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sticky keys
by Stuart McGraw 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

And yet another problem with Fedora-21... When I press my Shift keys quickly a few times (which I often do unconsciously while thinking about what to type), I get a notification that "sticky keys have been enabled". I then get a lot of odd keyboard effects such as every word typed being capitalized or the keyboard acting like the control key is permanently pressed. Googling seems to indicate this is an old problem going back to the mid-2000's. I tried one of the solutions I found: install xkbset and run "xkbset -a" at login time via Application Autostart tab in the Settings and Startup dialog (this is Xfce). That seemed to work for a while but the problem's come back. The auto-startup setting is still there, still enabled. While I was typing this, something called "slow keys became enabled making it impossible to continue typing this message until I logged out and back in again. None of the options in the accessibility applet are enabled (I'm pretty sure, having worked around the problem of dialogs not showing checkmarks). What do I need to do to permanently put a stake in the throat of this nasty little Sticky Keys virus? <rant> I seldom rant in public but I've got to say that installing Fedotra-21 was the worst experience I have ever had installing Linux (in terms of the endless amount of brokeness) -- and I have been using Redhat going back to the 3.x days (that's *Redhat*, not Redhat Enterprise; not Fedora). I don't think it is me. I did a pretty plain vanilla install and except for some of the usual audio/video stuff from rpmfusion, am using packages straight out of the Fedora-21 repo. Plain vanilla hardware that ran Fedora-15 fine for several years. Has Fedora become too focused on release schedules and lost interest in quality control? Or are all these problems coming from xfce?

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SAMBA on Fedora 21
by Angelo Moreschini 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi, I am learning Linux and, just in order to do exercises, I wanted to monitor the functioning of services that, I thing, should run on fedora. So, with the command : service *smartd* status I got : Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status *smartd.service* ● smartd.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smartd.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2015-03-31 07:48:18 IDT; 10h ago Main PID: 701 (smartd) CGroup: /system.slice/smartd.service └─701 /usr/sbin/smartd -n -q never the same for *cups*.... ● cups.service - CUPS Printing Service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2015-03-31 07:48:51 IDT; 10h ago ............................. .............................. but I was wonder that services as : *DHCP, SAMBA*, ..... was not working.... : the command : sudo service *samba* status give me : Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status samba.service ● samba.service Loaded: not-found (Reason:* No such file or directory*) Active: inactive (dead) for *SAMBA* I give a look to check if it is installed, and I found: sudo yum list installed | grep samba samba-client.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates samba-common.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates samba-libs.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates samba-winbind.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates samba-winbind-clients.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates samba-winbind-modules.x86_64 2:4.1.17-1.fc21 @updates So, ... after this test I am confuse ....... What is the reason why some important services are not running by default on Fedora 21? Could I have an explanation ? Thank you regards Angelo

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F21: Save session on logout issues
by Max Pyziur 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Greetings, Xfce gives you the option to save your session on logout. In earlier versions, all of my tabbed sessions of Gedit and Gnome-Terminal would be restored. Now, with an F21 setup, only Firefox comes up restored. At best, Gedit is opened, but in a new document setting. Any pointers on whether or not this can be changed so that Gedit and Gnome-Terminal sessions are restored? Or is this a new, undocumented feature? Thanks. Max Pyziur pyz(a)brama.com

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Emacs and Ibus in Fedora-21
by Stuart McGraw 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

I just moved from Fedora-15 to Fedora-21 and another breakage that occurs is using Emacs with Ibus. I've been using Emacs since the dark ages and I also need to enter and edit Japanese text. This worked fine through many versions of Fedora and Ibus (or its predecessors) up to Fedora-15 when I had to start running Emacs with a command like "LC_TYPE=ja_JP.utf8 emacs" to get it to accept Japanese characters. Now in Fedora-21, the above command now longer works and I can't find any way of getting Emacs to input Japanese characters other than its own very awkward and poor built-in IME. It appears the migration to a completely broken combination has been completed successfully. :-( Googling has not turned up much beyond a bunch of non-working, contradictory or old information. Is there any way to get Emacs to work with Ibus?

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gnome-screenshot
by JD 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Sometimes, I want to view a youtube vid in full screen, which hides the desktop and the panels. In such cases, how can I take a screenshot of the workspace where I am playing the youtube vid in full screen mode? Thanx!

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Re: F21 systemd log flood - how to stop
by Andy Hairston 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

> "warn" isn't valid. I know that now; looks like I mistook the Apache logging level names for the Linux ones. I don't understand why an invalid log level would generate an 'access denied' message instead of something more sensible, like 'invalid log level'. > Have you restarted systemd either by sending it a SIGHUP or doing "systemctl daemon-reload"? Yes, and rebooted the machine. Multiple times. No effect - I'm still getting the "Invalid log level'warn'" message during boot even though 'warn' is no longer in system.conf. Not sure if it's at all related, but the error message is in a section of log/messages with bogus timestamps - 4 hours before the real time. (Boot logs start off with the right time, says "Journal stopped", then "journal: Runtime journal is using 4.0M (max allowed..." with the bogus time, couple of pages of log entries with the bogus time, then repeats "Journal stopped" w/ bogus time, then "journal: Runtime..." with the correct one again.) 1. Why isn't systemd using the current version of the config file - even after systemctl daemon-reload, systemctl daemon-reexec, and reboots? 2. How do I get systemd to stop filling my log files with Starting Paths. Reached target Paths. Starting Timers. Reached target Timers. Starting Sockets. Reached target Socket etc.?

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reposync for two Fedora versions
by CLOSE Dave 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

I've been running reposync successfully for Fedora 20 for months. Now I'd like to repeat the process for Fedora 21 while continuing to take updates for F20 on the same machine. But it isn't working for me. /usr/bin/reposync -n -a x86_64 -r fedora21 -p /data/yum-mirrors/x86_64 Error setting up repositories: no such table: packages The exact same command works perfectly if I substitute fedora20. Both are described in my .repo files exactly the same way. Looking around, I see that most references to this error, not for reposync but for other YUM commands, state that the solution is to clean the RPM data base. I've done that. I've even re-created it from scratch. I still get the same error. Any other ideas? -- Dave Close

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Re: F21 systemd log flood - how to stop
by Andy Hairston 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Finally found out that I was using the wrong syntax for the set-log-level command. (Why did it say 'access denied' instead of 'bad syntax???) Changing the log level all the way to emerg still had no effect. And in my logs during reboot, I'm seeing this message: systemd[1]: [/etc/systemd/system.conf:11] Invalid log level'warn': Operation not permitted even though /etc/systemd/system.conf doesn't contain LogLevel=warn (anymore) - it has LogLevel=emerg! Why isn't systemd reading the CURRENT /etc/systemd/system.conf file? Why does the command line setting seem to have no effect? Is systemd this hopelessly broken?

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Network : Manage your network connections
by Ger van Dijck 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hello folks, A little problem : When I click on the network applet (application in terminal) it does not functionate and I get the following message : nm-applet 2407 warning could not register with accessibility bus did not receive a reply possible causes : the remote application did not send a reply the message bus security policy blocked the reply time out network connection broken nm-applet 2407 warning failed to register as an agent (32) an agent with this ID already registered for this user. Is there a way to solve this problem ? Kind regards , Ger van Dijck.

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will denyhosts work with journald (without rsyslogd)?
by Neal Becker 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

I want to install denyhosts, but I currently am using stock f21 install (without rsyslogd). Will this work? -- Those who fail to understand recursion are doomed to repeat it

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