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After latest dnfupate Firefox taking about 2:43 to load??
by Michael D. Setzer II 03 May '21

03 May '21

Running firefox with strace shows it hitting these two poll lines, where it just sits doing nothing for a long time? Actually, pauses after displaying up to the NULL,8 then it goes on until it hits the second one. First on has always been fd=10, but have seen fd=14 or fd=13 for second?? ppoll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}], 1, {tv_sec=119, tv_nsec=999420000}, NULL, 8) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLIN}], left {tv_sec=46, tv_nsec=773625894}) ppoll([{fd=14, events=POLLIN}], 1, {tv_sec=119, tv_nsec=999274000}, NULL, 8) = 1 ([{fd=14, revents=POLLIN}], left {tv_sec=113, tv_nsec=850834948}) $ time firefox real 2m43.247s user 0m3.097s sys 0m0.795s As soon as I shows the firefox windows clicked on X to close to get approximate time. Firefox had been updated earlier, and didn't seem to do this, but just updated to the latest kernel 5.11.17-200.fc33.x86_64 and rebooted, and the noticed it? looked at lines before this after directing strace to a file, but didn't see anything obvious? Thanks.

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Exactly what is "tor"?
by ToddAndMargo 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hi All, I went to tor's web site, but could not figure out what exactly it was or how to use it with my browser. ???? -T

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system-upgrade in plymouth vs console, and logging
by Sam Varshavchik 02 May '21

02 May '21

I updated a laptop to F34. The laptop uses the spinfinity plymouth theme. system-upgrade ran while the theme was chugging along, showing brief status messages in a top level corner, i.e. "Updating <package name>". This is my regular upgrade experience; and nothin unusual about that. I just started the upgrade on another laptop, but after plymouth came up, it bumped down to the system console to run the upgrade. It's running now just fine, on the system console. I don't recall if this laptop always did that, some of my other servers don't use plymouth and run through upgraded on the console. But these two laptops are both set up to use the spinfinity theme, and it's just my idle curiosity as to why one of them is running the upgrade on the console. They do use different video hardware, but it just looks nicer in plymouth, and why would video hardware matter, for something like that? On a related note, after the first upgrade I needed to figure out why it installed a bunch of java bloat, for some reason. I didn't find the usual /root/upgrade.log, and some poking around found "dnf system-upgrade log", as its replacement. I was surprised to see that "dnf system-upgrade log" offered me logs going all the way back to the F30-F31 upgrade in 2019. They certainly don't take up much space, but I'm just wondering if they ever get cleaned up. I don't see a dnf option to do that.

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Questions on DNF's UUID
by ml-devel＠keemail.me 02 May '21

02 May '21

Hello everyone. I recently got to know that Fedora's DNF creates an UUID to help keep track of the number of unique Fedora users. As per my understanding, before implementing this UUID mechanism, they obtained their user-base estimate through the use of IP addresses. I would appreciate it if someone could clarify these concerns of mine: - Is the generated UUID based on the hardware configuration of the Fedora user, or is it a random UUID? (If the user re-installs Fedora, will the re-generated UUID be alike to the first one, in any way?) - Will the user's UUID be sent to package mirrors each time they perform an update/installation of packages? (If so, would this mean that a malicious mirror could potentially map a user's UUID with all the associated package-requests?) - Is there any way to opt out of providing data for this user-base statistical analysis? Could someone also point to the file in the source-code (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf) where this UUID-feature has been implemented?

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Question about broken link files?
by Michael D. Setzer II 02 May '21

02 May '21

Just upgraded my notebook to sdd drive and then did dnf update to Fedora 33. Ran the following command in / to see what it finds. find . -xtype l >/badlinks Summary of results of broken links by top directory /etc 15 /home 17 /proc 170 /root 2 /run 145 /usr 325 674 Not an awful lot, but wonder if they should be fixed or just left alone? One was projectM have a link to some fonts, but the fonts and the directory they are suppose to be in don't exist. The there are a number K50netconsole files in /etc /proc and /run not sure of?? /home seem to be mostly files in .wine Thanks.. +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@guam.net mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+

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No Microphone input on fedora 34 (pipewire)
by Mike Martin 02 May '21

02 May '21

Since installing fedora 34 I have no input from microphone. The microphone appears in audiomixer (pavucontrol I assume) All modules seem to be loaded and playback is fine the only error message I can see is from dmesg -T traps: gnome-sound-rec[2335] trap int3 ip:7f9b4652df7f sp:7ffdf71ddc70 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.6800.1[7f9b464ef000+90000] lspci 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio Controller (rev 0e) arecord -l **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: VT1802 Analog [VT1802 Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 pw-record --list-targets Available targets ("*" denotes default): alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.input_analog-stereo * 42: description="Built-in Audio Analog Stereo Input" prio=2000 But zero input from mic If I plug in a cheap microphone it works, so something weird is happening Any ideas

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F33->F34: paps output has changed
by Max Pyziur 02 May '21

02 May '21

Greetings, Thank you to the Fedora team for the F34 roll-out; upgrades were seamless: seemingly a trend not an anomoly. I'm a paps users (paps is a PostScript converter from plain text file using Pango), having at one time used enscript. My general CLI invocation has been: paps --columns=3 --landscape --paper=letter --font="Arial 6" /tmp/x3 | lpr -P lp3 This is generally sent to an HP53xx printer. /tmp/x3 is just a temporary text file copied from somewhere else. With the F34 upgrade, the output is a little uneven in print quality as far as the fonts are concerned. I've tried changing the "Arial 6" to "Serif 6", then to "Sans 6" The last seems to be satifactory. The goal here is to print text files of from a variety of sources: code, essays, articles, etc., in a compact space to read. Not so much to print publication-quality stuff. I would be interested in suggestions from other paps users on their preferred Much thanks, Max Pyziur pyz(a)brama.com

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A problem with wine and fedora 34
by Francisco Tissera 01 May '21

01 May '21

Hello everyone, Just recently I have installed wine on Fedora 34, with gnome 40, and all the defaults, but when ever I install an application and try to start it, this happens: Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file. ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found. Anyone have any clew as to how to fix it? Thank you for any answer. Best regards. Francisco.

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Re: Upgrading 33 to 34. Small problems
by Frank 01 May '21

01 May '21

On 2021-05-01 3:08 p.m., Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > la, 2021-05-01 kello 14:52 -0400, Frank kirjoitti: >> Upgraded Fedora 33 to 34 yesterday following the Fedora >> recommendations. >> >> It went well but today I noticed two small problems. >> >> Every once in a while sound stops working...pulse audio show no >> devices >> at all. > Was this after suspending or hibernating the computer, by any chance? > I've seen what you're describing too, once, and it was after waking up > from suspend mode. > > No. It happens without suspending or hibernating, while I am in the desktop (Mate) . Sometimes logging in and out doesn't work and I'll have to reboot.

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Upgrading 33 to 34. Small problems
by Frank 01 May '21

01 May '21

Upgraded Fedora 33 to 34 yesterday following the Fedora recommendations. It went well but today I noticed two small problems. Every once in a while sound stops working...pulse audio show no devices at all. I know pipewire is the default now so I have no idea how to resolve this intermittent problem. It seems when sound stops working, logging out and back in solves the problem. The other problem is xscreen-saver has stopped working. I suspect it's been integrated into systemd as there are a bunch of config files which didn't exist before. [frank@localhost ~]$ inxi -A Audio: Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.11.16-300.fc34.x86_64 running: yes Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: yes [frank@localhost ~]$ ls /etc/xscreensaver/ XScreenSaver.ad XScreenSaver.ad.hacks XScreenSaver.ad.header XScreenSaver.ad.tail I had xscreensaver setup to use GLslideshow, now all I get is a blank screen. Any ideas ? Thanks

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