slock stops working after update
by Ranjan Maitra
Hi,
Running F25 here, I get the following, after this morning's update for slock:
$ slock
slock: getgrnam nogroup: group entry not found
How does one get around this?
Thanks,
Ranjan
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7 years, 4 months
fedora create livecd creator fails with LXDE ks, and with package
conflicts
by Ranjan Maitra
Hello,
I am aware that a more appropriate place to post would have been the livecd list which is archived at
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/livecd@lists.fedoraproject....
but since the archives seem to be pure spam for the past two months, I am not sure if anyone reads it any more.
So, I thought that I would try my luck here.
I have been trying to build the LXDE spin iso using the default Fedora 25 kickstarts available
/usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-live-lxde.ks and the dependent kickstart files. So, I try the following and get:
$sudo setenforce 0
$ sudo livecd-creator --config=fedora-live-lxde.ks --tmpdir=tmp --fslabel=Fedora-LXDE-25_x86_64
/usr/lib64/python2.7/optparse.py:1013: PendingDeprecationWarning: The KSOption class is deprecated and will be removed in pykickstart-3. Use the argparse module instead.
option = self.option_class(*args, **kwargs)
['/sbin/mkfs.ext4', '-F', '-L', '_Fedora-LXDE-25_x86_64', '-m', '1', '-b', '4096', '/dev/loop0']
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/config.py:1093: PendingDeprecationWarning: use len(mi) instead
startupconf.distroverpkg)
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/yuminst.py:161: PendingDeprecationWarning: use len(mi) instead
option = option.replace("$releasever", yum.config._getsysver("/", ("system-release(release)", "redhat-release")))
No such package system-config-network to remove
Error creating Live CD : Failed to build transaction : libcrypt conflicts with libcrypt-nss-2.24-3.fc25.x86_64
libcrypt-nss conflicts with libcrypt-2.24-3.fc25.x86_64
As we can see, the conflict does not allow for the creation of the LiveCD to proceed. But this is the vanilla kickstart file for Fedora's LXDE so I was wondering what was going wrong here?
Thanks very much in anticipation!
Best wishes,
Ranjan
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7 years, 4 months
NFS v2 Server
by Craig Lanning
Has there been a change to the NFS server?
I am running:
Fedora 24
nfs-utils 1.3.4
All of this has worked in earlier versions of Fedora so I'm a little
confused.
I am trying to setup the NFS server and I need it to serve NFS v2. That
is the only protocol version that the client machine understands. It's
OS was written before v3 existed.
I followed the instructions for setting it up.
The client can get the list of exported filesystems from the server,
but fails when it tries to access one of them.
The error says something about a "Remote module version mismatch." I
was thinking that the server was only using NFS v3. Is there something
else that the client might access that could have a version mismatch
besides the NFS protocol?
Have I missed something in setting up the NFS Server?
Craig
7 years, 4 months
Converting XML files to Libreoffice Calc
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
A data site provides downloadable data in xml format; the header reads:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?>
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<DocumentProperties xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<Created>2016-12-01T15:08:55Z</Created>
<Version>1</Version>
</DocumentProperties>
<ExcelWorkbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"/>
<Styles>
It imports seamlessly into MS Excel. I'm flummoxed as to how to do the
same in Libreoffice. I've searched for LibreOffice XML filters, but I
haven't come across anything yet.
Much thanks for any guidence.
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
7 years, 4 months
Does kdump work for you with Fedora 25?
by Richard W.M. Jones
I followed the instructions here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_kdump_to_debug_kernel_crashes
After booting with crashkernel=128M, starting the kdump service
which is running:
# kdumpctl status
Kdump is operational
I enabled sysrq:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
Then at the console I hit:
AltGr + PrtSc + c
and the kernel does crash with a NULL pointer dereference as expected,
but kdump never runs. The only thing I could do is hard-reboot.
Nothing is written in /var/crash.
(I also disabled SELinux for good measure, just in case that could be
it, but it makes no difference.)
Rich.
kernel 4.8.10-300.fc25.x86_64
kexec-tools-2.0.13-7.fc25.1.x86_64
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7 years, 4 months
two wireless cards
by antonio montagnani
When I connect an external wi-fi card, if I switch off the internal
card, also the external card is switched off. That is not correct, IMHO.
And I remember that in F24 I had the option to switch off only one card.
Using the terminal I can switch off the card, but it doesn't work in the
graphical interface
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7 years, 4 months
Anyone install Fedora 24 or 25 on old Dell PowerEdge 2800 server?
by Michael D. Setzer II
Got a handme down Server from MIS, it is a Dell PowerEdge 2800 with dual
processors 4G Ram and 4 130G SCSI disks. I was able to get it to install
Fedora 24 from an USB flash of the Live CD, but was having big issues with
the video. Had to add the vga=ask on kernel boot line, and eventually one of
the vga modes allowed the installer to go thru, but I had tried a number, so
not sure which one worked for that. Install process went thru just fine, and
was hoping on reboot it would resolve the video issue. The initial long in
screen showed up, but login results in a black screen. Terminal screens work
fine, and I can setup a vnc terminal with no problem.
Then ran the fedup update to 25, and that also went just fine, but still the
regular screen doesn't work. VNC also still works fine with gdm, but switched
to lightdm to see if that would fix the regular screen issue, but it didn't, and for
some reason, the VNC was just a black screen, switching back to gdm fixed
that?
Am thinking there onboard video must be something limited, and of course
they don't have any info on the machine. Dell's response is that it is an old
unsupported machine. Have another Dell 2500 that we have had since 2000,
and it still works fine, and has Fedora 24 on it, but the 2800 is a lot different.
Not a big deal, but if some might know of settings that would make the
screen work, the VNC is fine for most things, and text screen for local stuff.
Thanks.
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7 years, 4 months
Upgrade from f24 to f25 fails
by Howard Howell
Hi, guys,
After googling this issue on upgrading fedora, working until
2:30 this morning, and not getting anywhere, I hope you guys can help.
I followed the guide:
https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-24-fedora-25/
using the gnome terminal.
things seemed to go well, until I got to the command
# dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=25
It went through the usual steps, I answered y and it completed,
but then it prompted me with an error message about google earth and
said to retry with --allowerasing, which I did, but still got the same
error message:
warning: /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/google-earth-stable-
6.0.3.2197-0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 7fac5991:
NOKEY
The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful
transaction.
You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
Error: Public key for google-earth-stable-6.0.3.2197-0.x86_64.rpm is
not installed
So I did a gpg install for the public key of google-earth.
Same error message.
just to try I did:
#dnf system-upgrade reboot
No joy. Spent several hours googling for the error, for the
issue with gpg key, various other related lookups, but didn't find
anything that helped.
So!! Help!!!!
Regards,
Les H
7 years, 4 months
Re: failure of f24 to f25 upgrade
by stan
(redirecting back to list)
On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:34:40 -0800
Howard Howell <hlhowell(a)pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 14:32 -0700, stan wrote:
> > rpm --erase --nodeps --test [google-earth-stable?]
> >
> > This will test the command without doing anything. When it does
> > what you want, remove the --test option.
> >
> > After the upgrade, you can look for ways to re-install google
> > earth.
> Something changed it for sure...
> rpm --erase --nodeps --test [google-earth-stable?]
> error: package [google-earth-stable?] is not installed
I see from devel that you solved your problem. Because you had said
you were a programmer, I had assumed you would interpret the
[google-earth-stable?] as meaning that it wasn't the actual name, and
that you should substitute the name. That's why it didn't work, not
because the package was gone (even though it was).
Having seen the successful command in devel, the command I gave
you should have been
rpm --erase --nodeps --test google-earth-stable
Since your problem is solved, I'm only posting this for completeness,
in case someone else searches on this issue.
7 years, 4 months
