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How can I check if my laptop will support Fedora 20 or Fedora 21 installation?
by Darlene Wallach 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

My name is Darlene Wallach I have Fedora 13 installed on my laptop and want to install at least Fedora 20. How can I check that my laptop will support installation of Fedora 20? My laptop is LinuxCertified LC220SN $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2057164 kB MemFree: 104592 kB Buffers: 78116 kB Cached: 571256 kB SwapCached: 28 kB Active: 1075748 kB Inactive: 726364 kB Active(anon): 761576 kB Inactive(anon): 403060 kB Active(file): 314172 kB Inactive(file): 323304 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 1184968 kB HighFree: 12816 kB LowTotal: 872196 kB LowFree: 91776 kB SwapTotal: 2096476 kB SwapFree: 2096264 kB Dirty: 124 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1152756 kB Mapped: 127552 kB Shmem: 11888 kB Slab: 81980 kB SReclaimable: 66180 kB SUnreclaim: 15800 kB KernelStack: 3728 kB PageTables: 20804 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 3125056 kB Committed_AS: 3358328 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 60088 kB VmallocChunk: 34812 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 45048 kB DirectMap2M: 862208 kB $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 1200.000 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm xsave lahf_lm bogomips : 4188.80 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 1200.000 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm xsave lahf_lm bogomips : 4189.66 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/sect-Rele… https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Release_Notes/sect-Rele… What other information should I get? Thank you Darlene Wallach 408.294.5681 -- equal justice under law

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Dropbox is dangerous
by Mickey 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

My computer was locking up and I couldn't open or close anything. I did a ps aux and found that dropbox was consuming 117% of the CPU and 70% of memory, after awhile I was able to Kill Dropbox and then I uninstalled it and now my computer is back to normal. What the "H" is happening ?

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XFCE desktop's integration with dvd playing
by Sam Varshavchik 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Anyone happen to know what kind of integration I should expect from F21's XFCE spin's desktop, vis-a-vis playing DVDs? I have vlc installed. If I drop a DVD in, the icon for the disk does appear on the desktop, but clicking on it simply opens the file browser. Which isn't very useful. I can start vlc manually, and tell it to play the disk, and that's fine. But too many steps. After creating a desktop icon that executes "vlc /dev/sr0", I now have a permanent icon on the desktop, that starts dvd playback, after the dvd is inserted, which is fine, but I wouldn't expect non-technical users to figure out how to do this. Incidentally, the desktop's "Parole media player" can't handle the playback, and pops up with a "gstreamer back end error, could not get title information for the dvd", but vlc is fine.

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Passwords stored by Firefox
by Timothy Murphy 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

I was rather surprised to find that I could read the passwords stored by Mozilla/Firefox (Preferences=>Security). I always assumed they were encrypted in some way. Pure ignorance, I guess. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

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Re: mtp devices
by Steven Usdansky 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Look under /run/user/<your uid>/gvfs. You'll find a directory something like mtp:host=%5Busb%3A002%2C005%5D$ which is the mount point for your phone

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F21 on UEFI
by Heinz Diehl 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Hi, I've built countless computers in the last 20 years, but none with the nowadays modern UEFI bioses. Unfortunately, my main machine seems to have gotten some problems after the last lightning storm, and it's time to renew the whole thing. On the SSD, there's a fully updated F21, which I'd like to take over to the new machine. However, the old machine has a "common" oldstyle BIOS, and the new board has an UEFI one. All the drivers for the new mainboard are in the kernel, so that won't be a problem. I've read somewhere that such an UEFI bios can be switched to some kind of legacy mode, where it emulates an oldstyle BIOS. In other words, that would allow me simply building the new system and taking the SSD drive with me. My question: is this right, or do you see a better way to do that? Thanks, Heinz.

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how to deal with two RPMs of thr same name
by Ranjan Maitra 15 Feb '15

15 Feb '15

Hi, I have packaged stapler (alternative to obsoleted pdftk) as an RPM. But there is already another package by the same name doing something else in the Fedora repos. Is there an easy way to rename my stapler to pdfstapler or something like that. I don't feel that it is my place to ask the stapler developer to rename his program something else: https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler/tree/master Is there an easy way through a spec file to go in and change the name of stapler to pdfstapler and then create the RPM. Btw, the spec file is here: $ fpaste pdfstapler.spec Uploading (2.4KiB)... http://ur1.ca/jqgcf -> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/185742/15606142 Going by the thread titled "pdftk" in December, pdfstapler will be a welcome substitute for pdftk. It certainly is for me. Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth

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RPM build error
by Ranjan Maitra 15 Feb '15

15 Feb '15

Hello, I am trying to build an RPM for sylfilter available at http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylfilter/src/sylfilter-%{?version}.tar.gz with the attached .spec file but I get the following errors: ..... error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/include/sylfilter/bayes-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/blacklist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-gdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-qdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-sqlite.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-manager.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-utils.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/ngram-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/textcontent-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/whitelist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/wordsep-filter.h /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.a /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.la /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0 /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0.0.0 RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/include/sylfilter/bayes-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/blacklist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-gdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-qdbm.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs-sqlite.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-kvs.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-manager.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter-utils.h /usr/include/sylfilter/filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/ngram-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/textcontent-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/whitelist-filter.h /usr/include/sylfilter/wordsep-filter.h /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.a /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.la /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0 /usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0.0.0 Not sure what the issue is, but wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Many thanks and best wishes, 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. ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE 5GB EMAIL - Check out spam free email with many cool features! Visit http://www.inbox.com/email to find out more!

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f21 + kernel 3.18.xxx + nouveau fails
by Neal Becker 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190715 It appears to be a problem with drm. All earlier kernels (for years and years) have worked. -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it

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FC20 + kernel 3.18.5 + nvidia does not work
by Frédéric Bron 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Be careful before upgrading. I get the following error in Xorg.0.log: [ 8.095] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the [ 8.095] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages and [ 8.095] (EE) NVIDIA: consult the NVIDIA README for details. [ 8.095] (EE) No devices detected. and no graphical user interface! Frédéric

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