Plasma System Settings Online Accounts Appears not to Work
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
I am running F33 inside a Vmware Player 16 vm and using Plasma as
my desktop. When I go into system settings -> Online Accounts it
displays no accounts are added yet in the middle of the page with a "+
Add New Account" button underneath it. There is also the same button in
the bottom right hand corner. If I click on either button the page title
changes to Accounts > Add New Account and displays a blank page and
there is no text or buttons anywhere. Am I doing something wrong?
regards,
Steve
6 days, 3 hours
How to Make Fedora 33 portable usb
by Anil Felipe Duggirala
Hello.
Ive tried searching for a clear answer to this without avail.
How would I go about creating a usb bootable (portable) installation of Fedora?
I am aware of the Live Fedora 33 Workstation images. But, for example, when boothing from that, your settings (program setting) are not saved.
How can I have a Fedora usb that I can use on different pcs? Where I have additional software installed? And settings? And maybe even a permanent /home storage space?
Thank you.
1 week
F33 just pretends to print
by Michael Hennebry
I have a Brother HL-L2360DL that I'd thought I'd finally managed to install.
I had to go to the Brother website to get a script to run.
The instructions for the script had the wrong name for it.
None of the default options for Brother printers came close.
The CUPS adminstration "web" pages say the right things:
Idle, accepting jobs, two completed jobs.
Nothing actually prints. Not even a test page.
The printer never comes out of deep sleep.
How do I fix this?
It worked with Centos 7, but I do not know what I did.
In my experience, there is no such thing as a small problem when it comes to
installing a printer on Linux:
Either it just works or it requires a mighty effort.
I am getting mighty tired of mighty efforts.
BTW how do I change the default from single- to double-sided?
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number,
a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin."
-- someeecards
3 weeks, 3 days
btrfs or ext4
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I try to build a home nas to make a dlna server for audio, video and
pictures.
I have 2 disks for the data which I want to be mounted in raid1 (software).
I formated the two disks using btrfs
(mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid1 /dev/sda /dev/sdb)
It works but, up to now, I can't see the advantages of this file system
vs ext4 managed by mdadm.
One disadvantage is that it seems that monitoring the system is not
possible in case of disk failure for instance.
Illuminate me with your knowledge.
Thank you.
--
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
FSF
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/presenting-shoetool-happy-holidays-fr...
3 weeks, 5 days
systemd automount
by François Patte
Bonjour,
I configured an automount of directories located on a server on my local
network: in the fstab of a computer on the network I put the line:
192.168.1.16:/data /home/patte/data nfs
noauto,rw,user,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30 0 0
It works. If the server is down, no problem, the boot of the computer is OK.
But if the server gets down while the computer is working, this turns in
an awful way: everything on the computer becomes very slow, opening a
file manager takes ages, the ls command does no work and it is
impossible to unmount the directory on which the server is mounted.
Did I forgot an option in the fstab? Is there a way to solve this
problem without shuting down the computer (which also takes ages...).
Thank you for helping.
--
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
FSF
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/presenting-shoetool-happy-holidays-fr...
3 weeks, 5 days
kdenlive not supporting internal laptop camera?
by Neal Becker
I need to record a video using my laptop builtin camera. The camera works
fine in other apps. I tried kdenlive installed from rpmfusion, but there
doesn't seem to be any choice for the camera input.
Settings/configure kdenlive/capture only has tabs for:
screencapture, blackmagic, and audio. When I search the web it seems I
should have a tab for ffmpeg, but it's not there. It does appear from
help/about that kdenlive was built with ffmpeg.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Neal
--
*Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it*
3 weeks, 5 days
many F33 deltarpm rebuilds failing with md5 mismatch error
by Andre Robatino
In the last few days, I've noticed that F33 deltarpm rebuilds often fail with an md5 mismatch error. This would happen occasionally before but happens almost all the time now. Has this been reported? I don't see anything in bugzilla.
3 weeks, 5 days
automount requests
by Greg Woods
My logwatch each day has dozens of messages like this:
pub.automount: Got automount request for /pub, triggered by 242640
(PT3122): 1 Time(s)
I want to determine why this is happening, because the drive
containing /pub (on a different machine mounted via NFS) is spun down when
idle, and these events are likely causing it to spin up. My understanding
is that the part inside the parentheses is the command name of the process
that triggered it, but I don't know what the "PT" syntax means.
Thanks for any info,
--Greg
3 weeks, 6 days
Failed to start dnf makecache
by Neal Becker
Any idea how to debug this?
Dec 30 11:01:29 nbecker8 systemd[1]: Starting dnf makecache...
Dec 30 11:01:29 nbecker8 dnf[1421142]: error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process
2496606/140314318812864 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library
Dec 30 11:01:29 nbecker8 dnf[1421142]: error: db5 error(-30973) from
dbenv->failchk: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
Dec 30 11:01:29 nbecker8 dnf[1421142]: error: cannot open Packages index
using db5 - (-30973)
Dec 30 11:01:29 nbecker8 dnf[1421142]: error: cannot open Packages database
in /var/lib/rpm
Dec 30 11:01:29 nbecker8 dnf[1421142]: Error: Error: rpmdb open failed
Dec 30 11:01:29 nbecker8 systemd[1]: dnf-makecache.service: Main process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 30 11:01:29 nbecker8 systemd[1]: dnf-makecache.service: Failed with
result 'exit-code'.
Dec 30 11:01:29 nbecker8 systemd[1]: Failed to start dnf makecache.
--
*Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it*
3 weeks, 6 days
Newbie questions - Rust
by David
Regarding Fedora topics for 2021:
I am just curious what the general direction of rust is - especially in
Fedora.
Is the plan to replace specific applications or dependencies with rust ?
Or to someday have a Fedora version that uses as much of rust were feasible
?
What rust application should I install to give it a try ?
Is the use of rust still just for developers ?
David Locklear
3 weeks, 6 days
