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Re: Backing up system
by gmspro 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Hi, http://www.sysresccd.org/Download With the SystemRescueCd I backed up the /dev/sda6 partition in /mnt/backup/ naming "diskimage" After backing up operation the file has the automatic extension like "diskimage.000". Is this file ok to restore? If I name it "diskimage.gz" then it is automatically renamed with this extension "diskimage.gz.000" But here below http://www.sysresccd.org/Screenshots the file is name like this: "diskimage.pimg" Do I have to name with the .pimg extension during backup to restore correctly? And how can I restore it?

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Missing MiscFixed 16 font in Fedora 31
by Ranjan Maitra 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

Hi, I upgraded to F31 late last week and I am missing the MiscFixed 16 font that I prefer using. Where would I find it? Many thanks, Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses.

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The (bad) state of Qt on GNOME / Wayland
by mario futire 07 Nov '20

07 Nov '20

I am developing a Qt app in Fedora 31 using the default GNOME wayland session and I am very sorry to see the state of Qt in this configuration. 1) qt creator crashes often (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1773356) the crash report tool does not seem to help 2) drag & drop does not work in Qt creator (and in no other Qt app) (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1774762 and https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-80303) 3) main window geometry cannot be restored when the application restarts (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-80612) I think GNOME / Wayland / Qt it is just not ready and should not be offered as the default desktop session for Fedora. If I force Qt to use X11 emulations, things are much better. Probably Qt is responsible (but in the bug reports someone says that KDE / Wayland works well), and GNOME is not Qt, but there are so many Qt apps, that sending new users to a non working environment re-enforces the fact that "just works" is not true in Linux. Regards

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how to install zoom client.
by home user 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

Good morning, (f-29) (background) Last week, I was to participate in a "Zoom" meeting for a charity that I'm involved in. I have the needed software on my rarely-used windows-7 box. But I could not complete the windows-7 login (some problem with a windows-7 service). I've since found there is a "Zoom" client for Fedora. "dnfdragora" does not find anything for it. But I found a web page that I hope has what I need. I've downloaded the package ("zoom_x86_64.rpm"), and I've downloaded a "Public Key" ("package-signing-key.pub"). The web site from which I've downloaded these also has a line: Key fingerprint: [some 40 hex digit number] (4 questions) 1. Do the 2 files need to be in a specific place to do the install? If yes, where? 2. Do I need to be "root" to do the install? 3. What do I do with the "Key fingerprint"? 4. How do I do the install (preferably using "dnf")? thanks, Bill.

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Firefox stability?
by Max Pyziur 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

Greetings, Lately, I've noticed that different tabs that I have open in Firefox are crashing. This seems to have started recently. They can be restored easily, but there's a nuisance factor here. Anyone else? Hardware/Software basic deets: Dell XPS 13 L322X laptop, vintage circa 2013. 1TB Samsung Solid state drive 8GB RAM F32 - everything has been updated Max Pyziur pyz(a)brama.com

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dnfdragora not making all updates available
by Temlakos 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Everyone: The reform of dnfdragora to put all available updates into groups is not updating everything, and not updating many things it used to update without fail. The only reliable thing my system will update, are applications and various desktop relevant things. And not all applications, either. Basically, if it is not in a group, dnfdragora will not update it and I have to fall back on the traditional Software Management application to do these updates. The following packages typically fail of update and even of selection on dnfdragora: * The kernel and related packages. * Browsers other than Firefox. * Application packages from repositories foreign to the Fedora community, such as "bunkus.org" (mkvtoolsnix), google (for chrome), and Adobe Systems Incorporated. * System packages that run background processes that normally load themselves at startup and stay resident. I've checked for all possible settings I can make to solve this problem. No joy. I've tried refreshing metadata (which, by the way, takes fifteen minutes every time). No joy. I tried selecting "not showing the groups." No joy. Suggestions? Have any of you noticed the same issue? My desktop is KDE. "Check for updates" counts all packages that need an update. But again: if they're not in a group, they're not available for a selection. (Note: if you're going to tell me to report this as a bug, I need to know exactly where and how. I've filed bugs in the wrong place and they get no action.) Temlakos

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Virtual terminals - no VISIBLE I/O
by Jon LaBadie 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

On Fedora 32 Workstation. My VTs are functional but there is not visible indication of I/O. By that I mean, I get no login or password prompt. But I can blindly login. I get no shell prompt. But I can blindly enter commands that run but they show no output in the VT. The VT system is controlled by systemD. After a boot and upon graphical login this is the status: $ systemctl | grep getty system-getty.slice loaded active active system-getty.slice getty.target loaded active active Login Prompts A "ps -ef | grep getty" gives no output After I try to access VT #3 (<Ctl><Alt><Fn3>) without logging in, I get an additional line from the above command: getty(a)tty3.service loaded active running Getty on tty3 And the ps pipe gives this: root 4237 1 0 13:23 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear tty3 linux I didn't think the display manager would affect the VT system, but just in case I tried gdm, sddm, lightdm. No differences. Any clue as to why there seems to be no video connection to the VTs? Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu(a)jgcomp.com

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gnome-terminal
by Patrick Dupre 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

Hello, When I lauch gnome-terminal, I get Maximum number of clients reachedUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused # Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display: Why that? =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne 9 Avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)380395988 ===========================================================================

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Questions for the hard disk recovery gurus
by Philip Rhoades 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

People, I know this is not strictly a Fedora issue but I only use Fedora so I am hoping people here can help - maybe we should have a separate mailing list or forum topic for this sort of hard disk stuff? Just after a full backup (fortunately) the 7.2TB /home partition (/dev/sda5) on my email server somehow got corrupted. After I realised there was a problem, I unmounted the partition and tried: e2fsck -y /dev/sda5 but the process hangs after “Clone multiply-claimed blocks<y>?” and the disk goes quiet - I could still break out with CTRL-C but I can't get past this point in the attempted fix process. So I thought I would just produce a list of the affected files and then just delete the inodes or just restore from backup but when I tried: debugfs -R "ncheck 187536544" /dev/sda5 it took hours to find nothing but printed screenfulls of: ncheck: "Directory block checksum" does not match directory block while calling ext2_dir_iterate and there are 1069 inodes to check! I am guessing that if I just try to delete each of the inodes with: debugfs -R "clri <inode>" /dev/sda5 that it would take weeks! So unless someone can suggest a faster method of fixing the partition (mainly just as an exercise now) or at least just working out what is wrong with it, I guess I will just have to re-create the partition? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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Grub2 entanglement
by Robert McBroom 30 Aug '20

30 Aug '20

What does one do in the new environment to run different versions of linux on different drives of a system. One system has f31 on sda and centos7 on sdb. With legacy grub I could call the boot of one system from the other and vice versa. No more. Switching drives in the bios no longer works. I can kludge things by putting the boot files from the centos7 system in the f31 boot and putting the boot stanza in the as a custom entry in grub.d along with the stanza for Windows. All the entries in /boot/1oader point to the f31 system. grubenv is only appropriate for f31. Second system has f32 on sda and f31 on sdb. The f32 system is the only one that will boot. There are entries in /boot/loader for both. but only f32 will boot. Seems to be an issue on boot in the root versus boot in a boot partition. Robert McBroom

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