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Problem reporting/Mate Screensaver crash/Packagekit crash. No answer ?
by Ger van Dijck 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

To all , When I activate the screensaver I get the message " Mate-Screensaver quit unexpectedly". Application crsh Package-Kit : The same message. When this happens ( after a delay of ca. 5 minutes ) I get a blue screen and have to turn off the cumputer by force ; So tturn hardware OFF. When I want to do a Problem Reporting ( Bugzilla ? ) I get the message : https://retrace.fedoraproject .org does not excist ( server error 404 ). I posted this request 9/11/2021 and never got a reaction ? Please help me . Ger van Dijck. -- Gemaakt met Opera's e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Lightdm and dual DE question
by ToddAndMargo 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

Hi All, If I install a second DE (Desktop Environment), do I need to tell lightdm tht I want a logon prompt to choose which one I want to start? Many thanks, -T

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problem with thunderbird 91.1.0 folder handling
by Eyal Lebedinsky 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

Since the recent update to tb 91.1.0 I have the following issue. I have a folder "correspondence" which includes about 140 sub-folders. When I receive mail the message filters deliver each message to the selected folder. This works well and is still done properly. However, the main correspondence folder may indicate that it has, say, 6 unread messages but only 4 of the sub-folders show one message each. The only way (I found) to find the other two is to hit 't' and allow it to proceed to the next unread repeatedly. This will properly show the six unread but also mark them read which is not what I want (I keep some unread messages for later attention). This is f34, fully updated and upgraded for too many years to remember. I very much do not want to install a fresh tb, then maybe find the problem is not resolved anyway. TIA -- Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)

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Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT
by Tim Evans 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

I have several of issues with the latest Thunderbird e-mail tool that came down via dnf lately; thunderbird-91.1.0-1.fc34.x86_64. (Prior version was 78.something.) Some are just annoying; one is major. First, annoying. Starting a new message, the Send button is grayed out *IF* there is anything in the Bcc field. As I normally Bcc myself on all messages, this hits every time. Clearing the field, re-enables the Send button. Refilling the Bcc field does NOT cause the Send button to go gray. Second, more annoying, when trying to reply to a message, the Send box is grayed out and cannot be restored, even by clearing the Bcc box. I have not found any way to actually send a reply (other than to go to my mobile phone and do it there). Third, less annoying, access to my local on-disk mailspool (referred to in Thunderbird as "movemail") has disappeared. Not a big deal, as I can review local logfiles with a command-line mailtool like good ole 'mailx.' Fourth, and a major problem, my Address Book has disappeared. The data appears to still be there, as I can start typing an address and have it auto-completed, but the address book itself appears empty, and can't be opened for browsing. FLASH: after all this Send totally fails, even though button appears active, so this saved draft was called up and sent from phone. -- Tim Evans |5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864 |Owings Mills, MD 21117

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Fedora 34 does not install on laptop, screen freezes
by Javier Perez 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

Hi I have a very old Acer 3050 laptop The graphics card is Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS482M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200] Initially it starts well , but after a few minutes the screen freezes hard with a white wash Installation does not complete. How can I finish installation and troubleshoot this? Is there a way to install command line? -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| pepebuho(a)gmail.com ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.

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xfce --> mate
by ToddAndMargo 24 Sep '21

24 Sep '21

Hi All, I am thinking of switching from Xfce to Mate. (Too many won't fix bugs in Xfce.) 1) is there a yellow sticky note utility in Mate? 2) is there a way to dual install Mate alongside Xfce and pick which one I want at logon? Many thanks, -T

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Partial success enabling TPM2 in an existing qemu guest VM
by Sam Varshavchik 24 Sep '21

24 Sep '21

What finally got my existing Win10 guest VM (originally upgraded from Win7) to see a TPM2 device was the following process: 1) Make a copy of the raw disk image. This isn't really necessary, but I did this for backup purposes. 2) In virt-manager I created a new VM, pointing to the existing raw disk image, and directed it to use the canned "Windows 10" operating system configuration, and also selecting the manual configuration option, and then using that to add the TPM2 module. Google searches seemed to suggest that the "TIS" model is the one to use, so that's what I selected. 3) This creates a new VM with the emulated "Q35" chipset, rather thanthe existing i440fx chipset, that Win7 was originally configured for. This is the trick, apparently. When I booted the new VM, Windows 10 went through some noticable setup and reconfiguration, but it did survive the transplant. The only result was it required me sign into my Microsoft account (I recommend that the Win10 seat be registered to a Microsoft account before doing this, this appears to be the simplest way to avoid license/activation problems). Over the next couple of minutes Windows10 also popped up occasional prompts about setting up this PCI device, or that PCI device. But nothing seemed to indicate a problem with the new VM. And it now sees the TPM2 device, however it does show a "Device health attestion isn't available" because "Your device does not support this feature". After a few minutes it offered me the option to "Clear TPM" to fix this issue (initially the button was disabled, but it became enabled a few minutes after the boot). However that made no difference, this status remained after the "Clear TPM" and the reboot. I have another Win10 license which I'll try, later, with the other "CRB" emulated TPM model, to see if that works fully. It's also possible that this is it's way of expressing that it knows it's running in a VM. And it now sees the TPM2 device, however it does show a "Device health attestion isn't available" status because "Your device does not support this feature". Is anyone else getting this error in the "Security processor troubleshooting" (21H1, with all updates installed)?

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Soft lockup bug
by Patrick O'Callaghan 24 Sep '21

24 Sep '21

I have a stream of messages on the console, as follows: Message from syslogd@Bree at Sep 23 03:56:24 ... kernel:watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 4802s! [kworker/0:0:323591] This is F34, fully updated. I've not seen this before. Any ideas? poc

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I need to create a particular live usb
by ToddAndMargo 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

Hi All, I have been looking at the command line options over on https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/creating-and-using-a-live-i… and I am confused. I need to create a live usb with the following: 8 GB flash drive (I will do a dd /dev/zero wipe first) efi boot safe boot if possible Mate (I have the iso) small persistent /home directory and I need to install xrdp on it and have xrdp persist between reboots Any idea what the command line should be? Many thanks, -T

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Does Chrome, FireFox, Brave etc use the PipeWire server now? - I get mic problems
by Philip Rhoades 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

People, Some told me they thought that browsers talked directly to the soundcard? With upgrading from F33 (X/XFCE4/ALSA) to F34 (Wayland/Sway/PipeWire) I have been thrashing the system a bit to see how it goes and found trying to serially record stuff online from three different browsers and also recording stuff with a number of apps causes me to lose access to the default mic for ALL inputs . . Since I don't have any trouble PLAYING from as many sources as I want to but ONLY recording, I have turned OFF access to the mic for all the browsers (C, FF, B) and will try to only use stand-alone apps that need the mic (using default) ie audacity, jisti, obs, zoom, arecord etc - I will see how that approach goes for a while. Also, because of problems in the early days with PulseAudio, I got into the habit of routinely uninstalling it and just using ALSA plus my .asoundrc file - now I thought PW was going to completely replace PA but I see there are still a number of RPMs installed: alsa-lib-1.2.5.1-2.fc34.x86_64 alsa-sof-firmware-1.8-1.fc34.noarch alsa-ucm-1.2.5.1-2.fc34.noarch alsa-utils-1.2.5.1-1.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-alsa-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-libs-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-utils-0.3.35-2.fc34.x86_64 pipewire0.2-libs-0.2.7-5.fc34.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64 pulseaudio-qt-1.2-5.fc34.x86_64 pulseaudio-utils-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64 Any info on how this stuff is supposed to work / hang together would be appreciated! - a diagram somewhere would be great! Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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