FAQ: Participating in this mailing list
by Tim
It's about time someone posted something like this, yet I can't ever
recall seeing FAQs sent to this list, it may as well be me:
It is much preferred that participants to mailing lists write, and
reply, to messages in the manner the majority prefers, and the manner
that the list instructions told you to use in the first place. You're
expecting help from others, it's polite to make the effort to fit in.
You will probably not get as much help, perhaps from those who have the
most useful answers, if you don't.
When replying, write your responses underneath what you're replying to.
So that *whoever* next reads the message, can read the whole thing in
order, from top to bottom, in a clear and coherent manner. Either write
your responses directly under the specific bits of the message that
you're responding to (interspersed posting). Or, entirely below the
prior message (bottom posting), though this makes it harder for people
work out what your responses are related to. i.e. To make it easier to
follow a message, make it read like a conversation.
And edit out any extraneous stuff from prior messages that doesn't need
to be quoted. It's a waste, and makes reading the message more
cumbersome. It does not matter where your mail program leaves the
cursor when you hit reply, use your fingers to change it's position, and
cut and erase unneeded text as you go along.
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8 years, 2 months
FW: Firefox 44 on Fedora 23 won't start
by CLOSE Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: CLOSE Dave
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 06:17 PM Pacific Standard Time
To: support-firefox(a)lists.mozilla.org
Subject: Re: Firefox 44 on Fedora 23 won't start
I wrote:
> A fresh installation of Firefox 44 on a fresh installation of Fedora
> 23 server edition. All packages installed directly from the Fedora
> repos. According to dnf, there are no missing dependencies. I see the
> same behavior on about 25 new machines.
>
> Starting Firefox from an icon shows an entry in the panel for a few
> seconds, then nothing. Starting it from the command line in a shell
> window returns a new prompt after a few seconds. The exit code is
> zero and there is nothing recorded in syslog or the systemd journal.
> No Firefox window ever appears.
>
> I've also tried adding the -preferences and/or -private switches
> with the same result. The only thing I see strange is a new file in
> the saved-telemetry-pings directory each time I try to start Firefox.
> If FF is trying to use telemetry by default before I get a chance to
> disable it, FF will fail because it will never get through the
> proxy.
Additional information. I have one machine where FF works. This is also
running Fedora 23 but was installed from the live DVD rather than using
PXE as were those which are failing. It has FF 42 rather than FF 44.
Thus far, I've tried these remedies without success.
* Downgrade FF to 42 on a failing machine.
* Compare the list of packages installed on both machines and install on
the failing machine any which were previously only on the working one.
(In fact, the working machine has several hundred /fewer/ packages
installed but had a few extra ones as well.
* Per tjoen's suggestion, verified that both machines have NSS installed
and configured identically. Neither is using LDAP.
In all cases, FF exits with a zero status. I've run both the working and
failing copies under strace and compared the output (there's a lot of
output!). Certainly there are differences but nothing stands out as an
indicator of the problem.
There must be some way to get FF to tell me why it is failing!
--
Dave Close
8 years, 2 months
Fedora mirrors in India
by Suvayu Ali
Hi,
Lately I have been having issues while updating. Regularly I encounter
something like this:
[MIRROR] glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm [Connection time-out]
[MIRROR] glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm [Connection time-out]
[MIRROR] NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm [Connection time-out]
[MIRROR] glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm []
[MIRROR] NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm []
(1/9): NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm 472 B/s | 57 kB 02:03
(2/9): glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm 4.8 kB/s | 615 kB 02:08
[DRPM] NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8-1.fc23_1.0.8-2.fc23.x86_64.drpm: done
[MIRROR] glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm [Connection time-out]
[MIRROR] glibc-devel-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/23/x86_64/drpms/glibc-devel-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm [Connection time-out]
(3/9): glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.x86_64.drpm 2.2 kB/s | 545 kB 04:03
[DRPM] glibc-2.22-7.fc23_2.22-9.fc23.i686.drpm: done
So I checked, and there is not a single mirror in India!
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/mirrors/Fedora/23
This is surprising since several technology institutes used to host
Fedora mirrors. Does anyone have any ideas what happened to them? Any
suggestions as to how I can instruct dnf to use mirrors closer to home
(e.g. prefer south-east Asia over Asia-Pacific) would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks for any ideas.
Cheers,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
8 years, 2 months
Bash / Escaping quotes is driving me crazy . .
by Philip Rhoades
People,
This line correctly finds one MP3 but misses two FLACs:
ssh localhost "find
/home/phil/music/ambient/RobertGass+OnWingsOfSong/OmNamahaShivaya
-maxdepth 1 -type f \\( -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.m4a" -o -name "*.flac"
\\)"
Adding extra escapes fixes the problem:
ssh localhost "find
/home/phil/music/ambient/RobertGass+OnWingsOfSong/OmNamahaShivaya
-maxdepth 1 -type f \\( -name \"*.mp3\" -o -name \"*.m4a\" -o -name
\"*.flac\" \\)"
. . but why is there only a problem with the "flac" OR? - all three
files have at least one space in the filename:
01_Early Morning.mp3
02 Om.flac
01 Om Namaha Shivaya.flac
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
8 years, 2 months
Save a VM -
by Bob Goodwin
I have Centos7 installed in Virtual
Machine Manager on this F-23 computer. I
would like to save a copy and install it
in VMM on another F-23 box. My googling
has not helped...
Can someone point me to an instruction
for doing so?
Bob
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-23/64bit LINUX XFCE POP3
8 years, 2 months
gthumb close after removing same files
by William Biggs
When I try to find the same file in gthumb and remove it . Gthumb will
close and I get this error . Dose any one know how to fix it
(gthumb:10658): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
(gthumb:10658): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_new_for_path: assertion
'path != NULL' failed
(gthumb:10658): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_uri: assertion
'G_IS_FILE (file)' failed
(gthumb:10658): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is
discouraged.
(gthumb:10658): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from 'GtkDialog'
to 'GthBrowser'
Segmentation fault
--
William Biggs
bbiggs(a)fastmail.com
8 years, 2 months
Smart card login to freeipa
by Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Working on standing up a freeipa server running on SciLinux 7.2. On a
Fedora 23 system the smart card is working and authentication works at
the console. But trying to log in to a gnome-shell session through gdm
the smart cards does not authenticate.
Is there a gdm setting somewhere to tell it to authenticate with the
smart card against the freeipa server like the console login does?
--
Stephen Berg
Systems Administrator
NRL Code: 7320
Office: 228-688-5738
stephen.berg.ctr(a)nrlssc.navy.mil
8 years, 2 months
Webex
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I need to use the Cisco conf call tool WexEx.
It looks like that it is the same issue than with Skype (32 bits).
For the future:
What are the open alternatives to WebEX ?
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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8 years, 2 months
