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DNF Update this morning -
by Bob Goodwin 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

DNF failed first try, I ran clean metadata and re-tried, got same result: Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction. You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'. Error: SQLite error on "/var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite": Reading a row failed: database disk image is malformed I have no idea why this happening, have done nothing unusual? *Bob* -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3

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Python2 package build
by Paolo Galtieri 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

Folks, an issue has come up recently that I don't understand. This problem applies to both F31 and F32. Back in May I built several python2 packages that I needed to make sbackup work on F32. sbackup is the python2 application I use to do daily backups. The source packages I rebuilt are gnome-python2-2.28.1-23.fc29.src.rpm pyorbit-2.24.0-28.fc30.src.rpm Back in May the packages built fine. I recently upgraded one system from F30 to F31, so I tried to rebuild the packages on F31. The build fails. Here is one of the messages: gnomemodule.c:55:57: warning: passing argument 3 of 'PyDict_SetItemString' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] 55 | PyDict_SetItemString(dict, "POPT_CONTEXT_ARG_OPTS", PyInt_FromLong(POPT_CONTEXT_ARG_OPTS)); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | int In file included from */usr/include/python3.7m/Python.h*:109, from /usr/include/pygtk-2.0/pygobject.h:5, from gnomemodule.c:8: Note that despite having python set to python2 during the build it's pulling a file from python3 directory. This same failure occurs now on F32 as well. How can I get the compile to pull in python2 files? [root@terrapin rpmbuild]# python -V Python 2.7.18 The build is done: rpmbuild -ba SPECS/gnome-python2.spec This is dependent on also building pyorbit rpmbuild -ba SPECS/pyorbit.spec note that pyorbit will not build if python is python2, but will build if you use python3 It seems to me that the whole build setup for python2 is all messed up on both F31 and F32 and I don't know what I need to do to fix things so I can compile both pyorbit and gnome-python2 with python set to python2. Any help is appreciated. Paolo

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NVME drive is not detected
by Alex Gurenko 13 Aug '20

13 Aug '20

Hello everyone, I'm facing a weird problem. I've recently rented a PC - ASUS G21CX, which comes with 2 disks: - NVME SSD Intel 660p 512Gi - SATA HDD Toshiba 1Ti Obviously it arrived with Windows 10 installed and want to install Fedora on it, however Fedora Live image does not recognize NVME drive, like it's not even there. HDD is available as /dev/sda as expected. dmesg and journalctl does not show any errors except some usb-related failures, but I don't think it's related in any way. Windows and BIOS both recognize the disk. I've disabled the Secure Boot feature but that had no effect. I've tried both Workstation image and KDE image (which I intent to use). I was hoping to see something else on other distros, but no other live image managed to boot on this machine. I've tried Ubunut 20.04 LTS, Manjaro KDE, PopOS with nVidia drivers all are getting stuck at boot. The rest of the hardware: - Motherboard Chipset: Intel Z390 (Cannon Lake-H) - Core i7-9700K - ASUS RTX 2070 BIOS settings are almost as limited as a laptop, but nothing unusual from what I can tell. Do you have any pointers or ideas what could it be and how to fix it? --- Best regards, Alex

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xsane and simple-scan
by Mike Flannigan 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

It is hard to argue that xsane is simple and intuitive, but it does do a good job after you learn it. Even the GOCR is respectable. I hadn't tried simple-scan until now. It doesn't automatically detect the scan size on my scanner, and I don't see a way to adjust for scan size. Otherwise it does work pretty good. Mike On 8/11/20 11:38 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Have use used xsane and simple-scan? One is a nightmare GUI > and one is wonderfully done.

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Re: Any subs for Libreoffice?
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

<trimmed> Hi Sam, I really do want to like Libre Office, but... I have installed it over the years across two counties and I hae yet to have a SINGLE customer that has stayed with it. It is just too counter intuitive and buggy. In that case, pleased to meet you. I’ve started to use StarOffice, when it was purchased by the magnificent SUN company. I was one of the people that did the porting of (by then) OpenOffice for HP-UX 10.20. After the unfortunate L.O.-fork, I jumped, and kept using LO ever since. Current employer prefers LO over word, and actively supports it, and advocates this to my (several tens of thousands) colleges. _______________________________________________ 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 Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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Re: Any subs for Libreoffice?
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

Sorry to disagree... From: "Tim via users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org<mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Date: Wednesday, 12 August 2020 at 07:12:26 To: "users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org<mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Cc: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au<mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au>> Subject: Re: Any subs for Libreoffice? On Tue, 2020-08-11 at 15:39 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > So I put him on LO. He is writing up a book or something. A word processor, any word processor, is not a particularly good choice for writing a book. They've long since gone from being a "word processor" to being a secretary's all-purpose convoluted typing tool. They're not particularly conducive to writing paragraphs and pages as just paragraphs and pages, often horrible at very long documents, and not really good for doing page layout. Probably not a very useful format if you were going to take a book to a printing house, either. I’ve written several YA books (each 120K -150K words), all done with LibreOffice. For the proof-of-concept, I even did the complete cover and spine with LibreOffice. Without *any* adjustments it produced perfect paperbacks and hard-covers. After several edit-iterations, the publishing house kept it that way. Latex is the usual suggestion for real authors, but will be even more of a bastard to use if you're not into that kind of thing. That depends. I only once was forced to use Latex. When including a single formula, you still can do this with L.O. But once I turned my math notes into something more readable. For such purpose LO (or OO, ms-word or anything else) are totally unusable. Then you need context-free data entry. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26 15:27:06 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ 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 Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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OT: diagnosis of failure to boot
by geoff＠hughes.net 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Reboot stopped at emergency mode. journalctl -xb does not list any complaints (that I can find), but there's clearly something wrong! Any suggestions as to diagnosis? kernel is 5.7.9.200. selinux is disabled. livecd boot is OK; disk is accessible. I saved the output of journlctl, so its available for interrogation. No obvious complaints Thoughts? Diagnosis?

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nmcli and gateway question
by ToddAndMargo 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Hi All, Is there a way to get nmcli to tell you if an interface is a gateway like you can with `netstat -rn`? Many thanks, -T

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Fedora 32: can't cd to home directory on login
by Braden McDaniel 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Some recent update to Fedora 32 has caused this to start happen: Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition) Kernel 5.7.12-200.fc32.x86_64 on an x86_64 (tty3) mull login: braden Password: Last login: Sun Aug 9 21:08:51 on tty2 -- braden: /home/braden: change directory failed: Logging in with home = "/". [braden@mull /]$ cd [braden@mull ~]$ pwd /home/braden [braden@mull ~]$ What's happening here? Why is the login process itself failing to change to the home directory, yet it's accessible immediately afterward? Home directories are NFS mounted on this machine via autofs. $ cat /etc/auto.master.d/home.autofs /home /etc/auto.home $ cat /etc/auto.home * -fstype=nfs4 hinge:/endoframe-store/home/& -- Braden McDaniel <braden(a)endoframe.com>

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Recover access to Windows Shares on home network
by Robert McBroom 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

lots of the time I want to pull data from shared files on windows computers.???? The shares used to show up under network in any number of file programs, caja, konqueror, etc.?? What protocol has replaced that access? Robert

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