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Rawhide related
by David 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

I am a happy user of Fedora, but I use Rawhide. I mentioned here before, I am using Xfce. Today's update is shown below: annobin 9.19-1 dnf 4.2.21-1 firefox 74.0-14 fontconfig 2.13.92-10 glibc 2.13.9000-6 +6 glibc packages grep 3.4-1 gsm 1.0.19-1 hwdata 0.334-1 kexec-tools 2.0.20-12 krb5-libs 1.18-10 libcomps 0.1.15-1 libdnf 0.47.0-1 libmodulemd 2.9.2-4 libnfsidmap 1:2.4.3-1rc1 librepo 1.11.3-1 mesa 20.0.3-1 + 13 mesa packages nfs-utils 1:2.4.3-1.rc1 python3- ( various packages ) rpm 4.14.90-0.git + 5 rpm packages systemd 245.4-1 + 5 rpm packages yum 4.2.21-1 The point being, that I do not get all the gnome and kde stuff that other Rawhide users get. I do not know which of those packages listed would potentially break my system. glibc ? certainly systemd. Right ? mesa, for sure. Right ? Also, all the packages that I installed are flatpaks. Anyways, for me that is about a typical weekly update, and I have updated my computer and rebooted about 200 times. I think I have reinstalled Rawhide now 2 or 3 times, but, I was tinkering around with something above my IQ, which is 79.9, on my best day. Firefox update or something related to firefox, required the system be restarted. I rebooted, checked htop, while watch Level1News on YouTube. I hope somebody finds this info helpful. David Locklear

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Is an encrypted Fedora Live CD possible?
by Earl Terwilliger 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

Hi, I've managed to use the kickstart files to create a Fedora 31 KDE live CD without any problems. Actually I have a simple python script which conglomerates all the KS files together to make it easier to deal with. Then I customize it and have it copy some files into the /var/www/html directory. I am now trying to see what is necessary to have it encrypted (with Luks) so it prompts for the password at boot time. part /boot --size=512 --fstype=ext4 part / --encrypted --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --size=8200 --fstype=ext4 Those commands don't seem to make it encrypted.. Is encryption ignored for the livecd? Am I not doing something correctly, or is this not possible? Thanks, Earl

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"dnf update" question, I think
by David 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

I had the following message during and update today Running scriptlet: flatpak-1.6.3-1.fc33.x86_64 84/124 Cleanup : flatpak-1.6.3-1.fc33.x86_64 84/124 Running scriptlet: flatpak-1.6.3-1.fc33.x86_64 84/124 Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of flatpak-add-fedora-repos.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units. I have seen this message appear before on various packages and have always ignored it. Should I do anything, or just wait for it to self-heal ? David Locklear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt,_Montgomery_County,_Texas

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System becomes unusable when copying a large file via USB into HDD
by Sreyan Chakravarty 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

I have just installed the latest version of Fedora Gnome on my HP laptop. I had to import a 50 GB OVA file from my USB HDD to my hard drive via USB 3.0. When the copying was taking place through VirtualBox, the system hung almost completely, I was not able to even move my mouse. Why does this happen ? Reading this: https://askubuntu.com/q/397249/628460 It seems to be the case for Debian based OSes, but then why is it happening in Fedora ? I just formatted from Windows 10, and while I hate a lot of things about it, it never made the system unusable during heavy I/O operations. I had multiple tabs in Chrome open without any lag whatsoever. I say this, not to criticize Fedora but to point out this should be the case in modern OSes. So why am I facing this issue? Let me know what you think and if any further information is needed. Thanks. -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty

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OT: is it possible to increase the volume in an mp4 file
by Ranjan Maitra 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

Hi, I apologize for this OT question but I have just finished recording an hour-long masterpiece for my class. However, the volume appears to be really low. I don't know why this happened, but long story short, I really do not want to do this again, so I was wondering is there any software on Fedora 31 that will allow me to edit the mp4 to increase the volume. I doubt that this is that easy, but I still thought that I would give it a try. Many thanks again for your suggestions, and best wishes, Ranjan

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Re: NVIDIA Problem
by t_pol 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 08:52:21 -0300 "George N. White III" <gnwiii(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 23:25, t_pol <t_pol(a)tiscali.it> wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > I've decided to switch from nouveau to Nvidia drivers. > > Everythings seems ok but I cannot play anymore h24 videos. > > Both VLC & SMPLAYER just play sounds but no video. > > > > this is the error message: > > > > Codec not supported: > > VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) > > > > Before the switch everything were OK. > > > > I'm running Fedora 31 on an a laptop HP Pavilion dv5. > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestion. > > > > Angelo > > > > > This is a common problem that runs across distros: > > https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=303173 > https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/530278-VLC-not-playing-mp4-files > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169279 > > Workarounds include configuration tweaks and using ffmeg to reencode a file > to get something VLC supports. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding explains the underlying > problem: > > The commercial use of patented H.264 technologies requires the payment > of royalties to MPEG LA and other patent owners. MPEG LA has allowed > the free use of H.264 technologies for streaming Internet video that is > free > to end users, and Cisco Systems > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems> pays royalties to MPEG LA on > behalf of > the users of binaries for its open source > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software> H.264 encoder. > > Is your video "streaming Internet video that is free to end users"? Do > you > have rpmfusion ffmeg and vlcextras? > > -- > George N. White III Thanks for your answer George. Yes I have ffmpeg and No I don't have vlcextras. (I'll install it right away). Yes I have rpmfusion repos but the driver has been installed from official NVIDIA site. The suggested tweaks to reencode every file sounds very annoying. Coming to the royalties thing, I have to admit I didn't know that. What is confusing me is: - with the nouveau drivers the problem did not exist. - vlc and smplayer are not playing even AVI files. I'm seriously considering to revert back to nouveau. Anyway thanks very much again for your help. Ciao, Angelo

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hugo may be dropped from F32?
by Ranjan Maitra 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Hi, I have noticed that hugo is FTBS in Fedora 32 may be dropped? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1799514 There are other bugs/RFEs also so it seems that it may be a maintainer who is no longer able to care for this RPM. Ranjan

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Microphone problem.
by Erik P. Olsen 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

When I want to use the built-in microphone of my laptop it is unavailable. I then manipulate pavucontrol to make it available which is OK but when I reboot it becomes unavailable again. Is there a way to make the settings I've done permanent? -- Erik P. Olsen - Copenhagen, Denmark Fedora 31/64 bit Linux xfce Claws-Mail POP3 Gramps 5.1.2 Bacula 9.4.4

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NVIDIA Problem
by t_pol 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Hi list, I've decided to switch from nouveau to Nvidia drivers. Everythings seems ok but I cannot play anymore h24 videos. Both VLC & SMPLAYER just play sounds but no video. this is the error message: Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) Before the switch everything were OK. I'm running Fedora 31 on an a laptop HP Pavilion dv5. Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Angelo

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how to solve this error any solution available ??? on rhel 8 system
by VISHAL DHANURE 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

[root@localhost ~]# ./netbeans-8.2-linux.sh Configuring the installer... Searching for JVM on the system... Extracting installation data... Running the installer wizard... Can`t initialize UI Running in headless mode Exception: java.awt.HeadlessException thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "main"

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