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Monitor shuts off randomly - possibly sync problem?
by Alex 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Hi, I have fedora34 installed on my desktop with three monitors; two of them are older 27" Samsungs, and the third is a new 34" Samsung S34J55x. Occasionally, the 34" seems to shut off for a second, then comes back on and continues to work normally. Has anyone seen this type of behavior before? The other two monitors have never done this. However, when it happens, the other two seem to follow with shutting off for a second. It always seems to be driven by the new 34" monitor. The problem is that, when this happens, all of the windows on the 34" monitor move to the 27" monitor on the right once the monitors turn on again. This is not a power problem, as the entire computer is connected to the same power strip, backed by a 2200W UPS. My video card is also new - it's a Radeon RX570. All three monitors are connected via displayport. I do see lines in my Xorg.0.log file periodically along the lines off the following: [992023.990] (EE) event3 - Logitech Gaming Mouse G900: client bug: event processing lagging behind by 16ms, your system is too slow [994674.766] (EE) event6 - Logitech Gaming Keyboard G910: client bug: event processing lagging behind by 29ms, your system is too slow But are they related? Is this also an issue? The system itself is a 12-core with 64GB of RAM, so certainly not slow. Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz Please let me know what more I can do to troubleshoot this before contacting Samsung directly.

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Warm boot after Windows 10 boot - I'm not getting a dhcpd address from router?
by Michael D. Setzer II 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

I've been doing testing on a setup for my G4L project to get both legacy and UEFI booting working on a single setup. Have that working just fine now with help from this list. Been testing with my Dell 9020 machine that has Windows 10 as the hard disks OS that it came with. My 5 other machines have Fedora 33. Everything works fine, except. Sometimes I miss hitting the F12 key to select the flash for UEFI or standard USB boot from flash. Thus the machine boots to windows. Problem, if I do a restart after the windows boots and go to the my projects linux, it loads fine, but it will not get IP from dhcpd server of my wifi router. Have to do a full power off on system. Then it will boot ok. Found a web site that seemed to identify problem as windows doing something to the nic on shutdown that causes the issue. The sites solution was the echo a 1 to the reset value for the PCI device for the nic. Came up with a process that does that easy, but doesn't seem to work. Might be after some time, the issue resolves, but thought the reset would be a quick solution. Shutting down the interface with ifconfig doesn't reset it either? Wonder if there is a command line process that someone knows of? I can manually set an ipaddress, and that works fine, but you have to know the network range. Don't have network manager in the build, so right now solution is to do a poweroff, and then power back on. Thanks. Got the UEFI booting just fine, and have regular boot running with grub4dos just fine. Systems using same exact kernel and ramdisk on the flash. Thanks again. Have a great day.

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Security Flaw - Thunderbird FYI
by Ed Greshko 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Latest version of Thunderbird does integrate OpenPGP and does provide end-to-end encryption. There is, IMO, a security flaw. The "Generate Key" function they supply does not have the option to create a private key with a pass phrase. This means if you get an encrypted message, walk away from you system, and forget to secure it anyone can click on an encrypted message it will be displayed. It should allow for pass phrase. And, there should be a "timeout" setting for how long a vaild pass phrase has been entered for viewing messages. -- Nothing to see here.

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KDE not starting
by GianPiero Puccioni 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Hi, This morning when I botted my laptop (Dell G15) and the login didn' appear, just the mouse arrow. I thougt it was a sddm problem so I switched to gdm and it worked and Gnome started but not KDE(X11), not even with a new user. I installed LXDE and that too worked without problems but it gave me an error about KDEconnect(crashed) and the same when I tried to start Konsole, while the LXDE terminal works. Journalctl reports a lot of kdesomething that dumped core,the first seems to be kdeconnect... It seems that KDE is, for some reason hosed. Is it possible to do a reinstall of KDE or reinstalling F34 is the only solution. GiP -- GianPiero Puccioni |Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi-CNR gianpiero.puccioni(a)isc.cnr.it |Via Madonna del Piano, 10 T:+39 0555226682 |50019 Sesto F. (Firenze) ITALY

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mpi_Init
by Patrick Dupre 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

Hello, I installed mpich and set the path to /usr/lib64/mpich/bin however, it seems that I need MPI_init Checking if MPI is available checking for mpif90... mpif90 checking for MPI_Init... no checking for MPI_Init in -lmpi... no checking for MPI_Init in -lmpich... no configure: error: MPI not found: openmpi Do you know how I could get this MPI_init ? Thanks =========================================================================== 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 | | Room# D114A ===========================================================================

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IP address changes for legacy initscripts connections
by Sam Varshavchik 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

My external network connection was set up before the days of NetworkManager, configured in a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ifcfg file. It has a bunch of IPADDR settings, for the public IPs. "nmcli connection show" shows the connection just fine. "ipv4.addresses" lists the IP addresses that get fished out of the ifcfg file, for example. There's nothing in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections so I take that NetworkManager is reading the initscripts directly. I need to change these IP addresses. What's the least painful way to do that? Just edit the ifcfg file, and restart Network Manager? Attempt to update them via nmcli (I have to work out the syntax)? Will that work, and update the ifcfg files?

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packages: where does x come from?
by jtagcat jtagcat 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

I've looked on multiple occasions for a 'dnf whomaintains', or a section in info containing 'source' or maintainer. Let's take an example: $ dnf info kubernetes-client Source : kubernetes-1.20.5-1.fc34.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : fedora URL : https://k8s.io/kubernetes (...License, Description, Size, Architecture, Version, Release, Summary) How or where do I make a suggestion? Can I send a patch/PR to the automated build process, if there is one?

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Re: Issues With Thunderbird Version 91--May Be OT
by Tim Evans 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

On 9/16/21 15:41, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 17/09/2021 01:52, Tim Evans wrote: >> On 9/16/21 12:55 PM, lejeczek via users wrote: >>> What exactly do you mean by "I'm set up"? >>> If a compose an original new message to not-myself-but-to-valid-email-address and add myself to "Bcc" I can send out such an email no problems, "Send" button is available. >> Thanks. >> My Thunderbird config automatically includes me as a Bcc on all messages, new or reply. So the compose window comes up with the Bcc field filled on all messages. What I see is (1) on a new message, the send button is greyed out, but if I clear the Bcc field it *appears* to become active and (2) on a reply, the Send button is greyed out, but clearing Bcc doesn't do anything to the Send button. In BOTH cases, the Send button--whether it appears active or not--does nothing. > I am starting to get the feeling that you're running up the age old problem of "old settings interfering with new software". > There is usually not a solution without sacrifice. In this case, it would seem that if you'd want to move to the latest T-Bird > a "fresh start" would be in order. That probably would result in the Bcc field not being auto populated. Thanks. I guess I've been unclear. I CANNOT send any e-mail with Thunderbird 91 under any circumstances. New, reply, doesn't matter. Nothing will send. Either the Send button is greyed out (on replies) or does nothing (new messages). The Bcc thing is just possibly a clue, but it doesn't alter this fact. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court 443-394-3864 | Owings Mills, MD 21117

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Setting the active area of drawing tablet
by Paul Smith 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

Dear All, The active area of my new drawing tablet is half of the available one. How can one set the active area to full? Thanks in advance, Paul

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How do I autostart xscreensaver?
by ToddAndMargo 17 Sep '21

17 Sep '21

Hi All, Fedora 34 lightdm-1.30.0-14.fc34.x86_64 Xfce 4.14 How do I set xscreensaver to autostart with Lightdm and Xfce? Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -- Charles Varlet de La Grange ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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