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Just ran dnf update and notice an error during run
by Michael D. Setzer II 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

(Fri Dec 21 19:57:38:298999 2018) [sss_cache] [confdb_get_domains] (0x0010): No domains configured, fatal error! Could not open available domains usermod: sss_cache exited Not sure if that should have popped up??

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F29: authselect with nis losing mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return], breaks printing
by Terry Barnaby 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

Having updated to F29 from F27 (which seems to be generally working well :) ), I have one issue with our systems due to the new authselect system. When I enable the nis (YP) system for logins the /etc/nsswitch.conf file loses the "mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return]" for hosts searches. One result of this is that when you try and add a printer (at least using KDE/PLASMA), and the printer is discovered using DNS_SD, then at the final adding stage the printer is not actually added (does not appear in the list of printers etc). There are no error messages to the user (always a bad failing of Fedora/Linux/MsWindows in general), but looking under the hood it is due to part of the CUPS system not being able to resolve the <hostname>.local network host address as mdns4_minimal is not being used. I have been setting up nis using: "authconfig --enablenis --nisdomain=<domain> --nisserver=<server> --update". This appears to call authselect as: "authselect select nis with-fingerprint with-silent-lastlog --force" So should I be using a different, direct, authselect command to fix this, or is it a bug in the authselect system ?

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Re: problems creating a new user
by Frank McCormick 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

On 2018-12-20 10:54 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/20/18 7:49 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: >> On 2018-12-20 10:22 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> ctrl-alt-backspace needs to be enabled as well. Gnome appears to >>> have a setting to turn it on, but I've used the following snippet to >>> enable it across desktop environments: >>> # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-zap.conf >> >>> Section "ServerFlags" >>> Option "DontZap" "false" >>> EndSection >>> >>> Section "InputClass" >>> Identifier "Keyboard Defaults" >>> MatchIsKeyboard "yes" >>> Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" >>> EndSection >> >> So both those sections have to be put into 99-zap.conf ? > > Yes, the first one turns on the option, the second one sets the key > combo. Yes, works fine. Thanks

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Re: problems creating a new user
by Frank McCormick 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

On 2018-12-20 10:22 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/20/18 3:36 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: >> A related question: how do I set up Fedora to allow the alt-sysreq >> REISUB >> to kill the session? And I also thought alt-ctrl-backspace killed the > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq That solved it for me. Thanks > >> xserver. It > doesn't for me. > > ctrl-alt-backspace needs to be enabled as well. Gnome appears to have > a setting to turn it on, but I've used the following snippet to enable > it across desktop environments: > # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-zap.conf > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "DontZap" "false" > EndSection > > Section "InputClass" > Identifier "Keyboard Defaults" > MatchIsKeyboard "yes" > Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > EndSection So both those sections have to be put into 99-zap.conf ? Thanks

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Re: problems creating a new user
by Frank McCormick 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

On 2018-12-20 4:36 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/20/18 8:09 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: >> I am running Fedora 29 with the Mate desktop. This morning I tried >> creating a >> new user to check out a problem. After logging out and logging in again >> with the new users name and password, I was presented with a blank >> screen >> with just the mouse cursor visible. > > It sounds like Mate isn't starting for some reason. Did you check the > logs? Not only did Mate not start, I could not find a way out other than killing the power. Nothing in all the logs I could read, but .xsession-errors had an entry reading something like "environment could not be loaded". I have since deleted that user, and created another which works fine. The only difference was allowing the GUI to create a user group the same as the user name. The user was named guest, and it created a group called guest and made the user part of it. > >> I checked the new users directory after logging in with my regular >> account, and there are just a few sub directories but I noticed that >> there was no /Desktop. no /Pictures etc. > > Those are created by the desktop environment. That's what I suspected, and I guess to be expected if Mate couldn't load the proper environment. It's a mystery to me why the second attempt was sucessfull while the first wasn't. A related question: how do I set up Fedora to allow the alt-sysreq REISUB to kill the session? And I also thought alt-ctrl-backspace killed the xserver. It doesn't for me. Still finding my way around Fedora after having been gone for a year or two. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Re: problems creating a new user
by Frank McCormick 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

On 2018-12-20 7:06 p.m., Tom Horsley wrote: > Are you using the nvidia binary drivers? On my system at > work attempting to exit X (which logging out apparently > does) sometimes seems to crash my system (perhaps 10% > of the time). I stick with nvidia though because the > nouveau drivers crash in the middle of sessions, not waiting > for me to log out :-). No, Intel video > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org

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problems creating a new user
by Frank McCormick 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

I am running Fedora 29 with the Mate desktop. This morning I tried creating a new user to check out a problem. After logging out and logging in again with the new users name and password, I was presented with a blank screen with just the mouse cursor visible. I deleted that user then created a second new user but got the same results. I checked the new users directory after logging in with my regular account, and there are just a few sub directories but I noticed that there was no /Desktop. no /Pictures etc. Has anybody else experienced this problem ? Any suggestions?

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Software for streaming audio or video over LAN
by Marko Vojinovic 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

Hello everybody, Huh, it's been a while... :-) I'm interested in your suggestions/experience regarding multimedia tools for streaming audio and possibly also video via LAN (mostly WiFi), played back on multiple client machines, with little to no latency. You know --- say I want to play some music on my laptop in the living room, and I want to hear the same thing play on another computer in the kitchen, and another one in the garage, etc... ;-) Ideally, it should be low-latency, in the sense that playback should be synchronized across devices. Like, if two machines are playing in two rooms, and I'm in the hallway in between them, I shouldn't hear any offset between the two playbacks. I'm looking for Linux-centric solutions in general, but mostly from Fedora or CentOS land. It should do audio, while video would probably depend on the WiFi speed, I guess. So far, I've been thinking of a DIY combination of bash scripts and mplayer, but I guess it's easier to try out something that someone already made, before I end up mocking up the whole thing from scratch myself. Looking for any pointers and suggestions (including keywords for google). ;-) TIA, :-) Marko

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OT: Fedora Interactive boot option...
by Michael D. Setzer II 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Long ago Redhat and early Fedora versions had the option of pressing the letter i at boot to have it request for loading of the individual kernel options. Used it long ago, but haven't seen it for a long time, and search show the old one, but not how it was done, or if it was something only on the redhat. Have a project that I have handled since 2004, and it works fine using kernel.org source code to build on versions up to my current Fedora 28 system. Have an user with an IBM Thinkpad t440p and it freezes with all 5 of the kernels that are included, plus with safe mode options, and debug options. Originally, the last message was about ata8 device. Built a special kernel with all ata modules removed, and lock just showed a different last message, so am thinking it is what loads next that is freezing. Looked thru the kernel options, and don't see anything about an interactive option. Just wondering if someone might know how that interactive boot process was done. Thanks. +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 66255811.060917 | ABC 16613838.513356 SETI 109742178.651890 | EINSTEIN 141783847.999240

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Problems with Fedora 29 on my hardware
by Mr Brian Domenick 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Hi, I have a 15 inch HP Spectre 360 running Fedora 28, it runs fine using nouveau video and wireless works. I tried to upgrade to Fedora 29. After upgrade with dnf it is fairly broken. Everything came up on the surface, but it was sluggish and sudo bash was very slow to authenticate and it was popping multiple oops messages at the top of the screen. I then did a fresh install of Fedora 29. This seemed to mostly work and no immediate sluggishness once done. I then upgraded using dnf to the latest software. This is where the bad behavior came from. After dnf upgrade sluggishness on sudo again as opposed to instantaneous authentication before dnf, wifi could now not be shut off. Oops messages on top of screen and complaining about one of the cpu's in dmesg and also complaining about Noveau. Wifi became broken and gnome network manager to shut it off wouldn't do anything. The icon showed as up with signal but a browser wouldn't work. When it popped up report screen to report kernel problem it was populated with no info and all you could really do was close it. Funny thing is I did a fresh install of 29 first on my Samsung laptop which has strictly intel graphics and different wireless and everything works 100% on that laptop. Thanks, any thoughts would be appreciated, I put Fedora 28 back on the HP and its fine with all the latest software there. Brian

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