Thunderbird and text messages -
by Bob Goodwin
I communicate with others during the day via text messaging via
Thunderbird. I simply address them with 'phonenumber(a)vzwpix.com and they
respond using my fastmail.us email address, this is an essential feature
and we have been doing it routinely for several years, it worked
perfectly until Fedora-31. Now the message is received but the message
itself is not displayed. I can double click on the line at the bottom
that shows a .txt attachment and it will offer the option of viewing it
in mousepad, a really crude method that adds extra steps.
However bcc's of my own outgoing response to the text message displays
as usual.
Essentially the Thunderbird sees the incoming text message but does not
display it, only lists it among messages.
Help appreciated, Bob
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4 years, 4 months
Fedora 30->31 Client ID changed
by Richard Shaw
I was wondering after I upgraded why I couldn't ssh into my workstation. I
thought maybe sshd got disabled or firewall changes.
Turns out that my "Client ID" changed after the upgrade and I got a
different IP address from my Mikrotik router.
It was VERY long, something like 23 hex numbers but after the
upgrade changed to the MAC address with a 1: on the front.
Anyone know why that would have happened?
The other Fedora 30 installs I have are of the "long" variety and I assume
I'll have to fix each one in my DHCP server after upgrading.
Thanks,
Richard
4 years, 5 months
qemu-kvm steels my flash drives
by Todd Chester
Hi All,
Fedora 31
qemu-kvm-4.1.0-5.fc31.x86_64
If I have a virtual machine running and I insert a
flash drive into a USB socket, the virtual machine
steels the flash drive from the host, not that it
will actually work in the VM, which they don't.
To get them to work in my VM's I have to add them
as a piece of hardware to my configuration, then
they work.
I have to exit all my VM's to be able to see my flash
drives again from the hosts system (FC31). This is
a pain in the neck.
Any way around this?
Many thanks,
-T
4 years, 5 months
NFS-mounting from a QEMU/KVM guest
by Patrick O'Callaghan
This is quite embarrassing, but I'm banging my head against a wall and
hoping other eyes will spot some obvious mistake.
I have an F31 guest (fedora30) running in QEMU/KVM on an F31 host
(Bree). I want to mount a host directory via NFS in the guest. I set
this up a long time ago and it has worked through several Fedora
releases without issue, but in a fit of spring cleaning I did a fresh
install of F31 rather than my usual update, so of course now it doesn't
work. Clearly I did something right back in the day and have now
forgotten what it was.
The guest can ping the host and ping the wider Internet, so basic
connectivity works (this is via a NAT-style connection). The host can
ssh into the guest.
Firewall setup on the host:
[poc@Bree ~]$ firewall-cmd --list-all
home (active)
target: default
icmp-block-inversion: no
interfaces: enp3s0
sources:
services: dhcp dhcpv6-client dns libvirt mdns mountd nfs nfs3 plex rpc-bind rsyncd samba samba-client ssh
ports:
protocols:
masquerade: no
forward-ports:
source-ports:
icmp-blocks:
rich rules:
And on the guest:
[poc@fedora30 ~]$ sudo firewall-cmd --list-all
home (active)
target: default
icmp-block-inversion: no
interfaces: enp1s0
sources:
services: dhcpv6-client mdns samba-client ssh
ports:
protocols:
masquerade: no
forward-ports:
source-ports:
icmp-blocks:
rich rules:
Guest ip:
[poc@fedora30 ~]$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 52:54:00:ca:07:30 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.122.156/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp1s0
valid_lft 2893sec preferred_lft 2893sec
inet6 fe80::2e77:5bc1:d19a:6045/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
and routing:
[poc@fedora30 ~]$ ip route
default via 192.168.122.1 dev enp1s0 proto dhcp metric 100
192.168.122.0/24 dev enp1s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.156 metric 100
[poc@Bree ~]$ ping fedora30
PING fedora30 (192.168.122.156) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from fedora30 (192.168.122.156): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=20.1 ms
...
Exports on the host:
[poc@Bree ~]$ sudo exportfs
/home/Media 192.168.0.0/16
/home/poc/Shared
vm-*
/home/poc/Shared
fedora*
But from the guest:
[poc@fedora30 ~]$ showmount -e bree
clnt_create: RPC: Unable to receive
What am I missing?
poc
4 years, 5 months
Sleep/hibernate after pre-selected idle time period
by Alex
Hi,
I have a fedora30 desktop that's used infrequently throughout the day.
I'd like it to go to sleep on its own after 15 minutes of inactivity.
How can I do this?
The install was done using defaults, so I'm using GNOME with its
default applications and configuration.
An option to configure this from the command-line would be
appreciated, although I can also use the GUI.
Thanks,
Alex
4 years, 5 months
F31 no longer allows user access to NetworkManager.service
by Paul-Erik Törrönen
Since today I'm no longer are able to use the F5 VPN solution.
When the F5VPN is started, I get a password dialog with the text:
Authentication is required to restart 'NetworkManager.service'
An applicationis attempting to perform an action that requires
privileges. Authentication is required to perform this action.
Problem is, the VPN dies due to this, and reinitializing the VPN only
results in the same dialog.
This _never_ happended with previous versions of Fedora, nor did it
happen with F31 prior to today (last time I used it was last Thursday).
If I enter my password, the dialog goes away, but the F5VPN process has
also died.
When I tried to open my keyring my current password, nor any previous
passwords worked, so I suspected that something has corrupted my keyring
and recreated them from scratch, logged out and in again. Did not help.
I downgraded NetworkManager to 1.20.4-1.fc31 and restarted. Did not
help.
I downgraded systemd to 243-3.gitef67743.fc31 and restarted. Did not
help.
How can I disable this password dialog so that it does not break F5VPN?
TIA,
Poltsi
4 years, 5 months
Re: (fedora) Re: akmod nvidia
by Jouk Jansen
Amadeus WM wrote on 16-NOV-2019 17:46:45.71
>> 340xx is EOL and no longer supplied in F31.�� It also became unsupported in F30 with the
>> advent of the 5.3 kernel.
>Ah, that explains it! Thanks! I guess it's time for an upgrade.
I saw this morning that akmod-nvidia-340xx has become also available for
F31. (A new maintainer volunteered (thanks))
Regards
Jouk
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4 years, 5 months
DVD reading broken (?)
by Mattia Verga
What's the package responsible to read DVDs?
I'm asking that because I've just realized that I cannot read video DVDs after exactly the first 1024MB... I was trying to copy a video DVD to an ISO image with k3b and it always got stuck after the first 1024MB. So I tried with other video DVDs and all behave the same.
I've tried to play the DVD with VLC, but it stops after a while as described also by another user in a post [1].
I think it could be a general problem with DVD reading, not a k3b or vlc one. Which package should I open a bug against?
Thanks
Mattia
[1] https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=151293
4 years, 5 months
Core for a netbook??
by Beartooth
I have an old System76 netbook "starling," I think one of the
first ones ever, whenever that was. Years ago. They were an Ubuntu shop
then, and afaik still are; but I'm not. The first thing I did with it was
to install the then current Fedora release.
F30 is on it now, but I can't say it runs. It boots up, and then
freezes. Local people who know things tell me it just isn't big enough
any more.
I got it to do email in waiting rooms; but I found I usually got
my turn before I got into my email. That proved true even when the
netbook was still quick; wifi in the places I waited was slow.
So I guess I can afford a risk: would CoreOS be able to handle
Alpine (formerly Pine from UW) and a browser or two? Maybe even Pan??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
4 years, 5 months
