comments in pdf
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Would you have a suggestion for a software capable of adding comments
in a pdf file?
Thank
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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
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4 years, 4 months
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
4 years, 4 months
General protection fault involving flash
by Andre Robatino
The Citi.com credit card website allows generating virtual card numbers, but unfortunately they're using flash in that part of the site. When I try to use it in F30, on one particular machine (it's hardware-specific), in GNOME (it doesn't happen in MATE), the Firefox tab crashes and I get a general protection fault, for example
[88812.835817] traps: Web Content[2532] general protection fault ip:7f94ee0d0adb sp:7ffedd6a3140 error:0 in libX11.so.6.3.0[7f94ee0aa000+8e000]
Since flash is involved, it's not clear whether this is the fault of Fedora or flash. This has been happening for around half a year, so flash has been updated several times. It also happened with F29. Anyone know how to narrow down where the issue is?
4 years, 6 months
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
4 years, 6 months
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
4 years, 7 months
How to find out which wifi card
by Robert Moskowitz
I am working on my non-working wifi now. The last critical item (I hope).
Just installing the broadcom-wl rpm got the card recognized, and I am
seeing SSIDs, but cannot connect. Perhaps some setting needed.
So I figure to start I need to know what card F30 thinks I have. Win10's
driver for this unit is BCMWL63a.
I can't find my old notes on how to list information about the card itself.
thanks
4 years, 8 months
KWorld ATSC 110 Tuner (PCIe) with Fedora 30 failing
by Al Farleigh
By chance does anyone else use a KWorld ATSC 110 pcie tv tuner card with
Fedora 30?
My card worked with 29 at some point in the near past, but now no longer
works with 30.
Using kaffeine as the player/recorder, I get one in twenty correct
startups, the rest blank screen. Same with cli dvb software.
Can anyone else confirm?
Thank You.
4 years, 8 months
gnome frozen
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
Since I upgraded to fc30, if I do not use the PC for a while
the screen turns to lock (no screensaver is used).
Is this time is long, I may not be able to log in.
The screen remains frozen after I provide the password.
The only way to get access to a graphics mode is to run
kill -9 -1
I though that it may be due to a mounted filesystem.
But it is not the case.
It may be due to Nextcloud, but I do not know how to unmount
by a command like.
However, I cannot really make a correlation.
How can I debug?
Thank
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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
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4 years, 8 months
Manually installed grub (no bls) doesn't update entries automatically
on kernel install or removal.
by Sergio Cipolla
I have a legacy BIOS. I didn't install grub through anaconda, instead I installed it manually (as per https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?313824 ) to a partition so as to be able to use the Windows boot loader. All went well.
I noticed grub was installed the traditional way (not the new bls) so I can just edit /etc/default/grub and run grub2-mkconfig for any modification I want.
The only issue, so to speak (because I don't know if it's a bug or a setting), is that on new kernel installations or kernel removals, I must manually run grub2-mkconfig to re-generate grub.cfg
The Fedora documentation (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2#Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_BI...), which describes the old behaviour, states that 'Grubby in Fedora patches the configuration when a kernel update is performed'. So maybe, with the new bls thing, the kernel scriptlets aren't using this any more.
Anybody knows anything about it? Can I set something so 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' is called again automatically on kernel install or removal?
4 years, 8 months
Migrating RAID1 to new system
by Alex
Hi,
I have an older fedora install that I need to upgrade. It has 8 Intel
SSD 520 Series 240GB disks in there now, mounted on root using an LSI
SAS 9260-8i controller. There is about 1.3TB usable space.
I need to upgrade it to add more space. If I bought eight 512GB SSDs,
how do I calculate how much usable space I would have after
partitioning/formatting using XFS? Can I safely use XFS on the root
partition?
My strategy to upgrade the system using the eight new 512GB SSDs would be:
- Add two regular 2TB disks as RAID1 to the existing system
- Copy the 1.3TB of user data onto it
- Remove the eight existing 240GB SSDs
- Install the eight new 512GB SSDs
- Install fedora30 onto the new system
- Migrate the old configs from backup onto the new system
- Mount the two RAID1 drives onto the new system
- Copy data from RAID1 array to new system
Do I need to migrate the RAID1 config, or will mdadm figure it out on its own?
Anything else I should watch for?
4 years, 8 months