not able to restart it. But the audio from firefox which must not be using pulse still works fine. Sorry, but I am forced to run an old version of the kernel (version 3.1.0-7.fc16.x86_64) to get video to work in my Dell 1721 laptop with a Radeon video card. The message in /var/log/messages is: Apr 20 15:52:52 dfpc47 kernel: [20655807.089535] rhythmbox[28699]: segfault at 0 ip 00000032888c46e1 sp 00007fff5cf30a00 error 4 in librhythmbox-core.so.4.0.0[3288800000+127000] Apr 20 15:52:54 dfpc47 abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-2014-04-20-15:52:52-28699' creation detected Apr 20 15:52:54 dfpc47 abrt[28741]: Saved core dump of pid 28699 (/usr/bin/rhythmbox) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2014-04-20-15:52:52-28699 (113676288 bytes) Apr 20 15:52:54 dfpc47 abrtd: Size of '/var/spool/abrt' >= 1000 MB, deleting 'ccpp-2014-02-05-17:26:08-2212' Apr 20 15:52:57 dfpc47 abrtd: New problem directory /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2014-04-20-15:52:52-28699, processing Apr 20 15:53:42 dfpc47 pulseaudio[28780]: socket-server.c: bind(): Address already in use Apr 20 15:53:42 dfpc47 pulseaudio[28780]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-esound-protocol-unix" (argument: ""): initialization failed. I find the segfault is rough to decode form the core dump. Is there something special I need to set up to prevent firefox from killing pulse? Please have mercy. It has been a couple of years since I posted. Don

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Q about firefox version numbers
by Mike Wright 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

Hi all, Does anybody know what the corelation between fedora package version numbers and mozilla version numbers? e.g. While looking into CSS3 compatibility everybody refers to firefox-3.x; but fedora firefox->about reports firefox 26.0. Hard to imagine fedora is 23 major versions ahead of mozilla's major version. Any insight? Thanks

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