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resurrecting old laptops
by jim.cromie＠gmail.com 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

so Ive got some old i686 computers, electronics recycle day approaches, but before I do that, I thought Id try to get them working 1st one (toshiba satellite core2 laptop) threw a hard-drive, clunking noises, then finally falls back to pxe-boot. I put fedora-30-live on a usb (last one with i686 support) but booting it, I get a 2-line error: This kernel requires x86-64, but only detected i686 unable to boot - ... I know f30 supports i686 - I have 1 old desktop still running it. next is hp pavilion g7 pressing power gives brief spin-up of fans, nothing else. f2, f10, esc during boot dont help, screen brightness or vga monitor dont help either I pulled hard drive and memory to force BIOS / POST to do something different, NO CHANGE. Any suggestions? but at least I have a new/old hard-drive for the toshiba. I also have a dell pentium2-233, running knoppix with a 2.6.19 kernel, its reluctant to do anything (aptitude is trying forever) I think its too old to have a bios that can usb boot I have used fedora-live-usb to rescue machines in the past, but Im running out of options. I would welcome other distro suggestions for tired old hardware thanks

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font tools (was "font longevity questions.").
by home user 05 Jun '22

05 Jun '22

(Fedora 35) In the original post of the "font longevity questions/", I said: > By the way, why do so many fonts show up twice > in the font selection tools? First, the only fonts I recall installing myself are the "Nimbus Roman No9 L" fonts. The tools are (in gnome) "Fonts" and "MATE Font Viewer". There might be others not showing up when I click gnome's "Activities". I did two screen captures to show what I'm referring to. They're on the google drive here: 1. "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BkB55RW4jqym7_8xRdkExPtPD_XxR1Np/view?usp=…". 2. "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b7Pe_ASGEkfJj8XnIZAVaoznPHj1UOsp/view?usp=…". Notice in the first, each of the "Nimbus" fonts shows up twice. When I clicked on them, I saw no difference. In the second screen capture, some "Open Sans" fonts show up twice. When I clicked on them, I saw no difference. Is this how it should be, or is there a bug in the font tools, or are some fonts actually on my work station twice? A second issue is that fonts that are different show up in the font tools with the same name. In this screen capture (on the google drive): "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qMfya_ObKot3jNbzYjTI7y17Kb0S83lz/view?usp=…", notice 4 fonts called "Noto Sans". They are different from each other. Notice 4 fonts called "Noto Sans, Bold". They are different from each other. There are other examples. This is only my opinion, but they should have different names. Is the problem in the font tools or in the fonts themselves? If the problem is in the fonts themselves, then there should be a standard requiring unique naming of fonts.

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font longevity questions.
by home user 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

Good morning, I have about 240 microsoft office word 2010 documents, all 9+ years old, that I'm converting to LibreOffice Writer in Fedora-35. I'm having to do this in 3 steps: 1. In windows-7, content is copied from the word files to Writer files. Tweaks are made to line spacing in tables. The word documents use two fonts: Times New Roman (various sizes; sometimes regular, sometimes italic, sometimes bold), and Vivaldi. Writer in windows-7 seems to support all the fonts used in the word documents. 2. Writer files are copied to my Fedora workstation. Unfortunately, neither Times New Roman nor Vivaldi are available in Fedora-35. So I need a step 3: to convert the fonts to choices that are available in Fedora-35, and are expected to be available for a long time to come. It's that last condition that I need help with. It's happened to me in the past that a font that I used in Writer (in Fedora) ceased to be available, so I changed it to the closest match that was available. Then that font ceased to be available. So before I start step 3 with them 240ish Writer files, how do I know which fonts are likely to be permanent or supported in Fedora for many years, and which are most vulnerable to being sunset sooner rather than later? By the way, why do so many fonts show up twice in the font selection tools? Thank-you in advance.

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f36 - kernel update breaks resolv.conf
by Eyal Lebedinsky 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

I am on f36 for a few weeks now, upgraded from f34. This is the second time this happened. A 'dnf update' runs fine but hangs at the very end, after the list of 'Veritying'. dnf (the python3 process) is in state D+ (though I could kill it). dnf.log ends with 2022-05-31T21:32:33+1000 DDEBUG RPM transaction start. 2022-05-31T21:37:51+1000 DDEBUG RPM transaction over. It is missing the usual final stanza, like 2022-05-16T22:21:23+1000 DDEBUG RPM transaction over. 2022-05-16T22:21:23+1000 DDEBUG timer: verify transaction: 672 ms 2022-05-16T22:21:23+1000 DDEBUG timer: transaction: 2669 ms dnf.rpm.log ends with this interesting line 2022-05-31T21:37:06+1000 INFO '/etc/resolv.conf' -> '../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf' and sure enough I lost connectivity which may have lead to dnf hanging. Rebooting leave my network setup broken in the same way. Restoring resolv.conf to my usual hand made file gets things going. This seems to happen when a kernel is updated but not at other times. While I can "fix" it (I keep a resolv.conf.good) when it happens, I would rather sort it out permanently if it is a local issue. Any idea? -- Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)

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firefox ignores my temporary directory setting
by Eyal Lebedinsky 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

firefox 100.0.2 I set up a temp dir in about:config browser.cache.disk.parent_directory /data/Firefox_temp At no point did I see any activity there but if I empty that directory then FF creates it on launch, so it knows about it. Here is what I do: Open the URL http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/ Click on PDF file (304K bytes) A popup asks "What should Firefox do with this file?" - I have "always ask" set for this file type in Settings/General/Applications at this point I see a new file in my home directory -rw------- 1 eyal eyal 308839 May 14 17:33 _qBdbX0t.pdf.part I now select Open with xpdf and click OK The above random file disappeared and another file appears -rw-r--r-- 1 eyal eyal 308839 May 14 17:33 gzip.pdf I now close firefox and this file remains. I restart FF and it is still there. On another machine the file is created in ~/Download. How do I get FF to use the nominated directory? -- Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)

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Fedora 36 update vs broadcom-wl
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

I have an 11-year-old netbook. The WiFi hardware needs the broadcom-wl driver from RPM Fusion. The Fedora upgrade from 35 to 36 worked fine, including keeping/updating broadcom-wl. But WiFi didn't work. The desktop didn't even see the device. I needed to issue the command sudo depmod I've had to do this in previous upgrades too. This is pretty easy to do but not at all obvious (I leave notes to myself so that I don't have to rediscover the solution). My guess is that this is a simple oversight in packaging. If so, it is an RPMFusion problem, not a Fedora problem.

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subtitles conversion question
by François Patte 31 May '22

31 May '22

Bonjour, I have some films in mkv format with many subtitles tracks : hdmv_pgs_subtitles I can extract these tracks and I want to convert them in srt text format. I use a java script (found on the web) BDSup2Sub512.jar which can convert the hdmv_pgs files in two files: one has extension .idx the other one the .sub extension. I found this web site: https://subconverter.com/convert-sub-idx-to-srt-online Which I can use to convert these two files in a .srt file. So far, so good! Is there a tool on linux which could do the same job? Thank you. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822

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upgrade to F36 forgot WiFi passwords
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 31 May '22

31 May '22

I have several WiFi networks and several notebooks. Whenever I updated a notebook to Fedora 36, some WiFi passwords needed to be re-entered. I don't remember the exact details. I think that if I were updating over WiFi, that password was retained. I don't have any remaining updates that I wish to do so I'm not willing to put the effort into creating a good bug report.

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Disable rpcbind on NFS server
by Ian Pilcher 31 May '22

31 May '22

I don't need rpcbind, as I only use NFSv4. Is there any way to set up or configure the NFS server-related units (nfs-server.service, etc.) to not start rpcbind? -- ======================================================================== Google Where SkyNet meets Idiocracy ========================================================================

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python support for kdevelop removed?
by Adrian Sevcenco 30 May '22

30 May '22

Hi! I no longer find the python support for kdevelop... was it removed? Thanks a lot! Adrian

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