Virtualbox -
by Bob Goodwin
Using Virtualbox in an updated F23 I've
installed VM's for Fedora, Centos, and
Scientific Linux.
Fedora 21 xfce live because I happened
to have it handy, the others from the
DVD iso's.
Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the
others boot and run with a text screen
but startx reports "command not found"
and a ping to other than localhost,
reports network unreachable.
What am I missing?
Bob
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8 years, 4 months
Fedora 23 and 4K monitors?
by Justin Moore
Does anyone have Fedora 23 working with a 4K monitor? Last week I got an
Asus PB287Q monitor, but got bit by the "hardware loses signal when monitor
goes into sleep" issue. I'm returning that monitor and would like to get
another one, but am hoping to find a good success story. I'm running Fedora
23 with a GeForce 750 Ti card using the NVidia drivers. Does anyone have a
working 4K setup with this or similar hardware?
Thanks,
-jdm
8 years, 4 months
Re: no grub after installing fedora23
by Walter Cazzola
hi
thanks for the prompt reply
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:32 AM, maderios <maderios(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> Why an extended partitition?
I just marked the normal partition flag instead of LVM, is there any
practical and related issue with my problem in this?
> It should a gpt partitioning with efi. Your 'Dell Precision m6800' uses
> uefi but you have not any efi partition
> http://www.manualslib.com/manual/563583/Dell-Precision-M6800.html?page=58
> For me, your install is wrong. First, You have to disable uefi secure boot
> in your bios, then install F23. Installer has to detect an efi partition
> like '/boot/efi'
uhm, I' ve checked and in what should be the /boot dir I' ve
efi
|-->EFI
|-->BOOT
|-->BOOTX64.EFI
|-->fallback.efi
|-->fedora
|-->BOOT.CSV
|-->fonts
|-->unicode.pf2
|-->gcdx64.efi
|-->grubx64.efi
|-->MokManager.efi
|-->shim.efi
|-->shim-fedora.efi
|-->mach_kernel
|-->System
|-->Library
|-->CoreServices
|-->SystemVersion.plist
as far as I know everything is there or is it not?
I've also checked the options related to UEFI in my BIOS and seems that
UEFI and Secure boot are both disabled.
This are the related options:
General
Boot Sequence
Legacy (this flagged)
UEFI (this is not flagged)
Advanced Boot Options
Enable Legacy Option ROMS (this is selected and the note says "This
option is not allowed if secure boot is enabled")
System Configuration
Integrated NIC
Enabled UEFI Network Stack (this is not flagged)
Enabled w/PXE (this is flagged)
Secure Boot
Disabled (flagged)
Could be that I missed something? Any other idea?
Walter
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8 years, 4 months
mlocate updatedb not running from cron, mlocate.cron not installed
by Neal Becker
I noticed mlocate updatedb is not running. I believe there should be
mlocate.cron installed into /etc/cron.daily
repoquery reports no such file.
How do I get fedora's version of mlocate package to run updatedb daily? Why
isn't it installed this way?
8 years, 4 months
command line ogg123 in Fedora 23 does not exist
by Antonio Olivares
Dear folks,
I installed Fedora 23 and copied some old ogg vorbis files I had around. I wanted to play them(without a gui), amorok plays them, but prefer to use command line. Can't install mplayer as dont have working internet ATM on this machine :( . I did a
$ which ogg123
and it returned no ogg123 in ....
I tried playing them with amorok and it plays fine, but I would prefer the old way to play the files. Which package do I need to install to have this functionality?
Best Regards,
Antonio A. Olivares
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8 years, 4 months
Why is mysql running?
by Stephen Davies
On my Fedora 22 system, ps -aef shows:
someuser 3097 3086 0 18:32 ? 00:00:01 /usr/libexec/mysqld
--defaults-file=/home/someuser/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf
--datadir=/home/someuser/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/
--socket=/tmp/akonadi-someuser.xEIhbs/mysql.socket
I have never explicitly installed mysql (I use PostgreSQL for all my real
database requirements) so wonder why this is there.
Can I safely zap this and, if so, how?
Cheers and all the best for the silly season,
Stephen
8 years, 4 months
Users cannot log in using sddm on Fedora 23
by Andrej Podzimek
Hello!
After a Fedora 23 installation, users can't log in with sddm. A "login failed" message is displayed by sddm, sometimes preceded by a short switch to the tty and back. Users can log into a text console just fine. Also starting a Plasma desktop using startx works perfectly fine.
Because sddm's logs report helper failures with codes 2 and 15, I tried this:
# cp -a /usr/libexec/sddm-helper /usr/libexec/sddm-helper-binary
# cat > /usr/libexec/sddm-helper <<-WRAPPER
#!/bin/bash
strace -f /usr/libexec/sddm-helper-binary "$@" 2>/tmp/sddm
WRAPPER
Here's the entire strace output obtained from a login attempt using the wrapper above: https://andrej.podzimek.org/dell-strace-0.txt The strace dump shows (among other glitches) something like a file descriptor leak. But the most important thing seems to be the following:
[pid 1818] execve("/usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd", ["/usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd", "andrej", "nullok"], [/* 0 vars */]) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
[pid 1820] execve("/usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd", ["/usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd", "andrej", "nullok"], [/* 0 vars */]) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
I tried to make /etc/shadow readable, but that didn't help. Also tried to do setenforce 0 and that didn't help either. :( Last but not least, rebooting with SELinux in permissive mode does away with the EPERM error, but sddm logins hang forever, with no chance to retry.
I looked at recent sddm bugs such as this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265813 But I don't think other sddm issues could be directly related, because the failure pattern is different, i.e., I can't see any segfaults here and my user IDs are in the correct range (uid 1001 in the attached log). :(
What's wrong here? Why does sddm fail on Fedora 23? The hardware, just if it happens to matter:
DMI: Dell Inc. Inspiron 7548/0AM6R0, BIOS A00 11/19/2014
Cheers,
Andrej
8 years, 4 months
Good speech to text conveter
by Aakanksha Singh
Folks,
I have a large bundle of audio files to convert into text.
Can anyone recommend a good software for speech to text conversion.
Thanks,
Aakanksha
8 years, 4 months
The continuous crippling of Fedora LiveCDs by removing usefull stuff for no apparent reason
by Fernando Cassia
Once upon a time, I believe it was Fedora 17 or Fedora 19, I was a happy
camper.
I used to download a Fedora LiveCD, and it included everything I needed for
functional work on a otherwise Windows netbook. I just booted off the USB
Flash Drive, and off I went to do my daily online chores like E-Mail,
twitter, and ocassional image editing via my favorite small image editor
(Java Image Editor).
That was because OpenJDK 7 was included in the LiveCD image.
This served multiple purposes:
1. Leaving the Windows partition unchanged
2. Not losing space on the small HDD with a Linux install
3. Not leaving my files behind on the system
4. Making an effort to put my data files on the Cloud or LAN network
attached storage, NOT the individual system's HDD.
Suddenly (I don't remember which release, but you can check the mailing
list archives for my rant on the matter) OpenJDK binaries were removed from
the live CD so I could no longer "java -jar JavaImageEditor.jar" nor could
I use JNLP to launch desktop Java apps.
I came to the list at the time to rant, and if I remember correctly the
answer was that OpenJDK was removed from the LiveCD due to space
constraints, and that it was a real challenge to keep everything to still
fit into a CD image.
Well, nowadays the Fedora 23 Mate-Compiz LiveCD I'm using is well above the
700MB CD-R limit, and I'm saving the LiveCD image to a 4GB pen drive
anyway, yet not only OpenJDK 7 is not there -it should be OpenJDK 8 by now,
by the way-, but also other useful stuff -native Linux binaries, command
line utils that are a must-have- are also removed for no apparent reason.
Case in point: I booted off the LiveCD the other day needing to do a quick
change to a LAN router I have at home, and which provides access to the LAN
side via TELNET. Well, guess what? there's no telnet in the LiveCD. But it
is in the repos. I did a yum install telnet and found it only uses 76
kbytes. So telnet is not there to save 76 kbytes off the livecd image size.
Wow.
But the plot tickens. I wanted to download a mirrorr of a subsection of a
web site to another usb flash drive using wget, using the wget -m -np -k -c
syntax I know and love, and found .... WGET is not there either.
Since I have learned that the Fedora community is quite hostile to any kind
of complaint ("it's as-is because we-know-better and
you-re-surely-doing-things-wrong" or
"why-do-you-want-to-do-that-in-the-first-place" or
"why-dont-you-just-install-the-full-fedora-instead-of-booting-off-a-LiveCD-from-a-Flash-Drive"),
my hopes of this being "fixed" (openJDK being reinstated into the LiveCD
image, along with telnet and wget), I think I'll end up taking things into
my own hands and "fixing" the LiveCD images.
So, is there an up-to-date tutorial out there on how to add stuff from the
repos of a Fedora distro repos into the LiveCD image so the packages are
available when LiveCD boots?
Thanks in advance.
FC
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During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act
- George Orwell
8 years, 4 months
No Bluetooth mouse in sddm before first login
by Andrej Podzimek
Hello,
In Fedora 23, my Bluetooth mouse works fine in KDE. However, it doesn't work in sddm before the first user logs in. It works afterwards and keeps working even after the first (or second or whichever) user logs out.
The very first login without a mouse is quite an inconvenience. Any ideas what could be wrong? The same thing works perfectly fine in Arch -- the mouse works from the very beginning, once it's paired by a user in the KDE Bluetooth GUI, there's a bunch of metadata stored somewhere in /var about the pairing and the mouse can easily reestablish its connection, no matter if users are logged in or not.
What can be different on Fedora? SELinux? And why does the mouse magically start working as intended once the very first user logs in? Just abou tany debugging tips would be helpful. (Looking at .xsession-errors for sddm/root/user and logs from bluettothd, sddm and X.org didn't yield anything eye-opening thus far.)
Cheers,
Andrej
8 years, 4 months