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camera troubles
by Amadeus W.M. 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Ok, so I'm moving on from pidgin, to skype. I found how to install skype here: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/install-skype-on-fedora-centos- red-hat-rhel-scientific-linux-sl/ It works. Except for my old Logitech QuickCam Messenger camera. But I found this excellent hack that shows how to get it to work: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/219 which basically says that skype expects the v4l1 libraries, not the default v4l2 so one needs to preload the v4l1compat.so library - the 32 bit version, to match skype. For my 64-bit Fedora this would be: #!/bin/bash LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype So I did that, but I'm getting this error: ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Lo and behold though, the camera works despite that error. So for my peace of mind, can anybody explain what's going on?

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Remove center information Bar in Thunderbird
by Mickey 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

How does one remove the Grayish information bar in between Inbox messages and email content window ?

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pvcreate
by Patrick Dupre 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Hello, Using fdisk I create a partition of 59Go (/dev/sdxy) Then I do a pvcreate /dev/sdxy) pvdisplay says: /dev/sdb7" is a new physical volume of "38.00 GiB" This probably results from a previous partitioning. How can I clear this glitch? Thank =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France ===========================================================================

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pidgin video chat
by Amadeus W.M. 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Does anyone know how to do video chat in pidgin? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I click on a contact name and the chat window opens. Then, under Conversation -> Media I have 3 options: Audio call / Video call / Audio and video call. But all are inactive (grayed out) and so they can't be selected. Does this mean that pidgin has been compiled in Fedora without audio/video support? I am, however able to configure the Voice/Video Settings by going to Tools -> Plugins -> Voice/Video Settings, then click on the "Configure Plugin" button. So pidgin does see my camera and microphone. But what else do I need to be able to actually use them? I've searched the web for this, of course, and I couldn't find a definitive answer. All information is outdated, or for other distributions, or simply vague. For instance: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/vv or the user guide (which is really a FAQ): https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin Do I need to recompile pidgin with some non-free codecs enabled? Thanks for any help!

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Problem booting Fedora 21
by Daniel Jonsson 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Hi, I'm running Fedora 21 Workstation on a desktop and a laptop, and on both machines I am experiencing problems trying to boot them. The problem is that when I boot either of the computers, it gets stuck during the Plymouth splash screen, when the Fedora logo is being filled up. It can be stuck there for tens of minutes until I lose patience and do a hard reset on the computer. About 1/5 of the boot attempts succeed and are very snappy, while the other 4/5 get stuck and require a hard reset. However, I think I have solved it on the laptop by disabling `nfs-client.target` with `$ sudo systemctl disable nfs-client.target`, and I suspect that it might be related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183321. I tried doing the same on my desktop, but it does not seem to have made any difference. It still requires quite a few boot attempts before it reaches the login screen. What I need help with is how I am supposed to proceed with debugging and locating the cause of the problem. As far as I know a journalctl entry is not created in `$ journalctl --list-boots` if I do a hard reset during the startup process. And `$ systemd-analyze` does not show any strange things because I am of course only able to execute it after a successful boot, for example on my laptop: Startup finished in 1.454s (kernel) + 1.412s (initrd) + 2.608s (userspace) = 5.475s Do you have any suggestions for how I am supposed to proceed with the matter? Best regards, Daniel Jonsson

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Assistance building a backup server
by Alex 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

Hi, I have a fedora20 system acting as a backup server, and I've exceeded its capacity. I'd like to build a bigger one, probably using fedora21. I currently have a 3TB backup system using five 1TB disks in RAID5. Restore times in case of disk failure are already exceedingly long, so I'd like to consider another method of providing redundancy, and would like suggestions. I'd like to have 6TB of usable space using 2TB disks. Is ext4 still best for this? Some RAID variant or is there something better? Are there any NAS projects that may be beneficial? Thanks for any ideas. Alex

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rsyslog
by Dan Irwin 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

Hi all, What kind of secret voodoo does one need to use rsyslog on a systemd system? Is it even possible? I have installed it, and I only get kernel boot messages in /var/log/messages. I find journalctl to be fundamentally braindead, lacking features which we have taken for granted for decades in redhat/rhel/fedora/centos. (Seriously, whats the wisdom of keeping ALL logs around forever?, and in an easily corruptible format). I found something on the fedora web site which said to just install rsyslog... Clearly obsolete or invalid advice. Thank you.

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Problem installing Fedora 22 Alpha RC3
by Lawrence E Graves 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

I have tried with a dvd and with usb and the only place I got any success in installing Fedora 22 was in my virtual machine. It there something I am missing that is causing this problem with installing on my PC or my laptop. Please advise if there is a step I am missing in the download or the install process. -- All things are workable but don't all things work. Prov. 3:5 & 6

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Unable to blank dvd/rw media
by JD 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

I have an optiarch CD/DVD/RW drive and Sony RW media. I tried to blank the media: # cdrecord -v blank=all dev=1,0,0 Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a15 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Joerg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.36 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'Optiarc ' Identifikation : 'DVD+-RW AD-7930H' Revision : '100A' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Current: DVD-ROM Profile: DVD+R/DL Profile: DVD+R Profile: DVD+RW Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite Profile: DVD-RAM Profile: DVD-R sequential recording Profile: DVD-ROM (current) Profile: CD-RW Profile: CD-R Profile: CD-ROM Profile: Removable Disk Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM driver (mmc_dvd). Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1802240 = 1760 KB cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. Current Secsize: 2048 WARNING: Phys disk size 857181 differs from rzone size 0! Prerecorded disk? WARNING: Phys start: 196608 Phys end 1053788 WARNING: Drive returns zero media size. Using media size from ADIP. Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 8 in real BLANK mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. This drive or media does not support the 'BLANK media' command cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting. So, is the RW label on the Sony Media box lying?

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Thunderbird does not display images in email messages
by JD 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

I have been having a problem with TB for quite some time, and I am getting rather tired of the problem. Images in messages that are sent to me by users of windows are not displayed in TB. Rather, all I see are empty boxes where images are supposed to be. This is not to say that every message I get from windows users containing images are treated this way by TB. I am just saying that some individuals I know, who use windows, and send me email containing images are treated this way by TB. Is there a setting that I need to set? Other people send me images all the time, and I have no problem viewing them in TB.

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