What do you open .mobi files with??
by Beartooth
Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I try to
stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be some Fedora-
native ebook reader!
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
1 month, 4 weeks
Updated info about disabling tracker related processes?
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
I have recently begun to use again gnome session and I have reinstalled
nautilus.
I see that nautilus depends on tracker and so the reinstall put in tracker
and its things
And this morning in my F28 system with SSD disk (I don't imagine on a
normal sata based environment) I had to kill tracker-extract and
tacker-miner processes because they hogged my cpu for several minutes..
Searching with google I found different info about disabling (or at least
calm down) tracker, but they all seem not updated, in the sense that
several commands/services are not present in my f28 environment.
Any pointer about configuring and/or disabling it?
Thanks in advance,
Gianluca
5 months, 1 week
Fedora 30: after update aMule do not work anymore
by Dario Lesca
Start aMule via command line (amule-2.3.2-17.fc30.x86_64.rpm)
aMule seem to work, but.
Goto on Network (List Server) panel.
After few second aMule crash (core dumped) with this error
2019-05-06 22:26:02: Initialising aMule 2.3.2 compiled with wxGTK2
v3.0.4 2019-05-06 22:26:02: Checking if there is an instance already
running... 2019-05-06 22:26:02: No other instances are running. 2019-
05-06 22:26:03: ListenSocket: Ok. 2019-05-06 22:26:03: Loading temp
files from /multimedia/aMule-Temp. 2019-05-06 22:26:03: All PartFiles
Loaded.
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.945: Negative content width -17
(allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.945: Negative content width -1
(allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node border, owner
GtkFrame)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.945: Negative content width -1
(allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node border, owner
GtkFrame)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -17
(allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -1
(allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -17
(allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -1
(allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -17
(allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -1
(allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -17
(allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -1
(allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -17
(allocation 1, extents 9x9) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -1
(allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node entry, owner
GtkEntry)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -33
(allocation 1, extents 17x17) while allocating gadget (node button,
owner GtkButton)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -9
(allocation 1, extents 5x5) while allocating gadget (node button, owner
GtkButton)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -33
(allocation 1, extents 17x17) while allocating gadget (node button,
owner GtkButton)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -9
(allocation 1, extents 5x5) while allocating gadget (node button, owner
GtkButton)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content width -33
(allocation 1, extents 17x17) while allocating gadget (node button,
owner GtkButton)
(amule:22764): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:26:08.946: Negative content height -9
(allocation 1, extents 5x5) while allocating gadget (node button, owner
GtkButton)
(amule:22764): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:26:08.947:
gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion 'size >= 0' failed in
GtkScrollbarErrore di segmentazione (core dump creato)
Seem some incompatibility with wxGTK2/3
Some suggest?
Many thanks
--
Dario Lesca
(inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation)
6 months, 2 weeks
comments in pdf
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Would you have a suggestion for a software capable of adding comments
in a pdf file?
Thank
===========================================================================
Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)380395988
===========================================================================
6 months, 2 weeks
VPN options
by Keith Lofstrom
I am planning on running a Virtual Private Network from my Fedora
firewall out to a UML virtual colo (running RH9) at another site.
That site will be the place I present services to the world;
httpd, ssh, sftp, smtp. This is to comply with the "no servers"
and dynamic ip restrictions on my Comcast connection to the net;
if my firewall always drives an outbound connection to the
colocation site, I am not worried about changes of ip address,
and I am not opening any inbound ports.
There are a number of options for the VPN - the most attractive
are cipe ( http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html )
and FreeSwan ( http://www.freeswan.org/ ), though I am told that
one can do all this through an ssh tunnel. I would rather have
simple and secure than super-duper; I have plenty of bandwidth,
and will send outbound http and smtp from the firewall, so the
main bandwidth user will be incoming spam/b/b/b/b mail.
Anyone have some experiences to share about setting up VPN? Is
there anything about either cipe or FreeSwan that is likely to
break with FC1 or FC2?
Keith
--
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KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
6 months, 3 weeks
How do I generate grub for legacy?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting
from Legacy or UEFI. It boots beautifully from UEFI.
(It also have a bios_grub partition).
It booted perfectly from both under Fedora 29.
Now when booting from legacy, it go into "System Setup".
If you press system Setup, I get a "/grub/core-system"
type error
Remaking grub.cfg, I get
# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
done
Uhhhhh.. I wanted legacy, not EFI.
What am I missing?
Many thanks,
-T
My procedure:
UEFI.BIOS.Dual.Boot.txt:
References that stink:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=223015
https://bl.ocks.org/gdamjan/05b799162e4b3e97a30d37a89fed0fa8
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/configure-grub-to-boot-legacy-and-uefi/12...
Requirements:
Fedora 29
Before installing, gparted:
Wipe the target disk
create a partition table as GPT
create a first partition as
1 Meg
unformatted
set the partition flag to "bios_grub"
Install Fedora 29 from a UEFI machine:
"/home" was removed at installation and moved into "/"
--->>> PRESUMED !!! <<<---
The machine was install and booted from UEFI
The machine is mounted as /dev/sda
Install the legacy BIOS boot loader:
Boot into fedora on UEFI
only installs 3 files
# dnf reinstall grub2-pc
create the BIOS .cfg file
# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Note: if this complains, you forgot to create the partition above
# grub2-install --removable --recheck --target=i386-pc
--boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda
8 months, 3 weeks
copy and paste from mouse when window full of icons?
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
while using "Files", the explorer application (version 3.28.1-stable) in my
Fedora 28 system, I have sometimes this kind of problem:
- I normally use what should be "list view" with list of file names
- if I have to paste a file/dir or group of copied files/dirs into a
location where the page listed is full (no blank space inside it), it seems
that I cannot paste: the right mouse click doesn't offer the paste option.
In these cases I temporarily switch to what should be "icon view" and in
this case I always have some blank space because of how items are displayed.
I select a blank space and then right-mouse --> paste
Then I come back to list view...
Is this a sort of bug or what?
Based on this link
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/files-copy.html.en
I should have "paste" option in menu, but it doesn't happen, see screenshot:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1ZPYPJ5B8IRDA6T_LL5AfbCD2YFAy6_/view?us...
NOTE: keyboard shortcut ctrl+c and ctrl+v works, though
Thanks in advance.
Gianluca
9 months, 1 week
Why Must I Do "dnf clean all" Before Updating Will Proceed?
by Garry Williams
On most occasions I have to clean files before I am allowed to update
a Fedora 30 system:
garry@ifr$ sudo dnf upgrade
[sudo] password for garry:
Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 63 kB/s | 18 kB
Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 226 kB/s | 659 kB
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'
Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'
garry@ifr$ sudo dnf clean all
68 files removed
garry@ifr$ sudo dnf upgrade
Fedora 30 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 11 kB/s | 5.1 kB
Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 2.3 MB/s | 12 MB
Fedora 30 - x86_64 1.0 MB/s | 70 MB
google-chrome 37 kB/s | 3.4 kB
Copr repo for qt5-qtbase-print-dialog-advanced o 91 kB/s | 100 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free - Updates 128 kB/s | 130 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free 570 kB/s | 735 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree - Updates 54 kB/s | 34 kB
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree 449 kB/s | 227 kB
Visual Studio Code 363 kB/s | 2.1 MB
Dependencies resolved.
==================================================================
Does anyone know what is special about this system that it requires
clean all before it will update? I have two other systems that never
experience the same problem.
--
Garry Williams
11 months, 3 weeks
f29 to f30 and grub config only memtest present
by Gianluca Cecchi
Hello,
on a pc where I had both Windows 7 and Fedora 29, with boot loader
configured in linux and grub2, I have run the update to Fedora 30 using the
usual procedure described here, and already completed on another pc (but
without the dual boot...):
https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-29-to-fedora-30/
after the commad
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
I saw the laptop rebooting, installing all the about 9k packages, than
verifying them and as soon as it had verified the last one, I saw again
reboot (is it expected?), but then in grub options I only see
memtest
windows 7
windows 7 recovery environment
So I think something went bad in updating grub2 config...
Any hint on how to recover grub, eventually booting from a usb stick in any
way?
Already happened to anyone else with f29 to f30?
I followed on the same laptop the same procedure without problems from f26
(or f27) to f29 until this problem.
Thanks,
Gianluca
11 months, 4 weeks
Konqueror :-{
by Beartooth
When did Konqueror become enslaved to Google? Is there a way to
liberate it? Or at least to get it back to displaying man pages?
I don't use Google, except by way of Duckduckgo or other privacy-
providing intermediary. In fact, my main and almost only use of Konqueror
is for man pages, which fonts big enough for my ancient eyeballs format
unreadably elsewhere. (I run Mate, and if I could find a second string to
Brasero that I could count on, I could uninstall all of KDE.)
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
12 months
