Mouse wheel acceleration problem
by Heinz Diehl
Hi,
after updating F21->F22, I noticed immediately that the mouse wheel
has got some nasty acceleration. Example: I open a large pdf
document, and as soon as I begin to scroll, I'm on the last
page. After that, scrolling works at normal speed. The same happens
when scrolling a website in Firefox: at first wheel action the scroll
speed is extremely high, and at the next touch, all is back to normal.
This behaviour is driving me insane, and I could't find a solution so far.
Is it something with XFCE, Xorg, whatever? I don't know.
Is anybody here encountering the same phenomenon, and what to do about
it?
What I know so far is that it came with the F22 update.
Thanks,
Heinz
8 years, 9 months
Help Compiling Static Binary
by Richard Heck
For some time, I've been using the minidlna program to serve media to
TVs, etc, in my house. Unfortunately, recent updates to the ffmpeg suite
broke the program: Certainly library calls no longer work. I'm therefore
trying to build a static binary against the last version of ffmpeg that
worked.
I understand that these aren't fedora-supported programs, but I think
the question is really more general, namely: how exactly one goes about
building a static binary.
What I've done is:
./configure --enable-static
make
But I get linking errors:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ljpeg
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lid3tag
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsqlite3
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lavformat
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lavutil
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexif
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lFLAC
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -logg
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvorbis
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
The libraries are all there, though, where one would expect to find
them. And non-static compilation works fine (with the right version of
ffmpeg).
Is there something I need to pass to configure to make this work?
Alternatively, is it possible to install older ffmpeg libraries, etc,
alongside the newer ones and tell minidlna to use those? If so, how?
Thanks,
Richard
PS I'll eventually raise other aspects of this sort of question at
SourceForge, but.....
8 years, 9 months
fail2ban on IPv6 and pam_shield
by Suvayu Ali
Hi,
(quoting from the thread: will denyhosts work with journald (without rsyslogd)?)
<http://mid.gmane.org/CAHc5q3eE3vKFqacRQf3rCwny4bF5Q+u93Di8J+K5GGto_VYpmA@...>
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 11:22:20PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> However denyhosts itself is pretty outdated and everyone should switch
> over to fail2ban anyway.
While reading about the recently found SSH vulnerability, I came across
a rather uncontested opinion that fail2ban does not work with IPv6,
e.g. see this reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3dnzcq/openssh_keyboardinteracti...
Personally, I found the "parse log files to ban" idea a bit shaky to
begin with. The same thread mentions pam_shield (also available in the
Fedora repos). A bit of reading on it makes it seem more robust than
fail2ban. I was wondering if anyone had any experience or opinion
on this topic.
Cheers,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
8 years, 9 months
Enable/Disable repo with dnf
by Luigi Votta
Good day
I'm trying to enable the fedora-source and updates-source repos, using
this command:
sudo dnf --enablerepo=fedora-source repolist
The result of the command is that the fedora-source seems enabled
(it has a * in front of its name) but there is no
fedora-source.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/
Can anyone say me how to proceed?
Thanks
Luigi.
8 years, 9 months
Creating kvm instance remotely
by Alex
Hi,
I have a fedora22 server with libvirt/kvm/qemu installed and would
like to use it to create a number of kvm virtual instances remotely,
non-interactively, according to my parameters (memory, disk layout,
package options, etc).
I'm aware of kickstart, but have never used it. Is that the best
option, or is something like chef or puppet easier?
I'd really like to create a basic 8GB, 1G RAM fedora22 server setup
with a minimal install.
I've experimented with virt-install, but that apparently doesn't
provide the ability to select all of the install config options like
language, disk layout, IP address, etc.
I'd appreciate any pointers to documents, or tips here, that could
help me get started doing this more quickly...
Thanks,
Alex
8 years, 9 months
Authentication is required to refresh the system sources
by Maurizio Marini
This is F22 with Kde-plasma5
After yesterday update, each hour a popup ask me to insert root password:
Authentication is required to refresh the system sources
Ok, now I would uninstall polkit and updates plugin notifier.
My question is:
can I freely remove polkit w/out any side effect?
I haven't Gnome, so I think so, but I prefer ask you to be sure
can/should I remove all of these?
# rpm -qa | grep polkit
polkit-qt-0.112.0-3.fc22.x86_64
polkit-qt5-1-0.112.0-3.fc22.x86_64
polkit-kde-5.3.2-1.fc22.x86_64
polkit-0.113-4.fc22.x86_64
polkit-pkla-compat-0.1-5.fc22.x86_64
polkit-libs-0.113-4.fc22.x86_64
Many thnx
-m
8 years, 9 months
Thunderbird fails to send emails on the first request (per account)
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
So now that I have solved my screen problem I am having a weird annoying
problem with Thunderbird which is failing (time out error, but very fast
response) to send email on the first "send click" on every account.
After that everything works as long as I don't restart TB.
Any idea what this could be and how to look into it?
Thank you.
Fred
8 years, 9 months
dnf-langpacks
by tangent08＠hushmail.com
I wish use dnf-langpacks to install programs in portuguese
brazilian (pt_BR), but I don't know how to do it
Some helpe?
Than you.
Edward
8 years, 9 months
Thank God for yum-deprecated :-)
by Tom Horsley
I see that dnf, in its infinite wisdom, has classified
ignoring packages it can't find as a bug, therefore
if you say
dnf install `cat f22-missing.txt`
to install as much stuff as possible in your new
f22 as you used to have in f20, it will find the
very first missing rpm (and ONLY the first), tell
you it isn't in the repos, and quit.
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224485
So you delete it from the list and try again, which
let's you find the 2nd one, repeat for several weeks,
or discover there is a yum-deprecated out there and
run:
yum-deprecated install `cat f22-missing.txt`
which will actually install everything it can and
ignore the ones it can't find, thus saving you
many hours of fixing the list or installing
one package at a time with dnf.
8 years, 9 months
dnf-langpack
by tangent08＠hushmail.com
I wish use dnf-langpacks to install packages in
portuguese_brazilian (pt_BR), but I don't know ho to do this. Some
help?
Thank you.
Edward
8 years, 9 months
