Update broke OpenJDK
by Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello,
I just had a yum update of OpenJDK, and as a result, the "java" command
simply does nothing, regardless of arguments.
Best,
Oliver
--
Oliver Ruebenacker
Founder at Relomics Consulting <http://www.relomics.com>
Be always grateful, but never satisfied.
9 years, 11 months
Thunderbolt support?
by Henrik Frisk
Hi,
I'm seeing different things about thunderbolt support and Linux. Anyone
have any experience? Specifically I would like to connect a PCIe
thunderbolt expansion unit to my MBP running Fedora 20. It is my impression
it will not work...
Best,
/Henrik
9 years, 11 months
Create virt F20 on new physical /dev/sda -> OK; boot live F20 on /dev/sda now fails
by Philip Rhoades
People,
For the last few versions of Fedora (x86_64) I have been going through
this process:
- install a new SATA drive as /dev/sda
- boot to the previous Fedora now on /dev/sdb
- create a new virtual system using the latest Fedora on the new
physical drive on /dev/sda
- get the new virtual Fedora on /dev/sda as ready as possible
- then re-boot to the new live system on /dev/sda
This process has been working fine for the last few versions but now for
going from F19 to F20 and booting on the new F20 the process stops at:
[OK] Reached target Paths
[OK] Reached target Basic System
I can still do a live boot on /dev/sdb and run the new F20 as a virt
machine using physical drive /dev/sda OK but it was a nice process to
reduce down time to be able to get the new Fedora as ready as possible
as a virtual machine and then reboot it as the live machine. Has
something changed that stops me doing this now?
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
9 years, 11 months
f20 first boot screens on a 1280x768 video
by Robert Moskowitz
OK, this is really with Fedora-arm 20, but it is still first boot.
The system I am installing on physically has a hdmi p1080 video, but via
an hdmi/vga adapter (that still supports p1080) goes through a KVM that
only supports 1024x1024 to a 16:9 monitor so all I get is 1024x768.
This is not a problem, operationally, but first boot is not smart for
screen sizing.
Thus on the set root password screen (and I am assuming the create user
screen) the OK button is not visible. What is the keystroke to accept
what I entered?
thanks
9 years, 11 months
replacement for seamonkey?
by lee
Hi,
are we going to need a replacement for seamonkey which comes without
restrictions management, and will there be one in Fedora?
--
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
9 years, 11 months
input devices
by lee
Hi,
what would be the device for a Kensington Slimblade which is connected
to a PS/2 port with an USB-->PS/2 adapter? The device doesn`t seem to
appear anywhere when connected like that.
And what are virtual keyboards for, and why do I supposedly have two
power buttons?
,----
| ~ $ xinput --list
| ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
| ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
| ⎜ ↳ Kensington Kensington Slimblade Trackball id=8 [slave pointer (2)]
| ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
| ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
| ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
| ↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
| ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
| ~ $
`----
There is only one power button, and it is not at the keyboard.
--
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
9 years, 11 months
Installing with F20 installer report (and failure)
by lee
This is a bit long:
installation on a laptop:
boot live system and select install to disk
The screen brightness is adjustable by only two steps and the screen is
way too bright at almost maximum.
The built-in dedicated graphics card is not used but not switched off,
either. The resulting power drain would make it impossible to complete
the installation on battery power.
Language selection is confusing because you have to discover the
Continue button, which is located out of sight far off at the right edge
of the screen.
Tapping on the scratchpad doesn`t have any effect (should simulate a
mouse click). Scrolling with two fingers doesn`t work, either. At
least the scratchpad is working (fortunately, it does have buttons).
Keyboard selection should be a step within language selection rather
than an extra step.
Network configuration doesn`t have any way to enter the IP address.
Installation Destination ... The disks show up, but how the hell do I
create a software raid-1 from them?? There are no options to do
anything like that. Well, I`ve selected the disks now, which is pretty
weird and confusing. I want to create a raid and not select them.
Why is the Done button so inconveniently placed at the left top of the
screen? Why not out of sight like the Continue button, or better, under
the "Add a disk" button ...
The installer claims I have 659.36GB of free space, which is
incorrect. The disks I have selected are shown as 715.40GB each (which
is about right), which makes 1430.8GB and not 659.36GB.
Why is LVM a default "Partition scheme" (whatever that means)? I have
no use for lvm.
Let`s say "I want more space" ... and "Standard Partition" (whatever
that is) and "Encrypt my data and set a passphrase later".
Continue and I`m asked for a passphrase! That was supposed to happen
LATER, not NOW ... So enter a passphrase ... Now I can either "Cancel"
or "Save Passphrase". Seriously? Where is my passphrase saved? I
suppose I could as well write it on a sticker and glue it to the monitor
...
Hm, ok delete all partitions. Now I could begin the installation. But
how do I install on software raid-1?? Why can`t I do that and partition
the disks after I deleted all partitions? Is the installation now going
to proceed without partitions?
So select a destination again ... and to review/modify the partitions.
Now it`s asking me a passphrase again --- wasn`t that saved? There are
dots in the entry fields, so which passphrase is it using? Better enter
that again ... and save it to where ever :(
Now I can apparently create mount points. Why would I create mount
points before making a raid and before creating partitions?? Why can`t
I just press the + key rather having to click the + button?
I don`t like this installer ...
Hm, now I can only create a mount point but no raid :( It says at the
bottom that two storage devices are selected, which looks like a link.
And when I click on it, it shows two disks in a window, one of them is
marked as "Boot".
Why can`t change that? I don`t want to boot from that disk ... So
perhaps let`s make two small partitions to be mounted as /boot, one of
which is going to be a mirror of the other. Perhaps the installer then
finally lets me create a raid-1 ...
Hmm ... let`s make that 512M ... There we go, finally I can say that
this partition is supposed to be RAID --- which probably doesn`t work
anyway, but since it`s allowed, I make it RAID-1 with ext4.
+ swap 64GB: Is that going to be on the raid or what? It says sda2, so
apparently not :( Now fiddle around to get the swap on the raid
... which seems actually easy to do, same as with /boot.
+ /usr, 16GB, RAID, ext4, encrypt
Now why does the swap partition displayed after /usr rather than before
it where I put it??? Anyway ...
+ /usr/local, 8GB, RAID, ext4, encrypt --- why does the cursor disappear
when pressing the Tab key rather going into the "Capacity" field? Why
does nothing happen when I press Return after entering "8G"?
Strange, the available disk space on the left disk is decreasing while
the it stays the same on the right one. Where is it going to put the
raid?
+ /var, 512GB, RAID, ext4, encrypted
+ /home, 8GB, RAID, ext4, encrypted
That`s ok so far, I`m done. ...
WOW! The settings I made are going to destroy devices! They don`t only
destroy data and partitions, they actually destroy devices. Should I
accept that?
Let`s see ... Hm, why is it asking me for the passphrase again? At
least typing it so many times helps me to remember it.
But now there is an error with checking the storage configuration.
Hm. Ah, hm, I don`t have defined a root partition. Modify Storage
Layout ...
Ugh. Do I seriously have to start all over again?? :((((
Great, I must enter the passphrase again ... What was it saved for
earlier? Or wasn`t it?
But at least I don`t need to start over with the partitioning :)
+ /, 8GB, RAID, ext4, encrypted --- that the Tab key doesn`t work is
really annoying ...
Done, destroy devices, enter passphrase again --- this now annoys me,
too.
There is no way to tell what passphrase is going to be used because the
entry fields are full of dots, so you have to enter it all the time.
Either omit the dots or don`t keep asking. If not asking, add a button
to change the passphrase.
Finally I can begin the installation. This took about an hour so far.
And so far, this installer is WAYYYY better than the Fedora ones I`ve
seen before. Lots of thanks goes to the developers!
But only so far. The installation finished, and I can`t boot. Only
thing I`m getting is a dot at the top left of the screen and a blinking
cursor underneath.
Now what? Enter the passphrase? That doesn`t have any effect. Have
some devices been destroyed?
--
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
9 years, 11 months
Moving Fedora system to new disk
by Timothy Murphy
I'm planning on moving the Fedora-20 system on my laptop
to a new hard disk (500GB instead of 80GB).
I've partitioned the new disk.
When I copy partitions from the old disk to the new one
with "cp -a" (running under a Fedora Live CD)
I get a lot of messages of the form
diff: a/bin/acroread: No such file or directory
diff: b/bin/acroread: No such file or directory
All the messages concern symbolic links.
I see in "man cp" that "cp -a" included
"--no-dereference never follow symbolic links in SOURCE"
Does this mean cp is not an appropriate way to copy partitions?
I thought of using dd, but the partitions are not the same size,
and I was not sure if this would cause problems.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
9 years, 11 months
CUPS service does not running F18
by David Carpio
Hello everybody:
A month ago when I start Fedora I have the same problem the system shows
me this message:
Process /usr/cupsd was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
And I cannot enter to CUPS interface
http://127.0.0.1:631
I have reinstalled again and again but it is the same result.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
David
9 years, 11 months
perl6 problem
by Manfred Lotz
Hi there,
Running perl6 gives:
Missing or wrong version of dependency 'gen/parrot/stage2/QRegex.nqp'
current instr.: '' pc 16529 (src/gen/perl6-pod.pir:6594)
(src/Perl6/Pod.nqp:499) called from Sub '' pc 1819
(gen/parrot/stage2/module_loader.pir:848)
(src/vm/parrot/ModuleLoader.nqp:47) called from Sub '' pc 1847
(gen/parrot/stage2/module_loader.pir:857)
(src/vm/parrot/ModuleLoader.nqp:55) called from Sub 'load_module' pc
1715 (gen/parrot/stage2/module_loader.pir:796)
(src/vm/parrot/ModuleLoader.nqp:52) called from Sub '' pc 195128
(src/gen/perl6-actions.pir:78209) (src/Perl6/Actions.nqp:7241) called
from Sub '' pc 1819 (gen/parrot/stage2/module_loader.pir:848)
(src/vm/parrot/ModuleLoader.nqp:47) called from Sub '' pc 1847
(gen/parrot/stage2/module_loader.pir:857)
(src/vm/parrot/ModuleLoader.nqp:55) called from Sub 'load_module' pc
1715 (gen/parrot/stage2/module_loader.pir:796)
(src/vm/parrot/ModuleLoader.nqp:52) called from Sub '' pc 365992
(src/gen/perl6-grammar.pir:127146) (src/Perl6/Grammar.nqp:4397) called
from Sub '' pc 1819 (gen/parrot/stage2/module_loader.pir:848)
(src/vm/parrot/ModuleLoader.nqp:47) called from Sub '' pc 1847
(gen/parrot/stage2/module_loader.pir:857)
(src/vm/parrot/ModuleLoader.nqp:55) called from Sub 'load_module' pc
1715 (gen/parrot/stage2/module_loader.pir:796)
(src/vm/parrot/ModuleLoader.nqp:52) called from Sub '' pc 753
(src/gen/perl6.pir:290) (gen/parrot/main.nqp:60)
I have installed:
parrot-6.1.0-1.fc20.x86_64
rakudo-star-0.0.2014.03_6.1.0-1.fc20.x86_64
nqp-0.0.2014.03-2.fc20.x86_64
Any idea what I could do?
--
Manfred
9 years, 11 months
