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Re: confirm bdffd894712e2f8477dc6372174519002267d714
by Francesco 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

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07 Dec '18

This one is a bit of a mystery... I have a newish install of Fedora 29. I am using two SSD drives on a Lenovo W540 laptop with UEFI boot. Every once in a while the system stops accepting my password. Rebooting does not help. I can mount the drive with a live F29 distro and chroot the root drive. I have a backup of the /etc/shadow file and there are no changes to the user. "changing" the password fixes the problem. I am using the Gnome 3 desktop. Ideas why I am seeing this? perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py

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Odd problem with kmodtool
by alan＠clueserver.org 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

I have a relatively new Fedora 29 install. (I did a reinstall after getting a couple of new SSDs for my laptop and changing over to a UEFI boot.) When I try using akmodbuild for any module, it claims that it cannot find "/app/bin/kmodtool". Why does it think I have a Mac? I have grepped everything I can find and I have no idea where it is getting that path. kmodtool is installed and it is in /usr/bin/. Any ideas what is happening here? perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py

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F29 problems on Lenovo P50 laptop
by Tony Camuso 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

With F28 on my P50, I was able to detect a second display and at least mirror the contents of the P50 on it. It was never able to work as an extension to the P50 display, but I could live with that. Upon installing F29, however, the second display cannot even be detected, so I only have the laptop display. That's not bad, unless you've spent good money to have a nice large display, and even worse if you need to give a presentation and mirror the display on another display device. Bluetooth does not work, either. The Bluetooth device connects for a few seconds, and then disconnects. New attempts to connect to the device return, "Connection Failed: Protocol not available." These are pretty bad failures to have on an OS desktop, so I'm somewhat surprised not to see them on the "Common F29 bugs" page. I can't be the only one using F29 on a P50, so perhaps there are BIOS or X settings that I need to implement. Regards, Tony Camuso

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cups browser interface changes?
by AV 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

Hello Today I had to use "lpadmin -x" to remove a printer from cups. Didn't there use to be a 'delete printer' option in the 'Administration' drop down menu. It has been quite a few years since I last used cups. AV

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Get rid of phantom touchpad clicks, once and for all
by Sam Varshavchik 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

Looks like, to my great dismay, the touchpad is once again helfully reacting to taps as button clicks. I forgot what I did, a very long time ago, to turn off this "helpful feature" in the first place. But, looks like after upgrading to F29, at least on the XFCE desktop the phantom clicks from the touchpad are BACK once again. I am positive that this is new to F29. Perhaps this used to be configurable in settings, somewhere, but the support has been removed for some reason. I find nothing promising in "Mouse and Touchpad" settings, now. Checked accessibility. Nope. Can't think of any other place to check. Where, oh where, do I get rid of this, once and for all? I found some old stuff in Google for Fedora 20. Looks like it might still work. I dropped the following into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-disable-taps-once- and-for-eternity.conf: Section "InputClass" Identifier "tap-by-default" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Option "TapButton1" "0" EndSection Crossing my fingers that this works. So far, intentional double-taps no longer appear to elicit a response, so I'm optimistic. Still, why did this harassment start back up again, in F29? I really don't want to remember to do this manual hack again, if I ever install Fedora on a new laptop.

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Evince has no print option -
by Bob Goodwin 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

. In Fedora 29 Evince has no "Print" function despite what its help page says. How can I restore it? Bob From evince help: * To print a document: 1. Click theFile optionsmenu in the top right corner and selectPrintor pressCtrl+P. 2. Choose your printer from the list. 3. ClickPrint. * Printing is enabled for the following file formats: o Device Independent file format (.dvi) o DjVu (.djvu, .djv) o Portable Document Format (.pdf) o PostScript (.ps) o Tagged Image File Format (.tiff, .tif) -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box83 FEDORA-29/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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persistant soundcard image on desktop. Fedora 29
by Richard Dawson 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

Intermittently an image, approximately 1.5"x1.5" appears in the center of the desktop, covering whatever application is running. The image contains a "sketch" of (presumably) a sound card and a label "Built In analog digital stereo ( IEC958)". Sometimes the image stays on the screen for extended periods of time, and sometimes it seems to appear and then disappear. (It of course stays there for a long time when I am trying to see what is under it in the application.) This is a deal breaker!

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luks root partition and grub opens it using usb - how to?
by lejeczek 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

hi guys I wonder if it is possible to have a passphrase to the root partition on a usb/sd and tell the grub to check and use it and if that fails then fall back to user providing the passphrase, as normally by the means of keyboard. Would you know if that works and if there is any doc/manual for it? many thanks, L.

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Strange firewalld error from fail2ban
by Patrick O'Callaghan 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

$ sudo systemctl status firewalld ● firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-12-03 10:10:44 GMT; 8h ago Docs: man:firewalld(1) Main PID: 844 (firewalld) Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915) Memory: 32.1M CGroup: /system.slice/firewalld.service └─844 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork --nopid Dec 03 10:10:43 bree systemd[1]: Starting firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon... Dec 03 10:10:44 bree systemd[1]: Started firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon. Dec 03 10:10:45 bree firewalld[844]: ERROR: '/usr/sbin/iptables-restore -w -n' failed: iptables-restore v1.8.0 (legacy): Set fail2ban-sshd doesn't exist. Error occurred at line: 2 Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information. Dec 03 10:10:45 bree firewalld[844]: ERROR: COMMAND_FAILED: Direct: '/usr/sbin/iptables-restore -w -n' failed: iptables-restore v1.8.0 (legacy): Set fail2ban-sshd doesn't exist. Error occurred at line: 2 Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information. Not sure where to look for this. It's probably been around for a while but I've only just noticed it. poc

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