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by Lain Cortés González

Hi out there, I'm trying to torify Mozilla Firefox (I know that there's the modified version of Firefox made by them; but I like to use the official release of Firefox, and I don't to deal with update out of the updates provide by fedora). I installed privoxy, and it works, firefox access all the web pages through the proxy; so I setup tor using vidalia, I introduce the proxy address and then I check it out if firefox is torify using this page: https://check.torproject.org/ and it says "Sorry. You are not using Tor.". What am I missing? -Isaac C.

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Regarding Fedora18

by Prashant Upadhyaya

Hi guys, I downloaded Fedora18 earlier and the uname shows the following -- [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 11 18:01:27 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux One of my customers downloaded Fedora18 recently and his uname -a showed the following -- Linux localhost.localdomain 3.11.10-100.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 2 20:28:38 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Now where should my customer download the Fedora18 from so that when he installs it, he sees the kernel version 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 #1 I need my lab setup exactly like the one my customer has. Regards -Prashant

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Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-06-03)

by Matthew Miller

Reposted from http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-06-03/ Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This series highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week. It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links to each. Here are the five things for June 3rd, 2014: New Fedora Project Leader ------------------------- So, there is a new Fedora Project Leader, and, despite inital rumors, it’s not an anthropomorphic hotdog. I'm excited to be able to say: it's me. I wrote a blog post about it: First Thoughts as Fedora Project Leader. Right now, the practical consequence is that this is going to be a more terse 5tFTW than usual. (I’m sure there will be more consequences later.) And, of course, thanks again to outgoing FPL Robyn Bergeron! Don't miss her "parting thoughts" blog post. * http://fedoramagazine.org/is-this-the-new-fedora-project-leader/ * http://fedoramagazine.org/first-thoughts-as-fedora-project-leader/ * http://robyn.io/2014/06/03/new-fpl/ Bodhi2 and Taskotron Activity Day --------------------------------- Bodhi is Fedora’s system for pushing out security and bugfix updates. Taskotron is our new system for QA automation. The former is getting a much-needed update and integration with the latter at the Bodhi2 and Taskotron Fedora Activity Days going on right now in Denver, Colorado. Fedora Infrastructure Lead Kevin Fenzi has reports from day 1 and day 2. * http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Taskotron * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Bodhi2_Taskotron_2014 * http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2014/06/01/bodhi2-taskotron-fad-day-1/ * http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2014/06/03/bodhi2-taskotron-fad-day-2/ Fedora Server / CentOS SLS -------------------------- As part of the new community-based direction, the CentOS project has several new Special Interest Groups around Storage, Virtualization, and so on. There is a proposal to create a Simplified Linux Server (SLS) SIG. This has the mission to deliver > [...] turnkey CentOS-based solutions that are managed via a web and/or > REST-based interface. The focus is on taking the various application > silos and providing a cohesive solution to simplify deployment and > maintenance. This has a lot of overlap with the upcoming Fedora Server, and the groups working on each had a joint meeting to discuss common goals and sharing effort. It looks like this will be a productive collaboration for users and developers of both distros. * http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup * http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SLS]%20(not%20to%20be%20confu...'s%20Softlanding%20Linux%20System](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlandin... * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server * https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/server/2014-May/001135.html Fedora Regional Community Index ------------------------------- This one isn’t new, but it’s one of those things that’s been around for a while which many people may not be aware of: the Region-Specific Fedora Websites index, at http://fedoracommunity.org/. This site lists different domains and subdomains with local resources all around the world. Check it out to find groups in your area which you might not have been aware of, or just to see what Fedora looks like around the globe. * http://fedoracommunity.org/ FUDCon Beijing 2014 Reports --------------------------- FUDCon APAC (Asia-Pacific) was held last month in Beijing, China. Reports are in from Aditya Patawari, Ankur Sinha, Somvannda Kong, Nitesh Narayan Lal, Jiří Eischmann, and Robert Mayr. * http://devel.adityapatawari.com/2014/05/fudcon-beijing-day-1/ * http://ankursinha.in/blog/2014/05/29/fudcon-beijing-day-1-and-day-0/ * http://fedoracambodia.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/my-first-trip-of-fedora-pr... * http://niteshnarayanlal.blogspot.com/2014/05/fudcon-beijing-2014-kick-off... * http://eischmann.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/fudcon-apac-2014-in-beijing/ * http://morefedora.blogspot.com/2014/06/fudcon-apac-beijing-day-0-robert-m... -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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no minimized icons

by Randolph Jones

I am running fc14. gnome 2.32.0 recently desktop behaviour changed in that when I minimize firefox or openoffice, no icon appears in the toll bar at the bottom of the screen. the programs are sleeping. I can restart firefox with alt+tab, but this has no effect on openoffice. any ideas? TIA rfjones

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QuickSynergy

by Liam Proven

Has anyone successfully got this working between two Fedora 20 machines? The app says that the default port -- 24800 -- is not available. I don't know why, I can't see anything taking it in the firewall or anything, but anyway, changing to different ports doesn't seem to help... the client and server never connect. Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to start to troubleshoot this? Thanks in advance. -- Liam Proven * Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven(a)cix.co.uk * GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven(a)hotmail.com * Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell: +44 7939-087884

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Trying to ping from a subinterface.

by CLOSE Dave

On Fedora 20 x86_64. According to "man ping", ping should work from a subinterface specifying either the interface name or its address: > -I interface > interface is either an address, or an interface name. If inter‐ > face is an address, it sets source address to specified inter‐ > face address. If interface in an interface name, it sets source > interface to specified interface. I've got a subinterface and I'm trying to ping from it. > # ifconfig eth3:sub1 > eth3:sub1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 172.17.30.143 netmask 255.255.254.0 broadcast 172.17.31.255 > ether 90:e2:ba:34:46:41 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > device memory 0xdc7e0000-dc800000 If I ping from the address, it works as specified. If I specify the interface name instead, I see: > # ping -I eth3:sub1 172.17.30.1 > ping: SO_BINDTODEVICE: Invalid argument Investigating a little deeper: > # strace ping -I eth3:sub1 172.17.30.1 > execve("/usr/bin/ping", ["ping", "-I", "eth3:sub1", "172.17.30.1"], [/* 38 vars */]) = 0 > ... > setsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BINDTODEVICE, "eth3:sub1\0", 13) = -1 ENODEV (No such device) > ... > +++ exited with 2 +++ Any thoughts? -- Dave Close

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Adding minimal X windows

by Matthew Saltzman

I built a Fedora 20 system as a server, without a desktop. It turns out, no X server is installed at all in that case. I'd like to add a minimal X server without adding a complete desktop environment, so I can log in remotely and run system configuration tools. The documentation I've found suggests yum groupinstall "Basic X Window System" or yum groupinstall "X Window System" but neither of those groups exist. There is a Basic Desktop group, but it installs a bunch of unnecessary desktop tools. What's the best way to get just a basic X server in Fedora 20? TIA. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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So has anyone gotten their sound to work since it broke a few days ago?

by Someone

I'm completely up to date, and I've rebooted several times. Has anyone had any luck with playing sound? Thanks

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Samsung ML-2165W printer help

by Mike Wright

Hi all, Just bought the Samsung ML-2165W/XAC printer because it advertised Linux support. Downloaded and installed the driver (it claims installation successful). The user manual seems to be flat out wrong. The Linux install directions seem to be for Windows. "-------------------- When the Administrator Login window appears, type "root" in the Login field and enter the system password. You must log in as a super user (root) to install the machine software. If you are not a super user, ask your system administrator. From the Samsung website, download the Unified Linux Driver package to your computer. Right-click the Unified Linux Driver package and extract the package. Double click cdroot > autorun. "-------------------- Note: there is no such named package and their is neither a file named "cdroot" nor one named "autorun". At any rate, when I attempt to print a page the printer's activity light flashes for a long time then stops. CUPS reports "completed". This occurs regardless of whether there is paper loaded or not. Cups isn't being very helpful here either. Almost anything administrator related tells me "Forbidden", but nowhere can I find a way to "Login" to it. Part of me says the driver doesn't work and part of me says the printer is DOA. Has anybody else had any success with this particular printer model? Thanks for any help or tips, Mike Wright

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Live USB: Persistent Overlay full so system won't boot. Snapshot Invalid

by Rahul Nabar

I accidentally managed to fill up the live-rw overlay and now my system won't boot. It falls to the dracut emergency shell complaining that it cannot mount the root partition. Logs say: EXT-4-fs (dm-0): unable to read superblock SQUASHFS error: squashfs read data failed to read block 0x0 unable to read squashfs_super_block Can't mount root file system I've been trying to fix this following instructions at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image#Merge_overlay_into_new_image The key step is: # echo $'\x01' | dd of=/path/to/overlay-file bs=1 count=1 seek=4 conv=notrunc But I'm stuck because I'm not sure what /path/to/overlay-file is for me. Neither of the mentioned files seem present, at least in the dracut emergency shell. # dmsetup status does show "live-rw: 0 8388608 snapshot Invalid" Is this the right way to fix this? Where do I find the right overlay file to flip the Invalid bit at? Would love to get any advice on this. Right now I'm stuck with a non-booting system and no way to recover any data I had on it.

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