how can I use a live usb to update ?
by Sean Darcy
I upgraded 29-> 30. Now I can't even get to the boot screen. I've made
a live usb stick, but the stick only wants to install a completely new
system. Is there any way to use the stick to troubleshoot the existing
installation.
If I had to guess the upgrade screwed up the the UEFI boot. I can boot
to bios, but not to the boot loader.
4 years, 4 months
Radiotray no sound
by Paul Smith
Dear All,
Radiotray on my machine running Fedora 31 does not output any sound.
However, everything regarding sound on my computer works fine (e.g.,
YouTube, VLC, etc.)
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
4 years, 4 months
Keyboard Shortcuts
by Simon Colston
Fedora Workstation 31 GNOME
My installation has a default of English (UK) but occasionally I use Japanese so I installed Japanese language support.
When using the Japanese IME one of the keyboard shortcuts is Alt+`. However, when I use this it brings up an
application switch screen.
I looked through the Settings -> Devices -> Keyboard Shortcuts but there is nothing defined for Alt+`. I also noticed
that "Switch Application" is set to Super+Tab (which works) but Alt+Tab does the same thing even though this is not
defined anywhere.
So my question is, how can I disable these unwanted keyboard shortcuts?
--
Simon
4 years, 4 months
24 hour time in Thunderbird -
by Bob Goodwin
How to configure 24 hour time, instead of AM/PM, in Thunderbird 62.2.0
nd/or 62.2.2.
Presently I have created /usr/bin/thunderbird24h:
/usr/bin/thunderbird24h:
#!/bin/sh
LC_TIME=C
export LC_TIME
/usr/bin/thunderbird
and rebooted but the AM/PM time is still being used. Have I nissed
something or has something changed since Fedora-20?
4 years, 4 months
.bash_profile: line execution based on su vs. direct login.
by home user
(Fedora-30)
good morning,
My .bash_profile looks like this:
---------------
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin
export PATH
ksysguard &
# the end.
---------------
But I want the KSysGuard to be launched only when:
* the session is interactive (not batch, cron, anacron, or at);
and
* it's a direct login from the login screen, not an "su" connection.
How do I do that in my .bash_profile? That is,
-----
if [ what goes here? ]; then
ksysguard &
fi
-----
How do I, within the .bash_profile if test, distinguish su connection
vs. direct login from the login screen?
Bill.
4 years, 5 months
Thunderbird and duplicate messages
by Alex
Hi,
I have a fedora30 desktop with Thunderbird 68.1.1 (64-bit), although
I'm not sure the version matters. It's configured to connect using
IMAP to a dovecot system also on fedora30.
The problem is that when Thunderbird is open on multiple computers
(the other is my Windows laptop), virtually every message received is
duplicated.
I'm not entirely surprised, considering two systems are competing for
the same connection. However, this doesn't happen with my K-9 client
on my phone with Thunderbird also open on my desktop.
Perhaps someone knows of a Thunderbird or dovecot setting that maybe
closes the connection when it's done updating, or some other
configuration option that prevents this?
4 years, 5 months
Order of Users Displayed in Gnome Login Screen
by Tim Evans
I reported this at the time I upgraded my two systems to F30, and find
that it's still true with F31.
On my main (desktop) machine, there are two users, one of which (me) is
flagged as the administrative user; the other is a mere mortal. My
userid was displayed on the Gnome login screen; the other accessible by
clicking the "Not shown" link on the screen.
After the F29->F30 upgrade, the order of the two users was reversed,
with the non-admin user displayed by default. My own account is
accessible via the "Not shown" link.
This has not changed after my in-place (via dnf) upgrade to F31. The
secondary, non-admin user is displayed as the default login on the login
screen.
On my other system, a laptop, there was only one user account created
prior to the F29-F30 upgrade. When I ran the F29->F30 upgrade and
rebooted, I was FORCED to create a (new) admin user account, despite
there being one admin user already there. The new user now appears
first on the Gnome login screen; the existing user is accessible, again,
via the "Not shown" link.
This did not change after my in-place (via dnf) upgrade to F31. The
newly-created userid is displayed as the default login on the login screen.
While the extra click on "Not shown" is not a major big deal, I'm unable
to figure out how to flip-flop the two userids on the systems so that
the primary user appears on the login screen.
Suggestions/discussion welcome. Thanks.
--
Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court
443-394-3864 |Owings Mills, MD 21117
4 years, 5 months
USB flakes out?
by Tom Horsley
I'm now running fedora 31 on my system at home and at
work. On both systems I occasionally notice all my
xinput settings have reverted to default, as if I
unplugged my mouse and plugged it back in (even though
I didn't unplug it).
Has anyone else noticed USB weirdness like this? Looking
at dmesg, that seems to be what the kernel thinks
happened:
[ 36.142138] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 36.188272] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp0s29u1u2: link becomes ready
[28350.784597] usb 2-1-port5: disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...
[28350.784606] usb 2-1.5: USB disconnect, device number 4
[28350.979282] usb 2-1.5: new low-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[28351.063350] usb 2-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=047d, idProduct=1020, bcdDevice= 1.00
[28351.063355] usb 2-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[28351.063358] usb 2-1.5: Product: Kensington Expert Mouse
[28351.063360] usb 2-1.5: Manufacturer: Kensington
[28351.066182] input: Kensington Kensington Expert Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:1.0/0003:047D:1020.0005/input/input21
[28351.066409] hid-generic 0003:047D:1020.0005: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Kensington Kensington Expert Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.5/input0
Looks like a little less than 8 hours after the booted,
the kernel decided I just disconnected and reconnected
the mouse.
I have no idea what an EMI is, but that's what starts everything.
4 years, 5 months
Nvidia driver irritation
by Tom Horsley
I turn my display port connected monitor off over night
and when I turn it back on in the morning, I get no
video (no valid video anyway). This used to happen a while
back, then it stopped, now it is happening again.
I find this nonsense in the Xorg.0.log:
...
[ 53942.071] (WW) NVIDIA(0): MetaMode
[ 53942.071] (WW) NVIDIA(0): "DP-0:nvidia-auto-select{ViewPortIn=1366x768,ViewPortOut=3840x2158+0+1}"
[ 53942.071] (WW) NVIDIA(0): could not be re-validated against the current hardware
[ 53942.071] (WW) NVIDIA(0): configuration; removing.
It was talking to it fine, but now it wants to "re-validate?"
Since the monitor is powered off, it is no wonder it can't
re-validate :-).
Any obscure nvidia driver options I can use to make it
stop the "re-validation" nonsense?
If I download the EDID and load it from lib/firmware
on the kernel command line, will that make the driver
happy even when the monitor is off? (Or with nvidia
not doing KMS do I need to point at the EDID in the
xorg.conf.d directory)
4 years, 5 months
passwd
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
When I run nextcloud, I get:
"the password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring"
It was not too much an issue when I was able to cancel the request, but
for 2 days now, I am even not able kill the request.
I have to kill the nextcloud application through a text terminal.
Can somebody help me?
Thank.
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4 years, 5 months