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H.264
by ToddAndMargo 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

Hi All, How or what do I install to get the H.264 plug in that Parole Music Player complains about missing? Many thanks, -T

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Loss of Administrative Privileges on Only Account
by Stephen Morris 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

Hi, By mistake I removed administration privileges from my account under kde, which is the only account that had it. Removing the privilege has removed my account from sudoers. Is the only course of action I have to get it back to reinstall F29 and then upgrage to F31? regards, Steve

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Re: Loss of Administrative Privileges on Only Account
by Stephen Morris 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

On 12/1/20 04:18, Doug H. wrote: > On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 23:54 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: >> Hi, >> By mistake I removed administration privileges from my >> account >> under kde, which is the only account that had it. Removing the >> privilege >> has removed my account from sudoers. Is the only course of action I >> have >> to get it back to reinstall F29 and then upgrage to F31? > Nope, lots of simpler methods... > > 1. Of course, if you have the root password you can give your user > sudo. > > 2. Boot to a maintenance CD and set a root password. > I don't have the root account enabled and I don't have a maintenance CD for F31 as it was an upgrade from F30, which was an upgrade from F29. regards, Steve > > >> regards, >> Steve >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Help: F30/31 laptops only ones not able to connect to Wifi Linkhub hotspot
by Ranjan Maitra 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

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Re: OT: recommendations for a low-volume, ,> cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31
by R. G. Newbury 11 Jan '20

11 Jan '20

On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 7:15 > PM Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote: >> On 1/11/20 9:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Sat, 2020-01-11 at 23:18 +1030, Tim via users wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 09:25 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >>>>> the printing is largely of documents, but the printer sits for a >>>>> while doing nothing. I guess laser is the way to go then? What are >>>>> goog suggestions then? Look around for a used HP laser printer. I am using an HP1320 which I bought in May, 2005 for about $550 including an extra cartridge and tax. HP cartridges are expensive! I have no idea how many cartridges I have gone through, probably over a dozen, and it is as good as the day I bought it. Drivers are included with cups or hplip. The bare HP1320 needs a ~$30 network print server if you want to network it, otherwise a parallel port! If you want print/fax/scan, then one of the all in ones or 'MFP'. I have an HP3055 which I purchased in 2006 (to replace the fax machine which had died). I mainly use it for scanning now. It has builtin network capability. Again, the drivers are included in your basic install of cups or hplip. A good one will probably cost you $50-$75. Off-brand cartridges cost about that. ATM there is an HP P2015d for sale used on kijiji.ca in the Toronto area for $80Cdn. Physically it looks exactly like the HP1320 and has duplex capability. So... $60US??? I happen to like HP printers, but Brother printers do the same thing and are just about as dependable and long-lived. I've had Brother printers too. The best scanner I have ever used is a Brother ADS-1000. Once did over 650 pages in one continuous pass! Geoff --

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Completely replacing F31 Ethernet package(s)?
by Robert G (Doc) Savage 11 Jan '20

11 Jan '20

It would seem that "something" happened to the file(s) that provide RJ45 Ethernet connectivity maybe as far back as F29. I can get a WiFi connection, but not an RJ45 eth0 DHCP connection. This happens in my home and at a nearby computer store, so it's not my DHCP server. When booted up to WiFi, connecting an RJ45 Ethernet cable shuts down the existing WiFi port (normal), but never comes up with a DHCP address for the eth0 port. The network icon just loops forever. When I disconnect the RJ45 cable, WiFi connectivity resumes after 5-10 seconds. The problem has persisted since upgrades to both F30 and F31. I'm guessing the best way to fix the problem is a fresh install of whatever packages provide eth0 connectivity. I'm at a loss to know what those packages are, and if there are any hidden potholes/landmines with simply using dnf to first remove then to install them from scratch. If it matters, I'm using the mate v1.22.2 desktop. Here are all the *mate* packages I have installed: # rpm -qa | grep mate | sort classmate-1.3.1-7.fc31.noarch f29-backgrounds-extras-mate-29.1.3-3.fc31.noarch f29-backgrounds-mate-29.1.3-3.fc31.noarch f30-backgrounds-extras-mate-30.1.2-2.fc31.noarch f30-backgrounds-mate-30.1.2-2.fc31.noarch f31-backgrounds-mate-31.0.4-1.fc31.noarch fedora-release-matecompiz-31-2.noarch imsettings-mate-1.8.1-2.fc31.x86_64 libmatekbd-1.22.0-2.fc31.x86_64 libmatemixer-1.22.0-2.fc31.x86_64 libmateweather-1.22.1-1.fc31.x86_64 libmateweather-data-1.22.1-1.fc31.noarch mate-applet-softupd-0.4.7-4.fc31.x86_64 mate-applets-1.22.2-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-backgrounds-1.22.0-2.fc31.noarch mate-calc-1.22.2-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-control-center-1.22.2-2.fc31.x86_64 mate-control-center-filesystem-1.22.2-2.fc31.x86_64 mate-desktop-1.22.2-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-desktop-libs-1.22.2-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-dictionary-1.22.2-2.fc31.x86_64 mate-disk-usage-analyzer-1.22.2-2.fc31.x86_64 mate-icon-theme-1.22.2-1.fc31.noarch mate-media-1.22.2-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-menu-19.04.0-2.fc31.noarch mate-menus-1.22.1-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-menus-libs-1.22.1-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-menus-preferences-category-menu-1.22.1-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-notification-daemon-1.22.1-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-panel-1.22.2-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-panel-libs-1.22.2-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-polkit-1.22.0-2.fc31.x86_64 mate-power-manager-1.22.2-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-screensaver-1.22.2-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-screenshot-1.22.2-2.fc31.x86_64 mate-search-tool-1.22.2-2.fc31.x86_64 mate-sensors-applet-1.22.1-2.fc31.x86_64 mate-session-manager-1.22.3-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-settings-daemon-1.22.1-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-system-log-1.22.2-2.fc31.x86_64 mate-system-monitor-1.22.2-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-terminal-1.22.1-3.fc31.x86_64 mate-themes-3.22.20-2.fc31.noarch mate-user-admin-1.5.1-1.fc31.x86_64 mate-user-guide-1.22.3-1.fc31.noarch mate-utils-1.22.2-2.fc31.x86_64 mate-utils-common-1.22.2-2.fc31.noarch slick-greeter-mate-1.3.1-1.fc31.noarch Some detailed guideance would be much appreciated. Incidentally, I have appended " net.ifnames=0" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= line and rebuilt the initramfs to revert back to classic eth0 nomenclature for the RJ45 Ethernet port. I can't stand the new naming convention. :-) --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL

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How do I disable obfuscation of my email addresss on Fedora lists?
by Benjamin Lowry 11 Jan '20

11 Jan '20

Currently, the From: field on any emails I send to Fedora lists gets obfuscated, like: "Benjamin Lowry via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>" How do I turn this behavior off? I'm fine with my real address getting scraped by spambots or whatever. -ben

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OT: recommendations for a low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31
by Ranjan Maitra 11 Jan '20

11 Jan '20

Hi, What would be a good low-volume, cheap-to-use/maintain home printer for use with Fedora 31 and beyond? Many thanks, Ranjan

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RE: Loss of Administrative Privileges on Only Account
by Patrick Laimbock 11 Jan '20

11 Jan '20

> Hi, > By mistake I removed administration privileges from my account > under kde, which is the only account that had it. Removing the privilege > has removed my account from sudoers. Is the only course of action I have > to get it back to reinstall F29 and then upgrage to F31? Use the procedure below to add yourself back to sudoers https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/System_Administrators_G… Best, Patrick

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Best way I've found to clone an OS.
by linux guy 11 Jan '20

11 Jan '20

I recently purchased a new computer. My old computer had Fedora 31 installed on an M.SATA drive. My new computer did not have an M.SATA slot. I could have added one via a PCIe card, but decided against it. I've been using Linux since RH8 days as my sole workstation. I've migrated OSes from hard drive to hard drive many times. In the old days I'd do a fresh install and then copy /home and try to reinstall all the apps I had installed. It was a big PITA. Even updates used to be problematic in the early days of Fedora... ;) I hate migrating to a new computer. It can take a long time to get everything set up just the way you want it. I've done migrations with dd before, but there are always little issues with getting the new drive to boot properly, copying directories that shouldn't be, etc. It works, but it takes a bit of tweaking to make it work. Today I had my best OS migration ever. It appears that everything came across to the new drive perfectly, with just about zero hassle. In fact, tonight I am forgetting that I'm operating on a new machine, except it is twice as fast... :) Here is how I did the migration: Step #1 Create a Live USB of the same version as the old (source) machine. Step #2 Boot the Live USB on the new (target) machine and install Fedora. Step #3 Boot the newly installed OS on the target machine and run dnf update. If you install a user, make it different from any on the source machine. Step #4 Run dnf update on the old (source) machine. Both machines should now have the same OS vintage. You can double check this by making sure both are running the same kernel. Step #5 cp /etc/fstab on the target machine to somewhere safe, just in case. Step #6 Reboot the target machine with the Live USB. Step #7 The target machine is now running the LiveUSB OS. Find the drive partitions for swap, root (/), boot (/boot) and home (/home) for the new drive on the new machine. Nautilus displays them as "Other locations..." or something like that. They probably won't be mounted. You'll need device handles for each partition on the new drive so that they can be mounted. Ie /dev/sda1, etc. The new OS drive on my new machine was an M.2 NVMe drive. It was formatted into 4 partitions /dev/dm-0 (swap), /dev/dm-1 (home), /dev/dm-2 (root) and /dev/dm-3 (boot) by the live install process. Step #8 create a mount point and mount the root partition on the new machine #cd /mnt #mkdir drive # mount /dev/<root partition device>... drive Step #9 mount the home partition to drive/home so that it looks like it does on a regular Linux system. #cd /mnt/drive mount /dev/<home partition> home At this point /mnt/drive should look like the root of a regular Linux system, ie home, usr, bin, var... etc. The home partition on the new drive will be mounted to /mnt/drive/home. You should cd into it just to make sure. DO NOT MOUNT THE ROOT PARTITION ! Step #9 use rsync to copy all the relevant files from the source computer to the mounted directory structure. From /mnt/drive, issue the following command: sudo rsync -aHxv --numeric-ids --progress root@<sourceComputerIP>:/* /mnt/drive --exclude=/dev --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/boot --exclude=/etc/fstab This command will copy all the relevant files from the source machine to the directory structure we just made on the target hard drive. Depending on how much you have installed on the source computer, this will take a while. Make sure that both the network interfaces are operating as fast as they can. I saw file transfer speeds of 100 MB/sec for large files on 2 machines networked with 1000 Mb/sec NICs. Small files don't reach that speed. The CPU usage on the source machine ran at 25-30% on a quad core i7. BTW, the source machine must be set up to allow root logins to ssh for this to work. The commands on the source machine to enable this are: #nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config Find the commented like for PermitRoot and set it to: PermitRootLogin yes #systemctl restart sshd.service If you forget to run rsync from /mnt/drive and do it from / or specify the target directory as /, you'll install the files on the Live USB file structure instead of the target drive, thus messing it up ! No biggie, just rebuild the Live USB and do this step over. Step #10 Verify that /mnt/drive/etc/fstab is still in tact and the same as what it was prior to the rsync operation. If not, replace /mnt/drive/etc/fstab with the fstab file that was set aside. Do not copy the backup fstab file to /etc/fstab as that points to the Live USB OS ! It must be copied to /mnt/drive/etc/fstab. (It took me several times to complete my clone drive because I kept forgetting that the root of my target fs was /mnt/drive and thus I messed up my Live USB drive a couple times.) Step #11. Reboot the target computer using the new drive OS. We didn't touch the /boot partition, so it should boot right up. However, the drive partitions got written to outside of the OS, so they will be checked. This can take a bit of time. Press ESC to watch this go on. Once the boot process is complete, SELinux won't be happy and some of the partitions will probably mount as read only. To fix this problem, open a console session and issue the following statement and reboot the computer. #fixfiles onboot #shutdown -r now When the target computer reboots, a message will appear: "Warning - SELinux targeted policy relabel is required.... It will start relabelling things. When it is done you should have an exact clone of the install you had on the source computer. The only potential issue I know of with this method is that the grub kernel list doesn't match the kernels installed. Thus if you look in /boot there will only be the kernels that were installed during the live install process. But if you use dnf list kernel, you'll see the kernels that were installed on the source machine. If this bothers you, use dnf to uninstall and reinstall the kernels you want. Reinstalling the kernels will enter them into grub properly. This problem will also take care of itself over time as new kernels are installed via dnf update. The only thing that didn't work exactly as it did on my source computer was Eclipse and I"m not sure that had anything to do with the cloning. I hope this helps someone.

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