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how to use a systemd service, without making it persistent ?
by sean darcy 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

I want to start a systemd service (dhcpd) , but only if a link to the internet is present. I don't want the service to start on boot. systemctl start <service> doesn't work unless the service is enabled. This works, but it's very kludgy: if <link to internet> systemctl enable <service> systemctl start <service> systemctl disable <service> fi Any better ideas ? sean

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RPM Fusion down?
by fedora2015 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Just installed Fedora 27 and cannot install rpm fusion...is it down? Not really sure how to check if it is... and if it isn't...what my problem might be... # rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-27.noarc… Retrieving https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-27.noarc… curl: (7) Failed to connect to download1.rpmfusion.org port 443: Connection timed out error: skipping https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-27.noarc… - transfer failed

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gthumb: ... Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found
by Robert P. J. Day 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

out of nowhere just now, gthumb has suddenly stopped being able to display simple graphics files, with the diagnostic: ** (gthumb:6069): CRITICAL **: 13:15:22.317: Failed to parse arguments: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found. this is an ASUS gaming laptop, with nvidia 965M, using the nouveau kernel module: nouveau 2019328 3 mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 nouveau drm_kms_helper 200704 1 nouveau ttm 126976 1 nouveau drm 454656 6 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper wmi 28672 4 asus_wmi,intel_wmi_thunderbolt,mxm_wmi,nouveau video 45056 2 asus_wmi,nouveau last friday, i did a system-upgrade from f27 to f28 beta, and everything worked fine. did a couple "dnf update"s, and also one "dnf autoremove", where i glanced at the packages that would be removed, and nothing looked critical, and i'm pretty sure i've used gthumb since then. this issue popped up less than an hour ago, and i have no idea what i might have done to provoke it. i'm checking google and bugzilla, but still, i have no idea what i could have done to cause this. is anyone else who upgraded to f28 beta seeing this? rday

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How to install compiler package.
by sales＠wexfordpress.com 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Installed Fedora 26 on recommendation of a Scribus developer. Installed about 30 packages per his advice. But when I try to compile a program the machine can't find C++. So what is the package I need to install to compile C++ programs?. Another question. On Slackware (yes I am one of those) I can use kdm to get to a window function ( I preferXFCE). How do I set up a window manager in Fedora and how do I access it? All advice welcome and appreciaated. John Culleton

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how to correctly log without journald (and its blobs)?
by Franta Hanzlík 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

In previous Fedora distros was (IMHO) right way to log only to syslog, without journald and its (for me) unwanted annoying binary logs, by using configuration as: *) Set systemd log target to syslog: systemd.log_target=syslog (syslog-or-kmsg) ---- on kernel cmdline systemd.default_standard_output=syslog --/ and LogTarget=syslog ---- in systemd.conf DefaultStandardOutput=syslog --/ *) configuring rsyslog to listen on /dev/log unix socket: $SystemLogSocketName /dev/log ------ in rsyslog.conf $ModLoad imuxsock ----/ $OmitLocalLogging off ---/ $AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/syslog --/(legacy directives) $AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/socket -/ $AddUnixListenSocket /run/systemd/journal/stdout / (not sure when all last three directives needed) *) prevent to run journald: systemctl mask systemd-journald.service (and maybe mask systemd-journal-flush.service) And it works fine. But in actual Fedora 24 in systemd man page values syslog-or-kmsg and syslog are missing in LogTarget option. As systemd/journald man pages say hardly anything about exact mean of appropriate configuration for this purpose, then please when someone more knowledgeable can advise: - where to direct the systemd output? Maybe to kmsg an then read it in rsyslog via imklog? (rsyslog should have also imkmsg module, but is not in rsyslog-8.12.0-3.fc24) - what about /run/log/journal/.../system.journal ? On my test F24 system it have open rsyslogd, abrt-dump-journal-oops and abrt-dump-journal-xorg (no need for these last two) processes. Uses it also something else? - what about /run/systemd/journal/{dev-log,socket,stdout} unix sockets? Should rsyslogd listen on them? - /dev/log seems be now symlink to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log socket (as defined by systemd-journald-dev-log.socket) Should it be left (because now something sends to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log), or can be /run/systemd/journal/dev-log removed? Thanks in advance for some clarification about this. Franta Hanzlik

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Evolution Calendar Time Zones
by Will W 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

Hello all, Been a long time since I have been on this list. I have a question on Evolution calendar. Hopefully I explain this right.... When I create an entry in the calendar (New York time zone) Everything is fine, but when I edit it the time zone goes to UTC. The system is set to use the NY time zone. Weird!! Tried to a search on google but nothing really comes up on this. Not sure if it a bug or it is a setting somewhere I missed. Thanks, Will W

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OT:Question on NVME disk direct access?
by Michael D. Setzer II 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

I'm the maintainer of the G4L disk imaging project since 2004, and I use Fedora as the build platform. Currently using Fedora 27. Have an issue from a user that has me baffled, so am hoping someone here might provide some guidance. The program boots a linux kernel, and basically uses dd to copy the disk/partitions thru a compression program and creates an image file on ftp server or local device. I don't have any physical nvme disks, but using virtualbox I created a 4M disk, and 2 - 2M partitions within it. In testing that, the 4M disk compresses to a 30K file, and the 2M partitions compress to about 15K each. That is what is expected with cleared partitions. The user though, with a real 256G disk doesn't seem to get any compression of the disk or partitions. Them resulting images are close to the same size as the disks or partitions?? He can mount the partitions and see the files, so there must be something going on that I don't see? Would think that accessing the /dev/nvme0n1 or partitions /dev/nvme0n1p1 thru p5 would act the same as accessing /dev/sda or /dev/sdax partitions. The images that are created pass the compression program test, so it is reading data, but in some form that doesn't compress much, and user has used a program to clear the unused space? Thanks for your time, and any ideals. +------------------------------------------------------------+ 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 65094199.902703 | ABC 16613838.513356 SETI 109335656.779734 | EINSTEIN 140992828.999240

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upgrade to 28 beta question?
by ToddAndMargo 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Hi All, This worked under 27. Anything different under 28? Many thanks, -T FC 27 -->> FC 28: # 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=28 --allowerasing # dnf clean packages <-- optional # dnf system-upgrade reboot -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -- Charles Varlet de La Grange ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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GnuCash 3.0
by SternData 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Version 3.0 was released the other day. Are there plans to update the version in the repos? I don't see anything in updates-testing. -- -- Steve

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Lost touchpad vertical scrolling after upgrading this laptop from F25->F26
by Kevin Cummings 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Hi Folks, I just recently upgraded the F25 on this laptop (Dell Inspiron 1520) to F26. It mostly went well, except that I seem to have lost the ability to use the vertical scrolling part of my touchpad. I'm running the MATE desktop, so the first thing I did was to check the mouse configuration in System->Preferences->Mouse. In the touchpad tab, I see that Vertical Edge Scrolling is indeed checked, and un-checking it and re-checking it does not bring the functionality back. I can use two-fingered vertical scrolling (it also is checked), but I am not an expert, and it seems to have the side effect of backing up if I move my second finger down into the horizontal scroll area of the touchpad when trying to do a large vertical scroll. A secondary problem to this is that if I move the mouse pointer into the right side scroll bar, then click to grab it and move the pointer vertically, it does scroll the window, but the pointer moves faster than the scroll bar, and to go all the way (either way) often takes multiple attempts. Finally, if I place the mouse below (or above) the scroll bar, it does not scroll by just one page, very often I put the pointer closer to the top or bottom of the scroll bar area, and it scrolls all the way to the top or bottom. For this one, how can I get the old behavior back? -- Kevin J. Cummings cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us kjchome(a)icloud.com Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.linuxcounter.net/)

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