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USB to Ethernet LAN -
by Bob Goodwin 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

I have a WD 4TB external hard drive connected to my Fedora32 computer on which I have been saving data. It connects via USB, has no ethernet port (I am not the one who bought it) and I would like to make it available on my LAN. Is there any way to do it with software? -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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nmcli won't save VPN password
by Sam Varshavchik 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

I'm trying to save an OpenVPN password via nmcli, in Fedora 32. I believe I should be executing: nmcli connection modify CONNECTIONNAME vpn.secrets "password=[PASSWORD]" So I execute this as root, and this initially produces very promising noises in /var/log/messages: Jul 22 20:41:35 jack NetworkManager[1525]: <info> [1595464895.3350] audit: op="connection-update" uuid="UUID" name="CONNECTIONNAME" args="vpn.secrets" pid=67812 uid=0 result="success" However, the password appears to disappear into a black hole: nmcli --show-secrets connection CONNECTIONNAME | grep secrets vpn.secrets: -- And nmcli connection up fails because there's no password. The VPN connection's configuration was imported from the VPN provider's supplied ovpn file, via "nmcli connection import". Some searching around found some hits suggesting that my /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/CONNECTIONNAME should have a [vpn- secrets] section, but mine does not. If I add it, run "nmcli connection reload", "nmcli connection modify", that just removes the [vpn-secrets] section. What would be the right way to do this?

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Re: Sane Scanner Resolution Configuration
by Mike Flannigan 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

Sure thing. The 'xsane.rc' file at ~/.sane/xsane is copied here: http://www.mflan.com/temp/xsane.rc There is also a 'xsane.mdf' file in there, but I don't think you need that. There is also a 'CANON:Canoscan9000FMarkII.drc' file in there and it is copied here: http://www.mflan.com/temp/CANON:Canoscan9000FMarkII.drc Mike On 7/21/20 10:09 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Thanks Mike, that's interesting, my Xsane ver 0.999 doesn't provide > the same functionality. Where your gui has the resolution dropdown to > let you select between the supported resolutions, my gui has two > entries, a horizontal resolution and a vertical resolution, and both > of them are disabled, so that the only way to change it is to manually > changed the corresponding two lines in the configuration file. I'm now > wondering whether the Epson driver is having an impact, as in order to > see and use the Epson scanner xsane seems to be using the settings I > put in the config file created by the install of Epson's imagescan > software. > Are you able to supply the config file, or the resolution part of the > config file, for your scanner, which if it is stored in the same > location as it is for me, is in ~/.sane/xsane? I just wanted to see > how it is set up for you and whether or not I can replicate that in my > configuration.

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fedora 32 - debug freezing new install!!
by Jack Craig 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

what is the current wisdom on debugging this fedora 32 freeze failure type? thx, jackc...

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bizzare dual-monitor behavior
by Greg Woods 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Let me start by saying I have used this same setup literally for years now and have not seen this new issue until yesterday. I have a dual monitor setup. One of the monitors is controlled by a KVM switch; the machines that have only a single graphics port use this monitor via the KVM switch. The other monitor has two HDMI ports that are connected to two computers directly, bypassing the KVM switch; I just switch the second monitor manually between the two as needed. What used to happen when I switched to a different computer is that I can use the new computer using the first monitor, the mouse and the keyboard, just as usual. The second monitor, unaffected by the KVM switch, will continue to show the image it is getting from the dual-monitor system. I am used to this; sometimes I even use it to my advantage when the monitor is showing a web page or something that I can still see while working on a different computer. But, what is now happening (since yesterday) is that when I switch to a second computer, the non-KVM-switched monitor now flashes off and on every few seconds (and just keeps doing this seemingly forever; I did leave it this way for more than 15 minutes last night) . This is INCREDIBLY annoying and makes it impossible to make any use of the image displayed there. Another oddity is that this is NOT happening with the other dual-monitor machine. That system is a Dell laptop in a dock. The system with the issue is a fairly new desktop (which did not exhibit the issue for the first few days of use, it suddenly started yesterday). Both systems are running Fedora 32 (but of course they have very different hardware). I normally use GNOME on Xorg, but I have tried plain GNOME (Wayland) and Cinnamon too and the problem exists there as well. I briefly tried Plasma, but that results in a solid green screen, and when I switch back to the two-monitor system, the first monitor is solid green too and none of the keys respond, so I had to use a remote ssh shutdown to recover. Has anyone ever seen anything like this and know what I could do to stop it? Thanks, --Greg

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Printing failure -
by Bob Goodwin 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Earlier today I discovered that I could not print from this Fedora 32. It has always printed without a problem. The printer is Ethernet connected to my LAN. I have gone through the setup with cups, the fedora/gnome admin app, and now the Brother liinux install tool. Cups shows: HLL5100DN <http://localhost:631/printers/HLL5100DN> HLL5100DN Brother HLL5100DN for CUPS Paused - "could not create directory "/root/BRF": Permission denied" The Brother install tool quits when it tries to make a test print and finds it can't see the printer: lpadmin -p HLL5100DN -v cups-brf:/ -E Test Print? [y/N] ->y wait 5s. lpr -P HLL5100DN /usr/share/cups/data/testprint ls: cannot access '/etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '/etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules': No such file or directory Hit Enter/Return key. I began writing this yesterday, this morning we tried and were able to print from a Mac portable via wifi so that says the printer works at least. Something is corrupted in my computer it appears? And doing "ctrl p" fails with: > Cups shows: > HLL5100DN <http://localhost:631/printers/HLL5100DN> HLL5100DN > Brother HLL5100DN for CUPS Paused - "could not create directory > "/root/BRF": Permission denied" > > > The Brother install tool quits when it tries to make a test print and > finds it can't see the printer: > > lpadmin -p HLL5100DN -v cups-brf:/ -E > Test Print? [y/N] ->y Any thoughts on what to do? Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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Alternatives link broken after package upgrade
by Terry Polzin 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

I've been dealing with this issue on a couple of my Fedora 32 machines. It appears that the upgrade of icedtea-web from icedtea-web-1.8.2-3.fc31.x86_64 to icedtea-web-2.0.0-pre.0.3.alpha13.patched1.fc32.x86_64 breaks the alternatives link to javaws.x86_64. I have to downgrade icedtea-web to be able to run JNLPs

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podman and PCI passthrough
by Mauricio Tavares 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

What is the argument I need to properly pass a PCI or PCIe device to a podman container at runtime (podman-run)?

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Re: Sane Scanner Resolution Configuration
by Mike Flannigan 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

My XSane ver 0.999 allows changing the resolution by selecting the dropdown on the main screen and selecting 75, 150, 300, 600, etc. http://www.mflan.com/temp/res1.jpg Mike On 7/21/20 4:08 AM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Subject: > Sane Scanner Resolution Configuration > From: > Stephen Morris <samorris(a)netspace.net.au> > Date: > 7/21/20, 4:08 AM > > To: > fedora <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > > > Hi, > Having installed imagescan from Epson, and installed sane and > xsane, and edited the imagescan config file to specify the network > settings of my printer all-in-one, I now have xsane finding my > scanner, but this has highlighted a problem. > Having run xsane it has created Epson:ET-3700.drc in path > ~/.sane/xsane, which contains all the options used by xsane for > scanning. Two of the options are for the horizontal and vertical scan > resolution, which by default are set to 75. These options are > reflected in the xsane gui, but they are disabled so I can't alter > them from the gui, I have to edit the config file and specify the > resolution I want in there. > Where can I find documentation on the format of that xsane config > file, that would tell me how I get the list of resolutions the scanner > supports into that config file so that they are selectable by a > dropdown in the xsane gui? > > regards, > Steve

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More portal nonsense?
by Tom Horsley 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Imagine my surprise to find this in my daily logwatch: df: /root/.cache/doc: Operation not permitted So I check it out: [root@zooty ~]# mount | fgrep doc portal on /root/.cache/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0) More nonsense from portal and flatpak being dragged in?

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