Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-06-03)
by Matthew Miller
Reposted from
http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-06-03/
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 June 3rd, 2014:
New Fedora Project Leader
-------------------------
So, there is a new Fedora Project Leader, and, despite inital rumors,
it’s not an anthropomorphic hotdog. I'm excited to be able to say: it's
me. I wrote a blog post about it: First Thoughts as Fedora Project
Leader.
Right now, the practical consequence is that this is going to be a more
terse 5tFTW than usual. (I’m sure there will be more consequences
later.)
And, of course, thanks again to outgoing FPL Robyn Bergeron! Don't miss
her "parting thoughts" blog post.
* http://fedoramagazine.org/is-this-the-new-fedora-project-leader/
* http://fedoramagazine.org/first-thoughts-as-fedora-project-leader/
* http://robyn.io/2014/06/03/new-fpl/
Bodhi2 and Taskotron Activity Day
---------------------------------
Bodhi is Fedora’s system for pushing out security and bugfix updates.
Taskotron is our new system for QA automation. The former is getting a
much-needed update and integration with the latter at the Bodhi2 and
Taskotron Fedora Activity Days going on right now in Denver, Colorado.
Fedora Infrastructure Lead Kevin Fenzi has reports from day 1 and day
2.
* http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Taskotron
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Bodhi2_Taskotron_2014
* http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2014/06/01/bodhi2-taskotron-fad-day-1/
* http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2014/06/03/bodhi2-taskotron-fad-day-2/
Fedora Server / CentOS SLS
--------------------------
As part of the new community-based direction, the CentOS project has
several new Special Interest Groups around Storage, Virtualization,
and so on. There is a proposal to create a Simplified Linux Server
(SLS) SIG. This has the mission to deliver
> [...] turnkey CentOS-based solutions that are managed via a web and/or
> REST-based interface. The focus is on taking the various application
> silos and providing a cohesive solution to simplify deployment and
> maintenance.
This has a lot of overlap with the upcoming Fedora Server, and the
groups working on each had a joint meeting to discuss common goals and
sharing effort. It looks like this will be a productive collaboration
for users and developers of both distros.
* http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup
* http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SLS]%20(not%20to%20be%20confu...'s%20Softlanding%20Linux%20System](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlandin...
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server
* https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/server/2014-May/001135.html
Fedora Regional Community Index
-------------------------------
This one isn’t new, but it’s one of those things that’s been around for
a while which many people may not be aware of: the Region-Specific
Fedora Websites index, at http://fedoracommunity.org/. This site lists
different domains and subdomains with local resources all around the
world. Check it out to find groups in your area which you might not
have been aware of, or just to see what Fedora looks like around the
globe.
* http://fedoracommunity.org/
FUDCon Beijing 2014 Reports
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FUDCon APAC (Asia-Pacific) was held last month in Beijing, China.
Reports are in from Aditya Patawari, Ankur Sinha, Somvannda Kong,
Nitesh Narayan Lal, Jiří Eischmann, and Robert Mayr.
* http://devel.adityapatawari.com/2014/05/fudcon-beijing-day-1/
* http://ankursinha.in/blog/2014/05/29/fudcon-beijing-day-1-and-day-0/
* http://fedoracambodia.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/my-first-trip-of-fedora-pr...
* http://niteshnarayanlal.blogspot.com/2014/05/fudcon-beijing-2014-kick-off...
* http://eischmann.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/fudcon-apac-2014-in-beijing/
* http://morefedora.blogspot.com/2014/06/fudcon-apac-beijing-day-0-robert-m...
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
9 years, 10 months
no minimized icons
by Randolph Jones
I am running fc14. gnome 2.32.0
recently desktop behaviour changed in that when I minimize firefox or
openoffice, no icon appears in the toll bar at the bottom of the screen.
the programs are sleeping. I can restart firefox with alt+tab, but this
has no effect on openoffice.
any ideas?
TIA
rfjones
9 years, 10 months
QuickSynergy
by Liam Proven
Has anyone successfully got this working between two Fedora 20 machines?
The app says that the default port -- 24800 -- is not available. I
don't know why, I can't see anything taking it in the firewall or
anything, but anyway, changing to different ports doesn't seem to
help... the client and server never connect.
Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to start to troubleshoot this?
Thanks in advance.
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9 years, 10 months
Trying to ping from a subinterface.
by CLOSE Dave
On Fedora 20 x86_64.
According to "man ping", ping should work from a subinterface specifying
either the interface name or its address:
> -I interface
> interface is either an address, or an interface name. If inter‐
> face is an address, it sets source address to specified inter‐
> face address. If interface in an interface name, it sets source
> interface to specified interface.
I've got a subinterface and I'm trying to ping from it.
> # ifconfig eth3:sub1
> eth3:sub1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 172.17.30.143 netmask 255.255.254.0 broadcast 172.17.31.255
> ether 90:e2:ba:34:46:41 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
> device memory 0xdc7e0000-dc800000
If I ping from the address, it works as specified. If I specify the
interface name instead, I see:
> # ping -I eth3:sub1 172.17.30.1
> ping: SO_BINDTODEVICE: Invalid argument
Investigating a little deeper:
> # strace ping -I eth3:sub1 172.17.30.1
> execve("/usr/bin/ping", ["ping", "-I", "eth3:sub1", "172.17.30.1"], [/* 38 vars */]) = 0
> ...
> setsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BINDTODEVICE, "eth3:sub1\0", 13) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)
> ...
> +++ exited with 2 +++
Any thoughts?
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Dave Close
9 years, 10 months
Adding minimal X windows
by Matthew Saltzman
I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop. It turns
out, no X server is installed at all in that case. I'd like to add a
minimal X server without adding a complete desktop environment, so I can
log in remotely and run system configuration tools. The documentation
I've found suggests
yum groupinstall "Basic X Window System"
or
yum groupinstall "X Window System"
but neither of those groups exist. There is a Basic Desktop group, but
it installs a bunch of unnecessary desktop tools.
What's the best way to get just a basic X server in Fedora 20?
TIA.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
9 years, 10 months
Samsung ML-2165W printer help
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux
support. Downloaded and installed the driver (it claims installation
successful).
The user manual seems to be flat out wrong. The Linux install
directions seem to be for Windows.
"--------------------
When the Administrator Login window appears, type "root" in the Login
field and enter the system password.
You must log in as a super user (root) to install the machine software.
If you are not a super user, ask your system administrator.
From the Samsung website, download the Unified Linux Driver package to
your computer.
Right-click the Unified Linux Driver package and extract the package.
Double click cdroot > autorun.
"--------------------
Note: there is no such named package and their is neither a file named
"cdroot" nor one named "autorun".
At any rate, when I attempt to print a page the printer's activity light
flashes for a long time then stops. CUPS reports "completed".
This occurs regardless of whether there is paper loaded or not.
Cups isn't being very helpful here either. Almost anything
administrator related tells me "Forbidden", but nowhere can I find a way
to "Login" to it.
Part of me says the driver doesn't work and part of me says the printer
is DOA.
Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model?
Thanks for any help or tips,
Mike Wright
9 years, 10 months
Live USB: Persistent Overlay full so system won't boot. Snapshot Invalid
by Rahul Nabar
I accidentally managed to fill up the live-rw overlay and now my
system won't boot. It falls to the dracut emergency shell complaining
that it cannot mount the root partition.
Logs say:
EXT-4-fs (dm-0): unable to read superblock
SQUASHFS error: squashfs read data failed to read block 0x0
unable to read squashfs_super_block
Can't mount root file system
I've been trying to fix this following instructions at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image#Merge_overlay_into_new_image
The key step is:
# echo $'\x01' | dd of=/path/to/overlay-file bs=1 count=1 seek=4 conv=notrunc
But I'm stuck because I'm not sure what /path/to/overlay-file is for
me. Neither of the mentioned files seem present, at least in the
dracut emergency shell.
# dmsetup status does show "live-rw: 0 8388608 snapshot Invalid"
Is this the right way to fix this? Where do I find the right overlay
file to flip the Invalid bit at? Would love to get any advice on this.
Right now I'm stuck with a non-booting system and no way to recover
any data I had on it.
9 years, 11 months
Caching nameserver for home network
by Matthew Saltzman
I'm trying to set up a caching name server on a server on my home
network. All the instructions I've been able to find online refer to
the caching-nameserver RPM, but that doesn't seem to be available in
Fedora 20. So my questions are:
* What happened to caching-nameserver?
* What (if anything) has replaced it?
* Are there any good, easy *current* instructions for doing this?
It seems like it should be a fairly cookbook task, so I
shouldn't have to learn all about bind to accomplish it.
TIA
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
9 years, 11 months
