VNC alternatives
by Robert Moskowitz
It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than
gnome. Definitely not Xfce that I use. The work around is nasty:
Connect via SSH and run vncserver from the command line. But probably
can do it better via SCREEN and just forget about that screen session...
So it is time to look at the alternatives. I know they are out there
and have been talked about on this list, but my search foo is weak (as
always). So can I have a bit of help in figuring out what to replace my
decades-old connection to VNC?
thanks
5 years, 6 months
Adding and removing a user in F28
by Kevin Wilson
Hi, all.
On F28, when I am running
useradd test10
A new folder is generated:
/home/test10/
But when I run:
userdel test10
this folder remains.
This same is when
adduser test11
and them
userdel test11
/home/test11 remains.
Is this an expected behaviour ?
Is there a way to cause the home folder of a user to be removed when
removing a user ?
Regards,
KevinW
5 years, 6 months
Fedora 28 DM -
by Bob Goodwin
.
Two questions, my googling has not provided satisfactory answers for the
first one.
How do I show what desktop manager is running?
What desktop did the Fedora Xfce Spin come with?
Bob
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box10 FEDORA-27/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
5 years, 6 months
Trouble getting Ipsilon working
by Trever L. Adams
I have been watching ipsilon for a while now. I thought I might give it
a try.
Following the documentation on the project site I have done this:
1) Install ipsilon packages
# dnf install ipsilon ipsilon-base ipsilon-openidc ipsilon-saml2
ipsilon-authgssapi ipsilon-authpam ipsilon-authform ipsilon-infosssd
2) Make necessary keytab using Samba as it will be the Kerberos and LDAP
backend. kinit administrator@DOMAIN export
KRB5_KTNAME=FILE:/etc/httpd/conf/http.keytab net ads keytab CREATE net
ads keytab FLUSH net ads keytab ADD HTTP unset KRB5_KTNAME
3) Install Ipsilon
ipsilon-server-install --gssapi=yes --pam=yes --openidc=yes --saml2=yes
--admin-user administrator@REALM
I cannot login as root, I cannot as the domain administrator or any
other Samba known user. This is with gssapi or pam/form.
Is there more documentation for this anywhere? Has anyone set this up to
work with Samba or MS AD?
Thank you for any help.
Trever
5 years, 6 months
bugzilla is still down
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
When I press "Submit" on a new bug, I get:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to
complete your request.
Error 500
bugzilla.redhat.com
Bugzilla has not been accepting new bugs for over a month.
I eMailed the support address a month ago. No joy.
Anyone reading this have an input with those guys to
hurry up and fix this?
Many thanks,
-T
5 years, 6 months
somewhat offtopic
by bruce
Hi.
Doing a test to install drupal8 on a fed/centos7 droplet (digitalocean).
Since I'm not trying to get into sysAdmin stuff yet, I (perhaps
stupidly) decided to disable systemd/selinux. (An article I'm
following said this was ok). I'm now running into an issue where I get
the following
sudo chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_rw_t /var/www/html/drupal/sites/
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file ‘README.txt’
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file ‘default.services.yml’
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file ‘default.settings.php’
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file ‘settings.php’
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file ‘default’
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file ‘development.services.yml’
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file
‘example.settings.local.php’
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file ‘example.sites.php’
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file
‘/var/www/html/drupal/sites/’
Can I assume that this is due to selinux being disabled? And I can
therefore skip this step in the process??
Once I actually get the app up/working with everything "disabled" I'll
probably take a stab at getting things working with systemd/selinux
fully enabled.
thanks
5 years, 6 months
ViewSonic VX2452MH resolution issue
by wgelpi＠redhat.com
I recently purchased a ViewSonic VX2452MH monitor. I have it set up as an external monitor for my Thinkpad T470S using Fedora 27. When the resolution is set to 1920 x 1080 the right side of the display gets "truncated". It' just about a 1/4" to 1/8" of the screen, but it's enough to be bothersome. I'm curious if anyone else has encountered a similar issue and if so what the resolution was.
System details:
Model: Thinkpad T470S
Gnome: Version 3.26.2
Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics 620 (Kaby Lake GT2)
5 years, 6 months
fc29 beta
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I just upgraded one of my machines to FC29 Beta. Looks
pretty. Haven't had a chance to play with it yet.
-T
Here are my upgrade notes;
FC 28 -->> FC 29:
# rpm --rebuilddb
# rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
if anything is too new, do a
# dnf downgrade offender(s)
# dnf --enablerepo=* update --refresh
# dnf install python3-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
# dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=29 --allowerasing
--best
# dnf clean packages <-- optional
# dnf system-upgrade reboot
5 years, 6 months
fedora cloud AWS randomly shutdown
by Neal Becker
I'm using f28 cloud on AWS as a compute farm. It seems that instances
randomly shutdown within hours of starting. An example log:
...
Fedora 28 (Cloud Edition)
Kernel 4.16.3-301.fc28.x86_64 on an x86_64 (ttyS0)
Stopping Restore /run/initramfs on shutdown...
[[0;32m OK [0m] Removed slice system-sshd\x2dkeygen.slice.
Stopping User Manager for UID 1000...
...
In this case after about 4 hours it seems to have spontaneously shutdown.
This happens with high probability - maybe 2/10 instances I start
spontaneously shutdown.
Any ideas what's going on? I'm just wondering if this is something specific
to fedora cloud edition, because it doesn't seem to be a common complaint on
AWS (most of which is ubuntu).
5 years, 6 months
anything like bootchart for login?
by Jon LaBadie
My fedora 27 laptop used to login very quickly.
Now it gets to a blank screen and pauses there
for 1-2 minutes.
I don't think the pause is due to anything in my
start up scripts ~/.profile and ~/.kshrc. I checked
this in two ways. First was commenting out large
blocks of the executable code in the scripts and
then rebooting. Eventually all the code was commented
out and still the pause on login. The second way was
by adding "got here" lines like:
echo "got to $((n++)) $SECONDS $LINENO" >&2
The $SECONDS showed no long pauses. So I
conclude the pause is in system code setting
up my login session.
The bootchart command does a nice job of reporting
every program that runs during boot, including the
processes start and end times.
Know any bootchart equivalent for login sessions?
Jon
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5 years, 6 months
