Converting a Fedora installation from BIOS to UEFI
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I have a new external drive with Windows 10, cloned from my working
QEMU/KVM setup under F26. I want the option of continuing to use it as
a VM, or occasionally dual-booting directly into Windows. The VM is set
up to use UEFI but my host is running under BIOS, so I need to change
one of them to match the other. I prefer to change the host to UEFI as
that is the preferred method for running VMs.
So how do I go about it? If I simply boot using UEFI I get the EFI menu
with a bunch of block devices and no \EFI directory, which I think
means that I need to do something specific in Fedora. Is this some
magic incantation with Grub? The Grub man pages are not clear.
poc
6 years, 5 months
network-online.target appears to be very much broken
by Sam Varshavchik
privoxy.service most certainly has:
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
I'm staring at this service file, right now.
I have privoxy binding to an internal IP address, of course:
listen-address 192.168.0.1:8000
However, privoxy just failed to start for me, after a reboot.
2017-11-04 09:16:52.710 7f8d7a298700 Fatal error: can't bind to
192.168.0.1:8000: Cannot assign requested address
Would anyone care to guess what the problem is (no need to mention the
obvious, one-word answer, although I'd fully agree with it), given that:
Nov 4 09:16:52 shorty systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Wait Online.
This was, in syslog, **BEFORE** the lines that were logging failures to
start due to the IP addresses not being assigned.
I also determined that this is not a privoxy-specific issue, since I found
another message in syslog, after this one, that reported a failure to bind
to the IP address in question.
192.168.0.1 is a static IP address. DHCP is not in the picture here. I
created bug 1509544 for this, but I am not holding any illusions, here.
6 years, 5 months
fedora and NAS
by François Patte
Bonsoir,
Does anyone have some experience in building a NAS --- stocking and
broadcasting multimedia stuff on home network --- using fedora?
Thank you to share your experience.
--
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
6 years, 5 months
This morning's update & bluetooth
by Wells, Roger K.
Computer is Thinkpad x260
Uname -a:
Linux rwells-x260 4.13.4-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 28 20:46:39 UTC
2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Just updated from 4.12.14
I was using two Bluetooth devices, mouse & speaker, when I started the
update.
After the update neither would connect.
Rebooting the previous kernel, both connect again
Same for Wayland & Xorg (no surprise)
--
Roger Wells, P.E.
leidos
221 Third St
Newport, RI 02840
401-847-4210 (voice)
401-849-1585 (fax)
roger.k.wells(a)leidos.com
6 years, 5 months
Off topic: google hangouts
by Amadeus W.M.
Sorry for the off topic, but couldn't find a solution to this on the web,
so I'm trying here one last time before I give up.
In short, gmail and google hangouts used to see my camera and I was able
to do video conferencing, but for about a month google says no camera
detected.
The camera is attached via a usb caption device and uses the usbtv driver,
which in turn uses v4l2. The driver loads, I have /dev/video0 with the
right permissions
10) root:~> ls -l /dev/video*
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Nov 3 22:37 /dev/video0
and I can see myself with tvtime, xawtv and cheese. However neither google
nor skype detect my camera. I'm guessing it's some permission problem, or
they just stopped supporting video under linux.
Does anyone have any insight on this?
Thanks!
6 years, 5 months
Razer Orochi Gaming Mouse Doesn't work in Fedora 26 with Bluetooth
Enabled
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
I have just purchased this mouse for gaming use (mainly under
windows). The mouse is both wired and wireless enabled via bluetooth. I
have purchased a bluetooth 4.1 dongle as my pc doesn't have bluetooth
and I have been able to pair the mouse to the dongle under Windows 10
and I am able to use it wirelessly, and been able to use the mouse wired
when I don't want the power saving built into the mouse.
Under Fedora 26 I cannot get bluetoothctl to see the mouse.
Bluetooth is enabled and bluetoothctl can see my dongle and can see
localhost.localdomain and my TV (even though the TV has not been paired
with the dongle) but cannot see the mouse.
Lsusb displays info on the device id github documents as the id
used by Razer devices. The github documentation indicates the service is
designed to be used via xdg-autostart, but I'm not sure what this means.
As I was not able to get the mouse working wirelessly via bluetooth
I downloaded and installed the Razer Repository for Fedora 26 (they have
repositories for Rawhide and Fedora 25 as well). I then installed their
configuration applications for the mouse which both run fine but they
cannot connect to the required service. I have also installed the kernel
driver which autoinstalls via dkms (dkms tells me the kernel driver is
installed) and I have installed their daemon user space service.
When I try to enable the service systemctl tells me it cannot find
the service. To remedy this I (possibly this should not have been done)
placed a link to the service in /usr/lib/systemd/system which then
allowed systemctl to enable the service. Having done this I tried to
start the service but it failed to start. Systemctl status
openrazer-daemon.service produced the message
'dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported:
Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11' , what
does this message mean and what do I need to do to get the mouse working
wirelessly?
regards,
Steve
6 years, 5 months
Understanding VPN client options
by Alex
Hi, I have a fedora26 desktop and would like to use a VPN to browse
the Internet. What are my options? Do I need to connect to a VPN
server service which then proxies my request to the remote site?
Are any of the "free" VPN services legit, or do they all do it in
exchange for something like either privacy or some browser plugin
that's required?
The client VPN documentation available with the fedora25 docs is confusing:
https://docs-old.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Networking_Guide/...
Where is this "Super key"?
I know how to use Settings->Network to "Add a VPN" but I don't have an endpoint.
6 years, 5 months
Suddenly, thunderbird will not start
by JD
$ ps -ef | grep thunder
jd 12600 3453 0 13:42 pts/4 00:00:00 grep --color=auto thunder
So, TB is not running at this point.
$ thunderbird --version
(process:3027): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion
'sys_page_size == 0' failed
Thunderbird 31.8.0
Using GUI:
Your Thunderbird profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or
inaccessible.
Yet, I cd $HOME/.thunderbird/
and I see the directory of my profile there.
I browse the directory, and all the files and dirs are there.
So, what has suddenly gone wrong?
6 years, 5 months
