How do I use abrt to report bugs?
by Sreyan Chakravarty
Hi,
I have a couple of problems in the abrt tool.
But whenever I try to report the bug it does not work. It keeps analyzing
the crash data but when it goes to upload it says it has encountered a
problem.
Tried the local trace option but that also doesn't work.
Am I doing anything wrong?
Or does the bug reporting program have a bug. :-)
Thanks.
3 years, 4 months
Password recovery
by Jerome Lille
Hi
I just realized that I've forgotten the password to unlock my laptop. I
haven't touched it since the beginning of the year. It has the same
password for disc encryption, root and main user. I'm pretty sure about
the 4 first characters and then there should be four more characters
that I can't remember.
Is there some tools on Fedora so that I could attach the disc from the
laptop to my desktop and give it the four characters I remember and the
tools would try to find remaining ones?
/Jerome
3 years, 4 months
Security Software Hack vs. Fedora
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I read that there has been a major security hack of at least two
companies, FireEye and SolarWinds, which supply security software to
the US Government and to major corporations.
(see: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/fireeye-solarwinds-russia-hack.html
). Does this have any effect on Fedora?
BTW/OT: One of the comments reads "...President Carter [said] that to
this day, if he wants to send a secure message, he hand-writes letters
to foreign leaders to avoid surveillance."
3 years, 4 months
Odd screen rotation misbehavior
by Matthew Saltzman
I have a Lenovo Yoga X1 (2nd gen) with Intel graphics, running GNOME
(fully up to date). Recently, the screen rotation lock control in the
system menu (drop-down in the upper right corner) disappeared and the
screen stopped auto-rotating. I had been running in Xorg mode because
certain Zoom features don't work under Wayland. At some point, I
switched to Wayland mode and the control reappeared and auto-rotation
started working. That worked for a while, but then the control
disappeared again. I switched back to Xorg mode and the control is
back.
Anyone have any idea what's going on and/or how I can get consistent
behavior?
Thanks for any hints.
--
Matthew Saltzman
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Clemson University
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
3 years, 4 months
Password Recovery
by David
If you check your spam folder in your email program you might find services
that brag about having your password and they really do have it. Some
will show it to you as proof they have more information about you.
The internet spies know everything about all novice computer users.
Yesterday, I was eating a corn-dog at James Coney Island. While eating, I
got a message from Facebook reminsicing that I had also been eating a
corn-dog at James Comey Island exactly four years ago to the day. It was
likely just a bizarre coincidence. Right ?
David Locklear
3 years, 4 months
Screenshot software recommendations
by Earl Ramirez
Dear All,
I have been using shutter which worked perfectly on xorg; however, if I
am on Wayland I get the Shutter logo over my screen. I have since tried
a few (screenie, Flameshot, and Peek) and I haven't been able to find
something that works well under Wayland on Gnome.
Can anyone recommend something that works on Wayland that supports
modifying the screenshot?
Thanks in advance
Kind Regards,
Earl
3 years, 4 months
F33 - KDE broken after dnf update
by Sreyan Chakravarty
Hi,
Not a moment's respite.
I just did a 'sudo dnf update -y' on my Fedora 33 KDE system and now KDE is
completely broken after reboot.
Now when the system starts up, after I enter my password in SDDM I get a
message: "The application kde5 has requested to open the wallet kwallet5.
Please provide password"
I thought this was strange the first time, but then I saw KDE not even
starting, my wallpaper did not load, the taskbar was not there. But I could
use the terminal.
Hence I got the journalctl logs:
I found some misconfigurations after the update:
https://pastebin.com/raw/mnivS8ff
(This is the abbreviated log)
Full log below:
https://pastebin.com/raw/uiLWKLya
Those who don't want to look at the logs here are some interesting entries:
sddm-greeter[1507]: QObject: Cannot create children for a parent that is in
a different thread.
(Parent is
QGuiApplication(0x7ffd15e6aeb0), parent's thread is
QThread(0x562f0855f980), current thread is QThread(0x562f086f8c30)
sddm-greeter[1507]: QObject: Cannot create children for a parent that is in
a different thread.
(Parent is
QGuiApplication(0x7ffd15e6aeb0), parent's thread is
QThread(0x562f0855f980), current thread is QThread(0x562f086f8c30)
sddm-greeter[1507]: QObject: Cannot create children for a parent that is in
a different thread.
(Parent is
QGuiApplication(0x7ffd15e6aeb0), parent's thread is
QThread(0x562f0855f980), current thread is QThread(0x562f086f8c30)
sddm-greeter[1507]:
file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/01-breeze-fedora/components/UserDelegate.qml:69:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'largeSpacing' of null
sddm-greeter[1507]:
file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/01-breeze-fedora/components/UserDelegate.qml:95:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'gridUnit' of null
sddm-greeter[1507]:
file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/01-breeze-fedora/components/UserDelegate.qml:75:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'longDuration' of null
kded5[1644]: colord: "/home/sreyan/.local/share/icc/." is not an ICC profile
kded5[1644]: plasma-nm: Unhandled active connection state change: 1
kwalletd5[1693]: Application ' "kded5" ' using kwallet without parent
window!
I need your help again guys.
Linux just does not give you a break.
--
Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
3 years, 4 months
libreoffice chrash on exit
by Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! after some updates, i have now some crashes when exiting from libre
office .. in the crash panel i only have this:
Application: soffice (soffice), signal: Segmentation fault
[KCrash Handler]
#4 0x00007fb272802a47 in QString::~QString() () at /lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5
#5 0x00007fb272802db4 in QList<QString>::~QList() () at
/lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5
#6 0x00007fb27289ef03 in QHash<QString,
QIconTheme>::deleteNode2(QHashData::Node*) () at /lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5
#7 0x00007fb272df17ac in QHashData::free_helper(void
(*)(QHashData::Node*)) () at /lib64/libQt5Core.so.5
#8 0x00007fb27289ab0a in (anonymous
namespace)::Q_QGS_iconLoaderInstance::innerFunction()::Holder::~Holder()
() at /lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5
#9 0x00007fb27b72e237 in __run_exit_handlers () at /lib64/libc.so.6
#10 0x00007fb27b72e3e0 in on_exit () at /lib64/libc.so.6
#11 0x00007fb27b7161e9 in __libc_start_main () at /lib64/libc.so.6
#12 0x000055e8e93f40fe in _start ()
[Inferior 1 (process 21103) detached]
Any idea what is going on?
the hardware is a Ryzen 7 5800X with 16 GB ram (mostly unused)
Thank you!
Adrian
3 years, 4 months
RE: libreoffice chrash on exit
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl
I've seen like-wise behaviour.
But only when doing presentations, causing each next startup of L.O. doing a recovery.
But, not with "normal" documents.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Sevcenco <Adrian.Sevcenco(a)cern.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 11:44 AM
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: libreoffice chrash on exit
Hi! after some updates, i have now some crashes when exiting from libre office .. in the crash panel i only have this:
Application: soffice (soffice), signal: Segmentation fault
[KCrash Handler]
#4 0x00007fb272802a47 in QString::~QString() () at /lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5
#5 0x00007fb272802db4 in QList<QString>::~QList() () at
/lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5
#6 0x00007fb27289ef03 in QHash<QString,
QIconTheme>::deleteNode2(QHashData::Node*) () at /lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5
#7 0x00007fb272df17ac in QHashData::free_helper(void
(*)(QHashData::Node*)) () at /lib64/libQt5Core.so.5
#8 0x00007fb27289ab0a in (anonymous
namespace)::Q_QGS_iconLoaderInstance::innerFunction()::Holder::~Holder()
() at /lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5
#9 0x00007fb27b72e237 in __run_exit_handlers () at /lib64/libc.so.6
#10 0x00007fb27b72e3e0 in on_exit () at /lib64/libc.so.6
#11 0x00007fb27b7161e9 in __libc_start_main () at /lib64/libc.so.6
#12 0x000055e8e93f40fe in _start ()
[Inferior 1 (process 21103) detached]
Any idea what is going on?
the hardware is a Ryzen 7 5800X with 16 GB ram (mostly unused)
Thank you!
Adrian
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3 years, 4 months
mysterious/suspicious internet activity.
by home user
Fedora-32 home workstation; gnome.
In ksysguard, I've been noticing internet activity that I can't explain. This has been going on for weeks, and it's making me uncomfortable.
What I do:
1. After the system has been powered down overnight, I boot it up.
2. I sign in to a user account.
3. My .bash_profile sources my .bashrc, sets PATH, and launches xeyes. My .bashrc sources /etc/bashrc, sets PS1 and PATH, and defines aliases.
4. I launch ksysguard, then Spectacle.
5. I wait several seconds, then take a screen-capture of ksysguard's display.
To get a good sample, I did five screen-captures. Here are the google drive links to them:
"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EdlSgKY0fJpU7r3nbstWA7G_2C93gOgO/view?us..."
"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jfocTMRnwguRdDIchoBtsNYYwQZr647i/view?us..."
"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tx3kDEMbL_TCZZ-F0YOVOXSy2D9G3MAM/view?us..."
"https://drive.google.com/file/d/157KU27QtsJTZghyRgeuafYSnvxR85im4/view?us..."
"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AyZDRvcKYHYypNSU6AF9Fh34rh_l3q2J/view?us..."
Notes:
* neither Thunderbird nor any other e-mail client nor Firefox nor any other browser had been launched since powering up.
* as far as I know, nothing else that uses the internet had been launched since powering up. actually, the only things I had running were xeyes, ksysguard, Spectacle, and (in the last screen-shot only) gnome terminal (which was idle).
* as far as I know, nothing is set to auto-update.
* as far as I know, nothing has telemetry permission enabled.
Yet there is persistent, continual (not continuous) internet activity in both directions. What is it? What on my system is communicating with what externally, and what is being communicated? Unauthorized updating? Unauthorized telemetry? Unauthorized distributed computing? Spyware? Crypto-currency mining?
This is way outside my knowledge and experience. I need good step-by-step instructions on this.
Thank-you in advance.
Bill.
3 years, 4 months
