Fedora-23beta -> Fedora-23
by Timothy Murphy
I have been running Fedora-23beta,
which I assume has become Fedora-23.
Should I keep fedora-updates-testing enabled?
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Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
8 years, 6 months
Fedora is killing me with video
by Tom Horsley
First this stupid bug crops up in 4.2 kernels and pulls a
gauze film over my screen at home where I use Intel
graphics and a Samsung TV as a display:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92206
I can work around this by using the old 4.1 kernel
in fedora 22, but there is no 4.1 kernel for
fedora 23.
Then in Fedora 23 at work, I can't use the nvidia
binary drivers because fedora shipped a beta
version of the X server, and I can't use nouveau
because it will only work on maxwell cards when
nvidia gives nouveau some way to distribute and
load the firmware required. So I have to force
vesa mode (which is not very useful on a UHD monitor :-).
It is looking like it will be a long time before
I can actually run fedora 23 by default both at
home and at work...
8 years, 6 months
How should local repo packages be bootstrapped after an upgrade?
by Sam Varshavchik
I have a bunch of packages I build and maintain, which get installed from an
internal createrepo-ed repo.
Normally, a new Fedora release that breaks binary ABI results in those
packages being temporarily broken until I rebuild them on the new release,
and ugprade them. Which is fine. Until now, fedup simply logged the broken
dependencies that will exist after an upgrade, but it proceeds and updates
all packaging to the new release. Afterwards, I just rebuilt and upgrade my
packages, verify that everything is kosher with repoquery --unsatisfied, and
close the books on the upgrade.
Looks like dnf has become a bit more combative, in F23.
It appears that dnf system-upgrade simply refused to update a bunch of
packages, in order to preserve the binary ABI compatibility with my own
packages. That's fine and dandy, but this leaves, apparently, no practical
way to bootstrap my packages.
dnf distro-sync refuses to update the remaining system packages that system-
upgrade skipped over, unless I use --allowerasing, which ends up removing my
packages, in order for the upgrade to preserve all dependencies.
Now, after removing my packages, I can proceed and rebuild them, but I find
this an extra hassle that's not really needed.
For the future, I'd like to know if there is a way to go back to the
previous behavior, and proceed with an upgrade to a new release, and ignore
broken dependencies of existing packages for which no update is available,
at the time of the upgrade.
8 years, 6 months
F23 KDE instant message client problems
by Barry
After the F22 update I found that the instant messages (IM) client build into
KDE stopped being able to log me in to google hangouts.
I use the settings online accounts to authorize the IM. But it still
reported auth problems.
Then I deleted everything in .config and .local to do with
telepathy (seems to have telepathy and ktelepathy naming of
files and folders).
I then get told that I need to "Configure Now..." by the IM client.
But adding an account via the settings online accounts does
not make the IM client happy. It still thinks its not configured.
May be I messed up the config? No problem I'll add a new user
to the system and use that fresh account to test IM.
The fresh account has the same problem.
IM client claims no config.
Configure successfully using online accounts
IM client still clains no config.
Anyone else seen this problem?
Anyone know of a work around?
Barry
8 years, 6 months
F23: no vertical edge scroll (horiz works)
by Patrick Laimbock
Hi,
On a Dell 6520 with an ALPS touchpad and fresh F23 the vertical edge
scroll does not work but the horizontal edge scroll does. Anyone have an
idea how to get the vertical edge scroll working too?
Thanks,
Patrick
8 years, 6 months
Duplicated Xorg
by Pal, Laszlo
Hi,
I don't know why but recently on my Thinkpad T430 I'm always having two
xorg running. Originally I used it with optimus, so I thought this is the
reason, but now I've switched to discrete graphics but I still having one
xorg on vt1 and another on vt3. How can I get rid of this?
Thank you
L:
8 years, 6 months
Online Accounts broken in F23
by Patrick O'Callaghan
"gnome-control-center online-accounts" generates an X error and doesn't
allow keyboard input. It also generates an automatic error report.
This means that Evolution will not work with Gmail accounts for the time
being.
poc
8 years, 6 months
Fedora 23 and VirtualBox: VBox Guest Additions not working properly
by Klaus-Peter Schrage
I have just upgraded to 23 from 22 in a virtual machine using dnf as
decribed in the Fedora Wiki, which went rather smoothly for me.
After manually installing the Guest Additions, the features "seemless
windows" and "automatic resize of the guest desktop" don't work (the
respective options in the views menu are greyed out).
The VBox kernel modules are built ok, but I get a warning saying:
"unsupported pre-release version of X.Org server installed. Not
installing the X.Org drivers."
The X log says that there is X.Org X Server 1.17.99.902 installed, which
*is* a pre-release. I guess downgrading might cure the problem, but how?
Any advice from the wise persons on this list would be greatly appreciated.
8 years, 6 months
Keyboard Layout Panel Indicator
by David Burgess
With the installation of F23 I now have an indicator/applet in the top
panel allows switching between languages and altering the keyboard layout.
I have no need or want of that indicator.
How can I get rid of it, permanently?
Thanks.
Dave Burgess
8 years, 6 months
Constant Web Authentication Redirect
by David Burgess
Since I installed Fedora 23 Workstation (clean not an upgrade) every time I
log in or restart gnome-shell I get a "Web Authentication Redirect" web
page pop up and I am connected to a Gnome Project web page.
I'm not leaving a web browser running when I log out so it's not a web
session trying to resume.
How can I stop this behaviour?
Dave Burgess
8 years, 6 months
