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Problems with ASUS MB and CPU temperature
by GianPiero Puccioni 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Hi, I have recently installed Linux on my PC and I have some problems with the CPU temperature, while everything works fine under Win10. The MB is an Asus STRIX B250F - The chipset is reported by hwinfo as "Intel 200 Series PCH LPC Controller (B250)". The problem is that it seems that the fans are not controlled and the CPU temp get very high, and during some tasks (like a "dnf update" with several packages) I get a "Temp critical CPU throttled" message. The sensors command gave little help at start with the default installation. On line I found some advice and I tried using the grub option "acpi_enforce_resources=lax" and loading the "nct6775" module which reports "Found NCT6793D or compatible chip at 0x2e:0x290" in dmesg. With this sensors gave more info (Temp and Fans) but some was still missing unfortunately the problem remains. Does anyone knows what is the proper module to load for this chipset? Or if there is something else to be done. Thanks, GianPiero

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vt's enable screen blanking
by Wolfgang S Rupprecht 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days? I have an ancient 32-bit x86 Acer mini laptop running as a server where the X11 greeter just started crashing in a tight loop. I've turned the graphical login off but that leaves me with the first vt's login prompt displaying. Whatever is responsible for blanking the screen seems not to be doing its thing. Where is the screen blank timer configuration these days? It has been so long and things have changed so much that google is useless. I assume systemd has absorbed that function by now but I can't find it. /etc/systemd/logind.conf doesn't seem to have a screenblank setting even though it seems to have everything else. -wolfgang

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Borgmatic
by Patrick O'Callaghan 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

I've recently started experimenting with Borg as a deduplicating backup system ('dnf install borgbackup'). Think 'duplicity' on steroids. However there are many quite complex configuration options and a number of efforts exist to make things simpler for the average user, especially when setting up an automated backup regime (the only kind of backup that's worth a candle of course). One of these is a Python3 script called Borgmatic (https://torsion.org/ borgmatic/), which is easy to install using pip3 but needs some minor tweaking to run on Fedora (it installs in /usr/local/bin, which is not in the default PATH for sudo). It would be much more elegant if this could be done as a proper Fedora package and installed in /usr/bin. I've been in touch with the creator and although he has no issue with this happening he's not a Fedora user himself. I'm not volunteering to do it either because a) I have no experience of package creation and maintenance, and b) Borg itself is already maintained as part of Fedora, so the logical step would be for the Fedora maintainer to take it on. What is the approved process for suggesting this? poc

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Power settings wrong or battery dying?
by Danny Horne 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Hi all, I have a four year old laptop that's running Fedora 27 Workstation. If I leave the thing switched off and unplugged after a day it will need recharging by varying degrees. Have I missed something in the power settings or is my battery on it's way out? Thanks for looking

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Windows Dual Boot
by Richard Kimberly Heck 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

For reasons connected with LyX development, I need to install Windows 10 on one of my machines. It is already running Fedora 27, and my intention is to install Windows 10 on a separate SSD. I've not done this in a long time, and, as I recall, in the past, it was by far best to install Windows first. (That's what Google thinks, too.) But it's too late for that, and I'd really rather not have to re-install Fedora. I take it the main issue here is getting GRUB back up and running. Can somone give me hints how to do that? Thanks for any help, Riki

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screen command and copy/paste terminal buffer to empty
by Dario Lesca 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

On old version of screen installed on Centos 5.5, for example this .... $ screen --versionScreen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06$ rpm -q screenscreen-4.0.3-4.el5 do not clean terminal copy/paste buffer when I run a new screen or I reuse a previous screen ... and this is good! But the subsequent versions to last current version ... $ screen --versionScreen version 4.06.02 (GNU) 23-Oct-17$ rpm -q screenscreen-4.6.2-1.fc27.x86_64 clean the terminal copy/paste buffer when I run new screen session o I reuse a previous suspend screen session When I'm inside a screen session and I select with mouse some text, then copy it with right click into buffer, when I exit from screen and return into terminal session, the copy/paste buffer is not clean and I can paste the previous copy text via right click or press the middle mouse button. But if I copy some text previous to run a screen, then run a new screen or reuse a suspend screen, when I'm inside the screen the copy buffer is empty and I do no t can paste it in any way. It's possible disable this "clean copy buffer feature" of the screen? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 27 Workstation)

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Bug in cups web interface?
by Tom Horsley 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

I used localhost:631 last night to turn on the global setting to make my printers visible on the network. It said it was restarting the server, but apparently all it did was stop the server until I manually did a "systemctl start cups" in a root window. Anyone else noticed this? If I wanted to report it would just "cups" be the right component to use in bugzilla?

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Which VirtualBox repo to use?
by Eyal Lebedinsky 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

I have been using VirtualBox for a long while. Looking at what rpms are available I see: $ dnf list '*VirtualBox*' Last metadata expiration check: 19 days, 23:03:27 ago on Thu Mar 15 14:29:34 2018. Installed Packages VirtualBox-5.2.x86_64 5.2.8_121009_fedora26-1 @virtualbox Available Packages VirtualBox.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates VirtualBox-5.1.x86_64 5.1.34_121010_fedora26-1 virtualbox VirtualBox-devel.i686 5.2.6-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates VirtualBox-devel.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates VirtualBox-guest-additions.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates VirtualBox-kmodsrc.x86_64 5.1.22-1.fc26 rpmfusion-free VirtualBox-kmodsrc.noarch 5.2.6-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates VirtualBox-server.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates VirtualBox-webservice.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates akmod-VirtualBox.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates kmod-VirtualBox.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates python-VirtualBox.x86_64 5.2.6-2.fc26 rpmfusion-free-updates Which repo [virtualbox (Oracle) or rpmfusion] should one use? Is Oracle simply a more up-to-date repo? Does rpmfusion packages actually fetch the Oracle rpm, or is rpmfusion a separate, full build? The size difference is significant: rpmfusion VirtualBox-5.2.8-2.fc26.x86_64.rpm 8.1MB virtualbox VirtualBox-5.2-5.2.8_121009_fedora26-1.x86_64.rpm 69 MB If the two are different: if I change to use the rpmfusion repo, will the VMs be compatible? TIA -- Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)

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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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