IPv6 mtu restriction
by Robert Moskowitz
This is from a Fedora 20 client testing to a Centos 6.5 server.
I can do a ping6 with no problems, but I cannot 'ssh -6' to the server
(ssh -4 works). I have reason to suspect the challenge is in my PPPoE
link with a restricted MTU size that v6's PMTU is not working right with.
So my question is: Is there a way to specify the MTU size for things
like ssh (and http) to use?
10 years, 1 month
poweroff command reboots?
by Aero Maxx D
Hi Everyone,
I have an issue where the poweroff command reboots my system.
Using /sbin/shutdown -h also reboot the system.
I am unsure whats causing this or how to go about finding the cause, I
am not sure if its something I have done when I installed fedora or not.
Pressing the power button on the front of my cause also makes the system
reboot and not shutdown as expected.
Thanks
Daniel.
10 years, 1 month
Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-03-25)
by Matthew Miller
Reposted from
http://fedoramagazine.org/five-things-in-fedora-this-week-2014-03-25/
Fedora is big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This new feature
will highlight interesting happenings in five different areas every
week. It won’t be comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries
with links to each. So, here we go for March 25th, 2014:
Snapshot support in virt-manager
--------------------------------
Virt-manager is a GUI for managing virtual machines on your local
system or remotely. It’s handy for intermediate/advanced users or for
sysadmins who are not in the mood for the command line. With version
1.0, now in Rawhide and updates for F20, virt-manager now supports
snapshots. Developer Cole Robinson has a blog post with details and a
walkthrough of the new GUI. (A similar feature may come to Gnome Boxes
in the future via Summer of Code work.)
* http://virt-manager.org/
* http://blog.wikichoon.com/2014/03/snapshot-support-in-virt-manager.html
* http://zee-nix.blogspot.com/2014/03/boxes-312.html
>From upstream code to packages in a repo, automatically every day
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora’s new Copr system lets any Fedora contributor easily maintain
and publish a repository of whatever software you want, as long as it
falls within our legal guidelines. (*cough* Fedora PPAs *cough*) But
what if that’s not automatic enough? What if you want to track a
fast-moving upstream without having to update source RPMs constantly?
Prolific Fedora hacker Pierre-Yves Chibon (“pingou”) presents dgroc,
for “Daily Git Rebuild On Copr”. It basically does just what it says —
takes care of the updating and building in Copr, so you can focus on
the software rather than the packaging.
* http://copr.fedoraproject.org/
* http://blog.pingoured.fr/index.php?post/2014/03/20/Introducing-dgroc
Fedora Plasma? A proposal from the KDE SIG
------------------------------------------
The Fedora KDE SIG has been working on a proposal for a Fedora Product
based on KDE Plasma Desktop, with a primary focus on education and
scientific users. Contributor (and board member) Rex Dieter sent the a
request for feedback to the Fedora Advisory Board today; if accepted,
this will join already-planned Cloud, Server, and Workstation products.
The discussion around this will be interesting to follow. Most people
in the project agree that products in the Fedora.next framework should
be held to a high standard, and that we shouldn’t have endless
proliferation, but how, where, and when we draw that line is not
settled.
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE
* https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2014-March/01244...
FPL Robyn Bergeron on Fedora, Red Hat, and the Future
-----------------------------------------------------
Fedora Project Leader Robyn Bergeron has a new blog post,
_Fedora, Red Hat, and investing in the future_, with thoughts on Red
Hat’s investment in our project, Fedora’s value to Red Hat, and the
Fedora.next plans.
* http://robyn.io/2014/03/25/fedora-red-hat-and-investing-in-the-future/
Fedora Atomic
-------------
Since this week has been a little slow, I’m going to cheat a bit and
pull something big from the backlog. Fedora developer Colin Walters has
launched a new project called Fedora Atomic. This system constructs
git-like trees from existing official Fedora RPMs, and moves
operating-system deployment from managing packages to managing these
trees, with (as the name suggests) fully-atomic updates and rollbacks.
It’s still in early development, but moving quickly, and the Fedora
Cloud SIG is considering using it for some special-purpose images
(including a minimal Docker host). Sound interesting — or scary? Learn
more at the links below....
* http://rpm-ostree.cloud.fedoraproject.org/
* http://rpm-ostree.cloud.fedoraproject.org/#/background
*****
Thanks to Stephen Gallagher for content suggestions this week, and Joe
Brockmeier for proofreading. If you have tips for the next week, please
send ‘em to me.
--
Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
10 years, 1 month
Cisco WebEx on Fedora20
by Pal, Laszlo
Hi,
At my workplace I have to use Cisco WebEx for a lot and this is a
complete pain in Fedora... it is require Oracle's Java, but it is not
an issue... the big one is the total 32bit dependency... I've tried to
set-up a second, 32 bit Firefox w/o success (several buttons are grey,
so I still have to start a Windows virtual machine to attend a
webex...)
do you have any experience with this "great" tool and how the full
funcionality can be enabled using 64 bit Fedora?
The same tool running quite seamless under 32bit slackware and Ubuntu Precise
Thank you
L:
10 years, 1 month
Problem updating google-chrome
by Frank McCormick
Updating my Fedora 19 system this morning turned up a problem...the
newest version of google-chrome-unstable requires libmojo_system which
apparently is not available.
I posted a bug report...but anyone aware of any work-arounds ?
--
1984 was not meant as a blueprint for
democratic governments.
10 years, 1 month
Can't install ƒ20
by Liam Proven
Hi there. First post from someone returning to the RH family fold for
the first time since about 1996-1999, when I was a RHL user (v4 - v6
full time on my servers, v7/8/9 reviewed for various magazines - then
I switched to Caldera, then to SUSE and then to Ubuntu when it came
out.)
I'm trying to take a look at Fedora on real hardware as opposed to in
a VM. This is on a machine that multi-boots Windows 7, Ubuntu 13.10,
Crunchbang 11 and (used to) ElementaryOS.
I am trying to install on /dev/sda. It's a 1TB HD - there's also a
120GB SSD as /dev/sdb with Ubuntu's root filesystem and Win7 on it.
I have a pre-configured set of folders:
/dev/sda10 /home 150GB
/dev/sda11 (NTFS shared data) ~750GB
/dev/sda5 / 16GB <- this is where I want to put Fedora; it used to be
elementary's /
/dev/sda6 (Crunchbang /) 16GB
/dev/sda7 (FAT32, Windows pagefile) 8GB
/dev/sda8 (Linux swap) 8GB
So I need to tell Fedora to put root on sda5 and /home on sda10 and
use sda8 for swap. I want the bootloader on sda5 as well. I'm
currently using Ubuntu's GRUB, as it's my primary OS, but I plan to
replace this with a standalone boot manager.
I managed to get the Fedora installer to format sda5 but then, having
16GB of / + 150GB of /home and 8GB of swap, it said that it didn't
have enough space for the 6.7GB of stuff it needed to install and
crashed out with a series of Python errors.
Now it can't "see" a distro on sda5, it won't let me choose it as an
option. I can't remove and recreate it, either - or at least, I can't
see how. I also can't see how to tell it to put the bootloader in the
root partition.
Is it me, or is the installer just not flexible enough to cope with
this sort of scenario?
--
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Email: lproven(a)cix.co.uk * GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven
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Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 * Cell: +44 7939-087884
10 years, 1 month
user and groups permissions
by Rafnews
Hi,
i'm trying to figure out what is the best approach for files and folders
permissions in case of a shared webserver.
we are 2-3 developers and we have a server on which we installed Fedora
20 as web server for our development testing purpose.
all websites should be stored in /var/www/html/ directory
now let's say we are 2 devs called: "alain" and "francois" (those are
our fedora user accounts.
/var/www/html/ owner is root:root
now what should we do to allow each dev to use FTP and created/delete/
modify files and folders to create website structure ?
should we create a group like and add into it devs ?
thx.
A.
10 years, 1 month
my stupid users trick -- the Firefox issue from earlier this month.wq
by William Oliver
Earlier this month, I posted that Firefox would not start for me. Ed Greshko kindly showed my his output when he started Firefox from the command line. I noticed a bunch of Gnome stuff and assumed that there was some sort of dependency I was missing, installed Gnome, and it seemed to work. Ed noted that I was solving a small problem with a big hammer, but to me, if installing gnome (a one-command fix) worked, then I didn't really care what the problem was as long as it was fixed.
Well, Ed was right in his criticism. The problem popped up again in a few days. I now know the problem, and I know a workaround, but I don't know the fix. Here it is:
Firefox will only allow one invocation of itself on my machine. Sometimes, if I invoke the program by clicking an icon, it will come up with an error message that says you can only have one copy running. However, sometimes that message does not appear, and it simply dies silently. Moreover, I don't remember ever getting that error message when I run it from command line, and I'm a very terminal-oriented guy.
But that's OK. The *problem* is that if I kill firefox by clicking on the kill-window button rather than the Quit button, the window goes away, but firefox continues in the background. Thus, if I kill firefox by closing the window, I can't start it again without running ps, finding the process, and manually killing it. It's an easy workaround, but a minor inconvenience.
Worse, however, if I forget to do that and log out, appearently the next time I turn on KDE, it comes on as a background process but never shows a window. Once again, that's not a huge problem now that I know to look for it.
I still don't know the fix, but the workaround is easy.
So, installing Gnome "fixed" the problem because I ended up cleanly exiting and restarting the machine, not because of anything Gnome did.
Sigh.
10 years, 1 month
vsftpd and sebool
by Rafnews
Hi,
i setup an FTP server to allow me and my friend to upload, create,
delete, modify files/directories into /var/www/html directory (as ftp
home dir).
however if authentification works great, i'm not able (even locally so
using ftp localhost) to create a simple directory e.g. "test"
here is the getsebool -a | grep ftp result:
ftp_home_dir --> on
ftpd_anon_write --> off
ftpd_connect_all_unreserved --> off
ftpd_connect_db --> off
ftpd_full_access --> off
ftpd_use_cifs --> off
ftpd_use_fusefs --> off
ftpd_use_nfs --> off
ftpd_use_passive_mode --> off
httpd_can_connect_ftp --> off
httpd_enable_ftp_server --> off
sftpd_anon_write --> off
sftpd_enable_homedirs --> off
sftpd_full_access --> off
sftpd_write_ssh_home --> off
tftp_anon_write --> off
tftp_home_dir --> off
basically i should be able.
after searching on internet i discovered that people use to set
"ftpd_full_access" to ON...
but is this really what needs to be done ? i have a feeling it opens
others issues about security, or am i wrong ?
thx.
A.
10 years, 1 month
